Highlights of 2012!

So, 2013 is on its way, it's been a year full of tragedy (Newtown School Shootings, Hurricane Sandy, Truth of the Hillsborough Disaster, Justin Bieber winning Artist of the Year 2012 AMA's), but also a year full of triumph (Felix Baumgartner's record breaking space jump, 2012 London Olympics, Curiosity's landing on Mars with the 'Sky Crane'). So, I thought to myself, 'I'm going to make a blog and post a couple of my top highlights about my 2012'.

So, here are some of my highlights of 2012! :

Kerrang! Relentless Tour! (Sunday 12th Feb 2012)

Ah yes, the 'Kerrang! Relentless Tour!' I recall was absolutely amazing, originally Sum 41 and New Found Glory were supposed to headline, but unfortunately, Deryck (the lead singer and guitarist of Sum 41) had slipped disks in his back, and was told it would be best for him to not perform so his back could heal, so instead of Sum 41, The Blackout filled in for them. I'll admit I was saddened by this, ( and I did slightly tear up and cry :'P ), but when it came to the night, The Blackout sang their own heavier version of 'Fatlip' and I couldn't resist but sing along. And New Found Glory were kick-ass as well! I sang my heart out along to them and their songs like: 'Hit Or Miss', 'My Friends Over You', 'All Downhill From Here' and their own versions of 'Blitzkrieg Bop', 'Basket Case' and 'Kiss Me' (by The Ramones, Green Day and Sixpence None The Rich). The other backing bands that performed (While She Sleeps, Let Live) were 'Screamo' something I don't listen to (I don't hate it, nor like it) but they did put on a good performance, along with The Blackout.

UMT Generator Music Course (Monday 6th Aug 2012 - Friday 10th 2012)

This music course I attended was simply amazing, I don't know how else to explain it. But we did make 'schweet, schweet music' as my friend Joe once before stated in his Herbert the Pervert voice. But it wasn't just about the music, I made some amazingly funny friends (a few in which also like Sum 41!) while being there, and we had hilarious moments together, for example, on occasions when we weren't making our magical music, me, my new friends Joe and Matt, and my other friend Rachael, would play this game called 'Bullshit' (most commonly known as 'Cheat') and gamble for gummy frogs (which Joe hilariously thought were gummy turtles).

We'd also eat our food outside, seeming as it was the summer and quite hot, and we'd have friendly food wars with other bands (my friend Rachael threw a bag of opened nuts off another band) and we'd all talk in Herbert The Pervert voices (although at the time I sounded like Mr Hankey The Christmas Poo off South Park, but my impression has yet improved).

But particularly, Joe and Matt, would talk in Herbert voices and say things to other younger bands such as:

1. "You want a popsicle? My cellar's full of popsicles!
2. "If it gets too hot and sweaty for you out here, feel free to take your shirt off"
3. "I hope you don't find the money strapped to my thigh"
4. "Get your fat ass over here"
5. "Sweet Jesus"

In fact, there was this one young girl group with about 7 members in, and all of them 11 year old girls, which I felt bad for, as there was this hardcore guy, about 14-15, into bands like Slipknot etc.. and he had to play guitar for them! Poor guy, the majority of the group was okay, but, there were two girls in particular which were little bitches.

Yes, well as they were the biggest group, they got the main hall, and we were one of the smallest groups, with only 4 people, so we got moved from what we called 'the smelly room' for practice to the dressing practice room, which was right beside the hall, and also which had two doors. So we decided to mess with their heads.

Every two seconds, one of these annoying 11 year old's would storm down the corridor in a mood because they didn't get their own way, or if they didn't agree on something. So, we would set up our music gear, just in case we got caught so we could use the excuse "We were in the middle of practicing, but they kept on annoying us, so we told them off". Anyways, every time one of these little kids stormed down the corridor, one of us would go to one door at one side of the room, and another one of us would get at the other door and make noises each at a time, so every time one of the little kids turned around they got confused, unsure which door the noise came from. And one time, one of the staff at the music course, caught them wandering in the corridor confused, came into our room to ask what was going on, and we told him that they were interrupting and distracting us from our practice. We kept this up for 5 days doing this, and annoying them in general, singing and talking to them in Herbert voices, and we never got caught in the act once. Ninjas.

