A persent History of Ian Rosmarin

Last night I went to another to yet another Jewish event this time round it was young Jamie's NU. It was a good party and I met some people I hadn't seen in a fairly long time other was talking to various acquaintances as most of my mates live in Israel and or married. The women look great and on the surface it should have been a pulling market but if you talk to most of them they already had boyfriends. There were a few of us who were single in fact one of the girls I met there I had seen on dating direct a very good non-Jewish dating website and Jdate you would think looking at her that she was perfect for some guy. For a start she is a musician she is witty and funny unfortunately she isn't really my type (but I would not say no to snogging). Even if you do manage to meet a Jewish girl fall in love and have children. Very few people realise the Jewish community (non Orthodox mainstream) in this country has the highest divorce rates of any Jewish community in the World outside America or any community for that matter in Britain.

The disasters are easily seen in statistics most people agree that their is a problem (but most seem to worry more about marrying out!). The problem seems to be its so hard to marry in! I can give you five or six examples of couples who should never have got together but only did as they had the same friends. At the same time people like my friend who is very good looking and should not be single cannot find anyone. I know four people who have married and within a year they are signing the divorce papers. The only one who had lasted more than a year had been was pregnant at the time and wanted the child to be born in wedlock. It is not only me who is experienced this I talked to the cabbie who is telling me that he had two friends who had got married a few months later they had started getting divorced. The result of all this divorce we now have a generation of kids with parents living in more than one home. Family breakdown since be fairly common in the Jewish community in the UK I don't know if I'm being frank if this is getting worse in other parts of Britain society but as we are more educated we are seeing this first in our community.

What if you do find the perfect Jewish girl? But you have yet to ask her out? Any Jewish man will tell you if he has tried to marry into the Jewish community you have to get past her friends. If the friends do not like you do not have a hope in hell. I have had four girlfriends in the last two years. Three non-Jewish am one of them was Jewish honestly have to say that the non-Jewish ones are easier to date than the Jewish one. The only reason I ended the three non-Jewish relationships was that one went back with her ex-boyfriend the other two moved back home and they lived in North America. The Jewish ones friends and family adviser not to carry on the relationship they believed trainee lawyer was not the real lawyer and I was not financially viable. That's the crap the Jewish men now have to put up with when trying to meet a Jewish girl. No wonder so many Jewish men are now trying to marry out rather than stay within a community that they feel that they will never meet a partner.

I walked around the dance floor I noticed the attractive women I chatted a few more up and I had a good time but I couldn't help but think the music was not what most of us were there for and the reality was we weren't getting any...

In the last few weeks I been playing with the idea of writing a blog a day. In fact it was my original plan for ths blog that I would do one a day. Unfortunately I have not found any time at all to do that so as I can guess as my reader you may be wondering why you may sometimes read more than one blog a day at and other times you might wait weeks and weeks for my next blog. I am so busy often I don't have any time at all other times I am time rich and at these times there are multiple blogs a day!

First I am going to say it Gordon Brown must quit, I know the title says he must die but I want you to read this article! First I'm going to say I don't think Gordon Brown is a bad leader to the contrary he was a great chancellor the problem is he can't do his job. The other members of his cabinet don't seem to be even scared of him any more. The foreign office minister is now even declaring that he wants Brown's job. It no longer matters even if he is a good leader we know that he had potential the early disasters of his premiership he was able to deal one at a time. Early on we called him Stalin now we have to call on Mr Bean so sorry Brown thanks for the fish and thanks for being a good chancellor but I think it's time he left the job to someone who can do it and someone who understands

Today I spent my time seeing in the walkabout at Temple South Africa's rugby team being thrashed 0-12 by New Zealand. However this was not the highlight of my day the highlight of my day would come later on.

I was invited to a beach party with the difference the beach party was on the River Thames. No your not misreading what I am saying we were partying outside the National Festival Hall. From the start the party seemed to have some fairly surreal qualities for example before the party me and the other people I went with won't even sure if there would be a party. The reason for this was the beach was under the River Thames but as the River Thames is tired locked we had to wait for the river to disappear.

From the start it was a great party I am not going into any details but if you ever hear that the church of trance is having a party trust me go to the party...

Ever slept and thought you were awake?

I know its the question from the matrix but here I am asking the question the reason being that of the last six weeks I have had an average of around about four hours sleep a night. In fact I been so busy I don't think I've had a single rest I've been running around delivering court papers doing changes to my CV and when I've had a few minutes off in my spare time having sex! Okay that's not really something I should mention of the fact is I've had almost no free time this summer.

And it suddenly hit me this is the first time it ever happened. I mean I've worked hard before but I've actually worked hard during the summer holidays. So after all I've been through I now finally have my freedom. However now I need to do my pre-course work which is another nightmare.

Chemistry was much harder than law that is a fact but law is just a load of work. We have such a heavy workload that I know these 10 students who fail their exams and three who left before they even did them. As I sit here in my room trying to relax I can take comfort in one fact the LPC otherwise known as the legal practice course I have been told is much easier than GDL I hope to God they are right or I will go into the insane asylum before I'm even finished.

