Two great Dinner Parties.(thanks Guys)

As I am poor, I have been skipping on the restaurants and going for Dinner parties instead. Then again, I have got more friends opening their homes for the idea. Honestly, who really wants to go out when it is cold just for food in an over priced building like Gorden Ramsey anyway..?

The first one was Cookie's on Sunday. She has moved to a new flat for just her and Ryan. I am jealous. Really cheap, all inclusive and only her and her Lover. -Sigh-. The only bad thing it is in Leytonstone..but even that is no bad thing!
There was already guests when I arrived at half one. It was nice chatting to Cookie's other circle.
Eventually others arrived to fill the silences that occur among strangers.
It was a good mix..Brenda, Anna, a guy called Andrew I met before as he works in St Georges and was at a few "gatherings" and 4 others.


We gathered and laughed and socialised as you do...


Cookie turned out to be an amazing cook. There was starter of soup, Dumplings (chicken and vegetables) then rice with various meat to put on it. Brenda and Anna provided dessert and someone brought the alcohol. Fun times.

Did find out some things though..

-Cookie is a great Painter..Was lucky to see her old work.
-Brenda laugh is getting weirder and even tops me.
-Wearing a summer dress is not a good idea when London is still gripped in cold and Ice. Brr.


If you were wondering where Ryan the lover was while we were munching away, he went to Yorkshire to see family. Did see him as Anna, Brenda, Andrew and I braced ourselves against the cold to get to the Station.(He was fine, thanks for asking..)

Monday night was Anna's turn to play host. As I decided to crash at Anna's for a while I was there, as well as Garry and Iwona.
IT WAS MEXICAN THEMED.Kinda.
We had chicken fajitas. Awesome.

Again with the Catch up. It is amazing how much one can talk about once a topic is reached they like.
For Anna it was about the music and the new DJ she is into. He can mix anyone and Anything. Pure talent man. Look him up..YOUR NIECE!

Awesome stuff!

A Scary level of truth..

A book to shock you into doing something. Equality IS better for everyone.




This book is the result of 50 years of research. It talks about inequality and how it makes people cranky. How being equal can affect mental illness, obsetity and even how long one can live.
How countries like America fare worst in "happiness scales" then it Japan.

Basically I think anyone who believes that society is the result of what we do, rather than who we are, should check this out.

The Kindness offensive Strikes!

As you may know, I love free stuff. I f it is food , I love it even more.
I was very lucky then to get free Pancakes with my Mama at Ed's Diner. It was really random as it was to draw attention to Bullying and the anti bullying campaign via the NSPCC. I
shamefully did not know this when I went there. My mind went "free pancakes? FREEEEE..??! I am in".




It was good though. Found out about Leap... An orgainsation that helps makes good deeds fun and easy. CHECK IT OUT: Type Leapanywhere in google. NOW!

Valentine's Day love!

I hate Valentine's. Seriously I do. For a person in a loving relationship and who has free time to plan things for her lover, I was not the most happiest come the 14th.
It is not the stress.
It is not the commerical. nature.
It is the fact that one day out of the whole year people are forced to go against their nature and be nice and romantic to who falls into their lustful eyesight. Come on guys. There are 365 days in the year last time I checked. You do NOT need to wait til Febuary to show that you care and love someone..

That rant out of the way, I did have a good time.
John phoned me and told m
e to dress in leathers and warm clothes. It meant one thing. I was going to ride on his bike (He hates riding with others so that was a treat in itself!)
After having a quick hot choc and me posing in the lid he borrowed for me:

The question where/what are we going to do was soon answered when we pulled up outside Bloomsbury Bowling Alley. For those that don't know it, it is a cool bar that has bowling, Karoke, gigs, dancing, random machines and a 50's style.
It was cool, Quirky and totally us.

Food was consumed:
(yes it had to be typically us..Ordering more then we can eat..The milkshakes were cool though..and ridiculously filling!

Bands were admired:

(Check them out..Scarlett's Rose was amazing live. Love the blond singer's voice!)

And our competitive nature arose when we bowled with our funny names:

I lost but only because John managed to get 3 strikes. Well it was nearly Turkey after all..(his favourite word it seems.)

I also embarrassed John by repeatly asking for tea. The guy felt sorry for me and evenually made me one from the staff stock! Well, if you ask you get don't you.

I also got a heart balloon. Doesn't it look like nipples..? It does doesn't it..? It is not just me, is it..?

I wanted to keep it, but John decided to burst it on me as he claimed
"I would look like a twat if I was riding a bike with a balloon sticking out".
Meanie.
Still, I got a new band to be obessed about and I Really want a bike. Good times
:P

Happy new year (Again)

Anna is a social Animal. I am Anna's friend. Therefore I occasionally decide to enter Anna's world of parties, DJ sets and EastLondoness
Tonight it was a houseparty in Dalston. The theme was Chinese new year. It had food, warmth and a good crowd (Brenda and Cookie were also there!).
Met Anna at her's before running down to the station to pick up Cookie. We were late because we kept forgetting things..First we forgot the champagne, then I forgot Cookie's present (late I know, as I kept forgetting to give it to her!).

Eventually piled on the bus before indulging in Doughnut. Mm, Sugar rush never was so good!

Got into a weird conversation on the bus.
One guy asked out loud how to spell Jewel. Anna spelt it. A drunk guy in the corner then shouted out "How do you Spell "condom"..I always need one during the weekend. Will someone help me out..?!". Some bright spark spelt out "Good luck" before the drunk guy shouted.." Noooo...That is not right..isn't it C-O-N-D-O-M..?".

