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An Update

2007-05-20T09:23:00.000+01:00

First things first, there are a couple of new things on the sidebar.

So, I haven’t blogged in almost 6 months. And?

I thought I best write something here. What with Facebook taking over and becoming far too obsessive for my liking, I just haven’t been bothered to blog. That’s all really.

I have no idea what I’m going to say here, but we’ll see I guess.

Hmmm, recent news:

I may be moving house very soon. Most of you already know this, but it seems things are moving forward nicely.

I am having an alcohol-free week thanks to me going out Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday last week. I need to stop spending money and start revising!

It’s now less than a month until Muse at Wembley Stadium. This is a good thing. Apparently there will be a small orchestra on stage for the gig, which will be fantastic for songs such as Butterflies and Hurricanes and Blackout. I’m really looking forward to it!

My music taste has changed somewhat since coming to Uni. I’m still a big fan of Dragonforce, Metallica etc. But my favourite bands at the moment are Muse, Nightwish, Reuben, Biffy Clyro, Sevenfold and probably Rammstein. Now I know that you’re all going to hang me for Biffy Clyro, but many of my friends here like them, and I have now joined them. What ever you say can not change that. In my own humble opinion they are good. Nuff said.

Had a couple of exams in January. One went very well and the other went not so well. We’ll see I guess. The rest of my exams begin on 7^th June and end on 14^th June – just in time to come home on the 15^th and go to Muse on the 16^th. Nicely timed by the university I feel. Once they are finished, I have two weeks of nothing. I have to be at the university on 29^th June to receive my results, so the Ubersummer will not commence until then!

I have a radio show on ((URY)) – University Radio York. It’s called “Off The Cuff” and all the info you want can be found on the Facebook group called “Off The Cuff”.

Unfortunately, the day you have planned for Thorpe Park is the day I return up north from Muse. Shame really, although I probably can’t afford it right now. Never mind.

I’m running out of things to write, so I hope you appreciate the effort.

I’ll try to post more; promise.

See you all soon

Oh, I was going to post a photo, but they're all on Facebook!

Weather: Sunny and Windy ~ 15 C
Reading: Nothing
Listening to: SMBH - Muse
Watching: Nothing. Lack of TV prevents watching.
Thinking of buying: Alcohol.... No I shouldn't!
Looking Forward to: MUSE AT WEMBLEY STADIUM!!
Confused about: Physics in general
Annoyed with: Chavs and Old people driving
Moody: Mad Eye

Muse

2006-11-24T18:04:00.000Z

So, Muse. Went to see them at Wembley Arena on Wednesday. It was mind-blowingly good. I also took several photos and one short video:

All of the photos are on Facebook for you to admire.

Signing off for now,

A very happy Dan

Weather: Cloudy, wet, 8 C
Reading: Nothing!
Listening to: Lots of Muse
Watching: Nothing!
Thinking of buying: Food. I'm hungry.
Looking Forward to: The Christmas break. Seeing all of my wonderful friends
Confused about: Linear dependency
Annoyed with: Fat bastards who wouldn't get out of the way at Muse
Mood: Happy!

2006-11-11T10:27:00.000Z

So, here’s a proper post with some pictures, and most importantly, some news of what’s going on up north.

There’ll be plenty of photos for you to admire. For those of you in the Facebook know, there are many more on my profile page. You’ve probably seen all of these before but, I’m going to post them here anyway - hopefully with a bit of explanation as well.

So, where do I live? You’ve hopefully all looked at the video of my room, but where is the room? It’s here:

House A, St. Lawrence Court, Halifax College

There’s 9 of us sharing. There should be ten of us, but there is an empty room opposite me on the top floor. You can see my window at the top left of the house. There are twenty six houses in St. Lawrence Court, named A to Z. Halifax is made up of six courts, I think, but all the others are rubbish so I don’t know the names of them.

York’s campus can look quite nice, depending on whether or not it is dark. It’s much better at night. But, for the purpose of clarity, I’ve taken these photos during the day, just for you. Now isn’t that nice?

This is central hall. The wonderful looking building where I get to graduate. Great isn’t it?

Some of the campus is quite picturesque. Such as this view over by Derwent College:

You can see Heslington Hall off in the distance.

Here is Heslington Hall with some random sculpted tree.

Ah, the most important building on campus – The Physics Tower (of Power)! We have nearly all of our lectures in there. Our labs are also in there, second floor I think.

Only one more of campus. Hope you’re not bored yet.

This is a view towards the Biology (not as good as Physics) building across the lake. This is a rare view of campus, as there is no concrete.

So, there was campus.

Moving on, the campus is about a ten minute bus ride from the town centre. The town is quite small, but big enough to have all the main shops, and a Games Workshop. Oh dear, oh dear. This photo was taken down by the River Ouse.

It’s not quite as big as the Thames, but it’s better than a canal.

I’m rather happy at the severe lack of chavs up here compared with home. There are still obviously people up for a laugh, as this photo shows:

Washing-up liquid in the fountain - well worth it.

And finally of town, the city’s most famous building, The Minster:

This place is massive. We haven’t been inside yet, because they charge you a fiver.

Oh, almost forgot. This is the remains of the castle in York. It’s called Clifford’s Tower and looks much better when lit up at night:

At the end of week 2, 21st October, we had FRESH – basically the fresher’s ball, but not as formal. We all dressed up kind of smart:

In the above photo you have Ben in the beige coat. He lives in house E. At the back are Catherine and James, both of whom live with me, and some chap in a hat.

This was at Fresh just before the Vengaboys came on stage. They were so bad at miming it was unbelievable.

A couple of weeks ago was the Pirates vs Ninjas night at JJ’s, the bar in Halifax.

A wonderful group photo, with the Burgundy Ninja appearing at the back. Almost everybody else were boring pirates. I decided to be different.

Ah, the “not at all intoxicated by alcohol" Burgundy Ninja. This was at a local park, on one of the stupid little horses on a spring. I was evidently too big for it.

Ah, Halloween. Everybody dressed up. Nobody dressed up as much as Ben:

Bonfire night was a bit of a disaster really. We attempted to find a fireworks display, and failed miserably. This then led to us going to the pub and playing with…

Sparklers! I love the really long shutter motion of my camera.

This is me and Laura at “Toff’s”, one of the nightclubs in town. She’s form house E, along with Ben and a few other who we are all really good friends with. Laura and James have a bit of a thing going on, so I’m surprised he’s not in the photo as well.

This was taken on Thursday night at another nightclub called Gallery.

It’s Nick and Claire who, is on my course but lives on Nick’s corridor.

I don’t know why, but it seems the north have better sunsets than us:

Only 11 days to Muse!!

Dane

Weather: Sunny (for once) 10 C
Reading: Nothing
Listening to: Beauty of the Beast - Nightwish
Watching: TV? I've almost forgotten about it.
Thinking of buying: A Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 in Orange with black leather. It's only £190,000.
Looking Forward to: Silly Question - MUSE!
Confused about: Why so many errors in experiments
Annoyed with: My Astrolecturer. She's rubbish!
Mood: Excited

Shut up

2006-11-07T11:11:00.000Z

This is just for the first minute or so, the rest is pretty crap. Harold Bishop is a legend!

15 days to Muse!

Weather: Misty, 9 C
Reading: University physics with modern physics
Listening to: Coldplay - yellow
Watching: "Shut up, shut up just shut up!"
Thinking of buying: Nothing really
Looking Forward to: MUSE!!!
Confused about: The UV Catastrophe
Annoyed with: How cold it is up here
Mood: Excited!

My Room

2006-11-03T15:00:00.000Z

This Bandwagon's getting a bit full now but, i don't care. Steve persuaded me to do this, so here it is. A tour of my room.

Sorry. The quality is shit, the sound is out of sync, but you get the idea...

There is a sink, but i just didn't film it. I'm sure you've all seen one before. Haven't you?

A video of the house and St. Lawrence Court will follow.

Hope all is good with y'all.

Muse is only 19 days away!!

Weather: Very cold. Sunny
Reading: University Physcis with Modern Physics
Listening to: Music on Winamp
Watching: Web pages on Firefox
Thinking of buying: More food. I'm hungry
Looking Forward to: Silly Question really. MUSE!!!
Confused about: Why our Astro lecturer is soooooo bad
Annoyed with: The said Astro Lecturer
Mood: Happy and excited.

I'm in York!

2006-10-10T17:17:00.000+01:00

Hurrah, I’m in York. I thought while I have a spare moment, I will update all my faithful readers as to how my new life is going.

So far, I’ve only been here for three nights, and there have been three fantastic house parties. I’ve also been to a nightclub for the first time which I thought was brilliant. It’s just a shame that I can’t dance that well…

I share a house in St. Lawrence Court, Halifax College with eight other people; four guys and four girls. On the top floor in the skylight rooms we have James, Adam and I. There is also a spare room, a toilet and a shower. On the middle floor are the four girls: Catharine, Susie, Kim and Sharon who is from Hong Kong. The bottom floor has the kitchen and the two Chinese guys, Ke and Parker. Fortunately we all like the same sort of music, which is great. Nobody likes crappy rapping, Hip-Hop shite.

Tonight is the beach Party at our local bar, JJ’s. Should be good fun, if not a little cold. I had a talk from the physics department this morning, who say that I have a 2 hour 45 minute maths test on Thursday. Fun eh?

There is plenty going on on campus all week. We’re off into town on Thursday night with our STYCs. I don’t know what it stands for, but they are our second year mentor people. Should be another late one.

Fortunately I have got the internet working. Cost me sixty pounds for a year, but well worth it methinks.

One final thing. My housemates and I have created a new sport. Well, it’s not new, but we’re going to start a society with it. It’s all about chair racing. Not just any old chair racing. Oh no, this is hard core serious racing. No wheels allowed by the way before you get any wise-guy ideas. You basically hop along on the chairs, but we have all terrain events as well. It’s not for whimps.

We did think this up at 0500 one morning, so don’t blame me if it sounds crap. It really is good fun. When you’re drunk.

I’ll post some photos when I have them.

Ciao for now.

Dane

P.S. Happy birthday Dave for today and Lewis for last week.

Weather: Cloudy, Misty, 8 C
Reading: Bundles of literature from the department
Listening to: She is my sin (live) - Nightwish
Watching: Nothing. I have no TV. I miss it.
Thinking of buying: More text books. I need at least two more.
Looking Forward to: Muse in November
Confused about: How my radiator works
Annoyed with: The rain waking me up this morning
Mood: Happy but tired

Smoot

2006-10-04T13:57:00.000+01:00

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5401972.stm

It's George Smoot!

2006-10-01T11:39:00.000+01:00

Everybody around me is leaving. Steve and Lewis have gone off to Sheffield, Jon and Rob are at Warwick, Dauveolas has gone to Bristol. Dave has gone to Wales. Not only this, but DREW has gone to Bath. Nooooo, not DREW!

At least Chard can keep me company for the next week.

I’m off to York on Friday, which is approaching far too quickly for my liking. Fortunately, I know somebody who is going to York, the one known as Nick, which is nice to know.

Lots has been happening since my last post way back in August I think.

This was taken at the sixth form ball in May. It’s one of the best group photos I have, except for Tim sneaking in there.

I’ve been going to plenty of football over the past few months. This was when Tottenham played Inter Milan in a friendly in July. Spurs won, of course. Since then, all is not well on the football front, but we won’t talk about that.

The second leg of the film marathon took place last month.

The Lord of the Rings Marathon. A fine day it was, hosted by Steve. Very long and tiring, but worth it.

Many a games day has been had. Jon has hosted the most. I even hosted one at the end of August. At one of Jon’s games days, DREW bought his plane that he built himself. It’s remote controlled, don’t you know. It’s seems DREW is a man of many talents.

Ah, the Laptop day at Dave’s house. This was good, although I could only link up to play Worms Armageddon, seeing as I don’t have generals. Good fun was had there.

Only last week, we played Pitch ‘n’ Putt at Sparrow’s den for the second time. It was just Jon, Dauve and I. I beat Dauve, making the wins at one a piece. Jon came hopelessly last, but it’s all about having fun, which we did.

I see Dauve has a new blog. I also see that he’s put Two Pints above me in the links on the right. Dauve, what are you doing. I demand to be moved! Anyway….

I’m sure all of my friends and I will stay in touch. I hope so. We will all make new friends, but let’s make sure we do not lose touch.

The “New Start”, as Dauve calls it, has come around so damn quickly, although the summer has been fantastic. Hopefully next summer will be even better with more Cinema trips, more bowling, more games days and most importantly, more Drunken Dauve.

I will post once I have something to say about York.

Until then, I bid you farewell (even though I’m not going anywhere until Friday).

We will meet again

Dane

Weather: Sun and Rain, 17 C or so
Reading: Literature about York
Listening to: Myself playing "New Born" on Piano
Watching: The Grand Prix later
Thinking of buying: Lots of beer some time soon
Looking Forward to: Muse in November!
Confused about: Why does York start so late?
Annoyed with: Chavs in Bromley
Mood: Excited, nervous, sad (in a way)

2006-08-18T09:14:00.000+01:00

Results time:

I got three As!!! Fantastic. I'm very happy with myself.

Here they are:

Physics: 547/600
Chemistry:524/600
Maths: 574/600

So, I beat Dauve in all three, but lost out to Jon in all three. But hey, i don't care. It's the letters that count. AAA sounds so good.

I also got full marks in my Forces and Motion resit, and full marks in the cosmology paper. Thanks Scotty too hotty. And a 98/100 for C4 which is very surprising seeing as the second to last question was very difficult.

I'm happy. Hurrah!

Weather: Hazy again
Reading: Nothing other than my results
Listening to: Phil Collins - Don't have a go. He's great.
Watching: Dragon's Den last night. Snakes on a plane today
Thinking of buying: The new spurs home shirt
Looking Forward to: Snakes on a plane and Muse
Confused about: saj. Where was he yesterday
Annoyed with: Saj, for not answering his phone
Mood: Elated!

2006-08-17T08:32:00.000+01:00

An update is need I think for the recent happenings in the world of Dan.

Back at the beginning of the month we went to see Superman Returns. A very good film it was too. I've never seen the original films, so I can not compare. Apparently they are also quite good. The day afterwards I went to Rob's House for a games day. Fantastic fun as always. Here's a photo of the gang playing Simpson's Monopoly:

So, that was that. This was of course all after my holiday to Barbados and Saint Lucia, both in the Caribbean. I will include only the one photo of Saint Lucia, just to show you how great my holiday was. God I’m lucky.

Bliss.

Ah, Olli’s party on the sixth of August. It was a fantastic evening with a trampoline, swimming pool and BOUNCY CASTLE!!! Great fun had by all, except for two pints, who got VERY drunk.

A week or so later, I went to a barbeque at Nick’s House. It was very good fun, except for one person. I got to see Matt after his holiday, so that was good to catch up

Last Sunday was yet another Games day, this time at Dave’s house. Fantastic as always, thanks Dave. But get this: I won a race on Mariokart! I couldn’t believe it seeing as everybody else, Dauve exempt, is better than me. I was well chuffed.

