Honourable mention: Songs of summertime 2021

This is going to be a very short blog post. 

I would like to give a honourable mention to one song as someone recommended me on Twitter to add a song on my songs of summertime 2021. 

This song I listened on Soundcloud is called “Hang on to Summer” by Alvin 85. soundcloud.com I have listened to it. It is an awesome summer original song that I ever listened on Soundcloud. I enjoyed the song a lot. 

So that makes 21 songs in total. 

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com As I said in my yesterday’s blog post that I could try to update my summer song playlist by next summer. 

At least, honourable mention is welcome & that I could make an additional summer song playlist as an extension or extra song playlist. Anyways, it is indeed the last days of summer given September (tomorrow is the new month as it is autumn month metro-logically) & summer officially ends with two or three weeks astronomically. 

So yeah, enjoy the summer while you still can. 🙂😀⛱🍉🌺🕶😎

Songs of Summertime playlist

Hello Everybody

How are you doing today? I trust that you are well & that you are enjoying yourself in Bank Holiday Monday (especially if you are in the UK). 

In today’s blog post, I will include the songs that are summer tunes. Plus I think I am late to the party (sorry about that) as we are in the summer time (late summer as it will be over). I wish that I could had published weeks ago or around July or in June. Anyways, it does not matter. 🎵🎶😀🙂

So here are the songs of the summer. Enjoy my summer song playlist. Whether you are eating a ice cream, going to the beach or even a festival (as you stay safe because you know, Covid measures like wearing mask, etc. Especially at the time of the writing).

1. Summer time - DJ Jazzey Jeff & the Fresh Prince. 

Summer, summer, summertime. Time to sit back and unwind. Will Smith in his early days as an rapper & his time as the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” TV show. 🎵🎶 If you have not heard this tune before, I highly recommend you go and listen to it. You’ll love it. 🍉☀️⛱🕶

2. In the Sunmertime - both versions (Mungo Jerry - Original & reggae cover by Shaggy). 

“In the summertime, when the weather is hot

You can stretch right up and touch the sky” 

Both versions are good. For me, I like Shaggy version of the song in the summertime. 

3. Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl

 Peter Andre (UK celebrity) was a singer? I know the song for very long time. The song itself is so catchy & that it has the summer melody & reggae. 😀🙂🇯🇲

4. Summertime Blues - The Who & Eddie Cochran

There are plenty of the versions of the same song. For instance, originally sung by Eddie Cochran. So for me, I chose the Who version of summertime blues. I hope you & any of my readers will not have summertime blues. 😀🙂🎵🎶🍉⛱🎸

5. Harry Styles - Watermelon Sugar

Song of the last summer. Summer of 2020 despite it was not normal summer because of the pandemic. This year’s one is normality and recovery. I bet many of you will know the song “Watermelon Sugar” by Harry Styles. Ex member of One Direction. 

6. TLC - Waterfalls 

90s summer tune and one of the best song. Waterfalls by TLC. 

7. The Surfaris - Wipe Out 

60s guitar riff and summer tune. Goes into together. The perfect song tune especially if you are going to the seaside (the beach). 

8. Madonna - Holiday

”Holiday, celebrate”. One of the best Madonna songs that you can listen in the summertime. 

9. Summer Breeze - Seals & Croft & The Isley Brothers (both versions). 

I like both versions. The original (Seals & Croft) & cover (Isley Brothers). For me, if I were to choose, it will be the Isley Brothers version of summer breeze. Summer can really be breezy. ⛱☀️🍉

10. Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams & Nile Rodgers - Get Lucky 

“We got all night to get lucky”. Daft Punk. Big hit song of the summer as it was released in 2013.

11. Calvin Harris - Summer 

“When I met you in the summer”. Summery dancy dance pop hit song by Calvin Harris. Released in 2014. By now, you should had known the tune. For me, I do. 😀🙂🎵🎶🕶☀️⛱🍉

12. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday 

2009 summer hit song by rapper Dizzee Rascal. Very catchy song. 

13. Simple Plan featuring Sean Paul - Summer Paradise 

Take me back to summer paradise. Knowing Simple Plan & Sean Paul are invited for the party. In all seriousness, this is really one of the good summer tracks. A feel good summer song. 😀🙂🎵🎶⛱🎸

14. Arrow - Hot, Hot, Hot

Feeling hot, hot, hot in the summer time? Try drink some water to stay dehydrated while enjoying listening to the tunes of summer. 

15. Percy Faith - Theme from a summer place 

My mother likes this song so much as she keeps playing the song over and over again. I thought that I’ll include on my list of songs of summer playlist. I even know this song for years now. 😀🙂⛱🎵☀️

16. Weezer - Islands in the Sun

”When you’re on a holiday”. First verse that starts the singing. Anyhoo, it is awesome pop rock summer song by Weezer. 

17. Bryan Adams - Summer of 69 

Sunmer of 69. What a tune by Bryan Adams. One of his best songs ever. Especially when there is a summer season, summer of 69 can be good. 

18. Barry Manilow - Copacabana 

“At the copa. Copacabana”. Copacabana would be the beach in Brazil. Anyway enjoy the song by Barry Manilow. Especially if you have not heard before. It is of the awesome hit songs from the 70s. 

