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| Tuesday, October 24th, 2006 | | 10:46 pm |
Eternal / Infernal wait
The Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick plus the university itself fills my time up so much that livejournalling has been dragged away from my list of things to do. And usually I'd have time to just view my friends pages but now that time has been taken up by......differential equations. DAMN YOU MATHEMATICS - WHY DO YOU HAVE TO TAKE AWAY MORE OF MY LIFE!!!!!!
HOWEVER, before you insist that I have sold my soul to the devil (NO PHILOSOPHICAL REMARKS LUKIFER!!), I would like to take this opportunity to show you a brief, if somewhat humorvoll (depending on your taste), look at the workings of students in the MMath Course. YOU REALLY SHOULD WATCH THIS - DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE MATHS - IGNORE THE MATHS. - http://o.tearne.org/G103/download.htm
Sorry again for the countably infinite (if you wish to call it that) delay before my next full post:(
OOH - ALSO HERES MY UNI (EN-SUITE ROOM!!!!!!) ADDRESS:
*DELETED (26/08/2008)* Current Mood: BUSY - RUSHED OFF MY FEET | | Wednesday, July 19th, 2006 | | 10:27 pm |
So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, adieu!!!
Well - today I had my last day of school (in terms of being there this academic year). I will miss everyone at the school - staff (be they teaching or non-teaching) and of course the pupils (everyone I know who has played a part in my student career, from yr15 to yr8 & MY OWN LOVELY YEAR 13s - PS KIRAN I'M REALLY SORRY FOR NOT BEING AT HEADSTRONG - I WAS BUSY DOING STUFF IN PREP FOR HOLIDAY - BUT ITS MY FAULT AND MY PROBLEM AS I HAVE MISSED OUT ON A GREAT PLAY :(:() I LOVE YOU ALL GUYS - I REALLY DO LOVE YOU ALL - ITS BEEN A ROLERCOASTER, BUT HEY, ADOLESENCE IS LIKE THAT ANYWAY. *LARGE GROUP HUG OF ALL THE PEOPLE PRAVEEN KNOWS!!!* I'm offf to new york tomorrow - I have a 9:30 Virgin flight - I wish you all happy holidays and best of luck for the furture too!! Wish me luck for Warwick!!! PS - THE LARGE ENTRY BELOW IS FOR YOU TO READ - READ IT!!! POEMS TO BE PUBLISHED WHEN I GET BACK. BUT FOR NOW READ THE NEXT LONG ENTRY - COME ON!!!! | | Monday, July 17th, 2006 | | 10:52 pm |
I'm back for more journalling!
Before you start reading this entry, it is worth noting something - this entry was synthesised over a long period of time and not all in one go (as you can probably tell from the vast amount of text in the entry, and the number of LJ cuts). This means that the timing of some parts will be different to other parts. Otherwise, be prepared for a marathon entry, involving exams, critiques, descriptions and many other things that I can;t think off right now. To aid you as to give a rough idea of when each part was typed (or meant to have been typed), dates have been added. I suppose luke and other people might wonder why I am doing this instead of placing different entries at different backdated dates - I suppose its because people wpould only look at the most recent entry and not the one previously put up - this way increases the chance that all peeps who read my entry will see all of what I have put up recently.(1st July)Well hello! I'm back here livejournalling with some news and ideas and thoughts all mulling around in my head, some bad, some good, some annoying and poor, some quite nice but yeah so its all good. After a period away for revision and examinations I have had to put livejournalling to the bottom of my list (I know - a cardinal sin), because of my heavy A2 workload for this summer's finals. And for those of you who have no idea of the scale of exams I'm going thru - I have listed them below, with verdicts for each of them, for good
Before you point these things out - yes, Warwick only want me to get a B in one science and yes I had 21 days between my first and second exams to update my journal - but I was revising instead - I am some kind of weird perfectionist - oh well.
