Clannad

So, I've started watching a new anime called Clannad. It's actually really good at the moment, an it's not something I'd usually watch so it's a change.

I'm not exactly sure what the plot is at the moment, but I'm not bothered because it's really, really good.

And, for once I've finished some coursework a few days before the date!

Well, I've finished all I'm going to finish before it's supposed to be in.

Good times, eh?

I was going to post it here, but you know, wouldn't want anybody stealing it.

Not that anyone comes here anyway.

I'm not too bothered about people reading my blog. I just post here for my own benefit, I've been thinking about changing it to private, but then, no one knows who I am, and I haven't told any of my friends where to find me here.

So, I have no reason to hide my blog just yet.

So, then I thought about making a private blog to post private things.

Then, I couldn't be bothered to do that.

And I thought, well, at the moment, I have nothing to hide from anybody. So it's okay as is.

Anyway.

I'm going to watch another episode of Clannad before going to bed,

Night!

Do you know what?

I'm so looking forward to leaving school now that I'm actually motivated to work really hard.

It's one of those things where the eyes are so close to the prize that's all I need to do now is get really good marks in my exams and I don't have to go back there ever again.

Well, hopefully not anyway.

I seriously hate it there.

It's not like I've got anything to hate there, I've been there for like 6 years now and I'm just ready to go. I started there when I was 11 and now I'm going on 18. That's a little too long now.

I didn't really get the option of going to College either. I would have gone to college to be with Catrin. But, evidently, I was told I wasn't allowed to go to college because apparently, I wouldn't focus as much and I'd screw up my education.

Well, I've screwed it up anyway because I did so bad in my January exams.

I failed my January exams because of my own lack of motivation, but also because of the fact that the school takes no interest in my year anyway. We feel completely separated from the rest of the school, and the opportunities that are there, just aren't there enough to keep me there.

Know what I mean?

I just don't feel like I want to be there anymore.

Though, I'm guessing that was pretty obvious, right?

Lol.

Anyway.

That's a kinda depressing blog, right?

Anyway.

I have a lot of work to be getting on with over the next week.

Should be fun, right?

Night!

So, I've done quite a lot

Today. Well, a lot for me anyway.

So, I woke up and stressed out over this whole job thing. As you would do.

Then, after about twelve, I decided that I wanted to do some writing for Pyro. But, I quickly got distracted and decided my room was too much of a mess to sleep in anymore. So, I started cleaning it. About a quarter of the way through, my mum and dad come home from shopping and tells me and my sister that we need to do make some biscuits and stuff for tonight.


So, we were there for hours making biscuits and stuff. Then, I had some tea, hate some of our biscuits and bathed my younger sister.

After that. I came up to my room and watched some D.Gray-man, well, re-watched some episodes that I really liked, then after that, I finally got around to going into the shower, something that I'd meant to do about an hour before hand.

After my shower, I finally sat down and finished cleaning my room, I organised my DVD's and my book shelf and my old school work. Cleared the floor and then, at around 10 I actually started writing.

I wrote about two pages.

Then I got distracted and before I knew it. I was deciding it was time to go to bed and I got here and started blogging.

In the middle of blogging, as usual, I got distracted again and googled how to stop getting distracted. After coming up with no god answers for me. I decided I should probably come and finish my blog because it is getting really late.

So, this is where I am.

I do find it really strange when I start blogging about blogging. Know what I mean?

Anyway.

I'm going to bed now.

Night!

Is really tired.

But that's probably because it's really late.

Though, there seems to be quite good news at the moment. I think I have a job.

The keyword being think at the moment. I got a phone call today from Greggs saying that they'd had my application on hold and that there was a new store opening and was wondering if I was still looking for employment.

Naturally I said yes of course.

So the women said she was sending me out my contract. Sounds like fun. Though, I don't really know about anything else. Should be a fun experience though. I just want to know when it's opening.

Anyway.

Night!

I've been really addicted

To reading the D.Gray-man manga lately. Well, over the last two days. Not that reading manga takes much strength, they tend to come in really short chapters. So, it's easy and quick to get through them.

I love reading manga, though sometimes. I do prefer to watch them in anime form first. I love anime.  I'm quite the nerd...

Anyway.

