Aug

21

2008

Grenade! Grenade!

Yes that is me wearing a Clone Trooper (Star Wars reference, if you’re confused) mask, and yes I’m a geek, but isn’t it fantastic?! Also, you’re probably wondering why I’m wearing a hood in the photo. I’m not being a ‘gangster’ Clone Trooper (although me and my brother did have a laugh about that for ages!), the mask only covers my face so my hair is still visible which looks weird, I doubt there are any Clone Troopers with hair coming out of their helmets - unless one of them decided to glue a wig on it that is!

Anyway, now for some less geektastic news, I think I have decided what phone to get (previous entry explains my ‘mobile phone quest’). It’s a Samsung J700, and only costs £49.99 (approx $95USD), it’s reduced from £70 (approx $131USD) which is awesome! I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to afford the £70 anyway, so it’s nice to be able to find such a good phone at a lower price. I’m probably going to go to the shop next week to buy it

Aug

10

2008

Mobile Phone Confusion

Recently, my mobile phones (a Nokia 3310) battery life has been getting ridiculous, it only lasts a day and doesn’t even last that long if I dare to use it, so I’ve decided that I need to get a new phone. However, there is one problem, I know next to nothing about mobile phones. I can ramble on about silly things like printers and computers for ages, but when it comes to mobiles I am completely clueless. So, this is when I turn to you! I would be grateful for any suggestions, it would help me a lot

I’ve saved up £70 (approx $140USD), so that’s how much I’m looking to spend, I might consider spending a bit more if I fall in love with a phone though. These are the things I’m looking for in a mobile phone (some of which I think are standard in phones nowadays?):
- A colour screen
- A camera
- MP3 Ringtones (Something I’ve been dreaming about for years, I’ve had enough of monophonic lol)
- I don’t want a flip phone, I’ll be scared that I might break it. Slide phones look cool though.
- A couple of games. Snake on my Nokia is addictive when bored on buses, so I would like to have something to replace that.

I was going to say something else in this blog entry, but I’ve decided not to and just dedicate this post to my mobile phone quest. I’ll update in my next blog entry whether or not I’ve finally chosen which phone to buy

Jul

31

2008

Burger King = Yuck

Today I went shopping with my sister, didn’t get much but I did pick up a couple of things. One of the things I bought was a shirt (photo above, taken in the bathroom on my tippy toes, I apologise for the messy hair ) that I’m really pleased with, it’s an official Nintendo shirt and says on it: ‘Professional Nintendo Game Tester. Can’t you see I’m working here?’
I found the shirt in the boys children section of Tesco, and it’s for ages 13-14! I couldn’t believe that it actually fitted me, it’s quite a loose fit. On the label it says that it has a 35 inch chest, but that must be wrong because if it was it would of been tight on me as I’m exactly 35 inches. This shirt is an official Nintendo shirt and was only £6 (approx $12USD), so it was a great bargain, kids clothes are exempt from VAT I think (which is 17.5% here in the UK) so that’s what probably made it such a good price. My sister also got an official Nintendo shirt for the same price, on her one it says ‘Just one more level…’ written several times like when people write lines on a blackboard. I think in the future when I’m looking for cool shirts, I’m going to look in Tescos first, I’m surprised that I found such a cool shirt in there. My sister also got a nice pair of jeans in there, I almost got a pair too but they didn’t fit me right grrr.

Ok, the title, what does it mean? Today while shopping with my sister, for the first time in years I ate in Burger King. Usually my sister eats in there and I get a sandwich from Sainsburys and sit in there with her, but today I was really hungry and didn’t feel like walking all the way to Sainsburys, so I got something in there instead. I rarely eat fast food, I don’t see the point when I could easily eat something healthier (i.e. a salad from the supermarket) for half the price. I got a Whopper burger meal, and it just tasted like….nothing. The best bit of the burger was the gherkins, but I love gherkins. It all just tasted a bit blah and the burger itself tasted metally, my sister enjoyed her chicken strips though. I’m not a snob when it comes to food, I’m far from it actually as most of the food that my family eats is crap (own brand stuff and boring food because my brother and sister are fussy), but that burger was rubbish. Burger King burgers also make me burp, which is a bit embarrassing when in changing rooms trying on clothes heh. Next time, even if I’m really hungry, I’m going to take that trip down the road to Sainsburys and get a nice Tuna and Sweetcorn sandwich instead. Although I must admit, something which is quite hyprocritical, I used to love Big Macs - haven’t had one in ages though, might treat myself to one soon though?

The first week of summer is just ending, 5 weeks left.

