Ah yes, while I haven't really been spending much of my time trying to keep this updated, I'll be honest in saying there have been many reasons. Mostly, because you don't want to hear how I bit my nail and chewed on it for an hour or two, but also because of: INTERNET PROBLEMS. Yes, but I won't go into those right now. I'm leaving for Uni tomorrow, which actually means I'll only have access to the INTERNET via my University, and while it's pretty close, it's still a walk there which will ultimately mean, overall, absolutely nothing. So don't you go worrying your pretty little head about it.
I have a few things worth mentioning actually, and I'm cheating because this stuff has accumulated over a few days and is there condensed into one fantastic, mega filled blog post. First of all, a friend of mine called Ceri had her birthday a few days ago, and I missed it. God I feel like such an idiot because I knew it was the seventeenth, but of october and not the true month of September. After shooting me for it, and a trip to the ER later, I went and hung out with her for the most part of an afternoon, and we checked out Nando's. By the way, to that jerk who went there and mentioned that it sucked, I'm GLAD I didn't take your advice because it was great! Like the one in Colchester, so there you have it, Nando's doesn't suck. We had a beer, and some spicy chicken and peri peri chips, and then we went and watched Neighbours on her TV, and I am now worryingly interested in it again. I don't know who Paul Robinson is but she told me he is indestructible. We'll soon find out! Go Monday!
Other news, which bears the brunt of the focus of today's blog title, is that I started writing my Essex Uni soap script today, and I am enjoying it. I spent some time over the summer trying to figure out where to go with it, because it's a brand new idea and only if its successful will it be carried on, and then i can herald it my legacy to the Uni. I gave up a few drafts, but one bit of advice, the sort you see on television where the young kid wishes to be a good writer, and the grown up tells them to 'base it on what you know', well it worked. I just put down descriptions of the most interesting people I know, changed the names and tweaked them to live in Essex, and voila! I now have a functional and very memorable cast of characters. I can't wait to show you what I've written. We will probably hold auditions for all the main parts, something else which will be entertaining because I can be a Simon Cowell type. Maybe I'll chuck some water on the bad ones and be a Louis Walsh type instead [coincidentally, the auditions phase of X Factor is now over, meaning the same applies to my interest in the show :D]. I have also figured out an excellent and original way to kick off the show.
Related to University is my Radio show, which i am pleased to say has a big event planned for Wednesday the 4th October! I am having a singer songwriter come onto my radio show and do a set followed by an interview. You wont have heard of him, but he is up and coming in the land of Essex, and I am pleased as he seems really eager and happy to do this :) I'll keep you posted on that. Also, I have sent of my application for the press accreditation passes for the London Film Festival, so I am keeping my fingers crossed [figuratively speaking] that I get a good news response from the lovely people at Premier PR.
When i get back tomorrow night, there is word that there will be a party, of probably small proportions, involving all my excellent mate/friend types of Essex Uni, and if that is true I am all the more looking forward to going back. Also I would like to thank all two of you who read my last blog post for the positive comments. Somebody agrees with me about the oil thing, which i am so annoyed about even now! :D But at least they've stopped showing it on TV now.
Good night for now, I'll leave you with a short convo me and my friend Rach had, just as she was getting a bit tired, and me trying to help her stay awake ;)
Rachel - Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive says:
anyway
Rachel - Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive says:
i think im gonna go to bed now
Epiq says:
ok, have a nice bed! goodbed!
Epiq says:
oh yeah, just before you bed to bed, dont forget to bed bedder for my bed, bed and bed. if you bed thatd be bed. really bed. bed again, bed!
Rachel - Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive says:
...............im too tired for this
Rachel - Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive says:
:p
Rachel - Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive says:
hehe night night
Epiq says:
bed bed :)
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Friday, September 22, 2006
Boiling
EDIT at bottom:
I just had to have a say on this most frustrating of matters. I don't know if anybody has checked this in a while, but I have to put my feelings into words!
Today, as you may very well know, they have had a 'major' [and the emphasis on the major, has been used for ironic effect] news story, which has captured the attention of all the news outlets. A major attack on our British troops in Iraq? No. A terror strike in the heart of another major city? Not yet. No, nothing compare to the actual story, which is a load of crap. COOKING OIL! Oh yes, you heard me, a cooking oil freaking story.
Apparently, a child who eats one packet of crisps a day is likely to have consumed more than 5 litres of cooking oil in a year. OH GOD, WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN! How can this even be such a huge news story? Normally, if such news is mentioned occasionally, I put it down to being a slow news day and they need this to fill up a gap. But today is different, for no less than twenty times I have watched/heard/seen that same poster of a child drinking from a plastic oil carton with the same news. I don't freakin care about it honestly, so why is it getting such big airplay on the news channels? A small story would probably have gotten the mesage across just as clearly, yet the media have plunged onto the news bulletins and even mentioned it up to three times in half an hour.
