Results

Sorry I haven’t posted in a while… I’m lazy.

Oh, and notice the new layout? I was getting bored of the old one, so I decided just to use this nice, new, pre-made theme from Atomic Affliction. I like it the way it is really, but I may play around and customise it a bit to suit more.

I got my Standard Grade exam results earlier this month! I was insanely nervous the morning of the results. I didn’t even remember that they were coming until my Mum woke me up and reminded me. I waited around for the post to come for well over an hour. It usually comes between 10:45am and 11:15am, but that day it didn’t come until around 12:30am :@. I was just sitting in the front room, waiting in anticipation with my Mum all morning. I won’t go into much more detail about the rest of the morning. I’ll just give you my results:

• Business Management – 1
• English – 1
• History – 2
• Computing Studies – 2
• French – 2
• Art & Design – 2
• Biology – 2
• Mathematics – 3

I was so, so happy with my results. I couldn’t believe that I got a credit pass in French. The reason that I was impressed was because I can’t actually speak French without the aid of a dictionary :P. I also got a general pass in Maths, which I was the happiest about out of all my results :D!

I promise I shall blog more often, the new theme has inspired me. Although, I probably won’t keep this promise, but still, it’s nice to make false promises once in a while :).

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That is all, xoxo

Wanderlust

Yo yo yo.

Sorry I haven’t blogged in a while… I have no good excuse, haha. I’ve just been lazy.

I’ve officially finished my Standard Grade exams! Yay. I am very glad of this, naturally, although I am rather annoyed that I now have to start higher classes, which started on Monday this week. Although, to my surprise, they’ve been fine! But I’m not totally naive, I know that they’ll get really tough after the summer.

The subjects I have taken this year are:

Higher English, Higher Art, Higher Business Management, Higher Computing, and Higher History.

English has been fine so far, just very, very boring! My teacher just goes on and on, and then she’ll ask a question, to which no one responds, and then she’ll just go on about whatever it is we’re doing some more. I miss the teacher I’ve had for the last two years, she was so brilliant, and by far the best in the department. But alas, she is taking Intermediate 2 this year… what a waste.

Art has been pretty good so far. We only have to do 1 written period a week, in preparation for the final exam next year which is a written one. The rest of the time just now we are focusing our expressive piece. I’m thinking of doing a natural setting without a lot of flowers in it, so for now I am drawing a flower in tone which is due for Monday, so I really should work on it tonight after work. After we finish that we have to do a drawing of another object or person in coloured pencil, which is due before the summer starts. Then my teacher says that she will give us a summer project to do. After we complete our expressive unit before Christmas, we officially move on to design units, which has to be inspired by an Opera. I’m thinking of doing a website which advertised performances from Madam Butterfly, or creating a Kimono for it.

Business Management has been fine as well, surprisingly, as I really was not that keen on my teacher when I had her in 3rd year. I think maybe because it is a class full of older pupils, who obviously took it because they want to be there maybe, that’s why she’s nicer? haha.

Computing is fab as always, and I’m so happy that I got the teacher that I had for Standard Grade because she’s great!

History is also pretty damn good. We’re working on Laissez-faire just now, and it’s so interesting. I actually love being in history, because the stuff interests me so much… My class is tiny though. It only has about 9 people in it, which in some senses is good, because it allows the teacher to focus on everyone’s needs more. That’s another reason I love my art class, because it’s also very small, meaning that the teacher can focus on helping us more.

Let me know what you’ve been up to, and how your exams went! x

The Last Girl on Earth

I am very, very excited right now. The reason for this major excitement, you ask? Well, the reason is that I have ordered myself a ticket to go and see Rihanna at the SECC in Glasgow on the 19th of May!

My friend Bronte and her sister were going to see her anyway, so I decided to try and snag myself a ticket to the gig too, as I am also a big Rihanna fan. I scoured eBay when arriving from school tonight, and found someone selling 1 ticket for the May 19th gig at a starting bid of £25.00, with 22 minutes left, and no bids!

I immediately put in my bid of £26.00 and spend a stressful 20 minutes trying to sort out credit card information and PayPal information etc. I waited in complete anticipation for the remaining 40 seconds, and the bid went through. After that I spend another stressful 10 minutes trying to sort out PayPal details to make sure that the ticket was paid for.

