I had a birthday on Tuesday. My sixteenth, to be precise - but who's counting. It was technicallyot a birthday, as I was not born. It was the sixteenth anniversary of my birth...

16 seems to be a big thing legally - I can now:
- Buy alcohol with a meal
- Buy lottery tickets
- Learn to drive a motorbike on the road
- Smoke (like I'd want to do that)
- Compete in some cash-prize competitions/sweepstakes

But more surprising is the list of things I can't do, including:
- Enter Blue Peter competitions
- Enter various other competitions

Hmm

Chemistry on Monday was hard - which was unexpected after the relatively easy Biology paper we had :|
They asked a 5-mark question on detection and identification of ions - and the compounds all contained sulphate ions (so you had to detect it by the cat ion). And they were hardly easy tests to remember.
Plus they asked a load of questions on esterification, the details of which are not covered in the revision book (Normally this would be excusable, but the fact that the book states categorically that "This book tells you everyhting you need to know for the exan, and nothing else" pisses me off)

History and Welsh revision today. I cannot express my joy at the fact that I have a Welsh exam tomorrow. Words cannot tell the joy that I am feeling. Put in the [sarcasm] tags if you feel them necessary. But looking on the bright side, after tomorrow I can forget every word of Welsh I ever learned. I've already started to do that with English (English 2 was on Monday too!!)

Thankfully, the History 1 exam (which they had to go and put on my birthday, didn't they) wasn't too bad - the questions were pretty fair. Which probably means that the USA paper is going to be a stinker. Hmm :S

Last week I attended the Microsoft UK MVP Open Day at the Microsoft Campus in Reading. It was absolutely brilliant! There was a really great atmosphere there - everyone was so friendly. Plus, I got loads of free gifts :D - of which a USB light, MVP rucksack, MVP shirt, USB keyring memory stick and Microsoft radio being just the start. It was really great, but in some ways rather strange to meet some of the people I've gotten to know online over the past couple of years in the flesh for the first time. Another interesting point was to see how broad the range of MVPs is - ages, regions, ethic backgrounds, etc. Overall, a very positive experience

Biology GCSE was yesterday - that was OK - I managed to answer all the questions (always a good sign) but they didn't ask a single question about the heart, which I'd learned off by hard (no pun intended). Maths AS module P1 is today - done a past paper this morning so I'm geared up. I'm just going to read over APs and GPs before I go (i'm not certain on the proof for the sum of a GP).

Good luck to anyone doing any exams at the moment (you probably won't need it - unlike me!)

:)