Jul

23

2008

Schools Out For SUMMER!

Firstly I want to say, Happy Birthday to Lindsay from omigod.net! Make sure that you all go and say Happy Birthday to her, she’s awesome

Last Friday I was looking through the book section of the charity shop near my school, and I found the most amazing book. It was called ‘The World at Arms’ and was a book about WWII, I fell in love with it when I saw it - a massive book full of EVERYTHING to do with WWII, it was perfect for me. I wasn’t able to buy the book though, because my bag was full of text books so I couldn’t fit it in there and the book was really heavy so if I carried it around all day it would probably break my back, so unfortunately I had to leave it in the shop. When I got home I told my mum about the book, and just carried on my day as normal never expecting to see the book again. Then on Saturday morning when I was at my dads flat my mum texted to me to tell me that she had gone to the charity shop and bought the book for me! I was so happy The best thing is that on the Friday the book was £3 ($6) and then on the Saturday it was only £1.50, so by waiting that extra day I saved some money. I can’t believe how cheap the book was though, the RRP for it must be at least £20.
I’m sure this book will keep my interest in WWII busy for at least a couple of months, here’s a few photos of the book (please ignore my horrible bed!) :

(Click here to see the other photos)


Today was my last day of term at school, and now I’ve got 6 weeks off! I don’t go back until the beginning of September. I’ve decided to make a list of all of the things I want to do, and then every week in my blog posts check off the ones that I’ve done. Hopefully this will motivate me not to be lazy, and also do some of the work I need to do. I’ll add to the list in the next couple of days, because I’ve probably forgotten some of the things that I wanted to add. If you’ve got any recommendations for what I could add to the list, mention it in the comments

So, here is my Summer To Do List (in no particular order):

1. Bake a cake
2. Start ICT coursework
3. Go to the cinema at least twice
4. Collect my AS Level results on August 14th
5. Go to France for the day with my dad and sister
6. Go to the library
7. Sell some things on eBay
8. Go to the Imperial War Museum with my younger brother
9. Do some research for my history assignment (D-Day)
10. Tidy my bedroom
11. Go to the park with my brother and sister

Jul

16

2008

My New Nemesis

I finished school at 11:40 today, so when I got home at 12:20 I decided to treat myself and have something different for lunch rather than the usual apple that I have at school. The fridge was practically empty, but I managed to find a couple of slices of ham, some salad cream and a bit of lettuce, so I decided to make myself a sandwich. After finding some bread and quickly washing the lettuce, I made a sandwich and cut it into 2 trianges (the best way to cut a sandwich!). I then sat in front of the TV and started to eat. Before I took the second bite, I looked at the sandwich and what did I see? A WORM! Yes, one of those wriggly things that you find in the mud, and it was curled up in the middle of the lettuce completely oblivious to the fact I was just about to eat him. Fortunately, I hadn’t bitten the worm. What did I do when I saw this worm? I dropped the sandwich and ran out of the room, yes very mature of me. After washing my mouth out with at least a litre of water, I carefully picked up the sandwich and put it in the bin, even if I took the worm out I still wouldn’t of eaten it; the worm could have done anything in there! So rather than having another sandwich for lunch I decided to take the safe option, and I had an apple - I hope I never find a worm in one of those!

Moral of the story: Lettuce is evil, make sure you wash it properly; otherwise it’ll put a worm in your sandwich.

Jul

9

2008

The word ‘boring’ comes to mind…

Today is Wednesday, and this weeks blog has been a little delayed. I originally planned to write one Monday, but I’m glad I didn’t now. I was a bit annoyed on Monday, so if I had of blogged then it would of just been several thousands words of me ranting about things, but what’s the point of doing that? Blogging about things that annoy me won’t change anything, I might aswell just learn to deal with them. Then on Tuesday I was busy wrapping my friends birthday presents, making a couple of birthday cards and then I was also doing a homework essay (handwritten!), so that took up most of my evening. Anyway, I’m here now…and I’m not sure what to write about.

