Hello thar, Newgrounders. Last week was the Newgrounds London Meet. Here's how things went down.

Day 1
It was to my delight that there was a Japanese takeaway thingy in Birmingham's Bullring so I could have some yummy eel on rice for my lunch before getting on my train to London. Once there, I made my way to the London Eye where I met up with the lovely Thea and her boyfriend. After dropping my crap off at the hotel, we walked around aimlessly for a good while trying to find something they wanted to do. Apparently Canadian's aren't very decisive. We ended up doodling for a little while on the grass, before dragging her over to Namco Station, on the off-chance that we wouldn't go there the next day. Despite the lure of various arcade funneries, they seemed to be most interested in those 10p droppy thingies, but I eventually dragged Thea onto the dodgems where we delightfully bashed into several people, even seeing one girl nearly whacking her head on the floor when we rammed her in the side. Afterwards we looked for something to have for dinner, hoping to give them a taste of England but somehow ending up with...hot dogs.

After that, we made our way over to the White Swan and Cuckoo in Wapping where the Meetup was officially starting. Oh the amusement on people's faces when I approached the pub wearing my sexy Luis goggles, the bemusement on Luis' face when he saw me wearing them, and the raised eyebrow on my face when I notice there were no leather sofas anymore. The night involved a bit of karaoke, a bit of pool, and the Newgrounds debut of Raving Rabbids Jungle Speed (which I purchased from France.) After a night of fun, the next day awaiteth.

Day 2
Spent the morning potting around the Waterloo/Embankment area, playing a lil spot of crazy golf and popping into Yo! Sushi for lunch. At 1-o-clock, all the NGers started to gather round the London Eye. Several returnees appeared including Eddsworld, TomSka, Eddache and more. With rain starting to poke its head, as if God himself thought that moving the meet to Hyde Park was a shit idea, we headed for Namco Station and made ourself comfortable in the basement area. There was much boozing and conversation to have, some bowling with me, Thea, Eddache and his wife Alison and even a little impressions fun.

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Was admittedly a bit tense when Weebl showed up from the blue, having not seen him since he sacked me, but it eased up along the way. After saying goodbye to Thea, who had to go see a musical, we returned to the White Swan, where an entertaining pool match of fail starring Eddache and Alison against Weebl and Zictor (Weebl lost and Tom made sure to point it out). Also had some takeaway from Pizza Express which was yummies. As the night died down and all the popular kids buggered off, I returned to my Travelodge where I watched the endings to Goldeneye and Watchmen.

Day 3
Not really part of the NG Meet anymore since everyone had pretty much gone home at this point, but I had a little potter around the Leicester Square area. I ended up buying some weird Fanta Slime stuff, had a look in M&m's World (my mood colour is MegaMix, hell yeah) and had some duck and dumplings for lunch before going to see Arrietty in glorious British dub. With that, I bid London adieu.

And not a moment sooner apparently, given all those riot reports we've been getting this week. Embarrassingly I was mostly oblivious until someone explained to me why my internet suddenly slowed down to a crawl. I just never found news interesting, okay? Anyhoo, photos from the meetup can be found here.

So in terms of flash stuff, I am currently working with Tomska animating the next asdfmovie installment. Based on the skits I've done so far, this has been one of the most fun things to animate in recent history and is something to look forward to.

Also of interest is this recently surfaced ad thingy me and Akira the Don made. He did the drawings and narration whilst I did animation and backgrounds.

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Be sure to follow me on my new Youtube channel, http://youtube.com/WonchopAnimation

Til next time.