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Saturday, November 18th, 2006
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11:40 pm - Mozzarella
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It's a really really nice thing. Only I've eaten too much of it. Mozzarella, spinach and arrabiata pasta. Mozzarella, olives and pasta sauce on wholemeal toast. Mmm... I'd probably eat more if it was here. Must be a new craving.
Now I feel fat. bummer. Especially as I scoffed two of liz's chocolate crisp cakes earlier on.
current mood:  full
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| Saturday, April 29th, 2006
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11:02 am - Housing
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I hate housing with a passion. I hate forming groups and I hate my own idealised views on who I want to live with. Worst of all I hate imperial for not having enough girls because I want to live with at least one girl next year but not too far away from college. GRR. GRRR. GRRRRR! And all the girls are medics so they all live near charing cross hospital anyway and that's just too far away to bother going into lectures each day.
current mood:  annoyed
current music: Massive Attack - Black Milk
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| Thursday, April 27th, 2006
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6:55 pm
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Two and a half weeks to go and I'm cracking, sorry, must be the onset of fatigue and on going creep(!) Just keep telling myself it will be over in one month's and 7 exams time. Smashing.
current mood: aggravated
current music: None, my ipod's messed up
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| Sunday, March 5th, 2006
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8:40 pm - Animal Testing
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Pro-Test have had a successful demonstration, thank god. I used to remember being pelted by Huntingdon Life Science leaflets and various other anti-animal testing propaganda. To be honest when I was younger and didn't understand the full extent of how medical progression depended upon animal testing I was against it too, but now I see how necessary it is from the medicine to the skin cream we use. At the end of the day I love my family more than some furry animal in the lab. Also shops like the body shop say they don't test on animals, but the formulae for their products are likely to be copied from others that were animal tested. So really all these animal rights people should just stop using medicines, cosmetics and the like if they're so against it.
I don't see how we could get around it, people say 'test it on evil people in prisons' but would that make us any better than the Nazis or the Japanese? And imagine the chaos if a person was found to be innocent after being tested upon?
I have to admit that some animal rights campaigners must have thought out the reasoning through, but I'm willing to bet a hell of a lot of them haven't!
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| Friday, December 30th, 2005
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6:26 pm - January Sales
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I am now the proud owner of a MaxMara LBD, bought for £27.50 courtsey of Harvey Nicks (that's a ridiculous £200 off or something). Never MIND it was pouring down with rain and my ballet pumps were swimming with water when I got back to my flat, shopping obviously has highly theraputic qualities. But then I knew that. Also owner of silk Reiss skirt, again ridiculous amount of money off.
Everyone head to Harvey Nicks.
On the downside cannot be arsed to cook so will be eating sausages and spaghetti, courtsey of heinz.
As I probably won't post before 2006 - HAPPY NEW YEAR
current mood:  grateful
current music: Madonna - Push
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| Monday, December 5th, 2005
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12:39 pm - Work Stuff.
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I've done all my tutorial sheets (maybe not all the questions but most of them) but still somehow turn my progress tests into one big fuck up. Not one has gone well so far and it's peeving. I've been happily clocking up Cs and Ds even with some swotting the night before. No replies needed, I just felt like a quick whinge in between progress tests.
current mood:  disappointed
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| Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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9:32 pm - Fashion Rant
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I've got to do stress analysis, but it being er...thursday, I'm a bit distracted. Stella McCartney's line came out at H&M, I wasn't done with lectures until 5pm and by the time I'd got there, there was not much left, and anything that was was size 16 or something. Even the dummies had been stripped bare. To be expected really. She's done a really pretty pink jumper with ribbon ties on the sleeves that I'm uber interested in. That was all gone. Grrr.
I also just remembered that really pretty wedding dress Monique Lhuillier designed. That made me go to her website and she does do gorgeous wedding dresses, they're all cast in the same ways so I actually think all of them are gorgeous. Her pret a porter's not bad either. http://www.moniquelhuillier.com
current mood:  awake
current music: Moby - Rushing
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| Monday, November 7th, 2005
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10:47 pm - Famous Kids
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So I was procrastinating today, and the subject fell to who would be playing Cho Chang in the HP film (like anyone could avoid those shiny ads of potter on a broom). One of my favourite sites, catwalkqueen, had a feature on a dress Katie Leung (who plays cho chang) was wearing. Some floaty Williamson number, but regardless it made her look hot. Which then led to the subject that Emma Watson is going to be hot when she grows up, but hold on, she ALREADY looks hot in loads of the pics of her. I know she has a stylist etc etc but it caused a bit of green eyed envy, this girl is fourteen!
Which then lead onto more thoughts about all the pretty people i see around me regularly every day. No worries, by tomorrow I'll be too busy panicking about something to get green eyed over prettiness.
Also I found out a girl I knew from back at home died on friday morning, which was really surreal. She was one of the nicest people I'd met, no joke. It's pretty unfair she died starting her first year at university, especially after looking forward to it so much. Makes you realise how short life is.
I promise a slightly more intellectual post next time.
current mood:  pensive
current music: Anything Magic FM is playing
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| Friday, October 28th, 2005
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12:30 pm - Procrastination is the Key
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I'm only doing this because I should be doing work and I don't want to. I designated myself a day off today but the double tutorial this morning was so useless I can't do it. Anyway there's not much interesting stuff to tell. Student life is plodding on as usual. I now have a saturday job at FCUK, straight afterwards I get an email from my dad that 'students who have jobs get lower class degrees'. Jesus, I'm only doing one day a week dad, and I'd quit if it got too much.
This evening I have a fancy dress party. Have decided to attend as a fairy, so I'm winging it-haha(!)-to H&M after uni to pick up my wings. They've got some adorable stuff in their kiddie's section. Embarassingly I can still fit into it.
current mood:  rushed
current music: Massive Attack - Teardrops
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| Thursday, October 13th, 2005
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12:50 pm - New Term
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It's been a long time since I've bothered updating, but I just so happened to find myself in a two hour lunch break, with no tutorials to do (gasp) and no extra curriculars to perform. Life has never been so slothfull. So this month I've managed to get myself a pretty little flat in West Kensington, and a long walk to university. Obscurely it takes as long to walk as it does to get the bus, due to nasty traffic along cromwell road and high street kensington. At least I get exercise...
Unfortunately I've got no internet or TV at home so apart from reading and work, there's nought much to do there. I've taken to concocting fairly complex meals (by student standards) instead. I cannot WAIT for the internet <--- sounding like a true junkie here.
For anyone who doesn't know by now, I have a boyfriend, and he's the person everyone's been nagging me to go out with for the past YEAR! . Kidding.
current mood:  bored
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| Friday, September 2nd, 2005
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9:45 pm - **** Bastard
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Stolen Bag. Wrong hairdressing appointment. Too many customers, one of whom complained foreign sales assistants don't know anything. No phone. No oystercard. Student finance being stupid. Me getting wound up. No driver's license. Lost library book. One very pissed off me.
current mood: angry
current music: Air - All I need
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| Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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4:17 pm - Sleep
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Sleep is not overrated, I get 10hours of it a day at the moment and boy do I love every minute of it. It seems to me that you steadily build up a debt bank of sleep throughout your three terms, and you then gorge on it so much during the holidays. My friends back in london are busy going out clubbing every night but not I...
Hmm...that makes me sound rather sad. My day so far has been pretty relaxed with no work. I read a large chunk of 'the hungry tide' by amitav ghosh. It's making me thirsty for travels in the orient and indian subcontinent. The author has a particular knack of cool, precise description. He's pretty efficient with his words and they mesh together beautifully. It didn't help that it's pissing it down outside and I really wished I wasn't in england.
current mood:  frustrated
current music: None
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| Friday, August 12th, 2005
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11:21 am - It's not a beautiful day.
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It would have been. But it's starting to become overcast and I thought I'd do a much needed update. What's happened in these last er...two weeks? I think it's two...
Well when my parents were away I had liz and fuz and donat down. Managed to not work for the majority of that week and so lazied my time away by consuming my body weight in desserts. It was fun apart from me not getting to speak to liz much AT ALL! Rather fustrating seeing as I hadn't seen her for a month anyhow and now she's off in italy and I won't see her till september. Must warn people that on the back of sauce jars they reccommend simmering th meat for 23 mins. Well it's not a casserole folks, and when I followed that instruction I was eating an incredibaly tough chicken curry.
So then my parents came back, my friends vanished and as soon as they come back they disappear off to liverpool. so I had sly down on friday but made the mistake of attending a work do, should have enjoyed scrubs at home. Not doing that again. And on sunday saw Matt, enjoyed sushi and war of the worlds (annoying tom cruise, annoying little girl and angsty teenager...but the tech invovled was cool).
Umm...as donat eloquently put it 'you don't have a social life at the moment'. I don't. From sunday onwards I have been working, sleeping, piano-ing, gym-ing and reading. Bought three pieces of cheap 75% off jewelry. Apart from a few chance encounters with old friends I've seen no one. Bad min. I ought to call people back. Am toying with the idea of a haircut but a bit uncertain of how much money I want to spend.
current mood: full
current music: Lizst - Reverie
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| Saturday, July 23rd, 2005
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11:16 pm - Houmous
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I think I must love grease, even if it originates from plants. I've just had two huge slices of bread with houmous. Bah! I've been feeling a bit...all over the place recently and I don't know why so I'm comfort eating. Today I've had, four slices of toast with houmous, a quadruple pack of sandwiches, twix, walnut and banana cake, rice with szechuan beef and salad, cranberry and rasberry smoothie. Whatever I worked off at the gym has gone RIGHT back on. Am feeling pretty lousy now.
The rachmaninov piano concerto number one was fantastic, there are plenty of amazing proms I want to sample in august too. Got my first driving lesson on monday, I'm going to totally mess up ^_^ Watch out lampposts.
OH and I got a letter today from imperial. I scored 69% aggregate on my exams. 1% off a first...WHY does that always happen to me?! ARGH
Correction - Am not pissed off with 2:1, merely with ridiculously bodering first 2:1.
current mood: irritated
current music: Placebo - Peeping Tom
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| Monday, July 18th, 2005
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9:04 pm - Potter Mania!
