Tuesday, 23 December 2008

So much to say, so little time!!!

As the title says, so much to talk about and in so little time so I'm just going to dive right into it...

Firstly i must say, Friday 19th December 2008... OFFICIALLY THE BEST DAY EVER!!!!!!!!
There were so many elements to this day that just overall made it such an awesome day!! Some i won't say for personal reasons but the one's that i can mention still add up to an absolutely awesome day!!
It was the end of the college term, and a group of friends and i had planned to celebrate and go ice-skating after as it was only a half day... i thought to myself.. oh great(!) I'm going to come back with another injury :\... just like last time where i sprained my left ankle and hurt my right knee... as it was my first ever time ice skating so as you can imagine, i was so not looking forward to this... so yeah, form class had just finished and college was officially over until the new year :D yaaay!!... i was quite cleverly and suspiciously diverged to another part of the college for a little while after form had finished and afterwards i ran back to the college atrium where i thought my friends would have been waiting for me as we were going to go ice skating... to my disappointment... no one was there, i thought they had left without me:(... and then...

quite weirdly i was led up to the upper part of the refectory (which is strange cos i hardly ever go there)... and then OMGGGG!!!!
Quite literally ALL MY FRIENDS were waiting there for me for a pre-birthday celebratory thing and words cannot describe how i felt as a 100 eyes gazed upon myself walking up the steps to the upper refectory!!
I was truly and utterly speechless!!!!!!!!!!
They had given me a MASSIVE me-to-you card with the messages of soooooooo mannnny of my friendss.. and a birthday cake with my name on it and everything!!!! Not to mention the presents!!!!

LIVERPOOL TOP with my surname written on the back and number 8 for STEVEN GERRARD!
LIVERPOOL SCARF
LIVERPOOL MUG (lawwwl!)
An awesome blue t-shirt
A Yugioh deck (lawll) which was quite cool i must say :P i know.. I'm a neek
and most importantly.. the love of all my friends and how much i mean to all of them!!

ahhhh i could not ask for anything more!!

and to top it all off... i went ice skating afterwards and i ACTUALLY KNOW HOW TO SKATE NOW!! i mean I'm not a pro or anything, and i did fall down quite a few times.. but i learned one very important thing... if you're not prepared to fall down, then you're not prepared to skate... and so with that in mind... as well as the help of a few of my friends.. i finally got the hang of it!!!
i even skated by myself from the two far ends of the ice skating rink without even falling down once!! How cool is that????????!!!!!

But the day didn't even stop there!!!
i got home and guess what had come in the post!!!
only GUITAR HERO IV: WORLD TOUR!!! ahhhh ever since i played guitar hero III at my cousins house I've wanted to get it and the reason why there hasnt been a blog up recently is probably because of GH!! The game truly rockss!!
and to top it all off, my mum had prepared the most delicious Mexican dish for dinner aswell! Mmmmmmmmmmm!!!

ahhh i ended the day reflecting on all that had happened to me today!! The surprise, all my friends, the cake, the presents, learning how to skate, GH, the meal, ahhhhh each thing complemented the other... it was truly spectacular!!

sorry to have gone on and on, ill end it here and i must say, as the january exams draw even closer, i must get my head down and study!

Sayoonara!!
Be sure to check out the Liverpool FC Blog xD


Wednesday, 17 December 2008

10 days until the big one-eight o_O...

Hello Internet!

Firstly, i would just like to apologise for my lack of recent blog posts, a lot has been on my plate recently but you'll be glad to know that i finally have some breathing space and as my xmas holidays start at the end of this week, I'll be able to put up a lot more blogs ^.^

I am going to try and keep this short and brief as I've kinda noticed how my previous blogs can seem a little overwhelming so here goes xD...

Very good news, only a day after my disastrous interview at the school of pharmacy (well in my opinion anyway) i got an email from 'UCAS track' saying that my status had been changed... as you can imagine, my heart was thumping as i anticipated their response... as the little green bar at the bottom of the screen began to reach 100% indicating the web page is getting closer to being loaded, it felt like the longest few seconds in my life!!
After the wait was over, my eyes scanned page in an attempt to extract the potentially life-changing/heartbreaking news from the page... after a split second... i found it... the words 'conditional' lit ma eyes up!!
woohooooooo!! that is one university guaranteed :D:D.. well providing i get the grades...

They want ABB, and seeing how i am aiming for AAA anyway because of medicine, i am sure that won't be much of a problem! =D!

