Slow on updating
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Feb 2008
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Yeah so I've been kinda slow on updating here these last months. Damn I can't even recall last time I logged in to write some news. Well anyway there's happened some things while I haven't been written and the basic of it is:
I've gotten a scheduled work offshore now, and I work on Eldfisk Bravo (2/7-B) and I had one week with most of the crew members there and it was nice. Missed the other two roughnecks though, but other than that I think the crew was more or less complete. I've been upgraded to Roughneck, and I'm pretty uncertain if I want to work as that, but I'll give it a year and see (or less if I don't like it at all).
The other one is that I'm "almost" ready with some demo stuff for Dysthymia. People seem to like "Withered Romance" and "Childhood Memories" (both can be found on either Myspace or Facebook). The demo/EP will be named "Chronical Depression" and will contain 4 songs and a bonus song called Insanity, which will most likely be hidden way way way way after the last track so that you have to listen to silence, or maybe just a lot of noises. Haven't decided yet.
And that's the basic of what's happening. I'm also looking at studying some more, eighter 2 years in Movie production or some 3d animation stuff for games or for movies. I crave to work with movies as a big badass crew making some decent things that looks fun and that so many people enjoy. Actually the life on a platform is rather lonely and it's full of mud and the chance of dying is rather high imo, concidering most things weigh from 500kg to a many tons. Anyway let's see what's happening. I've atleast got a student thing which shows most of the things I can study at that school and also what I can study through the web, which would've been much easier to combine with work.
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"Childhood Memories"
Posted by Christoffer @ 11 Nov 2007
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Once again (and I'm sure people expected this) CNWF have taken a different course and gone for some gothic inspired atmosphere in the latest song called "Childhood Memories". The new song covers a new era for CNWF as the earlier era have almost been buried six feet under due to much different circumstances in Christoffer's life. "Lost In A Dream" is therefore put on hold to focus on a 4 track demo with the title "Songs of Suffering", which will follow where this song leaves you. It's amazing how quick the process of this song went compare to it's complex building compare to any other CNWF/Dysthymia songs. There are far more instruments involved here and way more work to be done, but it's been a good result. It's also changed it's name from CNWF to Dysthymia after the mood disorder.
The song can be found at Dysthymia's myspace (maybe right-click and Open In New Window)
Enjoy,
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Added comments
Posted by Christoffer @ 23 Sep 2007
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Well now you can comment all things under the "Writings" section, and I hope people will use it to give me feedback on my work. Maybe I need to work a little more on it to get some Spam bot preventions, but if it's not a problem in the first place then I guess there's no need. Take it as it comes I guess. |
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Offshore - Ekofisk B
Posted by Christoffer @ 16 Sep 2007
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Well, so now I'm at this moment offshore again, but in several days I'm about to go home again. I left offshore on the 11th and will be back home on the 18th (Tuesday).
In my travelling life it's back to Oulu on the 20th and stay there till the 7th October. The first 8 days will be "alone", then on the 28th my brothers, Donatella and Jani will join me and I'll be moving from the place I'll stay (which is at this point uncertain where will be... depends) to Nallikari Camping where we'll sleep in these lovely cabins.
On the music front I'm about to finish a recording with Seduction called "Sick of it all" which will be kinda like a punk rock thing. It's going to be somewhat easy to hear it's a Seduction song, but for the first time it won't be about violation of whores or anything. This one will be fully about getting over love for someone (maybe a whore?) and moving on with life. I'm very pleased with the song so far, but at this point I still miss solo guitar, a good distortion on the guitars, bass guitar, and then there's some backing vocals and stuff which I'll add to it as soon as I'm home and have time to do it.
Other than that I think it's rather quiet, even if I need to finish the two other Seduction songs which are more or less done ("Seduction" and "Sodomized Angel"). Together the 5 tracks will form the demo "Sodomizing Whores" (Working title). The tracklist will be something like:
01. It's All The Same
02. Crumbling
03. Sick Of It All
04. Sodomized Angel
05. Seduction
The plan is also to maybe for the public demos (those that won't be shipped to record companies), add the acoustic and a new re-recording of "My Whore".
As for booklet, I think I will add a newly written story for the booklet which will be somewhat cold, brutal and mean. It's so short that it can easily fit into the booklet. I doubt I'll add the lyrics there as they are so easy to hear anyway. Rather use the booklet to present other sick ideas, hah.
So I guess that is that. Now all we have to do is wait, wait and wait. I can't do anything when I'm offshore, and I can't do anything when in Oulu. But I guess this trip will be the last one this year (though nothing is certain yet with that, I like to take these.... "jump on" trips without much planning)
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Seduction - Crumbling
Posted by Christoffer @ 04 Sep 2007
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Today I did a webcam recording of me playing an acoustic version of the great ballad song on the Seduction project, called "Crumbling". The whole thing was rather decent so I decided to add it here so people could see it. I hope you like it.
The movie got somewhat out of sync when I uploaded it, donno why... This is pretty new for me to do "videos", but let's just look at this as some kind of tease thing for the Seduction project.
To hear the normal version you can always visit the Myspace for the project which you can find on the left side of this page, under projects.
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New Layout & Story Explaination
Posted by Christoffer @ 23 Aug 2007
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So I've once again
decided to make a new layout as the other one seemed
too happy and light, and at this point there is
nothing to be happy and light about. So I've decided
to hit this dark layout style again to "create" some
atmosphere to this place once and for all.
Many people might, or might not know that I'm going
through a kinda hard time at the moment, even if I
really don't need people's support telling me things
will be okay at some point, cause all this is pure
bullshit and I feel better solving this alone.
I've continued my short story, which I will at some
point publish here when it's done. There's some work
left and I want to finish this part that's going to be
inbetween the two other parts and it's going to be a
damn happy story, so therefore it takes a lot more out
of me to write so that it won't sound like a stupid
cliché story.
I don't know how many managed to read the short story
I had on my msn live space, but the whole idea of the
story is pretty unoriginal, but I think that maybe my
writing style is what makes it kinda unique.
The story itself is written in a authors perspective,
which means basicly that it is about "me". What I'm
also trying to do is mix in people from far the past
and people from the present in a somewhat different
way than they normally are. Some description of people
are clear as day almost, and I might need to work a
little on that so that no one will find themselves
offended in the writing. I've had some situation
recently about this and I'm not going to put myself
through that again.
As for the plot, it's basicly about a guy who meets a
great girl, and they get a friendship, which leads to
some more than that, then she tells him to leave cause
she has a man and that's the one she wants to be with.
Of course this devestate the "me" character and he
ends up on a alcohol stream for 2 years, till he meet
another great girl by accident and they get along very
well. They marry and get a child and then when the guy
has more or less forgot about this other "mysterious"
girl, he meets her again and his feelings starts
growing for her.
The basic idea of the concept was to write one part
which was about how shit it is to fall in love, cause
you basicly always fall in love with the wrong persons
that ain't interested in you. The second part was
supposed to be about the struggle with a relationship
and marriage. And about the cheating part of human
nature which is a sucky quality. The third part was
about being miserable and suicidal. Though what I did
with it was more mixing the second and third part
together to one. This is why the story couldn't
continue where Part 2 left off, so I had to start
writing a Part 1.5 to describe things that happen
inbetween. It's a huge jump on something like 10 years,
and it sucks when you lose that much in the history of
the story just cause the author was so eager to
describe the shitty situations and not the good ones.
The feedback from friends who have read it has been
much better than expected. People seemed to enjoy it
quite a lot which is very good. I makes me happy to
hear that friends like it, and I know that these
people are being very honest with me, so that also
helps.
There are always friends who just agrees on everything
you say just to boost your self-esteem, but I know
this isn't the case with the people who's been giving
feedback here. It's a very honest feedback I've gotten
so far and I hope that when it's ready and published,
other people will also give me honest and good
feedback.
