It wasn't intentionally so, but i found it rather strange.
Before i talk about the "homophobic" part of the test, i'll let you know that it went fine.
There were some tough parts, easier parts, but overall a fair exam.
I didn't feel nervous up until around the hour before it started but once i sat at my desk (single file, in one line) i was ok.
Waiting is the worst.
So, i should talk about what i discovered in the paper.
In one part of the paper, there was a section where we had to tick 3 columns, labelled A-G.
(See where this is going? :P)
My answers, in alphabetical order were A-F-G
But the order i wrote them in was F-A-G
I only realised after i ticked it and i had to do a double-take lol.
To be honest, i found it rather humourous and who knows, they might not even be the correct answers, i doubt the examiners are anti-gay.
Wasn't the only homophobic thing that passed me today.
Yep, Steven....
I'm getting quite fed up with him.
Not just his homophobic nature but his attitude to racism and other general things too. If he keeps it up, he wont get far in life.
At this moment in time, i am actually quite looking forward to seeing him leave after Christmas.
Harsh?
I dunno.
But today he was on Alan's back (behind his back too) and i stood up for Alan.
Alan owed me some money from something a few days ago and he gave me 10p extra by mistake, to which i commented on to Steven.
I said "Oh there you go, Alan gave me ten extra pence...."
Steve "Coz he's gay"
"Excuse me?"
"Yeh, he is have you not seen the way he sits and talks"
(Which by the way is no different to anyone else)
"No, i haven't....how can you just assume he is?"
"Just....how he is, he's a big bummer and you're standing up for him"
"Listen, im just saying that you can't go around assuming someone might be gay when you have no idea if they are or not. Just coz he doesn't talk about girls doesn't mean anything"
"Look at you standing up for the gays"
By this point i got the feeling that things were heading into deep and dark territories so i left it there.
He called me a poof and i told him to fuck off.
I was extremely pissed off with Steven but happy with myself that i was able to stand up for Alan. It would seem now, that i am not the only one who has suspicions that he might be gay. However, as i said, he acts no differently to anyone else, doesn't sit differently or anything. I just have a feeling about him, but also, i, unlike Steven, don't take the assumption that he is gay.
After all, assumption is the mother of all fuck-ups....
But at least after this coming together between me and Steven i received some good news in the form of my other maths result.
It wasn't as impressive as my previous 86% but still respectable, for my standards anyway.
It was a non-calculator paper and i got 18/30, which is 60%
On the two calculator papers my combined score was 43/50, which is 86%
So overall that works out as 61/80 and 76%
Category - A
One word.
Chuffed.
In the past 8 weeks i have gone from 40% to 76%.
These extra classes have had their comeuppence without a doubt, if only my maths teacher could see me now, sitting on an A a few weeks before the final exam.
She would hit the roof.
I hope i see her again before the exam comes around, apparently she's ill at the moment.
Who knows, she might have got wind of my mark and tht made her violently sick lol.
Aah, it's been yet another long and strenuous day and i just wanna retire to my bed now, fairly happy, might i add.
Cheers guys,
Rowan
In a good mood so tht means a Queen song is getting posted.
I know i say this a lot, but this is one of my favourite Queen songs. It isn't that well known i don't think but it has to at least be in my top 3.
Hey guys, I have a new blogger to introduce. (I love doing this :P)
His name is DJ. He is a good friend of mine and JJ's, we talk with him on msn quite a bit and now he has decided to make a blog and why not? I hope he can make more friends and meet some cool new people on here too.
He's new to blogging and from what i gather, a tad nervous about it so head on over and make him feel at home :)
http://planetofdj.blogspot.com/
Right, i am lying a little, Mondays are never "Fundays" but yesterday was probably one of the best Mondays i've ever had, definetely the best of the year so far.
As usual, i was hit with Sunday Sleep Syndrome but it didn't really affect me an awful lot when i got up.
So, what made it so good?
Well, the answer to that is down to various test results i received.
I didn't have any to receive in music but we went over a listening paper and i scored quite high marks.
But now the test results.
*drum roll*
I got a pretty good mark in a media test, it was analysing the film "The Untouchables" and i got 31/40 so i was pretty happy with that.
Next, English.
Last week we did two essays and i had a feeling a performed better in my first essay than my second one. Boy, was i wrong.
My first essay, Jekyll and Hyde, got a fairly repectable 18/25.
That's still in the "A" category. Anything 18 and above on an essay and i'll settle quite happily for it.
But i was blown away with my second essay....
23/25
My highest mark ever on an essay and one of the highest in the class (exception of Alan who scored the first ever 25/25 :P)
I was so chuffed, i couldn't quite believe it.
But it only added to the awesome maths score i received earlier in the day.
We still don't have our normal teacher back but when the other teacher handed the paper belonging to the guy behind me (who is also no whizz at maths) i heard a "whoop"
He got 90%
It increased my nerves but i still felt confident that i passed and yes i did.
