Posted on September 26, 2008 Categories: london.
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After a few drinks at Jons place, Olivia and I were wondering what to do when she discovered a Table Tennis night at the Flea Pit!
In a back room of the pub, the Young Offender’s Institute setup a Ping Pong Tournament! For just a Pound you could enter one of the Round Robin games, with 12 people circling the table and taking one hit before moving to the next person, trying to run around and stay alive without slipping over or losing their drinks! After some encouragement from a few drinks we played a couple games but didn’t quite make the final.
So I’m finally going back to London after a long stint in Prague, and again catching the 7.30am flight. But it wasn’t quite as simple as my last24hr dash to London, this time I was moving back. With all my shit.
I knew something was different. My 70lt bag was filled to about 105lt, my 2 carry-ons were choccas, and I literally couldn’t fit anything extra. I lugged them all to the airport, again on the tram, metro and bus, and checked in. I had to put my backpack in the over-sized luggage, and I was a bit suss leaving it because one bag was already sitting there and no one was there to receive them. Security guard insisted it was fine so I left it.
2hrs or so later I got to Luton Airport….My Backpack didn’t.
You watch the belt go around, bags thin out, eventually there is nothing left, a few confused people are standing around, and then the belt stops. Yup, our bags, all “over-sized” coincidently, didn’t make it on the plane.
At first I thought it might be a blessing in disguise, they would deliver my bag later on to my door, for free. Saving me the hassle of carrying it! But it ended up being 3 full days before I got my bag! More on this later..
But I did make it to Jons place, and in the first 2 days I had a (much needed) hair cut from Neel, went went to London Fields and discovered the popularity of hoola-hooping, caught up with Joe, and went to a crazy fancy dress party!
They finally released the trailer for The International! This Drama / Thriller directed by Tom Tykwer (Perfume, Run Lola Run) stars Clive Owen and Naomi Watts and will be released in February 2009.
Its my first major film credit, and I spent a good 4 months or more working on it. There’s only a small amount of my work in this trailer so you’ll have to go and see it!
