The Life of Jay .... The Most Original Name Since "My Blog".

The start of a longgggg easter

2013-03-23T18:57:00.001-07:00

The start of a long boring easter began today with a trip to John Lennon Airport to drop my girlfriend Amy off, she was going home to Ireland for easter.

I am absolutely devastated to see her go. Wish I could of gone with her for the whole holiday.

Two whole weeks without her are going to be longgggg and boring.
I should hopefully be taking a trip over to Ireland for her cousins 21st birthday after two weeks, which will be great and I actually can't wait!

Yellow Submarine outside John Lennon Airport

We got a taxi to the airport which seemed to be the fastest half hour of my life. Its funny how the time seems to pass slower when you are bored and want it to hurry up. Much like the next two following weeks which will crawl!

It had been snowing for the past two days and so we checked her flight wasn't delayed, which sadly, it wasn't so I walked her to the departures gate. This was it, the moment I had been dreading for days, I had to let her go back to the land of leprechauns and Guinness.

I hopped on a bus outside the airport that drove into Liverpool and went to McDonalds for a burger to cheer me up. I had never taken advantage of the student deal in McDonalds of a free cheeseburger or McFlurry with any meal so decided to take up the opportunity.

I sat down with my deluxe quarter pounder with bacon meal and free cheese burger and peeled my monopoly stickers from my chips, burger and drink... WOO! free apple pie and fruit bag.

My friend Matt who I live with, and lived with last year, called and met me in McDonalds, we went for a pint and chilled out in town most of the day.

I got home later on and was surprised by an easter egg in my cupboard! Amy had managed to sneak in before we left. Kit Kat Peanut Butter. My favourite chocolate bar ever. What a babe.

Tasty Kit Kat egg with peanut butter white chocolate and milk Kit Kat Chunkys!

Until I head over to Ireland I have to crack on with university work for my upcoming exams.

My Astrophysics module is a pain but hopefully shouldn't be too bad to learn with a little work into telescope optics and imaging.

The second maths module of the year is a killer with one of the most boring, monotone and quiet lecturers I've had in my life making it impossible to concentrate and learn from them..

My module on waves is another one needing work with having missed a few lectures which is terrible.. Its important I do well in waves as the head of first year physics is the lecturer for it. He decides if you fail an exam whether or not you get to resit and retry for the module.

Failing a module also means you could fail the year and may need to resit.
Due to being a year behind by doing a foundation year already I can not afford to resit. The extra money needed would also be a killer due to probably pushing debts up by £6000.. Not something I want looming over me.

So with that work load, its going to be a busy time. Two lab reports to do by tomorrow, one on the attenuation of gamma rays and the other based of the moments of inertia of different shaped objects.

I also have a check up at the dentist coming up Monday, helping my mum and step dad clear a house on Tuesday and my sisters birthday being Wednesday too.

Somehow need to fit going to the gym into the week too as I haven't been in a long time and need to sort myself out!

Hopefully this first week will go relatively quickly with keeping busy and travelling backwards and forwards between my mums, dads and my flat in Liverpool.

Just going to have to concentrate on going to Ireland to get me through the work and weeks!

University Life My Official First Year!

2013-03-13T21:38:00.000-07:00

So after finishing my foundation year in Carmel college in St Helens with a pretty high average of 92% across my exams, I finally reached my official first year at the University of Liverpool to study a degree in Physics.

I've already had my first eventful semester and as always, have met some incredible people, one of which includes my amazing flatmate and now also girlfriend Amy!

Monday night in the Raz one of Liverpools popular nights among students

First semester seemed to fly by and with juggling my bar job with Uni, even though it just being first year which most people seem to take with the laid back approach, I felt highly under pressure when it came to the January exam period.

With barely missing my grades to reach university and having to do the foundation year, it was like a relaxation and party year in which I had no worries about passing. I only needed to average 40% in the foundation exams to get to university and I pulled of 92%.. so it was almost as if I had a year free from the struggle of learning and being tested on new information!

I handed in my resignation for the bar I worked in effective the week after new years to buckle down and concentrate on exams. The week of new years being a very busy one with having to work new years eve then heading over to Ireland to visit Amy on the 2nd of January and coming back on the 4th of january to my final shift at Revolution on the 5th.

Chilling on a mini beach in Clough, Northern Ireland

A final shift at which I was cling filmed to a post... fed chilli vodka... and soaked in champagne.... Everyone had so much fun at that bar, so sad to leave, but university has to come before anything else!

The only picture I could find anywhere of my Suffering!

I had never felt so unprepared for exams in my entire life and these exams were going to be, and easily were, the hardest exams I have ever sat in my life. I felt pressured when I only had 3 exams, some people had 9 or even 10.. I would have gone absolutely insane..

The worst part of January exam time for me is the fact my birthday is smack bang in the middle of exams EVERY year, the 18th of January always seems to be placed right in the middle of a busy and horrible exam timetable.

It made turning 20 feel that little more worse, the fact I'm not a teenager any more and the fact I have reverted to calling myself twenteen to make myself feel better is horrible.

but results day has been and gone and it seems my worries of passing were for no reason, I passed each of my exams and have learnt from my first semester.

Working harder for semester 2 and all the knew modules has to be done since I no longer have a job and therefore money to distract me from studying!

Plus the fact that one of my modules is on Einstein's General relativity, it may need some work putting into it to make sure I know what's going on!

Cant believe how good this year has been already! Hopefully it continues like this

The Bar.

2012-07-29T01:33:00.000-07:00

Wow.

I am feeling absolutely drained.

My freshly cleaned black shirt now covered in all sorts of marks and spillages.

My apron cleared of my things and thrown on my table.

My shoes, shoes I used for sixth form college, for job interviews, for nights out, for parties, shoes, that have lasted about 3 years of constant abuse in some of the dirtiest clubs Liverpool has to offer.. now at the end of their tether and coming away from the soles.

Almost like me and my soul almost being ripped out after this weekend!

