Uno, dos, tres...

Recently, for my DailyBooth I was asked to give five facts about myself, now usually I find it really difficult to think of these things but once I got the ball rolling, I couldn't stop! Which unfortunately lead to me writing a hell of a lot!
So I thought I'd share these 5 facts with you! Here they are:


1) I like making new friends, and to be honest I make them pretty damn fast, if the person is nice and open :) But regardless of how quickly I make them, my friends mean everything to me and when I make a friend, they're a friend for life! Unless the wrong me, but even then I'm quite forgiving and I believe most people are good and so deserve second chances. If I ever call you a Best Friend, then you know that I will always be there for you no matter what!

2) When I was little I was super shy and very insecure, I was bullied at times and to overcome it I became a bully for a while. All to deal with my insecurity and longing for social acceptance. Then (thankfully) one day I decided I didn't like myself like that, so decided to change and become more confident and just be myself, let people decide if they like me or not for who I am, not for who they want me to be. This is mostly me jumping into things biting the bullet as it were, which helps me confront my insecurity head on, but I must admit that insecurities are often still there. One just tries to overcome them!

3) I LOVE to help! I have never felt helpless and think I have lots of people to turn to when I'm in trouble. So I despair when I see someone in need, I love to help people! I feel I have already experienced a lot in my (so far) short life and so I can relate to lots of different situations, and I love giving advice. It's something I do automatically and without thinking, which considering I don't always articulate my thoughts well, I tend to blabber a lot sometimes which in the end doesn't prove as useful. But I do seem to give a lot of advice.

4) I have been gifted with great friends and a great family. And that family, namely my parents, has allowed me to travel a lot in my life. I Love travelling, I have visited most of Western Europe and both East and West US Coasts. I've been on safari to Africa, and to the beach in Dubai. I've had it good. And I love travelling so much, that when I saw my first plane
ever I knew right then and there that my destiny was in Flying. I'm currently studying Aerospace Engineering (Rocket and Plane Science) and next year I hope to go to Pilot school to become the most bad-ass commercial pilot ever! I love flying so much!

5) I couldn't decide what to write for my fifth fact. Perhaps my Love of Stargate (I've seen it ALL!); or CSI; or NCIS (I LOVE Gibbs!!). Or perhaps that I'm good in bed, or that I can't talk about myself easily. But I think I'll finish it off with the fact that I shamelessly can't help myself blabber my mouth off when asked to explain something about myself even though I consider it impossible to talk about me!
Or my indecisiveness? :P

Now you know a little bit more about me!

London Baby!

So after some nothingness in London I decided it was time to return to Southampton.
Turns out I returned to nothingness there too! So after a week of gauge-out-your-eyes boredom I got that "London's Calling" feeling and decided to return to the homeland.

On Thursday the 10th it was a lovely sunny day, so I decided to spend it in Central London. I bought a return ticket to Waterloo (£2.70) and walked from there. I went via Westminster and Downing Street towards Trafalgar Square. From there I continued on to the Bond Street and then Oxford Street. I went along Oxford Street (popping into the Apple store in Regents Street briefly) and carried on until Tottenham Court Road. I made my way down to Covent Garden having done a sufficiently large loop, and looking on the map finally realised how close Covent Garden is to Waterloo. The trip took me three hours, which included some dilly dallying in a couple of shops. My main aim was to learn lots of new routes for when I'm in London.
That evening I had a long over-due reunion with my good friend Ben, from back in my St John's days. He very kindly offered to meet me in Wimbledon and we went to the Village for some drinks. We hit the Fire Stables, a fantastic 'gastro-pub' off the High Street. We got through two rounds there, over an hour of chatting and catching up. It's great when you have such a good friend that literally years can go by without you seeing each other, but once you meet, you just pick up where you left off as if only a weekend had passed.
After a couple rounds of drinks we were starting to get a little tipsy and hunger was setting in. So we made our way to Strada which is a fantastic Italian restaurant on the Wimbledon Village High Street. I ate a fantastic pizza called "Speck" which has lots of mozzarella, Italian ham, and rocket. It was a very good night and we managed to chat a lot about lots of stuff.
I fear I'm using the word "stuff" or "things" too much, but that is in truth the best way to describe it, also I don't exactly remember the details of the conversations, though obviously a lot had to do with our friends from school or how and what we were doing now at university.
We had desert and paid the bill, it was a very good meal and we were positively full by end of it. We decided that since the conversation was good we'd continue at a pub that is the favourite of one of our mutual friends Mike. It's called the Rose & Crown and is just off Wimbledon Common. The conversation carried on and finished on a high I think, including some great revelations!
Friday was pretty unpleasant weather so I didn't get up to much but Saturday was a beautiful day again, and rather late in the day I decided to finally satisfy my dinosaur cravings that I'd been having and go to the Natural History Museum. I again got a return into London (this time getting off at Vauxhall) and walked from there. I walked past the SIS building, and through Belgrave Square (where a lot of Embassies in London are located) and up to Knightsbridge, then on to South Kensington.
I Loved the Natural History museum, and I saw almost all of it's exhibitions! Except the Creepy Crawlies because, well they're called Creepy for a reason!!
It was fantastic, and the pictures can be seen on here:




