The 4th Des Ley

What lottery numbers do you choose and how do you choose your lottery numbers? Do you use family birthdays or important dates? Choosing your child’s birthday or your granny’s age can all be good ways to select your lottery numbers and give you reasoning to the seemingly random process. Although there is no evidence to suggest that selecting numbers this way to a sure route to success. I believe that using numbers that have a strong personal connect can be a good way to improve your luck and project a positive vibe into your life.

In a deal or no deal style of game play engaging with your mental attitude can be a way of redirecting your life alone lines that take you to your desired path. Be able to change your economic situation is strongly linked to an individuals awareness that they have the ability to change there life. What are your numbers associated with negative things peoples death or births. Is the number lucky because its prominent in your life or because it positive in your life. Choosing your lottery numbers could be just as important as how you choose your partner.

One of my favourite music news and reviews websites always ends every interview they do with bands by asking them the same question: what are some of the best live bands you've seen?

I love reading the interviews and seeing what all the different bands say their best live bands are, and so it got me thinking about how I would answer that question.

I think the first one would be when I got to see the Foo Fighters at the o2 Arena. It's not the best venue to see a band you love because it's so unbelievably huge and has less atmosphere than smaller shows, but it was absolutely phenomenal. We managed to get to the front in the crowd of 23,000 people and had such a good view. They played for ages too it was great, I still have live videos from it stored on my r4 3ds.

I guess other than that it would be seeing System Of A Down at the Astoria before they tore it down. I was really young and it was the first time I saw them, I was crowdsurfing with my friends and going crazy, it was absolutely amazing.

Photo: © Laura Callan

I should have headed to npower.com/fix when I was a student as my electricity and gas bills were massive. It is very easy to forget the fact that eventually an energy bill will arrive through the letter box at an unknown but certain point in the future. Living in Scotland, one needed a great deal of electricity to keep warm. My first flat as a student was so cold, even with the heating on, that your breath rose in front of your face when sitting in the sitting room. I’m sure it was colder indoors than it was outdoors for some reason.

In that flat my four flat mates and I used the heating without prejudice or qualms. Not having the heating on in the mornings was a sure fire way to spend all day in bed, it was essential to have a vaguely warm flat to lure you out of your comfortable bed nest. Then March arrived and with it came our energy bill, a whopping £1500. Not exactly what a pack of students want when March also signals the final month of the student loan batch.

Why are there so many essential things that we need to do in life, that are incredibly and infinitely boring?

Everyone says you have to go around and get quotes and compare prices for your electricity, insurance, etc, but I just feel lazy with it because it's so boring. Whichever quote looks cheap enough and decent will do.

I'm looking at a life insurance quote and it looks alright to me, I just can't be bothered with all the comparing and scrutinising, surely life insurance is life insurance?

I know I'm being stupid, but it's so dull. And to be honest, it's a bit of a big step for me to be getting life insurance. Like, my life is now at a stage that it is worth insuring. It's for the good of your family, your estate and your children, it's a very grown up thing!

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Damien Hirst is arguably Britain's most famous and most controversial artist of our time, and in 2012 he will have his first ever UK retrospective at the Tate Modern.

His work will be on show at the Tate Modern during the 2012 Olympics and will likely draw crowds from all over the world who are already in town for the events.

I've never been too sure of Damien Hirst's work, I've found some of it to be a bit too shock-and-awe, like with the animals in formaldehyde, though I did quite like the human skull covered in jewels.

I wonder what it'll be like to see 'A Thousand Years', it's a vitrine containing a rotting cow's head, flies and an electric fly-killer - not exactly my kind of thing, so I can't really imagine how it works.

It's not on until next summer so it's a while before I'll find out, but it's sure to be an interesting one!

Photo: Sterin (Flickr)