Friday I decided I wanted to step up from glass washing and collecting, and so asked a supervisor about Bar Backing experience.. since it was a friday and the opening of the Olympics, the bar was relatively quiet and they said I could try it out and get some basics..

I didnt realise the work that went into it... glass collecting is great, run around the club enjoy the atmosphere, if you have time chat to some customers and have a laugh.. being on the glass wash machines similar but you can have a laugh with bar staff... bar backing.. you are a slave.

Constant trips up and down the stairs to the cellar for spirits, crates of bottles, ice for the wells behind the bar, making sure the crates of juices are full underneath each of the bar tenders stations whilst keeping an eye on the levels of all the spirits in their stations and checking what needs refilling, but at the same time making sure every bottle is in the right order.. keeping the back of the bar presentable, clean and tidy...

It's a LOT more than just taking glasses of tables, wiping them down and putting them in a machine!

I worked 9 PM till bar close on Friday night and ended up at home for 5.30 am on Saturday morning and felt destroyed but with happy with a good £10 in tips and a £5 bar tab for making the strangest noise, my signature freaky laugh, in the bar staffs Funday Friday competitions.

This is the first weekend I have been given both Friday and Saturday shifts so I had to work again the next day, honestly felt like I wasn't going to make it through the night.

I turned up last night for the second shift and had a breath of relief when I was on the rota for glass collecting.. half an hour in.. one of the supervisors strolls over and tells me he wants me bar backing again tonight.. the busiest night of the week.. im his new protege and he wants me to work my arse off. At this point I thought. "I am not making it through the night."

But the idea of getting to know the bar and getting some experience involving where things go and how much of certain stock gets used in comparison to others is a very useful thing. Bar Backing is also the next step up from glass collection so being able to get experience in it in only my 4th weekend in the job must be decent.

The only problem was the fact that we were understaffed and had only one person collecting the bars glasses, washing them and then also putting them back into the bar.. a job normally done by at least two people. So I had to alternate between backing and floor work.

I began and started by running a load of popular stock from the cellar to the bar.. I say running.. I should say walking.. the previous night started to hit me as I attempted to use the stairs..

The night seemed to go pretty well.. until we were told that only one person was on the main bar for both collection and washing glasses and had been for an hour so the floor was a STATE.. so now I had to somehow back the bar I was on and clean the floor for two bars... bar backing on hold... to say the main bar was a state was an understatement... it was horrific.. glasses, pitchers, shots trays, were all piled high on all the tables..

The final part of the night that the bar was open I was devoted to floor work and glass collection.. when we closed I was thrown back to bar backing and had to restock every fridge on the bar, this includes all the beers, the ciders, the red bulls, every flavour of our own vodka shots, the bottles of water, the wine, the champagne... then after the bar staff had cleaned their stations.. I had to refill all the bottled spirits both behind the bar and also in all the stations, my bar having three stations with the same spirits in each one, mainly vodkas.

This took a lot longer than I expected but probably was due to me now knowing exactly what I was doing and asking everyone who was already busy for help... but it got done in the end..

Then I ended up helping the downstairs bar restock. which has completely different stations with them being based around rum cocktails instead of vodka... so again I had no idea what was going on.. but that also got done.. we went upstairs .. counted tips.. ended up with a nice £14 and a new flat cap I found cleaning bits of the bar up...

9.30 AM in need of a good sleep.

Overall .. a decent night!

What a year. part 3

2012-07-26T21:07:00.000-07:00

Since the excitement of Malia and returning home.

I got my exam results and wiped the floor with them. I needed 40% to pass and ended up with 88% average!!

Finally on the path I wanted.

Reality decided to pop up and say hello.
The reality of being nearly £500 overdrawn has pushed me to getting a job!

Since I left W H Smith to go to university I attempted to get a job with the University to motivate me during the term but due to being in college every day of the week I physically couldn't work any shifts that were offered.. luckily the job was flexible and it wasn't too important that I actually worked for them.. I had one shift at the end of term showing primary school children around campus and sitting in a mock lecture to give them a taster of the university life.. something to be considered important in the younger stages of a child's education now.. so that they can aim to go to university.. even if they come from underprivileged backgrounds.. hopefully I will get some shifts next year with them as I should have a more flexible timetable!

BUT ANYWAY.

I applied for a ton of jobs online and on the off chance found a facebook group for Revolution Vodka Bar hiring staff.. I was a little sceptical of a facebook group as I have friends that have applied through the official website recruitment process..

But .. I decided to go with a few friends also trying to get a job. I dressed smart in a shirt, black jeans, shoes and took a cv..

I walked in.. got interviewed and asked to attend a trial shift on the saturday! With being in university so locally job was perfect for me and it must have been good for the bar too.. my friends weren't as lucky as they are in university in Derby, Nottingham and Leeds.

I turned up on the Saturday, was handed my Revolution shirt and started glass collecting and glass washing.

I was working form 8 pm till the bar closed, followed by cleaning of the bar. I ended up getting home at 7 am but the shift went surprisingly quick and I was on the rota for the next week!

Since then I have had a total of 3 shifts and have one tonight and one tomorrow night!
Every single shift I've had so far has seemed faster than any 4 hour shift I ever had W H Smith and its easy to see how Revolution has been voted as one of the top 100 companies to work for.

The staff are all utter legends which makes everything all the more enjoyable.

What a year. Part 2 - Malia

2012-07-26T20:43:00.001-07:00

WHAT A YEAR.

continued....

so back home fresh from my first year in Uni.

Moving back home felt horrible. It felt as if I was losing my independence and freedom.. I wasnt really losing anything.. it just feels like it after living away from home.. Its hard to cope with living in a corridor of 20 people the same age as you, located in a building of 250 population ... located on a campus of 1500 people.. 5 minutes away from an equally large campus.. 3000 students. Young people. Such a close knit community people with the same interests. To party like crazy. To get a degree, although most took the .. oh its only first year it doesn't count for anything as long as you pass route.. and just partied 24/7.

But to return home to your parents home.. your old home.. something you feel strange saying.. but over the year, at some point that I cant even recall.. that shoebox of a room crammed full of my stuff.. became home.

