The 10th Post

Greetings from the South!
Hows it going guys?
Well things have been going well for me, I got the whole of Queens Birthday off work so I was able to rock down to my homeland - Winton Southland which was just fantastic!
This was great not only because I was going down to see my family but also because Chelle was able to come down as well, it made the trip much more enjoyable :)

Chelle and Dad feeding out hay to sheep

Chelle talking to the cows

So on Friday night about 7pm Chelle and I jumped into my mighty Honda Civic and we cruised all the way down to Thomson's Crossing. We arrived at about 02:13am to be greated by my Dad, he always waits up for us when we come down :) We then proceeded to sleep through till about 11:30am Saturday (driving 7 hours takes it outta you!) After a good old southland lunch me and Chelle went out to help Dad on the farm for a while, feeding the sheep hay. Chelle said our farm was the second or third famr she had ever been to which I thought was interesting. After we got back from the farm we played singstar for a while then we went out for tea for my Dad's 50th, it was cool to see all my cousins and Uncles and Aunties and of course my grandparents. My auntie made my Dad a really cool cake which looked like a trout because my Dad loves fishing. After the meal we went bowling and that was great fun, however I didn't bowl very well, I think Richard and Danali's new daughter Sophie could have outbowled me :0

Dad's super cool cake

Then on the Sunday Chelle and I went to Church and then visited my Auntie and Uncle and then my Grandparents. Before dark I headed out duckshooting with my Dad and brother, we didn't see any Ducks though :( Before me and Chelle knew it, it was time to head home. We left for Christchurch around 10:00am and were dealed because of snow and heavy traffic on the roads. We did however manage to stop off at Moraki Boulders which was cool because all the times I have driven past I have never taken the time to stop and look.

Chelle checking out teh Moraki boulders

We arrived back in Christchurch at about 6:00pm, I dropped Chelle off and then went back to the flat to unpack, have a feed and then grab a few zzzzzzzs before I had to go to work :)
Hope you have enjoyed the story of my trip as much as I have enjoyed writing about it :)
Take care guys :)

Regards
Doug

Pedro stalking his prey behind the N64

P.S For those who are wondering how Pedro is, he is alive and well, he has now figured out that its great fun jumping on the bench and eating our food! He will learn its not so fun if we catch him there again. He loves it when visitors come over to see him and has made special friends with Dale and Chelle.

The 9th Post

Me after my interrigation scene

Hey guys whats goin on?
Well you may have noticed its been a while since my last post and I guess you may wonder why that is. In short to answer this I have either been working, filming or driving. Last week the 48 hour film completition was upon us and Dale, Neil and myself formed a team comprised of flatmates, classmates, churchmates and so on, with our powers combined we became EVIL MONKEY FILMS. We started off with a great team and Genre, we got the action genre which was right up our alley. All in all the shoot and script writing went well, our team devised an action comedy which was very cleverly written, once heard the script being delivered on the set I was cracking up continiously :)

Some of our team: Dale, Me, Neil, Diego and Mark (Missing was Timmy, he was asleep and Jeremy)

So how did we go you might ask? Well unfortunately even though we got the film finished in enough time our equipment let us down and we couldn't get the film to go to tape hence making us late for our delivery of the film to the judges, it was a very gutting moment for all of us involved, after spending so much time on the film it was not only a physically draining time but also emotionally draining as well.

Timmy absolutely stuffed after shooting the film

Anyway we got the film handed in even though it was a lil' late we still got it screened, to a very warm reception I might add, (many people were pleased we didn't make it in time because our film was sooooooooooooooo good yeah thats right we rock!
In other news Casino Royale is coming along nicely and the teaser trailer is looking pretty funky, also the offical website is now open for viewing at: http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/casinoroyale/site/

Well there is more news indeed but in fear of overloading you with info I'll leave it at that for the moment. Stay tunned in the next couple of days for the update and news of my trip down south for Queen's Bday!

Peace out!

Doug

The 8th Post

Well hows it goin guys? I know it has been a long time ( a month infact) since my last post and I guess business isn't really a good excuse when you see Lord Biggus pop out 3 posts in 3 concecutive days :) Well done once again Richard & Danali - Sophie is very very cool indeed.
about you can see a photo of part of the yard where I work at Hirequip in Johns Rd CHCH, its great times indeed :) If thats not magic enough heres another picture for you all to enjoy - an inside look at my counter job at HQ



This is where I spend most of my hours in a day, behind this counter serving happy customers who want to hire equipment to do cool stuff like chop down trees, mow lawns, strip wallpaper, paint fences, dig post holes, pick up broken cars, pump out flooded houses, drill holes in walls, move houses, flatten newly planted grass, waterblast down a roof, fix their toilet, repair ones gutters and all those really exciting things in life :) If you thought those were the perks of my job well, your wrong. The best thing by far is the money, sure I'm not exactely in the career I want at the moment but I have realised that its better to be employed and have a lil' money to throw at things you would like to get than be unemployed, broke and thinking why don't I have a job?


