HIDDEN AWAY

Hello,

Just a quick update to show I am still alive. I would apologise that I have got out of my habit of my weekly update but my hands are quite full with stuff at the minute, so really it couldn’t be helped. 

University

So yes, I have returned to the North and am currently habituating in a beautiful rented house in Portstewart with five other girls. I really like it, though I don’t know if I love it yet to be honest. Like second year is rather average compared to first year - where everything is new and exciting. Last year was all about making new friends, this year I think it’s more about maintaining the friendships that matter. This is an odd adjustment to get used to, it’s more settled and in some ways, less exciting.

Although I’m definitely enjoying myself, I’ve had many hilarious moments and terrific memories so far, and quite a few pictures to prove it too.

The work load for my course is quite noticeably heavier than last year and it takes a lot of effort to stay on top of it. Lots of reading, writing and practical work. I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep track of it which could bring my mark down. I’m trying my best though, I don’t want to to start getting stressed out. Like I’m only here for another year (my course is a 3 year course) then I’ll be graduating, it’s really flying in, so I want to enjoy every minute!

Life

My life seems to be revolving around two things at the minute: university and my own life. That may sound incredibly selfish, but I’m trying to get my life into order. I’ve been spending a lot of time by myself praying and pondering, because I feel there’s so much I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.

After working and socialising, I just want to sleep. It sucks. Any other spare time I have, I put into over-analysing everything and it’s actually cracking me up because my brain doesn’t have enough power left to THINK that much. It’s preventing me from enjoying the moment and loving life. Aragh! It’s so hard to explain. When I make more sense I shall return to this confusing topic.


Things That Aren’t Nice:
I shall start with the bad list then we can end the post positively. 

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s make-up in Looper - NOO he doesn’t LOOK right, why mess up his beautiful face? 
• Confliction - Although we have great times together, a six person house can be... let’s say...tense. Especially with girls . Sometimes I feel a negative aura, where people are just in a mood for a good complain and I hate it! It brings me down. Also unnecessary shouting and noise in general within the house is unpleasant.
• Posters falling - My Portstewart bedroom is exposed to various temperatures throughout the day - from ice-cold in the early afternoon to moderate heat from 7:30pm-8:30pm. This has a horrible effect on the blue-tac which holds my posters in my room up. At least one poster a day has fallen off my wall since term started. The slight dent in the Inception one breaks my heart.

Things I Like:

When I’m not being crazy, sad or self-reflective, I do like some things. Recently I like:

• Josh Groban - I started listening to Josh Groban’s albums on Spotify and now I am totally hooked! Yes, I have a free month subscription to Spotify and now have realised I cannot live without it.
• Tumblr - Eugh why is this website so addictive. I have 17 posts of Joseph Gordon-Levitt queued from now to Sunday - that’s not normal behaviour, Claudia.
• Weather - it's now my favourite time of year again! It's dark and cold, it makes me happy, despite the lack of heating in the house. Hat season has begun!
• New Friends - I’ve built relationships with people that I’ve realised I no longer can live without. I look at them and think, wow, you are SO amazing - I actually love you! (In a friendly way of course, haha)

Yay I feel better after blogging!

Night night,
Claudia

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One food you could live of:

Rice Krispies!

Share the other sites you’re on:

One thing you’ll never do in your lifetime:
Own a cat. I'm a bit afraid of them, to be honest.

One thing you’ll definitely do in your lifetime:
Fall in love and get married! (I hope) I LOVE this picture, it's so adorable.

Biggest Pet Peeves:

THIS.

Favourite and Least favourite colours:
My favourite colour is purple, and my least favourite colour is BEIGE! And any other tan colour.

Favourite male and female name:

Florence isn't my all time favourite girl's name, but it is on the list.

Top five celebrity crushes:

Choi Seunghyun, Andrew Garfield, Lee Min Ho, Siva Kaneswaren and Rain.

One thing you hate about your favourite series:

Crazy fans. This applies to most fandoms actually. One thing to say:

One celebrity you need to meet:

Daesung - because he just keeps getting cuter and is such a sweetheart. Welcome back Daesung, you BABE!

DON'T STOP THE RAIN!

Updates with pictures:

TokyoFashion.com

Most of my evenings have been spent on a website called Tokyo Fashion. This site updates regularly with photographs of the most original and bizarre fashion clothing shown in different areas of Japan. I’m fascinated with the street photos of Harajuku especially. I would spend hours analysing these outfits. It’s incredible that some people are able to devote themselves to customising themselves in such a way. Few are gorgeous, some are pretty rotten. It is inspiring though.

Papa Rain

Oh RAIN. The other night I downloaded (legally of course) all of his CDs: Rain’s World, Rainism, Back to the Basic...etc. Oh I do adore!! What a perfect man! His music is so gorgeous, especially Move On, Love Song and With U. I am truly in love!

Just remembered, so was Megan Fox. LOL. We have so much in common.

Why does he bother wearing clothes...I mean shirts.

Free Time
I still cannot get my head around all the free time I now have since my exams finished last Monday. It hasn’t properly kicked in that I actually will have nothing to do for four months and that I have finished high school education forever. It’s strange, I have so much on my To-Do list but it hasn’t been started yet. I thought I’d dive straight into it, I’m afraid I will become lazy and not do anything at all. On another note, I booked my accommodation for next year, and according to my loan, I will only be living on £2.50 a week. Dreadful!! I suppose I should be getting a job?

Weight

I’ve set myself an ultimate goal of losing 1 stone, 7lbs. I also worked out to obtain this goal by September I need to lose 1.5lbs in Slimming World per week. That’s not going to happen, but I shall try and shall report on my progress. (Because, you know, it’s such an interesting thing to blog about.)

Tumblr

Shhh, I know I’m not allowed to mention Tumblr, but I’m going to anyway. I do have a Tumblr page, linked here. It’s been incredibly addictive ever since I’ve finished studying. Please follow me if you use it too, and I will certainly follow you all back.

Park Bom: (yes I love celebrities)

Oh beautiful lady! Yes, I do believe my female K-Pop bias at the moment is Park Bom from 2NE1. Move over CL, you will have to share your place with this gorgeous girl! Seriously, don’t understand why I didn’t like Bom before: honestly I thought she was very boring compared to the other three. HOWEVER ever since I’ve seen her new music video ‘Don’t Cry’ I’ve fallen for her.

Y’know a while ago I posted about that romantic ‘sweet sharing’ scene in IRIS which I got mixed responses from? I had a similar emotional breakdown when I watched this M.V!! I don’t know what did it, perhaps the cool guy in it, I don’t know... (unable to explain what on earth I am talking about) Anyway, I think the point is, he dies..even though they were engaged..and their hug *cries* I love them. Shut up Claudia, go to bed.

What am I saying? I never need to sleep again.

Or remove nail polish for school on Monday mornings. Woohoo!

ADORABLE

After I came back from the gym this evening, I found on my name on my Blogger dashboard twice! Two different posts: here and more amusingly, here.

As you can see from these two posts, I’ve been helping people out with their enormous to-do lists by assembling them into tasks for each day, just making my friends more organised! Even Mary-Jane, yes, the world’s greatest procrastinator Mary-Jane, is still steadily following her planner! Unfortunately, I think by seeing everyone else work so hard, it’s making me lazy. I totally failed at reading Saragasso Sea today. Well, I hate reading in general. There is a thousand other things I’d prefer to do than read a book. I feel it’s a waste of time. Perhaps I’ll begin to enjoy it more when I’m not forced to read by English Lit teachers. I’ve hardly done anything worthwhile today actually.

I wish I was able to make money from using Tumblr.

I’ve become a committed Tumblr user lately. I remember opening the account and saying to myself ‘Pfft, I’ll hardly use this, how could anyone get addicted to reposting pictures?” And surely enough, 4 months later I now have 149 posts and counting...

Also I stumbled across Flickr today. It’s put me in the mood to do some photography. Dad got this impressive HD camera in Duty Free on his way to Africa so I may borrow it to take some photos. Then I can edit them and put them in my portfolio for University. Lately, I’ve included photos on my blog to make it more interesting to read and I think it makes it better presented too. So I could keep on doing that when I go to events and places to keep y’all engaged in my hectic and exciting life.

Harry Potter on Friday! Gosh I’m so excited!

* As I included pictures in this blog, I discovered a Tumblr blog with the most ADORABLE Korean children on it, ohhh! The photos are so beautiful!! I’m gonna steal a few. The photos I mean, not the kids...

- Claudia

RARAOLALA!

Tumblr. Completely addicted to it. Go follow!

On a random note: Lady Gaga tonight!!!

So happy I could die. ;)

Claudia out.