Finally, my mock exams are over. My last exam was yesterday afternoon, and having finished (a day or two before most people I might add) I enjoyed some Sopranos before it reached a somewhat acceptable time to go out to poison my liver.
A lot of my friends are still not finished, with an exam to do tomorrow, so I’ve been lucky in finishing so early.
Overall, the exams were ok. They’re 3 months or so ahead of the real exams, so it’s accepted that you’re not going to do as well as you will in the real leaving cert. Considering how little work I did overall, things went fine. My final exam, Physics was a bit of a nightmare though. I usually get an A grade in physics, and I’ll be relying on it to be a high grade in the leaving cert. The paper has a section A and a section B. Section A was beautiful, and I was cruising. But then Section B was like it was made to cover only the areas I dislike most. I expect a C (or perhaps even a D) grade, which is very disappointing. Thankfully everyone shared the opinion that it was very difficult, and even on forums people were complaining about the paper.
Tonight I’m hoping to clean up my bedroom, because when you’re studying for an intense two weeks of exams, you tend to just find the book you need to study and throw it away as soon as you’re done and begin searching for the next one. Then you have to look for a sheet of notes or something, and you end up just thrashing your room, but you haven’t got time to care for that (several nights I stayed up till 3am or so, with the aid of coffee, and got up again at 7am to study some more before going to the exam - procrastination is a terrible terrible thing!). Two weeks later you’re walking on a carpet of books and sheets. Though in the process of thrashing my room, I think I found my camera charger, so once I check that I actually did, it’ll be well worth it! Perhaps I should take some pictures of the finished product and follow in the footsteps of Jason on TUK?
Tomorrow I’m hoping to do a little work on my websites, or lack thereof. This will involve a timetable to ensure I cover all the things I need to in an organised manner. I’ll post that up here tomorrow.
Today I was on Youtube browsing for footage of the famous tackle that caused a career threatening injury to Arsenal player Eduardo’s career.
I soon got sucked into watching video after video, as youtube tends to end up making you do.
I found a video that I actually watched over and over again, and lol’ed my ass off every freakin’ time!
It’s some sort of news programme showing bits of a fashion show. At the start the presenter is very well spoken, as you would expect and he tells us there was some trouble at the show. Suddenly he kind of changes into having a hilariously casual voice as he says “A model fell’own twice” Then he sees the second fall and starts lol’ing away on the news. There is two male presenters and a female presenter. The two men can’t control their laughter at the replays. The way in which the model falls is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen, and then the laughing of the two men is just hilarious, as the woman disapproves of their immaturity. One of them tried to apologise for their laughing but then the other guy interrupts with “Hold on!” as yet another replay shows and they both crack up laughing again. The more I watch, the funnier it gets.
Here’s the link or just watch below where I’ve embedded the video for you
I’ve got just four exams left, out of a total of ten.
On Friday I had History and my second English paper. These two exams being on the same day was pretty demanding, since there’s so much material to cover for both. I got on grand, but certainly could have done better in both.
My last exam is this Wednesday, which is the earliest anyone in my year is finishing (a lot of people are in until Friday) so that’s pretty good
I’d like to give a shout out to a new Leaving Cert blog, found at leaving-cert.net. It’s an idea I wanted to do a while ago but could never find people that seemed enthusiastic about helping me with it. It’s the blog of three LC students giving updates on how they’re getting on.
While mentioning new sites, I figured I’d go ahead and show a new site of mine. This is one I’m doing basically for my own pleasure, and not really for business purposes. I love the whole lolcats thing on the internet, so if you’re familiar with it, take a look at ShavedLittlePussy.com (I also bought the domain lolcatblog.com for it).
I’ve gotta go try study, since I haven’t managed to get anything done so far this weekend, as today I’ve had one of those hangovers you just can’t seem to shrug off. This was an excuse for me to watch Ireland in the rugby of course.
Tday, I have a day off from my exams (owing to the fact I don’t do Biology or Art).
Friday I have a tough day, with History and English Paper 2, so unfortunately there won’t be much relaxing going on today.
Today I just had Irish paper 1, which was ok, since it’s not really a difficult paper, but in terms of previous years, it was a difficult exam. Usually the comprehensions on the papers are topical and things teenagers would know about, but the stuff on this was pretty odd.
There was also a little too much time given to this paper, as literally everyone was finished early.
Also, I meant to post this earlier. On the first day of these exams I noticed there was no clock in the exam hall. So I ask one teacher and she tells me she’ll get one soon. A few minutes later I see her leave the hall and come back empty handed. This angered poor Mark who was taking a classy approach to these exams, as one of the main reasons for them is to practice time management, so with no way to tell the time in the fucking exam hall, this becomes unless you have mastered the sun’s progress as a method of telling the time. So I then ask another teacher. He comes back in a few minutes with a clock - and a cup of coffee of course.
The same thing happened in the exams we had in November, and I had to ask a teacher to get a clock then.
It’s not like this sort of thing keeps me up all night (not every night anyway) but jesus, if you teachers are going to rant and rave about preparing for our exams, for christ’s sake, do your end of the deal, and give us the few things we need. My maths test had some of us sharing log tables between two people. Surely it’s not hard to ensure there’s enough to supply us all with one (for the love of God, you’re the Maths department, ‘number of students > number of log tables’ is simply not a good equation!)
Used some variation of God’s name three times in that paragraph.
There was an interesting discussion on the radio this evening about whether or not the Irish language should be a compulsory subject in the Leaving Cert curriculum. Having enjoyed my previous radio experience, I wanted to ring up, since I could give a first hand opinion, and the complete lack of intelligence of the part of most callers was so irritating. Of course in the end I wussed out though and didn’t call, but this did make me want to listen to the radio more, so perhaps I’ll become a caller on there. I can’t decide whether I love or hate the old bags that ring up the stations, throwing out the old clichés in their raspy Dublin accents. You know the ones who counter any argument with, “Well I’ll tell you somethin’ ”
We’re two days into my mock exams ( see previous post for more info)
I’m weary of making predictions on here regarding my results, because there’s always that chance that I’ll do far worse than I thought.
On Monday, it was just English Paper 1. I feel I did well, and usually do in English, but this paper is very subjective, as much of the exam is testing your creativity and essay writing. Paper 2 examines your knowledge of poetry etc, (but that exam isn’t until Friday, so I won’t be worrying about it until much later!)
Today was a pretty tough day, with Geography (not too complicated, but there’s so much to cover) and Maths Paper 1. Geography went fine, and this would be a strong subject for me too, but it can sometimes be hit and miss. We’ve only just completed the course, so a half decent grade at this early stage would satisfy me.
Maths, higher level maths, was a freakin’ disaster! Most people shared this thought though, but a look at this old rant could put these reports into question.
Tomorrow it’s Irish paper 1, so I’m off to try learn a few essays!
My mock exams start tomorrow. These are exams organised by your own school, with the aim of completely replicating the actual leaving cert exams. Schools do them at different times, so unfortunately some of the exam papers have been leaked onto the internet. You’d think this would be good, but to cheat on the mocks completely defeats the purpose of them. I hate to sound like a teacher, but I know that I’m doing these exams for my own good, to see how I’ll cope with a full LC paper, not knowing what’s coming up, and to get an idea of what topics I need to work on etc. Unfortunately most teens are too short-sighted to see it this way, and look at the papers when they get leaked. I understand people being worried and tempted, but have some sense please. You may as well not do these fucking exams if you’re going to look at what’s coming up.
Anyway that’s the little rant out of the way! And yes, it does get rather lonely up here on my high horse sometimes.
Over the next two weeks, expect nothing but exam talk on here, as I doubt I’ll find any time between studying to work on online business.
In other news, show some sympathy for Jason, (aka The University Kid) who’s been incorrectly banned from Digital Point forums, where he’d racked up thousands of posts, a great reputation, and earned a lot of money. Full details in this post.
Also, I’ve finally won a blog contest! Profit Baron dot Com recently ran a contest and I got myself a free review on his site. Always nice to get something for nothing! I made a fairly crafty choice for the review, but it had to be done just to increase my chances of getting any sort of income this month.
Anyway lads, I’m off to get my study on. Wish me luck, and anyone who’d be willing to do a guest post on here anytime, give me a shout, I’d greatly appreciate it.
Hope everyone had a good Valentine’s Day. I myself, being a young single playa’, did nothing but stay in alone with a bottle of wine, Ben and Jerry’s, and watched The Notebook on dvd study today, so there isn’t anything interesting to report!
I was wondering today about how this Valentine’s day business came about. Is it true that the card companies just completely invented it one year? If so, I’d be hugely impressed. That’d be some clever business. Imagine creating a day celebrated nearly worldwide simply to increase sales during a barren period.
Though the effect of that is generally that us men have to go out buying stupid cards and spending ridiculous money on romantic crap for a made up day.
This week has been dominated by study really, and I still have so much to get through. I’ve been thinking about just putting this blog on hold until after my leaving cert exams (in May). Though this may seem a bit drastic, it could prove very beneficial. I know in my heart I probably won’t do this, but it’s an option. Any recommendations? I’ve noticed a friend of mine is thinking somewhat along the same lines (personally I’d be very disappointed if he stopped blogging, don’t do it Monty!).
Lately I’ve also been considering just unsubscribing to all RSS feeds I’m currently subscribed to. The only reason I subscribe to blogs is for contests or to do the owner a favour, as I much prefer logging onto the site and seeing the full posts and comment. Subscribing by RSS sometimes doesn’t show images or videos in the posts, and for this reason I never really took to it. (This does not count for my RSS feed, which is completely amazing so please subscribe). I have a “Blogs” bookmark folder in Firefox anyway, so I click that and all my favourite blogs open up for me to read.
Something related that’s been grinding my gears lately is the RSS feed on Jim Karter’s blog. Now Jim’s a smart guy, making a lot of money online (earned over $47 last month), but I’ve subscribed to his RSS by email, and in the emails I only get half of each posting, and have to click a link to see the rest. Surely this is defeating the supposed purpose of the whole RSS feed idea? Perhaps this is accidental though.
This has been a rambling post, but it’s better than nothing at this period when I’m devoting most of my spare time to studying!
I’ve a post coming later about beginning affiliate marketing, so if you’re a reader for the business side of things, stick around and check that out.
I’m off to grab another beer study some more anyway, later!
Entrecard’s development has been interesting to watch, hasn’t it? When it first exploded onto the scene, pretty much everyone was singing its praises, including me.
Then we kind of realised, wait a second, the traffic from this is a crock of shit. Perhaps that was a bit harsh, but we soon noticed flaws in entrecard’s system, and too many people were cheating it, and this caused the whole ranking system to get a bit screwed up.
However, it does get me some visitors, but another advantage of entrecard is that it has helped me meet some new bloggers, and get my networking on. They recently introduced the option to say where in the world you are from, and then find others that are near you. I’ve since got talking to Bebo Author, and we’ve done a little link exchange. Then today, I found an interesting blog by a guy from Galway. The reason it was so interesting for me is that his name is Marcus Walsh. Marcus Walsh!
It’s actually a nice blog, but I do wish someone with such a similar name to my own would upgrade to his own domain and wordpress. Good thing I bought walsho.com before this guy did though eh?
So I’ll be keeping entrecard for a while. I’ve built up a good few credits so I’ll pick a day soon and go on a free advertising splurge.
