We went for a walk to London's China town yesterday to check out the chinese new year. It was quite fun except for the fact that we waited for about 45 minutes in a queue to get to a restaurant for lunch just to be told by a

It is funny how quickly ones mood can change. I feel generally pretty good, I could even say very good considering I'm overall on my 8th cycle of chemo, completening a whole treatment year ago and 2 cycles into treatment for my relapse, on my chemo drugs no 4 and 5. I cant see inside me so as loong as I cant feel any pain I feel pretty happy. The met on my sculp has shrunk for now so its kind ofok for now.

 Last few days I started having some pains in my lung again and it funny how quickly it makes you depressed again. I got my ct scan booked after next cycle of chemo and i'm bit worried to see the results even though my x-ray few weeks ago indicated no major changes since I started my last treatment.

We'll see. 2 years ago my consultunt was telling me that the chemo that I'll have is the most intensive chemo around and now with my 2nd treatmet/different chemo I know what he ment because even though every chemo is shit, including the one that I'm doing now, it's nowhere as hard as the last one. Problem is that because the "strongest" chemo didn't sort me out for long the one I'm doing now is suppose to do even less. Still, I'm buying myself some time. I was supposed to be pretty much dead by Easter if I didn't do anything and now I believe I can stick around for bit longer than  that.

The sun is shining in London again and I'm sitting at home but tomorrow is the chineese new year so I'm looking forward to go to Soho and see what they get up to.

It made me smile. Week after admitting possession of drugs in Ealing court, the mini star P Doherty, from a band babyshambeles (don't worry if you never heard of it, you are not the only one), was back in court for the same thing again This time the judge kept him in . About time, waste of space "star". I never heard any of his music anywhere the only reason people know him is because of his ex kate moss.

B. Gates gave $600mil for figting TBC. I would be more impressed if he gave it for cancer research but I guess that would be bi selfish from me.Still goo to see that all the money we are giving him can do some good

well, that much for my todays bitching session 

It made me smile. Week after admitting possession of drugs in Ealing court, the mini star P Doherty, from a band babyshambeles (don't worry if you never heard of it, you are not the only one), was back in court for the same thing again This time the judge kept him in . About time, waste of space "star". I never heard any of his music anywhere the only reason people know him is because of his ex kate moss.

B. Gates gave $600mil for figting TBC. I would be more impressed if he gave it for cancer research but I guess that would be bi selfish from me.Still goo to see that all the money we are giving him can do some good

well, that much for my todays bitching session 

I'm a windows user, I need simple user friendly OS and with windows XP i think I got it. (definitely the most stable windows since 3.1 in my opinion). Every now and then I get tepted by one of the many Lice CDs to have a look into the world of unix. Usualy I get dissapointed as most of my hardware is not picked up (i.e. I could get internet going with knoppix) and my unix knowledge is 0 so I can't fix it up. I was plesantly surprised to find that the latest Ubuntu Live CD picked up everything and my internet was warking without me touching anything. So I'm temted again to buy an older pc adn run in on unix based system such as Ubuntu.

The best thing for me would be probably to split my hard drive but its too full to do that so that will not work at the moment. The thing is I don't even know why I want to change. My windows costs me nothing as it cam pre installed and its working 100%. All my applications are runing fine and my antivirus and firewall is doing the job. My windows doesn't crash and with script blocking extention in Firefox I feelI'm secured eough for what I need. I feel like if I change from windows I would spend most of my time trying to figure and fix things out.

Still temted by the unix world though...

They say that the whale was probably sick and doomed before it swam up the thames to London. Anyway, looking at the picture I took when they were taking it out I reckon even a healthy whale would have a trouble surviving being lift up on two places like that.

I'm still feeling ok, yesterday I had a first sign of the pain in my spine which always happens when my stem cell boosting injections finaly start working so I think my white blood count is slowly picking up. I hope it is, because, I just had the last injection this morning. Ths time next week I should be having my 3rd cycle of chemo.

It seems like the cold weather from Moscow has arrived to London. At least its sunny again. I felt pretty energetic today and it looks like my blood is gettting better again. I got one good week now until I'm due for another cycle of chemo. I worked on my website, and the blog, a bit today, didn't change anything just fix few broken links etc.

It was a fun Saturday afternoon. I've never managed to see a whale while i lived in South Africa but I've seen it after all.. I would never think it was to be in London river Thames. Check some pics at www.robdian.co.uk

It looked like a whole London was watching it. Pitty about the sad end, I'm sure everybody would like the whale to survive.

I felt pretty good considering that my white blood cell count is right down to 0. I'm still managing not to pick up any infections and other tha that all the side effects of chemo have worn off, except the few milimeters of my hair that are still on my head keep on falling down and making all my clothes ich around the neck.

I'm doing exactly the same thing as I did 2 years ago when I started this blog. Just had another cycle of chemo and I'm lying around trying not to get any infection and watching some movies, siting on the net etc. The good thing is that I'm still here and I have a very good year behind me the bad thing is that the time is ticking and I feel like I'm wasting it a bit. It's cold dark all the time and the chemo makes me tired so there isn't a lot of action happening, also my wife is at work all the time and doing things on my own are not as lot of fun. Well, there is my todays moaning session.

Im waiting for the bed in hospital to start my second cycle of my second chemo treatment. Since last time the first ccle worked better then I expected and the bump on my head has shrunk quite a bit. So at least some good news. The side effects were not as bed as with my first chemo treatment 2 years ago and suprisingly I managed to stay away from hospital while my imunity/white blood count went down to 0.

I hope I can do that after the second cycle as well. The weather is shit and I'm at home most of the time which feels like a waste of time considering that I'm supposed to have only month to live...

Anyway, I'm looking forward to go somwhere bit later on maybe in march or so. Also I'm pretty excited as I got for christmas a drive in a supercar (lamborgini Gollardo) and a flight in a hot air baloon with my wife. Unfortunately both these thing only start from April when the weather gets better so at least one more reason to keep fit.