But the weirdest thing was, when it came to performing in front of everyone, each band needed two members to introduce the upcoming performance. And me and my friend Matt, were asked to introduce information about the course... and introduce.... that annoying girl group. And I was the one to read out all of their names... so many names.

But all in all, the music course was amazing!

And here is a picture of me making my debut as 'SpiderCowell' and a photo of Matt, in a silly hat (wow, that rhymes) playing Sudoku ^_^:

The Day I Got Given An Energy Drink And I Went Absolutely Apeshit Hyper.

Yup. Basically what the title says. I thought it was hilarious and it's definitely a school moment i'll remember.

Also, the other school day I got locked in the school toilet stall and thought it was absolutely hilarious.

Again. What the title says.

So basically, the top two were my only main highlights of 2012, I know it's only 2, but damn, I made some damn good memories there, and the last two I added for attempted comedy. Hey, maybe when I leave school i'll make a 'Highlights of School' blog?

And If I think of anymore highlights, i'll be sure to add them and update this blog all for your reading needs :')

By the way! If you have twitter, if you want, follow some of the friends I made on my 2012 journey, as well as some as my other school friends!

My music course buddies!
Our old group:

Joe: @JoeTaylor1996
Matt: @FORGETTHEmatt
Rachael: @NUFC_Dixon

My other music course buddies!
Rachel: @HangmansPawn
Georgie: @DreamingOfOwls

My school mates!

Kenny: @Kenny_Skumfuk41
Lor: @LauraJayneW56
Nikita: @PSitsNikita
Keith: @KEITHR97
Amy (hardly ever uses Twitter though): @Pookadex

And of course, if you want to follow me, follow me @RachLaDudette !


Sayonora bitches and have a happy new year!

~RachLaDudette

Resident Evil... RESIDENT EVIL?! :D

I've felt like I haven't done a blog in a while, so I thought it's time to write one.

My holidays so far have consisted of doing nothing but eating sweets, going on the Internet, playing on my guitar and playing 'Resident Evil 6'. That's honestly all i've done since we broke up from school haha.

 Speaking of Resident Evil, I've became re-obsessed with it, i'm not even joking. And i'll be completely honest with you, Resident Evil is what makes me want to be a cop, or in the army, or something that includes shooting weapons if I don't get through to music or photography (Ministry of Defense maybe?). Now, I know it's not what it's like in the games, but a life of action is for me :D.


Or maybe I just have a really bad urge to shoot a gun and went way over the top with the whole 'military' thing?...Anyways.

Yes, i've became obsessed with it, i've watched so many gameplay's of the series one including 'The Darkside Chronicles' (where you play as Leon and Claire and have to protect Sherry), unfortunately, you can only get it for the Nintendo Wii, which sucks, because i'd rather have it for Xbox.

On 'R.E: 6' you can actually play as Leon, (or his partner Helena) and for those of you that don't know, you can also play as Chris Redfield (or his partner Piers) and/or play as Jake Muller, a new character introduced into the game (or his partner Sherry Birkin). I've actually almost completed all the chapters... apart from 1... Ada Wong's chapter. I'm playing that now. I hate Ada Wong. Well, maybe not hate, but dislike.

Okay, I will admit, she is bad-ass character with some bad-ass fighting moves, and a bad-ass crossbow, but there's something about her character I dislike (even though she's fictional). And goddamn, LEON, Y U LUV HER?! U DESERVE CLAIRE NOT ADA, ADA LIE CLAIRE IS GOOD FRIEND!

Haha, I don't know what the hell just happened there but still.

Actually, I think I might watch the Resident Evil movies, i've got the first 4 on boxset, now I just need to buy the most recent one. The most recent one, (R.E: Retribution) was good, but it's my least favourite out of the 5, actually, here's my first favourite to my least of favourite movies in order.

1. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (with Nemesis)
2. Resident Evil: Extinction
3. Resident Evil: Afterlife
4. Resident Evil
5. Resident Evil: Retribution

And also, I know there's only 2 computer-animated Resident Evil movies (Degeneration and Damnation) but i'd just say they're actually really cool too :D but out of them both Degeneration has got to be the best.

And that's everything that i've possibly got to write about, and Christmas! Christmas was great too, I had great fun, i'm grateful for the presents I got and i'm looking forward to new year!

*radio noise* Over and out!

~RachLaDudette

Lil' Christmas Party.

This blog was intended to be published in school, but for some reason it wouldn't post, i'll also include what we done on Friday!

Thursday 20th December 2012

Typing this blog from up in school.

I'm in history right now, having a lil' Christmas party instead of working :D we're watching the movie '300' and we're allowed to eat sweets and drink fizzy pop, hell yeah! Looks like a promising lesson :')

Anyways, just came from double music, i've finally finished recording my lesson composition... after jamming along with my friends (Joe and Adam) along to 'All The Small Things', 'Holiday' and 'American Idiot'... yeah we got wrong for that because we were supposed to be working xD

Almost at the end of the lesson, I was recording ideas for my other composition for my coursework  (even though it's already done) and I was interrupted 3 times >:O once by sir, so I had to re-record it, second by the school bell, and the third time was by Adam. I was literally 10 seconds away from finishing the song, and he comes in the room and starts screaming his head off. So, I stopped the recording and chased him around the classroom about to smash his head in.

And that's what happened in music, ooh, and it's Christmas dinner next! Hope i'll be able to eat it all after all those malteasers i've chowed down :L

Friday 21st December 2012

Woohoo! We broke up from school today, we've only had 2 lessons considering we had Eucharistic (this ceremony in school in which you have to stand up and get blessed :L) and we finished at half 1, meaning we only had Science and Maths.

Science was a bore, we have 2 science teachers, one is really awesome, the other is really boring and yells at you constantly. Well, we had the really boring one. All the other classes that had science the same time as us were doing fun things such as making silly putty, and here we were sitting there doing work in booklets to prepare us from an exam in freaking March.

Then, after break we had Maths which actually wasn't that bad, we were allowed to sit wherever we wanted and we either sat there talking or coloured in xD it wasn't too bad.

And that's what happened over the two days.

~RachLaDudette

My Conscience Is Good.

Went out somewhere today (I can't remember where) and look what I got! :D

Damn, you don't know how long i've spent looking for this New Found Glory CD and the Blink-182 Dude Ranch CD, literally, months I have been wanting these. And since it was 2 for £10, I bought Blink's self titled album too ( as the NFG album I bought separately in another shop ).

I also gave money to the Gracehouse Appeal and to a musician playing on the streets, he had an amazing singing voice and was really good at playing the guitar, so I couldn't resist but give money. My conscience feels good :)

And some little fucker threw something towards me and it stuck to my jacket, so I threw it on the floor, only then I found out it was a bomb-bag and it exploded on the floor, so I turned around and yelled at him and his little chav friend... really, really loud.

Yeah I have a hot temper.

~RachLaDudette

"I wired these nerves together,
 Hoping for a chance to think on time.
 And i'm tracing over your letter,
 To see if your intentions are as good as mine"
         -'Understatement' by New Found Glory (Sticks and Stones)

El Pingú and why you SHOULD play with photobooth!

Thursday today, for once it's been a boring Thursday, kind of. Music was fun, but not as fun as it usually is because 2 of my friends were off. The only fun thing about music is that I recorded my solo piece 'Dani California' by Red Hot Chili Peppers on bass, but I have to do it again after this term because I got a few things wrong, but other than that, my teacher said it was really good and I performed in confidently :)) .

Dani California Music Video Screenshots

The other fun thing about music is after I recorded, I went into another recording room with my friend Adam (whom was supposed to be recording but left it until last minute) and basically, we messed on with a bongo drum and were being idiots in general. He also showed me a video of him jump-kicking a door and falling over, as well as him showing me a video of having a metal cup that he owns, lit with flames inside and he claimed it to be the 'Goblet Of Fire' from Harry Potter. Yeah right.

...Then when the teacher came in, and asked me:

"Rachel, have you done your other recording"
"Uh, yeah, I think"
"Can you show it to me?-"
"OH WAIT OH CRAP I HAVEN'T" 

*conversation actually went like that no joke*

And then I had to do my other recording of some shitty melody composition I made up in last weeks music lesson I was supposed to finish. Were we recording my melody on the schools Ipad's they own, and it just so happens that the Ipad's have an app called 'Photobooth'. 

And Photobooth + students = a bad, idiotic, yet hilarious idea!

Basically, what Photobooth is, if you don't know, is an app where you can take photos of yourself in various funny effects, such as warping your face etc...

Later on, since me, Kenny and my other friend Nikita, all had to record at lunch, we got into the dinner hall late. But as we eventually got in, our head of year made his way towards our table, looked at my friends' sandwich and said: "That looks like a you lost the game sandwich". Well, my friends play this thing called 'The Game', and I absolutely hate it, it's so annoying. Well, these are the rules:

'Rule 1: You are playing 'The Game'.
You, along with everyone else in the world, always is, always has been,
and always will be playing The Game. Neither awareness nor consent is required to play.

Rule 2: Every time you think about the word: 'The Game', you lose.
Loss is temporary; as soon as you forget about these words: 'The Game' you stop losing.
The objective of The Game is to forget that it exists. Good luck.

Rule 3: Loss of 'The Game' must be announced.
Every time you think about The Game, and hence lose, you must say so.
This is the only rule that can be broken, but do you really need to cheat..?'

And that my friends, is the game.

Anyways, back to my story. Now my friends associate 'The Game' with the word 'Penguin' (I don't know why they just do'. And Kenny yelled 'Penguin' to our head of year, and was mind-fucked as he had no idea what she was talking about. And proceeded to tell us that 'Pingüino' means 'Penguin' in Spanish, as he's a Spanish teacher. And Kenny said she thought it was going to be 'Pingú' hence the title name 'El Pingú'.

And that is it for today my friends!

~RachLaDudette

"California rest in peace
Simultaneous release,
California show your teeth,
She's my priestess, I'm your priest"

Skyrim Style!

S'up guys.

Got nothing much to write, but i'll try to type as much as I can!

Anyways, weird day today, had two trips around the school to my friends' lockers because they both wanted their jackets as we were doing outdoor PE. So, to make the adventure more interesting me and my friend Lor, decided to sneak around the school, 'Skyrim' style. Let me elaborate, basically, I was sneaking around thinking I was some sort of ninja assassin, and Lor was doing barrel rolls down every corridor we walked through.

On the other hand, earlier on I just had a sudden urge to write a song. Strange feeling but it needed to be done, and my friend Lor advised me to write a song about being a glitter fairy (as I got covered in a shit-load glitter twice in the space of one week). So I turned the glitter fairy into a fictional character for my song (and she's not based on me :P ) and made her like a guardian figure. But it's just a silly one-off type of song, nothing serious.

And from that silly song, i'm currently making a proper song using the same guitar chords, obviously i'm changing the lyrics but i'm quite excited! :D

And that was my day.

~RachLaDudette

Beamish Adventures!

Just gotten back from Beamish, I had an amazing time.

First of all, for my friends reading this wondering 'but you said you never wanted to go in the first place', i'm always like that. I say i'm not looking forward to a certain event, get forced to go, and when I do go I end up enjoying myself.

Back to Beamish.

I knew it was going to be funny, because as soon as I stepped out of the car, I stood on this patch of ice and I began slipping all over the place. I thought I was going to fall over, I was literally on the verge from falling backwards, but I managed to regain the ninja inside me and stealthily land on my two feet on dry ground.

Anyways, It was amazing seeing how people would traditionally celebrate Christmas! They also put on a play of 'A Christmas Carol' and the actors were really good, it wasn't on a stage though, it was in the streets and in the display houses. My sister was shitting herself at the actors, especially Ebenezer Scrooge, she started crying bless her, but oh my god it was funny.

I also tried my first roasted chestnut, and I must say it was quite delicious! And I also tried warm punch, which I thought I wouldn't like because it smelled weird, but it turns out it was really nice!

The bus drives were funny as well, since they were old-fashioned type buses they had the bus attendants (or whatever the proper name for them are) that stood outside the door as it was driving. One of the dudes was hilarious, as the bus began to move he yelled 'To infinity and beyond!' acting as if he were Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story, and he was just being extremely amusing in general, the whole bus was laughing. It was brilliant because on the bus back to the entrance he was there as well, he was really a nice guy!

Basically, we hiked almost all over Beamish, and before we left we managed to visit the gift shop, where my older cousin (who's just like a big child in some sense) picked up a lamb animal puppet and began having a puppet war with me, so I picked up a pig puppet and we fought to the death. Unfortunately, my cousin won.

And that was just a small clip of my day out at Beamish.

Quote of the day (this time it's not a song) :

*earlier at school*
My friend Shay: Can chickens fly?
Me: Of course not you idiot.
Shay: Well they can.
Me: Okay, so when have you ever seen a chicken flying in the sky above your head?
Shay: OKAY, SINCE WHEN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN 'CHICKEN RUN'?!
Me: *burst out in hysterics laughing my girl balls off*
Keith (sitting beside me) : *laughing his guy balls off*

Nothing to do with the subject but I thought it was quite funny :')
 

~RachLaDudette

Snow Days!

Over the past two days it's been snowing in school, you know what this means? SNOWBALL FIGHTS! :D

Almost every student in the school has been outside participating in the snow, including me and my friends.

Particularly me and my friend Lor (TheTomboysLife), we were creeping around with loads of snowball ammunition in our hands as if we were on Call Of Duty or Battlefield. Unfortunately, I didn't get to hit many people because my aim is really shit unless i'm up close. However, I did manage to scrub my friend Cherry (nickname) in the face with snow, I managed to get my brother on the leg, hit my friend Jay twice after he failed to hit me.... and I also made my friend fall over, not by tripping her up, but by throwing a snowball. She avoided the snowball, and since she was on kinda of a bank, she fell on her arse xD me and Lor were laughing our heads off, it was too funny, and later on she fell over once again.

Also, we chased after this guy (Me, Lor and all of the lads that play football) and went to just surround him and through snow at him. But we then thought it was sly and possibly bullying so we ended up not going after him. It was funny seeing him absolutely leg it though, you couldn't deny it!

I too, got surrounded today by the lads that play football in the courts, my friend Keith scrubbed me, and snowballs were just flying everywhere around me, Jay said "You guys are so nice for ganging up on a girl like". To be honest, I couldn't care, hanging around with lads is so much fun, it gives you more of a challenge, than when you're around prissy girls. Sorry if I seem like i'm being sexist, I don't intend to, it's the way i've grown up by personal experience, i've always been around boys playing football and other sports and such, and none of the girls (with the exception of a few) have ever been into that. I will say though, not all girls are like that, not many of the ones I hang around with anyway :)

Back to what I way saying :P even though Jay said:  "You guys are so nice for ganging up on a girl like", they all pelted me with snow anyways. My friend Tyler, picked up a huge chunk of snow (literally huge) and threw it at me, fortunately, my beanie protected my head and it went down my jumper and down my shirt onto my skin and it was freezing, still funny though!

Think i've stressed enough how much I love snow. 

Getting onto another subject, I had double music today since it's Thursday. Well, it was quite action packed, my friend Adam hid my guitar up some stairs that lead to the stage in the hall. He switched off the lights and closed the door as I was on my way up so it was pitch black, you couldn't even see your own hands in front of your face it was so dark. But I managed to get out, so then Nikita and Kenny went up, managed to retrieve my guitar, and just as they got down sir walked into the room. He didn't yell but he did raise his voice (I didn't get in trouble :P ) and Kenny was pissed. Speaking of my guitar and getting pissed off, I went to collect it before I left school, I must have waited ages outside the music room for Sir to come and unlock the door, in which he never came, so i'll have to get it tomorrow >:L

Anyways, before that me and Kenny were discussing how we're going to Beamish tomorrow with some of my family and my older cousin for christmas. At first I didn't even want to go, but considering my older cousin is going, I always have a fun time with her :D

Jay said he was inviting himself along too, I was like:

Me: No you're not haha.

Jay: Who are you going with?

Me: 'Kenny', and some of my other family like my older cousin.

Jay: I'm going with yous like. 

Me: Well, you're not :P

And that's my day in a nutshell... a very big nutshell.

Song quote time! :D

"I wish I could take this day, 

And make it last forever.

And no matter what I get tonight,

I want more."

          - My Christmas List by Simple Plan

~RachLaDudette

Ooh chocolates :3

I don't have much to write about, honestly, nothing much interesting has happened in my life since I last blogged (which was on the 29th of November I do believe) but I wanted to write something because A] i'm kinda bored and because B] I just felt like writing one.

Anyways, today is the 3rd of December therefore I got to open my 3rd cardboard door on my Spongebob advent calender, and as always there is a little chocolate surprise, ooh yummy! :D

This is probably one of the smallest blogs i've done but I really wanted to write something, I assure you, if I remember anything good that's happened, i'll update and write about it! Promise! :))

~RachLaDudette