Tuesday, November 28, 2006

First Choice up for sale

Hmmm so it appears the rumours are true... at 11:30 yesterday we were told that First Choice Group has put the Mainstream part of the company up for sale. This is about 49% of the total of the group.

It constitutes First Choice Holidays (UK), Sunstart (UK), Sunquest (UK), Falcon (Ireland), JWT (Northern Ireland), Unijet (UK), High Frequency Charter (Internet), First Choice Airways, First Choice Travel Shops and the Holiday Hypermarkets.

Great!

If we do get taken over by MyTravel I doubt they'd need to keep as many people as we currently have in our Ops Control Department. Might take the redundancy and move to Amsterdam.

We'll see what happens....

Sunday, November 26, 2006

9/11 Conspiracy Theory

This is pretty freaky and taken from an e-mail I was sent...

1) New York City has 11 letters
2) Afghanistan has 11 letters
3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11 letters
4) George W Bush has 11 letters

This could be a mere coincidence, but it gets more interesting...

1) New York is the 11th state
2) The first plane crashing against the Twin Towers was flight 11
3) Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11
4) Flight 77 which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6 + 5 = 11
5) The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 + 1+ 1 =11
6) The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number 911. 9 +1 + 1 = 11

Sheer coincidence...?! Read on and make up your own mind...

1) The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was 254. 2 +5 + 4 = 11
2) September 11 is day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4 =11
3) The Madrid bombing took place on 11/3/2004. 1 + 1 + 3 + 2 + 4 = 11
4) The tragedy of Madrid happened 911 days after the Twin Towers incident. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11

Now this is where things get totally eerie. The most recognised symbol for the US, after the Stars & Stripes, is the Eagle. The following verse is taken from the Koran/Quran, the Islamic holy book: "For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsom eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced: for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah and there was peace." That verse is number 9.11 of the Quran.

Still uncovinced about all of this...?! Try this and see how you feel afterwards...

Open Microsoft Word and do the following...
1. Type in capitals N334AA NYC. This is the aircraft registration of the first plane to hit one of the Twin Towers and New York's 3 letter city code.
2. Highlight the N334AA NYC.
3. Change the font size to 48.
4. Change the actual font to WINGDINGS.

What do you think now...?



Of course this is all total rubbish... the facts have been made to fit... whoever came up with this could have used any infinite number of events or places related to 9/11 to come up with something. That person has excluded elements that don't fit the theory such as Osama Bin Laden, World Trade Centre or American Airlines. Still, it's quite interesting.

Saturday, November 25, 2006

From the land of the littlest tellytubby...


So Poland have announced 14 nobodies + 1 somebody who'll be taking part in their Eurovision selection at the end of January. Woo!

1) Vino - Come In My Heart
2) The Jet Set - Time To Party
3) Charizma - Emily
4) Kuba & Maciek - No Second Chance
5) Natasza Urbanska - I Like It Loud
6) Bikini - Don't Judge Me
7) Button Hackers - On My Mind
8) Ania Szarmach - Open Your Mind
9) Hania Stach - Regroup
10) Mikael Erlandsson - Love In The Air
11) Lidia - It Must Be Love
12) Zee - All That I Can Be
13) Kabri - Flow Like A Stream
14) Sandra Oldenstam - You Really Got Me Going
15) Plastic - Wake Up With Your Music

Out of all those, the only ones I've heard of are the Jet Set who came 3rd in last year's Polish final. Charizma and Mikael are apparantly Swedish. I don't know why the Swedes feel the need to invade every country's selection process, but I'm pretty sure one year soon we're gonna end up with every country represented by a Swede singing some schlager ABBA rip off shite! It also won't have escaped your notice that all of the above songs appear to be in English... Telewizja Polska are obviously very proud indeed to be Polish!

ALERT? Yeah right!

Went to ALERT last night with Gary n Alex... I feel totally fucked now. Bonus for managing to NOT destroy a pair of new bleachers first night I wear 'em!!!

Don't know why, but everytime I go there I seem to get leathered... still it was a good night... roll on next Friday when it's my birthday weekend...