Then, just two days ago, it was off to London Town for a fun filled frolock to goodness knows where. We did Harrods in the morning, walked around the whole building looking for a car in a window, which we eventually found, and went to the Natural History museum in the afternoon. Not as fun as Harrods and the 70” HD TV. Gold plated as well. So Bling.

For lunch, we went to Wing’s buffet in Westferry, quite near Shadrock Tower. (You’ll see in a minute what Shadrock tower is).

It was an all you can eat, and so we all departed stuffed. Well worth traveling to.

Here are my photos from the London trip:

The Gang on the mall

Ah yes. This car may not look anything special, but it is. It costs £260,000. That’s right. About the same price as a very nice house. Ridiculous money. A Rolls-Royce competitor, if you will.

This is Shadrock Tower. Only because Disorderly is working in London at the moment.

Dauve in the Natural History Museum with a crab as big as him. We imagined what Jon would do if we let it loose in his house. Hehe.

The escalator of DOOM!

Drinking Starbuck’s on deckchairs. What could be better? Well, no mad people for a start…

Yesterday was yet another games day, but a special one. Not just because it was at Jon’s House, oh no, it was because of the game we all purchased the previous day. It was monopoly, a London edition: nothing special there. But, what’s this? There was no Money. Oh no. Monopoly has gone electronic. Each player has a card and the money is stored on a machine. It’s soooo cool. And well worth the five pounds all six of us paid for it.

So that’s what’s been happening in the world of Dan.

God I’ve been doing a lot.

Weather: Hazy Sunshine.
Reading: Nothing
Listening to: Dragonforce – Black Winter Night
Watching: Dragon’s Den Tonight
Thinking of buying: A Muse ticket from Rob
Looking Forward to: MUSE!
Not Looking Forward to: Results today
Confused about: Why chavs where tracksuits in summer
Annoyed with: Chavs
Mood: Worried and apprehensive

Flickr account

2006-08-11T15:54:00.000+01:00

This isn't a proper post. I'm only doing this to let you know that I now have a flickr page. The link is on the left there, below all of your blog links. See it? Good.

There aren't many photos on there at the moment, as i've only just set it up, but there are some there for you to be getting on with. Well, six actually.

So, what are you waiting for, have a look!

Thorpe Park!

2006-06-30T11:50:00.000+01:00

So, finally a post. Sorry. I think it’s a worthwhile cause to post. Yesterday was our trip to Thorpe Park. Hurrah! I’d been looking forward to it for ages, since we first got the date sorted in fact. I didn’t realise until this morning how tiring yesterday was. Twelve hours out of the house, four of which were spent travelling.

I won’t blab on about what we did all day, but I will provide you with some of my photos.

Colossus. Arhuably the best ride in the park that was open.

Slammer. Didn’t go on it yesterday. I’m kind of regretting it now, but I went on it last year. A great ride.

DUCKS! Not their kind of weather really.

Rob, Chard and Ben after our first ride on Logger’s Leap, or “Loggers” as I like to call it. We got surprisingly wet. Damn sitting at the front…

The One. The Only. Stealth. There were no queues all day. Probably because it was shut. Damn whoever broke it. It looked so good.

The splash from Tidal Wave. Nobody stayed dry.

Chard, Rob, Ben and Jon queuing for Tidal Wave. Notice Lewis’ hand behind Jon’s head…

So Jon retaliated.

Some scared people coming down Tidal Wave.

Grumpy and wet Dave.

Slightly less grumpy but as wet Dan.

A Scenic shot of Tidal Wave and the immense Stealth.

Vortex, our first ride of the day.

Jon, Dave x 2 and Steve after the fall of Loggers.

So, there we are, a post for you to read, and some wonderful photos for you to muse over.

Talking of Muse, MONDAY!!

Weather: Sunny. 28 C
Reading: Nothing at the moment. I'm waiting til I go away.
Listening to: Muscle Museum by Muse
Watching: Doctor Who tomorrow
Thinking of buying: Black Holes and Revelations. Not thinking, but will definitely buy.
Looking Forward to: Monday, again, Muse.
Confused about:Book giving back day. It's so disorganised.
Annoyed with: Chavs at Thorpe Park. Although there were plaenty of breasts about.
Mood: Very Happy!

2006-01-05T17:18:00.000Z

A lot has happened since I last posted, so I’ll whizz over the unimportant things.

Firstly, the cinema. Since my last post I have been to see two films: The chronicles of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe and King Kong. In my opinion both of these films were excellent. I preferred King Kong simply because of the scene where a big 25 ft Gorilla is laughing at a woman dancing - very funny.

So, to the important stuff.

On 15th December I ventured up to Earl’s court in London to see one of my favourite bands in concert – Coldplay. I’d been looking forward to this since my Dad gave me the tickets as an early Christmas present about a month beforehand. They were absolutely amazing – a lot better than expected, and I was expecting it to be brilliant. I had a great time and they played all of their hits and more. Here is the set list from the concert:

1. Square One
2. Politik
3. Yellow
4. Speed of Sound
5. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face
6. Trouble
7. X & Y
8. How You See The World
9. White Shadows
10. The Scientist
11. ‘Til Kingdom Come / Hung Up
12. Green Eyes
13. Clocks
14. Talk

15. Shiver
16. In My Place
17. Fix You

You may not recognise some of the songs, but they are all from one of three of their albums, except for “How you see the world”, a track which I had never heard before – a bit like Nightwish and High Hopes. It was very good nonetheless. The best song was left until last – Fix You. An amazing guitar piece throughout the last half of the song gave spine-tingling enjoyment to the whole 7000 people or so. It seemed more than that though. Other amazing songs were: In My Place, Speed of Sound, White Shadows and Yellow. To be honest, every single song was performed immaculately. It was amazing. I did take my camera, in case you were wondering, so here are the photos:

Earl’s Curt Arena

The Arena before it was full

Ah yes. Forgot to mention this. The support act for Coldplay was Richard Ashcroft, ex lead singer of The Verve. His act was actually not too bad, but poor in comparison to the main act.

Richard Ashcroft again

The opening song: Square One. And again. And again.

Yellow, which involved large yellow balloons which contained confetti.

In My Place. The second of three Encore songs. According to them, it was their second biggest selling single ever. (After speed of sound I assume)

The Final Song - a faultless rendition of “Fix You”. My favourite song.

Overall, This concert was amazing and worth every penny of whatever my Dad actually paid. Whether it was better than Nightwish or not, I don’t know. Both were amazing, but Coldplay’s performance was simply stunning – The whole thing.

Truly Brilliant

Weather: Cold and clear 3 C
Reading: Top gear Magazine
Listening to: Muse, Nightwish and Coldplay
Watching: Lost
Thinking of buying: Still, the digital camera, and new headphones
Looking Forward to: My Birthday
Confused about: Driving - why is it so expensive?
Annoyed with: Chavs in the lunch hall
Mood: Happy!

2005-12-10T10:34:00.000Z

So, no blogs in November. Sorry about that. Quite a lot has happened over the past month that I won’t go into as much detail as I would have had I been bothered to blog more frequently.

This post will include “The Star Wars Marathon” and visits to universities across the land. So, on with the show…

On 5th November, myself, Dave C, Chard, Jon, Lewis and Dave J made our way to Rob’s house for a fantastic day watching all six star wars films back-to-back. We started at 0930, and didn’t finish until 2310. It was a hell of a long day. But, there are some pictures, if you wouldn’t mind following the links…

I took a photograph of each DVD in turn, as the films began.

Episode One, Episode Two, Episode Three, Episode Four, Episode Five, Episode Six.

As you can see, we all got rather tired towards the end of the day. It was surprisingly tiring doing nothing but watch films.

Here we have the marvellous host, Rob. If he does ever read this, thanks. The day was excellent. Dave C and Jon having a good time! Chard with his out of this world light sabre. (Is that spelling correct?). Lewis and Sky making friends. Tango the cat also appeared for a while.

I think the best film was episode three, although six was also very good.

It was a fantastic day out which was well worth doing, if not a little tiring.

One final picture which was taken at the end of the day. ‘Twas only four of us left at the end.

So, that was over a month ago. Moving slightly further forwards in time, my visit to Manchester Uni was on 22nd November. It was the first proper open day that I had ever been on, so I was looking forward to it. I wasn’t looking forward to the “interview” though. Myself, my Dad and Jon went on the train, which was very easy and convenient. The university itself is right in the middle of the city, with halls of residence all thirty of them, spread everywhere. The physics building was being renovated while we were there. A new extension was also being built so we had to imagine what it looked like. Still, overall it is a very nice place with an excellent nightlife, I’m told. The interview was actually far from an interview. It was just a general discussion about physicy topics such as renewable energy sources and nuclear power. My interview was with the very cool Dr. West. Not Westy from our school but somebody with the same name. Duh!

Moving forward two days, I travelled to Lancaster for their open day on 24th November. This journey was shared by my Dad and Mum, seeing as Liam is at Lancaster. We had the chance to see him for the first time in 8 weeks or so, which was good. He comes home next week. We stayed up there until Sunday, giving us a chance to see the university from a students point of view, I.e. with my brother. The actual university is totally different from Manchester. It is a campus outside of the town. The place is very nice, set in green countyside but the university buildings are all concrete. After Friday, came Saturday, obviously. All four of us travelled to Wigan to see them play my team, Spurs. This was my first away game of the season, so I was looking forward to sitting with all of the spurs fans. Here come the photos: This was the view outside the pub where we had lunch. Here’s the stadium: The JJB stadium. And again. And again. Spurs ended up winning 2-1, which made the whole day a lot better. Ah yes, I almost forgot. On the Friday, My Parents and I went to Morecambe. It was horrible, but they did have this statue of Eric Morecambe. So, that was a very busy week.

The following week involved a trip to York, which was very nice indeed. A campus again, but with some wonderful modern buildings. Mr. Glover went there, so it must be good. I think it’s my favourite of the three I’ve seen so far. Sorry no pictures.

Moving on, I have now received four offers officially. I haven’t heard from Warwick yet, and Bristol will give me an offer when I visit them in the New Year. I have three offers of AAB, and one from York of BBB, which is nice. I only received Manchester’s offer this morning.

What else, what else…. Ah yes, This Thursday I’m going to see one of my favourite bands in concert: Coldplay. I’m very, very excited about this concert, because it will be a much bigger event that the fantastic Nightwish concert in September. It’s at Earl’s Court and a sell out for the three nights that they are there. It’s going to be brilliant, and it will be blogged.

That is all my kind readers.

Weather: Sunny, 6 C
Reading: Nearly finished Angels and Demons. Alos, Particle Physics.
Listening to: The Riddler - Nightwish
Watching: Space Cadets every night until Friday
Thinking of buying: A digital camera with christmas and birthday money
Looking Forward to: Coldplay concert, naturlich
Confused about: Chav dress sense. How they think they look good is beyond me.
Annoyed with: Chavs of course, and loud mouth year 12s.
Mood: Happy! :)

2005-10-28T17:22:00.000+01:00

Most of you probably haven’t noticed (why would you?) that today my blog if officially one year old! Hurrah! That year seems to have gone very, very quickly. So, let’s hope it goes for another year at least.

This weeks been half-term, so I’ve been up to a few vaguely exciting things. Monday was a two hour driving lesson. Afterwards, my driving instructor told me that after next lesson, which is on Wednesday, I will have done everything. Which is nice. So, once my theory test is out of the way, I can book my practical test and then I will be bombing around West Wickham like some kind of “rude-boy”. Ok, so maybe not that last bit, but it will be great knowing that I can legally drive. Tuesday was a trip into Bromley, where I saw that other roamer of the blogosphere, Steve. He was with younger brother Dave, buying Warhammer something or other. £11 he ended up paying which was quite expensive for whatever it was that he bought. I was boring clothes shopping. Nothing interesting at all happened.

Wednesday: Nothing at all interesting happened.

Yesterday was far more exciting. Jon, Chard, Dave J, Steve, Dave C, Andrew and I went to see Wallace and Gromit: The curse of the were-rabbit at Vue in Croydon. In my opinion it was one of the best films of the year. I’ve always liked Wallace and Gromit. Hey, who hasn’t? (Ignoring Lewis who hates everything). It was funny in places too, which was nice.

Back to the boring stuff, I’ve been doing maths coursework today which has been very tedious. I should get it done by Tuesday, hopefully.

Anyhow, tomorrow should be great. Being the Spurs season ticket holder that I am, I’m off to see them tomorrow against Arsenal: The big game of the season. The teams have always had a bitter rivalry, and so the atmosphere should be buzzing.

I’ll post about it in the future, hopefully with pics.

Stay tuned for more links to be added to the sidebar.

Goodbyes

Weather: Non-existant. Although, very hot yesterday. 21 C
Reading: The same as last time
Listening to: The Kinslayer
Watching: Monty Python movies in general
Thinking of buying: Stil a digital camera. Thislooks nice.
Looking Forward to: The thing next month
Confused about: Nothing really :)
Annoyed with: Chavs
Mood: Happy :D

Good and Bad

2005-10-23T12:30:00.000+01:00

This post has a mixture of good news and bad news. Firstly, the good.

The Sunday after Lewis’ birthday, (God, that seems a long time ago), I went to his house for a fun filled afternoon of partying. You can read about it in detail here.

I’d just like to thank Lewis for putting on a great Party. I had fun. Thanks Lewis. Thewis.

What else has happened. Erm…. Ah yes, the chemistry Lecture. On Wednesday last week Jon, Steve, Dave C and I went up to UCL to a chemistry lecture about something or other. Anyway, cutting a very long and boring story short, it was totally useless and very, very boring. I think it was about shells or some crap like that.

Last Saturday was also fun, going up to Spurs to see them play Everton who were bottom of the table. Fortunately Tottenham won 2-0 with the goals coming from Mido and Jenas. Very good it was too. I’m going again this Saturday to see Spurs play Arsenal. This being the North London Derby, the atmosphere should be more electric than it usually is.

And now with the good out of the way, here comes the bad. Sorry, no ugly here.

I have some sad news which I read on the NIghtwish website. Sorry, I couldn’t get an exact link. Basically it was a letter sent from the four male members of Nightwish to Tarja. I think I’ll post the whole letter. Here it is:

“Dear Tarja,

It`s time to choose whether the story of Nightwish ends here or whether it will still continue an undetermined period of time. We`ve been working with this creation for 9 years and we are not ready to give up yet. Nightwish is a way of life, something to live for, and we`re certain we can`t let it go.

Equally certain is the fact that we cannot go on with you and Marcelo any longer. During the last year something sad happened, which I`ve been going over in my head every single day, morning and night. Your attitude and behavior don`t go with Nightwish anymore. There are characteristics I would never have believed to see in my old dear friend.

People who don`t talk with each other for a year do not belong in the same band.
We are involved in an industry where the business-side of things is a necessary evil and something to worry about all the time. We are also a band which has always done music from the heart, because of friendship and the music itself. The mental satisfaction should always be more important than money! Nightwish is a band, it`s an emotion.

