Peter's Waffling

In Taiwan

2009-10-06T23:36:00.001+02:00

Just got back from Taiwan, and spotted this cat who apparently lives in this bank in Chiayi!

A relaxing afternoon

2009-09-06T19:49:00.000+02:00

After finish writing my thesis and spending a couple of evenings and one Saturday getting it within the page limit set by the university, I have decided to take a gentle walk around Amsterdam. When we got to Dam square, we walked into the Thai Grand Festival. Despite my thai green curry with chicken has only two pieces of Chicken and mostly bamboo shoot... the atmosphere was good. Here is a photo of it

On our way returning home, we spotted a hairdresser across the street and so we walked across to check it out. We noticed this hairdressor has been on the newspaper and the article they displayed has a photo of the owner (presumed) with her cat. As we gazed downwards we spotted this flurry grey thing by the window seal. I took the liberty to take some photos of it, while I think it enjoyed being photographed!

Back home

2009-08-22T16:59:00.002+02:00

Last weekend we went back home for William's wedding. The evening before we had a nice meal at home (not forgetting the sweet Heineken...)

Zaanse Schans

2009-08-08T20:00:00.001+02:00

First time venturing out of Amsterdam over the past two months (part from going to a music festival). Here at Zaanse Schans we found a lot of windmill.

OSUM@Oxford Geek Night (Video)

2009-04-04T19:35:00.000+02:00

Here is a video of my talk on OSUM@OGN

Find more videos like this on Open Source University Meetup

OSUM@OGN

2009-03-26T12:34:00.000+01:00

Last night I gave an introductory talk on OSUM at Oxford Geek Night . I have uploaded some photos (you may also find them on facebook or my sun blog), taken by Wendy Chang Below are the slides from the talk

Open Source University Meet-up

View more presentations from Peter Wong.

Slow

2008-10-07T01:36:00.000+02:00

It's going slow.........

Nordic Cuisine

2008-08-08T13:59:00.000+02:00

Some of the nice Nordic cuisines that we had the privilege to taste.

One of those (I do mean one of those! For those of you who might be interested to know what else we have tried may find them here or here.) we have tried in Iceland is Whale meat and we have tried it at a seafood restaurant called Thrir Frakkar

Whale Sashimi (also salmon)

Whale steak!! very nice, although it was seasoned so much that I could not taste any whale flavour. I think sashimi was better.

As for Finland, we went to the NJK's yacht club restaurant to taste some of delicate Finnish reindeer

Helsinki, Finland, July 2008

2008-07-25T14:15:00.000+02:00

Some photos I have taken in Helsinki.

Food at Zurich

2008-07-06T16:23:00.000+02:00

Last week were TOOLS EUROPE and ICMT and they were held at ETH Zurich. While we most ate at the conferences, we went to try some "local" cuisine when possible... here are some photos of the food we have had...

One of the lunches "I" have had at ETH was SUSHI!!

One of the meals we have tried outside conference is the traditional fondue and rabbit raclette... I have to say though the waiters in the restaurant we went to called Swiss Chuchi had very very very BAD ATTITUDE!!!

Sausages (veal, beef, pork, chicken...) are the local food we have also tried... the way is to dip into loads of mustard and ketchup hahahaha....
Although not a Swiss cuisine, kebap (kebab) is also a fairly local dish. Again there are veal, beef, pork and chicken as meat... I actually found them to be better than the ones back at home...

Punting

2008-06-28T23:42:00.000+02:00

All of a sudden (即興)... we went to punting... actually I did the punting... so many punts on the river today, but it was good....

Acceptance!!

2008-06-27T20:08:00.000+02:00

Dear Authors,

We are pleased to inform you that your paper .... has been accepted for both presentation ... and publication in the conference proceedings.

Hurray!! Yeah!! No rejection for this one!! I am relieved now!