Having it taken away from you is a pretty emotional time, with being local to Uni I was one of the last to leave, having to carry all my hall mates belongings to their parents cars and wave them goodbye till next year, it isnt easy.

I left a few days before we officially had to because I had to pack for the next adventure.

MALIA.

We'd booked Malia month in advance and originally 6 were supposed to go. Due to money issues and people dropping out, only 5 went.

Kayne, Sean, Daniel, Tom and I, all being friends from secondary school and sixth form. With having Uni and being apart from them for a year or two for some.. nobody knew what to expect of the group that had been thrown together from our phonebooks and phonebooks of friends. What we got was an unreal holiday that blew away Sunny Beach 2011. something that smashed any expectation I'd had previous to going.

Drinks the night before the flight in our local Wetherspoons with all the people supposed to come and those that dropped out.

June 12th

I woke up the day of the flight panicking as I was late getting up and ready.. and still had to run for a haircut, the place I usually go to had an hour long queue.. I had to be at my friends in less time than that..

I found a place called.. The Turkish Barber.. that had opened that day and was empty.. darted in not caring if the place would destroy my mop and jumped in the chair.. I ran to my mums, dived in the shower, got my bag, finished packing and hopped in the car.

We all turned up at our friends house at 2 pm. For some reason the holiday still hadn't hit me, I wasn't feeling excited like I am for any other trip.. we had a brief check of each others suitcases and found Seans mum had packed bacon.. surely meat wouldnt travel well..

BAM !! University skills come in handy.

Microwave bacon. DONT KNOCK IT TILL YOU'VE TRIED IT. trust me. its the tastiest crispiest way i've ever had bacon.. if you love bacon cremated to the point you can snap it.. this is for you. nice little pre flight snack for everyone anyway.

Toms dad skidded up outside the house and we all threw the cases into the car and blasted it to Manchester airport. We got on our plane ... and still.. nothing.. no holiday excitement.. what the hell was wrong with me I have no idea :| it was like finding out father christmas isn't real.. it just wasnt there.

On the flight into Heraklion, Crete we bought headsets and ended up finding an in flight channel that blasted Disney songs at us.. 5 lads listening to Disney songs.. flying to Malia.. cool kids.. honest.

We landed in malia and got on the coach.. just us. just 5 of us. we started to panic and think we'd made a horrific mistake coming in June.. 12 lads from Manchester get on.. no girls.. uh oh.. Malia's going to be a sausage fest. gradually more people got on and a couple of girls did.. as soon as they did.. every single lad starts their own chant.. my personal favourite... "SMOKE MEEEEE" from one of the mancs.. that just started it off.. probably the funniest lads we met all holiday.

We were first off the coach.. being dropped off at McDonalds, we walked up the strip with a hail from everyone of "WELCOME TO MALIA". We already loved it. We ended up dropping our suitcases off at the hotel, we stayed in the Vagelis hotel and were greeted into our corridor of 4 rooms by the first sighting of a Malia victim. We had two rooms .. one double and the other was for 4 people, Dan and Tom went togther in one room and Sean Kayne and I shared the other room.

Absolute state.. the rep put her to bed and we went out for a our first night on the strip. We had a walk down to see what was on offer, harassed by every club rep under the sun.

Found a bar that gave us two triple measure of any drink and a bottle of champagne for 5 Euros each.. straight in.. after we finished we left and staright away bumped into all the Manc lads from the coach. instantly went into Apollo bar and got a ton of shots drinks. ended up in Candy afterwards, probably Malias biggest club, another ton of drinks and we were all wasted... went into Zig Zag to end the night as it was open late and then ended up at the hotel. An insane first night.

Candyyyy.

Ended up in the swimming pool the next day and had a little walk round the strip in the daytime to check out the shops and get some supplies.. had dinner in a restaurant next to the hotel, I ended up getting the Greek dish Moussaka which was pretty decent.

That night we invited everyone in the hotel to our rooms for a massive pre drink session and some games.. I found 1.5 litres of Tequila for 15 Euros which was cheaper than practically anything else for the sheer amount I got.

Tequila, Beer, Melon Schnapps and a box of noodles kayne somehow managed to fit in his suitcase!? We ended up with sooo many people in our hotel room, there was a load of Irish girls upstairs and all their friends they had met in the same corridor... there was Dee and Sherry next door to us, and then another group from downstairs, all crammed into the double room we had.

just a few of the people mad enough to cram into the room.

So many crazy crazy things happened in the first week, on our third night we travelled miles to a hotel for an after party only to meet a psycho from London who chased out the hotel.. and then proceeded to try and impress some girls by skidding a quadbike.. a skid that turned into a barrel roll.. smashing the quad.. landing on him and probably causing some considerable damage.. funnily enough his flight was at 11am in the morning.. this occuring around 5am

Kayne strolled in one day and woke us up.. "lads.. ive been robbed"... wow.. we have photos with him at 3 am.. he woke us up at 11am.. so somewhere in between he had managed to go missing.. somehow end up in a hotel that wasnt ours.. in a hotel room nobody had checked into, with a £300 watch missing and 50 euros gone from his pocket.. he tried asking the lady at reception to help and she then proceeded to "phone" club 18 - 30 and get someone to come get him.. shortly followed by a call to the police as my friend couldn't pay for the room he'd slept in for the night.. we asked our rep if anyone had phoned 18 - 30 which they hadn't as he would have been informed first.. so either the police were coming for him.. or some dodgy mafia member haha. scary stuff.

We managed to lose Sean one night.. now.. normally if someone wasnt there in the morning we wouldnt be too bothered, but because its Sean.. we panicked, the last place we had seen him was with the Manchester lads.. all we knew of them was their hotel name.. so we walked across Malia to get there.. and had no luck at all.. found him in a restaurant down the strip with two girls that had stayed to look for him.. turns out he was in someones room upstairs all night.. derp

I ended up in a Rock bar called Angels after a shocking performance by Skepta in Candy Club. Such a brilliant place, I ended up having a night repping for them and attempting to stay in Malia for longer.. not realistic this year .. but highly likely for next year! I ended up in a bar the other side of Malia afterwards with a guy called george teaching me how to light black Sambucca in my mouth..

Me, Lizzie and Manos - Legends.

We had a night that lads dressed up as girls and girls dressed as lads... dont know what we were thinking.. but it was hilarious and I ended up wasted. wasted being a huge understatement.

Think the girls got off rather easy looking back at it.. probably one of the funniest nights we had out there. Another victim was discovered.

and another..

This guy went to Malia the year before.. and had stayed in the room next to ours.. he got soo drunk he thought that this was still his room.. we found him lying like this in the morning.. woke him up.. gave him some water and let him get himself together and let the pain from his face go away haha.

we found him in our hotel bar the next night back on it. what a guy.

Near the end of the first week I was persuaded into getting a piercing.. my first ever piercing.. something I'd kind of always wanted to do.. So anyway, we went into Malia Ink and I ended up walking out 10 minutes later with my Septum pierced..

luckily not very visible.. didnt want something crazy and massive on show.. got a small bar in my nose.

At the end of the first week as everyone we knew was packing and leaving.. I stood on something.. which hurt but I just shook off as nothing.. went for a meal and said bye to people.. then passed out in my bed.. I woke up halfway through the night in pain and noticed red lines running across my foot from where I had stood on something.. I decided to see a doctor..

So the next day I got all my insurance details and headed to the medical centre..

it was 80 euros JUST TO SEE A DOCTOR .. excess on top of my insurance..

wow..

I knew I would need treatment and ended up paying 94 Euros up front to the centre.. I was told I had Lymphangitis at the time I had no idea what this was.. so I ended up having an xray .. and a blood test.

mates having a whale of a time whilst im giving blood..

got to keep the xray.. best holiday souvenir ever. I went and got a full english while my blood was tested.. went back and had my foot cut open.. a piece of glass taken out.. and my foot bandaged..

Turns out I had stood on glass and got BLOOD POISONING.

Not something I wanted.. entire second week of holiday on antibiotics. NIGHTMARE. at least I could sunbathe and enjoy the beach .. and eventually swim

The end of the first week meant only one thing. Another mad hotel room party to meet all the newcomers! We had another mad night with everyone crammed into our room and met Sophie, Mel, Nayde and Sarah

they were our second week legends :) we spent practically the entire week with both day and night.. I say night.. they ended up getting dragged into bars for free drinks and getting us landed with decent drink deals in return for them getting on all the bars haaa luckily nobody got robbed or went missing in the second week..

I stayed in a few nights due to not being able to drink but the whole week just built up and led up to one thing.

Thats right A HUGE FOOD FIGHT!!.... of pasta wheatabix egg tomato mushroom and ended with tom getting a mouthful of flour and throwing up in a sink.. that wasn't really what everything led up to.. I just didnt know where to include it.. everything actually led up to..

The final night.

I drank on the last night of the holiday having just finished the antibiotics for my blood poisoning.

We started with a fishbowl full of every spirit and mixer we had left over which included..

Sambucca, Tequila, Melon Schnapps, Vodka, Gin, Whisky and we took it to the bar..

We couldnt finish it alone so invited a group of girls over who poured their vodka cranberry in.. and then left without drinking any.. so we ended up all plastered. we ended up in so many clubs and bars.

candy was packed out and we ended up staying until we got kicked out! we had lost a fair few people as the night went on so decided to go to the beach to see if we could find people, we ended up finding Sophie and Mel at the beach. Soon after Sean Sophie and I ended up in the sea.. fully clothed loving life until about 7 am.

Our final vicitm. passed out on an ice cream freezer. legendary

Malia beach at stupid o'clock in the morning.

Walking back to the hotel from the beach we met Emily. yes. thats a henna tattoo on her head. she was absolutely crazy and kept asking people if they liked her tattoo.. "Like my tattoo!? I got Emily tattoo'd on my head".. people would look at her and be a bit edgy and go.. "ermm.. you do know it says.. C.." and she would bark back at them . "E M I L Y. yes I told them to do it".. just to see their faces.. actually hilarious..

Leaving Malia was horrible.

We spent the whole day in double room which we paid to keep till later on as our coach to the airport was 11pm.. I woke up at 11.30 am and we had to be out of the room by 12.. nightmare.. threw everything in my bag and threw it in the double room.

We got on our flight a little earlier as everyone checked in and we got home about 8 am. Such an amazing holiday.

Lara the parrot from Yiasou bar, Whilst everyone watched the Euros footy matches I spent my time trying and eventually succeeding at getting this parrot on my arm.

What a year. part 1.

2012-07-26T18:50:00.002-07:00

This is the first post i've put up in a long long time.

Me on the left taken in Malia with the lads in June. a crazy, crazy holiday that was 1000 times more mental than Sunny Beach Bulgaria last year!

Since the last post so many things have happened theres nowhere near enough room in a single post.

I went from digital to retro and took most of my blogging from public to private in the form of Moleskine journals, something I seem to manage to keep up rather than just attempting to poke at like this online blogging.. even though I spend most of my awake time in front of a computer screen!

The second term of University was insane. Only followed by a crazy few weeks with my friends from home at easter and then that followed by my final term in my first year of University!

I am now £500 overdrawn in the bank, but in return had the best time of my life with enough memories to fill a library. The end of first year means saying goodbye to Carnatic Halls in Liverpool. The place i've grown to call my home over the year. With this means saying goodbye to everyone I have lived with too for a while.

C corridor 2011/2012 Carnatic Halls. I love you guys so much.

Student fest Liverpool. Such an insane night out in town.

Partying with some halls friends.

Student organised casino. The same night one of my close friends became a father to a little girl Ellie.

The night The Magnet had 80p drinks, 80p... we were slaughtered.

St Patricks Day looking like fools. That was just an extremely brief summary of the 2nd term at Uni, words cant even describe how amazing its been. Coming home and being with friends for easter and hearing all their experiences and having more crazy parties was just as amazing.

