I've moved house!
No more student accommodations! I'm out in the real world, paying proper rent and having to worry about electricity and water bills! Wheeeee!
I'm living with my friend Tsomo from Mongolia in Ropewalk Court, which is really close to town. It's such a convenient location! There's a Budgens less than a minute's walk away and there's a Chinese restaurant right opposite the flat. If I wanted to go into town, it would take only about 10 minutes to walk into the centre of town! Plus, there's a nice pub, Hand & Heart, right downstairs! I love it!
Lovely lovely Stuart took half a day off on Friday to help me pack and move all my and Tsomo's stuff from Opal to the new flat. We packed as much as we could and then we left around 4pm to go to the agent's office to sign contracts and deal with all the paperwork.
Tsomo and I hired a van to move the stuff. It's lucky we did, with the amount of boxes and bags we have! The van guy, Mark, was such a lovely man. He only charged us £25 for the 2 trips it took to move all our belongings, and he even helped carry heavy bags and boxes up to our flat. He provided us with a trolley, and it broke (probably from the sheer weight of our things!)! We felt really bad about it, and gave him £30 instead, since he was so nice and helpful. Tsomo's friend Orod came to give a hand, as did her boyfriend Craig, who was here for the weekend. Thank God for the 4 big strong men!
Surprisingly, the moving in only took about 3 hours. We started pretty late, only getting the keys at 5.30pm. The last box was moved in around 8.30pm, and we lounged around resting for awhile before we headed out to New Ocean City, the Chinese restaurant just right across the road, for a well-deserved dinner (especially for the guys!).
The weekend was spent unpacking and tidying up. We had our first "family" dinner, as Tsomo put it, on Sunday. Stu and I made apple crumble (which was OH-MY-GOD-deliciously-yummy-as-hell) and Tsomo and Craig made beef and onion cous-cous, which was also very, very tasty.
I'm looking forward to this week. Aside from having to work like mad to finish up my dissertation, which is totally doable, I'm sure, the 32" TV I've ordered is arriving either tomorrow or on Thursday, which means we can watch stuff on a nice, big screen, and Stu can finally play on his PS3 (that, I'm not so thrilled about :P) We're also having a housewarming party on Friday, which'll be fun. I've also been slowly packing stuff away and throwing away things I don't need. Next step is to sort through my piles of clothes and shoes and give anything I don't want to charity. Then after that, job hunting shall ensue! I'll have a mini-break after my dissertation's handed in, and then start applying for jobs. I'm pretty sure it won't be easy to find one, given the current economic climate.
Ok, that's all for now. Stu should be back soon, so I'm gonna go start preparing dinner. :)
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
The Doors tribute band, drunken antics and stomach flu
Hmm, more than a week since I've updated.
I'm starting to really like 30 Seconds to Mars. Jared Leto (who starred in Requiem for a Dream) is lead singer of the band. I made a horrifyingly embarrassing mistake the other day when I asked Stu what band was Jay Leno in, when I meant Jared Leto. Haha! I always mix up the two.
Anyways, I'm putting up my two favourite songs from the band. I think Jared Leto's voice is pretty amazing. Maybe if he didn't scream as much, it would be even better.
A Beautiful Lie
Closer to the Edge
This song sounds a little like Chris Daughtry's Feels Like Tonight, especially the chorus. I've posted the song below so you can listen and compare.
Chris Daughtry looks a little like Vin Diesel. Ok, random comment. Heh.
Well, update about my life the past week. Can't really remember anything significant that happened last week, apart from the weekend.
Stu and I were just chilling out in my flat on Saturday when he suddenly decided to start drinking, so I joined him. About half an hour later, he mentioned Gordon was out and wanted to meet up. Since we owed him drinks, we decided to go out. I was a little tipsy after 3 vodka and lemonades, but as it turned out Stu was far more drunk than I thought he was, since he'd already had about 5 Jack Daniels and cokes.
We met up with Gordon at The Orange Tree, which is quite a nice place. I got hungry half way through and ordered spiced lamb skewers, which didn't turn out to be quite worth the £6 I paid for them. Gordon was going to meet up with Vlad and some other people for a Doors tribute band later, and somehow we found ourselves going to The Rescue Rooms. So Saturday was my very first real gig! Well, sort of, since it is a tribute band after all! Although I still think the Avril Lavigne concert was a gig too! (Of course, Stuart disagrees with me. Sigh.)
It turned out to be pretty good. I didn't know any of the music, but it was alright. I ended up getting pretty drunk by the end of the night, but Stu takes the prize for being the most drunk. Haha! I'd never seen him so wasted before, so it was both very funny and slightly annoying.