BCTCS at Durham University

2008-04-11T19:54:00.000+02:00

It was a week of attending presentations and giving one... Also I had the chance to meet up with Steve and Sara who taught me back at Warwick ^_^. Incidentally according to some Formal Methods is not quite Theoretical Computer Science. Below is a photo taken from the bedroom I stayed at Grey College, overlooking the cathedral.

BBC NEWS | Health | Scientists probe meditation secrets

2008-04-01T22:17:00.000+02:00

An article from BBC titled Scientists probe meditation secrets
describes how meditation can affect states of mentality "scientifically", here a quote from the article

"... compared the brains of these experienced practitioners with people who had never meditated and found that there were differences in the thickness of certain areas of the brain's cortex, including areas involved in the processing of emotion."

Professor Williams from Oxford said: "All of these things are just thoughts. And, they will come up in meditation and learning to recognize what they are as thoughts, and let them go, can be enormously empowering for anybody."

I say science is still quite immature when used for reasoning about the human mind... so for the time being the best way for anyone in doubt is to try to understand it by getting some first hand experiences...

Easter Weekend

2008-03-26T15:43:00.000+01:00

A round of applause is needed to all sections who contributed the fabulous dinner at Easter weekend!! Well done to all sections!!

Biking together

2008-03-24T17:14:00.000+01:00

Two photos of us on our bikes, having just got back from city centre. Note the bag of rice at the back of my bike.

Royal Society Meeting

2008-03-24T17:06:00.000+01:00

I went down to London last Monday and Tuesday to participate in the Royal Society Discussion Meeting on "From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020". I was there as an audience and as a "microphone helper". Below are two photos I have taken at the venue as I arrived too early on Tuesday (it did not start until 9:45am)

A display of a photo of Alan Turing and his certificate of royal society fellowship!!

Pasta sauce using Venison

2008-03-02T17:51:00.000+01:00

We have made pasta sauce according to Jamie's idea of using chopped tomatoes and herbs. This time though we tried venison mince, bought from the Wolvercote Farmers' Market and it tasted pretty nice. ^_^

Process Algebras: What's the point?

2008-02-28T14:37:00.000+01:00

A thread from Lambda the Ultimate titled "Process Algebras: What's the point?" .... umm....

西炒飯

2008-02-07T18:29:00.000+01:00

Earlier this week we tried another "蘋果" recipe - 西炒飯. It is very easy and tastes good too (I think anyway ^_^) !

Roast Sea Trout with spinach, orange and crushed new potatoes

2008-01-31T00:44:00.000+01:00

We have tried another Gary Rhodes' recipe. This time it is the Roast Sea Trout with spinach, orange and crushed new potatoes.

It looked okay and tasted not bad. Although the orange sause was a bit different, the potatoes was definitely one of the best I have made - smashing! This meal went perfectly with a glass a white wine!

Sea bass fillets with tomato and olive oil

2008-01-26T01:16:00.000+01:00

A recipe I have found from the telegraph other than the fact we also cooked rice and used chopped onion as well!! According to the recipe the portion supposed to serve 4!!! (and guess how many it really served?)

印尼炒飯

2008-01-19T15:19:00.000+01:00

Yesterday I dashed out on my bike into the horrible weather to do grocery for dinner, and
Last night we have made 印尼炒飯 (without 印尼蝦醬).

Not too bad I say...

Lime, coriander and coconut pan fried salmon

2008-01-17T01:06:00.000+01:00

A dish we made tonight with salmon fillet, coconut milk, lemon grass and chilli....

Not bad I think... although next time we should try using fresh coriander to add a bit more colours to it ^_^

Tomato Soup, Pasta and Homemade Meatballs

2008-01-14T00:35:00.000+01:00

We have tried some homemade meatball (肉丸) (not 肉球 ^_^) tonight...

Meatball or Meatball?!

It is a healthy dish, meat cooked separately from the soup, the soup is all veggie with only a bit of oil.

My first moussaka

2008-01-12T23:24:00.000+01:00

Here is my first homemade moussaka (μουσακάς) ^_^.

Before being baked....

After being baked...

Certainly looked ok and tasted fine... although I would prefer the aubergines to be thinner and smaller....

The Big Question is... How was mine compared to the one I had in Cyprus??

1st Wedding Anniversary

2008-01-06T21:07:00.000+01:00

At our 1st wedding anniversary we have home-cooked the following for dinner

pan-fried sea bass with smoked bacon and caper cabbage (link)
served with
Asparagus risotto (link)

For wine we have black tower rose wine.

Beef & Guinness Pie

2008-01-05T23:37:00.000+01:00

DSC05311.JPG, originally uploaded by Wendy.Chang.

This had got to be the best meal whilst at Belfast! Cubes of prime beef cooked in Guinness with a pastry crust top... from Crown Liquor Saloon. Very Nice!! I was completely stuffed afterwards (with 2 pints of Guiness!!)

Apple Crumble

2008-01-02T23:08:00.000+01:00

My first homemade apple crumble...
I should really tried homemade custard (just like I said before)

now I know what is in it I think...!!!

From flour, sugar and butter .... to bread crumbs...
over peeled, cored and pieced apples

After 45 minutes... voila!!

I think it looked okay with 鳥牌 custard!!
Although I should really use cooking apples next time...
Just A BIT TOO SWEET!!

My Lunch

2007-12-20T18:05:00.000+01:00

While SOMEONE was having a nice CHRISTMAS LUNCH.... I have made myself I nice 茶餐廳快餐 kakakakaka

Bread AND Butter Pudding

2007-12-20T00:05:00.000+01:00

My first homemade bread AND butter pudding.... I should try homemade custard next time hahaha

Waiting.........Waiting.........(to be baked)

Baked.... Waiting..... Waiting (for 鳥牌 custard)

Served!!

Online TV

2007-10-17T19:38:00.000+02:00

Below are some of the Online TV apps I have been trying out.

BBC IPlayer, this one allows you to watch upto 7 days old BBC programmes and each programme downloaded and unopen has about one month expiry, whereas once they are open there is only 7 days expiry.

Channel 4 on Demand, this one allows you to watch upto 30 days old Channel 4 programmes and each programme downloaded and unopen has about one month expiry, and again once they are open there is only 7 days expiry.

Joost, programmes here do not expire and they can be viewed when available. Although this is different from 4oD or IPlayer since it does not have a terrestrial counterpart.

So I suppose even I do not have a TV now, there is still loads to watch (when I am not working obviously kakakaka)

Dragon's mum 親自下廚

2007-09-30T11:07:00.000+02:00

本來要去小舅家烤肉... but Dragon's mum 說會親自下廚! 所以我們也留在家裡吃晚飯

As you can see... Dragon is not helping at all!! 後來還出鎚 kakaka!!

Bytheway 這道清菜是我炒的!!

包春捲

2007-09-24T10:41:00.000+02:00

今天我們到阿嬤家包春捲, 以下圖為證.

Dragon did hers and came out square like .... how weird!!

阿嬤在旁指點(介入)... fortunately mine turned out to be the right shape
(a bit squashed in width I suppose haha)

戰利品

2007-09-22T07:22:00.000+02:00

Haha... 下面是我最近的戰利品... 兩雙加起來都不到 30塊英鎊... 超讚!!

超讚的拉麵

2007-09-21T08:58:00.000+02:00

Yesterday, Dragon's mum 炮製 two bowls of ramen with 貢丸!!

一個字 --- 爽

Grand Cafe

2007-08-11T15:42:00.000+02:00

We had lunch at Grand Cafe in Oxford today and I could not believe it is possible to make English Breakfast look so nice... I must admit even though the breakfast cannot have tasted better, the look was just amazing!!... Anyhow while Wendy had pork pie, we both share a dessert it was cappucino-flavoured cake!! Very nice... I feel a bit fat now hahahaha...

