That's a WHOLE lotta POOP!!

hello, ello, llo, lo, o, lo, llo, ello, hello


So now to start my 2nd contribution to this enjoyably random blog. Don't expect too much considering my job and life status is pretty much the same as last week.


Its halloween!!!!! ooooooOOOOOOooOoOOooooOOOOooooo!! 
I feel obliged to make this Halloween themed but, although I love dressing up (like every other asian...typical!!), I'm not so good with the scary stuff, plus I haven't really gotten into Halloween this year. Having said that, tonight I'm experiencing an annoying number of people (I say people and not kiddies because a pair of ~20 year olds  knocking on my door asking for sweeties. I don't usually mind but this year we ran out of sweets, so now, every time that doorbell rings my heart skips a beat and I panic that tomorrow I'm going to wake up and my car is scratched or something. And that is worrying...and scary so I guess I'm being roped into Halloween this year.   (T-T)


So on to my usual random thoughts, which unfortunately you'll have to read about until something happens in my life. But I'll try to limit them to a max of 2 random thoughts per post, mainly because I can only remember 2 (^_^). 
The other day I was thinking about that children's game 'hello, my name is Joe' and was thinking...'why was it enjoyable? What makes it fun? What is the point of it?!'. Anyway now I'm thinking 'is this a sign that life has sucked the enjoyment out of small things, or that I've out grown it and graduated into adulthood.....or both'. Oh boy I sound depressing on paper!!!


On a different kind of weird (but wonderful) note, my watch have been sent off for servicing so currently I'm using my dad's first ever watch. And what I'm currently LOVING about it is that it is so old that you have to wind it up every day!!! Hehe...I think this soon to be annoying novelty will wear off considering it's non-water resistant so I have to take it off every hour, esp with all my household chores...you'd think that getting a degree would allow me to avoid such .....*ponders*....'insert word' activities...or at least you'd think my brain would have thought up an excuse..  XP. Well, at leasts it's something to do every day.


Speaking of chores, last Thursday, I was helping my mum with the gardening. My dad always says the plants 'shiver in fear' when my mum steps out armed with wellies and cutters!  She just hacks away this plant (which is flowering) and I'm like 'poor planty!' Then she replies 'well no one like this plant anyway', to which I reply 'well the bumblebees do!!' So I guess I'm not fully an adult yet! Happy times :D. 


Ok, so you would not believe the range of fresh to old to ROTTEN poop that nature has so kindly left scattered around my garden! 

Fresh as a not so nice daisy

Moldy and crumbling  

Trampled, sticky and bug-coated 

And I was so surprised that poo can become rotten!!! Ok so reading back, that statement sounds comical but I am COMPLETELY serious! Obviously, if you're going to get all scientific on me that yes, ok, it makes perfect sense and....oh dear, I have gone from blogging about bees to blogging about poop....help me!! :S

SWIFTLY moving on to my second random thought (since I forgot the other one I was going to mention): 
Currently watching Giles Coren and Sue Perkins in 'The Supersizers Eat...Medieval'. (I love them and want them to get married!! Even if Giles is already married) Their series are probably my favourite food programmes! Anyway, this show makes me want to be a food historian!! 


And just on a side note, eating a whole sharon fruit is filling...I feel bloated...and with that, GOOD NIGHT!!


bisous!
Jess

CHALLENGE No. 1

Acapella shower

Remember: All videos, pictures and prose must be your own. Refer to HERE for more info...or Alex :P

Deadline: Midnight on Wednesday/Thursday (i.e. you have wednesday to do it too!)

Looking forward to your responses!! GOOD LUCK!

T.G.I.F

Hello and welcome to the first of  (hopefully) many visits. How have you been? Very well I hope :)

Funnily the Mr Cool mug was
piping hot in this photo!

I'll sign my posts M/-\D (Mad), but I'm no stranger to Mads, the occasional Maddie and the rarely heard in the wild Maduka. Regardless, all four are 21 years old, quite  laid back, reasonably sane :P with a knack for remembering obscure information and about random films. I guess that  pretty much sums me up, however I've kindly been invited by this ever so talented menagerie of amazing souls to contribute to this living blog, and so it goes...


Where to begin? I suppose the last 7 days. Oh wait how about something slightly awkward and embarrassing....but first some intro.
So, like the majority of my lovely friends I have also just graduated, however not learning my lesson I've crazily embarked on a MSc this year. That takes up a lot of my time at the moment for some awful reason, but I figure I'm lucky because the course (Molecular Medicine) and the university (Brunel) are pretty ok. 3 weeks in and I'm still sussing things out, but lectures and practicals are quite routine, still struggle to keep my eyes open post lunch haha. There's only 9 of us in total on the course and I'm the only GUY. Ok, I'll pause. Sounds somewhat interesting right? YEP I feel like a rooster in the hen house, if said rooster was the exact size and demeanour of a docile hen.....

Having said that, this past week in class has alerted me to an emerging 'situation'. It's not so much the smiles, the subtle glances OR the all out stares OR the awkward conversations (we'd never spoken until last week) OR the uncanny way the seating is arranged so that we're almost always sat next to each other OR the frequent lunch partnering but ALL of these things combined that has lead to feel like I have a second, long haired, female, all of 5ft 

SHADOW.

"Hold on a minute! Perhaps I'm being toooooo hasty in that appraisal?"...would have been my first thoughts UNTIL Monday. Monday Monday Monday. In a nutshell, I was abruptly accosted (exaggeration) for my phone number at the bus stop following lectures. In a kind of daze, uniquely brought about by being blindsided, I recited my number, the bus came. I turned to look and when I turned back my shadow was gone....
So far I've received 3 calls from G (shadow sounds douchey after awhile), always on the pretext of  'uni work', but it always winds up being a Vodaphone sponsored awkward conversation to add to the face to face ones.


I include that last sentence more as a matter of fact than anything else. Most things should be taken with a pinch of salt I think, particularly the behaviour of people you've just met, but I thought I'd offer up this little episode anyhow to see what sensible people make of it. 
I'll save the film talk (I've watched two of note this week. easy A and The Lords of Discipline) and the athletics talk ( just starting to get back into my running yay!) for when you come around another time. As you may have noticed I tend to gabble....


Visit again soon.


M/-\D




Top 5 Most Youtubed songs while writing this post.


1. Love on Top - Beyonce (the footwork in this video is amazing!)
2. I Want You Back - Jackson 5
3  Who loving you - Michael Jackson
4. Somebody's watching me - Rockwell
5. Skinny Love - Birdy (Bon Iver Cover) 

I think we are getting the jizz of this

So Thursday came and almost gone (17:55 according to my laptop). What I'd like to say is that life is too short for us to care about the petty little thing. For example, when we point at a random direction and say "The city centre is literally 5 minutes away," and find us in a situation where we get criticised for pointing at the opposite direction of the city centre by a incredibly petty colleague.

Moving on swiftly, my name's Ben-E, named after the rusty yellow and grey robot from Wall-E. I'm a student still and earning well below the minimum wage from my PhD stipend because I work 12 hours a day and 6 days a week (on some weeks anyway). My week thus far has been filled with boring courses on ethics and laws involved with animal experimentation. After these incredibly slow and tedious lectures, it came to my attention that scientists that work with animals get threat notes and are targets to bomb attacks by extremists. So, this has added some level of excitement to my week. I.e. the anxiousness that I can receive a bomb through a parcel, but don't worry, fellow readers, the management staff in my building has made it exceptionally clear that they will not accept any parcels to the building because it takes too much time and effort. Though, saying that, they have also made it very clear that they have a lot of time to watch every single CCTV footage to find out who misplaced the rubbish ontop of the full waste bins.

Despite the many hardships on bomb threats, rude building management staff and the numerous emails I get cced in by my boss to do sh*t for him that are completely irrelvant to my work, I am enjoying the money I saved up for the potential threat of getting fired tomorrow after my BIG presentation to the department. For now, toodles and until we meet/you read again (aka, next thursday)

Welcoming Wednesdays With Warmth

Hi again guys!

One Of My Favourite Visual Pass Times...

So I'm Wednesday's installment of madness, also known as Alikay! A little intro about myself? Let's do this thang: I'm currently 21 and like everyone else who's posted so far I've just graduated in Biomedical Sciences. However, unlike the previous two bloggers my Mom has now stopped trying to marry me off, though she does still want to become Jewish (Well we can't win them all =oS). I'm now spending my days as a jobless bum, scouring the interwebs for an occupation and/or videos of cats falling off things! I'm a happy-go-lucky kinda guy who suffers from moments of sanity in which the crushing reality of the world sends me spinning into an uncontrollable spiral of DOOM! But enough about my mental health issues and on with the freak show!

Dudley Castle To Prove I Live In A Real Place!

So what is occurring in the wondrous world that is my life? I shall tell thee: I live in  a small village outside of Dudley and Wolverhampton (if you've never heard of these places then think near Birmingham but much, much better!) and I guess I'm becoming more of a Black Country Boy  as the days wear on! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Country) The down side to living in a small village during an economic crisis is that work becomes hard to come by; to the point where there are just simply no jobs at all! So imagine my delight when my aunt texts me on Sunday to let me know there is a job being advertised at one of the many local pubs! Huzzah! So with my application well and truly made I now must await for the God of underpaid work to smile on me!

Hard At Work Writing The Blog On Mr Laptop

My lack of job (as in work..not the biblical character) has lead to a lack of funds which, this week, has really been drawn to my attention. My long suffering laptop has finely decided to give up the goat...though why it was trying to hang on to a four legged farm animal I will never know...anyway I digress! So Mr laptop (a name i just made up and a poor one at that) is now dying slowly! I've had to back up my entire hard-drive; in case, one morning, I cannot log on  and lose all my important *cough* documents. So now I am in search of a new one. 


Well, much to my understandable shock; laptops are still costing money these days (when I bought Mr laptop I assumed they would be handing them out for free by the time I needed a new one!) and so I looked online and dreamt of all those shiny new laptops...none of which I could afford. Luckily for me (and in a round about way you; as I will be able to continue to blog...actually that could be to your disadvantage) my lovely, pocket-sized Nanny has agreed to lend me the money I need, to buy myself a new lifeline to the rest of the world (and falling cat videos). So I went today to ask some highly intellectual questions to the PC World man such as "which one should I buy!?"...and I had my reply...and I bought it! (Well I reserved it so I could purchase it on Saturday!) So this should be the first and last time I blog on Mr laptop! Next week I might be blogging on Lord Lappy! Or Sir Toppy! XD


Your ever humble blogger,
Lovely Jubley Alikay

What fresh hell is this?

Well hello there my loyal subjects in

blog-dom.

As a little intro i think that pretty much sums me up....princess fanatic who happens to be short and when i say short i mean of EPIC proportions. Which is an oxymoron i realise this, but i just like the word epic atm.

oh and btw, the names Kates :D

i know in a week I'm going to read this back and just think, you are such a douche, but then that's life (Y).

Soooo whats going on in my life? Well, pretty much just uni work. Argh it is kinda taking over my life. When I'm not there I'm doing work and when I'm at work I feel like i should be doing work.. You see this vicious circle that I am in?? I'm making friends though, which is cool and nice for me as I am the definition of the awkward turtle.

Anyways, the diet is out of the window! which makes me happy. As personally i don't think I particularly need to be on a diet. I exercise at least twice a week and if I got down to the weight they wanted me at then I would be a size 6...I don't think that is especially healthy do you? It also got me thinking that why are we allowing ourselves to be dictated at what we should weigh by some woman who previously was obese and also has no medical knowledge or training???

Well, rant over.

On the love life front <3

Nothing much tbh... It seems that everywhere i look there are couple rubbing their smugness and lovey-doveyness in my face, which is kinda grim but maybe that's just me? My mother is still trying to marry me off too. No change there....and i am considering it, marriage would seem like an easy option at this time. Although she reckons i would be an awful wife due to my ability to burn everything i cook and my lack of cleaning and ironing skills. I however think, why do it and do it bad when you can pay someone else to do it well? flawed logic or perfectly reasonable? you decide you lovely people.

Peace out

k xxx

Too young for a mid-life crisis?!...post uni crisis?!?!

Yoddle loo hoo hooooo!


Since Alex mentioned that we would do an intro here it is:
Hello! My name is Jessie (Or Jess or Jessica). I've just graduated from Biomedical Sciences and am right now enjoying the perks of unemployment (of which there are none....). Also I hate these kinds of intros since I really have no idea what I'm supposed to say. I fin intros particularly hard since I have no idea how much or little info to give....*ponders*....lets move on.


That was a bit of a fail...IGNORE! So this is my first blog...ever...ahhh pressure!! I bet by next year i'm going to read this and realise how silly I am. You know, already I've realised with these sorts of things I talk out loud as I type, and at the same time many random thoughts keep coming in my head, so basically some things wont even make sense..or I just sound like a schizophrenic...


So since we had a googley plus catch up yesterday, and nothing particularly interesting is happening in my life, I spent the whole day writing a list of random stuff that I thought of today...and yes, I wrote it down because you guys all know how crap my memory is :P.


My house has a wasp hive outside my bedroom window and so my room is scattered with dead wasps...lovely really (I pray that wasps will never enlarge and develop the idea that they can kill humans..because my wasp graveyard won't bode well for me...I don't even know if that made sense..but it did in my head! ^_^) Ok so I was looking for the wasp door to see how they enter my house. I saw these poor wasps, like, struggling to crawl and fly on my carpet...as if they can't breath in our atmosphere. And then I thought ooh imagine if they are soldiers investigating where the tunnel from the nest to my house leads. And in the nest a wasp reports to the wasp council with 'we have lost communication with 4 of our fly patrols'. And then the wasp council have a massive debate as to whether they should or shouldn't send more teams out. Then the wasp queen shouts 'NO! No more wasps shall be sacrificed for this pointless mission!' ....and now I realise I've lost it...guys!! Help!!! I am talking about wasps!!! *sighs* 


So, my mum is determined to get me a boyfriend (more like husband!). She keeps telling my sister to take me out with her friends...as if I'm socially retarded! Today I was talking to my sister and my mum just happens to hear a boys name and she's like 'YES! Laura take her with you!' And my sister's boyfriends birthday is next sunday and we are going out for a meal. So my mum turns to me and says 'so..should we book a table for 6? Would you like to bring a 'friend'?' And then she even turns to Laura's bf and says 'or do you know anybody to bring?' And at the same time her eyebrows are bouncing up and down continuously! Even more so than Emma Watson's eyebrows in ALL the Harry Potter movies put together!! And on top of that my mum keeps teaching me about house stuff, like cooking (which I don't really mind) and cleaning. She's trying to mould me into a house wife!! 


Which reminds me, in mauritius my pohpoh (grandma) was reading my palm and she said that I don't have a work line...maybe I should just except my destiny as a house wife...


Okay, I just got a text from 'Tammy T' (code name to protect her from stalkers and what not) which has reminded me that I have an SJA assessment tomorrow...and I truly do apologise for mentioning SJA so much..but I' actually quite nervous about it. I'm really not good at assessments. I always get so flustered but this time is even worse because I don't even know what to expect and I have no clue about the med gas stuff! ahhh ok...breath. 
So that's my life...pretty boring stuff really. Hopefully next week will be better


Toodles!
Jessie

The First (And Fake) Challenge Day

Hi guys!

So I thought I would introduce the blog and give everyone an idea what’s going on (Plus Jessie didn’t want to be the first to post =oS)

So this little blog is for us friends from uni to keep in touch with one another and keep up to date with what’s going on in each others’ lives. To add a bit of fun into the mix we thought we’d add a little challenge (dum dum duuumm) based game into the blog to keep interest and generate conversation (as if we don't already have enough to talk about :P).

I’ll let everyone introduce themselves to any readers who pass through and don’t already know us...we're a colourful bunch as you’ll soon find out! So I’ll go on now to explain the rules of the challenge (dum dum duuuum) to the happy little bloggers...

There are two types of challenges (dum dum ….ok I'll stop) that can be set:

     1. Word challenge

     2. Caption challenge.

In both cases the challenge should be set in a light grey font in order to distinguish the challenge posts from the blog posts.

Word Challenges:

A range of two to three words are set by the challenger, with no explanation to the challenger’s understanding of the phrase, i.e. the challengees should reply with their own individual interpretation of the phrase given.

The responses can be returned in a variety of media with the following constraints:

1.      Videos must be self contained and not include any text, except for credits given for other people who are present in the video; which should be included at the end of the video.

2.      Picture entries may be submitted from single images to a storyboard however only a single caption per image can be included and should be contained within the image file.

3.      Full text responses are also permitted and no minimum or maximum word count is requested.

Caption Challenges:

The challenger posts an image and requests a caption, no other text should be included in the challenge. Each challengee should then post only their caption however, no minimum or maximum limit is included.

All challenges should be set by the challenger after 12.00 (midday) but before 00.00 (midnight) on the challenge day (Saturday). All responses should be emailed to the challenger directly for judging before 00.00 (midnight) on the following Wednesday. The Challenger then judges which entry they like best and post the results before 12.00 (midday) on the next challenge day (Saturday). If time constraints are present on the challenge day then the challenger is permitted to use scheduled posting.

The results of the previous challenge should contain all of the entries submitted that week credited to their challengee and only the name of the winner should be announced. A small passage of text can be included in order to explain why the winning submission was chosen however this should be kept short (e.g. Meh and Hem were good but Meh Hem was funniest) and should not list the order of the other challengees. (Alex: 'I'd like to meet this Meh Hem')

@~@

...feeling confused?

Well I don’t have a hash key...now that’s confusing....until I tried...CONFUSED DOT COM!!!

(Sorry...couldnt resist *chuckle chuckle*)

Gladiators ARE YOU READY!!!!!

OK LAAAAAA...let's START!

"o(^_^o)" "(o^_^)o"       (I thought cheerleaders would be appropriate for some reason :P)

Enjoy!
Alex and Jess