Tamatebako

house

2009-11-01T13:03:48Z

moving home is stressful.

i don't intend to move for good while after this.

not long to go

2008-08-23T00:40:03Z

so i start my job as an educator of young people in september, the thought scares the life out of me and at the same time i'm relishing the prospect of finally having my own classroom, my own classes to teach - being responsible.

ha. being responsible. something else to be petrified of. yes i'm responsible for potentially ruining the education of a considerable number of students from the ages of 12-16. good lord. come next year if i survive this school year i get to ruin 11-19 year olds' education.

ah. i don't know why i'm undermining myself like that. i'm just nervous i guess. my head of department emailed me my time table and rota and immediately started to brick it. i've never taught the most senior year (16 year olds) and i'm wondering how they will take to me. i can see it now: whispers of "is that our teacher?" and references to my height and appearance. surely i don't look like a college student any more?

ah whatever. it's my fault for bumming around for the past two months. i should have got myself a part time job waitressing or something to keep me earning money and preoccupying myself as opposed to rotting on the sofa watching re-runs of the hills. gah.

i'm relishing it though.

heh. you'll know sure enough if i'm having a hellish time. cos i'll be posting it all here!!

......what have i got myself into.....

N.E.R.D

2008-07-03T18:21:35Z

now that i've got all this free time on my hands, i getting back in touch with my nerdy side.

it began with me purchasing the official PSP magazine with cloud/zack on the cover. it reminded me of the year i bought ff7. i was a late final fantasy fan. the game had already gone platinum when i finally got my hands of it and i was only a wee little secondary school girl. if memory served me correctly it was 1999 - the year i finished secondary school and had just completed my gcses. for all my hard work i was granted full access to the playstation whenever i wanted. whoo!

i sometimes have comflicting thoughts over which is my favourite final fantasy game. it's between 7 and 8. i've written mainly ff8 fanfiction because i thought the characters were great, the game plot exciting. i loved the game. but since watching a trailer for core crisis it reminded me of the blood, sweat and tears i spent playing ff7. it scared the shit out of me at times (the music intro - i'm a wuss). emerald, diamond and ruby weapon. i'm a mega wuss. but it also gave me an immense sense of satisfaction. yes, i am sad. i felt connected with the game. it was something i had never come across before. crash bandicoot it was not. it was the first rpg i ever played.

thus i come to the conclusion that my loyalty lies with ff7. i didn't understand everything that happened in the game and sometimes i think "when did that happen?" but never the less i love it.

it's been a couple of weeks since i bought core crisis, but i shall wait. i've started playing ff threads of fate on the DS and it's quite good and fun. i refuse to leave this game unfinished. as it stands FFX-2 is THE only game i have yet to clock. i'll get there. someday.

i'm pleased i've still got that nerdy sad side to me. since getting together with the bf and turning 25 AND becoming a teacher, the nerd has taken a back burner.

i'm pleased to say it's back.

boo

2008-06-23T20:00:51Z

i have.....

RESURFACED!

yes. after 9 months of much blood, sweat, stress and tears i have returned to the LJ fold. i have officially finished my teaching degree and am now a teacher of science. yay. i cannot begin to start detailing how pleased and relieved i am to have finally got to this day.

there were times where i seriously considered dropping out, wondering whether i was doing the right thing, choosing the right career path. and despite all the crappy days and stressful days i've pulled through and emerged victorious. i've come to realise that i would like to pursue teaching for as long as it keeps me happy and interested and that i do enjoy teaching the age range of kids that i do. some of them i did want to throttle and some classes i dredded teaching - but it comes with the job and it's not something i can pick and choose.

so now comes two glorious months of FREE time away from uni. i've got a job for september - a school which was my first teaching placement. absolutely love it there - the teachers, support staff and kids. all this free time is allowing me to get the flat into ship shape (heh. after 7 months of living in it). we've had roaches come visit us - the problem i'm hoping has been resolved. and the place has in general been a mess, with all my paper work, resources and crap dotted all over the place. so i'm looking forward to setting the place straight.

