Back!

I'm back, with a little post just to tell you what's happening what to expect from this blog in the future.

It's getting to that time where exams are coming thick and fast, although they are mocks, they are still very important. Homework is pretty heavy and getting heavier, but I'm coping, and life is still good.

Tonight is my grandmother's 80th birthday celebration. Although her birthday is not until Christmas day, we decided to do it in November as the venue is always booked up during the festive period and it saves money. My grandma only wanted close family, so guests will consist of her, her long term partner, her 3 sons and their kids. Oh and a couple of the grandsons are bring their girlfriends along with them, should tally up to 20, looking forward to it, may take a couple of photos.

Now to the blog, I'm not really sure where to take this blog really, I may just do this sort of thing, the occasional post or I may do something a lot more regular, really not sure. I'll let you guys know.

Anyway, got a busy day and night ahead as you know,  I'll post again sometime soon.

Peace!

A story for you

Wow, it's been a long time since I blog-posted, a full 15 days! 

Not much has been happening in the last two weeks, I am just an average boring teen after all... 

So I shall tell you a story instead...

One day, there was a wolf. The wolf was sitting by a tree, looking really upset. A man who was walking through the woods saw the upset wolf, and went to sit down with it.

"What's wrong?" The man asked. "Nothing that concerns you!" The wolf replied angrily. "Mind your own business!" He then said. 

The man was very puzzled by the wolf's reaction to his kindness, so he got out his gun, shot the wolf in the head and took it home to eat for dinner. He really enjoyed the juicy lush tasting wolf meat.

The man then went out again, and saw monster sitting by a tree, looking upset. "What's wrong?" The man said. "Nothing that concerns you, now go way and mind your own business!" The monster said. The man was so annoyed by the rejection to his kindness, so he got out his gun, and shot the monster in the head loads of times, and took it home to eat. The man really enjoyed the monster meat, then he went out again.

Then all of a sudden, cries of help were heard from the distance, the man ran in the direction in which the cry came from, to his shock, it was a dragon. "What's wrong?" Said the man. 

"Oh thank goodness, I was really hungry and I needed some food, have you got any?" Said the dragon. "No I haven't got any food." Said the man. 

So the dragon flew over to the man, and ate him.

And the moral of the story is, don't ever talk to swans.

The end.

Is there such thing as a perfect circle?

My initial answer would be no, you cannot draw, create, or make a perfect circle in any way, it simply cannot be done.

You may think that if you get a compass, and draw a circle on a piece of paper that the circle you draw will indeed be perfect, but it won't be, in fact, it will be far off perfect, extremely imperfect in fact, but why? Well, I'm here to tell you why.

Firstly, to have a perfect circle, you would have to have a shape where every single point is the EXACT same distance away from the centre. And by exact I mean exact, exactly the same. In scientific terms, you would find it extremely difficult to draw two lines the exact same length, next to each other, but why?

If I say to you now, draw two lines parallel to each other on a sheet of paper, both MUST be exactly 1cm long. You would get a ruler, and carefully measure two 1cm lines next to each other on your piece of paper. "Haha!" You may say. "Two lines, both exactly 1cm in length, there you go." Wrong my friend, let's look a bit closer.

So we measure with a ruler, down to the millimetre (1/10 of a centimetre). Hmm, looks pretty much the same, let's go deeper. So I get out another special ruler, with micrometres on it. (1/100) of a cm. And there you have it, one line is 3 micrometres longer than the other. I looked closer at it and showed you that those lines are not indeed equal, you could not do it!

But if you did manage to do it, then you could just measure the two lines in nanometres (A millionth of a metre) and so on until you would get down to yoctometres (which you wouldn't have done, but anyway, this is an example). A yoctometre is a 100,000th of the diameter of a neutron. If you don't know how small that is, that is so small that you can't even imagine it, it's so tiny that it is only used to measure things like how far light travels of the time of a septillionth of a second or something, which only weird scientists would even bother to find out. This length is so small it's hard core.

Why do I mention this length? Because, if you are someone who thinks that you can have a perfect circle, then that means you are saying that there has, or will be, or it is possible to draw a shape where every single point is exactly the same distance from the centre, in yoctometers. Even a computer wouldn't be able to do that, it simply just can't be done, by a computer or a human. 

But, as my friends have pointed out recently when I brought this up at school, it is not impossible. Who's to say that one day someone will do that, by fluke or something? But what I am saying is that no one has ever, in the history of the world drawn a perfect circle, and no one ever will, just because it's difficulty level is so extreme, it is the closest you can get to impossible, without something being impossible, in our entire universe. 

