Uglies

I recently borrowed this book from the library, I've found it hard to find a good book since The Hunger Games, apart from I am Number Four and Crescendo of course ;). But Uglies by Scott Westerfield was really good. It's set in the future and the little freedom the people have is astounding, somehow they have less freedom than we do now... They have to wear an interface ring, are not allowed outside the city limits and all the machinery they own is tracked. So they can never truly be alone. They aren't even taught to write any more. Everything, including diaries, are kept on computers.

*Spoiler Alert ;)*

In this city once you turn 16 you become a 'Pretty'. You have an operation where they change your bone structure and make you beautiful, with perfect check bones, big eyes and full lips. The operation is suppose to make everyone equal so there will never be another catastrophic event (that they never describe) that will almost destroy them, like how it destroyed the Rusties, that's us.

Tally's friend Shay runs away to the Smoke, where all those who go against the rules of the city have started their own city,  which is full of the Uglies who never wanted to be Pretty. Tally is forced to go and find the Smoke by Special Forces who want to shut the place down. But the only instructions she has is a cryptic message written by her friend just before she left.

She arrives at the Smoke and falls in love with place, she also learns the secret of the operation: small lesions are placed in the brain in all of those turned pretty, unless they work for the Government/Special Forces which change the personality of the person which stops any non-conformity to the people in charge of the city. So she destroys the transmitter she is supposed to activate when she arrives at the Smoke, without realising that when it is destroyed it activates itself. So the Smoke is under siege.

She manages to escape and travels to the city with David, the person who usually recruits the Uglies, and tries to free her friends. Shay, who most hated the idea of becoming Pretty, is turned Pretty. And David's father is killed. Tally has to try and save the day, and the book ends with her handing herself in so she can become Pretty, in a plot to save Shay from the lesions.

I hadn't actually heard of this book until seeing it in the library, but it turns out there is a whole series. The next book is Pretties (which I will hopefully be getting tonight) and then Specials and then Extras, and I hope I wrote those in the right order... It was quite a good book, and was similar to The Hunger Games in the way it was set in the future and the place was run by evil people. I can't wait to read some more!

D.A.N.C.E

My buddy called Lauren invited us round to hers to play Just Dance and Guitar Hero and it was totally awesome! I arrived late, but was the first to arrive so of course this was the perfect opportunity to play 'Hot Stuff' with Lauren. We made a good duet. Then others arrived but strangely no one wanted to play Just Dance so we quickly moved onto Guitar Hero.

I was so hyper! I already had two cans of Coke before going and then was offered so much Pepsi and I drank so so much. Then the sweets and crisps were brought out and I almost ate all those single handedly . And Sam brought a massive Toblerone bar. I could not get enough!

Sinead bought Rayman Raving Rabbids and although I had the disadvantage of not having my glasses and not being able to see the TV, I won :).

Then we broke out Just Dance again and I was winning left, right and centre. Except I had finally met my match with Kirsty and she beat me on one of the songs! Well, I had to give other people a chance.... Which is why I didn't play Kirsty's Dance on Broadway game. And also because the first dance I did I couldn't see the instructions for it so had to pass it on to someone with able eyes.

It was a totally amazing day! And I would totally recommend a Just Dance themed day. Or a Doctor Who themed day... Whatever ;).

Doing Something Funny

Today is Red Nose Day, and of course I brought my amazing nose into school. There was competition between friends about who had the best nose, but I think my nose came out on top ;).

So me and my dreamy friend, aka Lauren, had decided we would wear our noses during maths and biology. We put them on in maths and then our teacher played this sad slide show about raising money for the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief, and we just had to take them off, it just wasn't appropriate to wear them after that! So wearing them in maths failed. Then in biology, our teacher didn't even seem to notice, so I just gave up. Sorry Lauren!
Then after school I was with Lauren and Hannah talking about our amazing newly discovered career as artists and inventors of machinery for the future, when this happened (as documented by Lauren):

Lauren: We're gonna make loads of stuff for a company! its gonna be so great! 
Me: Yeah, we can make things that are like microwaves but instead of making things hot they'll make them cold! 
Lauren: OMG! That's a fecking amazing idea! 
Hannah: That's a freezer... 
Lauren: *uncontrollable laughter*


So, my life failed. Except that was not what I meant. A microwave makes things hot and cooked in minutes, or even seconds! Freezers take hours to make frozen lollipops. And I don't prepare for the future so a microwave that freezes things would be great for me in the summer :). So, my invention would be totally useful!


So now it is time for a few jokes. Here is my favourite:
What type of bee makes milk?
BooBees.
This one is for the Physics Friend:

What’s a Physicists favourite food?

Fission Chips!

And this one is for the dreamy friend ;):

Are you a parking ticket? ‘Cause you got fine written all over you!

Oh, that was a chat up line. My bad ;).

My Physics friend made me promise to write a blog yesterday, so i'm sorry its terrible, and because I don't want to disappoint her this is for her:

I'm sorry it's not any bigger ;).

299 792 458 m/s: Tsunami in Japan

299 792 458 m/s: Tsunami in Japan: "I pray to God for the people of Japan. That as many as possible will be saved. This natural disaster just highlights how powerless we really..."

Rolling in the Deep

I have finally finished I Am Number Four. It was a really good book. I think it took me so long to read because I only had time to read it late so only read a couple chapters a night and the pages had a lot of words on them! It was much easier seeing the film and then reading the book because my imagination is absolutely terrible so I didn't have to make up what the characters looked like. Yay! This also worked well for Twilight.

My brain is lazy...

In the film there's this great song by Adele called Rolling In The Deep, which is also my blog title for today. It's very good so you should definitely check it out.

