Happy now.

Happier than I've been in a long while. Dunno why =] just random stuff happened that culminates (big word must use :) ) in much happiness. Ben's party was amazing by the way. Apart from the stupid Rosé =/ I don't quite like the looks people give you when they think you're too drunk and too sicky to walk home. So yeah, Rob's party I'll not be mixing as an experiment :)
Its Karan's fault, saying no no no you can't mix wine with lager and cider and etc. There's a part in all of us that wishes to defy Karan :).
Anyway, yeah this is just me saying sorry to Ben's mum and dad. I bet they were pissed off with me. there is the photo of me clearing up the Carling... I remember that bit quite well. I literally couldn't move for like half a minute with lager soaking the floor. It was funny.

So yeah, I'm happy - there's all this snow outside :) I built a snowman on my dad's car and he was not amused. I went shopping yesterday, the chip shop up town is so cheap :o I was shocked. But you get so much. And I sat down in the park next to the castle, wet arse from the snow eating chips, feeding the seagulls. There were hundreds of them circling me. It was nice. Then I walked to Liam's house and saw him for the first time in weeks, he ended sleeping over mine. So random lol we watched two series of the Peep Show and ate pizza.


Is talking to yourself a sign of happiness? Literally though, I could be going mad, but I just like talk to the cars going past on the road.... when no one else is there. I was chuffing that I was walking and they were driving, with their fat arses :) lol I think i'm just a bit excited about stuff. hmmmm. Dunno :)



Another thought...

I reeeallly really don't want to go driving today =/ surely Bilbo won't want me to drive on the icy snowy stuff, when there are experienced drivers slipping all over it anyway....hope not. I wanna go to Cardiff today. Need to buy more presents...=/




well anyway, yeah. Um that's it yeah :)

Bye byeee!!


Moi

Really quite pissed off at the moment ;[

People make plans, they might make those plans without you. I don't mind. There's stuff I might have to do, and everyone has different groups of friends to hang around with. It'd be weird, being there all the time. I prefer hanging out with different people on a day-to-day basis. Apart from like John. John is the best friend I could ever have because he keeps calm about things, and he doesn't mess around with your head. He knows exactly what I like, and he lets me talk about it. He can annoy me but I just forget about it so easily. I can't sulk with John, because I prefer to talk to him so much. He doesn't go on about things that may or may not happen in the future. He keeps to the present where we can talk as normal and its fun. Its amazing. He's my best friend and he always has been and I hope university won't change that.
But anyway, people have plans yeah and they don't always invite you, and that's fine.
But what isn't fine is having them rub it in your face when they're supposed to be your friend, when they're supposed to care about your fucking feelings. And then when you tell them what you think of them, they switch the argument around to make it sound like its your fault. So childish. These kind of people can fuck off.
Apparently they don't want me there so what's the point in me making any effort.


That feels kind of better. Anyway, just thinking about the last few days:

- I passed my theory test on Tuesday morning =] Had to be up in Cardiff at 8 (i.e. stupid o'clock) :-| to have my test. I actually got there about half an hour early. By quarter past 8, I had passed and then I wandered aimlessly around the shops, which hadn't opened yet. When they finally did, I bought a couple of Christmas presents. Got a DVD for my sister, and that  map of Europe for Phil. And I got a book of Qi for myself. Which is an enjoyable read =]

- Wednesday, um. John had his 'operation' lol. I didn't give in my individual investigation. And after school I went to see 'The Box' in the cinema with Sarah, Xanthe and Beth =] and actually finally got to go in Sarah's car to McDonalds =] ... Although I wouldn't advise the film particularly; it was alright, bit haphazard.

- And the Panto yesterday was absolutely fabulous =] I loved the dancing to I Gotta Feeling!

- And yeah, today had a lie-in, and started writing this blog. Shall be going bowling later.


That's the limit of my thinking for the mo. So yeah tra



Moi

Karan's Prom....

Are any of you actually going to that? Or is there no reason for me to listen to Karan go on about it...?

Moi

Poetic Voyages

The Elephant

The elephant stomps in the zoo,

The elephant is grey and blue,

The elephants trumpets at you.

The elephant knocks down the wall,

The elephant is very tall,

The elephant scared them all!

Gwyn Llewellyn (8)

Hendre Junior School

There you go Xanthe =]

Also,

The Lion

In African trees a female lies,

Awaiting for prey that suffers and dies.

King of the jungle has a perfect size.

A lion and tiger a bloodthirsty chase,

The pride takes an ambush at the end of the race.

The fierce cat has a ferocious face.

As hunters approach the cat takes a bite,

They run at the beast with a brainstorming fight.

