Graduation

I thought I’d never see the day when I would finally finish my life in education. Well here I am donning the mortar board hat and graduation gown, smiling gleefully along with the rest of my journalism classmates, signalling the end of an era. We are officially University of Bedfordshire's Journalism class of 2010. So now after three years of hard work, trying to get a degree, we have to work even more harder to get a job. This will be the real test. The test which will determine the boys from the men and the girls from the women.

However being student doesn't stop here. Even if i do get a job i will still remain a student. Learning is a lifelong process which has to be constantly sought for. I think there was a saying by god knows who, which goes something like this: "The best university after university is a good set of books." Time for me to get reading! (Not that i haven't been reading!)

I got a 1st!!!.....and oh yes, we're out of the world cup

Blood, sweat and tears have led to the culmination of me getting a first!!! My goodness, I literally feel I’m on cloud nine with this result. But let’s just get back to reality. There wasn't really any blood involved, but there was a lot of sweat yes, A LOT of sweat. I don't recall any tears, and even if there was I wouldn't say. But one thing is for sure...this result wasn’t by my efforts. It was through the help of all my lecturers, classmates, family and of course my faith in Allah, who helped through my time in university! All praises are due to Allah and thank you everyone!

This is something which will keep in high spirits for some time, thankfully, after England’s most disappointing thrashing against Germany in the world cup. And here we had all these England flags flowing with pride on top of buildings, cars, shirts, faces, and God knows what. I blame the British media for this (funnily enough). The England team has been so overrated it’s unbelievable. Yes they have some great players, but the build towards the world cup, so much analysis, speculation, assumptions...it was just driving me nuts! And the award for the most overrated player goes to...yes you’ve guessed it, Wayne Rooney. Almost everyone were betting their chances on Rooney. The guy had many moments with Man United and Everton in scoring goals but when it comes to the world stage, his previous track record just goes out the window. The real test of any professional footballer is, what I think, playing on form in the world stage and the world cup is the perfect place for this.



Personally I wanted England to go further but I knew teams like Brazil, Germany and Spain would have had them for breakfast anyway. The England players don’t seem to gel so well as a team. Maybe it’s time to get the next generation of players on board rather than the oldies we see all the time.