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Mourning
Posted by Christoffer @ 01 Aug 2007
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Well then, one chapter is atleast closed, though hopefully nothing will change except my feelings. It felt like a mess yesterday and today it feels even worse (maybe cause I've hardly slept). Now I'm really struggling hard to get over these feelings for her as good as I can so we can keep on being good friends. There's nothing I want more, even if I guess things will be pretty awkward in the beginning.. It will be kinda like starting all over again.
I regret and hate that I got feelings for her, cause our friendship meant so much more to me and I don't know if I would've wanted to risk that for anything... Which is why I've kept quiet about it to her since I started feeling it, but what can you do when people demand a explaination of a poem I wrote and you won't tell a lie to that person even if it means losing contact... well then you just say it like another retard and hope she won't get mad.
I'll add the poem under and call it the final ending to these feelings and hope that with these words I'll convince myself to get over it:
You
By Christoffer N. @ 29th of July 2007
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I hate how you're making me smile,
all the things you do - always having a reply.
I hate how your hair suits you appearance-wise,
that witchy dress and those lovely eyes.
I hate how your voice makes me feel so damn good,
how it's soothing my heart in the most wonderful way.
I hate your laughter and how you make me cry,
all these words you say - all your goodbyes.
I hate having feelings for someone like you,
cause I know that it will never come true.
I hate how you compliment me in every way,
how all days without you seem so dull and gray.
I hate my dependancy for you,
and how I can't have a thought that doesn't involve you.
I hate myself for putting me through all this,
but if I hadn't then there would've been too much I'd miss.
For the fact is that despite hating this situation this strong,
Life wouldn't have been the same without it at all.
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Summer Plans
Posted by Christoffer @ 14 Jun 2007
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The last month I've basicly done nothing, which proves to always be the times when I update this webpage the least. When I'm busy with work and all I always update with news. I decided that it was about time to do it now since it's been over a month ago and... well there are things to write about.
The best news are the Summer vacation news imo. Sunday the 15th July I'm going to Oulu and I'm staying there till the 30th of July. 15 days (or 14 since I arrive late on the 15th) in Oulu will do me good. Then when I come back home the 30th I'm sure I'll do a offshore trip and then it's back up to Oulu the 15th August (I think it was) and then I'm travelling with Frode. We'll stay till the 26th August and the main reason here is Jalometalli. The trip in July it's basicly Qstock, even if it's more or less just crap playing there, but I want to see the festival and it's nice since it's in Oulu anyway. Then of course it's back up in the ending of September for the yearly celebration of Sentenced's Funeral. Drink in memorial.
Other than that, the things I've done since I came home from the last offshore trip is basicly forming a new band named Seduction ( www.myspace.com/bandseduction (might need to right-click and Open In New Window)) which is a one-man band where the lyrics are sado-related. So sexual content there. It's a fun project which hopefully will provoke someone, though of course it's just for the humour and for the fun. It shouldn't be taken seriously, though I'm sure there's always someone who does. With it I have created up till now, two songs which can be heard on myspace ("It's All The Same" & "Crumbling") . There are two more songs in the making, but at the moment I'm coughing more or less every other second so it's kinda hard to do vocals. The plan is to record 4 tracks and then try to create a somewhat demo-like thing and send to record companies just to see their response and if there are someone interested. I'm not sure if I at this point want a pressure on me for producing music for the big masses, but we'll see.
I've also helped Tommy with making his terrace which is now up. It's very nice and I think we all did a good job on it. Much better than what was there before and I can't help but feeling proud, hah.
I've become addicted to Minesweeper and these kind of MSN games thanks to a certain person who got me into this, and now I'm struggling so hard not to play them. I think I've managed somehow to keep myself away from it these last days, but there was a period where I HAD to play it everyday... many rounds...
Minesweeper is a very period kind of game. You're suddenly in a lucky stream and you win all the time, then you hit the bad period and you never win. Leffi is usually a easy win against, cause I donno... He just sucks in it (No offence Leffi). But other people are a harder challenge.
I've started to realise I should sooner or later bite in the rotten apple and start learning Finnish. The more I think about moving there, the more excited I become and if I could I would start working on things now so that I could move over there in a couple of months, but I can't due to the work and all. So I guess I'll just sit back and relax and hope things work out sooner or later.
We've gotten LYSE internet now at my mom's place so I can finally have some high-speed internet. Took some time, but it was well worth the waiting.
Well other than this, I donno... Is it worth saying much more?... Nah there's not more to say atm, but I think this got to be quite a long news.
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News?
Posted by Christoffer @ 10 May 2007
Category: Band (CNWF) News |
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Well there's been some advancing since last news. There are atleast three songs which are somewhat ready with a kind-of decent recording. Of course the vocals needs to be done again and again and again till I'm 100% happy with the result. There's also some guitar parts which needs to be done again, but nothing I can't handle, hah.
The three songs made till now is "Sorrow", "Smile" and "Close". I'm sure I'll end up with a couple of versions of most of the songs I record this time so we'll see what I'll use in the end.
I've been wondering if I should stray away with some songs, to new genres which I've never tried making anything in. Though at this time it's all just ideas in my mind. But some drum-loops and such would maybe fit into the new atmosphere. I want to create a dark and cold atmosphere and by using things like electronical effects I think it would work out somehow. |
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c-nygaard.com
Posted by Christoffer @ 05 May 2007
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From this day on you can also visit this page through c-nygaard.com (in case that should be easier to remember? I donno). It's working now and I hope a shorter url makes it easier for people. I might set up a different domain for the forum aswell to make it easier accessable with for example www.cn-forum.com or something. I'll concider this a couple of days and see what I'll do. Would be nice to have a shorter address for the forum.
I'm concidering buying a studio computer, and I've been comparing prices on the Norwegian webshops, and I can get it to a pretty nice price with 4gb ram, 150gb WD Raptor hard drive (Have one of them already, so that makes it 300gb), Duel Core 2.8 Ghz or something... And of course support for Firewire and usb 2.0 which is the only things I need to connect the sound cards.
It would almost be a dream come true to have such a "healthy" computer just for studio work as that would stop all the dropouts that the program does make all the time cause of CPU usage to high. Having it connected to the network it will be easy to move stuff from one over to another and that way use the storage space on the computer mainly for the recording.
It's tempting, but I have to save some inbetween for the Finland trips this summer.
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Decent thing happening?
Posted by Christoffer @ 01 May 2007
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Well at the moment I write this I'm offshore at Eldfisk Alpha for those who care, and it's pretty nice. We're having lots of overtime and it doesn't really matter cause it's nothing better to do other than sitting on msn chatting, hah.
I've started planning my summer vacation and I think I'll be leaving for Oulu the 15th of July, 3 days after my birthday and then stay there till the 30th of July or something. Then I will have like 1 week before the Qstock rush is starting up and all crazy people from everywhere in FInland invades Oulu, hah. Other than this I really want to go up for that Jalometalli festival also which is in Oulu at Club Teatria... but still uncertain if I can get free then... though I will try and find out when I need to travel up then to get that with me and also spend some enjoyable time in Oulu (even if I would just recently have been there). But bands like Insomnium, ETOS etc. is playing... would be great to see as I don't want those tent festivals this year, but let's wait and see what will happen. So hard to think further than one month, hah
I've also been looking for apartments in Oulu much lately and it's so tempting to move there because of everything. When I'm not there I really miss those nice places to take a walk, those lovely factories spitting out huge amount of smoke, the people of Oulu, the pizzas and kebabs.... and... well basicly most things.
Apartments in Oulu is almost 1/3 of the price in Norway and they look nice. Some even have a sauna, which I guess would be kinda nice when moving there to have since I don't feel like going to borrow everyone elses sauna. It's nice to have a little on your own. I've also had visions in dreams about how the apartment would look like (though it could look like that in Norway aswell... but I guess it's come to my mind through the ideas of moving to Oulu).
