the weed called internet

There's nothing wrong with allowing a blog to go in to slight disrepair, is there? I've just been a little distracted for the past few days. no comments and 1 message in my inbox. from the Rep theatre. no-one loves me :'(

oh well, time for another rant which 2 people who I know of will read! I have 2 followers which puts me in mind of someone walking behind me in a dark alley. a thought which I have to admit, I am not fond of...I know them both though and neither would hurt a fly, let alone a me :)

the internet...the thing on which I am surfing at this very moment! it can be a wonderful thing (such as when I am blogging or facebooking or watching anime or checking the Radio 7 schedule for the evening) or it can be an annoying thing such as when it freezes randomly, can't connect or is being used to set homework. it was originally used by the military to share information, then as soon as it went public it was taken over by the porn industry. when someone says to you "the internet is for porn," the best thing to do is believe them.

you can also use the internet to watch TV programmes that you have missed because your digital TV is playing up again. isn't technology wonderful! it's also used to stalk people such as people you have crushes on in the months leading up to a relationship. internet stalking is fun, but should not be encouraged as it freaks out the stalkee.

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called porn

This seems like a slightly unusual topic (especially since I've only watched porn once, and that was by accident) but after the events of yesterday I decided that I had to.

yesterday, I went to an anime expo. in case you don't know what this means, an anime expo is basically a convention for Japanese comics and cartoons where grown adults have an excuse to dress up in pink wigs and (in some cases, cross-dress which is brilliant :D). in anime the porn is called hentai and within hentai there are 2 forms: yaoi and yuri, Yaoi is guy-on-guy and yuri is girl-on-girl. don't get those two mixed up, now!

my boyfriend got them mixed up once. we were talking about porn and I asked him what he's watched. he then confessed, with a large smile might I add, "I like yaoi!" this earned him a strange sideways glance and the question "are you bi?" he looked at me strangely and said "no, I just said that I like yaoi!" I corrected him and we laugh about it now :)

the reason I thought to write about this topic after anime expo is because one of the supervising senpais (6th formers) met someone who was dressed as a character called Gaara. they hit it off straight away, and by the end of the day she had earned a victory snog with him! that doesn't sound too bad. the problem was, she was dressed as a man so it looked like two guys making out which was rather funny :)

thank you for reading!

Shinoneiko

the weed called clockwork

After ranting for a while about digital the other day, I thought I'd explore the opposite end of the spectrum and look at clockwork. Frankly, I love it!

clockwork is a beautiful science! some people say that electrons and stuff are beautiful science, but frankly they're just a few tiny specks orbiting a blob so whoever said that needs an eye test. there's something which has to be loved about the way that all the cogs nestle together and move in perfect synchronism (is that the right word? someone comment and tell me!). you know those clockwork robots in Doctor Who? I love them! I really want one, just so I can take it apart and stare at it...

for my sins I have never owned a proper clockwork watch. my Grandad has one, and I love listening to it tick. my favourite clockwork watch ever is my friend's watch with no back to it and a glass bit under the face so you can see how it works. I want one! it's a truly beautiful piece of jewellry! (I probably haven't spelled it right...jewellery? too many e's)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called digital

Yesterday in Tescos when I was in the bread aisle, I came across the rather unusual apparition of a digital toaster. there were several of them stacked next to the place where they hold sliced bread. now, what is the difference between my toaster in the kitchen (besides the fact that mine has some toast stuck in it from when I nearly burned the house down a few years ago) and the fancy digital one in Tescos? as long as they both cook toast, there is practically no difference!

the whole world is going digital crazy! suddenly it's digital switchover, digital clocks, digital radio, digital TV, digital toasters...I know the difference between digital and analouge waves so I can understand the ideas behind digital TV and radio, but digital toaster? toaster's don't pick up waves of any sort!

I must be the only person under 50 who is still in awe of the digital clock. You can't beat a good ol' ticking clock, so why digital clocks are necessary is beyond me. sure, they can show the time to the exact second but what is the point in that? if I wanted to check the time for the Simpsons, then I wouldn't make sure that I was in front of the telly at exactly 18:00:00 because it never starts exactly on time so if you did that then you might miss what Bart's lines are! I owned a digital watch once and I didn't like it so I soon swapped it for one that ticked :)

I have a digital TV in my room, but the digital channels on it don't actually work. I almost always change it to analogue, and the other times I just can't be bothered to watch it. The only thing better from this TV to my old one is that if I'm watching a DVD, the disc doesn't get stuck every so often. That's another thing, am I the only one left who's mourning video?