Recently I have noticed that people have been making some really nice layouts for their blogs, which has reminded me that I really need a new one. I’ve been putting off making one since January, simply because I haven’t got a clue what kind of layout to make. The layout I’ve currently got is getting really boring. I’ve probably set a world record for how long I’ve had a layout block, 7 months is crazy. Even though I’ve said this several times before, I think in the next couple of weeks I’m going to try to make a new layout, if you’ve got any ideas or know any sites that could help me on this layout making quest I would be really grateful

To finish this pointless blog entry, here’s a good (pointless) blog meme that I found

1. Would you say you have an accent? I don’t think I’ve got an accent, but when I listen to people from other places speak I realise that I do. I’ve got a South London accent, not Cockney because I don’t live in East London!
2. Do you hope to be married (married again if divorced)? One day…maybe, only if I find the right person though. I would rather never get married but stay with someone who I like for a long time, rather than getting married and then hating the person. I’ve never known someone stay happily married though, so maybe I’m a bit pessimistic?
3. If you could take one technology to a desert island (the obvious satellite phone excluded), what would it be? A solar powered laptop which magically had internet on! So I could email for help.
4. What is the last activity you bought a ticket for? I bought a ticket to see Dylan Moran this November, can’t wait!

I tag: Angelica, Christine, Britney and Kyle/Lindsay

Jul

2

2008

Coffee Cake = YUM

I was having problem writing this weeks blog entry, so while bored at school I decided to write a plan:

(click on the image to enlarge)

Hopefully I’ll cover everything in this entry that I planned

This week THREE of the TV shows that I’m currently watching are having their series finales. On Monday it was Chuck, tomorrow (Thurs) it’s Heroes and then on Saturday it’s Dr Who. Why do all of these shows have to end at the same time? Now in one week I’m going to lose all of my TV shows (other than Star Trek and M*A*S*H) at once. I’ve started watching some Torchwood episodes on the internet, so I might start watching that weekly on my computer to fill in one of the TV gaps, but I’ll have to find something else to replace the others. What shows do you recommend? Doesn’t have to be on TV at the moment, I can watch it on the internet too

Nuns…did you know that they wear red? I saw a nun on the bus the other day, and she was wearing fully red, I had only ever seen them in grey/black before (I’ve only ever seen nuns on TV though..). I also never knew that nuns went on buses, but I suppose they are just human and have to get to places lol. She must have been boiling in those clothes though, I was hot in my short sleeved shirt and she was wearing a big red cloth head to toe! I don’t know how people cope wearing things like that. Also on the same day while at the bus stop waiting for the bus, I had someone shout at me ‘Don’t stand near me, I’m black!’, she then kissed her teeth and spat at the floor. My initial reaction was ‘WTF?!’, I hadn’t done anything apart from stand at the bus stop like I do everyday, I wasn’t even standing near her (at least a metre away from her). I always seem to encounter weird people on the buses/at bus stops, maybe I have a ‘weird person magnet’ on me? That’s my friends theory anyway

From today there is exactly 3 weeks until the summer holidays! I can’t wait, 6 weeks off of school is going to be great. I’ve got quite a few plans, which include baking a coffee cake and going to the war museum with my brother, I also hope that I’ll make a new layout for s0nerdy but I’ve been saying that since last November lol.

Finally…I need to ask you a question. Can someone explain PingFM and Plurk to me? I’m slightly confused about them and what they’re for. Are they like Twitter? Myspace? or completely different? I’m mainly interested because my school blocks most sites (including Twitter, Myspace, Facebook), but they haven’t blocked PingFM or Plurk! So if they’re good sites I could use them while bored at school

That’s all I’ve got to say I think. My written plan was very useful! I might have to do that more often

Jun

23

2008

*sneezes*

It’s Summer, and I have caught a cold, this happens to me every year, why can’t I just get a cold during the Winter like normal people?

The open day at Kingston University last week was very good, all of the people I met were really nice and the facilities there were fantastic! The large spot on the teachers’ head that was ready to pop was a bit distracting though. I liked the university, and I would apply there, but there is one problem…the History course is the wrong one for me. As you probably know from my previous posts, one of my main areas of interest is anything war related, but this course had no topics on war at all. They claimed that it was a course that mainly focused on modern History, but surely if you’re going to be studying modern History you should study WWI/II? As it’s one of the biggest events of last century, a turning point in Europe, it led to the Cold War, and also was the first usages of modern warfare.

So because of this I’ve decided that I’m not going to apply to Kingston, which is a bit of a disappointment because I really liked the university, but there isn’t any point going to a nice university but doing a course that I find boring is there? The next open day I’m planning on going to is the University of Kent (Canterbury Campus), to study at that university I would have to move into student accommodation at the university (which I’m still unsure about, I think I want to stay at home), but even if I don’t apply there I think it’ll be a good experience to look at another university so I have more to compare others to. Also, I’m looking forward to going to Canterbury for the day

In other news, my neighbours cat has been taken away by the RSPCA (Wiki). For the past 8 months I had noticed the way they had been treating him declining, ever since they got 2 new kittens. He hadn’t been eating properly because of them not putting enough food out and the kittens eating it all before him, they left him outside during all types of weather, and also ignored his fleas/skin problem he had which escalated to him having a large (by large I mean taking up most of his back leg) raw red piece of skin on his back leg, they had really mistreated him. We had tried to do our best for him, gave him some spare food and also gave him warm milk on some really cold nights, but we couldn’t let him inside our house though because of his flea problem, so we just made sure that we were nice to him (made him feel wanted, I even talked to him lol) whenever he went through our garden.

