Results after Results

So results day has come and gone. The Sleepless nights are gone (for now) and i can finally stop sweating over my place at Cardiff. I ended up getting 3A's so obviously i'm chuffed. I didn't expect to do so well. I was sure I'd blown sociology with a bitch of a last exam. Katie did amazing. Which means we'll be in Cardiff together for the next Three years. We'll probably even share lectures in the first year!! She got AAB. I'm so proud of her. She could easily have used her M.E. as a n excuse not to work and just give up, but she really did work so hard. I know how much she wanted it, how much she's going to love university. I'm just so Glad to be sharing it with her.

I got my residence off through. So i will be Living in Talybont North, house A, Flat 2, room 6. Katie's in the same place too but in house F which is really good because we're so close. Living at home we're not particularly far, but it's still difficult to get to her since i never got around to learning to drive. But in Cardiff it'll be perfect.

I had to be admitted to hospital on Sunday.... nothing serious, it turned out to be a Colon Infection. That's about as much detail as i'm going to give. I have to save what dignity I have left. Besides the less you know the more likely you are to have a meating with your last meal. They let me out this morning, but not before arming me with Anti-biotics. Which took an unnaturally long time for the to get together. I suspect they hated me and wanted me to suffer.....beacause obviously the whole world revolves around me ;)

Why is it always so hard to see her go?

Soooo it's the moment you've all been waiting for!

It's the Mid August Stupid awards 2009 - Croud Cheers - The nominees for this year are as followed:-

(please note: Nominees will be kept anominous for risk of incarseration for complete retardation)

1) Girl of 18 in an attempt to include her ill friend in celebrations suggests that an Indian and 'Drink' is the best option. Not only is it a very lame idea but this 'friend' is unable to eat wheat, dairy, sugar, yeast.... Commonsense would suggest that she can't eat fuck all from an Indain, let alone Drink. How Dull does someone have to be to think that was a good idea. Adding to the general stupidity was the attempt to dress it up as if she were trying to provide an event her friend could actually attend. It's blatently selfish and self serving. But in all honesty the last few months have led us not to expect anything different.

2) Every other sprinter except Bolt for actually showing up to the world Championships.

3)The Tory MEP puplically criticising the NHS and trying to persuade The USA from abandoning the idea.

.....And the winner is....(everybody leans forward) OPTION 1

(obviously this is just a rant i decided to dress up a little so no prizes will actually be awarded)

Arms for the poor?....

On Friday I had my last shift as a minion of the corporate giant known as THE CO-OP. After 7 months, it's a really great feeling to be leaving (even though it one of the easiest jobs i'll ever have). This and my with my results day coming dangerously close, it really is sinking in that in just over a month i'll be moving to university where i'll spend the next 3 years of my life! I need AB to get in for my Modern History and Politics course, which hopefully won't be too much of a problem. I do feel quite confident i got the grades but this doesn't stop the nerves from building. We'll just have to see how it goes. I'll keep you posted...

So the football season has kicked of and i really couldn't be less interested, it's Rugby i'm waiting for. As a Scarlets fan i'm hoping for a much improved season. ANYTHING would be better than the last two. We've made a few signings that i'm quite interested in seeing, manly Travis knoyle and Richie Pugh but i'm not expecting miracles. It might be sometime before we reach the heights of yesteryear, until then i'm going for the 'it's a young/developing side' excuse. However i'd bet on us to either reach the EDF final or reach the Magners League play offs.

I guess i might aswel make some predictions on who'll win what. Remember, take note and get to the bookies. I'm going for either London Irish or Gloucester to win the GP, Blues to win the EDF, Leinster to win Magners League and Toulous to get the Heiniken Cup (surely the Irish powers can't take it again)

So from rugby to Literature, Yey. I'm currently reading a book i picked up at New Wine called 'The Case For a Creator'. I'm only on chapter 4 but it is really interesting. It's written by this Journalist looking to see whether science has found all the answer and 'killed God. So far we've focused on Darwin and his theory of evolution. Basically it turns out it's mostly wrong and all the school text books declaring it as fact are lieing. It's incredible how much of the scientific 'facts' we learnt in biology lesson is actually crap. And how much of the stuff scientists tell us about life is just guess-work. I know that ultimately this is just one book with the writers own ideas but the evidence is all there. I'm finding it quite funny how these scientists need as much 'Faith' in their work as Christians do in God.

Slow Friday afternoons...

"In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high."
Henry David Thoreau

Why not nothing?

Why not nothing? Three simple, unimpressive yet powerful words that have changed the way I look at the world. Why not nothing? Why should any of this world exist? Why should there be life? What is the purpose? Am I to believe that everything was created by accident? That everything we see before us comes from a series of random miniscule events. Or should I believe in something greater? A grand plan with meaning and purpose. A God.

I find myself asking so many questions. Questions that have been there but I’ve never really thought about. I’ve never believed in God. Not only have I never believed in god, but for years I’ve always had a part of me that has simply not wanted there to be one. I wanted science to answer all of life’s mysteries. But not for the first time I find myself looking to disprove Scientism rather than to cast away God without consideration.

I suppose I’ve stumbled into asking the ‘ultimate question’. It’s all centred around me looking for the meaning of life and where it comes from. I was, in the past, content with simply accepting that the meaning was for life to continue. That reproduction was the only real point. However I find myself not being able to accept this any longer. I feel like there should be something more

This has all come from me trying to explain my feelings of love and why there is life in the first place. When thinking in a science context I’m lost in how to do these things. In a secular world where relationships are simply a biological necessity love has no function. It doesn’t need to exist. Apart from the functions of life towards other life, I’m also unable to find any other functions. For the universe to exist; life, animals, plants and bacteria are of no use.

So it is science being unable to explain such things that have made me look deeper. The strange thing is that I’m asking all these questions, when I already have the answers. These answers can be found in God, in faith. And as it stands it’s the only place I’ve found them.

Now I’m not declaring my undying belief in the Lord just yet, that is something that is going to take time. If anything this is a declaration of my dissatisfaction, maybe even my disillusionment in science. But what is certain is that I’m considering God, for the first time….Maybe I am finding my faith…maybe I’m getting a grip on my happiness…..

'Bridging the Gap'

More and more young people are seeing university as the most viable option in pursuing future careers. This is undoubtedly a good thing for Wales, and the rest of the United Kingdom. This week we see Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson talking out about a new idea to issue ‘poorer’ students with a two grade head start over those from a middle or Upper Class background.

Such ideas spawn from the ever existing pattern of poorer students being less successful in education, in secondary school and later on at Degree level. The idea is that the head start will level the playing field, and allow lower income students with more potential to be given a better chance to prove their worth.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think it’s extremely important that these disparities between rich and poor come to an end. However, this is certainly not the way to go about it. The problem must be tackled in schools and in the university selection programmes. It is simply unfair to deny a student a place in university to someone who achieve less, just because of their background. In effect you would not be getting rid of discrimination. Instead you’d be reversing it.

Now the problem must be addressed. But we have to start by looking at why poorer students get lower grades in the first place. Whether it be by lack of funding or skilled teachers in low achieving schools or by the cultural problems experienced by poorer persons.

It would seem that the idea behind this thinking is to hide the problems possessed by the education system rather than to address it. A quick fix meant to appeal to the working masses pre general election.