But first schedule, hopefully asap, then I need to talk with people at the office about it, then I have to arrange moving to Finland and if I'm allowed to, and then move. Lots of stuff that needs to be done before I can do that... But at some point I will, I'm sure of. I've kinda said it to my whole family, though I'm not sure if my dad really got the idea that I didn't want to move out in Norway, rather to Finland/Oulu... But atleast I kinda indirectly told him, hah.
So about this offshore trip, I have no clue when I get home, but the 11th will be the final day atleast since I've been out here then for 14 days. So if I come back then, I'm home for a weekend of barbequeing and stuff, hah. Atleast if the weather is like it's been out here the last days. Sunny, no wind.... damn I hate that kind of weather when I have to work.
Anyway, getting late now and I'm pretty tired after 16 hours of work.
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Back From Oulu
Posted by Christoffer @ 12 Apr 2007
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After almost 2 weeks in Oulu I'm back home. You know you shouldn't leave a place when you start missing it after 5 minutes on the plane, but there's always other times to travel there. The plan is to go back for Qstock or something, though who knows if I can wait that long...
At the moment I'm trying to clean my room so it doesn't look like I've dropped a bomb in the middle of it. Hard when I recently moved here and then left to Finland right after. Wish things could've had legs so that they could place themselves were they would fit best... Would've saved me from lots of work.
There's now been a major change to this page. I've added the "Christoffer Nygaard With Friends" subpage, which means that all music related stuff will go there. The frontpage now has the choice of which path you will go to. 1. This Blog Page, 2. Christoffer N. With Friends and the third choice is my Sentenced sub-page.
Other than this... I don't really know. I guess I'll be going offshore pretty soon again. Shocked that they haven't called me yet actually, but hopefully the next trip will be to Eldfisk Alpha or Eldfisk Bravo.
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Lost In A Dream
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Apr 2007
Category: Band (CNWF) News |
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So this project is getting a new turn. I was thinking about building the whole album around songs I had made already, but after being in Finland this week I've decided to write new material and I've already started to write lyrics. The project itself I hope will have a deeper and darker sound than what I've already had created before.
All songs will have one word title which is going to describe the certain parts of the album as good as possible.
Hopefully this will let me open up some new musical directions that can help influencing me in the future... So what I'm basicly saying is that the demo/album will be postponded till I've created new material. All old material will be taken offline as soon as I feel like doing it and most likely be put into the box of "Not going to release this" songs. Hopefully the new theme will create more darker songs like "Behind The Truth, Yet Miles Away" for those few people who know that one.
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Back to Oulu
Posted by Christoffer @ 29 Mar 2007
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Well now I'm on my way back to Oulu. Sitting on Helsinki's airport... crappy place... spent to much time here. The Oulu flight is going in 2 hours.
I guess we're going to Hevimesta today as it's euro's night and it's also karaoke, hah... Can't miss that. Other than that i don't really have much planned. want to go to Kemi and see the ice castle before it's being torn down for the season, but my plans normally doesn't go as they should if not other people are involved aswell.
I also hope maybe that Meri will have time to record eighter piano or violin on "So Long For Nothing". Would be great if she had time. Create more atmosphere to the only song I have a decent recording of.
I've also made a subpage fo my music project, though since it's not complete yet I won't add it to the frontpage.
The frontpage will be listed something like:
- All shit about me
- Christoffer N with Friends
- Sentenced
That's the general idea anyway... who knows what I will do, hah.
Anyway, I'm going back home the tenth of April, so that means around one and a half week under Oulu's charming city lights, hah.
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Nothing's Forgotten
Posted by Christoffer @ 29 Mar 2007
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Despite all my lying about doing decent recordings now for a long long time, I can tell you as much as I've packed my soundcard, and a microphone and a jack-cable with me to Oulu this time, and hopefully Meri will aid me in adding some more atmosphere to the only song I have a decent recording of, "So Long For Nothing".
Apart from that it'll take some more time to get it all recorded as it should, but I will do it. Now the webpage is atleast getting close to a finish and then it's better to update when something happen instead of people having to read through all the shit of my personal life on my "blog" page. Hopefully this will increase the interest of this project to people unknown to this. |
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Offshore again
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Mar 2007
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My finland trip is over and it was well worth doing alone thanks to great friends in Oulu who always kept me companied. I managed to see parts of Oulu I've never seen before which I think atleast was very nice. Helped with the snow aswell cause everything looks much prettier when it's snow :) I got some wonderful pictures taken by a friend of mine Hanna which I'll use on the music project I'm working on.
Sadly Dingir Xul (from how I understood when reading our myspace) is a closed chapter now due to some conflicts caused partly by me and the overreaction of others. I wish all members of Dingir Xul good luck in the future with other music projects. All of them are talented musicians and I'm sure out of this shitty situation something good will grow out.
Some of the pictures me and Hanna took can be found at Works -> Pictures -> Christoffer N - Band -> Photo sessions -> 2007 - Hanna
I might upload some more when I get home. Those were my personal favorites atleast.
Other than that I want to go back to Oulu in the easter holiday, and my brother's talking about a trip to Prague... So maybe I'll just do another solo trip to Oulu. I've also been thinking about moving to Oulu again and I'm pretty sure I might do that now that the band has dissolved, but can't do anything before I get a schedule and have the discussion with my work if it's okay for them that I live in another country. Normally it's not a problem when you work offshore in a schedule as long as you get back in time for the helicopter. I hope this will work out in the future.
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Finland here I come!
Posted by Christoffer @ 22 Feb 2007
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Well to be precise, I guess it should be "Oulu here I come!", but since I always brush everything under one comb it's always best to say the country name. Makes it all easier for those poor souls who have no clue where Oulu is located.
I'm travelling tomorrow (almost today) and I'll be there till the 4th of March. It'll be fun and I'm very excited as always when going there. So much to do and so little time, though I guess I'll get most things done if I just don't get dragged into the temptation of starting drinking every day at 2pm or something.
So I guess there won't be much news here in about a week or something, as I don't want to use to much time on the net when being there. Might check into the forum from time to time if situations allow that.
To quote Illidan in the World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade cinematic intro:
"YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!"
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2 Shifts Left ( 5 days till Finland)
Posted by Christoffer @ 18 Feb 2007
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So it's really starting to close in on both things now. Under a week till I'm in Finland and just two tiny shifts left untill I'm on my way home. I'm very excited for the Finland trip. It'll be great fun meeting everyone again and to be able to walk the lovely streets of Oulu again.
I'm also wondering now if I should update some webpage stuff which I've been delaying over and over again, but then again I might be to lazy for this, hah.
While I'm at it I'll do some promotion.
Northern Tribe
This is Sami Lopakka's (and co) merchandice store and is located in Oulu. You can buy t-shirts and stuff from their webpage which is: www.northern-tribe.com (might need to right-click -> Open In New Window)
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9 Nights Left (12 till Finland)
Posted by Christoffer @ 11 Feb 2007
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So now I'm almost halfway through this trip and it's been going pretty fast. The days pass by with a blink of an eye almost which is very good. While being out here, I've decided that when I get home I need a vacation from the everyday life and I'm going to take a trip to Finland from the 23th of February till the 4th of March.
It's going to be healthy for me to get some time off everything home as I've started losing motivations to do stuff home, and I almost doesn't look forward to come home and relax which is a bad feelings to have.
I hope if the members of Dingir Xul doesn't do anything while I'm away that they won't be mad at me and realise it's for my best to take this week off. Hopefully when I come home I'll have a bigger motivation to go on with everything. So I guess around the 4th/5th of March we'll finish the demo mixing and mastering process.
I've put up a "Space" on MSN (you know those crappy blog things) where I'm posting some lyrics/poems inbetween. It's very useless as I have a webpage where I can do this, but it's now only for the members I have on the msn list. So that's better imo, cause then I can decide better who I want to browse them, and who I don't.
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In Doubt Of Myself
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Feb 2007
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The recent weeks I've really been wondering what's going on in this world. I somehow feel something's coming, but I'm unsure of what. Might be good and it might even be bad. All I know is at some point I'll have to face what I fear and then we all know after whatever's going to happen.