i've already started by filling up a huge bin liner full of clothes and bags i didn't want and taking that down to the local charity shop. and i'm starting to slowly sort out all of my school stuff.

fingers crossed i'll pass my driving test next month and i can look forward to getting a car. i'm feeling so uplifted and accomplished. everything seems to be falling into place and it makes me happy.

i want to start saving when my salary starts in september. in a few years time, hopefully i'll have a bit saved to buy a house or flat.

life starts here.

some things should not exist in this world

2008-02-08T22:10:46Z

who in the hell invented FRUITCAKE. ugh. what a waste of baking time.

nasty heavy laden cake full of dried fruit and nuts.

it LOOKS horrible and unappetising as well as BEING the latter.

yuck yuck yuck.

and WHY on earth would people have that nastiness as the basis of a wedding cake? WHY WHY? ok. fine. because it's a very versatile and sturdy cake if you want an eiffle tower of a cake. but then you're spending money for a huge tall cake that you or anyone might not like.

screw fruicake. i'm having me a chocolate cake of some kind for my own wedding.

i feel like throwing up just looking at it

hmmm

2008-01-22T19:22:57Z

i already have semi-issues regarding being old and getting older so it troubles me when people say that i need to be getting a move on in certain areas in my life - specifically in the marriage and having kids department.

uh. excuse me. i have a few things to say about that:

1) i'm only 25. i've been with my bf for 4 years now. the first advancement in a relationship like that was co-habiting and we are still getting to grips with the whole thing. well more so me. if the friggin drink is finished why do you put the empty carton back in the fridge?!

ANYWAY.

2) my sister is dying for me to get married. uh. hello. are you planning to fund this so called wedding? no. let me tell you now that i don't have the fund-age myself and i am not asking my parents for help either. so wedding bells are no go UNTIL:

3) i qualify as a teacher. saved up a bit. worked a bit. acquired my own place AND a damn car. that won't take me another 10 years to do so these things can wait.

4) kids. are you mad? christ. i didn't haul my arse through the various stages of education to suddenly have my hands full with kiddies. i actually want to achieve something and working for 7 years in a store and 2 years in an office does not constitute as an achievement. something much more credible than that if you please. and i hate the whole idea of the guy working. i can work too so that doesn't mean i instantly turn into a breeding machine and stay at home and do homely things.

i just hate the whole idea behind getting old = marriage and kids. i'd like to have those things but i need to first achieve things for myself before i consign myself with that kind of responsibility.

rant

2008-01-06T01:35:19Z

i wish i had pursued languages further after doing french in secondary school. i liked french. i was shocked when my teacher told me i had achieved an A in my french mock exams in the winter. i messed it up in the real exams though - the oral aspect of it. i think my nerves got the better of me so i got a B for it instead. would have been nice if i had got an A, but never mind.

i took spanish in my second year of secondary school - preferred it over german - what with tagalog having spanish elements in it already. yet i found that i enjoyed french more, and very reasonably stuck to french for exams seeing as i had studied french longer.

so here i am now. turning 25 in a couple of weeks and currently assessing my life and the stage that i am at and where i want to go.

well, i'm proud of the fact that i've plucked myself out of the mundane world of office work and pulled myself back into education to get myself in a better position in life. i think i've turned out very much like my parents - although i'll never admit this to them or anyone else. i've turned out like them in the sense that i've always worked hard for everything that i did. i think my dad is my main inspiration. working 6 days a week, coming home late, getting up early AND still finding time to do things around the house and with my sister and i.

i can't remember at which point in my life i took this stance - but i always strongly believed in doing things for myself. oh wait. i remember now. when my mum had my sister and was preoccupied with looking after her, i took it unto myself to not rely on her or my dad. and it carries through now. i maintain this belief in my head that 'what if my parents were no longer around'. i had to be able to take care of myself, be responsible for myself and not depend on anyone - because the future isn't certain. you don't know what's going to happen and i take a lot of things for granted. and people let you down. i've had my fair share of disappoints in all kinds of guises - and not necessarily love wise either.

with darren and i - everything is equal (ok, as equal as possibly but leaning more towards me). things like bills and responsibilities are shared out. i don't wait or expect him to do things for me or to pay things for me. if i want to assemble a shelf unit or go shopping - i'll do it myself if he isn't around to help. i'm not going to let dependency stop me from doing something if i am capable of doing it myself. that's the way i work. he might not worked exactly the way as i do, then again i don't think he analyses things as much as i do. now he DOES take a lot of things for granted - that's a whole separate rant and issue right there. i'll save that for another time.

