Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Bali

It's been a long time since my last post. A lot has happened, perhaps the most exciting was my first time travelling. With my 60 litre backpack on, an empty SD card in my camera, and a tearful mother at Heathrow, I ventured out on my own. Most people can't believe I went alone. Even on the plane on my way to Asia I was warned against travelling alone: "cause you're a woman, it's too dangerous". Shame that this is the way we are taught to live. I wasn't alone really, I was on 14 strong backpacking tours some of the time and traveled with a friend at one point. I was only "alone" alone for 12 days (Singapore and Bali). Funnily enough I learnt the most about myself in those days, as the cliche goes.

Radio Gaga

It's funny how you graduate and spend months looking for work and worthwhile experiences, then suddenly everything comes along at once. I am now working at Imperial, where I did my Masters, on media for a project that tells stories about the future of technology. This unexpectedly includes being involved in producing videos for the project, which is about as fun as science communication gets for a geek like me - today I spent the day interviewing an academic at a recycling plant in West London. I shall post some videos when they are all polished and pretty.

I did a two week placement at Whistledown Productions mainly working on Radio 4's wonderfully journalistic Feedback. I'm hoping to make some BBC radio magic with them mentoring me.

Last but oh-so not least, I recently completed a Live Radio project at the Roundhouse. It was about making live magazine radio shows for young people; imagine Radio 1 at its absolute best. This the area of radio I have had near to no experience of making but listen to all the time, so it was truly eye opening and exciting. The project culminated in 4 radio shows about Roundhouse's Rising Festival weekend which showcased new musical talent. 

This is a package I produced about the amazing artist Ophelia:

And here is the show I co-presented (eek):

Rising 360 Episode 3 - ft Wildebeats, GAPS, Mariam The Believer by Rising 360 on Mixcloud

Listen to the other 3 shows here.

Field Day 2012

This post is a little late. Field Day was on Saturday 2nd June, on "the most important weekend of our generation" according to Metronomy. Why they said that I don't not know. Because it was the diamond Jubilee weekend?(!) I hope not. Maybe because it marks the beginning of them making it big, which would make a bit more sense in terms of OUR generation.

For me it was a very important weekend because it was the first one after finishing my degree! I could finally BREATHE. Since then I have been busy with remembering what having a social life is like. Stand out bands for me were Friends, Metronomy and Beirut; the last of whom who I unfortunately didn't get any decent photos of.

 

Field Day

 

 The one festival I have managed to find the money and the time away from my fruit fly to go to. Started by sitting on the grass to watch Willy Mason, ended with MDMA gob in my hair (an almost-fight involving a very high man broke out just behind us during John Cale) but happy nonetheless because we were right at the front for Warpaint.

 

 Only saw the end of the Cloud Control set from the back of a large crowd in a much too small tent. So basically I didn't see it. But what I heard was amazing, reckon they would've been my favourite act of the day had I got there on time and not been distracted by jerk chicken; and the jerk chicken guy. Yum.

So many good things

June has brought after months of exam stress stress stressssss.
My Big 2 0

followed by an amazing trip to Berlin. By the end of the first day we were all hell bent on moving there. Took some touristy (uncool) photos

 

Was a lot of fun, it did at times get messy

Now June's fun is over, spending time hanging out in labs playing with fruit fly and reading about circadain  rhythms (read day to night body clocks) for my third year project.
Somehow Berlin we shall meet again.

Procrastination

 

Exams are a week away and my world looks a little like this:

 

doodles show where I really want to be: