A couple of things

1. Just received an email from a friend today wishing me well and all but somehow from reading my blog he thought that I'll be home soon. Well, it'll be soon but not so soon. Just like to clarify here that I'll still be in London for at least another 6 months (hopefully no longer). :) (ps: Will reply your email later today)

2. The usefulness of friendster has finally been proven. An old schoolmate found me through friendster last week. Apparently she just came to work in London about 3 months ago. Well, I guess I'ld never have gotten back in touch with her if not revealing my location on friendster. Haven't seen her since 1997 and in the last 10 years she has graduated from university, started working in a bank and got married.

3. MX new colleague is my BEng and MSc classmate. How small can the world get?

4. GBK is opening a branch in Earl's Court, just 2 minutes from my place! :) Saw the boards up on my way to uni this morning and I think renovation should be done in less than a month. I have a fondness for that restaurant because it's one of those places I have only been with Vic, Phil and Ys. And of course the legendary speed Vic gobbled down a lamb burger and ordered another one will stay deeply etched in my mind. *chuckle*

B&B (back and busy)

I’m back from holidays, well a week ago actually, but couldn’t find time to blog untill now cos had to prepare for my two meetings held earlier today. Feeling kind of down because I have been assigned more experiments to do – again – which almost drove me to tears but I think I’m going to convince my co-supervisor to allow me to ‘borrow’ his MSc student. Yes yes, after all these years I’ve finally decided to put aside my pride and receive help so that I can achieve my objectives in good time. I have been so busy with the assignments from the previous meeting that I have not written a single word for my thesis in a month.

Received news today that my examiners had been appointed. The external is ‘tough but fair’, so I’ve been warned. Challenging times ahead indeed. The internal is a Reader I know from Aeronautical Engineering. Nice guy, but I am also aware that he is an expert on all things composite. Sigh. They are pretty 大牌 examiners, which I should be honoured but I did panic silently when I heard their names? Guess my supervisor either have high regards for me or he doesn’t want me to have an easy way out. So now have to tell myself…. 不要怕…不要怕…不要怕…不要怕…不要怕…