So it seems I very rarely write these days.  Why I chose today of all days though is that for the first time in months, I've actually got absolutely nothing to do which is perhaps the best feeling in the world right now!

Sometimes I feel the need to write away on a blog-style website that's purely mine ! ^_^ I can write anything I want and share anything I want with the world... even though only 298 people have visited this page thus yet! LOL
Just makes one feel so free and it gives me such a ^_^ feeling <--- that's me not knowing what word to give the ^_^ feeling lol

So bested most awesome amazing friend in the world Ben is finally joining the ranks of BlueTongue to get a glimpse into the world of IT and I'm totally looking forward to opening the floodgates of information flow to a new recruit.  I hate to say it but I actually like venting away all the tech. knowledge, partly coz I'm a geek at heart even though I don't always act it... ok most the time I do.

Going back further, I guess there's been too many things to report.  Fun times left right and center!!!

Addicted to Sons of Anarchy at the moment, I can't stop watching it!  God it's so enthralling and I absolutely love all the characters... miss married with children, her lover hellboy and most of all Jax! WOOOHOO lol
It's pretty much Sopranos hey!  Only biker gang style -_- Tony would be so proud of em lol 

I think if Tony was alive and kicking in a followup season of Sopranos, he would totally wish Jax was his own son.  He'd be so proud of him lol would be an endless tv show of hugging though -_- so odd the hugs -_- wooo

Ok I'm going to keep adding to this so don't worry if you see the unfinished business.

I think it's time for a poll though.... COMPLETE THE POLL IF YOU SEE IT.  I bet no one visits this website anyway though lol... should raf go to rainbow? -_-

Well I guess I haven't written much in the past few months, nothing since October 2008 actually...  I find this rather odd, some thought it's because I haven't had much to write about when in fact, there has been WAY too much to write about, review and make note of so that one day I can look back on this and go waow, that was AWESOME!

I have to admit, I'm going to stray from my headline topic!  Correct, it says Cirque Du Soleil but I might give a bit of background as to what I've been doing in some kind of super-condensed-summarized form of story telling -_-

Let's see, October 2008, I can barely remember the big events and there's just been way way way too many!!!!!  All the goings on at cookie, house parties, raverlicious events combined with drum'n'bass events and the countless tuesday burrito nights (housemates thing with special guest appreances by many a friends!)... aaaah too many things.

One thing I failed to mention right now is that I've been at work taking care of an entire infrastructure, mind you, one that is on the verge of collapse and HAS collapsed a couple of times *sigh* won't get into THAT... but also doing desktop, licensing, budgets, dealing with politics and if you know me well enough you'd also know... I try to make sure everyone is happy, smiling and pleased with the IT Department... you know... the IT Team (of 1) which is absolutely positively incredibly impossible (unprobable?) to accomplish!  This has robbed me of my sanity and it's been a tough nut working for small potatoes in an environment filled with awesome people (well, ok some annoying -_-)...  

 Where was I *thinks* oh yeah--- It's been hard to find any time to type or update my blog! That's just that... no time at all!
This must change offcourse because I've had my fire and passion and all those wonderful span'ishy words fuel my thirst to make more dnb sets.  Not to mention a few people at work encouraging me and it's been an absolute thrill making music and knowing people will listen!

Not everyday you make a heavy KrachMacher style Set and people say "wow that's awesome I want more"... 

Anyway, on with the show...

I've restructured IT at work with the help of my awesome IT manager, Establishing policies and auditing everything to make things fit...
I went to Sensation White at New Years Eve which I can't emphasise enough how AWESOME it was... I thought it was one of the best events ever offcourse *nodS*
I've been to Bad Company and Fierce @ Roxanne's parlour with wonderfully awesome, nice and dnb loving fans from work!!! ROCK ON!!!
Hmmm what else, *scratches head*, Well I have a huge alco collection now to make virtually any cocktail?  Ok not any but it's close enough?  There's everything from TripleSec to Dry Vermouth and Amaretto (which bart calls Dr.Pepper Liquere lol).

Lately though, and by that I mean on Sunday... I went to... Cirque Du Soleil...

I feel I don't have the necessary words, thoughts, creativity or ability to explain or review this event because it surpassed all my expectations and left me with a rather insane mental state that pushed me to go and book tickets for my entire family to go see it.

The MUSIC... waow... a soundtrack simply astounding, amazing and original!  No more repeats of The Rock remixed into Gladiator remixed into Pirates of the Carr--- well you get the point!
The COSTUMES... I don't know where to begin, the east meets the west in Dralion, perhaps I should have started with that!  It's Dragons meet Lions... and all the costumes the human brain can imagine for such an extraordinary event!
The PERFORMANCES... Unbeatable, I've simply never seen anything like it, from the trampoline acts to the hoop performances 

THESE DUDES HAVE SKILLZ YO!  If that's not enough, how about this... Guy Laliberte (the founder) is a massive poker player... I mean seriously, you gotta go see this show! lollll ok non-related items i know but still!

 I basically have no photos (not allowed) and no power right now to browse and upload and link images but hopefully in the coming days I will?

