Blog changes...

Hmm so as you can see I finally made the decision to continue blogging (um, yea?!) but moved from my old Windows Live Space to blogger.com. In my defence, I was only a beginner and windows live seemed perfect at the time :)

However after a quick and informative tutorial with Imran Bhai, I’ve now been convinced to switch to Wordpress. Already I feel much better about switching and can see the vast difference between windows live spaces and wordpress; poor comparison I know! Plus I get a lot more freedom on what appears on my web page and how I can customise it compared to blogger.com. Is it sad that I’m having a lot of fun playing around with different themes? Damn you Wordpress! I should really be doing some background reading on brain neurology for my MSc project but I can’t tear myself away from my blog :D

Also I’m quite surprised I decided to make the switch relatively quickly as it usually takes me a while to make such decisions. Though I’m suspecting this might be more to do with Imran bhai’s knowledge and skills of persuasion than a new state of mind :P Still I will be taking advantage of this change in force by starting a new culling program. The deletion/ deactivation of useless profiles and social networking sites that I joined; sites like Hi5, WAYN, Bebo spring to mind (sorry if anyone still uses these!)

I guess I’m clearing away the clutter for the new year if you will :)

Next question -

What's in a name...

...well apparently quite a lot.
After updating my blog, buying a shiny new domain name (thank you Imran bhai!) and finally choosing a theme I like... I cannot think of a decent name to call it, lol.

So my newly revived blog; what should it be called?

“Saima’s Space” – what I originally had
“Saima Say’s...” – which I quite like but have certain ethical issues i.e. Plagarism... I just can't do it! :P
“Saima’s Science” – which was a friend’s suggestion but now I’m not so sure if he was being serious or taking the mick! :-/

Or something entirely different that doesn't involve the alliteration of my name, lol.

Ah naming issues. Discuss.

Freeeeezing but still cute!

Xmas hols and I’m off uni for a month or so. I had planned to do some part time work whilst working at the hospital but decided against it as I have way too much work/ revision to do for uni. Also it’s very cold... and yes that is a perfectly good reason. It is freezing... literally! Defrosting my car on Monday morning I ran out of de-icer and used warm water to defrost the windscreen. In the time that it took me to go inside the house and get my handbag, the water had formed a remarkably clear layer of ice making it very difficult to spot. This resulted in me almost falling but instead I did a kind of a glide thing over to my car. Thankfully our lane is quite quiet and so no one was around to witness my skating skills :P

Actually to be truthful, this post was just an excuse to share this picture. Look at the cute ducks! There’s winter cuteness everywhere I look! (Ok I’m done now...)

Thoughts

My friends still find it highly amusing that whilst we’re having conversations if I happen to find a pen or paper lying about, I can’t seem to resist the urge to start doodling. I’ll still be paying attention to what is being said but I’ll also make notes or little sketches related to the topics that we’re discussing – something that I used to do in my tutorials at university. Sometimes it’s complete rubbish and sometimes I’ll surprise myself by what I’ve written. My easily amused friends have even stolen various doodles!!! Why?! Why would they do that?! lol

Anyway after discussing lunch with one of the researchers at the hospital the other day, I started doodling away. Not in front of her mind, but on the train home, lol. Here’s what we discussed. She’s a psychologist by the way...

I had more doodles, which I made on a stray newspaper when I ran out of paper. Unfortunately I left them on the train! Ah well it’ll make interesting reading for someone else, lol.