Not really much else to say at the moment. I'm just going to go to bed now because I have an extra long lie in in the morning.

Mainly because I'm playing truancy tomorrow morning because I don't have any lessons. Does it could as playing truancy if there are no lessons for you to go to?

Probably not, but the school expects you to be there. I try not to be when I have a string of free lessons one after each other. Sucks really.

Anyway.

I'm going to bed now.

Night!

Happy 400th Blog Post!

This is the longest blog I've ever run. Do you know that? Well, obviously not, but thought it'd be nice to share that with you.

But, alas, 400th is a good and a bad post. One, mainly probably because it's going to be a short post, like always, and because today, I finished watching D.Gray-man.

Yeah.

I loved it.

Every second of it, though by the end, it seemed that the gang never got a moments peace let alone a chance to think for themselves. I felt especially sorry for Allen who just didn't seem to get a moments rest.

I ended up not being too keen on Lenalee. I don't know what it was about her, she just annoyed me. At first, when we first saw her, I was like 'yes, a girl who can do something and doesn't cry every episode'. That, obviously, changed, in some of the later episodes, she does nothing but cry. It got quite annoying, this ended up in me being frustrated in her.

I'm not particularly bothered about any other characters yet. I need to stew on it a little first. Get over the fact that the series ended without really much of a conclusion. I'm reading the manga at the moment. Which, at the moment, I think is doing it's own filler before getting back to some serious stuff.

Oh, well.

Anyway.

I got all of Ffion's presents online today. I got her a Penguin Bottle Opener and I got her a card on Moonpig. The first time I got one....

Lol.

I can't wait to see how it comes out.

I'm going to bed now anyway.

Night!

Gah!

D.Gray Man is getting really, really good. I'm really excited over what's happening on it.

And, well, remember what I was talking about a few months ago? Something I was really depressed about? It happened in my childhood?

Well, my mum and dad finally said something acknowledging it happened yesterday. I don't know what to make of it. I mean, some part of me wants to be happy that I wasn't being delusional. Then, another part of me got a little down at it because it proved that it did happen.

Not much else to say really. I'm going to watch one more episode of D.Gray man before going to bed, but that's about it.

Anyway.

Night!

I've almost reached

400 blog posts. Isn't that cool?

Though, with every hundred blog posts that go by, I seem to care less and less. I used to get worked up every fifty. That doesn't bother me anymore because the fifty come and go before I even realise that they've been and gone.

Which is sort of happening with the 100's now too. Like, I know I crossed my hundred a long time ago, and I'll only usually get about 3 celebrations a year, but, they just seem to fly by.

All of last year flew by. So much happened. I got a girlfriend, I ended it with my girlfriend. I wrote a book. Started my final year in school. University applications.

I did quite a lot for me. I never usually manage to get much done in a year.

Last year was a big achievement on my behalf.

Oh, well

I kinda got distracted and I lost my train of thought.

Point in point.

Last year was good.

I hope this year will be just as good, maybe even better...

Night!

Don't you just hate it...

When you're watching something, and you know it's getting really late, and you're like, Okay, after this episode I'm going to go to bed. I'm really tired.

Then, the ending of the episode is so suspenseful that you just have to watch the next episode, and one episode turns into like a million, and then you realise, damn it, I should have gone to bed ages ago.

But yeah,

that's what I was like just now with D.Gray-Man. Is it D.Gray Man, or D.Gray-Man? I don't know, and to be honest, I don't really care.

But yeah, it was really exciting, there are some parts, which are just anime based, that can be quite boring, but when Allen was killed and everything after that was really good. Then, before I knew it, it was like 23:00, and I hadn't done any homework. Not that it's important at the moment. I can do it in my free lessons and stuff.

Anyway.

I'm going to go to bed now.

Really tired, is there anything more I really need to say? I'm probably one of the most boring people in the world...

Night!

The Black Swan

Was weird.

There's really not much else to say about it. I thought that it was quite boring to begin with, but really picked up it's pace by the end of it. So, I think overall, it was a good film. Maybe a film I'll have to see a second time to truly understand and appreciate. I mean, there's obviously something good about it if it's being nominated for all these things.

But yeah, just a quick note. I thought Natalie Portman was amazing in the film. I thought her acting was superb. Actually, I think the acting on a whole was superb. It was really well done and the music was just epic.

