My hair was long, coloured and getting to be unhealthy, it really did need revitalising.

On Friday, we went to the hairdressers and a very nice graduate kindly chopped the lot off for me. The best bits about having a new graduate cut your hair is that they want to do a good job. I was there for about 2 hours while she cut and styles it perfectly! The other great part about having a graduate cut your hair – its cheap. I had a wash, cut, blowdry and style for £15. Excellent.

And now onto the photos! Heres my hair before:

Long, dank, badly dyed, no real style!

and after the cut (and a bit of styling by moi!)

New and exciting things this week, other than being 22 – blerg we’ve been told that our project is awesome and we have to be ready to go into beta testing by the end of November *meep*

I have also setup my new 60l Tank! Featuring 3 tetras, 3 platys, Knuckles the siamese fighing fish and yesterday we made four new additions, 3 glowlight danios, which are amazing, they’re supposed quite rare.

They have the most amazing colouration, no video or picture can do them justice. I also bought Dyson, a Bristlenose Catfish. Hes very active and swims around the tank like a mad fish. Knuckles is jealous that he’s getting lots of attention.

I’ve been reading up on bristlenose, they need bogwood for them to suck on so that they can get lignin which aids they’re digestion so I will be going back to the fish shop and buying some nice bogwood for dyson to suck on!

My birthday present from my parents was a Samsung HMX-U10 HD video camera. It has been brought out to combat the flip and the flip HD.

Its a very nice little camera. Its extremely light and compact with a nice design. The interface is very easy to use though the touch buttons are a bit fussy at times, especially the left button. Sometimes when you press left you’ll get the enter button instead. I’ve just learnt to use the right button!

Its 10mp and HD, I have to say the HD is very grainy but when its reduced down to a youtube size I imagine thats negligible? Unfortunately I can’t use the built in sharing technology because its only for PC! The built in software does let you cut up videos from the device which is quite useful when you want to remove yourself from the video!

I took it with me to the London Aquarium to test it out. I had one problem where it wouldn’t turn off but other than that its a good little camera!

Rock pools – ‘thats awesome’ from Han on Vimeo.

Another feature that niggles me a bit is the inclusion of a still photograph option, thats great and all especially on a 10mp camera, but no flash!

They give you all the cables in the box and a little round disk that you screw into the tripod hole to change the orientation of the camera on the tripod.

The book tells you the origins of the Sunday Roast and how to prepare high tea including what should be on the menu. Mrs Beeton talks about picnics and gives you a list of what to take for a picnic of 40 people! I’d love to get 40 people to come to a Mrs Beeton’s picnic!

I love the adverts in the covers too!

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I’m now 22. I had a fantastic four day birthday! My actual birthday was on the 8th, Thursday, so my mum came down and we went to Howletts Zoo! You wouldn’t think I was 22 would you! My party was on Friday and on Saturday manfriend took me to the london aquarium to see the fishes! Because my dad was away for two days on my actual birthday both my parents decided to come down on Sunday. So I had four days of birthday goodness! Which of course warrented lots of birthday cake!! Which we all know is the best bit about birthdays!

The cake manfriend bought me!

Isn’t he adorable? This tiger just stared at me for age through the glass, probably wondering why my nose was so long and black!! He kind of looks like a kitten!

A big fluffy puddy cat! I would love one of these!!

Manfriend and I in London

The quilt my mum bought me

A bracelet from manfriend, I found the only apricot in the stall! Its really an orange apple but shh! When I have more money it’ll say apricot13, which as we know is my portfolio!

A coca cola glass from the lovely Kai, which we thought was the one I was missing, alas it wasn’t but at least I now have something to drink from!

Cakes from mother!

I had lots of lovely gifts from everyone I haven’t had time to take photos of them all yet! I’ll be posting about some of my other gifts soon though!

My birthdays over but that means halloween is coming soon!! :crazy:

Manfriend bought him for my Birthday, which incidently is on Thursday the 8th Oct, meep! (I’m 22 and I’ve done nothing!)

They really do have their own personalities! Hes definitely an attention seeker, not too aggressive, thankfully, towards the baby platys. He had a few nips at the smallest one the day we got him, but hes quietened down now. He likes exploring the back of the tank, but he’ll always come out of the plants if he sees me watching the tank. He’ll open his mouth as wide as he can as if to say “hello”! Either that or its oi, gimmie more food!

He does eat fish flakes which I’m surprised at, people say they’re fussy eaters. I’m watching him closely to make sure he’s eating enough. I do give him a treat every few days and give him a few blood worms!

I’m know bettas can live in small tanks, which is by no means a reason to keep them in a small tank. I’ve been told my tank size is big enough for him, but I think in a few months when I move out, I’ll get another tank especially for him :)

As I have no money I couldn’t really do much about it so I had to wait a few days until I had earnt some money – picking apples – ugh! I found another fish shop, as no one seems to trust the one down the road any more, and bought some plants I knew were aquatic. The giveaway is if they can’t stand up out of water!

I now have Ludwigia spp, hornwort, Ceratophyllum demursum, elodea, Egeria densa, water sprite, Ceratopteris thalictroides, Hygrophila polysperma and Cryptocoryne spp. :)

I also bought a new ornament – my tank has gone from this:

to this:

I’m really happy with how its turned out!

and the old plants?

They’re a very quirky band, with crazy instruments such as the rocket bass, which is a bass guitar customised to look like a rocket! They also have silly hats, one is a traffic cone! Vinnie the automatic record changer was playing during the interval and there was a competition for the best dressed! I completely forgot about the competition so I went in boring mode – if I’d have remembered I so would have worn my Top Hat!

I didn’t take my big camera – as it doesn’t fit in any of my bags, but here are some iPhone photos!

The house has improved since they’ve moved in but its still a bit of a dive. Landlords take such liberties with students.

I spent most of my time trying to write my essay before I start my final year of uni. Its not your typical essay its all done from a first person point of view, which makes it difficult not to use colloquial language.

I kept being tempted by fallout 3, which is a fantastic came by the way :)

We went on an afternoon trip to ikea last week, I was very good, I only dawdled in the cuddly toys section. (my biggest weakness – I always feel sorry for them!)

I bought a giant desk, for £20, which was a bit too big for the car, so I had a pretty uncomfortable ride back, even the lovely sunset didn’t make it worth it! :P

Last weekend we went to Beaulieu for a giant auto jumble and stopped off to see my parents on the way back. Manfriend and I both have no money so we’re getting all the free meals we can! My dad was just back from China and he’d brought back some exciting things! I’d asked him for some flower tea. Its a kind of tea which is ’sewn’ together and opens into a flower when placed in hot water. That’ll be a seperate post. The tea is much cheaper out there! He also brought me a t-shirt from the Hard Rock Cafe in Beijing, its awesome! The final thing he brought was moon cakes!!

I didn’t pick the red bean paste one – and none of us can read the labels, still they tasted how I remembered them when I was little.

Manfriend and I are now both very poor. I have £15 to last me until the end of September. Which would have been ok to survive on, food wise, except my freezer has officially packed up and I’ve lost £50 of meat. Bacon, Chicken, Steak, Sausages and Mince are all defrosted so I’m eating well this weekend, then its rice and pasta until October.

September has gone by so quickly, its nearly October and I’m going to be 22! This has taken my fancy and a very nice quilt from Dunelm Mill, its getting cold in the UK. I’d also like an electric whisk for my cake baking and break baking adventures!

Bunny says goodnight x

How has everyone been?

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