Jus' 'Cos

Halfway through my placement!

2012-01-29T01:12:00.002Z

I've finished at one company and now moving on to the next. I've been meaning to blog but I barely have enough time to sleep! I'm working 9-6 during the week then Arsenal at the weekend means I only get one day off! Welcome to the working world Sarah! Gotta say not looking forward to real life after university.

There's so much I want to tell you but also so much I can't as I'm working for a television company and can't disclose an awful lot. I will fill you in on as much of the deets as I can when I've finished both. Got that nervous feeling all over again as it's back to square one at a brand new place. Wish me luck for Monday!

So it's 3:20 am...

2012-01-16T03:27:00.002Z

...on the eve of my placement. Although I guess its not the 'eve' anymore as it's the morning. I have had a good Christmas holiday break which has involved me becoming rather nocturnal and going to bed at 4am. I tried to got to bed at half 12 and thought this would work as I only had 6 hours sleep last night.

But no such luck.

I've got up out of bed, taken an anti histamine and tumbl'd for a bit waiting for the tablets to kick in and my eyes to go droopy. I'm not sure if this will work.

I'm just quite nervous. Funny thing is I'm not even really thinking about tomorrow. I have been all day but now I'm just thinking about every single other thing under the sun. My mind is just super active. Annoyingly always seems to be when I get into bed and hit the lights. Even after I'm falling asleep reading my book. I also can't get my recently played iPod playlist out of my head. Going round and round and round and I haven't even listened to music since this afternoon.

Does anyone have any tips on how to get to sleep? Sometimes mine work but I get in such a state/panic/crankyness that sometimes I get tipped over the edge and stay up all night. Its also, 9 times out of 10, when I have work in the morning.

I just need to relax I know. But then I start listening to my heartbeat, which as Fleetwood Mac quite aptly put, drives me mad.

I guess I'm just going to go back to bed and hope for the best. Wish me luck for tomorrow. I'll try and pop back and update you on my progress of the working world in the nations media capital.

When does dating move on to relationship status?

2012-01-05T23:11:00.002Z

For those of you who read my new years eve post you'll know that I got to kiss a certain someone at midnight. Those of you who have been around for a while will know I've been on a sort of 'man mission'.

In this post I'm going to clear up the mystery for you.

I have a man in my life. We've been friends for quite a while now and I've been crushing on him, on and off, for too long now ~~years~~. I just thought that was the way it would always be. Until a few weeks ago. He let me know he was serious in a not so subtle way. I told myself to ignore my initial instinct of pushing people away and allow myself to be swept off my feet. And boy did he sweep.

December saw a lot of texting and cute Christmas kisses and dates. I guess you would define this as 'seeing each other' or 'dating'. It wasn't until today however, our 3rd date in my eyes and 4th to his, that we discussed our situation. I say discussed but it was more of a:

"So are we dating?"
"Yes"
"Does that mean I get to be your boyfriend?"
"Yes, if you want to be"
"Can I call you my girlfriend?"
"Yes"
*Cue lots of blushing and smiling*

So there you have it. I guess there is no real answer to the question of how you move to being in a relationship. I guess it's just how you feel together and luckily we're in the same place. Did I mention how awesome it feels to finally nab someone you've fancied for agesss? No? Oh, well it feels Epic!

I'm going to be annoyingly happy for a while now. Apologies.

I've got the boy, now all I need is the body. Hello Dukan :)

It's 2012!

2012-01-01T20:40:00.002Z

Happy New Year to all my followers and readers! How did you all celebrate? If at all?

I actually hate New Years Eve because I find its the biggest let down of the year. The night is so hyped up that you feel like it you're not doing something your missing out and if you are, you're spending shed loads of money. However, if you do get it right, New Years Eve can be pretty awesome. Annoyingly I'm going to say that my New Years Eve was just that: awesome.

I spent the first part of my evening with one of my best friends Deanna singing along to Nickelback "Today Was Your Last Day" one of my favourite songs and quite fitting for the occasion. Then off to the pub to meet some other friends.

First time I've ever been out out, i.e pub or club, on NYE. It was actually a lot cheaper than I thought it would be. Fiver to get in which is reasonable and they had a live band, though they were a bit rubbish. Drinks were reasonable prices as well. Which was the problem as I drank a little too much! But not before it hit 12 o'clock and I got to welcome in the new year. My midnight celebrations were actually the best ever. I actually got to seal the new years celebrations with a kiss! I know right, me? First time ever! && it wasn't just any old person either, it was with someone pretty special. But that's another story!

I'm quite hopeful for 2012, I think it could be a really great year. I've got some goals rather than resolutions. One of them is to read 75 books. I sadly didn't meet my quota of 50 for 2011 but I'm going to be a book worm from now on. These are the books I read in 2011 in chronological order. The ones highlighted I recommend:

The Fry Chronicles - Stephen Fry
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khalid Hossini
High Five (Stephanie Plum series) - Janet Evanovich
Darkly Dreaming Dexter- Jeff Lindsey
Dearly Devoted Dexter-Jeff Lindsey
Dexter in the Dark-Jeff Lindsey
Hot Six (Stephanie Plum series) - Janet Evanovich
The Lovely Bones-Alice Sebold
Life and Laughing - Michael McIntyre
Dexter by Design - Jeff Lindsey
Seven Up(Stephanie Plum series)- Janet Evanovich
I heart Paris - Lindsey Kelk
Dead Reckoning - Charlaine Harris
The Truth about Melody Browne - Lisa Jewell
Lover Mine - J.R Ward
Winter Girls - Laurie Halse
The Single Girls To Do List - Lindsey Kelk
Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shephard
The Lost Symbol- Dan Brown
The C-Word - Lisa Lynch
Percy Jackson and The Lightening Thief - Rick Riordan
Flawless - Sara Shephard
Really Really Big Questions - Dr Stephen Law
Macmillan book of Greek gods and heroes - Alice Low
Tickling The English - Dara O Briain
Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan
L.A Candy - Lauren Conrad
Perfect - Sara Shephard
Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth - Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian - Rick Riordan
Hard Eight (Stephanie Plum series) - Janet Evanovich
To The Nines (Stephanie Plum series) - Janet Evanovich
Confessions of a Conjurer - Derren Brown
Twilight - Stephenie Meyer
Unbelievable - Sara Shephard
Full Moon Rising - Keri Arthur
The Weekend- Christopher Pike

I hope 2012 brings you all happiness and great things :)

Got that Christmas feeling?

2011-12-15T23:50:00.002Z

It's December! Oh my Gosh!

I know I'm a little late in posting this as its already the 15th of December but hey, I still can't believe it. This years gone so quick! 2011 is almost over and Christmas is nearly here!

Even though it may not completely feel like Christmas yet, I've certainly dived into the Christmas festivities. I've already had two, yes Two, Christmas dinners and even opened some early presents.

It all started on the 4th of December when I celebrated Christmas in Brighton. This was a very early celebration yes but there are justifiable reasons behind it. This was the last weekend I would be in Brighton as I was working on the 10th and being the traditionalists that we are, we wanted our roast dinner to be on a Sunday. So on the 4th December 2011 it was Christmas Day at Team Bevendean!

My housemate Meinas came into my room in the morning like an excited little child to wish me a Merry Christmas. We then spent the day cleaning and sprucing up the house, wrapping our secret santa presents. I then got ready, wearing red and green for the occasion and we started preparing dinner.

Whilst cooking dinner we had my exceptional Christmas playlist on my iPod which really got us in the mood. Although Leah and I cooked most of the dinner, it was a real team effort and we actually had a system going on in our little kitchen. With the few hours we had spare whilst everything was cooking, Dave and I made some fake snow and decorated the room.

It was then time for Secret Santa! Can you believe we managed to keep it hidden for a good month! Last year in halls my flat mates and I kept it secret for about half an hour!

I was very pleased with my present and got exactly what I wanted from my wonderful fellow virgo Meinas! A Rob Pattinson calendar and Paris Hilton's new perfume was just what I needed :)

Then pop the champers all over the floor, dish up and you've got Christmas dinner! It was yummy :)

Then Love Actually on a very full stomach and that concluded Christmas number one!

Christmas number two was last weekend!

Saturday was Christmas drinks at work which were really fun. After the match we went out to the local pub and I got to have a proper chat with everyone for a change. It was my first ever Christmas event/outing for work. They really made me feel like part of the team and I had a really good time. Looking forward to end of the season drinks now!

Sunday was the annual Christmas exchange with our family friends. This is always fun as I get an early Christmas present bag as well as presents to open on Christmas day! Not only this but another Christmas dinner! I had a good catch up and giggle with one of my oldest friends, who I call my cousin as we grew up together and I think we should really make more of an effort to see each other outside this family do's.

Everyone got very merry and quite emotional as its been a tough year. People can forget that Christmas can be a sad time, especially when you think about the people that should be there.

Now it'll be a week to the real Christmas on Saturday! Crazy huh? It's actually a week to Christmas Eve tomorrow, which I kind of prefer. All the Christmas films, programmes and songs all happen on Christmas Eve. It's the anticipation and excitement for the next day that make it great! I'll actually be working Christmas Eve, feeling excited all day, hoping Santa will bring me what I want :)

&& What do I want for Christmas?
*cue Mariah Carey*

Some snow would be nice.

I actually can't decide but if I'm good hopefully I'll get lucky :)

Merry Christmas!

The Darkness

2011-11-28T02:06:00.000Z

Another gig post! This time it was The Darkness at the Hammersmith Apollo. In all my adolescent years of going to gigs I'd never actually been to this venue before (well I have for comedy but that was seated upstairs.)

I was impressed with the venue. I wasn't as big as I thought it would be. It looks bigger on TV. It was a nice size downstairs and very similar to O2 academy in Brixton; one of my favourite venues. I was really surprised by the crowd at the gig. Most crowds are usually split quite evenly with the ratio of men and women, about 50/50. This gig however was 70/30 men and women and about 50% of the men were around my dads age. I quite liked it as it felt like I was at an old rockers gig.

I went with my usual gig buddy Deanna. We went out for dinner at Yo Sushi at Westfields then went on to Hammersmith. We missed the first support act and caught about a song of the second. They weren't very good so we decided to gossip in the toilets and catch up on what had been happening in each others lives until they finished.

The Darkness came on around quarter past 9 after the crowd were warmed up singing along to 'The Boys Are Back In Town' by Thin Lizzy over the stereo. Then the lights went down and the show began.

And what a show.

It was a really really good gig. One of the best I've been to. Despite the fact we had some tall people in front of us for the majority (this is what happens when there are too many men at a gig) we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We were quite near the front but farther back enough to see the whole stage and have a good view. They really got the crowd going and the lights, the fire and fireworks were spectacular. They played the classics that everyone loved and even some new songs on their new album coming out next year. As its nearly December they also played their Christmas song with red and green lighting and fake snow!

Then it was the encore and something amazing happened.

Brian May came on stage and played with The Darkness! Yes, the legend lead guitarist from Queen rocked out with The Darkness and those of us lucky enough to be at the Hammersmith Apollo that night. I couldn't believe it, I felt so honoured to be able to witness and hear him play live on stage. He played with them for three songs and then it was time for The Darkness to close the show.

During their last song Justin Hawkins (the lead singer) hopped on to the shoulders of two bouncers and played guitar through the crowd. I thought it was so cool and instantly envied everyone lucky enough to be near him. Then he started coming to our side of the room and I said to Deanna "Be ready to run". However, just as I said this, he changed direction and was heading directly for us! I didn't know what to do! Take pictures? Scream? I stood motionless until he reached us.

Then it happened.