So thank you Sam for telling me about that book and film and song. They're all great! :)

I decided my Lent thing will be to do more work. And if I don't do any work for a whole day I will donate £1 to charity. Lent has lasted 5 days and I already owe £2 but those days off were totally worth it ;)! But I caught up on all my work today. And i've been doing ict coursework in the mornings so the usage of my time has been a lot better. I really need to start my biology flash cards again, but i'm still slightly heartbroken after losing my last lot of flash cards so re-writing them is physically and emotionally challenging.

Here's a pretty picture for today (and also what I had for lunch yesterday <3 ):

Pancake Day

This day really doesn't happen often enough! There's no other day where it is morally, socially and ethically acceptable to smother pancakes with the most unhealthiest stuff possible...
My pancake diary:
Pancake Number One - I had it with ice cream and whipped cream, which is a pretty perfect mix. When I was scooping the ice cream out of the tub somehow I managed to flick it into the pancake batter! But it was nothing a little mixing couldn't solve...
Pancake Number Two - This one I made a little thicker ;). I put it on my plate flat, smothered it in chocolate sauce and whipped cream and wrapped it up. It was great. But because the pancake was hot the cream and the sauce both melted! I was quite surprised about the chocolate sauce melting but it meant I got to lick my plate. Hmm :).
Pancake Number Three - This one I haven't had yet but hopefully will. I plan to melt a bar of chocolate and pour it over the pancake, sounds good, huh? This could be the best yet!
I would have liked to have taken pictures, but they just vanished to quickly ^.^

So now I have to decide what to give up this Lent. I might try to give up being lazy and will try to be a better person. I hardly do any work at the moment and I really need to break this habit, and it wouldn't hurt to be nicer to others :). And to be honest, i'd rather not give up my food...
But because Lent starts tomorrow I don't have to start this until then, so i'm going back on Tumblr, suckers ;).

LDN

Went to do my sponsored walk today. My brother ended up owing me £165.97. I'm definitely not going to get that! But I would have gotten the largest amount of money fo' sho'. I did manage to get an extra £5 from my aunt though so that was pretty good :). It was a nice walk around London, and I wore my contacts so everything looked especially good today. It was very cold though, and the walk didn't warm us up that much, then we stopped in a pub Simon Pegg had filmed in ( :O I love him!) and we sat outside and I couldn't stop shivering. At least we got a free drink from our deputy head.

Then we went to Pizza Express, which was delicious. I'd forgotten how good it was! I brought a voucher so I got to save about £4. Bargain! Kinda. The toilets there were strange though. The doors were practically see through! We took turns going in because it was just too awkward.

The train journeys were fun. The first one was full of excitement. Two women were sitting a couple seats away talking and kissing their teeth at everything! I think she kissed her teeth every 10 seconds and halfway through sentences... It was quite funny until a friend told me they were talking about us. But oh well, we got our revenge by laughing at them within their earshot.

I did take a few photos but only going to put the best one up:

I hope my buddy don't mind that i'm putting this up...

I Am Number Four

It was great. Really great. Amazing in fact. I was worried the film would be no good and not worth the money but it was. I wouldn’t mind paying to see it again (and not just to see Alex Pettyfer)! I don't know why some reviews said it was worse than the book, it was totally different. Things happened in different orders and for different reasons. I've read half of the book and only one scene was the same.

This wasn't a horror film or particularly scary but I jumped so many times. It would be quiet and 'BAM' I would jump; even if it was just when people were moving posters or closing lockers. Obviously there were some actual parts were one was supposed to jump, they were worse. The Mogadorians were incredibly ugly and scary. Their pointy teeth and gill nose hole things were too much to handle! Their little pets weren't so nice either...
I can't decide who was more adorable, John Smith or Bernie Kosar:

And Sam Goode wasn't too bad either:

Unfortunately, there weren't many great photos on Google of him. So you'll just have to watch the film yourself. And you totally should!

I can't wait to finish the book and see what happens in that, if the film is worse the book should be excellent, although my friend told me the book may now be disappointing because she read the book and loved the film. She has great taste in books/films (and totally loves everyone called Sam).

Walking is my favourite sport

I'm doing a sponsored walk in a couple of days. And I have been pretty competitive about how much money i've been raising. I didn't realise I could be this competitive but I suppose I should admit I have a problem and get that sorted, but maybe after i've raised the mostest money ever! I've got £34.50 so far and i'm hoping my mum will be able to get some aunts and uncles to sponsor me. Would it be wrong to get her to ask a friend she's meeting, who she hasn't seen since secondary school? Maybe i'll just stick to family... My brother offered 2p per step. This seems like a small amount but we're walking about 3 miles, and 1 mile = 2000 steps so i'll do around 6000 steps which equals £120! I doubt i'll actually get that though, my mum will intervene and offer me £5 but hopefully i'll get £10. My brother is a fool.

I've been pretty lazy recently with homework and coursework. I wish I had the motivation to do it and I plan to do so much at school but when I get home my plans just fly out the window! I spend my time watching television and tumblring. I really really really need to find some way to get into the habit of homework before it's too late. However, i've been okay with revision things, like my psychology booklet and biology flashcards, hopefully i'll be able to keep that up. I've planned to do some over the weekend but who knows how that'll go.

I'm going to see I Am Number Four on Saturday. It's going to be great! Well, I hope it will. I can only be certain of Alex Pettyfer being great. I'm not even halfway through the book but apparently the book is better than the film so maybe it'll be good to see the film before I read the book. The books been good so far so I hope the film will have the same level of goodness.

Also, I got my Red Nose! It's a pirate one. Yeah, my coolness points are through the roof: