I was having problem writing this weeks blog entry, so while bored at school I decided to write a plan:

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Hopefully I’ll cover everything in this entry that I planned

This week THREE of the TV shows that I’m currently watching are having their series finales. On Monday it was Chuck, tomorrow (Thurs) it’s Heroes and then on Saturday it’s Dr Who. Why do all of these shows have to end at the same time? Now in one week I’m going to lose all of my TV shows (other than Star Trek and M*A*S*H) at once. I’ve started watching some Torchwood episodes on the internet, so I might start watching that weekly on my computer to fill in one of the TV gaps, but I’ll have to find something else to replace the others. What shows do you recommend? Doesn’t have to be on TV at the moment, I can watch it on the internet too

Nuns…did you know that they wear red? I saw a nun on the bus the other day, and she was wearing fully red, I had only ever seen them in grey/black before (I’ve only ever seen nuns on TV though..). I also never knew that nuns went on buses, but I suppose they are just human and have to get to places lol. She must have been boiling in those clothes though, I was hot in my short sleeved shirt and she was wearing a big red cloth head to toe! I don’t know how people cope wearing things like that. Also on the same day while at the bus stop waiting for the bus, I had someone shout at me ‘Don’t stand near me, I’m black!’, she then kissed her teeth and spat at the floor. My initial reaction was ‘WTF?!’, I hadn’t done anything apart from stand at the bus stop like I do everyday, I wasn’t even standing near her (at least a metre away from her). I always seem to encounter weird people on the buses/at bus stops, maybe I have a ‘weird person magnet’ on me? That’s my friends theory anyway

From today there is exactly 3 weeks until the summer holidays! I can’t wait, 6 weeks off of school is going to be great. I’ve got quite a few plans, which include baking a coffee cake and going to the war museum with my brother, I also hope that I’ll make a new layout for s0nerdy but I’ve been saying that since last November lol.

Finally…I need to ask you a question. Can someone explain PingFM and Plurk to me? I’m slightly confused about them and what they’re for. Are they like Twitter? Myspace? or completely different? I’m mainly interested because my school blocks most sites (including Twitter, Myspace, Facebook), but they haven’t blocked PingFM or Plurk! So if they’re good sites I could use them while bored at school

That’s all I’ve got to say I think. My written plan was very useful! I might have to do that more often

It’s Summer, and I have caught a cold, this happens to me every year, why can’t I just get a cold during the Winter like normal people?

The open day at Kingston University last week was very good, all of the people I met were really nice and the facilities there were fantastic! The large spot on the teachers’ head that was ready to pop was a bit distracting though. I liked the university, and I would apply there, but there is one problem…the History course is the wrong one for me. As you probably know from my previous posts, one of my main areas of interest is anything war related, but this course had no topics on war at all. They claimed that it was a course that mainly focused on modern History, but surely if you’re going to be studying modern History you should study WWI/II? As it’s one of the biggest events of last century, a turning point in Europe, it led to the Cold War, and also was the first usages of modern warfare.

So because of this I’ve decided that I’m not going to apply to Kingston, which is a bit of a disappointment because I really liked the university, but there isn’t any point going to a nice university but doing a course that I find boring is there? The next open day I’m planning on going to is the University of Kent (Canterbury Campus), to study at that university I would have to move into student accommodation at the university (which I’m still unsure about, I think I want to stay at home), but even if I don’t apply there I think it’ll be a good experience to look at another university so I have more to compare others to. Also, I’m looking forward to going to Canterbury for the day

In other news, my neighbours cat has been taken away by the RSPCA (Wiki). For the past 8 months I had noticed the way they had been treating him declining, ever since they got 2 new kittens. He hadn’t been eating properly because of them not putting enough food out and the kittens eating it all before him, they left him outside during all types of weather, and also ignored his fleas/skin problem he had which escalated to him having a large (by large I mean taking up most of his back leg) raw red piece of skin on his back leg, they had really mistreated him. We had tried to do our best for him, gave him some spare food and also gave him warm milk on some really cold nights, but we couldn’t let him inside our house though because of his flea problem, so we just made sure that we were nice to him (made him feel wanted, I even talked to him lol) whenever he went through our garden.