I've gone offshore again and I'm being here 14 nights (since nightshift) and I've already finished one of them. (back home the 20th) Funny how when I'm offshore I write so much more than when I'm home, both lyrical and online. And I crave to play guitar, just cause it's a long walk to get to the music room they have here. Though I have one plan when I get home and that is to re-record the vocals on "Bleeding For You" as it's somewhat the perfect soundtrack in my life atm. Finland is also screaming for me, and I try to scream back, hah... I really miss Oulu and the people of Oulu...
Other than that there's not much to say... Soon level 70 in World Of Warcraft, but when I was 63% on the way I just lost most of the interest. The game is not THAT great...
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May today become the day
Posted by Christoffer @ 16 Jan 2007
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Well today is THE day. The Burning Crusade (World Of Warcraft expansion) is being released AND I'm most likely going home. The weather or helicopters might delay it, BUT nonetheless this is my "last" day offshore so it it should be delayed/cancelled and I'm going to stay here another day then it's overtime payment which is fine aswell, but I hope I won't stay here longer.
I think two weeks offshore is enough atleast when there's stuff happening home, like a demo recording and a new game being released which will be fun testing out etc.
It's going to take some days most likely to change from this night rythem to day rythem, but it won't be to hard I'm sure of. Many people have problem when they get home, but I doubt I'll have that. I've never had that earlier atleast.
For those who have something alcohol to drink, please shot it down for me cause I really need it now. Coming home from Offshore + drinking before going to bed = Drunk on two Ciders :D hah, strange but true.
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5 Shifts left
Posted by Christoffer @ 11 Jan 2007
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Only 5 days left. "The Burning Crusade" is closing in and guess what? It looks like I'm getting the Collectors Edition even though I was very late pre-ordering. In fact there's many who's pre-ordered TBC at places which won't get the collectors edition since it's very hard to get your hands on, BUT Elkjøp AND Lefdal sells them on the net and they recently put it up on their webpages so I guess they didn't want those people pre-ordering under different names just to get many versions to sell on ebay. So they put it on later than everyone else so that there was a chance for us normal people which doesn't sleep outside the shops to pre-order a damn game or a movie ticket.
Even if I can say with both hands on my heart that I'm not addicted to the game, I still look forward to test the new features in it even if I've said many times before that the more they release of the game, the less excited I've gotten, which is true. if it was released 1 year ago approx. then I would've been even more excited than now.
The first weekend when I get home will be a WoW:TBC lan, where we'll hopefully be 5 lvl 60's doing instances over and over again so we level and get better equipment (atleast for me). I guess my sweet "Christiná" will have to wait till "Azathi" goes lvl 70... Or I might level her inbetween, but who knows. The choice is hard... Rogue OR Druid....
Anyway, I'm really looking forward to get home. It'll be great to change back to normal sleeping routines etc. This offshore trip has been much better than I expected and I'm glad it has.
Now we're waiting for a "storm" so if it continues like it is now we won't be able to lift much stuff with the crane, but I'm sure there'll be some breaks inbetween where we get to work some. Atleast I hope so cause it sucks when it's to relaxed... Makes you lazy even if you don't want to.
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9 Days Left
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Jan 2007
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It's now 9 more days left till I get home, and till "The Burning Crusade" is released. It's actually very good timed if I get a version of the game when I get home. I'll ask my father if he'll drive me to Kvadrat which is the shopping center here when he's picking me up so I can see if they have it there. Hopefully they'll have three copies so that I can buy one for me and my two brothers and none has to stress about getting hold of it.
This shift I came on is very nice, even if it's not a shift I've been on before, but I've been with those that went out a week before this shift, and those that came out a week after this shift. So now I've been on three of six shifts which is nice.
Even in pessimistic mood, I find it worthy to insert something which I rarely insert in these news and that's simply: :D
Today I came up with great ideas to re-record the almost perfect song "Someone Else", which I made several months ago, and I know for a fact that it's going to be the one closing the cd when it's finished... and it's going to include (if I get the support I need to do it) stuff which else wouldn't be found on this demo. The song itself will have a even darker and more depressive sound in the end if it goes as planned.
Some of you have heard the first recording of it, and as you people know it has a long instrumental break after the short lyrics has been sung. And actually today I realised that it's a bit "Sentencedish" and therefore I'll follow it up with something which makes it even more "Sentencedish". I think the song is going to rock and I hope I get the support I need to complete it.
Other then that I don't know what to say/write. I hope a schedule is closer than I know... Will be great to get into a schedule in this work to know when I'm home and when I'm working. Makes planning much easier.
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First trip in 2007
Posted by Christoffer @ 02 Jan 2007
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Well then it's time for the typical offshore diaries which we all love so well, hah. Actually I'm pretty sure no one reads them, but I like to think that people do just so that it makes sense in updating this page.
I'm going for a 14 days trip now and I'm supposed to work night shift, but who knows what'll happen when I arrive. My final destination is Eldfisk Alpha where I've been two times before, and this is actually where I had my first offshore trip.
Eldfisk Alpha is a okay platform, but I prefer it's "twin" Eldfisk Bravo. The community on Eldfisk Bravo just kicks ass and even when being new you're dragged into it weather you like it or not, which I think is good atleast.
Most hopefully I'll get a schedule at Eldfisk Bravo. That would've been great.
Anyway, I guess the times I'll be online these next 2 weeks will be around 3-6pm (15:00-18:00)... But we'll see what happens :)
The day I'm going back home is atleast the 16th of January, which is also the release date of World Of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. The "plague" is spreading even further.
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Merry fucking shitmas and happy new year
Posted by Christoffer @ 24 Dec 2006
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Well I just wanna wish everyone* a merry fucking shitmas and a happy new year. I've been incredible lazy this time when I've been home and I haven't even updated this webpage at all. I'm still working (or it's a long time since I worked on it) on a webpage for my solo project where I'll move all music related stuff over too. It'll have the same design, just that it'll be it's own little mini page just like the Sentenced one.
Talking about the Sentenced one, I should really finish adding the discography there, hah... LONG LIVE LAZINESS!
*By everyone I mean those who mean anything to me. Those who doesn't and still read this page, well fuck you! Hope you people have a crappy shitmas. |
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4 complete shifts left
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Dec 2006
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Okay this might be confusing concidering the title, but it's actually only 3 whole shifts left when this day is finished, but if you add the hours left on this work day with those of Monday's work day (7 hours) then you're pretty close to one complete shift.
I'm looking forward to get home now. There's lots of stuff which is going to happen and I'm glad that there is stuff to do when I get home. I've ordered a LCD 20" computer screen so hopefully that one will arrive more or less at the same time as I get home. It had 8ms respons time, which isn't that much and it said it'd work perfectly in all kind of games, and as long as it does that it doesn't matter much.
I've also been looking at computers for the studio. We need to upgrade it all slowly and we'll start with the main problem, which is the computer itself. So far I've decided to run a dual core CPU as there might be some programs run at the same time and then it takes off some load from the main CPU. We'll add 2-4GB ram (memory for those that doesn't understand it) and we'll see about hard drive, but we should use Western Digital Raptor hard drives as they are very quick, and we need the quickest hard drives there is for the best possible studio computer. We'll go for a external sound card like the one we have atm (Creative Audigy), though after some time we'll change it out with an digital mixer which can be connected to the computer AND record multiply tracks at the same time. This is very nice with stuff like drum recordings, or rehearsal recordings etc. Anyway, we need to start somewhere, and the computer is the place for that.
Other than that, even if it's some times since the dvd was released and Sentenced was completly buried, I want to use my time now and write these final words in memorial of Sentenced:
Rest In Peace! Your spirit will always live in all of us!
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Changing from Night shift to day shift.
Posted by Christoffer @ 04 Dec 2006
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I'm going to change from night shift to day shift now so for the next couple of days I'll be pretty fucked up as I'm going to bed now, and back on work at 15:00 (which means I'd have to wake up around 14:30 latest) and then work from 15:00 to 22:00, then go and sleep till 07:00 on Tuesday.