19. Bob Marley vs Funkstar Deluxe - Sun is shining. 

Dance remix of original Bob Marley’s song “Sun is Shining. Impressive. 👏

And finally, final song on my songs of summer music playlist is track 20. 🎶⛱🍉😀🙂

20. The Ventures - Hawaii Five 0 theme

Great theme song. Especially that I am fan of Hawaii Five 0 (TV show). Ahoa from Hawaii (actually I am not in Hawaii. I wish I am in Hawaii). 😀🙂🌺⛱🍉

So that is the end of 20 summer songs selected by me to be included as music playlist on my own blog. Do you have your own summer song playlist? If yes, leave me in the comment section. Other than that, happy summer & enjoy your day (including bank holiday Monday). Perhaps next summer, I could try make another summer song playlist on my blog by updating it. 

Anyways, enjoy the summer. 😀🙂⛱🍉🎶🎵🌺

Travel destinations that I would love to go part 2

Hi everybody 

This is part 2 of my blog post. Travel Destinations that I would love to go.

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com Click the link to the first blog post about it. Part 1. 

In my previous blog post, I added 7 countries that I would love to go. I added Nigeria, Scotland (UK), Lebanon, Australia, Canada, Italy and Egypt. Now I am including more countries that I would like to go (especially in the post pandemic world). 

1. Belgium 🇧🇪🇪🇺

Belgium is one of European countries that I would definitely want to go. In fact pre Covid, I really wanted to make Belgium the next European travel destination after visiting Spain in 2018 and France in 2019. I didn’t had the chance to make it happen. 🙂😀🇧🇪

It’s easy to visit Brussels, Belgium via Eurostar if you are coming from London St Pancras station. So I could aboard the Eurostar train again. This time, going to Belgium.

2. Portugal 🇵🇹🇪🇺

Spain is close to Portugal. If you think Portugal is part of Spain, then you are mistaken & you probably never heard of the country (Portugal) before. If you do happen to know anyone who is Portuguese, my advice is don’t assume that Portuguese are Spanish just because both nations are geographically in Southern part of Europe.The Iberian Peninsula = Iberia (& I don’t mean the airline Iberia). 😀🙂🇵🇹

Anyhoo, Portugal is one of my dream travel destination. I even have the Portuguese phrasebook and travel guide books to Lisbon & Porto. Maybe in the next year or couple of years from now. Who knows. 

3. Ghana 🇬🇭 

Since I am Brit of Nigerian descent as I mentioned on my first blog post that I am half Nigerian I reckon that it would be much easier for me to travel to Ghana with my both passports (British & Nigerian) because like Nigeria, Ghana is an member of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). UK travellers travelling to any of West African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, etc) is visa required so I would have to be travel wise if I really do plan to visit Ghana one day. 🙂🇬🇭

4. Mexico 🇲🇽 

Hola Amgios. Next country oh the list. Mexico. 

Ah Mexico. The country that has mariachi bands, cool looking Mexican hats and the lovely tasty cuisine (Tacos, Doritos, aveocado, maize, beans, tomato, squash and chilli). 🇲🇽🌮 I highly recommend Mexico especially if you haven’t visited there. That includes anyone who have been to Mexico before & I would say go there again. Hopefully some day, I would love to travel to Mexico. Especially the nation is one of Spanish speaking countries & it is near to the United States of America. So yeah, if I do have a money (enough money), Mexico would be the best place to go there for gateway. 😀🙂🇲🇽 

5. Ireland 🇮🇪🇪🇺

Ireland have a lot to offer to the world. Booze (& Guinness), hospitable people, Irish dancing & yes, St Patrick’s Day (held annually on 17th March) & pubs (Irish pubs). Republic of Ireland is another place that I would love to go. 🇮🇪☘️

6. China 🇨🇳 

China is definitely one of must see places to visit in the world. Lots of tourist attractions & landmarks including The Great Wall of China & the Forbidden City in the Imperial place in Tiananmen Square. In the Chinese capital Beijing.

Now here’s the thing. Western sites including Google are censored & banned in China (even VPNs I can be wrong. Who knows) so when it comes to thing anything politically or any sensitive about China, be very careful & not do or say anything that can land you into trouble. 

I for one would definitely go to China. Since I am very aware it is not typical country where things are restricted. 

7. Jamaica 🇯🇲 

Jamaica. Home to the music genre that is famous in the world: Reggae and other genres. Birthplace of famous people like Bob Marley, Sean Paul, Sean Kingston, Shaggy, Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh & Usain Bolt. I have always been dreaming that I wanted to go to Jamaica for very long time. Whatever I think of Jamaica, I think about the paradise, accent (Jamaican) & the reggae music sung by reggae musicians. So Jamaica, here I come (hopefully one day). 😀🙂🇯🇲🎶🎵 I hope I do not have to be Rasta to visit the beautiful country. 

Anyways, that is all for now. There would be plenty of more to come soon.  

Blog funny sketch

Hello everybody. How are you doing today? 