As you can see even working at HQ there is benefits, such as being able to get your favourite bands latest albums - All three of these new albums by Live, Pearl Jam & The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are all very good indeed, I have really enjoyed listening to them over the last few weeks :) I have also aquired a few new DVDs which is very good, the only trouble is that I haven't had the chance to watch them all yet :(




In the good news department quite a few cool things have happened, the coolest thing is that today was Michelle and my 3 month anniverary, so we went out for tea and stuff, it was rather nice indeed, Chelle is such an awesome girlfriend to me, she is just so supercool :)
Another cool thing is that my oldest Brother Pete has decided to marry his girlfriend Carrie, its pretty cool indeed, it was a bit of a shock I must admit but its very exciting as Pete asked me to be one of his groomsmen. They have penciled in a date in Feb 2008 so who knows what will have happened by then but its all cool :) Other cool news is that the 48 hr film comp is coming up and Dale, Neil and myself have pulled a team togther of mates, we have a had a couple of meetings regarding such things and everything is looking positive for that, which is next week so I guess the next post will be dedicated to the 48 hour :) Stay tuned, stay cool, stay classy

:) Doug :)

The 007th Post

Hello children! Hows it goin? I do hope you had a good Easter. No your eyes are not decieving you, I'm back in the grey and orange shirt, it seems that the Hirequip corporation are short on staff and they thought it would be a good idea to hire me again, so who am I to refuse?
Its not a bad deal, I get Fridays and Saturdays off apart from that its work at hirequip :) so I'm putting my funds together so I can get a new video camera I have decided as my panasonic handy cam is absolutely stuffed. My good old mate Neil at Sony is talking up some new camera that looks rather interesting. So what did you guys get up to during easter?
I had a very awesome time at Easter Camp covering the Event with the AV Crew, it was very fun indeed, not only did I get to edit all the highlights, I also got to shoot some of the highlights and also be a live camera operator for the meetings. It was a great experience because not only did I get to go to Easter Camp for free I also got to go what I love to do. The coolest thing was that both my Youth Group and my Girlfriend were there and thats a very cool thing indeed :)

My friend Caroline and My Girlfriend Michelle at Easter Camp


So what else has been happening the land of Doug you may be asking? Well it was Michelle's birthday the other day and that was nice, I went over to her place for tea and had a lovely meal it was very cool. Another really interesting thing that happened this week was that we seemed to have aquired a kitten. Yeah thats right a kitten! My flatmate Michael's parents came down and they brought a tiny kitten down by the name of Pedro, now you may ask why would you call a kitten pedro? well I will show you.



Yes he certainly is cool :) he is definatley worth voting for, if you vote for him he will make your wildest dreams come true :) He loves running round and seeing what is going on, ever since I started writing this post he has been sitting on my shoulder, see!!


However my favourite picture that I have of Pedro so far is one I took the first day he arrived, this photo reminds me of Salvester Stallone in Cliffhanger!!!! Hang in there baby!!!


He he he he that photo is sooooooooooo cooooooooooooooool!
Anyway thats really all from me at the moment, hope all is good with everyone!
By the way Danali - thanks for your lovely comments on my blog, may I extend to you the same words, your blog is very cool :) hope you and Mini Lord are well :)

Take it easy kids

Stay classy!

Doug

The Sixth Post

Hey guys!

Hows it goin? Hope your week has been as much fun as mine has been.
Well were should I start? I guess we should rewind a couple of days to last week to when I last posted. Last friday I had graduation with my old class at broadcasting school, it was very fun! I was of course getting my DVPP diploma, only one of my classmates from DVPP was there, a shame more of you couldn't turn out, Richard and Neil I know you were there in spirit! :)


The ceremony went for a very long time and of course some of it was boring however there was some cool bits. Also my family came up so it was all fun and games, they got to meet Michelle and her family so it was a busy and tiring weekend. My brother brought up some more playstation games for me to play, so I have not been bored this week :)



So the job front, whats new you may ask? Well rather interesting you may find, I got a call from Hirequip needing someone to fill in for a little while and you guessed it I have accepted. Only for a couple of weekends.




On another super cool note thanx to a super cool Biggus I landed myself a Nintendo 64 for free! It has 3 controllers and 4 games including mario cart, at this present moment 'm trying to win an auction on Goldeneye of course the game making having a nintendo a must!

Got Easter Camp next weekend so thats gonna be a heap of fun! I can't wait!
Um I think thats all for the moment, hope all is good wit u guys!

Stay Classy!

Doug

The Fifth Post

A big shout out to all my bros and bro-ettes! Hope all is well in the land of you guys :)
I think you may find the following post will reflect my mood at the moment - quite happy, no I don't have a job yet but I have found great satisfaction in the work I have been doing this last week, editing Dale's film 'Fall To Earth' and of course making the weekly videos for Church such as 'Don't Do That Timmy' and 'Knowing Me, Knowing Your Youth Leader'. Its amazing how much easier it is to be unemployed when your working hard out the whole time :)

So what else has been happening lately in the world of Doug you may ask?
Um well lets see, on Tuesday I delivered 7 showreels of mine to 7 different media related companies, haven't heard from any of them yet but am gonna get on to them this week.
Also I have another potential leads for a job so hears to hearing back from them :)
Another real cool thing is that Go East Productions is announcing the long awaited release of 'Hostile Takeover' a feature film that was started in 2001. All the components that are needed to finish the film have finally arrived so stay tunned for the offical release date.

