In less than twenty-four hours from now, I'll be sitting for my last paper :-) then I get just over a week off to bum around and play with my new Sims cd. HA. I can not wait. Today was my only 3 hour exam on sources of funds/financial packages. It was funny because everyone else in the exam hall only had a 2 hour exam, so it was just us in the back corner of a 700+ capacity exam hall. When I looked up at the end of 2 hours, everyone else was getting ready to leave - my group was still scribbling away and when everyone left, it was weird looking at the empty seats.

Anyway, watched 2 movies today as soon as I got home; the Perfect Man (Hillary Duff; I've seen it but forgot..so I ordered it again from Amazon rentals) and Knocked-up (that girl from Scrubs, can't remember her name). It's nearing 6pm and I haven't cracked open my folders yet, I never seem to be in the mood to study after an exam (can't blame me! I just stressed myself out for 3 hours - too much thinking!). Argh. Should really start soon.

I'm thinking about going down to Kent for a few days to visit my sister, it's a 4 hour drive/train ride. The boys (who I think are still coming?) and I still haven't decided whether we'll take the train or not. It's just a matter of waiting for one to finish his exam *cough*Taufiq*cough* and the other to decide if he's coming or not. But either way, if we drive: Mr. T is driving :-P

So tomorrow.. I can not wait.

I am currently on my bed, typing away on my laptop whilst trying to remember the Extreme Value Theorem (this probably means nothing to you unless you do maths and have an analysis exam with me on Thursday). Anyhoo it says, EVT - Suppose that the function f:[a,b] is continuous on [a,b]. Then f is bounded on [a,b] and attains its maximum and minimum values. I'm suppose to remember the proof of this: it's two pages long and has another similar theorem I'm also suppose to know by heart - The Intermediate Value Theorem (I know this one by heart - spent a few hours trying to understand it; and I really really do now hah!).

Started writing a letter last night for Fol. Don't think he'll receive it on time for our anniversary; in 4 days it'll be three years. He says it's not much - we've still a long way to go. Happy advance anniversary my darling. I love you. x

Exams are coming to an end, I've got two papers to do: Sources of Funds/Financial Packages and Analysis. The first on Wednesday at 9am (three hour paper, woopah!) and the latter on Thursday in the afternoon. Others don't finish til a week after - so I'll should try my best not to disturb those who still have exams *cough*Lina*cough*Taufiq*cough* :-P ya right!

Sweeney Todd's out - Johnny Depp. Yummy and it's a musical. Double bonus. Tim Burton movies are always awesome, my favourite being Edward Scissorhands & the Tim Burton's Corpse Bride; least was Mars Attack! I like musicals. They're uplifting - it makes you want to sing. Haha.

I keep telling Syer and Lina we should book tickets early for London and catch a play or something. Oh, but we're such procrastinators - it's horrible how slow we are at things. I think though, eventually, before the year is out we'll get around to getting tickets. Lazy. I find plays fascinating, I can't act to save my life - but I enjoy watching them; school plays, productions, musicals, all that (but mostly musicals). My sister, Ella, acts (sings too at random moments and on cue). She always makes a face whenever I don't turn up to her plays. Heh, she's not doing this kind of thing in UK, probably due to lack of time and her being too lazy to join a club (you hear that Ella? :-P)

Anyway, just thought I'd type something up. I'm going to go finish writing my letter now.

love,
yasmin.
XXX

He's in transit in Dubai now, Saifol is. It doesn't feel like he's left because it seems like he's off to London and will be back the next day. That's a lie to myself by the way, it's so that I don't feel so down now that he's actually gone.

Mus (who insisted last night I update my link to his website, check him out :p) accompanied me to the airport to send Fol off, we left Loughborough at 430am. I was worried I got the time mixed up with the taxi man, terrified that he might have thought I wanted him to pick us up at 430pm instead of am. Luckily he came literately two seconds before I dialed his number. Nyah.