Some related side notes: REMINDER - MY BOOK NEEDS TO BE SIGNED (See previous entry) AND ALL PHOTOS OF LEAVERS DAY FOR yr13 SHOULD BE SENT TO ME FOR PUBLISHING ON THIS SITE - VIDEOS ARE ALSO APPRECIATED!!! Briefly I'll summarise what happened to me on the last day of lessons (excluding the pranskters stuff which will be highlighted in the Garbett Critique below) - After the disappointing first assembly, I had double free for the first two periods, which was just the usual run around to get people to sign my book! Then breaktime, and even more signatures from people. Then double biology (My LAST BIOLOGY LESSON EVER!!), where Dr Ben-Brahim announced that she was leaving this year, and she gave us her copy of an essay that we planned the day before. It included a reference to sperm cells having eyes to see where they were going....hmmm. She also made a cake that we all had for the final lesson, which was yummy! Then we all had final photos and then left at the end of period 4. Then the LONGEST ASSEMBLY EVER - it was back on! Lots and lots and lots of music and dancing! Performances from Mr Oxenham ("leon") and Mr Trafford singing "That's what I go to school for", the FUNK BAND of yr13, Joe Thompson &"I killed the dog" singing various songs, it went on and on. Garbett dared to make an appearance (after not saying thanks and goodbye to yr13 in our last main school assembly ever, which was EXTREMELY RUDE & UNACCEPTABLE) giving a speech to thank Donaldsonm, as well as giving him a hat & some wine as a present, before Donaldson was serenaded by A Cut Above. Then, while everyone else went off to the Lamb for a set of drinks, I waited and went up to Cheshunt lakes for Canoe club, where I subsequently decided to jump into the water from standing in my kayak at the end of the session, having avoided a game which was sure to put me in the drink in the first place. If I've forgotten stuff about the last assembly, tell me!!POEMS - FINALLY!! After months and months of putting stuff like this off, I can finally do it - I WILL do a collection of three poems - one on the Yr13 Final Day, one on the Yr11 (that is when the current yr13s were yr11) Final Day, and one looking back at my seven year Latymer career as a student. - due to time constraints, these will be published AFTER I have come back from the summer adventure trip.(2nd July)And now I look at my list and note my next prompt: A note regarding the current outlook for the school at the beginnign of the Garbett Era (including a criticism of Garbett and the Garbett Era so far such as the calamity of the cancellation of Dolbe-Keats Bazaar fr the first time in many decades, caused by industrial action), as well as a look back at the Cooper Era. To include discussion with Ms Gill discusions
(7th July)
- 7/7 - TO BE DONE SOON (8th July)DOCTOR WHO - I'm annoyed that I haven't been able to put comments down on individual episodes on my journal, but all I can say is that this series was as good as the first new modern series, if not better. More emotional scenes that made me cry nearly (the last episode being one example), and lots of cuts of humor and drama. WELL DONE BBC WALES - MORE OF THE SAME NEXT YEAR PLEASE - and I wonder how the new companion will be like!!!! ALSO TO BE DONE SOON (9th July)- COSTCO RIP OFF - I'm such a child. - dreams and how weird they can be - A look back at my school photos from Latymer and junior school over the weekend. - An analysis of families and the principle of teenagers to do whatever they want (i.e. Praveen turns 80) & gratitude to bad parents | | Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 | | 9:10 am |
Interlude
The problem with maintaining a journal when you have so much to say is that there is little time for updating because so many of the events that cause me to have so much to say occur in my free time, which means updating is postponed. But here's a look at whats to come this study leave. - POEMS - FINALLY!! After months and months of putting stuff like this off, I can finally do it - I WILL do a collection of three poems - one on the Yr13 Final Day, one on the Yr11 (that is when the current yr13s were yr11) Final Day, and one looking back at my seven year Latymer career as a student. - REMINDER - MY BOOK NEEDS TO BE SIGNED (See previous entry) AND ALL PHOTOS OF LEAVERS DAY FOR yr13 SHOULD BE SENT TO ME FOR PUBLISHING ON THIS SITE - VIDEOS ARE ALSO APPRECIATED!!! - A note on when I'm gonna be in for exams - A note regarding the current outlook for the school at the beginnign of the Garbett Era (including a criticism of Garbett and the Garbett Era so far such as the calamity of the cancellation of Dolbe-Keats Bazaar fr the first time in many decades, caused by industrial action), as well as a look back at the Cooper Era. - A look back at my school photos from Latymer and junior school over the weekend. - Why everyone thinks I'm dirty suddenly? (no idea why) - An analysis of families and the principle of teenagers to do whatever they want (i.e. Praveen turns 80) FINALLY - I SHALL NOW ACTIVATE THE COMMENTS SYSTEM FOR THE PREVIOUS ENTRY. SO GET COMMENTING. | | Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 | | 12:15 am |
Another Long Entry - but with LJ cuts this time
For the purposes of not boring readers, I have decided to introduce LJ cuts into this entry. So let me begin..... I begin with the piece on "Gratitude to Parents" that I thought I should write on the day of Vesak last Friday. Here is the new version - but this is subject to further change - this piece also includes an introduction which I decided to keep.