That's a big statement to make, that drawing a perfect circle is basically the most difficult thing that you can do in the whole entire universe, but I believe it's true, a perfect circle is very misunderstood by most, so please don't misunderstand it!

FIFA 13 - First thoughts

So one of the biggest games of year came out on Friday, if you have any male friends than expect them be away for a bit if you don't own the game yourself. 

I got the game the day after it came out, early Saturday morning, and despite the fact I had a Science exam today and a French exam tomorrow, I have barely had the xbox turned off, this game is dragging me in, I can't see a way out. 

The game is a step up from FIFA 12, the game play just feels better and they've added a few more realistic features into it, little things like subs warming up and the pitches look more realistic, the ball moves more realistically and there's more I can add.

They've added a new game mode called skill games, and they've made it so in the arena before a game you can have a quick go at these skill games before your game. 

But, every single game has negatives, FIFA 13 for me is definitely one of them, here's my list of negatives:

1. You had the woodwork lots - Very annoying this, it must be deliberate as there's no way in FIFA 12 that I would hit the woodwork as much as I have done in FIFA 13, once if not twice a game the ball will strike it!

2. Attacking intelligence - can make the attackers stupider -  The amount of times I have sent the ball over and my striker doesn't latch on to it because he's trying to be too smart, a flaw no doubt, hard to explain it fully, but trust, it's annoying. 

3. Defending is very hard... - At moments in a game I could suddenly have a 3 on 1 attack coming my way. Where are my defenders gone? Who knows.

4. Long shots are easy, too easy in fact. - I've been scoring long shots too often, in fact earlier on I was doing a career with Celtic, last minute of the game I was already winning 4-1 or something, so I shot from not far in from the half way line with Hooper, the ball only goes and flies in, awesome goal, but on FIFA 12 I would never have scored from there! Unrealistic, footballers don't score from 40 yards regularly you know!

5. Frustrating little glitches are still lurking about. - I've been disconnected from the EA servers a few times already, not as bad as it was on FIFA 12, but who's to say it won't get worse, so annoying when you're playing around in UT then get kicked off!

I could name a few more, but I'll stick with 5, I don't want to make a long list, as I did say I liked the game above! 

But every game will have problems and negatives, so I'll just carry on as normal. And if you have an Xbox360 or a PS3, it's worth getting, £40 well spent, better than an iPhone anyway!

Brighton vs Birmingham - My day at the Amex

Well today was my second ever trip to the the Amex, and surprisingly my first ever Brighton game, as my first game was when the Amex hosted an England U17 match. 

I was witness to a rare Brighton home defeat, to what many would say is poor Birmingham side, it was a shock defeat. Brighton had plenty of chances in both halves. Birmingham's goal, which was an awesome strike by their captain Burke, was one of their only attacks of the whole game, and I believe their only shot too.

I've seen better performances from when I went occasionally in the Withdean days, Brighton just didn't look like scoring at all, it just wasn't their night.

Credit to Birmingham, who were sitting low in the table going away to the league leaders, if I was a Birmingham fan I be over the moon, a great win for them.

The travelling to the ground was okay, we considered the bus and the train as a possibility but in the end we just ended up driving, found a space about a 15 minute walk from the stadium. Prices seemed a bit high in the ground for food and drink, but expectant for a football stadium, we didn't buy any thing, we simply walked in and grabbed our seats, but I managed to catch some prices on our way out.

So yeah, not the day out I was hoping for, Brighton would've won any other day, we just happened to go on a day when Brighton lost, oh well.

I am hoping to go to 5 or 6 home games this season, but we'll see, football really does drain your wallet out, I don't know how some football fans can go to every game, they must be rich or in serious debt!

One good thing about today was the atmosphere, even when Brighton were playing poorly the crowd were still cheering them on, even when they conceded the goal the first thing most fans did was sing their hearts out. Brighton and Hove Albion FC have them selves some amazing fans, a great club all round, proud to be a fan and part of the blue and white army. 

Next time I will take some pictures, sorry for the lack of pictures for those of you who like that sort of thing!

 

Footballer's Wages

I think most football fans would agree that footballers get paid a stupendous amount of money for the job they do. Most premiership footballers get paid £40,000 a week at least, and the best premiership players and the best in Europe are on salaries of over £1,000,000 a month. Now, let's do a bit of maths, shall we?

