Five Things You May Not Know About Me

1. I write songs. Or attempt to anyway. I think, overall, I've got about 12 or 13 songs at the moment, but I'd only have the guts to perform maybe two or three of them for VERY close friends. It's the melodies you see, I don't like the melodies I make up. The lyrics and the guitar I'm happy with, but I suck at melodies! Oh yea, I also play guitar, or should that be number two?!

2. I am extremely de-motivated. For example, I have the Leaving Cert in June, the exams you need in order to get into university here in Ireland. I think, there's probably another way in actually. But anyway, I haven't studied one bit. In fact, I have a huuuge amount of homework for school tomorrow and I don't know where to start - basically because I've forgotten what it was we were supposed to do.

3. I am a strong supporter of Chelsea Football Club, since before Roman Abramovich came along! Yea, since I was about 8 I think, although there's incriminating evidence on video of me saying I supported United. But that was before I knew Chelsea existed. Plus kids change who they support all the time! That's my excuse anyway.

4. I am extremely proud to be Irish. We're such a popular little country, and we kicked England's ass at rugby :D

5. I'm free and single, although I really wish I wasn't. I get really lonely in this city (Dublin), of which I'm not a native. I don't really know anyone here, and coming from the country to a jam-packed city is quite a change. I was home for my mid-term and it was like going on holiday, the roads were not filled with traffic, I could not hear planes at night and I was not looking over my shoulder walking down the road. Wish I was home!

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So there ya have it, five things you probably didn't know about me. At least I wouldn't expect you to, I mean I only made this thing today! Anywho, the aim of this game, is that you put one of these one your own blog! Lemme know if you do!

Eh... yea!

I'm thinking my page looks kinda bare so I'm filling it up with posts, posts, posts! I have an unbelievable amount of homework to try and get done for tomorrow, but I only have myself to blame because I had all week to do it. If anyone's reading this, I could use some help in writing an English essay in which I "outline a get-rich idea" or something along those lines. I really should check what I'm actually supposed to be doing before I ask for help huh?

I'm gonna leave you with some lyrics from my favourite band at the moment, The Libertines. 'Tis a pity they split, because Dirty Pretty Things and Babyshambles pale in comparison! Anyway, here ya go:

Time For Heroes

Did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

Shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

Wombles bleed

Truncheons and shields,

You know I cherish you my love.

But these rumours spread a nasty disease around town

You're caught round the houses with your trousers down

A head rush, and in the bush

You know you I cherish you my love,

Oh how I cherish you my love...

Tell me what can you want now you've got it all?

Your scene is obscene time will strip it away,

A year and a day,

And Bill Bones, Bill Bones knows what I mean

He knows it's eating, it's chewing me up

It's not right for young lungs to be coughing up blood

And it's all, it's all in my hands,

And it's all up the walls.

Ah the stale chips are up and the hope stakes are down

It's all these ignorant faces that bring this town down.

And I sighed, sunken with pride,

And I passed myself down on my knees.

Yes I passed myself down on my knees...

Tell me what can you want now you've got it all?

Your scene is obscene time will strip it away

A year and a day,

And Bill Bones, Bill Bones knows what I mean

He knows there's fewer more distressing sights

Than that of an Englishman in a baseball cap

And we'll die in the class we were born,

That's a class of our own my love.

A class of our own my love...

Ahhh did you see the stylish kids in the riot?

Shovelled up like muck, set the night on fire

Wombles bleed

Truncheons and shields.

You know I cherish you my love.

And I cherish you my love...

Can't Stand Me Now

"I heard that song at the Death Disco,

Starts so fast and ends so slow,

All the time it reminded me of you..."

- The Libertines.

For some reason, I simply cannot stop thinking about this girl. Well ok, there's two girls. One of them lives right here in Dublin, but she has a boyfriend. There's always a catch eh? Well the thing is, she knows how much I like her, and I know that she likes me... and on TOP of that, she told me that her and her so-called boyfriend have an "agreement" where they can be with other people. What kinda relationship is that?! But anyway, my point about her: as great as she is and as much as I want to be with her... I don't think I can simply settle for just once in a while you know? And I hate the idea of her with anyone else as well. So, to be perfectly honest, I have NO clue what I'm gonna do!

And then there's this other girl. She's perfect, like she's actually perfect. She loves all the same music (in fact she got me into the Libertines, which is why that lyric up there has such a significance), she's a great looking girl and she just gets me you know? But - and here's the catch, as always - she lives in London. How crap is that? I messed things up with her as well because I couldn't handle only seeing her once in a while, so I did the manly thing and told her I didn't love her. And I feel terrible for it, not only because it's a horrible thing to say, but because I DO love her.

So yea... how shitty is that? I wish I wasn't so... I duno, messed up I guess. I just wish things could be different.

Teenage Love

I've always wondered what adults think of teenage love. Clearly, I myself am a teenager and believe very much in teenage love, but I wonder if adults sometimes forget what their own teenage years were like? I realise things were a lot different for most parents in their teenage years, but surely the basic things were the same?

In my own personal experience teenage love happens quickly, you don't even realise it's happening until it's gone and your heart has been ripped out of your chest. Before I fell in love I was extremely cynical, for some reason I believed that you cannot fall in love as a teenager, that you haven't experienced enough to know what love really is. But then again, does anyone truly know how to define love? You only know it when you feel it, and when you feel it, nobody can judge whether you are in love or not.

For me, falling in love changed my complete outlook on life. I know that it may sound stupid and perhaps even ridiculous for an outsider reading this, but it did. I was extremely cynical before this, and when I fell in love everything changed. I should really point out that love wasn't returned, not how I wanted it to be returned anyway. And despite feeling extreme pain, my outlook is very optimistic. Perhaps too much so!

Anyway, I guess my point in this blog was to... I dunno, revive teenage memories for some adults who have forgotten what it was like. And to all those cynics out there, teenage love is very much a real thing - be warned, it could creep up on you, or your kids, at any moment. And it'll be the best thing you've ever experienced!