Also just wanted to mention that only 10 days lie between me turning 18.. FINALLY!!! the big one-eight as they say :P, such a pity that exams have to dominate in such a defining moment in my life, *sigh*... nevertheless, you shall be filled in about what, if anything, happens for it hehe :P

And also a new blog I'm going to be starting, most of you are well aware that i am MASSIVE Liverpool Fan, and so i am dedicating a separate blog purely based on my club Liverpool. I will talking about transfers, speculation, news and conducting my own post match analysis... be sure to check it out xD

That's all from me for today
tc

Thursday, 11 December 2008

Arryy the pharmacist?! o_O

Hello internet!
As many of you are well aware of, i've applied to study Medicine for University and i am still yet to hear anything from any of my Medical Universities...today however, i had my interview for my back-up choice which is ofcourse Pharmacy (MPharm). I had the interview at the School of Pharmacy and as you can probably tell form the name, this University specialises solely in pharmacy to the extent that the only undergraduate course taught at this university is MPharm... i know woah!

I'm not going to ramble on and so i'll just say in brief my overall opinion:
-The university is located in a really nice part of london, (really close to oxford street, leicester square and in a nice posh area of london)
-The number of asian people at the university are quite overwhelming:.. and when i say asian.. i don't mean like the "internet definition" of asian which basically refers to the orientals... i mean asian as in my kind of asian, which is Indian! But yeah anyway, the number of 'asians' was quite overwhelming, probably because we tend to choose sciency subjects like biology and chemistry, and these 'asians' came from all of the widely known heavily asian populated areas of england... yes yes you know the areas i am talking about... your birminghams, your leicesters, your ilfords, your southalls, your east londons lolz, ahh it felt like one big geeky asian reunion!!
Having said that, i must say that it did look like an environment that i would fit nicely into and after much research into the actual course itself, i can honestly say it is something i wouldn't mind doing...

The course allows me to specialise into an aspect of pharmacy in the third year, it gives me the chance to study abroad in one of its affiliated universities which i think is just awesome, and i can also study from home as the universities in london...
But thats all swell ... providing i even get in!!...

ahh i must say that i was severely mislead by the university... the email i got from the university vividly stated that the purpose of the interview was solely to assess my interest in pharmacy and not a test of my scientific knowledge... and what type of questions did i get??? SCIENCE BASED CHEMISTRY!!!
AHH!! From all the people that i could have been interviewed by, it HAD to be the pompous old fart who's sole response to all of my answers was "Mmmmm.... yehh.... interesting..." :!
I was asked questions such as "give me an example of reduction in the human body?" to which i was lyk ... excuse me?:
He asked me what drug is used to combat C.difficile?... as in he expected me to know the NAME THE DRUG??... ahh all i know is that your standard alcohol gel in hospitals won't cut it and so chlorinated disinfectants is advised.. how am i supposed to know the name the drug! There was that and a few other things but all in all the interview was epic fail :(...

So if i don't get an offer, that is probably the reason why:(...
Getting into medical school as things stand is hard enough as it is, so at this rate i might very well be going to no universities next year: how great?!

Anywho this blog has gone on far too long! just thought that i'd let out my little rant about my interview today! i will post any replies i get on here straight away hehe so stay posted xD

see ya

Monday, 8 December 2008

This stress will be the end of me...

Yep, as the title says, this stress will be the end of me!!!
There just really appears to be so much happening in my life right now that there is NO 'me-time' at all!! Allow me to explain:
My day in general compromises mainly of college and because of my overwhelming timetable, i pretty much finish last lesson every day and so i am there from about 9 in the morning until about 4:15 or so in the afternoon. By the time i get home, the time is anything between 5:00-5:30 depending on how late i leave from college. At this point in time, i am just literally exhausted from college and want nothing more than to just chill and relax for an hour or so, which is understandable right? And then before i know it, it's dinner time (which is usually around 7)... i finish having dinner and chill for a little while longer to get rid of that bloated feeling :\... the time just manages to fly by and before i know it, it is about 9 in the evening.
This literally leaves me with just THREE HOURS until the day is over!!
THREE HOURS is NOT enough time a day to get work done!!

Considering that i have lengthy courseworks due in, mock exam to revise for and university interviews to prepare for, i can JUST about manage to cope with all of it... but, it is when i start getting these random little homeworks ( i say little, they usually take anything between 30mins to 1 hour to do).. but yeah, when i get these random little homeworks to do for subjects here and there and they all just happen to be due in for next lesson or something like that, then i just literally go into *SYSTEM OVERLOAD*!!!