On Sunday I saw Ben again, and I caught up with a huge bunch of other people I used to hang out with. We took part in a pub quiz and generally had a great time. I spent the night at Ben's house, in his spare room at the end of the garden. It was great, and his house is very nice (quite different from the last time I went!)
And so Monday and Tuesday so far haven't been very busy, I've just been relaxing from all this excitement! Now I'm pondering when to go back to Southampton, it's Boat Show time and I think I really need to go!!

Strolling

After quite some time of rather dreary weather today was finally a nice day, and as a pure coincidence I decided it was time to get out of the house, after all it's just not healthy to be indoors for so long!

I plugged my iPod and set off; I like to walk into town, it gives me an oportuinity to listen to my iPod and reflect on life, love, 'cos maybe all it takes is a little understanding... plus, the difference between walking is 10 maybe 15 minutes and £1.50 which suffice to say, isn't really worth it.
I went to Waitrose to take advantage of their Ecover product offer, which ended today, and so I got lots of cleaning products that are nice to the environment, yay me! On my trip to Waitrose however I realised that the day was in fact a lot nicer than I had thought, and jeans were a bad idea. So I came home to drop off my pollution-busting purchaces and quickly donned some shorts. They're brand new shorts that are quite tight, so I couldn't fill the pockets as I usually do, but worst of all they're Orange! Now I like orange, but I couldn't think what colour shirt would go with it, so I stuck with the pale/pastel pink Lacoste Polo I was wearing. It seems alright at the time, but upon further reflection, perhaps not; what do you think?

Well I set off into town, shorts on, iPod plugged in, and bag over my shoulder. I took my favourite white hoody because you never know how or when the weather's going to change! I was cornered by a guy from this charity that helps people all over the world feeding the hungry and stuff and he managed to bleed £12 a Quarter from me. I'll probably pay once and then cancel the Direct Debit. I love to give, but I can't support 3 charities at once! Two is already taxing, I may have to drop them too.
I arrived at IKEA (where else?!) and promptly got a cup of coffee. I sat in the caffeteria for a while, enjoying my coffee and my Harry Potter book (which is in Spanish). After finishing my coffee I strolled around the shop and showed exceptional restraint in only buying stuff I needed! (mostly). I went back for a stroll around town, and was starting to get very hungry. I walked into McDonalds, but promptly walked out; I decided that I was going to go for something cheap and (kind of) healthy, and the best place for that is IKEA! I had their meatballs with fries and gravy (ok not very healthy but got to be better than a Quarter Pounder!), an apple, a bread roll, and a tea, all for £1!!! (AKA super cheap!)

Now I'm excited about returning to London, I've decided I'm getting up early, and going to go touristing around for a bit. All on foot! (almost, just to save on the travelcard!)

On which note I'll wrap this up, don't want to bore you!

One last thing though! When I got home, I had to put the bins out (for tomorrow's collection) and I found this massive spider had tied it's web to one of the bins. I felt bad having to destroy it :(



Ok, it was two last things (and this is becoming very long!) but I was saddend to see that broken sun flower is broken :(

Home is where the heart is...

Well I've just spent another lonesome week in Southampton, and I'm likely to be here for a while longer.

Why am I here? None of my friends are here, no-one I know is in Southampton and I haven't left my house in days!

I guess it's because this place is home now, I have my bed here, my computer, and all my stuff, here. Everybody else is at home, with their parents and the rest of their family, seeing their old friends from school. But I am not. My parents moving to Mexico put a damper on things, it's not like I can go and see them often or anything. And even if they were still here I lived miles away from all my friends and half of them are now scattered across the world so it's not like I'd be a lot less lonely.

It's very clear to me that I need to get out of here... but where do I go? Summer's not nice when you rather be somewhere else.

