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https://www.linkedin.com/in/antoin-gibson-368627217/ I'm still surviving, thriving, and covid hasn't been able to hold me back! Just a shameless professional promotion and life update that I'm not dead, I haven't had covid. Instead, I've been busy rocketing my life on track again and getting my career progression started! Despite Covid, I've managed to self-teach and become a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians after getting my advanced diploma (completing it in 6 weeks, might I add to blow my own trumpet) and got my AATQB status on my path to try and become a chartered Accountant! I set up my LinkedIn account as soon as I received the news that I had gained membership to a professional accounting body and got 34 more certifications with my free 30-day premium trial because I can't afford the monthly costs. xD Interviewing with some of the finest, my first job interviews might I add with an impending one for Price Water Coopers I may be old approaching nearly 30 and appearance withered with years of horrible traumatic times, but I am bouncing back strong! And maybe some photos of me in professional attire in the coming future as my confidence and wardrobe rebuild themselves. I'm coming up 30 next year and my relevance and youth is gone but for anybody who forgot about me and thought I'd given up and fallen by the wayside. I'm still powering forward! Never give up! <3

Surviving, Thriving and Career interview make-up!
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Game on!

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Oh just to show how well things have been going I've been in a position to get my gamer geek on again! I've been working hard and playing just as hard again. Just some gifts, also discovered I am perfectionist and actually very capable of DIY! I built my gaming PC is one thing, but I also assembled my gaming chair and gaming desk for my PC gaming set up.. And anyone else manage to get a ps5 day one? Just got the TV most recently to get a proper 2021 55 inch real 4k OLED television with the works of tech to get the full use of my ps5 abilities!

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Hey everyone hope you are all doing well, I haven't posted anything in a while so just came to write a brief post to express my excitement for this coming Sunday. Even though I essentially put modelling on hold after my best friends passed away, I just happened across an opportunity to be part of a transgender exposé that will be published in the Sun newspaper. For those who live outside the UK it is one of the most circulated tabloid newspapers in the UK with nearly 7 million readers daily based on the statistics from this time last year. This is an amazing opportunity for a lot of exposure and hopefully could lead to bigger and better things! ^^ This may be the beginning of a turn around, wish me luck! ^^ xx
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Hey everybody. I haven't posted anything in a while and just thought I'd post a little update of what has been going on to show that I'm still alive and kicking. I don't like to seem like I'm moaning and complaining all over the internet because it kind of seems like that since all my updates have been of negative stuff happening and I really wish that wasn't the case but I feel really alone at the minute so I don't want to lose all your support as well. >_< You keep me going strong. x

Basically, I'm back in Ireland (I'm from Northern Ireland originally  but moved to London 3 years ago) because my self-fulfilled prophecy came true from my last post. I got evicted. How it happened wasn't what was expected though. Basically one night when I was out I got mugged (probably my fault for walking around with a Prada bag in a dodgier part of London >_<, but my Prada bag was my prized position! T_T). My bag had all my valuables in it, my money, cards, phone, iPod, my passport, house keys, everything! I was left stuck in a part of London and while walking around alone trying to find a way back actually got molested by a random stranger who I'd noticed was taking photos of me from a distance and forced himself kissing me after I confronted him to delete the photos that he was taken. I was saved by someone walking past thankfully and after I explained my situation and seeing how shaken up I was the person was really nice and gave me some change to get a bus home safely. Now I thought my housemates couldn't get any worse, but when I went to the house and rang the doorbell they refused to open it! I heard them all inside when I listened through the letterbox and called in and they didn't answer! I was stuck on the street, went to a nearby friend's house and contacted my landlord. I asked him for a replacement key and explained how my housemates wouldn't let me into the house and they told me to pay my rent first before they'd do anything. (My rent was due the next day). I explained to the landlord that now I had no cards or anything that I needed to get into my room to get some bank documents in order to make a bank transfer to them for the rent so I needed to at least get into the house. They just kept spamming me with "Pay your rent" over and over and then eventually started ignoring my pleas to get into the house I was paying for! I went back to the house again and rang the doorbell over and over until someone answered and was when it was finally opened I was greeted with "What do you want?" I explained my situation about being mugged and having no key and then the housemate responded to me with "That's not my problem. Don't wake me up!" then slammed the door in my face! At this point I was really annoyed by the whole thing (this had spanned over a number of days at this point) so I sent an email to my landlord clearly stating my annoyance and how I was not going to pay any rent until I was allowed back into the house because why should I pay rent for somewhere I don't have any access to? (I think that is reasonable, right?) His response: "Oh you always think you're the victim in all of this! This isn't the first time you've been mugged, clearly there is a reason why you're prone to this happening. You losing your key and ringing the doorbell constantly is causing an inconvenience for everybody else in the house and me as a landlord. I hereby quit and am giving you official notice of eviction. You have 28 days to make other arrangements." ...So I got evicted because it is my fault I was mugged and that I'm totally unreasonable thinking I should be allowed into the house I'm paying for with all my stuff in it... Maybe I'm not understanding the situation clearly but was I really in the wrong?

