Seriously. I canNOT believe that this is what it is. Ladies and gents, as you probably all know – or at least you should by now! – both myself and my good friend Ali Cat are BIG fans of steampunk…for obvious reasons, I hope I don’t have to sway you to our side of thinking.
Put simply – steampunk is the epitome of awesomeness. If you’ve not you done so, I suggest you embrace it now.

Anywho – on a wee bit of a tangent that actually really isn’t – I’m also a pretty big fan of David Guetta…he can do no wrong. And I do also quite appreciate the craziness of Nicki Minaj’s music – and you can’t have Nicki Minaj music with out the insanity that is her music videos. Seriously, she is one very odd lady – really rather peculiar.

And so, without further ado, the latest single from David Guetta, featuring miz Nicki Minaj!
(Viewer’s discretion is advised..while this is essentially PG, there is some really weird stuff that some may not be comfortable with. To give you a hint so you know what you’re getting yourself into, think Barbie dolls and add some messed up Nicki Minaj flavour….Now you know)

It’s steampunk meets barbie ft. Minaj! Now who – WHO - was expecting that music video to come out of that song??? WHO?!?!?

So are you finished the Hunger Games series and have no idea what to read?  Luckily, you’ve come to the right spot…. The TEEN VORTEX (which by the way, is the best teen blog in the world….well, umm,  I might be a bit bias since I helped design it, but really it IS the BEST!!)   Okay back on subject…. Here’s a list of books to read after The Hunger Games:

Divergent, by Veronica Roth (and we will be having a Teen After Hours Party on this book on May 4th at Bathurst Clark Resource Library and it is going to be awesome… details to follow in a month or two… but trust me…you DON’T want to miss it!!)
Bar Code Tattoo, by Suzanne Weyn
Dark Life, byKat Falls
Eleventh Plague, by Jeff Hirsch
Fever Crumb, by Philip Reeve
Scorpio Races, by Maggie Stiefvater
Storm Thief, by Chris Wooding

 Heya guys….so, yeah.  Not much going on today, you?  How’re the exams going??  Hopefully the first one (or two…or three) have gone well so far – never give up!  Never surrender!

I believe I can fly!!!!

Yeah – that’s right…appreciate the R Kelly!  In fact, appreciate it so much that you watch the music video:

w00t w00t!  Boy-O!  Wow, there’s a whole lotta Space Jam going on there…heeheehee, Bugs Bunny =P

Annnnnywho, yeah.  Other than exams, hope all’s going well for you.  I’ve not really been up to that much lately – I did read Marie Lu’s Legend the other day.  Not too shabby.   I’m gonna say I think I’m getting bored by the books where the main protagonist is all that and so much more.  You know what I mean?

It’s all fine and dandy for the main character to succeed – but when they’re the best at everything it starts to get a wee bit trivial….Meh.  Despite that, the plot line was well executed and I’ll probably read the second and third book.  I think the most unique thing about this take on a dystopian – in my humble vopinion – is the militaristic overhaul.  Again, worth a read, I’d say!

Yeah – so other than that, I’m SOO TIRED!!!!!  I shouldn’t be complaining right now – I just came off a 3-day weekend, but GAH!  You know how it feels when you come back froma vacation and you feel like you need another vacation to recover from the previous one???  Yeah.  Like that.   Totally beat.   -_-

Mk – so to go on to more awake things..I can’t resist:  =P

Hit em high!  One more week of exams and you’re done!!

Heya peoples….actually, I’m going refine that term for today to “peoplewhoarestuckinthatunfortunatetimeintheirliveswhere they’restillstuckinhighschoolandthereforearehavingtotake examsrightnow”.

Yeah. You know who I’m talking about. That’s right. You poor souls…le sigh.

But seriously. Exams really aren’t that bad, and so long as you aren’t really, ya know, being – hmmm, how shall I put this nicely – unwise about it – they’re actually a very easy going two weeks that essentially, you have off school!

Ok. So, tips time:
#1 – Make sure you know when your exams are….it realllly sucks to miss your exam.

#2 – Get enough sleep. Don’t try and act cool and go all “yeah, I pulled an all-nighter and now I’m running on caffeine and my eyeballs are bleeding…but that’s ok cause I’m cool”. Yeah. Not so much. Even if your sleep schedule is out of whack, get some sleep! Your brain will thank you.

#3 – Follow an outline. Make sure the time you spend studying is actually on the content that you’re being tested on….your teachers should have provided you with some kind of outline on what the exam will cover. Make sure you go over those things…pretty simple.

#4 – Give yourself a reward. Make deals with yourself “I’ll study for 2 hours and then get an hour break” Or something like that….But make sure to take breaks! Straight on studying doesn’t necessarily help your mind remember the information you’re feeding it!

And the rest is more or less just personal preference.
So good luck to you all – happy studying, break a leg, and don’t let the text books beat you up….that would be embarassing. Seriously.

  Soooooo, yeah.  A friend of mine just sent me this.  Wow. And that’s all I can say.