Though, I'm not sure if the presentation of the ballet world was a little overdramatic or not. I'm pretty sure it probably was, but you never know, right?

I used to do ballet. I got to like grade four-ish, but the dance school I went to closed down and I never continued it, and to be honest with you, I never even thought about going on with it. So, I probably wasted a good opportunity there. And I just don't care about it.

In other news, well, in other boring news. I've finished all the English episodes of D.Gray Man, meaning I'm now going to start on the Japanese with English subtitles.

That's going to take some time to get used to, considering that I'm so used to the English voices now.

Anyway.

Night!

I hate the midnight munchies

Does anyone else get that?

I seem to always get the midnight munchies about the same time of the night, but I don't do anything about it because if I start eating now then I won't stop.

Anyway.

Not much really to talk about. I've been watching D.Gray Man as usual.

And I got my timetable through for my Aberystwyth scholarship exams. I'm not sure how to feel about them. There are some parts of the exam that I'm like WTF?

Lol,

But anyway.

Yeah.

I'm quite the boring person, aren't I?

Lol.

Anyway.

I've said that twice now...

I'm going to see the Black Swan tomorrow. Should be exciting.

Night!

So, yesterday

I was really tired when I was blogging. So, today, I can talk a little more about Surrey.

And I've had more time to digest what happened yesterday.

So, to begin with, I thought the Surrey University campus was amazing. I really loved it there, and could totally find myself living there for a long period of time. There was a tesco close by for food and there were multiple smaller shops on campus for food too for in a bit of a hurry.

There was a large Starbucks there, and two night clubs. So the campus itself was well equipped. The lecture theatres were a nice size, really clean and very modern too. In fact, the whole campus seemed quite modern.

On to the course. The course itself sounds really amazing. It's done in a different way to others and that's really inspiring to me, a prospective student.

There are so many opportunities here that you don't know what to do with yourself. Like, you can go on a year abroad to study in Tokyo, something that immediately caught my attention, or you can do a professional training year, which does what it says on the tin. But both of them sound really amazing.

My mum and dad went on tour of the accommodation and said that it was really good in there too. So, I guess it's an all-round win, right?

Sounds like it.

But, currently, I'm a bit conflicted on where I want to go now.

Gah, why does choosing a university to go to have to be so damn complicated?

Anyway, I'm gonna watch some more D. Gray Man before going to bed.


Night!

The University of Surrey

Was amazing. I really loved it there and, to be honest, I found myself thinking, yeah, I could really live here.

Because to me, part of choosing a University has to come down to whether or not you like the look of where you are and whether you feel this 'connection' with the place. Whether you can imagine yourself living here for more than a weekend.

I felt like I could live there for more than a weekend.

The lecturers that I met were amazing and well informed. They were enthusiastic. They knew what they were teaching.

It was just an all around amazing day.

But yeah, not much else to talk about.

Surrey is definitely a high place on my list at the moment.

I would be in my element if I went there.

Night!

Going to Surrey Uni tomorrow

I'm really excited, and there's not really going to be much of a blog post either...

Yeah,

I'm tired.

Wasn't all that hard to  guess was it?

Though, i do feel quite proud of myself. I finally replied to my penpal. I planned on replying to her ages ago, but time just seemed to have caught up with me...

Anyway.

Sorry for the short post. I'm going to bed now.

Night!

I'm so tired all the time lately.

I mean, it's probably my fault.

Well, you see, I read fanfiction for a bit before going to bed.

But that's never been a problem.

Lately, I've been having trouble getting to sleep and now it's all catching up with me. I'm so tired all the time that I don't know what to do with myself. I don't want to do anything. I can't be bothered to do anything.

I haven't slept properly since the New Years and it's really effecting me now.

I'm so tired!

And on that note, I'll say:

I'm completely obsessed with D. Gray Man now. Well, not completely, I'm just addicted to watching it.

Anyway.

Time for sleep now.

I hope.

Night!

So I've been watching

D. Gray Man, and against all previous judgements, I'm really starting to like it.

The second episode was a lot better than the first and I'm now on episode 7.

Not much to really talk about.

Going to Surrey on Wednesday. I can't wait.

