Name: Cecil Ashitey
My name is Cecil Ashitey and I was born in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I moved to London when I was about 18 months old, and I have lived there ever since!! My family are from Ghana, West Africa and I've been to visit my grandparents, uncles, aunties, cousins, etc. many times. Boy, is the place HOT!!
I'm 22 and have very short black hair and smooth brown skin, slim and 5' 11" tall. My interests are females, football and computer - in that order. I also like to go out to pubs to drink and to nightclubs to PARTY!!!!
My earliest memory was when I was a small toddler, I think I was 1 and I was kicking a football to my mum... I even have the picture, somewhere
When I was living in Huddersfield I was entered into a Beautiful Baby Competition in the local paper and I was one of the 32 finalists. And I have the certificate to prove it!!
I went to a primary school called South Norwood Primary School and it was an OK school... I found out that I was the fastest person in my year and constantly won sports day races.
Apart from that I had a pretty average time... OK... tell a lie x2... I used to fight LOTS. Well, some of the other kids irritated me.. I'm not like that anymore, HONEST!! I also liked to hog the LEGO to myself because I wanted to build the biggest house or car and I needed the ENTIRE collection to do it...
According to my parents, when I was in the fifth or sixth year I did a maths test and got the highest mark in the whole of the London Borough of Croydon. Yeah, right....
Oh yeah, also when I was in Primary school I used to play a game called Knight Riders vs The A-Team. There were two Knight Riders... Naveed and me and about 20 A-Team members. And this was no namby-pamby thing.. we had actual fights...
My next school was high school, Stanley Technical High School. An OK place... some of the teachers there were NUTTERS. I played football all the time there. I wanted to get into the school football team but my parents said I had to pick up my sister from primary school EVERY DAY and seeing as the football matches were after school, it wasn't possible!! Also, because our school's playing area was just solid concrete, we had to play on that. I didn't complain... I prefer playing on concrete.. especially in the soaking rain... but my parents didn't like it when I came home caked in mud and ripped shirts and trousers so they told me not to play. But did I listen to them? NO WAY!!
I also had a talent for computers. Since when I was about 5 or 6, when I got my first computer which was a Commodore Vic-20, I've been programming. My next computer was a BBC Master 128 then a Gameboy and a Super NES. In August 1995 I went on a show called GamesWorld which was shown on SKY One. The day's show was subtitled The Eliminator. This was a computer game show and you played others on computer games in a sort of elimination contest until there is only one left. And I WON!! There was eight people and they had to be reduced to four. So everyone played another in a two-on-two format. I played the first bonus round of Sonic 2. It was pretty even until my opponent ran into a mine towards the end so I won. HAHA!! Next, the four qualifiers played Turbo Toons, a game with Top Cat, Huckleberry Hound, etc racing on a course. I won that and the last person didn't qualify so now there are three. Next up was Earthworm, the warp tunnel bonus round. Get as many blue air bubbles as you can in 30 seconds. So I got 24. A lad called Bradley got 18 and another person got 21 so Bradley didn't qualify. Next up was the final game, Super Street Fighter II on the Megadrive. Since I won the last round, I could pick from Dee Jay and T Hawk. I was going to pick T Hawk because in practice I found him pretty easy to use but Dee Jay is even easier and there is no point in giving the opponent the easy character. So I picked Dee Jay. I won Round 1 easily, should have won Round 2 but threw it away spectacularly and nearly lost Round 3 but with NO ENERGY LEFT I came back and won the Round. Was I relieved!! Phew!! So I won the jacket. So the next day I had to play the winner of another Elimiator to obtain the right to play The Videators. Unfortunately I *cough*lost*cough*, because the game I played was a crap Amiga game called Cash Dash, in which the objective was to get as many coins as possible in 1 minute. The first time we played it we drew with incredibly high scores of 61 so me and my opponent had to film the game again. This time we were neck and neck until about 10 seconds from time when he managed to accelerate away and beat me by 9 coins. AAARRRGGGHH!!! At least I won the Jacket. Check out the pictures from Games World here or check out the Gaming Animal, Dave Perry's account of that day
So now I've just finished Bradford University, studying computers. Hopefully I can get my own job in HTML authoring or system maintenance cos that's what I do best. I still have my SNES, with tons of games for it, my Gameboy with 9 games and now I have a Playstation, with 16 games. My favourite SNES game has to be Street Fighter Alpha 2, even though it's a bit slow... my fave Gameboy game of all time has to be Tetris!! We used to have a Tetris Championship in secondary school where my friend, Ian Davis was first, I was second and Stuart Toal was third. Stuart would challenge me constantly for second place and I'd batter him!! HAHA!! My fave game on my Playstation has to be a toss up between Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3 and Street Fighter Alpha 3. My fave game on Playstation 2 used to be Gran Turismo 3 but is now Capcom vs SNK 2.
My favourite football team is Tottenham Hotspur, who are the BEST team in the world, of course. But I've only gone to one football match in my life, Selhurst Park was the place, (near where I live) to see Wimbledon vs Spurs and we lost 1-0. Boo!! I remember the days when it was Chrissy Waddle and Glenn Hoddle in White Hart Lane carving up the defences of all the old Division 1 teams. We had Ray Clememce (who was good but then again, looking back through the BBC programme, Match of the Eighties, he was a bit of a donkey...), Mitchell Thomas (remember him?), Richard Gough, Ossie Ardiles (Ossie, Ossie, Ossie), Chris Waddle, Glenn Hoddle... even Gary Mabbutt... ahhhh... and we stormed through to the final of the F.A. Cup Final of 1987... but we won't remind you of the score... But I still support Tottenham Hotspur, unlike most Manchester United supporters, I've supported Spurs since I was a boy. Now we've got Robbie Keane, Les Ferdinand, Teddy Sheringham, Neil Sullivan, and Dean Richards and we've won more than Arse-enal!!
Date of Birth: 22nd August, 1977
Place of birth: Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
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Achievements: Appeared on SKY One's "The Eliminator" which is a console game show, and won the day challenge by beating 7 other challengers.
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