The past week has been quite weird. Started on a high after the weekend then felt like the underside of a paving slab yesturday and now I’m back on a high. It’s strange how feelings change so quickly and so much.

One explanation may be the economics exam I had today - OCR Transport Economics 2885 module. It was at 2pm so I had the morning “off”, of which I revised for about half an hour, which was when I was not talking, playing chess or having lunch. In any case, the 1 1/2 hour exam went really well (I think), the questions were nice and friendly :) I have one more this term, on Monday, which is the synoptic paper. Not getting too excited about that. I still have the summer.

I think I am going to take a gap year next year because I don’t see the same opportunity being presented to me until I have white hair. My dad has convinced me it’d be really worth it. During the year I am planning on setting up a business based upon a few ideas I have, which will hopefully involve travelling abroad to China, America and places in between! As long as I plan it out, and don’t waste it, it should be awesome. This summer is going to be pretty cool already. Jay and I are going to track down Smygel (Dan) in Norway for a week. Then my family is planning on going sailing again around the Seychelles or Croatia.

Look at me getting all long-sighted.
There’s a few hurdles to over-come first.

Tomorrow I have the day off school, so I might be going to Jay’s to help build his computer is the parts actually come from ebuyer, lol. In any case we’re going to the snooker hall to play a few frames before we start the 16-player tournament we’ve set up. Should be fun!

Then Will is having his 18th this weekend and we’re going paintballing at S.W.A.T in the Wirral. At 8.45am! For a Saturday that is crazy. Should be fun though, havn’t been since my 15th birthday or something.

Oh, last thing. I’ve put together a page with my computer specs on for those who keep asking!

Can somebody explain to me why there seems to be a long plaster stuck over a random area of Russia?

Thanks!

The whale aforementioned in the entry below died last night after being linched out of the water by a crane and placed into an inflatable make-shift whale bed on a barge. The aim was to physically pick it up and take it back to the ocean. The motive was good, of course. Yet I am a bit doubtful as to whether it was the right thing to do.

Just because it happened in a populated area (ie. London) does that mean we as humans have the right to remove it? Should we just let nature take its cause, it might have swam back out itself at some point and therefore not died. In any case maybe it wanted a little vacation into freshwater, crusing past the London Eye and Westminster; the deep sea must get pretty boring. But being London, I guess it would have got in the way of large important boats.

I don’t know, I can’t be bothered on a sunday morning to make up my mind.

Hundreds of whales probably die every day, so it’s not that big a deal in the wider scheme of things. It just happened to happen in the Thames, which is unusual to us. Anyway, its dead now so I can stop talking about it.

Apparently a bottle-nosed whale has been spotted in the river Thames, London. It should be miles away in the deep Atlantic in a group of other whales but for some unknown reason it has made its way upstream through the Thames estuary. It weighs 7 tonnes and is around 5 metres long, so catching it is going to be a bit of a challenge. Rescue teams are trying to divert it back out into the ocean otherwise it might be shot before it injures or beaches itself.

Just a bit of friday craziness.

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Someone passed on a link to this site the other day. It’s quite fun to use when you’re quite bored.

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It has been almost a year since I last made an update so with a few hints from a few people I figured I’d bring my personal website up to scratch. Also I get really bored at this time of year. It’s quite depressing coming back to a routine after a long christmas break. And exams, but no revision as of yet for the A2 modules I have comming up at the end of this month.

(I wonder if anyone is actually reading this)

Anyway, it’s been a really busy few months. In July/August I took a trip over to China on a month-long expedition from Beijing to Hong Kong. That was awesome! I still have a load of pictures, like 300 or something, but I’ll have to wait till I’m really really bored to sort them out and put them up on this site along with the others. I will (probably) do it though.

Since september I have:

• Been to Malta,
• Started a new web/business project - eduX,
• Had my 18th and a big house party to go with it :)
• Started taking driving lessons,
• Built my own pro PC system (stats to come!),
• Applied to universites (via UCAS) for Geography,
• Received offers from Durham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Royal Holloway,
• Had interviews at Oxford university (Keble college) and stayed over for 2 nights,
• Got rejected from Oxford xD
• Started playing Battlefield 2 24/7,
• Joined local snooker club,
• Had an average Christmas and New year,
• Passed my driving theory test :)
• Been generally quite bored.

More to come soon, I promise.