A day early

Okay so seeing as I wont be online all day tomorrow (for this blog anyway) I thought I would post DAY 9 up now.
Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased
Now this question is a little confusing *for me anyway* I say that because I don't know whether they mean in general, online or out on the high street. If they mean in general then it will have to be my latest ebay buy. Its a panda hat :) Im in total awe of it. Cannot wait till it arrives. Downside is that I have to wait 2 weeks as it is being shipped over from China.

LOVE LOVE LOVE<3

I apologise once again for my absence, its just I really need to job hunt before I restart uni again in september and move into my student house permentantly

Peace out
AJ
xxx

Day 8 - A song to match your mood

Yet again, another tricky one for me.
I might just pick the song I am listening to at the moment. It's by a youtuber named David Choi. Its a colab with 2 other youtubers named Ryan 'NigaHiga' Higa and JRArqino (think I spelt it right.) Its called 'I'm Hardcore' Thats how I am feeling at the moment. Proper hardcore. LOL!
Here is the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSQf4TF_8ZI
WATCH IT! :)

Day 7 - Your dream wedding....Apology for yday

Trickyyyyyy!
To be quite honest with you; I am probably the only girl who hasn't got a plan for what I want. All I would say is that I hope it is a really happy day for everyone and that nothing goes wrong on the day. I literally have nothing else to say. How boring am I? So yeah I got nothing else to add for this.

Going into my actual topic. I do apologise for yesterdays excuse of a blog. I was extremely busy. Had about a million people expected at my house to either do work on the house and to deliver stuff I had ordered online. Luckily, everything went to plan and it is now complete. Good times.

So today was the deadline for a call I was waiting to get. It was for a job that I was interviewed for last week. Unfortunately, I didn't get the call. I am gutted. I really thought I had a chance at the job as it is something I am passionate about. I went into the room with confidence; somehow that must of backfired on me.
There is one thing I hate about the aftermath of the interview though. That is the 'calling process' They always say 'Yeah we will get back to you within a certain number of days', so you are sitting around for days on end just staring at your phone or computer waiting for that all-important call or email. But no, nothing.
It would be great if they could call you to say 'no' and give you a little feedback as to what you did wrong. But no, they just leave you hanging. I hate that.
I feel this would be such an improvement to people if they were to know what they failed on. This could help them improve for the next time they come across a job interview. This is why the government have so many unemployed people (MY OPINION SO DONT TAKE OFFENSE) people dont know what they did wrong in the interview to be accepted. It winds me up so muchhhhh!

That is my rant of the day.

Peace out
AJ
xxx

Stats list

Okay so this is just going to be a quick little entry, just to make up for my lame excuse of one earlier. Only wanted to talk about the stats I have dating from last month to now. I copied the stats and here they are

United Kingdom 196
United States 78
Iran 14
Germany 7
Singapore 4
Japan 3
India 2
Brazil 1
Spain 1
Croatia 1

Love the amount of views I am getting from the different countries but why no communication? Don't be afraid to leave a comment. Let me know if I am doing something wrong because I like to learn about what I am doing right or wrong. Even suggestions for next blog posts. Im friendly so dont feel scared to talk.
Maybe you have a issue about the blog layout or don't approve of what I write. Please do not hesitate to contact me. If you wish, or you use the social networking platforms; add me on Twitter @amandajane__x I tweet interesting stuff on twitter

Anyway thanks for the read and see you tomorrow
Peace out
AJ
xxx

Day 6 – A photo of an animal you'd love to keep as a pet.

PANDA!!! I love them :) Not because my name rhymes with Panda but because they look so cuddly and friendly. They are like giant teddy bears.

Anyway, not going to be posting much of a blogpost from myself today because I am not feeling too brilliant today; plus I have a lot of stuff to do whilst I am at home. But I shall be back to normal with a blogpost tomorrow.

Sorry.

