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I've rolled Sushi a few times - just looked it up and it's Makizushi. It's really easy to make, although mine have always been pretty basic, and admittedly not all that pretty. Basic things you'll need: Bamboo rolling mat. It's not essential, it could be pretty easy to find a substitute, but if you can find one they're cheap anyway. Sushi nori seaweed stuff. Sushi rice. However, I've heard any short grain rice works. I've found pudding rice is just as sticky, and a lot cheaper. Seafood! I usually use prawns, salmon, tuna and mussels. All personal preference. Vegetables. Anything will work really; as long as you can cut it into thin strips to fit along the middle of your sushi. I generally use peppers and cucumber. General idea: i) Seaweed goes on rolling mat. ii) Put a layer of rice over your seaweed, then layer on a row of vegetables and a row of seafood on top. I spread about a 1/3 of the seaweed slice with a thin layer of rice. Caution: don't be tempted to stuff it too full or it'll split ii) Roll the b*****d. You'll need to coil it up, so keep the first roll small and tight. Once you have an idea then you can arrange the ingredients to make it look prettier - it's always satisfying to have the tasty bits in the middle. I usually add sesame seeds to the rice, and use spring onions and ginger for flavour. There'll be plenty of sites for recipes and instructions to elaborate. I did get the Yo! Sushi cookery book as an Xmas gift, but I haven't actually used it yet, I'll have to dig it out. Anything you want me to look out for in it? Hope that helps..

I'm up for this I'll see if anyone else from Cambridge is as well.

Desperate bump! I only need a few more results!

Bump! Thanks to Kcchan for such a quick response and his results!

The experiment will be two simple tasks. Reading and writing is not important, as long as you know the grammatical properties of the language. Being able to speak it will count. I'll PM the first part of the experiment to people now. Thanks!

I need participants that (only) speak Cantonese and English to do my experiment. If you don't personally, but have relatives or friends that do, i would be very grateful if you could pass this on. It should take less than 10 minutes of your time. The experiment has two parts; the first part will take exactly 5 minutes and the second should take 2 or 3 minutes. Unfortunately i can't tell you what it will consist of or the aims yet, but i can fill you in afterwards. If you would like to help me out, reply here or add me to MSN (wing_zin@hotmail.com) and I'll send you the materials. Oh yeah, Mr. Kan, if you're reading this..it's a different experiment from the one i made you do, so you are allowed to offer your services

Hehe look at the guy in the background..he just doesn't care! There's no reaction, he keeps his arms folded.

Street-Cred through the roof!! It's nice to see you pull off lines you've been considering for ages! Bollards are sick.

Now that was a cool video.

Woo! Been waiting for you to make a new video for a while now! Wasn't let down at all! Riding was awesome and BIG! Loved it.

Will Arnold is starting Uni there this year too, so you'll have at least one riding buddy, plus he's a BEAST. I'll point him towards his thread next time i speak to him.

Hey! There's a few riders around Cambridge! I'd be more than happy to help you to learn to ride trials. Generally, I'm riding most days around the town centre at the moment, usually in the late afternoon/evening so you're more than welcome to join me. Also, there's usually a few of us out at the weekend. Edit: Apparently you can't PM Pre-members, so i sent you an E-mail!

I did Discrete maths which is meant to be the easiest maths option. I struggled. I found it was one of the harder A levels and i did History, English and Biology as well. If you're looking to achieve a good mark, it will require high maintenance. Each module builds up from lesson to lesson, if you don't understand any of the basic principles, it will only get more complicated. Right from the start, you should make sure you fully understand and can implement each formula rather than just breezing through the exercises in class, after all you will have to do the questions in an exam a period after you've learnt them, which only makes revision all the more difficult. Also, a lot of the questions in the exam will require you to apply the knowledge, rather than asking for straight forward methods, which makes understanding how each formula works even more important. Also, regarding exercises (i'm assuming you mean homework?) i had an assignment each week for both my teachers. Usually, we'd be given about 5-10 questions from exercises, which would take me a good hour to complete if they were long. At the end of each module we were given a review of everything, which was massive. This took ages and towards the higher modules, i usually found i couldn't complete them. I hope i haven't put you off doing maths, but i thought a warning was needed. If you're really good at maths, obviously you won't find it too taxing, but for ordinary people, it's not going to be easy. I ended up with a D in my A level. However, i didn't work as hard as i should have. During lessons and homework, i didn't really immerse myself in the exercises, i skipped anything that was too complicated. Also, i didn't do as many homeworks as i should and i should have really made sure that i could do each review rather than just give up, so it's my own fault really. As long as you're organised and make the most of your class room time, you shouldn't have to put in as much effort out of college, although i do stress that regular practice is still recommended. I understand i am being a hypocrite, but this is hindsight talking!

I got this frame! It's black and looks a little bit like this. I'm not sure what it is though. If anyone is awesome at identifying frames, the picture might be useful. I have cracked the lens in my phone, which explains the blurry picture, i think. Oh yea, the frame is cracked too, but it looks like it should last a while. Cool, i'll pop into Billys soon and hopefully they can sort me out! What's the duration of your Romania trip?

Ok, i have a new frame, which means i need a new Bottom bracket. Apparently i need the American size one. I also need a cheaper one, so i was told pijin.co.uk are a cheap shop. However, they only have Euro, Spanish and Mid sizes, are any of these what i'm looking for? Also, i need a thinner tyre so i can slam the frame properly. A 1.75 should be adequate, any suggestions? Again, the emphasis is on price. I am a hobo.