After the gig, we went for fish and chips because we were all rather hungry, and then headed to The Social for more drinks before heading home. When we got home, I thought Stuart had sobered up quite a lot, since he'd only had a coke at The Social, but I was wrong. He was still rambling on when we went to bed, and half the stuff he said hardly made sense to me. To be fair, I guess I was quite drunk too. I think at some point we argued about something too, haha.
Sunday was spent in agony. I'd caught some kind of stomach flu, and I found myself running to the bathroom every 15 minutes. It was horrendous. I couldn't even sleep properly at night. At one point, I even fell asleep on the bathroom floor to save getting in and out of bed. It lasted till Wednesday. My stomach's still pretty weird, but at least the crippling pain's stopped and I can at least keep food and drink down. Overall this week's been fairly rubbish.
Hey, at least it's Friday now, right? :)
I'm starting to really like 30 Seconds to Mars. Jared Leto (who starred in Requiem for a Dream) is lead singer of the band. I made a horrifyingly embarrassing mistake the other day when I asked Stu what band was Jay Leno in, when I meant Jared Leto. Haha! I always mix up the two.
Anyways, I'm putting up my two favourite songs from the band. I think Jared Leto's voice is pretty amazing. Maybe if he didn't scream as much, it would be even better.
A Beautiful Lie
Closer to the Edge
This song sounds a little like Chris Daughtry's Feels Like Tonight, especially the chorus. I've posted the song below so you can listen and compare.
Chris Daughtry looks a little like Vin Diesel. Ok, random comment. Heh.
Well, update about my life the past week. Can't really remember anything significant that happened last week, apart from the weekend.
Stu and I were just chilling out in my flat on Saturday when he suddenly decided to start drinking, so I joined him. About half an hour later, he mentioned Gordon was out and wanted to meet up. Since we owed him drinks, we decided to go out. I was a little tipsy after 3 vodka and lemonades, but as it turned out Stu was far more drunk than I thought he was, since he'd already had about 5 Jack Daniels and cokes.
We met up with Gordon at The Orange Tree, which is quite a nice place. I got hungry half way through and ordered spiced lamb skewers, which didn't turn out to be quite worth the £6 I paid for them. Gordon was going to meet up with Vlad and some other people for a Doors tribute band later, and somehow we found ourselves going to The Rescue Rooms. So Saturday was my very first real gig! Well, sort of, since it is a tribute band after all! Although I still think the Avril Lavigne concert was a gig too! (Of course, Stuart disagrees with me. Sigh.)
It turned out to be pretty good. I didn't know any of the music, but it was alright. I ended up getting pretty drunk by the end of the night, but Stu takes the prize for being the most drunk. Haha! I'd never seen him so wasted before, so it was both very funny and slightly annoying.
After the gig, we went for fish and chips because we were all rather hungry, and then headed to The Social for more drinks before heading home. When we got home, I thought Stuart had sobered up quite a lot, since he'd only had a coke at The Social, but I was wrong. He was still rambling on when we went to bed, and half the stuff he said hardly made sense to me. To be fair, I guess I was quite drunk too. I think at some point we argued about something too, haha.
Sunday was spent in agony. I'd caught some kind of stomach flu, and I found myself running to the bathroom every 15 minutes. It was horrendous. I couldn't even sleep properly at night. At one point, I even fell asleep on the bathroom floor to save getting in and out of bed. It lasted till Wednesday. My stomach's still pretty weird, but at least the crippling pain's stopped and I can at least keep food and drink down. Overall this week's been fairly rubbish.
Hey, at least it's Friday now, right? :)
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Bank holiday weekend
The past week seems to have gone by in a blur.
I had 2 resits last week, one on Tuesday and the other on Friday. The first one was an utter disaster. Never have I sat through an examination feeling so useless and dumb. It was like my mind was a complete blank. Luckily, it wasn't the same for the Friday exam.
After my exam ended at 5.30pm on Friday, I rushed to town to meet Stuart for dinner. We went to La Tasca for lovely lovely tapas (50% off with a voucher at studentbeans.com!). After that we went to see The Expendables, starring every big action star you can think of. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke... Even Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis had cameo appearances.
It wasn't quite what I expected. Then again, I think I went in having really high expectations. It was really quite cheesy, although the action scenes were pretty fantastic. However, it was very much like The A-Team, with some ridiculous fighting scenes and some incredibly cringe-worthy dialogue. Overall though, I quite enjoyed it. I think my dad would love it, simply because of the fight scenes.
Last weekend was bank holiday weekend, so Stu didn't have to go to work on Monday. We spent most of Saturday and Sunday playing games (me on the computer with Sims3 and Stu on his PS3 with Batman: Arkham Asylum and Infamous).