More spider-pig

2007-08-10T03:13:00.000+02:00

More spider-pig hahaha

Spider-Pig

2007-08-09T22:52:00.000+02:00

"Spider-Pig, Spider-Pig.
Does whatever a Spider-Pig does.
Can he swing from a web?
No he *can't*, cause he's a pig.
Look out! He is the Spider-Pig! "

Requiem for a Tower

2007-08-08T22:23:00.000+02:00

A variation of Lux Aeterna, which comes from the soundtrack of the film Requiem for a Dream. I think it is a brilliant piece of music and it is used as a trailer music of the film Sunshine.

Chip shop Connie's 100th birthday

2007-08-07T22:37:00.000+02:00

From a BBC News article :

"A 100-year-old woman has celebrated her landmark birthday by working at the fish and chip shop she opened nearly 80 years ago"

That is a heck of an achievement you've got to admit!!

Our drinks

2007-07-25T18:05:00.000+02:00

I think this really catches the essence of "The Dragon and I" (龍與我) hahahaha!!

Panoramic View of Blenheim Palace

2007-07-25T17:41:00.000+02:00

I took these panoramas of Blenheim Palace using my mobile phone. Not bad I have to say haha ^_^

En route to Vicky Arms

2007-07-20T02:45:00.000+02:00

Desperate looking forward to my pint of Guiness, as Jeff and I were taking in turns to "punt" all of us to there!!

Mark's Graduation Celebration

2007-07-20T02:38:00.000+02:00

We went to Zizzi in Leamington for Mark's graduation celebration!! The food was not terribly good and the overal it was a good dinner ^_^ Congratulation Mark!!

A good postcard from Jell (Dragon (Wendy)))

2007-07-12T18:00:00.000+02:00

Yes, this is a lovely postcard and yes "Guiness is good for you". Thanks Jell (Dragon (Wendy)) ^_^

A weekend of nothing

2007-07-09T03:23:00.000+02:00

Ha! After a busy week of conference (and subsequent nights out)... I finally made all the correction for my report and have actually had it printed off on last Friday!! Ye!! Now I am waiting for some "forming filling" to be done by my department and my college. So this weekend has been a bit of a slacker really... not been doing much at all!! However, I watched Live Earth on Saturday night and found KT Tunstall a very good singer and indeed although I was quite familiar with the music she played but I did not know they were hers!! (I could not find any good recordings of her at Live Earth from youtube and so I used this music video instead.)

Anyhow... back to work this coming week... no more slacking!!

Taste of London 2007

2007-06-26T01:54:00.000+02:00

Antony Worrall Thompson were doing the Pork burger thing (I did not remember the name well... ) but I did remember something like this was said "anymore people like to have more gordon!! leave your business card for the auction of gordon's testicle!!" That was hilarious!!

Me thoroughly enjoying the pork burger thing!! Cost me 8 crowns (4 pounds) - Actually did not cost me anything to buy that haha but it cost quite a bit to get into the venue!!

Gordon Ramsay was on the main stage performing his skill (had to pay more to get into the front row ^_^) but at least I was there hahaha...should have shouted "Bo**ocks!!" as it was the kind of languages associated with the f-word hahahaha

Stuart Gillies was there too!! And the salmon there was real good!! YUM!

Punting

2007-06-19T18:08:00.000+02:00

An excerpt from Wikipedia

"Rather different traditions have grown up in Oxford and Cambridge: in Cambridge they stand on the till and punt with the open end forward, while in Oxford they stand inside the boat and punt with the till forward. The Oxford position is closer to the orthodox except that nearly everyone in Oxford punts left-handed. Since the rivers in both cities are narrow and often crowded, there is little opportunity for punting "at full pressure", so these variations in stance are of little importance. Nevertheless the traditions are often strongly held; students at Oxford and Cambridge frequently believe that theirs is the only correct style."

Anyhow umm... will need to see the difference for myself.

Harry Potter Style!!

2007-06-16T21:39:00.000+02:00

Apparently this is Cypriot Style - Harry Potter lookalike hahaha.... Comments are welcomed...

Cypriot Cuisine

2007-06-14T13:54:00.000+02:00

Yes, this is our first taste of Cypriot cuisine!! They like large portions!! And I do mean LARGE PORTION!! Take a look at the photos above!! (I particularly like Mousaka hahaha)

The little ones are a lot easier to capture!!

