Week 42 - Futures F1 (10k) - Islamabad, Pakistan

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

RE: Week 42 - Futures F1 (10k) - Islamabad, Pakistan

steven · Tennis legend

Do you mean the DVDs or the mini-army, James? wink

Perhaps we ought to christen Fitzy, Feaver and Bains 'the Rat Pack' smile

James · Satellite level

Well I did mean the DVDs.. ha

So what are you spending your days doing Fitz, now that the tournament play is over for the week? Aside from watching dvds - got any good ones/recommendations?

steven · Tennis legend

I assume you're not in any of the "official" accommodation shown on the ITF site?

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

oh right i thought u were joking about the investation in my room... my bad.

i have some yes, i recomment
'death race' with jason stathom - action packed!
'taken' - quite a good plot, good director
'step brothers' - isnt a will farrel classic but its got some good laughs
'forgetting sarah marshall' - again not a classic like anchor man, but its got funny bits
'tropic thunder' - i thought was hilarious
'pinapple express' - the guy from spiderman and annapolis, but this time he is in a comedy role, i think hes funny in it.

once you have got through some of those some back to me for some more... im a film geek!

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

im in the official hotel.... safe and sound.... not

im spending my time practising twice a day, hit out the last bad match and prepare for next week.

Also a bit of light hearted 5 a side football for the british embassy. Where im doing all the running as there alot older than me, so its good fitness in this heat.Well i think so anways. evileye

-- Edited by Fitzy at 16:31, 2008-10-17

steven · Tennis legend

Which of the official hotels is that?

Who were the British Embassy playing against and did you win?!

James · Satellite level

I was joking yes, but about the dvds... Should have just agreed with steven in hindsight! Lol

Cheers for the tips. Have you seen 'Lars and the real Girl'? It is one of my favourite movies of the last year but have yet to speak to anyone who has seen it - it didn't seem to make much of an impact in the cinemas and is yet to come out on dvd, both of which probably explain its obscurity.

If you're a movie fan Fitz, the two websites that I would recommend to you are 'rottentomatoes.com', a movie review site that accumulates opinions of all the top American/British newspapers/magazines, and 'joox.net', a site where you can watch, *cough* illegally *cough*, uploaded films.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

aha! thanks for the inside information, i have seen that film i did like it aswell, because it was a bit different.
There are too many films that come out that are like 'han****' a pile of rubbish and very americanised 'were american and were going to save the world' kinda thing. I dont have anything against american before u ask.

I played for them in a league match last year, and we won in an epic 5-4 i scored a glorious goal, which took me back to my days at Villa!
It was when the tournament was over though, because it was a proper 11aside and i was getting hacked all over the place.

Playing against an afghan team, which even before the match started their manager said to me, i will pay you to play for our team, being searios haha!

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

one website i would like to plug, www.channelbee.com

if your a fan of soccer am - before it went crap, when it had the mighty tim lovejoy.

Check it out, its basically the same with new stuff and its just run on the internet.

Check out 'double date' on the drop down menu, the commentary will have u in stitches if thats your type of comedy.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

i keep forgetting to reply to questions, thus ending up positng about 7 times, sorry

im staying in the 'regency hotel'

The Hoose · Satellite level

Good idea to get in with the British Embassy. They all have enormous houses, with staff to sweep away the nobroaches - you could do worse than finding someone to put you up!

-- Edited by The Hoose at 16:52, 2008-10-17

steven · Tennis legend

It gets a pretty excellent review at http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293960-d299501-r16666507-Best_Western_Regency_Hotel-Islamabad.html LOL

ROFL at Hoose's nobby attempt to beat the board censor

-- Edited by steven at 16:58, 2008-10-17

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

one website i would like to plug, www.channelbee.com

if your a fan of soccer am - before it went crap, when it had the mighty tim lovejoy.

Check it out, its basically the same with new stuff and its just run on the internet.

Check out 'double date' on the drop down menu, the commentary will have u in stitches if thats your type of comedy.

Fitzy · Intermediate Club Player

Oh you have stumbled upon the reason i came out here, because i was staying with one of my friends on compound in the britsh embassy, but when that bomb went off, everything changed.
They went on lock down and no visitors were allowed in, so i cant stay there anymore, i can go in and play football but i cant stay there! stupid i know we argued my case (me and my dad) but got nothing from it.

Haha you have found a nice little review there!

Yes that is a nice attempt.....currently in my room having a little work out, amazing what you can do with the most basic of equipment.

e.g. a bedside table, tv, heavy chair and clothes bag, can do bicep curls, shoulder press, tricep dips, all sorts.