New Personal Bests

In the last week I've done like 6-7 hours practice and reached a new personal best in speed cards and speed numbers. I did 240 numbers in 5 mins with one mistake which brought me down to 220 digits which is still a best for me. Then yesterday I did a deck o cards in 67.66 seconds. which was kinda a suprise cos I kept shaking my head through it saying "oh I'll never remember that, oh dear oh dear" But I did so crisis averted.

Also I want to tell you about the magical wonderland of manchester, an aladdins cave of treasures, a place of fantasy and amazement to all those who seek to find it. It's called Costco. Absolutely brilliant. First time we went there we spent £133 on stuff. Decks of cards (bicycle), lounge pants, make up brushes, trainers, socks, mixed herbs and the stupidist purchase ever a flippin 12 pack of chewing gum. I dunno what I was thinking, I think I got carried away. At least they'll last, Unlike most people who buy them, I don't need them. Mwah ha ha.

Erm, I really like nutrition. I wanna write a book on like the philisophical aspects of it and the place of such a lifestyle subject in the context of the world. But like I have no original thoughts, and my philosophical witterings are dry and unprofound. I decided to write a nutrition poem instead. With an actual rhythm and all the other poetical devices.

PS I think cous cous is my favourite carbohydrate based food. I dunno yet. There's a lot of life, time, and places out there. Wish me luck.

Detoxing My Blog

To appeal to a broader audience I have cleaned up my blog. Before it was rated 12A now it is rated PG.

Yesterday I accidentally soaked 5 cups of lentils in water overnight not realising that half a cup is one portion. Now I got the lentil population of a small village to consume by tomorrow.

I'm working on my juggling, cos appearantly every German does it, Gunther, Boris, Gaby to name a few...if not all. I like juggling with clubs better though, I like things that rotate. I Practice my memory untile I've used up my immediate store of loci which is about 300 locations in about 20 buildings, mostly houses. Seeing as though Welsh Memory thing is all on one day I need to come up with twice as many loci, I can't recylce them later on in the comp, too much interference.

I'm gonna put a Findus Lasagne in the oven now, then later do some immunology work for my presentation. Oh my days.

Bread Facination.

I've been like baking bread rather than buying it. It takes ages longer and doesn't last as well but it tastes better...tenfold. I grind up seeds and that and add a bit too much bran then make rolls rather than a bread. Sliced bread is for little baby girls.

My car is looking an feeling pretty fine. New exhaust, new other stuff and a full valet.

Tonight I'm gonna make chicken in a white sauce with veg potatoes and brown bread. Got work at 7 in da morn tomorrow, then memory training and writing my nutrition CV all day, after the gym of course, back and triceps then abs.

Yesterday I memorised 160 digits perfectly in 5 mins when I haven't practiced for 3 months and that was with my new system. I need to do the world memory championships next year for deffo.

Steve Coogan was semi amazing, HAlf of it was hilarious the other half was filling material, cos Steve had to get changed innit. Alan Partridge is a legend.

Steptoe and Son: Upstairs Downstairs Upstairs Downstairs

There's So Much On My Plate It's A Platter.

I realised my MOT ran out last May. I've been driving without MOT for half a year. For shame.

My Car tax runs out in 11 days, They won't issue it without a valid MOT certificate, and I'll deffo fail it if I don't get me exhaust fixed, when I say fixed I mean actually get an exhaust. It fell off.

Mum's stuck in Kenyo for another two weeks. I said I'd get the coach down to London to pick her up then fly up with her. The invalid.

Got to finish a business proposal for tomorrow, which I don't mind, I kinda like it, but I think in long terms and I had this ludacris vision of me having this idea that does well, like i get backing from Dragon's Den or something and I have to split it with others jus cos I "happened" to be in the same group. When I came up with the idea, the logo the ethos and vibe of the company, totally original, totally workable, with the propensity to grow. I don't like sharing my ideas unless I get accredited with them, I'll share a slice of pie, or a mars bar but not my ideas. My sense of self and originality are all I hold dear. Also, my logo is very poetic, I came up with like 10 to 12 different levels my logo could work on. If you're interested to find out lemme know, i'll gladly share my very bad philisophical message of my logo.

