Now I could'nt have arranged this if I tried...

You Are 20 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

My Personality Profile

You are dreamy, peaceful, and young at heart. Optimistic and caring, you tend to see the best in people. You tend to be always smiling - and making others smile. You are shy and intelligent... and a very hard worker. You're also funny, but many people don't see your funny side. Your subtle dry humor leaves your close friends in stitches.

The World's Shortest Personality Test

A Happy Birthday

I just want to say a very happy birthday to my brother, who is 18 today!

History repeats itself, repeats itself...

I was reading the BBC News website and clicked on the link about Rosa Parks (anyone who doesn't know who she is - shame on you!) Something I read made me think, though. Isn't it interesting that Birmingham, Alabama was one of the major places for racism in America, and where is all the racist rioting happening now? Birmingham UK. Just a thought.

As promised (on the thicket blog) the pictures from last nite - they're not very exciting, but here they are anyway.

For anyone who doesn't know, last nite was our (thicket's) gig at Bloomfield Collegiate. Which was cool.

Didn't get pics of anyone else, me and chris were there earli and i was just messing with my camera!

Competition Time

I was bored sitting in the traffic coming home from Uni yesterday (BIG clue) and took some pictures out my window. I was kinda thinking this would be fun, so if anyone can tell me EXACTLY where this picture was taken, I will have a little prize for them (like a chocolate bar or something but hey - it's only for fun) - oh and providing you live within 5 miles of me - if you live in Armagh or something you'll just get an email saying well done!!! lol!

So here goes...

sorry chris- i really hope you've no embarassing ones of me.

i started in next tonite - it was cool.

Bloomfield tomorrow nite - rock on...

Old Photos

I found some old photos recently that are very interesting - they might embarrass a few people tho so be prepared...














This is a very young Chris Po

It's also a very young me, but we'll not say anything about that...

Also a very young Thicket...
(when we were the SU band) - see how we're all grown up now...

Guide to Speaking Welsh

I can say

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych-

wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

and so can you. Earlier on i spelt it this way talking to LeeAnne on msn, not knowing how to spell it properly, but it's spelt as it sounds so if you fancy learning how to say it, this is how it goes:

clanfarporgwyngygulgerychwyn

-droboclantisilliogulgulgoch

I learnt how to say this in P4 using a wee song that has stuck in my head all these years. I still need to sing the song to be able to pronounce the word!

And just in case you wondered whatever I was on about, that place above (i am NOT writing it again) is the longest railway station name in Britain. Read about it below...

This Welsh town on the island of Anglesey is only known due to the fact that it has a very long name, and is the longest railway station name in Britain, and probably the longest domain name in the world.
The name translates as 'St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave'.
Originally called Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll, which means 'The Mary church by the pool near the white hazels' the village was renamed in the 19th Century.
This was around the time when the railway was built between Chester and Holyhead at the beginning of the 1850s. A local committee was put together to try and encourage trains, travellers and 19th Century tourists to stop at the village in order to help develop the village as a commercial and tourist centre. It is believed that the name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch was invented by a cobbler from Menai Bridge; little did he know that he had implemented one of the most successful tourist marketing plans of all time. Today the village is signposted as Llanfairpwllgwyngyll and is known to locals as Llanfairpwll or Llanfair. (from bbc.co.uk)

The Big Flump Debate

Are flumps real marshmallows? Should they be used in tophats and other buns? Which come out tops - flumps or the real (princes) floury marshmallows? Leave your comments below...

Funderlaaaaaaand!

At last I actually have something interesting to write about! I went out with the girls from Stran tonight for dinner and Funderland. We went to the Bellevue Arms for dinner - I've gotta recommend it - but before that I got a little lost trying to take a shortcut from Great Vic Street to Carlisle Circus; let's just say i was fair to both sides of the community!!!

Funderland was really good craic - I didn't get on any of the upside-down-y rides but I did go on the sizzler and the waltzer (I think that was the best time I've ever had on the waltzer), and I WAS gonna go on the big wheel (anyone who knows me will know how big a deal that was for me - I'm not very adventurous with fairground rides!), but no-one else had any tickets left, so I just went on the dodgems by myself - well, I wasn't the only car, but the only one of my group who got on! The hall of mirrors was hilarious - there was a maze with glass walls so you couldn't tell what were walls and what were spaces - and people from the outside could watch you getting really confused!!

Then we went to Jul's outreach cafe, in the hope of getting some free tea/coffee, but that never happened so i still haven't had a drink!

My feet are very cold

I'm going to bed

Nite Nite

hey guys, i have just added the interesting entries from my msn space to this blog but i've put the right dates on so they'll be back at the start (in the archives or something). I'm then gonna make my msn one public so i can just use it for my photos (it's much nicer displaying them in msn space. It's also called the couch by the way! (it's the original couch!) I'll link to it any time I add new photos.

Hello Everybody!

