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Yesterday afternoon, I had my first actual written exam, and as luck would have it I had two at once. M1 took ages to set up -_-; (lol and as usual Mark walks in just as the lady says, "We're about to start the exam"). I'd been studying mainly for M2 over the past few days, doing papers A-F, and making the usual "common mistakes" list I have with me for my exams. M1 was ok I think, but M2 was definately tricky. Also there were screams outside (tell tale signs that exam was taken in St. Angela's), which didn't help my concentration =|

Between M1 and M2, we had to wait for a GCSE Graphics exam to finish . . . and we weren't allowed to talk to anyone else outside =\, so we sat in the hall for quite a while just doing nothing really =|. M2 started around 3:30 o_o, and finished at 5. So t'was a very late finish -_-; We were being offered free bananas too o_O. . . although I doubt they would've helped in that M2 exam.

Next exam for me is on the 15th! Soo I have quite a while to study, but the the next few exams come in bulk =|, so I'd better get set on learning that CPT4 >_

Enough about music ^^. I've still been playing Guitar Hero XD, and finally managed to nail the hardest songs on Expert, Cowboys from Hell and Bark on the Moon. I was quite proud of myself on Sunday when I did that *smiles smugly*, so if you're uberly bored check this link out!

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=bark+at+the+moon+expert+guitar+hero&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

Choose a Bark on the Moon expert video and watch it o_o! Then buy Guitar Hero and play it! (Then give me the guitar). There's also another game for the SonyBox we have, its like Pokemon, but with demons. (I'll admit thats quite a difference). And you can fuse them etc. I've watched my brother play it, and it seems fun to play. . . but must resist >_

Talking about Halo XD. I don't think my pc has a chance of running Halo 2 =(, unless I utilise this >

Well school's finished now... no more lessons and all that jazz. For the last lesson of Physics (Wednesday), only half of us turned up. Asad left early, William and Rvie were both nowhere to be seen, no surprise there about Rvie . . . We ended up doing practically nothing, I didn't even write anything down or do any questions =|! We just ended up talking XD, good lesson ^^. Ms Morgan also gave us cakes she bought for us to eat, and she gave us each a card, and we left early.

Last lesson of Computing and Maths wasn't like that though. Well Maths (Thursday morning) was ... for me XD. Kouchak just said to me that they were doing C4 so I could do anything I wanted XD. Ended up doing the Sudoku on the back of the Sixth Form Newsletter with Jason. That lesson soon ended, and that was the last lesson of the day for a few of us, for the last day of school!

¬_¬ The next day we went in for Computing -_-; Took a CPT4 test, it just ended with Mensah saying how disappointed he was with the sheer number of blanks from people's test papers. After a lecture about working hard... Computing finished and finally we finished school. Half term then kicked in.

Saturday. Academy, usual really. Apart from going to choir ¬¬. Also got two new strings on my cello, meant to be uberly-good. Titanium and Nickel or something. . . Anyhow, went home in the rain >> bought a few things and was chatting to Deborah. Didn't do much at all o_o, Sunday was quite like Saturday too. Had to look after a First Holy Communion mass in the morning. . . which didn't all go amazingly smooth but got there in the end which was relieving. Came home to move things around as we were getting new carpet in the front room. My brother managed to get rid of our old sofas so now we sit on the floor XD, in anticipation of the new sofas . . . Monday, new carpet came and all our stuff moved back into that room. Again didn't really do much =( I remember searching around for a lot of UT stuff, which just doesn't want to work online ¬¬. Tuesday was Tanya's birthday celebration, we went to Wings to eat. Got through quite a few plates ^^; although Chris and James can both do the same ^^;. I think it was just a taster of food to come in China. Then we went to see X-Men 3 which was all right I guess. Not amazing but not a waste of time in my opinion. Although I just couldn't see them actually killing off anyone . . . ever. Apocalypse next maybe? Wonder how they'll do him o_o. Must go off now, hopefully do some work... maybe even learn some more Computing? ugh.

Just came back from church again. Today, I had to look after 10am mass and there was this filipino mass in the afternoon that I was asked to look after. There was lots of food and drink after the fili mass... but the place was too crowded so I left. Anyhow my first exam is soon - Physics practical. Haven't really done a proper practical exam in ages, so I'm finding it hard to get use to it all. Calculating errors and the like. I'm just hoping that if any electricity questions come up, its not too hard to do -_-; Also haven't done practical exams quickly enough ... so I'd better get faster at doing and understanding these experiments. I'd better get to studying -_-;

Haven't updated in ages! But then again I haven't really done much ><; Just had a cold, sore throat etc -_-, and been generally tired. Recently I finally got my bank account! HSBC finally decided that the form that I filled out last time was actually the right one, so I had to fill it out again, after being told that I wasn't eligible to apply for a student account. So finally after bringing a horde of documentation with me, I finally set my bank account up on the fifth trip to the bank. Next Tuesday is the Physics practical exam, which probably will be very hard -_-; Really have to revise practical techniques and all that stuff. School will be finishing next week... although we have to come in for Computing because we'll only just about finish the syllabus. UT is still going strong. Although I think my connection is starting to lag now, with more players. Just today I managed to get a bundle of new mutators that should hopefully make it more interesting. Also I'm trying to use the editor, it seems ok most of the time, but weird how you have to make the actual level, cutting away from a "void". Well... going back to being bored =|

This past week or so has pretty much been all about Computing coursework. Heck I'm still not sure if i'm finished now! My 250 page monster of a coursework has grown to 300+ pages now, and my computer can no longer even handle the document, Microsoft Word just crashes on it =\. Computer is probably trying to tell me something ^^;.

During the coursework, I tried to fix some small part of Visual Basic, which then lead to the whole of my registry being really messed up and Windows unable to use the simplest of components, which meant I wasted a day reinstalling windows on top of the existing version to have some sort of barely-held-together version of windows for me to finish my coursework off.

Enough about coursework. . . I think now seems to be a good time to finally get into working mode, and do all of those past papers. Physics synoptic seems like "the killer" test, with its awkward questions -_-;. We haven't even finished learning CPT4 yet. . . -_-; We're doomed!

I've began to play UT again, online matches! First time i hosted a match, it
was with William and Nigel, which was really funny XD. For some weird reason I was invisible for the first match, but then I fixed that with a change of skin. Hopefully more people will be added =)

This week, although it has been full of computing, has also been fairly "not-at-school". Monday's bank holiday meant a longer weekend, but then an appointment of mine, meant that i was in school for the first time this week on Wednesday! That would explain why it still feels like the week's just
started for me . . . Today, Physics was cancelled because of the polling, speaking of which I didn't get a polling card so I couldn't vote anyway.

On Wednesday, I came into school to hand in my coursework. Then got told at registration that we had to record that day for GCSE music people... After having a fire drill in the middle of lunch, and one hour of Physics, had to rush home and rush back out. Headed off to Knightsbridge area, saw someone i knew on the train and had a small chat. Arrived at the American vice-ambassador's house for the USAP awards presentation evening, which was just about us milling around and receiving some certificates at the end of the evening, well made ones too with the seal/stamp on it and everything. Saw a few familiar faces which was nice, and had short conversations with a few random people too!

Anyhow must go back to do some M1. Looks like no UT tonight :(, well not for me anyhow -_-;

Sunday was Easter. I had to look after the main mass that day, because Stephen was in Lourdes. Firstly the mass before ended really late, so I only had 15 minutes to prepare which is half the time for a normal mass. Saw Jeck at the mass which was quite o_o! During the mass the priest walked around blessing everyone with holy water, and I had to hold the bowl of water with him. By the time he'd blessed everyone, my alb had a huge splash on it -_-; After the mass, we had to give out Easter Eggs... the usual. Came home did work. This continued on till Tuesday.

Went to Physics for the day. I was the only year 13 to actually go . . . -_-; Ended up looking at various questions, I have so much to revise -_-; My brother got a new game - DJ Max, sort of like Beatmania, but probably harder. Managed to finish Testing finally, now the rest of the coursework -_-;

Today... Went to the bank this morning under the impression that I could open a Student Account, and get £50 for free! Either that or a free 512mb mp3 player, or 12 free CDs. Ended up waiting in the HSBC queue for about 1/2 an hour for nothing ¬_¬. Simply because my offer is conditional. Went home, called Cambridge about this miniature dilemma, because they wanted these loan forms from me. But couldn't get through -_-; Haven't done any more coursework either, because VB has a package and deployment error. When I tried to fix it, my whole computer messed up because of some registry issues. I had to spend the afternoon reinstalling Windows, and now its just about hanging together. Ugh.

At the moment, my life is being sucked away by Oblivion o_o. With 16 square miles of exploring to do, ‘tis quite a lot to see ^^;. Firstly its miles better than its prequel – Morrowind. A battle system that is actually fun to play! The people and NPCs and stuff all fit in better, and it feels more world-like, which means more hours wasted away ^^;. Anyhow. In the past week, had a concert at Stratford town hall. Last concert I’ll do with academy . . . unless I take up on the offer of doing a concerto with Ms. Warren’s orchestra. Something tells me though I should just leave academy in the summer and leave it at that. Have a few things to do before Easter holiday comes. Need to get some forms filled out to do with University. I’ve been rejected from most of the American Universities I’ve applied to – MIT, Caltech and Chicago (on the waiting list), and I’ve been accepted into the University of Richmond, but have to pay $40,000 per year for it o_o. I’ve done my UK choices, and I’ve chosen Cambridge as my first choice, and Imperial as my back up. That also means that if I get a B in Physics I won’t be going to University =|. For Cambridge I have these forms to fill in -_-; something about ID and all that, then there’s also this scholarship thing I’m applying to... When I actually get to Easter, mainly revision (or learning) -_-; to do. Also quite a few people to meet up with who I haven’t seen in ages. Currently (i.e. right now) we’re learning about numbers in Computing ¬_¬, more converting from denary to binary >_>. New ep of Noein out yesterday, got it this morning ^^ so I’ll have something to do when I get home. Not to mention the usual hours of Oblivion o_o. You even get a horsey to ride XD, and there’s quite a lot to do etc. Ah… well *stops rambling* -_-