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I’ve read an awful lot of bashing of London’s wee section at the closing ceremony of the Olympics. So, since I’ve been ignoring this place for far too long, I thought I’d stick my neck out and say that I really liked it.

We Brits do a really fantastic job of taking the piss out of ourselves.

The dancing umbrellas were fantastic. I had a sort of psychic moment beforehand where I predicted there’d be synchronised bus driving, but I never could have predicted a transforming bus with bushes.

Okay, so the kids and football were kind of sickening, but there’s always the obligatory cheese at these things.

Anyway, what I liked most was just that we weren’t trying to be China. We weren’t all pristine and perfect and elaborate.

There was an old guy rocking out on a guitar and the sweat was pouring off him. But he rocked.

Because this is clearly what Briton is all about: old men, sweat, guitars and rock and roll.

Genius.

Please note, I am in no way referring to the travesty that was the ‘party’ afterwards. The organisers of that should be shot.

On the subject of Japanese, here are some random things I learnt today:

Naoshimasu means to fix or repair things.

Bagu means ‘bug’ in reference to bugs in a computer program.

(Can you guess what my boyfriend does for a living?)

When speaking about bugs as in insects you say ‘baggu’ rather than ‘bagu.’ There is also, obviously, another Japanese word for insect as well, but I don’t remember what that was.

Yes, I am one of those many thousands of people out there who are struggling to learn Japanese.

But, unoriginal as this is, I thought maybe I’d post here a little about some of the things that I learn/have learned along the way in case anyone finds it useful. Read the rest of this entry »

The other thing I should really point out is that I completely gave up World of Warcraft.

WoW is like crack.

Many people have said it before, but I’ll say it again anyway.

It’s crap. And it’s only when most of your friends in a guild quit, and you have nothing more important that you’re supposed to be doing, that you stop procrastinating and actually realise that all you do is grind.

You grind for levels, you grind for money, you grind for gear. It’s boring, repetitive and a lot of wankers make life all that more soul destroying.

If you have a great guild and you play with mates, it can be an awesome amount of fun (and very addictive and bad for you - see, like crack). But take these factors away and it sucks.

Don’t do it to yourself.

Play Xbox 360 games instead

So yeah, now I’m spending my time playing better games (well, I like them more, whether other people would define Boom Boom Rocket as ‘better’ I’m not sure …this isn’t the only game I’m playing… honest).

And Xbox live means you can be just as sociable - whether through playing games with people or by just chatting to people on msn while you play.

I love my 360.

My God it’s been a long time since I touched this place.

Well I have a couple of hours between now and my next lecture so I thought I’d update.

The short version of what is really not a very interesting story is that I am no longer a medical student. I’m also the happiest I’ve ever been at university. Read the rest of this entry »

So this is the first entry since I sat my exams.  You can be sure there was much drinking and pub lunches and reading my book done since then.  I’ll not say much about the actual exams  because they weren’t great.  Despite all my revision they still found things I didn’t know and didn’t ask about so so SO much stuff that I do know.  Read the rest of this entry »

How do I feel? Sleepy. Happy. I can taste freedom. Keep thinking of all the fun things I’m going to do once I’m finished.

Still got loads to do, but it’ll be okay. Know Block 8 so so well now. For the first time, I’m actually hoping neurology comes up.

Still very very sleepy just now. Drinking tea til it comes out my ears. Hope to have Block 9 finished by lunchtime, but we’ll see how it goes.

As predicted the entire living room now smells of lillies. It’s lovely.

Anyways, just ate my own body weight in chocolate again, so I’m going to start working while I’m still awake off the sugar rush.

Well, considering I’ve really not got much time to go, you’d think I’d be completely bricking it by now.

Surprisingly, today of all days, I’m not. Read the rest of this entry »

I just sat talking to a cuddly toy dog called Moof telling him about the Cranial Nerves and how you test them.

Does this make me insane?

So that last post was Omar pretending to be me, but he’s right, block 8 is horrible. Read the rest of this entry »