2007-06-14T13:38:00.000+02:00

The little ones are a lot easier to capture!!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

I found this little one (in fact there are two of them). This one clearly has no idea what he/she is doing. And look at the way he/she sits.... classic... non-elegance... for the younger ones!!

Wendy's Birthday at Lemon Tree

2007-06-04T03:05:00.000+02:00

Due to traffic condition, we have temporarily settled the celebration at Oxford. We had a rather nice lunch at Lemon Tree... prior some "desperate measure" for the upcoming "intensive training" hahahaha.... Bytheway the so-called measure was resolved on Sunday afternoon at Birmingham hahahaha....

Taiwan Banquet 14th April

2007-05-09T23:53:00.000+02:00

Here is a photo of me and wendy taken straight after the banquet...umm... not bad not bad.

Old memory

2007-05-09T23:34:00.000+02:00

That was me and Henry checking out our "new place" on Spring 2001... Gosh... seems like a long time ago... This in fact became our acommodation between 2001-2002... ^_^

Who wants to be a trillionaire?

2007-05-09T02:05:00.000+02:00

An interesting article from the BBC web site talks about the scale of a trillion pounds...

"If you take the typical annual salary as £25,000 a year - how long would it take you to spend a trillion pounds if you spent £25,000 a day...The answer is 109,000 years" -- source from BBC News

Frittata Omelette with Sausage, Cheddar Cheese and a Tomato and Yoghurt Salsa (with a pinch of sugar)

2007-05-07T14:57:00.000+02:00

We have followed the recipe of Frittata Omelette with Sausage, Cheddar Cheese and a Tomato and Yoghurt Salsa, but we have added a pinch of sugar to our yoghurt... GOOD!!

The Real Hustle - Waitress Card Cloning

2007-05-07T13:55:00.000+02:00

I have always said banking/shopping on the internet involves the same amount of risks as handing a credit/debit card over to a waiter at a restaurant.

BPM 2.0

2007-05-06T20:14:00.000+02:00

A recent launch of BPM 2.0 saw the shift from marketing BPM from business analysts to process analysts. According to IT|Redux here is how to identify a process analyst.

"...who is a process analyst? A simple test is to ask a candidate if she understands the differences between a do-while, a while-do, and a for-each loop. If she does—and can explain it to a business analyst who could not explain what a loop is at the first place—you found the person you were looking for. You will find her among the 8 million Visual Basic programmers, the 3 million PHP fans, the million PL/SQL folks, and the half a million or so ABAP guys and gals...."

Usual route

2007-05-05T19:43:00.000+02:00

Piled Higher and Deeper

So right haha

2007-05-01T12:12:00.000+02:00

小明 @ 大姑媽's

2007-04-25T11:47:00.001+02:00

小明 at 大姑媽's, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

One of two 大姑媽's cats (technically belongs to 二表)

小點 @ 大姑媽's

2007-04-25T11:47:00.000+02:00

小點 at 大姑媽's, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

One of two 大姑媽's cats (technically belongs to 大表)

Thesis title ^_^

2007-04-25T11:40:00.000+02:00

This sounds pretty right hahahahaha.... source from phdcomics.com

8th April

2007-04-22T15:53:00.000+02:00

A bit big ...

Sesame Oil...

2007-04-22T15:26:00.000+02:00

First time seeing sesame oil offered in a HK tea house like sugar and salt...

Gosto Superior

2007-03-27T17:28:00.000+02:00

I went to a fairly decent veggie place in Braga on Saturday night. The place is called Gosto Superior. I only paid around 6 euros for all the food shown below plus FREE HERBAL TEA!! (The apple pie was VERY NICE)

Rejection!!

2007-03-22T00:06:00.000+01:00

Dear Peter Wong,

I'm sorry to inform you that your paper ... has not been accepted for presentation at ... the comments of the reviewers are ...

