11th January 2009

Nothing much, study weeks now... probably wont be active for a week or so.

Anyway, "remember" a way for friends who didnt know how to read chinese character to read my blog, google translator
although not very accurate, still can use.

one of the article that caught my eye .

一個吸菸者的抗議 ◎駱以軍

最近很不爽一事，政府在菸盒印上很差的圖片。

菸盒放桌上，不小心看到很傷眼睛!!

駱先生的話，我百分百的贊成

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過去一年多來，不斷在一些聚會裡，朋友們邊噴吐著煙邊告訴我，
好日子不多嘍，明年一月很多咖啡屋都要全面禁菸了。

接著，他常去買菸的雜貨店老闆或超商工讀生，會用一種同情又樂
天知命的口吻，告訴我，菸又要漲價了。這次抽健康捐好像一次要
調高二十元………很像傅柯的「規訓與懲罰」，像水煮青蛙，有一
群密室裡開會的憎惡吸菸者，他們意志堅定、充滿耐性，逐步微調
，修改縮減著那群噴煙人類的合法空間。

主要是包括我，我的吸菸朋友們，對這件至少跟隨自己二十年以上
每天無意識習慣動手指（掏菸）、動嘴唇（吸吮吞吐）的行為，本
就隱隱帶有一種愧疚抱歉之情感，法條修改著，我們也挪挪蹭蹭縮
腹塌胸沉默順從那愈來愈縮窄的煙之界面。

（怎麼說呢？好像全世界都這麼幹。）

有一個畫面，在不同的機場大廈裡的吸菸小間，那真是讓我徹底意
識到吸菸者在這個文明時代被框畫在怎樣醜怪卑賤地位之處所。且
不講外頭那寬闊敞亮，由金屬、礦石挑高布架的科幻電影場景，那
些排放了各式金碧輝煌昂貴免稅商品（奇怪裡頭有一大宗即是洋菸
）的拱廊街；即便是拉屎排尿的廁所，也被佈置成窗明几淨光潔到
讓你升出淡淡孺慕欣羨的未來感。

只有在那兩、三坪大的吸菸小間裡，所有吸菸的旅客，像被懲罰的
流刑犯，男人女人，眼神空茫，各自縮著肩，臉上帶著莫名的憤怒
與屈辱，湊擠圍繞著中央那砂礫上插滿白色菸屍的簡陋大圓桶，互
相不看彼此，快速而毫不享受地用力吸自己嘴裡那根燃著的小紙捲
。那個空間裡的怨念是：要不是待會登機後要三個小時（或十幾個
小時）不能抽菸，俺才不要在這樣狼狽的空間裡被搞成這麼沒尊嚴
的模樣吸這幾口呢……。

Since it should be copyrighted, for the whole article please read here or here

Got to go.... see ya

Diary I

Spends a lot last week for the winter trip. Thought quite worth it. The money could be focused on for better value. For example, madam tussauds wax museum.

Having two disease right now... One is called " Dont wanna to study disease " , where you still in Holiday moods and lazy to open the book. Another is " Dont wanna out disease", where you basically dont wanna do anything except sleeping on your bed because of this winter. Ish, next time probably wont stay in country who has winter....

Just finish the combat with Microsoft on who own my computer. As a results, some photos, works, and software of mine sacrificed during the neverending battle....

As promised, travel note coming out. First is in chinese, which i shall translate it to english when i have the mood and time....

9th December....

1. Have been quite buzy recently, ( thanks to the attitude of procrastination! )So probably wont updated my blog until 16th Dec.

2. Today have an interesting manufacturing lecture, which know some interesting statement, like :
a) The cause of the rebellion of North America is due to restriction in manufacturing and used of steel, not the Boston tax on tea leaves.
b) Cowboy dont wore gun on their holder, as the guns will rust eventually.
c) Half of the cowboy are black.
d) The story of cowboy is a myth, when railway start building across America, the cowboys getting useless.
e) World famous and most popular used rifle is Kalashnikov's

3. The above are statements, mean you need to find evidence on it.

4. According to weather forecast, tonight, tomorrow and Thuesday the temperature will drop to below zero.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml

5. Another tragedy happened in Malaysia, where a landslide near 淡江/bukit antarabangsa caused at least 3 deads.

6. Kuala Lumpur Composite Index closed at 835.17 , a decline of 3.11 point from previous day.

7. I still alived!

What i done this week

Monday,
Pretty usual, go class at 10, having tutorial, etc.