To you, unfortunately, business, money, and things that have nothing to do with those emotions have become much more important. You feel that you have sacrificed yourself and your musical career for Nightwish, rather than thinking what it has given to you.

This attitude was clearly shown to me in the two things you said to me in an airplane in Toronto: ”I don`t need Nightwish anymore.” and ”Remember, Tuomas, that I could leave this band at any time, giving you only one day`s warning in advance”.
I can`t simply write any more songs for you to sing.

You have said yourself that you are merely a ”guest musician” in Nightwish. Now that visit ends and we will continue Nightwish with a new female vocalist.
We`re sure this is an equally big relief to you as it is for us. We have all been feeling bad long enough.

You told us that no matter what, the next Nightwish album will be your last one. However, the rest of us want to continue as long as the fire burns. So there`s no sense in doing that next album with you, either.

The four of us have been going over this situation countless times and we have realized that this is the thing we want to do in life. It´s all we can do. In December 2004, in Germany, you said that you will never tour again for more than two weeks at a time. You also said that we can forget about U.S. and Australia because the fees and the sizes of venues are too small.

In interviews I`ve mentioned that if Tarja leaves, that would be the end of the band. I understand that people will think this way. Nightwish is, however, a scenery of my soul and I`m not ready to let go because of one person. A person who wants to focus her creativity to somewhere else, a person whose values don`t match mine.

We were never bothered by the fact that you didn`t participate in writing/arranging songs, you never in 9 years came to rehearse the songs with us before going to the studio. Not the fact that while on tour you always wanted to fly, separately from us with your husband. Not the fact that you are an undisputable front image of the band.
We accepted and felt ok about everything except greed, underestimating the fans, and breaking promises. It was agreed by the five of us that Nightwish would be the priority in everything that we do during 2004-2005. Still so many things were more important to you. The ultimate example being the already sold-out show in Oslo, which you wanted to cancel because you needed to rehearse for your solo concerts, meet frieds and go to the movies. Those were the words Marcelo used in an e-mail explaining the cancellation. This being just one example of so many. I couldn`t think of a worse way of being selfish and dismissing our fans.

Nightwish is a way of life and a job with many obligations. To each other and to the fans. With you we can`t take care of those duties anymore.

Deep within we don`t know which one of you drove us to this point. Somehow Marcelo has changed you from the lovely girl you were into a diva, who doesn`t think or act the way she used to. You are too sure of your irreplaceableness and status.
It`s obvious that you blame your stress and misery on us four. And you think we don`t respect or listen to you. Belive us; We have always had the uppermost respect towards you as a wonderful vocalist and as a friend. And very often during the past couple of years the plans were made according to your decisions only. You were always the only one who wanted more money from the shows.

This ”compensation and more money from everything” –attitude is the fact that we are most disappointed of!

We wish that from now on you will listen to your heart instead of Marcelo. Cultural differences combined with greed, opportunism and love is a dangerous combination. Do not wither yourself.

This decision is not something we are especially proud of but you gave us no choice. The gap between us is too wide. And the decision is made by us four unanimously. We are beyond the point where things could be settled by talking.
All the best for your life and career,

Tuomas

Emppu Jukka Marco

Ps. This is an open letter for everybody.”

So, that came as quite a shock. Tarja has left the band. There will be no more Nightwish as we know it. Their next album will be written and performed with a new female vocalist.

Who’d have known that there would be such bitter disagreements going on between band members. Alas, Nightwish will pull through and perhaps be better than ever when their new album comes out in 18 months time or so. At least, I hope they bring out a new album.

Tata

Weather: Sunny for now. It's going to rain later though.
Reading: sort of reading Angels and Demons
Listening to: Sunburn - Muse
Watching: Nothing
Thinking of buying: A digital camera, but only after my birthday
Looking Forward to: That thing with the things next month.
Confused about: Where Jacko goes when he's away.
Annoyed with: Pinky. Just for being a chav.
Mood: Shocked about NW. Happy that it's half term.

Nightwish and Football

2005-09-28T16:02:00.000+01:00

Ooooooh yeah! Sunday night was the Nightwish concert at the Hammersmith Apollo. Unfortunately there are no pictures of my own, but they can be found here, here or here eventually. (Let’s hope the links work)

I met Jon, Chard and Rob at West Wickham station at about 1720. We journeyed to Charing Cross, meeting Dave at Clock House. We met Lewis and Helen at Charing Cross, walked to Embankment and travelled to Hammersmith for the gig. It was there that we met Nick (who I think is a really cool guy) and then travelled to The Apollo. Once there we were greeted by the longest queue that I’d ever seen. It took ten minutes to walk to the end, where we all tried on Chard’s Sith robes. Here’s a picture of Darth Dan wearing the rather comfortable robes.

After moving through the surprisingly quickly moving queue, we were finally there after three months of waiting, we were going to see Nightwish in concert! And they did not disappoint.

The support Band was Paradise Lost who weren’t too bad. The only noticeable thing was how loud it was. My whole body was vibrating with the Bass. That was a good thing. :)

After a great safety curtain and at about 2045, the concert began. Here is the set list for the evening:

Dark Chest of Wonders
Planet Hell
Ever Dream
The Kinslayer
The Phantom of The Opera
The Siren
Sleeping Sun
High Hopes (Pink Floyd cover)
Bless the Child
Wishmaster
Slaying the Dreamer
Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan
Nemo
Ghost Love Score
Wish I Had an Angel

Dark chest of Wonders was simply a brilliant opening. One of my favourites that I hoped they would play, just because of the breathtaking chorus. Planet Hell is also one of my favourites; a great song. Ever Dream was performed perfectly by the band, with plenty of crowd interaction. Superb. The Kinslayer was what most of us hoped they would play, but weren’t sure. We were glad that they did. Again, brilliant. Can you see a common theme yet?
Basically the whole concert was a lot better than expected and I expected it to be simply amazing. By far my favourite song of the evening was the beautiful; Ghost Love Score. They even released Confetti during it. By the end of the concert, I was pretty tired, but had enough energy to stand up for Wish I Had an Angel; a song which has grown on me over the past few days. It has a catchy chorus too.

I was also amazed at how accurate they played the songs. Almost all of them were perfect, just like the studio versions, but with slight tweaks. The guitar solo in Wishmaster was truly breathtaking.

An amazing night out: well worth £20.75. Fantasmic!

The only downside was getting to bed at 0110. Ah well, ‘twas definitely worth it.

And so to football. The same day as I went to bed after the concert, I travelled back to London to watch Spurs v Fulham at White Hart Lane. My Dad and I are now Season ticket holders and so there will be plenty of trips up to town. It takes nearly two hours in total to get there. Tottenham won 1-0 with Jermain Defoe scoring in the 8th minute. Another late night was had (midnight) and that was that. So, I was pretty tired on Tuesday. Shame I had four lessons really.

Today was good though what with only one lesson. Hurrah! I’ve also made the final decision that I’m NOT going to apply to Oxford or Cambridge. The main reason is pressure. I’d rather be at a University with less pressure and longer terms than at Cambridge with more work and less time. Yes it’s a world class university, but I’d be better suited to a non-Oxbridge uni, such as Warwick, Bristol or Manchester.

I’ll let you all know whee I apply to, which should be within the next couple of weeks.

Hasn’t September flown by?

Bye

Weather: cloudy 15 ish
Reading: Angels and Demons. And prospectuses
Listening to: Stargazers - Nightwish
Watching: Not sure really
Thinking of buying: Highest Hopes - The best of Nightwish
Looking Forward to: The Chemistry Lecture i suppose
Confused about: The interview process for Oxbridge. It seems so random
Annoyed with: Year 12's. First prefect duty with them was rubbish
Mood: Tired and Grumpy :(

2005-09-23T17:11:00.000+01:00

It’s been quite a while since I last posted, so here’s what has happened. School started just over two weeks ago and the work has really piled on but, at least there is no German, who used to really set loads. I’ve only got one new teacher – Mr. Rodger who, seems OK, but there’s something about him that I just don’t like – probably the fact the he rushes everything. I prefer Jacko’s laid back methods. This term so far has basically been UCAS, UCAS, UCAS. Oh, and personal statement. I’ve pretty much finished mine, although I seem to keep adding stuff, like I now subscribe to “Physics Review” which I really should have done last year, but couldn’t be bothered. I think I’ll end up applying before the end of the half term – or I hope so anyway. The chances are that I’m not going to apply to Cambridge after all, simply because I should have handed in my personal statement to Cheddar but haven’t bothered. (Cheddar is the code name for Agent Northcott.) :D

Aaaaanyway, what else has happened other than school. Well, last Thursday I went to Quasar which, in case you didn’t know is a laser fighting type game. It was very good fun and good value for money too. We should definitely do it again, but with Chandler, ‘Chard and Lewis.

On Tuesday of this week was the visit to the chemical industry, GSK in Dartford to be precise. What a great place it was too. You none chemists don’t know what your missing; probably because cameras were banned. Stupid industrial espionage…

The trip as a whole was great and I missed four lessons in the process, which made the day even better.

That’s all my readers. Expect a very excited blog after Sunday, simply because it will be about the Nightwish Concert. It’s been about three months in the planning and I’m sure it will live up to its expectations, which are very high.

Dan

Weather: Crap.. Rain and cloudy
Reading: Still, Angels and Demons
Listening to: Nightwish's Lowlands Gig
Watching: Not sure really
Confused about: The Oxbridge application process. Damn complex...
Annoyed with: Oxbridge
Mood: Excited :D

2005-08-29T15:04:00.000+01:00

Hello again dear readers. I have returned from my break fully refreshed and ready to do battle with "Die Hundin" once more. It’s now just over a week until I return to school on 6th September. I still can’t believe that it will be my last year at school. Ever. A scary thought. This year should be better than last though, with three subjects instead of five, therefore meaning more free periods to play cards in! (Hopefully on the stage which hasn’t been used for several months). Anyway, to the point: this post will consist of two parts - one small and one large. The small one about my AS results that I received when I returned from my holiday, and the large part about the holiday.

So, on with the show!

Part One: The Results

I received the results for five AS levels and here they are.

Maths: A
Chemistry: A
Physics: A
German: A
General Studies: D

So, 4 As and a D. I’m very pleased with those, except that I got a B in the forces and motion paper for physics. Nonetheless, I’m content with the results. I just scraped an A for German (242/300), which was a surprise. And that concludes the first part.

Part Two: The Holiday – with photos! (Hopefully)

We spent eleven nights away from home on the island of Tenerife. We have been before for one week in April a couple of years ago. It seemed very nice, and so went back again.

This is our hotel; the Cleopatra Palace. Very nice it was too.

The view from our room. The hotel had an odd Roman/Egyptian theme.

One of three pools. There were five hotels on this complex, which was right on…

the beach! Far too crowded during the day for my liking. I stayed by the pool most of the time and ended up reading the Da Vinci Code whilst I was there. Finished it in four days, which I was quite proud of. It’s actually a very good book. I suggest some of you give it a go.

There were a few activities during the day such as Darts, Football, Table Tennis and Water Polo. I won darts twice and got two medals to show for it: Sorry no photo.

The beach, at night Naturlich.

Another Beach, which was a short walk away. Didn’t go during the day because the sun was too hot. Luckily I didn’t get sunburn so badly that it hurt, although I did go red in places.

One of the highlights of the trip was going whale-watching off the south coast of the island.

The “Lady Shelley”. A fine vessel she was too.

Whilst on the two hour voyage, we saw…

Yup, you guessed it, whales - Pilot Whales. There were at least ten at one point. Definitely worth doing. There were some dolphins swimming around too, which was also great.

One random thing which caught my attention was the placement of a lime tree by the poolside. Weird.

The said lime tree.

A picture of a wonderful fountain with our hotel in the background. By day and by night.

In case you didn’t know, Tenerife is a volcanic island, and the white sand is imported. It’s supposed to be black. Anyway, here’s a picture taken from the plane of the volcano that created this island – Mount Teide. The highest point in Spain, seeing as Spain owns the Canary Islands.

The huge mountain

Now compare that baron landscape to the one of good old Blighty:

How lush and green.

Well, that is all. A fab time and a well deserved rest was had. It’s now less than four weeks until the Nightwish Gig. Oooooh yeah! I have a distinct feeling that it could be very “Once” orientated. Should be excellent whatever they play. As long as it’s not “Two For Tragedy".....

Weather: Sunny! 26 C
Reading: Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Listening to: Fix You - Coldplay
Watching: The Great Escape. A great Film
Confused about: A levels. Are they really getting easier?
Annoyed with: Otis, of course. And the fact the Charles could be on my duty next year.
Mood: Happy :D

2005-08-09T08:41:00.000+01:00

So, the first blog of August: the holiday month. I’ve had six more hours of driving lessons since my last post, and I’m progressing well. I’ve struggled round roundabouts, and done hill-starts, and so I’ve done quite a bit, although I’ve only moved forwards so far… I’ve heard that reversing is an art, you can either do it, or you can’t. Let’s hope I can.

This is a picture of me driving down the road in the car, obviously.

As I said in the previous post, I was going to see Charlie and the Chocolate Factory the Friday before last. This was the day that it came out. I went to Vue in Croydon with Jon, Dave J and Steve. I thought the film was excellent. So good in fact, that I went to see it at Beckenham with my cousins and brother this time last week. Unfortunately, the cinema was full of brats, but that was to be expected. Just as funny the second time around.

I made this discovery a few days ago

It is supposedly out in November. I’m looking forward to seeing it again.

I’m off on holiday on Friday to Tenerife, and so will miss results day. I hope you all get what you deserve. Perhaps Lewis will make his mind up as to what he is going to give up, if anything, when the results come out. Only he can tell. I’ll be back the Tuesday after the results come out. I’ll post a few photos when I return.

That is all my friends, we shall speak when I return.

Chiao

Weather: Sunny! 24 C
Reading: Will read Da Vinci Code.
Listening to: Tenth Man Down - Nightwish
Watching: Nothing really
Confused about: Nothing
Annoyed with: Nothing, except Otis, Naturlich
Mood: Happy :D

2005-07-28T08:49:00.000+01:00

I never realised how much work it is to drive a car. I had my first driving lesson yesterday and it was really, really good. It was a two hour lesson from 1015 with the AA. It’s a nice car, but I won’t bore you with all the details. It was a new Ford Focus. That is all I will say. The cockpit looks like this. A fine car. We started with the simple stuff, like moving, then pulling away, and coming to a stop without stalling. Then gear changes and so on for two hours. Very enjoyable. My next lesson is next week.

One thing that I did notice was that all the learners go to the same place to learn – Park Langley. It’s nice and quite I suppose. But if you bought a half a million pound house, would you really wants loads of learners doing three point turns outside your house? I know I wouldn’t.

I hope to pass my test by Christmas. First of all though, I have to pass the theory. Have any of you done it yet? What’s it like? The waiting list for the practical teat is about ten weeks from passing the theory, so plenty of time yet to practice.

That’s all folks. A blog about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will appear within the next few days. It looks really good. The official site can be found here. The soundtrack sounds quite good.

Chiao!

