Hey, as I am mean to be working on an essay right now, I can't write a long blog, but I want to wish everybody HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

...I can't believe I'm going to be 18 this year...*panic*...

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First of all, WOOHOO that nutang is back!!! Yay, now you guys get to hear all about my jolly adventures and exciting life, won't that be fun?...the doors are locked, there's no escaping now...muahahahahaha

I haven't been feeling particularly christmassy at all until today, but for some reason I suddenly got very excited about it. Until about 3 seconds ago when my mum came and said that she'd 'only gotten me a few small things', and the gifts which I had ordered from amazon.co.uk (for myself...how sad can you get?), to make sure that I actually had something on christmas day, hadn't arrived. My parents both seem to be incapable of buying presents for me. They have no idea what I like, so they just don't get me anything...i tried dropping a few hints this year though...but apparently they didn't sink in. *sigh* oh well, at least I managed to get all my christmas shopping done for my little brothers and sister...which is pretty much a miracle seeing as how I left it until last friday to go shopping for presents XD

I'm currently quarantined in my room. I have a horrible cold, and I'm not allowed to give it to anyone else in my family...thank goodness for SnS and Kuri, who have actually managed to give me some Christmas Cheer...SnS for the Secret Santa, which I got a litle too enthusiastic about, and Kuri for the amazing panda-fairy alliance day XD

Do I have pictures of Panda-Fairy Alliance Day? Why yes, yes I do....

The Two Hot Babes:



Me: Hey, let's do that classic myspace pose where you hold the camera up high... EVERYONE looks decent in that pose!
Crystina: .....whats a myspace pose?....*looks retarded*


WE TOOK A PHOTO WITH FAMOUS PEOPLE!!! (and we're both about a foot shorter than them)




I'm NOT running off with her panda, no matter what it looks like!!




PANDA EATER!!!


There's no use trying to hide it now!!



MERY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!! *GLOMP*

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New Art Project :)

The theme is Beauty. The Painting is the face of Venus in Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus'. Its oil on board. In 'The Birth of Venus', Venus' neck is technically broken. Botticelli painted the head at an impossible angle, to lengthen the neck and make it more beautiful. So in the background of my replica of Venus' neck and face, I'm going to paint the X-ray of a broken neck. The drawing's of spines and neck bones are observational work for the project. The broken spine will be drawn as if it were Venus' shadow, following the curve of her neck. Thus the painting is to show the ugliness of reality vs. the beauty of the illusion.





This is the face zoomed in, and I contrasted it slightly on photoshop to make the lines slightly darker.



This is the face zoomed in, but when the lights are switched off, so that any light is purely natural, rather than my art rooms artificial lights. This hasn't been photoshopped...

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OK, final university choices have been made....alli need to do is check over my Personal Statement and my UCAS application is ready to go....I'm so so nervous, im terrified that i wont get accepted anywhere. It's kinda depressing that i go to a hugely academic school, where the average in the I.B is 38 points, and i got predicted 37 points. It's also kinda ridiculous considering that 36 points in the I.B is meant to be equal to 3 A's at A Level....I wish I'd done more work for my predicted grades, but i didnt think they'd be so important, as until 2 weeks ago i was set on taking a gap year, and applying with my actual grades....

ok, here are my choices:

1st choice: Warwick
2nd choice: Bristol
3rd choice: York
4th choice: UCL
5th choice: Loughborough

I'm applying to study English (and creative writing)....wish me luck!!!

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Noughts and Crosses written by Malorie Blackman is possibly one of the best books I have ever read. It's a trilogy series (possibly about to become a series of four XD2), and I loved each in the series, but the first was definately my favourite.

The book is about an alternative universe to ours, where the stereotype of racism has been reversed. It has a Romeo and Juliet storyline, with undercurrents of political struggles, and an exploration of terrorist campaigns. In the world of Noughts and Crosses, it is the white people (noughts) who are the second class citizens, and the blacks (crosses) who are the 'superior race'. It is in this seting that Callum (a nought) and Sephy (a cross) grow up. They spend their childhood together and we see the difficulties each face, Callum as the subject of predjudice, and Sephy struggling with her broken family and the problems which come of being friends with a nought. Malorie Blackman takes the reader through the lives of Callum and Sephy, and those closest to them, showing their developing love for each other, the tragedies which shake their lives, and the never ending obstacles put between them. Through Callum's difficulties in being a nought, and the discrimination against him, Malorie Blackman depicts the hardships of black people in america in an entirely new way. You get drawn into these characters, you are happy when they find hope, you rage against the injustice against them, and in the wake of the eventual tragedy which rips them apart, you cry for them.

This is an amazing novel. I can't recommend it enough.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is putting on a production of the trilogy and I have already gotten people telling me how good it was. If you live in england, and are interested in this novel, or have read it before, then get your tickets from this site:

http://www.rsc.org.uk/WhatsOn/5989.aspx

I'v got my ticket!!! XD

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I love bonfire night so much!!! XD2
I went to Zizzi's (a pizza/italian style restaurant) with about 25 friends. I was sitting next to Kimmy who had smuggled in a vodka-filled evian bottle....and Jenny was opposite with a big bottle of 'lemonade' XD
I had 4 gulps of vodka/lemonade, and I was hammered, I'm such a lightweight T_T We went on to the fireworks and bonfire at our school, but another friend and I had to go back to get his hat, because he left it at the restaurant, at which point the alcohol REALLY kicked in, and he proceeded to tell everyone we met that I was drunk on 4 sips of vodka....school's gonna be...interesting...tomorrow XD
The fireworks were amazing though. They had all these gold ones, and it looked like it was rainging golden glitter :D
And the bonfire was nice too, although last years was a LOT bigger. As a pyromaniac, i like my bonfires over 10ft high...

On another subject i am sooooo excited right now...i wanted to go an see a play in about the Noughts and Crosses Trilogy by Malorie Blackman, but it was far away so my parents said i couldnt go. But, my mum went up to london last night to meet up with friends, and one of her friends saw the play and LOVED it. And as she lives close to where the play's being shown, she says i can stay the night with her and go see it!!!!
On top of this, it means there's a really strong chance i can go meet up with Kuri, as
A. She's also going to see the play, and
B. Even if we dont go to the same showing, she can probably convince her parents to let her come down to meet me on the days when i go to see the play!!!

*dances like a looney*

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