WASSSAAAPPPPP!!
Instead of posting anything real-life related, I'm just going to dump a few wow movies I made in the last few months:
Enjoy!
Naxxramas
Anub'Rekhan (35MB)
Patchwerk (46MB)
Grobbulus (40MB)
Sapphiron (67MB)
Ulduar
Razorscale (67MB)
XT-002 Deconstructor (50MB)
So a few years ago I started entertaining the notion that the world was in big trouble. Okay I was helped along and let me leave it at that. You know the story - oil oil oil. With the huge oil price spike we saw a while ago and the crushing recession that was to follow - all driven by some pretty far out economic policies and greedy people in banking and government... it seemed like as good a time as any to get moving.
So I sent in my Expression of Interest the the New Zealand Immigration people about 6 months ago which they accepted, and I've been collecting paperwork since then. The hardest thing by far was the South African police clearance certificate. My goodness did that drag and drag. Nearly 3 months from start to finish. The final straw came when the couriers tried to deliver it to the wrong address, and then didn't do anything fo 2 weeks while we waited around.
Well the good news is that I've sent everything in! Yes the official application is in and now we sit tight and wait. I'm not expecting to be turned down - me and Bing are surely just the type of people they want there. Well educated, employed / employable young couple wanting to settle down.
So as much as I enjoy working here at the BBC, and I've met a lot of great people in this country some of who are now friends... it's time to settle down and from the beginning I never saw myself settling down here. In fact from the beginning I never really meant to stay in England. I was on my way to Canada but thought I'd start off by living in the UK for a year or two since I had a good friend who was already living in London. He left a long time ago and here I am :P It all turned out well though - I wouldn't have met Bing otherwise and who knows how my life would have turned out.
So if all goes to plan then in a little over a year we might very well be in New Zealand! Starting from scratch in a new country is always a bit painful but luckily I have my brother and his family, as well as an old friend already down there so it won't be totally from scratch.
More World of Warcraft news that nobody will care about ;) but our guild alliance had another first kill last night, and in a 25 man raid instance too. Makes me very proud! It's one of the more awkward fights in the game and we've tried for several nights before finally killing him. I took a little video of the end of the fight - unfortunately I forgot the beginning which is probably a lot more interesting to watch. You start off with Maulgar (the boss) and 4 of his friends, all which have to be controlled and then killed one by one. Very hectic! Unfortunately I died near the beginning of the fight - the only person to die :P
Maulgar video (wmv format ~ 15MB)
An expansion pack is coming soon for World of Warcraft, so there are one or two things I wanted to do before then. One of them is to get myself a netherdrake which I did! Took weeks of work, and even though lots of people also have them - they'll probably be removing the ability to get one once the expansion hits so I reckon it's now or never.
The other thing was to clear this one 10 man raid dungeon. It's the easiest raid instance in the game but our guild was a little behind because of various people joining and leaving over the year. Hard to make progress without a regular team! Anyway on Sunday we finally killed the final boss in the instance!! I got to do the tanking as well which I was very chuffed about:
One final thing, I recently got appointed as an officer in my guild which means I can help us go onto bigger and better things once the expansion hits!
Huge congratulations to Aussie (Rob to some) on his new daughter Emma which was born in Krakow on the 25th September! Hopefully now, almost a week on, life has calmed down a bit for you guys and you're getting a bit of sleep!