86%
One of my highest marks ever in maths.
Now, this is for the two calculator papers combined, its not my final mark but it is 43/50 so far. The full thing is out of 80.
My non-calculator result still hasn't been returned although ive been told i have passed.
I'm desperate for that mark tho and ive been chasing various teachers for it to no avail. I might get it tomorrow, i can speak to my head of year about it.
My bliss didn't continue into today however, it was cut short by my biology mark - 36%
Very poor indeed, i know.
But, i think, (and i hope) that if i can turn maths around, i can do so with biology. I have 4 weeks to save it and i will try my best to.
I still don't know how certain i am with maths, these extra classes have been helping tho without a doubt. I am glad to see they are paying off.
For now, my attention is turned to my music exam tomorrow. I feel quietly confident about it, i have been answering questions well in class and i am familiar with a good amount of the concepts.
I am better with practical music but i am definetely not going to fail the subject. I did really good in the practical a few weeks back and the theory and listening exam tomorrow will hopefully just boost my mark.
An "A" would be wonderful, i would be content with a 'B" however.
It's at 2pm British time btw, in case you were wondering and only lasts 45 minutes.
Anyhoo, im going to leave it there for now.
This whole post has been about school and tests so im sorry if it was a little dry, just like to keep updated ;)
And, of course, i will post about the music exam tomorrow.
Need to get some sleep now, to be in the right frame of mind for my first ever written exam....
Or so it seems today was, it has completely flown by, i dunno where it's gone!
Loads of things happened. (So settle in for a long post :D)
I'm only getting on my computer properly as i type this out at quarter to midnight, i certainly was kept busy and i didn't quite plan to be actually.
The morning wasn't particularly crazy, i had to go back to Saturday morning maths, not very exciting and because of it i never got to wish my mum happy birthday before i went out the door.
As for the class itself, it was pretty ok. I sat next to the same guy i did last time but didn't talk nearly as much coz the teacher was going over some of the stuff i was really stuck on so i had to pay attention, and i did. Learnt some stuff and i definetely think it benefitted me today. Also, i didn't get my test result back, as i was expecting, but i was told that i passed the test (which i sat before Easter holidays) so that was really good news. I at least know i've made some sort of improvement in the past few months.
After the class i went home and mum opened all of her cards and other presents and she liked all of them to be honest so that was good. Then my dad decided we give my mum some time to herself so he took me and my brother up to play some golf at the driving range while my mum stayed at home with my sister. The thing with golf is that i'm actually ok (i don't play enough to be great) but what i lack is consistency. Just like today, i was hitting some wonderful shots and then some extremely awful ones, its quite a frustrating game at times but it was good stuff anyway (especially as there was this extremely hot boy a few bays away from me, couldnt concentrate on golf properly :P)
So we got back home and i asked my brother if he wanted to play Rock Band with me, and he wasnt doing anything else. He did, i played drums (on expert) and he played guitar (on medium :P)
But it was good anyway, we had a great laugh and we completed some songs that i cant do on single player as i would have failed out.
Anyway, it was good teamwork at the end of the day and i was happy that we worked as a team and had fun too.
We were then summoned away as we went out for a meal for my mum's birthday. Now. My mum and dad are very good at cooking (my dad used to be a chef) so wherever we go, they are always so critical of the restaraunts lol. It's quite awkward sometimes. Today's biggest problems were the prawns, the staff's attitude and the general feel of the place.
I didn't think it was bad but my dad used to work in a big kitchen in a restaraunt in London so i suppose he has the right to be critical, but, however it does get a little annoying. Even the slightest thing and my dad could complain. I don't recall a time in the past few meals we have went out for when he hasn't complained to the manager lmao. He would probably have a field day at MacDonalds!
In the end, it was decided that we wouldn't be returning again, ho hum, but mum enjoyed her meal anyway which is whats important.
She wasn't her usual quiet birthday self, she was quite cheery today.
So when i got home....again, out of nowhere, one of my mum and dad's best friends showed up. I didn't know he was coming although i think they did. He's a great guy, he's my sister's godfather and he is very entertaining. He came round about 8pm after we got home from our meal and we all played games and stuff, he even tried his hand on the Wii which was quite funny. He then remembered Borat was on tv and so everyone ended up watching that. Yep, i watched Borat with my parents lol. Awkward much?
It's a very rude but funny movie.
It finished not long ago and now here i am. Didn't quite have my evening go the way i thought and the day has just whizzed by. Thought i might have been on my computer a good few hours ago but then my mum and dad's friend arrived, which was cool coz he's a great guy but i think i might have prefered he didn't....this evening anyway.