I'm really excited about it, it's going to be awesome.

I hope.

Anyway.

School tomorrow and I'm not exactly looking forward to it. Well, I never do, but you know.

I'm just looking forward to leaving there. There's nothing keeping me there anymore. I just want to leave there and be done with it...

I'm going to bed now.

Didn't go to sleep early last night and it's been catching up with me all day...

Night!

D. Gray Man and Black Butler.

Just wondering if anyone has seen these series'.

Of course, people have seen them, but I'm just looking for some opinion. I watched the first episode of D. Gray Man today and I wasn't quite sure what to make of it or whether I should continue or what.

The only reason I'm asking about Black Butler is because I was on tokyotoys.com today looking at their Fullmetal Alchemist State Military Pocket Watch, and in related items there was a pocket watch for Black Butler which I thought looked really cool, so I checked it out, and decided to wikipedia search it.

Sounds pretty interesting.

It's a shame that I don't really have a lot of time to be looking at this kind of stuff.

Oh, well,

hopefully I'll buy that Fullmetal Alchemist watch soon.

I really, really, want it...

Anyway.

It's really late, so I'm going to bed.

Night!

My brother's education.

In this blog, I'm going to talk about my younger brother's education.

Well, the education he's not getting.

My brother is now nearly 11 years old, by this point, in any other school in Swansea, they're reading normal novels, writing short stories, do some decent maths.

You know, the usual.

But at my school, my brother is still learning about plural nouns, reading short novels for 6 year olds, he can do basic maths, and is still failing at his spelling tests.

The reason being?

The teachers are truly rubbish teachers.

I'm not going to say that because I'm biased and think my brother is really smart. He gets things quickly. He suffers from dyslexia and the staff at the school don't know how to teach him.

It's quit sad really, that my younger brother is losing out his chance at a good education because the staff that are there to educate him, don't know how to educate him.

And it's not just because he's dyslexic. The whole class year is being taught the same and are receiving the same level of education.

It's really sickening to think that these people are preparing our children for the future. I mean, when I was his age, I was writing short stories, reading stuff like Dracula. I'm not exactly the brightest bulb in the box,  but come on! There has to be something wrong here, right?

But maybe I'm overreacting, I know a little of it's overblown, but seriously? I know he's not getting the same level of education as what he should be getting.

I just worry about him, is all. I don't want him to lose out and it's going to be tough for him when he goes up to secondary school and he's struggling with all the work he's given....

Anyway...

Night!

Oh, yeah.

I'm going to stat planning all my writing now.

I've got two days a week where I'll write as much as I can. Tuesday's I'll write for Molly and Fridays I'll write for fanfiction.

That should keep me up to date with everything.

I hope...

Things I've discovered today.

1) I'm going to fail my maths exam tomorrow.

2) I don't care that I'm going to fail my maths exam tomorrow.

3) You can play snake on youtube....

Creepy, but true.

I was on twitter not too long ago and someone said something about being able to play snake on youtube.

So, I tried it out, thinking only gullible idiots would believe this one.

But it works!

I was thoroughly amazed.

It's a small world, huh?

Anyway.

Tomorrow's the last exam. I can't wait to be rid of them...

Night!

School seems to know how to

Piss me off.

Well, it's not just school, it's the whole traveling back and forth to schools bit that gets to me.

Like, take today, for instance. I went down to Gwyr lessons 5 and 6 for English Literature, she let us go early, and in the rain we went in search of our bus to get back to Bryn Tawe.

We waited for half an hour in the pouring rain, and no such bus had arrived.

By this point, I was soaking wet and all my stuff was wet too.

Then, one of the drivers of the company said that they'd phoned and were getting a minibus out to us and it wouldn't be too long.

We waited, and still nothing came up.

Spoke to the Headmistress, who phoned the school. School said they'd get back on to us, and the head sent us down to the main reception to wait for the bus.

Half hour later and no sign of a bus. She phoned again. Said they'd be five minutes.

Continued waiting.

Some random teacher came from the reception and said to us that they'd phoned the bus company and the bus company weren't sending anyone out now. They'd forgotten us.

Not to mention, today I had to send off my Aber scholarship form, and I had a doctors appointment.

Thankfully, Gwyr offered to send off my scholarship form.