Crap!! Although a few comments are genuine, most of the comments were like

"...there are too many detailed formulas for a conference paper..."
"I found the paper dense and hard to read and unravel."

Bloody HELL!!!

Badminton

2007-03-12T00:44:00.000+01:00

Quite unprecedented since my doctorate that I actually took some time out of what could be my "relaxing" Sunday to do some badminton!! I must be insane... anyhow I had the opportunity to visit DMU sports centre and I thought why not?... After a "gruelling" two hours of HARD WORK (not the whole two hours mind you, that would be considered as suicidal in my circle of acquaintance haha) I am now absolutely knackered ... still I have got a correction to make for one of my papers (especially this one because of its venue ^_^) Oh well... better get back to work...

信樂團 - 不會消失的夜晚

2007-03-10T16:35:00.000+01:00

This one apparent has some history with it... but still absolutely brilliant!!

火星-死了都要愛

2007-03-09T15:38:00.000+01:00

Absolutely Brilliant!!

On the way to lab

2007-03-06T18:49:00.000+01:00

On the way to lab, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

This one however remained stationary and kept staring at me...

On the way to lab

2007-03-06T18:47:00.000+01:00

On the way to lab, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

This little one came out and meowed a couple of times to greet me as soon as I arrived... but also almost spontaneously he (i think its a he) started to ignore me... did a bit of cleaning up... how peculiar..

Curry for Magha Puja (in progress)

2007-03-06T18:45:00.000+01:00

Curry for Magha Puja (in progress), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Me and Denise spent the evening "contemplating" this curry... (trust me it is masaman curry) but there are just too much in it... it turned out to be ok (I reckoned we brought more food than anyone else this time due to this big pot of curry...) it lasted till my lunch on Monday!! (probably dinner on Monday for Denise kakakaka)...

Left or Right

2007-03-04T19:48:00.000+01:00

source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driving_direction
Red (drove left), Blue (drove blue).

Apparently most people drove on the right (左taai) .... interesting...

So... lunar eclipse yesterday (also Magha Puja) ... somebody was too sleepy and did not think it was that important!!!

making lunch, dinner, lunch and dinner almost ready (using a new pot kakaka)

2007-03-01T16:27:00.000+01:00

making lunch, dinner, lunch and dinner almost ready (using a new pot kakaka), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

When you are on your own... you can make lunch, dinner, lunch and dinner at the same time... If you know what I mean??

Peppers with Shank (用老抽)

2007-02-26T00:36:00.000+01:00

Peppers with Shank (用老抽), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

This was definitely a good experience... Peppers with Shank 用老抽炒!!

Cheese with rice and chicken (using dog bowl haha)

2007-02-22T19:35:00.000+01:00

Cheese with rice and chicken (using dog bowl haha), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

A nice dish to have as we have invited Denis to come around our place for a casual dinner!! (A little secret: He HAD A LOT!!) hahahaha

Wendy and Peter marriage ceremony 1: before

2007-02-19T23:50:00.000+01:00

Thanks very much Sherman again!!

Wendy and Peter marriage ceremony 2: after!

2007-02-19T23:49:00.000+01:00

Thanks Sherman!!

That's what I called 火鍋!!

2007-02-19T00:49:00.000+01:00

That's what I called 火鍋!!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

It was a great meal.... Too full!! Thanks everyone for the food!! Just hoped I did not have a sore throat, damn!!

After Gee's (toast with chocolate spread - much better!!)

2007-02-17T02:50:00.000+01:00

After Gee's (toast with chocolate spread - much better!!), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Although we dined at the posh restaurant Gee's (was not THAT GREAT actually) on Valentines'... the best part was going back home and have a couple of slices of toasts YUM!!

Pancake for breaky yeah!

