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  1. Failure

    · topham · 10/26/10 04:20 PM

    So I've been in the lab the last two days, working incredibly hard to get my project rolling, but upon attempting the step I was at I couldn't progress any further no matter what I was doing, so I've had to call an end to the work I was focusing on and find a new way to reach what I'm after. Which is irritating as I was so close to completing as well.
    So I got demotivated, didn't want to carry on, and eat crap for the rest of the day. But I didn't, I went to TKD, and I had a wicked training session, it helped me with my attitude to my project, and it gives me encouragement for the work that I'm about to do.
    I changed my flight home so that I'll be able to spend my birthday with my friends for the first time ever i think, which I'm very much looking forward to.
     
    I haven't played any runescape, I know I've got a jungle strykeworms task to carry out, which is fun, and i'm looking forward to doing it, but slayer seems to be the only thing I'm actually motivated to do at the moment. Oh well, such is runescape.
     
    I've also been trying to get hold of one of my friends, but she's pretty useless, and I really wanna chat to her, but due to me being in a very different time zone I can't get hold of her at all. It's also annoying that I want to chat to any of my friends and at the moment I feel a bit redundant as I can't get hold of any of them easily, other than facebook, which I'm not too much a fan of, and I really need some friendly encouragement from them.
     
    I've not really got much else to write, so I'll stop here for now.
     
    Peace

  2. panic!!

    · topham · 10/12/10 03:33 PM

    So I've been in the lab yesterday and today and I know my reaction has been going on, and when trying to isolate my product it is elusive and is difficult to find. Now I'm trying my best to find it, but I'm having no luck, and its becoming infuriating. So at some points I fear I might have accidentally chucked it away, which would be terrible as either the product or starting material has only been made by me and theres only about 200 milligrams of it in my lab, and its unlikely that anyone else is working on the same thing as me. Now this is both exciting and irritating, as "Yay!! I'm the only one to have ever made this" is a particularly weird thing to say, and then you need to characterise everything to do with the molecule so anyone else who is after it knows what to look for.
     
    Oh well. The new scape update looks alright, not what i was entirely expecting but I think i'll be using it sooner rather than later.
     
    In tae kwon do today I had a lot of fun, but now both knees feel bust and its difficult to walk and a bruise is growing just below my ribs and its rather uncomfortable.
     
    I feel like I'm putting weight back on, which is not fun, and I'm not enjoying it, but I'm getting stupidly hungry as of late, enough so that I had back to back lunches yesterday so that I could fill myself up.
     
    Peace.

  3. Rage

    · topham · 10/10/10 03:27 PM

    So I'll start with some good stuff. I got back to back dark bow drops yesterday, which was incredible and was followed by a d med drop a few kills later. I also got level 91 defence which I think means this was a pretty productive weekend.
     
    Now the title argument that I'm so engrossed with at the moment.
    Cameras.
    Specifically people with 'expensive' cameras.
    At the moment, to me at least, it seems like everyone wants to take up photography and everyone needs an SLR. I really don't understand the fascination. I feel that taking a photo of a moment requires a set up to need it to mean something, where as anyone i know is snap happy and things anything will make a good photo, no matter what its about or what it involves. Now, today, in my opinion was a perfect opportunity for people to take pictures, as we were at a nature reserve, where pictures of animals are to be expected. However, waiting for these pictures to appear seems a bit redundant to me. Actively hunting them seems more appropriate, however the whole concept of taking photographs still I find utterly confusing.
    I hope I'm not alone in this matter, but I honestly cannot understand the reason behind everyone chronicling every single moment they spend doing anything.
     
    So this weekend for me has been pretty amazing, I went to a nature reserve and have a video of me close up to a lizard and it was so much fun, and I hope i entertained everyone I was with, and we had such a fun time, then we went out and got potato wedges and beer, which was a really enjoyable night, and I might have ended up a little drunker than I thought i would have, but at least I posted my blog on the right day eh?
     
