Last days of term: Dr Lamb's experiment, NHM, Anna's birthday, and sushi-making

I'm not gonna bother explaining what yesterday's Lamb experiment was about - Xi, having been one of the seven (six?) experimental subjects, has a full account on her blog. All I can say was that it was great fun - no, I didn't drink, I shot, I witnessed a lot of things I would have been best left not witnessing, and I ran off to wrap up my BCB course by supporting partner Soph's talk on our otter action plan. I rejoined the others in Lamb's office after an hour, only to find a pinked-up Marvin (Sook Sook the traitor, he was wearing an EEE hoodie!), a red Xi and a very intoxicated Xiao.





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It was NHM again in the arvo, but my sup Mick was nowhere to be found. I suspected he was at the Union Bar - where he and some other entomologist dudes hang out on Fridays - but he emailed later on explaining how he was at the airport receiving a Chinese visitor, but missed him as they were both at different terminals. "Not sure how to pronounce his first name though Cong, I need your help with this!"


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Anna aka Princess' birthday at night was one of the most memorable. Dinner and karaoke in London! With HK/S'pore/BBC bio gang and the MUN'ers. We sang mostly Cantonese songs, with the occasional English song so that our international friends won't be left out - but they were the cheesy BSB types, that or "I'm a big big girl in a big big world". Well, they were enthusiastic about the whole idea of KTVs to begin with... which was just totally great. Too bad there weren't any Japanese songs though. I thoroughly enjoyed myself... we were all on a high throughout the night.





Johannes and Sun proposed going to an arcade or playing pool... but... the rest weren't keen... so the remnants of the gang ended up at my place and played (or learnt to play) mahjong.


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Today we had the Japanese MUNers over. I love these little visits by the MUN gang. It's always a bit of social, a bit of debating, and there's always some munching. They were here, these noble senseis, to share with us the techniques of sushi-making. I missed the bits in the middle, but returned just in time to join them in discussions of Japanese geishas and maikos, prostitution in countries, the Islamic law in Bahrain, and female escort services. lol... :)


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Well, fun's over, it's time to pack. I'll be flying off tomorrow.

posted by Husky @ 3/25/2006 11:04:00 PM  |