Since we live in the digital age where we see so much of hilarious videos. Whether on TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or even YouTube. All we need is entertainment. Funny entertainment. Something that can take us humans off the mind on some things that are too much (everything from the news to everything negative in our personal lives) so that we can focus on the positive. Joy. That is good for our health. Joy. Forget all the bad stuff. 

In fact, I may start to think doing this like a week,

month or anything occasionally. After all, what we need is good old enjoyment. So enjoy my first fun sketch. 

By the way, I am not comedian given you know very well that I am blogger. What you are about to read is something hilarious. Something that can relate as long, it doesn’t necessarily have to be taken serious. 😀🙂  

Fun sketch ✍️ 😂😁😆🤣

Guy talking to Jamaican guy 🇯🇲🌍

Guy: You know your roots are from Africa. 

Jamaican guy: No man, I am from the Caribbean. I am Jamaican & I am not African. 

Guy: Peter Tosh once said in his song that you are African. No mind the nationality & that you got the identity of African. 

Jamaican Guy: Yeah man, Peter Tosh!!

Guy: So why say you are not African? 

Jamaican guy:????? 

Guy talking to British guy. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Guy: You know you are European. Your roots are from Europe. 

British guy: Oh bugger off, I voted for Brexit because I am not European. I am English & British. 

Guy: Really? 

British guy: Yes, really. 

Guy: Okay, believe what you like. No wonder so far have not been beneficial for the UK. So I am not even going to debate with you. 

British guy: Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the waves. Britain will not be slave. Not to the EU or anyone. We are independent & sovereign country. 

Guy: See, that’s how I cannot be bothered to debate with you cos you don’t know how to logically debate well. Believing lies over truth. The UK never stopped being an independent when it was an member of the European Union. Never. 

British Guy: Oh snap, I regret voting for Brexit & the Tories. 

Guy: This really proves my point. I’m done here. Goodbye.

Enjoy your day everybody. 

More update on my legal challenge & court date

Brief blog post 

I have more update about my legal challenge against Travel Unravel & Barclays. 

Today, I received a letter from the court. 

Two papers. One is the same paper which Barclays’s lawyer TLP (the ones who have been bothering me & my father on email to drop a legal challenge against both Barclays & Travel Unravel)  rejected the court hearing trial couple of months ago in May. 

The other one is the court date. 

It will be on Monday 7th February 2022. Next year in the second month & it will be court proceedings on the telephone (no face to face physically. I am not sure about the idea of court hearing via telephone which it will be better if we do face to face in person physically at the court). 23 weeks & 5 months (6 six months from now). 165 days. I have informed my dad about this.

Anyway, I am not going to upload the photos of the letter due to confidential & personal reasons which i do not think that I am allowed to. At least I know it will be held at my local county court in Barnet & that would be in Finchley Central. Telephone court hearing. 

I hope and pray that should go well by the grace of god. Although I really do not get why on earth would I have to wait for February 6th next year? By then, it would had been a year since I became victimised of fraud and scam by Travel Unravel (January 2021) while at the same time, selfish woman (by the name of Helen. Helen U) who gave my dad nothing but grief to come to the UK from Nigeria in very awful time when the UK just entered into third Covid lockdown and that it would had been a year (February 2021) since Barclays (my bank) selfishly deducted £522.23 from my bank account that resulted me in overdraft. 

Doesn’t make any logical sense. Having to wait from 6 months until 6th February 2022. I was expecting either it should had been held in the autumn this year (either September, October or November). No wonder the court is still on the recess due to summer break & yet, set a date for February next year & not in any of the final four months of this year 2021. 

Plus still no responses from Travel Unravel (& to be frank, I no longer give a tosh whether Travel Unravel responses or not since I know they are very wicked & selfish lowlife scammers). Tonight, I completed a response letter with a copy of the default judgement application letter which I commented couple of months ago in May & that I will have it posted in the daylight. 

So that is all I can say about the latest update on my situation against two defendants (Travel Unravel & Barclays).

And if you have not following what I have gone through in my previous blog posts about it. Click the links to read more about it. 

The links are in description below. Many thanks a lot.

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Afghanistan needs help

It is now been a week already since I last talked about Afghanistan. Afghanistan: The nation in horrifyingly trouble  

Since I published my blog post, Taliban (terror group who have no regards to human rights & women’s rights) have took over Kabul after gaining grounds everywhere in the country. It really did shocked the world. Taliban barbarians in the control of power as the Afghan President had left the country. 

I have seen enough of heartbreaking news coverage about the nation on TV, Internet & social media given it really does desperately need help from the international community. 

I said in my previous blog post that I do support the withdrawal (US withdrawal from Afghanistan in the non chaotic and reckless way). Unfortunately, Joe Biden (US President) didn’t really handled it well. No wonder his approval rating have dropped. reuters.com 

It is true that American troops alongside British troops and NATO troops cannot be in Afghanistan forever. At least most of NATO troops including the UK is already withdrawn from Afghanistan. No chaos. Yet, when the US withdraws from the war torn country (Afghanistan) & didn’t do anything like helping & training the Afghan army, Taliban gains every single provincial cities and towns in Afghanistan which was music to their ears. 

