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Gem

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About Me


A student of Education Studies, German and Italian at Middlesex University, formerly of Queen Mary, University of London. That sucked, Middlesex rocks. 2nd year now, starting to get difficult! Also doing French and Spanish, no I don't know where I get the time either!
Was blonde, now brunette with purple bits...I love my new hair. :D
You Are Rum
You're the life of the party, and a total flirt
You are also pretty picky about what you drink
Only the finest labels and best mixed cocktails will do
Except if you're dieting - then it's Diet Coke and Bacardi all the way What Alcoholic Drink Are You?
Lover of all things Savage Garden and Darren Hayes, and also a fair selection of metal. :D And shit pop when I'm drunk. And Bucky, Captain Bucky O Hare!!! *hides*
I drink but I'm rubbish...I am a lightweight (though getting better), and I fall asleep...2 shots and I'm on the floor!! *sob* So usually I'm the driver. I'm a cheap night out! :)
*update* I'm a convert of strongbow cider which I manage to polish off quite a bit of, so mebbe I'm improving!
Bit of a geek too...love Final Fntasy, The Tribe, gaming, esp. my beloved PS2.

Usually found buggering off to Germany...aka my fave country. Where else is porn on terrestrial tv at 3 in the afternoon? Plus it's the home of Kinder chocolates...enough said. Going to Berlin to study for a year next October if I'm lucky!
I work for M&S in the Bureau de Change, which usually involves much hilarity when we try to find missing Euros at 9.30 at night when we all want to go home, then find someone can't count...always a joy. Also when the customers curse at you when you haven't got the money they want, (even though it's in the drawer and we just don't want to serve them!) It's a great job, as sitting in a small glass box goes!
You are Wonder Woman Wonder Woman 79% Green Lantern 70% Catwoman 70% Supergirl 69% Spider-Man 65% Iron Man 65% The Flash 65% Hulk 60% Superman 60% Batman 50% Robin 49% You are a beautiful princess
with great strength of character.
Would like to meet / drag into a dark room never to return: Darren Hayes, Stuart Townsend and Ben Browder (Crichton from Farscape). See, I told you I wasn't tragic...*cough*
Would like to meet: Anyone cool...I'm not as much of a nutcase as this profile may suggest!
Likes: My beloved MACBOOK and IPOD (I'm an apple convert and loving it), Chicken korma/tikkamasala, Darren Hayes / Savage Garden my music, pretty pens from Paperchase, good bands, (see list below), university (well the EDU modules at least), gaming, gigging, meeting new people, films. (Hooray for Tesco dvd rental service).
Hates: uber spicy curry, bitchy people, Marks and Spencer customers, (especially in the food hall...evil I tell you), German coursework, shite pop, e.g. Westlife, small screaming children, traffic jams.
Bands I've seen:
Season's End (13 odd times),
Savage Garden (2x),
Darren Hayes (lots!),
AFI (2x),
Iron Maiden,
Trivium,
Lauren Harris (2x),
After Forever (2x),
Hell Is For Heroes (5x),
Martin Grech (5x),
Saves The Day (ugh yuck),
Shadow's Fall (2x),
Evanescence,
Cradle of Filth (I'm so goffick, honest),
Placebo (2x),
Archangel,
Reuben (2x),
Muse (3x and I've met them!),
Lacuna Coil (3x),
Lostprophets (2x),
Avenged Sevenfold (4x),
In Flames (3x),
3 Doors Down (2x),
Funeral For A Friend,
Biffy Clyro,
My Chemical Romance (3x),
Sugarcult,
Killswitch Engage,
Chiamara,
Fear Factory (3x),
Nightwish (3x),
Septembre,
Children of Bodom (2x),
Cathedral (x),
Edguy (3x),
Dragonforce (crap),
Green Day (2x),
Metallica,
Panic Cell (2x),
Epica (3x),
Biomechanical (2x),
Invey (2x),
Atreyu (2x),
Machine Head (woot),
Helmet (yawn),
Arch Enemy,
Rammstein (brilliant),
Eighteen Visions,
Bleeding Through (2x)
, Idlewild,
God Forbid,
Finntroll (2x),
Reckless Tide (2x),
Sonata Arctica (2x), Fourway Kill,
Rob Thomas,
Evergrey (2x), Nine Inch Nails,
Within Temptation,
Hammerfall,
Atrocity,
Leaves' Eyes,
Opeth,
The Subways x2
The Culprits x?!?!
Thrice (x2),
Soilwork,
The Birthday Massacre,
Xandria,
To-Mera,
There are probably tons more but I've forgotten...I do like going to gigs! :)
My life has been rated:
See what your rating is!
So that's me. Questions on the back of a postcard to the usual address. Or you could just be a techy and use the message button.
So yeah, this is what I've been listening to lately:
This is what I've recently played...oooh gotta love the technology...
Thank you and goodnight!*mwah*
Which Nigerian spammer are You?
You're an Passionate Kisser
For you, kissing is about all about following your urges
If someone's hot, you'll go in for the kiss - end of story
You can keep any relationship hot with your steamy kisses
A total spark plug - your kisses are bound to get you in trouble
What Disney Princess Are You?

Sleeping Beauty
You sleep a lot, but atleast you have those cool lil fairies by your side.
You Are a Glam Rocker!
You put the "show" in rock show with your larger than life self.
No doubt, you are all about making good music...
But what really gets you going is having an over the top show.
Glitter, costumes, and wild hair are your thing - with some rock thrown in!

My Interests

Sleep, reading, gaming, music & gigs, stroking my macbook lovingly...I'm a bit sad really.

I'd like to meet:

Darren Hayes, nothing new there. Have met him once before at a listening party, but the guy's just so damn interesting I'd love to go out for dinner with him to have a damn good chat.

Music:

Well where do I start? Maybe my music folder is a good place:Arch Enemy, After Forever, Amon Amaarth, A7X, Atreyu, AFI, Bon Jovi, Bleeding Through, Bullet for my Valentine, Biffy Clyro, Caliban, Children of Bodom, Coldplay, Collide, Cathedral, Cult of Luna, Damien Rice, Darren Hayes, Dark Tranquility, Deftones, Drgonforce, Edenbridge, Epica, Evanescence, Eighteen Visions, Epica,Everygrey, Fear Factory, Franz Ferdinand, Fallen To, Guns n Roses, Good Charlotte, Gothminister, Green Day, Heaven Shall Burn, HIM, Hell is for Heroes, Hypocrisy, Inme, Iron Maiden, Invey, It Dies Today, Jimmy Eat World, JJ72, Keane, Kindeythieves, Killswitch Engage, Lorien, Lacuna Coil, Leaves' Eyes, Lostprophets, Lullacry, Metallica, Mnemic, Machine Head, Matchbook Romance, Matchbox 20, Muse, Mudvayne, Motley Crue, My Chemical Romance, NIN, Nightwish, Nightrage, Opeth, Panic Cell, Placebo, Rammstein, Radiohead, Reckless Tide, Rob Thomas, Savage Garden, Septembre, Shadows Fall, Sinergy, Sirenia, Season's End, Slipknot (very few songs though),Sonata Arctica, Starting Line, Sugarcult, Symphony X, The Haunted, The Offspring, Thrice, Tristania, Trivium, Vex Red, Within Temptation, Xandria.Quite a few, and there are probably more that I have forgoten. :)

Movies:

Queen of the Damned, Stuart Townsend in leather trousers....Charlize Theron is a very lucky lady!

Television:

Farscape, Firefly, Lost, Afterlife, The Tribe, Trapdoor, Superted, new Doctor Who, Torchwood, Magic Roundabout, Button Moon...lots of stupid kids tv!!

Books:

Anne Rice, Dan Brown (along with the rest of the world), Lisa Jewell (for those chick-lit moments), interesting EDU theory books, lots of things.

Heroes:

Darren Hayes.The little people in life...the ones who fight for what they believe in...people who have the guts to say what they think.

My Blog

Roll on May 21st!

Then finally my 2nd year of uni will be over, woot woot. Writing an assignment for Education & Equality about ethnic minority underachievement at the minute, it's actually really interesting. If I'm h...
Posted by Gem on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:29:00 PST

Busy busy busy...argh!

So at the moment, life is somewhat mad. Worked 5 days on the trot this weekend, culminating in a 10 hour shift on bank hol Monday. Yes, 8-6, involving getting up at 6.30. When everyone else was asleep...
Posted by Gem on Tue, 08 May 2007 01:15:00 PST

School!

Well today I finished my 2nd day at Gladys Aylward school, in Edmonton, London as part of the SAS scheme. For the uninitiated, (i.e., most of you), the SAS scheme stands for Student Associate Scheme, ...
Posted by Gem on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:20:00 PST

1 word answers

1. Where is your cell phone? desk 2. Your boyfriend/girlfriend? sexy!3. Your hair? fringified purple :D4. Your mother? downstairs5. Your father? asleep!6. Your favorite thing? music7. Your dream last ...
Posted by Gem on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:21:00 PST

Who Would Have Thought (amongst other things)

I love this song ... it's the new one from my beloved Darren and it's all deep, dark and electro. It's bloozy amazing, and completely unlike all the old poppy Savage Garden stuff.Has a lovely animatio...
Posted by Gem on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:15:00 PST

Freeeeeeeeeedom

Hooray, the dreaded essays are done, expecially the evil law one on negligence and bullying. In fact, if I ever have to type those words again and quote the 1998 School Standards and Framework Act, I ...
Posted by Gem on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:12:00 PST

Essay hell .. . .

Urgh. It's 2am and here I am writing my law essay. And procrastinating somewhat,....it;s nearly done butit needs severe tweaking. My god I cannot wait for this weekend!Think I might work until 3 then ...
Posted by Gem on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:55:00 PST

My lasts ...

who was your last ??Rule #1:If you open this you GOTTA take it.Rule # 2:You are NOT ALLOWED to explain ANYTHING unless someone messages you and asksRule #3:Only answer True or FalseQ: Kissed someone o...
Posted by Gem on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:41:00 PST

Finish it :-)

Finish the sentence as if you wrote each one yourself.Some may be uncomfortable, but you'll manage."1. I've come to realize that my last kiss...Was lovely. :-) Like them all with Martin! 2. I am liste...
Posted by Gem on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST

60 questions of doom! (stolen from Spam!)

1. Who is the last person you held hands with?Martin. 2. If you were sent off to war would you survive?God, no....I'd be rubbish. 3. Do you sleep with the TV on?I can sleep anywhere and through anythi...
Posted by Gem on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:21:00 PST