A little bit of boatie inspiration.. I thought it was quite nicely done - in trying to inspire...

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WAH! Post #200 already. Well, actually not that fast considering it's been almost 2 years now. Still, that's about 200 posts in about 450 days. A post in 2.25 days isn't too bad at all!

It's amazing how another two weeks have gone by again. But of course, I've actually been doing real work!

As demonstrated by this geological map laid out on the table in my room. Yes, it's actually a real map of a place in Britain called Newtown.. hehe.. (in Singapore we just call Newton)

Photos of snow taken on film also came back already! I kinda liked this one... It was taken just outside my college, but it looked like it was in some part of Siberia... where you have those snowhounds with the snow sledges..

Valentine's Day
well, it wasn't much of a Valentine's day for me, although i thought it was quite nice to see people walking around with flowers and presents.... instead of having a candlelit dinner for two, we had a threesome!

the kenny's prawn specials...

with Darryl and Chris (who couldn't quite stay still for the photo.... ;p)

Halfway Hall
And last Friday, we had Halfway Hall. It's some Cambridge thing where we get together (in our own colleges) to "celebrate" that we are half way through our undergrad studies. But really, it's just another reason to get drunk and wasted. I did have quite a lot to drink, because Sarah managed to empty the remains of the 2nd bottle of wine we were sharing into my glass!

It was quite fun actually. There were gummy bears and sweets on the table which you'd just pick up and eat... Of course, some gummy bears eventually landed in wine glasses and coffee cups... (you wonder why.. *rolls eyes*)

Pembroke Regatta
And as if the night before hadn't been crazy enough, I was supposed to be up early the next morning to cox Pembroke Regatta, which I actually managed to suppress the hangover with enough adrenaline to last me through... hehe.. We lost to Emma, who were third in the division, so it wasn't a big deal really.... ;p

Kenny in the PINK boat!!!! (the weather looks nice and warm but guess how many layers of clothes i was wearing!)

Then at night, some of the 2nd year NatScis gathered for a Reunion Dinner at Tianyi's place, with Ivan cooking. Was quite nice I thought, just to be eating together, even though it was nothing absolutely elaborate....

Labels: Halfway Hall, Rowing

i've suddenly realised that tomorrow (in less than 48 hours) is Valentine's Day! i've been so busy that I didn't notice it coming. Not that it matters to me know, but just kinda sad thinking that i've been so busy for the past many weeks that time has gone by just like that... well, it's gonna be another quiet Friendship day tomorrow then... ;p

It's been 1 week and 1 day since I last blogged?!?! Wow. The last week has been so busy and hectic preparing for the CUMSA Annual Ball that I didn't notice that a week's gone by without me blogging. Anyhow, I think the ball went well in the end, although i'm prob not in the best position to judge it.. hehe... And since I'm a little too tired now to blog about it, I shall just paste a series of random qian-bian-wen-da-ti for your entertainment. (PS: of course I didn't come up with them lah... i so qian bian meh?)

Q1) Ah mei's dad has 7 wives, the 5th and 7th are africans. Guess a chinese idiom
A1) Wu Qi Ma hei


Q2)There's a party in the forest but... who didn't get to eat the cake!?!
A2) GRASS because Cao Mei Dan Gao



Q3) Ah bao was murdered! however the police quickly found the killer.. who is it?
A3) Ah Dou because Dou Sa Bao


 
Q4) xiao bai n da bai r bros. As xiao bai grows older, he look more n more like his bro. Guess a chen yu
A4) Zhen Xiang Da Bai



Q5) Osama, Bush , Blair and Saddam play mahjong ... Who will win first ??
A5) Saddam Hussein because Saddam Hu Xian



Q6) Wat's e 2 panda biggest wish on earth ???
A6) i. Get rid of dark eyes ring 
 ii.Taking colour photo



Q7) Who will pick up the dumping(ba zhang) on the floor?
A7) Xiang Long because Xiang Long Shi Ba Zhang (WAHAHAHHAHA. This one is my favourite)