It is very sad. America shouldn’t had invaded Afghanistan in the first place. We know Afghanistan & Iraq are not responsible of September 11 attacks 20 years ago. What have America, Britain & NATO done for the last 20 years other than the eradication of Al Qaeda & Bin Laden? None. Even Biden said admittedly that the United States is not there in Afghanistan for “nation building”. google.co.uk 

No wonder Taliban was in power before. Now after 20 years, they are back. Fall of Kabul. Joe Biden mishandling the situation while UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Rabb was on holiday. What a utter shambles. news.sky.com Even Boris Johnson went on holiday too. Yet both of them (Raab & Johnson) never took the situation happening in Afghanistan seriously? Unbelievable and disgusting. google.co.uk 

Afghanistan has the history of foreign occupations: everything from the British empire to the Soviet Union to the United States. Even the Roman Empire. What’s next? China? I don’t think so & that shouldn’t really be the case. Invading & occupying the country like Afghanistan is very impossible. 

So that is my rant on the ongoing development in Afghanistan now there is a humanitarian catastrophe happening already & that some of Afghans have already left the country. 

Finally, there is the link below that you can help the Afghan people and the nation (Afghanistan) since it is very upsetting that it is already in horrifyingly trouble. There are charities being named that is helping the Afghans. So click the link if you are interested. 🇦🇫

thetab.com 

I really do feel sorry for the people of Afghanistan. My thoughts and prayers goes out to them. 🇦🇫😔🙏

The country is really in the crisis. I hope someday, Afghanistan will be the peaceful & stable country. No Taliban rule, no foreign intervention by the US or any foreign country. Peaceful, normal & stable country. I pray that the day will one day come. For now, Afghan people really do need help from all of us regardless whether we live in the world. 

Covid: They think it’s all over?

Brief blog post 

So it is now been a month since 19th of July. The so called “Freedom Day” in England. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

The freedom day hysteria had really made some people believe that the Covid pandemic is over & that Covid is gone completely. The end of social distancing and mask wearing (from compulsory to personal). 

Well how it did really go? Is the Covid infection rate still low in the UK? Here’s the results.

Result: Covid infections cases didn’t stay low that long & that it have gone up. Man, people really do have short memories. Believing the hype Covid is gone. The pandemic is not over. Shame on the Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

Four weeks since the so called freedom day occurred in England. Many people believed the hype despite social distancing and face mask wearing is no longer compulsory & that it is personal choice optionally. Well since I am fully vaccinated, the pandemic is far from over. Wait until school kids returned to school in September from 6 weeks of summer break (school summer holidays) then Covid cases in the UK (particularly England) will go up. Some people really do have short memories.

So let’s not be deceived by the word of the politician or world leader. Claiming that it is over & that “everything is okay” until it is not. Until the science has changed & the Covid rate is dropped completely everywhere in the world, Covid will be with us for long time so let’s continue to stay safe & wear a mask as I reiterate it on my previous blog post. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

I end this with this statistic chart. 

Travel destinations that I would love to go

Hi Everybody 

You will remember that earlier this year that I published the blog post in March. “I visited three out of BBC 50 places to visit before you die travel list”. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com In case if you haven’t read my previous blog post, click the link to read about it. 

Now I feel that I want to talk more about travel. Especially that I may consider creating a my travel blog. 

As the world is now already adjusting to the new reality of domestic travel & international travel due to the Covid 19 pandemic, I made the right choices not to travel anywhere aboard last year 2020 and this year 2021. But the way this is going & that Covid will be with us for long time, I guess that myself and others have to get used to PCR test (which is very expensive & that it costs money) & proving a proof of vaccination or negative Covid test by having a form of health/immunity passport (or vaccine passport/health certificate) as the world economy is already on the road to recovery. We no longer think of going away as simply booking for the flight whatever we like & that nowadays in the Covid era & potential variants, we think carefully of where to go, remaining safe & staying alert. I also firmly believe that we cannot let Covid stop us from going away for holiday/vacation purposes completely. If we do that, then what is the point of going aboard by plane, train, car, boat, etc? That would be the end of world travel as we know that & only domestic travel would remain in exist. 

So that is the new reality of travelling in the world. 

However I am not talking about Covid measures/restrictions. I am talking about dream travel destinations that I would love to go. Either as holidaymaker, or even a travel writer/blogger, content creator, digital nomand, etc.

Travel destinations that I would love to go are 

1. Nigeria 🇳🇬 

I am half Nigerian. Born to Nigerian father. Pre Covid from 2016 to 2019, myself and dad had made 6 attempts to make my visit to Nigeria come true (which it did not happen which I made a decision to give up). Nigeria is a big African country. It is not a typical “touristy” country. However it doesn’t mean the country is in war zone. Nowadays I don’t think about going to Nigeria. I hope someday, that can finally happen. But for now under the Covid pandemic, it is not the best time at this moment. 🇳🇬

2. Scotland (UK) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

For long time since I was 12 years old, I’ve long dreamt of wanting to go to Scotland. I love the stuff about Scotland. Bagpipes, Scottish Kilt. Anything fascinating about Scotland. I know my school classroom teacher who is originally from Scotland. I think she is from either Edinburgh or Glasgow. Either way, I like the Scottish accent. 😀🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The place I would love to go there is Edinburgh & then probably anywhere that suits me up the north. 

