Looking Ahead.

I'll start with the diet I wrote about last time. Those who know me well (although I'm sure none of you even know this blog exists) would have probably doubted my ability to do it. And you would be right, it didn't quite work out. But only because I got talking to my friend Neil about the diet he took, where he lost 20KG and ate whatever he wanted. For me, it mainly involves cutting down on carbs (which is a pain in a middle-eastern household, I can assure you; white rice is consumed every other day), sprinting exercises (which surprises you body... apparently) and less of the snacking on junk. You might be wondering why I am so obsessed with diet. Truth is, I've put on about 4.5 stone in the past 18 months or so. Not good.

Yesterday (I'm writing this at 2.08pm) was the beginning of a new Barclay's Premier League season. Ah, the waiting was finally over.  Having missed out on the title last season by a point (I support Manchester United... cue the glory hunter comments... wait, nobody actually reads this...) with practically no defence for 2 months of the season, I really do think we can do it this year and win an unprecedented the league for an unprecedented 19th time. We shall just have to wait and see, but I'm sure it'll go down the the final day again. Also, the signing of Javier Hernandez really excites me and hopefully he can chip in with a few goals, relieving the pressure off Mr. Wayne Rooney a little.

As for the competition, I believe the league is between United and Chelsea this season, with Arsenal pushing up until about Matchday 34. Chelsea I believe are too old collectively to win the league this year, but they do have quite a strong squad, as shown in their 6-0 drubbing of West Brom yesterday. Arsenal will be, well, same old Arsenal really. Passing the ball around in equilateral triangles does not win you trophies. They have released William Gallas, Mikael Silvestre and Sol Campbell (all defenders), yet only signed one defender so far in the transfer window. Arsenal being Arsenal are sure to be hit by 9 serious injuries at one time so unless they don't sign a few more defenders my money is on them being fucked at some stage. "Proper fucked?" "Yes, before 'zee' Germans get there."

Sorry, I have a habit of using movie quotes quite a lot.

Fourth spot is a tough one. I think it's only between Tottenham and Manchester City, who incidentally played each other yesterday and drew 0-0. "I fucking hate Pikeys." ... and City... So I'm gonna go with my heart here and go for Tottenham to claim fourth spot, meaning Champions League football for a second consecutive season. Oh, and I'm going to go for Tottenham reaching progressing from the Group Stages and getting knocked out in the 2nd Round this season. Now the matter of 5th, 6th and 7th. These places will be contested by Manchester City, Aston Villa, Liverpool, Everton and Birmingham. And I'm going to go for City to finish 5th, Villa 6th and Liverpool 7th.

And I've just realised that I've predicted the top 7 to finish exactly the same as it did last season, except for the top 2 swapping places. Not really sticking my neck out here. "And the fact that you've got 'Replica' written down the side of your guns..."

Finally, the 3 clubs to be relegated will be: West Brom, who can play decent football on their day but are very poor defensively; Wigan, also poor defensively; and Blackpool, who played did well today to beat Wigan 4-0, but I just don't see them staying up.

As for the places in-between... well, who actually cares? They mean nothing.

Well, that took me quite a while. And to end this post (if anyone DOES actually read this or stumble across it), can anyone guess what film the 3 quotes in bold are from?

Welcome

So I have decided to enter the world of blogging... although that's not strictly speaking true. I did have a Tumblr but that didn't go very well. Just one post and I gave up. Here's hoping that my new blog will go a little better.

So let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Halwest Hadad and... Ok, turns out I'm not very good at this, let's move on.

I'm currently on my summer holidays and it hasn't been very eventful. Apart from a few gigs and going to see Inception three times (more about that later), I haven't done much. Naturally, when one doesn't do much they begin putting on weight, as has been the case with me. I've been putting it on for quite a while now, ever since I stopped playing Sunday League football 2 years ago. So I've decided to take advantage of the summer by going on a diet... and a pretty extreme one at that. My plan is to consume daily:

1 can of Tuna
1 apple
plenty of water

This is similar to Christian Bale's diet in preparation for his role in The Machinist - minus the chain-smoking. Also, I don't plan to lose as much weight as he did.

So far, I'm 45 minutes in with this new diet and I haven't yet noticed any difference... If I'm going to be honest I won't be expecting any difference for maybe 2 or 3 weeks, I just hope I do get somewhere. I shall keep you updated, of course.

Moving swiftly on, I saw Inception for the third time yesterday. It really is a film that gets better with every viewing. I'm contemplating at the moment (and have been doing for a week) whether it is my favourite film. It's definitely my favourite Christopher Nolan film, and boy does he know how to make them. Before viewing Inception, my two favourite films were: Fight Club, which I fell in love with instantly and the whole anarcho-primitivism concept; and American Psycho, which can be appropriate to quote in any and every situation. Incidentally, I have now seen Inception, Fight Club and American Psycho an equal number of times. Weird considering the first was released only a few weeks ago.

Anyway, enough of me going off on a tangent, all I have to say is: if you haven't seen Inception, go and see it. NOW!

I think I'll leave you all with my favourite Inception trailer.