Wicked Night With The Boys – Mad Chaos: September 18, 1998

My motive for this entry is not to speak of the past, but to speak of the day passed.

Last night after getting to sleep, I woke up the following morning at 9:30am.  Upon waking up, I thought to have a fairly big day ahead of me.  

A Hot Day In Town

This morning, upon waking up, I had myself a shower and then thought of what my plans would be.  Knowing that I would have to walk to Campbelltown to pick up some camera film, I put some clothes on and headed out.  

The day, like summer’s door, presents itself, heated moderately.  Now it won’t be long until the full swing of mangoes and melting ice cream hit my smiling face.  

In Campbelltown, I took out some money from my credit card to fund my newest CD promotion.  

Noticing that there was an extra $50 taken out, I got angered to find out Optus took that out.  Bastards!  Now it will be doubly hard to pay my Telstra bill.  

Heading across the street to the camera house, I noticed that people were already dressing in summer clothes, especially the girls.  Yep, this is time for the crop top, fashion and swimwear.

Bump Into Pari

I picked up the camera film from the camera shop.  My work was finished in Campbelltown.  

As I was heading home, I bumped into Pari Darzi.  He was catching a bus to Macarthur Square.  His bus was almost upon us, so we only spoke a couple of words.  Then I was back on my way home.

Booking Studio Time

Upon arriving home, I called up Alex from Shire Media Studios to see if I could come in for the day and get the CDs burnt earlier.  

“I am all booked out for the night.  The earliest available time would be tomorrow,” Alex basically told me.

“Then can I book in a time for Monday, like we had planned previously,” I asked.

I’m going to the beach tomorrow, so Monday works better.  

Ideas For CD’s

It’s cool how my mind thinks of ideas and quickly, too.  Since yesterday I have come up with more and more ideas for the CD.  Knowing that I will have Misty Moo side-on in the CD (so you can see the most of him and he would spread across the CD), on the other side I will have two of my new label names.  Still deciding upon names, I came up with ‘C Sharp Records’.  On top of the words will be the Crystal Piano Lyssa bought for me.

The second idea came to me when I was foraging through my Diary, and came across a lost parchment of information.  In these words I remembered that I had Lyssa’s ring, the same ring that stabbed me right at the start of our relationship, so I thought that would be a cool reminder to place onto the CD.  Rightly named for the fact that the ring had a little star and a sharp moon carved into it, I will have that represent ‘Star and Moon Productions’.  

Other ideas for the CD were to have Misty Moo’s head turned to the side so it would appear as if he was looking at you while facing side on.  The background would be tricky for me to ponder over, but it might be a fancy color.

Having no real plans for the rest of the day and not wanting to take pictures yet of Misty Moo, I chose to visit the gym.

Now after having something to eat, I made my way down to Bradbury Gym where I found it pleasing that there was only two people there at 1pm.  

Exercise	Sets
Warm-Ups:	Having warmed up my muscles at home, I used the bikes to warm up some more.
Chest:	From there I started on chest. By the end of chest I could say that I had used half my body’s resources. In the tradition of olden days, let me write how I would normally write my workout entries to give them some importance. Starting with a warm-up set of pullovers on 30 pounds, I performed 15 reps before moving on. Moving onto bench press, I started with 10 reps and 80 pounds.  Placing the weight up to a new 140 pounds, I had some assistance from one of the people in the gym and performed ten reps with at least six reps by myself.   Next was the Seated Machine Bench Press.  With 120 pounds, I performed 12 reps.  Another set was performed.   Then I moved onto Peck deck with 50 pounds and 10 reps.   Trying to keep my reps low, I moved to Decline Dumbbell Press.  I tried first with 55 pounds but couldn’t get more than 3 reps due to my triceps.  Dropping down to 40 pounds, I couldn’t perform 6 reps so my arms were getting tired.   Moving to the assisted Dip machine, I performed ten assisted reps. Then I moved on to Lat Pushdowns for 160 pounds.   Performing one more set of Peck Deck and one more set of Machine Bench Press I was done, and exhausted.
Back:	Using a different approach today, I decided to start on T-Bar Rows with 40 pounds, where I easily performed 15 reps.  Increasing the weight to 80 pounds, I performed one more set of 10 reps. Then I headed to Seated Cable Rows.  Placing the weight to 100 pounds, I performed 10 moderate reps before placing the weight up to 110 pounds, and performing 10 more strenuous reps.   Trying to avoid any sort of pull-down exercise, I moved to One Arm Dumbbell Rows.  Starting on a weight around 50 pounds I repped out 10 reps per arm.  Then I added an extra 5 pounds per arm performed 10 more reps each. Biceps: Starting with Alternate Dumbbell Curls, I picked up 25 pound dumbbells and performed 12 quick reps.  Increasing the weight to 30 pounds, I could only do 7 reps per arm before conking out.   Moving onto Standing Cable Curls with 50 pounds, I strenuously performed 10 reps before lowering the weight to 40 pounds and executing 10 more reps.   Trying my turn at Preacher Cable Curls with 30 pounds, I performed 10 reps before finishing my plight from the Biceps. Triceps: Only as a resting point, I tried my hand at Triceps Pushdowns with 50 or more pounds.  There was plenty of weight on there is all I can say, as I performed 15 easy reps.  Increasing the weight to 65 pounds, I found it hard to complete 10 reps.
Abdominals:	Last was the abs, where I found it hard to feel the burn as I usually do.   Right now I can feel the stretch in my chest, but nowhere else.  Only performing two sets for my abs, I did plenty of reps to counter under-stressing the muscle group.   On Machine Ab Crunches with 30 pounds I performed 50 fairly easy reps.  When I felt the burn, I increased the weight to 50 pounds and achieved 25 more reps before feeling completely fucked.