I went mad. Turned into such a fan girl. Something in my brain switched and all I could do in that moment was touch him. He was wearing a very glam rock outfit. Silver, shinny spandex, covering his legs and a thin strap over his shoulders with some frilly black feathery bits on the side; exposing his chest and back.

I ran my hands all over him. Starting from his nipple and down to his hip bone. I couldn't get enough of him and just kept rubbing my hands up and down, feeling his bare skin and the frilly feathers beneath my fingertips. He continued past me, onto Deanna and she had her feel. Realising I still had time for one last touch, I made the most of it and slapped his arse.

Me and Deanna watched as he moved further away from us, jaws completely dropped. It took a mili second for it to sink in and then we turned to each other and jumped up and down with glee. We then rubbed our hands all over our faces and ourselves so Justin left his mark, hugged, high fived, then hugged again.

We left the venue exhilarated that we had not only seen a brilliant come back show from The Darkness but also had the pleasure of seeing Brian May and molesting Justin Hawkins. I've never touched a celebrity like that before and probably never will. Sod having a picture with him, I wouldn't of been able to do what I did if I had.

As the show finished Justin Hawkins said to tell our friends that The Darkness are back and here I am telling you all. I can't wait for the tour of the new album :)

Breaking Dawn: Part 1

2011-11-20T01:10:00.000Z

I've actually been a rubbish Twihard this year. With the previous films I was following updates on all stages of production, counting down until the film was released, listening to the soundtrack weeks before. I don't know whether its because I've not been in the Twilight bubble for a while or whether I've been busy with uni and other things but I hadn't done any of those things this year leading up to the film. In some respects this was quite nice as everything was a nice surprise and I could enjoy the film for what it was without any preconceptions. I am gutted though that I missed the premier and it was in my back yard! Although I may not have been as manic leading up to the film, I sure was excited when it came to making our way to the cinema.

Like any Twihard I had my tickets pre booked for the midnight showing. Kitted out in Team Edward tee. Back Row. Middle. Sorted. Alongside my fellow die hard Twihard and best friend Raji :) We've been to all the films together. Its a tradition now. One that will sadly end next July with the last film :(

We spent the whole day together catching up in London town. (I was back home for reading week) Then off to Twilight at 11. We actually screamed walking to the train station when it sunk in we were actually going to see Twilight on the screen. When we took our seats in A17 and 18 the magic began. As the trailers kicked off I text everyone interested in Twilight and the haters about where I was and put it on most social media forms. Then the magic happened.

The film was epic. I know I always get swept away by the magic that my favourite books are being played out in front of me and love them no matter what the first time I see it. However I do genuinely think this is the best film. I was a bit sceptical about it being in two parts and thought they were just copying Harry Potter and trying to rinse as much money as they could. It is good that its in two parts though as its not rushed and a lot of detail from the book is still included. The long awaited Sex is pretty good too. RPattz looked very hot! I don't want to reveal too much (though the trailer does that already) so I'll leave it there. We left the cinema at 2am being the first people to see it ever (well we beat the Americans to it anyway).

I headed back to Brighton the next day and then watched it again with my anxious housemates. Twice in 24 hours. It was so worth it. I'll be seeing it again at least one more time with my mum as I got her into Twilight and we've been to all the films together. So I shall leave you on a happy note that it was amazing and I cannot wait for the next instalment! Team Edward!

p.s. I bought this t-shirt before they were ever in the UK. Shipped it all the way from the USA.

Thats a Twihard :)

New Music

2011-11-12T20:00:00.000Z

I've acquired some new albums this week. I seem to get all new music in bulk. The new albums I've been listening to are:

Kelly Clarkson

Stronger

Fave songs

"Hello"

"You can't win"

Deaf Havana

Fools And Worthless Liars

"I'm A Bore, Mostly"

"The Past Six Years"

Ed Sheeran

"Give Me Love"

"Lego House"

Avril Lavigne

Goodbye Lullaby

"Push"

"Wish You Were Here"

All really really really good. I heard a couple of songs from pretty much each album but I always like to get the whole album than just the odd single. They're all really good. You know when you get an album and you literally like every song on it? Yeah, thats what I have with All of them. I've always been a fan of Kelly Clarkson and she has not disappointed this time around. Deaf Havana I'm adding to my list of good bands. There was a lot of hype about Ed Sheeran but I hadn't really paid attention to it. He strangely featured in one of my dreams last week out of the blue and thought why don't I listen to him? He's really really talented and I can understand the hype. I was reluctant to listen to Avril Lavigne's album as her single 'What The Hell' just seemed like a bit of a sell out single to me (mainly due to the video.) But like 'Girlfriend' it has won me round. The album is also really good. Good ol' Avril.

My housemate Leah is the only person I know with the same taste in music as me. She has the widest range of music in her iTunes like me. I'm sorry to sound bigheaded and such but I really don't know anyone else who likes as much different stuff as we do. I know people say "Oh I listen to everything" but we really do. I said this to my flatmates in halls last year and they said the same thing but they didn't really mean it. If I would play something, they either wouldn't like it or be really surprised of the tracks that would come on when my iPod was on shuffle. The only thing I don't really like is some hardcore gangster rap, hardcore screamo (like throughout the whole song) and dub step (though I can tolerate some like Chase and Status.)

To broaden our music horizons me and my housemate have swapped some music. Well I've mainly acquired stuff from her to be honest but I do need to give her some albums too. From the swap I am now a fan of A Day To Remember believe it or not) All Time Low, Black Veil Brides, Four Year Strong, Jessie J, Justin Beiber and I now have every album Simple Plan ever made. We love Simple Plan. I'm also starting to warm You Me At Six (only the new album). Bring on more new music!

The Noise Next Door

2011-11-12T03:23:00.000Z

Last night my course mates Skye, Natalie, her housemate Jo and I went to a comedy gig at Komedia. Natalie and Skye had both seen The Noise Next Door perform at Edinburgh fringe festival and insisted we go when they were on in Brighton. Having not seen them before I was slightly apprehensive but trusted their judgment and opted to go along for the show.

It was in the proper performance part upstairs. Never been upstairs before, usually always in the basement for 'Krater' the weekly comedy set. Upstairs is huge! We got there early so got some seats at the front. We ordered some food and watched as the group went around the room taking pictures of people. We were really intrigued and waited with bated breath as they came near us but they never asked for our picture :( However as Skye and I went to the toilet we stumbled across one of the group, the 'Red Tie' to be precise. (They all have different colour ties which they associate themselves with you see) Skye shouted a quick compliment of "You were really good in Edinburgh!" as we passed him and he shouted "Woh fleeting compliment!" and now we had his attention he chatted to us. Skye spoke about Edinburgh and then 'White Tie' came up to us and said "Have you taken part in our competition?" and then explained that they had a 'Who can pull the ugliest face' compeition going on and that was why they were taking pictures. We took part with Skye pulling a monkey face and me with a cross eyed 'grrr' face. They then had to rush off to get ready to perform but not too fast for me to take a picture of them with Skye.

Time for the show and what can I say...they were Hilarious! I was really surprised at how good they were. You see their whole set is improvisation. They call on the audience to pick out random words and they shape their performance around this. They opened the show with a song shaped around words the audience shouted out which ended up as: a song set in a Brothel in Madagascar, which was run by the Pope who employed JLS. It was very very very funny and very very very clever. How they can pull lyrics out of their head, rhyme and make it funny is brilliant. Not to mention how well they can sing and pull harmonies out of thin air! The rest of the show was a mixture between song improvisations and sketch improvisations with again, input from the crowd. They also had two guest comedians which performed their own set and then joined in with The Noise Next Door afterwards. They also featured a joke game, similar to that of Mock the week where they would try to tell jokes about a particular topic and make the audience laugh. To choose the topic they required two audience members to volunteer. We volunteered Natalie. I don't think she was too happy with this at first but eventually forgave us.

I thoroughly enjoyed the show and would very much like to see them again. As its improvisation as well you know you wouldn't get two shows the same. Also got to chat to the guys afterwards. When I told my housemate this he said "Of course you did"which made me laugh. He does have a point though, I do seem to be meeting people lately. These guys were really nice guys though, from Brighton and they were happy to chat. Did I mention that Red, White and especially Purple tie were pretty attractive?

Also got chatting to one of their guest comedians. He made a joke about Romford and how he used to work in Primark. I mentioned to him that I live near Romford to which he replied "Unlucky". He's actually Scottish but married someone from Romford. He asked whereabouts I lived asking whether it was "Ilford, Dagenham?" and I told him Chadwell Heath. He responded with "Ah thats alright. Chadwell Heath is the area in the middle. It goes shit, shit, ah this is not so bad, shit, shit" I laughed because this is so true. When we got a picture with him he put his glasses on and I could not see for shit! Worst glasses I've put on ever! Everything was fuzzzz.

11/11/11

2011-11-11T20:51:00.000Z

This day won't happen again for a 100 years! Can you believe it!
First and for most though, today is remembrance day. Lest we forget. I hope you all got a poppy.
Shamefully I've spent most of today sleeping but I've been catching up on much needed sleep. However today I did do something special. I've always thought I was registered as a donor but apparently I wasn't. Today I made it official. I'm now a donor. I do actually have the card although its not important, just as long as you're on the register. I've put down for them to have everything. Even eyes. I think the gift of giving someone sight is magical and saving someones life even more so.

Late night blog post...uh oh

2011-11-10T02:28:00.008Z

I think I might actually have a problem because not half an hour ago I was actually in a really good mood. Listening to some good music, some good things going for me such as ticking things off my (life) to do list. Love doing that; have a real sense of accomplishment. Then bam! Here I am all melancholy. Well not bam per se. My journalism assignment involves writing about how 9/11 coverage raised journalistic issues. Naturally to research and prepare for this I have to read and research about the coverage of 9/11. The tragedy isn't light reading and the eye witness account nearly had me crying. I tried to cheer myself up in some way through social networking such as tumblr, Facebook, twitter. Of course its Facebook thats put me in a foul mood. I've recently been invited to an event regarding a primary school reunion and I was just about to reply when I noticed all the people invited and the writings things on the wall (sorry couldn't help writing that phrase). All the different people invited are either at amazing top universities, working in a good job, taken, living with partners, engaged, pregnant!, slim, beautiful, grown up/mature, puberty has been kind to them and also left them alone by now. I then took a look at myself and thought ah shit!

I'm 20 and what can I say I've done compared to them! I look the same as I did when I was 14. Still fat, still spotty, still buck toothed, still weird, semi emo semi preppy kid, still single, still into the same stuff I was years ago. How am I going to seem to everyone else? It's my first school reunion and at 20 I already don't want to go. I was actually looking forward to it until I had this realisation. The worst part of it is that I can see this being my life in 10 years at the next reunion. I'll still be single, severely overweight but maybe this time I'll be living on my own with a cat or two. If I'm lucky in my career I may at least be wealthy, hopefully not living here and you never know I might of turned into a hard nose career woman aka media bitch. With the economy the way it is though not sure that's likely. I'll probably still be turning to FFAF, Simple Plan, Ben & Jerry's, Nutella and the like for comfort.

I realise I'm feeling majorly sorry for myself but hey I'm venting. That is what this blog is for after all. I do have some cool posts to write about music so feel free to skip past this one completely.

I have actually adopted the 'I don't give a fudge' attitude in the past year since leaving sixth form. Its got stronger as time has goes on. Its very liberating and should be used by us all because, really, who cares what other people think? Though it is difficult at times. I wish you could bottle confidence and prescribe/buy it.

Any ideas though on what I should do? I have a month to decide. Do I attend this dreadful reunion that I feel its going to be or do I brave it and put on a smile? ( which I will do anyway)

Let's listen to this awesome motivating and true song and reflect :) From Kelly Clarkson's newest album which I've had on repeat for most of the day

My Heaven

2011-11-06T17:21:00.003Z

Literally nearly died when this came on.

