After an hour pressing that dainty button on BlogSpot called “Next Blog”, I’ve finally come to the conclusion that BlogSpot is purely about artisans. All BlogSpot seems to have is webpage’s of people who are involved in photography, art, poems, writing, scrapbooking, and a few other things like music and there are also webpage’s dedicated to gardeners sharing their tips on plants and landscaping. This got me thinking; What else would you blog about? You could only really blog about your daily life, well, which parts that are the most interesting and pleasurable. Most of those parts would be hobbies and such.
Many people have decided to take their hobbies that bit further such as the likes of Blue Table Painting were the owner (Shaun Gately), left his job as a teacher in a primary school when his father died, and became an entrepreneur. He had in interest in miniatures such as Warhammer. The story goes, that his father on his death bed with terminal cancer, told him that he should follow his passion and dream with all his heart and strength. Shaun did just that and now he has an extremely successful business which he wakes up to at 5am, and runs out to with passion each morning.
Some of these blogs captures the very essence of passion in people. They write everyday or every week and share their moments in life, be it positive or negative. They don’t really mind if no one views their post that week or if they managed to get 30 views. With their hobbies they share on the internet, comes writing. They enjoy their hobbies, and they want other people to know their deep love for it, and to do that, they write about it.
I don’t have many other hobbies, come to think about it. I’m 17 and I don’t really have the wisdom or knowledge that I can share with other people. I’m still learning about myself and the world and what’s there to give if those people have all ready been through it. You keep learning till the day you die and even after, depending on your beliefs.
I list up all my hobbies and when thought about, they aren’t really hobbies. They are things in which I dabble in now and again and I don’t really have a profound interest in. Some days I would just look up things on it and nothing else; a day dedicated to which ever ‘hobby’ takes my fancy. Then the next day, I’ve lost all interest in it. I still to find my ‘comfort’ in life and it might be writing. I could go my whole life writing about not doing anything or still to find my little part in the world, when all the time it was writing that was my forte. However, I’m a fast paced person and I quickly get bored, or bore, so I don’t really develop well and take it to another stage such as drawing or learning guitar. I never really develop it and so whatever I do, I haven’t gained a skill. As I said, I’ve still to find my little part in the world which will hold my interest throughout life. Starting a hobby is hard and I’d rather find I have a natural talent for something and then I would stick with it. Unfortunately, I’ve never really been good at anything and doesn’t last long.
Right now, I’m not too sure what I have to give and preferably I’m a person who takes, if that doesn’t sound too selfish. I am the observer. I mainly stand back, listen or watch and look at human nature and what people are truly like. Sometimes, I stand back (in amazement), and see people not being themselves and its obvious if you’ve been observing all your life that they aren’t the ‘human’ form. These people act because they know that their true ‘form’ isn’t socially acceptable or that it was their parents that have told them that their ‘natural’ behaviour isn’t acceptable. If they were natural, they were told, they wouldn’t get very far in life and thus you must mould yourself to the’ horrible fake being’ in which you will succeed. A ‘horrible fake being’ which allows you to make many acquaintances, have a good job, and live a good life. I’m sorry, I mustn’t go on as I may be looked upon as being a bitch and talking about others, thus I will be left with no friends...
What is the standard ‘human’ form you ask? I believe it’s being yourself therefore, there is no ‘standard’. That’s ok if you prefer to act your way through life, but I doubt I will ever trust you.
Maybe I will have to find myself through my writing and once I’ve found myself I will be able to give and therefore receive much more.
My ‘writing’s’ are rather jumbled up and again I will say this, I am a very jumbled up person but if I write more about these type of things I will be able to iron them out quicker and then you’ll be able to understand me more. Writing is a bit like a catalyst then, to find out about yourself.
People go on BlogSpot, to discover themselves, or let other people discover them.
Leave everything, and continue your passion. Make it your job. I have yet to find my passion, even though I say it is many things such as writing. No one can really tell you what your passion is and you have learn and find it yourself. Develop it and love it. Wake up to it, live it and breathe it. Don’t settle for a job in which you earn £35,000 yet you hate waking up to it and loathe it. What are you going to do with that money anyway? Buy a new car and then after 3 months of it you get fed up. You only bought it for the thrill of spending and even then it makes you greedy.
I don’t want a highly paid job because I don’t want the money. Look at what money has done to society. It’s turned us all into greedy pigs causing global damage upon the environment.
I want to live on the basics. I don’t need a mobile phone with touch screen or the new issue of Heat magazine to keep me informed of overpaid blonde bimbos. A typewriter and a cup of tea is all I need... for now.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Gook on Gook
Ok, I need to blog more. It’s a good start for any writer and at this stage of the year, I want to be a writer now. Why? Because I have a little crush for it. Ever since I got a diary in P5 for my birthday (many thanks to Holly Wales, I still remember), I have been writing in it. Yes, the very same book. I only really write if anything good has happened or significant which would be interesting to the reader in the future. It would be rather boring if they sat and read 3 pages on when and which way I got my hair cut, although it is interesting to know that I haven’t had my hair cut since June before holidays and I’m not intending for it to be cut anytime soon.
Ever since Alan Bennett first appeared on TV, no not the 70’s or 80’s, but two weeks ago when I first ‘met’ him while sitting on the sofa as I glanced up and down from the laptop screen and vaguely taking in what he was saying about himself, I’ve been intrigued in his writing and this strange writer he keeps referring to called Virginia Woolf. More and more I became interested in how he used the English language, style and techniques.
He’s inspired me to write and that has happened to me several times throughout my short life. Watching the Anne Frank film inspired me to write and write and then publish it. Of course you can never have a more famous diary writer her because of what she went through. However, I feel that my diaries are maybe that little bit more special; it started life with a girl of 9 and has now progressed to a young woman of 17 preparing herself for a turbulent but yet enjoyable life. It has seen the changes in morals, beliefs, and intruded on personal goings on between peers, parents and relationships. It is that little bit more special. Though, I’m not the only one to be writing a diary during those years as many people do find writing a sort of comfort and friend during that period of hardship. Many diaries, once the person has finished their life, couldn’t be bothered, or simply has given up on writing due to more important appointments, is simply discarded and thrown out, forgotten about, or locked away never to be read again. Only very few diaries would be published and even then they have to pass the scrupulous eye of the editor or publisher and may get turned down. My diary is no more special than anyone else’s, but I would think it to be a little more interesting than an adults.
Anne Frank’s diaries are the best known in the world and have inspired many people to take on diary writing but to no avail has anyone beaten her. To have your diary to be become a best seller, it has to be different, exciting, interesting, generally make everyone feel like they relate to you and allow them to go through the same emotions you had while writing it. You can’t make you life exciting, interesting, or different if it really isn’t like that. But if it naturally is like that and you still have time to write it all down, well you could be onto a winner. In fact, just thinking about it, a writer must choose his words wisely as even then, you could write all this exciting things down and yet not create that excitement within the reader due to using non-descriptive or the ‘right’ words.
I’m repeating myself and not really thinking this over. As you can tell it’s just thoughts being written down. Please note this.
Once I met Alan Bennett, he always seems to be saying what I write. Strange but anyway who cares. His style of writing, or talking for that matter, is slow and I don’t mean he talks slow and strings out his words for more than it is needed. It’s wordy but necessary to be able to understand it and also make it funny. His ‘jokes’ are well planned and to be able to understand them, you must listen. His plays are also award winning and when talking about his life when his was younger, I can almost relate to him which is useful, including talking about his shyness.
Unfortunately, many of today’s generation have a lack of concentration to even sit down for 10 minutes to listen, read or write for that matter. They don’t have blogs, or very very few do. Instead they have Bebo and Facebook in which it’s like “collect 500 ‘unknown’ friends and get a WKD gift voucher”, i.e. it’s a game and a goal to collect as many people as you can; people who can track you down, hack your account, get your IP address and the track your home address using that...I’ve scared myself now.
People need to slow down a bit more, read a book or two, listen and gain knowledge from their elders and then set out on life with the knowledge they have gained so that they do not make stupid mistakes. Many ‘elders’, infact I bet you all of them, have gone through ‘it’ (insert whatever dilemma you like) and can tell you before your own has happened, how to avoid it and make it less painful so you can then enjoy life that little bit better. Most people when they reach the middle age mark always say they wish they could have done or not done this or that and to really make each day count.
I choose to write because it lets me know of my past and thus let me shape my future. A little piece of my history, in ink or pencil on paper, and that makes me feel good and gives me a sort of rush to know that my children and future generations will read it and hopefully cherish it. It allows them to know my weaknesses and mistakes and hopefully allows them to make less mistakes and to enjoy their life even more than myself. I want them to know that ‘Grandma’, or ‘Omi’ as I would rather like to be referred to when I hit that age, went through it herself at 14.
I should be writing an essay on enzymes right about now. Meh
I have a passion for writing and was instructed to continue writing creatively. I will write creatively, when I have the time and that I get more into writing, but for now I’ll stick to diary keeping and once I’ve found that a little bit too easy, I will then go ahead and write creatively and for more of a challenge.
