Jan
5
14 Days Left!
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Before the big exam day on 19th of January! I would be so relieved after that. I finished answering last year exam on Trade Mark Law. It was not too hard. I do not feel like sharing my answers with anyone though and surely not with the Indian/British girl who wrote to me. She did not bother me again since last time I have not answered to her email.
I realized also that I did not had many nice pictures from my hiking in the UK, what a pity since I have spent a lot of time! There are a lot of slow swimmer this morning. Luckily they stayed in the medium lane. I could pass most of them easily every 4 laps. I guess it is new year’s resolution time!
Jan
4
Cleaning-up
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I deleted many secondary pictures on my Flickr account. I wanted to wipe out the ones that have no real interest to me and the ones that are of lesser quality. That was a big clean-up since I used to keep too many pictures of people I do not even know and I shall probably never meet them again! Life has been so quiet the last 4 days for me that I did not find anything to write on my blog. Everything should resume to normal tomorrow. Slowly but surely people started to come back. The early birds are here for one reason: exam preparation.
Very good and unusual movie to watch: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button!
Jan
1
2009 First Post!
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Christmas and New Year Eve were boring but relaxing. The advantage of doing nothing is that you can actually relax. I did answer half of the Trade Mark Law exam from last year. I was really cold yesterday and today. The city is all white due to snow. I cooked an Indian and a Chinese dish. They were delicious.
Swimming will resume normally tomorrow! Weeeeeeeee!
Dec
31
New Face for a New Year!
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I bought a tripod which allows me to take my own ID picture. Now I can say I have tried every single type of hair, from military short style to long hippie style. It was hard to have long hair. A lot of maintenance especially for a long distance swimmer but I made it! It is not that bad and I kind of like it. It is hard to see myself with short hair again. It does not grow longer for some reason. The chlorinated water keeps on destroying the end and i have to pull lots of tangled hair out after the swim.
Dec
30
7 Hours and 30 Min
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That seems to be all I need as sleep. If I have a power nap after my swim, I will have a hard time sleeping at 10 pm. Today was nice, good swim with very fast swimmers, I do not know where they come from but it seems there is a surge of excellent swimmers the last two days. I bet they come from the squads that miss their normal training schedule with the holiday special schedule. We share nicely the lanes together and no one is passing or getting passed by the others. Very ordered and good techniques!
Back to my last year exam preparation!
Dec
29
Bad Night, Bad Day!
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Just one of these days…I forced myself not to sleep after the swim. Also tonight, no beers, no sleeping pills, no drink after 7 pm.
Let’s see how things go. I need a nice long and continuous sleep!
Dec
28
Finally I managed to start the revision. It took a lot of courage and concentration. 6 questions per class, 12 in total since I have 2 classes. It does not seem too hard like this but it requires a lot of self motivation. I wonder how the others do. I bet they are just like me, lazy people! I met several known faces around yesterday. I thought I was the only one suffering here in Manchester. In fact there are quite a few people in the same situation.
Revolutionary Road, Slumdog Millionaire, Because I said so, The Tale of Despereaux, Little Manhattan, Milk, Griffin and Phoenix, Madagascar 2, The Family Stone
These are the movies I downloaded and watched. Slumdog Millionaire is outstanding, the story is violent and yet interesting. Milk comes second but it takes some times to get into the story, Sean Penn is remarkable nevertheless! I am waiting for Inkheart to be released on the pirated scene.
Dec
27
Scary Situation!
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The laptop crashed and I had to reinstall several times. I thought it was time for the laptop to die. It was a bad timing since it happened on Christmas’s Eve. Luckily it was just the heat that made it unstable. Things seem fine now.
There is a girl in my class who keeps on annoying me about revision. I have not started yet and she wrote to me several emails asking whether she could join my revision group. I do not have one and I hate working with other people. It just seems a big waste of time to me. I told her I will just do the homework and last year exams. Yesterday, she wrote back and asked me if we could exchange our homework and exams answers to see if they match. I just stopped answering her emails…
It was nice to resume swimming today. Very relaxing and almost one lane by myself the whole time.
Dec
26
It does not look or feel anything like winter here in Manchester. It rained few days ago and now it is getting warmer with a beautiful sunshine. Strange weather! It feels like Autumn or Spring.
I just finished a movie: Revolutionary Road. That was dramatic to the highest level. El Orfanato and Revolutionary Road are the two most dramatic film I’ve ever seen. Not to be seen during Christmas holidays for sure! Winslet and Dicaprio again but this time, noone will sing "My Heart will go on"!
Maybe some "after-Christmas" shopping today: Boxing day!
Dec
24
Maybe I will try to do something different next year instead of spending this time of the year in my room. Hopefully a cruise in some hot countries or 2 weeks on a tropical island or in chalet and skiing.
I am trying some herbal sleeping pills to see if they work. I have also sleeping tea. No swimming on Christmas day and Boxind day :(.
Matchbox 20: Leave
Leona Lewis: Better in Time
I also read again some french comic books I have: Le Moine Fou, Les Chroniques de la Lune Noire, Thorgal, Lanfeust . It is strange but I have not found many of these on Rapidshare but there are quite a few on torrent. I do not use torrent sadly, it is very dangerous to use torrent on a campus connection. You get into trouble very quickly.
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