Darren Criss ♥

Funeral For a Friend...Again

2011-11-04T11:25:00.014Z

Twice in one year! I don't see them for a few years and then I'm lucky enough to get two doses of them!
This time was in the ripe old rock 'n' roll town of Camden. Been a few years since I was here for a gig. Actually the last time was FFAF when I was 16! I was supposed to see them in Camden when I was 17 but missed the chance as I was ill.

The venue wasn't the greatest so we hung right at the back whilst the support bands were on. FFAF tend to have crappy supports but I think its so they appear all the more awesome when they perform. Deanna and I actually looked pretty emo sitting at the back on the floor twirling our hair looking like we completely didn't care. To be honest we are old school FFAF fans, what more do you expect :) I've been thinking more and more recently how 'emo' I used to be. Haven't been able to get this song out of my head.

(I was never like this I assure you)

Anyhoo back to FFAF. They came on and we still stood at the back because at the front in the Roundhouse you can't see a thing. We were more to the side this time so not too far from the band and we still head banged/jumped and things so we had a blast. FFAF were incredible as always. Last night of the tour so I think Matt (lead singer) was a bit emotional 'cos he was talking a lot. What he was talking about made a lot of sense and touched on the reasons of why I got into Funeral For a Friend, how they speak to me and why I love them. What he was saying actually gave me goosebumps.

Its amazing that this is the fourth time I've been to see FFAF and I still get excited when they play. Every time they played one of my favourite songs I would scream or jump up and hit Deanna and say "Ahh I love this song!" which she of course knows as I've done the exact same thing to her at other gigs. It just goes to show you that some music will always have a place in your heart and bands that are special to you will never cease to excite and entertain you.

When they finished they walked off and came to this railing section that was right near us. I wished we rushed over there straight away but I didn't think that they would stay and hang around. However the FFAF guys are lovely and Matt and Richard (lead singer and bassist) came over to the railing to say a few hellos. I was determined to get a picture with Richard as I missed out on one in April. I was braver this time too and said "Hey Richard can I have a picture?" all smiley and very cool. He said "Yes, of course" and put his wonderful massive guns around me and I stretched my arm around his very muscly back (did I mention he's incredibly fit!!) I said "Thanks" and "You guys were really awesome" and he shook my hand :D I then wiped this hand all over Deanna's face so she wasn't left out :)

As I was walking away with Deanna I realised my hands were shaking, not so calm and cool after all. I went to look at the picture and I noticed it didn't take!! My camera phone can be temperamental you see and I was gutted but Deanna said just ask for another one. The bouncers were trying to clear us out quick but I ran over and said to Richard in a damsel in distress kind of way "The picture didn't take!! Something went wrong! Can I have another one please" to which he said "Sure!" see how lovely he is!! So this is the one that got taken in the end. (It looks a bit cut off as some other fan decided to put himself in the picture and lick Richards face. Yes, strange boy, so I've got rid of him.)

Pretty dodge one of me but oh well. Knowing me the first picture was probably amazing. At least I got a picture. Its funny how thats happened both times I met FFAF members; the camera fucking up for the first picture and me, reluctantly wrapping my arms around my idols :p

I also forgot guys that I went to the gig with my new hair cut :) && root touch up lol I'm trying to go lighter brown but got to be done in stages otherwise I'll have like weird orange hair. You can kind of see my new hair in the FFAF picture but that is at the end of a gig so not the best example. This is ma new dooo all done up nicely:

ignore the face

&& also I got my second ear piercing 4 weeks ago which means only 2 weeks until I can take them out. What do you think?

Tis the same on both sides. Although I think they look a bit uneven but I guess that's kind of cool?

I went with the beautiful Raji who got three on the rim of her right ear. I had to be brave and watch and reassure her but it was pretty scary but obviously worse for her.

This picture btw is taken in my new room in Brighton which I am yet to show you. I've been accumulating certain bits to make it that much more personal and its almost ready to show you!

Halloween :)

2011-11-02T22:26:00.006Z

This is definitely one of my favourite times of year. I jus' love dressing up. I also suit the goth look and definitely missed my calling.

This year as Halloween fell on a monday it let us have a whole weekend of celebrations. Saturday night I went over to Yasmin's house with Mala for some gothic nightmare fun. We dressed up, took some piccies, ate Halloween goodies and watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World as Yasmin was dressed up as Ramona Flowers. Mala was Slater and I was a pirate but ended up as Robert Smith from The Cure (an improvement). Here's some piccies taken on Yasmin's masterful camera.

Then on the Sunday went to a FFAF gig and my hair got cut :) (separate blog post to follow)

Monday saw me traipsing round the shops looking for a red and white stripy top. Would you believe couldn't find one anywhere! Managed to get a jumper and red and white tights for my dead Where's Wally Costume. (As I was commuting back to Brighton this day I missed the Zombie march through town! That would of been awesome.) My housemates and I watched Casper, ate some Halloween treats and then off out I went to get all dolled or 'deaded' up for our night out in BTown.

Lots of fake blood, talcum powder and hair spray!

My friend Natalie as the Death Card

Awesome outfit

Can you believe this was my first night out in Brighton since the start of second year!

My friend Jo. Can you believe we only live a couple miles away from each other back home!

Was a good night. Had a wristband to go into three clubs but only did two. The second one (which I think everyone finished their night in) was completely rammed! Stayed in there for half an hour but was so hot so left nice and merry and back home back half two.

So that was my halloween. Hopefully won't have to wait a whole year till we can dress up again.

Friday I'm in Love

2011-10-28T23:43:00.012+01:00

I've had a tendancy recently to blog on a friday so thought I'd keep up with the trend. I left you in the dark last week but I can finally reveal some of the things that have been happening.

The biggest thing to happen to me is probably my placement. Yes that's right, the thing thats been bugging me for a few months now is finally sorted! Between January 16th and February 10th I will be living at home and working at two television production companies. I managed to bag a split placement which I stumbled upon unintentionally but actually really wanted. Althoug I may be able to learn more in a month, two weeks at each place gives me a chance to see two very different types of production. I'm pretty excited about it and very lucky to be able to do it.

Another thing is that I will be applying for Camp America next summer. I've started but the application is pretty long and I need to set aside a few hours in order to complete it. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to do it next summer 'cos of possible commitments next year such as a wedding, work, olympics. The thing I really needed to do to work out what I was doing was talk to my mum. As sad as that is I really did need the good listening ear and advice of my mother. Unfortunetly we had some family problems so I was unable to speak to my mum and it was really bugging me. Its at times like that you realise how much you rely on your mother, even at the ripe old age of 20. As soon as I spoke to my mum I realised that applying was the right thing to do and that I wouldn't want to miss this oppertunity. So lets hope I'm good enough to get it.

Finally, the real reason behind the title of this post is my love life. I'm not one to blog about this side of my life but thought I'd go 'Lindsey Kelk' on you and tell you about the boys in my life. I managed to get a guys number a couple of weeks ago. I know right, me?! My friend challenged me Barney Stincen style and I accepted and completed the challenge to get a bar mans number. Unfortunetly it doesn't look like its going anywhere but it was a laugh and a bit of fun any way. An old flame is also re-presenting itself. I did intend to find myself a man this year and entitled my quest 'Man Mission'. However it seems my mission is more trouble than its worth and I'm actually rethinkng the idea. I guess we'll have to see. A blog of someone who is of similar age and also in London but has a much more interesting and well written account of dating is http://www.the-d-game.blogspot.com. Check it out :)

I'm also in love with this shop in Westfields called Pulp and Forever 21. It pains me to go in there 'cos I want to buy everything but can't :(

Up in the Air

2011-10-21T01:06:00.000+01:00

My life's been a bit up in the air this week. Lot's of maybes, what ifs, possibilities, opportunities. Those of you who know me well know that I'm a tad bit superstitious and don't like to temp fate. Therefore I will not blog about them till they are no longer maybes but yes's and no's. So until then you'll have to sit tight.

I've also had a ton of work to do. I'm definitely feeling the pressure of second year.

Brighton Comedy Festival

2011-10-14T03:02:00.003+01:00

Brighton is a very cultural place and there's quite a lot going on. For instance they have two comedy festivals a year. The Fringe festival in the summer and the Brighton Comedy Festival in October. This year it's running from the 7th-22nd of October. I was determined to go this year. Its seems silly to not go to something like this, its a great opportunity to see loads of comedians. Last year I didn't get to go, 'cos being a fresher n'all, I was still adjusting to life in Brighton. So looking at the list I obviously jumped at the chance to see some of the big comedians but sadly they sold out pretty quickly. There were a couple of lesser known, just as funny, comedians that stood out to me though. For instance the Canadian Tom Stade. I've seen him a couple of times on TV and thought he was really funny so thought it would be good to see him.

So with not much convincing after seeing his Youtube videos, I managed to drag my friend Skye along for the show. Bit of a late start but it was worth the wait and he actually walked past us on his way in. We sat dead centre in row two, pretty awesome seats, and we were off. He was hilarious. Unfortunately I had already seen the material he did at the beginning and end of the set but it was funnier seeing it live. He was very very funny. Very good set. He's pretty offensive funny and I'm not too sure everyone loved it as much as we did. Skye and I were in hysterics; knowing we shouldn't be laughing but not being able to help it. The lady in front of us had a very funny and loud laugh and probably made up for the fairly quiet audience.

After enjoying the show I decided we should wait around for a bit incase Tom made an an appearance. My theory was he came in the same way we did so why wouldn't he leave when we did. We waited for a couple of minutes and just as we were about to give up, he came out! I got very excited. I half walked/ran over to him. Lucky for us not many stayed waiting around for him and only had to wait whilst one girl had her picture taken. I was determined to play it much cooler than the last time I met a famous person (when I lost the ability to speak in front of Matt Davies, the lead singer of Funeral For A Friend.) I tapped him and said "Hey Tom can I have a picture please" to which he said sure. I then said "We really enjoyed the show...You're really cool" to which he laughed and replied "Ha I'm really cool huh?" and started telling more jokes and making me laugh. It was then Skye's turn to get a picture and afterwards he said "Let's go outside and have a cigarette". Of course we followed him.

Mid laughter, I'm not pulling a face on purpose

He spoke to a few people he singled out in the audience for a bit, talking about his family and the jokes in the show and we laughed along again. It was here where I noticed how much my hands were shaking. I'm terrible with famous people. Then they left and it was us and Tom! He's so cool! I spoke to him a bit about Canada and he said Vancouver is full of weed smokers lol. Then he got worried he'd said something wrong and asked how old we were and was relieved when I said twenty and that we're students "Oh well you've done it all you know what I'm talking about. There's many times where I've spaced out and forgotten my homework". He then asked for directions to the station and I told him and then he said "Are you walking this way?" I should have replied quicker but didn't know what to say 'cos we were actually going the other way and all of a sudden a pretty blonde took his attention by the pub. It was here where I thought well we've had a good run but I guess he's probably jus' going to the station. However we did wait for him across the street whilst he talked to this girl and her boyfriend. When he was done he did look our way and then carried on up the hill towards the station. Bumbling along on his own in a drunken/stoned state. I'm totally bummed about not walking with him. I blame the blonde, making it awkward. I also blame Skye for not letting me catch up and ~~stalk~~ walk with him . Next time I meet someone famous I'm never leaving their side :)

I'm proud of myself that I was the one that actually approached him && made conversation where I sounded like a human being! He's soooo cool though :D I'm totally wired from the experience which is why I'm blogging this late/early?

Hopefully I can go to a few more shows next week. Definitely making a pact to wait around after gigs from now on.

