My new housemates are cycling fanatics. Four of them ride, and they've got in all seven bikes among them. Last Wednesday for the first ICMUN committee dinner, five of us rode up through Hyde Park to Edgeware Rd to Mawar. Hee. They're even keen on exploring the sights of London by bike, or perhaps bike up to Oxford. Mmm... thanks but no thanks.

Both fencing teams - Women's and Men's 1sts won, with the former's score 15-8 against Reading. The new incomers have skill... :D and this year we have a more... competent... captain.

The next night and following morning I was fixing Terry's laptop and then mine - due to a 'blackout' his system crashed and he couldn't even load into Windows. Well we got that sorted after a few hours into the morning (argh MS-DOS), but when I turned back to my laptop I discovered that 2.6GB of my hard drive space was lost through a system recovery software that he installed earlier. Upon installation, it creates a hidden partition, as a mirror image/backup of my local drive... and after uninstalling it I don't know where that partition is. Tech Support says it can't be accessed from Windows Explorer, so I tried other unconventional means but still couldn't find it. Sigh... so that means 2+ Grandpa Bears lost. :|

Failing to find other similarly-interested parties, Kamil and I went to Fryent Country Park in Zone 4 for a "hike-stroll-walk-in-the-park". Fed the seagulls and the hordes of Canada Geese. Took actiony shots. Picked wild apples off an apple tree. While there we went into the aquaria at Wembley (where Xi bought her mega-aquarium tank) and I decided to get some Siamese fighting fish (since I've maintained them before, to a great degree of success). The lady at the store told me that they get most of their fish from Thailand of Singapore. Heh. I also got two Peppered Corys - they ran out of Bronze - to keep Darwin and Wallace company. I'm gonna name them Mayr and Haldane, and those who recognise those names will know why. :P

At night the whole household went to watch Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Reminiscent of Nightmare before Christmas, another Burton classic. Witty, symbolic, full of humour and although the ending might not have been what one was hoping for or expecting, it was all-in-all a great film.

posted by Husky @ 10/23/2005 04:05:00 PM  |