I’ve also considered journalism because I like writing and I like history. So it would be a good chance to be included in a little bit of local history; if they ever quote a local piece of work such as an article for a source, my name would be on the bottom of it and hopefully spelt right and I’ll make sure they do.
I have a tremendous interest in history and to be quoted in a future source of some sort, such as one of my diary entries on a topic in a history exam, would be rather pleasing as I’ve seen some personal accounts so far in A-level history.
Wish I could write this much so fast for school essays.
What to do, What to do?
I’m currently heading to be a pathologist. Well, actually I’m not because I have a long way to go before I ever get there and as I do, I always change my mind. Writing is a hard job, but I’d get so much pleasure and satisfaction from it and I suppose whatever job I love and feel good about, I should aim for it. Tough decision. Money or pleasure? Secure or not so secure? I rather take the pleasure but I’m not too keen on being unsecure, sure that’s what husbands are for, bread winners and someone to fall back on when it doesn’t quite work out. You’re going say that’s sexist now, but I’m not trying to be.
So, sacrifice some time to writing than a-levels and then completely change my opinion on writing and it doesn’t work out and then I don’t have good enough a-levels for the ‘original’ career? (whatever that career was)Or turn to writing, work hard at a passion, love it, wallow in it, succeed and become a best seller at something you love. Sounds good but still not as stable because everyone looks at qualifications instead and bases the person on that if I do sacrifice my studies. Hmm, I’ll have to think about this one. One can take writing courses. One doesn’t need a great salary to live and it’s better live on minimal rather than indulging in luxuries, being greedy, and then ending up in debt. Start small, keep small and then you won’t have far to fall. Easy peasy.
Anyway, I’ll stop now before going on about something else and getting lost and unable to climb back. Just a few thoughts for the day or week, I guess.
Could do a 30 day challenge soon? What you think?
New Years revolution should be...
Do what you enjoy and not what makes you miserable. You only live once so make use of it. Live each day like it’s your last, and progress in writing more.
...Nothing hard or anything.
Ever since Alan Bennett first appeared on TV, no not the 70’s or 80’s, but two weeks ago when I first ‘met’ him while sitting on the sofa as I glanced up and down from the laptop screen and vaguely taking in what he was saying about himself, I’ve been intrigued in his writing and this strange writer he keeps referring to called Virginia Woolf. More and more I became interested in how he used the English language, style and techniques.
He’s inspired me to write and that has happened to me several times throughout my short life. Watching the Anne Frank film inspired me to write and write and then publish it. Of course you can never have a more famous diary writer her because of what she went through. However, I feel that my diaries are maybe that little bit more special; it started life with a girl of 9 and has now progressed to a young woman of 17 preparing herself for a turbulent but yet enjoyable life. It has seen the changes in morals, beliefs, and intruded on personal goings on between peers, parents and relationships. It is that little bit more special. Though, I’m not the only one to be writing a diary during those years as many people do find writing a sort of comfort and friend during that period of hardship. Many diaries, once the person has finished their life, couldn’t be bothered, or simply has given up on writing due to more important appointments, is simply discarded and thrown out, forgotten about, or locked away never to be read again. Only very few diaries would be published and even then they have to pass the scrupulous eye of the editor or publisher and may get turned down. My diary is no more special than anyone else’s, but I would think it to be a little more interesting than an adults.
Anne Frank’s diaries are the best known in the world and have inspired many people to take on diary writing but to no avail has anyone beaten her. To have your diary to be become a best seller, it has to be different, exciting, interesting, generally make everyone feel like they relate to you and allow them to go through the same emotions you had while writing it. You can’t make you life exciting, interesting, or different if it really isn’t like that. But if it naturally is like that and you still have time to write it all down, well you could be onto a winner. In fact, just thinking about it, a writer must choose his words wisely as even then, you could write all this exciting things down and yet not create that excitement within the reader due to using non-descriptive or the ‘right’ words.
I’m repeating myself and not really thinking this over. As you can tell it’s just thoughts being written down. Please note this.
Once I met Alan Bennett, he always seems to be saying what I write. Strange but anyway who cares. His style of writing, or talking for that matter, is slow and I don’t mean he talks slow and strings out his words for more than it is needed. It’s wordy but necessary to be able to understand it and also make it funny. His ‘jokes’ are well planned and to be able to understand them, you must listen. His plays are also award winning and when talking about his life when his was younger, I can almost relate to him which is useful, including talking about his shyness.
Unfortunately, many of today’s generation have a lack of concentration to even sit down for 10 minutes to listen, read or write for that matter. They don’t have blogs, or very very few do. Instead they have Bebo and Facebook in which it’s like “collect 500 ‘unknown’ friends and get a WKD gift voucher”, i.e. it’s a game and a goal to collect as many people as you can; people who can track you down, hack your account, get your IP address and the track your home address using that...I’ve scared myself now.
People need to slow down a bit more, read a book or two, listen and gain knowledge from their elders and then set out on life with the knowledge they have gained so that they do not make stupid mistakes. Many ‘elders’, infact I bet you all of them, have gone through ‘it’ (insert whatever dilemma you like) and can tell you before your own has happened, how to avoid it and make it less painful so you can then enjoy life that little bit better. Most people when they reach the middle age mark always say they wish they could have done or not done this or that and to really make each day count.
I choose to write because it lets me know of my past and thus let me shape my future. A little piece of my history, in ink or pencil on paper, and that makes me feel good and gives me a sort of rush to know that my children and future generations will read it and hopefully cherish it. It allows them to know my weaknesses and mistakes and hopefully allows them to make less mistakes and to enjoy their life even more than myself. I want them to know that ‘Grandma’, or ‘Omi’ as I would rather like to be referred to when I hit that age, went through it herself at 14.
I should be writing an essay on enzymes right about now. Meh
I have a passion for writing and was instructed to continue writing creatively. I will write creatively, when I have the time and that I get more into writing, but for now I’ll stick to diary keeping and once I’ve found that a little bit too easy, I will then go ahead and write creatively and for more of a challenge.
I’ve also considered journalism because I like writing and I like history. So it would be a good chance to be included in a little bit of local history; if they ever quote a local piece of work such as an article for a source, my name would be on the bottom of it and hopefully spelt right and I’ll make sure they do.
I have a tremendous interest in history and to be quoted in a future source of some sort, such as one of my diary entries on a topic in a history exam, would be rather pleasing as I’ve seen some personal accounts so far in A-level history.
Wish I could write this much so fast for school essays.
What to do, What to do?
I’m currently heading to be a pathologist. Well, actually I’m not because I have a long way to go before I ever get there and as I do, I always change my mind. Writing is a hard job, but I’d get so much pleasure and satisfaction from it and I suppose whatever job I love and feel good about, I should aim for it. Tough decision. Money or pleasure? Secure or not so secure? I rather take the pleasure but I’m not too keen on being unsecure, sure that’s what husbands are for, bread winners and someone to fall back on when it doesn’t quite work out. You’re going say that’s sexist now, but I’m not trying to be.
So, sacrifice some time to writing than a-levels and then completely change my opinion on writing and it doesn’t work out and then I don’t have good enough a-levels for the ‘original’ career? (whatever that career was)Or turn to writing, work hard at a passion, love it, wallow in it, succeed and become a best seller at something you love. Sounds good but still not as stable because everyone looks at qualifications instead and bases the person on that if I do sacrifice my studies. Hmm, I’ll have to think about this one. One can take writing courses. One doesn’t need a great salary to live and it’s better live on minimal rather than indulging in luxuries, being greedy, and then ending up in debt. Start small, keep small and then you won’t have far to fall. Easy peasy.
Anyway, I’ll stop now before going on about something else and getting lost and unable to climb back. Just a few thoughts for the day or week, I guess.
Could do a 30 day challenge soon? What you think?
New Years revolution should be...
Do what you enjoy and not what makes you miserable. You only live once so make use of it. Live each day like it’s your last, and progress in writing more.
...Nothing hard or anything.
Monday, 7 December 2009
Meaning of Life?
During the past few months or weeks, I’ve been sitting here and really pondering and why I’m always chopping and changing on what I’m heading for in life. It’s been 17 years (and a bit) since I was born and I’ve still not discovered the ‘meaning of life’.
Many people, time and time again, have been trying to answer the question or decipher the meaning. Truth be told, and probably people already know this, but we all have our own meanings or make them. Born for a reason. Lived for a reason. Died for a reason. One thing leads to another and even up until the day you die, we all still wonder, “What the hell was that all about?” due to being distracted from the ‘structure’ that’s been forced on us.
Is it better to be just a few elements and compounds rather than an organism that thinks for its self? Torments itself with questions, reasons and meanings?
People go through school and college. They know exactly what they want to do when they are older or after education. They work hard. They give up the hobbies they enjoy and love. They work and make notes over and over again on the previous notes taken in classes. They read them over and over again and memorize it. They then sit the exam. They get their results. They’re excellent results. Best in their class or school. They go out to work. Or take a degree on their career choice. 2 months working or studying....”This isn’t what I thought it would be...”. Ends up that what you thought it would be was just inside your head. You didn’t research it enough or even took the time to read about it. Didn’t talk to people or ask questions.
In fact you did read about it and talked to people but you didn’t understand yourself. You didn’t understand what interests you have. What you like or dislike. Whether you are scientific or artistic. You went by the rules which teachers fed into you and the authoritarian ways has dissolved the last of the curiosity that you had in your childhood.
Pressures of growing up fast. Celebrities, TV shows, soaps, drama, drinking, mobile phones and technology. Rush, rush, rush, to get things done and never ‘time’ to actually stay still and watch the people around you, create, preserve, change, or find personal interests. Education has taken that out and instead poured in more exams. They even structure art subjects. Is that even ‘legal’?
Government says you must do this and that to be successful. You must learn hard about that subject and take exams in order to make a good decent living.
You don’t like the subject you are studying and its grinding you down. You do bits of it and then forget about it. You procrastinate over it and put it off every day and then wait until the last minute to do it and make a who-ha and ends up being rubbish.
Why bother doing it when in that time you could be learning something that excites you, makes you curious, and interests you and it’s something you’re good at.
I find that if I’m not pushed into learning about something and that I get information shoved down my throat on it or it’s a topic I’m not interested in, I don’t learn it any better. If I take my time learning something and get it right the first time and find that there is an actual interesting bit off the side of it, I will take the time to research it and investigate it.
However, I bet people or the government would argue that everyone needs structure in education and without it, no one would learn and rather go out and drink with the benefits money they got.
How about reverse psychology? “Ok you don’t have to go to school and you can while away the hours on Facebook and Bebo but you won’t learn anything other than someone is going out with someone or someone’s been dumped. Plus you won’t get any benefits.” After a while those people would actually turn to education because it’s a human instinct to learn. If it wasn’t an instinct, we wouldn’t have the wheel or even TV.
But let’s not have an education system that shoves the information down our throats. Let’s have a system where it gets our curiosity going and not jail us up for 6 hours. Allows us to not form a career based on facts given to us but a career that we can discover ourselves through hobbies or our own interests and give our life a meaning instead of consistently drifting from career to career searching.
BTEC? Na, that doesn’t count.
Never flaming happy? Yeah, that’s me alright!
Confused person? Yeah, me again.
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” - Agatha Christie
Many people, time and time again, have been trying to answer the question or decipher the meaning. Truth be told, and probably people already know this, but we all have our own meanings or make them. Born for a reason. Lived for a reason. Died for a reason. One thing leads to another and even up until the day you die, we all still wonder, “What the hell was that all about?” due to being distracted from the ‘structure’ that’s been forced on us.
Is it better to be just a few elements and compounds rather than an organism that thinks for its self? Torments itself with questions, reasons and meanings?
People go through school and college. They know exactly what they want to do when they are older or after education. They work hard. They give up the hobbies they enjoy and love. They work and make notes over and over again on the previous notes taken in classes. They read them over and over again and memorize it. They then sit the exam. They get their results. They’re excellent results. Best in their class or school. They go out to work. Or take a degree on their career choice. 2 months working or studying....”This isn’t what I thought it would be...”. Ends up that what you thought it would be was just inside your head. You didn’t research it enough or even took the time to read about it. Didn’t talk to people or ask questions.
In fact you did read about it and talked to people but you didn’t understand yourself. You didn’t understand what interests you have. What you like or dislike. Whether you are scientific or artistic. You went by the rules which teachers fed into you and the authoritarian ways has dissolved the last of the curiosity that you had in your childhood.
Pressures of growing up fast. Celebrities, TV shows, soaps, drama, drinking, mobile phones and technology. Rush, rush, rush, to get things done and never ‘time’ to actually stay still and watch the people around you, create, preserve, change, or find personal interests. Education has taken that out and instead poured in more exams. They even structure art subjects. Is that even ‘legal’?
Government says you must do this and that to be successful. You must learn hard about that subject and take exams in order to make a good decent living.
You don’t like the subject you are studying and its grinding you down. You do bits of it and then forget about it. You procrastinate over it and put it off every day and then wait until the last minute to do it and make a who-ha and ends up being rubbish.
Why bother doing it when in that time you could be learning something that excites you, makes you curious, and interests you and it’s something you’re good at.
I find that if I’m not pushed into learning about something and that I get information shoved down my throat on it or it’s a topic I’m not interested in, I don’t learn it any better. If I take my time learning something and get it right the first time and find that there is an actual interesting bit off the side of it, I will take the time to research it and investigate it.
However, I bet people or the government would argue that everyone needs structure in education and without it, no one would learn and rather go out and drink with the benefits money they got.
How about reverse psychology? “Ok you don’t have to go to school and you can while away the hours on Facebook and Bebo but you won’t learn anything other than someone is going out with someone or someone’s been dumped. Plus you won’t get any benefits.” After a while those people would actually turn to education because it’s a human instinct to learn. If it wasn’t an instinct, we wouldn’t have the wheel or even TV.
But let’s not have an education system that shoves the information down our throats. Let’s have a system where it gets our curiosity going and not jail us up for 6 hours. Allows us to not form a career based on facts given to us but a career that we can discover ourselves through hobbies or our own interests and give our life a meaning instead of consistently drifting from career to career searching.
BTEC? Na, that doesn’t count.
Never flaming happy? Yeah, that’s me alright!
Confused person? Yeah, me again.
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays, and have things arranged for them, that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” - Agatha Christie
Sunday, 22 November 2009
Top Ten's...
Top Ten Games
1. Bioshock
2. Tomb Raider
3. Call of Duty’s
4. Super Cluedo Challenge
5. 40 Winks
6. Far Cry’s
7. Gear of War’s
8. SSX’s
9. Test Drive Unlimited
10. Halo 1
Top Ten Food
1. Pizza
2. Garlic
3. Fillet Steak
4. Nutella
5. Mushrooms
6. Salad
7. Crisps
8. Salmon
9. Chips
10. Carrots
Top Ten Favourite Countries
1. Germany
2. Scotland
3. Ireland
4. France
5. Iceland
6. China
7. Thailand
8. Russia
9. Tunisia
10. Belgium
Top Ten Favourite ‘Things’
1. Sleep/Bed/Dreaming
2. Reading
3. Writing
4. Watching nature
5. People watching
6. Travelling
7. Learning
8. Lights out with open fire and an episode of Most Haunted
9. Having nothing to do
10. Model making
Top Ten Things I Hate
1. Slow Pokes
2. Untidy people
3. Celebrities
4. People with no manners
5. Snobs
6. Chavs/Millies
7. Orange people
8. People who can’t do basic things like cook
9. People who don’t appreciate history/jazz/culture/the old ways
10. People who always go out partying
Top Ten Favourite Bands/Music
1. Sigur Ros
2. Pink Floyd
3. Queen
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. David Gilmour
6. David Bowie
7. Scissor Sisters
8. Annie Lennox
9. Carlos Santana
10. Bob Dylan
Top Ten Favourite TV Programs
1. Most Haunted
2. The Good Life
3. QI
4. Are You Being Served?
5. Black Books
6. Absolutely Fabulous
7. One Foot in the Grave
8. Top Gear
9. Jonathan Creek
10. Black Adder
1. Bioshock
2. Tomb Raider
3. Call of Duty’s
4. Super Cluedo Challenge
5. 40 Winks
6. Far Cry’s
7. Gear of War’s
8. SSX’s
9. Test Drive Unlimited
10. Halo 1
Top Ten Food
1. Pizza
2. Garlic
3. Fillet Steak
4. Nutella
5. Mushrooms
6. Salad
7. Crisps
8. Salmon
9. Chips
10. Carrots
Top Ten Favourite Countries
1. Germany
2. Scotland
3. Ireland
4. France
5. Iceland
6. China
7. Thailand
8. Russia
9. Tunisia
10. Belgium
Top Ten Favourite ‘Things’
1. Sleep/Bed/Dreaming
2. Reading
3. Writing
4. Watching nature
5. People watching
6. Travelling
7. Learning
8. Lights out with open fire and an episode of Most Haunted
9. Having nothing to do
10. Model making
Top Ten Things I Hate
1. Slow Pokes
2. Untidy people
3. Celebrities
4. People with no manners
5. Snobs
6. Chavs/Millies
7. Orange people
8. People who can’t do basic things like cook
9. People who don’t appreciate history/jazz/culture/the old ways
10. People who always go out partying
Top Ten Favourite Bands/Music
1. Sigur Ros
2. Pink Floyd
3. Queen
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. David Gilmour
6. David Bowie
7. Scissor Sisters
8. Annie Lennox
9. Carlos Santana
10. Bob Dylan
Top Ten Favourite TV Programs
1. Most Haunted
2. The Good Life
3. QI
4. Are You Being Served?
5. Black Books
6. Absolutely Fabulous
7. One Foot in the Grave
8. Top Gear
9. Jonathan Creek
10. Black Adder
Monday, 16 November 2009
Mock the What?