Weather: cloudy, 19 C
Reading: Dan Brown - Deception Point
Listening to: Charlie and the chocolate factory soundtrack samples
Watching: Charlie and the chocolate factory tomorrow
Confused about: How people make driving look so easy.
Annoyed with: Nothing at the moment.
Mood: Happy!

2005-07-20T15:45:00.000+01:00

So, what’s happened since my last post?

Well, quite a lot compared to my usual nothing-exciting-ever-happens existence. Last Friday I spent a day at the girl’s school to be talked to for 3 hours about applying to Oxbridge. The woman who was doing the presentation spoke unbelievably quickly. Stupid woman…

There was also a practice interview which, I felt went OK. At least I didn’t have Ernesto who, nobody could understand because of his strong, indescribable accent.

The whole of the following weekend was spent reading Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince. I had been waiting for this book to come out for several months, and so when it was delivered by the postman at 0745 on Saturday, I started reading it immediately. It took about 15 hours of reading but it was the most that I had ever read in two days; the full 607 pages. Of course, some of you will have read the book twice in the time that I took to read it, but I’m very pleased with my achievement.

The book itself started off quite slowly and gradually picked up pace. The last 100 pages or so were great, and the last chapter was quite emotional. If you haven’t read it yet (Dave), then you’ll know why it was emotional when you do. A fine read, but if you try to read this before the previous five books, or even before book five, STOP! Fool! Read them in order. They’re written like that for a reason.

In other less interesting news, I picked up me prefect badge on Tuesday. I’m now untouchable in the school! Hahahahahaha!!! Well, up to a point. At least I can now prove to those dickheads that say “well, where’s your badge then?” that I am actually a prefect, and a senior one at that.

That is all for now. End Post.

Weather: Sunny 24 C
Reading: Nothing at the moment. I think i'll start this soon
Listening to: Ghost Love Score - Nightwish
Watching: CSI series 5 finale last night. Does that count?
Confused about: Nothing really
Annoyed with: Northcott. I've decided he's an idiot
Mood: Happy. School finishes tomorrow!

Jubilation to Devestation

2005-07-12T16:22:00.000+01:00

Firstly, Yay! We got the Olympics! I know the reaction is slightly delayed, but I just haven’t had the time / couldn’t be bothered to blog recently. It should be good. Let’s hope I’m able to go to some of the events.

Secondly, I must blog about the bombs in London last Thursday, 7th July. In my opinion, it was inevitable that this would happen at some point. It was just a matter of when. It also could have been a lot worse. Many hundreds or even thousands could have died. Of course it is a huge tragedy that at least 52 people died. It should of course never have happened. I just hope the relatives of the victims get justice. Let’s hope the police can find the buggers who did this to our city.

In other news, It’s only 3days, seven hours, 42 minutes and 32 seconds until Harry Potter and The Half blood prince comes out. (The timing is from here.) I am looking forward to it. I thoroughly enjoyed book five. So much so, that I read it again. Let’s hope this is just as good. I have a feeling it could be even better.

Toodle pip

Weather: really hot. 28 C
Reading: Nothing. Waiting for the HBP
Listening to: Wanderlust - Nightwish
Watching: CSI double bill series finale tonight
Confused about: Who will become school captain. "Vote Dan. Stamping out Chavs"
Annoyed with: You guessed it - Chavs.
Mood: Happy :D

2005-07-06T16:55:00.000+01:00

So, a long time has passed since the last post. Quite a lot has happened. Last Friday I went to the cinema in Croydon with Dave C, Steve, Jon, Rob, Dave J and Sanjay to see “War of the Worlds”. This was the modern adaption of the H. G. Wells Novel set in Victorian England. It was a very good film. That’s all there is to it. Special effects were excellent as with all Spielberg films, and it had decent actors in the form of Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning. Very good. I advise you go and see it if you haven’t. (If you’re Lewis, don’t bother. You’ll upset everybody else in the cinema by shouting obscenities throughout).

So, that was Friday. Saturday was spent lounging around all day in front of the television. Why, I hear you ask? Because of Live 8, that’s why. I watched the majority of the 10 hour marathon from Hyde Park, London. Most of which was excellent. Some of which was crap, such as Velvet Revolver. Pure Rubbish. Sunday was spent doing a tiny bit of work and going to see some relatives. Sehr Langweilig. Maybe I should have gone to the BBBQ. But then again, NO MEAT!!

School as usual on Monday, but after school was anything but usual. Jon and I had decided that we were both going to give blood! Yes it may seem mad, but I don’t think so. It’s not like I can’t afford to lose 470ml of it. (That’s under a pint, so not a lot). I didn’t feel any after affects, and didn’t feel sick or faint, which is good. Jon seemed to take an age whilst giving his. The whole process took well over an hour because it was really busy, which is good I suppose. Let’s hope the blood goes to a worthwhile cause. I’m sure it will.

Anyhow, back to the matters at hand. We started putting information onto the UCAS website today so that we can apply in September. Stuff like personal info, qualifications and AS levels. All rather boring really.

At registration today, all of the Senior Prefects voted for the new School Captain. Only the senior prefects were allowed to vote, which meant the only Lewis, Dave J and I are the only members of the blogosphere that we there, I think. I’m sorry if I forgot that you exist. Please forgive moi.

I fell that Costello or Sampson will get it, with Jo Aswani close behind in third. I hope Jo gets it rather than those other two. But, I’m keeping who I voted for quiet. If you wish to really know, ask me on MSN or face-to-face.

That is all for now my wonderful readers, friends and some who should get a life.

Tata

Weather: Cloudy, 15 - 20 C
Reading: Nothing. Waiting for this
Listening to: More Nightwish than you can shake a stick at
Watching: Nothing really
Confused about: The Hair. Take a hint.
Annoyed with: The Hair
Mood: Quite Happy. Looking forward to Nightwish already.

2005-06-18T11:49:00.000+01:00

After having a week off school, I’m getting rather bored. That’s why I’m doing this, just to kill some time. It rather hot today too which makes doing nthing seem like a chore. Anyway, to business!

Yesterday, Dave C, Rob, Dave J, Jon, Sanjay, Steve and I went to Beckenham to see Batman Begins. It was very quiet because it was during non-brat hours. A very fine film it was too. Plenty of action and Michael Caine too. If you haven’t been to see, I suggest you go. As all good action films should have, it has an excellent car chase with a very cool batmobile. I suppose it’s more like a tank than a car, but it’s still very cool indeed

There isn’t really much else to say, other than school begins on Monday for another five weeks. Two of which I have no registration, which is good because I don’t have to leave home on Monday until about 0910. Shame it’s Tyler first really. Oh well.

Also, I’m planning on doing no work in german for the next five weeks. I can use my time far more wisely. It also means that if I don’t go to the lessons, I can leave early on a Friday like the rest of the year group. Our class is the only one with a lesson period five on a Friday. Oh well, not for much longer :D

That’s all folks.

tata

Weather: Sunny 27 C
Reading: John Grisham - Bleachers
Listening to: The Kinslayer - Nightwish
Watching: Doctor Who tonight. Last in series
Confused about: Nothing in particular
Annoyed with: Nothing really
Mood: Happy :)

2005-06-14T09:54:00.000+01:00

So, yesterday was quite good. It made a change from the norm. I went to Thorpe Park for the first time in nine years!

I had never been on rides such as Colossus and Nemesis Inferno before. I was really looking forward to it. Except for the early start and the tiring walking around all day but, it was worth it.

The day started off at West Wickham Station for me, where I met Jon on the train. We travelled to Elmer’s End, where we met Dave

Then the three of us caught the tram to East Croydon where we were to meet Lewis, Rob and Dave J. The queue for tickets here was surprisingly long but it went quickly. There were quite a few chavs too. £8.30 to Staines return isn’t too bad really.

After two train journeys, and a bus ride, we finally arrived at our destination.

Jon and Dave waiting to go in

Once in, I followed the others lead, and went on Vortex.

Which Jon and Rob obviously enjoyed

We then attempted to go on Samurai, a spinning ride which I knew I’d hate, but I gave it a go anyway.

There it is, Samurai

It quickly broke down whilst we were on it, a sign of things to come maybe? Hopefully not.

Looking quite disappointed there. It was a right bummer.

After this disappointment, we all went on Colossus, the main attraction at Thorpe Park.

That’s five loops in a row

It’s one hell of a ride.

As with Dave C, I can’t remember what we did after that, so here are the rest of my pictures from the day, with explanation:

Rush

Everyone except me on Rush. I wasn’t feeling too great after Samurai the second time, so I didn’t go on it. I should have really, but oh well.

Dave looking very swish with Dave C’s Sunglasses

Dave again, but this time, with Nemesis Inferno in the background

A close up of Nemesis Inferno

Slammer. A ride that looks worse than it is. Good fun really.

Dave and I queuing for the “Rapids”.

This was very random. Quite disturbing too.

Jon got very annoyed with Dave later in the day and decided to knock his lights out. It didn’t work.

Taken whilst eating lunch. “Detonator” in the background.

Tidal Wave. A very wet ride. We didn’t go on it. It clouded over towards the end of the day.

Queuing for “X: No way out” with Rob on the left, Jon on the right.

At Staines station. It was a tiring day.

CHAV! And there were plenty more than that. Plenty worse too.

So, after having a drink at Café Nero, we waited for Lewis to return from Nemesis Inferno once more. This was at about 1720. I didn’t get home until 1955. It took over 2 and a half hours to get home. That damn bus company. I think we know who the bus driver works for.

Talking of that fiend, we saw his Chinook again, hovering over Colossus whilst we were on it. He knows where we are all the time!

I bought three ride photos whilst I was there:

From Colossus

From Nemesis Inferno

And all three together:

The third is from Logger’s Leap. A very good water ride

So, a tiring but worthwhile day. I’d definitely go again when the new coaster opens next year. I’m going to the cinema on Friday to see Batman Begins. Should be really good. I’ll let all you wonderful readers know how it goes.

Bye

Weather: 15 cloudy
Reading: John Grisham - Bleachers
Listening to: Nothing
Watching: CSI tonight
Confused about: Nothing
Annoyed with: The chavs on the wall. Why do it?
Mood: Happy :D

2005-06-11T10:45:00.000+01:00

At Last! The exams have finally finished for another six months. And so has German!

Well, I hope so. I’m not planning on doing it next year, so I hope to “persuade” Frau Launisch that I shouldn’t need to go to lessons from now until 21st July which is when school finishes. A complete waste of time I think, which could be used doing such educational activites as playing cards. And talking. And eating. Well, anything’s better than German!

As I said, the exams are now over. 4 weeks of them I’ve had. I had Stats on Thursday which, to tell you the truth, should have gone better. I think I got about 75% ish. Which will hopefully give me an A overall. Fingers crossed.

Yesterday was the worst day of the whole exam period. When I found out that all three physics exams were goingot be on the same day I thought, “I just won’t be able to do it”. Well, I had to and to be honest, I went OK. It was just very long. I think I may have to re-sit the Forces and Motion paper, I really did do that badly.

In other news, I’m going here on Monday. Yes the merriment of Thorpe Park! I haven’t been since I was about 6, so it should be a bit of a shock how it’s changed. I’m really looking forward to it, although it will dry up my funds for a few weeks, but meh, it should be worth it. No, it will be worth it, as long as the weather holds out.

I bought this poster about a week ago. I thought I’d get used to putting pictures on the blog. It’s probably come out crap, but I don’t care. I think it looks good anyway.

That is all for now my loyal readers and chavs.

tata

Weather: Sunny 12 - 15 C
Reading: Nowt
Listening to: Best of Nightwish playlist
Watching: Doctor Who tonight
Confused about: Nothing at all
Annoyed with: Chavs in general. Or should i say clowns
Mood: Happy :D

2005-06-08T15:38:00.000+01:00

Well, once again, it’s time to blog. I haven’t had time recently because of exams etc. I had Chemistry today, which went OK. Could have been a bit better. One thing which really hacked me off was the fact that they asked us about Lead extraction, despite the fact that it hasn’t been taught to us. I think I could have got an A. If I did, I just scraped it.

I’m supposed to be revising some Stats for the exam tomorrow, and Physics for Friday, but I’ve given myself a break from that boring crap about discrete Random Variables and Electromagnetic waves. Which are of course not always waves. 10 points if you can tell me when they are not waves.

I think I’ll be jumping on this rather full bandwagon, and do this:

01. Reply with your name and I will write a short phrase describing you.
02. I will then tell you what I admire about you.
03. I will make up a short drabble with the both of us in it.
04. I'll tell you the most memorable moment I've had with you.
05. I'll then tell you something that I've always wondered about you.
06. Put this in your journal.

I’ll try and be honest. For some of you, I may just ,make it up because I don’t really know you. Others, I can write a lot about. Give it a go.

Well, that’s it for now. Back to the revision

Bye

Weather: Sunny! 20C
Reading: CGP physics revision guide. Fun eh?
Listening to: Ghost Love Score
Watching: Nowt really
Confused about: What waves actually are
Annoyed with: The whole of year 11 and chavs generally
Mood: Excited about monday. Dreading Friday

2005-05-29T15:31:00.000+01:00

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2005-05-24T13:48:00.000+01:00

Well, the exams are in full swing now, as you may have guessed from the other blogs on the left. First up was General Studies last Monday. A fine piece of shite that was too. “Should the government intervene with the way parents bring up their children?” 17 marks. That was the question I chose for the last section. Mightily boring it was too.

The next exam was the one that I was dreading most, german oral. This involved regurgitating my presentation for two minutes about Auchwitz concentration camp, I subject that I have found surprisingly interesting to research. I then had to “discuss” this topic for a further eight minutes. I was rather frightened of this exam but, Launisch said it was quite good so, I think I did OK.

The following day was the follow up to “measure a current through a brick” – The Physics practical. I won’t go into detail but, I got a reasonable result for the unkown resistor of 112 ohms. I then had the rest of the week with normal lessons.

Moving on to yesterday, I had three exams – Maths C2, and the final two general studies. Maths I found good in parts and general studies was once agin a load of bull:

“Describe two effects of a particular artistic, theatrical or musical style”.

Then:

“Describe how this style came about” 4 marks

I DON’T KNOW! Stupid general studies.

Today was the day that I had ben loking forward to for about a month – My last ever german exam. There were two exams, Reading & Writing and then the listening exam. Both of these were harder than expected. The listening exam involved a question on a roller skating priest:

“What is your on personal opinon on Priest X (fill in German name of choice)?” This question was in German. 8 marks.

Then:

“What do the old people think of him?” Also in Deutsch. 8 Marks

I reckon a B in german overall.

In other news, I went to see star wars episode three: Revenge of the Sith on the day it came out. In my opinion a great film. Definitely the best of the prequel trilogy. Everybody liked. Rob even liked it enough to see it twice. Everybody that it except for this fool
He laughed at a part of the film that nobody else (except for Matt Howard) laughed at. Never again will I see a film of this brilliance in the presence of a fool like Lewis.

That is all for now my kind readers.