And tomorrow i will get my long overdue lie-in. I have not had one for about two weeks and i am in desperate need now :P
I was thinking i might have some things come for me in the post but no post on Sundays :(
I ordered a Muse and Kasabian poster last night coz i dont actually own any (gasp!) as well as two Muse albums, "Absolution" and "Origin of Symmetry". I have every single Muse song on my iTunes but i do not posses all their albums (blasphemy!) so hopefully they will arrive next week at some point. That's right, paying for music i can already listen to....it is my duty as a hardcore fan to own all albums! :P
Well, that about wraps up this post, its been quite a long one.
I've talked about a load of stuff so don't worry about trying to comment on all of it, but feel free if you have the time.
Really tired now, so off i got to bed :)
Cheers guys,
Rowan
Instead of posting a music video this time, i'm gonna post something a little different.
There is a comedy program on Britain's Channel 4 right now called Facejacker and it's pretty funny, my brother and i watch it, It's about one guy who plays every single character in the show, "hijacking" faces and personalities and going around in public doing all sorts of strange things.
Anyhoo, this sketch is an "art critic" going to view art, unbeknowest to the owner that he is not an art critic and is just a guy in disguise who has no clue about art at all. He has a speech impediment where everything he says ends up starting with the letter 'B' . It's hilarious and me and my brother can't stop quoting all the things he says.
I hope you all find this funny, although i anticipate it won't be to everybody's taste. Sorry if you dont like it, but i don't know how you can't kill youself laughing at this....
(You might want to turn the volume up a little, its' a bit quiet)
Eugh, Thursday's are always the worst day of the week. Today was no different.
I i think the reason they are horrible is coz it is a 7 period day with the worst combination of subjects.
I almost missed the bus this morning but caught it just in time. Maybe would have been better if i missed it coz the following happened in school today :
I lost my jacket which had money in it.
I still haven't got my maths result back yet
I completely fucked up a biology test.
Now the jacket, i think i know where it is. I left it in the dining hall today from what i remember so hopefully i will be able to retrieve it tomorrow. The worst thing was i had to walk home from the bus whithout my jacket, in the rain. The bus stop is only 4 or 5 minutes from my house but that was enough time to get me absolutely drenched so that didn't help add to events previous to this today.
Such as, my whole class has recieved their non-calculator test result back but i haven't yet. It's apparently sitting in the "late" pile coz i did my tests one day after everyone else before the holidays due to me being off one day. I should get the result back on Saturday. Yes, Saturday. The weekend morning maths class returns again....
But the biology was the worst thing. I knew i had the test coming up but ima tell you right now, i do minimal studying for biology. I just cant get any of the stuff into my head. Ive really lost the plot with biology, i would say it has now replaced maths in terms of what i am worst at. Anyway, i sat the thing and guessed at what i would say is about 75% of the questions. There's no doubt about it, i definetely haven't passed.
In a way i'm glad that it is my new worst subject coz at least if i do fail it, i dont have to re-sit the course, like i would with maths which looks like its coming on a little stronger. Of course, i would know that for sure if i could get my bloody results back!
Pppphhhh. This post has been a bit of a downer hasn't it?
I don't really have anything to lighten it up tho really.
Just a few things i will mention :
I'm conducting a little experiment in school at the moment. It's my own little idea and i'll let you know the results in my next post....or i might let it run for another week.
My first exam is in 6 days....
I did two english essays on Monday and Tuesday, i think they went ok but wont know till next week. I also did a french test that went fine.
I have a spanish test and media test tomorrow too. SO MANY TESTS!!!
There is just no rest at the moment, i want the weekend to come but i dont want it to come. I'm not looking forward to this other extra maths class but i am looking forward to going out to a meal on Saturday coz it's my mum's birthday. We're all going.
My mum sometimes acts a little strange around her birthday tho. She shares the same birthday as her mum (my gran) who has passed away now and i don't think she likes to make a big deal out of her birthday but hopefully she will enjoy it this time round. My dad got her some really nice jewellery too and me and my brother are gonna get her a nice card and probably something else.
But for now it's busy, busy, busy, worky, worky, worky, testy, testy, testy (in the words of biology) :P
Returning to school once again (not prison, although it can be quite similar sometimes :P)
But this time i have a real reason to actually dread it. This term sees the start of my exams, not piddly, little exams but big, important ones.
And the first one?
Music Listening - Next Wednesday.
So there you go. I do have a right to moan about going back hehe.
Not only do i have that next week but this week is full as well.
I did an (unseen) english essay today which thankfully went quite well i think but part 2 is tomorrow.
Also, i have a biology test on Thursday and a spanish and media test on friday so my only testless day is Wednesday....
However, i don't feel overly stressed surprisingly, although i know that will change in the coming weeks. It's inevitable really.
So today was actually quite a strange day. There were quite a few teachers not in due to being stuck abroad.
This whole Iceland volcano ash thing.
My maths teacher wasnt in so i didn't get to finish the test i started before the holidays. Ho hum.
