A Life With Ambitions : 2012

So, my previous post was my own personal highlights of 2012 and this one will be ones which may be seen as general highlights to a lot of other people. I've looked around and came up with 5 highlights, which may or may not be a good thing - they may simply just be things which have been big talking points of 2012.

5. Gangnam Style

Also known as - The Most Annoying Song Of All Time, courtesy of me. Why, why, why has this song reached the most views EVER on YouTube? I literally do not see the fascination, the video isn't funny and neither is the song. It's a massive lump of irritation on the world and I wish it would just be forgotten about. But, no that isn't going to happen. It's getting more and more views everyday and I just will never understand. The dance is totally hilarious...can you sense my sarcasm? In all honesty, there will always be that one video that goes totally viral but lets hope the next time it isn't one as annoying as this.

I feel ashamed even posting the video on here.

4. The 21st December 'Apocalypse'

Are you all still here? Are you all okay? Did you survive? Yeah, me too. After years of giving myself major anxiety over this day, nothing came of it, thank God! So, you will all know about this date if not then it was a theory based on the Mayan calendar which ended on this date - conspiracy theorists obviously jumped on this and assumed it was the end of the world which made a lot of other people jump on the bandwagon and describe all types of disasters which would be happening on this date. But, nothing happened, what a surprise! Lets wait for the next possible apocalypse date, shall we?

3. The Queens Diamond Jubilee

2012 marked the 60th year of The Queens reign and it was an amazing time to be British. It definitely brought the whole country together as there were street parties taking place everywhere, Royal memorabilia in shops across the country and of course the events which The Queen attended and were broadcast to the nation. The pageant which took place on the River Thames where over 1,000 boats took part as The Queen and the rest of the Royals watched on The Royal Barge. Also, The Diamond Jubilee Concert was an interesting watch too as it took place outside of Buckingham Palace and it was lovely to see all of the Royal Family having a lovely time together. Grace Jones on stage was a bit strange though. All in all it was a lovely thing to have witnessed, even if it was just from a television, it was still nice to know I was here when The Queen celebrated her 60th year on the throne. It's a nice feeling knowing that the whole country was watching and enjoying the same thing as you and it definitely shows you how united our country is in situations like this. Everyone may have issues with each other but then things like this come about and it's all forgotten about. It's really nice.

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2. The Olympics in London

After years of waiting it finally arrived this Summer and even to this day I miss watching it! It took over my life for weeks as it was all I watched on television. Like The Diamond Jubilee, it brought us all together once again. The opening ceremony which was the product of Danny Boyle's imagination, was amazing to watch. Although, at the beginning, I know personally I was a bit like "what is this?" but as it went on I began to love it, I don't think it can be beaten. We all were worried we wouldn't beat Beijing's previous opening ceremony, but we definitely did. My favourite part was The Queens input, it was so shocking because everyone assumed it would just be a lookalike Queen that Daniel Craig was approaching in Buckingham Palace but it wasn't, it was the real thing. Amazing. Who knew The Queen could do comedy? The Olympics were under-way and Team GB did Great Britain proud by the end of it by getting a total of 65 medals - 29 being gold (source). This event glamorised Olympians and they're now real role models, no funny business. These people have inspired a generation to take part in so many different sports, even I wanted to start but I'm too old to really join a club now. They're all hard workers, they work hard for their success and that's definitely a good reason for children to look up to them. The Olympics was a great thing to have watched and the male Olympians weren't bad to look at for weeks either (yes, I am talking about Tom Daley and Louis Smith obviously). It's going to be hard to beat, I'm talking to you Rio.

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1. One Directions Massive Success.

Oh, look at me being all biased. Yes, I would obviously say One Directions success has been a massive highlight of 2012 and certainly a massive talking point. Everyone around the world knows of them, whether they like them or not is a different story but they still know them. They are officially the biggest boy band in the world right now and they deserve to be. This year they won their first Brit award for having the Best British Single for What Makes You Beautiful and they definitely deserved it. Maybe I cried, just maybe. The happiness in their faces was amazing and I was just so happy and proud of them because this was just the start of the whole year, there were so many more amazing things to come. Earlier this year they were taking part in their sold out, first solo tour and that carried on in the States and elsewhere, throughout the year. After they won the Brit award they announced their 2013 arena tour and that sold out, in which they sold out numerous nights at the O2 Arena in London (I'll be going to 2, I can't wait). During the year they announced further dates around the world for the 2013 Take Me Home Tour, in total they will be doing 117 dates worldwide. The year went on and they got bigger and bigger and managed to sell out Madison Square Garden in New York, which was their biggest gig to date. To sell out Madison Square Garden is a massive achievement for any artist and I think One Direction definitely recognised this. Adding to their awards, they won a lot during the year as well as being nominated for quite a few as well, but I think the ones that really stuck out for the boys were the 3 MTV VMA's they won, they got these for 'best new artist', 'best pop video' and 'most share-worthy video'. Finally, they released their second album 'Take Me Home' which reached number 1 in 32 countries. Just from this I can only predict even bigger things for them next year, if that is even possible.

Well, most people who know me will know this year hasn't been my most favourite of years. It's been really hard personally, but I've managed to pick 5 moments which stuck out the most!

Starting with...

5. Twitter follow from Jai Brooks.

In the early morning of the 26th October, I spent a while spamming Jai Brooks with numerous tweets like '#FollowMeJB PLEASE I'LL SHOW YOU MY TITS' which I think may have caught his eye, wink wink Jai. You'll probably think this is a really lame thing to count as a top moment in 2012 but, it honestly made me so happy to the point where I ran into my brothers room at 2:00am saying "I FEEL FAINT". The feeling was immense and it makes you think just how much one little follow can mean to you. It was just a follow but it made me so happy because hello it is Jai Brooks, my favourite out of the Janoskians.

4. Front row for McFly at Newmarket.

I had waited years for this one moment to happen and it finally happened! I made my parents drive to Newmarket way too early and we were one of the first groups of people there alongside cleaners of Newmarket race course. Maybe I wanted to hang out with the cleaners. Anyway, we got let in and we got to the barrier (we meaning, me and my best friend Brooke). Literally the best feeling knowing I was going to be slap bang in front of my favourite band from my childhood - they still are really important to me, don't think they aren't! The show went on and I was being squished by 3 women and a man, the man was old and so was one of the women and it was just very strange. Very, very strange. All in all, it was an amazing experience which definitely topped off many years of loving McFly.

3. Seeing One Direction @ BBC Radio 1 Teen Awards.

So, after calling and calling the ticket hotline for the Teen Awards I had no luck and I was pretty distraught. Then, my friend Sarah gave me the offer of coming with her which of course was lovely and I said yes. I was too happy to be seeing One Direction for the 3rd time in total and 2nd time this year (I will get onto the 1st time this year), this was definitely the highlight of this end of the year. It was an eventful day to say the least, we were getting dropped off and Sarahs dad was being asked to move, as we walked along we saw the car behind us go into the side entrance and this girl was speaking and kept saying 'Harry'. I was freaking out and leaping towards the car like 'IS THAT HARRY?!', it was Harry Styles. We had blocked Harry Styles. I will never get over that moment, how many people can say they have blocked Harry Styles? But then, we weren't allowed into the red carpet area and every time a car went past all we saw was...the blacked out windows. Wasn't that just extremely exciting. But then we got into the arena and watched Conor Maynard, FUN. (who were good but I really don't understand why they were there), Little Mix, Neyo, the lovely Taylor Swift who sung You Belong With Me and I was singing my heart out because she is a queen. Then finally, One Direction came on and they were just amazing as you could imagine. This is a top highlight because they are my boys, they are the highlight of everything.

you mad Harry?

2. Centre Parcs in October with my best friends.

We were looking forward to this for absolutely ages and we planned to just drink loads and have fun. But, I was ill so I didn't do much at all and had 2 drinks the whole weekend and spent most of the time with tissue stuck up my nose. However, I still had such an amazing time and look back on it almost everyday. It was just such a laugh to be away in our own little place for a few days with my best friends - Corinna, India, Ben, Damian, Ashley, Luke and Jacob. We just hung out in our place, ventured out to go to the shops once or twice and came back to eat and play Monopoly. We sure are a crazy bunch of teens, you know. Luke came out with so many phrases that weekend and we still look back and laugh, at the end of the break all of his little quotes were written on the black board just to give us all a reminder. The final night we were there we went to a quiz, being as sick as we are we came joint 2nd (we came 3rd but we claim we came 2nd, alright?). It was definitely such an amazing part of my year, I love my friends.

1. Seeing One Direction @ Hammersmith Apollo.

I honestly believe this was the most amazing night ever, I've never been so happy to see my favourite singers. I've seen so many people in the past, but seeing One Direction was such an amazing part of my life I just can't put it into words. Me and India went to see them after my parents got me tickets and I enjoyed every second of it. I cried a tad even when the intro video came on, I sung my heart out to every song and was on top of the world throughout. It was right at the beginning of the year and obviously, as it is number 1 on my top 5 list, it was the best part of my year. I sound like a mega fangirl right now, but you just don't understand unless you've felt so strongly about a group of people before. The set list was perfect, the way they were dressed was perfect...it was all just perfect! I spent my night at One Direction instead of revising for an AS Business exam, I got a U. But it was definitely worth it and I can't wait to see them next year on the Take Me Home tour, TWICE. I love them boys.