I'm not sure when I'm going to be online these next days, as there seems to be some meetings and stuff aswell that I have to attend (more overtime for me anyway so I don't care). I'll try and inform later how it's going to be from now on, eighter here or on the forum. Feel free to shout something or simply send me a PM on the forum and I'll reply when I see it.
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1 week left
Posted by Christoffer @ 03 Dec 2006
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When this shift is finished, I've got one more week to go. It's very exciting to be part of the drilling crew cause there's so many things to learn and concidering that I feel a bit safe on the deck as a flagman/"Roustabout", it's always nice to take on new challenges.
First week now I've been working with two people whom left home on Thursday and one of the regulars came back on the crew. They are all very nice and I think it's one of the better crews I've been on, though I still hope that I can be placed on Eldfisk Bravo on schedule as I like that platform better, and the crews there are also very good, atleast those I've been on.The days are going pretty nice. It's smooth when it comes to the clock and those 12 hours are just flying away sometimes.
Tomorrow I think I'll be breaking over from night shift to day shift and take the last week on day shift, and due to it being a hard process I'm not sure how much time I'll bring online the next couple of days, though if that doesn't happen and I'll go night shift I guess I'll edit this news with a red marker so that it's easy to see what's been added or edited.
When I get home I guess me and Tommy will have to practice a bit on our acoustic set, though from what it seems now it's all uncertain cause the place we were going to rent is taken (a mix-up in the booking lists) so we'll have to find another place to push in all the people, and where it's also possible to do a little acoustic gig. I concider this very important as it's the only reason why I've asked to be home in new years eve. I really couldn't have cared less if it wasn't for this gig.
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Changes in plans
Posted by Christoffer @ 29 Nov 2006
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As some might have read on the forum and in the shoutbox, there's been a change in my offshore plans. When I was about to shuttle over to 2/4 Tor, I got a message from the reception that I wasn't going over there anyway. I was all of a sudden put to work at 2/4 X (Ekofisk X) as a Roughneck (drill floor worker) as trainee (or whatever). I'm going as the fourth man and are just going to observe and participate on smaller jobs cause it's better that I learn it by observing and stuff than taking to much part in stuff which has a high risk.
I was kinda disappointed as I met the person I was supposed to work with and he was working day shift when I was working night shift on 2/4 M and he is a nice guy and it would be fun to work with him, though of course I need to learn the drill floor sometimes anyway.
Anyway, that's what's up here, and I think I might change to day shift on Monday cause I think the crew I'm on is going to do that, and they're leaving home the 11th, which is one day before what I was supposed to, so I guess I'll be leaving home then aswell. Thought I can't confirm that at this point. Can't say much for sure till it get's closer to the end of the trip.
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Offshore - 2/4 Tor
Posted by Christoffer @ 27 Nov 2006
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Tomorrow morning I'll be going offshore for 14 days, and this time I'll be working night shift which again kinda makes me online when no-one else is online. SO in case someone wants to talk to me I might be online from 07:00am till 10:00am, though nothing is certain. It all depends on what's happening online, and if there are any people online at all. Though I will try and get online in the night-lunch break at around 11-12pm or something. And if all else fails I'll try atleast to post on the forum from time to time. I don't know if this platform has much computers, and if it doesn't it might be hard to get one before everyone else is charging at it.
I'm going to stay at a new platform this time, a platform called 2/4 Tor and it's not really any drilling going on so I guess it's as a flagman for Wireline or something. Hopefully there's more to do there than it was when I was on 2/4 M, cause that was pretty boring, even if I worked with great people.
It's always excited in a both good and bad way when I'm going offshore to meet a new crew which I haven't worked with before, cause there's always lots of adjustments to be done and you need to get to know the person which you normally do good after a week. Some takes even longer to get to know and I always hope I get with someone who's easy to talk with so that it keeps the shifts more interesting. Though this is not always the case and when it's not the case it sucks big time.
When I get back home though, me and Tommy will start practicing for our acoustic set, which we hopefully will play at our New Years Eve party. Though nothing is certain yet, but hopefully that's what'll happen. We plan on playing about an hour with irish folk songs and maybe some others inbetween. That's atleast the things we discussed, though everything might change, and it might be that it won't even happen though I'll be home at New Years Eve in case it all goes as planned. Sadly if they want me out I have to say no to those trips as I think this is going to be very fun and it's not worth dropping just for some extra cash.
Dingir Xul's demo is also getting closer and closer. Today me and Tommy mic'ed up the guitar amplifier and started testing sounds just so I could be part of it before leaving, and we got a really great sound and they're going to start recording the guitars very soon. Hopefully much is done till I get home from Offshore.
Other than that I want to say that the Sentenced dvd "Buried Alive" kicked ass and I'm glad I got to see it before I went offshore cause it would be pain to wait 14 days to be able to watch it.
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A Good Week To Come
Posted by Christoffer @ 20 Nov 2006
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Today I've actually been home for 1 week and 3 days and it's been relaxing (except for the weekends). Last Saturday we were out drinking and it was quite fun then aswell, and this Saturday was also pretty neat.
Started drinking around 6/7pm and when the clock hit 11:30pm we went to our local pub called "Møllehagen". When we arrived it wasn't that many people there, but hell me, Frode and Tommy can have fun even if there's little people. So when we realised the guitar player was the one who'd played one other time when we were there and he played more or less everything we wanted, me and Tommy started shouting for songs and the first one we got was "Highwayman". Then we also got "Fairytale In New York" and we also got the last song he played "The Wild Rover" (though this was much later on at the night).
After a while there came more and more people and our cousin Kenneth arrived with his friend Tom Eirik. At this point I was getting pretty drunk, though what the hell? It was the reason I was there anyway.
I also met a girl (or should I say woman?) whom me and Tommy talked to once before at "Møllehagen" called Ninja and it was really fun meeting her again after about half a year or something since we first talked.
Anyway it all ended with me being drunk and walking home after trying to get pizza on the gas station, which normally sells it of course, but they were out of pizzas... So I ended up with sandwich, a hotdog (or whatever) and something else which had taco spiced minched meat in it... but sadly it had garlic aswell... and I hate garlic....
Anyway, I'm sure SOME (not all, but there might be some) wondering why the title is "A Good Week To Come", well I think it's pretty obvious and so should it be for anyone that likes SENTENCED. Their dvd "Buried Alive" from 1st October 2005 is being released on Wedensday and I've pre-ordered it and hopefully I'll get it all within this week, though sadly it might not arrive before after this week since it's being shipped from Finland and we all know what pain in the ass the Norwegian customs (or whatever it's called) can be. They don't trust anything written on the package and sometimes I just want to fuck them for being so damn retarded. Anyway if all goes as planned I'm sure I'll have it on Friday or something, though I doubt all three versions will arrive then as it's being sent seperatly.
Other than just the release of a long-awaited SENTENCED dvd, there'll also be another TOM WAITS album released called "Orphans". It's a 3cd box including some unreleased, rare and new songs. I can't wait to hear it as those tracks from his Myspace page sounds so great. He is truely a mastermind when it comes to unique and great music.
So if SENTENCED's dvd is arriving in time we'll have a party at Frode's place where we'll watch the whole concert and maybe the extra material and get wasted. It's going to be great.
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Closing In
Posted by Christoffer @ 07 Nov 2006
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Now it's closing in to my departure from Eldfisk B for this time. On Thursday I'm going back home and there's only this shift I'm on now and one more. Really looking forward to get back home.
I've been concidering buying a acoustic bass guitar to add to my guitar collection. Funny how it is, when I stop playing a instrument in Dingir Xul I start buying guitars and stuff, but I've been concidering all this earlier on, but I've been low on cash up till now so...