SO. slightly deviating from the original subject.

languages. if i had the money and the time i'd definitely pick up french again. oil those rusty cogs because i definitely remember a few things and love the french accent :D i'd also take up japanese. i'm rubbish. i know i've written about it in the past. maybe next september when i'm getting a decent salary and i have a car. who knows.

don't mind spanish. darren's family in spain tell me i need to learn the language so i can communicate with them. fair enough i suppose. but refuse to do it without learning how to speak and perhaps write tagalog fluently. italian is ok. i felt completely lost in venice what with the language barrier. darren joked that if all else failed he'd start speaking in spanish and see how that worked. lol. german. not for me. it's too harsh and find it weird. it doesn't help darren comes up with rediculous made up 'german' words and puts on the accent for fun. so in terms of languages that's just about what i'm interested in.

i've discussed about languages because i've come to realise that i've come to like foreign films. i always like to watch films or cartoons in their original language with subtitles. so that applies to anime. i really liked pan's labyrinth, y tu mama tabien, the motorcycle diaries - spanish films. darren likes watching them too. i asked him in the middle of one of the films whether he was reading the subtitles or listening to the audio. he told me that he doesn't even notice the subtitles. THAT reminds me when i went to watch crouching tiger in the cinema. my friend absar asked me as the filmed start 'which do i look at, the people or the subtitles'. lol. baka.

i personally go out of my way to watch these foreign films. the times that i've watched them they've come up on Film4 on tv. i think they make for a better experience. i think something is taken away when you purposefully go out to purchase the dvd. like you feel like a prick. and you know why. because stupid film critics call foreign films 'art films' WHAAAAT?? art films?? because the film's in another language? ok fine. languages is/can be considered one of the arts. but don't these people realise that by tagging it with such a name will a attract certain type of person that probably doesn't give a fuck about languages, but because it's 'art' and they're an 'art' person it must be for them, they must go and see it. grrr. it's so annoying. THAT'S why i like watching it on tv. because out of the other 100 channels i have i've made the decision to watch that particular movie. whereas going to the cinema or buying the dvd, i'm making this decision because maybe it would be cool to be seen watching this film - over later talking about it with your friends 'hey, i went and so blah blah blah' or 'i went and bought blah blah blah. it's such a cool film'. it's not that i'm conscious about what people think about me. i think it's more to do with being true to yourself. here in london, the 'trendy' (i hate that word) londonites - 22 year old somethings - MUST watch art films because it's 'trendy'. please fuck off and stick your head through one of the legs of your peter pan jeans.

i recently watched the motorcycle diaries (on xmas day, channel 4). really liked it. had to question darren a couple of times on some things - i prefer that compared to stupid 'trendy' people that would rather think they understand what's going on when they have know clue.

you probably think i'm waffling on and not coming to a conclusion, but the end is nigh. because the real gripe behind this entry is CHE GUEVARA t-shirts. the motorcyle diaries detailed the journey made by ernesto guevara and alberto grandado around south america. it didn't really go into great depth over che guevara's revolutionary exploits but that is what he is remembered and famous for.

fine. there's people out there that have read about his works and follow in his beliefs etc. etc. but why in god's name where a t-shirt with his face on it. it's weird. and KNOW for a fact there's a stupid fucker that owns and wears a che guevara t-shirt and knows nothing about the guy. they probably don't even know who he is! even better. what makes it worse is that urban outfitters bloody sells these t-shirts. a 'trendy' clothes store. lovely. appeal to the 'trendy' and mindless. after all it's just a money making scheme. gah. i can't take it. i shop in urban outfitters because they have nice things in there but i stay clear of these daft arty t-shirts. does my head in.

that's enough for today. i'm tired. coming up to 1.30am. night night.

