Met up with some friends today and went to see Wanted. After watching the trailers I was looking forward to this movie. Also after the RUBBISH The Happening and slightly disappointing Indiana Jones 4 it was time for a good “blockbuster”.

It was a very good movie. I really enjoyed it. Lots of action, car chases, special effects were impressive. It was an 18 certificate movie so the fight scenes had that extra bit of “gore” and blood.

It was one of those action movies which had funny bits. Morgan Freeman and James McAvoy were great and Angelina Jolie was excellent. She looked particularly nice in the movie. Didnt used to see what everyone liked in her but recently think she looks great! I like a woman with some tattoos

Rating: 8.5/10

Spain won Euro 2008 tonight against a very ordinary German team. Its been a great tournament (although not quite the same without England) and its good for football that a team like Spain with their attacking style of football win Euro 2008.

Spain were overall the best team in the final and in the whole tournament scoring the most goals and conceding the least number of goals. Germany started well but then it was really all Spain. It was just a surprise that it was only 1-0 in the end.

After the game in an interview Lehmann, the (idiot) German goalkeeper went on about how the ref was biased and even said it was like the game was fixed going on about how Silva should have been sent off for headbutting Podolski. Maybe the ref should have given him a red card but Lehmann cant be saying things like this. Looking at the replay it was not all Silva with Podolski charging in and leaning his head in. Also you could argue that Podolski did the first “headbutt”.

The tournament has many great games with just the odd dull game – e.g. the France Romania game (luckily I missed that one). Holland entertained a lot especially in the group games – in particular when they comprenhensively beat France 4-1. Russia did excellent well and it just showed what a great manager Huddink is. Portugal and Croatia also played some excellent football but the best team were Spain. There were last minute minutes and massive drama – most of them coming from Turkey and their last minute goals. Amazing last minute drama in games like Croatia v Turkey with an game with minutes to go and then an equaliser with the last kick of the ball. Also in another game involving Turkey when they equalised late on only for Lahm to score the winner with seconds to go. High entertaining. There some excellent goals including Germany’s against Portugal scored by Schweinsteiger, Sneijder’s goal against Italy and the 3rd goal for Villa’s hat-trick.

Amy Winehouse has recently played in 2 high profile “concerts”. She is “singing” in the special Nelson Mandela 90th birthday concert and also sang at Glastonbury.

I just dont see why she was booked. She has/had a good voice but has just ruined it and herself with her behaviour for about the last year e.g. drink, drugs etc.

Also she constantly goes on about her husband Blake and all this “free Blake”. Why should we free him when he has admitted to GBH and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice!!

I saw a clip of her from the Nelson Mandela gig – what a mess. Shes like a rat with a wig. Someone get her PROPER help. At Glastonbury it seemed even worse with more mumbling and she appeared to hit someone in the crowd. When she “sings” on stage you think she is going to fall over at any time and keeps seeming to pull up her skirt abit.

A skyscraper will be built in Dubai which will have revolving floors. Each floor moves independently from one another.

Looking at the “promo” video it will look impressive – in some shots almost like its some sort of wave and something swirling about in the wind. Whats next????

Bill Gates has stepped down from his job running Microsoft. He will still be a Microsoft chairman but is going to concentrating on his charity work which includes projects in the developing world. Bill Gates, worth about $58b, is donating almost all of his money to his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

He made a “leaving” video a few weeks ago and you may have already seen it on Youtube (or on here – I mentioned it a few weeks ago). If you havent you can see it here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7476720.stm

It all seems to be going wrong for Labour especially since Gordon Brown took over. However even before he took over we had “problems” such as spending something like £750m on the Millennium Dome and the whole Iraq war thing.

Now there is all sorts of problem. (I know its not all down to the government):

Fuel prices: The fuel prices seem to go up everyday. The price of normal unleaded where I live is about £1.14. One year ago it was about 95p. Thats almost a 20p increase! (I think the average is abit more).

Losing confidential information: It seems to happen every month now where someone leaves some laptop on a train or loses some CD in the post.

Olympics: Its all good that London got the Olympics and I am sure it will be a good event but the costs (like the Dome) have spiralled out of control. Latest I heard the costs have increased by £100m to something like £550m. Its still 4 years to go so goodness knows how much it will finally cost

Inflation: It was on the news recently that the rate of inflation will go up to 4% (the government target is 2%). Goodness knows what the interest rates will do – the Bank of England I think have said they will just wait and see what happens before doing anything.

Congestion charge in Manchester: Just another tax for car drivers…. (Its not as bad as I previously thought it would be as it would be only at “rush” hours). The congestion charge will consist of 2 different rings. Each time you pass them you will be charged. It does however seem to extend out quite far from the centre to areas where the “new-improved” public transport system wont reach. We will see….

There are a few other reason but I just cant think right now. Let me know if I have missed anything..

Also he is rather dull!!! LOL (This is all just my opinion!! You can vote for whoever you want – whenever the General Election is).