3. Lebanon 🇱🇧 

Now this is going to be a difficult one because the country is facing a very tough situation financially, economically and politically. I even talked about it on my blog post about Lebanon. 🇱🇧mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

All I can say is that unless the situation in Lebanon is improved, I do not have plans at the moment & that I do not tend to visit there anytime soon in the future. In fact, I originally wanted to go there. Then the horrific tragedy that happened in the Lebanese capital last year (4th August 2020) which led me to abandon any possible plans of making my trips to Lebanon come true. The country is beautiful and misunderstood country. I sincerely hope and pray that one day, the nation will be in much better and stable position than today. 

4. Australia 🇦🇺 

Australia is another travel destination that I would love to go. Plus, I have been wanting to go there for very long time. The flight duration from the UK to Australia is nearly shockingly 24 hours. Yet, some Brits visited the Land Down Under & some of them do have a family there. That explains the history between Australia and Britain. Nonetheless, Australia is definitely the place that I would love to visit. 

5. Canada 🇨🇦 

Another travel destinations that I want to visit is Canada. I don’t know anyone who lives in Canada except my relative (my cousin of my dad’s family) who happens to live in Toronto. That can be easy for me to explore around if i do plan to visit America’s neighbour someday. 😀🙂🇨🇦

6. Italy 🇮🇹🇪🇺

Mama Mia!!! Italy!! 😀🙂🇮🇹

Home of the Pizza & Spaghetti pasta. Rome is one of the European cities that I would want to visit. Especially in the post pandemic world (when everything is possible).

7. Egypt 🇪🇬 

There is one time in my life that me, my brother & mum used a transit flight from London Heathrow to Cairo airport whilst we were heading to South Africa and returning home to England by landing in Cairo as i was flying on Egypt Air. 

Speaking of transit, I love Egypt because of the history, amazing views of the pyramids & one of the popular tourist destination in Middle East & North Africa. Egypt is definitely my dream travel destination that I would want to go. 😀🇪🇬

That would be it for now. Next thing, I write a followup blog about more list of me wanting to go anywhere in the world. 

Also, hopefully with the nations that I included, I hope and pray that I can visit one of them or at least 7 so that I can look back on this blog post in five, 10, 15 or 20 years from now. 😀🙂🗺🌎🌍🌏

Two doses = Fully vaccinated

This blog post is important and advisory one & I want all of my readers to really understand it. Anybody (anti vaxx or not) including you. I am not really an expert on anything health or medical. After all, it is really a matter of life and death and we all experienced challenges in this very difficult times in the pandemic. Thanks for understanding. 

Today, I received a second dose of the Covid 19 Pfizer vaccine jab. 

Two doses = fully vaccinated. 😀🙂

That means I am fully vaccinated as I received both doses of the vaccine. 

Since I do not have anything much to say other than I am very happy that I have two jabs. Although I am still not satisfied with the government (the UK government)‘s handling of the Covid 19 situation, I am impressed that levels of normality have started already to resume in the society and that Coronavirus is under control. 

However we are not out of the woods. We are still in the pandemic. Covid is not gone completely so we (the people) got to stop with the illusion that Covid is gone just because social distancing and mask wearing is no longer compulsory in England or anywhere in the world & that now it is personal choice optionally. 

Covid will be with us for long time unfortunately as we human beings already got started to live with it. I hope there won’t have to be anymore lockdowns in the future. Otherwise, it will be part of the routine (Covid measures/restrictions and lockdowns) every time when there is new reported cases of Covid infections, hospitalisations and deaths with any existing and potential Covid 19 variants. 

No wonder many people in England have believed the hype. “Freedom Day” hype. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

Covid is not over. It is still impacting all parts of the world. What we should do as human beings (vaccinated and unvaccinated alike) is continue doing a preventable measures (hand washing, face mask wearing and social distancing) & staying safe. 

Just because I received a both doses of the Covid vaccine (Pfizer) doesn’t mean I cannot get Covid. 

I can get Covid but the difference is that as fully vaccinated person, I will not be severely sick or being hospitalised or die from Covid. At least I am lucky that I won’t get long Covid. 

I know the coronavirus pandemic is far from over so I said before that I will continue to wear face mask and social distancing and using hand sanitiser. Knowingly, I can behave responsibly so that I don’t endanger the lives of others including the vulnerable ones. 

So continue to stay safe people. I hope and pray at the some point, Covid will finally be eradicated once and for all. And it can happen if we continue to behave responsibly. 

Don’t pay attention to any foolish person who would not be bothered to behave responsibly (therefore passing on Covid to someone irresponsibly) or anti vaccine people or conspiracy theories/disinformation about Covid. At the end of the day, having a Covid 19 vaccine jab is a choice. Not compulsory. 

Here is my other blog post about my first dose of the vaccine back in June 2 months ago. 

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So here are the photos of today as I received a second dose of Pfizer vaccine.