Outside one of Liverpools cathedrals.

visiting Alton Towers with the guys and girls back home. Managed to cram so much into so little time over easter with everyone. was great to see everyone again, being able to catch up and share experiences is something unique.

The opening of Central Perk Cafe in Liverpool.

managed another Alton Towers trip with uni a few weeks later!

more new friends and an underground rave in Liverpool's Shipping Forecast. Still one of my favourite places in Liverpool!

BBQ'ing with a friend from home who's in the same uni as me living just down the road from where I was :)

Just us being ninja turtles for a fancy dress birthday party :)

quite a few people showed up!

Loving the sun shine last few weeks of Uni.. had SOOO many BBQ's and drank so much beer it was crazy! around exam time too! scary stuff

Bennies Birthday! Big meal down at the albert docks with a ton of people, you can just see the Liver building poking up in the background.

With Ellen at the Smirnoff Party in Medication

see you next year guys, I'm going to miss you :) x

The second term of University begins!

2012-01-26T08:16:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years everyone, hope you all had a great holiday time and that 2012 is treating you well!

I am back at university after a month break for Christmas which was... to say the least ... crazy.

The run up to the holidays was none stop parties and nights out with either the rowing team, my university halls or friends from college! madness.

This is one of the tame nights out for one of the girls in our corridors birthday.
We went to Cafe Rouge in Liverpool One, great place!

It was amazing to see all my friends back at home, share and listen to each others stories from their universities across the country. Its surprising how much you can do in three months and how many people you can meet. Our first night back we got rather drunk..

Christmas day consisted of the standard dinner and family gathering which was nice as I also hadn't seen them in three months properly. After dinner I called my friends and we went to the local pub. We swiftly left as there was a huge bar fight.. glasses being smashed.. girls on top of each other on the floor.. guys swinging wildly at each other.. so the police charged in and we made our escape and went home!

We had no plans for new years until the day before new years eve, so it was pretty spontaneous.. but we all ended up going to a friends house party.. a house party than has many bad pictures and should not have been posted on facebook... all in all it was a brilliant night and the best way to start 2012, made even better by the fact it was spent with my closest friends.

The holidays swiftly came to an end and we all made our way back to our respective universities. It felt so strange to be going back into University halls.. spending a month living with family and quiet was nice. Coming back to a corridor of 20 people the same age as you in a building with 230 others of the same age is a little different! It took a day or two but I managed to settle in a lot quicker than I thought I would.

This was the start of exams.

Everybody came back and decided to get stuck into some revision. It was quite quiet for the first week due to peoples panic at the fact they had a month to revise and had done none.

Exams finish on the 27th for the entire university although most, like myself, are already finished. My last exam was monday and so I have been out every night. Monday night we went to The Blue Angel or as students call it... The Raz

The Raz as a place is, im going to be honest... terrible.. Its old .. its smelly.. its overcrowded. It costs £1.50 to get in and then for a pint of beer.. 90 pence.. It is crazy cheap! You go downstairs to where the DJ is set up and you feel like you have walked into a bat cave.. the horrible sweaty smell hits you and if you come late enough the floor will be covered in what has got to be known as "Raz Juice"... this disgusting juice will ruin any item of clothing/ pair of shoes as anything it touches just turns brown. Once it fills up the Raz is fantastic, you cant beat the student atmosphere thats created down there. If you are a student in Liverpool on a monday night.. the raz is the only place to be!

image taken from http://www.webley.demon.co.uk/beatles/

Last night three of us went to Medication. Now.. Medication is probably the biggest and best student night in the whole of Liverpool.
It costs £6 for entry but it is worth every penny.
The place is HUGE. there is about 3000 students in there and its the best place to meet people, drinks are cheap and the atmosphere in the place is unreal. There is 3 main rooms in the place, The house/electro room, Chart room and R&B room.
http://www.medication.co.uk/
just take a look at some of the pictures on the website and you will instantly see how good the place is!
Probably the best night out I have had since being back in Liverpool!

That leads me to today! Hungover, blogging, chatting to people across the world on skype and waiting to go get dinner!

The University Life!

2011-10-22T10:50:00.000-07:00

Wow.

This is the only way I can even attempt to describe the life I am now leading.

It is crazy.

Parties all the time, great music, great people, cheap drinks, amazing city. There is almost no time to sleep with the amount of things to do here in Liverpool.

A few weeks ago I paid a visit to my friends in Nottingham and Derby. That was a brilliant weekend. I went to a club in Derby called The Blue Note which was a good night out with my friend and his university corridor. It seems odd to know people all over the country who now all have a complete new set of friends and have settled into new areas, when all but a month or two ago you were all sitting in a room watching films talking about how strange it will be to not be at home. The day after I was in Derby I went to Nottingham to go and see another friend and also to go and see Nero playing in Rock City Nottingham. Again this was an amazing night opened up by Skream who played some crazy dubstep mixes and got the crowd going wild.

Last week I went to see Ben Ufo & Blawan playing in The Shipping Forecast which is an amazing club tucked in the heart of your classic mainstream clubs. It has a really nice bar upstairs with a really chilled out crowd. You go down the stone staircase to the area where all the main DJs play and you enter a whole new world. This is not your standard club. The basement is only a small room but combined with the sound system they have set up down there it is simply amazing. The show was fantastic with quite a housey sounding set by Ben Ufo, everyone in the crowd went crazy for it.

Image taken by Matthew Ball

The day after Ben Ufo & Blawan I went to see Modeselektor, 2manydj's and D/R/U/G/S in a place called The Masque. That night was crazy. The bass just seemed to get louder and louder and the crowd crazier and crazier for the music.

I had never heard of Modeselektor till the night and they were a LOT different to what I was expecting. They played before 2manydj's and it was probably one of the strangest sets I have seen. The amount of strobe light mixed with the borderline demonic sounds that were being thrown out of their speakers made it a really trippy experience.