And the doctors agreed to see me a bit later.

Today has been a terrible day.

And now I'm really tired so I'm going to go to sleep.

Night!

So, I totally

Failed my Welsh exam today. I don't think it could have gone any worse.

I don't really feel like talking about it.

It does shine some sort of light down on me though, because I now only have one more exam left and them I'm finished.

I'm going to type this next part up, but I'm sure it doesn't have any relevance to you you guys.

Aber Scholarship.

That's just a reminder for me for in the morning.

I don't read my blog, just typing it up will help me remember. I've forgotten about it a couple of times now, and my mam will blow a gasket if I forget it again.

Anyway.

Short post, but I'm going to bed now.

Night!

So, the first exam...

Yeah, I kinda don't really feel like talking about it. I mean, it went okay, and I did every thing I could. So there's not much really to complain about. But I'm not going to get my hopes up just yet.

And moving forward to the next exam, which coincidentally, Is tomorrow. I don't feel nearly prepared for this one as I did today's one.

Tomorrow's exam being a Welsh one, of course. So I don't really have a lot of choice here.

And, guess what? I'm going to see Avenue Q in Cardiff! I can't wait. It's all the way in June, so I have quite a bit to go yet, but at least I have something to look forward to, right?

Anyway, I'm gonna go. It's late and I'm typing this from my iPod, which sucks. I can't quite grasp the keyboard. I couldn't on my other one too...

Oh well.....

Night!

The start of the January exams tomorrow.

And to be honest with you. I'm so unprepared I don't know what to say about it.

I have English Language tomorrow, so I don't really need to revise all that much, but I never revised much for it in the first place.

It's just one of those feelings where I feel like I don't know anything about what I'm going into when I know perfectly well what I'm going into.

I mean, I revised more for this one than I did the other one.

I guess I'm just feeling the pressure of this one a little more than the last time. I mean, this time, it is make it or break it. I can't fail these or I'm not going to go to University.

I guess it's all finally settling in.

Tomorrow is going to be a very intense day, with all the revision sessions I'm going to be throwing at myself, especially with Welsh, I feel so underprepared for that one I'm not going to even talk about it.

Then, after this one, I'll have to start looking at preparing for the ones that are coming back in June, even though I haven't finished the courses, I want to get all my coursework finished ASAP so I can get on with my revision without really having to worry about getting all this stupid coursework done.

Though, I do know I've only got like 3 pieces of coursework to do this year, one of them being 3,000 words. It's just going to be finding the time to finish them all.

I need to get an A to get into Surrey, and that's what I'm going to be working for.

Plus, I need to finish the BACC ASAP, just so that's out of the way too.

There's a lot left to do, right?

It all pays off in the end though, when I don't have to go back to that hellhole.

University is gonna be full of exams too though, but for that. I can worry when the time comes.


Night!

So...

Yeah, not much to talk about today.

Well, actually, there's one thing, but at this point in my life, I just don't care all that much about it.

The lolfa in school today was closed... again. In case people didn't know, the 'lolfa' is just a Welsh way of saying lounge or common room.

But anyways,

The year below us 6-1, tend to have this thing of making a tip in there, but it usually never gets as bad as it did yesterday. I wasn't there, I was in a lesson when this happened.

I looked in there this morning though, through the window, and it was terrible. There were chairs over turned, food all over the floor, bins tipped up. And to think, these people are 16/17 years old.

It's a shame really, that they can't really learn how to look after these sort of things properly.

Now the school is talking about whether we deserve to have the lolfa at all. They want to turn it into two classrooms instead and we only have the back of the canteen for our 'rest space'. To be honest with you, I see where they're coming from. It's always a mess there and they probably don't see the point in it being in a mess all the time.

It's probably easier for them to just turn it into two classrooms and forget about all the mess in the rooms then.

I'm not particularly fond of the idea, but, you know, I'm not going to complain because we had it coming, it's not like I didn't see this sort of outcome coming.

And I'm only there for another five months, so I can't exactly bring myself to care either....

Anyway.

I'm going to bed.

It's certainly a lot later than what I intended to be going to bed but whatever.

Oh, yeah, one last thing before I do go to bed.

I've got another two conditional offers for University.