Ok, Mock the Week is probably the most annoying programme to watch in the history of TV. Who the hell came up with it!? Oh yeah! The guys from ‘Have I Got News For You’ and ‘Whose Line Is It Anyway’(I love them). They have stooped so low and their basically using the scraps of comedians that’s been lying on the cutting room floor since the 90’s and they’re back for revenge. Producer guys, please! Just stop right there, you’ve had your air-time with WLIIA and it was a massive success in America and Britain(do THAT again) and stick to HIGNFY. Don’t get fed up and try mixing them together thinking that no one will catch on; I have.
The comedians on MTW is just cringe worthy. You know why they talk so fast? Because if they didn’t they’d lose the audience, why? Cause really they’re boring and not funny. What has happened to comedians these days? I think it’s all those E numbers and Sunny D’s they’ve been drinking due to the fact that they can’t make their own stuff up.
Just look at the awesome power of comedians who’ve been on the stage since the 80’s and before such as Jo Brand, Billy Connolly, Frankie Howerd, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Merton, Tommy Cooper, and the legend that is Les Dawson. There are a few these days that are alright, but they can never ever accomplish what the oldies have done. These guys were/are revolutionary in the comedian sector.
Russell Brand, Russell Howard, Russell Kane.......is it just me that thinks anyone whose name is Russell is going to have an IQ that is less than 10? What is up with these guys? They just cannot come up with the goods and it’s boring cause all they do slag off everyone else thinking it’s funny. And anyone who does think these prats are funny, must be laughing because they feel sorry for them. I know I’m slagging them off, but Jesus, they are there to be slagged. Whoever stands up in front of people and makes an absolute bum hole of themselves so obviously prepared to be slagged. I’m doing that ‘slaggin’ job ladies and gentlemen and I aint gettin’ a pound for it.
The comedians on MTW is just cringe worthy. You know why they talk so fast? Because if they didn’t they’d lose the audience, why? Cause really they’re boring and not funny. What has happened to comedians these days? I think it’s all those E numbers and Sunny D’s they’ve been drinking due to the fact that they can’t make their own stuff up.
Just look at the awesome power of comedians who’ve been on the stage since the 80’s and before such as Jo Brand, Billy Connolly, Frankie Howerd, Ronnie Corbett, Paul Merton, Tommy Cooper, and the legend that is Les Dawson. There are a few these days that are alright, but they can never ever accomplish what the oldies have done. These guys were/are revolutionary in the comedian sector.
Russell Brand, Russell Howard, Russell Kane.......is it just me that thinks anyone whose name is Russell is going to have an IQ that is less than 10? What is up with these guys? They just cannot come up with the goods and it’s boring cause all they do slag off everyone else thinking it’s funny. And anyone who does think these prats are funny, must be laughing because they feel sorry for them. I know I’m slagging them off, but Jesus, they are there to be slagged. Whoever stands up in front of people and makes an absolute bum hole of themselves so obviously prepared to be slagged. I’m doing that ‘slaggin’ job ladies and gentlemen and I aint gettin’ a pound for it.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Rant Number 1 (WARNING: May cause sourness)
Ok, so I’ve given up on keeping up on a weekly basis of posting on Blogger. To be honest, I’m a busy person and not very many people read my blogs. Actually that’s a lie, I’m not a very busy person at all although I do get some busy weeks but that’s my fault if I haven’t kept up with the assignments.
From what I’ve heard, I’ve caused a controversy on my BNP post. Straight to the point; I’m not fascist nor was I saying that their actions or beliefs where moral. Also if right-wing politicians were controversial (where they are rightly!) and I defended them and if everybody was more left-wing, I’d still cause a storm. Guys, wake up and smell the bacon. We need a change of government and preferably one that isn’t going to use tax payers money for their Jacuzzi and I’m not saying the BNP aren’t! What also buggers me these days, is that people do absolutely NOTHING against the government and actually it has become a dictatorship in a way. If someone was that little bit different in their politics. BLAM. In jail and people all spit on them. People can’t even be bothered to actually rally up people and defend their rights; no one is interested in politics anymore because no one can trust politicians. People these days, instead of going out to group meetings, talking and getting support, they’d rather phone up for a Chinese and sit in and watch the X Factor or Big Brother and you know who applauds that? THE GOVERNMENT. I see it as the government brain washing the people of this country so they can no longer spell without using texting language nor even talk about something remotely interesting other than The Hills so they don’t come up with a revolution or fight against this sad and depressed government. I mean just look at the storm Gordon Brown has caused because:
1, The woman who complained that her son’s name was written wrongly in actual fact didn’t think that Gordon is half blind and that he probably has a person dictating the letter to him. Infact when I LISTENED to the news I kept thinking people said JAMES when its actually JANES. I’m sorry but anyone can mistake that.
2, Brown is faced with a massive problem of people biting at him because of the recession. Guys, blame the Americans and yourselves and other countries. Money is a sin and makes people greedy. Grow up you don’t need an iPhone/touch just to ask if your buddy is eating dinner or whatever. In actual fact, you can go a few days without YOUR music. Wait a minute, I thought music belonged to the people who composed it. Also guys, if you are all complaining about it, DO SOMETHING YOURSELVES DON'T LEAVE IT THINKING SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO IT.
I’m hugely beyond belief pissed off with this country and world (as you can tell). I’m sick of people and in fact that’s why I’m not hugely social because if I did go out, I’d end up pissed off every time I came home again.
We’re being dictated by the government and no-one is doing a damn thing about it. Where’s our rights? Smoking bans, congestion charges and paying for water which is a neccessity to live. It doesn’t affect me, but by god it makes me angry for those who are affected because they aren’t doing a thing about it. If they aren’t going to bother about their personal rights, fine, I’ll fight for it for them. What happened to community? There is none, it’s all on the internet and computer and something needs to be done.
2 days later...
I’m still angry with everything. Something needs done! Lets over-throw this terrible government and let’s give it to the people again. Let them decide and lets have our democracy back!(Sorry most of the people's brain in this country is mush anyway so basically we're f....... to do anything about it. GREAT(!))
P.S Just to notify you all again, I’m a contradictory person. And what if i've offended you? Tough! Someone needs to stand up and say something. ALL comments are very welcome for this discussion.
From what I’ve heard, I’ve caused a controversy on my BNP post. Straight to the point; I’m not fascist nor was I saying that their actions or beliefs where moral. Also if right-wing politicians were controversial (where they are rightly!) and I defended them and if everybody was more left-wing, I’d still cause a storm. Guys, wake up and smell the bacon. We need a change of government and preferably one that isn’t going to use tax payers money for their Jacuzzi and I’m not saying the BNP aren’t! What also buggers me these days, is that people do absolutely NOTHING against the government and actually it has become a dictatorship in a way. If someone was that little bit different in their politics. BLAM. In jail and people all spit on them. People can’t even be bothered to actually rally up people and defend their rights; no one is interested in politics anymore because no one can trust politicians. People these days, instead of going out to group meetings, talking and getting support, they’d rather phone up for a Chinese and sit in and watch the X Factor or Big Brother and you know who applauds that? THE GOVERNMENT. I see it as the government brain washing the people of this country so they can no longer spell without using texting language nor even talk about something remotely interesting other than The Hills so they don’t come up with a revolution or fight against this sad and depressed government. I mean just look at the storm Gordon Brown has caused because:
1, The woman who complained that her son’s name was written wrongly in actual fact didn’t think that Gordon is half blind and that he probably has a person dictating the letter to him. Infact when I LISTENED to the news I kept thinking people said JAMES when its actually JANES. I’m sorry but anyone can mistake that.
2, Brown is faced with a massive problem of people biting at him because of the recession. Guys, blame the Americans and yourselves and other countries. Money is a sin and makes people greedy. Grow up you don’t need an iPhone/touch just to ask if your buddy is eating dinner or whatever. In actual fact, you can go a few days without YOUR music. Wait a minute, I thought music belonged to the people who composed it. Also guys, if you are all complaining about it, DO SOMETHING YOURSELVES DON'T LEAVE IT THINKING SOMEONE ELSE WILL DO IT.
I’m hugely beyond belief pissed off with this country and world (as you can tell). I’m sick of people and in fact that’s why I’m not hugely social because if I did go out, I’d end up pissed off every time I came home again.
We’re being dictated by the government and no-one is doing a damn thing about it. Where’s our rights? Smoking bans, congestion charges and paying for water which is a neccessity to live. It doesn’t affect me, but by god it makes me angry for those who are affected because they aren’t doing a thing about it. If they aren’t going to bother about their personal rights, fine, I’ll fight for it for them. What happened to community? There is none, it’s all on the internet and computer and something needs to be done.
2 days later...
I’m still angry with everything. Something needs done! Lets over-throw this terrible government and let’s give it to the people again. Let them decide and lets have our democracy back!(Sorry most of the people's brain in this country is mush anyway so basically we're f....... to do anything about it. GREAT(!))