It says that it is due between 3-5 working days. So I really hope that it arrives on time, otherwise I have wasted £25.50!

I am so excited to go though, and will have to fork out some of my hard-earned wages to buy some merchandise I’m sure.

Since buying the ticket, I’ve already listened to “Rated R” full twice (a brilliant album I must say) and can’t wait to hear some of the songs from it live (especially Hard, The Last Song and Firebomb [hopefully!]).

I’ll keep you posted about the ticket delivery status over the weekend. Wish me luck for my Business Studies exam tomorrow as well please, and let me know if anyone out there has been to see Rihanna’s The Last Girl on Earth Tour already, and let me know what you thought of it!

Born Free

Anyone else so excited about M.I.A.’s new album coming out this year?!

I actually can’t wait now. Took a huge notion for her whilst studying this morning.

Speaking of studying, I now have sat 6/8 of my Standard Grade exams, with only Business to go on the 14th and Biology on the 27th, which gives me a nice 13 day gap between the two

Also, you may have noticed that I’ve put a small Google Adsense thingy at the bottom of my sidebar. It’s very small, and not too annoying hopefully. It’s really just to make a little extra cash for myself tomorrow, as the domain cost under £1, and the hosting is free. So hopefully after time, it will accumulate to something. I only made 28p on the first day it was installed, but oh well.

Not really got much else to say today, although I will give a shout out to my friend Brontë, who turns 16 today! I got her a Cheryl and Ashley Cole book and Rihanna’s album – A Girl Like Me.

Other than that, I don’t really have much to say, so I bid you goodbye dear readers, x

E=MC²

My Standard Grade exams have officially started as of Thursday 29/04/2010. It was kicked off really by the art exam the previous Thursday, but that’s technically before the official SQA exam diet begins, and the date of it is decided by the school, so I’m not counting that really.

For my English writing piece I wrote a short story, which featured an opening that you had to use. I used it, and title it “The Coven”. It was about a woman who sees a light in the distance whilst walking home, and hears laughter and screams coming from that area so goes to investigate. She then discovers a group of men dancing around a bonfire, and then stumbles over the body of a dead woman, screams and is captured by the vamps. They feed on her and then turn her into one of their own.

I think it went ok, I guess. I got a 1 for my prelim, so I really hope I get at least a 2 for my actual exam.

For the general and credit close reading, It think I did ok. Although I must say I really did not get the point of the story excerpt we had to read for the credit one. It was so damn surreal and confusing!

My next exam is Maths on Wednesday, and I am fairly confident that I am not going to do well in the General paper, but who needs maths really?

I also thought I would discuss some upcoming album releases that I’m really looking forward to this year. Ones that have been released already that I was looking forward to were:

• Goldfrapp – Head First
• The Gorillaz – Plastic Beach
• and MGMT – Congratulations

Although I have yet to purchase any of these :P. I really should start following through with what I say I am going to do!

Upcoming releases that I am looking forward to this year include:

• Robyn – Body Talk Pt.1, Body Talk Pt.2 and Speak Your Body (Body Talk Pt.3)
• Jennifer Lopez – Love? (YAY J-LO COMEBACK!)
• Lady Gaga – Untitled (hope it’s finished and released this year, ‘cause I <3 LADY GAY GAY)
• M.I.A. – Untitled as of yet
• Kylie Minogue – Aphrodite

That’s all that comes to mind just now, but I’m sure that I’ve missed a few. Let me know what your most anticipated album releases of 2010 are!

Btw, the E=MC² in the title is a reference to Mariah Carey’s album “E=MC²” which I bought the other day for £3 (bargain much?). I’ve listened to it like 20 times already, so damn good! I love Mariah’s music, but damn that girl is one hell of a diva!

Ciao.

The Bucket List

I was watching the 19/04/10 5awesomegays video. Michael was talking about his personal “bucket list”, which is basically a list of things that someone wishes to do or achieve before he/she dies. So this inspired me to write a post about my own personal “Bucket List”. So here goes:

(these are in no particular order!)

