waxing a-go-go; let's raise some cash!
last nite was the monthly generator party - and this month was a little special; we had a charity party! all the money taken over the bar for the night, plus all the money raised from the activies taking place in the bar, went to the red cross. i'm not sure what the exact figure was, but i think we raised a little over £2,200!! it will surely go a long way to help.the activies that took place were both hillarious and painful (both for us watching, and the 10 guys involved). basically, 10 male staff members dressed up as women, lay down on the table, and people paid for waxing strips. different parts of the body cost different amounts, with the ultimate - back, crack and sack - costing a grand total of £200!(un?)fortunately, we didn't have to witness the full deal - but it got pretty close. russ and arno (the current and former events supervisors here at the gen) managed to get £150 for an ass wax...yes, it the bar, pants down, waxing strip on the crack. lovely stuff...(remember, the money went to a really good cause). between the two of them, i think about £270 was raised, which is really great (not so great for the poor bodies today!)you can find a few pictures from last nite here. enjoymike
random link of the day
dance baby, DANCE!
in other news, i've been having fun reading about vin diesel. things like "Vin Diesel was present at the fall of the Berlin wall as a roadie for David Hasslehoff"
you can check out some more random thoughts here
ciao
the point of travelling
there's a lot of reasons people travel - to see the world, experience other cultures, the freedom, the fun, the amasing people you meet...this site sums a lot of these reasons up.it's a photography site that i've seen before, but stumbled upon it again tonite. check it out if you're still not quite sure if you should travel. and if you've already been, you might relive some of your old adventures...
random messageboard
i found this rather amusing...
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karyoke
thursday night is karyoke with garyoke nite here at the gen. anyone who's been here before will know that it's normally one of the busiest nites in the bar, and a fair few people get up to sing.
finishing work at midnight has stopped me either. ever since i've been back and working, i've made my way into the bar on a thursday for a bit of a sing. last nite was no exception.
russ and i did our usual rendition of tenacious d's "tribute", which of course rocked! russ does the shiny demon, i sing jack's part. for the second last song of the nite, we decided it was about time 4 of us got onstage for a bit of village people action.
russ, gary(oke), arno and myself got onstage and sang (and danced to!) YMCA. judging by the crowds reaction, it was as funny to watch as it was to be part of! hopefully someone got some pics so i can put them up.
this month's event in the bar is a charity fundraiser for the red cross tsunami fund. 10 brave generator boys will be dressing up as women to have their bits waxed - people will buy waxing strips and wax different parts of the body. i'm the officla photographer for the night, so there will be plenty of pics, but for now, check out the flyer below.
i'll try to post more happenings over the weekend.
mike
does anyone still love...
the traveldeskguy? even thou, i'm no longer the traveldeskguy?
no one seems to care about my wonderful new design, photos, links... *sniff*
in other news, check out this site. hillarious comics that are unintentionally sexual. here's a few samples...
pics
here a pic for russ, who is sitting rite next to me...
picture of the week
i've been saying for the past few weeks that updates would be coming strong and fast here on fear & loathing....and well, it's beginning, it'll just take some time.but, first of the new features to be introduced is the generator picture of the week. as there hasn't been one of these before, i think i'll put up a couple of pics today. these are from a week or so ago, just before ambah-girl left us for the sunny shores of greece.enjoy!mike
new things to come
as i said it's about time i got off my ass and started updating this. so please check this out over the next week or two - hopefully there'll be plenty of new photos, possibly a bit of a new layout and a load of stories.it may take a little while to get it back up to scratch, but i'll be working on it when i'm not at work (those other 3 hours of the day). if there's anything you'd like to see featured here, leave me a comment or drop me an email and i'll see what i can do.until then..............................mike
...:::update:::...
well since my life is currently pretty boring (work, drink, sleep, work, drink, sleep) i thought i'd write a quick generator update, in case there's anyone still reading this blog.ambah girl, everyone's favourite bar girl, is leaving on tuesday for good. there's a whole story with her having to leave, but she's off to sunnier days down in corfu to hopefully take up employment at the pink palace. ambah's been a great friend to me for the past year, and it's really sad to see her leave us!nicole and cam were meant to be heading off to mexico, then flying back to australia. as luck would have it, they saw the light and decided it was pointless wasting the last 12 months of their uk work visas, so they've gone to california for two weeks and will be back here before the end of the month.alvaro, our bar supervisor, is also leaving us. he's been here longer than i have - it's going to be strange walking into the bar now without alvi there. but hopefully he'll still be around from time to time.welcome host jess is off in a months time to catch up with ambah down in greece. she's hoping to work down there too, and hopefully i'll get to catch up with them month in about 3 months...which brings us to what i'm doing - i'll be heading off home (sadly!) in about 3 months time. kings and i are planning on heading to berlin first (if the love parade is on) or amsterdam (if it's not) - underworld are playing in amsterdam july 17th (or there abouts) so we're finally going to catch one of their shows. if the parade is on, we'll go to berlin around july 7th, stay there for 5 or 6 days, then head to prague for the underworld show there on july 13th. from there, we'll travel our way through poland, hungary and a few other countries in eastern europe, before heading down the coast of croatia (or perhaps italy), then to greece for a few weeks.hopefully after that we'll get to turkey and egypt, then fly to bangkok, travel through thailand, cambodia, vietnam and up to hong kong. and then, i want to get to manilla to see my sister em who's moving there very shortly. then we'll fly from manilla to sydney, and paulie, andy and al will meet us up - where upon we'll start the road trip back across the great land of australia all the way to perth!the trip shold be a hell of a lot of fun, but i can't say i'm looking forward to the end of living in london. it'll be very hard to leave!anyway - that's a quick update. i'm going to try to make some more regular updates, fix up the page a bit. if anyone has any ideas, leave me some comments.