So what's the big deal here? Am I as well as everybody else supposed to be shocked that when a large number of food items in consumed, that there is also a large number/volume of ingredients consumed that are contained inside the food item that is eaten? It's common sense. Next we'll be hearing and reading that if you eat three scoops of ice cream a day, you are likely to have eaten FIVE TONNES OF ICE in a whole year! :o OH NO!
One news report I overheard just now showed a woman inside a school talking to a bunch of children. She seems polite as she asks the children how many of them have had a packet of crisps today already. A good number put their hands up. Then the lady, again politely, asks if any of them are planning to have a packet of crisps later or after school. A few more hands go up. She then goes on, saying "Well how would you like to have this instead?" And she slams down onto the table [No exaggeration] a litre bottle of cooking oil. A clear cut in the videotape and then it shows the children all 'Eurgh-ing' in unison. Yes, because they have been told to to do it. I don't think the children, who lookd about four or five years old, even knew what itwas, and some probably greedily looked at it like it was some kind of new fizzy drink. Does she earn her money by scaring these kids into eating less snack food? Does she know that taking out a lot of this oil will mean the crisps taste less good, and that PC means another thing that the next generation will miss out on purely because the kids aren't getting enough exercise which means they're all turning fat and hence the banning/cutting down on nice treats like chocolate and crisps? It's fine to scare the children but not to give advice to the parents first? Well done for furining a good thing! I had crisps when I was younger and I ain't fat or unhealthy because I knew the consequences thanks to good teaching from my parents and teachers to some extent.
Finally, I think I have finished my rant. thanks for reading. If you agree or disagree, comment. I would love to hear other sides to this story.
EDIT: Here is the offending poster, and I also found out this is all the doing of the British Heart Foundation. Maybe they thought people were forgetting who they were and so did this to stop us forgetting them. Hehe, I know, that's a lie :D
I just had to have a say on this most frustrating of matters. I don't know if anybody has checked this in a while, but I have to put my feelings into words!
Today, as you may very well know, they have had a 'major' [and the emphasis on the major, has been used for ironic effect] news story, which has captured the attention of all the news outlets. A major attack on our British troops in Iraq? No. A terror strike in the heart of another major city? Not yet. No, nothing compare to the actual story, which is a load of crap. COOKING OIL! Oh yes, you heard me, a cooking oil freaking story.
Apparently, a child who eats one packet of crisps a day is likely to have consumed more than 5 litres of cooking oil in a year. OH GOD, WE MUST PROTECT THE CHILDREN! How can this even be such a huge news story? Normally, if such news is mentioned occasionally, I put it down to being a slow news day and they need this to fill up a gap. But today is different, for no less than twenty times I have watched/heard/seen that same poster of a child drinking from a plastic oil carton with the same news. I don't freakin care about it honestly, so why is it getting such big airplay on the news channels? A small story would probably have gotten the mesage across just as clearly, yet the media have plunged onto the news bulletins and even mentioned it up to three times in half an hour.
So what's the big deal here? Am I as well as everybody else supposed to be shocked that when a large number of food items in consumed, that there is also a large number/volume of ingredients consumed that are contained inside the food item that is eaten? It's common sense. Next we'll be hearing and reading that if you eat three scoops of ice cream a day, you are likely to have eaten FIVE TONNES OF ICE in a whole year! :o OH NO!
One news report I overheard just now showed a woman inside a school talking to a bunch of children. She seems polite as she asks the children how many of them have had a packet of crisps today already. A good number put their hands up. Then the lady, again politely, asks if any of them are planning to have a packet of crisps later or after school. A few more hands go up. She then goes on, saying "Well how would you like to have this instead?" And she slams down onto the table [No exaggeration] a litre bottle of cooking oil. A clear cut in the videotape and then it shows the children all 'Eurgh-ing' in unison. Yes, because they have been told to to do it. I don't think the children, who lookd about four or five years old, even knew what itwas, and some probably greedily looked at it like it was some kind of new fizzy drink. Does she earn her money by scaring these kids into eating less snack food? Does she know that taking out a lot of this oil will mean the crisps taste less good, and that PC means another thing that the next generation will miss out on purely because the kids aren't getting enough exercise which means they're all turning fat and hence the banning/cutting down on nice treats like chocolate and crisps? It's fine to scare the children but not to give advice to the parents first? Well done for furining a good thing! I had crisps when I was younger and I ain't fat or unhealthy because I knew the consequences thanks to good teaching from my parents and teachers to some extent.
Finally, I think I have finished my rant. thanks for reading. If you agree or disagree, comment. I would love to hear other sides to this story.
EDIT: Here is the offending poster, and I also found out this is all the doing of the British Heart Foundation. Maybe they thought people were forgetting who they were and so did this to stop us forgetting them. Hehe, I know, that's a lie :D
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