P.S Just to notify you all again, I’m a contradictory person. And what if i've offended you? Tough! Someone needs to stand up and say something. ALL comments are very welcome for this discussion.
Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Most Breaks?
For all of you who are into the paranormal, you will find that the Most Haunted team had 8 nights of live paranormal hunting. As I don’t have Sky or Living TV, I was forced to watch it on the internet. I looked and looked for that golden site which showed Most Haunted and at last I found the site. Justin.TV and as well as streaming the channel, they also had a small chat box beside it which was awesome because you talk about what was happening while it happened. Anyway...
Most Haunted Live was an abomination. It was disappointing because the whole show was badly put together. They were doing two locations a night and during the transition from one place to another, Yvette Fielding used a phone to video call Paul Ross who was in the studio presenting the show to the live audience both at home and in the studio. How ridiculous is that!? The show also had a live Ouija board in the audience which was interesting, not because of what they come up with but interesting that Yvette has lost the will to even try and cover up that it’s all fake and she moved the glass. People also start fainting and throwing up. Another problem was the amount of breaks in the show. There was 3-5 minute break every 10 minutes and in the end if you added up all the actual footage or the investigation it’s probably an hour long; this was a show that started at 8pm to 12am. So that got annoying when Paul Ross kept saying “we’ll return after the shortest of short breaks” and everyone on chat was convinced that the breaks were getting longer and longer as the week went on.
The chat box was hilarious! You should of heard the ‘Cath’ jokes. (Cath's the makeup girl who’s a little bit plump and small who screams at everything and when she gets touched by a ‘ghost’ it’s usually the lower body; She wishes.) The guys kept saying every time she screamed that it was because she dropped her KFC bargain bucket, McDonalds just closed or that she was screaming because she was hungry. She also started screaming and fell over and as you can tell, the jokes came flooding out. I was in tears with laughter, my ribs actually hurt so bad. It was really bad what they were saying but I had to laugh. I love Cath really.
Two extreme parts of the investigation during the week was that they had a Tesla machine. They have used it before, but this time they built cages and sent some of the crew in. This machine emits hundreds of thousands of volts and with all this energy it had to be ( HI NICOLA!) discharged onto the crew in the cages; (think of a van der graf machine). On the last night they also had an experiment outside to which they paid Lancashire police thousands just so that no hooligans attack them, and their set up, with fireworks and all sorts. Their experiment? To hang Karl Beattie, the producer and also Yvette’s husband. But don’t worry folks, he was on safety wires and when he was hung, it wasn’t all what it set out to be; it was very poor.
Also during one of the nights (night 7 I think), the crew was doing yet another fake Ouija board session and this time it turned ugly. Karl didn’t feel well at all and ended up on the floor claiming to be suffering from a heart attack. Then shortly after that the sound man, Matt, fainted and got ‘attacked’ and they had to call an ambulance and luckily enough one of the audience was a health care professional! How lucky was that? Staged? Me thinks.
So the conclusion of 8 nights of paranormal investigation? They’re doing another 10 nights in January. I just hope they do better this time. Come on the Most Haunted crew! Don’t let us down!
P.S I promised you two last week but I promise this week I will make a post more interesting to non-paranormal interested people. And Thanks for reading my blogs! Keep up the work! :)
Most Haunted Live was an abomination. It was disappointing because the whole show was badly put together. They were doing two locations a night and during the transition from one place to another, Yvette Fielding used a phone to video call Paul Ross who was in the studio presenting the show to the live audience both at home and in the studio. How ridiculous is that!? The show also had a live Ouija board in the audience which was interesting, not because of what they come up with but interesting that Yvette has lost the will to even try and cover up that it’s all fake and she moved the glass. People also start fainting and throwing up. Another problem was the amount of breaks in the show. There was 3-5 minute break every 10 minutes and in the end if you added up all the actual footage or the investigation it’s probably an hour long; this was a show that started at 8pm to 12am. So that got annoying when Paul Ross kept saying “we’ll return after the shortest of short breaks” and everyone on chat was convinced that the breaks were getting longer and longer as the week went on.
The chat box was hilarious! You should of heard the ‘Cath’ jokes. (Cath's the makeup girl who’s a little bit plump and small who screams at everything and when she gets touched by a ‘ghost’ it’s usually the lower body; She wishes.) The guys kept saying every time she screamed that it was because she dropped her KFC bargain bucket, McDonalds just closed or that she was screaming because she was hungry. She also started screaming and fell over and as you can tell, the jokes came flooding out. I was in tears with laughter, my ribs actually hurt so bad. It was really bad what they were saying but I had to laugh. I love Cath really.
Two extreme parts of the investigation during the week was that they had a Tesla machine. They have used it before, but this time they built cages and sent some of the crew in. This machine emits hundreds of thousands of volts and with all this energy it had to be ( HI NICOLA!) discharged onto the crew in the cages; (think of a van der graf machine). On the last night they also had an experiment outside to which they paid Lancashire police thousands just so that no hooligans attack them, and their set up, with fireworks and all sorts. Their experiment? To hang Karl Beattie, the producer and also Yvette’s husband. But don’t worry folks, he was on safety wires and when he was hung, it wasn’t all what it set out to be; it was very poor.
Also during one of the nights (night 7 I think), the crew was doing yet another fake Ouija board session and this time it turned ugly. Karl didn’t feel well at all and ended up on the floor claiming to be suffering from a heart attack. Then shortly after that the sound man, Matt, fainted and got ‘attacked’ and they had to call an ambulance and luckily enough one of the audience was a health care professional! How lucky was that? Staged? Me thinks.
So the conclusion of 8 nights of paranormal investigation? They’re doing another 10 nights in January. I just hope they do better this time. Come on the Most Haunted crew! Don’t let us down!
P.S I promised you two last week but I promise this week I will make a post more interesting to non-paranormal interested people. And Thanks for reading my blogs! Keep up the work! :)
Friday, 23 October 2009
Cruel to be Kind?
All right so I’m sitting on the fence for this topic of conversation today on my blog though I do tend to be a confused person , contradictory and end up being one-sided. Apologies for that as I’m probably still finding my morals and I’m technically not an adult so I’m still a child growing and developing, so bare with me on this one.
Question Time last night was basically about
Nick Griffin and his party, the BNP. Yes, I bet you’re all sitting here booing me for talking about this because some people are just bored with the whole BNP thing. Generally I’m very interested in it because this a huge thing in terms of political history. It’s like sitting back and watching history in progress. We never know what the outcome of it will be; it might all die down and be forgotten about or on the other hand it may escalate into something, well, historical. Our kids may ask us when they’re doing history for school, or just in general, “What happened to politics in the last half of the 2 thousand and naughties?”. History is happening constantly and it’s our duty to take notice of it, whether its political, cultural or just in our own personal lives, and tell our future children or grandchildren what really happened. We are history, so let’s take notice.
Sorry about that, I’m not telling you guys off, it’s just my opinion remember.
So back to Question Time (QT). I watched it last night and I found I still was sitting on the wall. I do agree with SOME things Nick Griffin was talking about and I understood what he was trying to get at, but just doing it in a unjustifiable way by being a bit of a racist. The action he takes, is what I disagree with. As said on QT, they explained that instead of Nick Griffin using sentences such as deporting all the Muslims and blacks, he should instead use sentences which everyone can identify with instead of singling out minorities and using words which cushion the blow a bit . QT panel later discussed about Democracy. They were saying that we are a democratic society yet when the BNP gets a chance to make their views on topics on a show like QT, the BBC purposely chose an audience when they would obviously disagree with Nick Griffin. I have watched other QT’s and strangely enough there were less of a mixed audience. One point to make is, at the end of each QT, David thing, the ‘referee’, makes a small announcement of when, where, and who is going to be on the show in the forthcoming weeks and if you’d want to be on the show, then phone the number at the bottom of the screen. Could people who are against the BNP automatically just want to be in the audience to have their say that “Nick you’re disgusting!” etc etc. That could be a factor. His policies have gotten himself into the bullying position. Unlucky.
Today, Nick Griffin made a claim that he was bullied and I agree with that statement, however when I do think about it, it does seem to be kind of a publicity stunt or that it unfortunately looks like it. Is it one or not? We aren’t quite sure. It could be the whole plan of action of the BNP, for publicity. We don’t really know what goes on inside those little heads of theirs. They did increase their membership by an addition of 3,000 members during the course of QT and afterwards. Is it their plan? Who knows.