The better picture. Again he's making me laugh whilst he pulls a funny face :)

Writing

2011-10-05T23:50:00.001+01:00

First week back at uni and talk about being thrown in the deep end. Monday wasn't too bad but today was hard. Journalism is definitely Not going to be easy. In some ways I think I can see why they're hard on us; to possibly prepare us for journalism in the real world. I was sort of prepared for it as the third years told us it was a challenge last year but I guess I was expecting to be eased into it like being back in first year. Also as it is something I may like to do in the future I wasn't really going to be put off by what anyone said. She threw an assignment at us and said we had two hours 'Go!'. To which all of us replied 'Huh?!' very perplexed. I still think it was pretty harsh considering we were timetabled to finish at one and some people had to go to work and other classes. Luckily it was sorted that we got an extension to give it in tomorrow at 9am. Fear not for mine is complete and safely in the hand in box :) It didn't actually take too long. Half an hour to read and annotate and about half an hour to write. Though I was in a bit of a rush as I was going to an open day training session. Its probably pretty poor but hopefully I can improve and get feedback from this. You see, even though it was only 200 words, which seems small, it was actually a big challenge to keep it that short. Journalism is about reporting concisely, cutting out the waffle and getting straight to the point. We had to raise and critique about five different things in this piece and you my fellow followers and readers know jus' how much I like to waffle. So I'm going to get to the point.

I picked up last semesters work and came across my favourite assignment. It was a non-fiction creative piece of writing based on George Orwell's essay 'Why I Write'. I actually wanted to publish it on blog at first but then wasn't sure if it was allowed and thought it would be boring. I do however want to share the last part with you. Pleas read this if you didn't read any of this post:

So from this I would like to say

Thank You :)

To all of you

Thank you for reading my mundane thoughts.

For following me.

& If you're jus' stopping by,

Thank you for reading this post.

I hope you would be inclined to read more :)

Oh and if you plagiarise and take any of my words not only will you fail and get kicked out of uni but I will give you a kick up the arse. And it isn't really worth it 'cos I only got a B anyway.

Grease

2011-10-02T22:40:00.006+01:00

Although I've moved back to Brights I did have to pop home for work during the week. Whilst I was home Yasmin tweeted about this free screening of Grease and I asked whether I could tag. So Yasmin, Raji and I went to see Grease in the open warm September air, next to the river Thames by Tower Bridge.

photo courtesy of Raji

We've been to a free screening before by the company RichMix but this, run by The Scoop, was much better. The screen was big, like cinema big.

photo courtesy of Raji

The seating area was also big and had rows of steps down, sort of like a cinema. Only downside was it was concrete and even with a folded up blanket as a cushion, after a couple of hours your bum gets num.

We got there about an hour and a half before it started and good thing we did as it was already pretty busy. Luckily we got some good seats and got some pop corn and crisps from some rude men at the tuck shop. Once it started everyone got really excited as they brought up the song lyrics. We didn't know it was going to be a singalong one and we were pleasantly surprised.

It was really awesome. I hadn't seen Grease in a good few years and it was really enjoyable to watch, I got to sing a long, got more of the adult jokes than I did before and understood a bit more of what they were saying with the subtitles on 'cos sometimes I don't quite get what they're saying 'cos of their accents.

At the end everyone got up and danced and we all left with a feel good feeling, humming Grease tunes on the way to the tube.

photo courtesy of Raji

These screenings run from June to September and I'll definitely be going to a few more next year. Also after going to sing a long Grease I very much want to go to Singalong Halloween Rocky Horror :)

Moved back to Brighton

2011-10-02T22:15:00.003+01:00

It's that time already! Summer flew past ~~even if I did have 4 months off~~ & I'm now back in Brighton. However this time it's a little different.

I'm in second year now so I can dust off that Fresher title and knuckle down for some serious work this year. This year counts 25% towards my degree. A big chunk of that is my placement this coming January. For the last two weeks of Jan and the first two of Feb I will be working somewhere in the media industry, hopefully in London so I'll be living at home, providing I find a place that will have me by the 2nd December. If you have any contacts to lend me I will be eternally grateful.

I've also moved out of halls and I'm living in a house! I know, grown up much? You'd think it would feel strange and new like halls but I already feel at home and at ease here. I'm sure thats down to my awesome housemates.

I actually live a road away from where my grandparents used to live so I know a bit about the area. Like there's a big field behind my house, cool huh? I can go for walks and things. It feels a bit like living in the country. There's some good views of Brighton up here too. I say up here 'cos I live on a gigantic hill. Good for ye ol' legs.

This is the view a two minutes down the hill on my way to uni. The big white building in the distance is my uni.

fields!

&& this is the sunset this evening from my window

thenn the sky got redder

Lectures start tomorrow. I'm nervous and excited. It's cool to be back but also I think its going to be hard getting back into studying. Wish me luck!

Westfield buys

2011-10-02T19:34:00.003+01:00

God knows why I buy more clothes. My wardrobe is bowing with the weight of them all but I never seem to have enough. My new favourite shop is Forever 21. Westfields Stratford City is the only place, that I know of, that has a Forever 21 in England. It's so awesome. It has Everything! In about 8 different colours for every kind of style for about half the price of every other high street shop and its brill quality!

These are my buys

that one on the right is my Buffy necklace :)

I almost forgot to mention that they have a uni qlo! I also love love love this shop and now I don't have too far to go to get to one.

I also bought some black skinnies from here but I've kinda lived in them and now they're in the wash.

European Goodies

2011-09-27T17:43:00.001+01:00

I didn't mention my duty free in my previous post as I thought it deserved its own post. Every time I go to Europe I stock up on Milka and Kinder Maxi bars as I don't often go. However this trip to Majorca makes it my third visit to Europe this year. Does that mean I falter on buying loads of chocolate? No. It means I buy more :)

I also had another Choco Swing bar but I ate it before I took the picture lol

Majorca

2011-09-27T17:39:00.003+01:00

What else has happened? Ah that's right, I went on holiday :)
Nothing special but the rents and I took a trip to Mallorca, on the Spanish island of Majorca. It was just a nice place to go to catch some rays, soak up some vitamin D, swim and relax.

It was generally quite a good break. Despite some earth shattering news that my inner emo teenager couldn't handle (never ask about your parents past) and the awkwardness of being away with my parents whilst everyone else were couples, I did have a nice time.

Got a nice brown colour, even if my parents tan is browner and better, swam a lot and took some pictures of some pretty good sunsets from our awesome view.

The hotel from the little train that took us to the beach

My tan line from my all inclusive band

The pool which no one swam in. Everyone jus' sunbathed and my dad and I seemed to be the only ones taking advantage of the mahussive pool.

Beach

Professional pic of beach

It's a lil cove. This is it from the sea.

Look at what I found :) ...

Saw this on tumblr a lil while ago and thought it was so cool and then got really excited when I found it in one of the shops.

mmmmmm

& this is me on the last night

I've actually done my first ever review on trip advisor for this holiday! Click here to see it :)

It's been a while..

2011-09-27T16:18:00.002+01:00

..well I guess only a week or two but it feels like a lot longer. I guess a lot has happened. For one my blog is looking mighty different! It's still not finished yet but only a few tweaks left. I am very fortunate to have the help of my dear dear friend Raji. She's a whizz when it comes to sprucing up blogs, just look at hers.
One evening consisted of Raji and her brother helping me out with the design whilst I gave my in put on what I thought every now and then. I am very grateful and she will get a big thank you.

Us that night in our grey jumpers :)

Don't look at my blog!

2011-09-15T02:04:00.002+01:00

It'll be finished sooon. Don't judge it yet.

Eastfields

2011-09-13T23:10:00.002+01:00

Is what I call Westfield's Stratford City...well not really but it is cooler :) I also think they've added the City to Stratford to make it cooler.

I've been waiting for ages for them to build it. We're talking years. Every time I go into central London I go via Stratford and would always see them building it (this also goes for Olympic Park). Westfield's is perfect for us our shopping facilities are limited. Well not limited but this is what we have:

Romford and Ilford
Both of these have fairly small shopping malls and they split the shops between the two. For instance Ilford has a Republic, Romford doesn't. Romford has H&M, Ilford doesn't. Also easy access and very close.

Lakeside
This is the biggest shopping mall closest to us. If you have a car that is. Public transport here is really difficult. For us to get the train we have to commute to a station out of he way from us then get the train. Orrr get the train from where we live and change about 5 times. Bus is like an hour plus.

Oxford Street
About 35-40 minutes on the tube. Has most shops, best Topshop around. Gets busy though and its outside.

Where as Westfields...
Is 14 minutes on the train direct. Could get the bus if ness, which is direct but takes about 50 minutes. Car about 20 minutes. It has every single shop imaginable. Its indoors. Much bigger than Westfields at Shepherds Bush and has loads more shops. Lots of nice restaurants and food that is more of the fast food type so cheaper and quicker. The people also are the biggest attraction for me. The people who go are people like me. Your average Joe & Jane. The other Westfields is for the West London, Middle Class people that have moniesss. This is full of peeps from the East Siddddee :)

Myself and Raji traipsed round there today for 7 hours! Can you believe it. The time went SO quick. It was really really packed. Most of it we jus' spent wondering and barely going into any shops. The shops we mainly spent time in were Uni Qlo, 'cos I love that place and now I don't have to go to the West End to go there, and also the Apple Shop to sort out my mouse. I lovvvee the Apple Shop. Its nice and big and I can go there for my one to ones when I'm in London as everywhere was really far.

Had some food at this nice restaurant called The Real Greek. Nice reasonable Greek food. Then my desert was a cinnamon pretzel from Mr Pretzel mmmm. The only disappointment from the day was that we didn't get any free stuff apart from a map :( Thought they'd be handing out loadsa stuff but all got was a glass of 'Champagne' aka Cava in Pandora.

Definately impressed though. Westfields is my new local mall. Yaysss.

Meine Geburtstag

2011-09-09T00:55:00.003+01:00

So I'm 20 now. Very scary. It still doesn't feel right and I don't like being this age. Nevertheless my birthday is my birthday and I absolutely love it. My followers that have been with me a while will probably remember how much I love it but my new ones don't so I shall explain. My favourite day of the year is my birthday. Literally my ultimate favourite. It feels different on the day, like exempt from any other day; special. I often wonder what the 1st September is like for other people as after all it is an awesome day in inself. Like its the first of the month, people remember that. Also my birthday usually lasted about 2 weeks with my celebrations. So anyway I don't know whether its me, or my parents fault or whatever but my birthday causes a big fuss and I love it. So here's how it went down:

I started off the day with cards and pressies. I got more than I thought I would being 20 and all. As you get older presents get less exciting. However I did have my early pres from my rents of a ps3 and got some games and DVDs as well on the day. I also got some cupcake themed things from aunt and a spa break! Yays.

After this my parents and I picked up Raji, opened her awesome present to me of jewellery and an astrology book (I'm getting really into it) and went out for breakfast at Frankie and Benny's. I had some yummy pancakes. Then it was off to central LDN for a cruise along the Thames. Living in London you take the sights for granted and never really go to see them and explore so on my birthday we became tourists in our own city. It was also a beautiful day, of course its my birthday, for sightseeing. Raji did ask me also "Are you one of those people where you always have good weather on your birthday?" Why yes, yes I am :)

funny how it looked better with a grey sky on our way back

Our guide on the boat going towards tower bridge was hilarious. He was really funny but only the English were laughing. His humour was not for tourists. Then we had these other guys and they weren't funny and a bit boring. I did learn a lot though.

Afterwards we went to covent garden. Played around with the iPad 2 in the Apple Store, of course, and checked my birthday messages on facebook. Then is was off to TGI's for some din dins. Raji and I sorta enjoyed a cocktail but it wasn't the nicest.