2008

2008-01-02T23:27:51Z

this is the year when everything happens or will happen or might happen or i hope happens. hitting the big two-five, graduate from post-grad degree in june, qualify as a teacher and get control of my own classes in september, get paid a decent salary and start saving up for a rediculously over priced flat in london, get a car, hopefully/maybe do a mini south-east asia trip - i have half of june, ALL of june and july to whittle away however i please. when all of this is accomplished i'll feel like an actual adult.

WARNING: mini rant

y'know you watch those programmes on mtv and tv in general and you get these kids who are 16/17/18 claiming to be adults and being responsible? bull fucking shit. you know nothing. nothing of the world. nothing about yourselves. responsible? hah. do you have a car (my american fellows i am aware that you all drive from the age of 16) - did YOU pay for the car, do you pay for the insurance, tax and petrol? do you have your own flat/house? do you pay all house bills/tax? do you buy your own food and cook for yourself? do you do your own laundry? you do have a decent job that pays well to pay for all the above? do you know when to stop, when enough is enough?

no?

well then you're not a fucking adult so stop saying you are and start working towards being one.

you know what's spurned this hatred. it's my super sweet 16 episodes. i don't mind the american ones because they're quite cool. but the british version. omg. i wanted to shoot me some unbeliveably stupid, retarded post-16 year olds. i'm feeling pretty angry thinking about it.

these kids have NOTHING to their name. their clothes, bling, bags - whatever. everything they have to their name - everything that they ask for - is not owed to them stinking little fucks. it's their incredibly tolerant and equally stupid parents.

i did tell myself that i'd curb my swearing. but i like to think that swearing is a very expressive way to illustrate the extent of ones anger. it's not me being crass or not speaking intelligbly. i do that quite well actually. it's the illiterate ones that you need to watch out for. you can't understand a single thing they're saying. gah.

anyway. enough of the hate. wishing you all a good and rewarding 2008.

ps. don't be surprised if i use this journal for rants. back to uni on monday. i've had a very good two week restful break. looking forward to half term in february already :p

moomba_moomba @ 2007-12-11T19:36:00

2007-12-11T19:39:17Z

you know what's nice? having livejournal to escape from the stresses of reality. i like being able to read up on what other people have been up to. and really should get back to dong my essay due on friday:/

home sweet home

2007-11-10T19:24:43Z

i really shouldn't be on here. i should be moving more of my junk downstairs so when the van arrives i can just throw everything in and throw everything out to the new place.

yes, after a pretty eventful week we managed to secure ourselves the flat we've applied for. and just for the record estate agents CAN be evil but so long as you cover your arse and ask the right questions then they can't screw you over.

i can't believe the amount of stuff i've accumulated over the past three years. it's horrifying. so much stuff! my mind is still boggling over the sheer enormity of possessions i own. it's quite disgusting really.

whilst i'm excited to be moving on i'm stressing my brains out as well. packing and unloading has already taken the better half of today and it will continue to do so for tomorrow. i'm just wondering where the hell am i going to get time to do my lesson plans for monday. i'm in serious shit. god there isn't enough hours in the day.

so far so good

2007-11-05T19:17:46Z

so i've already done a 20 minute revision starter with my year 10 class, going over the last four topics in the chemistry unit before half term before they moved on to the new topic. that went well. better than i expected considering that there's four disruptive kids in that class. i had not problem what so ever. it's kind of scary. i could see a few blank faces when i went over some of the older stuff but i think the fact that i had the powerpoint boiled down to the upmost basic essential stuff they needed to know and that they could explain me what a redox reaction was, was enough for me to see that they 'got it'.

and that was just a portion of the 1 hour lesson that i took.