We did go out on Saturday night with Stu's friends to Rock City. I'd never been there before, but always wanted to, so we decided to go. We got to town early, so we went to a bar called Spanky Van Dykes. How cool is that name? Love it. :) Haha. We had a drink there whilst waiting them. As it turned out, 10 minutes later, they arrived and went into the bar right next door to the one we were in, even though Stu had told them where we were. In the end, we just went to Rock City to wait for them. There was a gigantic queue outside, which Stu said could mean that there was a gig on in the club. However, we found out later that it was just the queue for some guestlist, and that the regular queue was basically empty. So we were whizzed in, paid a fiver each for entry and proceeded to wait for people. After about 15 minutes, Stu's friends Mandy, Helen, Rhiannon (hehe I checked Facebook to get the spelling right!) and Jake arrived, and we went in search of drinks.
Rock City is... nice. (Lol!) The music is quite different from what I listen to (obviously, judging from the name of the place, they play rock music). The club has different rooms playing different kinds of music, similar to Oceana. We walked around through all the rooms, but my favourite was the largest one, because at least that played music that I actually recognised. The other rooms had, I don't know, would I even call that music? They played stuff which, to me, was basically a beat, no melody, and someone screaming.
The crowd is pretty interesting too. I was fascinated with the kind of outfits (if you can call them that) that some of the girls wore. Some wore stuff that just looked like a bandage around their boobs. Some didn't even wear any kind of top, just some sort of tape covering her nipples (Stu pointed this one out to me, big surprise there) and practically no skirt or shorts either, just fishnet stockings. I don't even think she was wearing underwear of any sort, and if she was, it had to be really tiny, because I honestly didn't see any. The number of girls wearing really short, basically almost non-existent skirts and shorts... Well, let's just say, if I was in any other club, I probably wouldn't see anyone dressed like that.
All in all, I had a pretty great night. It was a little boring at first, because I didn't know any of the music that was playing, but as the night went on, I knew more stuff. It's so nice to go to a club and dance and let my hair down, I haven't been in so long. Makes me miss Ocean and Oceana so much. :(
On Monday, Stu was very much intent on playing Infamous on his PS3, but I wanted to go into town to get new flats, since the ones I have had holes in the bottom (I wore them to Rock City and it was disgusting). We got to town and bought some food from Greggs. Stu had a chicken and bacon baguette and I had a very yummy steak and mushroom lattice. I wanted to go to Primark, so we stood outside the back entrance of the store to finish our food. Stupid yucky pigeons were hanging around near us, waiting hopefully for crumbs or something. Don't get me wrong, I love all animals, but pigeons are my least favourite bird (along with crows). They're all germ-infested and I especially hate it when you're walking along and a big flock of them fly up in a flurry. Gross! Imagine all the germs getting all stirred up from them! Eww.
We finally got into Primark, where I bought a bag (it's so pretty, dark green with gold studs), a pair of grey flats with silver studs and a pair of nude coloured peeptoe heels. Altogether, they only cost me £23, which is pretty cheap for 3 items! :) We then ventured into Victoria Centre, where I got a new mascara at Boots. We also went to Game and HMV because Stu wanted to look at PS3 games. I saw the Sims3 Ambitions expansion pack, but I thought it was too expensive at £24.99, but my lovely boyfriend saw I really wanted it and bought it for me! :) :) :) We then went to Tesco to buy stuff to make for dinner and then we took a taxi home. Almost straight away, I started the game and Stu returned to playing Infamous.
Holly came over for drinks and a chat around 10pm. Somehow the conversation moved from the new guy she's seeing to dreams, and then to ghost stories. She only left at almost 1am. Stu was absorbed with his game that he didn't even remember he had work the next day until I said I was surprised he was staying up so late in spite of the fact that he had work in the morning. Haha!
Yesterday, Stu left work early so we could watch Avatar in the cinema again. I cried so much more watching it this time than when I went to see it with Okkar and Kan. The story is just so sad! I love that movie. :) After that, because the weather was nice, we walked back home from town. Stu also made me watch some '80s science fiction film called Tron, because we saw a trailer in the cinema which is either a remake or a sequel. Sigh, boys and their sci-fi stuff.
Hmm, this month we've seen 10 movies at the cinema. The Unlimited cards we got sure are being put to good use! :)
I had 2 resits last week, one on Tuesday and the other on Friday. The first one was an utter disaster. Never have I sat through an examination feeling so useless and dumb. It was like my mind was a complete blank. Luckily, it wasn't the same for the Friday exam.
After my exam ended at 5.30pm on Friday, I rushed to town to meet Stuart for dinner. We went to La Tasca for lovely lovely tapas (50% off with a voucher at studentbeans.com!). After that we went to see The Expendables, starring every big action star you can think of. Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Mickey Rourke... Even Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bruce Willis had cameo appearances.