I look hideous here but Raji looks lovely

After stuffing our faces and a long tiring day it was time to go home. After dropping Raji off I was very ready for bed. However I was seeing my birthday out no matter what so stayed up playing on photo booth trying to work out how a 20 year old would pose. Turns out like this:

It was a really lovely day and thank you to everyone for the birthday messages and pressies.

My spa present was a trip to a spa in Guildford, Surrey for two nights. My aunt, cousin, mum and I went on monday afternoon to wednesday morning with a trip to Lakeside on the way home. Also walked around Guildford on the tuesday. Guildford's quite a nice place, very old English and quaint.

Not for me though, I couldn't really live in the countryside. Like at night there were no street lights. It was So dark. In the room when I went to bed I couldn't see my hand in front of my face and bumped into Everything when I went to the toilet so took my phone to guide me the next time. Also couldn't sleep the first night 'cos of their stupid plumbing system making nosies every 3 minutes. Got through a lot of my book though and took a picture 'cos I'm like that.

This is also my cake which my friend Hannah made for me.

How awesome! It tasted lovveeellyy too :)

I'm starting to get into Tumblr

2011-09-03T02:04:00.001+01:00

Don't Panic! I would never leave you :)
I love love love love love my blog
but I'm starting to see a bit more what Tumblr is all about
so you may as well check me out if you have it
and I will check you out also :)
I'm still not up to date with the technicalities and diff things so if you feel like telling me that would be great :)

More Social Media (Y)
http://inmypjsagain.tumblr.com/

Last Day as a Teenager

2011-08-31T22:38:00.001+01:00

Scary stuff. I really wanted to do something to commemorate the day but nothing happened. I asked my twitter followers and Facebook friends to comment but nothing totally reckless or typically teenagey came up. So I spent the day like any other day:

- Sleep in till noon
- Have last nights dinner for brunch
- Watch hours and hours of Buffy
- Play a bit of dance mat
- Have a random dinner (fish fingers, mediterranean rice and peas)
- Do my nails and spill the varnish over myself and the sofa
- Complain about being bored and wanting something sweet to eat
- Make Flapjacks

I will, however, continue to do all these things as a 20 year old. I guarantee it.

Oh Cameron! Why?

2011-08-26T00:13:00.002+01:00

Cameron left The Glee Project. He was my absolute fave. He was sooo talented, his voice was soo nice, he wrote his own songs, played guitar, had the cool factor and looked hot. Very sad to see him go. Of course he had to walk to go as there was no way they would have got rid of him. He has strong religious beliefs and didn't want to kiss another girl in the music video shoot and believed he never could and would never be able to budge if he was really on glee. At least he stood up for what he believed in.

His last performance :(

He also has a YouTube channel :) Should check it out and subscribe!

I'm sure we haven't seen the last of him.

Cool Accessorize find

2011-08-25T01:07:00.001+01:00

How awesome is this necklace!

Vloggers

2011-08-24T01:44:00.001+01:00

Not been on Youtube for a while so missed out on all the latest vlogs by my fave vloggers. I've missed Toby Turner. He really kept me entertained yesterday afternoon where I jus' sat down in front of my mac, watching his videos and laffing :)

Oh and I still want a Tobuscus Shirt if anyone fancies buying me one :)

Ohhh or the poster :) Its new!

(It is my birthday soon after all :p)

Writing compeition

2011-08-21T15:31:00.001+01:00

When a writing competition asks you to write a 400 word article on the subject 'I wish' what are you supposed to write. I really don't know whether the tone is to be personal or ambitious or general eurgh I don't know. I know its not like I would actually win so I dunno why I'm getting so stressed about it. I should be focusing on bloody cover letters for placements I'm never going to get :( Got no where with placements its getting pretty worrying. Anyone with any media clad friends pleassse send them my way, its so hard to get into the industry, especially when places don't bother to reply.

So yeah..

Any ideas what The Guardian want from me on this 'I Wish' topic?

I bloody Love Buffy

2011-08-18T01:29:00.002+01:00

21st Century Life

2011-08-17T18:50:00.001+01:00

So I was travelling to work yesterday and as I was on the tube between Stratford & Mile End the lights went out. Its was pitch black. The only light was coming from the carriage next to us which was pretty far away. You couldn't see your hand in front of your face. The tube is, after all, underground.

This could be frightening for some. In America I can imagine people screaming "Oh my Gawd!" possibly screaming. But no we British just sat there patiently waiting for the lights to come back. Quite funny how the majority of people in my little bit were reading and well, didn't really know where to go from there. I immediately thought I could be mugged (well it is London) and put my book in my bag, zipped it up tightly and clutched it against me tightly. We all pulled together though, well me and two other guys, to try and get some light going in our little area. Me with waving my iPod around (& the wallpaper of me and Matt Davies :D) but the other guy opposite upstaged me with his camera phone flash. What was also very English was as we were waving the lights around for other people's benefit, the light would go on them and they looked totally unphased by the sudden darkness and could tell they were thinking "Why are you shining your iPod at me?" or could of been thinking "What's that gonna do it's not very bright" and it really wasn't. The other guy with the bright phone started to try and read the paper, which made me laugh.

It just made me realise how 21st Century we have become. Lights go out? Oh no problem we all have glowing devices to give us some light. I also immediately wanted to tweet about it but of course couldn't as we were underground. The lights came back on at Mile End but went out again for about 5 seconds at the next stop but then it was business as usual, all lights blaring. Quite exciting times.

I miss The Hills

2011-08-14T23:29:00.002+01:00

My Problem

2011-08-14T21:43:00.002+01:00

Jus' read an article and its scary how much it resembles me

Also got this from a fortune cookie today

I think I need to sort some shizz out

My First Gif!

2011-08-11T20:50:00.002+01:00

I'm a gangsta!

Thanks to Raji for showing me how to do it

Finally

2011-08-11T12:49:00.001+01:00

My tax money came through :) Got it back from the greedy tax man stealing from poor students.
So I can't decide whether to use it to by a spanking new HD camera or a nice lil getaway in Sept?

Or maybe both? If I get a less good cam

hmmmm

A Days Work

2011-08-09T13:51:00.002+01:00

My work experience has come to an end. It has been an experience for sure. Some good things and bad things have come out of it. It's all a learning curve. I thought it was about time I showed you something that I've done in all my 8 weeks working there. So here is a lil mash up of some of the things I've done and some of the videos they have done in the past. I edited this all yesturday. So everybody, RoadWorks Media's Show Reel:

Roadworks Media Showreel from Road Worker on Vimeo.

London Riots

2011-08-09T01:54:00.005+01:00

Can't even begin to explain how shocked and appalled I am.

The situation as it stands.

Its getting worse. This needs to be fucking sorted. Can't actually believe what I'm seeing. Raji explains it better than I can.

Cameron

2011-08-07T21:25:00.006+01:00

I find this guy more attractive every week! Please win The Glee Project so I can see you on Glee :)

Me & Jen messing around on Google Maps

2011-08-04T22:55:00.001+01:00

As per
&& today was looking at possible travelling routes for a potential get away and chose to walk from Venice to Rome and couldn't believe the route it gave us.

I mean wtf Google!

1 month till my Birthday

2011-08-01T23:08:00.007+01:00

:O
Its coming round so quick! Usually I count down from January the first declaring its 9 months till my birthday and declare it the first of every month. Until August when I tend do it in weeks. However this year I've been pretty quiet and not said anything, slightly scared at the prospect of turning the big Two Zero. I initially called in Tweenteen as many of my other friends who have already turned 20 have called it. 20 means adulthood, responsibility, maturity, intelligence (according to Nintendo DS brain training), a new decade, 5 years away from a quarter century. However recently I started seeing it slightly differently. I may be 19 in my body but in my head I'm about 13. I'm sure that most other adults probably still feel much younger inside.

I then started to see turning 20 as a good thing. Although I'm not going to be a teenager anymore, thats not such a bad thing. Although there are some good things about being a teenager, the majority of the time adolescence sucks! For one you have puberty, Which is a bitch. Spots, mood swings, awkwardness, emotional, arguments, rebellion, braces, obsessions, hair dye, lots of firsts, lots of lasts, lots of sleep, lots of fucking heart ache and weird eating habits.

To be fair I'm sure not too much is going to change as a twenty year old (like the fact I still look the same as I did at 14) heck probably not till I've finished university but I'll be happy to say goodbye to a few things.

Punky Phase (Although I secretly wish I was still a punk)

Purple Hair Phase

Brace Face

First Sheisha Experience

First Prom

First Holiday without Parents (crazy midnight beach times)

First time on Crutches

Apple Phase

Spots

Obsessions

& Basically being an idiot

(Look its a folder!)

yeah pretty much covered that

Taking a stab at it

2011-08-01T22:06:00.001+01:00

Sports Blog

http://itsfootballnotsoccerkay.blogspot.com/

Film andTV Blog

http://theflicksandthebox.blogspot.com/

I'm giving it ago. Follow?

Go on pleasssse. It's for my career and all that

I have a thing for polka dots at the mo

2011-07-29T23:24:00.002+01:00

&& big ones not lil ones

My Scrap Book

2011-07-28T19:17:00.001+01:00

Jus' after Christmas I posted about a certain blank book I got as a present. I didn't know what to do with it and it was just going to end up on the pile of unwanted presents thats never used. However I asked you guys what to do with it. See Post here.

Some of you said scrap book, others said a book for your favourite blog posts, or jus write out sayings/song lyrics you really like.

Well I liked all those ideas so I did all of them :)

Thanks guys for not letting this book go to waste 'cos I actually quite love it now.

Hilarious

2011-07-25T18:27:00.002+01:00

Thanks to Raji from WhatRajwants for sharing this with me :)

Summer Challenge

2011-07-20T14:57:00.001+01:00

Learn Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
&& then record me playing it!
Stay tuned :)

Oh & also

2011-07-15T01:32:00.000+01:00

THE HOFF IS FOLLOWING ME ON TWITTER!!

AHH!!

& to all my new followers, I will get round to you soon I'm jus' very busy atm and don't spend much time on the comp (hence the mega late posting) but love you all :)

xxx

^^ thats my face on his following list :)

OH! && I forgot to mention

I WASN'T EVEN FOLLOWING HIM

I AM. TOO. COOL.

;)

House O' Lords

2011-07-15T01:16:00.001+01:00

Who went to the House of Lords yday? Oh right, thats me :D

It's pretty damn cool I jus' keep saying it. I told jus' about everyone. It was really awesome to get the opportunity 'cos not any old person can go there. I probably won't ever get there again.

Roadworks team minus Julien taking the pic

The reason I went is because....

As you know I'm doing work experience at Roadworks Media. My 'employers'? I guess you could call them that, it's their company they found it and run it, were getting a Youth Achievement award. This was to be presented at the House of Lords. So all the Roadworks Media people and some other of the guys friends came along to witness the presentation. So off we went from the office to the House of Lords. Those of you who don't know what the House of Lords is, its...

The House of Lords is the second chamber of the UK Parliament. It is independent from, and complements the work of, the House of Commons. Members of the Lords play a vital role making laws and keeping a check on government. (http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords/)

You all enter the Houses of Parliament the same way and then, I think they're joined so you jus' go whatever way for the House of Commons and House of Lords. All I know is at the end of this big hall we turned Left.

The building is beautiful

the architecture is amazing

(Turning Left)

Couldn't really take any more pictures from here on. I did take some sneaky ones but I don't wanna get my blog shut down by showing them. I'll jus' have to describe it for you. It was beautiful. The art, the sculptures literally took my breath away. I was walking down the corridors and jus' thinking about all the politicians over the past hundred or so years walking down the same corridor as me.