The guy i sit beside in biology, who is Chinese, went to Hong Kong over the holidays and promised to bring me back Hong Kong mentos, which he did, i forgot about it to be honest so it was a nice surprise. Although the packaging is exactly the same, he gave me the receipt which was in....Hong Kongenese?
Lol, i dunno but it was cool he got them (im sucking on them right now :P)
We always share our mentos in biology, i dunno why, its just a thing we have lol.
The lunch time discussion at our table was rather interesting. It involved an incident that happened on Saturday which i wont go into too much detail about.
Basically, i went to play footbll with some friends, lost money, it then got found and nobody believed it was mine so i never got it back, it was instead spent on somebody elses MacDonalds.
So that was the topic of conversation at lunch but i couldn't really care. It was only 5 pounds (although i was quite pissed off at the time) but its not as if i will never have another 5 pounds again, a few people were insistent upon talking about it so i just tried to blank them and talk to Alan, who actually was really nice to me on Saturday.
After it all kicked off i decided i didn't want to waste my time with those "friends" who wouldnt believe the money was mine so i went home.
I went on the Xbox and a few hours later Alan appeared and asked me if i was ok which was really sweet of him.
He's the only one of the dozen or so people there who asked me.
Anyhoo, it wasn't a super first day back (wasnt ever going to be) but when i got home something really cheered me up.
Over the weekend i was looking at this app on the iPod called Remote which simply allows you to connect your iPod to your iTunes through wi-fi but i couldn't get it working.
But when i got home i tried downloading and installing a different "cracked" app (forgive me, im broke :P)
and i got it working :D
So i'll post below one of the songs on the album im listening to right now.
Lastly, i just wanted to say about how my postings might work for the next while. Don't be worry, i know JJ and my cousin Lauren have said they may be posting less often for the next while while but im not gonna tell you im doing the same.
I'm not gonna stick to a routine of posts or say i'll only post once a week or something coz i probably wouldn't end up sticking to it. If there's stuff to talk about, i'll talk about it!
So really, just in case i do get too busy for the next month and a bit, i apologise for a potential lack of posts, athough i will try my best not to let that happen. I love blogging and talking to people on here and i am not gonna let crappy school stand in the way of that.
School is gonna be a lot tougher from here on in but i think that as long as i have support and encouragement (which i cant thank you guys enough for already!) i can get through this successfully, which is why i will try my best to post as i normally do :)
Cheers guys,
Rowan
Right so, i was going to post a song off the album im listening to right now (Metallica's Master of Puppets) but there is a much more fitting song for this post that i just need to use so here's some Pink Floyd.
Bet you're happy i posted that instead of Metallica! lol
Whew. 24 hours and no talking, it was a lot tougher than i expected it to be.
The first hour was the most difficult but after tht i sorta settled in to it.
Although it just had to be a sunny day outside, i stayed in my room as i had homework to do and my silence mingled well with that.
Hardly anybody spoke to me as i wrote a letter the night before i posted it on my wall as soon as you enter my room, so it could easily be seen.
Of course, i couldnt write exactly why i was staying silent so i swerved round exactly why and just gave a more general meaning.
Here's what i put in the letter :
"PLEASE READ!
Today, there is an act of silence taking place across the world.
It is one i am taking part in too, after requests by various people so i feel obliged to support them.
The silence is to counter the bullying that takes place in schools and high schools and has troubled many young people for years.
Through this act, it is an aim to put a stop to the unwarranted bullying, prejudice and discrimination that happens every day in what can be a very hostile environment.
Yes, i am deadly serious in what i intend to do today so please try to refrain from conversing with me and please dont try to coerse me into speaking. Thank you."
And the letter worked.
Of course, people had to speak to me but i made sure they only spoke through asking yes or no questions to which, i could simply nod or shake my head.
My mum and dad both said well done after the time was up, they said it was good i stuck to it but they didnt say well done for standing up for the cause....
Oh well, im still happy i did it.
Although i knew the day wouldnt go totally speechless.
Throughout the 24 hours i uttered three separate words on three separate occasions, all while i was doing homework, trying to figure out some problems.
I muttered the words "Desembolar" "Please" and another word i can't remember, all while doing my spanish.
I hope you will agree tht is good tho. Only three words and at that, a very quiet mutter to myself.
I have to say tho, im very glad its over and if you're wondering what the first words i said were after it, it was "Hold on" while i was singing to a Killers song.
I just belted it out loud and the whole house heard so all came running upto my room to ask me questions to which i just shrugged off and ushered everyone out :P
I wanna say well done to Raron too, as he gave it a very good shot today and lasted 17 hours without speaking. Very good in my book.
Go and congratulate him guys :)
And if you tried it today, let me know how you did too please, and even if you didn't, feel feel to drop a comment anyway :P
Cheers,
Rowan
Here is the Killers song i played on the stroke of midnight. It is ironically titled "Sweet Talk" and is an absolutely fantastic song in my opinion, hope you like it.
