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.