It wasn't quite what I expected. Then again, I think I went in having really high expectations. It was really quite cheesy, although the action scenes were pretty fantastic. However, it was very much like The A-Team, with some ridiculous fighting scenes and some incredibly cringe-worthy dialogue. Overall though, I quite enjoyed it. I think my dad would love it, simply because of the fight scenes.
Last weekend was bank holiday weekend, so Stu didn't have to go to work on Monday. We spent most of Saturday and Sunday playing games (me on the computer with Sims3 and Stu on his PS3 with Batman: Arkham Asylum and Infamous).
We did go out on Saturday night with Stu's friends to Rock City. I'd never been there before, but always wanted to, so we decided to go. We got to town early, so we went to a bar called Spanky Van Dykes. How cool is that name? Love it. :) Haha. We had a drink there whilst waiting them. As it turned out, 10 minutes later, they arrived and went into the bar right next door to the one we were in, even though Stu had told them where we were. In the end, we just went to Rock City to wait for them. There was a gigantic queue outside, which Stu said could mean that there was a gig on in the club. However, we found out later that it was just the queue for some guestlist, and that the regular queue was basically empty. So we were whizzed in, paid a fiver each for entry and proceeded to wait for people. After about 15 minutes, Stu's friends Mandy, Helen, Rhiannon (hehe I checked Facebook to get the spelling right!) and Jake arrived, and we went in search of drinks.
Rock City is... nice. (Lol!) The music is quite different from what I listen to (obviously, judging from the name of the place, they play rock music). The club has different rooms playing different kinds of music, similar to Oceana. We walked around through all the rooms, but my favourite was the largest one, because at least that played music that I actually recognised. The other rooms had, I don't know, would I even call that music? They played stuff which, to me, was basically a beat, no melody, and someone screaming.
The crowd is pretty interesting too. I was fascinated with the kind of outfits (if you can call them that) that some of the girls wore. Some wore stuff that just looked like a bandage around their boobs. Some didn't even wear any kind of top, just some sort of tape covering her nipples (Stu pointed this one out to me, big surprise there) and practically no skirt or shorts either, just fishnet stockings. I don't even think she was wearing underwear of any sort, and if she was, it had to be really tiny, because I honestly didn't see any. The number of girls wearing really short, basically almost non-existent skirts and shorts... Well, let's just say, if I was in any other club, I probably wouldn't see anyone dressed like that.
All in all, I had a pretty great night. It was a little boring at first, because I didn't know any of the music that was playing, but as the night went on, I knew more stuff. It's so nice to go to a club and dance and let my hair down, I haven't been in so long. Makes me miss Ocean and Oceana so much. :(
On Monday, Stu was very much intent on playing Infamous on his PS3, but I wanted to go into town to get new flats, since the ones I have had holes in the bottom (I wore them to Rock City and it was disgusting). We got to town and bought some food from Greggs. Stu had a chicken and bacon baguette and I had a very yummy steak and mushroom lattice. I wanted to go to Primark, so we stood outside the back entrance of the store to finish our food. Stupid yucky pigeons were hanging around near us, waiting hopefully for crumbs or something. Don't get me wrong, I love all animals, but pigeons are my least favourite bird (along with crows). They're all germ-infested and I especially hate it when you're walking along and a big flock of them fly up in a flurry. Gross! Imagine all the germs getting all stirred up from them! Eww.
We finally got into Primark, where I bought a bag (it's so pretty, dark green with gold studs), a pair of grey flats with silver studs and a pair of nude coloured peeptoe heels. Altogether, they only cost me £23, which is pretty cheap for 3 items! :) We then ventured into Victoria Centre, where I got a new mascara at Boots. We also went to Game and HMV because Stu wanted to look at PS3 games. I saw the Sims3 Ambitions expansion pack, but I thought it was too expensive at £24.99, but my lovely boyfriend saw I really wanted it and bought it for me! :) :) :) We then went to Tesco to buy stuff to make for dinner and then we took a taxi home. Almost straight away, I started the game and Stu returned to playing Infamous.
Holly came over for drinks and a chat around 10pm. Somehow the conversation moved from the new guy she's seeing to dreams, and then to ghost stories. She only left at almost 1am. Stu was absorbed with his game that he didn't even remember he had work the next day until I said I was surprised he was staying up so late in spite of the fact that he had work in the morning. Haha!
Yesterday, Stu left work early so we could watch Avatar in the cinema again. I cried so much more watching it this time than when I went to see it with Okkar and Kan. The story is just so sad! I love that movie. :) After that, because the weather was nice, we walked back home from town. Stu also made me watch some '80s science fiction film called Tron, because we saw a trailer in the cinema which is either a remake or a sequel. Sigh, boys and their sci-fi stuff.
Hmm, this month we've seen 10 movies at the cinema. The Unlimited cards we got sure are being put to good use! :)
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