This is just a fan-made video by the way, nothing official but i think it is very good.
The Spanish translates as
"If by life you were deceived,
Don't be dismal, don't be wild!
In the day of grief, be mild
Merry days will come, believe"
It doesn't look exactly like it says that but according to the maker of the video, it does. And they're Spanish so who am i to argue?
Oh and the bit i sang really loudly "Hold on" is at 3:20 in the video :D
I have a feeling many of you wont know of this tragedy that took place on 15th April 1989. Particulalry those outside of Britain.
The tragedy was the death of 96 Liverpool FC fans who died due to a crushing incident at a football match in Sheffield, England.
Most of this is down to the mis-management of the police present on the day.
I know i wasn't born at the time but the whole thing really grabs me.
How it happened, the aftermath, the support of the family, friends and the football club, it always gets me going.
Every year on 15th April a memorial service is held at Anfield, the ground of Liverpool FC, to remember those unfortunate people.
Today's service will be shown tonight at 7pm on LFC TV in Britain in case anybody is interested.
I will be watching it as i couldn't attend although i have made the promise to myself that i will go one day.
(I don't live near the ground btw)
The service is always held at 3pm because that's the time the game started 21 years ago today.
At 3.06pm a minute of silence is held as that is the time the game was abandoned at.
And then You'll Never Walk Alone is sung by the attending fans of which there usually is a good number.
So today at 3.06pm i held my own silence in my room, for a minute and i'm not ashamed to admit i cried a little afterwards, listening to You'll Never Walk Alone.
I find it strange how something that took place before i was even born can arouse such deep feelings in me but it just does.
This post, i planned to talk more about the incident itself and how (badly) the situation was handled by the police but i'm not really feeling upto it.
Most of what i have to say is covered on the Wikipedia page anyway so if you are interested or want to find out more then here's the page for you -
And speaking of silence, now is a good time to remind you all of tomorrow.
16th April. Day of Silence for homophobic bullying.
I have come to the realisation that i will end up having to talk at some point tomorrow probably but i will try my best to stay as quiet as possible.
Again, i encourage whoever is reading this to try and do the same if you can. I know it can be difficult, i had trouble staying silent for 1 minute today :P
Love you guys,
Rowan
I know i posted You'll Never Walk Alone not long ago but i need to do so again today. I can't not post it.....
Wow. I never realised this was my 100th until a few days ago.
100 posts from 17th September 2009 – 13th April 2010.
I wanted to write something really nice and cool-sounding but I am typing this from my local library lol. My internet went out last night and we can’t get it fixed but we have a technician coming round to the house tomorrow so hopefully he/she will sort it out.
The computer went tho after I got back from my biology supported study which, again, I found to be quite handy.
I even got to sit next to Alan, it was awesome! We got to work in pairs too and help each other out a lot, I actually thought it was really enjoyable. (Got as close as I could to Alan :P)
Brand was there too, sitting behind us and the teacher that took the class was my normal biology teacher who is a legend so it was pretty much a perfect class to be honest.
After all that, I got the train home and never even got charged for it (coz I only travelled one stop) and then the sun was out so I sat in my back garden with a nice cold can of pepsi…..then the internet went.
My brother and I tried for a few hours to get it sorted but we resigned ourselves to the fact that we weren’t getting on even after messing about with some complicated settings, well they’re complicated to me anyway.
It’s something up with the DNS settings….. :S
Whatever that means.
Everything shows as being connected and linked up properly, no cables out the back, so it’s pretty much out with anybody’s control. Just need to hope this technician can sort it tomorrow.
As for today, I did nothing really, that’s coz last night I couldn’t sleep so I pulled an all-nighter: P
Who would have thought that the only night I do that over the holidays would have been the night I don’t have the internet? Lol
I watched an interesting John Barrowman thing about him finding out if being gay was determined before birth or through other factors after birth.
The general conclusion was that it was determined before birth but there isn’t an exact answer yet.
That’s always what I’ve believed….it isn’t a choice, we have no control over our sexuality and I like to think I am right.
What do you guys think?
Do you believe it’s a choice?
Anyhoo, after watching the programme (thanks Rhyn) I did something you might find peculiar. I turned the lights off in my room and proceeded to listen to music with the iTunes visualizer on full screen. I was bored and had nothing to do and wasn’t particularly tired so I found it really cool, just looking at random shapes while listening to my favourite song (Call me a nutter)
I must have done that for about three hours, listened to three Muse albums (typical me) and then the sun was up and so was my mum who walked in on me awake at about 7am. Not something anyone is used to seeing, me up at that unholy hour….
I’ve rambled enough here, plus, I don’t have much time left on the computer in the library so I just want to thank all you guys for being here. Quite a few since my very first post but many other wonderful people who haven’t been.