Weather: Cloudy, cold, dull
Reading: Nothing
Listening to: Beauty of the beast, you know by who
Watching: CSI later
Confused about: The Weather
Annoyed with: Charles Langdon
Mood: Happy

2005-05-13T21:00:00.000+01:00

Firstly, I’m sorry. It has been almost a month since my last post, in which much has happened in the world of Dan.

Firstly the Oxford trip on the 29th April. I really liked it. I’d never been to oxford before, and so it was great to finally go. It was a shame about the weather though. Damn Rain.

Next is a rant about coursework. Yes, it’s a good idea because it cuts down on exam time, but why make it so absurd and random? For instance, the “measuring current through a brick” experiment. Useless, I think so. Also, the computing coursework sounds very random. Can’t they give us coursework that actually has some practical use? Obviously not.

The reason I haven’t blogged for so long, is that not a lot has happened. Anything I did blog about would be highly boring, and so I thought I wouldn’t bore you with it.

Exams start on Monday. Ooooooooooh dear. It’s only general studies, a subject which I and most of year 12 do not care about but, the exams have some up far too quickly for my liking. German Oral on Tuesday, and sitting in a room for two hours and physics practical on Thursday. Fun eh?

Well, that is all for now.

I promise I’ll post more often.

Weather: Sunny but coldish 15C
Reading: Revision guides
Listening to: Gost Love Score
Watching: Have I got News for You
Confused about: My german Oral
Annoyed with: Exams and coursework
Mood: Worried

2005-04-21T16:46:00.000+01:00

Damn Year 11s. That's what this rant is about.

Here's the story for those of you who weren't there. Lucky you.

Break time today was slightly different in that we stood outside because the hall was being used by some Shakespeare play thingy. So, we stood by the music block as we always used to. I was very crowded as the cakes were being sold outside. There were people from many year groups, including the dreaded year 11s.

The particular group in question was about 10 big. Darstards. For most of break they decided to throw perfectly good food at us. ( Us being Lewis, MC Dave McC, Sanjay and myself).

This went on for about 7/8 minutes nad i said that if they throw food again, i'd go and confront them. Sure enough, they threw food again and true to my word, i confronted them. Here's how the conversation went:

Dan: "Why are you throwing food at us?" I directed this at a boy that i saw doing it. We'll call him year eleven scum, or YES.

YES:"What?"

Dan: "why did you just throw food at us?"

YES: "I didn't do nothing"

Dan: "er, yes you did. Why did you do it?"

So he just stands there looking surprised that i didn't let him, get away with it, and acting as if he did nothing. Anyway, the conversation continued. His friends thought that he was some God or something and in a way cheered him on. I told him to give me his contact diary, and i put out my hand. I was very enraged by this point. Idiot. He then slapped my hand like a girl. Then, the coward he is, he ran away. Fool. He was either scared or stupid. Hoefully both. And he was a chav. Need i say more about his personality?

I may still report him to Stewart, although i'm contemplating that one.

Elsewhere in the world of Dan, I got my German McOral mark back, I got an A. Very pleased i was too, because i thought i did disarsterously badly. Evidently not. Oh well, at least it wasn't a U.

That's all for now

tata

Weather: Sunny all day
Reading: Nowt
Listening to: Nightwish - Ghost love score
Watching: Nowt
Confused about: Year eleven in general
Annoyed with: Year eleven, especially the chav
Mood: Annoyed at one thing, pleased with another

2005-04-19T19:55:00.000+01:00

I think it’s time I gave an update.

Firstly, german Oral. I had the mock of it today which, I thought would be bloody awful. I was really dreading it. It was during period one, but luckily I was not first to go. I spent a few hours last night attempting to memorise the presentation. Here comes the semi-rant.

Why should we have to learn all that we wish to say. This is an exam that examines our pronunciation more than anything else. We should be just allowed to read it out. Afterall, it’s all our own work anyway. Rant over, back to business.

So, Joe went before we and Lewis. He was first in the registar so went straight away at 0830. He was in there for about 20 minutes in total. He must have done quite well, even though his denies that.

Next up was Lewis who, I’m sure did very well. Or did you? Next was me. I had t read my presentation out, then answer questions for about 8 minutes on my chosen subject area: Auschwitz: Ein deutsches conzentrationslager und vernichtungslager. That’s a mouthful.

I started the presentation as I meant to go on: badly. I was awful. I got about half way through and forgot everything I had prepared for. Bugger I thought. Luckily Frau Launisch cut the presentation short, and started the questions. They were OK I suppose. I answered them all to the best of my ability at the time, which wasn’t a lot.

To sum up, I went to pieces. I will be happy with a C for the Mock, a B for the real which incidentally is on May 17th.

My next topic is the Conclave and the new Pope. As a Catholic, I’m quite pleased to see they have chosen a new Pontiff, and a German at that: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now known as Pope Benedict XVI. I’m looking forward to his Pontificate. It’s very exciting also because the conclave was so short. Less than 24 hours after they started, and he was elected. Brilliant!

This time next will I will hopefully have returned safely from our wonderful trip to the historic city of Oxford to be lectured about life at the University. It should be fun.

Well, today as always on Tuesdays I had the bitch. It was really fun – Stats. I would hate it if I got her again next year. Grrr. Mr. Nagra came into our class today to talk about Maths next year. He said two things:

i) If you get a U at AS you have to drop it. Paul’s got a lot of work to do then!

ii) You can do Further AS at A2 level. This would leave a timetable of 21 lessons. Rather full I think you’ll agree. I’m still debating as to whether to do it. During Nagra’s talk, the bitch kept staring at me as if to say “You WILL do further Maths next year!” Perhaps I can say “up yours” by just not doing it.

I think that’ll be it for now.

tata

Weather: Blueish shy
Time: 1955
Reading:
Listening to: Beauty and Barrington
Watching: Nowt
Confused about: The international dateline
Annoyed with: Those chavs, you know the ones
Mood: Better than yesterday

2005-04-17T13:00:00.000+01:00

I’ve received another email quiz, and as per the norm, it gets put on the blog. So, here we go. (sorry Dave)

1.What Time is it now? 1240

2.How old are you? 17

3.Single or taken? Single thank God

4.What does your name mean? Apparantly it’s “God is the judge”

5.Who picked out your name? My Parents, Duh

6.What's your nickname? Dan, Dan Oakner, Oakner, Dan ‘da Man

7. odd socks or matching? Matching white cotton

8.What colour are your eyes? Geyish, blueish, greenish

9.Do you have an innie or an outie? Innie, if you refer to bellie buttons

10.What size are your shoes? 7.5

11. lefty or righty? Right

12.How tall (or short) are you? 6’ 0”
13.Honestly what do you like about yourself? My charming personality! No, really, hmmmm The way in which I can talk to almost anybody about almost anything

14.What do you always get complimented on? My shirt and tie choices

15.worst quality? Too lous and impatient

16.What are the last four digits of your phone Number? 9700

17.Do you think you're cute? Nope

18.Hair colour? Brown

19.Do you wear contacts? No

20.Living Arrangements? A house

21.Favourite drink? Apfelsaft

22.Favourite alcoholic drink? Smirnoff Ice / Carling

23.Favourite Month? August naturlich

24.Favourite Food? Crisps

25.Favourite Board Game? Cluedo or Monopoly

26.Web Site? Nationstates, my blog, Miniclip and Any blogs on the left

27.Favourite Clothing Brand? Levis

28.Favourite day of the Year? Christmas Day

29.Favourite colour? Blue

30.Favourite Animal? Robbie

31.Do you have more boy or girl friends? Boys

32.Who's your best friends? The people that I have as MSN contacts

33.Are your parents together? Yes, but only just

34.How often do you get together with the family? Family outside the house? Not too often

35.Do you tell your parents or your friends more? My friends. My parents will judge me probably

36.Anything special about your parents? Nope

37.Siblings and their ages? Brother, 19 today!

38.You're a flirt? I hope not

39.You're slutty? What are you trying to get at?

40.Are you mean? Only when they deserve it

41.You like someone? My Cat?

42.You can keep secrets? Of, course

43.You dance in front of the mirror? Nope. I have several left feet

44.You sing in the shower? Only on special occasions

46.You liked Britney Spears? Certainly not

47.You've liked a cousin? Nope. All brats

48.you've been in the opposites bathroom? Never

49.ever hurt anyone? Not that I can think of

50.You've been hurt seriously? Yes, but it was my fault, sort of

51.You swear? More than I should do

52.You get your way? I try to

53.You're willing to try new things? Depends what they are

54.You've cheated on a test? The sad thing is that I can’t remember whether I have or not.

What happened to 55 and 56?

57.What are you wearing? The same stuff that was worn during the Easter trip nach London

58.What colour are your pants? Navy blue

59.What are you listening to? My Mum on the phone in the background

60.How are you feeling? Annoyed, you know why

61.what are you doing now? Answering this damn “Quiz”

62.What are you eating? nothing

63.How many people are online? 2

64.How's the weather? Sunny!

65.whats on your mousepad? Office Angels. A freebe

66.What books are you reading? None

~*GIRLS ONLY*~67.How many lip glosses do you have?68.What perfume do you use?69.What's in your purse?70. how many pairs of shoes you own?71. tall or short boys?72. Piercings on boys?73. good or bad boy?74. Boxers showing?75. Long hair or short hair on boys?76. hair up or down?77.What's the first thing you notice about guys?

~*GUYS ONLY*~

78.What kind of cologne do you use? I don’t wear cologne

79. Whats in your pockets? Hanky

80.Boxers or briefs? Briefs, but purely out of habit

81.Blonde or brunette girls? Brunette, but the personality matters a lot

82.Tall or short girls? Not fussed, the persoality matters

83.Piercings on girls? No thank you

84.Long or short hair on girls? Neither. Something in between is good

85.Good or bad girl? Good

86.What do you find annoying in girls? The lack of knowledge of Guys stuff e.g. football, cars

87.What's the first thing you notice about girls? They are of the opposite sex

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88. the last movie you saw? LOTR: The two towers. Thanks Dave. Thave

89. what did you have for dinner? Southern Fried Chicken and Potato Wedges. Yum!

90.What are you hoping for? Good exam results

92.What movie do you really want to see? Episode three

93.Tell us about those scars? You can ask me if you want to know.

94?

95.Where is your favourite place to travel? The Bahamas

96.What did you last dream about? A train journey

97.What was the last thing you ate? Some American Hard Gums

98.If you were a crayon what colour would you be? Colourless

99.Who was the last person you talked to on the phone? My Dad

100.Do you like the person that sent this to you? Of course. The Steve

102.Ever had a crush on a teacher? Never

103.Are you too shy to ask someone out? Yes

104.Scary movies or happy ending? Also as a member of the EPC (easily pleased coalition), I must say both

105.Summer or winter? Summer

106.Relationships or one night stands? relationships.

107.Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate.

108.Do you want your friends to write back? That depends if I know who they are

109.Who is most likely to respond? Rooster, Balno, Vision and Rat Poison

110.Who is least likely to respond? Me

111.What did you do last night? Went to sleep

112. What do u want to be when you're older? I haven't contemplated life beyond Uni yet

113.Anything else you want to add? No

114.Time finishing? 1300

well, that was really worth doing.

Weather: Sunny
Time: 1307
Reading: Nowt
Listening to: Nowt
Watching: Doctor Who last night
Confused about: German Oral
Annoyed with: Frau Launisch
Mood: Slightly good

2005-04-06T08:48:00.000+01:00

So, the first blog for April is here. It seems the months, and terms are whizzing by. Last time I looked, it was just the beginning of March. The exams will soon be upon us, again, but it’s not as bad as last summer. I believe I had 17 exams. Actually, it’s not that many more than the 12 I’m going to have this summer. General studies is a bugger, 3 exams, two of which are one after the other, on the same day as the C2 Maths exam. Why couldn’t they spread it out a bit more?

It’s about a month of “non-contact time” when the exams are on. Star Wars episode three comes out bang smack in the middle of them. Maybe they’ll do what they did with the third Harry Potter film and move it back a week to coincide with the start of half-term; or maybe not.

I’m looking forward to finishing this year. I’m looking for three As (Maths Physics and Chemistry) and a B in German. I’m definitely giving it up. No force on this Earth would want to make me continue that for another year. Sorry Lewis. This blog seems to have no real reason. It’s just to say what’s on my mind really.

Dave’s finally bought an ipod. Well done again. I’m looking forward to seeing it. If you’re reading this Jon, don’t forget the couple of data DVDs when we go back. And well done on the London trip mix, I think my choice of BGM works well. I’m looking forward to hearing the live version of da’ Bloggin’ rap, can’t wait.

I’ve had so much work these holidays. Too much of it was German. A listening, writing test to do, and correcting a reading and writing test. This is all on top of doing more for my Oral, which is the same week as the physics practical exam, about the 18th May I think.

I’ve still got to spend “four or five hours” doing the practice plan for the Beast. Hopefully it will tell me where I can improve, because there’s bound to be many things wrong with it, whatever I write down.

Our Chemistry class (mit der Dave) have got a revision class on Friday. Hopefully it will be with Westy, and not Abi. He’s a much better teacher, and the best thing is that his lessons are FUN! I look forward to his lessons. Can’t the trainee teach year seven or something? She’s an OK teacher; I may be portraying her worse than she actually is. I am slightly annoyed with some of the people in our class who ruin the learning experience for the rest of us. Oh well, some of our class will certainly be giving it up at the end of the year. I believe Casey is. I’m not, as I have already mentioned.

If you’re reading this, thank you. I hope you haven’t got board after the first sentence and given up. This post may have been a) one of the longest I’ve written (520 words so far) and b) one of the most boring, but frankly, I don’t care. It’s my blog and I shall write what I wish, whatever anybody’s opinion is on it. Do comment, as I enjoy knowing what you think, good or bad.

That’s all for now

tata

Weather: Cloudy, wet 9 C
Time: 0903
Reading: Nowt
Listening to: London Trip Mix 2
Watching: CSI last night. Very good it was too
Confused about: Logarithms, because we haven’t been taught it yet
Annoyed with: The National Curriculum
Mood: Kinda’ Happy

2005-03-31T09:37:00.000+01:00

OK, so what have I been doing for the last few days.

Well, on Tuesday Steve, Dave C, Dave J, Jon and myself went to see Constantine at Beckenham Cinema. It really wasn’t what I was expecting, and it wasn’t my sort of thing. It had demons and angels and the devil etc. which I didn’t really enjoy, but the special effects were great. I wouldn’t see the sequel, if there was one. A picture of the ticket can be found here.

Well, that was on Tuesday. I did a little bit of work on Tuesday, along with the cinema. There’s a story to tell actually. Here we go:

As usual, my Mum was planning to drop me at the cinema in her car, it’s cheaper than the bus and more convenient. But, it was Sod’s Law that the car wouldn’t start. We all know who’s behind that, don’t we?

Anyway, it turns out it was a flat battery. Bloody cars. Anyway, this means running to the bus stop for the 352, usually a ten minute walk. I had no idea what time the bus was, so ran just to be sure. I did find out though that I’m really unfit. The bus came at 1414, and so got me there on time. All was well.

