Leeching from a neighbour's connection

I went to Lu, Lionel & Charl's place last Fri, for dinner a some anime and an episode of Rome (a new BBC-HBO miniseries, highly recommended if you're into anything Roman), followed by a little crazy session with our Nintendos. The DS's wireless link is great... we each can just sit on a sofa and play against each other. If one saw the kind of conversations we had on Pictochat, I wouldn't blame him if he mistook us for primary school kids.

Sat morn - woke late - regained my much-needed sleep. Worked on essay.
Sat night - hee, well Wang-san's working at Odeon so we sneaked in to watch Oliver Twist (it's an accepted practice). They watched Pride and Prejudice (Another remake; heard it wasn't that good. But of course, nothing beats the one with Colin Firth as Mr Darcy).

Sun - worked on essay. Argh! So much reading up!

Monday - We celebrated Cherlyn's birthday during lunchtime. The usual bio affair - a cake, generously supplied by Xi & Wonderful Patisserie, cards and song. Fencing session cancelled - annoying blokes at the Union have messed up our entire venue bookings for the term.

We had our first ICMUN session at night. Held our first simulation - a UN Joint Security Council debate on nuclear weapons in Iran. It was quite interesting and fun to observe (I was spared the job of presiding... hee... one Speaker is enough). "The most distinguished, honorable Mr Secretary-General... ..." or phrases like "Is Iran not aware of France's..." if it weren't a formal affair we'd have cracked up laughing long ago. Turnout was good - 10 countries for the debate and half-a-roomful of spectators. Many candidates for the ensuing elections too - Conference and Campaigning Officers' positions filled. The enthusiasm and experience of the ICMUN'ers amazes me. If we manage to pull ICMUN through the first year, there'd be overqualified people to take over its running.

But all in all, it was a great relief. We're doing good - our new Campaigning Officer thought that by us saying that "we're a new society", we were one or two years in the running, and we're hardly two-months' old!

posted by Husky @ 10/11/2005 12:34:00 PM  |