Erm, I'ma gonna get super tonk before my birthday. Creatine, Protein and Iron in both senes of the word. Wanna be flexible aswell. Doubt I'll be able to ever touch my toes again, I can still do the splits though.

Can't wait for breakfast tomorrow. If I shall ever awaken from the fast of the night.

PS. Isn't biofocus the coolest brand name you've ever heard? So much association.

I'm 10.3% Fat.

Whilst going to Abbey to sort out my finances I wandered into Boots to check my body fat, BMI, weight and height. My BMI is 24.2 and my fat percentage is 10.3. So hopefully come the Welsh Memory Championship I'll be fit as a fiddle. The way those machines guesstomate body fat and fat free mss is a process called bioelectrical impedance.

Had a day off uni today, didn't do much, I started reading Watchmen the comic book, I can see how comic books can be addictive. Gonna read it some more now. Can't wait for the film, the way Abdul Jalal describes it it's gonna be the shit.

I wanna make some of my in-famous lamb keema tonight washed down with copious amounts of yogurt sauce. The ingredients to my yogurt sauce are: cumin seeds, coriander powder, garam masala, chilli powder, mint sause and a few drops of lemon. It's the only thing I can think of that nobody makes better than me. In my modest opinion.

Gonna go watch some Extras then Read some Watchmen, Which is in my opinion far better then the prequel the Watchtower.

Also, when I do my hybrid Dominic-Bell-Hoque system I like catergories, that way if I lose my place I can narrow it down during recall. Can't think of a memorable action for Alan Partridge as of yet...It'll come to me don't worry.

Adieu.

New Year For Nutrition

Started my second year of nutrition. I think I'm gonna like it if I stay focused and don't la de da around.

Memory is kind of on a backburner at the moment. I do little tidbits in my mind when I have no materials, because memory is like pure creativity I'd rather do it spontaneously when the mood strikes me than actuall plan a session.

Erm, what else? Not much, gonna see Steve Coogan in concert at the end of October. £70 pound quid of my hard earned uni grant, never mind it should be good. Ah-Haaaaa!

I watched Outpost last night, I thought it was kinda good concept but they could have done sooo much more with it. Also, watched Doomsday which is awesome, wish the lead was a man though, bit more believeable. The throw back to whitehorses and knights and castles is a bit jokes.

Next lecture is health communication and promotion, I hope it's based on psychology and consumer profiles type of thing. That way the way you would market a product to someone would be similar to the way you could teach them something specific..

Greece is the Word..

I'm going to Greece on Friday, need to get all my holiday ting tongs ready. Sun lotion, mosquito bite stick, pepper spray etc.

Watched I Am Legend this afternoon. Tis a really good film, bit of politics in there aswell.

When I originally started this blog I intended it to be exclusively about memory. But, as always my plans never go according to plan, but ironically I still call them plans. I should really call them intentions but intentions sound a bit dilly dally and dithery so I settled on humourously and facetiously calling them plans.

Anyways, I intend to learn a list of (not right now next week sometime) popular names and come up with a symbol or object that represents them. Then when I remember a name I just need to pick out a distinguishing character trait and hook them together. I'm gonna contemplate buying a book of names and workin my way through it. But that's a bit hardcore for me at the moment so just a mnemonic for popular names will suffice. oh, actually I'll do it with some more factfinders, that makes more sense rather than a big ass book of names.

And, erm...yeah, As for spoken numbers I'm gonna try and see if I can hold 2 scenes in mind whilst on my jouney that way I'm incorporating the link system aswell. I'm gonna try my damnedest to get 100 numbers in spoken format. Because that's the one everyone always dreads, I thought that would be the one to focus on. If this discipline is done well with confidence then numbers and binary are easy.

I'm gonna read and research more about cold reading now, don't miss me too much. Piece out.