Moving swiflty on, I now want to get something out of the way:
The first bit of proper news in this entry is that the FINAL OFFICIAL DAY OF DEPARTURE/STUDY LEAVE is Tuesday 16th May 2006 - we will have Period 1 free, periods 2-5 normal lessons (ish!) and then at lunch a long long long long long assembly in the common room with loads of bands performing. This day is also the day when I have my last proper lesson at school EVER and my last Biology Lesson with Dr Ben-Brahim (BEN) ever!!!!
By the way, after moderation, my chemistry coursework mark went down by one mark - so now I get 23/30 for my investigation, and 7/8 for my GPC (Practical book basically). So, its pretty good so far.
Also, during the last few physics lessons, I ave found out how incapable of doing A2 Practical Exams properly! I can't use common sense - I've lost it! Argh!!!
Note to External Exam Candidates - never loan your calculator out to little people - I am currently trying to get my calculator back from Nye in 9Wyatt after he borrowed it for the SATS exams - he is currently in cwm and I still haven't got it back - grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. A random website - http://dojo.fi/~rancid/loituma__.swf | | Saturday, May 13th, 2006 | | 12:09 pm |
Provisional entry
The following LJ cut will link to the beginning of a long long long entry that I am planning on doing for today. Comments on this provisional entry are disabled - however friends who wish to contact me can do so via e-mail or MSN as they choose. The entry was written last night but was continued earlier this morning - note how the conclusion is muddled - if anyone *luke* wants to help me out on this one, I'd be grateful. As I say - a much much much much much larger final entry will follow.
| | Sunday, May 7th, 2006 | | 9:43 pm |
Long update to be scheduled
Many points to cover including: - Change of date of Yr13 Final Day - Tuesday 16th May 2006 after 1:00 - Never let a yr9 boy borrow your calculator - Why everyone thinks I'm dirty suddenly? (no idea why) - How my coursework in Chemistry ACTUALLY went - Why I can't do Physics Practical Tests - An analysis of families and the principle of teenagers to do whatever they want (i.e. Praveen turns 80) - If I could be for just one little hour, Cute, cute, cute in a stupid-ass way - Jaques Brel and a few more points that I can't remember atm. | | Friday, April 28th, 2006 | | 8:46 pm |
*Why do I get the impression that I'm in the Stratford Box - even though I'm only in the dark downstairs at home??* Right - this entry is longoverdue and will be given in "rant-latymerscope" format. I would like to start by mentioning some news about my chemistry coursework - On thursday, after two nights of work to plug all the holes and fill in all the gaps in my practical book, I gave it in to Miss McGovern - I anticipate I'll get 6/8 for it. Later that day, I asked her what my UNMODERATED (moderation took place on today (Friday's) INSET day) mark for my coursework investigation was (only because a lot of other peeps in my class asked or got told by MGV automatically) - I got 7-9-8 (or 8-9-7 - I can't remember but the central (Implementing) one was definetly a 9) which is 24/30 - nice for a rushed project! This means that after moderation, I shall have achieved approximately 27/38 for my CWK half of Chemistry Unit 5. This means that my Warwick prosepcts look good - I need only achieve a C in Biochem to get my place secured. YAYAY! But naturally of course, I shall be aiming for A's overall - I'm just glad that I have a lot of room for failure (:P). On the first friday of the easter holiday - good friday - I went to yr14 Josh's Birthday Barbecue which was very nice indeed as I got to meet lots of yr14 peeps that I hadn't seen in ages (love you all & I miss you!!). It all seemed fine and happy (especially now that I know how to play "risk"!!) except for one thing. I made it clear that I didn't want to consume alcohol, and I didn't knowingly do so. However I seem to recall that I only had one drink in the beginning - a coke with ice - that was it, and I detected no change in taste compared to the usual taste. But then, while I was playing "risk" I distinctly felt out of it (if this is the feeling that people like when they