I'm going to make a special sub-page to my webpage when I get home which will be about my own project. I'll move all the Mp3's and stuff over there. So from then on the front page will give you three alternatives of where to enter; "My blog", "My music" and "Sentenced Tribute". That way it'll be easier to seperate these three things from each other. Each of them will have linked Shoutbox, so no matter which page you enter you'll see the same shoutbox. I'm thinking about having a own guestbook to my music project's webpage as people can focus more on feedback to the music there, than what they do in the other guestbook which is more based on the design and everything.
Dingir Xul:
This weekend we'll record more bass guitar which is good imo since then we're closing in. I think we should manage to get all the bass guitars in this weekend. Me and Tommy has been thinking about producing the cd professional with real quality cds, booklet and everything if we can find a cheap alternative. Hopefully we can, but time will tell.
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Eldfisk Bravo - 6 shifts left
Posted by Christoffer @ 02 Nov 2006
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Today I got new work mates, though one of them was on this platform as a Roughneck when I came out, then she left home for 5 days and came out as a flag(wo)man now. Anyway they are both very nice and the crane operator also sounds nice on the radio.
There's only 6 more shifts left and I do look forward to get home as I miss the guitar and everything, but that's the normal stuff.
Dingir Xul is recording more while I'm away which is good. Drums are recorded and they'll record the bass guitar this weekend and next weekend I guess some guitar or something. Then vocals in the end + The new intro song which I guess we'll have for sometime now. It's actually made by me, though it will be recorded by Tommy on guitar since he might get it all a bit more timed, but it's a very dark and melancolic intro. I like it and I think everyone in Dingir Xul did, which I'm happy about. I like making intro tracks.
"I'll show you things - Wonderful, terrible things"
- Brother Justin
I hope "120 Days Of Sodom" has arrived when I get home so I can enjoy it in a hangover, Sunday morning. Hah.
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Stranded on Ekofisk Hotel (edited)
Posted by Christoffer @ 31 Oct 2006
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Yester-night (if I can call it that) I was transfered to Ekofisk Complex due to a drill they were having on Eldfisk Bravo, where there arrived 4 vip people who needed a cabin and since we didn't have them, some had to shuttle over to this place. The plan was to take the morning shuttle back this morning, but things didn't go as planned.
Around 07:00 me and a guy I work with and share cabin with met up at the reception waiting for our shuttle to come, and then we got the news that the shuttle we were going to take was cancelled and maybe we'd get on the evening shuttle.
So now we are stranded here on Ekofisk Hotel and I don't know if we'll get a shuttle this evening or what and frankly I don't give a damn since that's what they get for shuttling us when the weather is bad. I mean it doesn't affect me other than the flagmen being one man short which is sad. And also there's other places which are one-man short due to this, but there's nothing we can do other than wait for helicopter to leave. We get paid and what we're doing is mainly sitting on the computer, playing billard (?), chess and Ludo. The worst thing is that when you don't do anything the days go so damn slow.
I really hope to get on a shuttle this evening though and get back. It would be the best thing without a doubt, but we'll see what happens.
Edit: Well of course it had to be cancelled too due to the weather and the weather is increasing, though after 12 or something tonight it'll go downhill with the weather and calm down. So it looks like we'll be going back tomorrow which is good cause I'm so sick and tired of being here now doing nothing.
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5 Days down
Posted by Christoffer @ 30 Oct 2006
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Well very soon there's 5 days down and it's only 9 days left. Today I have to shuttle to the hotel (offshore that is) to sleep as there's coming 4 people here who'll need my cabin this night. That sucks so much. That's what I get for being new, hah.
Anyway the days go by very fast so it's no problem. It helps thinking about the money I'll get and how good everything will be when I get in a schedule and have those 4 weeks free after every trip. That'll be so worth everything.
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Offshore - Finally online!
Posted by Christoffer @ 27 Oct 2006
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Well second day has passed and I've finally got myself online. Yesterday when I was trying to log into the computer I got a message saying "Your Account Has Been Disabled" so now I can't use my father's log in anymore, so now I'm borrowing another persons account and he told me I could do till I got my own, which we've been sending in an application for and hopefully they'll give me one this time!
Well, everything else is going fine and I get to sleep and it's very windy here so it keeps me at a somewhat normal temperature which is nice. I hate when it's to warm, though it could be a little less windy at times.
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Offshore tomorrow!
Posted by Christoffer @ 25 Oct 2006
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On the 26th October I'll be going offshore for two weeks (9th November) and I'm going to work night shift... So that means that I'll only be online from 07:00 till around 12:00. So I hope to talk to most of you who I won't be able to talk much to tonight or today and well... if not... See ya in two weeks.
Edit: I'll be working the first week on day shift which then means that I'll be online around 19:00 till around 24:00, then after a week I'll most likely change to night shift and then what I wrote above counts.
Looks like I'm very close to getting a schedule aswell so I really just have to work my ass off so that they are pleased with me, though I always do my best, not saying anything else. Oh Great and Mighty Cthulhu! I'm so happy now. Like a sunshine aiming for the shadows with courage and strenght..... okay okay... I'll stop this now. Hah.
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Surprize Track @ Forum
Posted by Christoffer @ 24 Oct 2006
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Well some of you might have noticed it already, but I've uploaded a surprize track in the forum and the track is an acoustic version of me playing "Vengeance Is Mine" a little different than the original. I don't see the point in doing a cover which sounds just the same as the original so I decided to put my personallity on it. It's a rather "fast" recording which means that I didn't put that much effort into it, but I think nonetheless that I will put that one or an other Sentenced song in that style on my demo when that's going to be recorded.
Anyway I hope you'll enjoy it and give me feedback in shoutbox or on the forum. I always appreciate when people join the forum and help establishing a comunity there. I really appreciate those from the Sentenced board that joined the forum. It's still very quiet, but what the hell! It's more important that we post things we want to post than feel like you have to post there. In time I'm sure it'll grow bigger.
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Forum Up & Technical Information!
Posted by Christoffer @ 20 Oct 2006
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Well even if it's been up for 1 and a half day or something I haven't made a news about it, so I thought it was time to inform those who haven't checked the menu line: There's now a forum that needs members and as we speak I'm trying to recruit people from the Sentenced board that I can remember been good people. There are still some i haven't contacted so if you're one of them, I'm really sorry, but I don't remember all I've had interested conversations with. Though I hope this board will in time grow and that there'll be more members and more posts there in time. It's always slow in the opening process and hopefully that won't stay like that. I don't care if people spam it with all kind of crap posts as long as there are people who wants to join in on them. I don't care if not all posts makes sense in having and might be labeled "silly". It doesn't really matter for me, and this is one of the reasons why I put up my own board so that those people who want to get away from those very strict rules on forums are allowed to stay somewhere. If it so should happen that the board is going well, then I'll move it to a different server, but at this point I don't think it'll do that within the next years.
There's some problem with dingir-xul.com, but it's being fixed as you read this (maybe it's even fixed when you read this), though it was clearly me to blame for this. Paid the bill to late and they didn't get to re-register the domain in time or it didn't go automaticly. Nonetheless It's coming back online and maybe when I have time i'll do a proper redesign of it aswell as it looks a bit "cheap" now. I'm also working for a forum on the Dingir Xul page to keep the fans there pleased (if there are any?... Though it should be after all those demos we've distributed... hah!)
Today and Tomorrow we'll be recording the fourth demo in our own little studio which is still un-named. Though I'm sure we'll come up with a silly metalish name. Hopefully though we can all agree on a name which doesn't sound to stupid cause I guess that's where I'll record my solo demo aswell... Atleast on the same equipment. Anyway today we'll record and drink. I guess when we're through I'll be pretty drunk, or that's the plan atleast. If that doesn't happen then.... I'll get drunk on the city after. |
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Oulu Pictures & Other Tales
Posted by Christoffer @ 18 Oct 2006
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Finally I've added some picturs from the Finland trip, though even if I say Oulu pictures... These pictures are from the cabin trip we did and it wasn't IN Oulu. The place is called Ylikiimink and it's one of the funniest and best cabin trips I've been to. Hope we're going back there next year!