Also walked through the round room they always broadcast from on tv which was cool. Also actually a lot smaller than it looks like on tv.

(Net Pic)

We managed to find the room it was being held in. 4a if you end up in there one day. We could photograph in here (Y)

There were quite a few others getting awards. Two guys from Redbridge did and I got excited lol && my MP was there too. Lord King was the guy that presented the awards.

Here is Quince and Julien getting there award with the Lord and Quince's Dad & Sister.

&& this is me in that big hall at he beginning

My visitors pass which I've decided to keep and stick in my scrap book (which I will make a post about next)

So that was my time yday :D

My Day

2011-07-12T22:09:00.001+01:00

I had the whole day to myself today, I love days like that, and this is what happened:

Up!
Breakfast + bit of telly (wanted to watch Heroes but on demand service was playing up)
Attempted exercise
Shower
Out the door

I went to Romford to buy something for the House of Lords tomorrow. Fucked off the bus driver, I'm sure I brightened his day and now feeling slightly embarrassed but not as much as I would of (yay me) and sat solemnly playing the bubble game on my iPod.

Got off bus. Heading for Primark to return something. Saw Dorothy Perkins had a sale so thought I may as well give it a try it. SO glad I did. Walked in there and found exactly what I was looking for. I had my outfit. && It was on sale && I used my discount so it was a whopping £15! I expressed my glee with the sales assistant to which she replied "I love it when that happens, you can go home now" Which I replied with a big grin on my face "Yeah!" as also kids were coming out of school. However had to still go primark in which I managed to find a top for an exchange. Also thought I'd pop into Asda to see if they had any of this liquid sweetener thats in all the Dukan recipes that I can't find anywhere. Couldn't find it but found out that Milka have cookies and biscuits!! && they were £1! So I had to buy them but don't worry I didn't eat them! Jus' saving them for a special occasion. Did I mention that I got one of the few remaining boxes?! Coming out of Asda I saw that the bag I liked last week was still there on the bag stool. So I snagged that as my black bag broke last week. I did like the brown and green so ya never know might go back. Spotting Superdrug on my way out thought I'd finally buy the Barry M nail varnish I've been lusting over. Seeing if I could push my luck I went off to H&M and saw this plain dress but the colour was really cool!! Didn't like the sowing so thought I'd get a belt to cover it a I don't have a black one. After much rummaging found one and these cool studded braces. I added all three of these to my purchases. All of this completed in about an hour and a half if that!

Too good to be true.

Since coming back I've manage to get Virgin on Demand working b restarting the box and watched 3 episodes of Heroes.
Then a go on the PS3 with MJ singstar and Green Day rockband. && guess what...I was getting 100% on all the green day songs :O

I've had an awesome day today :)

Watching Heroes Again :)

2011-07-11T20:37:00.000+01:00

The only series in my eyes

I passed my first year of uni

2011-07-07T20:15:00.002+01:00

Woop. I should be majorly ecstatic but I'm not. To be honest I expected to 'cos if I didn't then I shouldn't of gone in the first place as it wasn't difficult and I would never of gone back. So next year I am paying for a house and I AM going to be living in it woop! Oh and I got all Bs, this I am pleased about :) ~~even though it doesn't go towards next year or my degree.~~

Oh and I've also got a very very very early birthday present of a PS3 :O
I know I'm behind the times but still, I don't care, I've got a PS3!!

I've spent most of the day singing along to Michael Jackson on sing star and strumming on guitar hero.
It's so much fun :D

Sorry I've not posted

2011-07-05T20:03:00.001+01:00

&& after receiving a comment bout my maple syrup diet and whether or not it put me in the hospital so I didn't post has made me get off my arse and post.

I'm not in the hospital!
I lasted 2 days. I didn't actually get hungry but got bored. Mainly because I wasn't losing any weight.

So now I'm on the Dukan Diet. It's pretty awesome. Kinda like Atkins but less dangerous and better for you. I don't eat carbs anymore. A week and a half in and I do miss them but there are quite a few recipes you can make with the limited ingredients.

I have a very sweet tooth so I've been following the recipes online for dukan friendly oat bran cookies and muffins but they weren't very nice. However I made my own today and they were much better! Although I did put lil fudge chunks in the cookies ~~which are not allowed~~ but it didn't make much difference so promise won't do it again.

Originally made cookies. They were so good that I started all over again and made muffin versions.

(anyone not doing this diet would most probably find these disgusting)

Reason I've not been posting is because I haven't really had anything to post about. I've lost my social life with work exp, work i do outside of work exp, being tired(no carbs remember ~~lame excuse~~) and being on restrictive diet restricting me from socialising. Well not entirely but most socialising requires drink and food both of which I can't have. I'm having to bring my lil crappy muffins to work with me which is a treat.

I even had salad today :O I am not a salad person. Tbh it was jus' lettuce leaves with some ham and feta cheese but still thats something I would never eat.

Ok so I've bored you for long enough. I'll post again when something interesting comes along. For example I am going to the House of Lords next week!! Exciting times!!

Day 1 of Maple Syrup Diet

2011-06-26T01:31:00.004+01:00

So far so good. I'm not actually hungry would you believe?? Though to be honest it is only day 1. I've gone 3 days without food before so maybe I can last that long??

For those of you who don't know, the Maple Syrup diet was made famous by Beyonce who lost a stone and a half in 10 days for drinking the mixture. It consists of maple syrup (some special expensive kind but I've only bought normal), lemon, cayenne pepper/ginger and water. To be consumed hot or cold, 6- 9 glasses a day. No food.

Today I've only had 4 glasses :/ Woops
I wasn't going to drink coke either but after my 3 hour nap this afternoon I needed something to wake me up and had 2 glasses then and two this evening after my workout.

Its funny how my dad rang me to see how I was and what I was having for dinner and I said nothing and he goes "Oh yeah your doing that diet thing" laughing.

Then when he comes back "So what have you eaten today?"

"I told you, nothing"

"Nothing?!"

Won't go into the ins and outs but he wasn't happy even though I explained it all to him before, he probably wasn't listening. I promised him I'd eat if I got hungry.

On the weight front nothings shifted. I guess my body is storing the fat. Probably lose if I was eating but hey ho lets see how long I can do this for. I'm already bored of the drink, hence only 4 glasses.

Tomorrow I promise to do 6!

Dodge but my hair looks nice and curly and it never looks like this when I go out soo..

its also so long now :/

This made me laugh too much for my age

2011-06-25T15:23:00.003+01:00

http://www.youtube.com/listerineuk?utm_campaign=Listerine%20-%20PTYM&utm_medium=YouTube&utm_source=DISPLAY&utm_content=Masthead&utm_term=Standard&x=1

Sorry can't embed
the Things You Eat is the funniest

Maple Syrup Diet tomorrow

2011-06-25T00:59:00.002+01:00

Wish me luck guys
Fingers crossed I look like Beyonce at the end of it
LOL

I've got off my arse and done something that matters

2011-06-22T17:44:00.002+01:00

Hello New Followers!

You have inspired me to actually get on the blogging trail again. Thing is I've been pretty busy and haven't had the time. So lemme give you a run down of the events of the last two weeks.

Friday 10th June I moved out of my halls in Brighton. It wasn't that weird to be honest. I was actually quite happy to leave. I had a small box room and from time to time got a case of cabin fever, there's also all the noise from my noisy neighbours above and below with the little buggers in the nursery. Its quite nice to be home again. The only thing I guess I'll miss this summer is the beach though Brighton gets jam packed with tourists so I'm glad I'll be away for that. The other thing I'll miss will probably be my freedom. However I have quite a lot of freedom at home, my parents are not protective or restrictive at all but it is nice to be on your own but nicer to be cooked for and cleaned up after.

So after moving out these past two weeks I've been seeing friends, sorting out my things (which is still not sorted yet 'cos I just have SO much stuff its unreal). Last week however I got in contact with a friend of mine at Arsenal who's involved in media. He has his own little production company and I thought I'd see if he needed a hand at all this summer. This would give me something to do as I have about 4ish months off and would be great for the CV. So I came to the office last week, had a little meeting and was offered the position of editor and jumped straight into the deep end with an editing task that afternoon. So every Monday, Wednesday and Friday I will be here (yeah I'm blogging whilst I'm here now lol I'm bored and blogging until hometime) at the Roadworks Media office in Kennington, South London editing my little arse off, using Final Cut Pro I might add which is cool and exciting and actually pretty much the same as Final Cut Express. Only takes me about 35 minutes to get here which is a plus and expenses paid so not losing out (Y)

(Its funny how the pic is Brighton 'cos I live there and its not there its in Kennington)

Typing that out didn't take long to be honest so I should of done it sooner. However when you spend all day on a computer the last thing you want to do is go on one at home in your free time.

But I promise I'll be blogging more :)

Paris

2011-06-21T01:12:00.004+01:00

My blogging is slacking and this post is way over due. Sorry if it's not as detailed as it should be.

So on the 1st June, on the first train out of St Pancras, I traveled on the eurostar to Paris.

I went with my mum and her friends. Was kinda fun going with them, different for defo. We had a champagne and croissant breakfast. Everyone on the train was laughing at us and wishing they'd brought their own.

Once we arrived I was throwing out French phrases about the weather and where we were going which was pointless and was annoying everyone else but I was just absolutely thrilled to be there as you know I've mentioned before I love Paris.

First port of call was the hotel which we had to get to through the metro. Never been on the metro before but it's pretty cool. It's quite like the Tube so it's simple to navigate.

At the hotel had some more champagne and some crispies to refuel and we were off again seeing as we only had about 30 hours in Paris.

Off to the Arc de Triomphe which I didn't get up the first time. It looked awesome as before but even better in the summer sun. The group weren't too interested in walking up so most went browsing down the Champs-Élysées whilst my mum, cousin and I hauled our asses up many steps.

Something was happening that day in France as there were veterans in the underground pathway to the Arc.

As we got to the front I saw that 16-25 EU members got a discount, which I knew about as I'd learnt about it in French at school. However it was actually free!! Graduit! Can you believe it! Bargain! My cuz is actually 30 but thought she'd see if she could blag it and say she was 25 and it worked! I love it when you get stuff for free, seems so much better. So we trudged up the many stairs.

The view was totally worth it. It had a ridiculous 13 exits or something! && I took pictures of like every one so won't bore you with them all and will just show you the Champs-Élysées.

oh && the Eiffel Tower of Course

me & my mum

Oh and as I mentioned before there was something going on in Paris, maybe some sort of memorial day (the Arc de Triomphe is a memorial after all) and there were some soldiers or something up there

As we were about to make our way down I had to snag a picture and patiently people waited behind me.

This made me get stuck behind my mother who walked down very slowly. I commented on it and she kept going "I will go at my own pace", "But mum you're holding everyone up" "I don't care I'm walking at my own pace" and my cousin kept trying to take pictures of us and I didn't know why. Until we got downstairs and came out. The whole army people were behind us. How embarrassing! Funny though. Very polite that they just marched behind us, not over taking or anything and waiting for me to take photos. There was about 20 of them though lol!

Next stop was a walk down the Champs-Élysées then down and around to the boat.

Long shot of Concorde

I took over 200 pictures, snappy happy much? so can't possibly show you everything apologies, they are all on facebook though those of you who have me

I mainly took photos of buildings

The architecture in Paris really is beautiful

so lets jump to the bridge where newly weds were getting their photos taken!

Boat Times!

Tried to get my face and the water and the Eiffel tower. Fail.

cuz

Day 2!

Off to Eiffel tower in the morning after breakfast of a croissant and nutella. Yum!

Managed to get us there via scenic route so we went to the gardens behind it. Was really nice and we sat down on a bench and popped another bottle of Champagne. We have style :) Nothing like champagne in full view of the Eiffel Tower now is there?