today i had year 7 kids for the whole hour and the lesson was to do with changes of state and that the particles move and how heat affects there movement. they did a practicle experiment which went really well after i stressed that under NO circumstances should i find peas on the floor. i did lose track of time but they all managed to get the practicle work and questions done so i'm pleased. i had a feedback session with the teacher that normally takes this class and his comments were very encouraging. he pointed out bits to improve on or to take note of so overall i'm happy.

knackered though x__x

abort the mission

2007-10-19T21:38:54Z

watched a channel 4 documentary to do with abortion the other day. it was horrible. and i actually watched the whole thing despite the fact that it made my stomach curdle.

i'm horrified that here in the uk, the upper limit of having an abortion is 26 weeks - that's between 6 and 7 months! there's something wrong with this right? that's over half the pregnancy term. the baby will already have the majority of the various organs, limbs and skeletal system formed. the very thought of terminating life at that age boggles my mind beyong belief. let alone contemplate how they even go about doing that.
the documentary explored the various research behind foetal/baby development. one scientist in the usa was doing research to determine at what stage did the foetus/baby develope the sense of pain and therefore relating to the point at which termination should be adjusted to.
what's annoying and sickening at the same time, is the fact that all this research and testing is ultimately futile because in the case of the uk, all the findings are still brought to parliament and it's the MPs that decide whether the termination age be brought down or kept the same. which in turn means that really it's down to personal opinion and feeling. very much like the physician that said that she didn't perform terminations above 20 weeks.

personally i'm not too keen against abortion. there are a lot of women out there that are simply irresponsible and stupid. contraception anyone? there's no excuse since it's widely available and it's FREE. i blame that to the whole binge drinking culture we have here. there's nothing to be proud of over the fact that you got piss arse drunk the other night and you woke up to killer hang over. better you than me, eh? hmm, all them drinks could have got you something useful instead. i'm coming across quite harsh and judgmental - i guess i've earnt it from my mum. and people wonder why they in financial trouble and why they can't afford things that they need.

ah well. like i can do anything about it. it's your life. do what you like.

WOW

2007-10-17T17:29:27Z

so my plan to contribute on a regular basis to livejournal went out of the window the moment i made the vow. all i can say is wow. i have been incredibly busy. being back at uni after a three year gap was quite a blow to me. not in the sense that i feel old. there are quite a few mature students in my group. i mean more in the sense that they literally bombarded us with so much information. policies. teaching strategies. target levels. attainments. gah. the list goes on. i have a tonne load of literature, booklets and more text that i simply have not been able to look at in any depth because the lectures and group sessions have been very full on. the first week of uni i went home almost everyday with a headache because it was too much for me.
it has eased up slighty. time has flown by already. half term break is next week. can't wait. i'm currently in my second week at my first school placement. it's a great school and the kids are great. i've always had the scary feeling of not knowing how the kids will be and how they will treat you or how i would come across to them. after having observed lessons for the first few weeks and talking to individuals in lessons i've realised i've got nothing to worry about. there are the odd one or two disruptive kids but i've noticed that if you give them the right attention they are interested in learning and they will do work when you ask them.
right now i am just shattered. i can't believe i'll actually start teaching after half term. i don't know if i'll take a whole class just yet. maybe i'll start off by doing a portion of the lesson and go from there. while i'm in school during my free lessons when i'm not observing i'm already busy killing trees with my photocopying of schemes of work and thinking up resources for lessons to make them exciting.
i'm really having a ball with this course. i'm knackered after each day but i come away happy.

other news:
darren and i are looking for a flat together. just saw one today. absolutely love it. it's not in the most desirable of places but it's on a quiet road. huge place with lots of storage space to stuff all my junk that i have accumulated in the past. dragging darren to go and see it tomorrow and hopefully we can sort all the paper work out with the estate agents soon-ish. would be great if everything could be done during half term because my landlord has just had a baby and i feel like i should be finding my own place as it's getting a mite crowded in this house. it will mean that i pay more rent and pay those awful things called BILLS but hey. it's all part of life and i'd rather do it now rather than later.