The lion's outnumbered at the time it is night.

Timothy Howells (8)

Hendre Junior School

Moi

Ter Sami and Jigalong =]

This shall be prior to the blog on my poem, as I wish to keep some things in my head :)

We were talking about languages yesterday, were we not? Xanthe takes everything seriously. I was only saying stuff on Wikipedia =/ maybe a bit mockingly. Or something. I was told to stop talking about it. But I shall not! Well, I want to talk about dying languages. =]

Can you imagine speaking a language where's there's only one other person in the entire world that completely understands you? It must be pretty weird. In the Kola Peninsular:

Kola Peninsular is here.
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...2 people speak Ter Sami. A language with such a small population and without any actual writing systems or educational facilities has little hope of being revived. =/

Of the original eleven Sami languages, only 9 continue to exist, probably soon to become 8.

I think we're quite lucky to have revived Welsh before it actually died out. Welsh is spoken by 0.014% of the world. Isn't that like amazing?!?! :P

And now onto this place in Australia =] Are you excited by a place called Jigalong?

I am.

Interesting fact you may not know about Jigalong :P

The community starred as part of the Australia drama film, Rabbit-Proof Fence. The film features the struggles of Aborigines in Australia due to the persecutions from the Whites.

Moi

Fitting you with weapons in the form of words.

Oh, 3 2 1

We go live...

Are all the good times getting gone?

They come and go and go and come and go

When I got cold

And the charts are boring

Hurry

Hurry

Only one more thing and that is the rest of the proof

is on the television, on the...

We're the new face of failure.

The real bombshells have already sunk

I can't explain a thing

I want everything

To change and stay the same on top

I'm just such a happy mess, whoa

So just let me be

We must make it hard to look so easy

Doin' something so hard

But I digress

I only keep myself this sick in the head,

'Cause I know how the words get you.

This conversation's been dead on arrival =/ ....

Moi

Do ants even have discrimination?

I was looking up reciprocity in evolution, where life evolves in one way or another to cooperate, to work together. You could say that this would lead to a species without discrimination. In that case, how did humanity get to where we are. We have the capacity to ponder upon the origins of cooperation and to establish rights to everyone, in that we must treat everyone justly, but we are the worst at delivering fair rights to anything. Are big brains good then?

Whereas, you look at ants. They exist in societies that match ours, and even surpass ours in organisation. They have to live with total obedience but they get the work done. They live without discrimination, unless black ants and red ants really don't get on. I'm not sure.

Tis interesting =]

Moi

Kathmandu

How cruel is the Golden rule,

When the lives we lived are only golden plated...

So, do you know the way to Kathmandu?!

Apparently, only I know that its in Nepal, so I thought it needed explaining. =] It also gives me reason to procrastinate on my Geography Coursework. Albeit, surely learning about one of Earth's nations is geography. Silly school.

Kathmandu, Nepal then.

Being the capital of such a small country doesn't give Kathmandu much fame or recognition.

It is a great centre of Hinduism and Buddhism, with many pretty palaces in the 'old city'.

Some facts you may or may not have known about Nepal

• Nepal is the world's youngest republic, formed on May 28, 2008

• Nepal's first international fast food restaurants (KFC and Pizza Hut) were opened barely two weeks ago.

• More commonly known, eight out of the world's 10 tallest mountains above sea level are located in northern Nepal, thus giving its tourist industry a great amount of adventurous mountaineers. Time for some lovely pictures of mountains =]

These are meant to be pictures of Mount Everest. You can't really grasp the bigness of the mountain from pictures I guess. I don't think I'd enjoy the whole mountaineering up a vertical mountain and whatnot. However, I have hiked up Pen y Fan =]

I'd be happy with climbing Snowdon to be honest.

So back to Nepal, they have prettier bank notes than ours:

You may have heard on Have I Got News For You about the Maldivian government hosting a meeting underwater to make a point about climate change and the rising sea levels.

Nepal's minsters have followed suit by hosting a high altitude meeting to highlight how climate change has affected the Himalayas.

'Scientists say the Himalayan glaciers are melting at an alarming rate, threatening mountain communities downstream.' (Australia Network News)

Nepali Music

Music in Nepal isn't very well-known, surprisingly enough.

The traditional music is deep and cultural to each society in the country. Indian music has also become widely popular with more Westernised music arriving recently. Most musicians in Nepal do well in Kathmandu, while the rest of Nepal keep to their traditional music.

One of the most prominent bands in Nepal is the rock band, Cobweb.

So I hope I've done Nepal justice - everything you need to know is right here =]

Moi

Rhinos and Chernobyl

Light up, light up

As if you have a choice

Even if you cannot hear my voice

I'll be right beside you dear

Helps on happiness; Run by Snow Patrol.

Do you ever get so depressed over the whole animal issue?

I was reading up on rhinos because I love them and it really struck me. I really bloody hate poachers. Apart from the White Rhinoceros which has been heavily protected in South Africa the 4 other species of rhino are in such small numbers, the worst off being the Javan Rhino, less than a hundred left in the world.

It is despicable that people poach them for Chinese herbal medicine :s Just leave them alone. Its all nonsense, and there's other things you can do to save lives. I don't believe in killing anyone even to save other lives. Its disgusting. Even worse is that people kill them for sport. I can't see the enjoyment in killing something, to be quite honest. Anybody who does should be locked up. Freaks.

I want to do something for them, but I really don't have any idea what I could do. People can tell you all about the facts and statistics, but you can't do anything yourself except give money, but well that's not very reliable is it. =/

These are the statistics for the rhino population:

White Rhinoceros = 17500

Black Rhinoceros = 4240

Indian Rhinoceros = 2620

Sumatran Rhinoceros = 200

Javan Rhinoceros = 50

This has just really got to me. Not quite sure why I started reading about it but yeah. Just felt it shouldn't be ignored.

And of course, this is the same all over the globe. Humans ruining everything that lives on the globe, apart from the pests - pigeons, house mice, rats.

I also happily stumbled upon the Chernobyl story. You may associate Chernobyl with being a deathzone, after the explosion of the nuclear reactor. Radiation was exposed to over 5 million people, affecting mostly Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

However, since the evacuation in 1986 of 135,000 people and 35,000 cattle, the complete lack of human presence has led to the Chernobyl area becoming a nature hotspot. The towns and villages have the look of a post-apocalyptic world, but in this nature has triumphed, clearly proving that without humans the world can bounce back easily in perhaps 20 years. And you have to remember that this happened after a major radioactive explosion.

Most of the animals have come back on their own accord to live in the odd paradise. There are signs of improving populations of lynxes, wild boars, wolves and even possibly a few bears in the area. The bird population has also rocketed; ironically, there are nests right next to the old nuclear reactor. =]

Here's some nature takeover photos:

A few wild Przewalski's horses were released into the zone. =]

So, in light of the nature explosion, on the evacuated Belarusian side of the border, the area has been made into a natural reserve. The Ukrainian side hasn't made it official; however, no humans will likely live there again for a long time, so I expect Chernobyl to really become a beautiful part of nature =] melding into the environment.

Moi

Trains

Yes, just yes to gravy.

Why, I have no idea why that came to my head....

Anyway, I feel like complaining. But I also don't feel like complaining =/ because I'd feel guilty because I'm going to have an excellent day tomorrow.

I'm going to Imperial War Museum for history. Shall be majorly interesting :) ... there shall be exhibits to enthral me; sitting down learning about it doesn't really give you what you want from history. I would so totally love to be involved in digs and whatever in Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Iraq, albeit there are political hindrances, and also the bastard Americans fucked up Iraq's history, ta.

But yeah, museum =] Also, we may happen upon a few shops while we visit la ville de Londres. As it happens, EMA has finally forked over the moneys!! 'Bout bloody time. But now I may actually look around for something other than food x] oh, happiness. And Subway is finally in my budget, also!

So, we are venturing along the track to London, which I shall love. Trains are amazing, no doubt

about it. Who didn't spend early years without this bloke?

An inspiration. For me anyway; I remember when I was in year 2 we had to come in dressed as our favourite person off TV, and I came as the Fat Controller. =] Suited me, as I was pretty chubby at the time.

So, it shall be a great train journey travelling through the countryside for two hours with good music, pleasant conversation and sumptuous sweeties :D

And here is an example of where trains discuss the day's going's ons:

So, trains ... EMA ... museum.

Yeah, complaints. I'm feeling overall pretty good at the moment, but I am slightly annoyed at some things. I mean, do you get that feeling that you're just trying to be so obvious, so you can get an answer on something and the person is either stupidly oblivious (I really dislike that in a person) or they know you're trying to make a point but they don't want to answer. Its probably my fault somehow, but like grrrr. Annoying ;[

And, my mother keeps nagging me to take the bins out.

Also, UCAS is kind of stressing me out a bit now, I have my personal statement done, and I've asked Sandy to do the reference for me, but I won't be in very long at all tomorrow, so I don't see how I can get that done tomorrow, leaving it until Friday, and I'd really prefer nothing to go wrong....Never mind. I look ever onward to the next holidays :) however daunting it may be that after it will be our first A level exams, our penultimate term at St. Cenydd and the start of third decade I've had in my life.

And chavs are spreading like bloody rats in our school >:[

But yeah, tomorrow will be good.

By the way, John piss off with your blank texts.

And I plan to write a blog on the good things about Scotland on St Patrick's Day. =]

Nos da.

Moi

Dun Laoghaire

....is a not a country, its a place in Dublin.

So, Ireland.

What is there to Ireland?

There's a few Irish people, some Cider, some potatoes, some grass and clovers, and of course there's the scarily devout Catholics. (:

But what is Ireland really important for? How has it helped?

Well, its given a lovely name like Ciara to the world. Absolutely lovely, yes.

Posh Literature Stuff

Really quite fabulous works of literature have come from Ireland, perhaps unheard of in other areas, e.g. the world, but really now, Ireland hasn't done bad for itself. For example, Jonatha

n Swift, writer of Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal, is considered to be the foremost satirist in the English language. Satire can be found in the forms of wonderful irony, sarcasm, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison or double etendre. Irish people have also found themselves acquiring the Nobel Prize for Literature, Seamus Heaney (Seamus! Another Irish name! C'est beau!) is an unknown example for you.

Music

La musique d'Irlande est particulièrement étonnant avec des exemples tels que U2, Westlife, The Script et The Pogues .... and some lesser known examples:

• The Thrills, a Dubliner Indie rock band, with interesting tunes I've now fallen in love with. I began with listening to Midnight Choir. Tis lovely.
  Also, here is one of their albums, Let's Bottle Bohemia.

• And some other bands

• Of course, Ireland has been the most successful country in the Eurovision Contest with 7 wins under their belt; you may want to look into that.

Some other thoughts of my own.

My other thoughts on Ireland include the greatness of Father Ted which I'm sure you must all love. Indeed, Dermot Morgan was an amazing actor, extremely hilarious. Ardal O'Hanlon is equally amazing, but my all-time favourite Irish comedian - Dylan Moran. Watch Black Books (a TV show he stars in with Bill Bailey) =] and his show, Monster ... or Like Totally.

Another thought of mine; Ireland did win 6 Nations this year, and as long as they beat England, we've got to be happy with that right. Sportswise, Ireland also has its hurling and Gaelic football. I am enthralled.

Oh My God! Ed Byrne is Irish :O how did I not think of that! Yes, I do love him whenever he's on HIGNFY et cetera et cetera.

Also in my interest

History and all that. Ireland has this interesting history of Celts and Vikings and so on and so forth; Dublin being founded by the Vikings as well as many other towns around Ireland.

One of the places I've visited in Ireland is Blarney, famous for its Castle and at the highest point of the castle, a so-called magic stone.

'At the top of the castle lies the Stone of Eloquence, better known as the Blarney Stone. Tourists visiting Blarney Castle may hang upside-down over a sheer drop to kiss the stone, which is said to give the gift of eloquence.'

(from Wikipedia)

When I visited the castle, I did not kiss the stone.

1. I was only 7 or 8 and the 'sheer drop' scared the shit out of me :)
2. The stone was being kissed by ewwww so many tourists =/ ....

And well also of interest in Ireland. The Giant's Causeway, a pretty formation in the rocks that has legends associated with it. In my opinion, the beach is better, but well I guess its a nice place to go.

Yes, so Ireland is really quite fabulous :) But of course, the best person on Ireland is Ciara Kinsella. Most interesting person Irish person I know. Wouldn't you agree Becky Connolly?

(:

But Wales is better.

Moi

Kay, let us think.

When there's nowhere else to run

Is there room for one more son

One more son

If you can hold on

If you can hold on, hold on (8)

....

So onto something about music, if that is Xanthe's wish (which is fair enough since blogging was interesting. Why did it die people? ... All of you are evil, because I enjoyed reading them ;[). Well my favourites in bands...hmmm. I love the Killers first and foremost; I had loved them for many many years, and when Day & Age came out I was completely drawn in. Don't you just love Brandon Flowers' feather jacket :P

Seeeeee..

=]

Yes, so they are my absolute favs, and under that several bands fight for position depending on the mood I'm in really. Or just because I've randomly rediscovered a song. Or something.

I am enjoying Blue October quite a lot, generally the songs from one album - History For Sale.

Chameleon Boy, Clumsy Card House and Calling You are fabulous songs :)

Its an odd love of mine, Blue October, as you really hate their voices to start off with. Its an acquired taste.

