ok, so have been very lazy with the journal ( Read more... )

has gone too quickly. Only 3 left ( Read more... )

getting lazy with posts again. My nerd blog gets more attention than this which is sad ( Read more... )

So I started a blog for my phd - flat out stole the idea from someone else. It's actually ok for keeping track of my random thoughts and papers/news articles that are related. good way to see how I'm progressing and it could work. Anyway, not that anyone would find it interesting it's at Read more... )

Had a great Christmas with Chris from Japan staying, 4 Christmas lunches/dinners and a big night out at the local pub, Pot Belly, on Christmas eve with Dirk and Ridley. Haven't had such a good night at such a sad looking place - about a dozen people there apart from us, some drunk was dressed as santa and the music was horrible. Amazing what ( Read more... )

I was mistaken as an Indonesian, Thai and as a Japanese official. Fair enough I was wearing a Batik shirt in Indo and in my suit I could look like a guy from a Japanese ministry but damn, do I look that universally asian ( Read more... )

forgot to mention I had a laid back dinner with the Indonesian Trade minister and some really top Indonesian poilcy makers. Met her a few times now and she is pretty cool, really down to earth for a celebrity...former student of my supervisor of course ( Read more... )

This is an LJ entry more for myself to look back on cos I got no journal but thought it is worth posting ( Read more... )

Got back home today feeling extremely sick and to an empty house ( Read more... )

So to extend the Cambridge story...I was out with Roba and two of my cousins (and some of their friends) doing a Cambridge pub crawl which was quite fun in itself. After all the fun places started closing around 1 they showed us how to break into Kings College ( Read more... )