Niamhykins

Hi Niamh! You wanted a post about you so here.

Soooo, I know a girl called Niamh and she goes to my school. Of course, she *is* mental and today decided to eat 8 ice creams (along with Gemma but you'll hear more about that incident in a bit). I found out today that she has a blog so I'm now stalking her (that's totally not creepy sounding...)

Now, that ice cream story. At lunch today, there were ice cream scoopy things with banana. Gemma and Niamh both love ice cream, but Gem hates banana. Oddly enough, she still ate 8 of the ice creams... then again, she *was* throwing the banana at Niamh whenever she got them...
When I got upstairs to our form room, those two were already there and Niamh seemed to have developed a slight obsession with the word 'consequently'. Weird; yes. Completely hilarious; HELL YES!

Hope you enjoyed reading about a couple of friends who managed to get high on ice cream. :D That is all for now. Pip pip!

Several things

So... I can't actually remember what's happened since I last blogged. Um, wait right there, I shall be back in two seconds...

Ah, so there wasn't really anything of import in the last blog. Okay. Good to know. :) Well, as some of you may know, this weekend will be International Talk Like A Pirate WEEKEND! That's right, people; not Talk Like A Pirate Day, but WEEKEND! That's one more day of pure awesome pirate talk, savvy?
Yeeeah... I'm excited about that. :D

Well, today I went to CCF (Combined Cadet Force) for the first time in forever and it wasn't actually as bad as I thought it would be. Odd, that. We just spent our time doing NSPs (Normal Safety Procedures) with the rifles and stripping them. i.e. taking them apart to check everything works and then reassembling them. (I'm in the RAF, by the way)

That's all for now and to finish, I shall introduce you to yet another webcomic that I have just rediscovered. Introducing.... Head Trip! That should link you to the first comic in the series, beeteedubz.

And just to stress that I am now hooked back on Les Mis:

♫Look down and see the beggars at your feet
Look down and show some mercy if you can
Look down and see the sweepings of the street
Look down, look down upon your fellow man♪

And and and because I don't feel right without posting a pikachure at the end of my posts here:



P.S. Ick... I just realised that this is my first post of September.

I give up

Yeah, the blogging Indian wedding thing is dead. Oh well. The notebook is still around so the story's there if I ever get bored.

School's starting soon (next Thursday - dumb day to start, I know), and it's GCSE year for me. -.- Speaking of GCSEs, I got my 4 results back yesterday! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! And I'm gonna get the Harry Potter Lego game!

(Please excuse the lack of any coherent structure here. I haven't written anything in a very long time and there never really is a structure so I don't know why this is being written)

In other news, this summer (and a good friend) have caused me to become extremely addicted to a webcomic that is completely and utterly AWESOME! Those of you who I talk to on Gmail will, most likely, know what that link is without clicking on it.

In yet more news, I am happy to find out that Requiem Mask is now somewhat back on track. I am devastated to report, however, that Houdini has passed away. :(

And I do believe that's everything that I can squeeze out of my sadly dead brain for now, so until next time, my friends!

10th July 2010 - In which nothing much happens so I'll write two entries this time but put the second one in a different post coz it's long

Today's been a very 'do nothing' day. Unfortunately it hasn't been the 'best do nothing day ever' (Phineas and Ferb, anyone?). But it's been all right, I suppose
To sum up, we got a load of painful beautifying crap done in the morning, then went to get sandals for my grandma and ended up leaving with three tops. Now, the rest of my cousins have arrived and we're all about to leave for dinner at my uncle's (TOWDIGM)

More tomorrow. For now, bye!

9th July 2010 - In which I get a bit soppy

Finally! We are finally here after a bloody 7 hours and 50 minutes. I'm writing this at my grandparent's flat and trying to remember anything of import that's happened since I last wrote... nope, nada. Well, this is a bit of a bittersweet time as it's probably the last time I'll be in Nairobi in this flat. See, my grandparent's have slowly been moving into their youngest son's house here in England. So the apartment is pretty bare as pretty much everything, furniture wise, that I know is gone.
This place has so many memories! I remember trying to climb the window bars; they seemed huge at the time. Now I'm about 3/4 their size and trying to stop my cousins from climbing up them.
And, oddly enough, the toilets in the hall. They used to freak me out when I was younger. 'Why?' I hear you cry. Coz I had just watched Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone and I was terrified that I'd run into a troll...

Now, have any of you had a 'bucket bath'? Water gets EVERYWHERE. Or is that just me? Anyway, it's basically a shower using a bucket. Simple. Only, my sister and I used to be small enough to fit completely in the buckets. Fun times...
Wow, I'm gonna miss this place...