2007-02-17T02:40:00.000+01:00

Pancake for breaky yeah!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Nothing beats the odd pancake(s) for breakfast with a warm mug of coffee hahaha

Our tea set!! hahaha (for informal occasion)

2007-02-13T23:37:00.000+01:00

Our tea set!! hahaha (for informal occasion), originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Our lovely tea set for daily use (that is if we have tea everyday... umm... should make it a habit really hahaha)

Lollipops reduce late-night crime

2007-02-13T23:03:00.000+01:00

According to statistics - Lollipops reduce late-night crime !! Unbelievable!!

To err is human

2007-02-13T17:57:00.000+01:00

"To err is human; to really foul things up you need a computer." -- Paul Ehrlich

Pipes: Rewire the web

2007-02-11T18:48:00.000+01:00

The Yahoo! Pipes is a information aggregator to produce a feed that is customed by the construction of pipes. Each pipe consists of modules and connectors, each module takes some textual input and produces some textual output (functions umm), inputs and outputs of each module is communicated via pipes... (this looks like a data flow diagram or so-called data-oriented scientific workflow).... Need more thoughts on this one....

九大鬼(簋) hahaha

2007-02-11T02:20:00.000+01:00

九大鬼(簋) hahaha, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

It was an EXCELLENT meal!! I am still stuffed now!! 九大鬼 wor!! Early celebration you might say!! We shall go to RHUL and see if we can 偷師 haha

Pasta and Cheese!!

2007-02-10T01:18:00.000+01:00

Pasta and Cheese!!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Great one... I was completely stuffed!! I think I am getting used to this haha

Snowy Oxford

2007-02-09T01:51:00.000+01:00

Wolfson College under snow!!

Sir Gareth Roberts

2007-02-06T16:57:00.000+01:00

Record I have made a post about Sir Gareth, the college's president earlier. Well sadly he has just passed away this morning... umm

Two things

2007-02-05T02:30:00.000+01:00

Two things really... first... I think I will be able to go to Portugal next month!! HAHAHAHAHA!!
second ... 原來劍橋係個城市喎!!

Braised Chicken With Celeriac

2007-02-02T16:52:00.000+01:00

image from Epicurious

Err... we had this dish today and it looked just like this one (or there abouts) hahaha

Animated vs Animatior haha

2007-02-02T15:56:00.000+01:00

I think this is pretty cool stuff... hope I can use the chosen one for pop up blocker too haha

World's Oldest Condom

2007-02-01T22:48:00.000+01:00

"The reusable condom dates back to 1640 and is completely intact, as is its orginal users' manual, written in Latin... The manual suggests that users immerse the condom in warm milk prior to its use to avoid diseases." -- source from Ananova

I never knew condom used to be REUSABLE and it has such a long history....

Speaking Skills

2007-02-01T17:40:00.000+01:00

I think there is a discrepancy between my idea of speaking skills and the rest of the world. I was brought up with two main ideas of speeches and that is honesty and right speech... however it seems nowadays it is almost more important to say thing in a way that will make people happy or a "softer attitude" as it was put to me or being 圓滑... Being brought up in this country... may be it is right that I can no longer integrate into a society where making people happy is the ethos...

海馬花心愛雜交

2007-02-01T15:33:00.000+01:00

"【明報專訊】科學家一直以為，海馬是奉行「一夫一妻」制的動物，海馬爸爸用腹部育兒囊孕育下一代，對海馬媽媽忠貞不二。不過，英國最近的研究發現，海馬經常拈花惹草，雌雄不拘，且肚皮愈大，愈能吸引同性和異性垂青。" - source from Yahoo! News

Why is this not true for human beings??

Acknowledgement

2007-01-30T22:34:00.000+01:00

source from 研究生不死，只是生不如死漫畫

I highly recommend these comic strips for all those research students out there!! Or try this one below...

source from http://www.phdcomics.com

Just like to share this one...

2007-01-28T18:12:00.000+01:00

Just like to share with everyone this photo ^_^

Blue Blood

2007-01-28T14:55:00.000+01:00

"The boxing film is hit with a fierce uppercut in this clever documentary about the training regimen and sparring contests of Oxford University students who step out of the ivory tower and into the boxing ring. " -- Tribeca

This should be an interesting one...