One of our other neighbours must have found him, and called the RSPCA, because on Friday evening there was a poster on a lamp post saying that he was gone. I wish that I had called the RSPCA earlier about it, but I was too scared to, my neighbours are crazy and would have probably stabbed me/got someone to stab me if they found out I had done it (yes, I’m being serious!). But maybe I was being selfish? I looked at only my own self interests, rather than how the cat was suffering, I regret not doing something sooner but I’m glad he is going to be better now. I’m going to miss him, but I know he’s going to be in a better place now, they’ll probably find an elderly lady who wants an elderly cat to look after

I found this shirt a couple of weeks ago on Cafepress.com, it made me laugh so much that I just had to buy it. The writing on it says:

‘Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together’

That quote is more true than I would like to admit, whenever something breaks we always get out the duct tape! The underneath of my bed even has duct tape on from where me and my sister broke it once by jumping on it I wonder what would happen if all of the duct tape in the world disappeared, everything would probably collapse..

The shirt took a long time to arrive, 4/5 weeks, and had quite expensive postage but that was because it came from America, it was worth it though. I’m looking forward to wearing it and confusing people, I’ve already confused several people with my ‘Traffic Jam on Toast’ shirt

I’m a bit disappointed with the quality of the shirt though, because there is a large light grey coloured rectangle on it which looks like someone has sprayed deodorant on it, I think it’s from where they put the transfer on to put the writing on it, I’m hoping it’ll fade a bit when I wash it .

I’ve now posted 2 T-shirt related blogs almost next to each other; I don’t think I’ll be buying any more shirts online any time soon

I’ve decided on the topic that I’m going to be doing for my History independent study that I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve chosen D-Day! I’ve chosen this topic because there are alot of resources available about it, I already have a good interest/understanding of it, and also because the event itself had a big impact on the war. The essay question I’m probably going to answer is ‘How was D-Day pivotal to WWII?’, I haven’t decided that for certain yet though. I’m really excited about this

This Wednesday I’m not going to school (Yay!), and instead I’m going to Kingston University’s open day, so that shall be fun, next week I’ll update saying what it was like.

Hope you all have a good week

As the title says, s0nerdy.net is back!

Not much has happened since my last blog entry, apart from exams. I finished my exams last Monday which was a relief, not looking forward to August 14th when I’m going to be getting my results though. The last week has been really nice, I’ve enjoyed not having to worry about exams, no more exams now until January

At school because we’ve done our Year 12 exams we’re now starting Year 13 (the last year of school, some call it Upper Sixth I think..) early so that we can start the A2 syllabus before the beginning of the next academic year in September and get ahead. I’m looking forward to History the most, because we’re doing the Cold War, the Tudor State, and then we’re able to choose a third topic ourselves! I’m still undecided about what I’m going to do, I’ve been considering something to do with WWII and it’s effects in Britain, D-Day, or the Nuremberg Trials, what do you think I should do? My main area of History that I enjoy is anything related to war (which sounds a bit bad, I know lol), but I’m open to have a look at anything new

My TV schedule has got alot better recently, after it being a bit empty for a while. I enjoy watching TV, especially in the evening, it’s like reading a book because it helps me get to sleep more easily afterwards. Here’s my schedule:
Monday: 8pm Star Trek TNG. 9pm Star Trek Enterprise. 10pm Chuck
Tuesday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Wednesday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Thursday: 8pm Star Trek TNG
Friday: 7pm M*A*S*H x2. 8pm Star Trek TNG
Saturday: 7pm Doctor Who
Sunday: Nothing
*TNG = The Next Generation
I also watch other programmes, but these are the ones that i always make sure that I don’t miss. Now I think about it, I’m not really watching much TV, but I suppose it is alot considering how little I used to watch a few months ago. Also, I know I watch too much Star Trek, shhh lol.

I’ve now got alot of blogs to catch up with and comment on, sorry for this boring entry - next week I’ll hopefully have something good to blog about!

s0nerdy is on a Temporary Hiatus

I felt bad for abandoning my blog for 2 weeks without an explanation, so I thought it would be a good idea to post this blog entry. So, where have I been? Exams. Well, obviously not doing exams all the time, that would probably kill me, but I’ve been doing tonnes of revision - which is something I don’t usually do lots of, so hopefully it pays off.

I’ve tried to blog a couple of times, but I couldn’t because what is there interesting to write about revising and doing exams? I also feel bad for doing anything other than revision, which has been something else which has stopped me from blogging, I have found other ways to procrastinate though - I’ve spent a little bit too much time on youtube recently..

My last exam is on 2nd June, so that’ll be the latest before I’m back to my usual blogging routine. I do have next week (26th-30th) off school though, so maybe I’ll blog properly then? Whatever happens, I’ll be back soon!

My new shirt arrived!

I wasn’t in a very photogenic mood today, so this is the best photo I could get I bought this shirt from uneetee.com and I love it. Traffic Jam on Toast, and I the only person who finds this hilarious? I’ve had to explain the picture on this shirt to 3 people so far (only 3 people have seen it!), and I’ve received weird looks from them all

Not much else to say really, just general boring school stuff. I’ve been trying to revise all day today for the History exam that I’ve got next Monday, but I couldn’t concentrate so in the end I just gave up. I need to start revising properly, and I also need to start revising for all of the other exams I’ve got coming up. I hate this time of the year, can’t wait for the exams to be over.

A couple of weeks ago, as the people who follow me on twitter will know, I discovered Black Books! Ever since discovering it I’ve watched each episode at least 3 times, I’ve actually become a bit obsessed with it. Dylan Moran is an Irish comedian who is the main character in the show, I’ve always loved his stand up material but I had never watched that show before, I would definately recommend watching some of his stand up shows on Youtube! Last week I found out about a tour that he is going to do in the Autumn, and discovered he’s going to be coming to Croydon where I live. So I’ve booked tickets for it, and I’m really excited, can’t wait till November 13th now. I’ve got really good seats aswell, I’ve Row A Seats 15 & 16 in the front stalls, so basically right at the front, here is the seating plan of the place. The tickets arrived today, which was surprising because I only bought them last week, now I need to find a place to keep them safe until November…

On Saturday I found a site called MySearchFunds, it’s a site which lets you earn money by simply doing what we all do on the internet, which is searching, and each time you do a search you earn approx 2.5p. If you have firefox, on the right hand site of the window there is a search box, all you need to do is set their search engine as your new default, it explains how to do this when you sign up, the good thing is that their search directs you to google so it’s not any different form how people usually search on the internet. You can also use IE with it, but I haven’t tried that. I’ve only been doing this since Saturday evening, and I’ve done 141 searches and have earnt £2.33 (Yay a site in English money for once!), which is $4.63USD. It’s not a lot of money, but it all mounts up and searching is something we all do anyway, so you’re able earn money without having to do anything different from usual. This isn’t a sponsored post, I just think it’s a fantastic site which I wanted to spread the word about If you do sign up, could you use my referrall link please? That would make me a very happy person

Other than falling in love with Dylan Moran and discovering a new way to earn money, I haven’t really done much in the last week. I’ve got this Wednesday off school, which I’m hopefully going to spend revising (unless I start procrastinating, which we all know I will) because of the evil exams which are approaching. I hope you all have a nice week!

Today was the last day of my school holidays, I’ve got to go back tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to it, because in a couple of weeks I’ve got my end of year exams so I’ve got lots of work to do, my brain will probably explode because of it. I’ve got to start revising though, because I’ve had 2 weeks off of school I’ve forgotten nearly everything that I’ve learnt this year, it’ll probably come back to me when I go back to school but right now if you asked a specific simple question (i.e. what year did Cromwell die) I wouldn’t know the answer. I think it’s funny how it takes us so long to learn things, but then so little time to forget, I think that proves that school nowadays just teaches us to pass exams rather than gain knowledge about the subject, which I think is really wrong.

On Thursday I went to the TK Maxx (A big shop that sells everything!) in Croydon Town Centre, and fell in love with a pair of trainers, but they didn’t have my size So on Friday I went to the even bigger TK Maxx which is in Purley, and they had a pair of trainers in my size which were almost exactly the same as the ones that I saw in Croydon! The only difference is that they’ve got dots on them, but they still look really nice. They were only £20, £5 cheaper than the ones in Croydon, and over £20 cheaper than the RRP! I love finding bargains. My old pair of trainers are a really old pair of pink and black vans, I’ve had them for over 3 years and they’re very beaten up and dirty, I was going to post a photo of them but I’m a bit embarrassed about them now because I never realised how bad they were, they’re still really comfy though. I wonder how many years it’s going to be until I buy a new pair of trainers Here is a photo of my new shoes:

Today I realised that I hadn’t blogged for a whole two weeks, oops! Last week I was at my dads flat all last week busy helping to decorate his flat, I did try to blog a couple of times but I couldn’t think of anything to write about so I just gave up. Anyway, enough excuses, I’m now here writing a blog

Yesterday I got some new shelves for my bedroom, something that you probably don’t think is very exciting, but I think they’re great. They’re only small shelves (60cm long), the messy top shelf is my sisters and the bottom one is mine. For years I’ve been begging my mum to let me have a shelf in my room, because as I share the room with my sister there is very little space to put things, most of my stuff is piled up under my bed because there is no where else to put it. I did want a shelf above my bed, because then it would be longer and also wouldn’t have my sister invading it with her junk, but my mum said I wasn’t allowed because something could fall off it and kill me - which I think is stupid, but I couldn’t persuade her to change her mind. The only other place to put a shelf I could think of, which wasn’t above anyones head, was above the TV, so after alot of persuading that’s what I’ve got

I’m currently in the second week of my school holidays, I can’t believe how fast it’s gone. This week I haven’t got many plans, tomorrow I’m going to the cinema with one of my friends and then on Thursday I need to go shopping to get some things for school, the others days I’m just going to enjoy my time off! I also have next Monday off school, and I’ll be spending that revising because I’ve got exams coming up soon and I’ve forgotten nearly everything that I learnt, I hope I don’t procrastinate too much…

On Friday my laptop came back from being repaired again, I’m not sure if this is the 3rd or 4th time this year (7 or 8th times in total), I’m losing count. As I’ve said each other time I’ve had my laptop repaired, I hope it doesn’t need to be sent away again, I really miss this laptop when it goes away to be repaired because when I use other laptops it don’t feel right - which I know sounds silly. Here is a short list of facts about my laptop, I’m doing this because all of the questions/misunderstandings about my laptop in the comments over the past few months have been driving me crazy

• My laptop ISN’T a Mac or a Dell, it’s an Advent with 1024MB RAM, a 40GB HDD and a 15.4″ widescreen.
• I got this laptop in April 2006, so it’s almost 2 years old!
• The warranty ran out ages ago, but I have insurance for it which I pay £8 monthly for, that’s how I get it repaired each time. The insurance company insists that the laptop hasn’t broken frequently enough for them to replace it which is ridiculous.

I’m sure there were other questions and things in some of my previous entries comments that I wanted put in that list, but I’ve forgotten them, so if there is anything else I’ll put it in the next entry

On Saturday while at my dad’s flat my brother was playing on the Wii and broke the light-bulb with the Wii Remote by playing a bit too enthusiastically on Wii tennis and jumping up and down, it was really funny. Atleast he didn’t do this I suppose

This week is my last week of school before I have 2 weeks off, can’t wait! Also, tomorrow (Tuesday) I’ve only got to go into school for 10 minutes so I’ve basically got the day off, and on Friday we have a half day but my lessons don’t start till 12:30 (When the day ends!) so I’m going to talk to my Head of Year to see if I can just go in for the morning assembly and then go home, I hope so. This week is going to be a nice week, hopefully I won’t get too much homework to do in the holidays.

I’m going to be staying at my dads flat for the first week of the holidays, we’re going to be painting his flat! I’m really looking forward to it, painting is fun.

For the last couple of days I’ve been looking at shirts on Zazzle.com, although it doesn’t have as many designs as Cafepress.com has I think the designs are better, I’m currently trying to decide which shirt to buy. Have you ever bought a shirt from there? What are they like?

Tomorrow is APRIL FOOLS day! I shall be hiding from everyone until midday lol.