Its funny you know, I look back and see the last post of mine was in June, and even though each week since the post I’ve said to myself “I really want to write another post”, I’ve always found myself at the end of the day without achieving that goal. So here we are, at the end of October with a new post, long overdue but probably not long awaited LOL.

A lot has happened since June, and all that has happened has of course contributed to the delay in a new post here, things connected to the wedding have been taking a lot of my time, a home purchase and move, work & all sorts! So in this post I’ll try to cover what’s been going on, and you never know you may get a wise word or two (unlikely) LOL.

So with baited breath here we go…

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Hello to the world out there, I’m back… even though in reality I’ve been here all along, I’ve been back for the past few weeks quite intensively working on things behind the scenes and behind closed doors.

There’s been a lot going on both with the development of www.spikedeffect.com and my life, and to be honest there is so much to catch up on that I wont be able to cover everything in a single post, unless I really want to bore you to utter death.

For this post I’ll cover the two major things that have happened (or is happening in the case of development) in the recent past / present and without further ado… here goes.

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted I know, and it seems every time I do, I say I’ll post more often and then I get dragged onto other things in life which deter me from writing here, but I think this time I do have a pretty reasonable excuse.

Last time you heard from me I was sat in Dubai airport waiting for a plane to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and that was the start to the first of my holidays.

I had 10 days in Jeddah which I spent constantly fixing laptops (therefore not having what I needed to post here), then returned to the UK for 5 days to handover any work I had to the next industrial placement student, as well as beginning to arrange moving my stuff ready for the next university year, and then headed off to my second holiday to Athens, Greece…

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In life there are opportunities that you’ll be faced with, chances in life and love, and the choice on whether you take that chance or not could have a domino effect on other things you do in life for the better or the worst.

I’m not necessarily talking about the obvious opportunities though, opportunities lie everywhere, in every situation and every moment, some with greater detrimental effects than others… But what those effects are, you may not realise until its too late…

But that is the reality of life… that missed opportunity to say “I love you”, that missed opportunity to tell the truth, that missed opportunity to take a chance and reach out for something that could change the way things are, could mean the difference between better or worst…

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Heya, once again I’m back with my writing antics Ain’t ya just excited? lol

Anyways, some of you may or may not have noticed if you have visited the blog of late that things have changed slightly, visually… but really that is just a scratch on the surface, welcome to SpikedEffect’s new and improved WordPress powered blog.

You’ll notice that even though this whole blog is being powered by a new system, it looks the same; I did this in an attempt to make the personalised look and feel of the original blog remain the same but adapted for this new highly customisable, and much more powerful, system.

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Heya, to anyone who actually reads this blog, sorry for the delay in getting the next blog post out, its been a very busy couple of weeks, but I will always attempt to update this blog ASAP and keep you up to date on things in progress.

Anyone wandering if I have progressed with developing things for my website, no, over the past few weeks there has been a lot I have had to do that took priority, but I will be back onto those things this week with a bit of luck.

Before I go on any further though, I would like to say thanks to those who attended my Birthday Celebrations @ Tiger Tiger, or even anyone who sent me birthday greetings on the day. My rocket propelled zimmer frame will come in handy at my old age If you want to check out pictures from the day you can do so here (Click the image to the left).

Right, onto other things, I have been extremely busy as of late, with a recent big project on at work which was a solo effort on my behalf, and also things like having to choose my 3rd year project, having to sort out things in regard to my student loan etc. Its a busy time of year!

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Over the past few days, I’ve had a lot going through my mind, I see people moving on in life, progressing towards their goals and their dreams, and it made me realize am I really doing enough to reach my goals? There are smarter, more determined people in this world that will be aiming for the same goals I am, so what makes me stand out from the rest? What will make a company take a risk and choose me above the rest? At the moment I can’t even pick that out myself, and that is pretty worrying…

Yet again, it’s not too late to start, I’ve got a year left of university and the remainder of this academic year before I am unleashed on the real world, so maybe it’s time to step up the heat and work towards what, I know if I try hard enough, I can achieve. I’ve always been someone who sets real high goals from himself, but at times I have also lacked the willpower and determination to follow through with it. And I’m determined to change that, I can’t face seeing myself sink into a below par standard.

So what am I going to do? Well first off with one change in determination comes a change in lifestyle, I’ve been meaning for a while to get back on track with fitness, I’ve let myself be too lazy and the only one who has suffered is myself…

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There’s a famous saying “Nice Guys Finish Last” and I’ve been thinking of that of late, and to be honest if you look at it , it does seem to be true… As chandler once said in friends “you’re such a nice guy’ means: ‘I’m going to be dating leather wearing alcoholics, and complaining about them – to you.’”

So what is it? Why is it that girls seem to prefer the ones that are going to treat them wrong? To be honest I can’t answer that question, why would someone put themselves under more hurt then they need to be? I don’t understand it nor do I attempt to understand it… But yet, it has made me think, should I change? Should I stop caring? Should I become one of those guys that I have disapproved of for so long?

“Chandler, Friends: — “you’re such a nice guy’ means: ‘I’m going to be dating leather wearing alcoholics, and complaining about them – to you.’” –”

Well if I am honest, I have tried it before but I just couldn’t do it, I have a conscious and I cared too much about what I was actually doing… No matter how hard I tried, nor how much I distracted myself, I couldn’t escape the morals that I hold within myself. Sure, we all make mistakes in life, but we don’t all regret them…

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No matter what is going on in life, whether it be directly related to you or not, the fact is time goes on whilst it all happens. So what am I getting at? Well, the fact of the matter is there will be times in life where things happen that hit you, and hit you hard, and all you’ll actually want to do is just pull yourself away from the world so that you can recover…

The reality is, however, that the world keeps turning, and that the time you spend trying to get over your past in fact starts to consume your future, after all the world doesn’t just stop because you want it to.

Most of the time when something hits us, our main natural instinct is to try and explain why it has… Obviously different people deal with this in different ways. Some are so determined to find out why, that they’ll spend all their emotional energy in searching it out… Some in fact take the route to find something else to do to take their mind of it, therefore penting up whatever emotions they may be feeling which could eventually arise at a later unexpected date.

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Well people, I’m starting this entry not 100% on what I am going to talk about in it, but hey sometimes the best things are unplanned LOL (Hence the totally random picture I created for today’s posting as it’s meant to represent the characters forming whilst typing this entry).

So what’s been going on with me? Well I have been very busy over the past week getting a website up and live for work, which took up a lot of my time, on top of that I worked at Old Trafford as usual on home match days, which in the past week has included the Liverpool game and Blackburn Carling Cup semi final game. And on that note… COME ON YOU REDS!

Anyway, not really in the mood to go off into a football slant today… But what slant do I go on? haha really cannot make up my mind at the moment…

OK, right I think I have picked up on something that I can actually natter on about for a bit… I’ve been thinking of late of my friends, who because of the way my life is are mostly half way across the world, my two best friends, are either in Sweden or Finland, my other closest friends are either in the states or just really bad at keeping in touch, or maybe just everyone is just horrible at keeping in touch…

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