I’ve been playing alot of GTA the past few days. And so have lot of other people! Every single person signed in to Xbox Live on my friends list has been either playing GTA or was set to away the past few days (well except for Mike who just plays COD4 all the time).

Tuesday 29th (Launch Day)

1pm - 2pm
Went to my mate Brian’s apartment for lunch and got to see GTA first hand for the very first time. Gave it a bash and was amazed by the level of detail and sheer scope of the game.

5pm - 3:30am
Left work early as I came in early. Got home at around 5pm and put the disc straight in as soon as I could turn off the gaff’s alarm. Played solidly hour after hour letting Ali have a tiny go here or there. I progressed through the single player and also gave multiplayer a bash with my homies of choice, Metonym, SenatorWilliams and Zyg0t3 (thats Paddy, Rhys and Damo to the non nerds). Damo and Paddy left multiplayer and it was just myself and Rhys. We went back to playing single player while leaving our headsets on so we could still talk to eachother! Then all of a sudden BANG! it was 3:30am! Felt a bit guilty about my sleep patterns so went to bed. All in all got off the couch about three or four times. Once to reheat lasagne and the others were toilet breaks.

Wednesday 30th

9am - 5pm
Could not stop thinking about playing GTA. It effected my work performance and the ability to program in PHP.

5:30pm - 9:30pm
Played solidly when I got home from work. Started with some multiplayer with Paddy, then onto single player. Gave Ali a go while I made some pasta. We called over to Paddy’s and said hello. We both agreed it was wierd seeing eachother in person as we’ve just been “gang banging” together the past few days (that sounds pretty dirty!). Paddy and Damo started a multiplayer session and we legged it home to join

11pm - 3am
Rushed home from Paddy’s and jumped into Free Roam mode for about an hour. The lads went to bed at around midnight so I carried on myself and progressed through the single player story. Managed to get quite far too, unlocked a new Island, went to a comedy club and watched a three minute Ricky Gervais comedy sketch! Ha! Stand up comedy in a video game, where else would you find something like that other than GTA!

Thats it for the moment! Going to rush straigh home from work and meet up with Rhys on the streets of Liberty City.

WOW! I own a copy of GTA IV! Fansastic! Its a pity I’m stuck in work for the next 8 hours with the game staring me in the face! I usually find it extremely difficult getting out of bed in the morning! But this morning was a completely different story! Jumped straight out of bed and legged it down to Gamestop in Dun Laoghaire in a matter of seconds! Got down there at around 07:50 and there was about 15 people in the queue outside the shop ahead of me, then at 8am they opened the doors to us and we walked in in an orderly fashion. One lad behind me in the queue didn’t have a copy pre-ordered and I overheard the shop guy telling them politely to go away!

So goodbye world. I’ll be working during the day and playing GTA IV during the night! If you need to contact me, buy an Xbox 360, a copy of GTA IV and you’ll find me online!

I just found this video on youtube! Wow is all I can say!

Some of you might know that I’m mental for the video games and one of the greatest games in the past 10 years is out tomorrow. The game of course is Grand Theft Auto: IV. Its the game that lets you steal cars, deal drugs, recieve entertainment from ladies of the night, assasinate, run over and beat up pedestrians, explore, and all other activities that result in severe mass destruction and chaos. I’ve been preparing for this game for the past few days and been looking forward to it for three years.

Yesterday I made a lasagne and divided it up into four portions and lashed them in the freezer. Also, I have about three chicken dishes in there too. One of which is made by Ali as I swaped one of my lasagne portions for his chicken saté dish.

I dont plan on cooking dinner for at least a week and perhaps next sunday I’ll make two big dinners to do me for the following week, that is if it doesnt impact my playing time.

I’ve just set up my pc in work with some nice wallpapers so that my colleagues in here know how mental I am for this game. Check it out on the right!

Gamestop will be opening early at 8am tomorrow morning to sell the game, so I’ll make my way down at around 7:30 or so incase there is a bit of a queue. Its a pity I havent taken tomorrow off work as I’ll have the copy of the game staring me in the face while I’m in work. I dont know how much sleep I’ll be getting over the next few weeks but it is definately worth it.

Is anyone else getting the game? If so let us know! We’re getting the Xbox 360 version so if you get that too share your gamertag with us so we can play online.

Its the morning of our long weekend and we’ll be leaving Gaffbhala pretty soon! We’re heading up to the river shannon for a canal boaty cruise! When you are stuck in work this afternoon just think of the fun that Trish, Aily, Ali, Grum, Wig and I are having! Even the rain wont stop us having a great weekend! We’ll be back on Monday! Whoop! FOUR DAY WEEKEND!

I’ve created Citybhala!

Each different click will improve Citybhala!

Everyone help it evolve!

On friday Wig bought Mario Mart Wii! Its so much fun! Its the latest game we’ve been playing in the house and its been on the telly non stop since wig got it! You basically control the kart by moving you hands like you would with any steering wheel! kinda like the way girls play car games, but this time moving the contoller around the place actually is useful!

So if you have a Wii and want to play with us online here’s our friend code!

Friend Code: 2320-6275-3732

If you know me then I guess you know I love to make music. Its pretty hard not to notice the amount if instruments and gear around gaffbhala. I like to keep my own stuff nice and simple, melodic and fun. Some tunes took a few hours and some a few days. Here’s some tunes I made when I was unemplyed for that magical month and a half :p

After That

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Heavy

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Walk in the Park

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Here’s some stuff from when I was meant to be studying for my finals in college

I Should be Working

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This is Getting Serious

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Let me know what ya think and I can’t wait to make some more

Wow! Thanks to everyone for coming to our good friday party It was the biggest yet and it was so much fun! There was a really good vibe and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves! My favourite moments were; the giant creme egg, the chocolate fountain misshap, shaking hands with Niall Carol for about 10 minutes and last but by no means least the wave of people bouncing up and down to Micheal Jackson in the sitting room!

Ohh and a guy fell asleep on the stairs with a cardboard box on his lap with his head resting on it! Most origional sleeping position EVER! All in all we all hope you enjoyed the night! It felt a bit like an Andrews reunion too which was great as I havent seem some of the people who came for ages!

The gaff was in a right state the next day! The floor was manky, there was shitloads of cans and bottles everywhere and Wig’s rug turned an ever deeper darker shade of brown!

Major thanks to everyone who helped clean! Especially Paddy and Damo! Damo got some shots of what the place looked like the next day and during Operation Cleanup! Check them out!

Here’s a video of my just out of bed walking downstairs and generally accepting the state of the place…

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This evening Grum, Wig and I went to Dunnes to get some supplies for our Good Friday Party I took some pics when we got back to get ye all excited for the fun times ahead!

Whoop! Can’t wait!