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No one posted a list last week, is anyone posting a list today? I'm writing mine up today as it is, shall I post it?

Scenes from a memory is good, enjoyable album, and I like how its split into 2 acts. Can Octavarium also be considered a concept album? It is consistant, and has no breaks in it, with all the tracks flowing somewhat well. I think Kamelot's Epica and The Black Halo albums are a pretty good example of a concept, with their use of different guests voicing different parts throughout the album. Also, I enjoy Dimmu Borgirs In Sorte Diaboli, which is a pretty good concept album, although I'm a bit aprehensive about their upcoming album, as it is supposed to be a continuation of their previous album, and the middle part of a trilogy. I think Kezia is definately a good album, although I was completely unaware of it beinga concept album.

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

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

Late for the Kill, Early for the Slaughter by Soilwork This is the 10th time I'm listening to this album since it was released.

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

Today I ran 2k, then 6k, then did 100m sprints 100m walk for 4k, then 6k, then 2k. I am tired!! I feel it was a goood run tho, but it was very tiring. Its the longest distance I've ever ran in a day by a very long way.

You could do some thieving, you could level a lot easily at pyramid plunder.

I can count 8, but feel I'm missing someone. Maybe 9 if I include someone from uni, but I feel lucky to have them all. I've only known one of them for more than 4 years, but she means the world to me, and right now I haven't seen her for a couple of months, and wont get to see her till her birthday in december. I've started to realise how hard it is living in a different place to all your friends now as I can barely speak to any of them as our times just aren't matching up well at all, but that when I can talk to them its always worth it and good to know they're there.

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

I'm excited about this album. I really enjoy listening to them, and I hope this album is good. I think last hope is my favourite track, but thats also because I'm a massive slayer fan and Dave Lombardo did drums.

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

I watched the expendables yesterday. I really enjoyed it, and had a wicked time watching it. I'm not sure if its good, but I loved it.

If you want to get Balmung for killing Daggs from Blood Runs Deep then you must complete the Fremmy Diary, otherwise there no real benefit to doing it.

RuneScape Name: Punk Man666 P2P

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

I got The Faceless' album about a week after it came out, and it's wicked. Although, that track is easily the best track on the album. So soon for the release of Kamelots new album, I'm proper excited, and the first track has Bjorn Strid on it, who is by far my favourite vocalist. Speaking of Bjorn Strid, does anyone listen to Disarmonia Mundi? They have some albums out that are incredible, and Bjorn does a lot of guest vocals for them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYxxfZ8XXBg Here's a good track by them, not the best, but not bad by any means. Also, does anyone happen to know when Tactical by World Under Blood is coming out? I've been looking forward to that album for about a year now, and there hasn't been a specific date put on it, but by the bands own words it should be out by the end of the year.

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

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

Now I was working hard, and being very determined in completing my 99 fletching goal. But my plan has been ruined. Due to the announcement of the bonus xp weekend, addy bars have increased in price, and the availability is poor to bad. Which means I'll now be losing money on this, and I reckon it'll take longer as the bars won't buy, which is infuriating. However, this weekend I got both 82 smithing and 96 fletching, which is good, however progress will be slow. So I think firemaking and other skillls will be levelled in the mean time. I have about 61.5k of maple logs, so work on that should be easy. On friday I dropped one of my products all over the section of the lab i was working in, just after i'd finished puriying it. So, Tomorrow, I'll be starting right again, from the beginning. Hopefully I'll be able to burst through the reactions and get to the point i'm at right now in less than a week, which would be nice. So this week started off stupidly well, but due to user error in one part, and jagex letting people know about the bonus xp weekend in the other, has ended on a low, which is a little disappointing. Never mind, things can only get better. Peace

So this is my 7th blog post, exactly 2 weeks after starting this blog. So far I feel this blog has been a revelation to me. This blog is pushing me to advance, but enjoy what I'm doing, and I'll be honest that I feel it is doing me a lot of good. Today, I have just gone over my halfway point in making the arrow shafts. So in my opinion I'm nearly hallfway through this whole campaign to 99 fletching and 86 smithing, however having gained only one level so far it still seems like 99 will be a while off. I took a break as well, burnt quite a few logs and levelled firemaking up, so am now 85 fire making. I have thousands of maples sitting in my bank from MTK, so using them for firemaking is a viable way for me to level firemaking for no real cost. My labwork hit a wall yesterday. A reaction carried out by someone else in the lab promised a 10 minute reaction time under stupidly mild conditions, however to get the reaction to proceed, my reaction required heating at 60 degrees celcius overnight. It made me frustrated no end when the person who carried it out kept referencing different compounds saying that it should go immediately, however he has absolutely no knowledge of how my molecules behave, so was really not helping me at all. I decided that it needed to be heated and as such set everything up and left it over night. Subsequently, I turned up this morning fearing the worst with no expectations for what could have happened. I was pleasantly suprised when all my original compound had gone and a new product had been formed. However, the solvent it was in is a pain to remove, so i haven't confirmed what i've isolated yet and its drying at the moment. hopefully tomorrow. However, what is fun is that my materials start yellow, go orange after one step, stay orange for 2 more steps then go bright red. The next step I think should be white, or a colourless oil. I also realised that what i'm doing hasn't been amazingly productive due to my poor amount of material, so I'm going back to the beginning and dragging as much material through all the reactions as i can. I should be at the same stage by about wednesday next week I think, with hopefully a lot more material. I've been writing a report as well, planning out what i'll be doing over the next 2 weeks, and hopefully I can have my glorious final compound. I started learning afraid to shoot strangers by Iron Maiden the other day, and i must say its definately one of my favourite maiden songs, but it makes me really want to get their new album, but right now there is no way i can afford it. oh well. I'm gonna be writing up a lot of stuff this saturday I think, as I've written a list for the computer games forum, and need to type it up, and also been doing some fiction type writing. As well as that I have project stuff to write up, which is more important than the others, but the others are helping in my ability to write, as is this blog, as it is something that I feel I'm not very good at. This Sunday I'm going to the beach for a barbeque with friends, and as such have a feeling that this weekend is gonna be awesome. I think I should start getting some pictures on here, but I'm not too sure where to host them... Oh well Thanks for reading. Peace.

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.

I've known about this for a while, as I'm an avid fan of mixed martial arts, and its been mentioned quite a lot on Inside MMA. It wasn't like he just decided to take up mixed martial arts, he already knew some before starting his training for MMA competition, hence him being picked for the part in Power Rangers. I hope he does well, he seems to be, I'll probably follow what he's doing when I remember to check, but there's other fighters I'm more interested in following. As for his clothing line, it certainly looks interesting, but not something I think I'd buy.

I meant to use the non bold one... just changed it. I just submitted last night, and didn't even check it. Oh well. Thanks for reading. Peace.

So I've been working on fletching all day. But I've not really advanced in my lab work for a week. Today I cut about 10k logs into arrow shafts, so I only have about 3k left to cut. Which is fun. This week my supervisor isn't around, but I'm going to be pushing on with my work, and trying to secure a total synthesis, actually thats a 2 week plan, dragging as much through from the early stages as possible, although I'm more than likely going to get no more than 2 steps further. I can dream. So this weekend I've cut about 150-200k arrow shafts, and thats about all in scape. And its a hilariously poor amount of xp. I've also been running yesterday, and intended on going today, but it thunderstormed for a while, and then i didn't feel like it. I shaved my head too, which was fun, and now I'm kinda thinking new hair, new attitude, which is interesting, and is certainly gonna help me this week I reckon. I honestly have no idea how this week is gonna go, hopefully well, and hopefully I get some good results. I really really want the term to start here so I can take up kickboxing and something else, probably jiu-jitsu, because at the moment I'm not being as active as I'd like to be. I really meant to write earlier, as its now 1am here, and I have to be up relatively soon so that I can get my week off to a good start. I'm really feeling 96 fletching this week, and I might even do something else as well, to break up the monotony. Peace