University of Skövde

Good afternoon to you but semi good morning to me. Sleeping in GMT+1 time zone was once upon a time event. I sleep at 3.00 AM and wake up when it gets bright. As per the neverlost schedule I wanted to attend the last lecture before the new semester starts. As per the idiom ‘Better late than never' I decided to sneak in the lecture during the break so as not to disturb the class but to my relief  there in fact was no class and I should be thankful as because of it I at least got out of the bed and had a somewhat early start. Now it's going to be an exam and a report to be handed in and pack up the bags for a long twenty week solitary thesis work.

Room 405 in A building has a ghostly attitude. With the timers set on for the switch boards it's just impossible to work at a stretch without an unwanted break. Every thirty minutes you have to take a walk to tell the sensors that yes indeed you wanna work and not that someone has left the lights ON by mistake. The anger elevates as the keyboards don't have any back lights and you never know what you were in between off.  These days there are USB lights for the keyboards, an additional luggage to carry along with the two kilogram laptop. Why just they don't have back lights for keyboards just as mobile buttons? With the wireless facility of the college life becomes flexible with changing the studying area as and when desired. Just carry a meal and you can work the entire day relaxed on a sofa and feeling as if working from home.

Sometimes common sense is very uncommon. I wanted to travel and reach on 1 Feb. Since the bus was starting early in the morning I had to leave a day in advance from Skovde. And that's where I made no sense. I booked the ticket not talking into account that early morning means a new day and a new date. So I am arriving a day early. Thankfully I noticed this serious error yesterday evening. Just imagine me out in Gothenburg at 1.00 AM waiting for the bus with in fact no ticket. A real shame for an adult to do this error! A lesson to learn about AM and PM and decide wisely about the bookings. This entire matter left me with some financial loss but the only good thing is that the ticket can be rebooked and cancelled and the best of this was I will be accommodated a day before my initial booking. A great help in freezing nights.


                           

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Gott nytt år, rather a belated happy new year. Belated as I wanted to see and move around to see what the new year celebration is and with no internet life has come to a speed of 30 km/hr rather than 100 km/hr with the internet ON for all the awake hours. I am enjoying it as I am now more focused and organized on my work and study. Even my (time pass; passing away time) tp over the internet has come down to zero.  When I come to the A building I know that the work list has to be completed before my stomach asks me for food. I was just trying to connect my camera to the computer with my mobile USB to get the pictures. Long back I had forgotten that it's no use without the software.

I was pretty bad at night photography but managed to get one of the clock tower. The fire works were a splendid sight and the most important thing about them was being less smoky. That's what can make you enjoy their beauty for a longer time. Ultimately I decided to give up my trials to get good pictures and instead decided to enjoy the fireworks instead.  My best spot was to put my self high near the post office from where I could get a view of most of the fire works and enjoy them one after the other. The fun went on for almost an hour and wishes were screamed and equally greeted from the other end of the crowd.

The New Year resolution is ‘Let go', some things are just meant to be left at a specific point and we should stop pondering on why they happened like that. So just learn from them and move ahead. The most disappointing story is zero snow for the New Year. Finally it's back to day one, day one of work in 2009. Except for studying for my coming exam and preparing my lab report there isn't much that I have in college. This hopefully should be my last exam because after doing a master's for a second time I have lost patience of classroom study. Now it's time for some real action. Wrong experiments leading to some fantastic discoveries, that's the best way to experiment and learn science. Let's see what I do in the upcoming time for my thesis.