Grrr!
21/35.
Not exactly the result i'd hoped for.
Doing the specimen paper hasnt really filled me with confidence like i hoped it would. Only answered 29 questions as well, ran out of time for the other 6. I dont see why exams are timed, honestly, are they examaning our skills or how fast we can write? This BMAT test is driving me crazy, almost had another ice-smashing session today. (Feeling stressed? Try it) I'd spent not nearly enough, but as much as i could force myself to, of this past week working through the "Preparing For" book. Growing closer to mental exasparation and emotional breakdown with every answer i checked and found to be wrong. All the while putting down my ill performance to having to work out of a book and not on an actual paper, thus meaning i had to faff around covering up the opposite page with the answers on and couldnt write in it all over the questions - highlighting and underlining bits - which i normally do when working with a text. (can imagine a certain someone horrified at that thought) I had been/am hoping that the book is harder than the actual paper - certainly got that impression from the specimen.

Frustration growing as i conjure this post because: 1 - im writing it on my sisters babytop which has miniscule buttins (exaple of what im just about to say) and freezes every 5 seconds so when i type anything - it comes out spelt wrong. And 2 - im listening to this awful mix that she found somewhere (im in her room) of "dance" music that sounds like 2 robots making love on a synthesizer.

Today was otherwise tres uneventful, sleeping in late, recovering from the night before. That being a friends 18th b'day night out, which saw us all at 'The Lounge' bar, Leicester, followed by a 5-lap trail around the city centre in said friend's cousin's gorgeous black Celica on a hunt for parking before our final destination - 'Revolution'. Lounge was quite quiet in terms of being a venue, not anywhere near the city centre and by the looks of the upstairs crowd appealing only to 30+, however, friend had booked downstairs for us, so it was essantially a lil party. Finger food, bar and DIY DJ centre. The positive side of this being it was people we knew and liked (mostly) only. The Negative side being friends/aquaintances with really bad music taste hi-jacking the DIY DJ thingybob. (-ve side squared when they played the same songs again.)

So circa 23:00 we were outside the latter, saying byes to those who werent coming out, and getting into various cars (that sounds wrong - i mean other friends cars) to go to 'Revo'. (one of my fave places in Leics)
The drive was good, nice smooth drive, good music, and setting for interesting mature conversation avec 28 year old cousin de la friend. Im quite used to and like conversing with people as older as they like to feel than me, most probably because of the 7 year age gap between my sister and i, and we are quite close so i meet her friends often too.

Music mix has now evolved into latin-ish avec beats - better

So any way, car park and short walk to New Walk walked, finding ourselves in queue...until the rest buy privallage cards and i use mine which was gift from manageress on my bday night to jump...inside. (Did that sentence even make sense?) And as usual for a Sat night, downstairs is packed, like battery humans in a factory club. Upstairs bar tended by one barman faced with 50-odd customers, so downstairs i go, where i (luckily) spot old friend now at uni back in Leic to see Bloc-Party* at front of bar about to be served anytime soon. Over i go (because it would just be plain rude not to), get chatting, and combine orders. (because its just convenient isnt it) The rest of the night was really good, music was a mix of old garage, old-school, and with a few great current hip-hop/RnB/dance tracks including my fave of the moment - Mylo & Miami Sound Machine - Dr Pressure. A cat-fight broken up by security guards provided amusement for the night, - not sure exactly what happened but something along the lines of Vicky Pollard-meets-that-chav-girl-from-The Lenny Henry Show (the one who's catchphrase is "I don' fink so!") says something to someone and another attitudy girl fires back thinking she was talking to her, to which the first barks "Woz ah' talkin' to yu?!" Hilarious to watch this going on, especially as security pulls them away, almost as funny as a Brummie chav i met who said "Safe mate" in the strongest Brum accent - "Say-fe May-te"

*Before i forget is to express my annoyance at myself as just like the Coldplay concert in London in July, i had the opportunity to go to this concert but didnt! Grr!

Attention turns now to X-factor on in the background. Aww diddums, 4Tune (more appropriate name being UN4Tune methinks) have been sent home - face it they were cringe-causing, dressed like every other boy-band act before you, the music market is saturated with bad acts like that - heres a tip boys - look up 'Originality' in the dictionary. And Simon and Lou are hilarious - bitching at each other like 2 little school girls: "-shut up" "-no you shut up!" "-no you!" "-no you!"

Who do i think are great...
Brenda - so much energy and nothing on the market like that - and she really got the crowd going
Journey South - nice sounds and again nothing on the market like them
Shayne - amazing voice and amazingly excellent performance with "If your not the one"

Who need to be pushed inro a big hole...
The Conway Sisters - Girls, havent you learnt anything from pop history? (After all, you're soon to be...) Remember "Bewitched"? Yes...exactly, c'est la vie...
Chico - cringe! Sorry was it "Chico" or "Cheese"?!

I never norm watch these music-related reality tv shows but X-factor is actually alright...think im going to tune in next week to see if my favourites are successful.

And now im going to say night night...

Azuric