Summer’s gone - thankfully. The temperatures have dropped down, and the sun has started shying away. The workload has also stabilised after the initial transients in the project. I know what I’m supposed to do and I am working according to a plan hoping to achieve fruitful results. But its not project that brings me to the university everyday. My social life is closely linked to my friends at Imperial and almost all of us just show up even if we don’t have real work to do. Another reason is Ethos, which I am religiously visiting everyday, fighting the urge to skip sessions.

The past week has been really good. I passed the exams - hell yeah I did! The grades aren’t released yet but it is enough to know that  I have crossed that border line! I also aced the DVLA theory test, which to be honest, would have been an utter shame had I failed it. It is really easy and straightforward. The next step is to take up some driving lessons and appear for the big test, the practical test. Also, our blogs have bagged two awards at the EduStyle Awards, that you can read more about at Maicej’s and David’s blogs.

I’m also glad that a number of prospective students are reading the blogs and askign questions. I have received a number of questions on my e-mail. I feel it would be better if people just drop in their comments here because that would be beneficial for others as well. My post on connecting the Nokia devices to Imperial WLAN has been well received too.

I’m sure you must have sensed the dryness in my life at the moment, but that’s not true exactly. The project that I’m working on is really interesting. I love doing it and I don’t mind giving up my weekends working on that stuff. But something that is really biting right now is my laziness. I just don’t know how to deal with it despite hitting the gym everyday. Any ideas? Anyone?!

I shall not begin with my usual apologies for being absent yet again from the blogosphere. I’m NOT sorry, for a change! I have been kept really busy (and happy) in the last few weeks. For once, breathing felt good! You may start wondering why am I so happy. Even if you don’t I will enlighten the reader with the happenings of the past few weeks.

Right, so after kickstarting my project and then being consumed by the cricket fever, I got back to my desk and started playing around with my toy (the microcontroller). The project work started off smoothly and life assumed a nice routine involving regular visits to gym. Everything was going well until I hit a hair-pulling obstacle in my project. Five days went by without any success. I was forced to leave it at that because my father was in town for four days. A visit to Birmingham, Coventry, Manchester and another place (forgot the name) really helped me forget about the project. I also got hold of a (yet another) new phone - yes the sleek and sexy N97. Actually its not a phone - its a multimedia computer! (I can go on and on praising the phone). Anyway, some shopping, and meeting relatives with dad on the final day before his return back home.

Reluctantly I returned to work knowing how badly I was stuck. Another few days went by without any success and just when left with no choices, suddenly, the brain worked and I realized how small the problem was - or so it looked after locating it.

The project is now on track. I am deliberately not going in to the details of it here - the interested reader may visit a dedicated page at http://project.anasimtiaz.com - If you think that I should be writing the tech stuff here then please do chip in with a comment.

I’m starting the next stage of the project where I will be working with some EEG data on epilepsy. Sounds real fun! Also, I’m scheduled for a theory test for driving license on Monday, which I think should be pretty easy.

Also, there is news that Tuesday will be the R-day —>> Results Day. After being delayed twice, no one really believes that

That ends my lovely story and I shall now return to enjoy the good time that I’m having.

Adios