In other news, I was glad to see my image hosting site, ImgSlut.com get a bit of action yesterday. I’ve only recently set it up, and had a custom header designed for it, and am hoping that its memorable name will make it a modest success. It actually earned $1.03 in adsense yesterday, but hasn’t even got any hits today, so I really do need to do some sort of promotion on it. Here’s the main bit of the header :
Do let me know what you think of it, and also let me know of any promotion ideas you may have for an image hosting site. I’m thinking of hiring a few guys to just go spamming a bit, along with my proxy, but that’s a pretty undesirable method of promotion.I have my mock exams next week, so have been studying hard(ish), and even went to the library today to study in a quiter environment that my house. As always, the good website ideas are flowing at a time when I need to be focusing on schoolwork, and I’ve gone and made two new websites this week. I’ll be posting about them both in full soon enough, but for now we’ll say that one of them is a Joint Venture, and the other is a funny one that I’m doing for my own enjoyment than anything else.
The FAI have finally done what they have failed to do for far too long, and employed a decent, respected manager, and made Giovanni Trapattoni the new boss. In all honesty my interest in football isn’t what it used to be, but I know the FAI and our national football team in general have been piss poor, and this guy managed Juventus back in the day (the team I supported as a youngster). He hasn’t been as successful of late as he was in previous decades, but I’m sure he’ll be a bit better than Steve Staunton!
Officially this hasn’t been confirmed, but is about 95% at the moment, so whynot blog about it and get in the google ranks nice and early?
If you’ve not seen Trapattoni before, check out this vid of him going on a bit of a mad one. Let’s hope he doesn’t disappoint.
Yesterday we had our dress up day in school, (for us sixth years, our last ever one!) and it didn’t disappoint. Generally most people actually make some sort of effort, and that includes the teachers, with the exception of the principal and vice-prinicipal, which I can understand. I didn’t tell many people what I was gonna dress up as, because with my outfit, the element of surprise was pretty important.
I got a loan of a big teletubbie outfit off someone, and it went down really well. Most people got a bit of a shock seeing me for the first time in it, and it was usually followed by laughter or in some cases, “aww, gimme a hug” as apparently the outfit it very “huggable”. Walking to school and back was pretty weird that day, and there was absolutely no way I could blend in, so had to just take it and wave at anyone looking at me funnily. One hilarious moment was when I was walking along and got beeped from a car across the road, I looked over and saw a whole family waving at me enthusiastically.
Two other guys in school dressed as ‘Bananas in Pyjamas’, who had their own children’s show back in the day. Not everyone understood my joke when I started pretending to fight them, but thankfully they seemed to understand and played along.
My mate was dressed as a Guard, and had the full outfit, so looked really authentic. We wanted to do a prank after school where we’d go to the village and he starts chasing me through the streets. Unfortunately he had to leave school early so we couldn’t do it, but imagine how people would have reacted seeing a guard chasing a giant teletubbie through the streets.
Inevitably I had a lot of people taking pictures of me or with me, but so far only a couple have been uploaded to bebo for me to steal.
Here’s one of me and one of the lads, but I’ll be getting more up here soon, promise!
Don’t I look hot? A bit of a TILF perhaps?
The aerial thing on top of the head wouldn’t stay up right, but this provided me with ammunition for some jokes about me being an impotent teletubbie, so it was all good.
Overall it was damn fun day, and a good way to finish school before the mid-term. I now have a week off, but unfortunately my mock exams are starting as soon as I go back, so it should be a week dedicated to study.
There was also a battle of the bands in my school on Thursday night. I’m mates with a couple of the people playing in it, so beforehand I went into Dunnes Stores and asked the first worker I saw where I could find “the cheapest, funniest pairs of women’s underwear”. She started bringing me to their lingerie section and didn’t seem to cop it was for a joke, as she asked me what size I needed them in. I responded that it really didn’t matter. So during the gig, a pair of frilly leopard skin knickers (or two actually) got thrown onto the stage, which caused a good few laughs and a lot of confusion. I urge any of you to purchase some women’s underwear for this purpose next time you’re going to a gig, it was possibly the best €6 I ever spent.
Anyway, I’ve gotta try get a camera charger or else a spare camera off someone for this evening, as the family’s relying on me to provide photography for my sister’s 21st birthday party tonight. Talk soon!