Regardless, you guys are all great and mean a lot to me, so for thanks for being here, I hope it stays that way for a good while yet as I have no intention of leaving anytime soon :)
Love you guys,
Rowan
P.S There was some talk over my music selection last time, so this time, I’m going to pull out all the stops and give you my favourite ever Muse song and what is up there with some of my favourite songs of all time.
This one is called Citizen Erased.
I woke up today dreading it, mainly coz i thought i was just going to be doing schoolwork all day and hopefully try and read a few blogs in between, you know, just a general day stuck in the house.
But as soon as i opened the curtains i decided that was not happening, probably the sunniest day of the year so far, i was doing something.
Funnily enough, i was a few minutes away from calling Steven when he text me asking me if i wanted to go play football so i said i did and he came and picked me up and took me down there.
Alex was there too as well as two other friends, Jon and Dave.
Only 5 of us, i thought there was going to be more but we paid for a pitch and got the whole thing to ourselves so we could do whatever the hell we liked.
And we did...
Got tired tho after a while of course and then i hurt my knee when i stretched too far for a ball so i just laid there in the sun, pretending to be more hurt than i was which was nice.
Then Dave "the medic" came along.
Dave, is kinda small for being 15 but he is so so cute i think, i wonder about him sometimes, if he might be gay or bi and what happened didn't change my train of thought.
I was lying on my front out of tiredness and complaining my knee was hurt and he came over and sat on my back and started rocking back and forth.
Gawd i did not want to move, even if it was in the middle of the pitch with other people around lol.
So i said "Dave, it's my knee that hurts" and he just said "Oh right, i knew that" and got off me :P
That was definetely my main event of going to play football today!
Not long after that, our time was out but it suited coz we were way past tired anyway, so Jon walked home with Dave and Steven's dad took me and Alex home.
Alex came back to mine for a bit, we went on the trampoline, sat in the garden coz the sun was still out at this point then i went round to his for a few hours, messed around on the guitars (he has 3), played his playstation then i walked off back home.
So no schoolwork or blogs read today. Whoops.
But a very good day tho, hope tomorrow is sunny as today but that might actually be a bad thing coz i have biology easter school to go to :(
But when i get back i should be able to go read some more blogs.
Here's hoping it rains tomorrow lol, nah just kidding, the UK needs as much sun as it can get!
Cheers,
Rowan
And speaking of sun, here's a new Rage song i found that i really love right now, its awesome!
Back when L posted her reaction to me coming out to her (which i copied onto here) she was on Wordpress so i didn't know whether to link her or what not.
But recently we have discussed things and she has decided to move onto Blogger :D
Also, formerly knowsn as "L", it is now Lauren.
Yeh, obviosuly Lauren is a girl lol, but hopefully that wont change anything, after all, i'm sure she will talk about boys too lol.
So, please, for me, but more so for Lauren, pop in and say hi, leave a comment, follow, do what you like, i'm sure it will be appreciated. Won't take much time or effort either.
And here's the page : http://lifeof-lauren.blogspot.com/
I've put it in my blog list too.
Cheers,
Rowan
But, of course, it will be more than just for the day :P
Last night i watched Brokeback Moutain for the first time :D
I didn't know what to think of it beforehand to be honest coz i've not really heard much about it before. I knew what it was about but not much else.
I really enjoyed it tho, i thought it was great, i can see how it won so many awards.
Jake Gyllenhaal and the late, great Heath Ledger were superb.
I wanna talk more about what happened lol, but obviously there will be people reading this who haven't seen it before, so to those people i do recommend the film.
I was reminded of the film a few days ago by somebody and then i said to myself "Oh yeh, i still havent seen that"
So i proceeded to download the film off Rapidshare (forgive me) but then i remembered my mum came in with a copy once she got from a charity shop, asked if anyone was interested to which everybody politely refused :P
This was ages ago but i wondered if she kept it or not and voila, it was there, in the depths of the DVD collection downstairs.
Had to do some digging around to get to it.
Made sure i returned it properly.
Something quite strange happened today tho.
Me, my mum, dad and uncle were all in the living room waiting for the Liverpool game to come on and dad was flicking through the tv schedule and said to my uncle "There's something you can watch when you get back home"
I looked up to see it was Brokeback Mountain he was talking about, coincidence or what? :P
So my uncle just laughed and then that made my mum bring up when she brought the DVD home from the charity shop. (Strange or what?)
And she said, "I havent watched it, has anybody?"
My uncle said tht he knew my brother had. Dunno how he knows that one, but from my knowledge, my brother has never watched it.
My dad said he never has any intention to watch it.
Then attention turns to me....
So i said that i've watched it before :P
Didn't say when tho but it is quite strange that the topic of Brokeback Mountain should come up less than a day after ive watched it.
My dad gave me a strange look and, with a slight grin, i asked him if there was a problem, he just turned away and said no....
Mum and my uncle didn't say anything but my mum said something during the football which made me think i might have got my impressions about her wrong....
At some point, like during most football matches, two players went in for a tackle and ended up tangled together.
Commentator said something then my dad said, "I'm sure he doesn't want his butt in his face"
My mum said "Not unless they're a couple of gay boys"
....
:(
Maybe i do have my mum figured out wrong....
Maybe this was just a one-off comment....
I dunno but it definetely put me on a downer.
At least Liverpool won the game tho and are through to the semis :)
But back to the actual topic of the post.
If you haven't seen the movie, i think you should check it out, regardless of whether you are gay or not coz the whole movie isn't just about gay cowboys :P
It's a love story, and of course, with love stories, there are always difficulties and this is no exception.
So yeh, go give it a watch if you can.
I'll post the trailer below too :)
I woke up this morning (somehow) and the first thing i knew was that i had Easter School to go to today.
Not helped by the fact that the rain was extremely heavy and i didn't get to sleep until at least 2am, so i only got about 5 hours sleep. (I swear msn will be the death of me :P)
I quickly jumped in the shower, got out, dried my hair, had some cereal then went out the door. Luckily my dad was on hand to give me a lift but regardless, i was still in a very zombie-like state.
So when i got to school i eventually livened up a bit, there were more people who i get on with who i didn't expect to be there. Alex was there, Louis was there, Steven wasn't haha, actually i have a funny story about him but i'll tell it later on.
My first class was english, and these aren't normal 50-minute lessons, one class lasts the whole morning (9-12) and the other lasts the whole afternoon (12:30-15:30)
Good thing i got to sit beside Alex, but it was also quite a handy lesson.
The teacher went over the best ways to answer questions from an unseen passage and, admittedly, i did find it quite useful.
One point we were talking about a journalist describing George Bush as a political dinosaur (as you do), then she put me on the spot and asked me another way to describe a dinosaur and i just blurted out "Prehistoric animal" without even thinking....
Got a well done from her and a few nods of approval from other people lol, i was quite chuffed with that :)
Not much else to mention about english tho, was rather uneventful apart from that.
At lunch, i just made a quick trip to cafe as there wasn't enough time to go to the shops on the main road and i returned for 3 hours of maths, what fun....
Sat beside Alex again this time, as well as Louis.
It was quite a good lesson too, the more maths i do, the more i will learn obviously, and therefore increase my mark in the final exam here's hoping.
Overall, Easter School was quite a good thing i think. I'll be back in tomorrow for modern studies in the morning and biology i think next monday afternoon.
But with today's lessons all done with, the only thing left to do was return home so Alex, Alan (the cutie :D) and i got the train home.
Alan had to get off early :(
Me and Alex got off the next stop which is actually one stop before mine but i wasn't gonna let Alex walk home in the rain by himself of course.
So i got drenched. But it was worth it, we stopped caring about the weather and just started laughing about what's been happening with Steven and a three-legged dog we seen being walked in the street lol, which then moved onto a conversation about a no-legged dog being transported around on a skateboard lmao, ahhh good times.
We parted ways tho, still laughing about Steven.
So here's the story :
For the past few days, Steven has been in Brighton. Brighton is also renowned for being the "gay capital" of Britain.
Steven goes down there with his dad maybe once or twice a year as his grandparents live there.
So anyway, he has been sending me a few texts one saying that the weather was sunny, 27 degrees celcius and another said "English girls are hot and think i'm hot too"
Lol, you wish Steven.
So i thought i would share some of these texts around with a few friends coz i just knew the reception they would get.
And i was right, everybody just laughed lol.
So i sent a text back saying that 27 degrees celcius doesn't exist in Britain, let alone in April.
And he's all "Well my granda's barometer is really accurate"
"What? More accurate than the Met Office?"
So everyone was laughing at the crap he was spouting there.
But of course, the main point is Steven and his dad actually being in the so-called "gay capital" of Britain.
Two of the most unlikely people you would think of going there.
And then, before he goes there, being all talk as usual, he's giving it large about how he's gonna go to Brighton and turn everyone straight "the way they should be"
Aye, just get walking.
Pretty glad to see the back of him last week to be honest :P
Wish i had grandparents in Brighton lol, that would be cool.
Funnily enough, one of my cousins goes to university in Brighton....wait a minute....naah, she's got a boyfriend from what i know :P
And speaking of cousins, in a few posts time i have something very cool to mention about when i will be seeing them next, it's gonna be cool!
Love you guys,
Rowan
Hehe :P
Just gotta love that guitar solo, no?
One of Queen's longest from what i know.....
Who loves a pyjama day? Well, if you wear pyjamas of course.
Truthfully, i don't normally but last night it was really cold so i put some on :P
This hasn't been a really long day for me coz....i was in bed till half past 3.