So onto the main reason for this blog; the London trip yesterday. Yay!

The train was the usual, the 0936 from West Wickham. It was 10 minutes late though.

Here is a photo of Stewart taking a photo of me taking a photo, ah you get the idea. That was not a problem, just a slight inconvenience. We were originally going to get off at Waterloo East, but decided to leave the London Eye until the weather cleared up a bit, or so we thought…

We got off at Charing cross and walked up the mall, where we saw this, which was nice.

Here is a nice photo of the rest of the group, on the Mall. And here is the Queen’s house. I don’t think she was at home. After the mall we entered Green Park where, we filmed the Bloggin’ rap. MC DaveMcC was the lead of course. I’m looking forward to seeing that Megatrobe.

We then had a short break at Pret A Manger. here is Dave C, and Jon and Dave J. Sorry Stewart, keine Photo für dich.

After the break, we got the tube to Oxford circus where, i lead to group to HMV. Did any of you actually trust me that HMV was down that way? Aaaaaanyway, we browsed some CDs and ipods and then went back on the tube from Bond Street to Waterloo. Here, we tried to find some lunch, preferably some KFC, but there was none. There was this though. Very good they are too, the old Eurostars. We had luch at Burger King who, refused to give us chairs. Darstards. After a filling lunch and more walking we arrived here. The London Eye. Dave was so excited that he decided to act like Charles Nichols. I think that’s how you spell it anyway. He was also in awe of the London Eye. It was very big. We got our tickets, £12.50 each, and joined the queue. We were searched for bombs and queued some more. We eventually boarded at about 1410.

Here’s the nice structure.

Dave and Stewart looking very happy here.

It is a magnificent structure.

St. Paul’s in the distance. The weather was awful.

It really was that bad.

Here’s a pod.

And another.

An excellent photograph of the group.

The Houses of Parliament.

Jon thinking about how to conquer Otis.

This is a nice photo.

Well, after much merriment there, we headed for the arcade in County Hall. Fun was had there too. We walked across Westminster bridge to Westminster station where, we got the tube to Covent Garden. We also did the shortest tube ride in London. 38 Seconds it was. Leicester Square to Covent Garden. Covent Garden is a strange station in that there are no escalators. It’s lifts or stairs. We all chose the stairs. I won!! (Although it wasn’t a race, I hurt afterwards. Damn Lactic Acid. )

We saw a merry-go-round and went in the gadget shop. We then had a Starbuck’s and walked back to Charing Cross station to catch a train. On the way we saw a McDonalds with a McCafe and the McInternet. That was funny. Also, Jon attracted the attention from some strange guy who stared at him from about 1 foot in front of him. Could have been Otis I suppose. We got a train just in time, and watched Jon’s video on the way back. Fun was had yesterday it had to be said.

I was out of the house for seven hours and 25 minutes. That made a change.

Tata

Weather: Foggy. 11 C
Reading: Nothing
Listening to: Wanderlust
Watching: Nothing at the moment
Confused about: Nothing
Annoyed with: Exams that are looming and the work teachers set
Mood: Average

That Fiend is everywhere!

2005-03-29T19:39:00.000+01:00

Comment if you wish :D

2005-03-26T08:55:00.000Z

Well, seeing as I have a lot of time on my hands, I thought I’d make the most of it and do a post. I’m sure some of you like seeing new posts appear; I know I do.

I know that most of what I’m about to say has already been said by most of you, but I suppose I’ve got to say it as well.

Firstly, We have now broken up for Easter: Hurrah!! This meant finishing early on Thursday – Very Early. Here’s how the day went.

First period was usual, The Beast and physics. There was something strange about the lesson though. I have a feeling that it was the small girl lurking around in her school uniform that made me feel very uncomfortable, seeing as she kept looking at me. It was Ella Tyler. The daughter of an AOO. Maybe he was training her to defend herself against the might of the Duds. Who knows?

It was a lso quite funny, as Nonnesuch has said, seeing Tyler as a father, rather than a physics teacher. When we were having our discussions in class, as usual, Ella wanted a cuddle. So, whilst Tyler was banging on about braking distances and F x d = ½ mv2 etc. he was holding his daughter. This put me off even looking, let alone answering any questions. Tyler also said that the holidays are not holidays, they are just non-contact learning time. Yeah right!

Period two was usual, free for first half, german oral for second half. Mrs. Moody was pleased with my german oral, which is good. We played bridge for the first half, also good.

Period three was assembly. Northcott as usual praised the hockey team, and said we can fly to the moon – I think that’s already been done, you idiot. I wonder if anybody in the whole school actually likes him?

Some music was played, Rob dissed the piano player to the right of the stage for using just one hand, and some small boy did some magic that was crap.

We broke up about 1130, and I went straight home after collecting my coat.

From now on in, It’s all gonna be revision I feel.

I’ve been tracking the price of a digital camera on Amazon for some time now. It started at over £200, and has gone down to about £165. It can be found here

That’s all for now

tata

Weather: Sunny 16 C
Reading: John Grisham - Bleachers (started this morning)
Listening to: Nightwish - Wanderlust
Watching: Doctor Who later on, England Vs Northern Ireland
Confused about: Olli's view on the universe - Where did it all come from?
Annoyed with: The amount of homework set over the "non-contact" time
Mood: Good

Final thought: Are you ready? Im’a ready! Oh dear…

2005-03-21T14:42:00.000Z

Sorry I haven’t blogged for a while.

Well, not a lot has happened recently. I’ve finally finished my open book, which is a relief. I’m quite looking forward to Easter now, despite the looming revision and the dreaded exams. Not a lot has happened since the last post. I have to say, some excellent gimping by Megatrobe, Teradud and Nonnesuch recently. Well done.

Some of you reading this, we’ll call him agent number 1, say that my posts are boring, and I never have anything to say. Partly this is true. But, it’s not my fault if nothing interesting happens in my life, is it? Or maybe it is…

I’m looking forward to the London trip at Easter, and maybe the cinema. Hostage with Bruce Willis looks like a good film.

We’re continuing our UCAS things in form at the moment, with the handing out of Uni visit forms. There orange, in case you haven’t seen them. We have a talk tomorrow about applying and stuff. Probably really boring.

I think I’ve got a few definite choices, to apply for. I think Warwick is one of them, and Lancaster, seeing as my Brother’s there. Also probably Sheffield, and the rest well, I’m open for suggestions, other than Oxford or Cambridge.

I also got my exam results awhile back now

Here they are:

Chemistry = 80/90
Maths = 100/100

Yay! I thought it was easy, but not that easy.

Also, happy birthday to Akin for today.

Tata

Weather: cloudy, about 11 C
Reading: nothing
Listening to: Lots of nightwish. Moondance is good
Watching: University challenge later
Confused about: nowt
Annoyed with: Nothing really
Mood: Average, but excited about the holidays

2005-03-11T15:38:00.000Z

Well, firstly I’m really, really sorry that I haven’t blogged properly for nearly a month. Therefore, this blog could be rather long. Just bare with me.

Well, some time a go was the first of the maths lectures which will supposedly help us with our C4 coursework. This seems like a load of rubbish. It was about rainbows for a start which, aren’t notoriously mathematical. Some parts were mildly interesting, but he sped through the differentiation bits of it because of some small kids at the front. Damn those small kids. I also met Lewis’ mum which was good to put a face to a name. Jon’s Dad was there as well. My Dad refused to come, saying it would be boring. He was right. Although it was boring, it was nowhere near as boring as the chemistry lecture attended by chemistry students such as Megatrobe and Teradud (whose links can be found to the left) and of course myself. That was boring.

Well moving on to more recent happenings.

Tuesday of this week was the higher education conference in Islington in North London. This involved a nice lay-in until about 0800 hours, which made a nice change. I made my way to West Wickham station at about 0915 hours, hoping to leave enough time to buy a ticket form the grumpy darstard behind the counter before boarding the 0936 to Charing Cross. Both the darstard and the train did not arrive that day. I had to buy a travelcard form the machine which, meant queuing for longer than usual. Funnily enough though, the machine was a lot friendly than the man usually is. I was actually quite looking forward to the trip. It was on the day when I had 5 lessons, including the bitch’s. It couldn’t have come at a better time.

Well, we got a later train where, Rob, Dave J and myself met Jon on the train. Unfortunately, there was a class of year six from Pickhurst on our train too. This included my cousin who seemed very embarrassed about me being within 10 feet of him. Hmmm…

Well, we arrived at London Bridge slightly late and feeling slightly claustrophobic from the train journey. The rest of the journey went fine, and we arrived at Angel station roughly at about 1100 hours. I had to register with Glover, and did so straight away.

The convention hall itself was huge. Davemeister and I went off together and picked up Jon along the way. We spent about 90 minutes or so picking up prospectuses

This is my pile of prospectuses I picked up. Twenty-two in total – 22!! They weighed in at 13.5kg – That’s 2 stone!!

A slightly blurred picture of some of the duds who happened to be there at the time
After I had filled my usual rucksack and two carrier bags with prospectuses, I took a rest, where I found this chav:

Damn those chavs.

We then went to Burger King for Lunch. That was nice.

Some of our group then went home, and myself, Lewis, Teradud, Megatrobe and the thing with the hair (David Cooper) went to the science museum. It was a short tube ride which included going the shortest distance on the tube between two stations. Covent Garden and Leicester square. 39 seconds from start to stop. Very short.

The science museum was good, if not a little hot. We played on the domination tables for about half an hour. That was fun. The Hair then left us to see his sister, thank God.

This photo was taken of Dave looking very old. :D

We then went to Oxford Street to find a headphone splitter. I forgot to mention that Andrew was still with us a t this point. Sorry.

We lost a whole Virgin megastore thanks to Dave. Thanks Dave. Thave. We got diverted to Waterstone’s though, in search of Professor Frank Close’s Book. They didn’t have it, but they did have a book on C for Jon, which he bought. Slightly too dear if you ask me - £25, although it is huge.

And that was my day. I finally got home about 1715.

Weather: cloudy 10 C
Reading: prospectuses
Listening to: my Zen on Random
Watching: Comic Relief later on
Confused about: nothing
Annoyed with: David Copper - Take a hint
Mood:Average

2005-02-18T15:03:00.000Z

http://www.ikea.com/ms/de_DE/

It's Anna, but in german!!

2005-02-18T09:21:00.000Z

Well, On Wednesday, we went to the London Dungeon. This post will contain photos, so beware!!

Here’s a car we saw whilst queuing. The queue must have doubled in size by the time we came out about 1 hour 40 minutes after entering.

Here be a gruesome model.

There was a water ride in there too. Very unexpected, but a nice change. My legs did ache throughout.

After the dungeon, which was worth queuing up for, we went to the non-existant borough Market, then went for lunch.

We chose this idealic spot for lunch. I had Burger King.

There were some strnge goings on in the park. Firstly this Sith seemed to have lost his way.

Sorry, you've got to copy and paste the link below.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v324/Danoakner/LewisSaberjpg.jpg

Then, this eating machine was found, devouring his was through a Subway.

Here is the whole group:

And here is Lewis with Dave C, the London eye and Big Be.., I mean St. Stephen’s Tower.

Here’s the tower again. Splendid.

We then recorded the juggle rap, walked about a mile and a half to Waterloo, and eventually made our way home. A great day out.

Chiao

Weather: 4 C cloudy
Reading: nowt
Listening to: nowt
Watching: nowt
Confused about: German
Annoyed with: German
Mood: Annoyed

What the Fock!

2005-02-18T09:06:00.000Z

Deary me, I’ve got an awful lot to blog about.

Well, I’ll start with Tuesday’s events. It was arranged that myself, Dave C, Dave J, Stewart, Sanjay, Steve and Jon were to go into Croydon, Purley Way to see a film, and go bowling afterwards.

I met Stewart and Dave J at West Wickham Station at about 1135, for the 1146 train to Elmers End, where I would get the tram to Ampere Way, or as I like to call it, coulomb per second way.

This was right by Ikea in Croydon, a place where I have visited before just the once. Never again thanks. IT’S A BIG SWEDISH BOX!!

Jon was on the train, and when we got off at Elmers end, Dave was waiting there. By the way, a zone 2-6 travelcard cost me £4. Rather expensive I thought.

Well, Steve hadn’t turned up by the time that the tram arrived, so we got on. Sanjay was supposed to be getting on at some point too.

We arrived at Ampere Way with neither Steve nor Sanjay. We decided to go and book Bowling first, as it is notoriously busy.

We did this for 1600, at a cost of £8.95 each. Not too bad for two games, and just over an hour of bowling. Steve joined us whilst we were in the queue. Still no Sanjay. The film was due to start at 1300, and by the time we bought our tickets, it was about 1250. I’ve never been to this particular Vue Cinema before, and I found the price of the ticket the same as the Odeon. One thing that really pis*ed me off though was that there were seven tills to buy food, sweets, drinks etc. at, and one of them was open. This of course meant a huge queue. Stewart and Dave J joined it. Nachos I think.

Sanjay finally arrived at 1301, so we went to find some good seats. The seats are large, and luxurious. They have their own cup holders as well. Much better than crappy Odeon.

The Film was Meet The Fockers. I thought this would be good, and it was. Damn Good. The first film was better though, but only just. Both were very funny.

We ate some Burger King for lunch, and I just had some chips. I ate a whole bag of Haribo and two bottles of sugar fizz, so I wasn’t as hungry as the others.

Bowling commenced at 1600. I really should hurry this along a bit, I probably boring you, but meh. I won the first game, a score of 126. Not too bad. I did a lot worse in the second, 77. Oh well, fun was had. See the other blogs for photos of today’s events.

Chiao

Weather: Cloudy, 4 C
Reading: nothing
Listening to: my Zen Micro
Watching: Horizon last night. Sehr Gut
Confused about: Why i chose German
Annoyed with: German Oral
Mood: Worried

2005-02-15T09:03:00.000Z

Yesterday was a good day. In the morning, i actually did some work. I finished off Jacko's work which, wasn't too bad. I then had lunch, and went out in the afternoon with Jon, Dave C and Steve (All of the EPC [Easily Pleased Coalliton]) to go and see Ocean's twelve. I thought that this would be like most sequels: rubbish. It was surprisingly good, although the first was better. It had the same characters, and the plot continued on from the first one. Sehr gut.

Another good sequal is Spiderman two, but that's a long time ago. Jurrasic Park two was shite, and Jurrasic Park three was excellent.

Later on today i'm going out with the rest of the duds, minus Lewis who had previous engagements, to see meet the fockers in Croydon, at the warner village. I've never been there before, so it should be an experience. After that, we are planning on going bowling which, should also be great fun.

Davemeister, if you're reading this, don't forget the camera, silly names are a must!

I'm also going to have a rant today about MSN.

The damn thing won't let me sign on without installing the new version. I'm really not too good with computers, and so the technical jargon it throws at you is slightly too confusing for my liking. I don't want to install the new version for the foillowing reasons:

1. It'll probably mess up like Teradud's
2. The internet may mess up
3. I'm no good with computers and if something was to go wrong, i'll be in the sh*ts
4. I can't really be bothered

Well, i've got to get yet more money out of the bank today for the bowling / cinema extravaganza. Plus, we are going on the now legendary Dud's london trip tomorrow, The London Dungeons - Yet more money.

