Mind Blank... The History of Me.

As I sit here thinking, I can't help but wonder what to write this evening. So I'll do something different, give a brief account of what I've done over the last 2 days on runescape, and also on my project work, and then really let people know what kind of stuff I do outside of lab work, and hopefully what kind of person I really am.

(After re-reading it, I find it scattered and in places nonsensical, but stick with it)

So, for runescape, the process is going well in my opinion. But I think I might begin breaking up the monotony with a little fire making. I have made all 350k arrow shafts, and so far converted 65k to headless arrows. Soon I need to smith my 4k bars in to 60k arrow heads, which could be done soon, but I'll probably make all the headless arrows first.

Lab work is going well, I'm a step further in my synthesis, a step towards a paper, and a step towards being able to mess around more with the chemistry that I'm carrying out. This project is going much better than my last, and I'm so glad, as last year my project was horrible, nothing went my way, and my final grade for the year suffered because of it. This year though, I'm already writing up my project report, I'm getting good, clear and consistent data, and I'm very happy in my knowledge of what I'm actually aiming for.

So. Me.

I'm from the UK, but am currently living in Singapore, I didn't so much as choose this placement as be chosen for it. I'm in my 4th year at university studying Chemistry at Southampton, but as mentioned, away on work placement. When I was in school I didn't have the easiest time, like some people I know now, and I only have one friend now from back then, and she means the world to me. I then went to 6th form, at the same school, and took A-levels in Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Chemistry. I was a poor Physicist, an average mathematician, but, in my opinion, I was a good Chemist. Over one summer, that between the last year of school, and the first year of 6th form, the people who didn't mean anything to me, and we're horrible, bullied me, and consistently gave me a hard time didn't stay on. Which made the atmosphere much friendlier in 6th form, and gave me a real hunger for knowledge. In school, there was nothing pushing me, I had no desires, but in 6th form, being treated more grown up, and realising that my whole future is in my hands I went for it. Made good friends, in the first year, however only one of them I'm still friends with as many people didn't make an effort to keep in contact with me despite efforts on my part.

The second and final year of school in 6th form, I met the group of friends that I believe now, more than ever helped shape me. Theres a group of 5 guys, who I started hanging out with, drinking with, and having a generally awesome time with. We all enjoy listening to heavy metal, and since we have all explored different areas and can continually suggest new bands for one another to listen too. As it turned out, about a few months in we all realised we had a shared love of runescape, which was a shock and a joy to me, as I'd been playing since school.

6 months, Including a summer spent in the best way possible, working getting money, and getting wasted on the night before my days off, we became awesome friends. In my opinion, at this point, I had 7 friends in the world. No more, no less. And in no way was that a bad thing. Then I moved to southampton, moved in to halls, became friends with the people I lived with, and lived with 3 of them for 3 years, one of them for 2 of those 3 and one of them for only one. However, its fair to say that the one that didn't stay with us had good reason not too as she's a medic and was crazy busy, so living with medics was a good choice for her. At the moment I'm still in contact with all of them, and am really glad I met them all. I met a lot of people at uni, not just through where I lived, but also my course, snowboarding trips and through Kung Fu, among others. Two people from my course stand out. One I will not mention as its still difficult for me to express, whereas the other I made friends with in my first week, and have maintained that friendship throughout, and he's just done something epic, which I'm happy for him, and wish him all the best.

I was the Captain of the Shaolin Kung Fu club at the university for my 3rd year, and it was such an incredible experience. I'd been with the club for 2 years, and I really wanted to see it survive, as I was the sole remaining member of the club going into the 3rd year. Roping in friends to help out with the admin side of things, this was one of my greatest achievements in my opinion, going from one member, to 20+ in one year, with consistent turn out. Which pleased me immensely.

So, that is a brief, incomplete history of me. All the way through this time I've been playing runescape, actually I've been on this forum for longer than I've known most of these friends, which is a strange revelation.

Thank you for reading.

Peace.