gIzMo'S bOx ------------> (aLL ViSiToRs WelCoMe!) -----&g

**Gizmo says -** · 10-08-2003, 07:06 PM

Hi der!!

**Gizmo says -** · 10-08-2003, 07:09 PM

more to follow soon

**Gizmo says -** · 16-08-2003, 10:24 PM

am gonna come outta me box for a bit today.... too damn dark in 'ere to revise proper... 8) :roll:

Am gonna go check my post, see if I got a letter from my postman. Bak in a mo'.

**Gizmo says -** · 18-08-2003, 11:05 PM

will be rite back ! my pasta iz ready !!

**Gizmo says -** · 09-10-2003, 08:31 PM

Eston, in Cleveland (or Teeside again! hehe confusin, eh?)

Some of you may or may not know this, but UCAS is the b****** child of two bodies who amalgamated in 1995-ish. What you may know iz that there existed both universities and polytechnics unitl that date, when all the polys became unis...
So back then you had seperate forms for both unis and polys, called UCCA and PCAS forms.

So it wuz common bitch talk before this amalgamation to slag peope off by saying '..... so r you going to uuuuniiii then.... r we not good enuff for ya, huh?' at our college. It would result in the recipient cringing in terror at the sound of the collective resentment floodin' towards that university applicant (poor guyz....

).
Of course if you applied to 'polys' then you were just goign away to seek ya fortunes in anohter city, werent you? Although to be frank, some felt that anyone going anywhere to study in any capacity wuz to be kept at arms length...and I am talking about arms as long as Lennox Lewis's when I say this. Go away, you freakboy :shock: . The local name for people who moved out of the region was Scabz - people who left you behind and left a sore mark and then never came back and were only interested in themselves.....

I for one wuz smart enuff to keep my application under wraps..and I wuz astute enuff to apply to only local unis and polys....anywat it always puzzled me why our local uni (Durham) should have anything to do with this image...after all it wuz our local, not some too bit stuck posh up one that never accepted Teesiders ..... Durham wuz a city that I visited every month in my youf and it wuz soooooo lovely in my eyes.... wat was the point of going anywhere else that wuz further from Kielder and the Lake District as well?

Of course, being rejected by a uni does change your outlook of that institution somewat :evil: and having got my grades but no place at a local uni, I wuz now in two minds about reapplying. Suddenly University seemed doubly a bad option.

I guess the best thing I could do was get a job and reapply for next year, and see how things went from there.... little did I suspect of what was lying just ahead of me on the horizon..... :shock:

**Gizmo says -** · 09-10-2003, 09:02 PM

Standin up on top of the Eston hills lookin out across the Tees Valley is an immensely calming, sweeping sight. There is an amazing sense of peace in just looking at it all, you know? U can see the way all the little towns of Lazenby and Redcar and Normanby and Grangetown...an even Stockton and a bit of Hartlepool over the river....( on a clear day I wonder how far you could see,hmm?)....all of it joined by stretched spiderwebz of roads. As the sun goes down behind the Norff Sea you could even watch the towerz of ICI Wilton burst off waste gases and send blue fire spiralling heavenwards...apparently it inspired Ridly Scott in the making of the movie Bladerunner, you know?

Normally the whole thing is enuff to giv me a sense of wellbeing, but not tonite. It is gonna take more than electric sheep to send me to sleep hehe....

**Gizmo says -** · 19-05-2006, 11:53 PM

some more random stuff -

Some subjects, pastimes and hobbies that I wanna do in me lifetime

academic
‘istory - becos history is amazing, seeing as it jus grows every second. i am particularly interested in 19th century all the way to pre history hehe. And in local and recent istory on the personal scale.
i kinda like the 1970s cos they were a bit of lost decade, and the 80s as well.
also like the 50's cos its very Back to the Future.
and the turn of the century and just before it like the 1880s.
the 1500s sound quite interesting too wif all those wonderful wars going on for no reason and when guns seemed to blow up in your face whenever you used them. plus the time around 1066 and just before it, and O A.D. like ancient history is quite interesting too.
Pre-historical studies, tracing the evolution of man is pretty amazing. from apes, from primates, from pro-simians. Where did they start first acting and looking like uman beings in some way? i also luv skeletons of primates going back through the years.

ethics, morality, religion, justice.... when related to TV shows like 24 and Eastenders heheh!

Renaissance studies -luv to trace one of the ascents of man into culture, science and modern fort. one day.

American studies - amazed by AMerica. Too many popcorn movies when i wuz li'l hehe...
America is fascinating becos of its ghosttowns and uge expanses too, and nuerous states of different origin and size and populace.

astronomy - in a prossaic sense wiffout the maffs
planetary science -wow . it dont get much bigger than this (apart from the abuv)

geography

cartography - ancient maps mostly hehe i dont know why
neo-natal studies - small, tiny babies amazing what they fink and feel, if they do?

embryology - when does an embryo become a 'uman? When is its first fort? WHat do they dream??

infant development -what they become, and why they become it

film studies - yeah time out!

football management course - silly ambition but yey.

forestry management - i dont know why!

footwear design - especially trainers, i am obseesed wif trainers

gender studies - v. interesting. its not a division, its a number line.

geophysics -hmmm ..why? i dont even know....

metalwork -

heraldry - luv badges and symbols

horology - time obsesses me too but not in a bad way...just in a layman's sense

herbal medicine - amazing how a plant can hav remedious or even posionous effects

cartton drawings - youthful ambition

japanese culture - yey Kill Bill 2 and all that

viking studies -yey ANtonio Banderas an all that

scandinavian studies - luv Scandinavia

jazz - luv Jazz, and i'm ready to admit it hehe

journalism - i like to type hehehee!

the art of massage - brill

gardening - wonderful feeling

motorsports engineering -my ambition is to build a motorsports team one day....

museum studies - def.

scriptwriting - cool

virology - knowledge to fight the tiny anti-maccas. wierdly fascinating how somefings so small can be of such importance to us

creative writing

calligraphy

acupuncture

advertising

languages

icelandic

finnish

scottish gaelic

german

sansskit

chinese

tibetan

interior design

photography

cake baking

tableware

virtual design

rite!
now thats off ma plate i can get back to me revision!

**Gizmo says -** · 26-05-2006, 11:40 PM

countries i like

england
scotland
wales

(hehe)

france
switzerland
finland
bosnia
italy
greece
ukraine
morocco
eygpt
sahara desert countries (phew, macca!)
argentina
brabados
canada
croaty (eheh)
iceland
jordan
japan
liberia
kiribatti (hee)
mongolia
madagascar
micronesia
solomon's islandz
serbia
peru
tibet
zaire

and tuvalu (

)

**Gizmo says -** · 20-09-2006, 01:04 PM

wel today i wnet out and got mobbed by the rugger club boys on their first week back and they nicked ma mobile numba and made me swear to join the rugger club next week.

so now i am really up shit creek wiffout a paddle and i am dredding the beginning of university muchos.

**Gizmo says -** · 20-09-2006, 01:07 PM

on the briter side, i am now resolved to join the mountybiking club, the American footbal club and the Clubbin Club (hehehe ok i made that one up).
also the drama club to satisfy ma bopo-hemian instincts.