Oh well, at least i'm not as tight as grumpy little Dave.

By the way Steve, HAPPY BIRTHDAY for last sunday. Great Party.

Tata

P.S. I haven't seen Look around You yet, Any good?

Weather: Cold, sunny may rain later. 3C
Reading: Top Gear Magazine
Listening to: My creative Zen Micro - Buy Dave!
Watching: Aushwitz later - BBC 2, 2100 - very interesting, it's the last in the series
Confused about: Where all the money comes from
Annoyed with: German Oral presentation by Monday
Mood: OK

2005-02-13T11:26:00.000Z

Well, yesterday was a very interesting day.

I did sod all in the morning, played playstation, had a well deserved lie in, the usual stuff you do at half term. In the afternoon, i agreed to go into Bromley with The Davemeister because i needed to buy a new pair of jeans, and get Steve something for Sein Geburtstag (his birthday for those of you not in the german way)

I bought the jeans, plus a card and minature heroes for Steve. Came home, ate, watched Tottenham beat West Brom )Defoe - Damn good), and then went out to Steve's birthday bash.

This was an interesting experience to say the least. Lots of loud music and drink. Rowan got drunk very easily, as did Olli. I did not, and neither did Dave, Lewis or Jon (sort of). Stewart was also entirely sober. Well, i had fun. Ask teradud for the videos - Rowan is such a fool.

Tata for now

Weather: Cold, sun and cloud. 4 C
Reading: nowt
Listening to: nowt
Watching: Cricket
Confused about: nowt
Annoyed with: The amount of work that teachers set over half term.
Mood: tired - 11.30 is later than usual

2005-02-04T16:06:00.001Z

Well, this will be a very short blog to tell you some great news.

It has arrived, my new prized pocession: My creative Zen Micro.

A more detailed description will follow, but first looks are good. It's a lot smaller than i thought, and it's so very light. The blue backlight on the buttons and around the edge really is mesmerising, and the screen is very clear with a white backlight.

I've installed the siftware, and when charged, i'll start putting my favourite trax on it. Innit.

Well, photos will follow at some point

ta ta

Weather: Cold, cloudy. 8 - 9 C
Reading: The 12 page long instructions manual that isn't long enough
Listening to: The demo music - an interesting choice
Watching: My Hero later (hopefully)
Confused about: Nowt
Annoyed with: Why the battery doesn't come fully charged - I want to listen NOW!
Mood: happy

2005-01-30T15:34:00.000Z

Here is a link to the mp3 player that i'm considering to buy.

I've forgotten how to do links, so here's the address:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/glance/-/electronics/B000684HRS/026-9863551-0072455

Please comment on what you think

Thanks

Weather: Cold, cloudy. 5 - 6 C
Reading: information on mp3 players
Listening to: Phil Collins: greatest hits
Watching: The best of Top gear later and "Look Around You" tomorrow!!
Confused about: still why i chose german in the first place
Annoyed with: still the amount of homework i've got and that there's two weeks of school left
Mood: still slightly grumpy

2005-01-28T15:35:00.000Z

Here he is, the fat fiend that treated Davemeister and Lewis like something he found on the bottom of his shoe.

Damn Him!

Anyway, onto the normal manner of my blog.

Nothing particularly interesting has happened since i last blogged about 9 days ago.

Although, i have made up my mind as to which subject i wish to drop at the end of the advanced subsidery (sp?) level. This choice is German. It's so dull compared to the others i do - Maths, Physics and Chemistry. Plus, i stands out when compared to those as well.

My german teachers do not know this fact yet, but they will do whenever they ask.

I have also chosen a german oral topic for the summer: Auschwitz and the Nazis final solution.
I find this topic particularly interesting and so doing a presentation on it i guess would be a good idea.

At last, it's the weekend. In a way this is good, but in another way, this is very bad. I guess that i will spend about 50% of my hours awake doing work. How dull and boring. It just shows what a boring life i lead.

That's all for now

check out the addition to the bottom of this blog

Bye

Weather: Cold, cloudy. 5 - 6 C
Reading: blogs when i can
Listening to: the only piano album you'll ever need - Disc 2 track 12
Watching: My Hero later
Confused about: Why i chose german in the first place
Annoyed with: the amount of homework i've got
Mood: grumpy

2005-01-19T15:54:00.000Z

Well, today has been very eventful, well more eventful than usual.

During 1st period, I decided to go up to the science computers with Tera’ and Nonnesuch. There, we started writing up experiment from the practical circus on Monday. Ours was number four. Very boring if you’re planning on doing it.

Whilst there, I decided to juggle for some of the time. After 3 or 4 rotations, I would put my balls down on my file. I did this several times without interruptions. Then, I turned back to start juggling and they had gone!

Shock horror!

Well, we were searching bags and pockets for them for well over 3 minutes. Then the technician, known only as Dave rolled one of them to me. He denied knowing the whereabouts of the other two. He had them in his little “office” if you can call it that. Avril, the other technician then admitted to stealing them from me. The cheek. They are now both on the list with aaron sparkes (who doesn’t deserve capitals letters) and The Bitch.

Chemistry came period three, and we were discussing the coursework. An equation was stated as follows:

E = mcΔT

E = energy, m = mass of water, c = specific heat capacity of water, and ΔT is the change in temperature. A girl in our class then asked good old Westy where the Delta button was on the calculator!!! How stupid can you be?

The day was as boring as ever after then. Until 1400 hours. This was good. I liked this.

I was leaving room 87, my form room as you do to go home. Simultaneously Jacko’s form where leaving their room next to ours. At the top of the stairs I was talking to Rob, and saw that a year eleven was attempting to enter my bag without permission – Yes the darstard was opening my bag for no particular reason.

I confronted him and he denied that he was doing anything of the sort. His friend wasn’t helping either. Also a darstard. We walked down the rest of the stairs once I had done my bag up again when I said to Rob “ I was that close to booking him” bringing my forefinger and tumb very close together. This was just before the doors on the bottom floor. The darstard was behind us at this point and said something to his friend along the lines of “That’s the size of your dick”. Meaning he thought my gentiles were small. How rude I thought. I turned around instantly and asked for his diary. I felt as tall as a house at this point because I actually have the power to do this. He pretended I wasn’t there. I asked again and he said no. We halted in our paths and asked him again. He refused so we explained that all year 12 are prefects and have the right to book people. He asked to see a badge (he has a point) but we carried on explaining. Rob knew the guy though, so we had a name. Deaves. He walked off and I went straight to Mr. Williams to enquire and he said he’d sort it out tomorrow.

So, there you are, an interesting day by all accounts.

2005-01-18T18:34:00.000Z

Well, this is just a routine blog. Something very strange happened today. During one of the most boring maths lessons ever (Jacko and sequences), an answer cam up thqat caught my eye. The answer was

1337.5

This struck me as 1337 and a half, Leet and a half. Spooky, but amazing.

Onto other matters, I've changed the decription of the imperium back to the way it was. Without the irish. That's been and gone i think.

Monday's Physics lesson was interesting though. We did Tyler's practical circus today. I started on number 4, Mill's experiment i think. Very boring and nothing much to say about it, except that you get nice standing waves using a vibrator - Stop laughing!

My juggling has improved immensly, but i've kind have come to a halt. I think the three ball shower and fountain must be mastered next.

Well, that's all for now

Bye

2005-01-13T16:26:00.000Z

1. Name: Dan

2. What colour pants are you wearing now? White

3. What are you listening to right now? Nothing. The computer humming I suppose

4. What are the last 2 digits of your phone number? 00

5. What was the last thing you ate? Crinkly mini cheddars

6. If you were a crayon what colour would you be? Orange

7. How is the weather right now? Cold, but sunny

8. Last person you talked to on the phone? My Dad, I think

9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex? They know nothing about cars or football

10. Do you like the person who sent you this? Yes, good old Steve

11. How are you today? Pleased the exams are over

12. Favourite alcoholic drink? Smirnoff Ice – the original one

13. Favourite sport/s? Football

14. Hair colour? Brown

15. Eye colour? Bluey/greeny/grey

16. Do you wear contacts?

17. Siblings, and their ages: Liam, aged 18

18. Favourite month? August – No school

19. Favourite Foods? Steak

20. Last movie you watched: The Incredibles

21. Favourite day of the year? My Birthday

22. Are you too shy to ask someone out? Depends on the person

23. Summer or winter? Summer

24. Hugs or Kisses? Depends on the person

25. Relationships or One Night Stands? Relationships

26. Are you in a relationship? No

27. Chocolate or Vanilla? Chocolate

28. Do you want your friends to write back? If they want

29. Who is most likely to respond? Davemeister

30. Who is least likely to respond? George W. Bush

31. What books are you reading? Should be reading Bill Bryson

32. Favourite Band? Don't really have one

33. What are you gonna do tonight? Father Ted and Little Britain I think

34. Favourite smells? Petrol and curry

35. Can you touch your nose with your tongue? No

36. Buttered, Plain, or Salted Popcorn? Sweet

37. Favourite car? Well, how long do I have? Porsche Carrera GT. I’ll bore you someday about cars if you like.

38. Favourite flower? Tulip

39. How many keys on your key ring? 3

40. Can you juggle? Hell yes. Ask me sometime

41. Favourite day of the week? Saturday

42. Red or white wine? If I had to choose, white

43. What did you do for your last birthday? Went to see The Incredibles. Good film.

2005-01-12T10:00:00.000Z

Well, I haven’t blogged really about my birthday yet, so here you are. We (Megatrobe, Teradud and I) went to see the incredibles on Sunday afternoon. A rather good laugh for all the family. After this, I watched a few episodes from the Little Britain DVD, and then went out for a meal at the local Indian with my Nan and Grandad.

After this, I think I went to bed.

Well, nothing happened on Monday, and then Tuesday came. Oh dear.

This was the morning of my first public exam since the GCSEs. The Chemistry which, I was dreading more than Maths today.

Actually, it went alright. No bond angles, which was great. I’m optimistically hoping for an A, but we’ll see.

Anyway, I received the complete Father Ted box set last night, 25 episodes for £28 from Amazon. Not bad really. I’ve watched two so far – The caravan one, and the three bishops one. Both very funny. You never get tired of them. Any requests for tonight?

Anyway, must be going, I’ve got damn maths to do, although I think I’ve done as much as I can

See some of you later

Dan

Mein Geburtstag Blog

2005-01-09T10:31:00.000Z

Well, as some of you know, today is the time when I turn 17. Yes 17 years old. I can’t really believe I have been alive that long. Well, I’m going to the cinema later to see The Incredibles with Megatrobe and Teradud, so that should be enjoyable. Anyway, if you don’t care what I got, stop reading now, if you don’t, please continue:

Little Britain on DVD

Driving theory test practice CD-ROM

New shirt and tie, which some of you lucky readers will see tomorrow

A wooden coin tray

And that’s about it.

Liam has gone back to Uni in Lancaster, so it will be Myself, Mum, Dad Nan and Grandad out for a meal tonight. Photots of presents etc. should appear at a later date.

“Slave Dave”, it cracks me up every time.

Bye for now

Dan

2005-01-08T10:11:00.000Z

I got an early birthday present today - my birthday is tomorrow for those of you not in the know. It's a digital camera! It's not a great one, but it is all for me. Righty ho, I'll post again tomorrow hopefully.

You know what to do

Dan

2005-01-06T20:32:00.004Z

Magister Mundi sum!

Which Weird Latin Phrase Are You?
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2005-01-06T20:32:00.003Z

LOOK OUT!
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Otis Harrington is a radioactive squirrel!!

2005-01-06T20:32:00.002Z

LOOK OUT!
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Otis Harrington is a radioactive squirrel!!

2005-01-06T20:32:00.001Z

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2005-01-06T20:32:00.000Z

THIS WAY UP
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Otis has fragile contents which may break!

2005-01-06T19:58:00.000Z

Take the What High SchoolStereotype Are You? quiz.

I found a test on Dave C's blog. I still don't know what a jock is though...

2005-01-04T13:12:00.001Z

I haven't blogged for a while. Sorry.

I've only just finished my work for the holidays. That damn open book paper took up several hours. And before you start laughing about me taking chemistry, Dave and Jon will back me up that it is useful and interesting - but bloody hard work. Onto other business

It's my birthday on Sunday. Hurrah! But, i don't know what i'm going to get. Money i suppose. I know that i'm getting anew shirt and tie though. I chose it myself. Beige it is. I'll wear it next wek some point. Is it just me, or have the holidays seemed really long? It seems ages ago that we were in London doesn't it?

Well, i think some relaxing is in order. I'll see most of you tomorrow.

You know what to do. By the way, lease vote on the forum about my flag. Let me know what you thinks. Thanks to those who have already voted.

Christmas Presents

2004-12-27T15:40:00.000Z

Here's a brief look at some of my presents.

Here is our christmas tree, obviously

Here's my Grandad, asleep. Hehe

Yard long Toblerone

And Again

Signed copy of Himalaya

Sorry, a bit blurred. It says: "To Daniel, Best Wishes, Michael Palin"

Christmas Blog

2004-12-26T19:48:00.000Z

Just a quick blog to describe the wonders of christmas day. Photos may appear at a later date.

These were the presents i got, incase you were wondering:

Personalised signed copy of “Himalaya” book by Michael Palin (thanks to my brother)
British Isles: a natural Histroy book from my Nan and Grandad
Day after tomorrow on DVD
History of Aston Martin on DVD
A yard long Toblerone, about light saber length
Lots of chocolate
NOW 59 CD
PS2 game: Goldeneye: Rogue Agent

I think that’s it.

Hope you all had a cracking Christmas, and don’t forget to revise!!!

Damn exams…

Photos from the London trip

2004-12-23T08:58:00.000Z

Here's Dave and Rowan on Nelson Column

Here's nearly all of us

Buckingham Palace, obviously

Baz, doing his Batman impression, whilst playing PDQ

It's that horse button again

Damn Chavs

This is a good photo, i think

What happened to Lewis?

Good old Davemeister Pose

Nobody really knows what this Woman was saying or doing

The last photo of the day

So there you go

Comment if you like on my new learnt skill.

2004-12-23T08:24:00.000Z

Well, since it is nice and early, (8.30) I’ll describe what everybody else has blogged about – The Duds trip to london yesterday.

It started off very badly indeed, with the planned train to catch being cancelled. I think Otis was behind this. We caught a later train and Jon, Dave J, Andrew, Dicky, Rob and girlfriend Emily and myself went to London bridge on this train. We then had to change trains at London bridge onto a more crowded train to Charing Cross. Damn Otis.

We were supposed to see Davemeister and Steve at Clock House, but no luck. We got to charing cross, were Lewis was the only one waiting. We sneakedup on him. Very funny.

Anyway, the others, including Rowan and Sarah turned up after 25 minutes or so. Again, Otis is to blame for this.

