No. 121?

WELL. I haven't posted on this thing for AGES! Same old, exams coming up, and at the height of procrastination, this is the result.
 Oh well. Anyway, recent updates? Cycling has taken up a lot of my time now, especially with this month joining the 30 Days of Biking. Its just a casual event where the aim is to cycle everyday for the month of April regardless of distance, meaning that anyone can join and just do spins around the porch. It still counts!

For me, it was a chance for me to see if I am mentally ready to take it up as a hobby, and with only 3 days of riding left to do, I'd say that this hobby should be sticking with me for quite some time.
It's also taught me to make the most out of the sun as well, especially with the horrific weather for the past week or so!

Probably the thing that I'm happy about the most is how much I have accomplished since I started cycling around 9 months ago. I managed to do a London to Brighton ride with Homing and Aaron last year, and while it took us 8 hours to complete it, the trip was probably the biggest things I have done in my life.

Fast forward to this month, I managed to go on a club run on an extremely wet Sunday, and while it was wet (obviously), cold, and having the rider's wheel in front spraying mud in my face, it was extremely satisfying.
That ride was 50 odd miles, and I was absolutely knackered in the end.



These pictures are all from the London to Brighton ride I did with Calvin and Tahir a week or so after that club ride.

Its great to be able to measure the progress that I have made with a hobby like this, we managed to get to Brighton in just over 3 hours!

And this is what I did it on this time round. If it wasn't for this bike, hanging in my room for months, taunting me that I made what felt like the most unjustified purchase in my life, I wouldn't have made the effort in my commutes to be a stronger rider.

A stronger individual.
I can safely say that its justified now.

GT5: FT-86 Concept @ Trial Mountain

SO. Holiday's are here!!!! And that means stuffing myself with roast! The four assignments I had were not too bad, although the IT one was ridiculous.... They expected us to do the coursework using a program that we didn't get any practice on until two weeks before the deadline...
Anyway, exams are coming up, since I am doing five modules this semester, I only need to do three modules next semester. YES. So, better work hard through this holiday.......

Anyway, game wise, I've started to play (and started to spend way too much time) playing League of legends, but there really isn't much to say about that game... Especially when there isn't much to screenshot in the first place.

GT5 wise, I started experimenting with drifting cars again, I realised that I should switch to comfort-hard tires, as they are used for competitions as well as being generally easier to gain points in for the drift trials. The FT-86 was the first one I experimented with, and to be honest with you, its pretty nuts. Tuned to 300BHP and stripped out to an absurd weight of 850kg, this car flies around corners sideways at a neck-break speed. I chose this because the new FT-86 production model has been receiving a load of publicity, and I thought it was a good idea to try it out. I don't think I'm good enough to use this car yet, and if I do, probably downgrade the power a bit......

SO STOKED FOR THE NEXT DLC, I WANT THAT FT-86!!!!!

Game search attempt

Brian tried to find a childhood PC game, it had those chinese pandas, and it was a clone of lemmings. He googled panda lemmings.

GT5: SPOON CRZ @ SSR5

Getting a bit busy with university work now, so this is definitely going to start slowing down in terms of the regularity of posts.

Anyway, I hope this style of photo enhancing is going the right direction, it certainly has more contrasts between the lights and darks which was what I was aiming for, since the play on shadows is a lot more interesting for me rather than trying to have a rather flat (colour wise) but detailed picture...