| 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.
- 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
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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).
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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.
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In
September I move from the suburbian San Giorgio a Cremano to the
metropolitan Naples, to attend the High School. VII ITIS.
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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.
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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'
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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!
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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.
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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...
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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!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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...
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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
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I
meet Mauro E. and Mimmo P., who were involved in the camp organization,
and become my friends
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I
used to walk around with a bandana (a trendy foulard) on my head...
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I
have a short relashionship with Anna.
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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..
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I'm
second classified with my class team at the school soccer tournament
1992

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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)
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Diploma
with 54/60 at Electronic technical high school
-
Paris
with school mates
-
I
smoke my first cigarette
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I
attend the Holiday Youth Camp in San Giorgio
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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...
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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
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In
September Marianna R. becomes my girlfriend and remains so for 3
months
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I
start Electronic Engineering Course at University
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In
this period I used to go out with my cousin Giacomo and the group
born in the Youth camp: Lina, Marcello, Mauro, Mimmo...
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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.
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Mathematic
Analisys I, Geometry and Linear Algebra exam passed with 27 and
30, Computer Science exam passed at second chance with 24.
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I'll miss Uncle Marco very much.
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Czechoslovakia
with family and Maria and Paolo
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Summer
holydays spent in London with Salvio, Leonardo, Pasquale
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U2
& Velvet Underground Concert when I discover Lou Reed, with
Dario and Antonio T.
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I
win a scholarship and am selected for a job postions for an Italian
Materials Research private Company, but I refuse it
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I
write 'It's not me' about the University twisting up my
mind...
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I
get to know Francesco M. O' Papa
1994
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Summer
holydays spent in Holland & Belgium with Mauro, Gianfranco and
Antonio Torsi
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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
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The book "On
the road" by Jack Kerouac deeply impresses me
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I
change from Electronic to Materials Engineering
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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....
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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

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Lou Reed and The
Velvet Underground become my idols
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Friends
go to London and I refuse to go
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In
March i stop working at fuel station and decide to go straigth in
studiing
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I
spend a week end in Pescasseroli with Alessandro Esposito, Alessandro
Patella and Marco Capolupo
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I
remember i prepared the exam in Materials technologies with Alfonso
Rasulo
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Mr
Montieri used to drive me at University very early in the morning
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Palinuro
with Leonardo and my family
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Valentina
R. becomes my girlfriend
1996
1997

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Write
Thesys in Electrochemistry and Corrosion with Laminazione Sottile
Company
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Portugal
with Valentina,
Bruno & Lia, Gianluca N. & Daniela, Enzo DN & Pasquale
F.
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Graduate
in Materials Engineering with 110/110
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Start
an Internship with National Institute for Nuclear Phisycs
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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
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I
buy my first car: an used VW Passat
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People
from Barilla: Mauro S., Tiziana S., Michele G., Giuseppe Sergio
T., Giovanni T., Silvia C., Gianangelo Z., Nicola G.
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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.
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Amsterdam
for Training on Extrusion
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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
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Leave
Barilla and begin with HP in Rome
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Palinuro
with Mauro, Valentina, Mimmo and many others boicotting the paiment
of the camping...
2001
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Sumemr
holidays in Croatia with Alessandro A., Stefania A., Mauro E., Ginafranco
M., Valentina R.
-
Me
and Valentina split
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