Day 5 & 6

Lesson started on Monday. So far so good, just that most of the physical geography has a lot of co-lecturers, and that many of them are from the research centres/institutes that is under UCL Geography. And of course, they are really young!

There was some hiccup on Tuesday's coastal lecture. On schedule, it says 9-11am. Yet on Moodle (the much lousier version of IVLE), it says 11-1. So the lecturer didn't appear at 9, and we all decided to leave. Then she emailed us at 10+ that it was a mixed up and there will be a make up lecture later in the day.

"Geographies of Security" was right after coast, and it seems pretty interesting. It's not just geopolitics nor a sub-field of it, but it embodies mainly the idea of "securities". Yes, Dr. Carl's work appear in my reading list for "Geographies of Security".

Being a sunny day, I took the opportunity to take photographs.

The view from outside my room.

Yes, my room over looks the park. Now don't rejoice yet......

I suspect the extractor fan from our toilets lead to this pipe.

Yup, windows open at the top, not at the side. The first time I opened the window, I thought it is going to collapse on me. Perhaps it prevents us from putting things outside of the window as well.

The street that leads to my residence. Can get a little too quiet at night.

The park which my hall overlooks. I thought it was pretty nice, till I saw old grave stones stacked or placed at the side of the park.

My Hall. Former nurse hostel apparently.

Have something new on my Tuesday night - SOAS Thai music ensemble, thanks to P'Roy. When I stepped into the music room, I was shocked. So many variety of musical instruments in one small room!

Javanese-styled Nagas on the gong and kempul stand of the SOAS gamelan set, as compared to the Chinese dragon for the NUS one.

Fellow Jammers.

That's P'Roy in front of me.

There isn't a Ranad Thum Lek, and there are already 2 very accomplish Saw-U players. So I settled for the Ching for that night. But it was fun nonetheless.