by Calvin Robinson on September 11, 2006.
Rawr man, so much has happened over the last couple of months, I don’t even remember what I wanted to blog.
I’ll start with these;
Moving House
Carnival
Missing Persons
Security
BBQ
Moving House
I was living in a large house in North Wembley, renting a room from a girl who had moved out, she was sub-letting to me. My contract said I pat £325 per month plus bills, which was cool – especially for the large size of the room.
But the trouble started when one of the housemates moved out. Oh my days.
The landlords (who I had no written contract with) were telling me that myself and the remaining two housemates had to cover the rent for the empty room too, but I was arguing the fact that my contract was for ONE room, at £325! Whereas the other housemates shared a contract that said £1300 for the whole house.
I was going to pay £433. I was only living in one bedroom, not two.
The landlords told me I had to pay this by Tuesday (on a Friday) or I would be evicted, and they would change the locks.
So major pissed (and ill at the time) I packed up my stuff, and called around.
Tony (Leons dad) helped me move all my stuff to Leon’s mum (Christine)’s loft, and I stayed at Leon’s because I was house sitting anyway. When Christine got back from American she said I could stay with them till I find somewhere.
Then Unash (friend and work colleage) told me that a friend of his needed a housemate, as he had just bought a house and had rooms to rent.
So I moved into Dalbir’s. It’s a small room, with higher rent (£350 pm), but it’s in a very nice area, and it’s a 20minute bike ride to Uni.
I like it here, I get on fine with Dal, unlike my old housemates who I didn’t really talk to tbh.
Carnival
Rawr, Carnival was PACKED!


I went with Leon and Cherelle, ‘cos all my familly are waste and don’t bother comming down 
We had a good time. There weren’t many floats this year, but there was plenty of Sound Systems.
OMDZ there was like 50% feds. I’ve never seen so many cops in my life! It’s like the whole Met was there.
One of them was telling Chez she can’t walk this way, so I sneaked past him as he was telling her. Then one pig comes along and pushes me back – into a next pig, that also pushed me! I’m like WTF!
I stepped upto him like “WHAT THE FUCK U PUSHIN ME FOR, IDIOT!” and the female pig was like “just keep movin” and looked at me as if to say “they jus waitin for a fight, move on”, and about 20 more pigs were backing them up by this time, so I just stormed away yellin “fuckin bumberclart ediats”, and Chez was jus sniggerin to herself. Lol.
They take the piss tho. They wouldn’t get that cockey if they were on their own. It’s only ‘cos they have so much backup, they know we can’t do anything back. Racist ediats.
Later on in the day we were trying to follow a Sound System, but there was a barrier in the way, so I tried to open it, and a pig was watchin me, so I walked all the way down the street and jumped over where he couldnt see me.
Then when I walked down to the Sound System he saw me again, and said nothing, until another black yute jumped the fence, and the pig came grabbin my arm like “you and your friend have to jump back over”. I’m like “o_0 I walked all the way around, I never jumped jack, so take ya damn hands off me” shrugged him off and kept walkin.
He left me and made da other yute jump back over.
I hate pigs and their attitudes towards young black men.
Missing Persons
At carnival there was no signal at all – I think the network masts in the area were all busy.
It wasn’t just me, Leon tried textin people too.
I had no credit, so I used my free txts to msg Unash saying I was gunna be late for work, cos the crowds were massive and I was trying to make my way out lol.
Then I realised I didn’t know my way home!
I had just moved to Stanmore, and there was no tube station near by, that I knew of, and I didn’t know the bus routes etc.
So I text Unash and Dalbir asking them for directions home. Nobody replied.
Eventually I ended up staying at Leon’s, and my battery was dead (it’s a new nokia, has a smaller charger now, so I couldn’t borrow anyones), so I couldn’t phone Unash to tell him I wasn’t working.
The next day when I finally got home, and charged my phone, all my messages came through.
The feds came knocking on the door.
Unash had reported me as a missing person, cos I didn’t turn up to work and my mobile wasnt reachable and no answering machine (cos of no signal at carnival innit).
So the pigs were stood on the doorstep and I’m like “yeah was a missunderstanding but im fine thanks. cya” and they were like “dya mind if we come in a minute”, so i let them in the hallway, and they were snoopin “can we sit in the living room?” so i let them in the living room, but didnt offer them a seat.
They started askin me all these questions about who I live with (cos Dalbir had answered the door, and hes Asian), if he was married or not (they saw his wife go upstairs), what all the situations were etc.
I’m like WTH? I thought you were here about me being missing :S
They were propa snooping around, and askin me bare questions.
When I told them I was a student they didn’t beleive me. Testing me on Computer questions etc, cos I told them what course I was on. Was flippin joke.
It’s like, they saw two Asians and a Jamaican and they all of a sudden think we’re a funkin bomb factory – planning some next terrorist attacks.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they raided us any day now! Lol.
Security
Dad called me back to Mansfield last week, from Monday – Thursday, ’cause he was short on men, to guard this Film Set in Nottingham.
It was some extra money for me, so I went up for 4 days.
Oh my gosh man, 12 hours of standing on a gate, staring into space!
Thank goodness for my mp3s on my mobile. I even took a book one day, ‘cos I was so damn bored.
It’s like that feeling when you’re waiting half an hour for a bus – but for 12 hours straight!
At least they fed me fried breakfast and a nice lunch each day. Or I would have died. -_-
And the pay was around £5 an hour, which is bullocks. But from all the hours I put in, I should have made a lil something.
Rar.
BBQ
Aight, this is my last entry for now. The BBQ last night.
It was propa hot yesturday, so we decided to have a BBQ in the back yard.
Some nice chicken, lamb chops, corn and spicey shish kebabs.
Invited was; Unash, Aniel and his bro, Neleesh, Ashini and me & Dalbir of course.
Unash was dishin out semi-offensive jokes to Ashini all night, and Neleesh (her cousin) was offended by it – as you would be. So he said “im off home” and took Ashini home with him.
This caused Unash to go off on one slightly “issit cos of me? just tell me if its me” but Neleesh just said “nah its fine im off, cya” as he didn’t wanna cause a scene.
They are both cool people, with differences. I’ll leave it at that.
Iight dats enough bloggin for today. Damn.
Should give Row summin to read for a bit 
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