Q8) There are 3 Male and 1 Female pencils in a box. The Female pencil got pregnant!! Which Male pencil is responsible?
A8) the one without the rubber



Q9) Xiao ming drinks milk to grow up, Da ming drinks what?
A9) Alcohol because Jiu Yang Da Ming


 
Q10) which brand of shampoo is the wealthiest
A10) "Lux" Super Rich



Q11) What BATMAN say when he fell down? 
A11) Painful Sia...(Bian fu sia)

I'm so glad that Adium (my MSN software) finally came up with a new version, although not revolutionary change, but better still. So i way toying with the appearance thing, and i've change my Adium dock icon to a Yoda Duck... and it's pretty amusing each time i do a -tab now cos i see the Yoda Duck... hehe..

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Sorry, I haven't actually noticed that two weeks have gone by just like that..... So i'm gonna do a two-week in brief, in pictures for now... ;p

Last Wednesday (24 Jan), it snowed! I woke up and was all ready to go out coxing, and for some reason I decided to look out of my window, and I saw a blanket of whiteness all around. And I was like, f**k, there's so much frost, it's gonna be freezing. And then I realised it wasn't frost, cos you don't get frost on concrete! and then realised in my sleepiness that it was snow. And apparently, it was all across Europe and did cause quite a few accidents...

But being the boaties that we are, snow or sunshine, day or night, we still train....
That's how much snow we had.. It was a lot for Cambridge standard. I think this was as much snow as there was in the whole of last year....

And then on the weekend, I went up to Old Trafford to catch the FA Cup match of Man U vs Portsmouth, which Man U won 2-1. (duhz. I would have been terribly disappointed if they lost, considering the effort it took to get up to Manchester....) And the match was amazing. Would have been better if I knew any of the cheers or songs they sung. But the goals were absolutely brilliant, especially when we were seating right ON the goal line... (must say this cos my sister's bf is a man-u fan apparently... ;p)
The match... I didn't get very good shots during the match I think...

John, with whom I went with....

And Kenny! after the match... Oh, and after the match, we managed to catch a glimpse of Ronaldo, Smith and some of the 1st team players who weren't playing, who came out on the pitch to train.... cool.. And nope, I'm not a Man U fan.. seriously...

And the weekend didn't just end there, cos my cousin, Sin Yee, who's doing an exchange in france came to visit me for a couple of days... And I took her to the NatSci formal at Queen's on Sunday...
The NatScis formal at Queens...

On Monday, I took Sin Yee on a tour around Cambridge, and quite lucky too cos it was a beautiful day... And apparently, the flowers/plants are a little confused by the bout of warm weather we had, and thinking it was spring, started blooming!
Strange isn't it, considering it's supposed to be winter!

Sin Yee and I at King's College with King's Chapel in the background...

And then it was another crazy week, which included a steamboat dinner, lots of work on the CUMSA Annual Ball and AGM, and lots of coxing/rowing and v little academic work done... :( A lot of rowing cos this weekend was the Newnham Short Course, which I was coxing two boats for - Women's I and Men's III.
The Women's 1st VIII after the race. Sarah was a little disappointed cos she felt she wasn't as tired as she had expected it to be, but well.. c'est la vie...

The Men's III boat rowing back after the race.... from a cox's perspective... :)

So that's Kenny's two weeks in brief....

I just came back from a run, although just refers to 30 mins ago, cos Blogger gave me this message just now..



Well, anyway, according to Google maps, I'm supposed to have covered about 4.4 miles today, which is just over 7km. And for about 5km or so, I was actually running quite fast, like at most 2 mins for every 400m, which is less than 12 mins for 2.4km. I think it was prob a sub-11:00 pace at least. So i suppose I'm quite satisfied lah, at least still haven't lao4-hong1 (puncture) yet, although I need a lung transplant for a bigger set of lungs... hehe...