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Cheeky Guide

Continuing on the University life series, is a book you must read if you are a student. In my first month at uni I was really depressed and I hang home alot. My mum knew that I was in a bad way and was looking for a way to cheer me up. So you ordered this book for me and sent straight to my halls. I must admit that it is one of the best books that I have ever had a chance to read. It is so funny and I know now that so much of it was true.

There are some really good bits in like the bit about lost weekend on page 198.

Lost weeks are so dubbed because they are periods in which, due to overrindulgence, once loses everything - money, sense, dignity, memory, coordination and bowel control. There are not necessarily limited to a weeked , and can last as long as a month, depending on how dedonistic and out of balance your life has become.

You can buy it on Amazon.co.uk and at time of writing was only �6.71. You can find it use ISBN which is 0 95361 1035.

You can also find more cheeky guides at their official website.

Whether you�re still deciding where to go or just two weeks from your finals, this book is an absolute must.

When trying to fill the many hours I have free now that I am a student I found this and I needed to post about it. Askaninja is kind easily the funniest thing I have ever seen on Youtube, ever. It is shockingly random comedy. The series, is a podcast created by Los Angeles improvisational comedians Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine, features a ninja who answers e-mails from “viewers”. The ninja seems to be going extremely popular, I was walking down the hall the other day and heard the theme song coming out of at least two rooms. If you don’t believe me, it even won best series in the 2006 Youtube awards.

My personal favourite is Question 35 which is called Ninja Poetry if showcases the ninja at his funniest. If you have a question for the Ninja it is easy, just email him AskANinja@gmail.com. Read the rest of this entry »

I think this picture explains itself. Extremely useful if you ever have to discribe someone, but also just interesting imformation, take it from someone that has petit goatee and soul patch (picture).

In my short little life, I have been even lots of advice. Some of it has been very useful, but lots of advice that I have been given has been pretty much useless. So when thinking back about the advice that I have been given the most, is interestingly the worst advice ever. What is this useless saying that I have heard some much

Buck up

It is as simple as that, buck up. For the life of me, I can not think of a time in my life when this advice has done any good, what so ever. I find it hard to believe that it is even said. To my understanding, all the saying, buck up means, it, don’t be sad anymore. What are you ordering me not to be said? Yes, when I am in a bad mood, being told not be to is pretty much the last thing that I want to hear. I don’t think so.

If you have ever really truly been depressed and been in a really bad mood, that saying doesn’t not help anything. If you really want the person to be happier, give them a reason to cheer up. Take them down to the pub, for a nice meal or if you are a girl, good shopping.

Saying Buck up, to me, means that you don’t really understand what state the person’s emotionally state is and have no idea what they going through. People that think that you can change your mood back to happy when you are truly depressed are fools of the highest order.

Right, got that out of my system.

On this blog I don’t like talking about matters of great importance, trying to keep things light, but I saw something on YouTube that interested me greatly. The video is called Yellow fever is an interesting 15 minutes long short film by a group of media studies studients in America. The film is comedy following one centeral character, trying to answering the question

“Why asian girls date white guys but white girls don’t date asian guys?”

This video is an interesting take on a social issue which pokes fun at a matter that could very easily have been seen as being racist. It is very funny, the sound effects by themselves bring a smile to my face. The fact that it so over the top also helps to detract away from dealing with a serious issue. The more that I think about this video, the more that it intestests me. Even through I know that it was made with only good fun in mind but I can not help but bit just a little bit offended. As a white male myself, I guess I took it a little personally, but I still think that it has a very interesting message and topics like this should really be voiced.

For more information

• Wong fu productions - Creaters of the videos offical web site.
• Wongfu’s MySpace - Creaters profile
• Wongfu’s Youtube - Creator on Youtube profile with more videoes

Watch it today and see what you think.
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One of my favorite thing I have seen on the Youtube or on the internet for that matter, was called Ryan vs Dorkman. The video is a Star Wars fanfilm of two guys having a really cool lightsaber fight. I enjoyed it so much I even posted about in on this site.

Now the makers on the last video, Ryan Wieber and Michael Scott are back with a sequel and the original duel with a brand another fight. The new video, named RvD2 is long awaited and doesn’t disapoint. It does lots of things that the last video didn’t, with involved graphics and cooler choreography. I was also really impressed with the soundtrack. If can also be seen on the offical web site called ryanvsdorkman.com.

If you a interested in other videos like this, you could also check out, theforce.net.

What is the most useful material in the world? There are many answers to that question. Some may say, gold, other may say silcon and so on. The real answer is duct tape As a first year uni student in halls without a job I am extremely poor. So when going off to uni I had to think of things that I needed and would be useful. I got lots of things, but the most useful has turned out to be duct tape. It is amazing the place that this stuff can be used. It seems like I am using it every other day now.

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