Peace out
AJ
xxx

Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago...& Doctors

My holiday in Turkey back in August of 2009; You tell see in the pic above I was getting sunburnt. I was 18 years old and about to go out for a meal with my family. Cannot believe I actually remember that.

So yes moving onto my main topic for today. Doctors. How many times have you contacted your doctors surgery asking for an appointment either for that same day or the following day; if possible? Well, my doctors seem to be a complete and utter joke. I first called them about a problem I had nearly a month ago. It was an urgent matter that needed to be seen by a professional. I didn't want to go to the hospital as it would of been time-wasting for them. So there I am, in my lounge, calling and the receptionist picks up. So I ask her 'Can I book an appointment please?' She says, 'I'm afraid we have no more appointments for today; can we get a doctor to call you back to discuss the matter?' At which I said, 'I'm afraid this cannot be discussed on the phone ma'am. Its an urgent app I need.' The woman then said 'Call back tomorrow.' Now I know if I was a normal person I would have happily called tomorrow, but no, my mum is a receptionist at a docs and she said that the problem I have is urgent and should be seen to asap! So here I am 25 days later; finally able to have got an appointment.

Sorry to dish out my lifestory of my rant about my doctors. But have any of you experienced such utter disgraceful behaviour?

Peace out
AJ
xxx

day 3 and 4 - Harry Potter Finale!

I am soooooo sorry! I totally forgot to visit yesterday and post photo 3. Sorry! So day 3 is 'Your idea of the perfect first date'
Now the first thing that comes to my mind is a theme park. Don't ask me why, well actually yeah there is a reason. I love theme parks. I like rollercoasters, water rides, teacups and all the others.

This ride is called 'Vampire'. It is at one of my fave theme parks in my country. It's called 'Chessington World of Adventures.' If you live in Southern England; I deffo recommend you check it out!

So today is day 4 which is Your fave picture of your best friend. I shall say this is probs the winner because she looks really pretty in this pic.

We make a right pair when we are both out and about in the town! Ahhh she is like a little sister to me...SAMANDA FTW! *our names*

Anyway, moving aside from that for the day. Today I FINALLY went to see Part 2 of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows....OH MY!!!! It was amazinggggg. I nearly cried at the end as it was that emotional. I will not tell you what happens because I want you lovely people to check it out for yourselves!
The best thing, even before I got into the screen, was getting the custom made 3D glasses which were made for the film! They were shaped like his glasses and they came in a funky case which you can keep for a souvenir. You have to pay an extra 30p *i think* but its worth it for the memories. SO CHECK IT OUT AT YOUR LOCAL CINEMA NOOOOWWWW!

D-Day & Day 2 of randomness

Going to get the randomness thing started first. So today is Day 2...Which means I have to post a piccy of what I ate today.
There you go. Today I ate Fish and Chips. Home-made!

Anyway, I also titled this as 'D-day' because I had a job interview today for a phone store. I have to say it was a pretty fun interview. I somehow enjoyed it, the interviewers were very laidback people which I feel comfortable with. They also made the group tasks seem fun *which they are*

Just got to wait until Wednesday to see whether I was successful.

Im going to end it here as I am so tired from waking up extremely early to travel such a long distance to this interview that I have no energy to write this. But I promise I will be back sometime tomorrow with a great entry.
My sincere apologises

Peace Out
AJ
xxx

30 days of randomness

Okay so I did this on Facebook a few months ago and gosh I found it to be quite fun. Then I saw people were completing the challenge on Blogger, Tumblr & wordpress. So I thought 'hmmm I'm gonna attempt this seeing as I found it fun on FB'. So here is the list

