Thursday, 20 November 2008
pictures
guess i am the only user and viewer of the blog now. However, I shall post something new; otherwise the blog will be dead.
a picture of jellicoe taken from google earth
a picture of jellicoe taken from google earth
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Finally, your irresponsible IC on the last day :)
Haha sorry for the delay of the posts we should put on after we go back to Singapore. I bet SOMEONE has forgotten about it, haha, but since I shall continue to see him every chemistry lecture, I could think of better ways to tease him face to face:)
It is hard to believe that more than one month has passed since we started our journey to UK. I could still feel the sense of joy when we arrived at Heathrow Airport--it just seemed to happen yesterday. On the last day of the trip, since I was one of the "early birds", I had time to explore Heathrow Airport. Though we all carried huge luggages, Yi Ting, Tao Tao and me managed to take the cool shutter train to Terminal Five, the newest terminal. It was very spacious and it looked quite different from other older terminals, but I would say it is only reaching the standard of Changi Airport :) Since there were many shops like my all-time-favourite Mark&Spencer, we did some last-minute shopping. I had heavy cold so I could not really taste anything, but I could still feel the cream in the delicious milk :) Like the seniors predicted in Cambridge, I miss UK's milk and diary products dearly.
The weeks after we safely arrived home seem to fly by, however I could still feel the impact of UK trip on my daily life. I tend to search for gloves and goggles whenevr I enter the chemistry lab, and I feel quite disappointed that I am only handling low concerntration HCl instead of doing ultra water-sensitive Aldol reaction in dry ice (-78 degrees). I yearn for my own kitchen when I have to put up with hostel's food, as I truly enjoyed the time we had in our little kitchen in Jellicoe, as Pan Tao, Peijun, Yi Ting and me take turns to boil water, cut cabbage, make spegetti and steam egg. Yesterday I went for chemistry Olympiad training, and surprisingly it was on NMR, the experiment technique we dealt with almost every single day. I remember how confused we were when Dr Ganesan introduced us to the complicated graphs on the first day--it just didn't make much sense to us, all the peaks and numbers. As I listened to the teacher carefully I finally began to appreciate the technique and learn to interpret the information there, but how simple the diagrammes in the most difficult chem o questions look when they are compared to that generated by our products?
Our lives will continue after the UK trip. Promos, tests, projects--we are almost drowned inside the hectic life here. However I will always appreciate the sunny days we had in Southampton, United Kingdom. The days when we learned and had plenty of fun. The days when we reached out to our dreams of being scientists, and enjoyed every second of it.
Fangzhou 09S03M
It is hard to believe that more than one month has passed since we started our journey to UK. I could still feel the sense of joy when we arrived at Heathrow Airport--it just seemed to happen yesterday. On the last day of the trip, since I was one of the "early birds", I had time to explore Heathrow Airport. Though we all carried huge luggages, Yi Ting, Tao Tao and me managed to take the cool shutter train to Terminal Five, the newest terminal. It was very spacious and it looked quite different from other older terminals, but I would say it is only reaching the standard of Changi Airport :) Since there were many shops like my all-time-favourite Mark&Spencer, we did some last-minute shopping. I had heavy cold so I could not really taste anything, but I could still feel the cream in the delicious milk :) Like the seniors predicted in Cambridge, I miss UK's milk and diary products dearly.
The weeks after we safely arrived home seem to fly by, however I could still feel the impact of UK trip on my daily life. I tend to search for gloves and goggles whenevr I enter the chemistry lab, and I feel quite disappointed that I am only handling low concerntration HCl instead of doing ultra water-sensitive Aldol reaction in dry ice (-78 degrees). I yearn for my own kitchen when I have to put up with hostel's food, as I truly enjoyed the time we had in our little kitchen in Jellicoe, as Pan Tao, Peijun, Yi Ting and me take turns to boil water, cut cabbage, make spegetti and steam egg. Yesterday I went for chemistry Olympiad training, and surprisingly it was on NMR, the experiment technique we dealt with almost every single day. I remember how confused we were when Dr Ganesan introduced us to the complicated graphs on the first day--it just didn't make much sense to us, all the peaks and numbers. As I listened to the teacher carefully I finally began to appreciate the technique and learn to interpret the information there, but how simple the diagrammes in the most difficult chem o questions look when they are compared to that generated by our products?
