Welcome to the teeniesss

The sat of 0th week, Naughties bop!!! (Nt quite sure of the date lol) Wheeeeeyyy, let's start the Hilary term submerged in alcohol and dance music with the univities. I've checked my timetable, well, it's almost the same as before somehow. More prac, but less 9am lectures, which make me very happy. I'll rather you guys make me work to an inch of my life in the afternoon than waking up to a 9am lecture.

But before the bop, collections. oh gosh, I'm so underprepared esp MCB. There're just too many facts to remember and to put (some of) them in the form of five essays in three hours time is a pain in the ass.

All the activities that I've signed up for will start next term too. kinda looking forwards to it. Charity events, international students activities, access campaigns, volunteering bla3. 2010 will start off horrendously busy but I'm sure it will be damn productive and very possibly the best eight weeks in my life.

Oxford, I love you! Except for the fact that it's so ex.

ps chern n I are wondering if it is actually a new decade cz we think new decade should start at 2011, no? wtv, i'll go with the flow. out the naughty and come the teeny.

Academics

Okay, six weeks seems to be just barely enough. I totally underestimated the amt of my workloads. The workloads that I set for myself though- reviewing what we've done in the term.

Fucking lecture notes are so useless. Cnt believe they squeezed in so much information into one slide. I was so shocked when I read through the txtbookSSS and found out all those were what weought to digest and make notes out from them. MCB u r one damn mother cb.

And the diagrams are so small and I couldn't find some relevant information in the reference textbooks. I cnt even understand my lecture notes. pfftttt!!

My perfect term will comprise of:

1) Lectures on biophysical chem and organic chem but in the afternoon

2) All other lectures- MCB, biological chem, maths- are cancelled but lecture notes are given. Coz I think it's plain useless to go to these lectures. I didn't learn much thing as compared to reading the textbooks in this past week.

3) Tutes and classes in the afternoon as usual!

Lol, I just cnt be bothered to wake up. Well, scientist's schedule. I've to stop asking for the impossible.

Yeah, enough of this slightly geeky/ academic post.

window shopping

My bro has just gone back to brunei so when he was staying in london for 2 days, I simply showed him around. I brought him to Bayswater to eat in cnr, then to oxford, regent street. All the way to pic circus, leicester sq and chinatown.

We ate in chinatown then went to trocadero and walked arnd the fair in leicester sq. Then we went to Haagen Dazs for the ice cream/cookies/fruits with hot melting choc dip. So full. But that night I couldn't sleep till I sent him off cz of the tea we drank presumably. Btw, he bought a naruto wallet and a bleach sword keychain.

Anyway, that's my first proper shopping since I arrived. My most fav designer brands are defo ralph lauren and AJ. Fuck me!! Their designs n cuttings are just simple but damn elegant. Btw, A&F attracts me a lot too. I like topman cz the british actors in the teen drama like skins wear them and it just looks great AND gt my size haha. Cnt believe they do xxs; even I cnt fit into it. I found one brand namely Humor. The colour combination and the designs are kinda weird, but i love them.

Whereas for wallet, fossil is defo good for me. Thx to zaki n chern who bought me a fossil wallet. I can officially say goodbye to my old wallet. Accessories from fossil, diesel and D&G are damn elegant too, esp the bracelets coated in silvery metal.

No particular preference for shoes but a few gucci shoes and flip-flops stole my breath.

If only I have enough money...

sasak ku...

cz the Oxford Union invited Shakira as a speaker on monday but I was in London already. I learnt a lesson: stay in london for at least five days after the end of term. Coz there are many things going on in oxford that I really wanna take part, like a few volunteering sessions that I'm damn interested (+ gt free food from the session...)

London!!!!

It was so different from the London I know. So packed and I was squeezed like sardines. Coz there was a xmas festival; market next to primark, roaring dinosaurs models in the middle of the road; loud music from the stores etc.

There is Ben's cookies at Oxford Street now!!! And a few new shops i think. Not spectacular one though. Btw, do u guys knw Borders is closing down. I tried to find it at the oxford circus but I couldn't. Wonder if it's closed down or I simply lost my way looking for it. Aiyer, closing down sales leh... Haven't read the lost symbol and found a couple of good books i wanna read too...

Last day

It started off with a lecture abt genetic issues. The lecturer was good cz she asked the questions in a way that we didn't realise the decisions we've made subconsciously. There were many good ques of coz but I've thought abt them before so I was quite bored. There was however one really good question that I've nvr thought of.

'Should abortions be allowed if the foetus was 22 weeks old?' duh, everyone said no. Bla3 we moved to genetic screening. Then 'Should abortions be allowed if the foetus was diagnosed with a genetic disease that it won't survive more than one year?' Duh, now many more ppl said yes. Then she threw a sentence, 'Did you realise you are setting a value for life now? It's alright of course, but just bear that in mind...' That struck me.

Anyway, I don't wanna go too deep (too many factors to consider) like all the other fking annoying oxford geeks, and many of them are my friends so I'm really pissed off esp when it's the last day n they were still debating abt the existence of metaphysics.

I swear this is the busiest day in Oxford with so many cars from many places pouring into Oxford from mid-day to night to take their children back.

The lab was fun n easy; just pipetting, spectrophotometer and calculations with xmas songs as background music. At the door, there were chocolates and vac works! Vac works for lab...

Packing and packing and packing and bop and fking lots of drinking. That ended the term!

p/s a few days before, the queen visited ox. and i didnt knw it so i was wondering why there were police on horse at the road.

cambridge formal

I've forgot to mention I went to cam on 27/11, which was zian's birthday. but anyway, i was worried i wont make it cz of my lab, but thanks god, my lab partner and I did a really good job and we were amongst the few who finished first.

Fitzwilliams, zhao's college. The food was quite good. At night I biked with chung sun to get some stuffs. So cool (literally too)! The last time I biked in England was when I went to Williams' tute from TC. Anyway, then I slept in his room.

The next day, we went to take photos for Yazid's grad. He is Hanif's bro. But before that, we hanged out in starbucks with many current and alumni oxbridge-ians. And i was stuck in bet the postgrads. And they were voicing out what have been haunting me, which of coz I was ready to face, but to hear it from ppl who were facing it nw is a whole different level.

Good experience till when we wanna go back and the bus was fucked up as well as the weather as that's when the temp dropped in britain. We went to eat soto in kam's hse when we arrived in ox. Thx Kam n Mai!!