i've FINALLY left my weekend job. it had to be done. management were just useless and horrible. you might as well be shit on the floor to them. yeah. seven years there was MORE than long enough. i'm glad to have my weekends back to mundane things like laundry and ironing. last sunday was great. i had my driving lesson in the morning and picked up a sunday paper on my way to darren's place. we spent the whole morning going through all the supplements included with the newspaper and that took us the better part of the morning and lunch time. i did some uni work then we went out for a walk down to the high street and had yummy cake and coffee.

money wise i should be ok. i think :/ i've spent so much already on close and stupid stationary. because i'll be teaching a shortage subject i've got quite a big training bursary every month up until the end of my course so that's keeping me going. i don't see the need for me to take up a weekend job again unless my situation turns dire. i'll try not to as much as possible.

so yeah that's my life in a nutshell for now. i'm still reading what everyone else has been up to even though i don't leave a comment.

i can't believe it's nearly CHRISTMAS O_O

a hunter he a hunting went

2007-09-19T22:24:06Z

flat hunting in london is HARD. why? because it's so damn fekking expensive. even the 'bad' areas that no one would dream of moving into in the past has now become saturated with people. ugh. i've looked at 1 bedroom flats/houses and i tell you, if you're a single person on your own you will die. standard rent per calender month averages around £600. £500 if you live in a flat share. so to begin with you have to be earning over £500 to cover living expenses, travel and BILLS. it's quite depressing.

since starting the teaching degree it's made me realise how i've got to get my skates on and FAST. i need to save shitloads if i have any chance of buy a flat/house in the future.

i tell ya this real world is too damn stressful.

moomba_moomba @ 2007-09-02T21:25:00

2007-09-02T20:33:11Z

i don't want to go crazy and buy a crap load of stuff for uni. at the moment i've bought things i KNOW i'll definitely need.

2GB usb stick
lined paper

and that's about it! lol.

i've been trying to order my laptop but the people are messing me around and i'll need to sort that stuff out tomorrow. my plan is to get a wireless router for the downstairs computer which belongs to my landlord and his family so that i can pick the signal for my laptop (when i eventually get the damn thing) all the way up in the loft.

gah. i feel so unprepared for uni. i feel like i need to be buying tonnes of folders and paper and pens but i really don't want to.

i'm going to wait it out until i enrol so that i only get the necessary stuff. yes. wise move.

and i'm signing up to the uni gym. i need to shed this excess baggage big time. geez. what happened to the active me that used to run around like a person possessed. i had so much zest in me. boy. the real world sucks! lol.

moomba_moomba @ 2007-09-02T21:16:00

2007-09-02T20:27:03Z

wow. haven't updated here in a long time.

don't get me wrong. i still actively visit my account and check up on what everyone else is up to.

as for me. well. i finished my stint at the school back in july. have been enjoying a relatively laid back, peaceful august. went away for two weeks in spain. still been working the weekend job inbetween the free time.

but reality has hit me hard. i'm enrolling for uni on the 10th and have lecture ALL that week 9am - 4pm. it's going to be tough. i was reading the introductory booklet to the course and i can tell from reading the thing that i'm in for a gruelling time. it's such an intense course and there's ALOT of stuff you have to do on your own which your tutors and course advisors EXPECT you to do on your own without them having to constantly guide you. i know i can do. i just need to keep focused. which is why after seven years i'm leaving the weekend job to fully commit to this post-grad. i've got to. i'd love to be making the money to help me along the way but i can't see it happening. physically i could do. damn. i've been working 7 days a week straight for three years straight without no financial assistance from nobody but myself. rent, food, clothes, travel. the whole fucking lot. but i think this might be a bit too much for me to handle. mentally it could mess me up big time juggling the job and the work load as well as the teaching in schools. i've realised that i need my weekends back to have some me time and to do mundane crap like laundry and ironing that i haven't been able to do consistantly since i left home.
ah i'll be alright. thanks to the british government i'll be in even MORE debt than i was when i did my undergraduate degree. yep. student loads, grants, bursuries all the way.
i'm really looking forward to getting back into the whole study mode. i miss writing essays and creative thinking and research. i sound crazy but i loved all that stuff about uni.

it'll be a test for sure. well. you'll know how i be doing whether it's good or bad. yep. livejournal for me is back!