Our lives will continue after the UK trip. Promos, tests, projects--we are almost drowned inside the hectic life here. However I will always appreciate the sunny days we had in Southampton, United Kingdom. The days when we learned and had plenty of fun. The days when we reached out to our dreams of being scientists, and enjoyed every second of it.
Fangzhou 09S03M
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Saturday, 16 August 2008
Random Photoshopped Pics
Picture taken at London
Picture taken at Winchester. Two of us took this photo.Monday, 11 August 2008
end of the trip
i was waiting for the ICs of the last day (that refers to Fangzhou and TK) to update the blog. Apparently these two people have forgotten what they should do. But anyway, they have done a great job on the last day from southampton to london heathrow, taking care of two batches of people and keeping counting... thank you and well done, FZ and TK.
So that would mean the post will be written by me again. We have a coherent introduction and conclusion, you see, though the ending of such a grand story is really not comparable to the real content.
anyway, here it goes
friday 08/08/08
kin chun has more or less rounded up what has happened. Just to complete the picture, we also had a farewell party at 10 pm (london time). Mr.chong and Ms.Tang wrote a song for everyone who participated the trip. the lyrics are very well written. I personally liked the last verse: if life hands you lemon go and make lemonade. this is so true.
after singing the songs together (guitarist: Mr.Chong), we revealed the identity of every angel. sorry we did not explicitly introduced the game, but we started an angel and mortal game in the midst of the trip. Actually, I guessed most of the people here were smart enough to guess who their angels are (except for a few like me). Revealling the truth is really exciting, as always. I was almost chocked by water when my angel spoke out who he is...I hope everyone has tried to know your mortal through the trip and keep on encouraging each other in the future. Then, the purpose of this game is fulfilled.
there was also a small award ceremony. we acknowledged xin er and lemuel as the most responsible IC.(a round applause) the most punctual people are Pan tao and Pei Jun who are always the first (a tie, actually)at the assembling point. there are also some freaks who were over-active in class like me and TK. all the people got a lovely RJC bookmark.
If I'm not wrong, the present to Mr.Chong was a stack of poker cards with everyone's message. the level 3 girls also passed a small soft toy to Ms. Tang. For Mr.nicole, we all wrote him a thank you card.
Not to forget that everyone also received a present- a photo of 25 of us in front of stonehenge. the picture is posted by ms Tang already. Somehow a few of us look a bit different. an shing's face, for example, looks stretched by a factor of 1.5 parallel to the Y-axis.
that was the grand finale of the trip. after that, most of us proceed to pack our luggage. Dillion is said to finish packing within 10 minutes. there was a big sigh in my heart- time flies so fast that i felt it was just yesterday when I unpacked my stuff...
a few of us also had a small scale party. we played some card games and wathed videos. watching sunrise for the last time. trying to keep awake in the last few hours in UK.
Saturday 09/08/08 from southampton to heathrow
first batch people aka early birds got up early in the morning, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport and arrived at 11 am.
second batch people cleaned up the mess left by the first batch people aka early birds, returned utensils, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport, waited in the rain for more than 1 hour, almost frozen because the bus broke down on the way, took 4 cabs and arrived at 3pm.
after first batch people aka early birds killed their time in the airport in many ways that i'm not able to describe here, we finally met up as the big group and checked in.
Then we shopped at krispy kreme. In total i think we bought a few hundreds of doughnuts.
Amazingly the flight was really short this time, parially because there was a tilt wind blowing in the direction of the flight, but mostly because all of us were reluctant to reach singapore so soon.
nothing interesting happended on the plane....as far as I know. joy slept through the flight. she was only awake when she was eating.
we reached changi airport an hour earlier. but we spent a lot of time taking pictures and saying goodbye to the friends...
Then we walked out the arrival hall, passing by the depature gate which we left from on 20 July. parents were waiting outside the arrival hall, excited. I think we all have a lot of stories to tell. the friends we made, the UK we have seen, the things we have learnt.
And that marks the end of the our common memory of UK.
the good thing is, all of us will meet each other again in school. the bad thing is, that will again remind us everything about UK which makes us nostalgic...
coming back to singapore means loads and loads of working waiting for us...there will be spas, PW, CCA and promos. Good times were short, but we have to face the reality and get down to all the school work. we are truly back home, back from the golden 3 weeks in UK. as we chose to participate in the trip, the consequences are also chosen and I think all of us will get back to the track soon.
However, I hope none of you will ever forget the life in UK. do remember to say hi to the familiar faces during lectures or in the corridor. we shall cherish the invaluable experience in UK. Hope you guys will come back to the blog some time. As what i have said in the first thread, there are a lot of common memories here. hope there are also spaces in your heart for the very best time in UK.
all the best, friends.
dx^2
So that would mean the post will be written by me again. We have a coherent introduction and conclusion, you see, though the ending of such a grand story is really not comparable to the real content.
anyway, here it goes
friday 08/08/08
kin chun has more or less rounded up what has happened. Just to complete the picture, we also had a farewell party at 10 pm (london time). Mr.chong and Ms.Tang wrote a song for everyone who participated the trip. the lyrics are very well written. I personally liked the last verse: if life hands you lemon go and make lemonade. this is so true.
after singing the songs together (guitarist: Mr.Chong), we revealed the identity of every angel. sorry we did not explicitly introduced the game, but we started an angel and mortal game in the midst of the trip. Actually, I guessed most of the people here were smart enough to guess who their angels are (except for a few like me). Revealling the truth is really exciting, as always. I was almost chocked by water when my angel spoke out who he is...I hope everyone has tried to know your mortal through the trip and keep on encouraging each other in the future. Then, the purpose of this game is fulfilled.
there was also a small award ceremony. we acknowledged xin er and lemuel as the most responsible IC.(a round applause) the most punctual people are Pan tao and Pei Jun who are always the first (a tie, actually)at the assembling point. there are also some freaks who were over-active in class like me and TK. all the people got a lovely RJC bookmark.
If I'm not wrong, the present to Mr.Chong was a stack of poker cards with everyone's message. the level 3 girls also passed a small soft toy to Ms. Tang. For Mr.nicole, we all wrote him a thank you card.
Not to forget that everyone also received a present- a photo of 25 of us in front of stonehenge. the picture is posted by ms Tang already. Somehow a few of us look a bit different. an shing's face, for example, looks stretched by a factor of 1.5 parallel to the Y-axis.
that was the grand finale of the trip. after that, most of us proceed to pack our luggage. Dillion is said to finish packing within 10 minutes. there was a big sigh in my heart- time flies so fast that i felt it was just yesterday when I unpacked my stuff...
a few of us also had a small scale party. we played some card games and wathed videos. watching sunrise for the last time. trying to keep awake in the last few hours in UK.
Saturday 09/08/08 from southampton to heathrow
first batch people aka early birds got up early in the morning, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport and arrived at 11 am.
second batch people cleaned up the mess left by the first batch people aka early birds, returned utensils, had their breakfast, checked out, boarded on the bus to heathrow airport, waited in the rain for more than 1 hour, almost frozen because the bus broke down on the way, took 4 cabs and arrived at 3pm.
after first batch people aka early birds killed their time in the airport in many ways that i'm not able to describe here, we finally met up as the big group and checked in.
Then we shopped at krispy kreme. In total i think we bought a few hundreds of doughnuts.
Amazingly the flight was really short this time, parially because there was a tilt wind blowing in the direction of the flight, but mostly because all of us were reluctant to reach singapore so soon.
nothing interesting happended on the plane....as far as I know. joy slept through the flight. she was only awake when she was eating.
we reached changi airport an hour earlier. but we spent a lot of time taking pictures and saying goodbye to the friends...
