• Nikki’s audition tape
• Nikki complaining about not being able to drink tap water as she only has bottled water (An absolute classic!)
• Nikki recites HER version of the alphabet (missing out U & V – utter genius!!!)
• Nikki complaining about being Big Brother’s PA (Another Classic)
• Another Classic – Nikki complaining about the heatng in the diary room (I’m so cooooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllldddddddd – add warbling effect to last word)
• And another classic! (She’s ace! What can I say) Nikki in the biggest huff ever!

I’m just gonna leave it at thoes for now. If i find anymore I’ll put them up, but here’s some pics of the many faces of Nikki!

• Shabaz the epitome of annoying and social imcompetence! It was literally like watching David Brent when he does some of the stupidest things ever and you just sit there and cringe, except this guy was for real! Sadly he walked out after a few days.
• Dawn being ejected for rule breaking and telling Big Brother to “Shut Up” over 90 times in the space of 4 minutes whilst being told off by Big Brother! I read in the papers she’s trying to sue BB, but she can’t afford a lawyer so she’s going on hunger strike to try and get the video tapes of her time in the house. Dawn, I hope you starve you muppet! Get over it!!! No one cares!
• Nikki is the real life version of Alicia Silverstone in Clueless. I can’t believe people like her exist, but she absolutely fantastic!!! Some of the stuff she comes out with is amazing!! It’s as if she was down at Boots buying more lipliner while God was handing out the brains!
• Finally Sezer, Grace & Imogen (or the plastics as they seem to be called now). These guys all think they’re ‘it’, especially Sezer who thinks he’s Gods gift to women (that was Barry White mate). Yesterday he found out he was up for eviction and said to everyone, “I won’t be going because all the girls will vote for me to stay”! Needless to say he’s odds on favourite to be kicked out tomorrow! What a muppet! Then Imogen the other day after hearing Richard had called her fake turns to him and goes “I’ve never been two faced about anyone in here”. What was it you were saying to Sezer the other day that got you banned from nominating love? Do these people seriously not know they’re on TV 24-7!?!
• Quote of the week by Pete who suffers from Tourettes (a disorder where you have uncontrollable outbursts) talking to Richard about Sezer & the Plastics:
  
  “Wankers! …wow, my tourettes was in context!”
  Utter genius!!!

“I don’t know where we’re going tonight. Obviously Finchy’s a sophisticated guy, and Gareth’s a culture vulture, so will it be opera, ballet, I don’t know. I think the RSCs in town, so er… having said that at Chasers it hooch for a pound and wonderbras get in free night.”

“There are limits to my comedy. There are things that I’ll never laugh at. The handicapped. Because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity. It’s like when you see someone look at a little handicapped and go ‘ooh, look at him, he’s not able-bodied. I am, I’m prejudiced.’ Yeah, well, at least the little handicapped fella is able-minded. Unless he’s not, it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones.”

“I’m just saying there should be tests.”
“We’re all ears Gareth.”
“Well I don’t know, when they go down the DSS to make a claim then they should set off a fire alarm fake fire alarm, everybody legs it out the office leaving them there. If they’re fake they’ll be up and running with them, if they’re real they’ll be left there screaming for help.”

This is absolutely genius!!! The entire film of Episode IV in an 8-bit animated GIF file!!! Genius!!!

Well, I started my Internship in London on monday and what an eventful week its been! Meeting new people, spending hours on the phone to Irish people who don’t have a clue what they’re doing and spending a whole day locked up in work whilst the city is put on high alert after the bombings!!!

For those that don’t know, I started working for Morgan Stanley on monday in Canary Wharf for 10 weeks in their Technology department. It looks like it’ll be an exciting few weeks.

I started on Monday and everyone joining the company met in a huge hall for a series of introductory lectures on Morgan Stanley and what they do (I still have no idea, it has something to do with the following words – Investment Banking, Equites, Fixed Income, Profit, Capitalism, etc). Anyway, in the afternoon, after the lectures, we were sent on a Matrix themed Scavenger hunt through Canary Wharf, which although fun was slightly odd (i thought) for a big banking company. (below is my team for the scavenger hunt – we came a respectable 3rd out of 10!)

On Tuesday we went to our separate divisions and met our teams with whom we would be working for the whole summer. My team is very small (5 in total – one in Toronto & us 4 English guys), I then spent the whole afternoon (til 7pm) trying to get my computer set up with the software I needed to do the work. This involved many phone calls to the Irish IT helpdesk who we have to go through in order to get things installed on our computers. Of course, as all helpdesks are, they were bloody useless and they in the end I managed to do it myself.

On Wednesday we went on a team building day to Tunbridge Wells where we got do some really cool activities. At first, we were put in teams and competed against each other to do certain tasks (like moving two nuclear waste containers without dropping them). We failed all of the tasks miserably the first few times but gained loads of points for our optimistic team spirit and we eventually completed the team race task in 2nd place! After all the team games, we were allowed to go rock climbing, drive the off-road agrocats (cool little buggies) and have a go at the lake challenge. The latter, the lake challenge, was great fun, it consisted of lots of rope bridges across a huge murky brown lake, the aim being to get across without falling in. It was remarkably easy to get across, in the end, me and another guy, Rob decided to jump in from the high wire bridge (about the height of a two storey house) which was the probably the most exhilerating part of the day!