2manydj's followed this odd but brilliant set with some crazy songs and remixes. If you ever have the chance to go and see them. DO IT. They will blow your mind. There was a crazy amount of people crammed into the same room, all bouncing.

image taken from http://lektrono.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/2_many_djs.jpg

Tonight I am going to see Erol ALkan, Hudson Mohawke, Dj Yoda, Lvis1990 and CantMixWontMixShdntMixDontMix with a few friends from the college I am currently in, there would be more but one has decided to go see friends in Leeds and the other has gone to see his girlfriend in Glasgow! another example of how spread across the country everyone is! Hopefully tonight will be as good as the others.

The only problem I have with going out tonight is that I am going rowing tomorrow with the university rowing team! Another thing I have done since I arrived!

Already I have had a few social nights with the team and they have been brilliant. Every sports team goes out on AU (Athletics Union) night dressed in a different fancy dress! The rowing teams fancy dress was Vikings this time around

The night was insane. By the end of it there were viking hats and axes ALL over the club we all went to and a mess of very, very drunk athletes everywhere. Probably one of the best nights out in Liverpool I have had so far!

The next social was cocktail night, this started at an exclusive gentlemans club hidden away in the main shopping area of Liverpool! I thought I knew the city like the back of my hand.. the shopping areas anyway... but it turns out this place had managed to go unseen until now! It was a rather posh place with huge painting on the walls, a massive private library and a lot of history.

Picture taken by Finn Mainstone of Mainstone Media

The night moved on and we went to the tequila bar (Cava) and then hit the clubs. The tequila bar being one of my favourite places in liverpool due to it having a ton of diffrent tequila flavours all only £1 a shot! a good start to any crazy night out.

So thats a VERY brief summary of the past week or so in university. Hopefully with many more crazy stories to come!

Summer 2011.

2011-09-24T14:42:00.000-07:00

Ok so I said I would be back soon and ... honestly .. forgot about blogging.. which I am really sorry about.

This summer has been stupidly good and I have managed to cram sooooo much in. Bulgaria was insane with the lads.

The sheer amount of parties and get together's I have been to is crazy and they have all been amazing.

I am currently at the end of my University freshers week having gained a place on a course at the University of Liverpool. Going to miss everyone whos spread themselves across the country sadly! but hey its only for a few weeks till xmas when we will all be reunited and have a ton of stories to tell!

This is only a brief one due to the fact that I am blasting some crazy house music preparing to get on it majorly and head into town with my uni halls corridor.

Sorry for the lack of posts on the past few months. If I still have any followers at all.... please leave me a comment! have missed you guys! :)

Awesome start to summer.

2011-06-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

What a weekend.

To say the least it has been amazing and crazy.

It started on thursday night, we went for a meal in a local pub and then had a laugh in a new friends flat.

The following day there was a party in the same flat. I decided to get a bottle of Sambuca, which if you have never tried.. and like aniseed.. is well worth having a try of!

When I arrived no one else had any drinks, So I ended up being the mule to go to the shop and look extra dodgy buying a pack of fags, about 20 cans of energy drink .. and also asking for the biggest bottle of vodka the shop had.

Things started slowly with a challenge on fifa ...08 but soon picked up.

I decided it would be a good idea after a couple of cans to attempt something new.

http://ramblingspoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/FlamingSambuca.jpg image link

YES. Flaming sambuca.. I shiftily asked for two glasses and a lighter from my friend who owns the flat.. to which he handed them over in a bit of a puzzle.
I walked into the kitchen and set the shot ablaze. It went well and so I ended up making shots for a ton of people.

The night went on and pretty much all had a laugh... me and two of the others ended up in a taxi home at 5 AM ..

such a brilliant night.

Saturday I slept till about 1 PM due to my early return home.. and then we had yet another party! this time a friends 18th in a local venue, was a fun night and another great party :)

Sunday consisted of work... much to my annoyance as they messed up my hours and holidays and so im now supposed to be working this weekend when I told them I would be at my school prom on friday and in another country by sunday ... so yeah.... nice one haha.

After work. REVISION for my final exam :D which I had today and it seemed to go really well!

SO I am officially FREE :D and so will be partying like crazy. Went to Liverpool straight after the exam with some legends and ended up in Pizza hut sharing a 14" pizza and nachos which killed me.

Tonight will consist of a party at our friends house... whos parents have gona away for the week and so therefore we have been invited to his house every day this week. Already a brilliant start to what seems to be a fantastic summer :D

One More Exam Till FREEDOM!

2011-06-23T06:13:00.000-07:00

So this has been a intense week. By intense.. I mean.. borderline loss of sanity intense.

I had 5 exams crammed into 4 short days which has been, in all honesty, HELL.

These exams included my latest maths module Core 4, I came out of the exam worried that I had bombed out on this exam and failed at an epic level. I had a browse through The Student Room forums and it turns out that I didn't do half bad!

Physics latest module was Tuesday and that actually was a nightmare. I crammed a whole years worth of notes and books in one night and thought I had pulled it off. I came out the exam feeling confident.

This is possibly one of the worst feelings when coming out of an exam, although you don't stress about it because you think you have done well.. the reality of it is that you actually may not have done so well.

I again decided to look through student forums at the results and my heart sank as read answers off. I really hope the grade boundaries are changed and there was also a fault on the paper. One of many of this years exams to contain a fault.

The question was given in centimetres although in the diagram of the question the same measurement was given in metres. Surely they can mark one right and the other wrong when it was the exam boards fault!?! If I lose marks for it then I think heads will roll.

Yesterday was Further Pure Mathematics 1st module, this was a resit from last year and I should have completely flattened that paper. With having time to learn it all again and sort out the kinks from the last paper I was able to finish the paper with plenty of time to spare and check everything thoroughly!!

Also on Tuesday was General Studies, it is a compulsory subject in my school and it feels pointless, it is good in a way as it can give people extra points towards university, but the lessons for the subject involve sitting around talking or watching documentaries on subjects that may not even be tested! The exam is random and you cant predict the questions on the paper and so have to hope that you have some knowledge on the topic! It was a 2 hour exam and my longest one. With being involved in all the number subjects I don't have much time to write and practise essay skills... this is a major disadvantage to those who take English for example! But I will just have to wait for the results in August to see how it went!