Lol, thats bad, i know.
It's coz i stay up till like 3am talking on msn and that was no different last night but don't get me wrong, i only stay up that late due to time zone differences and coz i want to stay up to chat to people.
It was at least 3:30am before i went to sleep tho then i woke up at 9:30am for some reason but i just nodded off again.
When i woke up i got the fright of my life coz my ipod said it was half past three in the afternoon lol.
Also annoyed at myself coz i missed some football on the tv.
So i didn't bother getting out of my pyjamas at all today, told you i was having a lazy day, and tomorrow will be no different but i will put some proper clothes on tomorrow or i will start to stink :P
Even tho im not religious i wish you all a Happy Easter for tomorrow, enjoy all your chocolate!
Mmmmm.....chocolate *drools*
Love ya's,
Rowan
P.S I'm going to post a song below, it's different from most of the songs i post on here.
It is the anthem of English football club Liverpool FC, who i support. I don't just like it for that reason, i think it's actually a really lovely song.
It also has a message for anyone who is going through a tough time that there will always be someone there for you and i listen to it whenever i am having difficulties.
I'm really posting this coz there are a few people who i hold very dear in my heart who I know will be going through their own storm soon.
Walk on guys.
School has wrapped up for 2 weeks now, good times.
Or is it?
Suppose it must be but there is the little matter of studying and easter school to contend with.
First exam (music) is 26 days away. A scary thought.
Gotta get studying, but that will happen at the start of next week.
After such a horrendous week i feel i am due a break.
What with feeling ill and the mutiple tests....
So i did absolutely nothing today, still trying to get back to 100% really, and i've decided that i'm having the weekend off too.
Enjoy the weekend, stuff my face with chocolate eggs on Sunday and get my head down on Monday.
Then Tuesday, i will be going to easter school.
I have an english class in the morning (9am - noon) then maths class in the afternoon (12:30pm - 15:30) so all of that and i only getting a half an hour break :/
I will have a modern studies class and a biology class too i think but i will find that out for sure on tuesday.
It's all for a good cause tho, mainly for maths, coz i'm ok on english and modies.
I'm noticing a slight improvement in maths tbh.
The first test i did on Tuesday was fairly easy, even for me, but there was a question in it i dont think i could have even attempted a few weeks ago.
Second paper on Wednesday was more difficult tho and the one yesterday was difficult too but i think i'll get an extra 10 minutes to finish it, maybe on Tuesday, coz school finished 10 mins early yesterday.
Got good feedback from the 1st paper tho, not the final mark, but the teacher said i done well in it! :D
But back to these holidays.
I don't have many plans apart from studying and easter school. I'm sure there'll be a day or two tho for some footy with some of my friends and i think i'm going round to Alex's house with my bass one day.
....
Have i ever mentioned that i do that sometimes?
Have i even mentioned Alex plays guitar?
Well, if not, i'll say it now, Alex plays guitar and sometimes i go round to his and we mess about on the bass and guitar, playing along to songs.
Will be a bit more difficult now coz of my new big amp (that causes too much fugging noise :P) and also coz of upcoming exams which is why i havent been over for a while.
So apart from studying, school, maybe football and maybe some guitar, my holiday doesn't consist of much.
A cool thing happened last night tho that i want to talk about.
I've never had a headset for my computer and i never, until last night, intended to get one.
So i was browsing ebay, amazon etc. and then out of the corner of my eye i spot my xbox headset lying on my desk.
Hmmmm.....
So i did some research online and tried using my brother's play and charge kit to plug the controller into the PC. This did work but it has to be a fully wired controller to work properly, of which i dont have.
Back to ebay, amazon etc.
And then out of the corner of my eye i spot my rock band drum set lying in the corner of the room.
Hmmmm.....
They're wired, they have a headset socket and a USB connection so i tried.
And it worked!
Lol thats right, i have my headset working on my computer via a set of plastic drums....
What? I saved money!
Don't need to buy the headset now.
Although it does mean i need to have the drum set sitting next to me to use the headset so i suppose i can pick up a cheap wired xbox controller instead.
But i'm still really happy that i got it working, without asking anybody's help and did it for free.
So that worked out great.
Those plastic drums really are useful.
I am rather good on them too :P
I play expert on Rock Band, probably coz i'm quite sad but at the same time its still is quite a skill, one that i have managed to convert onto real drums too.
So saying that, i shall leave with what is my favourite song to play on Rock Band at the moment. Not just is it fun to play but it has a great bassline, great drum solo, great guitar solo.....blah, blah, blah :P
It's Tom Sawyer by Rush :)
Cheers,
Rowan
Here's a better video but it doesn't allow you to embed it - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DFsBcVMDA
You can see the whole drum solo on tht video and it just amazes me....
I'm 19 years old and am a raging homosexual... yes I'm gay :P
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