I'll add my cell phone pictures when I feel like it. They are a bit crappier since the camera isn't THAT good, even if some pictures do look pretty good.
Other than that I've bought a practice el-guitar which I've tuned down one whole note, which means I can play Sentenced songs with it! I'm also gonna use it to get used to those "baree" (or however you spell that) chords. If I like playing guitar and I get good with it then there might be a chance that I will play rythem guitar in Dingir Xul, but hopefully not. It's just for self entertaining and practice that I'm doing this and well I think Dingir Xul is to serious for me to play guitar in... Though you never know.
I've made lots of new songs with my own project. There's atleast a song called "She's All I Want" and "Somebody Else" which I haven't talked about. "She's All I Want" is a love ballad which kinda says itself out from the title. "Somebody Else" is way different though. I'm thinking of using it as a last track on a demo when that time is coming. I'm already planning to maybe start doing some recordings for real. Not just these one take recordings where I don't care if I my voice is in tune or if I hit the right notes or use the right chords where they should be, but time will tell. I'm sure there'll be atleast half a year to a year before I do anything professional.
The page is also more and more coming together and everything that's missing in the "Sentenced section" is the discography which I think I'll add at the end as the rest of the stuff is only to edit so that it fits the new design. But the information is still there you know. So to simplify everything it's best to do it this way. |
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New Layout
Posted by Christoffer @ 16 Oct 2006
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At the moment I'm still working with this design. I think this is going to be great when it's finished!
Tom Waits is really inspiring me to work with this page now. So wonderful to hear these sad songs like "Poor Edward" and "A Sight Fore Sore Eyes". They are just wonderful!
I miss Finland... I really wanna go back to Oulu and keep on drinking with our great friends there. I miss the people, I miss the nature, I miss the city, I miss the Kebabs, I miss the pizza's... and strange enough... I miss the Sauna! Even if it was like a living hell in there!...
Ahh it's just go great in Oulu. I love that city with the whole of my heart! I wish we had it as nice as that in Norway aswell. It's just priceless!
Finland <3 |
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Confused
Posted by Christoffer @ 28 Sep 2006
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Somehow everything is making me confused at the moment................
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Soon Finland!
Posted by Christoffer @ 26 Sep 2006
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Well.... I'm always as crappy as this to update. I've been home for a week now or something and I'm on this semenar (donno if that's an english word) now for 2 days and then on Friday I'm leaving to Finland with my brothers where we'll end up at a Moonspell gig the first day, then I guess it's a cabin trip.
The reason I've been a little slow updating is because I've started working on a new design which will be in Norwegian I guess... Kinda lazy and it's boring to write in english all the time.... But maybe I'll have the design in english and maybe add some news from time to time in Norwegian to keep my webpage more updated.... Time will tell.
The design can be found at www.christoffer-n.com/v6 (guess you'll have to right click and "Open In New Window"... or else it'll show in this mini frame.... might be wrong though...)
Not more to say.... or well I'm still waiting for a schedule at work... Hopefully I'll get that before the end of this year. Wanna start planning the travelling next year.
Take Care,
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Halfway through
Posted by Christoffer @ 16 Sep 2006
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Now I'm halfway through this offshore trip and it's always nice no matter how long you're out here to know that you are halfway now. Actually I'm more than halfway. I have 3 more shifts to go then I'm leaving home on Tuesday (19th) morning I guess.
The days after I get home, I'll go on a crane operation course (26th and 27th) where they will talk about danger moments and such with each crane operation and what happenings which we don't want to get and how to avoid them and such. I'm looking forward to it. Two days at Sola Strand Hotel. It'll be great.
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Other than this, my work buddy (which means the guy I'm working with) who came out here on Thursday is a very nice guy and well we get the time to go very fast which I think is nice. It get's to boring when there's nothing to do. I prefer doing some most of the time so that the hours fly fast. Today we were washing one of the floors and it felt like we did it really fast, but when we were finished and looked on the clock it had already gone 2 hours. Very pleased with that, and now it looks very clean and nice.
I've been looking on Mexico plane tickets aswell and though I can't order anything yet before I get a schedule it's still nice to know. A 2 ways ticket to Mexico is around 10 000 Norwegian Kroner, which I think ain't that bad concidering it's a long way and well I'm going to a smaller airport. Where I plan on going in Mexico is San Luis Potosi and the plan is now to meet up with Kate (from Sentenced board) and stay in the guestroom at her place then travel around in Mexico and check out pyramids and also to meet up with Kitsune (also from Sentenced board) in Mexico City and such. I'm thinking about 2-3 weeks, depends on how long they want me sleeping in the guestroom. Guess that's more or less up to Kate and her family, but nonetheless it's going to be a fun trip when I get to have it. The plans are there and I really am looking forward to it.
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Written some new poetry/lyrics these last days which I'm pleased with. I might post them on this page when I get home.
Once again: 3 more to go. Take care!
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First shift down!
Posted by Christoffer @ 13 Sep 2006
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I'm finished with the first shift out of 7 now and I've finally slept some. Now I just wait for the clock to turn 7pm and it's back to work. I'm working on the Ekofisk complex now on a platform called Eko 2/4M and and I'm flagman for Wireline operation which is happening over there.
I'm placed on night shift which atleast was relaxing the shift I just had. We had three lifts (containers etc.) in those 12 hours which is very little. I was dead tierd when I went off shift yesterday aswell cause I had barely slept anything, but now I've gotten atleast 5 hours sleep. I guess this shift will be easier.
As mentioned I will only be here for 7 days (6 left) and I'm going back on the 19th of September (I guess that went without saying, but some might be slow in math so...).
Oh and the distance between where I sleep to where I work is like 800-900m which I use around 10-15 minutes to walk. Kinda sucks, but what is there to do about it?
I don't know how many I've showed the story to, but I'm continuing writing on a psychological horror/thriller novel (might be short-story) with working title "The Story Of James Williams", though this one might change in time. It's about a man who's done some pretty fucked up things in the past and one day he wakes up with a memory loss and he's trying to find out why he wanted to kill himself. What he had done and if there is a possibility to forget the past and start a new life. Those who's read it have given me good feedback on the start, though I guess it might be a bit to brutal for some. If you picture what you read, then you might get some sickly perverted pictures in your mind.
Other than this I've read the beginning of a book by my friend called Marion (sky) and she's very talented. I can't wait to read more of it. The introduction reminded me so much of "Good Omens" which is one of the funniest books I've read (But I haven't read that much though, but I've heard from others who read a lot more than me aswell that it's a hilarious book so it's not just my ignorence.. hah). Back to topic: I will adventice for the book when it's released or atleast finished cause it's great material and worth going out to people.
Other than this I guess there's nothing much to tell. Life goes by like it always does and hopefully I'm getting closer and closer to a schedule offshore so I can do some travelling. Still planning a trip to Mexico to visit some friends. That trip I'm sure will be priceless. Talking about trips though, another priceless trip I'm soon going to is a trip to Finland with my two brothers, and we're going to meet up with our friends in Oulu which I'm really looking forward to. Get ready for us Finland! We're leaving the 29th of September and will be home around 8th of October.
Anyway I guess I will keep you updated in a day or two. Working offshore is the only time I do update this page so I guess it's healthy for the page that I'm working here. Hah.
Take care,
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Going home
Posted by Christoffer @ 31 Aug 2006
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Now in about an hour or so the helichopter is here to bring the crew I'm on home. It'll be great in a way I think to get home in my own bed and everything. It's not very fun to be on a platform, but it's a nice work and good paid and lots of free time and that's three good reasons to be here I think.
As long as I have computer access it's not really a problem, but without it I know it would be a pain in the ass to be here.
I was very lucky on this trip cause Eldfisk Bravo was somewhat nicer than Eldfisk Alpha so I hope I get more trips to this platform in the near future.
I guess next trip I'll take will be to Finland or maybe a short one inbetween now and the 29th of September. Would be nice with a week inbetween here. I doubt that it'll be a full trip cause that would be strange if they called me that fast after I'm home.
