I had my other two general studies exams today, one half multiple choice and half essay, and the other full multiple choice. The first one was on ballet and had to be one of the worst exams I've ever done, so boring. Even more uninteresting than the family unit paper i did on Tuesday. The second paper was a bit of a disaster. It was all multiple choice but needed a calculator on some questions so guess what was fine last night but died in the exam room? Yes, my calculator.
About 15 questions that would have been easy marks became extremely challenging, so i had to do it all in my head/on paper and then make an educated guess. If it hadn't been multiple choice i would have failed it definitely. I managed to get a few answers off a mate though as well so i think i salvaged it pretty nicely.. well, i hope so. 3As and I'm getting a car so would be gutted to get a B in this!
My next exam is politics in 8 days, the first time its ever been before half term Dave (teacher) says! I have a while to prepare though anyway.

Last night i got a text saying come into town to watch the UEFA Cup Final with the Rangers fans and i really wanted to but in the end was much too tired. My friend went anyway on his own, because he was convinced there would be a riot, so he took his camera and went. I went on the internet about an hour before and saw all the pictures, picadilly gardens was completely invaded by a blue infestation.. looked amazing. For one day only, the whole of Manchester could drink in the street, aaallll day! So I'm watching the game and about 10mins in i get a text saying "Riot!" and then dead on 90 minutes he texts me again from home. There was a riot as he predicted, (I'm sure you've all seen the news) he got a load of amazing photos that some guy from the Daily Mirror tried to buy off him, he got talking to some and they are absolute scum of the earth apparently, he was in one of the fanzones when it all kicked off and apparently was like a room of battery chickens being put through a blender, absolute madness!! Maddest night of his life, said he had an amazing life experience, and i should have gone.
I go on the internet today, see 20 Rangers fans setting on one fallen over policeman, the state they have left the city centre in, videos of them smashing a car, and a Zenit fan stabbed? Scum of the earth, they are not welcome in Manchester again!! Lets build a 100 ft wall around Glasgow and let them rot. Why not all of Scotland?!!?
When i get some of my friend's pictures i'll post them.
Heres one from the aftermath.

Never Come Back!!!

I've been to a BBQ, which was very nice. Met some new girls, impressed them with my culinary skills and it was generally very good. I am absolutely loving this weather.
Over the weekend i had shifts at Debenhams, went to the pub on the Saturday after work with everyone but they were IDing people older than me so i just got a coke, drank it and left. It wasn't very good.
Grand Theft Auto is incredible.. if i didn't have exams i would literally play it 24/7.. it would take over my social life completely! I would switch my phone off, whack on some adult nappies and keep mum bringing in drinks etc. so i wouldn't have to move. Bliss!

Study Leave.. what are you meant to do again? Oh yeah, revise.
I've been doing quite a bit. I find getting up at 7 as i normally would and then revising until whenever i have something else to do or get bored is the best way. I've also noticed if i play GTA and then try to get back to work it just doesn't work so i'm doing alright really. I've only been doing this today though, and i started a bit later as i was extremely tired, but i should be able to keep it going. I did it yesterday but had my first exam in the afternoon so had to cut everything short. It was General Studies, all really vague questions about the family unit and how its being damaged by modern society due to both parents working, and the surveillance state etc. Utter balls. I only just managed to finish it but didn't have any problems.

Today is a friend's birthday so i think i may be out again for another BBQ tonight (the more the better!) and i am using the leave i have to get loads of driving done. I have three extra lessons booked for this week, and hopefully will be alright to take my test pretty much straight after my exams. Its about time really, i started in January, and passed my theory a while ago, and despite a major setback in crashing my dads car i'm not that bad. I just need to fine tune everything so that i am doing things like M-S-M without prompting.

Anyway, i am very busy so will probably not get to post again for a few days.
Until then!

I bought it over the weekend (well my boss did for me, they were ID-ing if you look under 30 which i thought was a tiny bit extreme?!) and its incredible.