Afghanistan: the nation in horrifyingly trouble

This is very heartbreaking situation going on in Afghanistan at the moment so I thought I can talk about it by forming my opinion. 🇦🇫😔

I don’t know how to put it into words. Since I am totally against war & intervention. I support the withdrawal (in the non reckless way). However it is not the same thing as leaving the country already in the mess. The risky withdrawal from Afghanistan is not done in the proper & smoothly way. It’s done in the reckless way.

Taliban causing mayhem, gaining grounds in towns and cities in Afghanistan & taking over. Why? Because of the last US president (Donald Trump) who foolishly negotiated the deal with them (Taliban. Islamist terror group). Plus America should never had invaded Afghanistan (& Iraq) in the first place.

Afghanistan & Iraq didn’t attacked America in 9/11 attacks (September 11th 2001) 20 years ago. No wonder the nation (Afghanistan) have history of invasions & occupations as well domestic problems (& vice versa). Example: The Russians in the 80s which was then called USSR/Soviet Union. I imagine US troops might want to stay longer in Afghanistan. Despite Joe Biden insisting that all American troops must pull out of the country. It’s such a shame & sad that war torn country (Afghanistan) is in very awful state. The country in instability. It is such a mess. Shambolic mess. America shouldn’t had invaded Afghanistan in 2001.

The West (particularly NATO, the US & the UK) is to blame for that. The withdrawal is supposed to be done peacefully (since we know that the US troops, UK troops & NATO troops cannot be in Afghanistan forever). Instead, it is done in the chaotic way. 

America’s longest war involvement (the so called War on Terror) since Vietnam. The war & conflict in Afghanistan. The country have really suffered enough as it is really in the mess already. It is now the humanitarian catastrophe. Ordinary Afghans fleeing their lives. Why is the Afghan Govt doing something to fight the Taliban fighters? America should had trained the Afghan govt to deal with the problems domestically. Instead, the situation like this is happening already there. It is catastrophically nightmare for the nation (Afghanistan). And what have America, Britain & other countries (who are members of NATO) have done to improved the lives of the Afghan people in the last 20 years apart from going after and eradicating Al Qaeda & Bin Laden? They (the West) have not helped Afghanistan. Not at all in my opinion. 

Invading & occupying the nation. Not helping the Afghans & then the sudden withdrawal of the foreign troops. Like Vietnam, America have not won the war. Not in Afghanistan. Absolutely not. I am sorry to say but the war in Afghanistan is not something that the United States can claim victory  or “mission accomplished”. 

Time and time again, when things goes wrong. Example: Iraq & Libya due to the American intervention, both nations nowadays are in the mess. What a utter shambles. Even getting rid of authoritarian dictators like Saddam Hussein and Colonial Gaddafi (regime change) was not really going to solve the problems of Iraq & Libya. No wonder some years later, ISIS shows up out of nowhere to take over places in Iraq & Syria. At least it didn’t really last long until the last couple of years ago. 

My point is that the West (that includes America) should really stay out of the Middle East countries. Certainly that includes Afghanistan. The country cannot take anymore of pain and misery. 🇦🇫😠

The country is really in horrifyingly trouble.

Friday the 13th? Don’t really care

Friday the 13th? Don’t really care

So today is Friday the 13th. 

The date when many people gets to talk about it. Talking as if something bad or strange is going to happen. The date of unlucky and superstition.

For me I do not pay much attention to it. The nonsensical stuff regarding the date on the calendar. Like everyone else, I checked my calendar that today is indeed 13th & the day is Friday = Friday 13th. 

All I can say is f*** Friday the 13th (I apologise for swearing but I do not have time for that, I really do not have time for that). Anything bad or superstitious on today’s date (Friday the 13th). I do not have time for that. 

So people, let’s all stop giving a damn about the date (today’s date) & just enjoy your day. Focus on things that matters in your life. Rather than this date. 

Also do not have a fear because of the date (Friday the 13th). It is just a ordinary date. Like other dates on the calendar. Day, week, month & year. 

So that is why nowadays I do not really care about Friday the 13th. It doesn’t really matter if the day is good or bad. I just do not waste my time and energy on this nonsensical & superstitious stuff about the date on the calendar (Friday the 13th). 

🗓 📅 📆 

E Consult: Advantage or disadvantage?

E consult: Advantage or disadvantage? 

My opinion on e consult. I am not really a fan of it. 

How come nowadays GPs in the UK (particularly here in England) are no longer walk in & that we are doing e consultations? Not everyone is going to use a phone or computer to complete e consult questions about his/her health before deciding whether to have an appointment to see the doctor at the GP.

I understand that GPs (including my local GP) are doing that to be safe from coronavirus (as we are in the pandemic). Although the plans for GP to cease being “walk in” building were planned late 2019 before Covid happened. Once that happens, that’s where we patients have been introduced to all of that “e consult/e consultation” stuff which unfortunately it proves to be difficult with questionnaires. What’s the point of having a GP if they cannot be there for all of us. & calling GP reception won’t get you the chance to book appointment. At least not anymore. 

What’s next? E consult to see if we go to the hospital premises if someone is very ill or seriously injured. This is life or death matter. 

