London

It's been ages since I wrote anything here! I've been attempting to post something for months, I had it all in my head but every time I actually opened up blogger it was a 'no can do'.
Today I found one article from The Times "Starbucks, summers and other unlikely reasons to love Britain" in my drawer and I knew exactly why I saved it. Since I can remember people were always telling me "Ohhh I hate London" "the weather is crap" "people have attitudes" and I always thought the exact opposite. I see nothing wrong with London. Yes, I did have some unpleasant experiences here with people but at the end of the day - who gives a crap?
This just reminds me, the other day I was walking down to Junction and some boys (you can't call them men, even though their age places them in that category) said "Excuse me, EXCUSE ME - you dropped something hun" and when I turned, they just laughed in my face. I actually felt sorry for them, especially for the gelled haired girl who had a small baby in her hands. How can she even smile at their cheap jokes and hang around with people like that? I guess she is just the same, its a shame the baby will be brought up in that atmosphere.

Starbucks, summers and other unlikely reasons to love Britain: (according to the guy who wrote the article and meeee)

1. Walking
2. Starbucks - unlike the author I wouldn't know (yet!) how Starbucks tastes in America (he's saying that the food and the coffee tastes better in the British Starbucks) and I'm not so much into the "I'm walking with a Starbucks plastic cup, with bed head hair and so I'm cool". The coffee is good, the place is good but not for showing off.
3. Banking
4. DVLA
5. Excuses
6. Drivers
7. Self-deprecation
8. Boots the Chemist - I prefer Superdrugs - always has the deals I need.
9. ID Cards
10. Summers - I even love the rain and the wind.

I'm going to miss London once I move to Uni in Kent in roughly three weeks, but then again Canterbury has its own charm and I'm sure as long as it's in Britain - I'll love it.

Books for Summer 2010 !

With a glass of wine by my side (already feeling a bit lightheaded), geeky glasses on - these books are my summer reads for 2010 :) Its amazing how you can get into a book so much that you forget about everything else. Summer is the time to stop reading all those history and English set texts and enjoy random books. I told myself that I actually want to read funny and as some may label stupid books during my summer - one's that I did not have a chance to enjoy in the past 2 years.
My list may not contain many funny books, but I will end up going on holidays with them :) so whatever they are - I'm happy.

Bring it on !


Reading List:


The Liar - Stephen Fry (finished 12th July 2010) The very title of the book appealed to me at the time. The Liar was something different to all the other depressing books. It reminded me of Salinger's Holden in The Catcher in the Rye, there's even the famous sentence "if you want to know the truth". I was thinking of actually copying some bits of it into this blog, but its 11:00 at night and I have finished the book - the pages have been lost. I might go back to it one day after my holidays and actually copy the lines about lies below. One day maybeeee...


An Education - Lynn Barber (14th July 2010 - Still waiting for amazon to get it to me ! Been waiting for more than a week - its actually pathetic ! )


Catch-22 - Joseph Heller


60 years later coming through the rye - John David California (Holden Caulfield returns! The book is a sequel to Salinger's Catcher Through the Rye - I did not yet read the book (14th July 2010) but already feel a bit on the off side - I don't think it should have been written esp by a different author. Maybe we should all wonder what really happened to Caulfield. A 76- year old man wondering around the streets, with a language that stuck with him for the past 60 years ? I don't know what to think of it. I will update this post after I have read all of the books.

The Gathering - Anne Enright

She's Always a Woman by Billy Joel

I've heard this song on the radio and was looking for it everywhere since. I had no idea it was by Billy Joel (one of my fav. songs from him is "Vienna" and "We Didnt Start the Fire" - especially good for history students), thought I heard Buble's voice on magic radio. Google just rocks.

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/She's-Always-A-Woman-lyrics-Billy-Joel/98F5BA02E8B085A548256870001B6C6D

Rain

Cycling in Battersea Park, right after it rains - I just love it.