Maxïmo Park is another love of mine, although their songs are pretty depressing I don't tend to notice it

And then Elliot Minor, Fall Out Boy and Franz Ferdinand <3>

oooo and Kings of Leon. =]

Ohh and Muse of course :) Their new album also got me listening to all their old albums again. I have no idea what my favourite songs from Muse are. I do have many. Resistance in the new album is my most-played Muse song, but they are all something that I can be bothered to think about!

So, yeah. Now back to quietly waiting for more blogs :)

Nos da, a cysgwn dawel.

Moi

Earth's Not That Bad.

Quoi...?

History Essay by tomorrow ;/

But also Sponsored Walk. Not that I’m sponsored or anything. It will be fun however =]

I love walking, also its much more interesting than being cooped up in the Sixth Form Block….with its BOILING I.T SUITE :|

Yay Tomorrow!

Also, yay I got the Sweden Pen back =]

Chloe, I want that picture of it, pleeaseeeee. Its my friend =]

Moi

=[

Please Phil, give me my Sweden Pen back.

'dont think just write'

What to do, to escape from the 'contrived' blogs I've apparently been doing.

No thinking, I think too much during writing? Do I?

Never actually thought about that. How ironic :)

There's not much I'm thinking of at the moment. I'm scared to think of a problem because Xanthe'll want me to sort it out then :|

I'm in such a lazy mood at the moment I feel, like I just can't be arsed to sort out anything...when I constantly have the luxury of so much free time. What's the problem there? Do I need drugs? Not that that'll help at all. No no no. Drugs are very naughty :)

Apparently the society is using them too much to try to solve simple things like sadness, where the need isn't very important. Yes, watch 'It's Only A Theory' on iplayer :) Its fabulous - with both Reginald D Hunter AND Andy Hamilton =D

That was certainly the highlight of my evening watching that, because I'm just obsessed with the iplayer, en ce moment.

And apart from that, well I'm annoyed at Bit torrent for messing up my download.... Tried downloading 28 Days Later, because it's great and I wanted to watch it for the 2nd time :) but apparently not, Bit torrent decides to ruin it for me. You know, they've now decided to create a sequel to 28 Weeks Later, quite obviously, 28 Months Later (Where will this end?). So yeah, new film building on the end of the prequel where the deadly Rage virus ends up next to the Eiffel Tower. Isn't that surprising? :)

So more death and destruction in my favourite post-apocalyptic film series to date. However, the director did state 'the film is not a science fiction horror film but rather a drama in that environment'.

Now, isn't that interesting? Reminds me of the Big Brother with the zombies, so exciting =]

Well, anyway. On the film perspective, I really want to see Ricky Gervais' new film =] looks fun

A world without lying. Good as a comedy but I couldn't deal with it in real life. =/

I mean, where are the advantages in a world with only truth? Please enlighten me. I have no idea.

The politicians would be hilarious. Even more so than usual. Like Stanley Baldwin just before World War Two. He pretty much told the British public that if Britain was bombed there was fuck-all he could do about it =] that's just the most inspiring speech possible. Love it.

Right so, just so you know I've been listening to Muse throughout the whole writing of this blah blah blog...

trying in vain to find a big word to use there.

Maybe in the upcoming envisioned blog I shall think of enticingly big words. =]

Anyway, Gwyn is y'off

Nos da x

Moi

Grapes!

OR

You choose.

oooo and by the way, what are the feelings on the new Mika album?

I love Blame It On The Girls, and I See You. They're epic! =]

Yes, Gwyn is feeling moderately random and quite happy today; not in a thinking mood, however. So blog over.

Moi

Portmanteau

I want.

I feel I dress too childishly, and I really want to get different clothes. (And indeed large suitcases.

I wouldn't use it but it looks cool!)

Sarah put this idea in my head; she keeps saying stuff that inspires fashion ideas ... in my head.

Apparently I need a black and white shirt now :P

I do want a black and white shirt. I want lots of shirts. I wanted to have a suit and posh shoes and everything, but my mum says you can't have that because it's a waste of money. She says I'm not supposed to go around wearing such clothing.

Why not?!

I think its all so cool, AND sophisticated. I feel left behind when I'm stuck in the typical blue-navy top and jeans.

Then again, at least I have my watch (even if it does constantly stop and start - Yes, I am too lazy to get its batteries sorted. I'll fix it when the need is dire). My watches make me feel happy :)

They're like something you can keep all your life, at least I hope so. I like permanence; I'm not too impulsive, hence why it takes me so long to get any new clothes.

Anyway, I want a new mug :)

In fact, that mug suits you, Xanthe.

ohh yeah, and the suitcase up top is a portmanteau.

A portmanteau can also be where you use two words to form one word - like smog. Or it can be used to describe a merge of cultures - My big word, Chloe. :)

Nos da pobls...

Moi