drawing board

sadly the wall doesn't keep everything drawn the very oldest things get deleted :( so every so often i'll take a screenshot and put it here

drawing board

hello people, come draw on my wall.. leave a message if you will... :/

dunno if it works though

eclipse

the partial 'eclipse' as seen through my binoculars onto my bed

Eclipse

If its not to crappy and cloudly tomorrow, you should see the moon go right by the sun, not really going over it, more like brushing against its side. lol

first contact is at 9:45, ends at 11:15

Mayflower

Went to Mayflower with the ballroom dancing society. Was very nice proper chinese food. We had beef(very tender in kinda like a stew, very yummy one of my favourites), sweet&sour chicken, sizzling pork, roast duck, something with tofu, salt & chilli squid, and a vegetable thing in oyster sauce. All very nice. then we had some dim sum afterward, the usual ha gow(prawn thingys in a funny white pastry), siew mai(pork & otherstuff dumplings), fung jow(chickens feet.. mmmm) and we had char sui cherng fun, and some red bean thing I don't know the name of and some other thing i don't know the name of. All in all the main bit cost me £13.50 and the dim sum £4.

bored

This is the first time in a long time that i've been at home during the weekend. Last week it was jailbreak, the week before was IVDA(dance comp), the week before was skydiving, the week before was SUDA(another dance comp). i don't know what to do with myself.

i feel so stressed today. all i want is to see my friends. i think the prospect of not seeing my friends for a month has already driven me crazy.

An interesting day.

Today I got up. Exciting I know. I decided to wear a suit today just cos I was bored. I had to meet Hannah at the bank to do something. It seems that everytime we meet we always get into the same argument about checks and money and me not going to the tueday socials. She kept making the point that she had to deal with people wanting money from the club. It was the same old argument except that this time at the end I put my foot down and said that I was not going to deal with any money through her. I don't know what she thought of it since I left straight after.

I went to the maths building to go see everyone at the end of optimisation. Then I went to Bisc with Fiona. We talked for a while about stuff at the end of bisc and while we walked to the physics library and outside the library. I'm not sure what she thought about what I said. (this won't make sense unless you're Fiona I guess lol)

We then went in and spoke to Helen in the library. We talked/discussed/argued. Heh, well I don't think she quite understands yet. But I guess I'm glad she knows now. I don't know what she thinks about it. (again this won't make sense unless you were there)

I left for the union to meet my dance partner to practice for a competition on sunday. While we practiced she says she doesn't really want to go but will go if I want her to. I didn't mind, but it seemed she really didn't want to go, I couldn't tell if she really wanted to go or not because she seemed really willing, 'if i wanted to go' she would go. So we argued and in the end I told her that I'm not going to compete and we ended practice and i 'shoo'ed her away lol. So I don't know what she thought of that.

So four times today, four arguement/discussions, four times I'm left clueless as to how what I said/did affected what people thought of me...

well that was pointless.

Jailbreak!

ok, the weekend just gone was jailbreak, and i and tessa participated. heres what happened.

Before jailbreak started Tessa asked the people at temple meads if they could help us, but they told her that they couldn't and were clamping down on it this year and not letting anyone through the barriers. But they said that if we got on at one of the small stations could get behind the barriers then we would just need to deal with the train people. So we decided to start our journey at clifton down. We looked up the train times and there was a train leaving at 9:08am, and we were to be released from the union at 9:00am so i decided we would ride my bike to the station so we could make it time. This was the extent of our planning. On saturday morning we were released exactly on 9 and we rushed out and made aur way to the station with tessa standing on the back. We arrived at 9:07 just in time for the train. unfortunately, the ticket man was really mean and he wouldn't let us stay on and we got kicked off at redland :/ After that we went to the bus station on foot. We asked there if they could take us anywhere but they said we have to ring national express, so we did and they said we couldn't travel for 'insurance reasons' :( but the people at the station did seem to want to help though. We decided to go to lawrence hill as that was the last stop before Temple meads and they couldn't kick us off before then. On our way we passed through the broadmead and Tessa saw the bus which goes to Lawrence Hill. We begged the bus driver to help us and he did! So we got a free ride to lawrence hill. When we got there we were kinda lost as to where the station was and we asked someone who showed us where it was. When we got there we met a trainspotter who informed us that we had just missed a train :( we went to the shop and got some supplies. back at the train station the trainspotter was really helpful, we were worried about meeting the mean ticket man again, but he told us that the next train wouldn't be the same one that we were kicked off, he also told us that the next train will probably be late because of the rugby and it was! the train finally arrive over 15 mins late and it was a different one to before and there was no mean ticket guy. We got off at temple meads and after a trip to the loo, we got onto the next train to Reading. we sat down somewhere in the middle, i was constantly looking out for the ticket man. just before Swindon i saw him making his was down the isle in the next carriage and we decided to get up and do something. We stood up and moved towards him, I was initially going to go straight passed him but I saw some toilets and we hid in them instead. When we left the toilets we were passed Swindon and we didn't see the ticket man again. We got off at Reading to change for a train to Redhill. It was a small train so we couldn't hide here and after 2 stops we saw the ticket man comnig down the isle. With our past experience with ticket men, and the abundance of warning penalty posters, we got scared and got off at the next stop before he got to us. We were now in crowthorn. We were thinking of trying to hitch and wait for the next train at the same time. We walked down the street, trying to hitch to Redhill but with no luck. We ask a lady standing on the other side of the road for help. She recomended we try to hitch to Sandhurst as it was much closer than Redhill and more people were likely to be going there. So we made a sign for Sandhurst and shortly after someone gave us a lift! We walked to Sandhurst station holing up a sign saying 'EAST please!' but no luck this time. We got on the next train from Sandhurst luckily there was no ticket man. we got off at the last stop which was Shalford. The next train wasn't for ages so i went to the toilet in the pub and we had a drink. We spoke to some people in the pub about where the best place to hitchhike would be around here after explaining what we were doing. We went to try hitchhike, but again no luck. but there was a bus stop with buses going to Redhill. When the next bus came, the doors opened and literally all we managed to say was "hi, we're from bristol uni, and were doing this charity jailbreak thing..." before he interupted us and asked us where we wanted to go and told us to go sit down! It took a while but we got to Redhill eventually. We crossed the road to Redhill train station and saw that they had barriers :( wondering what to do we explained our situation to the man at the gate, he told us to see the manager on platform 2 and let us through! After a half hearted attempt to look for this manager, we just got on the next train to Tonbridge.
This time we decided just to try talk again to the ticket guy. It worked and he let us stay on! :) we changed at tonbridge to Ashford international, we didn't see a ticket guy on this one ^_^ the trains between ashford and Folkestone were being replaced by a bus so we thought we'd have to blag our way onto the bus, but when we got there they didn't ask for our tickets or anything so we got on and went to folkestone. In Folkestone we went to the bus station to try to find out more information on the channel tunnel, like where it was... but everything was closed :( we talked to some people who pointed us in the right direction. We saw the road signs to the tunnel and started following them. We followed them for quite a while and the area got more and more remote, it was freezing and the only places we saw to stay were miles back where we came from. but i was stubborn and wouldn't turn back, (sorry Tessa) Luckily though we came upon one of those Premier Travel Inns and we decided to stay there the night. we left the next morning at 8:15ish and carried on our walk towards the tunnel. when we were nearly there we found out that they had security stopping people hitchhiking through the tunnel :( so we decided to go to dover to catch a ferry. I made a sign for Dover, and just after 5-10mins we were picked up by these nice french couple and dropped off right outside Dover ferry port thingy. We spoke to the people at seafrance but they couldn't help us. Then we went to P&O ferries, the guy behind the counter was really nice, and so was the lady in the counter next to him, we explained our situation and the lady remember a deal in a newspaper which was a day trip for £1 the guy behind the counter bought us our tickets for us And gave us a voucher for a free bottle of wine! We took the ferry to Calais. When we got there it seemed so empty and remote it was a little worrying. The layout of Calais is stupid. Its so difficult just to walk out of the ferry port. anyway, we went to the train station in Calais to see if they'd give us any free tickets to anywhere, but unfortunately not. After trying to hitch to Paris for ages we decided to give up and make our way home.

so thats it, we got to Calais. maximum distance 197.68 miles as the crow flies between the Students Union in bristol and Rue du Nord in Calais.

my room

don't you hate it when a girl says her room is a mess when its clearly not.
this is a messy room...

lets play a game
find...
an oasis bottle,
a bike lock,
a penguin,
my scarf,
a walking stick,
a jacobs cream crackers wrapper,
a bowl,
some clementines,
9 socks,
a shoebox
a pair of sandals,
some wool/string
something better to do.

Numbers

i made up a theorem (probably more a lemma or corolory) today and proved it just for fun... whats happening to me :/
anyway...
my thinking was this.
when you add 1 to a number, all the factors change.
and so n has no factors in common with n+1, this is trivial to see/prove,
(proof/let n=p1^a1..pk^ak, n+1 = 1 (mod pi) hence pi doesn't divide n+1)
then i thought of generalising this

the theorem.
if you add two numbers which are coprime, then you get a number which is coprime to both of your original numbers
when written formally, it appears quite obvious, and with modulo computation, the proof is trivial also.
if (n,m)=1
then (n,n+m)=1
proof/
let n=p1^a1..pk^ak
n+m = m (mod pi)
and pi does not divide m qed.

generalising further,
when you add any two numbers, the hcf of the result and your two numbers equals the hcf of the two numbers.

this is all related to euclid methinks, and (n,m)=(n,m-n) thing

i'm sad.

monday

My brother came to bristol today. We went to sukoshi to eat. the pieces of sushi are quite small. I was quite disappointed.

i found the maths education section of the library today,(yay) and got some books out.

this sickens me

.... i take back what i said earlier. about thinking badly of others and not hating people i never met.


Warning, dont look at this if you don't want to hate someone.


Was there any point? Just to take pictures and post them on the web?

Pancakes

I had pancakes today.

I might try being vegen for a while, i haven't decided. or just not eat from that damn machine. >_<

what do you think?