Having a GP appointment is necessary for our well being and our health. Otherwise, what’s the point? 

Soon, very soon. Robots will take over jobs so I feel that the e consult & the app stuff is the start. It will be disadvantage for others who are not used to e consult & more comfortable of going to the GP by either walking in (now not possible due to Covid) or telephone call.

The reason why I say this is because during lockdown last year while Coronavirus was being rampant everywhere in the world, my mother & the carer of my disabled brother phoned general practitioner around couple of times about the health of my disabled brother (who is non verbal & has challenging behaviour & OCD) which was unfortunately didn’t help that mum wanted. My mother would do a e consult questionnaires which is not quite simple and easy & that led my brother to not attend appointment at GP. At least recently, I done the e consult with the carer of my disabled brother & finally he (the carer) received a email from the doctor from GP despite waiting for 4 days for the response regarding the health of my disabled brother (weight problems. Although losing weight is normal, it is that as I mentioned the fact that my brother have challenging behaviour). It was different than previous ones. Although waiting for the call or email will still take time to speed the process of e consult questions. 

Another thing is because I have a friend in Spain who is like a sister to me. 

My online friend told me that she didn’t get a treatment for her Anorexia Nervosa due to the fact that GP surgeries have ceased to be “walk in” premises. It does prove my point that having the system of e consult is stressful, frustrating and difficult. That’s how it happened during the Covid pandemic. Even if we knew e consult was coming, it wouldn’t happen because of Covid. So I think that every single GP surgery in the UK & all part of the world better think sensibly about turning away patients who wants a GP appointment, general health treatment or referral before suggesting the person to fill e consult online (which won’t guarantee anything of that I just mentioned). 

After all, we all need general practitioners at the point in my life even if there is something wrong with our health. Your health, my health. Like I said I totally understand the safety because of Covid but having the e consult & transformation of GPs not having a walk in premises like we used to prior to the pandemic is nothing better & that is it is a disadvantage. 

So that is my opinion on e consult. Do you agree with me or disagree with me? If so then comment below or reply on my socials (like Twitter for instance). 

NHS Data Grab Update: I have opted out

Hi everybody 

Before I talked about today’s blog post, if you are not aware about the government’s plans (which is very awful) to sell off personal/confidential information to third parties, read my two previous posts. 

The links are in the description. Thank you. 

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

Now today’s blog post. 

Last week I completed the opt out form. 

I completed the forms because I know selling off confidential and personal information such as GP medical information to third parties (who are private firms) is never good. 

Personal information should never be sold for marketing purposes. Never. 

When it comes to data sharing, GP medical information always have been used for research about the patient & the medical history of the patient. Including the medical data that is useful for planning services. 

For the government to all sudden of announce that they’ll be selling every patient’s GP medical history to the NHS Central database (NHS Digital) to be used by Palantir, there is where privacy concerns comes to play. It would be open to identity theft, data breach & hacking. 

So that is why I made a decision today to drop off at my local GP to make a declaration that I strongly oppose to the NHS Data Grab. I say no to having my GP medical records to be grabbed & sold by the govt to third parties and private firms. 

At least now there is couple of weeks left until the deadline is the start of next month. 1st September. The original deadline was 1st July which had been extended to the end of the month. This month August. 

So if you are living in England & that you are horrified to find out that the government wants to sell your medical records to third parties and private firms for marketing purposes (not for research or anything data sharing purposes. Other than to endanger you), then I highly recommend that you download the opt out form so that you can be free by saving yourself from letting your medical information to be sold off to private firms who are third parties. 

Mon expérience d'apprentissage du français (French translation)

This is French translation of my blog post based on my personal experience of learning the language. Click the link if you want English translation. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

Je veux vous parler de mon expérience d\"apprentissage du français. 🇫🇷

J\"ai d\"abord appris la langue française dans le cadre du programme scolaire de mon lycée (lycée) de la 7e à la 11e année. La 11e année, j\"ai appris une autre langue : l\"espagnol que j\"avais toujours appris sur la langue française pour les cours de français.

Comme l\"espagnol, j\"ai d\"abord appris le français, c\"était les bases puis les autres mots (ce n\"est pas simplement basique), le vocabulaire, la prononciation, la phrase, la grammaire & la ponctuation de la langue française. La plupart du temps, je connais les bases de la langue française et je communiquerais en français en prononçant les phrases facilement. Au moins avec Google translate et d\"autres sites et applications, il est beaucoup plus facile de traduire dans n\"importe quelle langue que d\"utiliser simplement un guide de conversation ou un dictionnaire.

En fait de mon expérience d\"apprentissage de la langue. Au début, je n\"aimais pas vraiment apprendre une autre langue quand j\"étais en 7e année, alors que moi-même et mes camarades de classe commençaient déjà à apprendre le français. Au moins progressivement et soudainement, j\"ai changé d\"avis et à ma grande surprise, j\"ai vu les avantages de l\"apprentissage des langues. Que ce soit le français, l\"espagnol, l\"allemand ou toute autre langue. C\"est donc là que je ne voyais pas les cours de français comme "matière ennuyeuse".