Now we get to Thursday, a remarkable and tragic day. Thursday was meant to be my first full day of work. I arrived on the DLR at 9am and got to my desk and started on my first project. After 10 or 15 minutes, someone joked about how the just heard the underground was out of action because of a few power cuts that caused explosions. My team joked with me about how unreliable the underground was. Then after a while I got a text from Jen asking if I ok. I just shrugged this off as being a little bit paranoid – Of course I’m fine! It was only a few small explosions on one of the worlds most unreliable transport systems. Then reports of the bus came in and that’s when we realised it was more serious. As the news kept on coming on, the whole of Canary Wharf (the main finanicial and business district of the country) was blocked off to all incoming and outgoing traffic, car and rail. We were told we could not leave our offices until the police had secured the area and the situation seemed safe. I have to admit I was very nervous, especially since canary wharf is like the World Trade Center of England. However, I was more worried about a friends mum who was on one of the tubes behind one of the ones that exploded. Thankfully she is only suffering from a bit of smoke inhalation and is little shaken, but she was trapped undergound for over an hour and then locked in a cafe in Kings Cross until the police decided it was safe. I have to thank God that she’s safe and that the bombings were not as bad as those in Madrid or New York in recent times. I also hope all my friends from work got home alright because many of them lived in the north of the city and didn’t know how they were going to get home.

At least on Friday I was given the day off to spend with Milly who gave me a mini guied tour of Greenwich (where I’m staying) and we went off to the cinema to see War of The Worlds (very good!).

I haven’t got the internet (or my computer for that matter) in my halls , so I have to use an internet cafe to check my emails ad blog but hopefully I’ll be able to do some fairly regular blogging (unlike in the past few months). I hope everyone is well!!

In years gone by I was a tent leader at a youth camp in wales for 4 fantastic Welsh lads. These guys were a right laugh and I’ve recently been catching up with a few of them. These reason I mention these guys is that they are all into Mountain Boarding or All Terraion Boarding – basically a snowboard with huge wheels for rolling down big hills. Anyway, I recently discovered their website and the fantastic video’s of them doing there stuff and i throughly recommend everyone to go check it out – I especially recommend Dom’s video (some class moments). They haven’t asked me to plug it, I was jus so impressed that I thought I’d give a mini plug. So go check it out at http://www.cowpatprod.com/. Also, special mention for Alex and his wicked editing on the vids, nice one lad!!!

Since Star Wars III is coming out soon, I figured I would waste some time and go for a journey on the Information Super-Highway seeing what weird and wonderful Star Wars delights I could pick up! So

First stop, the galaxy’s central “twin finding agency”. “Find your star wars twin!” it claims which isn’t quite true as I found out. Instead it is a personality test that tries to match you up to various Star Wars characters under different catagories.

I came out a bit of a mixed bag, a combination of driods, luke skywalker and the infamous Mon Mothma! Click here to see my Star Wars Personality!!

Second port of call was the 501st Legion of Imperial Stormtroopers official website.

They are a large group are star wars fans who dress up in full comstumes for various events (weddings, bah mitvahs, brithdays). David Prowse the actor who was in the Darth Vader costume in the original trilogy (better known to some as Darth Farmer due to his West Country accent) is the “Official Leader of the 501st Legion of Imperial Stormtroopers”. They’ve got some pretty impressive pics (See here for some from their recent convention). They even have a “Troopers of the month” section! (I should also point out there is a Rebel Legion opposed to the 501st Stormtroopers because they only focus on the Dark Side of the movies!?!)

After meeting some of Lord Vader’s hench men, I decided to relax at the Star Wars Origami Site which I have to say is really impressive!!! Check out this origami x-wing!!

Following my encounter with Jedi Paper Person, my Interweb space ship took me to “Obi-Wans Jedi Academy”. Unfortunately, you can’t learn the ways of the force, but you can learn how to make your own lightsaber or costume!!! Who knows, after a few rainy days I too could be a member of 501st Imperial Stormtroopers (cos lets face who wants to be part of the “Rebel Scum”). On the build your own lightsaber page there’s a note that says “Please note that these tutorials DO NOT teach you how to make a functional lightsaber.”

By now I was a feeling a little peckish and what better way to replenish my energy with some food from the The Star Wars Cookbook: Wookiee Cookies and Other Galactic Recipes. Unfortunately, I didn’t wanna rush out and buy the book, but thankfully one of the recipes online appears it does! The “Yoda Soda” Looks delicious in the picture!

Finally, I thought I would head over to the Cantina for the local comedy night, where David Letterman let rip with “Signs You’ve Seen the Star Wars Movies Too Many Times
“Top Ten Signs You’ve Seen the ‘Star Wars’ Movies Too Many Times”

10. Your poodles are named “C,” “3,” “P” and “O”

9. You won’t sleep with your wife unless she says, “Help me, Obi Wan, you’re my only hope”

8. You spent $10,000 trying to Rogaine yourself into Chewbacca

7. You’re continually stunned when the President makes major decisions without consulting Mark Hamill

6. Your favorite pickup line: “Would you like to handle my light saber?”

5. You keep referring to your lawn mower as “that crazy droid”

4. You spend most of your days trying to use “the Force” to open a can of pears

3. You once saw an eggplant that looked kind of like Darth Vader and almost had a heart attack

2. Your sex life is strictly “Han Solo,” if you know what I mean

1. You like Yoda so much, you voted for Ross Perot

“Top Ten Star Wars Fan Euphemisms For Not Having A Girlfriend”

10. Camping alone outside the theater.

9. My force is no longer with me.

8. The Death Star is not yet operational.

7. The Empire’s striking out.

6. Shaking hands with the wookie.

5. Darth Vader has no place to put his helmet.

4. Oiling the droid.

3. Unable to set coordinates for the planet Babe.

2. Spending the night with Han Solo.

1. Tractor beam not powerful enough.