Today -
EBE lecture 11: Climate change
EBE lecture 12: Population dynamics
We had a new lecturer today. Boy is he boring! This lecturer is much younger than our first one, and but he speaks slow. So slow that he puts people to sleep... and he talks with this funny habit of closing his eyes for 2 or 3 seconds instead of blinking. It's annoying... he does that when he's lecturing and it makes us wonder if he himself feels sleepy too. He'll be teaching us for the next few days as well. Knowing that I would be falling half-asleep, I recorded the lectures. Upon playback, the only thing I could hear for the first few minutes was the coughing and sneezing of the students in the auditorium. A friend even commented that the place is becoming more like a medical waiting room than a lecture hall. The bug... aye, gotta beware of the bug...
Went to the maths tute room to get the sheets (linear, quadratic etc. graph-sketching notes, but didn't go for the tute. They don't do any teaching anyway. You just sit there and work.
I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but the water here tastes and looks horrible. It tastes metallic and stale, and has white swirly whisps of substance in it, even after it is boiled. Some say that it is because of the heavy mix of chalk and lead in it. Auntie D (recall: from Friday 17 Oct's blog) called me up saying that she was at Oxford St, getting a water filtration unit for me. I kept insisting that I didn't really need it, or, if even I did, I was in no hurry at all. Nevertheless, she got it and I met her at the South Keng tube station to get it from her. She's such a nice auntie. I wanted to pay for it but she refused. She'll be going back to Hong Kong tomorrow...
I used the filter when I got back, and the difference was just fantastic. The filtered water was delicious! If such a thing can be said of plain 'ole water. There were no more 'yucky' tastes, it was clear without traces of chalk, and it was so refreshing and pure that I downs a few cups. There were a few occasions when, in the first few days of my being here, I actually had to squeeze my nose while drinking water... it was *that* horrible. I've been lucky so far that I haven't developed rashes yet. Or maybe it's really only chlorine that causes it.
Yumm... water... yum...
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