Chronicles

This section tells about my story so far, from the days that I can't remember.

My Seventies 1974 - 1975 - 1976 - 1977 - 1978 - 1979
My Eighties 1980 -1981 - 1982 - 1983 - 1984 - 1985 - 1986 - 1987 - 1988 - 1989
My Ninenties 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999
My Twothousands 2000 - 2001 - diary (2002-2010) - latest (2011)

1974

• I was born on the 15th of September 1974, in Naples (Italy), from Ugo Lapelazzuli and Anna Langella.
  I was given the name of Giovanni.

• My brother Dario was born on the 7th of March 1978.

• I take part and, even if sick, I conquer the first place at one sunday edition of the 'Il Canta Pinocchio', a TV Talent contest show at Canale 21 (a Neapolitan TV broadcaster), singing the song 'La Torre di Pisa'.
• Music & Television

• Music & Television

• Italy wins the World Cup, beating Germany 3 to 1 in the World Championship final in Madrid. This event, with all the fantastic matches Italy played against Brazil and Argentina too represented the beginning of my passion for football (soccer).

• We visited Greece with a big group arranged by my uncle Lello. We stayed in Epidavros, and visited all the ancient archeological sites.

• In June/July I finish the 'scoula media', lower high school, preparing the last exam so intensively that I get ill soon after it. I can remember a part of it, related to the French Revolution.
• In September I move from the suburbian San Giorgio a Cremano to the metropolitan Naples, to attend the High School. VII ITIS.
• Salvatore L., Salvio, a school mate, becomes my best friend. He will remain my best friend and still now he is.
  I can still remenber the first days at high school when I came back very late from the city center, exausted and scared, with a lot of homeworks to do while all my friends were already free to play in out the street.
• SSC Napoli wins its first 'scudetto', with Maradona leading the team. So far but i can remember the joy explosion in the city, and all the parties my parents and friends organized in the street, ith the fireman 'il pompiere' Mr E. organizing the huge fireworks situation in the street down my neighborhood that had to be evaquated! One phrase I remember of Franco, a cousin of my mother and a Napoli big fan: 'Gianni you are so young and so lucky: to watch this happening I had to wait for 30 years'
• Music and Television:

1988

• I take part to one of the trip which will more then everything influence my life and forever remain in my memory: I go to London! South Woodford Queen Mary College....where i meet Giovanni G. who'll become one of my best friends, where I meet my first kinda girlfiend...I can still remember those emotions so deep.
  Always in London, I ate my first Mc Donalds Cheesburger!
• Always in London, I take part to a Talent Contest singing 'Il gatto e la volpe' by E. Bennato, achieving great success. This was the moment, the precise moment, when I started singing as an hobby. Since this moment i never stopped singing.
• I am one of the best students of the classroom. It is during this period that I discover to be good indeed in Maths and Phisycs. I can still remember Prof. Giovanni S., and the Maths Prof. Romano G. who with his teaching methods would make grow in me of of the greatest passions of my life: Mathematics. This passion will be the 'fuel', the driving force behind my fast University career...
• I have a season ticket to watch SSC Napoli and Maradona at San Paolo Stadium: we were me, my father Ugo, Dario sometimes, Franco, Totonno and his son. Mates...the things we have seen you cannot imagine: Diego Armando Maradona, you know, you gave me joy and shoewd to me what I thought could never be one. Why, why, why is this all passed? why memories are the only things remaining and slowly fading away themselvels too? I hope this few lines will help me to never forget!
• Music and Television:

1989

• For the second consecutive year I go to London at the South Woodford Queen Mary College, for a sort of study vacation. Me and Kiki M., a greek girl, become friends; she'll come to visit me in Neaples some years later.
• The school period proceeds very well. I got friends, I'm very good at school...and now also my English speaking level has become very good.
• We spent the summer holidays in Sardegna with friends.
• Again with a season ticket to watch SSC Napoli and Maradona. We won the UEFA Cup, and I watched the semifinals and the final against Bayern Munchen and Stuttgart!

1990

• I attend the Holiday Youth Camp in Barra, where I make a lot of friends from all around Europe (the greeks Antonis, Dimitris, Nico), the Norwegians (Martha, Anne, Inger...), the swedish (Christofer S., Friederic...), the Maltese guys. The camp was organized by the organization Arcobaleno, held by my Uncle Lello; not only the strangers were so close to me but also my cousins Fabio and Giacomo, Pieraldo, Zio Lello and all the other Italians of the team
• I go to Malta with my parents and other youngs (Dario, Paolo, others...) where i meet Paula and Henry
• I love Lucio Dalla music very much. In Malta I found a lost musicassette of Rod Stewart, which will soon become one of my fovourite singers.
• SSC Napoli wins its second scudetto. I remember I was plaiing in the street (precisely in the scuola media open air gymn, when someone from the balcony advised us about the Napoli winning in Bologna and Milan losing in Verona....which would have meant scudetto for us one week later...
• I buy an Elton John vinile record 'Sleeping with the Past' at Giancar, a rugged electronics shop in Piazza Garibaldi, Neaples because i liked the theme of a Martini TV commercial. That was the beginning of one of the biggest love of my life.....