And today .. was THE hardest exam I have ever taken. Further Maths Pure 2nd Module. Those words have been haunting me all year and today's exam has gone as expected! I was expecting a crazy hard exam, and that's what I was given. I managed to get through the whole paper giving working out and calculation steps and the occasional answer so hopefully have passed the paper!

But on the bright side..

MATHS AND FURTHER MATHS AND GENERAL STUDIES A LEVELS ARE OVER!!

3 down.... just Physics left, but at least I have the weekend to nerd up on it! and a party Friday and Saturday! should be fun.

Going to need a few of these things. ( image from http://revimgs.bevnet.com/media/monsterenergy/monster-can2.jpg )

We leave for Bulgaria a week on Monday too! so I have a crazy schedule over the next few weeks

Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures

2011-06-15T17:09:00.000-07:00

Dear my faithful followers, and more than welcome newcomers,

With the pressure of exams really hitting me hard. Also the realisation that I have 5 exams in 4 days next week. I have decided to hang up the gloves, or my mouse and keyboard as it may be, and stop with the blogging.

Dont worry it will only be for a week or two, by which time I will have plenty of stories and fun things to post up. So in the long run I am doing my faithful followers a favour instead of drawling on pointlessly about nothing.

I have my school prom shortly after the end of my exams and then from there it's all about our lads holiday in Bulgaria!

Should be a laugh with nearly 20 of us going, hopefully we all return in one piece! touch wood.

image from http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/10/31/128699400344512236.jpg

I will probably have the rime after the exams to pop another post or two on, but that's just a maybe!

I will see what I can do for you.

See you all soon

Love
Jay

x

Four exams down, 8 to go!

2011-06-13T08:05:00.000-07:00

So i havent been posting a lot lately due to the sheer workload I have which is revising for my twelve exams!

image used from http://seitherscingter.blogspot.com/2011/06/funny-math.html

So far I have taken:

Core 2 Maths which seemed like it went very well. Feeling pretty confident for that which is good

Statistics 2 Maths which went better than I thought it would! I wasnt very confident going into the exam but I think that also went pretty well

Electrons, Waves and Photons Physics paper which again seemed great!

And just today I took the Mechanics 2 Maths exam... and yes.. that also went great too! I know I have messed up on one question which I am kicking myself about, but if I have done as well as I think on the rest of the paper I should have a nice A grade to add to my Further Maths A level !

That A will be needed if I hope to attain a good grade in Further Maths overall due to the sheer difficulty of the Further Pure 2 Module.

A Module that I despise and wish would just go away... and leave me a nice A .... instead of a fail which I am rather scared about getting.

Sorry about this post, not the most enthralling of posts, but its something to keep you occupied during my time revising!

My exams finish on the 27th and I plan to go on a party spree when that date arrives!

Wish me luck :)

The Social Network!

2011-06-08T16:22:00.000-07:00

Its been out for a good while and my friend got it on blu ray and invited me over today.

So after our revision sessions in school we decided to go round and watch it, and I have to say it was a lot better than I thought it would be!

The idea of facebook or thefacebook as it was originally called was such a simple one but was massive.

It still seems odd to me though that it managed to beat the giant at the time of Myspace but I think it was to do with, as described in the film, exclusive side of facebook.

Originally it was only intended for students at Harvard University and then rapidly expanded to universities across the globe. The story of its creation and the controversy behind the idea supposedly being stolen from some other Harvard students makes it all the better for the film which has been directed well in my opinion.

It makes you think how a simple idea can generate so much money and power so quickly, obviously I dont know any coding or databasing and and couldnt do it myself but the idea of a social network site seems so simple.

Overall though I was pretty impressed with the film and think it is worth a watch!
Sorry for the lack of posts I'm in my exams and really shouldnt be on here! but hey, I have just come back from this weeks pub quiz .. so why not hey!..

The random things that can get you traffic!

2011-06-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

So heres my most random bit of traffic, some body had searched the keyword.. gorilla suit.. and my blog popped up!

Go to your blog dashboard and go to the stats tab, see what your most random search is and leave it as a comment!

Someone once asked me! "Whats so great about these Morphsuits!?"

2011-06-02T14:11:00.000-07:00

Let me answer that by firstly saying... I was in the pub last night .. and what wonders in.... 6 guys all in different coloured morphsuits just like we are planning!!

The whole pub turned and laughed, they were the topic of conversation for a good while... and then the pub quiz started so everyones excitment and confusion died down...

But thats the point of morphsuits! they are a laugh, they are fun to be in because you are the centre of attention! you wouldnt get anyone into a morphsuit... if you like to socialize and be the centre of attention then they are brilliant!

If you have the balls to wear one but tend not to socialise ... then you probably wont have much of a laugh! but having the balls to wear usually means you are the sociable type!

You can do all sorts! What ever you would do as an activity normally you can most probably do it in a morphsuit too.

A popular one is morphsuits and bocking as seen in this video, along with other random things!

And this guys just showing off strength in this video..

I did not make either of the videos I found them on youtube!
But hey! its all about the fun with morphsuits.

Do you understand how awesome these suits are now? :D

The Power of the Cup of Tea!

2011-05-31T10:41:00.000-07:00

This is me putting on a dodgy face, completely intended, with the miracle that is a cup or rather in this case .. bucket of tea.

So last night I received a message saying.. "hey want to come for a drive?" so i thought... yeah why not!

So I got picked and the 5 of us headed off a decent way away to a place called thurstaston beach

Image from: http://www.hoylakerent.co.uk/images/Sallys.jpg

When we arrived it was much colder than I expected and so we only stayed for a short while, we could see the rain pouring in from Wales and decided to head off.. On the way we stopped to climbs thors rock for the fun of it.

Image from: http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/resources/images/1109119/?type=display

We decided to leave after a while and the idea of going back to someones house was suggested, so we stopped off at the shop and picked up some beer and vodka!

