The onli nice picture I took for christmas

My cute little roomate and his Octopus

London Trip

Okay, London trip post coming up!

Went to London from Cambridge by train. Here's a picture taken at King's Cross in London..



Lol.. Platform 9 and 3/4. And there is half a trolley sticking out of the wall! Couldn't stop laughing when I saw that! (The people in the photo are some of the other Jardine scholars in Cam)

Here are a few random photos from the Natural History Museum...

Ok, finally, photos of the PE1 regrouping in LSE for the Malam Bakti.

Okay, that's all for now!

Chrsitmas eve 2006 in KL part 3

We ended up back at my place and had the exchange presents session,


tot of counting down for xmas but we missed the stroke
we then broke the christmas crackers and had a bit of fun














and THE END
Thanks wai ken for driving us around and the ppl who showed up for the party, michelle, voonhian, jessy, waiken, fukhate and hafriz
Merry Christmas ( a belated one ) and Happy New Year everyone!

and that wasnt the best part of the dinner yet! for dessert we had chocolate fondue!!!!
















The picture says it all
Thanks hafriz for suggesting the place :)
We lepaked around sri hartamas and the curve later on...
took lots of pictures, these are some of the interesting ones:



There is nth wrong about being a gay ... presenting the new couple from pe1!
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Chrsitmas eve 2006 in KL

It was kinda a last minute plan but it wasnt a bad one :)
only few of us made it cuz most ppl werent around/free
so...presenting out small xmas eve gathering
firstly a group picture , these r the few ppl who made it to our small party















Michelle baked a Christmas Cake especially for this :) thanks michelle for the lovely cake



we first gathered at my house and played hang man while waitin for the rest to come
then we played tricks and michelle finally unveiled the secret to her magic card trick
:D
when dinner time came close, we went to Sri Hartamas and finally decided to have Fondue for dinner!!!
thats the best part :):)
the pic above was taken at the fondue house in sri hartamas
















yummyyyyyy
seriously...it was GREAT! we had chicken , lamb and beef with mushroom + cheese + wine sauce and chicken + wine i think+ cheese sauce















The way wai ken eats it shows how good the food was!!!! (sorry i dont really know how to rotate the pictures on blogger)

Christmas Formal

Hey again everyone,

Every college has its own fomal hall. Sort of similar to the Harry Potter Great Hall. Magdalene's one is paticularly famous because it is fully candle lit. Some college's formal hall looks like a modern canteen with fluorescent lights and everything. =.=". No class at all... LOL! ANd the Magdalene dinner is really cheap at the hall.. only GBP 3.75 because it is heavily subsidised by our college. So if anyone of you guys come over, it's worth attending one formal hall dinner.

Okay, at the end of November, our college organised Christmas dinners in the formal hall. Here are a few photos, so you guys can see the candle lit atmosphere and all..

Oops.. thats a picture of the Christmas dessert that they served (half eaten... hehe). They only allow us to take photos towards the end of the dinner, so no photos of the main meal... sorry.. =(

Here's another photo, but without flash. The candle light effect is very nice..

And another photo!

Okay, here's one last one which we took after the dinner near our college entrance.

Ok, that's all about the Christmas formal. Here's an unrelated photo about our lectures. Here's the Cockcroft Lecture Theatre.

Here's our lecturer for Algebra and Geometry. Professor Korner. (pronounced Kerner) Very funny and engaging person. That's all! Next post is the London trip (for the Jardine lunch) and the LSE Malam Bakti. (also my trip to the Natural History Museum.)

Photos of Cambridge

Sorry that this is so late as well. Seeing Jo-anne's post made me feel very guilty... =(

So anyway, here are a few photos of Cambridge.

Welcome to Cambridge! =) This is a mini map that is on display near my accommodation. (Basing House).

Here's a picture of my college. Not a very good one..Hmm.. So here is another one!

Not bad right? =) Looks a bit like a mini castle. Surprisingly, those're all the photos I have of my college (!!). So this post ends here. Next post : Christmas Formal at Magdalene's "Harry Potter" Hall.

A Christmas gift to all~

This year's version for my internet gift to everyone, PE1!! I wanted to create a PE1 version but drawing 30 people isn't easy. ^^;; So, I drew happy, fun, petite little people to represent our class. Hehe.

About the artwork: It's inked and painted by hand and edited using the Arcsoft PhotoStudio programme.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE~

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The long-awaited Cambridge Post.... XD

Sorry everyone I meant to do this long, long ago..but yeah...anyway, here's Cambridge!

This is a view of River Cam..taken when we went punting. A lot of pretty ducks around...



Presenting Shirley the lady puntress...




And here's myself punting..




Shirley and I..on Jesus Green...on the day we all had this crazy idea of wanting to picnic in winter...




This is the cockerel placed in the hall of Jesus College. According to our friend from Jesus, it is worth 3 million pounds because it was stolen from an African tribe. Haha...3 million pounds. If you try and steal it, armed police will come.




And this is the horse in Jesus College. The rules say that you can ride it but you can't step on the lawn. O.o....put some planks and hop across...haha



In Trinity College: The famous Sir Isaac Newton. I heard that the whole apple-dropping-on-his-head story is actually a myth though.






