Where are you?

Where are you,

my beloved winter?

My cold cold winter,

seems like you're late this year,

or were you early last year?

Please bring more snow to Manchester this year,

and stop the rain, 

so that I will love you even more.

I love Christmas,

and Jesus Christ.

Platt Fields Park

Took a few pictures before and after the MLP in Platt Fields Park.

Hush Puppy going jogging

the rare blue sky of Manchester

Dear and I

autumn tree

Candy, Wani and I.  I look fat here.

I think these are geese (exlcuding the two black ones)

Sunset

Jingle Bell Rocks

Is time passing fast or slow for me? Sometimes I feel that it is going really fast as I have never started doing my tutorial since the first day of second year. I did some, of course, only during tutorial sessions. Actually, I think I have started telling myself that since my first year and my learning attitude has not changed still.


When does time pass slowly then? I am craving for holidays. Christmas holiday seems so far far away. I am looking forward to Easter holiday, then summer holiday. Then Christmas holiday again and so on. I am craving for a shopping binge, craving for travelling...


The weather in Manchester is getting really annoying and frustrating. It rains nearly every day and this year, it rained more heavily.When you complain about it, people will tell you 'Hey come on, what do you expect? It's freaking Manchester!' 

Ya, what the heck. Manchester, so what? It's just another piece of land on earth! I had enough of washing my winter boots after walking on those soggy fallen autumn leaves and mud. Haih, how I wish I have a car here. Things will be so much easier. 

But, instead of a car, I got myself a mushroom..........

mushroom... umbrella*

Thanks to it for sheltering me well and not flipping over to be a satellite disc.  

If you are thinking of earning some extra money, I would seriously recommend you to sell umbrellas with two reasons:

First, it's Manchester!

(that rains a lot)

Second, it's Manchester!                                                

(that rains a lot with strong winds flipping your umbrella over and often spoiling it)

It is getting colder and colder. Dusk creeps in at about 4pm. It is sometimes upsetting to see it dark outside as it is the usual time for me to go out to the city. Who would want to go out when the sky is dark and wait for the freaking bus 50 outside when it is freezing cold? Try shopping in a big fridge if you want. Wait! I should say, a big fridge that rains!


Oh well, I still love winter *embracing winter with love*

What do you think?

BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents travelled to Malaysia to explore the divide among races and spoke to the new generation of Malaysians pushing for more equality after decades of a system of racial preferences.

 

 

I wonder why there is such a huge difference in the opinions from the above two Malays. As for me, race is not an issue at all in everything. I am really glad to have a few lovely good Malay friends in Manchester. They showed to me that we are always one big family, really. But why on earth is there still Malays that think like the guy above? However, the girl is just fabulous, she is open-minded, looks knowledgeable.. She's great, just like my fellow Malay friends in Manchester!



What do you think?

A story to share~

I got this forwarded mail:-

Just like the story of the ugly duckling.

Once upon a time,
a mother duck found two ugly ducklings amongst her babies.
Both the ugly ducklings did not look quite the same,
to her babies as well as to each other.

As time passes by,
one of the ugly duckling grew up to be a beautiful graceful swan,
swimming elegantly in the pond.
The other grew up to be an eagle,
stretching his wings flying proudly up high in the sky.

The flock of ducks was jealous and green-eyed,
they could not swim as elegantly,
and fly as high.
The bitterness in their heart made them
tried so hard to think of ways to bring the swan and eagle down.

The swan wanted to go back to her swan country- The Swanna,
so as the eagle wanted to return to where she belonged, The Eaglia.

Sadly, the Swannese did not accept the swan as part of them,
and the Eaglian did the same to the poor eagle.
Of course,
by nationality,
they were Duckians,
but they were just not ducks!!

However,
if they changed their name according to the Duck country's system,
they would be accepted as ducks.

What should they do?

*I make no comment to this.

I'm lazy to think of a title

I always choose to blog at the times when I am busiest. Right now, I am doing my PRO/II report.


PRO/II...... yeah...... for Pro's.. (like me... that ends up burning midnight oil)


PRO/II is a programme we use to simulate chemical reactions, instead of carrying out the real experiments. I actually prefer real experiments, it's more fun, sometimes...only....  as most of the time, we only look at thermometers, pressure gauge, barometers, steam, condensate... and record, but not what is happening inside the vessel. So, there's actually no difference between doing PRO/II and doing experiments. PRO/II is of course better.. there are really really really simple schematic pictures to see such as reactors, valves, separation column, but you have to put different things together like puzzle to make it work, and to key in the correct data. Or else it will be ALL RED!! A big patch of eye-catching RED REACTORS, PIPES, WHATEVER YOU HAVE ON THE SCREEN! And the demonstrator will stare at your screen like your reactor is really really really really going to EXPLODE!!

Now, I am looking at the stripper. To be more precise, the stripping section. I am trying to understand how a stripper works. 


Back to doing my report~

PS: Stripper is the blue round thing at the bottom right~ and stripping section is the section of the column between the stripper and the arrow that comes in from the left.~