'Absolutely Fabulous' London! :-D
I thought it would be something like this, but it's still quite strange when things actually ARE as you imagined they would be... I've always loved British TV series such as 2,4 children, Black Adder and Absolutely Fabulous, particularly because of the typical British words and the British accent the characters were using. Well now it's literally all around me... And I love it! :-)It's all "fantastic", "marvellous", "fab" and my current personal favorite "brilliant". My high-school favorite "lovely" is mostly favored by older generations, but you still get to hear it 10 million times a day... I so love it! :-D
Photos... Yeeeeeey! :-D
Ah, yes, all this madness over the laptop made me forget a very important thingy... :-) I've been posting some photos in my web photo album and you can check them out at
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/palachinkaI have sorted it into albums acording to the topics they cover, so just click on what interests you to check it out. There'll be more photos to come, for sure, it's just that the weather is so lousy here these days that I have no motivation to take pics, they only end up being gray... :-S Hugs to all!Ivna
I REALLY HATE TECH STUFF RIGHT ABOUT NOW!!! :-@
As much as I looooooove technology and all the benefits it brings, right now I really, really, rrrrreeeeaaaaallllyyyyyyy HATE IT with a very great intensity!My laptop broke down as soon as I got to London which, btw, is over 2 weeks ago and I am still not able to use it properly. I managed to get the Windows installed again, but now my audio driver doesn't work even if I keep downloading the driver from the manufacturer's support site and God knows what else isn't working (as you can imagine I am no IT connoisseur)...And here goes a nice funny little story... again: I took my darling Streebor (who I know is in great pain for feeling like a cripple not being able to all the things he was able to do just a couple of weeks ago) to a laptop repair shop in the London's City that I found over the internet. And the guy checks it, out messes around with the keyboard, tries to reinstall the driver and ends up telling me that the sound driver won't work because it is not supported by Windows XP with Service Pack 2, but that I need to install Windows 2004 (not to mention I HAD Windows XP 2002 with Service Pack 2 installed before and everything worked perfectly...). So I leave the shop all happy that at least finally I know WHAT the bloody problem is, so I ask my friend Mohs if he could find me somewhere the Windows 2004 installation software. I will leave out the bit where I spent the whole day walking in central London in the rain with no umbrella trying to find a computer software selling store, only to find out in the evening from my friend Meysi that there used to be only 1 shop in the whole of central London selling software, but - guess what - they closed it down some time ago!!!So anyway, Mohs calls me up a day later telling me that Windows 2004 DOES NOT EVEN EXIST!!!So you tell me - who's nuts over here??? :-S
Little Ivna and the City... Again... :)
Weeeeeeel, here I am again. My last post was about my trip to London back in November. And guess what... All my next posts for a while will also be about my trip to London. Yep, that's right, I decided to do my Master's in Events Marketing Management and for the next year or so I will be located in London... Yeeeeeeeeeeeey me! :-DAnyway, I came to London at the end of January and have been settling in for the past two weeks, changing houses, cleaning, enroling with my course at the university, cleaning, having tons of introductory lectures covering both the university's services and facilities as well as covering the specifics of my course, cleaning, going out and - you guessed it - cleaning some more. LOL! :-))I am currently living in the students' Hall of Residence called The Arcade. The building has self-contained flats with 4-6 people living in them. I am lucky to be in a flat with only 3 more people, all girls, so it's really not that bad. Though it did require a lot of cleaning to bring it into a state fit for people to live in. :-D The building is said to be a former prison, or - to be more politically correct :-P - women's correctional facility. None of the corridors in the building have windows so they get to be pretty stuffy all the time so all the tenants overcompensate for it by having windows in their rooms and kitchens open most of the time. Haha! Also, in the vicinity of the building are a) a police station and b) a hospital so police cars and ambulances with rotation lights and sirens are passing by our windows literally every minute (hey, this is a big city, with a big crime rate) so it gets pretty noisy. And it doesn't stop at night either... But it's ok! :-)I have been having some trouble sleeping lately, seems like the excitement of moving to London that has eluded me the first week I was here finally kicked in - haha! - so my sleeping itinerary has moved from normal to the 6am-10am shift. :-S About two nights ago I finally managed to fall asleep at a normal hour (that being around 1am) when at 3.30am we were all woken up by a fire alarm, so all 500 people living in the hall had to go down the fire escape staircase and freeze for half an hour in the car park in front of the building until the Fire Brigade arrived to check thebuilding and switch off the alarm. Needless to say, the alarm was on during all that time, I reallywonder what the neighbours were thinking. Thinking of it now it really makes me laugh my ass off - people were being very creative at keeping themselves (and others) warm :-P, but - trust me - at the time there was really nothing funny about it. :-) Of course, the official explanation was that some people were smoking in one of the rooms and that triggered the fire alarm, but the fire alarm can't really be that sensitive, can it? As for myself, this was the first fire scare that I experienced in my life (at least as far back as I can remember) so was quite a strange experience.The university I am studying at is the London Metropolitan University and has two campuses: one in the City (London's main business area) and one in the area of Holloway Road in north-east London, which is called the North campus and is where I am studying. It is the no. 1 choice university of international students in the UK and has approximately 36,000 students, out of which some 7,000 are international students. It is also one of the best universities in the UK in terms of sports achievements of its students in different inter-university competitions in many sports, headed by male and female tennis and female hockey. So far I am quite happy with the way students are treated and with the facilities they offer - there are 10 libraries available to students, a completely new IT centre with 280 computers and a Learning Centre that is open 12 hours a day on weekdays and 5-6 hours on Saturdays and Sundays. Not to mention the Students' Services department that is always available and happy to help you with any problems you might have, including helping you resolve visa issues or find a part-time job as a student, and the unavoidable Students' Union and the clubs and societies it supports.I'm guessing it should be a pretty fun filled year ahead of me. :-D :-D :-DWe were supposed to go on a boat trip to Greenwich today, but since it had been snowing two days ago and since then all we're having is rain, me and most of my new friends decided this morning it was way better to just stay in bed and lay around the house some more... Hahahah! Talk about a proactive attitude! :-) But there is time for that! :-)Well, am off now, got to make some lunch and will be going out in the afternoon after all. If nothing else will just take a walk in the Covent Garden - so far it is my favorite part of London. But I'm sure there will be others as well as I continue discovering London.See you all here again soon! And I will be posting some pics as well, as soon as I make some. Hahahaha! ;-)