Hmm you should try to think of it from the inverse angle too. On appearance, everything 'fitting perfectly' might seem to be a reasonable assumption to a Godly influence. However, eveything on this planet seems to work in systems, such as ecosystems, weather, etc. One action/reaction causes the next step in the system and a balance is reached. If the system was different or affected, it would still eventually come to an equilibrium, which would seem equally as perfect and if we were unaware of the previous system it would still create this impression of a 'perfect fit'. What i'm trying to say is, with all those factors and agents co-existing, each will have a role or niche which will be vital or contribute which builds these systems, even if each of them were unrelated to begin with. It's likely that one of these isolated agents began the system then the rest of the factors formed. An example could be the introduction of oxygen into the atmosphere, which leads to organisms being formed and the start of the ozone layers and the gas cycles. The organisms become reliant on the conditions that this creates and the system becomes inter linked and expands, so it seems like everything 'fits perfectly'! Anything that doesn't 'fit perfectly' dies or adapts, i think that's the key point, maybe i should have just said this

Cool, i might come along to this. Umm i'll arrive in the afternoon sometime though. I got your number so i'll give you a call when i'm there.

I've only heard of American studies! It's the study of the conceptualisation of America by looking at American media (Literature, films etc) with the influence of history and culture in mind. One of the biggest ideals is the 'American dream' which is an influence of a lot of novels, such as the Gothic novels of that era. Umm there's also the True North/Deep South divide before slavery was abolished, leading to Literature such as Street car named Desire. You get the idea. Anyway, i'm assuming that Australian studies is the same principal, except i have just realised that i have no grasp at all of Australian history or tradition to hazard a guess at any major events or pivots which would be ideal to study. However, I'm also assuming that the focus is on Media. There could be American/ Australia studies with a different subject as an approach. Hmm I'm also genuinely interested now and a quick search didn't really show anything.

The two are very different subjects, although they seem to have blurred the lines at GCSE. If you want to take creative writing any further I would suggest taking Lit. I don't think you'll actually do much creative writing on the course, but you'll do a lot of textual analysis, you'll have to learn all the rules in writing before you attempt to copy or break them yourself. Language will go into a different direction. In my A-Level course there was an emphasis on discourse (spoken language) and pragmatics. If you take English Language any further than A Level it will be likely you will end up in the Linguistics field. This is the study of the English Language with a scientific approach. This spans from the history and conception of English (and foreign languages), Sociolinguistics: shifts in non-standard spoken forms vs written forms, e.g. slang and dialects. You'll study systems which categorise language, such as phonetics, which groups units of sounds. Oh, and also Grammar. At A-Level i took English Lit. and Lang. In the Lit course we had to study two books, two plays (including Shakespeare) and and a lot of poems by Robert Frost. We got to do a little creative writing, the emphasis being on the different narrative forms and copying the styles of the authors we were studying. If you don't like reading, i would not suggest this course. Some people may argue that you only need to read the books on the syllabus, but it will put you at a disadvantage. In the language course the first year was about studying discourse and it's features, comparing it with written language. This is a lot more interesting than it sounds as a political speech may carry the nature of a fully planned written medium, but it is written with the intent of being spoken, so it's interesting to analyse it's features. At the moment i am doing English Language with Creative writing for my degree. If I had done only one of the A-Level courses, i think I would still be able to take this course, even though each part is based on Lang. and Lit. respectively. If you think English is a choice for Higher education, i would put a little more thought into this as there are very specific fields of English you can go into. I haven't really explained anything in too much detail, so if there's anything you'd like to know more about just let me know. I chose my A Levels without knowing what Language was really about either, but it managed to work itself out somehow, but it's not recommended.

Make it the Weekend! I'm working on Thursday.

Is anyone getting off at Kings Cross? I always get lost on the way to Southbank. It'll be cool if i could meet up with someone so they can show me the way. If not, I think i can also stop off at Liverpool Street Station although it's a little more hassle.

I failed my first test due to too many missed mirror checks. The best way i found to ingrain the checks afterwards was through habit, in your lessons think 'Mirror, signal, then maneuver'. Before slowing down, think to check the Rear view mirror in plenty of time. If you aren't doing these in your practice lessons, it won't be easy to pick them up during your test! If it's not too late, you should actively implement these at all times, seeing as you will be scrutinised for missing them out. When i was learning to reverse round corners, the instructor pointed at a place in the left rear window which i should keep the curb in at all times, this would insure that the car was always a few inches away from the curb. Then after the turn, there'd be a point in the rear window which the curb would line up with to ensure the car was close and parallel to the curb. Although, as people have said it would be more beneficial to learn how the car should feel. However, it would be useful to keep in mind that this method helped me to get a feel for where the car should be in the first place and i eventually learnt to reverse without using this method. Also, you might not fail if you mess up the reversing, you might get away with just a minor fault. So if you know where the curb should be in relation to the view on your car, it will be a lot easier to get rectify the mistake and get yourself into the right position! I hope this has helped, i found the driving test was very stressful so i really do wish you luck!

Effort! That's pretty Brave.

That looks really cool, there's a healthy amount of blue on it.

Some of the Cambridge riders used to ride Peterburough every now and then a few years ago. If there's a ride going i'll try and get some people down, would be nice to meet some new people and try some lines i couldn't before. Does little Jake still ride? It's cool to see there's some new riders about