I must confess, I own a digital radio. I have it because I want to listen to BBC7 which can't be picked up from my analogue one (but Heart FM can't be picked up from my digital one, so it's best to have both). BBC7 basically has programmes which were on BBC4 from last week to the 1930's, but I love it! the only problem is, the alarm function doesn't work because, unless it's switched on, the time is stuck at when it was last turned off. other than that minor inconvenience, digital Radio and DVDs are the best thing that digital seems to have produced.

that was quite a rant, but I guess there's a lot to be said for digital :)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called subways

I don't mean the restaurant. grammar is very important and in this cases it's important because it distingushes between a restaurant and the thing that goes under roads to make them safer.

but are they really safe? I was thinking this as I walked to Tescos earlier. to get to Tescos from my place, I've got to cross the Coventry Road which is an A road so it's fairly busy. I have a choice of either going over the road or going under the subway, but the subway is lit by very bad strip lighting and there are a lot of shadows which means that there is the threat of someone with a knife hiding from you. now, if you go over the road, you have a choice of getting hit by a car or waiting for the road to go quiet before you cross but if you're going under a subway and someone decides to stab you then you don't really have much choice in the matter. also if you get stabbed then you have concentrated pain in a small spot but if you got hit by a car then you'd have bruising wich would hurt less and it's spread over a wider surface area so if you got hit by a car then you'd be more likely to get out of PE after recovering :) on the other hand, you're more likely to die from a stab wound, so you get out of PE either way. I personally prefer the less finite way of getting out of PE, so I think I'll take the going over the road way of getting to Tescos :)

I had 3 random thoughts which are worth mentioning today:
1) I was standing outside a restaurant and I was wondering why I could smell onions.
2) while I was walking, I was wondering why my head was cold. then I realised that I wasn't wearing a hat. then I realised that I don't normally wear a hat out apart from in summer, and then it's a very distinctive purple sunhat.
3) if the Queen and a cup of tea are things that make Britain british (to foriegners) then surely the Queen drinking tea must be the ULTIMATE British thing. so if the Queen's kettle breaks then do we suddenly stop being British?

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called jeans

I didn't post anything yesterday because I was busy with the post-op cats,so I'll do 2 posts and make it look like this was posted yesterday despite the fact that it was posted today...

is the day between valentines day and pancake day the day when we make and serve heart shaped pancakes to each other?

I wanted a new pair of black jeans, so I went shopping with my mum while the cats were at the vets to find some. first shop I came to, I tried size 6 and size 8. size 6 was perfect in length but I couldn't do them up over my big bum, so I tried the size 8 which were way to long and too baggy anyways. next shop I did the same thing but they didn't have the size 8. I just couldn't do them up over my big bum! I strained to do the button up, but I didn't want to strain too hard in case I broke them and then had to buy them and they weren't that nice. then the third shop that I went to had size 8 petite jeans which fitted! they were on sale as well, so I bought them :)

the extent women will go to to get a pair of desired jeans...

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called st Valentines day

Happy valentines day :)

unfortunately, my boyfriend is in France at the moment so he left me 2 gifts (I think out of guilt of being away more than anything else) which turned out to be a gorgeous toy dog and a chocolate heart with my name on it. bless him! he likes spoiling me, but I must be the only girlfriend in the world who doesn't like being spoilt. I get told off by my other guy friends for that

despite the fact that he's in France, we both have free texts so we've been texting one another in the evenings. this evening, he happens to be drunk, horny and on a trip with an all boys school. I can see this ending embarassingly and disastorously for both of us.

and it was a teacher who gave him the pint...something's not right with that!

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called a fringe

I have a fringe now. I tried to text my mum and my boyfriend saying so, but fringe doesn't turn up on the predictive text :(

when mum got the text saying that I have a fringe now, she asked me what it looks like. it looks like a fringe! what else? to be honest, it looks like a piece of hair hanging in front of my forehead...
it's only a temporary fringe, it's so I can cosplay as Misa from Death Note next Saturday. then I'll grow it out so it looks normal again :)

incidentally, who knew that raspberry is spelled with a P in the middle? it's like someone P'd in the raspberry. than again, it doesn't look right without the P. rasberry...nah. looks better with the P :)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called revision

there's nothing wrong with posting 2 posts in 1 day, is there? my head's just full of things I want to say...I'll slow down once I've got them all out though :)

GCSEs are looming so revision must begin! I started revising last month, but the novelty has worn off already! I just can't be bothered to revise. what I did for the chemistry mock was pull an all-nighter before the exam and I revised all night and I got an A...that was my most surprising grade! I pinched this technique from Kona-chan from Lucky Star. this just proves that this revision technique works...but I can't deploy it again in case I fall asleep in the improtant exam

I fell asleep in a maths exam once. it was the end of year 10 and I'd done what I could of the paper so I put my head on the desk and without meaning to I fell asleep! it was an hour and a half exam paper and apparently I was out of it for about half an hour. according to the person who was sitting behind me, an invigilator who was wandering around stopped when he saw me asleep and stared at me for a bit...the pervert!

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko

the weed called Shinoneiko

I ought to start with an apology to the person who's identity I have stolen. and the term person is very loose indeedy. so I'm sorry Shino! I'll give you a mouse and a tin of that food you like to make up for it!

Shino is indeed, the name of my cat. I have 2 cats, Shino and Roxy. they are sisters and are only 9 months old so they need to be neutered and they are going to be neutered on Monday. I kinda feel sorry for them. I'm much older than them and I've never been under the knife and they're having an operation at 9 months!

I named my cat the cat of death by accident. I heard that shino was Japanese for elegant so I thought "great, I'll name her elegant cat!" so I named her so. then a few weeks later when I was playing with her, my boyfriend (who doesn't study Japanese) said to me "you know shino means death, yeah?" that was embarassing to say the least, especially considering that I study Japanese.

mum tells people that she's called the cat of love. Shino really suits her though :)

thank you for reading!
Shinoneiko