Ahhhhhh, there is just no need to keep giving these lengthy crappy homeworks that just do not coincide with my timetable at all!! Like, the list of things i need to do is bad enough as it is, i don't really need extra crap like just for the sake of it. Because to be frank, it is literally right at the bottom of my priorities and just a pain to be honest.

Having said all of the above, it is important to note that I'm an avid gamer, piano enthusiast (self taught, I'm not that great but I'm learning) and keen on keeping fit as i try my best to work out in order to put my fat/chubby days as a kid behind me :(. BUT i can't even remember the last time I've had a solid gaming session playing non-stop until my eyes are tired or my hands can't move anymore! and i can't remember the last time I've got my keyboard out and tried to learn a new song and I've definitely noticed that I'm starting to get out of shape again as i can't go jogging on Saturdays anymore (because i got to a revision class at London metropolitan universty) and i can't go gym anymore because
a) that would just tire me out to the extent that when i come home I'd just go to sleep and get no work done
and
b) i need to use the slot of time i usually allocate for gym on other work that keeps propping up!!!!


All in all this is the perfect recipe for STRESS!! and i am STRESSING out!!
The lack of time i have to do work when i get home (3hours) usually results in me staying up late until 1 or 2 o'clock in the morning to complete it. This results in me not getting enough sleep, thus making me more tired for the day to come and so even more tired for when i get home the next day. This cycle REPEATS itself and has been repeating itself since September!! I truly believe this stress will be the end of me... *sigh*

So i suppose my Monday Question Of The Day is...
'How do you deal with your stress?' ... like, do you have set way of dealing with it that is guaranteed to work every time? Do you have any words of wisdom that really might be able to help me?

Leave a comment/ text response :)

until then, see ya



Sunday, 7 December 2008

the party that never was :( . . .

it would appear that I've gathered quite a few admirers after my first few blogs... haha partly because I've been advertising it on my MSN to kick start the whole thing and get some feedback hehe.. and the general response is.. they enjoy it and so I'll continue to blog =D! Having said that, i won't force myself to blog everyday, I'd rather that i blog when i have something genuine to say or something genuine to rant about rather than fill your heads with useless irrelevant things hehe!!

so i start first of all telling you about my weekend, it's Sunday morning right now, well technically its nearly 4pm but seeing how i literally woke up a couple hours ago, it's still morning in my head lolz. The weekend started in typical fashion, the usual torturous Saturday morning which forces me to wake up early because i attend a revision class for chemistry at Metropolitan University; don't get me wrong, the class is unbelievable and i do take out so much more knowledge from the lesson, but it's more so the whole "waking-up" thing that gets to me... i find myself having a nap during the day to make up for the lack of sleep... how uncool lolz!
I got back from the revision class in time to catch the Liverpool game... yes you've probably guessed, I'm a MASSIVE Liverpool fan ;) and i could so easily go on and rant about our performance but that's for another time hehe... the main thing was that we won 3-1 and we are still top of the table wooooo:D:D!!! so that was awesome!

However, i was very much so looking forward to going to my mate Jay's party later on that same day only to be denied by my mother who wasn't in the best of moods that evening... i don't really know why but she quite frankly said that she didn't want me going out in the cold to some party and then coming back late and getting ill etc etc etc... which is pretty much her excuse for every time i want to go out... *sigh* Indian parents... so overprotective!!
In all fairness though, i do have quite a few things going this week and so i suppose that it would have been best if i did stay home and get on with some work...
I have like a further maths mock exam on Wednesday and a university interview on Thursday for my back-up, Pharmacy, and so i suppose in the end that it was best that i stay home and do ma work :(

From what i hear from jay's blog, it was your standard party with people throwing up and spin the bottle, lolz yeh, i don't think it would have been wise if i woke up today with a hangover hehe... ill party after my exams and stuff are finished hehe ^.^. Jay if you're reading this, i hope u understand buddy, sorry!

any who, my never ending pile of work awaits me and so i should get to it.

see ya

Thursday, 4 December 2008

Do we take the simple things for granted?