Bad timing for Brenda who decided to phone at that moment to find out where we were.

Brenda was not the only one waiting. Steve, (Jamie's friend who is Leo and Anna's mate) and some Swede people were coming to. I was a bit intimidated with all the crowd. One to speak I know, as I had a whip in my hands!

Took a while to find out where the house was, but when we got there we were delighted..There was posters to advertise it on the wall (inside as a mickey take), the stair case was transformed into a tunnel so people had to curl up and down it (had cardboard taped to the walls forcing people to go on their knees.) and food. I was happy with the food.
It even had a real fireplace, so I was able to roast and burn various food from marshmallows to chips.
I also was told there is a sweet one is supposed to chuck at people for good luck..Bad times for the other guests.
I did not just misbehave. I was floating around talking to people to. There were 2 people that I really like..Marina who was a bubbly woman living in Hammersmith, and a guy called Paul who talked about everything from bikes to Identity. He had a big discussion with Bee too, which I sat down to listen to.

We did not stay there for long though..The others had tickets to a club and I was tired. At the bus stop it was fun as I encouraged others to whip stuff. Had a mini competition to see who could whip a beer can off the bus stop bench. No one it seemed!

Got home about 2, while the others got home much, much later. Aw well. Start as you mean to go on!

A great book

I have been trying to read a lot more this year, and get out of only reading webcomics and Sci fi/ fantasy novels (genius though they are!).
It is with pleasure that I will say: Read this book:

It is one of the thought provoking books I have read in a long time. Basically it is a world were Africians were the masters and Europeans were slaves. For obvious reasons very powerful and sad. Read it though- you will be missin out if you don't!

A day and night in Camden Town...

Okie, so these last few days I had a reason to visit my old haunt in London. Glorious Camden Town. I had lunch, coffee dates and gigs. Almost feel like my old self a bit at that.

First time was with Vince. He likes Camden. I like Camden. Seemed like a great place to choose to meet and catch up. Bad plan for me though, as I came straight from John's and had heavy books, dirty clothes and my laptop. Note to self. Lugging around a giant rucksack makes wondering slightly difficult.
It was nice though. Brought a diablo from Oddballs, ate a lot of Camden style food and laughed with Vince at the "fashion" there. Bliss.

I went back the next day to meet my old Uni mates-Dolly, Smi and Sarah. All were depressed about work (or in Sarah's case lack of). Tis a hard life for us some times. We all were happy with catching up, being cam whores and eating in our favourite restaurant Max Oriental...


I was soon greeted by another friend: Cookie. It was good timing of her as the others left for new adventures in various London hangouts while I wanted to stay for a gig in Camden.
Cookie did seem to get on with Smi..At least Smi was making her giggle with talks of Clothes and accounting stories.
Bored with the shops, Cookie and I headed for Hampstead Health. The plan was to sit down in the green and have a hot drink. It was far to cold though to put that plan in action (In this weather? In this Country? What were we thinking?!), so we stopped into a quaint looking shop. It served good cake and was reasonable for the drinks. Plan B turned out to be not so bad.

Vince graced us with his presence in the evening..We meet at the World's End pub- Best one ever with this sign by the way:


and went straight on to the gig.

I saw one of the bands before-Molloy so I was happy. The lead singer Caz give me a big hug and it was nice to hear more of her life then just music based news. She was amazing on stage as usual!

Another band I grew to like was Slow Gun. I did make a prat of myself after with the Bass player- She was handing out badges and didn't hear what I was saying. Basically she thought I was a twat.

The other band was cute but boring to listen to. The name failed to register in my mind..Sad for them I'm sure.

Hungry after the music, I persuaded the others to go eat with me. I was going to have Chiense but the store for Falafels caught my eye. Managed to make a prat of myself for the second time that night.

Me: Do you do any veggie Falafels?
Guy: umm..Falafels are always Vegetarian
Me: But why does it say it has mince in it (pointing to the sign)
Guy: It says Mint, not mince.
Me: ....................I will have one then -Blush-

To top it all off, after I got the damn thing, I hated it and Vince and Cookie laughed as I struggled to enjoy it. That and I managed to get it on my skirt, hair and cookie's hair while devouring it..Typical.


Then on Monday I went again. Well this time to Mornington Crescent for KOKO. Managed to score two tickets to see Mika, Courteeners and JLS for free for the Album Chart Show. Went with Vince as I thought he would like it (he did). As it was live recording though it ran late. Doors opened at half 7 not 6..Brr, was snowing as well when we were outside.

Inside was okie, and was enjoying myself til JLS came on. My goodness, I took an instant dislike to them and it got worst as I realized that they were lip syncing and doing very dodgy dance moves. I cried when they had to re do the entire set.
I was so happy when Mika came on. I loved him before, but now I would happily be a mindless drone for him. He was quirky. He was a natural on stage. His voice was a-maze-zing. I am in love. Seriously.

Pictures came out good to!

Last was Courteeners. Not my favourite indie act out there, but they had talent (and an army of groupies it seems).


All in all. A great few days in my favourite place in London. You can guess where you can find me if I am out of bed now!

So this is Pokemon..?

I am 22. I am developing a minor love for Pokemon. Please help me.

Yes, you heard right. I am play with cute creatures from a vitural reality. And I am not ashamed to say it.
Bearing in mind that everyone grew out of it when they were 12, and the only people that do like them are in Bath or USA it can be lonely to be tapping away on a DS knowing I will never fill up the damn Pokedex.

Amusing that people keep sending me comic strips like:

And:


Oh. This is my favourite Pokemon by the way (if you were interested) :


Pokemon gotta catch them all...POKEMON!