I have a similar rainbow fetish to Lee-Anne (as seen on her blog MiEscrapacio) although mine is just for Zippy. He is the background for my fone and I have quite a few pictures of my little toy zippy hanging in my car! I only realised recently that Zippy was actually the grumpy one - maybe someone is trying to tell me something...

Anyone who would like to buy me a zippy with sucker feet for my car window is very welcome to. I went thru a phase of wanting a Zippy backpack (you get in through the mouth and the straps are rainbow coloured - OBVIOUSLY!) but I'm sorry to say that phase is over so anyone who bought me one of those recently, you should probably go and get your money back...!!!

xx

on being cultured

Tonight, Lisa and I were very cultured and went to an Ulster Orchestra concert. It was very interesting. I really enjoyed watching the percussion section; the one guy played xylophone and glockenspiel and tubular bells and triangle and woodblock and planks of wood, and sandpaper - and all in the once piece and there were three of these guys all chopping and changing! Will have more news from it later - right now i'm going to watch Fraiser!

Ok, these could possibly have been the two most disastrous days of my life! So I'd been offered the job in Primroses but yesterday had an interview for Next. Looked hopeful and I asked the girl to let me know yesterday so I could get out of the Primroses job. Inbetween times I had what I thought was a 1/2 hour lesson and what my violin teacher thought was an hour's lesson, so it ended up being 3/4 hour leaving me 15mins to get to my lecture, which I was late for! Other disasters included my lessons ending up being 13 quid for half hour (ridiculous) and then obviously 26 for the hour which she would like me to go for! No Way! (well, i have since realised the solution is to go every other week for 1 hr.) When I got to my lecture I couldn't play C major 3 octave scale on the recorder for obvious reasons - I can't play the recorder very well. So I found out at 4.30 that I'd got the Next job, set my file up on top of my car so I could then ring Primroses, who were actually very nice about the whole thing, and went home. At 7.45 I went looking for my file and couldn't find it, then realised what I had OBVIOUSLY done (driven off with it still on my roof, rang security at stran who couldn't find it, and then ended up being late for the woman's meeting. I was pretty bummed about the file cos it's all my 1st 2 weeks notes for every subject.

This morning I had a whithheld phonecall in the middle of my lecture and silly-billy answred it, altho it was just as well as it was halls office saying they'd found my file on the slope out of the carpark.

So, in the end I got my file, and sorted out my violin lesson so I only have one every other week, and then had some retail therapy in town.

Aren't happy endings nice?

The Big Decision

I have decided NOT to go to Denmark on Erasmus. Even after all that lovely advice (the likes of "clear off laura"!) I realised that I didn't want to go on my own cos half the fun of travelling is doing it with other people! I have emailed scary Laurence Siberry and will probably have to avoid her for the rest of my Stranmillis days! But now that I've left myself to be in Stran for ALL of my important 3rd year, I'll have to work really hard to get a good result in my degree! Roll on late nites studying - woohoo! (little bit of sarcasm there!)

caught joyriding my own car...

On Sunday nite I was accused of being a fella and of joyriding my own car...

Apparently at around 10.30, a neighbour of Statto's foned the police to say that two fellas pulled up near their house in a white micra, abandonded it and ran off. The police checked out my car, then checked who it belonged to and arrived at my house. I wasn't there. Anyway when I got home, it turned out that the two 'fellas' were actually me and my brother, I kinda ran towards Statto's cos it was cold and I couldn't be bothered walking!!!!! Isn't it great to have good neighbours and police? Hopefully if anything ever did happen to my car they'd be just as vigilant!

Pride and Prejudice

I thought it fitting that I should write a portion on the subject of Pride and Prejudice. I first watched all 6 hours of the TV series (v. good), although not all at once! Fell in love with the story and then went to see the new film, which, while not as good (i think) as the original, has a very interesting take on the story. THEN I tried to get the book, which was harder than I thought (do you know that there's some bookshops which only sell modern books???!), until eventually my dad ordered it off amazon.

Well, I've just finished that and it really is amazing. I don't know what anybody else thinks about Pride and Prejudice, but I think it's a lovely story. If only we could all marry men like Mr Darcy, life would be perfect!! I'm thinking that if I had been named Elizabeth Laura, instead of Laura Elizabeth, i might have grown up a little more refined and more like Elizabeth Bennet and therefore more likely to find a Mr Darcy. I feel more like Lydia (without the flirting), so I really hope I don't end up with a Mr Wickham!!

Should I? Shouldn't I?

Still trying to decide whether to spend 3 months away in Denmark in a university where I don't know anybody, on my own, to gain some much needed international experience (and a chance to be REALLY independant) and of course to learn about teaching - oops almost forgot about that bit! I really don't know what to do! Like I want to go but am a little scared, but i'm more scared of Laurence Siberry who is breathing down my neck for a decision! And to be honest i'd be scared to tell her i've changed my mind once again!!! But any pearls of wisdom would be appreciated. (i'm going to try to decide tonite lol!)

Pros:

Life's unanwered Questions

I want to start a list of life's unanswered questions.

Here's a few to start you off (please reply to this post with you own questions):

Is there ever NOT a sale in DFS?