I went to see The Happening this afternoon and was rather disappointed. This was the 2nd movie I had seen of the “summer blockbusters” after watching Indiana Jones the other week. I also was abit disappointed with Indy 4 which wasnt that good – I suppose it wasnt ever going to be as good as the trilogy. I wont say one of the things which disappointed me about the storyline as it will ruin part of the plot for you.

Anyway, back to The Happening. I watched the trailers and it looks really exciting. I dont usually like “horror” movies but this wasnt a horror movie in the traditional sense. I also liked M. Night Shyamalan first big movie – Sixth Sense. This movie was abit rubbish really. Mark Wahlberg & Zooey Deschanel put in wooden performances. Wahlberg just doesnt do a convincing scientist teacher and Deschanel with her looking into the distance acting was almost laughable. Even with re-casting I think it would have still been rubbish. The movie started good with it getting all creepy and the woman about the stab herself with her chopstick hairstick things (which you may have seen in the trailers). The movie was quite funny in bits but I think it was un-intentional!!

Maybe after reading some poor reviews from now on I should avoid the movie! (After watching movies like Meet the Spartans).

Rating: 4/10

Finally joined another gym after leaving my last gym about a month ago. I joined LA Fitness which is based about 5 minutes away from where I live in the city centre. Its mostly underground and has the usual machines, weights, classes etc. Different to Virgin Active is that it has a pool/sauna/steam room. Also it just seemed more friendly and also had other benefits like 1 to 1 tuition and they review your exercising after 6 weeks etc.

Went for the induction the other day and went for first time this morning. Kept it easy going since not been to gym for about a month and not played football for a few weeks. However as I type now my left knee is abit sore. Hopefully will be OK for football tomorrow and the 1 to 1 on Monday at the gym.

Euro 2008

Today Spain played Swedan and won 2-1. Spain were not the free-flowing team like in the first game. However there was another goal for Villa. Thats 4 goals so far for him. At the moment Russia are playing Greece and Russia are winning 1-0. Cant be bothered watching it as dont think its going to be particularly interesting. Just watching Big Brother instead ….

Big Brother

It was the eviction yesterday and Steph went. Bit surprised as I thought Mario would go since hes been really slimy and is really is just playing a game (along with his girlfriend Lisa). He keeps going on and on about Michael’s disability (as one of the housemates said hes blind, not a baby!). Hes also patronising to others. Steph had been nicer overall and stuck up for Rachel and Rebecca against the horrible Alex. Apparently Steph got about 45% of the votes. I missed some shows and missed all the wedding task shows but it seems the first impressions count with people not liking Steph not really putting effort into the tasks. Another way of thinking is that the usual ppl who vote in Big Brother are young teenage girls and they are likely to vote out someone like Steph. Anyway ….. LOL. (So far in Big Brother UK, the 1st eviction has always been a woman).

(After the eviction there was a clip of Mario saying that he is playing no game and knows 100s, maybe 1000s of people. Also says that where he comes from has “fan clubs”. WTF!!!! How big headed is he!! )

Read this great article on Inside Big Brother for more.

There was another great game tonight involving Holland.

Holland v France

Holland beat France 4-1 with another great attacking performance. France were not as bad as they were against Romania.

I am glad Holland won, one because of the style of football they play and I dont really like France (the football team that is). Too many Chelsea (and former Chelsea) players – Makalele, Malouda, Gallas, Anelka AKA Le Sulk).

The game had some great goals, the goals just got better and better in fact. Some great strikes and properly the goal of the tournament from Sneijdar. I just want to comment on the 1st Dutch goal – good header by Kuyt but I really like how Malouda (who was rubbish) didnt really try to defend -  more push Kuyt out of the way! Henry also didnt really play well – in the 1st half hardly touched the ball!! (Good goal though).

The Dutch have so many good attacking players, Ruud Van Nisterooy was excellent. Robben was great when he first came in – if Real get Ronaldo, then maybe we can have Robben (plus about £60m!). (Still not sure if he is 24!! His hairline has got even higher and the hair thinner.

France are almost out now – I think they need to beat Italy to go through to the quarter finals. Maybe Raymond Domenech needs to re-think picking his team by their star signs.

In the end Holland won 4-1!! Great game!! Super attacking football. Come on Holland!!!! (Although if Spain win I wont be too disappointed since I think they are an excellent team with brilliant strikers).

Just need Romania to somehow beat Holland in the next game and then Italy and France are out.

Romania v Italy

The game ended 1-1. Italy were lucky to get a draw. Romania have done well so far against the 2 finalists of the World Cup. It was a mistake which led to the Romania goal – unusual for Italian defence. Romania got a late (ish) penalty – maybe a bit harsh but they got a lucky penalty against Australia (I think in the qualifiers in the last World Cup). However Buffon saved mutu penalty brilliantly. I hope Romania joined Holland in the quarters – for one reason Italy dive about a fair amount.

The Citrus Cube Design web site – my portfolio web site for my freelance web designing – now has a couple wallpapers and an e-newsletter. The wallpapers will hopefully brighten up your desktop, along with a helpful calendar for the summer months.

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