Ears up Milka.

Went to the worst wedding I've ever had the displeasure to experience yesterday, and as promised Milka, here is a list of everything that went wrong.

• The bride and groom turned up late.

They had no valid reason to be late. Both bride and groom had turned up to the venue on time, in fact, half an hour before the wedding was to begin, but they both decided to faff around keep all their guests waiting. The groom arrived in a Rolls Royce, and the bride had some sort of a carriage - without horses.

• The food, therefore, was not served on time.

I think they decided to be clever and have a scheduled dinner plan, but that just added to everyones irritation when nothing happened on time. The starter was due at 7:00pm, but was served at 8:30pm instead. This mishap would have been forgiven, if the food had tasted like food (after all this was a Bengali wedding) but alas the chicken tikka tasted powdery and the kebab had a the texture of super blended baby food :(
The main tasted like all wedding mains, nothing special really. The dessert was so awful, it gets its own bullet.

• The dessert looked like orange diarrhoea, with bird poop squirted on top. 

I think it was meant to be Halwa...but it looked like blended Dal, how fyazi looks before you fry it. Bird poop was melted whipped cream. How can it be a wedding without firni?!

• The brides brother was...annoying.

He got up onto the stage repeatedly to irk the audience with his irritating demeanor. With a microphone.

• There were no fans inside a 35degree gazebo.

I spent most of the wedding standing outside looking after any child that would agree to come out and play with me. At one point, I had to drag Waafiq out and force him to go to the toilet so I could leave with someone.

• The catering service hired refused to allow a table to have a large bottle of water.

It surprises me that no one fainted. My head was spinning the whole time.

• No children's entertainment - excluding me.

On the plus side, 

• Enough seating was provided :) 
• The venue was beautiful.
• The groom has attractive friends ;)

1 year on...

So, this time last year I just about finished my AS exams. I'm in the middle of my A2 exams at the moment, and it's not really going to plan. I had my final maths exam this morning and if I were to predict my grade, optimistically, I would go with perhaps a high C or a low B. Hopefully that will be enough to average my grade out to an overall A...Assuming the C3 exam went well.

I need to start thinking about alternatives. My life so far has been all about going to university, but honestly, what would i do with a degree. I don't even know what I want to study. I have an offer for Bio-Medical Sciences and I know I'll enjoy studying it but what will it lead to? I know I want to go traveling and eventually own my own bookstore, so maybe I should stop worrying about the future and what may/may not be, and focus on just living.

The Madagascar project is still going strong, at least. That's part of my travel dream coming to life. The original 10 people to go on the project has been cut to 5, which I think would have been a better plan to begin with. One of the few things i'm looking forward to this summer.

See you soon Milka.

And so it begins

My stress free week of no exams has come to an end. I must wake up tomorrow morning and drag myself to school, sit in lessons and learn - for my next set of exams! *Cue applause*

Went to the University of Sheffield open day yesterday. I think the university is good enough to be an option for me. The landscape of the city is appealing to the eye and the transport systems are efficient. What I saw of accommodation was passable, most buildings belonging to the university were with 20 minutes of each other and the chemistry department had some nifty equipment. Good?

:( :( :( :( :(

I'm going to miss all the reading I've been doing this week. The illogical logic of Catch-22 is the most sensible type of logic I think. More people should try it.

my carpet is green

I managed to tidy my room to a reasonable degree of presentable-ness, with the help of mum. Wow, there is a lot of dust under my bed. The only reason I tidied was so that i could put most of my work away - don't need to look at half a school years worth of work for no reason. It still stresses me out.

I'm getting quite worried about Tuesday. I applied to a masterclass at UCL (on ethics) but I've not yet figured out exactly how I'm going to get there. :/
I don't think that the lecture theatre is too far away from Euston Square station. Damn my leg to hell :(
Maybe someone will be willing to escort me there? Gosh. I need to find that person - I think one of the fellows (my name for the prefects, or should I just call them prefects?) mentioned attending the same masterclass. I'll have to talk to her.

I can't explain this, but I have a constant feeling of dread/heavy air hovering about the centre of my chest. I think I've spent too much time away from dear Mash. The stationary shop is calling. Maybe I should ignore this feeling by reading...or watching junk TV.

:D

So. AS-Level examinations are well and truly over for me!! (Unless I fail and retake next year that is :S)

I've been having fun lately being Milka's personal Gok Wan and I am pleased to say that I've found her a bunch of marvellously flattering outfits to wear. Virtual these outfits may be, but outfits they are. It isn't going to be long till I get her naked picture projected onto the walls of RLS hehehehe!

My leg is also getting better, I can sort of place some weight on it now and take a few steps - but the amount of muscle that it has managed to lose in two weeks is quite alarming...have to get that built up again...the crutches are getting quite creaky too. It is really quite annoying.

I've now finished reading Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier and have gotten half way through The Fellowship of the Ring :D
The plot is actually heating up now...

And my finishing thought: I don't think that I've been selected to be Senior Head Prefect for next year. The dude who dragged me into school didn't say so explicitly but the level of consolidation he offered to my friend and I was too high for both of us to be selected into high roles. This isn't completely a bad thing - less responsibility at school means that I can get a job. If you do the same Mash (not Milka, I cannot stand her accent) we can go on a cruise! YAY!

Had a 'quadratic' sort of day today

Hello there Maisha, MilkaMakeup, and my newest follower Jan,

I hope the world has been treating you well. (You're GCSE students, the world is probably having a wee wee on you :/ hmm - it's having a wee wee on me too).

Today was horrendous. Having three a three way exam clash is worse to experience than in it is to think of in theory. Four essays and 105 chemistry minutes later I discover an unwelcome welt on my finger - I don't think that my pen enjoyed having to write so much. I'm sorry pen.

But! I cannot sit and complain, three down and two to go!! wooT.

Also :D :D I think I might just be headed to Madagascar for two weeks next July ! ! ! It's for a wildlife conservation project happening there - the only drawback to it is raising the funds to go. £20,000. Yh, that is the correct number of 0s. (zeros or noughts?). Let me know if any of you three know anyone rich. :S

Alas, I must stop typing and boring the Internet - BIOLOGY examination tomorrow.

Vaarwell!

Mad World - Gary Jules

Really, is any of this worth it?

"And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world"