I believe that everyone should have a say in different topics, however I felt that the BBC set it up on QT. It wasn’t a fair panel. He was being bombarded by questions about his manifesto and views. There was an audience which was different than previous QT. But I may agree that he does sugar coat his answers to win over people and lure them into a false sense of security by joining his party. He also had a boost in the votes for BNP because the rest of the parties have been dilly-dallying about expenses and whether or not she said that or he said this, blah blah blah. The people have no other parties to vote for. YES I do believe in people having a say and a vote, i.e Democracy. NO I disagree with government not being able to decide over tiny weeny topic when there are much bigger topics to talk about that are urgent. The world is falling apart, there’s a recession and the polar bears are dying, and some political parties decide to pay their house in London with the people’s money. That is a disgrace. That is the downside of democracy, it takes ages to come to a decision. The downside of autocracy is that the people do not get as much of a say. We need to compromise between the two or take a risk. I want the world to be free and that it can say whatever it likes without offending Tom, Dick and Harry. People need to stop being so uptight and just accept that people are not going to agree with their opinions. I say that people should learn to compromise and respect different opinions and not get in a tizzy about it.
I do not totally agree with the BNP and I do not agree with the way other parties are condoning it for their views. BNP need refined and to soften the harshness before people eventually accept other people’s views and respect them. Who said right-wing is the RIGHT party anyway and it’s the best with its morals, conduct, and actions? We’re in a recession because of them. They’re spending tax payers money. They got GB into a war and it hasn’t made much of a difference. What can we do? BNP might do the same after all. We could try another style of government to see if it works such as autocracy? It’s not easy to do, to reform an established government which has been in place for a very long time, but I just don’t see where it has gotten us. I’m not saying trust the BNP and vote for them. I’m saying we need a party we CAN trust and so far I say, don’t trust any parties.
I’m still gonna sit on the fence until things lighten up. Am I wrong for doing that? I’m not a glory hunter. I’m just.....gonna.....run away now..... *sprints off*
Question Time last night was basically about
Nick Griffin and his party, the BNP. Yes, I bet you’re all sitting here booing me for talking about this because some people are just bored with the whole BNP thing. Generally I’m very interested in it because this a huge thing in terms of political history. It’s like sitting back and watching history in progress. We never know what the outcome of it will be; it might all die down and be forgotten about or on the other hand it may escalate into something, well, historical. Our kids may ask us when they’re doing history for school, or just in general, “What happened to politics in the last half of the 2 thousand and naughties?”. History is happening constantly and it’s our duty to take notice of it, whether its political, cultural or just in our own personal lives, and tell our future children or grandchildren what really happened. We are history, so let’s take notice.
Sorry about that, I’m not telling you guys off, it’s just my opinion remember.
So back to Question Time (QT). I watched it last night and I found I still was sitting on the wall. I do agree with SOME things Nick Griffin was talking about and I understood what he was trying to get at, but just doing it in a unjustifiable way by being a bit of a racist. The action he takes, is what I disagree with. As said on QT, they explained that instead of Nick Griffin using sentences such as deporting all the Muslims and blacks, he should instead use sentences which everyone can identify with instead of singling out minorities and using words which cushion the blow a bit . QT panel later discussed about Democracy. They were saying that we are a democratic society yet when the BNP gets a chance to make their views on topics on a show like QT, the BBC purposely chose an audience when they would obviously disagree with Nick Griffin. I have watched other QT’s and strangely enough there were less of a mixed audience. One point to make is, at the end of each QT, David thing, the ‘referee’, makes a small announcement of when, where, and who is going to be on the show in the forthcoming weeks and if you’d want to be on the show, then phone the number at the bottom of the screen. Could people who are against the BNP automatically just want to be in the audience to have their say that “Nick you’re disgusting!” etc etc. That could be a factor. His policies have gotten himself into the bullying position. Unlucky.
Today, Nick Griffin made a claim that he was bullied and I agree with that statement, however when I do think about it, it does seem to be kind of a publicity stunt or that it unfortunately looks like it. Is it one or not? We aren’t quite sure. It could be the whole plan of action of the BNP, for publicity. We don’t really know what goes on inside those little heads of theirs. They did increase their membership by an addition of 3,000 members during the course of QT and afterwards. Is it their plan? Who knows.
I believe that everyone should have a say in different topics, however I felt that the BBC set it up on QT. It wasn’t a fair panel. He was being bombarded by questions about his manifesto and views. There was an audience which was different than previous QT. But I may agree that he does sugar coat his answers to win over people and lure them into a false sense of security by joining his party. He also had a boost in the votes for BNP because the rest of the parties have been dilly-dallying about expenses and whether or not she said that or he said this, blah blah blah. The people have no other parties to vote for. YES I do believe in people having a say and a vote, i.e Democracy. NO I disagree with government not being able to decide over tiny weeny topic when there are much bigger topics to talk about that are urgent. The world is falling apart, there’s a recession and the polar bears are dying, and some political parties decide to pay their house in London with the people’s money. That is a disgrace. That is the downside of democracy, it takes ages to come to a decision. The downside of autocracy is that the people do not get as much of a say. We need to compromise between the two or take a risk. I want the world to be free and that it can say whatever it likes without offending Tom, Dick and Harry. People need to stop being so uptight and just accept that people are not going to agree with their opinions. I say that people should learn to compromise and respect different opinions and not get in a tizzy about it.
I do not totally agree with the BNP and I do not agree with the way other parties are condoning it for their views. BNP need refined and to soften the harshness before people eventually accept other people’s views and respect them. Who said right-wing is the RIGHT party anyway and it’s the best with its morals, conduct, and actions? We’re in a recession because of them. They’re spending tax payers money. They got GB into a war and it hasn’t made much of a difference. What can we do? BNP might do the same after all. We could try another style of government to see if it works such as autocracy? It’s not easy to do, to reform an established government which has been in place for a very long time, but I just don’t see where it has gotten us. I’m not saying trust the BNP and vote for them. I’m saying we need a party we CAN trust and so far I say, don’t trust any parties.
I’m still gonna sit on the fence until things lighten up. Am I wrong for doing that? I’m not a glory hunter. I’m just.....gonna.....run away now..... *sprints off*
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
The Sadness of School and Technology.
All right so I’m really quite late this week in getting a post up because it’s been a bit of a hectic weekend. I had a hockey match over in Poleglass against Belfast Harlequins and well, it didn’t go quite to plan (plan was to win basically). I haven’t played for quite a few weeks now and it’s getting me down. There is just so much work to be done for medical science and IT, it’s unbelievable. Generally there would be a heck of a lot of work to be done without the unfortunate event of having flu and then my coursework being saved by other coursework, so I lost a 3rd of it. But I’m catching up, and just as well as most of the assignments are to be in next week, either draft or final copy.
IT isn’t getting much of a look in. I have 3 assignments to hand in there next week, two are finals and the other just a draft thank goodness. *sigh* I think it’s going to be another hard weekend to get things done. History teacher didn’t really give me any hope of finishing the never ending work by yet piling on another 3 A4 pages to be copied out word for word. What’s the point? She didn’t even look at it last time and it’s about as helpful just reading it ourselves without doing any copying.
No entries on the “Trad diary” as I call it; no time for ‘extra’ writing. No time for anything ‘extra’ like playing on the Xbox and chilling or reading a novel or anything. If I do have to read anything, it’s to do with school work and I’m really suffering from the lack of escapism; everything is to do with school and if it isn’t I would call it time wasting. But hey there is light at the end of the tunnel with Halloween and I’m sure we’ll get lots more yummy work to do. When really does it ever end?Generally I learn more but not being pressured into the learning and I learn more in my own time.
I also want to buy some books. I actually just like books, not necessarily the reading of them but for the aesthetic quality of it being there. I know it’s strange. It’s like having a book collection but without reading them. Just like people collect coins and notes, but never spend them. If I had the free time I’d read.
Also this week, I watched the last of Electric Dreams. The documentary-type 1 hour with a family experiencing life in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Yesterday was the 90’s and the last of it. It made me really miss the 90’s with its Tony Blair, Princess Diana, Dial up internet, Windows 1995, Spice Girls, Boy bands, square lunch boxes which didn’t quite work and emptied your lunch all over the play ground, Pogs, and Gameboys. *sigh* good times. It also made me think about how we all rely on technology and frankly, I hate it.
With technology, I think we’re going backwards rather than forwards. We’ve all lost the skill in punctuation and instead, developed RSI in our thumbs from texting gibberish like “c ya l8er bbz”. No seriously, just think about it. We are so dependent on our iPods, texting, mobile phones and internet that when we’re without them, we haven’t a clue what to do with ourselves and just roam around like zombies because we’ve lost the skill in proper face to face socialising and lost the whole natural knack of recognising emotions when we talk to people.
Ok, so I’m usually on the internet most of my time, but if I wanted I could easily not be on here and I could be in town, writing a novel, learning an instrument or just doing work. I’m only on the laptop most of the time due to the need of having word processed coursework and a long distance relationship.
I don’t do phones. Mine is never on and many people can tell you that straight away. I just can’t handle that part of technology and nor do I have an iPod because I can survive without having my music for 6 hours and I prefer having silence to music anyway. Texting was never my forte. I can’t ‘simplify’ my words beyond all recognition and I just don’t like it. I think it’s a shame for the English language but whatever floats people boats and I hope those people do actually realise the sadness of it.