Something coming up is my graduation from DVPP, now as far as I know I'm the only one in my class who is going to the ceremony, however the cool thing is that my old class from TV Block are graduating the same day so we can all be there together, my family are also coming up so it will be great fun.

Well thats all really for the moment hope you all have a good week and for the record I have made a new post b4 the Honourable Lord Biggus - snap! :) (Just joshing Biggus :) )
Keep it real guys!

Doug

The Fourth Post

Hey guys, hows it goin?

Well its been an emotional rollercoaster of a week for the old Dougster, after finding out that he didn't get the job with a certain production company he didn't quite know what to do, after a couple of days of quiet reflection (playing copious amounts of James Bond on playstation) he came to a revelation: That is to go back to the farm in southland and give up the whole video/film dream.....

Nah, just kidding! Actually I'm donning my Cammo and goin on a full out assualt to land an internship, poor Michelle - her boyfriend is an unemployed bum! Nah not really as I have got a lil' bit of paid work editing a short film for a mate so its all good :) I have also got another couple of job prospects within the next couple of weeks so all going well we will be sweet :)

Certain individuals have made it known that they are not impressed with the speed of some of these posts are arriving online. Well all I can say is that I'm sorry Biggus but yes I have been quite busy :) Not so many moonlit walks on the beach as you may think, I'm currently attempting to make 2 videos a week for church which can be demanding depending on how EPIC we choose for it to be.

In the upcoming events on the Doug Bulletin Board we have really only two things: One graduation, the Thomson Clan is coming up to witness their middle son recieve some sort of qualification, will be very good indeed to see em as I haven't since January. The other big event coming up is of course Easter Camp and thanks to the help of Sprooce I have been able to join the A/V team for it, its gonna be so much fun :)

Well I think really thats all for now, hope this post finds you all well :)
Take it easy!

Doug

The Third Post

Hey Guys!

Well here we are again, whats been happening this week?
I can't say that much has actually happened since the last post. As I mentioned in the last post I had an interview with Whitebait TV and they gave me some trial work to do. So last Monday to Wednesday I went in there and did what I needed to do. It was really cool in there, everyone was really nice and I had a great time working on the tasks I was set. The first day was a little daunting though but we got there in the end, Jason was cool he kept on calling me 'Big Guy' it was funny. Apart from being at Whitebait for the start of the week it was life as usual, Dale and Neil came around and we played Star Wars Trivial Pursuit, it was a blast. Of course there were a few heated discussions about some answers and a war nearly broke out but it was all good. I think thats all at the moment, stay tuned for the news on my job!

Stay cool!

Doug

The Second Post

Hey guys! Hows it goin?
Well its been a very busy last couple of weeks for me, you may wonder how someone who is unemployed at the moment is flat out busy, I will tell you. I have been looking for a job that is suited to my degree which is Televsion/Film, there isn't much going on in Christchurch however. So I finished off my showreel and then got a phone call out of the blue from whitebait (they make what now?) and they wanted me to come in for an interview. I went in for the interview and showed them my show reel, then they decided to give me a few tasks to do for them, such as edting togther some promos for the show. I have one task left and this is this morning, I have to go in and work with Jason Gunn and edit one last promo. Its all pretty nerve racking but I very muchly want the job, if I don't get it I guess its back to the drawing board.
Apart from job hunts I have been busy doing stuff for my church like videos, this year my church video load has doubled so rock n roll, its fun and stuff but soon I will be training an aprentice (or Padawan) to do the editing on at least one of the videos so I have more time to do other things. This whole weekend just been I have been doing camera for a mate on his latest film, we got some real epic shots like Michael Bay styles! On the saturday the weather was extremely wet and then on the sunday it was extremely hot and now I'm badly burnt :( It was great fun though :) Thats really all the news this week, stay tunned to find out wether I get that job! Oh yes and Richard your request has been granted above is a pic of me and Michelle at Okeans Bay the other weekend

Doug's First Post

Hey guys, well here it is the first post of the Doug Royale - I'm no good at writing e-mails so here is something that will hopefully keep u up to date with my latest news. Recently of course things have been rather different than the last three years as I have finished Broadcasting School, yup three years of study over. So what now you ask? Well I'm on the hunt for a job, I had a job interview last Friday which looked to be very good but unfortunately that fell through. However today I got a call and now have another interview with another company, its all rather exciting. Another very cool thing is that I have met a very lovely young lady and she is very cool, her name is Michelle. Apart from that its really just things as usual, am still living in Christchurch and loving it, the garden city is very nice. Oh yes and of course it wouldn't be Doug like without some Bond news so here it goes. The new James Bond film is called Casino Royale, based on the first book which will be awesome and is staring Daniel Craig as James Bond, it looks to be shaping up nicely.
Thats it for now, hope u have enjoyed the update.

Doug