Life's Beautiful, Again
Lately I have been struggling to find time and words to post about the happenings in my life. The reason for this being the enormity and multitude of events that have transpired in the past week. It was a week extreme stress, effort and learning. The learning part is not only about the courses but also about different kinds of people. I can say that it was one helluva week. The tags for the week include deadlines, courseworks, in-fighting in project groups, late nights, sleep deprivation, sandwiches, sleep deprivation and fatigue. I’m not delving further on the past week at this point (I already have two requests to write about it but I guess two aren’t enough to touch the sensitive zones of my encephalon).
Anyway, the new term has kicked off. It officially began on last Monday but I had no time to attend those classes so effectively it starts this week for me. The week began with the submission of two reports early in the day. To celebrate this auspicious moment and to waste four free hours before the last lecture we decided to pay a visit to the Natural History Museum for the first time, which BTW is only a 5-min walk away from the campus. The visit turned out to be utterly boring. Actually there are two free museums. The other one is a science museum which sounds much better. But this guy said there are mummies in the History Museum. It turned out that he thought there were mummies :@ However there were dinosaur remains (lots of them), mammals, birds, volcanic rocks, crystals, stones, gems, etc etc. Who cares about them? The place was full though and there were many aspiring artists from art school sitting in the way trying to produce some great sketches. They were just sitting comfortably, unfazed by people moving around them. At that point I realized my life is much better 
In the human biology section of the museum I spotted a weighing machine and stepped on to it. To my horror it showed +3kg that what I expected. This is obviously due to the courseworks and the stress caused by them which resulted in an extremely high consumption of chocolates.
After visiting less than one-third of the museum we took off, attended the class and left for our homes.
I’ve been sleeping for 10 hours daily since then and it feels awesome. I started going to the gym the very next day and kicked off with a 5km run on the treadmill on Tuesday. Today, I played an absorbing game of indoor football (I never knew I was this talented) and scored three goals…yayy!! And I suck at football 
We started with 5-a-side and towards the end it was only 3-a-side! My legs are still aching with the tremendous physical activities of these two days.
BTW the greatest moment of the game was when our goalie was hit by the ball on his balls. And he still had the balls to go after the ball 
In case he reads this I should add “nice save, mate!” Eventually he went down after denying that goal.
Now I’m preoccupied with some decision-making. I have to choose at least 2 subjects in this term. I planned three (in case I fail one) but I’m thinking about four now. They all are so interesting! I have to decide the topic for my MSc thesis. In this case though all should be same. I have no idea about any of them. I just have to choose something that looks remotely familiar.
The week is going great so far and I should now go to bed for my third 10-hour sleep session. There is not point of staying awake. Tweaking the tagline from Raza’s blog I’d like to say “If you can sleep, you should because someday you won’t be able to.”
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They were just sitting comfortably, unfazed by people moving around them. At that point I realized my life is much better”
Beg to differ. There’s immense joy in sitting in people’s way and making amazing sketches
They were looking tired, frustrated yet focused, helpless (the way most of them were sitting on the floor). So, I though at least I had a better place to sit and work. Oh, and BTW I’m sure that those artists were also accidentally pushed and kicked by the numerous schoolchildren on tour of that place!
ohhhh i love london..if u want to see some mummies, go visit British museum,they have a whole gallery of mummies…& i only remember the earthquake room of natural history museum…
yeah london is great if u dont have to study
earthquake room was sooo unnatural lol…and yeah i will definitely go to the british museum for the mummies!! thanks for the info 
london could never have been my choice to study. i am just soo impressed by you that you are living in london and can still concentrate so well Masha Allah. I tou would have been wasting all my time
never seen u play football…. but u certainly were great at tennis … i mean not as grt as me but still …
Man I remember those indoor football sessions at PNEC in Sem IV. Our classroom was huge (former drawing hall) and there was a lot of space behind the seats. I was awesome at indoor football, even though I suck at the outdoor game.
@karachiwali
I still think I waste time, in my own way
@mustafa
have u forgotten my backhand?!!!! oh and i never knew i was so good at football
@SAWJ
LOL! We used to play indoor cricket in PNEC, broke a window too
how can i forget that killer slice of yours!! … indoor cricket …. yeah i think it was Jonty who did it… and i was the bowler… rather thrower..
how do u waste time? by working instead of ur group partner?
@mustafa: thank u
yeah jonty tha!!
@KW: u really dont wanna know how i waste it
ummm….ok but it would be better if you tell me yourself cuz otherwise id be getting all sorts of wild ideas
thats a hell lot yr doing.. Indoor Soccer, studies, decision making n museum trips… =D
Hows london, generally speaking? Iv heard a few visitors talking abt a gloomy sort of atmosphere in the winters?
I used to hang around Russel square and British meuseum block, apart from Covent Garden, that is my most fav spot in London.
Try and enjoy your time in London.
indoor soccer? wow…3 goals…not bad…