La langue française fait partie de la langue romane aux côtés de l\"espagnol, du portugais, de l\"italien et du roumain. Il figure dans le top 10 du nombre total de locuteurs puisque le français est classé 7. Comme on le sait, il est parlé dans 29 pays. France, Canada (en particulier province francophone du Québec), Belgique, Suisse, Luxembourg, Monaco, Haïti et pays africains francophones. Même le Liban puisqu\"il y a des pays qui ont des francophones.

C\"est les bases de la langue française que je connais. Fondamentalement, ce que je connais sont des phrases françaises courantes.

bonjour = bonjour

Salut = Salut

Au Revoir = Au revoir

Commentaire ca va = Comment vas-tu

Je Suis = je suis

Tre Bien = Très bien

Bon Voyage = Bon voyage

Amie = Amie

S\"il s\"agit d\"un ami masculin, il s\"appelle "Ami".

A plus tard = A plus tard

Je t\"amie = je t\"aime

Ne Me Quitte Pas = ne me quitte pas

Monsieur = Monsieur/monsieur ou monsieur.

Madame = Madame/Mademoiselle/Madame

Oui = Oui

Non = Non

Merci = Merci

Merci beaucoup = Merci beaucoup/merci beaucoup

Je Vous En Prie = Vous êtes le bienvenu

Bon appétit = bon appétit

La liste continue. C\"est à cela que je peux penser et tout ce que j\"ai ajouté, c\"est ceux qu\"on m\"a enseignés à mon lycée. Je ne me souviens probablement pas de ce que j\"ai appris, mais je sais qu\"il est facile pour moi de me familiariser avec ce que j\"ai appris tout en étant enseigné dans les cours de français dans le cadre du programme scolaire. 🇫🇷

En fin de compte, il s\"agit de parler couramment n\"importe quelle langue étrangère et c\"est une bonne chose d\"apprendre des langues. Que ce soit à l\"école, au travail ou dans un passe-temps par intérêt. J\"ai aussi déjà écrit un article de blog à ce sujet. 

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

Connaître la langue peut être facile et difficile.

Enfin, j\"ai regardé quelques films en français.

J\"ai regardé Kirikou et la sorcière (Kirikou et la Sorcière). Film d\"animation français.

Certains d\"entre eux que j\"ai regardés, je ne me souvenais pas du nom des films français que j\"ai regardés pendant l\"apprentissage de la langue française au secondaire.

My experience of learning French

I want to tell you something about my experience of learning French. 🇫🇷

I first learnt the French language as part of school curriculum at my secondary school (high school) from year 7 to year 11. Year 11 was when I learnt another language: Spanish which I had always learnt about the French language for French lessons. 

Like Spanish, I first learn French, it was the basics and then the other words (that is not simply basic), vocabulary, pronunciation, sentence, grammar & the punctuation of the French language. Mostly, I know the basics of the French language & that I would communicate in French by saying the phrases easily. At least with Google translate & other sites & apps, it is much easier to translate into any language than just only using a phrasebook or dictionary.

In fact from my experience of learning the language. At first time, I originally didn’t really liked learning another language when I was in year 7 when myself & my fellow classmates were already started of learning French. At least gradually & suddenly, I changed my mind and to my surprise, I seen the benefits of language learning. Whether is French, Spanish, German or any language. So that is where that I didn’t see French lessons as “boring subject”.

French language is part of the romance language alongside Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian. It is in top ten of the number of total speakers as French is ranked 7. As we know, it is spoken in 29 countries. France, Canada (especially French speaking province Quebec), Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Monaco, Haiti and French speaking African countries. Even Lebanon since there are some countries that has the French speakers. 

This is the basics of the French language that I know of. Basically that I know are common French phrases.

Bonjour = Hello 

Salut = Hi 

Au Revoir = Goodbye 

Comment ca va = How Are You 

Je Suis = I am 

Tre Bien = Very well 

Bon Voyage = Have a nice trip 

Amie = Friend 

If it is a male friend, it is called “Ami”.

A plus tard = See you later 

Je t’amie = I love you 

Ne Me Quitte Pas = do not leave me

Monsieur = Mister/mr or sir. 

Madame = Madam/miss/ms 

Oui = Yes 

Non = No 

Merci = Thank you 

Merci beaucoup = Thanks a lot/thank you very much 

Je Vous En Prie = You are welcome

Bon Appetit = Enjoy your meal 

The list goes on. That is I can think of & all that I added was the ones that I was taught at my high school. Probably I may not recall that much of what I learned but I know it is easy for me to familiarise of what I have learned while being taught in French lessons as part of the school curriculum. 🇫🇷

At the end of the day, it is all about being fluent in any Foreign language and that is a good thing of learning languages. Whether is in school, work or hobby out of interest. I also previously wrote a blog post about it. mrlimitless95.blogspot.com Knowing the language can be easy and hard.

Lastly, I watched some of films in French. 

I watched Kirikou and the Sorceress (Kirikou et la Sorciere). French animated film. 

Some of them that I watched, I couldn’t remember know the names of French films that I watched whist learning the French language at secondary school. 

mrlimitless95.blogspot.com 

Read my other blog post in French translation if you are interested.