Let's take Samuel Eto as an example, the world's most highly paid footballer, who plays for Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala, a football club which most football fans wouldn't have even heard of a couple of years ago. He get's paid £1,500,000 a month, that's around £370,000 a week, £52,000 a day and around £2,000 per hour, and if you really go down, it's 60p a second. Now, each Russian team plays 30 league games a season, if you add cup games and if a team gets into Europe, Anzhi probably play around 38 games a season, let's round that up to 40, so 40 games a season. Eto probably won't play all 40, let's say he plays 35 of them. So that's £18,000,000 for 35 games, 35 games adds to 3150 minutes of football, given that he will be subbed off from time to time, let's say that he plays 3,000 minutes of football for Anzhi in 1 year. £18,000,000 divided by 3,000 is 6000. Sorry for dragging all this maths on, but that shows that Eto get's £6,000 for every minute he plays for Anzhi. Now that is absolutely delusional in my opinion.  

A fireman, or a policeman who risk their lives, get paid only enough to put food on the table and maybe give their family a good Christmas. That's if they aren't called into work on Christmas day. A fireman gets paid in a year what Eto does in half a day. Am I the only one who thinks that this is just ridiculous?

There is the argument though, that footballers deserve the money the get, as they provide "fantastic entertainment." Rubbish I say, because saving someone from a fire or going out at 4 in the morning to take a women in labour to hospital, or getting shot at by terrorists in Afghanistan, is far more important than providing entertainment for some football fans.

So, overall my opinion is that most footballers do not deserve the money they get, money has ruined football, there's no doubt about it. It's all about money now, if a club has money then they will be successful, if a club doesn't then they won't. 

Why I hate iPhones

Okay, so firstly, I'm not attacking iPhone users and apple fans in any way. This is just a little post about my views on iPhones.

Now firstly, I want to give you my MAIN reason for HATING iPhones. And that is simply the fact that people buy them.

Now, to each his own I guess, but I don't see why people spend £600 on an iPhone every 6 or 7 months, especially when you don't even need it. 

My phone is a Nokia 2680, which was released way back in 2008, worth, back then just £40. I wonder what it's worth now! But my crappy Nokia is fine for me, my thing with phones is that they are for calling and texting and maybe the odd game, if I need to call my mum, I would use my phone, if I need to text a friend, I would use my phone, if I wanted to play a quick game of snake, I would use my phone.

So why spend £600 on something which is meant to be for just ringing and texting people? I just don't see why people are falling into Apple's trap, they are stealing your money, releasing a new phone twice a year because they know that their silly buyers will spend loads of their hard earned money on a stupid phone, which is often not much different from the previous one they released!

Did you know that in recent times, Apple have had more money than the US... just goes to show how powerful they are getting, all because of YOU. (If you are an iPhone fan). 

So basically, whenever the next iPhone comes out. DON'T buy it, there are better things in life than a phone. Also, another thing to add, is when someone has bought a new iPhone they seem to unintentionally be a bit of show off. "Look at me with my new iPhone, I can afford it and you cant." Is basically how you feel when someone is using it in front of you. 

So yeah, stop falling into Apple's trap, iPhone buyers. You are very silly people to me!

Tattoos - Why do people have them?

Now, first of all, if you are reading this and you have a tattoo and you are a tattoo enthusiast, don't be offended, this is not an attack on you, it is simply an opinion.

But what I'm trying to say is simply WHY do people have tattoos?

In my opinion, they are a waste of money, time and effort.

I gag at the site when I see a "sleeve" on someone's arm. Or someone has decided to put a tat on their face, I just makes me think... why?

I don't mind it when people have like 1 tattoo, or maybe 2, which are small and are of someone's name, or something that is important to them, but when I see people who have more tattoo'd skin than untattoo'd skin, or have about 20 different tats all over their body, it just makes me think... why?

Also, when someone has a tattoo of like a skull or a devil, or something demonic, that simply just makes me think... why?

And why do people get a tattoo on their bums? Unless you go around without your trousers and boxers on, then I don't see the point in that really, even your lover would rarely see it, and you, for sure won't see it, unless you have eyes in the back of your head. I just makes me think.. why?

So my suggestion is, don't get a tattoo.

That's all I have to say really on the matter.

Apples

Yes, apples. Hmmmm....

Where do they come from? A tree you say? NO, you are wrong, they came from the apple shaped violin of prosperity.