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Day 1 – A photo of yourself and description of how your day was.
Day 2 – A photo of something you ate today
Day 3 – Your idea of the perfect first date.
Day 4 – Your favourite photography of your best friend
Day 5 – A photo of yourself two years ago.
Day 6 – A photo of an animal you'd love to keep as a pet.
Day 7 – Your dream wedding.
Day 8 – A song to match your mood
Day 9 – A photo of the item you last purchased
Day 10 –A photo of your favourite place to eat
Day 11 – what in your make-up bag?
Day 12 – A photograph of the town you live in.
Day 13 – Your favorite musician and why?
Day 14 – A TV show you’re currently addicted to.
Day 15 – Something you don’t leave the house without.
Day 16 – Your celebrity crush.
Day 17 – A photo of you and your family.
Day 18 – Something you crave a lot.
Day 19 – Another picture of yourself.
Day 20 – The meaning behind your blog name.
Day 21 – A photo of something that makes you happy.
Day 22 – A letter to someone who has hurt you recently.
Day 23 – 15 facts about you.
Day 24 – A photo of something that means a lot to you.
Day 25 – What’s in your purse?
Day 26 – A photo of somewhere you’ve been to.
Day 27 – A picture of you last year and now and how have you changed since then?
Day 28 – Your favorite movie.
Day 29 – Something you could never get tired of doing.
Day 30 – A photograph of youself today + three good things that have happened in the past 30 days

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So Day 1 is going to be today and it says to 'Take a photo of yourself and a description of how your day was' (or something like that)



Seeing at it is morning, I shall describe what I will be doing today. I will be jumping on a train from Gatwick Airport for a two hour journey to my new house in Surrey for university. All because of a job interview happening in Berkshire. Thought it would be easier to stay in my new house instead of my parents house in Sussex as here is too far atm.

update

I know I did a post a few hours ago mentioning about my holiday; but I thought I would just do a little update about what is happening with this blog.
Owning about 4 blogs, it is a real hassle to keep all of them updated constantly, so I had a little brain wave and thought I would combine them all into this very blog. It would make my day a whole lot easier and be more for you all to read.
I shall go into a little detail as to what each of the other 3 blogs are (the 4th being this one)
My first blog I ever started was to just rant some issues I had; I set that up as a private blog as I felt it was somewhere I could go to let out all the anger I had in my brain. Obviously, with that one being private I would say anything, but with this blog being public, I will just saying about 40% instead.
The second blog was about reviews; whether it would be about beauty products, films, tv shows, even stuff on youtube. Reviews is something I like to write about. It is a common interest of mine to write about my opinion of a product I've tested out. I recently did a review on a skin care product called 'Skin79 Super Beblesh cream' which I published on YouTube (I shall post the link at the end of the post if you wish to check it out) Subscribe to my channel if you wish as I may just do some more reviews via YouTube. -Only got 1 vid up atm...But don't worry I am in the process of doing more-
The third blog was just an everyday sort of diary of what I did in my day to day life. I started this one whilst I was at college when I was 17. But seeing as I am a university student now and living away from my parents house, the diary will be much more interesting instead of saying 'got home, mum cooked me dinner, watched tv then I went to bed.' That was so boring!

Lastly, it will also be about work which I do at university; this was the main reason why I created this exact page...So I cannot forget to include my uni work...But this uni installment showcasing my work won't be up until the end of September as it's currently the summer holidays. So yeah stay tuned for that!

Anyway, I hope you like the idea of what I have decided to do. Please leave a comment below if you disagree with the new change and wish for me to keep them all separate from each other.

Here is the link for the video I was mentioning above
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qpjKa9xqQ

Peace and Love
AJ
xxx

Back in my country!

I have returned from my summer hol to France and am now peacefully in my room in London :)
I left for France on July 3rd and came back this Monday. Let's just say, I wouldn't put this Family holiday in my top five list of best vacations ever. I am going to be realistic and state the reasons why I feel it failed as a hol for me.
1. It rained non stop - It felt like I had never left England. It was sunny for one day; the day we arrived. How lame is that?
2. The resort's activities weren't as good as the brochure stated - they based themselves on a active adventure holiday suitable for all ages. Well that is deffo not what I saw. All I saw was a climbing frame for children to play on. Some canoes/kayaks and some quad bikes.
3. Overcharging equipment - main reason we chose the place we stayed in was for the quad bikes, so my brother could have fun. But no, they had to ruin it. Went up to the desk and asked to use the quads. Woman says 'It's €35 for 1 hour but you need to put down a €300 deposit incase anything happens to the bike'. Er, €300, that is overpriced! French people are a joke. In UK, the deposit would probably be about £150 max and a mininum of £35 (I'm guessing) Dad literally spat his drink out when he heard of the depo.
4. Loud dutch children - now I am a very friendly calm person but, I swear, when I was in the pool with my mum, about 5 dutch kids were screaming their heads off going 'arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh' 'ooooooooooohhhhhhhh' 'rawwwwwwrr' Er shut up! If you wanna scream go back to your caravan and scream there you irritating little kids.

I could go on forever but I won't as I would probably bore you with the details.
Next year I am deffo holidaying with friends in Spain. No more France for me.

Summer holidays

are now upon us. Well some of us. Mainly me.
I am not really used to starting my summer break in May, due to the fact that when I was at school and college we would break up in July like everyone else in the United Kingdom. But for some reason, now I am at university, we finished our year 2 weeks ago. Shocking.
Since finishing for the summer 2 weeks ago, I have already found myself looking at alternative things to do around the house and where I live. This failed dramatically because where I live has nothing for a person of my age to do. Even the 12-17 year olds complain.

But anyway, moving aside from my dull start of a summer holiday, I wanted to know whether anyone here has had summer break happen earlier than what I currently have. Maybe you broke up at the beginning of the May or maybe even sometime in April. That would be shocking if you did in April. That would be ONE LONG summer holiday.

But I do have something to look forward to for this summer...I go on holiday a month on Friday :) So excited...Well not really, but it's still getting out of London so I am happy. Off to Western France with my family for a week. Every year we go to France (I know; cue the boos) I get bored of it too, but somehow I am actually excited for this one...We haven't been since 2008 because in 2009 we broke the chain and went to Turkey and due to moving house last year we couldn't exactly have a holiday. Another reason for my excitement is because it will be my last ever holiday with my family. With me now being 20, and moving out of the parental home in 2 weeks,I felt it was time to move on and establish things for myself...and that meant holidaying without the 'rents. But fear not, I have already been on 2 holidays without the family back in 2009...IRELAND! I know, I know, it isn't really a holiday but I still went on a plane without them and got to see and do what I want with my friends; but I truly and utterly loved it! The independence and the freedom to do what you want when you want is amazing. I recommend it to anyone 17+ who wants to uncling themselves from their family and experience the world alone, well with friends.

The end of the line...

Wow. I cannot believe that in over a week's time, I will no longer be a 1st year university student. Time has flown by! Only seems like yesterday that I was in college looking up universities I was wishing to attend and having a million interviews. Now, here I am, about to finish year 1 out of 3.

For anyone thinking about going to uni; do it! You will not regret it. Okay, maybe the news over the last 5 months has been a little negative regarding student loans, but forget that...You'd be earning a degree! A degree. That's right, a top of the range qualification in something you love.
Did that sound a little commercialized? I thought so too. I do apologize.

In the space of 8 months: I have completed endless amount of work, essays, assignments and stressing about housing for september 2011.
But, fear not, one has managed to gain a property...AND I MOVE IN NEXT MONTH! June 16th to be precise. New Home cards and wishes will be appreciated (aha I joke.) I'm just excited. Becoming a 2nd year sounds exciting at the moment. But, give it time (say about November) and I shall say to you all 'I hate it!' T_T

OFF TOPIC!
Okay so I am about to go off topic. Earlier, I looked at the stats for this blog and I am astonished at the amount of overseas visitors I get. US, Germany, Singapore, Russia & Iran. Wow. Please, do not be afraid to comment and say hi. Communicating to different countries is amazing. Please leave a comment if needed. Would be nice to hear (well read your comments) from you.

To end this, I will say GO TO UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE AND SUCCEED IN LIFE! Make something of yourself and don't be scared.
Speak tomorrow :) (yeah I am making this regular now)

Political nonsense

It is that time of year again when people have to come out of their houses and attend their local community centre, school or any public space with a roof, to take part in the elections.
Every year in Britain, we hold elections for local councils to see who will take hold of the neighbourhood we live in. Every couple of years a general election will happen where us Brits will have to vote for who we want to run the country. What a hassle. I am only 20 and been voting now for 3 years: I am already fed up of it. This year was probably the worst as we had the AV thing to vote for on top of the local election. I dont have a problem with this, but the honest truth is, I had no idea what I was to do regarding the AV vote. Should I of voted Yes or voted No? Luckily, I came to a decision and sorta glad I stuck to it. Not saying what I voted.

But yes, this all happened yesterday, and today the results came out. My local elections turned out well. Labour took hold of my neighbourhood (happy parents) and also the old neighbourhood I used to live in too. A few hours ago, they also announced the results on national news what the AV vote was. The winner was NO. Many happy people and many upset people. Oh well deal with it. That is what I say.

Now I am not a very political person, but I sorta have to be with the way I was brought up. My dad has had an interest in the news and politics since a young boy, so my nan tells me, and he has tried to rub it onto my younger brother and I. This hasn't worked at all. But anyway, it has sort of made me understand this all a lot more than the majority of my friends. Some are clueless as to why we even have to vote. One even said "Are women even allowed to cast a vote?" I questioned her as to what era she think we were living in. Clueless friends I have. But I did explain to her that we have been able to vote for a long time now. Don't ask me how long as that is where I get lost.

To end this, I am just going to say...Are your countries in election mode? If so, are you going to vote? If not, why?

It has been a while

This hasn't been updated in a while, I do apologise. But I am back and hope to keep this going. I have been so busy recently, words cannot describe it. Parties, learning, working, socialising and many more hectic things happening. But I am back now so no need to panic.

Anyway, I decided to restart this again (not just because it is course requirement) because I have been reading other peoples blogs. One blogger I have been reading is Xiaxue (Wendy). She is a Singaporean blogger who blogs about everything. The amount of hate this woman gets is incredible. All she does is speak her mind and she gets criticised for it. All I say is 'good on her for speaking her mind'. Last time I heard, there was something in this society that says 'Freedom of Speech'. Is this not applicable anymore?' I sometimes wonder.
Not only does she blog, but she does work, alongside Wendy, for a Singaporean internet channel called 'Click Network'. It's such an awesome channel and I deffo recommend you check it out
http://www.clicknetwork.tv
They have a show named 'Chick vs Dick' with Kay Kay & Paul, 'Budget Barbie' with QiuQiu & Xiaxue's Guide to Life.
Anyway enough of that. BTW I am not sponsored for advertising stuff (I wish I was though as that would be ace)

Radio Story #2

There is a lot of christmas spirit going around Surrey this christmas especially in Reigate and Banstead.

Shoppers in Reigate, Banstead and Horley are to be given free parking over the seasonal period to help them save a little cash.

The good will which has come from the council hopes to help shoppers at this difficult ecomonic climate.

Like they say, it is the season of goodwill and fortune.

Vox pop script

Taken from the vox pops done a month or so again with Rihanne Stephen.

Man 1: I can't say I have any strong feelings about it to be honest. It's a little bit too early, you could argue its a waste of electricity. No strong feelings either way.

Man 2: Hate it. Why? Because it actually robs Christmas of the event...Yeah when you're waiting up to it to december. Thats the meaning, if you got it switched on in november, october, what's the point? You may as well have them on all year. No, no i'm generally against it.

Girl 1: It doesn't really bother me. It makes me get more excited quicker for christmas

Girl 2: I don't like it because it means companies get more money out of us because they are trying to sell gimmicky things because it's like I dont have much money. Its not fair.