drink alcohol when they forget the rest of life and feel detached from their usual self, I have to say, it was an interesting experience BUT I HATED IT - it felt wrong and annoying and dizzy and crap - but I was enjoying the game still). But I swear that I hadn't had any alcohol - I may have sniffed a bit to see what kind of stuff the others were drinking but it was just tiny whiffs! Then the next morning, after going to central london to buy maths textbooks for revision, a large stupid headache/migraine caused me problems for the rest of the day...and then it continued into the morning of the next day..and then into the afternoon, when it gradually went. My mother and I seemed worried that I had been given alcohol without me knowing so I checked with Josh who was sure that he didn't put alcohol in my cup. I am also sure that I didn;t leave my cup anywhere - it was only out of my hand when it was empty. Unfortunately, my mum seems unconviced and may now put back the restirctions regarding parties etc. Strangely tho, my dad and brother got long headache problems recently... the mystery is unsolved. I went to Warwick last Saturday to preview acomodation as part of their open day - I have now sent my application in and hope it goes as I planned - I want en-suite so badly!!! My parents, surprisingly, while we were there, said "This place is so moch better than imperial or cambridge", so it get my mother's seal of approval. I think she has a point - its a tiny and not too isolated community - if i were suddenly dropped into a big city away from home, I'd die of shock due to my lack of outside world & independence experiences. I think Warwick is suitable for me - whats more I'm definetly able to visit people in other unis - the easiest person will be emma in yr15 in Selly Oak (Uni of brummieland....University of Birmingham). I also have an announcement to make regarding my attendance at school after the exams have ended. After the 30th June (i.e. for the month of July) I shall be visiting school on an irregular basis to get my book signed and say my goodbyes and give away long cuddles and hugs to people (This is really depressing) BUT unfortunately I SHALL NOT BE ABLE TO ATTEND THE FINAL HALF DAY (END OF SUMMER TERM) ON THURSDAY 20th JULY. This is because we have already booked flight tickets for my family to go to New York on this date. However, I am still going on the Summer Adventure trip so goodbyes to other people are extended!:P! I am going to thank Hua Aun for lending me Muse albums - there are lots of songs here that I like and love! I shall finish by quoting MSN screen names: "Give me too much freedom too quickly and I might just die of shock - And leave me to fend on my own and I won't change" "legal as of 18th April" "Socaddict: you took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me" "They came hidden behind dark glasses - Apply online for student support for the Academic Year 2006/07 and go into a draw to win an iPod!" ...."JAKE, CAKE, CAME, LAME, LIME, LIMP, PIMP !!!! WE WIN".......... "If you have an issue heres a tissue, go jack off" "I'm a symptomatic love addict" "it's not rape if you shout "surprise!" " "My Cereal has given me a message! "ooooooooo". "Those are cheerios." " "we danced upon a rainbow, and chased the clouds away." "we speak in silence every time our eyes meet" "YOU CAN'T HAVE AN AMOEBA AS YOUR POWER ANIMAL DAMN IT!" Current Music: Muse - Blackout | | Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 | | 10:08 pm |
Randomisation
Potassium Bromide was used in the 50s in schools to supress feelings of love (as learnt from "That'll teach 'em" on channel 4. I cannot attend the end of summer term half day :S (Headache???) And I HAVE RUN OUT OF TIME!! | | Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | | 9:13 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 11th, 2006 | | 10:01 pm |
I have just seen the classic "that'll teach em" programme on channel 4. This series, they're using the 50s style of teaching in a grammar school. I wonder what happens if I send 9D (when they're in yr 11) into this environment...... | | 3:02 pm |
| | Monday, April 10th, 2006 | | 10:15 am |