Yay! We're going to the Village Market! I love markets; all the haggling and colours and haggling and people and haggling and just the sheer amount of STUFF. If one stall isn't selling something, you can safely bet that another will be. The same also applies if a stall is selling something. :P

The Village Market is at the shopping centre every Friday, so its a nice thing to look forward to. But there's a Maasai Market near the supermarket which is full of alleyways and is even more amazing, in my opinion. But I digress. We don't tend to buy a lot at the Village Market but as this may be the last time we're here, we did some spending. Just to clue you up, 100 Ksh = £1 roughly. I ended up with this gorgeous dust cover for notebooks. Unfortunately, the one I'm using to write this in is too big to fit. :(


So, now we're waiting to go back to my uncle's (the one who's daughter is getting married or TOWDIGM for short now) apartment roof for dinner. I'm hungry...

10:30pm - I'm on Kenya time now. We just went to visit an aunt to get kitted out for various wedding things. THEN... there was this humongous power cut. For something like two hours or so, there was no power whatsoever. So we used candles for light. :) And ate by candlelight. One of the candles had a paper rim and may have caught fire and was burning merrily away. I think it was tissue paper. You know how tissue paper is mega thin and all? Well, it was burning quite fast and the flame was slightly coloured and it was very prettyful.

We also got a visit from (yet another) of my cousins. She turned 1 two days ago and is absolutely adorable!


Well, it's now 10:35, and I've been awake since 4am UK time and I am absolutely shattered. Gonna go get ready and sorted for bed. Good night! Oh, and yay; my American cousins and the rest of my cousins are coming tomorrow!

8th July 2010 (Part 2) - In which 'halal pork' is mentioned

'Kay, so I'm sitting, waiting in the terminal now. You know when you get through baggage and all that, then there're the shops, right? Well, there were a few Asian dudes working in this duty free store (basically, Heathrow's duty free is usually manned by Asians from South London) and one of them goes to a co-worker (it was a she) 'So, can you get halal pork?' Needless to say, I legged it before collapsing in fits of laughter.
Now I'm just waiting and I think I see a bookshope so I'll write more on the plane...

I'm on the plane now! Wheeeee! Boarded about 15 minutes ago and am doing some good old fashioned people spotting. There're a lot of uni. students here...
Bugger... I just found out that this is around a 7 hour flight -.- Ah, it's worth it. More later; I'm gonna sort out my bag (*ahem* rucksack) out.
Oh, one more thing. Especially for this, I have a shiny new notepad! And it will end up with writing in it. That's rare for me, guys. :P And now I have to tell my sister to bugger off and stop watching me write...

10:45pm - This is still England time, beeteedubz. In Nairobi, it's something like quarter to 1am. So, I just watched Alice in Wonderland. The SFX are completely awesome but the story seemed a bit jerky and off kilter to me. It reminds me of the Looking Glass Wars tirlogy but is (apparently) based on one of Carroll's sequels. But I prefer the LGW books. Now, I'm being told to sleep, so I'm gonna catch some Zs.

G'night!

8th July 2010 (Part 1)

I don't really know if today should count as part of my little blogging thing but whatever. Screw whatever metaphorical rules there are.
So, I was writing this (on paper) in Biology and I was meant to be copying out a graph. Psh, yeah right(!) It's my last academic lesson, for crying out loud! ..... Fine, so I drew the graph....

Ranting aside, today's a slightly bittersweet day. My English teacher's leaving for a school in Bristol and today is his last lesson with my class apart from me. Oh well; I'll probably be kept up to date on whatever weird crap is going on through my friends stalking him on FB. Yes, my English class is odd.

Now, (I'm still in Biology) if only Barnett (Biology teacher) would shut up and stop talking about athletes and hormones and blood doping... oh good! She stopped. We're watching 'The Bionic Vet' now. It's pretty amazing! I'll be back later...

9:30am - ACK! What is up with Barnett's face?! She keeps wiping it... o_O
9:31am - Aww; chinchillas are adorabibble!
9:45am - Animals can get arthritis? Sasha - border collie - knee has disintegrated coz of arthritis. Who'da thunk?

HII!! =) <-- 'kay, Yasmin wanted to say hi

9:50am - This strikes me as odd: ALL of the surgical procedures have gone well. Do they actually show any operations that don't go through so well?
9:55am - Wow, my class are real wimps! Or just reeeally squeamish. Well, some of them are. What's wrong with seeing blood in surgical procedures or dissections?!
9:58am - And the lesson is over!
9:59am - Or not... Bloody Barnett... Bloody bells... -.-

10:00am - NOW the lesson is over
10:10am - I'm hungry...

You know what, I'll stop writing during school. There's too much random stuff going on. I know! This can be a 'Part 1', and then 'Part 2' shall be my plane ramblings. And the airport. Mustn't forget the airport...

Right, so this is the last you'll hear from me in a little while. I'll miss you all when I'm away and I'll be back in about 2 weeks.

BYE! I leave you with this completely amazing picture: