Greetings! Its been more than 1 month since I dropped a note on this journal. Although not necessarily productive, my living in London has at least been pleasantly busy. It took some courage to log on again, and type my long overdue update. So before I fill out the rest of the thirty so days that is missing (and I will), lets start with today. Waking up 10am only motivated by one goal, to get my newly purchased iphone working, I headed early morning to the O2 store, which distributes the Iphone. I was grumpy and border line rude when explaining to the sales clerk about my inability to get phone activation using iTunes, which failed to install properly in my operating system. It all resolved itself around noon, when 24 hours window after my first activation expired. I was thrilled the iphone started working, and the rest of the day went much better. I immediately used the phone to schedule appointments to view rental. Alek and I wish to hunt a place down before the 17th, when I’ll leave UK for HK—-so that I’ll have a place to stay when I return on the 1st of January! We visited two rental apartments, the first was further way down the Bakerloo tube stop but with sizable layout as well as located only few steps from the tube entrance, the second was at Marylebroune, which was a good location, but the layout was bad, bathroom was quite disgusting and occupied by 2 young artificially blond girls from Slovakia and Hungary with dubious smiles and questionable career backgrounds (we found a pile of playboy magazines at the couch). Alek and I had ‘brunchner’ (breakfast + lunch+ dinner) at Pizza express after . Then we joined Richard I watched the new movie Michael Clayton, a great thriller that left me a rather unpleasant impression about the realities of law firm operations. Rather than getting a few drinks like we used to, Richard and I got home early to do laundry and emails. I am waiting for the dryers and trying very hard to write this research proposal for my imperial app and overall, I feel most pressured about developing ‘good questions’ about those topics—that are not already in the existing academic discourse—and are relevant as well as interesting. Its suppose to be 4-5 pages long and will be critical to my admission success. I have no substantive knowledge about the beyesian/boostrapping technique, which is a big part of Robert’s innovation in the field of hedge fund performance analysis. Must get it done in 2 days!