Tuesday,
Went to sainsbury afternoon, Chin bought 5 kg of potatoes with 1.29 pound. The beginning of potato feast carnival.....

Wednesday,
Day off due to commemoration day, sleep the whole day....

Thursday,
Another half day with 2 lectures at the morning, evening went for poker society, to learn how to play poker XD.....

Friday,
Skip one lecture this morning, went for EWB ( Engineering without border) uk national conference at peak district , sheffield, evening. The journey take 5 hours, Omg. Meet a guy named Tom working in Glasgrow, a consultant firm related to water and sanitation system.

Saturday, Still at peak district sheffield.

Sunday, going back imperial at the evening, another 5 hr trip...OmG!

Some add-on.
The clocks turn back one hour during sunday morning, kind of weird......
If you curious about what EWB is, and what it do, i am posting it at my next post,
And yeah, havent really study yet....Omg

Today

Today is commemoration day.
As a result , i got a day free.
and tomolo and friday will be another 2 half day....
Good or bad?
i dont know.

Just to post......

This few day had been so free that i waste too much time. Take today as example, i have class from 900 to 1100, afterthat all free at the afternoon. omg!

Anyway as chin am i start to cook, our cost per meal reduced dramatically, take yesterday for example, the dinner for 2 cost 70p for 2 cans, 40p for rice, 40p for soup, 30p for vege, and 10 p for miscellaneous, which mean one pound per person per meal .... Good for my pocket.

Anyway, coursework, tutorial, lecture required reading start accumulate now, which mean my free time will be faded away sooner or later, Isch....

something out of nothing....

First, Uk banking system is different from malaysia. Here, you onli given a paper stating your bank account number on it as a prove that you have open the bank acc. You cant even have your name on that sheets of paper.

Second, the amount of lecture receive , seem less compare to that in KmB and back in middle school. However, sometimes we got 2 hr off for lunch time, which is bad for those far away from home n finished tutorial n dont want to study type of people. Luckily, i still can go back home n cook something.

Third, wednesday is a halfday, but since class start at 900 or 1000 am, we actually have lecture for 4 and a half day only. Where we have much spare time left, which is good for those not so competitive course student.

Fourth, The good news, library virtually open 24/7 , though the books store looks small and concentrate on academic, still a good place to hang out at night. ( Though i havent visit it yet. )

Fifth, the price of goods. One day in saintsbury i saw box of orange (2L) sold in one pound, couple days passed when i visit it again, it sold in 2 pound. Have to get used to their pricing technic.

My ist week in Imperial.

Saturday, moving in. Having boat party that night. But become bored for last hr. Spend some on pepsi , ya, one pound for a cup of pepsi.

Sunday, went to international student reception ( shouldnt go as much of the topic will be repeated ) , go for basketball freetry, ppl here very tall. Waste 3 hrs chasing my friends around high street kensington, my fault, shoudnt go .

Monday, mechanical engineering reception, nthing much happened.

Tuesday, open bank account. Fresher fair, sign up for many soc mailing lists. Which only show commitment to few soc. Night, go bowling and skating, again , food inside expensive.

Wednesday, math test, quite simple ( much of it learn before, and yeah, still remember). afternoon, go for tutor tryout. A couple of french brother and sister want to learn mandarin, although they found a professional teacher, still earn some from the session. :)

Thursday, Continue on group project. Meanwhile have a thinking skill assessment. ( imperial want to copy oxbridge by introduce a TSA for admission, so we become the white rat). Night have dinner in chinatown. Go to club named roadhouse and have our VIP card.

Friday, group project test out . The cantilever my group built can survive 3. 5 kg onli. Sad ...... and i sold my fresher ball ticket to people more interested in.

Today, spend morning for shopping, afternoon for ICUMS reception, and night here.....

Few thought. The internet socket here very sensitive, it works for some cable but not others. Put it simple, my cable works in chin's room socket but not mine, his one same too. So we exchange our cable.....

Internet here quite fast. It go up to 90 mbps for uk server. But unfortunately, pings is so high and speed dramatically reduce when connect to malaysia server and china server.

First week i spent too much on food, but when we start cooking ( mainly can food actually ) the cost reduced significantly. Which is a good news.

Anyway, spending still high this week, got to reduced it for the next week. Btw, there is an interesting program in laying down railroad in wales and the next summer placement for EWB( engineer without border ) is Tanzania, want to go?