As you've probably gathered from my previous two posts, i have been doing my biology coursework for the past two days and i must say that it is the single most energy draining piece of work in life :\!!!!!!
As i worked through it into the night, it kept eating away into my sleep time and literally left me with next to nothing... i woke up the following morning feeling as if i would faint at any given moment because i was literally just completely out of it... ahhhh never have i valued the importance of sleep so highly! and it made me think, about how i take my sleep for granted every other day, how i take for granted the relaxing and the not-a-care-in-the-world feel that it gives to me as soon as i lie down and stretch my legs... ahh heaven!

But thinking about that, it made me think in general about how i take other things for granted... a few months back i injured my leg in a freak accident at the IT centre at college (warning: description may be overly exaggerated)... but long story short:
-i sat down on wheely chair
-i pulled my self up in to the desk using my hands (might as well abuse the power of the wheel)...
-as i did so... ..my knee went smack into the metal leg that was underneath the table
as a result:
-i couldn't walk for 3-5 days
-i couldn't even bend my leg for 3-5days

but yeah, that's my sad story, but honestly... being in such blinding pain almost makes you appreciate normality; a world where pain is non-existent! All i could think about during the whole ordeal was about how much i miss the ability to walk; something that we all do everyday but never stop to think about how we would feel if the ability to walk just disappeared one day and how it would change our lives. I don't mean to insult any people that do have physical disabilities, i mean people who have been disabled since birth have nothing to compare it to and so this argument doesn't really apply so much, and those who have had the misfortune of being disabled later on in life can probably empathise with what i am saying here... the value of having something for so long... and then to have it taken away...
i mean in a situation like that, you probably will say to yourself "ahhh i should've made the most of this..." but it is so easy to say that in hindsight...

I suppose what i am really trying to say is, every now and then, we should pause and take a moment to think about and appreciate all the things that we do have in this world because we never know when those things that we take for granted could be taken away from us...*awkward silence* loolz

Hope that thought makes you feel a lot better about your lives and what you have around you... as for me... I'm gonna get me some sleep :-D!

nyt



Wednesday, 3 December 2008

The pink top...

One wakes up every day with general expectations about how the day will go; whether it will be fun and exciting or whether it will be long and draining...today i woke up expecting it to be the latter...much to my surprise, it actually wasn't...
Most of my day would revolve around college; the worst day of the week for me... Wednesday!!!! It comprises of 3 back-to-back 90minute lessons with a 50minute lunchtime revision session wedged in in amongst them. That comes to 5hours20minutes of non-stop study (which I'm pretty sure will be the death of me one day lolz)...but surprisingly the day didn't really go that bad at all and i suspect that it was all because of "the pink top"...
With the weather being incessantly freezing for the past few days, i beefed up with multiple layers in a poor attempt to shield myself from the cold, the look composed of my least favourite blue jeans, a vest, a black t-shirt and to top it all off, a pink jumper which i wore underneath my brown hoody jacket...it all felt rather stuffy and i was far from comfortable in the outfit... however, much to my surprise, the look actually went down rather well o_O! Every lesson i went to, the pink top was very much noticed and talked about... almost to the extent where i even began to blush :\... I'm not even talking about how the girls noticed it... it was the guys as well which was quite disturbing :\... put it this way, you know that something's up when a guy sitting in front of you in class turns around and gives you an enthusiastic thumbs up for the pink top you're wearing loolz...
regardless, twas quite amusing how the day went much quicker and how i was positively noticed all day round all because of "the pink top"... who would have known that such a small thing could make such a big difference to my day... hehe i must experiment with this idea now =D

anywho, that blimmin biology coursework awaits me once more, it is due in tomorrow and so i am pretty much going to be up all night.. haha most likely I'll post another blog once i am done hehe

stay posted

Arryy*

Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Very First Blog!!!


Greetings! Quick introduction, My name is Arryy, i am soon to be 18 and i go sixth form where i study Maths, Chemistry and Biology at A2 level and Further maths at AS. I aspire to become a doctor and specialise in the field of neurology, but i have yet to hear from any of my medical unis T_T... more on that later...
This is my first ever blog and to be honest, i've been thinking of creating something along these lines for a long while now. A place where i can just gather my thoughts and express myself rather than just keep things inside and after having read Jay's blog (see link below) it pretty much spurred me on to take that final step and create one myself...so here it is :\... not quite so spectacular as of yet, but i'm sure in the midst of things it will start to get more interesting sooner rather than later..
I can't promise to have a blog up everyday but i will try my best, as for now, i must go as Biology coursework awaits me... how fun?!

see ya!

Jay Shukla's Blog
http://journalistjay.blogspot.com/