Saturday, May 27, 2006

An interesting picture that I took while I was walking near my uni, at Tavistock Sq.
In the foreground is a statue of Mohandas K. Gandhi seated in a meditative position. In the centre of the picture, in the background, is the British Medical Society building. In the morning of 7 July 2005, a no. 30 bus blew up in front of the BMS building, killing 13 people.

Such irony that this act of senseless murder occured in front of a monument who achieved the great feat of using pacifism and non-violence to bring independence to his country.

Monday, May 22, 2006

Having finished exams and my degree, suddenly I have lost the focus of the past 4 years of my life. I no longer have to head to the library to study, nor do I have to worry about work to be handed in.

So far, my time has mostly been occupied with sleep, with the epitome being the time when I took a nap at 4.30pm and woke up at 8.30pm (I wanted to wake up at 5.30pm but set my alarm for 1530...d'oh!). Apart from that, I've met up with some friends over the weekend to catch up, and celebrated a friend's birthday.

Another thing I've been catching up with is my music...I've hardly touched my guitar in the past couple of months, and this summer I intend to bring my playing back up to its peak. I'll be hanging around in London until mid-July. The original plan was for me to work on a couple of research papers with my supervisors, but I've decided to forget that and just relax. I do want to learn some maths and physics on my own, but that has to be at my own leisure.

Of course, I'm really looking forward to the World Cup next month, and it helps that I can actually watch it during normal hours while I'm here, rather than having to stay up late at night as I would have to do if I were back home in KL.