aye laddie and lassie, here we are in glasgow - day 1

if u need translation, that reads "yes boys and girls, here we are in glasgow" :P

travelling light this time, very good, coz i din bring my travel diary and now i cant find the 1st piece of paperful of my scribled handwriting...

anyway, good luck with ur finals june! chonghwarians rulez~ XD
then, somehow almost everyone who are closest to me msn-ed me today... so that's wot happen if i online whole day at school ha? sorry if there was a lack of reaction, i betul-betul half mati after 3pm XP love u ppl :)
juz got home from the north late last nite, and juz back from 1st day at work, and c'mon this is suppose to be a travel post ="= but i'm so tired right now... let me go take a shower 1st... XP

back~ oh, here's de piece of paper. lets start then~

disclaimer 1: i'll skid thru part of the trip like pebbles skidding on the mildly wavey surface of Loch Ness. objections? no? okej~ XD

disclaimer 2: some insisted that we should be in the picture, so i myself will appear quite frequently this time around. pls dun say i zi4 lian4... XP

hooiching jiejie came to see us off, so gandong~~~ she decided tht it's good to leave some evidence of how light we were travelling.

the thing about travelling to english speaking countries is that inevitable home coming feeling... geez, i am suddenly capable of eavesdropping without focusing all my radar to one single piece of conversation~

the first person we talked to after getting pass the UK custom gave us a short ride on his empty bus so that we dont have to cross the bridge to get to the other side of the road. wot a wonderful first impression the heavily accented scottsman made ^^

de first thing that caught my attention on our way to fergiecity-glasgow from prestwick airport was that 满天满地的 daffodil :D they do bloom slightly earlier than sweden :) pictures of them coming later in the posts~ otherwise, everything was quite england-like, which really shall be expected :P

we decided to walk to our hostel from buchanan bus station, which took us thru de pedestrian walk on sauchiehall st. which only has one door left open for business at that time of the day. we went in the door that belongs to sainsbury, a franchais supermarket to get our 1st meal in the tartan and kilt land~

hello glasgow, buchanan bus station at dusk.

sauchiehall pedestrian st.

our dinner, chocolate pain for yean, banana muffin for me, and strawberry triffle for both~ 2 pounds all together~ cheap and delicious if not nutritious, compared with sweden ^^

the man (also with a heavy scottish accent) who came and made us take a pic of him during our dinner XD

as we marched on with our belly full, we found that sauchiehall is a happening st full of shops and restaurants and pubs and bustling with ppl and traffik.

one thing that yean almost immediately noticed about glasgow is the concentration of guards and security cemeras. even in tiny takeaways and supermarkets that lines at either side of the busy street. and couple that with the fact that we arrived on friday night, when glasgow is saturated with drunks, both local and foreign, which include one of our fellow flightmate who announced that he was there to "bara dryka" or "just drink" for the weekend. now, imagine the glasgow we saw, aint it wonderful? ^^

i later saw a man lying at the corner of the street, head covered in blood, and using all his might to push off his mate who was trying to help him stop the bleeding with a role of kitchen paper... shhh... dun tell yean...

as we strolled down sauchiehall street taking in all these, the night crept slowly pass. we arrived at our hostel around 9.30, welcomed by a role of dutiful scotch whiskies taking watch at the foyer XD see ur glenfiddichessss, dad?

that's yean checking us in. and there we shared our 1st nite in bag pipe land with two german young ladies who was also going to hunt poor nessie.

good nite glasgow.... yawn~~~

that's de appetizer today, prepare for tones of pictures coming from the medieval wonder in de name of edinburgh ^^

happy easter ^^

eggs for those who havnt found any in the bushes yet ^^

ah, one day stopover at home. we talk about scotland later k :)
oh, just for starter, picking up where we dropped off the last post, the famous "Auld Lang Syne" is a scottish song~~~~ >>
lets sing~
should old acquantance be forgot and never brought to mind~~

oops, wrong song for the wrong festival XD

trying to make sure i dun leave lisa any headache...