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What a weekend at work! Spent most of it dressed as a hogwarts student (supposedly cho chang, according to a customer but I can't really fault her). Sold so many copies of HP that I lost count, of course I snuck read it as I worked (was at page 68 before the end of work). OH I cannot believe Rowling kills him off at the end! So unfair, and it ends so miserably and I thought there would be some bizarre twist that meant he'd come back to life...but there wasn't.
This book seemed...most unhappening until the end. Of course that's what Rowling doees in every book but the starter ones were so upbeat and...well cheerful. They're getting darker and darker. I must confess a huge intrigue about Voldemort and how he becamse what he was. That's why I think Rowling should write a companion to the HP series - the Riddle Chronicles. Would be really interesting, or she could comission someone else to write it.
Had some really silly ideas for the last book:
- A main character dies in every chapter so they're all polished off at the end.
- Ginny gets pregnant with Harry's baby and then he dies.
- Hermione and Malfoy end up together.
- Voldemort succeeds in turning Harry over to the dark side.
Ah enough. Anyway there's not much interesting about my life. I'm going to London on wednesday to see a concert at the R.A.H. Rachmaninov/Neilsen/Musgrave. Hopefully twill be good.
current mood: contemplative
current music: Debussy - Clair de Lune
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| Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
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9:41 pm - Errr...
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First chance I've had to bum around since I've got back home, so I figured my LJ was due for an update. What's going on...
I joined a gym, oh yes! It's £29 a month for unlimited classes/gym/pool/jacuzzi/sauna etc so I reckon that's a pretty good deal. I went for the first time today though I'm due for an induction tomorrow with my personal trainer. The trainer's going to take measurements. My measurements should stay mine dammit, i dont want to know my personal stats!
Got er exam results. Maths/Mechantronics/Solid Mechanics- 1:1 Thermofluids- 2:1 Materials, Manufacturing and Design - 2:2. Bit bummed with that 2:2 in MMD, it pulled my whole average down to a 2:1 so my firsts can't have been good (snigger).
Ah bloody exams. Well at least they're done with.
Been playing the piano lots at home and reading a lot, just in the middle of a thousand orange trees, it's sounding promising. Also been doing overtime lots at WH Smiths. Ick. Me want out, but then me needs the money.
At this stage in life I'm making lots of stupid resolutions like 'I will do my MMD tutorial sheets next year properly' and 'I'm going to practise the piano for 1hr every day'. Neither will patently happen.
current mood:  calm
current music: Debussy - Reverie
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| Saturday, June 11th, 2005
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6:55 pm - Birthday!
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Wow, it's been a while since I endeavoured to update this journal. A lot has happened since then, exams have finished, I've gotten wasted, spent more money, turned 19. I'm currently updating within an interlude of cooking nibbles for my sister's 10th Birthday, though the pizza has to be taken out of the oven in 15 mins.
It's nice being back at home, pace of life is less hectic, I didn't realise how busy I was even on my day's off that I don't really have a moment to just sit and chill. I always feel like I'm meant to be doing something productive. Speaking of productive I have laundry to do when I get back.
Argh, eaten too many chicken nuggets/carrot batons/onion rings etc.
current mood: full
current music: The Killers - Indie Rock and Roll
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| Sunday, May 8th, 2005
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5:08 pm - Sunday Listlessness
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Listening to depressing music and pondering on where my good mood this morning has evaporated to? I did a stress analysis paper, was wonderfully easy and am meant to be writing a materials revision list but at the moment all I want to do is to crawl into bed.
'But I've run out of patience, I couldn't care less, and do you have an opinion, a mind of your own? I thought you were special, I thought you should know' Random line from Garbage stuck in my head.
I've turned into a caffeine addict, I just drank my first coffee of the day and feel better already.
current mood:  morose
current music: Garbage - It's all over but the Crying
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| Thursday, May 5th, 2005
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1:53 pm - Trouble
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Well not really, that's just what I'm listening to. La di da, am having the quiet term I wished for, only now I'm getting a bit bored really and I want another tricky situation to mull over. Grass is always greener and all that...
Exams. They're so fucking boring. I want them over with now.
current mood: contemplative
current music: Coldplay - Trouble
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| Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
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7:30 pm - And she was beautiful but she didn't mean a thing to me
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It's so pretty outside at the moment, especially if you walk parallel to Old Brompton Road on the residential road towards south kensington station. They've got these little gardens and all the cherry blossom trees are showering petals. And it was sunny as well today, pity it's exam season.
Speaking of exam seasons Imperial College's Library is so ridiculously full at the moment. Like one girl says 'I spend so much time in the library I've made friends with people who I only see here'. Geekdom has truely struck. Run for your lives etc etc but let's face it, you must have suspected Imperial of being a bit like this before you accepted your offer no?
Still on my Death Cab for Cutie / Garbage / Air compulsive obsessive listening spree.
I want a white peasant skirt!
current mood:  restless
current music: Death Cab for Cutie - Tiny Vessels
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