Well yea, I’ll shut up for this week and leave. I’m now an outcast to the civilised world. *waves*
IT isn’t getting much of a look in. I have 3 assignments to hand in there next week, two are finals and the other just a draft thank goodness. *sigh* I think it’s going to be another hard weekend to get things done. History teacher didn’t really give me any hope of finishing the never ending work by yet piling on another 3 A4 pages to be copied out word for word. What’s the point? She didn’t even look at it last time and it’s about as helpful just reading it ourselves without doing any copying.
No entries on the “Trad diary” as I call it; no time for ‘extra’ writing. No time for anything ‘extra’ like playing on the Xbox and chilling or reading a novel or anything. If I do have to read anything, it’s to do with school work and I’m really suffering from the lack of escapism; everything is to do with school and if it isn’t I would call it time wasting. But hey there is light at the end of the tunnel with Halloween and I’m sure we’ll get lots more yummy work to do. When really does it ever end?Generally I learn more but not being pressured into the learning and I learn more in my own time.
I also want to buy some books. I actually just like books, not necessarily the reading of them but for the aesthetic quality of it being there. I know it’s strange. It’s like having a book collection but without reading them. Just like people collect coins and notes, but never spend them. If I had the free time I’d read.
Also this week, I watched the last of Electric Dreams. The documentary-type 1 hour with a family experiencing life in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Yesterday was the 90’s and the last of it. It made me really miss the 90’s with its Tony Blair, Princess Diana, Dial up internet, Windows 1995, Spice Girls, Boy bands, square lunch boxes which didn’t quite work and emptied your lunch all over the play ground, Pogs, and Gameboys. *sigh* good times. It also made me think about how we all rely on technology and frankly, I hate it.
With technology, I think we’re going backwards rather than forwards. We’ve all lost the skill in punctuation and instead, developed RSI in our thumbs from texting gibberish like “c ya l8er bbz”. No seriously, just think about it. We are so dependent on our iPods, texting, mobile phones and internet that when we’re without them, we haven’t a clue what to do with ourselves and just roam around like zombies because we’ve lost the skill in proper face to face socialising and lost the whole natural knack of recognising emotions when we talk to people.
Ok, so I’m usually on the internet most of my time, but if I wanted I could easily not be on here and I could be in town, writing a novel, learning an instrument or just doing work. I’m only on the laptop most of the time due to the need of having word processed coursework and a long distance relationship.
I don’t do phones. Mine is never on and many people can tell you that straight away. I just can’t handle that part of technology and nor do I have an iPod because I can survive without having my music for 6 hours and I prefer having silence to music anyway. Texting was never my forte. I can’t ‘simplify’ my words beyond all recognition and I just don’t like it. I think it’s a shame for the English language but whatever floats people boats and I hope those people do actually realise the sadness of it.
Well yea, I’ll shut up for this week and leave. I’m now an outcast to the civilised world. *waves*
Monday, 5 October 2009
Really need to start doing something with my life...
Alright, so it's been a bit of a hectic past week and quite a thought provoking week aswell. I started back at school last Monday and actually it wasn't too bad. I don't think I missed a whole load of work to be honest, but even so the work is piling up again.
I've been thinking aswell as what I want to do with myself and just recently I've looked back at what I've been doing for the past few years and to be honest I wasn't really going anywhere. What I mean is; building up into who I am and who I want to be. I've come to the conclusion that I've been quite a bland person for the past few years and it seems I was even unresponsive to any social side of life. I've always said to myself "oh I want to try this, that and this" and I've always made up the excuse that I was too busy or I lacked confidence to even do it. This week has been a bit different. I've come to realise that I shouldn't be sitting on the computer as soon as I come home from school and then get off of it right before I go to bed.
I come on the laptop when I get home, go on Youtube or Facebook, once I've done that I'd go onto Photobomb or FML to see if there is anything worth while seeing or reading. How boring is that? That all takes about 15 minutes worth and what do I do after I've checked all the sites? I do it again and again and again repeatedly until I go to bed. Seriously, something needs to be done and I'm the only person to change my ways.
I don't really want to talk to my children 20 or so years down the line and they ask "Mummy? what did you do when you where a teenager?" and I reply with "I was really boring and spent my time on the laptop from 3 till 11 at night doing the same thing and searching for pointless things. I never really went out with my friends and I wasn't very social at all. I never went to formals or parties" That ain't good is it?
Alright so it's better than what some teenagers do these days where they stand on the streets till 1 am, drink, smoke, and then decide for a joke to stab the next passerby. Well it's good that I'm not getting in trouble, but it's not the best to be a recluse.
Take for example, right now I’m on blogger and writing this senseless article about how I want to be that bit daring, go out with my mates, go to a party or two, do what I want to do and be that tad bit rebellious and not care what people have to think.
So I’ve got the conclusion that:
A. I need to get out and socialise with my friends that little bit more.
B. Get off the laptop more and do what I want to do like read or something. Like the things I keep saying I have no time for and actually do them.
C. Realised that you only live once, and you got to take all the chances that are given to you.
D. Stop sitting around and thinking “oh I wonder what people will think if I dressed that way etc” i.e. Just go out there and do it and forget about what they think and if they do have a problem and not accepting who I am, they aren’t obviously my friends.
E. Be a bit daring and stop sitting in my comfort zone
Or should I just be a recluse, nerd and have no friends?
I really need the confidence and hopefully I can build that up with time.
Right now the laptop is the only source of ‘socialising’ apart from school and now it’s turned into a safety net type thing that I always rely on, but that can’t be forever and something has to change soon, because I’m getting rather fed up with it. There is so much more to say about this, but I'm just too lazy to write every single thing down.
Blah...
I've been thinking aswell as what I want to do with myself and just recently I've looked back at what I've been doing for the past few years and to be honest I wasn't really going anywhere. What I mean is; building up into who I am and who I want to be. I've come to the conclusion that I've been quite a bland person for the past few years and it seems I was even unresponsive to any social side of life. I've always said to myself "oh I want to try this, that and this" and I've always made up the excuse that I was too busy or I lacked confidence to even do it. This week has been a bit different. I've come to realise that I shouldn't be sitting on the computer as soon as I come home from school and then get off of it right before I go to bed.
I come on the laptop when I get home, go on Youtube or Facebook, once I've done that I'd go onto Photobomb or FML to see if there is anything worth while seeing or reading. How boring is that? That all takes about 15 minutes worth and what do I do after I've checked all the sites? I do it again and again and again repeatedly until I go to bed. Seriously, something needs to be done and I'm the only person to change my ways.
I don't really want to talk to my children 20 or so years down the line and they ask "Mummy? what did you do when you where a teenager?" and I reply with "I was really boring and spent my time on the laptop from 3 till 11 at night doing the same thing and searching for pointless things. I never really went out with my friends and I wasn't very social at all. I never went to formals or parties" That ain't good is it?
Alright so it's better than what some teenagers do these days where they stand on the streets till 1 am, drink, smoke, and then decide for a joke to stab the next passerby. Well it's good that I'm not getting in trouble, but it's not the best to be a recluse.
Take for example, right now I’m on blogger and writing this senseless article about how I want to be that bit daring, go out with my mates, go to a party or two, do what I want to do and be that tad bit rebellious and not care what people have to think.
So I’ve got the conclusion that:
A. I need to get out and socialise with my friends that little bit more.
B. Get off the laptop more and do what I want to do like read or something. Like the things I keep saying I have no time for and actually do them.
C. Realised that you only live once, and you got to take all the chances that are given to you.
D. Stop sitting around and thinking “oh I wonder what people will think if I dressed that way etc” i.e. Just go out there and do it and forget about what they think and if they do have a problem and not accepting who I am, they aren’t obviously my friends.
E. Be a bit daring and stop sitting in my comfort zone
Or should I just be a recluse, nerd and have no friends?
I really need the confidence and hopefully I can build that up with time.
Right now the laptop is the only source of ‘socialising’ apart from school and now it’s turned into a safety net type thing that I always rely on, but that can’t be forever and something has to change soon, because I’m getting rather fed up with it. There is so much more to say about this, but I'm just too lazy to write every single thing down.
Blah...
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Back to the daily grind... and Diaries
Back to school on Monday and I'm not one bit looking forward to the amount of work I will have to copy up. But is it really the copying up? Most of it is coursework though so I don't really know. Copying myself up perhaps maybe a better phrase to use instead.
Boring old week again. It gets more and more boring as you get better. It's like no mans land. You feel too sick to work, but feel too better to sleep all day so you end up in the middle were you need some brain stimulation but not too much of course to hurt the ol' brain cells.
Yesterday I was considering about writing again. I have this old diary I used to keep since I was in P.5 when I got it for my birthday and every now and again I put in a new entry. I don't write in it everyday because I'm not really an interesting person and it's usually maybe only a weekly or monthly occurance that something happens that would be interesting to write about.
So anyways, I'm thinking about writing in it more fequently. The book I have is really quite annoying. There's no ruled lines and it's a hard back so it's difficult to write in and be comfortable writing. Another thing is, is that I can type faster and it's easier, so getting my thoughts out is smoother and not just pick the most interesting thoughts to write down. My hand writing is terrible so thats another thing that puts me off. I can also touch type on the laptop so I can watch TV and type at the same time and multitask (just did there now).