We set off after it had stopped raining down the Mall. Several light saber photos were taken, which can be seen on Nonnesuch’s blog. Very good I thought.

We then went into St. Jame’s Park to play the good old game of PDQ. I won zero out of four. Rubbish Performance. We then walked onto Harrod’s in Kngihtbridge, got split up in Tie Rack before that though. Aren’t mobile phones handy?

Harrdo’s was very busy with rich people and tourists. And of course Chavs… and brats. We went in the toilets with free after shave, very swish. Saw lots of cool stuff. A magician showed a trick and Lewis knew how it was done. (The tapered card one – well done). We then waited outside for 10 minutes for Rowan to buy a doughnut, which he had almost eaten by the time he came back outside.

I saw a Ferrari 360 Modena (£100K +) in silver, which was nice. We then went on the tube to Victoria, had KFC for lunch, had to wait for the others again, then made our way to the Apple store on regent’s street. Very white and swish. We filmed Rowan annoying Lewis as well, which was hilarious. The queue was massive, and surely you can get ait all cheaper on Amazon or somewhere anyway.

After this we made our final stop at Borough Market where Lewis, Brownie Expert, finally found what he was looking for. I bought one off of Steve for £1.05. Very nice it was too.

We then all got split up again and all made our way home. A very enjoyable, but tiring day just to visit two shops.

group photo....hopefully

2004-12-22T19:34:00.000Z

Group pho

2004-12-22T19:31:00.000Z

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thrid test

2004-12-22T19:26:00.000Z

large hagrid

test again

2004-12-22T19:22:00.000Z

Large lego hagrid

2004-12-22T18:58:00.000Z

Very quick blog. Went to london today. Very good indeed. I'll explain in finer detail tomorrow or christmas Eve

Bye until then

Pre-Christmas Post

2004-12-21T08:43:00.000Z

Now that the christmas holidays are in full swing, i think i'll bloh again.

It's quarter to nine in the morning so thoughts are hopefully still fresh. I'm not sure what to expect from the trip on Wednesday, probably huge crowds of people and their brats. Damn Kids. It may also rain on wednesday i think, but let's not let it ruin the day. I have done almost no work so far during the holidays. I've done some of Moody's german (the sheets), i now have to learn 101 verbs with their inperfect tense. Bugger.

Then of course there's the chemistry 1000 word thing, Scotty too hotty's six questions (which have not even been looked at), Jacko's practice paper and general revision for both maths and chemistry. Oh dear...

The juggling is coming along well. I can do a max of nine rotations. I'm getting better, but not as good as t3h real juggleorz.

Christmas is only days away, but i'm not really feeling as excited as i usually do at this time of year. I think it's because the exams are looming with their syth, ready to cut us from any course we flop at. *cough* Dave Computing *cough*

Only joking

My brother is home for Christmas. He came back on the 10th December and I think he’s missing his pals up at Uni. Lancaster in case your wondering.

Also, on the news this morning, it was revealed that Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince has been completed. I’m guessing a release date of February to march of 2005.

Talking of news, yesterday it was revealed that Exeter university is closing it’s chemistry department. I’m not surprised. How many people at school are planning to do chemistry at Uni. I know of one – David Plummer, Imperial college.

Yesterday was a very relaxing day, because I watched a film. Cool Runnings. I’ve seen it many times before and think it’s brilliant. I’ll elaborate if anyone wants me to at a later date. At 8.30, I watched another film – Armageddon. I’ve got it on DVD. Although it’s a bit far fetched, I liked it.

I’m very easily pleased by films.

While I’m typing this, it appears that you, all of you, are offline. Is it that you are all asleep, or awake but not logged on??

Well, this should be it until Christmas. I’ll see you all on Wednesday.

You know what to do by now, hopefully…

Dan

2004-12-16T17:52:00.000Z

Now is the time to blog i think.

There isn't really much to talk about though.

Juggling:

I've kind of taught myself to juggle. I'm better than when i first started, although nowhere near the amazing skills of t3hJuggleorz.

Wednesday:

The duds trip to london i'm sure is going to be great fun. I'm a virgin at this kind of thing, so i'll see what 14 player PDQ is like!!! I can't wait.

Losing Things:

I've suddenly contracted a disease, which makes me keep losing things in Westy's room. Firstly on tuesday, i lost my Chemical storylines Book, then yesterday, i left a cool photo of Herr. Westy in his room, and now i've left my pencil case in his room. Beware, it may be contageous.

I should be receiving my maths test results back tomorrow. I'm guessing 65 to 75%. Not too optimistic then. I'm failed basically.

Well, you know what to do

Just a short blog today

Dan

2004-12-08T16:42:00.000Z

Part Two

Well, we entered and found out that it was actually a church, which gave the organisers an excuse from doing anything but sit their and look interested. No eating, drinking, smoking (not that I’d want to), talking on phones, phones. You get the idea. Anyway, the intro was so boring thateyfgvgdv. Sorry fell asleep thinking about it. Moving on, the first lecture was particle physics. A boring start compared to the rest of the day. Nether-the-less, it was quite interesting listening about particle accelerators. As Dave, said, we already knew most of it. All he was trying to do was flog his book.

After this was how to succeed in physics exam by boring guy. Lewis, Jon, Rob, Andrew, Sanjay and I were all scribbling notes frantically. Dave on the other hand, wrote: “Use bullet points”. Wise guy. A break was to follow this. As soon as the last sound wave from Tim’s mouth hit the eardrums of the listeners they were gone. Woooossshhh. Downstairs to eat, drink talk etc. The whole hall probably emptied in 2 minutes. We masticated for a while, I excreted excess water and then we returned to the rock hard Pews made of wood. At least buy some cushions or something. The next lecture was about how Einstein’s brain was cut up. Whhooopppeee. So what? Well, a 93 year old has hard hearing. So what? All rather pointless, except for the life-size model of Einstein’s brain. Rather cool technology stuff.

After this was the highlight of the day. Not enough time to explain it all. Most of you reading this will know what it’s like anyway. Cool guy with beard, Beardy and the wife he locks in the cupboard with her sound equipment until she is needed. Tyler should really get a wave maker with red lights on the end. Rather good teaching tool I thought. Buy Tyler Buy!!! Beardy then broke the microphone buy shouting MOO too loud. Funny at the time. Hehe.

At last, lunch at 1325. We walked to Lambeth Bridge, a 5 to 10 minute walk from the church. We then sat down next to the river, which Rowan thought wasn’t tidal. Idiot. tut. Anyway, we ran to a bench and Lewis was found to be the rotten egg. Ha. We ate some lunch and thanks to some persuasion from Lewis, we played a game of PDQ. Great fun because I won a game against Rob in the final. The best final was Rob vs. Dave. I can’t remember who won. Any help? We finished consuming our midday snack, and on the way back met two extrodinary people. One black boy and one applied science looking white boy.

Black boy says: “Anyone wanna buy a bike”

This is whilst he’s wheeling it along. Applied science looking kid stays in the background looking shifty. We all mumble no and I tell Richard in german that he has stolen the bike. He agrees and I feel like I want to hit the black kid. I once had my bike stolen, but that’s another story.

I’ll wrap this up quickly, because you may, or may not be getting bored. Lasers was next, which I found quite fasinating. Great. The final lectures was an amazing juggling display by a guy with a maths Phd. Very entertaining if not a bit confusing. Well, thanks for your patients.

In the words of the Davemeister

Bye for now

2004-12-08T15:43:00.000Z

Well. I know I haven’t blogged in a long time, but I believe this is worth a blog. Yesterday was the one and only physics trip that we’d planned since September. I was just hoping that it wasn’t going to be as boring as the chemistry trip in October. My God that was the most boring thing I have ever seen. .

Any way, on with the day. As with the Davemeister, I got up at normal time. I left about five minutes later in my Dad’s car – a Mazda6. Very nice it is too – New in July. I’m sorry about the bus Dave, but the lift was cheaper and quicker. I arrived at Bromley south at about 0810. The Plummer twins were there, who I greated, and I ignored Adam Large. We discussed Jeans. Were they allowed? We were unsure. I queued up for my Victoria return with Duncan and Matt Howard. £6.20. Rather dear I thought.

I turned around and there was Dave, just waiting like in the “Endliche Pause” German trip photo. Hehe. We both waited for others to arrive. Lewis arrived, then Baz and Rob etc. Dave, Lewis and I went through the barrier to catch the Fast train at 0832. Rob stayed behind for Rowan. I mean of all people. So, Lewis, Dave and I stood up on the 26 minute train ride to Victoria. Crowded it was. Damn Rush Hour.

Once at Victoria, there was a mad rush to try and get out of the station as quickly as possible. Why!!!!, the doors aren’t going to suddenly close or something. (Platform 5 for you train bods out there)

So, we find the meeting point, and only Barker is there before us. He thought it was a 0900 meet. Hehe. We waited until 0930. That came and went. The Beast was late!!! Da da dum. He arrived at least 2 minutes late. Disgraceful. Well we walked for about 15 minutes there, got our tickets and entered……

Part Two will come your way shortly.

a Post Scriptum

Some Weird Guy at the station kept asking the guys from our school for something in a weird and strange manner. Very Odd.

2004-11-20T12:43:00.000Z

I haven’t blogged now for several days so here’s one for you.

The Bitch, as far as I can see is extremely lazy. On Wednesday, she was supposed to return our books so that we could complete homework by Friday period 1. She didn’t. Bitch. She returned them on Thursday, giving us one night to do a long but easy homework. She then complained that we didn’t pick them up ourselves on the Thursday. Bitch. She also claims to have been up til one in the morning marking. Frankly i don't care. Also on Thursday, Boa Morte asked us to hand in work that he hadn’t even set – CI 6.1. What? Is he losing his memory or something. We’ve never seen it before in our lives and he expects us to have done it without being asked. So he gives us until Monday to do it. I have to say it looks rather difficult.

I’m also annoyed with a particular member of our year who I dare to mention because last time I mentioned somebody’s name, he found out. Oh well… This person, for some unknown reason, thinks that he is better than me. Well I don’t think he is. Dastard. He’s so damn arrogant. I’m shaking my fist at him as I type. eeeerrrrrrmmmm I think that’s it for now.

2004-11-16T17:27:00.000Z

And another thing:

As the Davester said, she set loads of homework as well. All of 6B and odd questions in 6C (work we haven't actually done yet)

If you do not have the Bitch, thank God

Emergency Blog

2004-11-16T15:39:00.000Z

This emergency blog has been published to describe the disgraceful teaching skills of our good old friend the Bitch.

We come into the lesson today expecting our test results back. We did in fact receive these results back one at a time. Called up to the front etc. When it comes to my turn, I get within about 1.5 metres and she says” Of course, you got one of the lowest. Hehe”. Well I was shitting myself. I did not find this at all amusing and frankly she is just not funny. Don’t try to be funny if your not. Westy’s funny so he’s allowed to be.

Once we had spent half an hour going through the test, which by the way I got 90% on, Bitch, We worked on some proof. The best moment was when she said that two statements (which were on the board) were always true. Rowan had a thought about it and decided to prove her wrong. In my mind he did and I think she knew it. She went bright red and came up with some bullshit excuse. She may as well have said it was energetically favourable. (Dave will understand).

The end of the lesson was closing in and at three O’clock she decided to keep us in the room past the bell. All because we were apparently acting like children during the lesson. Bitch. She went on explaining some crap about b squared minusac for eight minutes. Eight minutes after the bell. I would have been nearly home after eight minutes. What a bitch.

Well I’m so looking forward to Friday’s instalment of Class vs Bitch.

See you there.

2004-11-15T16:20:00.000Z

Well more moans coming your way. Firstly Chris Barker. I just don’t get it. Why on earth would you do physics without the maths to back it up. How stupid. He’s was asking me and the davemeister today about SAQ 20.14. It’s not that difficult because the answers in the back of the book anyway. ‘twas rather annoying when I was attempting to do german homework during period one.

More moans coming up. Steve Suri. Why on earth would you choose two sciences at AS level with two Cs at GCSE double science. He’s now dropped chemistry and with comments like “what’s a mole?” I’m not surprised.

The Bitch I found, has been extremely lazy this past week. We sit a test on Friday, and having had the whole weekend to mark the 20 or so exams, she hasn’t. For her own convenience I suppose. BITCH. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank nonesuch for lending Rob and I his Deutsch homework period one today. Thank You.

By the way, I haven’t had time to read the apocalypse and frankly I probably will never read it. Sounds good though.

I’ve been doing Westy’s chemistry and for the chemists out there it’s CI 4.2 I think. It’s alright but quite time consuming. Last week seemed to go very quickly for me. Anyone else?

Lets just hope the next five go even quicker.

You know what to do by now

Your good friend

Dan Oakner

Thursday's thoughts

2004-11-11T16:19:00.000Z

Well, i'm getting into the swing of things now. Two blogs in two days. WOW. anyway, onto matters.

We have the bitch again tomorrow. We should be receiving our test results back. I'm optimistically hoping for an A of course. She'll probably give me a B or C. We'll see.

I'm doing Die Hexe's vocab revision for tomorrow. 34 words and phrases and the pass mark is 18 out of 20. Disgraceful porformances are not excepted. It's an impossible task which is undertaken almost every week. the same pass mark, the same task to scale. Although, it should be worth it in the end. Physics was interesting today - Nodes and Antinodes again. Standing waves etc. I admit i enjoy Scotty's lessons a lot more because the work is more mathamatical - forces etc. I received yet more homework from The beast (Tyler). More damn SAQs.

I watched the new Star Wars trailer last night. It looks mighty cool. I think i'll have to go and see it. Darth Vader, yes master, rise. all very cool

I considered a look around you subject today as well - Space. Could be quite funny.

Anyway must buzz off

Again, feel free to comment

Your friend

Dan

The Bitch and more

2004-11-10T10:38:00.000Z

My God I hate her. The great thing is though, she thinks that i like her. hehe. Of course, you all know who i'm talking about. Mssssss Smith. Ms, because she is single, nobody wants her, nobody likes her. A spinster. A loner in the world of maths. And whats with this starting binomial expansions with the number!! Every other mathamatician in the world begins with the x term, as nonnesuch says. BITCH!!

On to other matters. Is it me, or is the amount of work that we are getting absolutely loads? I have had to do the rest of Boa Morte's chemistry tonight, along with AJ's CI 4.2. Quite tricky i thought. Then Ms or Mrs or Miss Stewart (i don't think anyone really knows) set more vocab revision for friday. Her new name is die Hexe, the witch. Her lessons are OK, but she thinks we must have superhuman powers of working or something. It surprising how much you can write isn't it? I have my german oral tomorrow with Sandra. Sandra but pronounced the german way. We just talk in english for most of the time. It's a fun half hour. (10am to 10.30am).

Jacko's lessons are actually quite good at the moment. He cracks a few funnies every now and then, but not as many as AJ. He also likes shutting his eyes (a trait caught off of Mr. Evans), and he likes to scratch his head. Does he have Headlice or some infectious disease?

Well that's all for now. Feel free to comment

Dan

Hello

2004-10-28T17:27:00.000+01:00

Just testing the Blog