I have decide to allow comments on my mad pizza entry - just to see what happens - I doubt there will be any change. I have also chosen to post a comment I made to luke regarding our year leaving etc. "Linking Pythy & Lukifers comments on our year... Haven't you been looking at what I've been saying & typing up on my journal? Of course our year has changed - in my opinion, the biggest change was from yr11 to yr12, when groups split up and drifted apart - it was a time when the social map of the year underwent semi-radical change. One set of memories I think I wuld prefer to get rid of are the memories of years 7 & 8 (1999-2001) - these were the worst years because of the feeling of kiddies being released into a seemingly more mature world - admittedly I didn't grasp at new opportunities when they arose as school went on, and I'm not sure if I have still. I think the dissolution of our year is an anticlimax - kind of the opposite of the year 11 study leave day. I for one am going to try to find a climax to my latymer life by spending time with the rest of the school yr12 to yr9/8 over the final weeks after exams. This way, it'll be my goodbye & farewell, but it'll also be a reminder that if I am in trouble at uni, I'll always have some friends at latymer that I can hang around with when I come back from uni at the end of each term." Anyway, atm I am bored - I only have biochem, M5, S3 & S4 to revise, my chem practical book to clean up and then I'll be done - but what else to do - another prose-poem-rant-piece for my journals? hmmm maybe, but such things require me to be in the right frame of mind - unfortunately, my frame of mind right now is angular momentum in M5...not a gud start - and I'm afraid I must leave to continue my studies in M5. | | Saturday, April 8th, 2006 | | 9:15 pm |
Floppy "Soggy" Cheesy Pizza
heres a random comment from my mind: "Floppy "soggy" cheesy pizza slices - a representation of the kind of party food that annoying "it" american teenagers (girls esp) wuld eat." wooo (phew) ok - that my 100yr old grandad thought out of my head (wonder if loren can come up with a randomised rebuttal comment). | | 7:53 pm |
a much much shorter entry than the previous one
After having done a large entry as my previous post, I have chosen to keep it short and simple for this entry - thank goodness. I have also decided to recollect te most recent events and go back in time as the entry progresses. So yesterday then - Friday evening - I'm working downstairs when my grandma comes downstairs and makes breakfast in the kitchen.......at 8:00pm. It turned out that she had been in deep sleep from afternoon and so he thought that 8:00pm was 8:00am the next day - simply, her body clock (or at least her mind clock) is messed up. morning and afternoon - leavers photos - I would like to thank Ben Vardy for his wonderful idea about the form group photos. They were great. We also had the standard year and individual photos done too which was very nice. I think, however that this yearbook will be a flop - sorry to the people organising it but, it just seems really rushed - I mean look at the year 11s with their yearbook - they seem to have it so well organised - they've also got a DVD being produced too!! I still need to get a decent photo for use in the yearbook - hmmm. Thursday evening - said goodbye to a friend online because she was going to florida for the holidays and wouldn;t be in on friday (flight was at 12:30) - I miss her lots :(:(. daytime - I MISSED THE DEBATE (selling chocolate) - though I did get to talk very briefly to Miss Golding (who was judging) about Mathematics at university which was nice. And now I can't think of anything else to say for the mo so......bibi! | | Saturday, April 1st, 2006 | | 11:29 am |
Right now - a long long long long long entry
