Remember the brief few days of sunshine we seemed to have back in April? (Always nicely timed with my birthday I might add!) Well following those few days, which unfortunately I missed due to a photographic brief I was writing for university, I feared I may have missed the British summer altogether! But Hallelujah! News of a heatwave is announced today!
Lovely sunshine...and I'm stuck in an office with no a/c or really any ventilation of any kind!
With five weeks left to go of this placement, I'm really keeping my fingers crossed that the weather stays like this for August when I have the whole month to enjoy being at home! I'll be setting up an eBay account to hopefully make some money at the same time but I am fully prepared to burn like bacon in the sunshine!! In the meantime, it'll be lunch-hours in the park!
Monday 29 June 2009
My Summer Placement
All our lecturers have been going on about during our first year at university is building up a porfolio of experience so that we are appealing to potential employers. With a four month summer(!!), this break is the best time to do it! Experience in the industry is priceless considering the state of the economy but being a typical student, £££ was pretty much a necessity too!
To cut a long story short, an incy bit of networking later I was utilising one of my contacts who happened to be the HR Manager of a fashion distributors based in Fulham Broadway. Unlike work experience I did after my GCSEs, I am not moving around the deparments (as I had hoped) but based in a role. I am working alongside the receptionist Alex as her No.2. At every opportunity I have been chatting to people about their roles and trying to understand the different departments (sales, accounts, purchasing, customer service etc). I've been keeping a diary of what I've been doing too which should help towards the write-up for the start of Year 2 in October.
I've been here two weeks now and feeling quite settled. The people are lovely. Having done some reception-work during my gap year at a fashion recruitment company I picked up the telephone/admin skills quickly. It is not a role I feel I would like to do again as I would really like some more challenging tasks to get my head around. However, following my first year of university this placement is great for learning about a new part of the industry and making contacts!
To cut a long story short, an incy bit of networking later I was utilising one of my contacts who happened to be the HR Manager of a fashion distributors based in Fulham Broadway. Unlike work experience I did after my GCSEs, I am not moving around the deparments (as I had hoped) but based in a role. I am working alongside the receptionist Alex as her No.2. At every opportunity I have been chatting to people about their roles and trying to understand the different departments (sales, accounts, purchasing, customer service etc). I've been keeping a diary of what I've been doing too which should help towards the write-up for the start of Year 2 in October.
I've been here two weeks now and feeling quite settled. The people are lovely. Having done some reception-work during my gap year at a fashion recruitment company I picked up the telephone/admin skills quickly. It is not a role I feel I would like to do again as I would really like some more challenging tasks to get my head around. However, following my first year of university this placement is great for learning about a new part of the industry and making contacts!
Friday 26 June 2009
Ripped Jeans
I am absolutely loving that this trend is back! So glad I can wear my fadded Levi ripped jeans! I remember buying them about four years ago and spending £70 seemed like a lot of money to me, but I was talked into it by The Bf. But luckily I am having enough opportunities to wear them now which certainly makes for "pence per wear".
It is quite hard to get the balance of ripped jeans whilst avoiding the not-too-ripped/DIY look. The pair seen on Katie Price at the airport recently look like a home-made pair. I must admit to attempting this myself before my £70 purchase, however it is really not as easy as you might think. I found it impossible to get the threaded look. A friend of mine unintetionally created her own pair of ripped jeans as a result of bending over in a much-loved and much-worn pair of jeans which couldn't take the tension and split right under her bum cheek! The outrageous thing is she has continued to wear them! Talk about a draft!!
So far, I think the photo of Eva Longoria Parker wearing cropped ripped jeans, stilettos and a nautical striped top looked the best. That's the look I'll be trying to recreate next!
It is quite hard to get the balance of ripped jeans whilst avoiding the not-too-ripped/DIY look. The pair seen on Katie Price at the airport recently look like a home-made pair. I must admit to attempting this myself before my £70 purchase, however it is really not as easy as you might think. I found it impossible to get the threaded look. A friend of mine unintetionally created her own pair of ripped jeans as a result of bending over in a much-loved and much-worn pair of jeans which couldn't take the tension and split right under her bum cheek! The outrageous thing is she has continued to wear them! Talk about a draft!!
So far, I think the photo of Eva Longoria Parker wearing cropped ripped jeans, stilettos and a nautical striped top looked the best. That's the look I'll be trying to recreate next!
The King of Pop
Just about to go up to bed last night and the bf has six missed calls and a text from his mother saying "Reports in that Michael Jackson is dead". I think whoever you are, you will remember hearing that news and just feeling disbelief. We sat up for the best part of two hours following the developments hoping that it wouldn't be true.
It is such a tragedy for his young children, family and the music industry. Musically, the high regard everyone held Michael Jackson in was demonstrated in the sell-out fifty night tour in the UK planned for later this year. I think Chris Moyles summed it up best; "Michael Jackson was to me what I imagine Elvis was to another generation."
I expect rumours about the circumstances of his death will spread considering his financial situation as well as people's opinion over his controversial court cases. Heatworld published this morning reports that his cardiac arrest had occurred following injecting a strong painkiller; it is sad to think he was in so much pain that he had to resort to these measures.
RIP MJ
It is such a tragedy for his young children, family and the music industry. Musically, the high regard everyone held Michael Jackson in was demonstrated in the sell-out fifty night tour in the UK planned for later this year. I think Chris Moyles summed it up best; "Michael Jackson was to me what I imagine Elvis was to another generation."
I expect rumours about the circumstances of his death will spread considering his financial situation as well as people's opinion over his controversial court cases. Heatworld published this morning reports that his cardiac arrest had occurred following injecting a strong painkiller; it is sad to think he was in so much pain that he had to resort to these measures.
RIP MJ
Celebrity Split of the Century
It has been speculated for years that they are "on the rocks" but now it is official that after three and a half years of marriage Katie Price and Peter Andre have split. Since their relationship started on our TV screens in I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! they have become one of the most talked about celebrity couples. For many viewers of their ITV programme Katie and Peter Go Stateside this cannot come as much of a shock. The couple seem to spend a lot of the time apart, use their kids as a buffer and argue constantly...hardly projecting the image of a happy marriage onto their viewers. Frankly I'm amazed Peter managed to withstand her bullying for so long, following an argument where she told him he was a failing popstar and only famous through her! Oh what a lovely and supporting wife...!
Peter seems to have emerged with the majority of public support as he has acted tastefully whilst Katie has returned to her Jordan-days and been publicly slagging him off on Twitter and being linked to a string of men (and exes!). Katie's, or more aptly Jordan's, recent trip to Ibiza sparked even more support for Peter as reports claimed she refused to pose for photos with fans and even called one girl fat inbetween dancing half-naked in clubs!
It's funny that people have defended her behaviour in Ibiza as coping with the break-up. How many couples split up these days? You don't see them reacting like this, especially when there are children involved. It seems all very childish and highlights her insecurities. It will be interesting to see how the plot thickens with the custody of the children being battled out. Whilst I think at the moment Pete is demonstrating he is the most stable person for the children, Katie does have a collection of parenting awards to her name.
I think we'll all be watching this space...
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