A year of everything

Yesterday (or to be exact, 14 September) would mark my stay here in the UK for exactly 365 days. That's a year long. What do I think of it so far? Life is beautiful here with HF.

I haven't been blogging recently and it feels like it's going to take me a year now to blog as frequently as before. HF parents were here a month ago for a 25 days stay and we've been busy doing stuffs together and enjoyed every day every moment. After that, I've been doing a little self study on Adobe Premiere Pro 1.5 so that I could video edit the videos we shot when we were in Scotland. It's quite a bit of a learning curve there but I didn't take too long to master it as the the book I got was an easy read and pretty straight forward.

Just got to know that I will be proceeding to Year 2 of LL.B (Hons) Law in the newly relocated Law department--city centre. Clouth Hall. I'm looking forward to it... most likely because there is pretty nothing much to do these few days. I start training with GE Capital for 3 weeks from the beginning of October before I start working for them. Classes will commence at the end of September. So, in the meantime, I'm just waiting for sales of duplicated softwares on eBay, of which I am earning £35.00 for every piece sold inclusive of shipping/handling costs. I've sold about 9 already and still counting. I thought back for a while thinking how upsetting it is for [common] people who just wanted to use professional softwares like Premiere Pro and have to burn a hole in their pocket to pay £599 for a retail version that works exactly just like the one I'm selling.

I am being such a good criminal here. But of course, if I continue to do this for a year, I would have probably end up behind bars with my pockets emptied for more than a year. Truly speaking, greed is every human beings weakness.

Meanwhile, on another matter, HF got time extension on her dissertation from her SPV till early next month. She's been at it day and night trying to write up to the finish line. My hopes and prayers are on her... hoping that every efforts put in there counts and is and will be something useful for some, if not every, academically and commercially sound people out there. I personally believe she's got a wonderful idea on her dissertation.

Until next year. ;)
j/k

The exhaust pipe was completely detached from the muffler (I believe that's what you call it) as the result of years of rusts and corrosion. Even steel have their weaknesses. Driving with a detached exhaust pipe like that is not that fun all the time especially I'd occasionally hear sudden loud explosion "BLAMM!! BOOMM!" or a "BANNG!!" whenever I ease off the acceleration/gas pedal.

Well, I had to replace the entire rotting exhaust system for �69.00. Not worth the money, as there are other parts under and around the car that needs to be fixed up and would total up to �400. We've decided to sell 'Grandpa' (as we'd like to call it) soon for all it's worth. *sob!* 

To my horror, I finally knew what turned my little old Clio into a sports car. It began to sound very loud from the inside, and even from the outside... which was the reason a patrol car doing their night duties the other night pulled me over along A65 heading west into city centre. It was a long night for me. 

Going under the Renault Clio 1.2 we bought to actually realize what it is meant or what it is like to be driving a 13 years old car. I'm the 8th person to own this Clio since 1992. There are rusts and corrosions all over.