    Peace

  4. Friends

    · topham · 10/07/10 03:03 PM

    So this week, the people that I came to singapore with, my friends from southampton all went to Bali, they should be back tomorrow, and then we will all be seeing each other probably on Sunday. Now, I've been surviving by chatting to my friends online, and spending time with the people in my lab group, who are all excellent people, and all people I would call my friends now. However, upon spending time with nearly everyone today there is a clear split in the group, which is understandable, but hopefully nothing will come of it.
     
    Currently I really miss all my friends in the UK quite a lot, and I really cannot wait to get home and see everyone, and as much as I try I seem not to even slightly be able to keep up with everyone as much as I like, but I keep trying.
     
    My lab work is going well, and hopefully I've made enough for now to get a few steps closer to finishing, and I've explored some new things this week which was exciting.
     
    As for runescape... Nothing to report, trying to think of a decent goal I can get motivated to do.
     
    Oh well.
    Peace

  5. Delicious (idiotic ramblings)

    · topham · 10/05/10 03:36 PM

    I love peanut butter!! Its delicious and yummy and one of my favourite things ever.
    I've just got in from having dinner, and it was delicious, even though it wasn't peanut butter based. I had a vegetarian briyani set and an egg and cheese prata. Both were yummy and I ate it all. I can still taste the prata as it was brilliant. Admittedly it was a lot of food and i'm only now realising that i shouldn't have eaten that much.
     
    We trained for 3 hours at tae kwon do today and did some motivation things at the end which were pretty cool. I've signed up for the clubs ultimate challange thats a week on saturday, which is from 11am to 10pm, then at 3 am sunday I'll need to head to the airport as I'm flying to japan, so that'll be a hell of a weekend.
     
    Kickboxing has been fun, but I'm really enjoying the sense of belonging to a club that tae kwon do has. I'm joining the boxing club on their first session at the weekend to try and help out at founding the club which is something I feel I can help with.
     
    I'm currently really enjoying 5 finger death punch sooo much, I don't think i can listen to their album enough.
     
    I was playing some runescape, and even after 50 levels and the skill being out for quite a while now I still don't enjoy dungeoneering. I tried, and keep trying but I feel its way too combat based, and I know that I play on my own, and my character is a good level, but I really don't like the amount of combat with it. I went to kill lots of bronze dragons but didn't get any good drops, but I'm still trying to fish, but its dificult for me to get motivated to do something I dont want to.
     
    I did a reaction in a microwave synthesizer this week, and so I'm currentlly investigating whats happened and whether I should keep using this methodology to help me get a good amount of product. The work up, like the filtration and purification is much better, I've eliminated a side product formation as well which is always good, and means my catalyst is pure, which I thought was a problem before, it just turned out that the reaction was crap.
     
    Also, green apples happen to be the best thing on the planet to eat. I can't go 2 days without an apple at the moment, as they're delicious yummy and incredible.
     
    Peace
     

  6. Non-stop

    · topham · 10/03/10 02:53 PM

    This weekend I've spent working in the lab, only to find out my access to a vital piece of equipment has been revoked, which caused me untold frustration, as I can't analyse anything that I've made. And I spent today studying nearly everything that I learnt in my first year, which I seem to have forgotten a lot of.
     
    I've been playing some runescape, I've caught about 500 fish, I've burnt some logs, I've done some hunter, and done some thieving, although I've done nothing on a big enough scale to have got anything of value out.
     
    I've started making lists of everything that I want when I get home in a few months, they mainly consist of food I want to cook and eat, and albums I want to get.
     
    I'm gonna keep doing something every day for the next 2 weeks until I go on holiday to Japan, so I'm really looking forward to that, and I'm gonna be working hard.

  7. effort

    · topham · 09/28/10 03:37 PM

    I currently don't want to put much effort into writing as I'm about to take my first warm shower in 3 days, then go to bed, and I really want my shower.
     
    I started reading the Scott Pilgrim books as I mentioned before, and am currently getting all my friends here to read them. I've ordered the 3-6th books so when I'm really looking forward to recieving them. I got poetry for the poisoned through the post yesterday and am really enjoying it, but feel its not up to the standard that Kamelots previous album was, but further listenings may change my mind.
     
    My work is going badly as I can't get motivated to do more work, but I really need to do some more work and get further as I've not progressed well at al recently.
     
    I've only played runescape for 5 mins in the last 7 days I think, and all I did was move to piscatoris to fish some monks to set myself up for 90 fishing. It should be about 11k monks, which every 1k I'm thinking i'll burn 1k Maples to level Firemaking as well, but I might change to 500 monks, 1k maples.
     
    Oh well.
    Peace

  8. The Race

    · topham · 09/26/10 04:08 PM

    I've just got in from the F1 GP here in Singapore, and it was one of the most exciting races I think I've seen, and I was in a grandstand of about 12-15,000 people, and the atmosphere was incredible, and the race so close.
     
    I had such a fun weekend, the other races of the weekend were also brilliant, and the conditions really gave some spectacular races, and some crazy spins.
     
    My friends got tickets to the qualifying and other things that were on yesterday so we all got together and checked things out, and it was lots of fun and I met some new people.
     
    Also, I bought the first 2 Scott Pilgrim books, and read them, one a day, and then ordered the other 4 to be delivered soon. They are such fun to read, and they are so awesome!! I cannot wait for the movie to be released here at the end of october.
     
    My head is in a myriad state right now so I can't think straight so I'm not going to write any more.
     
    Peace

  9. Pain!!

    · topham · 09/14/10 03:50 PM

    So when training last week I tweaked my back, and it gave me no end of trouble for the evening, and then the day after I thought everything was fun, but then today, my back went again, and I'm still suffering through it. It's probably the most painful its been, but I plan to keep training and making sure I can continue on and make my back stronger so that the pain disappears.
     
    I was at tae kwon do today and that was fun, I started kickboxing yesterday and tomorrow I start Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, which I am very much looking forward too.
     
    My lab work is becoming infuriating, but I'm hopefully gonna get some results soon that will be useful, and then I will get on with finishing my work.
     
    Hopefully in the next few weeks I can plan out all my holidays for the rest of the year which could be very exciting.
     
    I realised over the weekend how much I was missing people back at home, but how little some of them actually care, which gave me a realisation that I don't know why they're friends with me.
     
    Peace

  10. Weekend over

    · topham · 09/12/10 01:42 PM

    I no lifed most of the weekend, now I only have 90k arrows to make. I've got 98 fletching and 85 smithing now, and I'm less than level 900k to 99. I've only got 5k bars left to smith, and then I can leave this task behind. Things have been going well, and I've written a big long post on my favourite video games.
     
    I also went to collect my GP ticket only to find out its not available until the week of the GP. So I wasted about 4 hours going into the city. I was also looking for some new albums, but I didn't find any of them. I've done no work all weekend and its been awesome.
     
    I've not really done much this weekend, but things will be better this week. I feel motivated, and am looking forward to doing lots of stuffs.

  11. Holiday Weekend time =)

    · topham · 09/09/10 03:51 PM

    This weekend coming up, for me anyway, is a holiday weekend. And as far as I know I have no plans. I'm very much looking forward to relaxing. I think my body needs time to recover, although today I ran a 7 mins 0.8 seconds 1500 m which I feel pretty good about. But yesterday my body essentially gave up at gymnastics, and I couldn't do anything useful.
     
    Tuesday reignited my passion for getting higher smithing and fletching and I'm working on these goals again. I've already made 60k arrow heads, made them into arrows and sold them and bought 3k more addy bars, once I checked MTK, which is going well for me as well. I also need about 18k irits and avantoes for an upcoming herblore goal, but I think that can be a long term goal, and I dont think I'd ever need 18k extreme attacks so I'm going to look into a more efficient way of completing that goal.
     
    I've learnt some new ways to carry out my reactions, that I will be attempting next week. Which could lead to some very efficient results. I got my main reaction working at about 50% at the moment, which isn't even nearly ideal, but its better than it has been recently.
     
    Hopefully tomorrow I'll get both 83 smithing and 97 fletching. Should be fun.
     
    I'm also looking up music to cover, specifically learning Still Beats Your Name by Killswitch Engage, and Figuring out a way to cover Closure by Evergrey on heavily distorted guitar and strong vocals. I'm also working on a semi punk cover of Bother by Stone Sour.
     
    Peace

  12. Forgetfulness.

    · topham · 09/07/10 03:25 PM

    So today, I needed to both top up my mobile, as I can't receive incoming calls, and get some stuff to hold my feet together during Tae Kwon Do. Oh, and I need to remember the goal I set myself on Runescape, oh so long ago... about a month now... Back to Smithing and Fletching towards 99.
     
    In the lab things aren't going too well either, I started the week slow, and I dont think it's going to pick up as friday is a public holiday so I have the day off. I've not accomplished anything in the lab properly for 2 weeks now, and things could be going better, I could have finished my main project.
     
    I finally remembered about the Fletching goal, and bought me some more addy bars, as they're very easy to get hold of at the moment. I have no where near enough to complete my goal, but it'll help me on my way. Things are looking up. Actually, tonight is the first time I've played properly since sunday, so I don't have anything to write specifically.
     
    Today I started training for my first Tae Kwon Do grading, but I got blisters on both my feet, and had to ask someone to have something to strap my feet up with. I began learning some patterns, but due to my training in Kung Fu my stances look nothing like they should, and I should be grading in about a month. The first pattern I think is easy enough, and hopefully I'll be able to find out if i can double grade next week.
    Also, next week I will be starting Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, as the club is finally starting up, and I'm very much looking forward to it. And then gymnastics will be on thursday nights, for only a few more weeks, then I can give up and not have to travel for 3-4 hours each wednesday or thursday.
     
    Peace

  13. Hard working

    · topham · 09/05/10 04:22 PM

    This weekend has been awesome. Friday I did barely any work, but am still making progress. This weekend has all been about exercise and runescape for me.
     
    Friday evening I went to tae kwon do, and then out for dinner, and then got back in, and got herblore to level 82. i got 4 levels, then levelled thieving twice to level 77. I also levelled fire making yesterday. then did slayer for the rest of the weekend. On my iron dragons task I got a dragon plateskirt drop. First dragon drop in forever. My total was 2100, and I was happy with that. So slayered up the weekend, and got 95 Strength, about 5 mins ago.
     
    Yesterday, a big big milestone for me. I ran a total of 20k in a day. I ran 2k, then 6k, then 4k, then 6k, then 2k. about 5 mins rest inbetween, and it was the toughest and longest run i've ever done. Very, very happy with it.
     
    Peace

  14. Hectic

    · topham · 09/02/10 04:14 PM

    Things for me are hectic right now. I'm working kind of hard in the lab, and today 2 firemaking levels, frantically firemaking and I finished my 11 mith dragons slayer task. Then, Kuradal goes and gives me a 94 iron dragons task. wooo. But I wanted to make sure everything was set for this weekend, so I checked my herbs and everything was good, and then I checked the pyramid plunder guide, and I am amped for this weekend.
     
    I got no good drops from the Mith drags, but I made 3 kills with an invent that I completely set up wrong, then 8 kills in a row on my second trip. That was more like it. I think the most I've killed in one trip before was 9, which I considered a pretty good and successful trip, but so far their drops haven't been kind.
     
    Earlier in the day I focused on getting a firemaking level, and then 85 firemaking came and went. Then after the mith drags task I hadn't got a clue what to do, I really wanted to do some herblore, but that can wait till tomorrow, so I thought back to firemaking. For me it is now Friday at 12.20, and I started writing this blog not even 5 mins after getting 86 firemaking.
     
    I went to gymnastics yesterday but was frustrated when the usual instructor wasn't there, so I don't feel I learnt anything and didn't particularly enjoy the class.
     
     
     
    Today I ran with 2 of the girls from my lab group, which was fun, then we all went to get dinner together. Tomorrow I will be going to Tae Kwon Do, making me actively a sucker for punishment 6 days in a row, with no sign of letting up this weekend.
     
    Peace

  15. Distractions

    · topham · 08/31/10 03:02 PM

    This week hasn't got off to the best start in the lab. Yesterday and today I took my laptop into my desk by the lab. Needless to say, my productivity has reached a low. I did barely anything yesterday, and relatively nothing today. I've not advanced a step in about a week now, but I feel so close to obtaining my product.
     
    Sunday evening I ran 6k in 35 mins which I thought was a good time, and so yesterday I tried to repeat that time, only to go 6k in 32 mins, which was great. My next goal is 30 mins, but whether I'll be able to do it is still to be seen. This evening I went to Tae Kwon Do, and I'm really enjoying it, and although I know I wont be competing I'd really like to spar with some of the guys and see how I do.
     
    On runescape I completed my Iron drags task in one trip, which was pretty epic as I had 89 to do. Next task is Mith Drags, only 11 I think, but thats enough. Excited for that, but I'm currently cooking all the monkfish I have sitting in my bank. It'll get me about 50k away from 92 fishing, which is good.
     
    Tomorrow I think I'll go to gymnastics, and hopefully I'll be alright to go all night, and not too tired from the running and kicking I've been doing.
     
    And I've been thinking what fights in the UFC and other organizations I'd like to see, one of them is Jon Jones vs Ryan Bader, which I think would be a spectacular match up. Luckily it was announced this week that Jon Jones will fight the winner of Bader vs Lil Nog, which I find incredibly exciting.
     
    Tomorrow in the lab will be boring, but I'll have stuff to do all day.
     
    Peace

  16. Weekends RULE!!

    · topham · 08/29/10 03:36 PM

    This weekend has been incredible. I started off on friday getting the 2 steps done that I needed. So tomorrow I'll be going in to a meeting about my project with a big smile and tonnes of confidence on my side, and then promptly working hard to get more work done.
     
    Friday evening, one of the girls in my lab invited me along to a Tae Kwon Do class, and being me I thought nothing bad could come from it. I was nearly right, apart from the blisters on my big toes. Not to worry, the class was awesome and I'm going again, 3 training sessions a week, all free, urrr HELL YEAH!! Trained for about 2 and a half hours, and it was awesome fun. I ended up doing some of my shaolin forms eventually, as I need to make sure I remember them. And then I considered stopping going to gymnastics, as its too far away and will cost too much and I'm running out of money as it is. I got in from the session and sat down to relax and did some slayer. I had an aquanites task, where I got my first ancient effigy. Unfortunately I can't use it, but I have plenty of bank space and patience so I can use it much later. I also got a clue, level 3, and the reward was a h4 rune plate, which was gratifying, as for the longest time I've had no decent rewards.
     
    Saturday morning came, and after I finished the aquanites task I moved onto another, getting Jungle Strykewyrms, which yielded 3 or 4 level 3 clue scrolls, all of which gave about 100k, which was awesome. Then finished that task pretty quick, and got a hell hounds task, got a clue scroll, which has taken all of today to do, but I'll get to that in a minute. The hellhounds task was surprisingly good. Within 10 drops I recieved 2 ancient effigies, and a clue scroll. I decided to stay to complete the task as there weren't too many to go, and I also got 2 ferocious rings, which was good because the amount I have is getting low. During this time I was playing soul silver, and my eevee wanted to evolve, but I didnt want an Espeon, I wanted an Umbreon, but that needs night time.
     
    Then I went out for the evening, and had a pleasant time getting fed lots of food and swimming before even more food. And we all just hung out and chatted until about 1.30. So I arrive home, with the intent of evolving my eevee into an Umbreon. 30 mins later I level my eevee and Umbreon arrives. Making me eternally happy about how things are going in that game. Then I slept.
     
    Sunday morning!! Up in time to watch UFC 118. In my opinion it was incredible, but both main events were very predictable. I really wasn't surprised when it was announce that no fights, not even on the undercard, ended via KO. And even the fights that went to decision weren't boring by any means.
     
    I went to the cinema!! And I saw The Expendables. Pretty good month for Randy Couture it seems. Wicked film, hella fun, so much awesome action.
     
    Then, scaping and my epic quest to complete a clue scroll leads me to need a split bark helm. They are difficult to get. And after about 4-5 hours of continuous effort at temple building and shade killing my persistance pays off. A new friend, and a split bark helm. I continue on with my clue scroll, having only one part after the emote and a co-ord that was nearby made it kinda rewarding on my effort. But the reward wasn't great, getting me only 50k for a stupid amount of work put in.
     
    I ran for 35 mins and covered 6k and then weighed myself. I've lost 10 pounds since arriving in Singapore and I don't know if I've ever felt this good. Hopefully this week I can find the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Club and join that as term has finally begun here.
     
    Next up for me is an 89 Iron Drags task. I'm so looking forward to it I cannot wait. But that'll have to take place tomorrow. And I'm actually looking forward to this week for both work and recreational activities =)
     
    Hope everyone is good.
    Peace

  17. Things!! They're Everywhere!!

    · topham · 08/26/10 03:26 PM

    So as I sit here completing another day, I feel like this week has most definately had ups and downs. Yesterday picked up a little, with gymnastics in the evening going particularly well and then getting a complete nights sleep finally. And then today, nearly everything in the lab went my way. I got some good results, have isolated a fair amount of product, and am happy with how much I'll be able to do tomorrow and my completion for this week.
    Today and the last few days on scape I've been doing some slayer, and some herblore, really mixing it up until prices have relaxed again. I cleaned all the herbs I had sitting in the bank, and netted about 20k xp I think, which is pretty good, and then vialised the easiest herbs to deal with, as a priority on a limited amount of vials. I'm slowly setting up for the bonus xp weekend, probably gonna do herblore with the herbs that I have, and then do some thieving at pyramid plunder, which should be fun, insanely fast xp. I also considered hunter, but I feel it'll be too crowded, and the xp isn't too bad at my level even without the bonus xp.
     
    Yes, this blog is all over the place, oh well.
    I've been trying to get into my game of soul silver recently as well, but don't really know how to catch entei or raikou properly, and have been hunting them for the better part of a week now, but to no avail. I've also been trying to get 5 eevee eggs and get all the different evolutions for completeness. I really really want a wurmple as well, but at a low level, not the high level that can be got from the bug catching contests.
     
    hope everyones doing ok, as things are looking up for me at the moment.
    Big fights this weekend, I think i'll be writing about it on sunday...
     
    Peace
  18. Everything falls apart.
     
    So, runescape is being slow. Things aren't going my way. I don't really want to dwell on it.
     
    Today, I only got 2 hours sleep during the night for some unknown reason, and so today hasn't gone too well. So at about 9.30 am I got up. I got into the lab at about 10 am. Then, started trying to extract my compound, only to find out that we were out of acid, so subsequently had to wait till 2.30pm to do any work. Then, from there I got my extraction done, but next came purification. I hate purification, but it was required, and I started at roughly 3.30pm. At about 6pm I was nearly done with the purification, but I needed to confirm that I'd made what I was after, so i bring a flask over to use and drop it, sending glass everyewhere. After cleaning the glass up and successfully brining over another flaskto check my product I was happy that I'd isolated what I needed, but after this I needed to put another reaction on, which requires about an hour to put on, and then time to let the reaction heat up. So I set up the first half, at about 8pm, and then half an hour later completed the reaction mixture, and set up to heat. 9.15pm came, and the reaction was finally heating properly so I could leave. I leave to get some dinner to find that the shops and canteens are all closed, and so headed towards a foody place thats a short bus ride away. Only to find that the place I was gonna get food from was closed. Eurgh!! So then I skated along to a big shopping mall where I eventually found somewhere to eat, finding out they were out of nearly all the vegetarian food that they sell. I ordered one small thing for dinner, then headed to the supermarket and bought some crap to eat. Then I headed back to my room, about 30 mins ago, at about 11pm, incredibly tired, and really not wanting to do much.
     
    I feel like things have not gone well today.
    Oh yeah, I'm a vegetarian, hence the reason for finding vegetarian food.
     
    peace
  19. 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.

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