ok, gone thru de list for the 3rd time... hopefully lisa wont call me when i'm sneaking behind the guards in celtic's stadium to pluck a grass and cry in the phone because our oven blows up~~

ok, paid karin april's rental... hopefully she wont call me during my dental surgery experiments with nessie because she decide to turn me out to sleep beside the snow drops and bee flowers due to overdue rentals~~

ok, havnt tell my supervisors i'm leaving >_< hopefully they wont call me when i'm one leg over the window into fergie's house trying to pinch a family photo of him in scottish tartans because exjobbarer or thesis workers dont officially hav any leave~~

ok, hopefully u ppl oso wont call me while yean watch my encounter with scotch whisky. oh right, dad, u want some? 18yrs glenfiddich oh~ fuiyo, your glenfiddich's kampung is so close to loch ness... maybe nessie is not shy, but just always drunk~~

i bet empty whisky bottles are the most efficient tools to catch pontianak-like scottish fairies also~ since i probably can only see them after emptying the bottles~~

tell me a scottish song that i can sing along and annoy yean during the hike :)

世界唯一的花

alcohol boosted, hope i wont write anything silly XD

SMAP - sekai ni hitotsu dake no hana >>

排列在花店门口
看著各式各样的花
虽然人的喜好各有不同
但是每一朵都很漂亮呢

在这当中谁最美丽
没有如此的纷争
在桶中夸耀般的
绽开著挺起胸膛

即使如此为何我们人类
却要如此互相比较呢?
每人皆不尽相同
却在那之中想成为第一名

是啊 我们皆是
世界中唯一仅有的花
每个人都拥有的不同品种
单纯地为了让那朵花盛开
而努力著就好

有著一边困扰著笑?
还迷惑著的人
努力绽放的花朵
无论哪一朵
都那麼美丽 所以难以抉择

终於走出了店外
那人拥抱著
色彩艳丽的花束
以及欣喜的侧脸

虽然不知道你的名字
但给了那一日的我一个笑容
有如在谁都不曾察觉的场所
盛开著的花儿一般

是啊 我们皆是
世界中唯一仅有的花
每个人都拥有的不同品种
单纯地为了让那朵花盛开
而努力著就好

无论小花或是大花
都不是相同之物
无法成为No.1也好
原本　就是特别的only one


moto moto toku betsu na only one... it was one of those tht replayed over and over and over and again on my comp for the whole day until my aunt came and beg me put on something else XD

and remember, tonite we vote :) 8.30pm, lights off pls! ^^

the early bloomers

sooner than i thought :)

more snow drops ^^


a blend of them

bee flower :D
i like this effect, so lomo~~ ^^ the colours came from the original picture, i dimmed them a few notches and then max contrast :) it makes my little bee stand out ^^



the following are extracted of the same sorts from these 不起眼的 little bloomers under de tree ;)

万白丛中一点黄^^
ah~ sounds like a malaysian in sweden ^^



and we end this with two different takes from the same angle, infront of the city library ^^


i saw hints of daffodils already :D ppl brought news that tulips are blooming south, in netherlands ^^ today is an incredible 9 degrees in gothenburg! tho cold change is coming again early in the week, predicted to be bringing more snow. the last snow? aw~ i'm going to miss the white flakes so much...

perhaps to the islands after scotland :) dandelions and daffodils, just like last yr. promise :)

外国人系列 之 中国人看我们？

或许你们还记得，去年我在这里提到那个一听到我是马来西亚人，就决定推荐我一个master thesis offer的中国老教授？

我当时也不敢肯定我看到的，纯粹是他对大马人理解后的偏爱，还是。。。那种只有深刻的感触才会留下的痕迹。昨天，我那个不敢肯定的猜测被证实了。

星期五下午三点，是我们材料系的fika时间。fika是一个瑞典人管叫我带回我的雨林，代他们宣传的优良文化XD 说穿了就是大家坐在一起，喝咖啡，吃甜点，然后聊天说地 ^^ 这里很多公司，很多部门都有他们自己的fika tid，是促进同事之间的良好关系的桥梁。