Post-Workout Routine

After that workout, I made my way home.  At home I had myself a massive feast consisting of a meat pie, two homemade hamburgers, and a batch of vegetables in a large bowl.  My appetite was strong, so all the food was devoured.

Imad’s Unexpected Visit

After the gym, nothing really happened until I jumped onto my computer and started reading old entries and getting all worked up with my emotions.  

That’s about the time Imad popped over, unexpected.  Not like before. These days he comes over more often.  

Before, when I was over with Lyssa, Imad didn’t come over at all really, but now he’s over every second or third night, which is good.  Imad keeps me company, but I can’t help to think that the reason he comes over some nights is that he knows I now don’t only lack Lyssa’s company, but also Ali’s.

To be truthful, my real friends have disappeared – apart from Imad and Jett – and my G-Thang family has come back to life.  Only at this age they aren’t G-Thang anymore and they aren’t considered my family.  Dogged have I been more from the G-Thang clan than I would have been from Imad, Jett, Lyssa and even Ali (need I even speak his name in such a manner).  

Good friends are understanding friends, and those I considered understand, all except for Ali, that is.

Keith, Tatton and Ralf Show Up

Imad brought over some music to listen to.

About half an hour into his stay while I was dismantling my speaker boxes to arrange some connections, Keith, Tatton and Ralf showed up.  Ralf was all handshakes as he walked into the room, which I thought was funny.

Fixing my speakers, we all sat down.  With the music cranking, we tried engaging in conversation.  Instead we came up with some demented shit having to do with numbers.  For your example I will incorporate my conversation with Tatton.

“If you always want to be number one in the world and someone asks you what two minus four would be, the answer would be three.  If you always came out second best then two minus four would be four.  But I always live two steps ahead of life so my answer would always be two above the calculation.”

Some wicked shit I have to admit, but we carried on about this as we usually do when in crowds.  

Like usual, we came up with some more demented shit.

“Tatton is fat,” Keith would say a sentence.  

“You know what, Tatton is fat,” Ralf or someone else would sarcastically continue the next sentence. 

“Did you know Tatton is fat,” I would continue the next sentence.

“If fat would be a number, Tatton would be six, unless he wanted to be number one,” one of us would drop facts.

  Yep, there you have it, some warped shit from one of our numerous warped conversations over time. Imagine that.

Playing Chess

Keith, Tatton and Ralf soon left.  Then Imad and I started a game of Chess.  

Imad was once again beaten.  It was funny how the game ended, me with half of the board’s pieces and him with a Rook and King.  Imad is fun to play against because he doesn’t second guess his moves and makes mistakes.  Now I’m not the best chess player, but many people can beat Imad.

Planning Cronulla Beach

Imad left my house after our game of Chess and lending the first CD of ‘Notorious BIG’.  

Since then, I called Jett up to make sure we had plans for tomorrow at the beach.  As far as I know, we are still going.  Despite trying to invite the likes of Shawn, Ralf, and the rest of them, it will probably only be Jett and I.  Still, I would rather it be just Jett and I because we can have more fun that way.  

Jett will probably be taking a board down for me.  Because I don’t have any board shorts, I will have to lend some off him.  

If tomorrow actually happens, Jett is going to double me on his motorbike to his house around 10:30am.  From there we are on our way to the train station.  All the way to the City we will travel.  Then we will head for Cronulla.  Hopefully, God won’t fuck up the weather tomorrow and we will be having a great day and on our way. I know I will be.

Teething Problems

Update on my lost tooth story, it’s doing fine.  That side of my mouth when now chewing is almost obsolete to chewing properly.  

Today I tried to chew on that side but there is no possibility of incising the food without using a lot of gum.  Hopefully, the other side of my mouth will last a long time, but I am worried about a small little hole on the other main molar that I’ve allowed to grow while trying to fix my broken tooth in its former days.  I’ve been brushing that sucker extensively, hoping it doesn’t get to a bad stage, but it’s only a matter of years.  

Hopefully I won’t lose another tooth for at least three or more years, but by then I will have had the other side of my mouth capped so that I can eat properly with no worries.  If I did lose the other molar on the other side of my mouth, then I would be having a very hard time chewing my food.