But I guess September came along fast, and since I do have quite a lot to do it'll probably go quite fast and before you know it Uni will have started and I'll be having the time of my life!

Because you Live, Je t' ecris...

"Es dificil en tan solo unas palabras, poder describir lo especial que has llegado a ser en mi vida;

pero lo que si quiero es agradecerte por todos los gratos momentos que hemos compartido y en los que has traído tanta felicidad a mi corazón.

Definitivamente el compartir contigo, ha sido una gran bendición del cielo."

To save you time, I provide the translation bellow:

"It's difficult in so few words, to be able to describe how special you've become in my life; but what I do want is to thank you for all the fond moments we've shared and in which you have brought so much happiness to my heart.

Definitely the sharing with you, has been a great blessing from heaven."

Sense & Sensibility & STFU!

I was debating whether to delve into the usually controversial and problem-causing waters of politics and current affairs, but there are some things that are really grinding my gears at the moment!

Naturally, as with most of the world's problems, the USA has something to do with it or is involved somehow.

First of all I feel compelled to defend the NHS. It, like any other system, has it's flaws, big ones, but in principle it is a brilliant idea and if it managed to get its act together it is what every other country should aspire to have. They may have long waiting lists, but health is a human right, and the state should care about its population and provide them with the health care they need, period. The US's system doesn't work, is biased, and helps too few people. Change is a vital part of life, the Democrats promised it, so they should now deliver, the Republicans need to get a grip and stop dragging their heels, change can be good! and it's what the world needs now.

Secondly, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed Al Megrahi, known as the Lockerbie Bomber and recently released from prison on compassionate grounds. The world is up in arms about it, the US is pissed off, Libya is having a party, and London is brown-nosing everyone. Now I don't claim to be incredibly knowledgeable about this topic but I'd say I'm just above average.

The only crime here is the way the Libyans treated Al Megrahi on his arrival, as a hero! A hero of what?! Seriously what are they trying to say? He's a hero because he killed 270 people? He's a hero because he beat the justice system? He's a hero because he's innocent? I just don't see how in any way he can be labelled a hero. Libya what the hell are you doing?!

Scotland, I can totally see what you were thinking. Here's a guy, who about 10 years after the attack you managed to convict of the bombing. It took you 10 years to put together some pretty shaky evidence, and I think you knew that if it went to appeal or was re-tried it probably wouldn't stand up that well. He's also an old man, who's dying of cancer none the less, and who's served 8.5 years in prison. Now 1 year in prison is no pic-nic, let alone 8, and did I mention he has cancer, which isn't one of those die quietly in your sleep / no pain kind of diseases, so he hasn't had it easy. So three months before he's supposed to die, you let him out, I think that shows some compassion, which is what you were aiming for, well done!

London, Westminster, the UK government, whatever you want to call yourselves, seriously, what are you playing at?! First of all the USA used to be your BFF, since WWII none the less!! Be nice! put your arm around it's shoulder and comfort when it needs it! Obama is the new C in C, and he's a no nonsense kind of guy, you can't sweet talk him like you did ol' Dubya, he's not a politician he's a human, who needs to be talked to like one! They are certainly a better friend than a North African dictatorship!! You seriously need to stop brown-nosing Muslim ass. I think relations with North Africa and the Middle East are important, and we need to accept them as they are, confrontation solves little, but neither does submission!! You shouldn't be playing with them whilst turning a blind eye to their faults! And if it was for Oil then "ashamed" doesn't begin to cover what I feel. You should start acting like the Superpower that you are, but you also have to work to earn that status! Gordon, I feel so sorry for you, but you should really get out. I may even just about be willing to agree that you were one of the best candidates to get us out of the recession, but you fail at every other aspect, and a PM needs to be an all-rounder, and you're not, so go, please, for both our sakes. David, I have to admit, you've got the personality, you're engaging and charismatic. But I'm convinced you have no spine, you aren't clear about your aims, you aren't decisive nor progressive. I have to admit, you are going to suck as a PM, it's just not for you, go do PR for a company or something, just not PM please!

As for my American friends, you have plenty of problems to deal with, get over the Lockerbie thing, seriously. Tragedies happen but we all have to move on! You're a young nation and still have that revolutionary thirst for blood, the more civilised nations over here are kind of over it, you should really get started on that road! We're not going to kill Al Megrahi for some sort of crappy revenge. You shouldn't be criticising Scotland but Libya, and maybe a slap on the wrist to London, but forgive them, and take us back! We still want to be BFFs!