Anyway, a key was finally made and I got into the house to a letter saying that all my money for rent was cancelled anyway and that instead I owed the council hundreds of pounds in overpayments so I couldn't even have afforded to stay anyway! This totally came out of the blue and the reason stated on the letter for this happening was that I didn't respond to the letter the council had sent me a month prior to this one. I never received any letter from them before, this was all news to me so financially I was screwed again for finding somewhere else to go. I stayed with a friend briefly while trying to work things out and my brother in Ireland said I could stay with him for a while which I am so thankful for because I was afraid I might of had to move back into the tent! However I left Ireland behind for a reason, and I had to leave all my friends in London behind to go back to a place where I didn't have any anymore. Of course I'm aiming to try and go back again someday (hopefully as soon as possible before everyone moves on with their lives and forgets about me over here >_<). It will involve a lot of saving though which I thought would start with my deposit for the last place but when I emailed my landlord about the deposit he said that he didn't evict me (even though I had it in writing), I moved out of my own accord and so forfeited my deposit and instead owe them rent money, money to clean the room and to change the lock on my room door from losing my key. I mean what the hell!? Is it my destiny to be screwed over by every person I ever meet? I can't even do anything about it now because I'm no longer in London so can't even take them to court to get the deposit back so that is them getting away with it while I'm left to suffer. 

I could rant about that other stuff all day, but to get to the main point of the post and the thing that hit me hardest is that the day before my trip back to Ireland my other best friend passed away. In London I was best friends with two girls, Cassie and Zak, we were as close as can be; a trio, were always together having fun, supporting each other through everything, always being there for each other no matter what. I've never met anyone more amazing than these two girls in my life. They were extremely intelligent, bubbly, kind, understanding, supportive, never had a bad word to say about anyone even when people treated them badly, everything! They were beautiful people and my soulmates. The first of these passed away in June, and now the second passed away the day before my trip back to Ireland. I couldn't even go to her funeral. I still don't know how to process it, why did this happen? They were both so young and had so much to live for and now I'm completely alone. The last of the trio. I almost am under the illusion that it is some sort of curse. How things happened just seems too unbelievable to be coincidence. I can't help but feel like I may be next. How does one go on when they've lost everything? I just want to cry out to them for support to help me get through all this, but I can't. They are gone. Forever. At least when the first passed I had the other and we supported eachother but now she is gone too. Why did they leave me alone? I'm hurting so much and am now stuck completely alone in a city I hate that represses who I am with no one to talk to and in a situation that I don't know how I'm going to get out of. I just want to be back in London surrounded by friends, cuddled between Cassie and Zak laughing and not having a worry in the world like it used to be. That can never happen, things will never be the same again. The glimmer of hope for this life is burning out. 

R.I.P Cassie and Zak. I love you both and I hope we'll be reunited again one day. I'll never forget either of you. <3 xx 

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Sorry for the super depressive post (again) but when you're only way to organise your thoughts and release some emotion is the internet then posts like this can be unavoidable! 

How are things going with all of you? ^^ That is always my favourite part of these posts, getting to read how everyone else is doing and what you are  getting up to. It always brightens my day to read when things are going great for people I care about. <3 x
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Homeless again?

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It seems that this isn't meant to be. I've lived in this house 3 months and it seems to already have come to this. Three couples around the same age, all friends, and they all don't even speak English in the house which doesn't help my paranoia. Ever since I moved in they constantly make false complaints against me (don't know why they took against me, I've a feeling it might be because of how I look or homophobia of some sort >_<, there is just something). For example, when I was staying at my friend's house for 2 weeks after my best friend committed suicide and I didn't want to be alone, I returned to find out that I apparently broke the toilet seat, shower and food... I wasn't even there!? There were even bottles with marker lines showing the apparent level the drink was at, where it was now and how much was stolen. Wtf? Even so I went out of my way to get my friend (he's a construction worker) to fix all the issues in the house and for practically free (as a favour to me) to keep them happy, got together with the landlord and the tenants and everything was outlined. I thought it was finally sorted but made an active effort to go out as much as possible just to let them be and only came back to sleep, get ready etc.) There are 2 bathrooms in the house, I use the upstairs one near my room as the downstairs bathroom is right next to the biggest bitch's room >_< (she has aggressively shouted at me and banged on my door on numerous occasions) and I try to avoid the other housemates as much as possible; but yesterday I was in a hurry to go out and the upstairs bathroom was in use. I brought my make up and toiletries downstairs to get ready, cleaned up after and promptly went back to my room to put them back. After I left the bathroom, I heard the bitch housemate come out of her room and was purposely snooping around to find something to complain about. "DON'T STEAL OUR TOILET ROLL!" screams up the stairs at me and I'm like wtf? I put on make up! I didn't even NEED toilet roll, in anger I slammed my room door and then "DON'T SLAM THE DOORS!" >_> 5 minutes later, I receive a text from my landlord saying that whether or not anything that was said against me was true it is their job to keep the peace in the house and since I moved in there have been constant complaints and so the next time there is a complaint made about me, if my rent is late, ANYTHING then they are going to give me notice and I'll have 28 days to make other arrangements. As much I would love to live elsewhere, I can not afford to move out; I know it'll only be a matter of time before another complaint is made but I didn't think I'd be screwed this soon. This wasn't a complaint that screwed me though, someone pickpocketed my wallet while I was out with all my cards and £100 in cash (my rent money is paid weekly in cash which is so annoying >_<) so now I can't pay my rent tomorrow.... How can someone's luck be THIS bad? Really? All within a day? I was homeless for 8 months before and it was hell and really don't know if I can do it again. T_T If anyone can shed some light on any type of homeless housing help I can get or whatever I'd really appreciate it. >_< I tried a lot before but maybe there is something I missed? Let me know! Also this probably means no career or photos for a while. >_< Bleh. 

Hope everyone is having a better week than I am anyway. ^^ xx Keep safe and stay strong
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