Oct
16
A Good Laugh!
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I was quietly having my dinner in the common kitchen room when Rafiq came in. We started chatting and he mentioned about the noises made by his neighbor next door: the moaning and the banging she made with her newly found BF. I laughed hard and it felt so good to laugh that much. I knew immediately when I met all my 5 flatmates who might be the troubled one. I was right on concerning Cat.
She already gave me troubles because she kept on throwing her trash in the common kitchen bin. I had to put up a sign and asked everyone explicitly not to throw their personnal trash in there! Now she is making noises and she annoyed Rafiq. I am so glad my room is not next to hers! Amy is having her BF next week from the 22nd of October for 9 days. I hope Amy and her BF won’t be noisy!
Oct
14
Little things in my life!
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After a challenging hike on Sunday, my body is again broken. I should not underestimate the dudes and the chick who were in Hike 1. I hope they are enduring the same pain. I went shopping with Amy, my flatmate next door. She is kind and looks all fancy and sexy. She has a great touch with old men because of her natural forms. Anyways, I met two old bastards, one around 40 and the other around 55 complimenting me and telling me how lucky I was to be with her!!! We both laughed. Amy is strange. She kept on attracting old men.
Today I had a great swim with very fast swimmers and I matched their speed! Weee!
I met my other flatmate’s one night-stand also. It was strange to see her with a new man after seeing her boyfriend last week. He came for her birthday. How kind of her :)!
Oct
13
23 kms: 2 peaks up to 1130 m with a marathon runner, a cyclist, a swimmer/basketball player and other unknown athletes with unlimited stamina! Well I was quite humble during the hike. I was at the front of the hike with the cyclist who did not say a word but seemed to be doing fine all the way. Now my ass hurts! Some muscles seemed to be used more than they ought to be during the day.
My hair s really strange, it gets all curly and brownish. I have not touched them for almost 9 months now. Leaving to themselves, they tend to behave in a strange way. I am determined to pursue the experiment and leave them untouched for 3 years!
Oct
10
Birthday + 28 weeks in Europe!
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My blog is now one year old! It has changed so much since it first started. I never thought I would hold that long and I kept it updated quite regularly. It also has become easier for people to follow whenever they feel like my whereabouts. It is stored on Eno’s Slackware box somewhere in Florida. Its stability has defied all my expectations. An exact copy exists locally on my laptop and it will take the relay if Eno’s box dies accidentally. I am using Flickr to store and share my photos. It is faster this way and Flickr’s format is very nice. I did not know it allows any format size to be uploaded. I paid 30 us dollars for a Flick pro account. I also use Rapidshare to upload and share bigger files.
It’s also been 28 weeks that I am back to Europe: Dublin + Manchester. Time flies so quickly, almost 7 months, my face has completely changed because of the long hair style! I am also glad I did not cut them. I wanted to leave them long for 3 years. As usual, I try as much as I can to stick to my words.
Finally I have changed alot mentally. The jump from the tree in Australia has left an indelible mark. It has a deep and strong influence in all of my current and future choices. I was never the same person since that day for the best or the worse!
Oct
10
A certain consensus!
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It looks like that people at the pool started to realize I am a bit faster than them. I was very surprised yesterday to find my lane almost empty and the lane next to me full of medium swimmers. Today almost only fast swimmers were in my lane, and slower ones were kindly letting me pass them. It was nice to swim the last two days. Maybe there is a consensus among swimmers now that they saw what I could do. We shall see if it is becoming a real trend. SoI have 2 swim buddies who are a bit faster than me but not too much.
Oct
9
I managed to finish my TODO list of the week:
1. ask my advisor about the possibility to convert my PgDip to LLM (Master) in IP
2. Look for a dentist to do dental cleanings (scale + polish)
3. Update my CV and answer an offer sent within the school
I was happy about the job offer, it gave some confidence about the choice I made concerning the IP. I will talk to the advisor tomorrow. I was afraid of sending the email because of my current home/UK status, I did not want them to look too closely into my files and discover I could be a international student.
I also, by precaution, withdrew 300 GBP in cash. Just in case, my bank goes bankrupt. I still have cash aside while waiting for a claim to the government to get through. I am not afraid of loosing money, it would just take some times to recover money if your bank goes bankrupt.
Oct
6
I went hiking on Sunday. It was nice but Borrowdale is very much like Keswick since they both are in the Lake District area. So a feeling of “Deja vu”: Borrowdale.
It took again 12 hours. I am not sure I want to spend that much time hiking and taking pictures. I am sure I can take more pretty pictures by myself if I go there by train. Some spots around the lake are just wonderful and we did not spend time there. We went to the hills to hike.
Oct
4
My first entrance exam in Law!
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I had an exam yesterday and it was not too bad. I fully answered the case part and I think I did very good understanding the case and analyzing it. The other part about general knowledge was not good but I can easily fix that in the future. Law is not hard. It is about understanding the rules and applying them to your specific case. A good lawyer will try to interpret the words from the past and applying them to his case for the better. I do not know if I like law yet, it seems rather boring at first but the more you learn about law, the more you know and maybe with time I can be a good patent attorney. I think it is a good, stable job for the future…We shall see!
I have another Hike tomorrow. The weather seems correct.
Oct
3
10000 Euros to change my life!
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After two weeks and half in Manchester I can say I am fully installed, a quick financial summary:
1. 9 Months tuition: 3390 GBP
2. 40 weeks housing fee: 4110 GBP
3. 12 Months Swim membership: 120 GBP
4. Hiking: 150 GBP
Total: 7770 GBP (9950 Euros)
I have not estimated my food and other extra activities (cinema, restaurant, social events, etc…). I would like to buy either the new Nikon D700 or a laptop. With two expensive cameras, I will need to sell the Nikon D200. Maybe I should wait until I get a job because so far no other camera can seriously beat the Nikon D200. Normally with these calculations, everything falls into my previous estimations and I do not need a part time job. The Home/UK tuition fee did help a lot and also the underestimation of my Australian Supperannuation gave me a better margin even!
ALL IS GOOD!
Oct
1
An Expensive Call!
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I was so worried about this supperannuation cheque that was supposed to be posted to my Irish address a month ago that I called Unisuper this morning. The cheque was sent to an Australian bank that was supposed to convert it into Euro. Because of the international turbulence, it took a bit longer. I am happy because I could at the same time update my information. I am hoping the conversion is in my favor but I seriously doubt about it. AUD dollar follows the same trend as US dollar which is inverse to the Euro.
In the end: 18 GBP for a long distance call. What is also sad is that I no longer need Euros :(. It will have to stay in my french ING bank then.
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