A view of people punting. Err..the building at the back is St. John's College I think...





This is the Trinity College Chapel....Huge.....






The main entrance of Trinity College...one of the biggest and richest colleges around. Oh actually I think it is the richest one. And the biggest also.




The Bridge of Sighs. I heard a few different myths about the origin of its name. Cambridge is a place full of funny stories..don't really know what to believe. Was it called Bridge of Sighs because the prisoners always walked past it and sighed as they went along? Shirley, Arun, Ashok...help....! Hehe...I don't remember.




St. John's New Court...the second largest and richest college in Cambridge. Oh..it was rumoured that Harry Potter was filmed somewhere here...but I heard that the actual place was actually in Oxford.




Oh....Most of the pictures were taken on a day after term when a few of us finally found time to tour Cambridge. Yeah I know that to properly tour the university only 2 months after being a student there is sad. Lol..And I just realised that I don't have any pictures of my own college. I'll take more pictures when I get back... =p Well, Shaun, Le Hong and Samuel just got back from there. Post...!

Well, it's freezing cold here. It's worse than being in a fridge. Seriously. And I do miss hanging out with you all back in Malaysia. Niwayz, have fun everyone! Treasure the sunshine. If you are back home. Hope to see you all again soon. =p

Burgers, Pasta and ICE CREAM~

SWENSENS~ A great place for a Malaysian Earthquake. Yummm~

So long no see Ren Yin and Sao Lee! "Everything here is so cheap!", says both of them. *looks at the RM32.00 ice cream*

Ooo... Doesn't this look good? xP It is delicious!... AND it's cheap~
(Strawberry, Chocolate Peanut Buttercup, Sticky Chewy Chocolate, Chocolate, Cookies 'N' Cream, Lime Sherbet, Macadamia Nuts and Mocha Almond Fudge) :O~

See? The boys already started drooling~ xP

Ehehe~ No time to drool LET'S EAT! xP

Ice-cream... Ice-cream... Ice-cream~ *dreams* -^0^-

And Christmas is coming!! YAY YAY YAY!!

Physics Lessons

Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and Noble Prize winner in Physics, relates the following story circa 1915:

Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.

I read the examination question: "Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer." The student had answered: "Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building."

The student really had a strong case for full credit since he had really answered the question completely and correctly! On the other hand, if full credit were given, it could well contribute to a high grade in his physics course and certify competence in physics, but the answer did not confirm this.

I suggested that the student have another try. I gave the student six minutes to answer the question with the warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. At the end of five minutes, he hadn't written anything. I asked if he wished to give up, but he said he had many answers to this problem; he was just thinking of the best one. I excused myself for interrupting him and asked him to please go on.

In the next minute, he dashed off his answer, which read: "Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its fall with a stopwatch. Then, using the formula x= 0.5*a*t^2, calculate the height of the building." At this point, I asked my colleague if he would give up. He conceded, and gave the student almost full credit.

While leaving my colleague's office, I recalled that the student had said that he had other answers to the problem, so I asked him what they were."Well," said the student, "there are many ways of getting the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer.

For example, you could take the barometer out on a sunny day and measure the height of the barometer, the length of its shadow, and the length of the shadow of the building, and by the use of simple proportion, determine the height of the building."

"Fine," I said, "and others?"

"Yes," said the student, "there is a very basic measurement method you will like. In this method, you take the barometer and begin to walk up the stairs. As you climb the stairs, you mark off the length of the barometer along the wall. You then count the number of marks, and this will give you the height of the building in barometer units." "A very direct method."

"Of course. If you want a more sophisticated method, you can tie the barometer to the end of a string, swing it as a pendulum, and determine the value of g [gravity] at the street level and at the top of the building. From the difference between the two values of g, the height of the building, in principle, can be calculated."

"On this same tack, you could take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to just above the street, and then swing it as a pendulum. You could then calculate the height of the building by the period of the precession".

"Finally," he concluded, "there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best," he said, "is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent's door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: 'Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer."

At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.

The name of the student was Niels Bohr." (1885-1962) Danish Physicist; Nobel Prize 1922; best known for proposing the first 'model' of the atom with protons and neutrons, and various energy states of the surrounding electrons -- the familiar icon of the small nucleus circled by three elliptical orbits ... but more significantly, an innovator in Quantum Theory.

Some LeSSoNs

Lesson Number One:

A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit saw the crow, and asked him, "Can I also sit like you and do nothing all day long?"

The crow answered: "Sure, why not."

So, the Rabbit sat on the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared, jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Moral of the story: To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high up.

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Lesson Number Two:

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the energy."

"Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied the bull."

They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it actually gave him enough strength to reach the first branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fortnight, there he was proudly perched at the top of the tree.

Soon, he was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: Bullshit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

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Lesson Number Three:

A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold,the bird froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was. The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing and came to investigate.

Following the sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung, and promptly dug him out and ate him!

The morals of this story are:
1) Not everyone who drops shit on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, keep your mouth shut.