台湾、家、英国

很久没有在这里留言了。自2月尾，我离开了英国足足两个星期。回到英国以后又非常忙碌，所以无法在我自己的博克留言。

在这短短的两个星期，我从英国飞到了台湾，再到吉隆坡，然后又回到英国。可以说是环绕了半个地球。这一次的“旅行”让我感触很多。但一时不知道要怎么表达而且现在的生活非常忙碌，所以在这里只做了一个简单的记载。

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去了台湾。

带领马大辩论队闯关是我的兴趣。只可惜，止步于半决。虽然没领奖，但是这一次的台湾之旅有2大收获。

第一，是刚好遇到台湾的228，让我了解了许多关于台湾的过去。同时，也让我想起我国的513事件什么时候才能像228一样，建一个纪念馆把事情的真相全部都说出来。

第二，是在最后一天跟付欣聊天。这一次的谈话中让我发现我们俩人的共同点实在是太多了。从辩论，到恋爱，婚姻和事业，我们无所不谈。只可惜时间有限。

这一别以后，恐怕我们俩人难以再见面了。他5月份就要到加拿大去。而我现在在英国。这段友情始于2001。现在，我们一个一个地离开。晓欢在香港/上海，付欣到加拿大；锦添在新加坡，我在英国。真希望，10年，20年后，我们所有人又能够在某一地方重遇并且聊个痛快！

付欣，保重了！


回家的感觉真好。

吃妈妈的菜，听爸爸的话，和哥哥聊电脑游戏 - 这个感觉是多么地熟悉，多么地舒服。这一次以后，我们一家就很难再一次如此相聚。我哥哥要移民到新加坡了，我又会回到英国继续念我的博士学位。真的很担心我爸妈。自从我哥哥出世以后，他们就不曾过着二人世界的生活。 30多年以来，他们已经习惯了家中有孩子的声音。如今，家里又再次地回到从前的安静。也许，只有农历新年吧，我们一家4口才有机会好好地相聚。但是啊，ba, ma, 不要因此而害怕。我们并没有离开你们。我们会保持联络的。而且你们身体还很健康又有许多朋友。要好好地把握时间和生命，享受生活！不要让你们的事业停下来，记得：一定要keep yourself occupied! 人，是不会变老的 - 直到你承认你是老为止。

爸、妈、哥、想念你们啊。。。


回到英国生活变得很忙碌。

由于已经“缺课”两个星期，不能再怠惰了！

Cambridge diary 3 (cambridge in snow)

It's the biggest ever snow in Cambridge. Even the Brits find it hard to believe!!

There's always something romantic about snowing, especially for M'sians like us, who have never experienced it before. We could only experience it from the romance movies or story books that we watch or read, and maybe because of that it remains elusively romantic to us. The story books, however, forgot to mention to you how cold it was...(and it makes it so difficult to apprecite the scene or the ambience in such a weather).





It's so 'romantic' seeing how the kids and lovers threw snowball at each other on the field. People skiing, rolling ice balls, etc. But it's actually very unhygienic because the snow is essentially ice and dirt. Yes, so if you see closely, you can see that there's lots of dirt in it. But well, as with all things that are romantic - you focus on all the 'wooo's and 'waaa's and at that very instance we all forgot that we are really throwing shit at each other...

The entrance to Engineering Dept. (actually these pictures are taken while I was on the way to the Eng. Dept. and by the way, I was late for the class because I stopped by too long to take these pictures =P)


Looking out from the department's cafeteria.

I don't want to be driving in this weather!




Or riding a bicyle...
And finally, how can I show you pictures of Cambridge in snow without showing you snow at Cambridge's most famous site. Ah... King's College. It looks awesome in winter, autumn, summer and spring. I wish I was like that.

Problem with choosing a topic for my PhD dissertation

When looking for suitable topics for my PhD dissertation, I'm looking for problems. Because if there is one, then there is chance it could turn out to be my PhD dissertation's topic. Interestingly, after reading some journal papers, they presented me with 3 kinds of problem:

The first kind is where all the theories and foundation work have been laid down. All it takes is just for you to learn it, apply it and then share the result with everyone. E.g. someone has theoretically calculated that earth is round. You just have to travel around the globe and then tell everyone about your 'epic' story.

The second kind of problem is where the problem has been clearly identified, but even the experts have no solution for it. Then one should wonder, if these researchers who have been researching for years with vast experience cannot come out with a solution, can I?

Then the third kind of problem is...when there is no problem. Which is, in fact, a problem itself. This is because if there isn't any problem, then there isn't anything I could write for my PhD dissertation.

Damn...

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger

I'm an Arsenal fan. But with the way they are playing recently...

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger is more like...
Arse-anal, and Arse-and-Wanker.

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唐伯虎点秋香--经典好诗！

（用粤语念）

“河边一群鹅，嘘声赶落河；落河捉鹅医肚饿，吃完回家锄老婆。”

跟着，四大才子之一紧随着叫到，“好诗，好诗！”

果然经典！

（采自于周星驰演的《唐伯虎点秋香》电影）

Venting out my frustrations....

I realised, after coming to the UK, that I rant a lot. And therefore, I constantly need a place to rant, or to sink my frustrations. For many years, that was debate team.

And I'm not surprising to know that many of my fellow debaters feel the same way. Just go to BS, crack a few jokes, try out a few free debates, cracking your head with our arguments or just plainly talk crap. Surprisingly, suddenly all your unhappiness will disappear.

Many years ago when I left for UK, I missed the UM debate team. Today, the same still applies. As I am feeling so frustrated today, I just wanted to go BS and see how those juniors are preparing for the Taiwan competition. And maybe I shall lay my wrath upon those unsuspecting juniors!!! muahhahaha.........but alas, BS is now MYR 4000 and 10k miles away from me. And my car won't take me there.

So when I have frustrations, I just have to swallow it. No one will listen to my rants here. I'm all alone.

On the brighter side, this may teach me patience. (but I doubt so, LOL)

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postscript: I did not mean I go to BS and UM debate team and just go scold you all to let go my anger a......I know you all debaters one...sure think like that. Shit, after saying this, isn't it like "this place got no silver 300, 2?"