I've read some people are disappointed with it but its great. There are faults yes, like the difficult driving, shooting, the stories a bit repetitive, the soundtrack isn't a patch on San Andreas or Vice City and the online mode was a bit of a let down tbh. It more than makes up for these with the sheer scale of the game, the tiny intricate little details, the humourous changing banter between charachters during missions, the new physics engine (so when you are hit by a car it looks real), the graphics are amazing aswell, i absolutely love the game.

This and the amazing weather mean i have got hardly any work done at home. :S The weather is amazing, been in the park or doing rugby for like 2 hours every day this week and im getting brown already. I don't know how im going to cope with the Kos heat in summer!

But yeah, GTA is incredible, anyone with a PS3 or XBox360 has to buy it.
They just have to!

I will always have a soft spot for him and am quite glad he's the new mayor of London.

Heres Why:

Briliant.

Last night i went to a houseparty for a girl's birthday, a top night overall, but it wasn't without the usual local chavs coming and trying to get in. Trying to force their way in, lads stand firm and say no, girls screaming, everybody goes outside, the chavs are shouting and have to be held back by their mates from hitting the screaming girls, neighbor calls the police etc. Pretty standard stuff basically.

I don't get why they do it. They (4 chavs) knew between them one person there but wanted to come in, they were asking me to get them in, but i said "Mate, you don't know the girl and its her house so your not coming in," which isn't unreasonable at all. What does this guy say? "Eat some shit ya bellend" and tries pushing past to get in. It was stupid. Anyway, they got round the side of the house and made off with one of our crates before disappearing when the police came to never be seen again. This is at about 2AM. Half of the party leave at 4AM, everyone else stays over. Calum had moved his car just in case the chavs did anything to it (£11k amazing wheels - he's so lucky) and Chris was going to do the same but then the police showed up so they went and in the end he didn't have to. He checked his car again before he went to bed at about 5 and it was fine.
So at 7.30 we are woken up by an old man, one of rosies neighbours knocking on the door asking if we had seen what had happened to Chris's car.. they'd only gone and put a brick through the back window! Sometime between 5 and 7.30 they had come back, and silently smashed it somehow without the alarm going off, and nobody waking up, and disappeared again!
Chris was so annoyed, he just sat there, angry expression and didn't say a word. He must have been absolutely gutted. It was so unlucky because there were 3 cars on the drive, and they just went for his, which he's had about 2and a half months. Luckily scum of the earth putting a brick through your window is covered on his insurance and his premiums won't go up.

Its just such a massive inconvenience, he'll have to pay the excess, and these scum of the earth guys have completely gotten away with it, we'll never see them again. The only thing stopping all of us 30 lads beating these 4 was the fact that it was Rosie's house and she'd have to deal with it if they came back another night, but it makes me think if we did the right thing? Surely if everyone stood up to scallies nationwide they wouldn't be a problem for anyone? I hate them, how thick and twisted they must be to do that to a stranger's car is beyond me. If it was my car i would be absolutely gutted, and livid.

So i have a piece of philosophy coursework in for tomorrow. Its all about abortion (a disgusting un-natural process) sanctity of life, and philosopher's attitudes to it all.

The first time i handed it in about 2 and half months ago, teacher gave it me back a week later and i was one of two people who had just about scraped an A on it. I was well chuffed so whilst everyone else was working hard to get up from the C they got i.. chilled basically which was good.
The second draft last month i handed it in again with a few minor changes again, but this time it was marked by the Head Of RE who didn't slaughter it completely but changed a lot, much more than my own teacher. He crossed out nearly a page of stuff on how abortions actually take place, was a lot more critical so i had loads of stuff to do. To be honest it was a lot less than many other people, but the comments he made he sounded angry and actually annoyed at me for what i was putting which was mildly amusing.
So i have made the changes he put, and now the final thing is in for tomorrow. I printed off my final piece and gave it to my dad to read (~as recommended by teacher who says give it someone who isn't an expert on the field and see how much they learn) and went upstairs. I come back down and he has basically nit-picked the whole essay and given me an shitload of stuff to do which is completely unnecessary, its absolutely ridiculous the extent he's gone to to get me more stuff to do.