This ladies and gentlemen is a show unmatched in its field... I dare anyone to lead me to an experience better than Cirque Du Soleil - Dralion! 10/10

So many people ask me if we really play games a lot at work and if it’s really the same environment that they think of where people have fun all around and there’s always something cool happening around the workplace!  All I can really say is… yes… yes we do have a lot of fun, more often than I could imagine!  BBBUUUUT when it’s time to work, I work my ass off to accomplish as much as I can.  Quite strange that I see this “M.O” as someone once taught me (Method of operation!)… yes okay so I’m ESL or something pffft, anyway… I digress… to put things plainly, I think I complete twice to three-fold the amount of work I usually do by playing hard and working hard!  That works for me and it works very well! :)

Apart from the never-ending contracts, communication with US Headquarters *sigh*, licensing, documentation, usual admin stuff, new equipment purchase, budgets, purchase orders, inventory crap and … well a lot of things!  I put a LOT of effort into upgrades and improvements of server infrastructure. 

This came into effect lately when I realized it’s just UNACCEPTABLE to keep working with the existing server room cable hazard and it’s time to pull an all nighter and fix the dang diddly sh*t f&#& blood sucking nerve racking mind draining … okay u know what, I want to write this huge article about how great everything is but im so tired from working 24hours that I’m just gonna cut to the chase… please find below the photos displaying the BEFORE and AFTER shots of what I would like to call my EPIC SUCCESS STORY!  Massive thanks to Damian for assisting me offcourse coz I was soooo tired even after coffee’s / energy drinks / sugar intake and what not…  BEHOLD, a MASTERPIECE!

*cough* Let’s not mention who made the “before” photo possible. Kekekeke…. *shrugs*  

-- : BEFORE RAF : --

-- : AFTER (the Raffalicious effect) : --

I think i'll go to sleep now, but I must say, I'm usually pretty modest bout stuff... only in this case I have to say.... I .... ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Now I need a payrise LOL

Ah boy, I've been so busy I've barely been able to spit out more posts on here for general consumption by my small but awesome circle of friends and family... or I should say Family and friends, yes, family comes first!

We just finished working on the new game for the Wii called "De Blob" which has gone GOLD! woohooo... I swear this game will revolutionize things because it's simply the best mix of colors, music and puzzles!
It's scoring 9/10 in a LOT of reviews and it's such an awesome game to play!

So lately we had our launch party which involved free food, free beer and an awesome band playing the awesome music from the game and much more... all amongst friends and in an awesome bar in the city, I _really_ enjoyed the free booze thing because that included the basic spirits *mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*

After such a massive massive night where I went back home, fearing I have steps to climb till I get to my bedroom and approximately 4hours till I start my next work day, I MUST say... having a mattress outside my room, up against the wall was such a savior, here it is in the pic below :D

I've really been gettin mi self inna lots reggae music... Barrington Levy, Jamericans *laughs* I love that ekeke... Jamericans!  Basically all the dnb I have that's fast reggae I just get the slower versions :) Soooo awesome, I can't stop playing it 24/6 O_o

Anyway, I still haven't got photos of the launch party but it was definately such an awesome night, very enjoyable and it's awesome to see that I can be at a work environment that has such events on ^_^
The wrap up party was very interesting because I got to setup all the decks and drive around with lovely Raewyn to get it set @ Mofo Lounge... a fully decked out Moroccan stylised rooms with such a down to earth feeling and cool atmo, I am DEFINATELY heading back there at some stage... 

Best of all offcourse, I GOT TO DJ DNB TUNES! I started off with the easy vibes the likes of Calibre and the signature album but then went random all over the shop on my favorite tunes, finally stepping things up into LK with Marky & Stamina and then... finally ran out of records coz I was on there WAYYY TOO LONG... so I chucked on my DUB/REGGAE DNB, omg was soooooo awesome!  Let's just say... up in the streets, they call it murderrrrrrrr!  I think Russ liked it the most so BIG UPS to that hahaha... here's Russ below

Here I am... Wooahahhahaooo

Also big ups to Raewyn... she's the best person ever and always has our back at work when sh*t hits the fan... although it's more like lots of trucks full of sh*t with lots of fans and it all explodes... but let's not get into ugly work analogies here... Either way, thanks for all your help Raewyn ^_^ You will probably never even read this page since it's my own little blog thing happening here for my own personal record-keeping but nevertheless... :)  the wrap up party was a smash-hit ^_^

Also a big up to JayJay and the bar crew for putting on that spectacularly amazing crazee bottle jumping, crazy hopping, flying liquid show at the bar!  Was awesome to stand n watch them drop the bottles kekekeke

The photos simply don't do the place justice, it actually looks almost 5000000000x better in real life and gives you this amazing sense of waow'ness, like the same sense you get when you cross the border into this mystical different country, if you've done that before that is! O_o Nevertheless though, I'll put this photo up of the cr3w and show a bit of what the atmo was like and the room decor` mmmmmmmmm awesome

The DJ up after me was also a hell of an act, he really was AMAZING... did some scratching, some amazing turntable trix and played some oldies but goldies in my opinion, all the funk and cool beats that you could hope for from where it all began! Thanks Marco :)

*yawwwwwns a lot*  ok i better sleep for now... much stuff broken that needs fixin @ my good ol work *stretches* *runs off to bed*... TO BE CONTINUED!...
(yes i know, exclamation acts as a full stop so u cant really put dot dot dot after it, but shmeh... my blog *narrows eyes*)