Then a walk to the Trocadéro to take more photos

Then du Louvre

The building is more amazing than the art

Have to say wasn't that impressed

All the art jus' seems to be chucked together with not much thought to it

Spoiler Alert! Mona Lisa below!!

Then off to some shopping near the Sacre coeur where I bought some choccy, nutella and grendadine!

Oh and I also bought a J'adore Paris top like this in black

&& finally got a French poster for my room :)

A good and verrrryyy knackering trip I slept nearly all the way home on the train. Can't wait to go back again.

Sorry this post is not to the best of my ability but it was about 3 weeks ago, its taken ages to load all these pics and its quarter past 1 in the morning and I'm rather tired and I am going to go to bed.

Bon nuit

Beard

2011-06-13T20:07:00.004+01:00

Could someone be my beard? Do you think anyone out there would be up for that? Not for gay reasons, 'cos I'm not gay but so that I don't look like a lonely pathetic loser?

Wacky

2011-06-09T01:13:00.002+01:00

It's been a wacky couple of days since finishing uni. I don't think I can totally go into it all on blog. However I will tell you the story of the meeting with my placement officer yesterday morning.

I have to do a month work experience placement in my second year in January for a month and they've asked us to start looking now. We had a few workshops for this in April and May but didn't really want to start anything until I'd finished all my coursework and done my exam.

So off I trotted back to uni less than 24 hours after I'd finished for my meeting with Boo. That's her name.

So I go in and awkwardly get my CV off my email account (which I'd only just updated half an hour before) and awaited the slating.

This didn't happen. Of course there were quite a few changes that needed to be made to my CV. For one make it media tailored. Two more professional as I've had the same sort of layout since school but it has worked as I've got two jobs so clearly wasn't so bad.

She actually praised the fact that I have a blog and that I "produce short films in my spare time". It's not like that isn't true, it's just that I haven't done this in a long time and need to crack a few out. Summer time for definite. I need a crew too so leave comments or DM me on twitter to help me out. Cheeerss.

Then we cracked on to the second page with my employment and volunteer section along side my achievements. And all I got from her was praise. I couldn't get over it. All through the work shops she was telling us just how much stuff we needed on our CVs and I really didn't think I had near enough stuff. But apparently I do. I still can't believe she thought this. She kept going on about how amazing my CV is and everything I've done. She said is my employment and volunteering affecting my grades, which I replied no so far I've got straight Bs. She again thought this was fantastic. She must of been having a great day or something because although Bs are really good I want to be getting an A here and there. However seeing as this year counts for nothing all Bs is fine.

I know I keep going on about it but I genuinely can't believe she thought that much of me. There are so many other candidates out there in the world with work experience within the media already, great portfolios and loads of contacts. I know how harsh it is. Although she was lovely I'm not going to let it affect me as when I get in to the real world with a BA (Hons) in Media Studies I'm going to be rather stuffed.

Anyhoo I'm side tracking. Very sorry.

So she said I could actually hit the big time and apply for some big places. Even the BBC, ITV, Ch4 && Sky!! She said that with my job at Arsenal and interest in sport I could put all my focus there. My fave lecturer, who's sadly leaving, said that Sports journalism is a good place to aim for, it'll never go out of business, you'll always have a job. This I think would be good but I genuinely don't mind where I end up. I actually like quite a lot of media and at this moment in time I am open minded. I do however have a keen interest in TV production and journalism second so that's probably the order I'll apply for my placement types.

She was really really helpful giving me all these exciting places. She then asked me about my blog and I said it's quite general but I could make it more media like. However I've tried this before and it just didn't take off. Then she said make another! A specific one like a sport one. This sounds like a pretty good plan.

And after all this as I was packing up my things to go, she turned to me and asked me a question that blew me away. "Would it be okay if we followed you through our website through your degree? We can track what your up to 'cos your doing so much, you are our shining star and with the fees going up we really need to entice people in and it would be great if we could show what you can achieve with being at university and also follow you when you graduate to see what you get up to?"

:|

Wtf? Follow me? Follow my life not my blog. So of course I said yes but I was very taken aback. So I've got to write 200 words in a couple of weeks and they need a photo but its ok I can pick out a semi decent one. Then I suppose a couple of times of year give them an update on what I'm doing? :/

This just put the biggest smile on my face. I was giddy with happiness. I was doing something right with my life after all. Just keep doing what I'm doing.

This is where I'd like to ask you guys a massive favour.

I love every one of my followers. Yes you and you and you :)
If I did make another blog, or two, would you please please please Please with a cherry on top :)
Follow??
You wouldn't have to read it or comment on it at all. I would just like a few numbers on there so that people will employ me and see that I'm actually doing something as I have to link all my stuff in my CV and I'm not sure Jus' 'Cos is the right kind of material.

&& also another small favour...subscribe to me on youtube? I may make another more formal channel but for now?

I really do love you guys and I do try to get onto all of your blogs when I can but there are a lot of you. For which I am eternally grateful btw :)

That's my little update for now. Sorry I know I still need to do Paris but I want to take pics of my souvenirs and they're all at home.

Till next time.
Thanks for listening.
And following.

Oh and yday I managed to do liquid eyeliner for the first time ever! Yays!

Last Night out in Brighton

2011-06-07T21:22:00.002+01:00

well for my first year.
Come along way since the first one.

The only thing thats changed is my face mucking round on photobooth

&& my hair colour

I finished uni today!

2011-06-06T19:44:00.000+01:00

Sorry I haven't done a Paris post. I'll get onto it. I've just been a bit busy. As the day after Paris, Friday, I was knackered and rested. Saturday had work at the library then went straight to Brighton and then cracked on with revision. Revision all day Sunday. Then exam today and now I'm finished :D

After my exam literally couldn't get this out of my head.

I went into town to buy something for myself as a present. Bought a top for tonight. It's Tessa's birthday (my flatmate) so going out and to also celebrate finishing.

It's so weird to be finished. This year has gone SO fast. It's actually quite scary. Before I know it I'll be graduating and have to get a real job in the real world!! ://

But for now I guess I should just enjoy my summer as you don't get all this time off in the real world so I better make it count. No plans as such, just hope to get some more work, have fun, turn twenty and you never know maybe a last minute get away could be on the cards?

I just wanna say thanks to everyone for sticking with me through this first year. Been a very insightful and interesting year. My best blogging year by far.

In Brighton until Friday, then Landannn!

Be kinda weird to leave this place tbh and just living with my parents again. Sorry I'm rambling, I'll do a proper post about leaving when I move out friday.

Time to celebrate!

Dear 16 year old me..

2011-06-03T20:31:00.001+01:00

..I was about to do a post of a letter to myself when I saw the title of this video. Until I watched it. It has a serious message. Forward it on.

Little Trip

2011-05-31T01:01:00.006+01:00

I'm off to Paris tomorrrowww!

Je suis trés excité. It's only for a night and two days but still it's Paris and I lovvvee it. It's taken too long to go back. Last time was there was only the first time and I was 16 on a school trip.

Where I stayed in a hostile in the Paris Ghetto. As you can tell from my vue. Kinda cool to see that side of it and where the majority of French rap emerges. Which is by the way awesome.

It was also bloody freezing so it'll be nice to see Paris in the sunshine. I also won't have to keep ordering un chocolat chaud but instead un coca light s'il vous plaît ou une glace.

(thats a tiny bit of la tour eiffel there<)

Sad thing is I probably knew more French then than I do now. I've forgotten so much of it. However going to the country helps a lot so you never know I might greatly improve. However the Parisians are a bit picky. Usually other countries like it when you have a go in their native tongue rather than speaking English. However the Parisians like you to speak fluent French or not at all. Which works if you're ordering stuff. We'll see how it goes. Today I've watched Amelie. I came onto the comp to update my iPod for the journey and listen to some French music and ended up with UK and US hip hop (Y). Found a great new song though by my two new fave artists of that genre, one from the UK and one from the US.

Have a listen.

So back to my trip. On the 10 o'clock train from St Pancras and on the 10 o'clock train again the following day but in the evening. Should be exciting. I've been on the eurostar before but was going from Ashford as my cousin lives in Dartford and that was easier. That was when I went to Disneyland and not Paris itself. So exciting also as I get to go into la Gare du Nord :)

me and my auntie on the tea cups

also winter

Most of my packing will be done at home tomorrow but I've noted down the things I must NOT forget from Brighton. These are:

Electronics is like all cables like phone charger but didn't know all the French for that. I'm packing nice clothes as well. Paris is the fashion capital. What I would wear to a dressy event here I'll have to wear during the day there. This notion has partially been influenced by the book I Heart Paris by Lindsey Kelk, the third of the I Heart series. Definitely worth a read guys. Oh gosh typing this out is making me more excited and I need to be sleepy to get up early. So I think I'll have to leave it there. Cya when I rendezvous back in London :)

À bientôt

Show Time

2011-05-27T01:41:00.002+01:00

Yesturday I went to see Priscilla Queen of the Desert again with Raji, Kelsey and Yasmin. I thought the show was just as awesome as it was before. My review from before is here! The people were the same apart from the character Tick who is Australian and in both popular Aussie soaps Neighbours and Home and Away. Adam is still my favourite character :)

It was nice to catch up with you guys again. More rolf gang/some of the rolf gang times needed. Summer perhaps?

Kreativ Blogger Award

2011-05-23T01:49:00.003+01:00

I've never really done these award things but thought I should this time as Raji from Flights of Fancy nominated me and did such a nice post about it so I thought it ought to be done. So thank you very much for nominating me for this award :)

Rules are as follows;

1. Thank the person who gave you this award and link back to them in your post

2. Tell us 10 things about yourself

3. Nominate 10 bloggers

4. Contact these bloggers and let them know they have received the award

It's really hard to think of 10 things about myself I haven't mentioned on my blog before. I tell you guys everything. You're probably sick of it. Oh well I guess you'll just have to deal with it :)

One. I like to talk like a G.
Two. I'm obsessed with Vampires. Blame my Dad he let me watch Buffy from the age of seven.
Three. I'm addicted to Pepsi Max/Coke Zero/Diet Coke, basically non fat coke.
Four. I love Green Day. The American Idiot musical should of been about my life at 14.
Five. I play drums but haven't played in a year. I miss it.
Six. I love to know random facts. For example in the UK you are never more than 70 miles away from the sea.
Seven. After four years I still can't do Knights of Cydonia by Muse on Hard on guitar hero, therefore cannot complete the game :(
Eight. I think The Cure must of time traveled & took a peek in my brain to produce music that makes my spine tingle.
Nine. I love my job at Arsenal. Its not work to me.
Ten. I love my Mac and any Apple product. Apple whore.

I nominate:

*Welcome To My World*
And Rainbow's do taste like sherbet sticks
Day Dream Believer
Because online I crave attention, like a caffeine-riddled child with ADHD
My Addiction
Zack's Thoughts
how it could be
g.l.o.r.i.l.i.c.i.o.u.s
davidberry
LOOKING UP AT THE WORLD

Girlie Post

2011-05-23T00:51:00.003+01:00

My mascara has been getting pretty sticky so I noticed it was time to buy a new one. Until a year ago I didn't wear make up every day so buying mascara wasn't that much of a big deal. Though to be honest its not that much of a big deal now. You see my eye lashes are tiny. Really they are. You can't curl them with an eyelash curler they're so short. Many men have longer eye lashes than me. It's irritating. So it's not as if mascara makes a lot of difference, hence why I was never bothered about wearing it before, but I have succumbed to the notion of women wearing make up regularly, I don't like it but it's hard to get out of.