Print stories

Jobless climate

Many young residents in a Surrey town were left in turmoil after a job drought. Teenagers in redhill were distraught when their town was announced to be worst hit with the recession. Workers were made redundant meaning everyone was fighting for any last-remaining jobs going.
Louisa Welman, 19 of Redhill, said: "This current time is horrible. Since I left school, all I wanted was job as I didn't want to go to college. But it looks like I might just need to. There is just nothing out here, even in nearby Horley. The country needs to sort it out."

With the recession hitting the whole of the United Kingdom back in 2009, people were losing their jobs by the thousands. This saw the redundancy rate hit records levels with the numbers being in the tens of thousands.
Welman also stated: "I just hope Redhill recovers well so I can fund my young son's future as I hate relying on benefits."

Fireworks extravaganza

Roll up roll up. The fireworks are coming to Horley again this year.
On Novemeber 5th, expect a night to remember as the quiet surrey town lights the sky with colours. The night is expected to raise money for local children charities.
Tickets are £5 each with family tickets priced at £10. What are you waiting for, come on down.

School Politics

School children take on a 'Question Time' discussion at a town hall in Surrey. 50 children from Beacon School in Banstead got to experience a political debate at the town hall on a variety of issues. They were able to question the councillor. At the end of the session, all the children recieved certificates.

1st semester

Since I started the Journalism course in September this year I have learnt quite a lot.

In Print and Online Journalism, I learnt how to use photoshop and create edits on images etc. Another program I learnt to use was InDesign. This software is used to create magazine and newspaper layouts at ease. I felt it was extremely easy to use having used a software like InDesign which was called QuarkXPress.
We got shown how to upload images and audio to certain sites to export them onto this website and we edited pictures to make them bigger or smaller.
I feel this is a subject I am really good at as I enjoy it. I think this is something I want to do next semester.

In Radio, I learnt how to operate the controls in the studio. In one lesson, we had to read a news story on air and at the end we were evaluated on how well we done. At the time I thought I had done bad but realised at the end I wasn't too bad.
I feel Radio isn't something I want to do in the future but I did enjoy it more than I thought.

In Television, I learnt how to use the university cameras, what certain TV words mean like A/B Rolls and Rushes. We also learnt how to use a software named Premier Pro. This software is something I am not too keen on as it looks like it takes a lot of getting used to. I do feel that in time I will get the hang of it.
I feel that Television is also something I am not good at, along with radio, and will not be pursuing in the future.

ITV News

London Tonight is a news programme broadcasted on ITV at certain times of the day, usually 2 bulletins in the morning alongside the main 6pm and 10pm bulletins.

The sort of shots that LT use vary with A Roll, B Roll and many more. At the beginning of the show they use a pan shot which zooms around the studio showing a picture of some of the top news. It then goes into a wide shot of the newsreaders who then welcome the viewers and alerts them into what has hit the headlines today. They always start with a shot of the newsreader(s) because they want to engage the viewer. To also not make the clips boring, they also add in close-ups and mid-shots.
When the presenter has finished reading a story out they then add a link to the news package that has been done by a fellow colleague; they usually include a couple of interviews with a few people and some B-Rolls to try and spice up the story so the viewer knows exactly what is going on.
Some of the best things about news packages is the location of the newsreader; some can be in the middle of Afghanistan reporting on a death of a solider, and another reporter could be trying to crash a student protest to try and show the viewers the devastating effects of what has been done.

With LT, some of their packages could be live or pre-recorded. There are a lot of differences between the two. One of the first has to be lighting; this is because with a live package you need to make do with what lighting you currently have. If you miss up in a live interview/package you need to make do with what has happened. The advantages of having a pre-recorded package is that you can add extra lighting. You can also cut bits out or do a retake if you think you could have done better.

Lastly, when the news finally comes to an end, they will introduce the weather and then once that is done they will then turn back to the newsreaders who will do a link out and say goodbye to the viewers. In LT, it is a one person close up which then turns to a wide shot of both readers and then a long shot which then fades.