I begin this entry with thoughts about the Music at Latymer concert on the Wednesday of this week. I have to say that it was superb for what it was - BUT IT COULD HAVE BEEN A WHOLE LOT BETTER. Here are my suggestions for what could have been done: 1) AS WELL AS KEEPING THE CONTEMPORARY, EXPERIMENTAL AND POPULAR THEMES PLAYED IN THE CONCERT, we should have heard a lot more classical - that was definetly missing in truckloads. 2) The concert should have ended with a large mass choral classical piece similar to the requiem two years ago or Haydn's Creation instead of Dark Sun, although the dark sun piece SHOULD still be kept in place. 3) A radical change: a) The concert shuld be in three parts with two intervals b) The first part should have been an exhibition of the lower school/ lower orchs. c) The second part should have been dedicated to the senior pupils and chamber groups. d) The second part should also have ended in the Dark Sun piece. e) The third part should have been the large choral & orch piece described in 2). Regarding the non-performance elements of the concert, I HATED the fact that there were loads of staff present to make sure no-one went to the dark upstairs parts of the school. I WANTED TO DO THE DARK UPSTAIRS SCIENCE CORRIDOR WALK - as I have maintained before, every performer shuld walk down the corridor once during the concert (alone - group walks spoil the comfort achieved by the distant playing of music). Mr Harrison also said to me on the thursday after the concert that he was gonna put a recording of the Dark Sun piece on the intranet - I didn;t take it into my head at the time because he surprised me while I was being petrified by...well see the previous entry. But anyway, I have not been able to find it, so I need to chase him up on that. But performing the Dark Sun piece with Chris Travers (who turned up on the balcony JUST IN TIME!!) was brilliant - the wine glasses were a bit temperamental sometimes, but it was a gud powerful sound effect. Regarding percussion, the round black part of someones beater in our balcony, flew off and went down onto the stage into the brass section!! It was very very funny!! I must also note that this concert was theoretically my last Music at Latymer, and my last senior choir performance at school. However, I hope to be going to the Gala concert to watch, and also when I'm at uni, I'll also join "Chorus"- the university of Warwick's non-audition choir which does tours! I'll also be coming back to school to do the christmas concerts and the last music at Latymer concerts every year. I AM ALSO SORRY TO KIRAN, KATHERINE, ELLEN AND TAHSIN FOR MISSING THE A2 DRAMA PERFORMANCE - BUT UNFORTUNATELY I WAS INCREDIBLY BUSY (as were a third of our year) DOING WHAT IS MENTIONED IN THE NEXT POINT BELOW. Next piece of news - chem cwk - the 8000 word project on the rate of reaction of magnesium with acid is actually shorter than my GCSE science coursework pieces. This annoys me - so now I know my cwk mark is gonna be crap. I am also going to confirm here one thing - I AM NOW GOING TO THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK - Clear? On Thursday, I also helped out with ensuring that Marcus du Sautoy's visit to Latymer went smoothly. Marcus is a lecturer in mathematics at Wadham college, Oxford University. He lives in Stoke Newington and has a son in year 5 who he hopes will go to Latymer. He came in to lecture the year 9 set 1 groups on the importance of prime number - it had a similar format to his book and Ri Lecture "The music of the primes" but without all the Gauss-Riemann hypothesis things. I was able to see the lecture in periods 4 & 5 with the yr9s and Alex & Hakki from the year 12 further maths set. They were free that time, but I had biology periods 4 & 5 - that was until I asked Dr Ben-Brahim if I could go to see the lecture and she said "I know that you will catch up on the work, so I shall let you go - yes" - seriously, she said that!! Anyway, the lecture was gud, including the two hillarious scenes from the film "the Cube". After that, I listened to a Q & A seesion he was doing with the sixth form on studying maths at uni and studdying at Oxford. I was slightly annoyed at the way he praised Oxbridge for its collegiate system - naturally I agreed that the collegiate system did have its advantages, but I was gonna say to him that there was some discrimnation about the process with the collegiate system. I saved my questions for the talk with him while I showed him around the school during period 6. It was actually quite gud to do the tour alone and without other students (no offence to Saul & Zach), but I needed to get my worries about maths at uni cleared up, and I liked his comments. He was a very nice person - probably got bored with me during the