It's Monday the 25th of May, it happens to be a bank holiday and i happen to be at work. This is London where people tend to work even on public holidays. So far, nothing much to do, lot's of gossip and telephone calls you know the usual. You see i am a student at one of london's famous art universities not that i study art, i study Fashion combined with marketing and promotion (i will get to this at a later date) . Anyway as a student one has a lot of time you would think but no, not me, apart from being a student, i work part time and i socialize religiously whenever my bank balance can allow me and whenever i have the opportunity to. It is due to my socializing that i was forced to join the social network facebook and my oh my i have become an official addict and also through this i came to realise i can be very entertaining when i wish to and my friends, well most of them are. This is one place where one finds all sorts and i mean all sorts, from drug addicts ( which am not-my weakness is with a certain liquid known most commonly as Grey Goose and simply as Vodka although i wouldn't consider myself an addict-at least not yet) to weirdos and emotional distracted people. Well i must admit that even I on some days fall amoung such but as they saying goes, i dust myself off and try again, it might take days bbut never weeks. So anyway, my day today is turning out ok apart from the fact that it's sunny in London ( which doesn't happen very often) and am at work but i am not complaining!!! You see and like many of my friends, where i work is amazing, not the actually job no no no, the area that is. I work in South kensignton ( if you have ever been to london, you would know that this a posh area within zone one classified as Chelsea) and as with all posh areas, there is always gossip, funny things and figures to see and well quite different types of relations. The store i work in sells luxury goods for pregnant women, so the store in it self is like being in a hollywood movie. You get all sorts of pregnant women and yes pregnant women can be moody, angry, tired the list is endless but theses pregnant women well they are of a different kind, they are Za Pregnant women, the one's that want the whole world to rotate around them because they never get enough time nor say from their husbands and are to a big part frustarted. So who has to deal with the frustartion well me and others who work here, it's that simple, what better way to take out you're frustration then on a sales assistant.However i have a very effective way of dealing with them which we shall discover later.
Anyway, i was talking to my aunt today and she came up with this blog idea, so i run it through my mum and she found it a waste of time etc etc and i quote 'i guess if it's that boring at work maybe you should, but i would never have time for that" so here i am typing away, when really i should be working ( there is absolutely nothing to do here as we have re-done everything and evryone seems to have travelled to their country houses-of course those chelsea people who can still afford such things despite the credit crunch and those who can't simply stay indoor and pretend they are away- you see over here one must always keep up appearances even if the debt collectors are the door and husband must close hedge-fund)which leaves us at work with very little to do and a lot of ideal time. Although am sure if my boss had her way, we would be folding and re folding jeans the whole day.
By now you must be either wishing you work with me or for company X or that you have many other ways you would rather spend you're day or you would really like to know more about South Ken if you have never been here. So here we go, this is a nice place both to live and work , however if you live around here you have to consider not being able to even go to the corner shop in pajamas, ugly no name track bottoms nor tops (not even to get you're mail) undone hair, nails etc again the list is endless and if you work here well you must simply look the part and be well made up or on you're way to looking the part, no last season stuff allowed in this areas of london and definately not a place to hang out if you suffer from self-esteme issues.
However if you're one of those people who think this billion dollar fashion industry is crap, useless, pointless, vain, away to hide inner beauty, waste of money etc you definately do not belong here infact there're very few places of zone one and two in london that you would belong to (and i also question where exactly in the world you belong)and if you're one of those people who say oh money, fashion bla bla bla is not everything in life after all those people are not happy then either:
1. you are living in denial
2. you don't have the money
3. you're not happy either - as i have never seen a person with an empty
bank account happy for too long- there might be spells of happiness
once in a while but that's about it, it ends right there
(you see what i find funny and interesting are people who always have this money arguement, yes am human and yes i know money can't buy everything and yes i know money is not everything ... however i am a realist too, no money=more stress etc, what am trying to say is that money makes facing the world every morning a lot more easier, after all there is no way you can walk into a store and demand goods for free or medical care from a hospital on the grounds of you're happiness and if you can well please let me know how you did that cause i would love to try it.
You will notice that this blog is all over the place, the writing that is that's because i have a terrible memory and somethings must be recorded as they happen to avoid forgetting them, these will be marked with BREAKING NEWS!!
BREAKING NEWS: just posted on facebook that i am creating this blog and that most of the people will be featured can hardly wait for reactions lol
So well as i was saying most people would kill to live around here but i wouldn't infact i have had numerous opportunities to do so but the thought of me having to makeup just to go to Tesco just put's me off so instead i choose Notting Hill/Westbourne Grove, you see, this area is still zone one, still nice, still very central and well i take my trash out wearing my pajama's all the time and people don't stare at me like an allien so i fit in perfectly well, plus if you're lucky you get to be neighbours with the likes of David Cameron or bump into Jude Law, Kate Moss etc on Portabello Road ( I have never been that lucky) yes this is a place where people appreciate art and well themselves, DO NOT GET THIS TWISTED, appreciating art, music etc doesn't mean looking like a tramp and getting away with it around here either, it's called being modern around here and being a snob around south ken, you still see a lot of boob jobs, frozen faces, nice flashy cars and lots of other things that define wealth around this area but tripple that much in south ken. You must be wondering why the empasis on wealth, money etc is so strong here but you will understand as we go along. So, so far you know that i hang out either for personal reasons/ work in south ken and notting hill/westbourne grove however i also go to Bond Street quite often (you see this is where my famous university is located-a detailed input about this later), Knightsbridge, Fulham Road, Sloane Square, May Fair, Canary Wharf and Liverpool Street ( I have a favourite cocktail/restaurant here), Heathrow ( only to fly out or for farewells), Earls Court, Kings Road , South Molton Street, New Bond Street, Old Brompton Road, High Street Kensignton, Chelsea Bridge, Bayswater Raod, Kensignton Olympia and Westfield( which i consider a dump) that's about it, i visit other areas occasionally although after much though, am lazy you see and only own a zone 1-2 oyster card.
Anyway i think am taking a piece now, so i must get back to doing or at least pretending to do some work, i shall however update later today and may or may not continue where i have stopped or a might just jump into a new topic, depending on what occurs between me getting from work and home, it's like tweeter or whatever that shit is called only better. I am sure many are waiting for the juicy bits, the stories and to search hard to see where there's will be featured and how they will be featured, trust me i shall not disappoint you, if you suspect that you will be featured chances are you will, so hold tight just hope that the God's will be on you're side when i do...
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