With my eyelashes being so short its difficult to find something thats going to make them stand out. The best one I've found is Rimmel Sexy curves because the brush is wavy.

Me with 'Sexy Curves' lool immature

tried to find best pic where you could actually see my eyelashes for a change

However this time I thought I'd change it up a bit. As I saw the new rimmel mascara advert, I thought I'd go for that one as it was £2 off. Although I was really quite intrigued about the new battery powered mascara but I can't remember where its from. It span both ways and I had a little play on it. I came to the conclusion that it was probably a bit of a gimmick and if it did actually work, it wouldn't work for me.

So in the end I opted for the new Rimmle Day and Night.

This is my face as my face.

I apologise for my face.

This is 'Lengh' Maybe for the Night as its black?

Any difference?

I thought it made them look longer but not thicker. Which I guess is what it's aiming for?

Now for 'Volume'

What do we think?

I'll put them back to back

Yeah I can't tell that much either.

Also didn't like it when I tried to do volume over length so have to figure something out :/

Btw I don't edit my pics. My face is that ugly. Also I know I look fucked off in every photo but that is generally my face. If I wasn't smiling people would always be like "You look happy" "What's wrong?" "Why are you angry?" and I'd be perfectly fine. It was't until watching America's Next Top Model when Tyra said to one of the girls "You have a down turned mouth, you have to watch that. It can give you attitude in some pictures but make you look really miserable in others" and I think thats why I have. Like my passport and driving license looks like a proper criminal mug shot. But there you go.

So Rimmel Day and Night seems ok.

Just got changed and didn't realise but...

2011-05-22T00:04:00.000+01:00

My PJs and Undies Match!

I just picked them out the draws without realising!
&& they're from two different shops

This is what my life has come to :) (Being stuck in a room all day procrastinating has brought me here)

Saw Doc Brown at Komedia yday

2011-05-20T20:13:00.001+01:00

He was HIL-AR-IOUS
not really seen a comedian talking bout "street jokes"
The whole place was laughing but I think its funnier for people that know the slang

He's actually a really big rap star and when I looked him up loadsa things came up on youtube. He's pretty good.

&& he's still going 'cos he does the "Get that Snitch" song in Attack the Block (the one that goes Brap Brap Brap!)

Check him out :)

Feeling Nandos

2011-05-20T19:12:00.001+01:00

So researched it
and this made me laugh

Only one in Brighton. Next closest is 20 miles away in Crawley lol

Whereas at home I have 5 under 5 miles lol

Anything to do with the area maybe lol?

Brighton's pretty posh, we're clearly not

All I know is right now I want nandos & I wouldn't have to walk 20 mins to get it if I was home, I could jus' hop on the 86

About 25 sleeps left in halls

2011-05-19T04:28:00.001+01:00

not including tonight as a I probably won't sleep
seriously nothing makes me more angrier than not being able to sleep
accept being half angry at myself for not sleeping sooner and sleep through this rowdy lot upstairs

Jen's in Brighton

2011-05-18T21:52:00.000+01:00

Eurovision

2011-05-17T00:32:00.003+01:00

Held in Germany this year. I had a little Eurovision party as I find its the best way to spend Eurovision. We all picked a country to represent and all cheered on the UK as well together. I was Sweden.

Thought they actually had a cool song. Had the same sort of meaning/feeling as the Glee song Loser Like Me saying that I might be nobody now but I'll be somebody some day. The singer, Eric Saade, actually read out the results from Sweden last year, pretty cool huh? This is the song below. It's not done by the actual artist but I thought this video was pretty cool and the guy does it all himself.

Sweden came third in the end which is pretty good. Azerbaijan won but I thought their song was lame. The UK actually came 11th! E-lev-enth!!! On the higher scoring side of the leader board would you believe. Good ol' Blue. I still love them. Jedward did pretty damn good coming 8th as well!
Until next year.

I finished Greek today

2011-05-14T03:06:00.004+01:00

I already miss it :(

Mernet (Promised Anecdote)

2011-05-14T02:52:00.000+01:00

I visited a voluntary corporation called Active Student, which work for the University, back in February to get in some volunteering for something to do and for the CV. I agreed to meet with this company, if they'd have me, called Mernet: Mernet is a not-for-profit, independent, non-aligned and non-partisan regional organisation, specialising in news and information gathering, strategic research and training on environment, human rights, development, social justice and civil liberties in the Mediterranean countries. (from their facebook)

They were looking for people to do some writing for leaflets, vox pops, mediary stuff basically so thought I'd give it a go. Unfortunately couldn't meet till today cos he was busy and then I was busy etc etc.

So today took a little walk to Queens Road in Brighton which is only 15 minutes away from me to meet the head of the organisation. Was quite nerve racking, felt like a job interview. Brighton was heaving and it was hot too which really didn't help.

So I get there nice and early and stood outside to cool off and sort myself out before going in. This however didn't work as the sun was beating down on me and it was really windy so couldn't brush my hair. Fail. So I just went in instead.

I told the woman I was there and she called up the guy, who's name is Umit (I asked my friend and its Turkish) and they sent me up to the 4th floor. I got the lift. Wasn't really sure what to expect but wasn't really what I saw. It was a room with four other people in there working on computers, a small coffee table and some chairs. Met Umit, shook hands and he pointed at the pink chairs and said "They're the comfiest" so I went to sit down. And what did I do. Oh yes you've got it. Sarah O'Brien made a fool of herself once again, something to put in the diary. I stacked it. Embarrassing much? I tried to avoid the subject of me tripping and at first I was actually ok with it until he was massively concerned and then said "Don't Worry, we're insured" lol he was really nice. I was just thinking about what the other people thought but hopefully they were engrossed in what they were doing. Not likely though as they put their headphones in later.

So we moved on and had a nice chat. But I started to heat up. I was so hot, even with my chilling out time outside the place. The room was warm, I'd stacked it, I was probably blushing. All going wrong. He kept offering me food and drink but I pleasantly declined. Chatting lasted about an hour and talked about what I can do/what he'd like me to do. He is himself a journalist and has been for the past 25 years and when I told him I had an interest in it he seemed keen on getting me onto some writing and helping me out. He was also keen on my video skills and looks like I'm going to be the video person. Which is good, I've missed cameras. After this he offered me food again then we went on a little tour of the place. Saw that there was actually lil other charity/non profit organisations there which explains why they had such a small office as they're not the only ones working there. We went half way down the stairs and he pointed out the ladies to me and as I walked back up the stairs, guess what I did. Yep. Stacked it. I really was Lizzie McGuire today. He was so concerned. I blamed it on my shoes saying they were "new". They're not but I think I didn't tie them tight or something 'cos when I was tripping I hit the front of it and obv didn't feel nothing so then fell as my toes weren't there. As we were going round the rest of the building I was really watching my step lol. Especially when we were on the balcony and then the roof looking at the sea. It was a long way down :|.

Went back to the room and he offered me food then said I could stay as long as I could but I couldn't really as got an assignment to do so we parted ways and I said goodbye to everyone working in the room and they all said "Bye Sarah!" and waved lol it was so cute. Umit took me downstairs and wished me a lovely weekend and we parted ways. He's such a nice man, I think it'll be good to work there. Also no one is English, its great. Everyones from a different country. With the people in the room he just pointed to them going "That's Italy, That's Spain, Italy, Greece and that there was France but we're getting someone from over there again soon" Maybe when I'm there and someone visits he'll go "There's England" :) So its really cool that I get to meet loadsa different people with cool accents. I'm quite excited.

I came back to my flat and procrastinated loads but managed to write another 500 words and finish my Synopsis of Chapters section of my Book Proposal. I'm getting there!

Sorry Work is consuming my time

2011-05-11T22:31:00.000+01:00

But might have an anecdote for you tomorrow or friday. We'll jus' have to see if my life gets more interesting than me in my room procrastinating/working.

Atm working on a presentation about Internet Access and looking for pics and came across this..

I think its cool and pretty.

Can you guess what it is?

I be British

2011-05-09T16:47:00.003+01:00

Finally got myself a flag

The Perks of the Job

2011-05-03T01:43:00.000+01:00

I was on tv yday :) Not properly jus' snippets of me. Here I am! (All pictures property of Sky Sports)

That's me by the Red and White flag

I'm wearing my shades :)

OTT I know but heck doesn't happen often. Or maybe jus' 'cos it's the first time and then I'll be over it.

Love my job :)

Royal Wedding

2011-05-03T01:28:00.000+01:00

I was going to do a really good post about the Royal Wedding on friday but I've left it a few days now and the excitement from the occasion has dwindled. So here are my tweets from the day instead :) (in twitter order of the first one being at the bottom)

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

My optimism has gone down, I'm never gonna find anyone like Will at uni :(

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

Feel sorry for everyone who has to work today. People in sainsburys pissed they missed the wedding

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

@KelseyFenton he is indeed :p but apparently he likes blondes *gets the hair dye out*

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

#RoyalWedding #rw11#proudtobebritishPippa QILF Fearne Cotton Buckingham Palace Sarah Burton Camilla Huw Edwards loving the trending today

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

This is almost like a disney film. I wanna be a princess

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

Love how Kate waving like us commoners do #royalwedding

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

@yasminleroff lol yeah :p love the red :)

29 Apr

SezzaXD Sarah Rose O'Brien

Flags at the ready, lets watch a royal wedding

Didn't get any flags apart from these freebies my dad picked up. They were position nicely on the day, this is them on saturday flailing.

The wedding was basically awesome. We showed the rest of the world jus' how cool we are :)

Maths Problem

2011-04-28T17:56:00.000+01:00

So I'm at work and I mean literally, this isn't an anecdote. I just read the Library services weekly newsletter and at the bottom of it is the 'Brainteaser Corner'. It has a maths problem and I tried working it out for about half an hour and I jus' can't do it. There isn't even an answer on the back so I can work backwards and see how you get that answer. I know its been a long time since maths GCSE (which I did get an A in btw so I'm not that bad at maths) so I thought and try and see if I could still do it/improve my maths skills but even my colleague coudln't work it out. Can anyone put me out of my misery and solve it for me please?

Here it is:

Daniel, my son, is exactly one fifith of my age. In 21 years time, I will be exactly twice his age. My wife is exactly seven times older than my daughter, Jessica. In 8 years time, my wife will be three times older than Jessica. How old are Daniel and Jessica now?

If you do manage to work it out could you tell me how you solved it as well please.

Thanks, Good Luck.
&&
Happy Problem Solving

Chocolate

2011-04-26T15:24:00.000+01:00

I gave up chocolate successfully for lent and managed a full 6 weeks without it. I was kind of excited to have my first bite of chocolate again but at the same time didn't wanna undo all my good work. Surprisingly, I didn't miss chocolate that much and could actually live without it. My first easter egg actually made my teeth hurt 'cos I wasn't used to the high sugar content. So after a week of chocolate eating, I'm giving it up again.

I've tried giving up chocolate before and never really followed it through. The difference with it being lent is that when you don't eat it and people ask why and you say lent they accept that and move on. However if the reason is something about eating healthier or anything else really people always comment on it or try to coerce you into having some. That's why I think it's going to be harder to give it up outside of lent but I'm going to try. Could even say I don't like chocolate 'cos there are some people out there like that. So yeah I'ma try again :)

Happy Easter

2011-04-24T23:00:00.000+01:00

The Royal Wedding...it's only a week away!

2011-04-22T01:19:00.003+01:00

Anyone getting excited yet?
I know there's a lot of haters bout the Royals but I like them so snap! :) (I've been watching the old Ugly Betty's..I got that one from Justin)
I'm quite looking forward to this as its the first Royal Wedding in my life time.
So to get us all in the mood, check out this vid, made me laff

all the people actually look like the real people as well
(apart form Charles tbh)