Then we walked out the arrival hall, passing by the depature gate which we left from on 20 July. parents were waiting outside the arrival hall, excited. I think we all have a lot of stories to tell. the friends we made, the UK we have seen, the things we have learnt.
And that marks the end of the our common memory of UK.
the good thing is, all of us will meet each other again in school. the bad thing is, that will again remind us everything about UK which makes us nostalgic...
coming back to singapore means loads and loads of working waiting for us...there will be spas, PW, CCA and promos. Good times were short, but we have to face the reality and get down to all the school work. we are truly back home, back from the golden 3 weeks in UK. as we chose to participate in the trip, the consequences are also chosen and I think all of us will get back to the track soon.
However, I hope none of you will ever forget the life in UK. do remember to say hi to the familiar faces during lectures or in the corridor. we shall cherish the invaluable experience in UK. Hope you guys will come back to the blog some time. As what i have said in the first thread, there are a lot of common memories here. hope there are also spaces in your heart for the very best time in UK.
all the best, friends.
dx^2
Saturday, 9 August 2008
Wrapping Up
Today is the second last day that we will be in the UK, and generally most people are quite sad to leave this place. Ms Tang and Mr Chong composed the lyrics for a song specially for us, and it really summarises our time here in Southampton. I believe that everyone loved the place and will have fond memories for years to come.
Anyway, there were two other highlights for today. Firstly, 08/08/08 is the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Mr Nicole kindly helped us set up the television to view the Olympics from BBC. I think all 23 of us watched the ceremony, and I'm confident to say that everyone found it very grand and magnificent.
The other highlight of the day is the musical, Flash Dance, that we watched. Not everyone watched it, but I think it was a good experience. Personally, I loved the musical throughout, perhaps due to my musical background. Most others enjoyed it too, and it was worth the time and money.
I think that everyone should have packed their luggage already, so I hope everyone would have a smooth journey tomorrow!
Anyway, there were two other highlights for today. Firstly, 08/08/08 is the day of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Mr Nicole kindly helped us set up the television to view the Olympics from BBC. I think all 23 of us watched the ceremony, and I'm confident to say that everyone found it very grand and magnificent.
The other highlight of the day is the musical, Flash Dance, that we watched. Not everyone watched it, but I think it was a good experience. Personally, I loved the musical throughout, perhaps due to my musical background. Most others enjoyed it too, and it was worth the time and money.
I think that everyone should have packed their luggage already, so I hope everyone would have a smooth journey tomorrow!
'Nade in Jellicoe
(Sung to the tune of “Guan Huai Fang Shi”)
The time has come for us to part
You’ve found a place inside our hearts
In Southampton’s Jellicoe
Where friendships began to grow
All the places we have been
Stonehenge, Salisbury we have seen
Fish and chips we’ve had our fill
And Sally Lunn left a hefty bill
We have traveled on the train and tube and bus across the land
To Bath and Cambridge and to London where we saw Big Ben
We are always desperately rushing
But we’ve never missed a thing
Kudos to all the I/Cs who are masters in counting
Eight-thirty we leave for school
No MSN that’s the rule
Making radios and robots
Every night you write reports
Not forgetting Chemistry
All day long doing TLC
NMR, mass spec. you’ve seen
Making new compounds you are keen
Twenty-two days in Southampton
You’ve learned life skills to survive
We hope the things you’ve gained are more than your photo archive
Do look back at all the memories
And the friendships that you’ve made
Remember if life hands you lemons go make lemonade
With love,
Mr Chong & Ms Tang
Educational Visit to the University of Southampton
20 July – 10 August 2008
The time has come for us to part
You’ve found a place inside our hearts
In Southampton’s Jellicoe
Where friendships began to grow
All the places we have been
Stonehenge, Salisbury we have seen
Fish and chips we’ve had our fill
And Sally Lunn left a hefty bill
We have traveled on the train and tube and bus across the land
To Bath and Cambridge and to London where we saw Big Ben
We are always desperately rushing
But we’ve never missed a thing
Kudos to all the I/Cs who are masters in counting
Eight-thirty we leave for school
No MSN that’s the rule
Making radios and robots
Every night you write reports
Not forgetting Chemistry
All day long doing TLC
NMR, mass spec. you’ve seen
Making new compounds you are keen
Twenty-two days in Southampton
You’ve learned life skills to survive
We hope the things you’ve gained are more than your photo archive
Do look back at all the memories
And the friendships that you’ve made
Remember if life hands you lemons go make lemonade
With love,
Mr Chong & Ms Tang
Educational Visit to the University of Southampton
20 July – 10 August 2008
Friday, 8 August 2008
Luxurious Dinner
What was special about today was that we finally got to see the luxury dinner, which had been the greatest secret for the past few days. We had dinner in a relatively expensive restaurant, TGI Friday's, with Mr Nicole and all the other chemistry tutors. The restaurant was well decorated and the food looked delicious on the menu. However, the price was a bit scary for us at the beginning. However, when we found out that we were given 12 pounds to spend, everyone felt so relieved that we could order the food we really wanted to eat.
To eat nice food really requires you to be patient. We waited for over an hour to get our food. During the waiting time, we played all the games we could think of and enjoyed ourselves a lot. (Actually we also made a lot of noise there.) Some people were playing the Code game(the 终极密码？Is this its name?), while the group sitting with Liang Xu(who is very lame)played all the random games until everyone was bored. Then the dinner finally came!!!
Though the food was quite nice, some of us could not forget about the money conversion problem. Quote from Tzer Han, "siao ah, the price here is 7 times of that in Malaysia! We have the exact same restaurant there and the prices are exactly the same, but one is in Ringgit and one is in pounds." Then I started to calculate in my mind how much it would cost for me to have my dinner and found that wow, that’s really a luxurious and expensive dinner.
After dinner, we had our usual rush to the bus stop. I think that by now, everyone is finally quite familiar with the public transport system in Southampton. The most fun part also started. People started to tell ghost stories on the way back. It was forty past ten at that time so it was quite dark and was a very good atmosphere to scare people. Screams came from different parts of the group occasionally. On the bus, Liang Xu started to tell more such stories. In order to be scarier, he even started to describe the settings of the stories in Chinese(which he is more fluent in)! Poor Joy screamed a few times because of that. An Shing even said that he would think about whether he is going to take a shower tonight or not.
Anyway, three weeks is really a short time. We are leaving this Saturday. Back in Singapore, we will have to face the stress of schoolwork again(yes, including PW) and try to catch up as much as we can. Hope everyone can cope with that. But on a more exciting note, the 2008 Beijing Olympics will open tomorrow. Yeah, let’s watch the Olympics!!
- Written by Pan Tao and (heavily) edited by Kin Chun
To eat nice food really requires you to be patient. We waited for over an hour to get our food. During the waiting time, we played all the games we could think of and enjoyed ourselves a lot. (Actually we also made a lot of noise there.) Some people were playing the Code game(the 终极密码？Is this its name?), while the group sitting with Liang Xu(who is very lame)played all the random games until everyone was bored. Then the dinner finally came!!!
Though the food was quite nice, some of us could not forget about the money conversion problem. Quote from Tzer Han, "siao ah, the price here is 7 times of that in Malaysia! We have the exact same restaurant there and the prices are exactly the same, but one is in Ringgit and one is in pounds." Then I started to calculate in my mind how much it would cost for me to have my dinner and found that wow, that’s really a luxurious and expensive dinner.
After dinner, we had our usual rush to the bus stop. I think that by now, everyone is finally quite familiar with the public transport system in Southampton. The most fun part also started. People started to tell ghost stories on the way back. It was forty past ten at that time so it was quite dark and was a very good atmosphere to scare people. Screams came from different parts of the group occasionally. On the bus, Liang Xu started to tell more such stories. In order to be scarier, he even started to describe the settings of the stories in Chinese(which he is more fluent in)! Poor Joy screamed a few times because of that. An Shing even said that he would think about whether he is going to take a shower tonight or not.
Anyway, three weeks is really a short time. We are leaving this Saturday. Back in Singapore, we will have to face the stress of schoolwork again(yes, including PW) and try to catch up as much as we can. Hope everyone can cope with that. But on a more exciting note, the 2008 Beijing Olympics will open tomorrow. Yeah, let’s watch the Olympics!!
- Written by Pan Tao and (heavily) edited by Kin Chun
Thursday, 7 August 2008
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
We met the cutest robot ever: iRobot's vacuum cleaner. Even though it's supposed to suck, we loved it anyway and ended up getting to know it for the rest of the day.
The vacuum cleaning portion has been removed, leaving the gaping rectangular hole on top which you can see. This was where we stuffed the dry cells that powered each machine.
We were introduced to another small adorable gadget, the ASUS Eee PC which helped us manipulate the playful little vacuum cleaner.
Using software beyond my comprehension, we tracked coloured balls as they whizzed around the scope of the computer's camera and located their centres of gravity. Using such sensory input and stuff, we could potentially program the vacuum cleaner to chase balls of a certain hue.
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Tuesday, 5 August 2008
Monday, 4 August 2008
What is it like to be an IC?
sorry for the late update. Still quite sleepy now
we (cherie and liang xu) were the ICs for week 2 thursday and friday. as you all know, we went to london on thursday and as ICs, we needed to make sure that everyone knew what to do at all times. this was not as easy as it sounded.
i think the most difficult part for me as an IC is the counting. i don't know why i always counted number of people wrongly and i had count again and again. i was relieved when doing the last counting and knew everyone was around.
initially we developed a ROLLCALL system to aid the counting. but it turned out to be not working well as it was hard to get all 23 people to start rollcalling!!!
of course, ICs have more obligations than just counting such as planning itinerary and updating the group of what is going on next. i think cherie was doing a great job as she always knew what to do and could get everybody's attention easily. she really showed strong leadership skills and that was what i needed to learn for my self.
Note: the small small blue figure is Cherie
i am so sleepy now that i need to go for a small nap now. so lets end here and wish all the ICs good luck. and to Cherie and myself: Good Job!!! No one is Missing...!
Sunday, 3 August 2008
10 things we learnt as ICs
10 things we (Bryan, Jeremy, and Zhibin) learnt as ICs
- Co-ordination is important to execute plans
- Thorough planning is essential for things to go smoothly (including small details like how to meet after an activity)
- It is important to take a pro-active role (like giving instructions) when needed
- Make yourself heard
- Communication is important, so we should ensure that there is a good way of communicating among ourselves
- Communication among us (the ICs) and between us and the rest are equally important
- Ensure that everyone knows what they have to do
- Always check that everyone is present (especially in crowded and unfamaliar places like London)
- Don't isolate anyone
- Enjoy yourself!!
Saturday, 2 August 2008
Friday, 1 August 2008
Day 12 pics
Though we had fun, the students really worked very hard in this trip. On top of the tutorials and assignments, they had to write reports for every experiment. At 1130 pm, almost all of them are still online typing their reports...
TUESDAY WEDENESDAY AND THURSDAY!!!! !!!! !1111!!!!
Fig 0: Liveupdate
TUESDAY:
WE DID C PROGramming. NEWMOONBOY SAys: its quite FUN!!! (: except for lemuel!
we learnt how to program a calculator and fibonacci numbers... 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 blah blah blah and we also learnt many many many many many other ways of programming the same sequence (fibonacci sequence) to make it as fast as er.... a FASTENER!!! we could use the while loop, recursive function (joy: you are talking greek!), an many many others!
we went to play squash after that and the squash courts witnessed an epic battle between the current reigning squash champions NGSHUCHIN and HUYIJIE aka formofthedragon! it was a close match with many nerve-wracking and HAIR-raising moments. The ceiling was almost brought down due to the high energy levels as well as a constant barrage of squash balls.
WEDNesday:
we did more C programming and tested the TEXAS INSTRUMENTS board, another form of the software radio we were doinga few days back. It was very mind-boggling, and and and it reminded us of our GCs which happen to be collecting dust due to our negligence of work. At night, we tested our software radio at Glen Eyre and we erected a fishing pole in the middle of the carpark to connect our aerial. We heard some Spanish which sounded like Cantonese (According to Mr Chong). We also heard some alien speaking MARTIAN language. They seemed to be looking for their lost spaceship.
Fig 1.1 A spaceship
Fig 1.2: Martians. Choose the one u like!
THURSDAY!!!
we visited london in the magic school bus today! it looked somethinkg like...
Fig 2.001 (4sf) - the magic school bus
London was nice. london was beautiful. london had many super nice cars such as maseratis, ferraris, porsches, bentleys, lamborghini (sp?), land rovers, scooters, and even segways!
Fig 3.14159 (pi) (segway)
Fig 1,000,000,000 pounds: a lamborghini - an inferior good in London
Which one do u vote for! please comment: the high tech segway which is soooo cool or the lamborghinini which gives one an inferiority complex in london? make your choice.......... its now or neverrrr
we went to trafalgar square after getting off our MASERATI magic school bus.. after transferring to that lamborghini ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ taxi. it was a real blast with gryphons and lions - it kind of resembled a zoo!
Fig 2: Shuchin coming face to face with the magestic lions at travulgarfalgar square
we then went to the tower of london and we came face t face with the darkest of our fears. Quote cherie: "there are ghosts haunting the towers and bloodstained walls and even thieves who steal ur bags. its a pain, really" quote tony/liangxu: "i am in love with the scavenger's daughter" (disclaimer: the scavanger's daughter is one skimpy piece of equipment)
Fig 10: the scavenger's daughter
Fig 7: oops..the real scavenger's daughter
Fig 9: The rack
the figure above is the rack.
One gruesome aspect of being stretched too far on the rack is the loud popping noises made by snapping cartilage, ligaments or bones. Eventually, if the application of the rack is continued, the victim's limbs are ripped right off. One powerful method for putting pressure upon a prisoner was to merely force him to view someone else being subjected to the rack. A person stretched on the rack presented a spectacle of the body in pain.
(wikipedia)
it is mildy similar to Charlie and the Chocolate factory:
I don't know, but young men are extremely springy. They stretch like mad... Ah! Let's go put him in the taffy puller! ~ Willy Wonka's enthusiastic idea for restoring Mike Teavee back to normal. Mr Teavee: Taffy puller!? Wonka: Hey, that was my idea!
(quote from willy wonka)
NEWMOONBOY NOW OFFICIALLY TAKES OVERRRRR:
We didnt have much time on the tower bridge though, because we spent too much time in the tower of london. Anyhow, tower bridge was quite majestic. Anyone would have expected tower bridge to be made just out of old, black bricks but nope, it looked more like a children's playground when you're on the bride itself, because its light blue structures made it look very colourful.
From the tower bridge, we could see London bridge too!! but it wasnt falling down like we hear about all the time. And actually it didnt look all that impressive and since we were running out of time and had enough time only to visit 1 bridge, we only went on tower bridge.
And what's even more interesting is that... we actually saw someone collapse on tower bridge. But it was across the road so we didnt really know what was going on. But it caused quite a commotion anyway. That reminds us that the civil servants in england are so busy compared to in singapore. I dont think any day has passed so far without us seeing ambulances, police cars or fire engines zooming past. But just that this time, we didnt see the ambulance, but saw the victim instead. It's like all the victims are in london, and the ambulances are all in soton.
But too bad we didnt get any pictures of the collapsed man, because it would've looked very rude. But anyway, london was very interesting. Everywhere we looked, there was something interesting, like ancient buildings, or a collapsed man. So we're all looking forward to visiting london again on saturday. But on saturdayyyy... we're going SHOPPING!!
GAME OVER!!! FINISH!!! BYEBYE HOPE U enJOY:D:D:D(chua)ed the post!
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