One of our other neighbours must have found him, and called the RSPCA, because on Friday evening there was a poster on a lamp post saying that he was gone. I wish that I had called the RSPCA earlier about it, but I was too scared to, my neighbours are crazy and would have probably stabbed me/got someone to stab me if they found out I had done it (yes, I’m being serious!). But maybe I was being selfish? I looked at only my own self interests, rather than how the cat was suffering, I regret not doing something sooner but I’m glad he is going to be better now. I’m going to miss him, but I know he’s going to be in a better place now, they’ll probably find an elderly lady who wants an elderly cat to look after

Jun

16

2008

Duct Tape Holds the Universe Together

I found this shirt a couple of weeks ago on Cafepress.com, it made me laugh so much that I just had to buy it. The writing on it says:

‘Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together’

That quote is more true than I would like to admit, whenever something breaks we always get out the duct tape! The underneath of my bed even has duct tape on from where me and my sister broke it once by jumping on it I wonder what would happen if all of the duct tape in the world disappeared, everything would probably collapse..

The shirt took a long time to arrive, 4/5 weeks, and had quite expensive postage but that was because it came from America, it was worth it though. I’m looking forward to wearing it and confusing people, I’ve already confused several people with my ‘Traffic Jam on Toast’ shirt

I’m a bit disappointed with the quality of the shirt though, because there is a large light grey coloured rectangle on it which looks like someone has sprayed deodorant on it, I think it’s from where they put the transfer on to put the writing on it, I’m hoping it’ll fade a bit when I wash it .

I’ve now posted 2 T-shirt related blogs almost next to each other; I don’t think I’ll be buying any more shirts online any time soon

I’ve decided on the topic that I’m going to be doing for my History independent study that I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve chosen D-Day! I’ve chosen this topic because there are alot of resources available about it, I already have a good interest/understanding of it, and also because the event itself had a big impact on the war. The essay question I’m probably going to answer is ‘How was D-Day pivotal to WWII?’, I haven’t decided that for certain yet though. I’m really excited about this

This Wednesday I’m not going to school (Yay!), and instead I’m going to Kingston University’s open day, so that shall be fun, next week I’ll update saying what it was like.

Hope you all have a good week

Jun

9

2008

s0nerdy is back!

As the title says, s0nerdy.net is back!

Not much has happened since my last blog entry, apart from exams. I finished my exams last Monday which was a relief, not looking forward to August 14th when I’m going to be getting my results though. The last week has been really nice, I’ve enjoyed not having to worry about exams, no more exams now until January

At school because we’ve done our Year 12 exams we’re now starting Year 13 (the last year of school, some call it Upper Sixth I think..) early so that we can start the A2 syllabus before the beginning of the next academic year in September and get ahead. I’m looking forward to History the most, because we’re doing the Cold War, the Tudor State, and then we’re able to choose a third topic ourselves! I’m still undecided about what I’m going to do, I’ve been considering something to do with WWII and it’s effects in Britain, D-Day, or the Nuremberg Trials, what do you think I should do? My main area of History that I enjoy is anything related to war (which sounds a bit bad, I know lol), but I’m open to have a look at anything new

My TV schedule has got alot better recently, after it being a bit empty for a while. I enjoy watching TV, especially in the evening, it’s like reading a book because it helps me get to sleep more easily afterwards. Here’s my schedule:
Monday: 8pm Star Trek TNG. 9pm Star Trek Enterprise. 10pm Chuck
Tuesday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Wednesday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Thursday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Friday: 7pm M*A*S*H x2. 8pm Star Trek TNG
Saturday: 7pm Doctor Who
Sunday: Nothing
*TNG = The Next Generation
I also watch other programmes, but these are the ones that i always make sure that I don’t miss. Now I think about it, I’m not really watching much TV, but I suppose it is alot considering how little I used to watch a few months ago. Also, I know I watch too much Star Trek, shhh lol.

I’ve now got alot of blogs to catch up with and comment on, sorry for this boring entry - next week I’ll hopefully have something good to blog about!