"What is the apple shaped violin of prosperity?"

It is an apple shaped violin, which has prosperity.

"Where is it may I ask?"

It can be found on the moon, or somewhere in South America, one of the two. But the apple shaped violin of prosperity, is the source of all our apples, yes, YOUR apples, MY apples, the QUEEN's apples, (unless you are reading this Queen Elizabeth then you would go under the "YOUR" bit).

So yeah, a little post to tell you that apples come from the apple shaped violin of prosperity. If you find it, then you will receive a lot of apples for your skills in finding stuff.

2 views a day

I haven't really thought of anything to post in the last few days, so I thought I would post about what I saw on my blog stats today...

I saw that yesterday, the 21st August 2012, only 2 people bothered to take a look at my blog. That is 2 people every 24 hours, 1 person every 12 hours, half a person every 6 hours, a quarter of a person every 3 hours, and so on, you get the picture.

I mean, is it not much to ask for around 10-15 views a day (which, in this early stage of my blog is what I'm aiming for.) But 2? I mean seriously?

It may have something to do with the fact I didn't post anything yesterday, but still on an off day I expect a few more than 2.

Anyway, little complaint over, I will post something up soon, and if you are reading this, spread my blog around with your friends! There's a bit for everyone!

The world we live in

Now I thought that I'd better post something vaguely serious on this blog from time to time, a break away from all the stupid, random rubbish I've been posting on here since I first joined a few days ago. What this little post will be about is what kind of world we live in, and the sort of realities that we face. Here's a few to name:

A footballer gets paid more than soldiers, fireman, and policemen. 

I find this pretty ridiculous. Footballers, however talented they are do not deserve the money they get (the ones who are on hundreds of thousands of pounds a week of course.) And the fact that a fireman, who risks their life more days than not, only gets paid enough to put food on the table. In my opinion, footballers should be wage capped, or actually, maybe not, as obviously £200,000 a week is pretty hard to live on.

Any moment could be your last.

Yup that's right, this moment, as your reading this sentence, could be your last moment that you will ever experience on this planet, you may not even get to read the end of this paragraph. Some lunatic murderer could break into your house and kill you with a knife, or you can suddenly die of an organ failure. Or you could be reading this on your phone and BOOM, you get hit by a car. Yes, any moment you can die, just like that, so make the most of every day, as each day could be your last. It kind of puts everything in perspective, so screw life, just live it how you want, you could die tomorrow!

Google is taking over the world.

Yup that's right, Google is taking over the known world, slowly but steadily. No one can stop them. You use it every single day, once if not multiple times, often with out realizing. They offer a whole range of services, from blogging, to the maps, a search engine, a social network, an emailing service and trillions of images, all for free. The company is just getting bigger and bigger, and soon it will rule the world, you heard it here first.

You can be 16 to have sex, but you must be 18 to watch porn.

This is one of the most stupidest things in the known world of law. Once you turn 16, you can finally have sex without breaking the law (in the UK), but sorry, you have to wait 2 more years before you can watch people having sex, I mean, that's not stupid at all, is it?

Slavery still exists.

This whole slavery thing should not exist anymore, world. I mean seriously, you wouldn't think that there are more slaves in the world than ever before even more than the slave trade in the 1800s. There are 27 million slaves in the world, so why hasn't anything been done to stop it? 

So that's it, my 5 or 6 things say a thing or 2 about the world, and what a rubbish place it can be, and also, how stupid it can be from time to time. I hope you enjoyed reading my first "serious" post, as I will be doing this sort of thing from time to time, please comment if you agree, disagree, or have any more suggestions. 

Zebras must be stopped

Zebras must be stopped!

Why? I'm glad you asked, it's because they're evil, horrible, rude and damn right ugly.

My first, and one of only two encounters with a zebra was in Iceland. I was walking around, when suddenly a zebra appeared, now Iceland is obviously where you tend to find zebras roaming, so I just took the moment in and counted it as normal. But then, the zebra came closer, as if it wanted to eat me, well, no one eats me I say! So I ran over, attacked it, whacked it with a rock I got off the ground and with in minutes I sucked all the life out of it, I then set up a camp fire and ate the thing, I have to say, it was very tasty.

