Do people understand flashmobs?
This is a question I have been considering since the release of the plans for the second flashmob in Newcastle. I am making a presumption here that you all know what one is, but if you don’t check out Wiki. The point is that whoever has drawn up the plans for this event does not seem to have a great understanding of the whole concept. I mean it sounds fine at the start where we all have to curl up in a ball at the sound of a whistle. But after this has been done we are expected to do some random dancing before a “mystery” event occurs which is all due to last around 10 minutes (in total) before the crowd is due to disburse.
Now to me that doesn’t seem much like a flashmob, more of a meeting. I might be being a bit pedantic here but flashmob does contain the word “flash” which would imply that a mob of people suddenly appear do something then bugger off again. No suddenly appear, wait around for 10 minutes before buggering off. To me this is too long and is actually getting on my nerves.
What’s also annoying about all of this is that the idea is not original. This flashmob event is merely made up of 2 different flashmobs stuck together with a “mystery” event included to mix it up a bit. If I had my way I would get everyone to just turn up and get into a ball or for everyone to know a certain dance routine then when the mob meets everyone just does this mini dance routine before buggering off (the dancing part of the mob tomorrow, 15th, does not include a prepared dance routine or anything of the like).
Rant over.
Last exam
I have not updated this for a while mainly because I have had exams so basically been attempting to revise. Anyway I had my last one today and I went straight down the pub, admittedly I didn’t drink anything but this is because I was driving home. Went out tonight though with the thought of getting very much drunk, except no one else was drinking so I got sort of tipsy and stopped because I did not want to look a complete fool.
I get home and 5 minutes later my dad stumbles in the door- he has been out drinking with one of his friends. I ask what the stain on his shirt is and he proceeds to tell me how he was sick on the train. My only question is, why was I not this drunk? Oh well I guess there is always tomorrow and at least now I am going to be in some state to be able to sort out this job I might be getting in a brewery.
No more exams, no more school = the summer has officially started baby yeah!!!
Left school
Yesterday I left my school forever after being there for 7 long years. I have only technically left in the fact that I have no more lessons, but I still need to go in for exams and after the exams are over there is the leavers weekend when you officially leave with a big party.
So on the last day of term our year got dressed up in the old school uniform and me and Zach went and did some extreme ironing. Starting off in the ICT block and in the history department to business. At break I went into the girls toilets (with some girls checking it was clear first) and threw a load of bouncy balls out of the window.
I had to go get the ironing stuff from the car again at this point and I noticed my friend had parked his car on the school roundabout- that made me laugh a lot. So did a bit more ironing getting 2 more teachers to iron me before just chilling and then having the last ever school meal (which was not of the high quality I had hoped for).
Bit of car abuse was done to my mate Elliot because we had silly string and he was driving with his windows down (it was asked for really) before he buggered off. But the car fun had only just begun. When me, Banky and Jimmy were walking back to the sixth form centre we were stopped by Scott, Freddy and Weaving who told us to come with them and for us all to drive around the playground. Sounded like something fun to do so we did it. However it didn’t got completey according to plan as the road around to sports centre to the playground was blocked so we had to drive past the headmasters house (a lot of horn action happened at this point just to piss him off). So eventually arrived at the playground drove round some kids with the horns going off before a bit of wheel spinning etc. before returning. Whilst going back to the car park my friend decided to cut across the fields (it was wet so no one else did this but it was still fucking funny).
A lock now needed to be purchased which we did, this will all become obvious later. On returning to the sixth form centre everyone was playing off ground tig which was shit but we managed to convert it into one massive pit so that was fun.
My friend then decided to drive down the banking of school which was pretty funny and we all went off to the pub to chill and get ready for the task in hand. Me, Banky, Amar, Zach, Jimmy, Baker and Pedder all ran back into school and padlocked the gates into school shut before going off to hide. No sooner had we done this that Mr Moffat turned up and was locked out of school with Miss Bruce locked in school. Some parents arrived and tried to take our number plates down and call the police so we all fucked off back to the pub with Trig eventually taking the lock off for them.
In the pub we had the great idea of padlocking the gate again so we did but with a lot more people wanting to help out. I went home at this point as I had somethings to take care of but apparently everyone just parked up outside school sounding their horns.
Then in the evening of this amazing day nearly all of our year went out drinking and went out drinking in our retro school uniforms. It was a great night with a lot of drinking going on.