• Do a parachute jump
• Go and see Madonna live, and wait before/after the concert in an attempt to meet her
• Buy the perfect domain name: bluehairedboy.net or rainbowboy.net
• Travel for an entire summer through Europe
• Visit New York City
• Purchase all of the classic albums I don’t own and should
• Learn how to dance salsa or tap
• Get very drunk on tequila shots and end the night by having a one-night stand with a hot Latino stranger
• Pass all important exams at school and graduate university
• Experience both a sunset and sunrise
• Do something that will make a difference in improving gay rights, and encourage anti-homophobic bullying campaigns
• Sing “Like A Virgin” in front of a very large audience
• Learn to speak Japanese fluently and visit Tokyo to test my new linguistic skills out
• Make a motivational speech in front of thousands of people
• Perform 5 acts of random kindness in one day with no reward
• Spend a day advertising and giving “Free Hugs”
• Fly first class
• Meet Brad Pitt, George Clooney and Johnny Depp

That’s all I can really think of just now. Do you think that my list is realistic? I’m quite happy with it actually, and hope to achieve some of the things on there before I die, if not all, as all of them are possible, and within reason, realistic too.

That’s all folks.

The Power of Madonna

I can’t wait for the Glee episode: “The Power of Madonna” to air here in the UK. I absolutely LOVE Madonna, so much so that I put “love” in capital letters to emphasise my love for her.

I just saw the “Vogue” cover that Sue does, and it is so brilliant! It’s almost identical to the original music video. Check it out below!:

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! I am actually blogging this on Easter Monday, but whatever. Did everyone have a good Easter?

Mine was pretty boring to be honest. We weren’t doing anything this Easter, and my dad was working, so we pretty much just did our own things. I spend almost the entire morning trying to contact my friends, but I couldn’t get anyone, so I ended up doing nothing.

I’m working ALOT over the Easter holidays. I was working Saturday, I was working tomorrow, and then I’m working tomorrow, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Blub.

I’m going to Art Easter School on Wednesday morning, and then I’m going to the cinema in the afternoon with my little sister to see How To Train Your Dragon 3D. It looks really good, and I’m actually really looking forward to it.

I did quite well egg wise this Easter. I got five in total, and so far I’ve only eaten one (plus the two cream eggs that came in it :P).

I’m currently watching The Wizards of Waverly Place Movie, and am completely hooked on Disney Channel and Nickelodeon just now. I’m working at 3pm tomorrow, so it’s a pretty easy shift, and I’m gonna go and continue to watch the movie now

Ciao everyone, and remember to tell me about your Easter Sunday

BlackBerry Curve

I’m thinking of purchasing a BlackBerry Curve 8520 in the future, i.e. September this year. I currently have a Samsung Genio Qwerty, which is basically a down-graded version of the BlackBerry, featuring a full QWERTY keyboard, although it is rather basic, and the keys are very small, making it difficult to type occasionally. I do like my phone, and although I’ve only had it for about 2 months, I really want a BlackBerry.

I’ve been looking at plans on T-Mobile and Virgin Mobile. T-Mobile offers the BlackBerry Curve 8520 for free, when you pay £15 a month, which gives you 300 minutes, and 300 texts. I would also add the booster to give me unlimited internet access each month, which is an additional £5. So all-in-all, it is £20 a month on T-Mobile, for a 24 month period. This is ok, but I really don’t need that many minutes, as I tend to text more often.

On Virgin Mobile, it is £20 a month, with the phone for free. This package gives me 200 minutes  a month, as well as unlimited texts and unlimited internet access built in. This seems to be a better plan for me, as it gives me as many texts as I want, and still gives me 200 minutes, which I probably would not use anyway, and unlimited internet access.

I’m definitely contemplating purchasing this. I discussed it with my Dad, and he says I can get a contract mobile when I’m 16 (September 29th 2010), as I can them upgrade my Nationwide Smart Card to a Debit Card so that I can pay for the contract myself. This seems reasonable, as by the time I am 16, my hourly pay rate will have increased a tiny bit, giving me a higher income, and the ability to pay for the phone from my own account.

By September I will also have gotten good use out of my Samsung Genio Qwerty, and I could maybe then sell it on e-Bay, and fetch a small amount towards the monthly cost of the BlackBerry.

If anyone out there has a BlackBerry (Curve, Bold, Storm, Pearl or whatever) comment and let me know what plan your on, how much it costs, what you get, and if you think it’s worth it!

That’s all for now people,

-Thomas