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Note to self. Don't buy crap quality post-it note immitations unless you want your facts on the floor instead of your wall.

Friends and Lovers. London. Life. '07-'08.

posITive. POSitIVE. posITive.

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Infectious beat. Funky. Bebot.

I love this song!



It's such a great, feel-good tune. Makes me smile everytime I hear it.
And the video is happytastic.
Singing along is compulsary.

Arrrrghhhh!!

Dear God Medicine is SOO HARD!

Stupid Kreb's cycle.
And Glycolysis.
There are TEN different reactions getting from Glucose to Pyruvate. Each of which I have to know, along with the enzyme catalysing it.

How ridiculous is that.

I know I should be doing revision at the moment, but I cant bring myself to do it.

And I've been really bad today, I've done nothing. I got up late because I was having a really good dream which sort of carried on for a bit even when I woke up (yes, it was that good).

And after that I had to go to town because it was AT's birthday. We went to ASK.
It was fun, catching up with school friends, etc etc.
Then before I came home I went around shops in town job-hunting for the summer.
Basically I have to drop my CV in everywhere and see what happens.

It's so annoying, I wish I could live in London over the summer, there is nowhere to work here but plenty of vacancies there.
I just want some cash!

I went into Topman, and the very cute sales assistant told me that they'd just had a recruitment evening and all positions had been filled. How annoying.

And it's alarming that certain people with NO people skills, who can't even communicate properly can get jobs, and I can't.
Newsflash chav in GAP, "wot?!" is no way to address your customer.

As I was walking up the road from the bus stop to home, I noticed that there were two girls walking in the opposite direction, towards me, and thought it was unusual as it's a private cul-de-sac, and to my knowledge they don't live here.
Anyway as we approached, I looked to see who they were, as they did the same, and no sooner had we passed, did they wolf-whistle me.

Why thankyou.

We had a clean out of the garage and my room at the weekend.
I'm so bad with clothes. I have some sort of unsustainable addiction to shopping. I have a pile of old clothes as high as my bed to give away/eBay because they no longer fit or I never wear them anymore.

I wish there was some sort of actual marketplace to trade old crap for shiny new clothes.

Anyway, I have to go now and read lectures on Metabolism and Genetics - the two most shittyest topics ever.

What has been good though, is that my sister tests me every night.
She's really good, and she enjoys it because it's so interesting and we both learn funky words like Pyknosis.

I also heard some shocking/exciting news about A.
Well actually I heard it from N, who swore not to tell anyone, but I'm an exception obviously, and A would have told me anyway, so he couldn't be mad.

Eugh, I'm so jealous.
I can't wait for him to come back (only 2 months left now).

Next year is going to be so amazing...if I actually get in.

Back to the books.



Whilst writing this post, I was listening to Paolo Nuttini - New Shoes. Chooone!

I'm going back to London tomorrow as I have an exam and to be honest, I cant wait.

Home is so small compared to London and there is nothing to do because none of my friends are back yet and even so I'm under house arrest as a result of revision.

I'm finding the revision so hard also, I have no motivation, and no structure to my revision.
I knew that Medicine was going to be hard, but this is rediculous.
There is SO BLOODY MUCH to learn.
It's not hard in terms of understanding, but the sheer volume of facts to be learnt is horrible.

So far I've been through 35 lectures out of 60 of 1 module out of 4.
And that's just once, I bet I will forget all that by the time the exams come round.

This exam on friday is a PBL exam making up half of a module.
We were given a case a month ago and then had to go research it and compile 20 pages of notes to take in with us.
I'm pretty confident about this one and will be even more happy when it's over but then just have 4 weeks of torture in this wee lil' hamlet I call home.

The other thing that's pissed me off is that I doubt I will have anywhere to live in London over the summer depending on the whole housing situation and so my plans of getting a job in London have gone to pot.
And there is no where to work here.

It's really bad to say, but I love being in London, even though I was telling my mum just the other week that I've had enough and was ready to comeback to the quiet life of home to get cooked for and cleaned up, I'm already fed up of it.

I think it's because as soon as I comeback home my independence goes.
I don't have a car here because mum takes it work with her, and so I'm just trapped.
Which is really stupid because in London I walk, bus, or tube it everywhere.

Maybe I'll start going to the central library in town and see if I can work there.
And I'll have to devise some sort of revision plan.