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Girls Aloud stuff

With the release this week of the Girls Aloud Greatest Hits album (although maybe one album premature for a greatest hits), I've been listening to the Chemistry album again. I forgot how much this album totally rocks. If you think Girls Aloud are just singing throwaway pop songs like the dreadful "Long Hot Summer", then download the following songs. These are what they should've released instead of "See The Day" and "Whole Lotta History"...

Swinging London Town

Copy and paste this address into your browser and download:

http://www.box.net/public/u6zvud2djr


Do you know the me that wakes and sees the livewire in my eyes?
The "it-girl" with a twist girl and no one realises
That I'm living on a tightrope, I can't, I won't look down
I pussyfoot from drink to drink in swinging London Town

Do you know the me that wakes in places with faces I've never seen?
The mother of all hangovers to remind me where I've been
And if I stop, I'm sickened, it really gets me down
So I step back into the city lights, the queen of London Town

It's the queen of London Town
It's the queen of London Town

New York, Monaco, Paris and Milan
Poor little rich girl, who does it 'cause she can
I'm just a big time Gucci girl, a First in retail therapy
And now we're down the slide to rehab and all of it for free

And with these joke-fuelled egos, Martini sipping chums
Gigolos, stick-thin models hanging off their arms
I guess I'm neck deep in it, I'm starting to drown
Along with all the wannabes in swinging London Town

Do you know me? Do you know me?
Do you know me? Really, really know me?
Do you know me? Do you know me?
Do you know me? Really, really know me?

Do you know me?
Really, really know me?

Soho soaks drink Campari
Free-flowing bubbly, a drop of gin
Cocktails with price tags make you choke on your sushi
Dressed to impress, these bright, young things

Chelsea chicks drink white wine spritzers
GnT's or bottled beer
Hooray Henries are cruising the King's Road
In daddy's Bentley still full of Gear

Gear, Gear, Gear, Gear, Gear, Gear, Gear, Gear

Do you know the me, the face that graces the pages of Hello?
Tryin' hard to die-hard, united on the goal
Air kissing eligible bachelors and trust-fund daddy's boys
International playgirls are showing off their toys

And all these price-tag starlets, a galaxy of stars
Buzzing round the next big thing and checking out their cars
I guess I'm neck deep in it, I'm starting to drown
Along with all the wannabes that swing in London Town

Swinging London Town
Swinging London Town
Swinging London Town



It's Magic

http://www.box.net/public/z7bv3ft2vj

Oooh, I tried to talk to you
Oooh, it's like I can't get through
Oooh, have you blown me away?
Oooh, that's how you're making me feel

Hugs and kisses, broken wishes
Hearts and pieces on the replay
Over and over again, please help
Tell me which path I need to take

I know you're hiding inside
And you're bad yes it is frustrating
Well if you give me the time
I've got so much to share with you
I just can't get you (out my mind)

And now you've got me wondering
What the hell I'm supposed to do
Other side of my world
And I know that I'm in love with you

And if it's tugging inside
We both know I took you for a ride
And honey, what have I done?
Oh, believe me, I have realised

With you, only you
I know that I can be myself
Funny how I could find love with you
And nobody else

I could call you crying four in the morning
And you'd make it better
Even when I thought I couldn't pull through
And we'd be trying together

Let your body receive what I can give
Remember when you were last weak, it's happening
Let your body reveal an innocence
Let me set you free, it's magic

Let your body receive what I can give
Remember when you were last weak, it's happening
Let your body reveal an innocence
Let me set you free, it's magic

You're in my thoughts all the time
And I can't seem to shift you from my mind
I know I made a mistake
I need some pill for shifting this heartache

You're in my thoughts all the time
You're in my thoughts all the time
You're in my thoughts all the time
You're in my thoughts all the time

Monday, November 20, 2006

Deen - Taxi

Just found the vid of the song that should have won the Bosnian final of 2003... Deen went on to represent the campest country in Eurovisionland in 2004 with the incredibly gay "In The Disco"... enjoy!



