Posts from ‘December, 2006’

Blogging from the hotel – free internet.
Sneak peak from the last few days up north in Honshu (no post-processing done; only some cropping): 

Tonight we fly.
Happy holidays, everyone. ‘Till next week.

I find that very true myself. From Imperial News, 19 Dec 2006:
New research conducted by a Masters student at the College shows a significant link between environmental knowledge, attitudes and behaviours and personal well-being. Matthew Mellen who has just finished his MSc in Environmental Technology conducted the research and found that people who live [...]

The staff sure were surprised to see the three of us there today. Most who were around long enough remembered how we'd always sign up for duties together, how our names would come after one another's in the sign-in book… We were the three youngest volunteers. 
That was six years ago. 
As years passed, they saw [...]

It seems to the big event this season. Everywhere I go, I see adverts for it. Volunteer groups I know are participating in it, and others I know are involved with it in one way or another. It runs from the 16th to the 25th of this month, at Suntec. NParks and STB apparently had [...]

My alarm failed to go off in the morning of the day I was scheduled to fly. I only woke at 1 closing on 2pm when Terry knocked on my door, and with a sharp shout which found its beginnings in the shape of a “sh”-word, I sprang out of bed and headed straight for [...]

*wipes sweat from brow*
That’s the Autumn term and Core Course done and over with. Could have been better, but could also have been worse. That’s about the most I can ditch in without putting myself at risk of insanity.
My typical practice as I go along the exam week is to empty my mind’s [...]

Two big chunks…
Gotta cross this hurdle before I can proceed on to the next term. First paper’s in a couple of hours but I’m surprisingly calm. Mind’s saturated.
Gone are the days when you could simply mark an ‘X’ against a subject and declare that you’ve ‘finished revising’ for it. These days, there is [...]