tour, but still a very nice guy. During the lecture, I also discovered potential mathematical talent - yr 9 kid in 9D called luke (who seems to demonstrate the same levels of intelligence and knowledgeability as the Luke Roelofs we all know and like in our year). I have been speaking to him online for the past few days and he has told me that he wants to do maths at uni (SAUL ARE YOU READING THIS??!!) I hope to ask his teacher and my friend, miss Heath, if I can tutor him with some AS - level maths in a single period in the fortnight timetable. Its gonna be so cool. Oh yes - I am now gonna list the other non-livejournal sites that I want to bookmark here: http://luke.slashmedia.co.uk ----> Luke (year9) site http://www.be3g.co.uk ----> Thomas Kuglins site http://www.hi5.com ----> Hi5 http://thedon_praveen.bebo.com ----> My own BEBO space http://www.bebo.com ----> General BEBO website The next item on my list of things to talk about is the hillarious debate about polygamy which was done yesterday - great performances by Luke, Roisin, Tom, Bernard & Portia (WHO NEEDS TO BE TOLD THAT BIRMINGHAM HASN'T GOT A SEA PORT!!). This debate was a clash of head boy versus head girl, travers versus travers & roelofs versus roelofs. There was lots of bitching about people's girlfriends (li fay), roisin got slagged off quite badly as the regulator of sexual activity, and the environmental factor of sharing a bed with two other people (the idea in mind being Tom, Luke and Roisin). The timekeeping was a bit annoying for me to do - the laughter generated by the speeches took up so much time that lots of the speeches overran by at least 30 seconds - the puns by Iman were gud but required thought - oh well. Next week, I hope to be selling lots and lots of lovely lovely Fair Trade chcoloate (possibly in the form of large or small easter eggs). I also have to report that after our fairtrade week of seling, £75 went missing from the float or £75 of stock was stolen. This was partially recovered by the tiny cake sale we held later. I hope the profit generated will actually make up for the loss and give us a surplus - so we can actually give money to charities (child sponsorship, forest growing - BY THE WAY WHO SAID IN THE DEBATE THAT WE CAN RECYCLE FORESTS?? A FOREST CAN'T BE RECYCLYED!!! IT CAN BE MADE SUSTAINABLE). On a link from bitching about in the debate, I am now going to use this part of my entry to empty out the bowels of my honest direct and (UNFORTUNATELY) somewhat bitchy factor that build up from the constipation I get from being the childish honest helpful friendly soul I am at school. First to Chris - this is regarding comments made online - I find some of the things you say very personal and I don't think I can apply them to my own world views. As much as I appreciate and understand your comment, I do feel that I am buckling under the pressure with which you put forward your points, and it feels as though you're imposing these ideas on me. Second, Kiran - I'm not entirely convinced by the point you made about "people lie lots in life" - I'm striving to be a person who is honest with at least 95% of things I say. It gives more of an indication of who I am to other people. And I could link this to another comment to chris - the point you made about me being really immature and naive by being honest seems a bit clumsy in my opinion - what is the logical link between being a kid and being honest - you can learn to lie as you grow up, but this doesn't mean that honesty is to be condemned as something naive. I am also returning to help other people with personal problems mode because I now feel better that I have got lots of my problems out to other people - some to a larger extent than others. Heres a tangential point - did you know that the reaction to tickling is meant to be an indication of the person not wanting to undergo sexual activity? Seems a bit contrived to me....but back to my life I have also decided on my exams for this summer - I can't remember if I have put my A2 Jan grades on here: AQA Biology A Unit 6 - Physiology & the Environment & Unit 8W - Written Synoptic (which includes a timed synoptic essay) Edexcel Chemistry (Nuffield) Unit 5A - Biochemistry Special Study (effectively = AS biology!!) Unit 