With coursework, why do people wait until the final deadline to give you the most editing to do to it? Why can't one person just do it all in one go and then you can be done with the whole coursework and it won't be stressing you out like it has done with me for the last few months. If i dont get the A i was marked after the first draft i will be seriously annoyed at the first teacher!

So yesterday had a run-in with my parents over.. politics. This has never before happened, and it was a very strange experience.

Basically mum went off on a rant at how much she hates Gordon Brown, she blames him for everything, and just went off on one about all the gold reserves he sold, something about an EU referendum he promised but never delivered, economic recession, northern rock, pensions etc. etc. and i disagreed with her.
She then started going on about how great David Cameron was? I wasn't going to stand for this, i hate the man!

"Ooh, mum, you're so anti-establishment" was how i started. I dont see how Northern Rock was Brown's fault at all, that was down to their incompetent management and he has done alright in a tricky situation in my opinion. The economic recession? I don't think its down to him, its down to overlending and a crash in the US housing market also due to overspending which is starting to effect consumer confidence, and also ever rising oil prices due to the new increasing demands of Asia (Mainly China and India.) I do economics and they are what we would call, "External Shocks", something brown has no control over. Lost data discs? How anyone can pin them on him is beyond me. The "promised in manifesto" EU referendum simply shouldn't have been promised, it was unrealistic and referendums aren't good for politics. What do people elect for if the public (who do make bad decisions) are asked to decide issues like this.. Pensions can't be excused, but shit happens and i bet Cameron would have done something much worse. At the end of the day Gordon's not doing too bad in my opinion, and i can't believe how fickle people are, around the time of the flaming jeep in Glasgow people were singing his praises and now everyone's turned on him.. disgraceful. You don't get divorced if you're going through a bad patch.

David Cameron? Absolute moron who will never be getting a vote from me. He jumped on the green enviromental band wagon and took it to a ridiculous extent. At the end of the day, if i want to ride a plane on holiday, i will, if its peeing down and i dont fancy riding damp, leaky, overpriced public transport i will drive in my 4x4 and simply pay the extra.. thats just the way it is and no matter how much he preaches it won't change. He's a huge hypocrite anyway, chartering a private jet to raise enviromental awareness by visiting Greenland or where-ever it was, riding to work on a bike with a car following containing his briefcases. By the way, he also doesn't know the highway code and drives said bicycle, not very well to say the least.
His comments on black music earlier this year are unforgivable, he cited it as a main cause behind gun crime and nearly caused a race war in doing so. He is a slimy,eton creep who has surrounded himself with old school pals because he can't let go. He's a snob who's videoblog was just embaressing for the whole nation, "I'm Dave, im young, hip, and just like you!" whilst washing the dishes.. makes me sick.
Its so easy for him at the moment, he is simply criticising Brown's every move because the media are turning against him, which also means he is never short of ammunition. But in doing so he has been unbelievably vague about what he would do himself. I watched an interview the other day and he said to solve the problem of NHS and other areas' underfunding he would slash MP expenses. But what is that? Its a tiny sum in the greater scheme of things and worth very little. That was the only clear policy he stated, so why should he get put in as PM? I hate the guy!

I miss Tony Blair! He was so under-rated, like Ryan Giggs.
There's a funny video of a little girl on youtube crying for Tony Blair to come back you should take a look at aswell haha.