Last Night

2007-07-13T17:53:29Z

I had the most AMAZING time ever.

Darren and I went to see Kings of Leon at the Hammersmith Apollo. I have never in my life acted like a maniac like I did last night. They were ELECTRIC. God the atmosphere in there was crazy. Everyone was jumping, drinking and chucking beer and getting into the music and singing along. Normally I'd go nuts if I had beer thrown at me but I didn't care 'cos I was having a great time. Everyone knew the songs. That is what's so great about Kings of Leon. EVERY song they have from all three albums is like an anthem in that everyone knows that it's a KOL song.

After the gig we went to China Town and got some food since we went straight to Hammersmith after work and had no dinner. And then we hoofed it home. And I'm totally knacked having had work today.

I was reading an interview they did and they were saying how they love coming over to the UK and playing here because the fans and the people that came to the shows 'got' what their music and what they're all about and that America was catching up to it all. You people in America are crazy for not loving KOL. They're one of the greatest bands to have emerged from there. See the main problem is the music industry in America is so heavily saturated with artists and bands and they all have their own fan base and such.

Hey, the UK will have KOL, the Strokes and other bands from Stateside ANY TIME.

I'm tempted to come over to NYC to see them in September if my Uni timetable will allow it. If not then it's December at Wembley arena.

I'm seriously contemplating on getting a t-shirt of theirs. Sad? Yeah, whatever.

FACEBOOK

2007-06-22T18:04:53Z

i absolutely LOVE this thing. i've found so many of my old secondary school friends. anyone here signed up with facebook??

Magic Numbers

2007-06-08T23:10:07Z

The Magic Numbers came into the store on Wednesday to film their next music video. I wasn't there but Darren was telling me how the drummer set up his kit under this huge gazebo we have in the main aisle. They also filmed inside our photo machine (????) and around the entertainment department.

Of all the places to go into to film a music video.....

Kinda cool.

Flying Away

2007-05-27T07:28:16Z

I'm off to Portugal this coming Monday for two nights and three days.

I'm the only girl in the group. Any beer throwing or stupid drunkeness around me, heads will roll!

This will be a nice break to just chill out. Have a lazy day drinking coffee in the sun. Stroll around town. No crazy rushing around and getting things done like in New York.

Should be good.

moomba_moomba @ 2007-05-26T21:39:00

2007-05-26T20:40:22Z

It's raining here in London. Nothing new here.

Carrying on with the music theme.....

2007-05-17T22:37:51Z

Gym Class Heroes

2007-05-17T22:36:17Z

These guys have some crazy awesome next shit music going on. Check their new album out: As Cruel As School Children

OMG. Rapunzel: Bring it on.

2007-04-22T20:25:35Z

I found this picture amongst my Philippine 2006 Holiday snaps. I NEVER realised how LONG my hair was!! Daaaamn.

But now I've cut it :D Still long but not THAT long.

Geek freak eggs

2007-04-11T22:26:16Z

How weird am I. I was replying to a comment gauntletarmour left on my calamari entry. I paused over the keyboard trying to remember off handedly what family the squid and octopus came from and from no where out came 'Cephalopod'. I was sure I was right but I had to check - and it was. Well, I am a Biologist. What a nerd head. I thought I forgot all that stuff since I stopped studying books and attending lectures nearly 3 years ago. Guess I haven't managed to quite weedle it out of me just yet. Actually. I better hang onto my so called knowlege. I'm gonna need for when I start my post-grad degree in teaching in September!

On an even MORE random note: you know what's great? EGGS. They're bloody brilliant. Along with rice, eggs are one of the most versatile foods around. I went to my local Tescos supermarket to buy some tomatoes and lemon and it struck me that I didn't have any eggs.

You can do all sorts with them. Boil them, scramble them, fry them. Separate the yolk and whites to make soufflé and maringues respectively. Omelettes, cakes, pancakes............... so always make sure you've got them around!