And with the housing situation, those 3 guys who I wanted to live with?
All of them said yes.
BUT one of them is buying a house, and he doesn't yet know if he's getting a 3 or 4 bedroom house.
However, he did say that they could convert the living room into another bedroom.
So basically I just have to wait and see.
Fingers crossed.
Hopefully if I do get to live with them, then I can live there over summer too.

Homigod homigod homigod!

The dreams of millions of men across the world have come true!

This is possibly the best collaboration of two artists in the US RnB world...

Beyonce (off of Destiny's Child) and Shakira (off of Shakira! Shakira!) have done a song together!

When I saw the video for this I sat gawking, open mouthed, eyes glued to the screen, drooling.
The video screams sexyness! Especially the bit when they're all over the floor and then do the synchronized bootyshaking hips don't lie thing.

It's like seeing double.

And here it is - Beyonce & Shakira - Beautiful liar

Shakira & Beyoncé - Beautiful Liar
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DIP!

GET DOWN!

STAN' UP!

Okay, now I'm just jumpin round my room!
As if Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal wasn't enough, I've found that the new GROOVE ARMADA track - Get Down is all over Youtube (finally!)

It seems everyone is going for the hard-house/dirty-grime thing at the moment - and I'm loving it!

This is such a CHOOONE! Love the wavy bassline and the lyrics! And the video is just as funky as the production:

Warning: Whilst watching this, you may have the urge to "Dip, Get Down and Stan' up"

I've got love for you if you were born in the 80's

I want that hoody...

...and those sunglasses!

OHHH

MYYY

GOSH!

Right now I'm listening to the NEW Dizzee Rascal track - The Industry. It's no where near release yet but after hearing it on BBC 1Xtra (We got mum a DAB for her birthday, I'm so tempted to re-house it in my room), I managed to obtain a copy of it.

It is so so so hot. I've waited for ages for new stuff from Rosco, and my god it was worth it.

It's really grimey, with a dirty waving bassline and lyrics advising on how to survive in the industry that fit the hard beats with total perfection.

I've been rapping the hook over and over since I heard it,

"You need a hard back, stern face,
play your position and know your place,
only move when the money's callin'
take my advice, you'll be ballin'!"

I've still not found my sound for the summer, and I'm still searching.

You can scratch that Pac's Life track though, I've found the most amazing 'lets bask in the city sun as we sip our iced-mochas' chooone.

It's John Legend(He is, he really is)'s track "Heaven", from the new album "Once Again".

Waking up in the sun with that playing did it for me, can't wait for July!

Here's the Video:




And also I am LOVING this track by Koop - "I see a different you", it would be a contender for my sound of the summer but it's old.
So damn good though.
Have a listen. I bet you've heard it before - but can you tell me where?

I'm back in Leicester.
I've swapped the hum-drum of urban LDN
for the hoot-toot of suburban owls.


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Boo!

As I'm so very tired of staring at the same page of notes from my Lung Development lecture at this very lovely time of half midnight, I've decided to take a break and instead treat you readers to some quality bloggage.

Firstly I have to report that my friend M from school got an offer to do Medicine in London for next October so there's a 50% chance he'll be here with A and I next year. How cool! Next year (if I get there) is going to be "bare jokeage"!.
I'm so happy for him too for getting an offer after being rejcted from everywhere last year.

Secondly I have a very arkward situation at Uni now regarding living with people next year. I know I was really woried about finding people to live with next year a little earler in the term but now the situation seems to have inversed itself (Does that even make sense? Actually I don't care if it doesn't, we both know what I mean and i can hardly see the screen anyway).
The thing is, I asked my friend S early this term about living together and while he said yeas at the time, nothing was said about it afterwards by him until a couple of weeks ago, by which time I'd already thought about living with other people.
Also, as I've got to know S more, and especially recently, I've found that he's really clingy and quite spoilt - he can only ever have things his way and never takes no for an answer, which can be quite suffocating, especially when you want your own space and time.
Furthermore, we're in the same tutorial group and so I think it would be way too much to live and then have all study periods together next year. And he is very insulting all the time. While it was funny at first, now it's just getting annoying.

The only problem is, I havent told him this yet and so he's under the impression that I'm happy to live with him and 2 other friends that I hardly know.

And as if all that wasn't enough, with the people that I do want to live with, I'm a late "fourth" to their already decided household of three. So I haven't got a definate answer from them yet. I spoke to one of them on Friday and he thinks it would be great 'cos I get along with all of them and we're in the same crowd and go to the same nights out and things whilst also being studious. And as a plus, two of them are also "Guji" Indians like me.
He's just got to talk to the other 2....

