First off a few apologies:

1. Sorry for the delay hope you guys had a great Eid.

2. Not updated the journal in a while, hope you weren't worried.

3. Not commenting on devs/journals, I just couldn't check my inbox everyday. So I stopped checking it. I do check most of your galleries once in a while, just to pass time and see what's been going on. (unfortunately journals just take much too much time and effort) >_>

Edit: 3.1. Ah shit I forgot to mention I've been tagged a fair bit and I can't be bothered to carry out the duties a tagged person has to endure.

4. And most importantly sorry for not maintaining my bridges with you guys.

I've been a bit busy over the past year, and seeing as Eid just went by thought it'd be a good time to reflect or just say something and see if I'm still loved on here .



Anyway, I'm in the third week of uni now, its going well, missing some of my favourite lectures from my last journal and this year I have way fewer lectures. I was so glad when I passed all my subjects last year to get into this one, some of those exams were cruel somehow managed to come out with decent grades in all of them so its all good for now.

I've now moved out of the poshest hall in Bristol and living in a flat with 5 other guys. Who are all cool, but some(one) aren't so hygienic... >_> I need to find out who's making a mess and bollock them

This year I have to cook for myself, its not that bad considering I've yet to cook anything . Mainly because I was fasting, but I usually try to get free food or just eat out. So far I've only had to make pasta twice (and that's the only decent thing I know how to make/heat)

*Hmm looks like this journal is about to get lengthy... Tun back now otherwise don't tell me I didn't warn you*

Well I might as well talk about uni just a little longer, this year looks tough, but kind of fun. The only problem is nearly all my modules require me to know what the hell an Eigen value/vector is or how to solve something called a differential equation. Its only two little things (I tell myself) but gosh could something be any more annoying or just daft, its just not logical.

Oh they have tried teaching me what both is, I even did exams on them and did well, but I'm still clueless to what they are or how they can be solved. Sounds odd, I know, but believe me they scare the s*** out of me.

So that I don't fail like a dumbass I've been attending extra maths lectures that are taught to the other Engineering people... They learn pretty much the same thing as my Maths modules and they have 3 hours of lectures instead of the 2 I get. Technically I should never be in their lecture, but as long as I keep a low profile and don't put my hand up I should get away with it. There are atnleast 200 people in their lectures so its not too hard, some people from the other Engineering streams recognise me, I just bullshit my way through explaining why I am there... Usually it confuses them enough to stop asking awkward questions. >_> BTW only a couple of friends in real life know that I sneak into these extra maths lectures, :geek: thing is I don't want to seem like a weird geek seeking out more maths (I hate maths FYI). The only reason I'm mentioning it here pretty openly is because I just assume everyone on the Internet is just as geeky Come on admit it, you're a geek (No, I don't really think what I just said is true... Honest >_>... Well maybe a little). Oh but today went a little bad, I ended up doing a test in one of these "optional" lectures. So clearly I had to put down a false name, studentID, tutor etc etc. Its hard work trying to learn Maths >_<

On other none academic news, its been pretty fun start to the year. Yesterday I finally won my first ever Kart race. I was well happy it was such and amazing sensation. I can't take all the credit, since my team mates did well as well. Basically it was an endurance race and there are three drivers per team, we have to swap drivers ever once in a while, we opted to pit and change every 20 minutes strategy while others did the 15 minutes one (those fools). It was such fun because this time I nailed it, I wasn't even trying to push hard, every corner came to me and got pwn'd! lol. I made no mistakes which was awesome because I usually have at least one spin or shunt with a barrier in a given race, this time it never happened and as I was just flying. I was so focused on stuff like hitting the perfect apex and getting the right amount traction on exits that for the first time ever I knew I couldn't spin off or make costly mistakes. Nailed several drivers on braking and exists too. Such a great feeling to pass someone then see them fade away! My team mates spun a total of 6 times I think and once one of them buried the kart under some tyres, which was cost so much time (about the time to do an extra lap), and required two marshals to pull the damn thing out. I was so worried since the incident was out of view and I couldn't see my driver come round.

I was driving in the last stint of the 2 hour race so I got the privilege of taking the chequered flag AND lapped everyone at least once to seal the deal. It was awesome, got to hold and wave the chequered flap on a lap of honour too! (Hamilton watch out )

I wasn't the fastest out there, I think my fastest time was a second off the fastest lap of the race and my team mates were of the same ability as me. We really used our heads on the strategy and we helped each other out a lot on tips, in fact we ended up taking different lines to most of drivers out there and our lap times dropped by about 5-6 seconds from the start of the race. We raced on a tight and twisty indoor track, with far too many hairpins for my liking lol. Though it was still mighty fun!

These karts could go upto 50mph an I'm thinking about trying better spec karts that can go up to 90mph and have an acceleration of slow-60mph in 4 seconds. That's super car speed, and since you're practically sitting on the floor, it'll be a hell of a sensation. Its a bit pricey so I don't know if I will try it, I definitely won't be competitive at such speeds, I just want to go for the speed rush. A guy approached me after the podium ceremony (still wearing the medal I got) and took my name, told me he'll tell me more about it.

In other news my eldest sister is expecting another daughter this month (will be her third), I can't wait to meet the new edition, I visit my sister every weekend and try to help out around the house since she's having her house extended. The work's been going on since the beginning of summer, and much of the ground floor area is a tip. My nieces are sweet as usual, I love them so much, for some reason they never get bored of me visiting them so often. Strange kids.

Ah crap I've gone over a thousand words, if only lab reports were as easy to write >_<

Anyway that's pretty much all the relevant news I've got, I've missed some () of you guys, can't say I'll be on much after saying that though lol.

Take care.