It got later and later and eventually we realised that it was light outside and that it was morning.. we had pulled an all nighter without intending to.

A cup of tea was in order and so now, not having slept since sunday night, I am currently being fueled by nothing more than cups of tea... a banana I had a 12.. and a pretty boring plain omelette I decided to throw together... at least my dads doing a nice pasta for tea, should be tasty!

The Morphing Outcome.

2011-05-29T12:38:00.001-07:00

So yeah like I said in a previous post we all got our morph on and went to a party... well what actually happened...

We arrived at the party to see who was there... which turns out like my mates whole family of about 40 people plus all our school mates....

Ran upstairs and jumped in our suits and gear and all ran downstairs and outside where everyone was ... had a dance and ran for the trampoline for a bounce.... that turned out more of a brawl than a bounce due to how slippy the suits are!

Brilliant night.. I would tell anyone to get a morphsuit for the pure fun of it!

Dont ask about the ghillie suit ... our mates brother decided to join in... there was one of our mates in a gorilla suit at one point too!

Hopefully will have some more morph fun soon and I will post the pictures for everyone to laugh at!

How boring can working in a shop be?

2011-05-29T08:30:00.001-07:00

The answer...

VERY.

Just got home from a small 4 hour shift and wow was it boring.

Stacking books on shelves..

Serving the general public.. who by the way on a whole are generally not nice people..

Tidying magazines..

Filling a fridge back up with drinks...

Then just standing around printing and putting stickers on stuff, which was the best part of the day easily.

Being hastled by old people looking for random things like paper clips.
Also other people asking for directions to the closest internet cafe... which to be honest I dont even think exist where I live. Could be a good business idea.... Surely it cant be that hard to run an internet cafe.

Even the manager started talking about how he had watched the original power rangers and it was the best part of his week...

Like everyone else in life all I would like is a job that I enjoy! but to be honest I dont even know what I would like to do. The thought of doing the same thing day in day out just makes it boring..

At least I can chill out, eat and sleep for the rest of the night!.. unless I decide to do some much needed revision...

The morning after the last day of school..

2011-05-28T03:10:00.000-07:00

Well that was a strange one! Starting drinking at 13:00 is not a good idea....

I went home to have some food at about 19:00 then nearly fell asleep... then proceeded to go out to a party.

Got to the party and had a good laugh whilst trying to sober and liven up.. then was dragged out by a friend to walk back and get her ID and money from her friends house... It started raining.... got to the house.... there was nobody home and so we where stuck with a couple of quid ... the rain and no party!

We decided to get a taxi back to the party with the last of our money and ended up staying till we where thrown out..

As we got thrown out of the party.... it started to rain again... and we had to drag a drunken friend out who was pretty wasted and shouting all sorts of slurred jibberish.

We had no money and the girl who was wasted was in no state to get a taxi back.. so we had to walk in the rain which proved difficult as we had to literally drag her along the promenade to her house which had already previously visited that night.

As we got half was back which had taken the most part of an hour some cray psychopath was riding their bike screaming abuse at the top of their voice towards us... so as you do.. we managed to get the drunken girl to hurry the hell up and got home as quick as we could... safe from any psychopaths and freaks.

Got a taxi back with the girl who had finally got her stuff from her drunken friends house... walked home from hers then fell asleep .. dead

And now today I have to go to work... and then have another party after work! wish me luck

Anyone got any crazy party stories? leave me a comment with them !

Last Day Of School !

2011-05-27T11:36:00.000-07:00

So its that time of year when the final day of school has come around! Today consisted of being late for lessons... playing twister in a library .... and annoying the hell out of people.... I have just come straight from the pub! its now 19:40 and I have been drinking since 13:00... so yes I am pretty drunk!

The teachers in my school thought it would be a good idea to follow us all to the pub and so we all ended up getting a round off out legendary teachers!

One of our mates tried to down 3 pints of guiness in 25 seconds....

he managed 2 and a half in about 10 seconds! .... seriously difficult.....

the other half of the pint was quickly thrown onto the table while he stumbled off to throw up the 2 and a half he had just downed plus his lunch......

The spelling mistakes in this post have hopefully been kept to a minimum! the fact I am also eating omlette and chips from the chippy doesnt help!

If you have left school, what was your last day like?? have any crazy things happen?

Being a mad bastard.

2011-05-26T14:23:00.000-07:00

So basically if you look at my ebay recently bought list I may look like a bit of a dodgy fetish freak....

This is one thing.

But theres also...

You may ask... What the hell are you doing...

But the answer is simple.. IM BEING A MORPH!

If you havent seen these suits before ... where have you been all your life? These suits are amazing for parties and just generally having a good laugh. 5 of my friends recently bought them too all in different colours so when we go on our lads holiday we can go clubbing as morphs.

Should be a giggle! what do you think?

For those of you who love portal !

2011-05-26T09:35:00.000-07:00

Did this video a month or two ago and so my volume levels and mic are a bit dodgy but hey!

Its not the talking thats important if you are interested in this video!

Yes its a portal poster desktop theme with working links and various other features!
I did not create the person who did can be found over on deviantart.com all the information is in the video description on youtube.

I am still using this theme and think its brlliant! very simple to install and use!

First two exams over!

2011-05-26T07:30:00.000-07:00

So after a hard night of revision... which I didnt really do much of!

I kicked off the start of the exams this morning by sitting 2 of my 12 to be taken over the next month, most people complain about sitting 2 or 3 exams... but hey what can you do!

I am pretty happy todays exams, they both didnt seem as bad as I thought they would be

Its the final push to get into university at the start of the new school year and so its vital I do well in all of these exams.

So now I can just kick back and chill out for a week or two until the next one!

Portal 2 and Steams potato sack skin scandal!

2011-05-25T14:31:00.000-07:00

So basically I thought I would take a break from a quick revision session to post up one of my videos about portal 2!

Steam promised an extra skin for co-op players if they bought the potato sack and preordered portal 2.... but did they deliver?

sadly ... the answer is still no.