In east London in my opinion there are four markets today I saw two of them. The one I didn't see was the Cuban flower market which usually closes about 12 hiding I did not manage to get to algate east till about two o'clock. The three markets I saw I start with the two in Old Truman Brewery which likes to call itself ‘the creative hub of the East End’. First I'm going to start with the bad points the website is totally wrong not only is it not new the place is 11 years old creative hub of London or that part of London (Hoxton is where it's really going on) but it's also not self-contained as I'm about to explain it is too small to have two markets it would be better if they would just one market. The two markets the upmarket and Backyard markets are wonderful they remind me of the market I went to five years ago when my grandmother was dying of cancer. As me and my mother looked after her I would sometimes spend a few hours in Spitalfields. In those days it hadn't yet been redeveloped it was a wonderful place to go. It was messy dirty and you could buy almost anything there from a new book to a dodgy pair of shoes. The upmarket in the backyard markets are full of weird and wonderful artistic gems. They're also full of entrepreneurs selling off new T-shirts and various other trinkets. You can buy earrings there records and if like a lot of people you like Chinese and Thai food then it's heaven. Myself have never been an adventurous when it comes to food I hate Eastern food I tend over the European Middle Eastern food. As I walked round both markets the first thing that struck me was their size. In Camden and the old Spitalfields is a vast markets with often hundreds maybe a thousand stalls. It was often hard to walk around here it was easy to walk around. It was only after two o'clock the market started to fill up. Both markets are great they're noisy they're full of variety and a great places to be. If I was on entrepreneur I'd go to either market and these days are not just open on a Sunday that also open on satday.

I then walked out of the markets and crossed a busy road. It'd be many years since I'd been to Spitalfields I walked into the brick facade and I managed to get a shock. I guess I feel like people did when the old Euston station was knocked down and the so-called modernistic masterpiece replaced it. All I can hope is that within 20 years unlike Euston station which took 40 years they will knock down the grey boxes. The first shock I got was that the atmosphere had completely changed to Spitalfields. It no longer felt like a market it felt clinical boring and soul less. It reminded me of some public school girl who I chatted up at university.She looked the part but the minute you went deeper beyond the facade you find that it's clean and not the sort of place you'd want to go today.

I talked to the stall owners they agreed most from the old Spitalfields have now left. Some have gone to the markets in the Truman Brewery others have retired others still have gone to markets outside the area. The redesign of Spitalfields has been a disaster everyone knows it's a disaster. As a trainee lawyer who was sweet irony to find out that half of Spitalfields had been knocked down for a building that would hold 3000 lawyers. If it was me I would have moved Spitalfields brick by brick to another part of London it would have been better sense. Instead they have ruined the building they ruin the whole idea of a market in London and all we have left is a shell a corpse a dead body another ghost of London's past and its lost forever...

The two markets upmarket and backyard market at the Truman Brewery are great they have energy however I don't see them lasting long unless something is done about Spitalfields. The two markets are simply too small to maintain their own existence with out a new market being founded nearby. I walked around and unlike the old Spitalfields site which would have taken maybe 20 minutes to get round or if you were looking at the products an hour the two markets in my opinion were less then 10 minutes to get through. For me it was a shock I love the part of London both Truman and Spitalfields are in I consider it my home borough and my home neighbourhood. However I've not being to go to algate in a very long time in my GDL and my friends and my job I've not been there in almost 5 years. Before that I was working as a temp and before that I was at university in Manchester I was lucky if I could ever see a member of my family who lives in the area let alone visit the markets. When I finally did get to east London I found a shell of a place I once loved. Soon crossrail will also be coming to the area in 2017 I hope that it does not ruin this village of London even more than the redevelopment of Spitalfields has.

And that really is my thought for the day...

Yes it's true these are my three most favourite things. I'm not going out any details why the first thing I loved because of taste food and meeting new people in general I love travelling and experiencing life. I love I love someone falling for me and all the little things that go with them and I love the last thing well it's a good way of passing the time llol.

Meanwhile as I write I can't help but think about the last four years they have for the most part been pretty boring. The first year I was doing a master in enterprise which was an absolute disaster and did not come to anything and took up all my time. I spent the next half the year finishing and trying to grab something from the disaster of that year. Then the remaining 18 months before I started my GDL I spent mostly unemployed being a temp. Actually the last six months before I started my GDL I was hardly unemployed and all I was going from one marketing job to the other. Then I come to the fourth year my law conversion course itself the decision to do it was last minute there was plenty of discussion. But the downturn with recession now pretty much start it don't regret the decision at all. The only regret I have got is that they do make the decision right after I left university.

But that is the thing with life you cannot change it you can only learn from it...

After four weeks in a three-week placement (the law firm I was working with extended it) I am finally free. I woke up this morning without thinking about the work I was doing the following week. I have decided today to have a rest tonight I'm going out with a close friend to celebrate a good month. It seems to me that it's been a busy time as I have met new people snogged a few women and generally had fun.

The last month and every day I have worn a suit I soon found out that wearing a suit is in fact a very good way of finding girls to take out on a date. Due to the suit I have managed to go out with for women and that's not all I've done...