Thirdly, and 'cos we haven't had one in a while:

Three Random Things

One.
I just went to a party and the Biriyani reminded me of Hadouken!.
I think I have a problem.
Seriously though the rice was luminous green, red, orange, and yellow on a bed of white.

Two.
My sister's Japanese friends are here on holiday and whilst they were in London all of last week I didn't get a chance to meet them.
They are at home this weekend, having what sounds like loads of fun with my sister and parents, and I'm tres jealous, but they're coming to CK's house tomorrow (which is where I am right now btw) so I'll finally get to meet them!

Three.
Oh my god did anyone see Ugly Betty last night?!
Soo good! And depressingly, next week there is a tripple bill of old episodes compensating for the lack of a new one.
What will I do?!!
*Sigh...thinks about Hawthorne trees...actually sits gaping open-mouthed staring into space day-dreaming before realising what he's day-dreaming about and then getting embarrassed*.


Fourthly, my hair has grown long and needs thinning out and tidying up but I'm really liking it - it's about 1.5 - 2 inches long and the brown has almost grown out leaving a cool merge of natural black underneath, and with the way its been cut-into it's quite strandy and tuftly and messed up and wavy and generally cool.
I'm going to miss the brown. CK think's I should re-dye it, and I do too. But this time I think I'm going to go for a more slate-brown than red-brown.
God I'm vain.

Fifth and finally, my S.A.D. induced depression is over - the weather is getting so nice and sunny!
And to help, I changed all the music on my walkman-phone today, filling the playlist with loads of "chooones".
I can't wait til summer. I so very can't!

Night night,

Azzy D. O. Double Gizzle.

Xx

Just heard an amazing new track. It's so funny, and has funky electroish production. Me like.

Listen here, "Thou Shalt Always Kill" - it's the first track, but not the one that starts playing automatically.

The lyrics are so funny, "Thou shalt not read NME... Thou shalt not pimp my ride... Thou shalt not shake it like a polaroid picture...Thou shalt not wish you girlfriend was a freak like me".

Oh my God! I'm so pissed off.
I went to try and buy HADOUKEN! tickets finally, after rummaging up a few friends to come along to the gig with me, and they've SOLD OUT!!

Stupid 'non-funky taste in music, we only listen to stuff on the radio' friends. Grrr!

This is so unfair! *Throws tantrum*

And none of you readers better be finding this funny, or I'll give you a cyber slap!

I can't wait for A to get here next year. He'd just be up for anything.
I know I can just drag him along to all these gigs.

*Sigh*
Oh well.
Sure they'll gig again, when I don't have exams.

Light. New life. Colour. Laughter. Sunshine.

Once again, it's time to celebrate the arrival of Spring with the festival of Holi!


Last year I told you about the fesival itself, but this year I'm going to tell you a story connected to Holi.

Once upon a time, there lived a demon king named Hiranyakashipu.
Through severe penance and prayer for many years he was granted a boon from Lord Brahma in which he had demanded that he not be killed "during day or night, inside the home or outside, not on earth or on sky, neither by a man nor an animal, and neither by astra nor by shastra".

Consequently, he grew arrogant, and attacked the Heavens and the Earth demanding that people stop worshipping Gods and start praying to him.

Despite this, Hiranyakashipu's own son, Prahlad, was a devotee of Lord Vishnu.
In spite of several threats from Hiranyakashipu, Prahlad continued offering prayers to Lord Vishnu.
He was poisoned but the poison turned to nectar in his mouth.
He was ordered to be trampled by elephants yet remained unharmed.
He was put in a room with hungry, poisonous snakes and survived.
All of Hiranyakashipu's attempts to kill his son failed.
Finally, he ordered young Prahlad to sit on a pyre on the lap of his sister, the evil demon Holika, who could not die by fire by virtue of a blessed shawl which would prevent fire affecting the person wearing it.

Prahlad readily accepted his father's orders, and prayed to Vishnu to keep him safe.
When the fire started, everyone watched in amazement as the shawl flew from Holika, who then was burnt to death, while Prahlad survived unharmed, after the shawl moved to cover him.

The burning of Holika is celebrated during Holi, when huge bonfires are lit.

Later Lord Vishnu himself came to earth in the form of Narasingadev to slay the evil Hiranyakashipu.

Narasingadev is half-man and half-lion and killed Hiranyakashipu at dusk (which was neither day nor night), on the steps of the porch of his house (which was neither inside the house nor outside) by restraining him on his lap (which is neither in the sky nor on the earth) and mauling him with his claws (which are neither astra nor shastra).