I am back to Reading from Manchester after spending time with my girlfriend since the exams ended. I met a few new people and some old school buddies and even had a handful of memorable moments.

I am on a mini break away in Manchester at the moment.

My exams finished peacefully except for one day when I absent-mindedly walked over to the wrong examination hall - thankfully, a short sprint had me at the correct hall in time. Anyway, no university obligations for another week, after which I have some compulsory sessions in preparation for a mobile robot we will be constructing next year as part of our cybernetics module. I am really looking forward to that!

TV series and movies frequent my daily schedule now. I watched X-Men 3 recently. It wasn't too bad a movie I guess, atleast I didn't fall asleep like the last time I hit the cinema and watched Silent Hill which turned out to be total disappointment - but then, that's just my opinion. I watched "Road to Guantanamo" last nite - the film is based on a real life account of a few who were (wrongly) imprisoned in Guantanamo by the Americans. I've also devoted a whole load of time numbing my brain with a couple of TV series since the exams - namely, House M.D. seasons 1 & 2 ( i liikkeee), Joey seasons 1 & 2 (funny, sort of), Sleeper Cell season 1 (nice!).

Eeeeeks. My exams start tomorrow! I have 6 exams with one almost everyday till the beginning of the following week. First up tomorrow is my electronics module and I am pseudo-ready for it. Wish me luck. I probably will need it!

All of my course-work/project-work for the various modules were finally completed and handed in this week as per our assignments schedule. The assignments all fetch a healthy chunk of our final grade. I am being optimistic about them though and expect to be in the clear in all course work matters.

Sadly, the end of exams doesn't mean I can relax on study matters as more lectures and work continue after the exam till the end of June and they are said to be critical for next year. Well, so much for post-exam celebrations. Sigh. Anyway, I suppose I shall be travelling back to Male' around early July.

Toodles.

This goes out to someone special that has stormed into my life, bringing along with her a miscellany of most awesome wonders...

Easter holidays went off quite quickly - the five weeks off university that I got surely seemed to whizz past anyway. I attended the MSA Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) 2006 in Bristol from 14th-17th April. The new website for MSA that I worked on got launched at the meeting. The EGM event, which was filled with various activities and spread over 4 days, was quite fun!

It is back to university now and exams are looming right around the corner - starts end of May to be more precise. Grrr. I have got a load of assignments and project works to hand in over the next few weeks as well. Wish me luck

A few photos from past weeks...

The sun granted us a cheerfully sunny day all throughout today. The wind had, meanwhile, taken a break from moving bone-chilling cold air around and let people go out without turning into a popsicle. The day looked so good that I just had to go for a walk - I haven't seen this much sunshine for almost 5 months now! (Err, that and the need to stock up milk from the convenience store up the road. )

Here are some shots from my "walk".

The winter is almost over and despite the weather forecaster's warning that this would be one of the colder winters, the temperatures have been surprisingly high. It only went sub zero a few times and never for too long. Snow never fell as more than a slight drizzle of white wispy flakes. It is saddening to see a winter end without much snow.

Now, some snow shots from yesterday!