我们材料系里的中国同事不少。大多数都是像李常海老师那样，在这里移民多年的老瑞典了。他们有个共同点，就是每次他们的目光移到我的脸上，总会让我发毛 ="=||| 感觉就像。。。在被眼神解剖。然后，又是一样的treatment，他们对大马人的印象，似乎跟李老师对我们的印象一样好。谈到我的时候，他们的statement总是"马来西亚人"怎样怎样，而不是"我"怎样怎样。他们把我们当稀奇古怪的动物了？在拿我衡量整个大马的人？O_o

咳，这倒让我想起来瑞典之前，一个很好的朋友提醒我，来到瑞典我可是在代表大马呐。是个玩笑吧 ^^ 玩笑成真了 ^^

我总是不厌其烦的告诉我的中国同事，我不能代表大马人。而他们的回复 ="=
"对对对，你是比较优秀的"
>.< 我知道他们在开玩笑，可是也只得解释下去。。。只是，一直到星期五，他们还是拿我来当典型大马人了="=||| 而我也明白了他们会这样看我的原因。

星期五，我和lisa领了我们的咖啡和一种瑞典特有的cinnamon paste为材，馅的味道和颜色都很像红豆沙的面包，坐在曹玉大姐姐的旁边。我们谈着谈着，她又把话题绕到了马来西亚。当然在外一年半后，大马已经是个我熟知自己要怎么呈现的话题了:P 她给我的一字一句的专注，很flattening也很吓人啊。。。后来lisa因为赶时间提早走了，曹玉就拉着我，把她对马来西亚人的看法告诉我了。这次，换我把专注全留给她的字句了。。。

原来，李老师的儿媳妇，是个大马人。她的用词是“原来的儿媳妇”。我脑海里闪过他那个ericsson在中国的总裁儿子。回想起李老师当时给我们上完那唯一的一堂课后，留下来给我们说的事。嗯，他那个儿子是他的骄傲呢^^ 然后，曹玉说，“他对他这媳妇儿可满意了”。接着就是一大堆他凭什么对他这媳妇儿那么满意的citation，然后就是大谈很多在中国已完全变型，却在大马人身上得到了保留的最传统的中国文化。啊，那他们是在我身上寻找这些被保留的东西了？我印证了李老师这个已别人世的媳妇儿的故事了？曹玉recite这个故事时在里面放的激动是她自己的，还是李老师的？每当我跟李老师说“老师好”的时候，他携着那个“好”而来的点头和微笑，是属于全大马人的？是一个老人家的遗憾。。。我皱眉了。

大多数时候，我都是耳膜和听小鼓们在操作，只在最后回敬了几句。回敬的内容是我们的祖先越洋过来时，没法和他们一起带过来的五千年的知识结晶。我们的祖先，多是受教育极少的贫苦人家，被逼移民寻找另一片天空不是吗？移民那一刻，我们似乎把长久的历史都留下了，带不走了。这是我在认识中国朋友过后，看到我们缺少的最明显的一块。我们是一群“爱拼才会赢”的贫苦的农民的后代。有着共同经历的祖先，我们看事情缺少很多其他的视角。连曹玉都明显的指出，我们的祖先们还是成功的把他们认为对的，一代一代传了下来，最后衍生成了今天的我们。

好像从被母树砍下，断了根，却在接枝法下，从新树上长出来的果实吧 ^^

春，又轻轻地吹起来了。
今天送上新开的snow drops一小丛。这可真的是瑞典的春的典型^^ 请耐心地等着更多野花charm着这一页^^

一闪一闪亮晶晶

满天都是~莫扎特小星星变奏曲^^ 喜欢ing~ >>
everyone knows this piece. why not put it on while u read on? ^^

half a month to go to 自虐苏格兰~ and after talking to woei, i decided to go and measure myself in the slightly hilly woods around the still [half frozen + half concealed by fog today] lake, härlanda tjärn.

