Devizes Melting Pot

“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus

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University graduate, currently working as an Information Assistant for the NHS. Interested in politics, history, sci fi etc.

Friday, October 24, 2003

The weather is sunny but still very cold, my father thinks i should buy a nice warm coat, so i plan to do that this half term :)

two films i really really really want to see are Kill Bill Volume 1 and Intolerable Cruelty, both look very cool and great fun!

also great way to escape this crazy world.

Half Term break all next week, joy to the world! need to catch up on sleep and revision :( ( I have exams in Jan, 2 retakes and 1 A2 mod) so busy, busy, busy (plus assigments), no rest for the wicked ;)

News doing the rounds in Britain at the moment: -

Network Rail takes over track maintenance

Concorde prepared for final flight

Google goes for gold in £9bn float

Gunmen kill three Israeli soldiers

Countries pressured to give money for Iraq


UK's first woman law lord appointed


Christie's hid Nazi past of painting

Poll deals new blow to top-up fees

Mayor vows to double London charge zone

thats a wrap for now

Wednesday, October 22, 2003

HOORAY, finally fillled in my offical UCAS forms, fingers crossed that I get offers.

Hard disk mucking up on my computer, it seems to be dieing slowly, most annoying.

Horrible cold and wet weather at the moment in Britain, need to wrap up warm, oh for sunndy skies.

Tuesday, October 21, 2003

hopefully by the end of day I will actually get my proper UCAS form to fill in!

Boring Geog again - not much we can do about that!

Top news stories doing the rounds in Britain (this is from The Guardian newspaper)

IRA move bolsters peace efforts
Northern Ireland

Co-op imposes ban on GM ingredients
GM Banned by Co Op

House prices show marked increases
House Prices

Two Britains Shot Dead in Somalia
2 Britain's shot dead

The Whole Diana "conspircy" (complete nonesence if you as me, if I was conspiring to kill the Princess, I would not of chosen a busy Paris tunnel, it seems the most stupid place to stage a death.)
A self-pitying princess, her butler, and a note that revealed her greatest fear

well thats about all for now!

the most annoying thing today at college is the fact that all 3 girls loos are out of order! real bad going, i noticed that none of the boy 's loo are out of order, its unfair.

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

College is really wearing me down at the moment, all this worry over UCAS forms, exams next Jan plus homework assigments.

I am so tired now, I could just fall asleep

I hate geography! (I had to retake my whole AS Geography course again, since I got a very poor mark), its real boring me to tears, I wish i could escape the eternal torment that Geography is, it is my punishment :( woe is me!

On a totally different note!

I found some great sites that educates us about the Islam religion, I also have some great blogs people should check out to find the real news out there!

http://www.islam101.com
http://www.angelfire.com/ak5/farda/islam.html
http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/veiled4allah.php
http://www.ospolitics.org
http://www.commondreams.org
http://www.prometheus6.org
http://slate.msn.com
http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df09192003.html
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com
http://www.michaelmoore.com/index.php
http://www.islamworld.net
http://www.islamicity.com/mosque/ihame/Sec1.htm

finally sent in my draft UCAS , hopefully if all goes well I can finally get my proper UCAS application form, for University.

Here are the courses that I have applied for: -

Swansea University - Development Studies http://www2.swan.ac.uk/courses/development/development_studies.htm

Exeter University - Islamic Studies http://www.ex.ac.uk/admin/extrel/ugp/degrees/ara_programme.shtml

Manchester University - Persian with Islamic Studies

Liverpool University - Comparative American Studies http://www.liv.ac.uk/University/study_at_liverpool/UG/T790.htm

Birmigham University - East Mediterranean History http://www.undergraduate.bham.ac.uk/programmes/east.htm

and finally...

Cardiff University - Ancient and Medieval History

Monday, October 13, 2003

BLOGGER

Heya mara!

Heya all,

Newbie blogger here!

Few introductions bout myself

Political Compass - Left/Libertarian (www.politicalcompass.org)
Intrerests - current and past affairs, movies (Godfather part 2, The Wild Bunch, Once Upon a Time in the West), ballet, opera, music, tv (Buffy, Angel, M*A*S*H, West Wing, Sex and the City, Sopranos), reading, consoles, meeting new people etc.
Biography - Currently an A Level student, studying History 20th Century, Religious Stuides and Government and Politics. Also applying for Universities at the moment.
Family - mum's - Angela (job - Housewife), Father- Alan (Quanity Suveyour), 1 sister - Ruth, 1 brother - Richard.
Pets - 1 Red Burmese cat - Dieter (did hav 2, but the blue burmses Max passes away a few weeks ago)


My stance on the war: Did not support it mainly because the intentions were less than hourable not to mention being cynical of the whole operaration. Iraq was not a major threat to the west, in fact it barely registered in people's minds, so why attack it now?

America made 2 tatical mistakes in Iraq - 1) they disbanded the army, which is a real bad thing to do since you don't want unpaid, hungry, well armed men running amok and 2) Destroying whatever little infrastucture Iraq had left (even the Romans did not destroy they conqured terroity infrastrutre - these 2 mistakes have made Iraq a quagmire.

well thats just a shot introduction, will hope to post more.