So after the airport, we used the tube to St. Pancras.. took a good hour but saved us what? ~£14 each as opposed to using the Heathrow Express. We had time to kill anyway. Arrived at St. Pancs, bought our tickets, literately RAN to get on the train with Mus going, "JUST GET ON!" I've forgotten how much fun I can have with him, probably because he rarely comes around to my house anymore. I don't go to his because its...too... far. I don't go that direction very much anyway (he lives near the library) :-)

My housemates were surprised to see me home so early (I got home about noon-ish), I looked exhausted. Took a bath and plunked myself in front of the TV to unwind and I've been here since.

I feel like going out.

I miss him already.

love,
yasmin.
XXX

Just sat my first exam today, another one tomorrow - the worst paper I'm ever ever going to sit for in my entire life, i.e. vector spaces. What annoys me most is that it's a second year module. I'm a third year and I can't cope with a bloody second year module, how the hell am I going to cope with next semester's 3rd year modules? Poop. One thought that keeps it all merry though, is that the paper I just sat for (literately 46 minutes ago!) was a 3rd year module so I guess it was okay. Maybe it's just me. I know I'm not suppose to hate some things but I want to say it out and say it loud: I hate vector spaces - linear algebra is ~okay, provided we don't do the vector spaces bit because I really really don't get it. The same goes with Statistics (passed that one in first year!), Probability theory (that was absolute rubbish considering I didn't understand jack-shit on the paper... but I did well in class, funny eh?) and what was that other module I did last year? Oh yes, Statistical modelling (I amazingly just passed that one).

Browsed through some postgrad courses in Loughborough, I know I've been saying I don't want to think about it until the end of the month - when my exam's finish - but there's so much that needs to be done, like getting offer letters, sorting out the ATAS application form and so on. I'm trying to figure out who my other referee should be though considering the only lecturer I'm close to would be my tutor.

With Taufiq

Saifol's still in Loughborough, he's going back to Brunei on Wednesday - I wish I could go with him. It's kind of tempting to want to go home considering I've got more or less 2 weeks before semester 2 actually starts - but I'll save that thought for another day. We rented this really nice car over the weekend, it's a vauxhall (?) and is an open roof. I'm not allowed to rent cars until I'm twenty-one but I managed to clarify that with the car rental guy who says that as soon as I turn twenty-one I can rent a car. So to elaborate that even further, I asked "What about the day after my birthday? Can I rent a car then?" - "Absolutely".

:-)

Fol's been filling up the fridge up with food - loads of it, my housemates are well pleased though. We can barely put any left-overs in. Sad thing though is that he's only gotten his cooking mood back just last week; he's been here for over a month! So we've only been able to get just over a week's worth of delicious cooking from the Chef. I've been cooking on days he's not around, but when he is in the house: I've made a point to make sure he shuts his mouth and not "spoil" my cooking by trying to add numerous things like paparika, basil and so on when it's not needed - I call it "spoil", he says it's an "improvement". Alas, there are just some things we can't argee on.

He took me to Cheshire Oaks during the holidays, we went with a few friends. I didn't get much except for a few polo shirts from Ralph Lauren; Fol went on a shopping splurge - more for him than me. We came to a discussion the other day, wondering if our friends would be our "friends" if we don't treat them the way we do? I read in a magazine the other day on how to find out who your true friends are, it said "fuck up and see who's still standing with you". Well, can't do that any time soon, can I? I've got a career to plan out!

Saturday night was great for me because it was the first time in a loooonnng time that my housemates and I sat down and watched TV together: Sense & Sensibility, the BBC series. I made fish pie for dinner - went down well. He can't stop talking about how much he loves it :-) Usually (lately and right now in fact!) I'm the only one in the living room, doing my thing - either studying or watching a bit of C4 or ITV. I can't study in my room, it's a mess at the moment with clothes sprayed everywhere - not my mess. The living room's always in tip top condition because everything has it's place. I've got too much junk in my room that needs sorting out.

With Lina and Syer.

Anyway - 3 minutes to 5pm now, I ought to get some revision done.

love,
yasmin
XXX

This year's resolution is part of the usual:

• study smart
• work hard
• spend less (food not included!)

Happy new years people, and happy belated birthday to Fets. Happy advance birthday to Mustanir (3rd), Aslin (4th), Nac (5th) and my daddy (6th) :)

love,
Yasmin.
XXX