Thursday, April 12, 2007

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Hello!


Im pissed off. I just wrote a big blog and it f'd up! Goddam!


Heres my friend Towelie

He is from South Park. I am addicted to it. He is a marijuana smoking towel that serves no purpose whatsoever on the show. I love him. Please enjoy the Towelie soundboard below.

http://www.dailyhaha.com/_soundboards/towelie.htm

I am in a P2/3 class at the moment at DowanHill Primary School. Only 6 weeks to go till I am a qualified teacher. Scary! I cant wait till the year is over. Its draggin on a bit at them moment. Lesson plans, essays are all getting a bit old now. I just wanna get to teaching, and more importantly getting paid to teach. Soon enough.......

I promise to update this damn blog very soon, with some pics of beautiful old me! Hope you are all doin awesome!

Peace out!

D-Roc

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Hell Begins!!!

Tomorrow it all begins...... I start a two week placement in a local nursery (pre-school). I will be surrounded by 61 children from 830AM till 330PM. It will not be pretty. They are between the ages of 3-5. And I'm scared of them. They cannot control their bowels, they have runny noses, and they smell weird. This will be the longest two weeks of my life. I have a hard enough time understanding grown up Glaswegians, now I must translate the musings of mumbling, incoherent spawns of the nation. Say a prayer for me please!

I fear this is what I will encounter for the next little while.....


Friday, February 02, 2007

Weekend Past, Weekend to come.....

Last weekend we went to visit Jessica's brother Matthew and wife Stephanie near Edinburgh. It was quite a good weekend. It was Burns Night on Saturday so we had the traditional meal of Haggis, Neeps and Tatties. MMMMMMM..... Uncle Roland was also there, as was Jess' other brother Sam, with his wife Aileen and newborn son Rory. So, what did we do for fun? Besides drink? We played Scale-Electrics!!! (Electric Cars..) As you can see from the pictures below. It was quite intense. Many grueling races. I had trouble however as I was not used to driving on the wrong side of the road.


Also, a rarity, the weather was actually nice. So we had to go explore the area. There is a nice beach nearby so we took a walk down by the bay......
Down by the Bay
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a bear?
Combing his hair?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a goose?
Kissing a moose?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a whale?
With a polka dot tail?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a pig?
Wearing a wig?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a cat?
Wearing a hat?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a dragon?
Pulling a wagon?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever see a goat?
Wearing a coat?"
Down by the bay.
Down by the bay,
Where the watermelons grow,
Back to my home,
I dare not go,
Cause if I do,
My mother will say,
"Did you ever have a time?
When you couldn't find a rhyme?"
Down by the bay.
----THE END----
Anyways............................. sorry about that, i get distracted sometimes.....









And then we played some Jenga!!!!!
So that essentially was my weekend away last week. This weekend.... I will be working on a Language assignement! WoooHoooo!!! And Saturday night we will be going to see Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!!!!! They will hopefully play some good old fashioned rock and roll tunes for me to groove to. Lookin forward to it. Concert Poster below!!!

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Rick Springfield!


I felt my blog was missing a little something. Then it hit me..... We all need more Springfield in our lives. I've been aware of this for a long time, but some of you out there may have not clued in yet. This man is an icon. One of Americas greatest actors (General Hospital) but also a man when he puts pen to paper creates lyrical masterpieces. Jesse's Girl is arguably the greatest song of all time. The Springfield rocks out on this tune with not 1, not 2, but YES 3 guitar solos. The man can melt faces. So please take a look, as Present my 'Ode to Rick Springfield'


The man...









The groundbreaking album....



The song........... Please enjoy the Video..... Watch and learn you amatuers.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFAmUv3Ix98


We must treasure this living legend.....


good bye.....




Thursday, January 18, 2007

An Artiste is Born!!!!!

Well hello one and all. This week has been so very exciting at University. We had to choose an Option Class to take at University. I chose Art. I did this because I am crap at art. What will i teach the children?? So I figured that this option would be for me. I appear to have taken the 'easy' option, as others have to write essays, debate global warming, and speak German. I however get to use crayons, paint and glue sticks. Whay a joy! So after the first week of art, I thought I should share some of my creations.
This is a feather. Enough said. Man am I good.
This is a chalk and pastel drawing of a fox. This is where my art started to go very wrong. As you can see my fox appears to be cross eyed. This was no fun.
This is my pride and joy. I feel that it is my best piece of work to date. Its a fish. I made him. I will call him Jimmy the Fish. You had to make a print with styrofoam and them slap the copies on paper. I m might mass produce this. It would sell.


I got in trouble from the art teacher on this one. Its a castle. Apparently we were 'supposed' to make realistic looking castles. Now if you look at mine what do you see? YES, its quite obvious that my castle is a bunch of faces. The teacher didnt see this. She told me to "Look at the blue piece and tell me what you see?" and I replied, "Its a face!" she then said, "NOw did you mean to make it look like a face?" and I then acted very surprised and shocked that it was actually a face. She didnt find this very amusing. "This isnt perspective art!" "I'll let you get away with it this time!" Thanks lady. Whatever happened to being creative? She was crushing my aritsitc direction. No creativity allowed I guess.....


If you can guess what this is you should receive a prize. We were given pictures of actual monkeys, arangutans, apes etc... Our goal was to copy one of them using shape. This is what happened. I am in a class with 30 artists, all of which made exceptional monkeys. And I come up with something that looks like whatever the hell this is......






And last but not least. I call this Cheese Burger Face. I modelled it after Jessica. She was my inspiration. This is the face seh makes when she wants a cheeseburger. Its probably the most life like and realistic art i've done. Also, I was a rebel on this one. We were supposed to make the shirt a tartan print. I was ma about the castle fiasco, so I did polka dots. I really showed her didnt I?
Bye for now! Hopefully next week I will have some more masterpieces for you! GO LEAFS!
Signed,
Daniel 'Picaso' Torok





Thursday, January 11, 2007

MONEY CANT BUY ME HAPPINESS!


But it would sure help!!! Well hello there people! Long time no see! I'm back in action in sunny Scotland now. Enjoying UNiversity and the many exciting lectures that come with that. Ive been busy this week with art and PE lessons. Painted a monkey and a fox! I am ssoooooo talented.... and today i think i pulled a muscle trying to tie my shoelace in PE.

This posting is for everyone who I may have lent money to in the past. I WANT IT BACK! If there was ever a time where I lent you a dollar, or 10 cents for a snickers bar, I WANT IT BACK. I am now officially a broke student. Ahhh the life... so think way back in all of your collective memory banks. Way way back. If these words, "Dont worry about it" "You dont need to pay me back" "Its on me" "Get me back some other tome" every left my mouth when handing over money, I dint mean any of them.I take it all back, The time is now to pay up, with interest. So please send your re-payments to:

Broke Student

Flat 1/3 50 White Street

Partick, Glasgow

Scotland

G11 5EA

Thank you for your time.