6 - Applying Chemistry - Synoptic (we are allowd to bring our text books in for this) Edexcel Physics Unit 5A - Fields & Forces, Unit 5B (group2) - Practical Test & Unit 6 - Synoptic Advanced Extension Awards (3 hour extension papers with only "merit" & "distinction" being the grades) Edexcel Maths CCEA (northern ireland) Physics STEP Maths (AGAIN???) - STEP II & III Speaking of exams, I got my dad to sign a cheque to order more past papers from Edexcel - and what date did he sign the cheque as? 1st April - LOL! This seems to be a similar case to the AQA GCSE English Coursework form I remember signing in yr11 - I put 31st March jst to avoid any worry!! Regarding biochemistry - It seems very easy and it is actually like the AS Biology course - its just repetition to get 45 marks in the bag! But the practicals we have to do are annyoing ang horrendous. In one practical we have to use our own SALIVA, and in another, we need to use a ground up liver, which is to be ground up OURSELVES (naturally, I got Neha to do this for me - thank you!). Oh well. The Step II and AEA maths papers are arranged in the morning and afternoon respectively on Friday 30th June 2006. This means I start the last day of the national exam timetable with 3 hours of hard maths, go have lunch, do 3 hours of not so hard maths, then go to the leavers dinner in the evening. EEEK!! I think I also REALLY REALLY NEED to do some "poems" or reflections as they may be known now as - I need to do one on the yr11 last day, yr 13 last day and the last true days of the the 2003-2004 and 2005-2006 academic years, and also on cwm and canoe club. Finally, regarding the end of my 7 years at Latymer. I am going to use a new large book (rather than the autograph book I had in yr11 and 12) to act as my final sign off from the school. I'm gonna get people to do this from the beginning of the summer term onwards. I shall also visit the school after I have left (as in during the last few weeks of the year) to make my personal goodbyes to loads of people in the school. I'll still visit the school after september tho - I can't forget Latymer, even if it is a sinking ship. Anyway, thats enough for now. Current Mood: CalmCurrent Music: Humm of my laptop | | Thursday, March 30th, 2006 | | 2:15 pm |
NOT A LONG ENTRY but a worry
I have just seen a group of people together in the small hall - and they looked at me with cold looks when I tried smiling at them as I was passing with Marcus du Sautoy - what have they been talking about?? what has she been talking about - this may be paranoia, or I might just fall out with my own year. | | Tuesday, March 28th, 2006 | | 3:39 pm |
Argh - I'm temporarily back on my journal and have noticed that on my friends page, only squeakyorm seems to have done lots of entries =- WE SALUTE YOU SQUEAKYORM!! I have been really busy these past few weeks and am now doing lots of relaxing. However, today I am at school, till 9pm for a rehearsal of tomorrows concert finale - DARK SUN by Stephen montague. I will do a large update when I have time - byeybye. | | Saturday, March 18th, 2006 | | 5:14 pm |
Inspector Morse - Favourite Episodes
- Second Time Around - Cherubim and Seraphim In the latter episode, Morse investigates a case which takes him into the alien world of the rave scene While he listens to rave music "Thats the hallelujah chorus directed by Sir Adrian Boult!!" And now the moral bit of the episode - Recreational designer "high" drugs are things which teenagers to take to make them feel so high and happy, that they feel that they've experienced the best of the world, all in one moment, and then the rest of their lives, they fruitlessly seek the same experience again, because they've already reached that high - the highest level of joy is nothing new after the first trip - hence the suicidal tendencies that may occur afterward. These episodea are so gud - they dive into the minds of young people and its refreshing. | | Friday, March 17th, 2006 | | 12:14 pm |
i am happy but tired today because I have just handed in my 8000+ word coursework piece on the rates of reactions of metals with acid for chemistry. ITS OVER!!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D |
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