Hej je je je
Hej je je je
Hej je je je

Vozite, sjever ili jug
Svejedno je, može i u krug
Samo me maknite od nje
Odlazim, dosta mi je sveg'

Taxi trebam da joj pobjegnem sad
Vozite me u neki drugi grad
Kroz stop i crveno samo prođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite

Vozite, sjever ili jug
Ljubav je zaćarani krug
Vozite izvan grada bar
Cijena sad nebitna je stvar

Taxi trebam da joj pobjegnem sad
Vozite me u neki drugi grad
Kroz stop i crveno samo prođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite

Taxi trebam da joj pobjegnem sad
Vozite me u neki drugi grad
Kroz stop i crveno samo prođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite

Taxi trebam da joj pobjegnem sad
Vozite me u neki drugi grad
Kroz stop i crveno samo prođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite

Taxi trebam da joj pobjegnem sad
Vozite me u neki drugi grad
Kroz stop i crveno samo prođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite
Taxi treba mi, brzo dođite

Hej je je je
Hej je je je
Hej je je je

Hej je je je
Hej je je je
Hej je je je

Fingernail biting moment

So it's been announced that ESC tickets go on sale on 10 December. No doubt they'll be sold out for the final in about 10 minutes as they were for Athens... no doubt the website will crash due to volume of traffic... card numbers will have been passed over an unsecure server... we must be fekkin mad! If we don't get tickets there's gonna be tears!

Saturday, November 18, 2006

Rock 'n' roll

Saturday night n I'm sat at home on my own having worked days today and back on days tomorrow.... life doesn't get better than this....

Roll on next Friday when it's ALERT!

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Ireland 2007

So our Irish brothers have selected trad music band Dervish to represent them at the ow-row-vee-zee-own in Helsinki. Below's a taster of what they may offer up... God have mercy on us!

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Wilderness


We watched Wilderness last night at work. Just wanted to say that the guy who plays Steve (Stephen Wight) was well fit - see pic above.
The film's basically a British teen horror-flick, which despite being extremely gory, is never really scary. Starting out in a teen offenders' institute, new-boy in the dorm, Callum, quickly proves that he's going to be no push-over for head-bully Steve, who uses mentally challenged Lewis as muscle.
After the suicide of Davie due to bullying by Steve and Lewis, the remaining guys get sent to a remote island for some male-bonding with guard Jed. Once there they get the feeling that they're not alone, even after meeting a group of girls there on some training excercise.
What follows is the grisly death of the gang as one by one they get picked off in more and more imaginative ways by a guy with a pack of dogs and a crossbow.
The problem with this film is that you never really feel for any of the characters (except maybe the girls), as they're all without exception evil bastards, so it's hard to sympathise with them when they're killed. Perhaps the only one that the viewer gets a feel for is Callum, although we're told several times he's a cold blooded murderer. There's little character development and the guys are little more than the social stereotypes of youth offenders: Callum the cold, silent killer, Steve the skinhead bully, Lewis the thick piece of muscle, Jethro the chilled out black guy and Blue the slimy sex-offender. Even Lindsay, the insipid Welsh coward, proves he's no less malicious than the rest and indeed you're glad when he dies.
There's a couple of plot fuck-ups here too... the biggest one being when Blue says he's never seen a dead body before - wrong - they all saw Davie dead in the dorm. Doh! Also, and without wanting to spoil the film, if Davie was so good why was he in a young offenders' institute in the first place?
Despite the flaws it's an enjoyable 90 minutes with plenty of gore to turn the stomach, some beautifully shot forest scenes and some funny dialogue. A slasher movie that's basically a cross between "Scum" and "Lord Of The Flies" it's quite frenetic and pretty exciting. Certainly worth getting out on DVD.

Monday, November 13, 2006

NOX vids

And just coz they're great here's a couple of NOX vids!!!

Csak Játssz (Just Play)




Láthatsz egy rút nap ősz fényű alkonyán
Csodát, nézz, láss!
Járhatsz a mélyben, csúf, rossz erők nyomán
Még élsz, még jársz!

Van vissaút, csak légy erős!
Már készül ellened mindenféle "hős"

Holnapokba vágysz
Tegnapokba szállsz
Színeket a mában nem találsz

Jobb napokra vársz
Rossz sarokban állsz
De nyeherted a játékot: csak játssz!

Csak játssz!