4km in 25mins. i'm staying neutral, dunno if tht's a good or crapy time ="=

actually the route is longer than that, i took the last bit walking, to straighten the cramp on my right calf as it started to rain also... so pandai ho? doing this carrying the after effect of blasting imaginary reina's goal for 45mins juz de day before yesterday, dai sei cramp...

fancying myself to do a first-in-the-lifetime 10K attempt if i got my legs back during the wkend XD
给我打气呀~ ^^
oh, ofcoz also couple that with: if the weather is good :P so many excuses XP

do~do~so~so~la~la~so~so~
fa~fa~mi~mi~re~do~re~mi~do~do~

EARTH HOUR COMING AGAIN!
8.30PM 28/3/2009

PLEASE SWITH OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR 1HR IN SUPPORT OF BATTLING CLIMATE CHANGE

have you wondered why does Johor keep flooding recently? have you notice that our trees no longer shred their leaves in display of a dry season? where has the constant white winter in sweden gone? what has caused lifes to perish in the bush fires in the not-a-single-drop-of-rain-in-2-months melbourne?

let us remind ourselves of all of these yet again ba. 1hr as a reminder, 1 lifetime as a practice ^^

our malaysian earth hour site is so cool~ penang bridge is going to be dark, be careful drivers ^^ look at de participating companies, air asia (dark plane? XD), ikea damansara, sunway pyramid, KL tower (oh~ the combination is so promising for a plane crash)! and even a tiny town like semenyih is joining the party~ i'm a very proud malaysian today :D
http://www.earthhour.org.my/main.php
sign up, sign up, go *push in the back* ^^

for this hour, let our stars twinkle brightly against the light pollution like they do in mozart's variations ^^

MU vs LIV (updated)

aaah
de online stream is killing me! it is reducing into jumping frames ="=
and my heart jumping just as feverently....

the noise today's crowd is making is enough to summon my mind and immerse every single cell of my body in the atmosphere of the magnificent structure in the outskirt of manchester, rattling in the human worship of a live PL game... i cant help wondering if it will go down in history analogous to coliseum in the roman era.

in the end they got 4 against us...
they were awesome. overall it was an awesome game, except for the scoreline... to be fair we did create our chances. but, their goals came from everywhere. the first of their come back came from torres' sharpness and pace; the 2nd was a stevie G unsavable pen.; the 3rd was a sweet aurelio freekick special; the 4th dossena's volley, a flick from the inside of his left foot over the helpless VDS. equal amount of inapt from our defenders and the brilliance of their players contributed to the goals. the first when vidic let the ball go; the 2nd evra's reckless tackle; the 3rd vidic's red card as he brought stevie down; the 4th o'shea let the ball bounce again...

elnino runs himself shattered, one might think he'd collapse the way he sinks into his bench at the dug out when he is substituted. and so does rooney to the very end of the game.

in the end, among the eardrum bursting buzz in old trafford, i could only make out two clear songs. the Torres Song and YNWA. it is in a way, heartbreaking...




no, we are still in the driving seat. take this as a wake up call and march on to the end.

ah, i shall pick up my own ball and go vent my restlessness also. we've planned for a 64km hike in two days to walk the length of loch ness. i nv doubt yean's mental strength but as much as that, i dun think she's got the physical endurance to do it XP anyway, as for my own, i'll still make sure i wont be the one who'd spoil the plan. training training~ ^^

reina will be my imaginary goal keeper today XD


torres' right foot, another blow or played on injured? ="=

you wait for patients i wait for materials

mm~ heavy snow outside de department overhead window. probably the last of this magnitude that i'll ever experience :) already for one or two days, the weather hinted of spring.

my rubber is sitting nicely and warmly in its oven under a pressure of 70MPa. and i wait. and blog.

btw, we found a 5micrometer football and an alien insect in it, see! see!

the scale-like thing covering the alien bug is highly suspected to be ZnO nano-particles ;)


ah tak nak write dy, i juz feel like sitting here and watch the snow... white :)

4x 80+ + 1x 60+

does the title make sense? XP
ahem, let me clarify...

when i dreamed of coming to sweden, i dreamed big.
i dreamed of all the things that i would do when i was going to be here. i told myself study must be first priority, then learn the culture, then absorb europe, and life. i dreamed of aurora, i dreamed of solo journeys, i dreamed of getting under the skin of gothenburg. but never in my wildest dream, i dare to imagine a warm table full of homely swedish food, shared with 4 elders that are older than my grandparents and 1 that is also too old to be my mom. i dont even fancy that to happen in malaysia with my own ppl...

one popo doesnt speak english at all, another popo said she had not spoken english in 50yrs... my goodness me, 50 yrs... and one gonggong that still got the language within him. thus, we campur mostly both swedish and english. and when "si" and "gracias" came out as one of the popos asked me to pass her her brown hand bag, i found she would prefer to speak the torres-tongue with me... oops, sorry, jag prata inte spanska, i speak not spanish :P but these old folks are truely amazing ^^

now, the title must have made sense ^^

and ah, wot a weekend of joyful football :D

burried

day: in de world of freakish rubber
night: in either music notes from the black and white keys, or words and words surrounding the Fool or Althea. ow~ and Reyn... he is so real and yet not real...
weekends: in sports, or steam, or lepak, or occational gatherings here and there...
outdoors: in chill light of sky or street, or snowy rain...

sometimes, i really wonder how a person with all the time in the world for her to dispose can hav all of it occupied and wants more... my thesis work doesnt require me to be there at fixed hours, i have no other commitment. free.

yet, i work a standard 40hrs a week. and the concentration i'm paying to my work and my keyboard and my books and at activities which require hastening of my blood circulation, are astonishing even myself. such single minded persues... i'd once thought i've lost that ability somewhere in my first yr in melbourne.

this, is the old 海绵. the one that cares about nothing else, other than the one thing that is then occupying her mind... that have no concept of the elapsing time... that will only stop when physical discomfort of using certain muscles for too long creeps in. then, the elation of wot had been accomplished. a feedback that tells the brain "you should do that again nxt time". an unbounded positive feedback loop...

perhaps it's started when the rubber called out its mountain of challenges. we're even still ignorant of its true name and can only call it "the rubber"! it got me excited and got my conqueror's blood boiling... sigh, i doubt it's much good. let me get over with it soon and get out of this stage. not another metamorphosis...

I natt jag drömde

interesting... the line i quoted in the post about göteborg stadmuseum, or gothenburg city museum, actually originates from this well-known swedish nursery rhyme...

I natt jag drömde, något som jag aldrig drömt förut.
Jag drömde det var fred på jord, och alla krig var slut.

Jag drömde om en jätte sal, där stadsmän satt i rad
Så skrev de på ett konvolut, och reste sig och sa:

"Det finns inga soldater mer, det finns inga gevär.
Och ingen känner längre till, det ordet militär"

På gatorna gick folk omkring och drog från krog till krog.
Och alla drack varandra till, och dansade och log.

i try to stay true to the original words with my humble attemp at a translation, i trust you to understand :)

last night i dreamed, something about i never dreamt before.
i dreamed that is peace on earth, and all wars are ended.

i dreamed about a great hall, there government-man sat in rows
so wrote them on a scroll, and they walk up and said:

"there is no soldier any-more, there is no rifles.
and no thoughts any-longer to, the word military"

On the streets went folks around and draged from tavern to tavern.
and all drank each other to, and danced and smiled.

evidence of passage

outside my high window, calmness after the snow storm

neighbour's house

haga old quarters in gothenburg


see the tiny child with the tobogan behind his parents? ^^

short hike, up we go~


destination



eskimo couple ^^

and then the snow thwarts and the frozen river flows partially once more.
spring, it breaths ^^


the post would hav ended nicely right there but sorry ppl... i just had to add this...
ATHLETI HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!
they beat barca 4:3 at home in madrid while real travels to catalunya for a win agains espanyol.
4 points separates real with barca now, just 4!
tht's somehow more exciting than MU winning the carling cup ^^

next stop

am i to name every single one of my backpacking trips, i'm inclined to name the next "自虐苏格兰".

gbg - glasgow. 3rd-9th April. the outbound ticket is effectively free, too good to miss. rosslyn chapel~ lock ness monsters~ fergie-land~~ :D

the theme is self-abuse, the period is just shy of a full week, the time is spring when body asks for shocks and toning. it fits wonderfully. might as well target to do the whole trip below 150pounds. in most of my journeys, the only thing that holds me back on senselessly reckless self abuse is my travel partners. even keeping them in mind, most of the time i still under estimate all sorts of human's basic needs... sorry to all that had to endure travelling with me before X|

but, this time, yean came specifically asking for a visit to abuse-land... thus, it seems to be settled... 自虐苏格兰 ^^

hope i wont drop dead soon

aiks, no sussie throwing snowball at me, so i guess it wont happen. as in i wont drop dead.

de reason i'm online this precious night is bcoz the real-liv game is on later... torres dear, look wot you are doing to me... i could really use an early night's rest u know? after last two late and exhausting ones, and the packed one tomorrow that promises to be another energy draining day. but raul + robben on top of... sigh. no, i wont miss this nor the return leg in anfield. come to think of it, how many spaniards will be playing?
real: raul, ramos the player, iker, guti + ramos the coach
liv lagi banyak: torres pulang kampung i oso nak, xabi alonso, riera, arbeloa, reina... + benitez XD

oh, in de end, we din find any silicon in our freakish rubber thru energy dispersion x-ray~~ we are starting to think that stockholm is not so far away after all, if we hav to travel there to receive our nobel price for discovering a new material with such alien properties~~ lisa said they pay 10 million~ oh yes, the money is the only thing that makes nobel price appeal to me.

it rained...

the snowy days

good to be writing again ^^
good the snow finally stops ^^ after... 4 days? still there will be heavy snow fall tmr night, dunno if the PL games will be played in white ^^

oh, talking about PL games, dudu scored twice against cardiff in his come back O_O
wot a feat!

and raul breaks record,
and vds going to break another record if his sheet goes clean vs blackburn this wkend ^^

anyway, i'm suddenly hooked on the swedish sauna XD it just makes me go soft soft soft... all de stiffness goes, weird but somehow wonderful feeling ^^ especially if one does it after swimming or ball games, or a week of work. ah, how i love evthing about chalmers ^^

oh thesis, how come i keep working with things that the department had nv dealed before? salt bath modeling in melbourne, and now this weird rubber that
-- doesnt even seem bothered at 1100degC, when the ceramic crucible that holds it already "de-sinthered"... (rubber tht hav higher melting temperature than ceramics~) ah forgot to add, except that one of them turned into a yellowish-green from grey. and back to grey when it's cooled to room temperature.
-- doesnt have a linear stress-strain relationship region.
-- sticks on wotever equipment we are testing it with.
-- more problems to be discovered XD

freakish material ="=
and did i mention that the thickness of our material is scarcely 0.13mm?
anyway, it's still satisfying that we've gone this far for less than a month :)
no, i'll shut up now and keep those problems our own :P

i've got another baby xmas tree, from the same pair of dedicated hands apparently :)
havnt re-potted it, dunno if any good soil can be found under all these snow...


hm, my mind seems to be jumping here and there like a flea tonight...
anyway, finally, for 3 months now, this Fool has occupied a lot of my time! ^^
let me introduce~ the Fool with mousey~

XO

puss & kram - kiss & hug ^^
they call it alla hjärtans dag - all the heart's day ^^
well, fate brought this day to be on saturday and also grants gothenburg another day of glorious cloudless sky ^^
i dont really recall how commercialized was valentine's day in msia... but we wont miss these anywhere? ^^

flowers, balloons and soft toys


chocolates

cards and small gifts

restaurant

books??

and more roses...



-5 was the temperature, but all the radiated human warmth shall chase the cold away ^^
but lets run away from all these commercialization for a little while, shall we?
to somewhere that befits such affection ^^
somewhere that belongs only to us
your eyes, and my camera

they walk up and down Avenyn street to give out free hugs ^^

my goodness me, those two are kissing in public!

sweet~

happy valentine's :)

统考故事 之 美术考卷

哦，十五元宵夜，该是个风花雪月的日子^^ 没去抛/捞柑吗？送上小品一则 :)

记得当年登记高中统考的时候，经过几番考虑，我决定在三年美术课空白的状态下报考美术。铕坚（啊，好难打的名字。。。）填完他的报考科目后，以地球人看火星人的眼光看着我，
“你考美术？！”
忘了我是怎样回答他的。
哦，他Tan Y.我Tan X.吗，在我后面登记。玮玮是Tan W.，在我前面，哈~ 咳咳，扯远了。。。

我的美术在中学生涯中并不出名XP 那一股勇气也不知是从哪里来的。。。反正，在只有自己给自己准备的状态下（谢谢玲的哥借我静物写生的参考书:D），就到了正式统考前的那个周末。。。考美术的那个周末，其他人都在拼命啃其他课本的那个周末。

纯理科班的我们，报考美术的敢死队其实并不少，大概有5-6个？其中文龙还拿了全国十大，了不起^^

记得第一张卷子在早上7点多一些就开始了。卷子是选答中楷小楷/水墨画。怎样？没考过统考美术的冒冷汗了吧XD 独中实在是孕育中华文化的摇篮啊。。。咳咳，小的当然选答了从八岁就开始“浸淫”的中、小楷 XD 考完后，我们略喘了一口气，紧接着就是选答平面/立体设计。立体设计又是一项别开生面的考法。考生得从家里带一大包材料到考场，然后在考场里制造题目中的物体。记得我们那年其中一道题是灯饰。非常好玩，但我的勇气还没有去到那个境界，我保守地选择了平面设计。作画的各种材料当然也是考生自给自足，marker pen，蜡笔，poster colour，彩纸。。。我选的题目是设计一间服装店的招牌，店名"时装总汇 fashion exchange" ^^啊，有些记忆是好久好久都不会忘记的 ^^

考完已经时过正午了。那样聚精会神地挥洒数小时，还有点脱力的感觉。我在拉筋，不行，下午还有一张卷子呢。一大群人结伴到校外的意大利饼店去解决午餐，赶回来时最后一题刚好快开始了。选答人物写生/静物写生/想象画。从上文大家就知道我选了静物吧 ^^ 这一张卷子才是我报考的真正原因哪 :)

走进考堂的当儿就看到了题目。椰子和竹篮，摆在一张位于国字楼三楼，靠窗的桌子上。啊:D 有感觉的题目~~ 是小时候的感觉，阿公阿嫲的感觉~ 我一边走，一边在细嚼品味。嗯，就是这个感觉，棕色的老椰要线条粗粗，肮脏肮脏的；嫩竹编织的篮子要柔软，干净干净的。。。当时，脑袋里在疯狂感受的我，嘴角有挂着微笑吗？^^

全校报考静物的学生不多，7-8个？想象画才是热门。我唯一没选的热门^^

抱着一手的“家铲”，我在找适合的角度坐下。从摆放物品的桌子左边走到右边，右边再走回左边，我不禁开始皱眉。静物写生的考题静物是由监考老师摆放的。他们似乎有一些指示，哪一个物品该在哪一个前面，大概该怎么摆设。。。可是。。。构图。。。自由构图的权利没有了。。。画幅长宽的比例也不完全自由。。。最后，我选择了靠最右边的位子。其实坐了那个位子的主要原因是-慢慢来的我代表着那个视觉集中点的正前方的位子都满了:P 啊，反正那个位子周围都没有人，可以不被干扰。在那个窗口旁，和正前呈90度角的位子上坐下来后，我才发现那个位子的至上优点^^
光。
窗外的光，从旁边来:D

我的静物写生是用铅笔作画。黑与白的世界里，光的重要性自然大大的提高了 :)
时间到，最后的加工完成，已是下午五时许。我累得。。。但竟敢有“至少会拿B”的狂妄想法XD
只是，在我还盯着自己刚完成的作品孤芳自赏的当儿，坐得最靠近的国烘竟然晴天霹雳地抛来了一句，
“你打算将子交上去？！！天啊！”
SHIT. 我当时心理装的是这个字。至于实际上我好像跟他点了点头，笑笑说 嗯 ="=

这，就是我的美术考卷 ^^

ok, torres pics

special request...
ah, dont ever tempt me to do this again.... XD

快点闪一边 我们在庆功宴
谁叫你还搞不清楚 我跟你的差别
Yeah 我是 superman
Yeah 我是 superman
Yeah 我是 superman...


F.L.Y.

oh, special treat coming XD

for you, woei~

i really enjoyed watching them in this tournament. World Cup 2006 :) post my favourite goal of that tournament at the end of this post 好了 ^^

look at puyol... tsk-tsk-tsk... ^^

tot - arsenal live update, eduardo and arshavin on subs! and robbie kean back in white hart lane as captain. i'll come back for the last 15mins then :D

YNWA it says, torres torres...

man, i really dont know wot to feel when he does that... for liverpool.

i dont mind if he does it day in day out for spain. but anyway, united still have two games in hand and thus some margin. so i'm still in peace with that. that as in my loyalty towards united and affection towards elnino XP

i'd been waiting patiently for 75mins and finally benitez saw fit to nudge him into the game. it was 1-1 at that time. (actually it was quite an entertaining game, although rafa din think they'll need any striker in the first 11 :P)
then liverpool went down to 2-1 shortly after.
in reply, elnino pounced on a missed ball by a portsmouth defender, and kuyt did a full spirited job to equalize from a tight tight tight angle, with the ball torres cut back to him.
then, ofcoz, in injury time, torres himself scored the match winning goal, with a header delivered by the outstanding yossi yossi benayoun. this, after those two he scored to kill chelsea in the dieing minutes (89' and 90') just a week ago.

and this was when i believed he is back. tht game before the chelsea game, when he controlled the ball like tht and did tht sweet little flip, providing gerrard to score that wonderful equalizer in their FA cup tie with everton. (good they lost the tie anyway XD)


i shall admit that i kept trying to mock copy torres' inspiring moves with my little round best friend for fun. with imaginary opponents XD but guess i'll have great trouble with this one and shall give it a pass ;P

the "torres song" was rattling the stadium for the full 20mins he was on pitch today. i couldnt help humming it along ^^

lucky liverpool fans...

thesis v favco

there are too many similarities in working this thesis and working in favco @_@

it's a 4-5 months project like the 100 and 200RLs i handled;
the old grand chart and timesheets are adopted for planning, they are actually quite useful;
i deal with de supervisor in Ericsson like i dealed with the clients;
i deal with de chalmers examiners like i dealed with mr. shrek; (they are so easy to please after having shreky...)
there are the experiments that we need to run and interpret like testings and QA/QC;
there are specimens we need to prepare before that like the work on the production floor;
some experiments we cant run in de department, so? out source, look for subcons. we might need to work with the physics department, go to Borås or even Jonköping;
we called AGA to buy and transport liquid nitrogen for us, that's purchasing and logistics;
we need to prepare quotations for Ericsson, not unlike the cost calculations we make for spec change demands from our clients;
and ofcoz we secured the thesis ourselves, that's sales;
the literature studies are like reading client specs;
the meeting where we sat and talked along with our chalmers supervisors and Ericsson supervisor were the External Kikc-off Meeting;
the meeting where we sat and go thru everything after reading most of the literature and make sure everyone is on the same channel was not so unlike a Project Checklist Meeting...
good god there's no accounting involved.

even weirder still, my life has gone to the way it had been when i was working.

here, a couple of pictures from our first tests. these are from optical microscopes, the first 100x magnification, the 2nd 1000x. both are taken on the same spot. tell me why do we see big black particles in the first and small white ones in the 2nd :P

100x

1000x

ABBA v abba

I dont wanna talk
About the things we've gone through
Though its hurting me
Now its history
I've played all my cards
And thats what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play

The winner takes it all
The loser standing small
Beside the victory
Thats her destiny

the winner takes it all?
lets counter it with chiquitita ^^

Chiquitita, you and I know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they’re leaving
You’ll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and I cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, chiquitita

^^
(extra large grin)

rafa is bullet proof
but roger is roger,
if he cries, it's most likely that he'll come back :)

and so are you :)

oh, the songs, there >>