So that's one encounter I had with an evil zebra that tried to eat me, the next time was when I was at home, playing my xbox. I heard screaming from outside, so I put some clothes on and climbed out the window, I landed in the road, to see what was going on and yes, you guessed it... a zebra was attacking a fellow human being. As I had a history with zebras, I knew what to do, so I picked up a rock, whacked the zebra repeatedly until all the life had been sucked out of the evil black and white striped animal. But, another zebra came round the corner, this time, it had a sword and a shield to protect it's self, and kill me! So, I got a rock, disarmed it and hit it repeatedly until all the life had been sucked out of the damn thing. 

I was victorious! The person I saved thanked me and "owes me their life." No need to thank me, it's just routine.

So, since then I have been trying to stop every zebra in the world from attacking and eating people using shields and swords. But I don't think it's working, as zebras keep making more zebras through breeding, so far, I have not been able to stop these deadly creatures, but one day, I will.  

Three years ago today

Yes that's right, 3 years ago today, it happened.

Let's begin this story 3 years and 4 days ago (1,099 days ago to be exact.)

I was walking on the beach, minding my own business then BOOM! I fell to the ground after a knock to the head, now at the time, I obviously had no idea what knocked me down, as I was unconscious. I stayed out of it for about 4 hours, until I woke up on my sofa, with a book in my hand. Now, the book had no words in it, it was just a plain book with a brown cover with about 200 pages of white blank nothingness on them. So, I began to read the book. About a minute later, I had read the book, as it had no words on it, so it took no time to read.

Then the TV came on, and it delivered a message to me through the actions of a man. It said "You, yes you, you must do as I say, go to a shop, and buy me a news paper, a pen, a sheep, a clock and, most importantly... a statue in the shape of the number 6." So I did, I brought all that he said, except the statue shaped like the number 6, I couldn't find one.

4 days passed, to the day of the EVENT, I still hadn't found the statue though, I could only find a statue shaped like the letter A and the number 271, but not the number 6 unfortunately. I continued to search for the statue, but I couldn't find it. Then, the man came back, he said "well done for getting all the items, but you haven't got the statue, so now, I have put a spell on you, so that you can now only speak Chinese.

我希望你喜歡這個故事

National Door Day

National Door Day

What a fabulous creation they are: doors. They can be shut, they can be opened, they can be half opened, they can be half shut. They can be blue, red, yellow, pink, green, black, they can be circle, triangle, square and rectangle. 

So why do we treat them with such disrespect? When you're angry and you storm out of a room, the first thing you may do is slam the door as hard as you can, why? What's that achieving? What did the precious door do to you?

This is why, my dear readers, (who by the way are very low in number, in fact YOU, yes YOU, reading this now, wherever you are, could be the only person to have read this so far!) Anyway, so yeah, this is why, my dear reader(s), we must have a national door day to celebrate this wonderful invention, that we use dozens of times a day with out even realizing, a bit like blinking, only cooler.

The national door day will be December 25th, as nothing else goes on that day I don't think, so it would be the perfect date to do it, but I NEED your support. I don't know how you can support me, but that just sounded quite cool.

So, next time you open a door, maybe acknowledge the fact you are opening a door, and acknowledge the fact that one day, all doors will be gone, as they would have died of err... hunger. So keep feeding your doors people! And remember, Dec 25th, put it in your calendar!

Short Story: The man who ate his hat

Short Story: The man who ate his hat

The title should say it all, this little story is about a man who ate, yes ATE his hat.

The story begins with the man sitting at home with his wife in the living room. They were watching an Eastenders omnibus, and of course, the man was wearing a hat. 

The man, for some unknown reason always wore a hat. He wore it in bed, whilst he was out, whilst at work, whilst watching TV, basically, 99% of the time, he had this stupid hat on. 

His wife, hated the hat, in fact, she despised it.  The hat was worn and torn, over 35 years old, it was once blue, now it is brown, she was disgusted because of it's horrid worn look, and would do anything to get rid of the damn thing.

His wife kept on nagging him to take his hat off, to hang up his hat for good, but he wouldn't listen, he loved his hat, more than anything.

So one day, he was out jogging, and he was attacked by a masked figure. He was knocked unconscious by the attack, and woke up a few hours later in a room. No one else was about, except him, and his hat. 

A few hours had now passed, and he still had not seen anybody, then the masked figure walked in, the figure took of their mask, and their face was revealed, it was his wife. The man was so happy that the attacker was his wife and not some big, hard, terrifying gangster, that he hugged her and embraced her, moments later, the man ate his hat.

"Let's go home." He said softly, and they joined hands, headed home, but on this occasion, the man was not wearing his hat.

The end