So since i last posted everyone who i work with at the Debenhams cafe has had their hours reduced. I blame the credit crunch. Its the beginning of the end as far as many are concerned, first its hours reduction, next redundancy. Many people have kicked off saying its not worth them coming in now as they will be earning so much less (made worse by staff no longer getting free parking at the mall!, but to be honest its not so bad for me. I have extra time to do extra work for my summer A-levels, and yes i will miss the extra £50 a month or however much it is, but it could have turned out a lot worse.
I had to wait on at a college sports dinner to raise money for my South American rugby tour, it went well, apart from one of my teachers trying to get out of paying £40 for wine he owed.. oh well, he paid at the end and because we had handed in the money already it was an extra £40 to be split for tips!
I also had my yellowfever jab for the same mentioned rugby tour, i still have to get hepatitis ones.. oh well. I'm not a bad person when it comes to injections, its hardly a very traumatic thing having a needle with a tiny end stuck in your arm compared to other things that happen every day, for example blisters on the soles of your feet i'm getting from my football boots at the moment.. absolute agony!
I watched Cloverfield (Really good!) and Outlaw over the weekend. Outlaw is without a doubt up there with Help! by the Beatles as one of the worst films i've ever seen. With Sean Bean, Bob Hoskins and Danny Dyer all actors i've heard of i really didn't expect it to be so bad. Basically a load of tragic people are brought together to get revenge as a gang of outlaws led by Sean Bean, everything about the film is cheap.. props, camera work.. its shoddy. Supporting actors are awful, and the ending is poor. I hated it.
Apart from that all i've been doing was working for a history course essay i had today which went well, but then i found out there was a word limit so i have been pooing myself just a little bit ever since this morning.
Oh well.

I went in to pay for Kos and they have changed the flights so i would have missed rugby tour. Its a package holiday so i can't get a flight the day before or anything, it has to be the previous week. Absolutely gutted. People were actually annoyed at me for it? Can't see how any of it is my fault but whatever, gutted.

Also, the college i emailed about next year possibly got back to me. No.
They are oversubscribed, even if i wanted to repeat the year, and wouldn't take me half way through the course even though we're doing the same in 2 of the 3 subjects i'd be taking. And i know for fact people have dropped out in my year there. I'm more upset about this than Kos though, i really am not happy at my 6th form now and definitely made a huge wrong choice when i decided to go there, and it seems like theres no way to get out without completely leaving further education which i don't understand.

Also, season finale of skins? So boring.
Mark Speight aswell. (How was he hanging undiscovered for 6 days??!!)

Everything at the moment is getting me down!

I go to a sixth form in Altrincham, and went to the connected senior school before that, and the prep school from the top infants before that (All 3 were boys only.) (No I'm not gay). I have spent 10 years doing with the same school routine and i am now getting sick of it. At my sixth form nothing has changed from my time in the rest of the school. I travel for an hour to get there, there is no-one in my year and often the year above on the bus, and i don't really like the people in the year below so its an hour of my life wasted sat listening to my I-pod. Boring. My friends are skipping at least a lesson a day, or just aren't growing up.. the banter in the last couple of months has become absolutely shocking so there's not much to enjoy at school. We still have to wear full school uniform, which they are really strict on, and the 9-3.30 days are driving me crazy.

I'm thinking i want to go to a college, and i have one in specific in my mind. It was the same one i debated going to in September but in the end decided against it because i only had 2 years left and thought if i didn't enjoy it i could last it out.. but i really am struggling. I'm not stupid, i get good marks but i hate going in.. there's no freedom. The college i have in mind has much MUCH better facilities (buildings etc.) than ours, you don't have to wear uniform, and there are girls there. It just appeals completely. Results are pretty similar.. and there is a bus route from the top of my road.
I am seriously thinking of just getting my head down, working through my final 4 weeks and the exams and then applying to go to this college in September for A2.

Its a pretty big decision i think, and i'm really not sure what to do, as every decision before this has basically been made by my mum and dad but its my life and im not planning on going to this college, dicking around and dropping out so im going to tell them tonight i think.

Any advice to give?