Anyway, have fun and take care
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2 more shifts left
Posted by Christoffer @ 28 Aug 2006
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Well when this day is finished I have 2 more shifts left then it's relaxing untill going home on Thursday morning.
This has been a fun trip so far and even if I still miss like 5 days from a complete trip, it's good that it's soon home. It doesn't matter much weather or not you are here a long time or short time. It's always good to go home anyway.
There haven't been much work out here when I came out, but it looks like it's going to be some the last few days. Doesn't matter.
My friend Sky (Marion) did a tarot thing on me and.... strangely enough it's so correct. I guess even if I don't believe these things that there is something that isn't just coincidents. Something is done cause it needs to be done. Thanks alot for the tarot reading!
Might come another news before I'm going home, but nothing is sure.
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Freakin' Internet!
Posted by Christoffer @ 25 Aug 2006
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Well something is just seriously wrong with the internet on the platform now. I can enter this page, and some others but I can't get MSN up, visit the homegrave (Sentenced's webpage) and many other pages. What the fuck is wrong?
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Offshore - Trip 3
Posted by Christoffer @ 24 Aug 2006
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Well this is my third trip and it'll last untill 31th August. I'm like doing nothing cause there's nothing to do. So 7 more days (been here two already) and it's back home again. This time I'm on Eldfisk Bravo which is... a little different from Eldfisk Alpha, but I like it here and it's a really nice crew. |
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In Memorial To Hasse
Posted by Christoffer @ 24 Jul 2006
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It's sad bringing these news to people, but I'm afraid our beloved Hasse has passed away :( We brought him to the vet today to check what was wrong with him since he didn't eat, and they discovered that he had something which couldn't be cured. Which gave us a option to let him live out his life in this terrible misery or to make them end the suffering he was having. I wish there'd been another way out of this and it bring tears in my eyes when thinking back on this and also all the good times we had together with him.
Hasse, we'll never forget you! You were one true cat, and also a true friend.
I will put up a gallery page for pictures of him from childhood till death as a memorial gallery to the greatly loved cat.
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My Birthday
Posted by Christoffer @ 12 Jul 2006
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Then my birthday has passed by. It was such a fun day actually. One of the few ones that's been in some time.
Me, Tommy, Christer, Kenneth, Stigi and Roger went to Peppes Pizza and celebrated my twenty-first birthday there. We got cartoon on big screen, was decorated with "Happy Birthday" and we got the room they have there all alone. Then after the pizza I got free ice cream. It was seriously so worth it. All thanks to Mari (waitress on Peppes) for giving me such a fun birthday.
Other than this I've gotten a new Poisonblack song which was downloadable from Century Media's webpage (You have to enter the USA version of the page... strange enough) and it kicked ass. The song's name is "Rush" and it track four of their new album "Lust Stained Despair" which is due to release at the end of August. Looking forward to that, though it's not at the same quality as Sentenced, it's the closest I get.
Atleast "Rush" was a nice song and if the rest of the album is going to be like this then I'm sure that "Lust Stained Despair" will kick "Escapextacy"'s ass.
There's only one thing that would make this day perfect, but I'm not gonna tell you what that is.
Cheers,
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Back Home
Posted by Christoffer @ 25 Jun 2006
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Well now I've finished my first offshore trip. I came home yesterday (24th of June) and it was right to the booze. So good to drink again after 2 weeks without it. I don't normally have that urge to drink, but I did get it when I was offshore. Kinda annoying actually.
Tomorrow I'm going to check out an apartment which if I get employed in Odfjell I can most likely bid on or buy. I need to check if I can get a loan up to 1.3 million kroner, maybe 1.4 or something. Gonna call Odfjell tomorrow and ask them what's happening now in the future.
The Apartment is the neighbour apartment to my brother Frode, so it would be nice to live there. Short way to parties and well short way to most things as it's located in the centrum of Bryne. Nothing would be better than that.
Today me and Tommy had Peppes Pizza. Was nice to get some real pizza again, even if I've had really good food offshore, but it can't always weight up to a good junkfood pizza.
But that's all I had to say really. Felt I had to update it with information that I was home now.
Cheers,
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Offshore, 2 shifts left.
Posted by Christoffer @ 21 Jun 2006
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Greetings,
Now it's only 2 more shifts left and I'm looking forward to get home and get wasted. It's going to be such fun.
Today we didn't do much of interest, but I helped a bit on Eldfisk F and on Eldfisk E which was mainly what I did today. There came a new person out which also was starting his first trip offshore and I showed him around where everything was and such. It's way to much information on one day so I guess it'll be to repeat most of it tomorrow.
Cheers,
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Offshore, 3 more shifts left
Posted by Christoffer @ 20 Jun 2006
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Now I only have 3 more shifts left before I'm heading home on Saturday. I'm looking forward to get back home to my guitar and everything, though this time here hasn't been that hard. I've enjoyed my stay here and I'm looking forward to another trip hopefully after 2 weeks free. Would be nice to relaxe and drink 2 weekends before going back here and being isolated from the surrounding world.
It sucks that I can't take pictures here though, as it would be fun to have some pictures of the working place to show people whom I know over the Internet and also those few people that are interested in this stuff back home.
When I get home I will start on a new webpage (a blog page) which me and some friends will use. It will be in Norwegian though, and hopefully some of my friends friends will join aswell. Try to build a community. I have the plans and design ready on paper and hopefully I can put it over on the computer as the plans are.
Cheers,
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Offshore, Day 7
Posted by Christoffer @ 17 Jun 2006
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 Or this should've been day 7, but it's actually just day 6 since I didn't arrive here on Saturday as planned, but on Sunday. Now it's only 7 more days left and I'm back home.
I decided to add a picture today of what this platform looks like. If you press on the picture you'll get to see a bigger version of it. It doesn't look that nice, but it's a very okay platform (though I don't know much about others).
Me and some friends are planning on making a Blog webpage together to add all kind of news, pictures from parties etc. and I will start making it when I get back home. The plan is ready and I think it'll be very nice. Hopefully the people who's with me on this will add news aswell as me to keep it up and running when it's finished.
Came over a funny article about our Dingir Xul gig at Tribute when we supported Syrach. It can be read here (It's in Norwegian though).
Nothing more to say I think except have fun this weekend. The next one is going to be a drink orgy (haha),
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Offshore, Day 6
Posted by Christoffer @ 16 Jun 2006
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Yesterday I had an accident with my foot and now the muscles is stretched and I am limping on it, but it's better today than yesterday. So it's going the right way. Hopefully it's better tomorrow. This day was kinda stressful, without those long coffee breaks we use to have.
Other than that I don't know what else to say.
Cheers,
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Offshore, Day 3
Posted by Christoffer @ 13 Jun 2006
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Today has been a relaxing day at work. We've had very little to do so we've done just minor stuff and I did get a guide through the 2 other platforms which are connected to this main unit which I'm on. They are called "FTP" and "Esther"(might be misspelled?). I think it was nice to get to see other places than this main platform.
Other than that, the crew I was with has travelled home and a new crew has come to the platform, so it's time to get to know new people again. One person are going to stay for 1 more week, but other than that it's all new people on this platform today. Kinda strange not to see a familiar face (more or less)
10 shifts left (more or less) which is the same as 120 hours
Cheers,
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Offshore, Day 2
Posted by Christoffer @ 12 Jun 2006
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Day two is finished and I'm kinda exhausted since it's actually my first day where I've worked for 12 hours. Even if it went nice and it was a relaxing day more or less I can feel it in my body that it's been a long long day.
I feel I understand it more and more now, the work I'm doing and why I'm doing it. It's all to rearrange for something new to come and for something to go away with the supply boats. I guess I'll be more into this before I'm leaving home.
I'm still worried about my strange dreams. They are there everytime I close my eyes, even if they are kinda nice. I like the thoughs and dreams, but they are unknown to me as I've never had dreams or thoughs like this before.
More tomorrow!
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