Exam Results
Today I received the results for my AS-Level resits and also a A2 exam and a cousework module. I am now going to attempt to briefly explain the system of the final 2 years of school (years 12 and 13). In year 12 you study for AS levels which are the equivalent of half an A2 (or A-Level). AS level is broken up into 3 units where 1 unit can be a coursework unit. At Christmas time students may take an exam for unit 1 as that is naturally the first unit you learn. The general idea is that you do bad in this exam you retake it in the summer along with units 2 and 3 (unless one of them was a coursework module).
This is more or less the same for A2 except you can still resit AS units when you are in year 13. In the summer for year 12 I didn’t do very well and ended up with B (maths), D (business studies) and D (ICT) so I decided to resit a few modules in each subject (2 in business, 1 in maths and 1 in ICT) along with doing unit 4 (A2 module) in business this Christmas.
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised at what I have now exam result wise and I am happy. A break down of what I have is below.
Maths
C1 - 80/100 (A)
C2 - 87/100 (A)
S1 - 74/100 (B)
Total - 241/300 (A at AS Level)
Business Studies
Unit 1 - 70/90 (B)
Unit 2 - 65/90 (B)
Unit 3 - 95/120 (B)
Total - 230/300 (B at AS Level)
Unit 4 - 63/90 (B)
Unit 5 (coursework) - 73/90 (A)
Unit 6 - not done yet
Total - 366/600 (C at A Level)
ICT
Unit 1 - 61/90 (B)
Unit 2 - 68/90 (B)
Unit 3 (coursework) - 68/120 (D)
Total - 197/300 (C at AS Level)
Feel free to buy me alcohol and thank me at anytime.
The sixth form ball
It was a good night to say the least. It was starting between 7 and 7:30 at the bar but I got to the hotel at 5 to start with the drinking a bit early. I was trying to keep costs down so bought a 24 pack of beer and got pissed in several people’s rooms. At some point I was chased by a receptionist for bringing my own beer but I managed to out-run her and hide.
So by the time the ball actually started I was pretty drunk but it was ok because Elliot (officially legend of the year) was waisted as well. I did some mingling and ate a bit. Watched the awards and shouted out classic comments such as “Get your tits out for the lads” for the award of Best Breasts of the West and “He fucks his mum” for most likely to be successful.
Awards
Best Looking Male: Tom Baker
Best Looking Female: Jessica Haslam
Best Dressed Male: Ashley Coward
Best Dressed Female: Sophie Hinchcliff
Worst Gangstar: Charles Mostin
Most Likely to go to Jail: Liam Blatchford
Alcoholic of the Year: Damaris Treasure
Most Likely to be Famous: Amy Wilson
Most Successful: Hayen Taylor
Chav of the Year: Scott Dixon
Chavette of the Year: Jenny Singh
Mummy’s Boy: Ollie Midgley
Daddy’s Girl: Emma Humphreys
Rear of the Year: Jill Harrison
Best Breasts of the West: Emily Lighthowler
Most Like to Wake up Next to (Male): Freddy Straud
Most Like to Wake up Next to (Female): Laura Guillion
Legend of the Year: Elliot Aboudi
So most of the night I did some awesome dancing (yes I am a good dancer) but alas all the photos of me make me look really really drunk. Got asked to go into Ilkley with Becki but my taxi turned up to late and by then she had gone home which sucked a bit.
All in all a very good night. Photos at photobucket
Sixth form ball tonight
I have our sixth form ball tonight. I guess to all your Americans it probably is a bit like a prom but not really. This ball is organised by the sixth form and this year it is the “WGS Reunion” so that they presume everyone is over 18. Of course this does not bother me because I am in fact 18. Should be a good night, starting off at about 5 drinking in my friends room to try and cut down on costs in terms of buying drinks at the bar.
Can’t wait- should be a really good laugh and lots of drinking and dancing should be done by all. Only problem is getting home since I was supposed to get a taxi with these two girls and they told me yesterday that there was no room for me so after the ball should be a bit of a laugh.
Nah nah nah, Hey Jude
Today was quite a good day. Only had 1 lesson in the morning and had a good long old chat with Becki. Turns out some guy called Lee is hurrassing her and me and the boys have to go kick the shit out of him- maybe not. Also had a really nice sandwitch from Sainsbury’s.
Also discovered that having your mobile language being changed to Italian is not helpful and can be a pain in the ass to fix but I did it so that was quite good.
In ICT we all basically discovered that we don’t have enough time to get everything done so basically screwed (as you can guess this was quite a bad part of the day). But at least I haven’t missed any deadlines yet which isn’t as bad as some other people who haven’t made one yet. I have to do Testing for wednesday, Evaluation and something else for monday then update everything else to make sure it is to a high standard.