Állhatsz a ködben, vívhatsz ezer csatát
Bár félsz, még állsz
Várhatsz a csöndben, eltűrve más dalát
Még élsz, még vársz!

Van még remény, ha lángod ég
Mert túl kell élned mindent, az álmodért

Holnapokba vágysz
Tegnapokba szállsz
Színeket a mában nem találsz

Jobb napokra vársz
Rossz sarokban állsz
De nyeherted a játékot: csak játssz!

Holnapokba vágysz
Tegnapokba szállsz
Színeket a mában nem találsz

Jobb napokra vársz
Rossz sarokban állsz
De nyeherted a játékot: csak játssz!

Csak játssz!


Szeretem... (I Like...)




Csoda napok járnak, változik a szél
Öröm dala árad, költözik a tél
Szabadul a folyó, megölel a fény
Olvad a gond a szívemről, minden az enyém
Velünk jön a szerelem, túl az utakon
Ha lemarad az idő, fel nem kutatom
Mosolyog a világ, mért' ne tegyem én?
Olvad a gond a szívemről, minden az enyém
Szeretem az élet hajnali dalát
Szeretem a fények nappali szavát
Szeretem az est otthon-melegét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét
Szeretem az álmok rejtett aranyát
Szeretem a táncok tiszta tavaszát
Szeretem a csönd égi örömét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét
Csoda napok járnak, változik a tér
Mutatja magát a csillagszemű éj
Napot kap a virág, hitet a remény
Olvad a gond a szívemről, minden az enyém
Velünk jön a szerelem, boldog-szabadon
Vége sose legyen, kérem, akarom!
Szorítom a kezed, élem a mesém
Olvad a gond a szívemről, minden az enyém
Szeretem az élet hajnali dalát
Szeretem a fények nappali szavát
Szeretem az est otthon-melegét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét

Szeretem az álmok rejtett aranyát
Szeretem a táncok tiszta tavaszát
Szeretem a csönd égi örömét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét
Nézz rám, érints meg szóval!
Nézz rám, számíthatsz rám
Némán szólj hozzám, csókkal
Nézz rám, számíthatsz rám!
Szeretem az élet hajnali dalát
Szeretem a fények nappali szavát
Szeretem az est otthon-melegét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét

Szeretem az álmok rejtett aranyát
Szeretem a táncok tiszta tavaszát
Szeretem a csönd égi örömét
Szeretem a csókod éjjeli tüzét

Ow-row-vee-zee-own 2007!!!

The guy who MIGHT be representing Turkey at Eurovision 2007... although it wouldn't be with this song... wonder if there'd be room for a strip!!!



Kimini dudağından
Kimini gözünden
Kimini düşündüren zeki sözünden
Kimini uzun bacak bacaklarından

Kimini profilden
Kimini belinden
Kenarından yada köşesinden
Kimini kıvır kıvır saçlarından

Kimini dudağından
Kimini gözünden
Kimini düşündüren zeki sözünden
Kimini uzun bacak bacaklarından

Kimini göbeğindan
Kimini sesinden
Kimini nefesinden
Kimini serin bakış bakışlarından

Beğenirim hepsini severim ayıramam
Seçemedim hiçbirinden vazgeçmedim
Of aman!
Oh

Na nanı nana na
Mecnun olamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Böyle aşkı bulamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Leylaya varamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Hiçbirinden cayamam ben

Kimini dudağından
Kimini gözünden
Kimini düşündüren zeki sözünden
Kimini uzun bacak bacaklarından

Kimini göbeğindan
Kimini sesinden
Kimini nefesinden
Kimini serin bakış bakışlarından

Beğenirim hepsini severim ayıramam
Seçemedim hiçbirinden vazgeçmedim
Of aman!
Oh

Na nanı nana na
Mecnun olamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Böyle aşkı bulamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Leylaya varamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Hiçbirinden cayamam ben

Uğrarım hepsine fazla kalamam
Soramam telefon karıştırmam
Bir anda müptela olurum hemde
Üzmem çünkü ben yarıştırmam

Na nanı nana na
Mecnun olamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Böyle aşkı bulamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Leylaya varamam ben
Na nanı nana na
Hiçbirinden cayamam ben