1991

• I attend the Holiday Youth Camp in San Giorgio a Cremano
• I meet Mauro E. and Mimmo P., who were involved in the camp organization, and become my friends
• I used to walk around with a bandana (a trendy foulard) on my head...
• I have a short relashionship with Anna.
• Norway, Sweden & Denmark with a camper with my family and Maria, Marco and Paolo. In Sweden we meet the N. Family; Frida, Emma and their parents. In Oslo we are hosted at lunch by Torill L..
• I'm second classified with my class team at the school soccer tournament

1992

• My classroom conquers the first place at the soccer school championship: i score 2 of the 3 goals of my team in the final match!(one of them was kicked from midfield)
• Diploma with 54/60 at Electronic technical high school
• Paris with school mates
• I smoke my first cigarette
• I attend the Holiday Youth Camp in San Giorgio
• Daniela D. N. becomes my girlfiend and remains my girlfriend for about 3 months. We split also because she did not like my 2 earings...
• I go to London on my own in August to search for a job. I reside in an apartment in Vauxhall Bridge and I make a lot of friends (Chierchia...and his friends) and have great fun in London's nightlife. I'm completely in love with London
• I'm 18
• In September Marianna R. becomes my girlfriend and remains so for 3 months
• I start Electronic Engineering Course at University
• In this period I used to go out with my cousin Giacomo and the group born in the Youth camp: Lina, Marcello, Mauro, Mimmo...
• I spend a brief period frequenting Manlio: I remember him as a very nice and funny guy

1993

• I start singing in a Rock band with Emiliano, Ciro, Michele, Gianluca and later on Antonino: we are the Mr Bloom.
• I write 'Hi-Fi Addict', my masterpiece.
• We play our first gigs at 'Taverna Baccus' in San Giorgio a Cremano, where we gain great success and popularity.
• Mathematic Analisys I, Geometry and Linear Algebra exam passed with 27 and 30, Computer Science exam passed at second chance with 24.
• I'll miss Uncle Marco very much.
• Czechoslovakia with family and Maria and Paolo
• Summer holydays spent in London with Salvio, Leonardo, Pasquale
• U2 & Velvet Underground Concert when I discover Lou Reed, with Dario and Antonio T.
• I win a scholarship and am selected for a job postions for an Italian Materials Research private Company, but I refuse it
• I write 'It's not me' about the University twisting up my mind...
• I get to know Francesco M. O' Papa

1994

• Summer holydays spent in Holland & Belgium with Mauro, Gianfranco and Antonio Torsi
• I go out often with Mr Bloom, and the places I am most are the Neapolitan historical center and Officina 99
• I start attending Associazione culturale Libera Azione, where I meet Francesca, Valentina, Marco, Alessandro A., Ale E. & Ale P. and many others
• This was my very bohemiene period: I went out every night, met a lot of people all the time, acquiring a sort of popularity because of the band... I was Gianni Complimenti
• With Gianfranco and Mauro, I conduct a radio show ‘Restiamone Fuori’ from the Radio Spaccanapoli Sound studios, every Monday afternoon
• The book "On the road" by Jack Kerouac deeply impresses me
• I change from Electronic to Materials Engineering
• I start working with Giovanni at his gas station; this happened in November or October...and went through the new year, 1995, until approximately March....
• I hear 'walk on the Wild side' by Lou Reed on a collection tape edited by La Repubblica...that voice got me interested...and this was the start af a passion which really changed my soul and being and deeply influenced the upcoming years....

1995

• Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground become my idols
• Friends go to London and I refuse to go
• In March i stop working at fuel station and decide to go straigth in studiing
• I spend a week end in Pescasseroli with Alessandro Esposito, Alessandro Patella and Marco Capolupo
• I remember i prepared the exam in Materials technologies with Alfonso Rasulo
• Mr Montieri used to drive me at University very early in the morning
• Palinuro with Leonardo and my family
• Valentina R. becomes my girlfriend

1996

• Summer Holidays in Paris, Rue de Buci thanks to Hugette

1997

• Write Thesys in Electrochemistry and Corrosion with Laminazione Sottile Company
• Portugal with Valentina, Bruno & Lia, Gianluca N. & Daniela, Enzo DN & Pasquale F.
• Graduate in Materials Engineering with 110/110
• Start an Internship with National Institute for Nuclear Phisycs
• I get to know I've been selected by Barilla Alimentare as a food technology researcher

1998

• I move to Foggia and begin to work for Barilla
• Winner of the Award “Mario M. Jacopetti” by Rotary Club, for the best Degree Thesis in Electrochemistry of the year 199
• I buy my first car: an used VW Passat
• People from Barilla: Mauro S., Tiziana S., Michele G., Giuseppe Sergio T., Giovanni T., Silvia C., Gianangelo Z., Nicola G.
• Nottingham at University Campus for a Course on Food technology
• It is in Nottingham, in a record shop, that saw this magazine's cover with Jarvis Cocker. I thought that buying the Pulp 'This is hardcore' album would be a ggod idea. That was the beginnig of my idolatry for Pulp.
• Amsterdam for Training on Extrusion
• Ireland with Valentina, Bruno & Lia

1999

• Previously tested on xoom.it and then registered as digilander.iol.it/lapelazzuli, the first version of my personal website makes its first steps on the net. It will evolve to Lapelazzuli.com in 2002.
• Publications: C. Sinagra, A. Atienza, R. Zocchi , G. Lapelazzuli, L. De Rosa, et Al. “Corrosione e Protezione dell’Alluminio” Alluminio Magazine, 1, 34, (1999).

2000

• Leave Barilla and begin with HP in Rome
• Palinuro with Mauro, Valentina, Mimmo and many others boicotting the paiment of the camping...

2001

• Sumemr holidays in Croatia with Alessandro A., Stefania A., Mauro E., Ginafranco M., Valentina R.
• Me and Valentina split