A conditional from Aberystwyth and one from Bangor.

Should be loads of fun.

Anyway.

Night!

I don't know how to feel...

I must be tired, because I applied for a job in McDonalds.

I'm not really expecting much to come from it, but I never thought I'd do it.

A job is a job thought, right? Whether its in ASDA or in McDonalds.

I'm not going to complain. Because at the moment, it's nothing to complain about...

Anyway, I kinda got distracted and time seems to have left me.

By the way,

I finally got the rest of my FMA DVD's. Now I have the complete series.

Can't everyone see the happiness?

Lol,

Night!

Not going to be a long post tonight

Because I kinda forgot about some English Language extra lesson I have, so I thought I had four free lessons tomorrow, when in actuality I don't.

Because I figured I'd do all my Welsh homework in my free lessons, but it doesn't seem as thought I'm going to have the time, so I'm typing it up quickly now, at the moment I'm just trying to finish it quick so I won't be up too longer because I'm pooped.











Night!

Just pretend that the gap there is where I'm talking...

I sorta forgot that it was a school night.

I was getting ready for a long night of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

Then, I was going to slowly make my way over here, and blog.

Then go to bed.

Obviously that one wasn't panning out, right?

Well, I guess I can't really do all that much about it.

Sucks really.

And I just looked down at my wrist and thought, shit, I forgot my hair bobbles.

Then I was like, I could have sworn I brought them up with me. I'm gonna have to end my blog here and go down and get them before Mam starts to shout.

Then, I looked further down the bed and found them.

So, I blogged it.

And now the cats snoring in a really weird way....

So, I guess that's the ending, right?

Lol, yeah.

Night!

The music of 2010

Was really rubbish. I have to be quite honest here, I don't think I found one song that came out last year really good.

I tend to find a new album by an artist that I like, but nothing like that, and to be honest, most of the breakout and main stream artists this year were horrible too.

I mean, like, look at it this way, 2010 brought us Ke$ha.
Lady Gaga got extra weird. Jason Derulo. Usher. Justin Bieber.

Nothing much that was good.

I spent most of my music days downloading music from before 2010. But I'm not going to bring over the bad taste for this year.

I hope that 2011 is going to be a better year. Especially on the music, education and money front. Though, I do know if I do get a job that the money is going to vanish as soon as I enter University.

I don't know how my brother is surviving. He hasn't got a job, and he's at University. He's going to be in so much debt by the time that he finishes his course that he'll be a pensioner before he pays off all his debts. He's not even bothered about finding a job neither.

Lazy bastard, that's all he is.

Anyway.

I can't really say much tonight.

Watching FMA with my younger brother.

Night!

I'm really starting

To get worried about my school work now. I go back to school on the fifth, and I still haven't even written an essay!

And yet, I still haven't even started revising for my exams which start in just a weeks time.

The problem I find at the moment. I find myself not really caring enough about it. When I know I should be. I know I should be worrying and revising and doing everything in my power to get ready for these exams.

It's just that I've sat these exams already once, so I sorta know what to expect. So, I know which areas to focus on and what to not focus on.

I've already accepted that I'm not going to pass my Welsh and Maths one.

No use to crying over it. It's not like I could do those subjects in the first place....

Anyway.

Not much else to talk about at the moment.

Besides.

There aren't a good choice of Converse around at the moment. Has anyone else noticed? None of them have caught my eye enough to buy them yet...

Moving on.

I'm going to watch some FMA now...

Night!

New Years Resolutions

So, I really haven't thought much about what my New Years Resolutions are going to be this year. So, basically. I'm going to be making it up as I go along and hope that I keep up with them.

So, here we go:

1. Update Fanfiction.
2. Blog every day (yeah, I'm recycling, so what?)
3. Finish a new novel.
4. Work really hard for exams.
5. Focus loads if I make it to University.

I guess that's all I can really think of for now.

But yeah..

I got kinda drunk yesterday. And my blog post is kinda weird. I can tell that (I just checked that one...)

Lol, anyway.

I hope everyone had a great start to the New Year.

Night!

Happy New Year

Sorry, can't really type much more. Had a few to drink. On iPod.

Hoping that everyone will have an amazing new year!

Night!

PS- i'll make a better Post tomorrow. Sorry....