...For winning the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2007.

Take that, you twin imposing edifices of orthodoxy, that between yourselves, have not won any Nobel prizes between yourselves for the past three years.

The Nobel Prize this year is awarded to Evans, Capecchi and Smithies for their success in identifying "gene targeting" as a possible mode for ( Read more... )

On a whim, I surfed over to the Royal Shakespeare Company site to check out any new plays coming up soon. (Anyone who knows me well enough will know that, far from getting first in my batch and sweeping all the academic awards on display, my life's dream in the UK is to watch EVERY Shakespeare play at least ONCE. And, knowing the History Plays, it ( Read more... )

Bal and I went to watch A Midsummer's Night Dream;, that quintessential Shakespeare play anyone, even them without a particularly literature-oriented mind, MUST go watch one day before you die.


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It's a SAMSUNG!


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OUDS also flagships an annual summer theatrical trip to Japan or the USA, touring a production directed, performed, produced and technically co-ordinated by students. Similarly, OUDS hosts an annual national summer tour, traditionally of a Shakespearian or Wilde play.

OMG. Gulps in amazement.

Let's hope Newcastle kicks me out on the grounds of ( Read more... )

"President George W. Bush's appeal for a new fund to reduce global warming fell flat with Europeans and environmentalists who say U.N.-mandated cuts in greenhouse gases are what is needed.".With the US being home to 4% of the world population but 25% of greenhouse gases - and, strictly speaking, thanks to the fickle nature of the world wind system ( Read more... )

It is imperative we, as a nation, abhor the kid-glove attitudes ASEAN seems to be employing in the latest transgressions of its least deserving member-state ( Read more... )

...Is horribly cold, mind you. Have been sick for the past 2 days, on and off - am feeling rather intermediate right now, if you will pardon my choice of words. What that genuinely means is as good your guess as mine - I don't feel completely well, but neither do I feel sick ( Read more... )

I spend the last fifteen minutes of my holiday the same way I spent the first fifteen.

On my blog, telling the world and all its constituent beings exactly how I feel about things.

What have I done this holiday?

Not bad for 4 months of purpoted indolence, one must admit.

• Spent a LOT of time with family. (Be it KL or KK :)
  
• Did the Mount ( Read more... )

Woken up with half my idealism still intact; the remainder gently telling me that "there are other ways to forge nationbuilding"; for example, like literature, art and music, that encompass ample shades of ambiguity, to offend no one and leave no bitter taste on anyone's lips ( Read more... )