Training was medioka. I mean we don’t have a coach anymore so will have to wing it a bit these days but it should be fine. Did two laps of circuit training comprised into 1:30 minutes of- sit ups, press ups, supermans, squat jumps and an ergo.
However to top off this great day when I arrived home I discovered that I had received my P45 so I can now get a new job (this is some tax thing that you receive when you leave a job and can’t technically get a new job until you receive it). My new book “Is It Just me or Is Everything Shit?” also arrived, seems to be quite a good read.
Got that friday feeling?
Friday at school was a bit different, well it wasn’t. Some people had gone to Paris on a trip so a lot of my year had decided that gave them the right to skive school which I thought was pretty funny. I only had 4 lessons and they just so happened to be the first 4 so after that I had nothing to do but had to stay to do some bloody assembly which sucked so I ended up staying at school all day when I could of gone home before lunch.
Starkey didn’t have any lessons until after lunch so me, him and Baker went up to Sainsbury’s and spent about half an hour selecting what shit we should have for lunch. I got some dodgy microwave pizza and they got some microwave pizza and noodles. As you can guess it was a very nutritional meal.
Once this amazing meal had been eaten me and Starkey stole the speakers from downstairs and hooked them up to the prefect common room sound system so we could listen to some high quality tuneage. I naturally did some amazing dancing and a bit of chair wars. I think I went downstairs at one point and announced we had created a gay club upstairs and anyone was invited (I think I scared Becki a bit with this).
The afternoon was spent watching some rubbish film and listening to my music before MP3 player ran out. So basically did nothing in the afternoon which sucked a bit really.
Friday night went into Leeds and met up with Starkey, Baker, Emma H, Jo, Angus, Raine, Alice and Tom to go watch “A Cock and Bull Story”. Film was alright- where it was funny it was very funny but parts of it were just to random and I didn’t see the point of where it was going. After the film we all went to Brown’s for a drink but Tom and Alice went home.
Me and Starkey split from the others and went for the train. Turned out we just missed it and had to wait an hour for the next one. Starkey decides to have some McDonald’s as you do and we went to Witherspoons to meet up with the Parish.
Chilled there for a bit and went to catch the train. On the train I bumped into a couple of blokes who I know including the meathead that is Josh. Much fun was had on the train as I bumped into some guy who is mates which someone who lives near me (he taught me how to get films for free).
Some point in the night I think I sent Becki a message saying “I aint gonna let you give up drinking in ilkley. I will take you out sometime and show you that you can have a good time and will get served. Xx” Maybe that wasn’t really a good idea? Oh well I guess I will find out on monday as I am pretty sure she ain’t gonna reply to that partly because it was just so random.
Arctic Monkeys and other adventures
Arctic Monkeys debut album released today. Well technically not their first album as they had the “Demos” album made up of…surprise surprise, demos. The new album, “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”, is good but it has quite a clean sound which is something I don’t feel suits their songs- well some of them sound better anyway. There are one or two tracks which aren’t on: Space Invaders and Choo Choo. Anyway you should all buy it.
Not much happened today. I thought I had to hand in my ICT implementation today but it turns out I didn’t which was a nice surprise except it is now due in for wednesday or thursday and it isn’t going to be done by then. Errmmmm what else…me and Becki went up to Sainsbury’s as you do- something about her needing cotton buds to clean out her ear due to some new piercing, I forget I was too busy thinking how fit she is. Bought the Arctic Monkeys album here so wasn’t a worthless trip.
Jack Johnson tickets should now be delivered this saturday, hopefully. If they don’t come this time I swear there is going to be murders- pissed me off last saturday as they didn’t deliver as promised.
Currently listening to The Streets, “A Grand Don’t Come for Free” album. So far so good, should also check this album out as well I guess; it’s quite funny at least.
Cardiff University
I feel as if I am in a bit in demand these days by Universities. I have now got to offers, one from the University of Nottingham and one from Cardiff University. For Nottingham I need a BCC with a B in either maths or ICT. I don’t know for Cardiff yet, I received a letter from them saying they were offering me a place but I had to go and see them to discuss details- maybe it is an interview.
Anyway thought I would just bring this to people’s attention. And I have a message for University of Newcastle, Durham University, Leeds Metropolitan and Manchester University:
Accept me and and offer me a place soon- I get impatient sometimes 