However I do like the traditional sense of writing because it is a lot more personal with the handwriting and everything and I like it more. I could just change my book and I would be able to do that if I wrote in my old one more and also I could try different pens to maybe help me write better (yes I blame my tools) and also if I traditionally write, it would help improve my handwriting after a while and slow my thoughts so it's not constantly racing and narrating every second of my day.
Why do I want to write?
I want to write because I just like writing for the craic and to get some of my thoughts down and it helps to wind down after a long day. It could also come as a backup if I'm out of a job and I could go into journalism or even writing professionally like a novel. Writing helps in so many ways and with the over taking of the new craze of blogging and the computer, the traditional sense of writing a diary or personal writing has gone down hill. However with blogging it has opened up new possibilities for people who never knew they could write as much and even grab the publics interest.
I like traditional writing because it's more personal and it's in decline. Many actors and comedians wrote diaries during their most troubled times in the career, and without their diaries we wouldn't really know or understand what they went through and it opens up to us their true feelings.
I want to look back at my diaries and read them and maybe even publish them if that's possible when I'm a lot older. I would like people to read my diaries after I've gone, because if there was a shocking moment, I don't have to worry about it and all's good.
So the question is...
Modern or Traditional? What do you think?
Boring old week again. It gets more and more boring as you get better. It's like no mans land. You feel too sick to work, but feel too better to sleep all day so you end up in the middle were you need some brain stimulation but not too much of course to hurt the ol' brain cells.
Yesterday I was considering about writing again. I have this old diary I used to keep since I was in P.5 when I got it for my birthday and every now and again I put in a new entry. I don't write in it everyday because I'm not really an interesting person and it's usually maybe only a weekly or monthly occurance that something happens that would be interesting to write about.
So anyways, I'm thinking about writing in it more fequently. The book I have is really quite annoying. There's no ruled lines and it's a hard back so it's difficult to write in and be comfortable writing. Another thing is, is that I can type faster and it's easier, so getting my thoughts out is smoother and not just pick the most interesting thoughts to write down. My hand writing is terrible so thats another thing that puts me off. I can also touch type on the laptop so I can watch TV and type at the same time and multitask (just did there now).
However I do like the traditional sense of writing because it is a lot more personal with the handwriting and everything and I like it more. I could just change my book and I would be able to do that if I wrote in my old one more and also I could try different pens to maybe help me write better (yes I blame my tools) and also if I traditionally write, it would help improve my handwriting after a while and slow my thoughts so it's not constantly racing and narrating every second of my day.
Why do I want to write?
I want to write because I just like writing for the craic and to get some of my thoughts down and it helps to wind down after a long day. It could also come as a backup if I'm out of a job and I could go into journalism or even writing professionally like a novel. Writing helps in so many ways and with the over taking of the new craze of blogging and the computer, the traditional sense of writing a diary or personal writing has gone down hill. However with blogging it has opened up new possibilities for people who never knew they could write as much and even grab the publics interest.
I like traditional writing because it's more personal and it's in decline. Many actors and comedians wrote diaries during their most troubled times in the career, and without their diaries we wouldn't really know or understand what they went through and it opens up to us their true feelings.
I want to look back at my diaries and read them and maybe even publish them if that's possible when I'm a lot older. I would like people to read my diaries after I've gone, because if there was a shocking moment, I don't have to worry about it and all's good.
So the question is...
Modern or Traditional? What do you think?
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Oink Oink!
Well, this week hasn't been the best of weeks, infact it's been the worse so far. I have flu.
I've missed school for a week and it's getting to me. Monday morning I woke up starting the second week with the supposed common cold. I was wrong, it was flu all along. My head was sloshing around and my neck muscles were painful and my throat was scratchy. I soldiered on and got ready for school, sniffling away, persevering. Then I told my mum... She escorted me back to my bed and was imprisioned in my room.(not really)
After that I fell asleep and when I woke up it hit me like a truck and I knew this was going to be bad. I spent all week in my room, in bed being fetched water and medicinals. Monday night ended with a fever and it just got worse and worse.
Tuesday I woke up, thankfully, I thought I was dying it was so bad. My whole body was just so sore and with each turn of my head made me extremely dizzy and painful. I slept most of that day, in and out of sleep and even on Wednesday it was still the same.
Came Thursday and I was able enough to watch tv and make the hours seem a bit faster. I even tried to do some school work because I just felt so guilty for not doing anything in such an important year, but I didn't get very far as I was far too tired and sick to even think properly. I began to eat some food and felt hunger once again. My tummy just didn't want to eat food and felt a bit mashed up but not in a sick way.
You know it's bad when you start to watch Jeremy Kyle, Ricki Lake and even look forward to triple episodes of Judge Judy in the afternoons.
Friday, I made futher progress and began to venture outside of my room to visit the fridge for some food, but most of the time came back to bed unable to stand and ponder of what goodies to eat in the glorious fridge of food; still looked forward to Judge Judy...
Saturday, and with further progress I decided to maybe get dressed so the shock of school on Monday isn't that bad and began to venture more about the house, still working up back to the old appetite, but it hurt still.
Finally, Sunday or today... Ventured outside for a bit because the weather was nice and after finding some poppy seeds in my tea, decided thats far enough and came back in to the comfort of my room and the warm goodness of the almightly laptop which is constantly with me at all times, except during school; though that might change soon. I did some more homework and finished my Power Point for IT and the other homework for the IT teacher, though I may have regrets doing work as I am now told I'm not going in tomorrow, cause I'm still not well. Bummer. So yet again another Monday and Tuesday spent at home trying to get well and get some work done under some weak and sniffly conditions. I hate flu...
I've missed school for a week and it's getting to me. Monday morning I woke up starting the second week with the supposed common cold. I was wrong, it was flu all along. My head was sloshing around and my neck muscles were painful and my throat was scratchy. I soldiered on and got ready for school, sniffling away, persevering. Then I told my mum... She escorted me back to my bed and was imprisioned in my room.(not really)
After that I fell asleep and when I woke up it hit me like a truck and I knew this was going to be bad. I spent all week in my room, in bed being fetched water and medicinals. Monday night ended with a fever and it just got worse and worse.
Tuesday I woke up, thankfully, I thought I was dying it was so bad. My whole body was just so sore and with each turn of my head made me extremely dizzy and painful. I slept most of that day, in and out of sleep and even on Wednesday it was still the same.
Came Thursday and I was able enough to watch tv and make the hours seem a bit faster. I even tried to do some school work because I just felt so guilty for not doing anything in such an important year, but I didn't get very far as I was far too tired and sick to even think properly. I began to eat some food and felt hunger once again. My tummy just didn't want to eat food and felt a bit mashed up but not in a sick way.
You know it's bad when you start to watch Jeremy Kyle, Ricki Lake and even look forward to triple episodes of Judge Judy in the afternoons.
Friday, I made futher progress and began to venture outside of my room to visit the fridge for some food, but most of the time came back to bed unable to stand and ponder of what goodies to eat in the glorious fridge of food; still looked forward to Judge Judy...
Saturday, and with further progress I decided to maybe get dressed so the shock of school on Monday isn't that bad and began to venture more about the house, still working up back to the old appetite, but it hurt still.
Finally, Sunday or today... Ventured outside for a bit because the weather was nice and after finding some poppy seeds in my tea, decided thats far enough and came back in to the comfort of my room and the warm goodness of the almightly laptop which is constantly with me at all times, except during school; though that might change soon. I did some more homework and finished my Power Point for IT and the other homework for the IT teacher, though I may have regrets doing work as I am now told I'm not going in tomorrow, cause I'm still not well. Bummer. So yet again another Monday and Tuesday spent at home trying to get well and get some work done under some weak and sniffly conditions. I hate flu...
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Have to start somewhere....
Well this is it I suppose. This is my blog and it isn't very good so far. I did have a post in April but it wasn't very good and it is totally irrelevant now. I've decided I should have a main website that everyone can access to see what I've been doing on the web and it keeps everything sorted so it's like the main page to everything else.
There will be links to websites I'm currently on such as:
So yea, nothing really more to say. This should hopefully be a weekly blog maybe every Friday or Saturday when I find the time. If you keep watching and following, you can see what I've been up to, my interests or projects that I'm doing.
So thanks very much for reading and so on, stay tuned and have a nice week!
(This whole blogging thing is crazzzy)
There will be links to websites I'm currently on such as:
- Youtube - search FieldHockey007 for my lovely videos
- Bebo - it's private
- and Facebook - don't be stalking me
So yea, nothing really more to say. This should hopefully be a weekly blog maybe every Friday or Saturday when I find the time. If you keep watching and following, you can see what I've been up to, my interests or projects that I'm doing.
So thanks very much for reading and so on, stay tuned and have a nice week!
(This whole blogging thing is crazzzy)
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