What a day!

It has been rather a while since my last post in here. Yeah I was down with the thesis I was working on and then I had crisis in printing that out, like the night before it was due. Anyway, that is a long story and I intend not to get into that. Let's talk about today instead.

I started the day early. How could I not? I got a call at 4.00 am, thanks to a friend up north who was giving me that call at unearthly hour. I slept late, so, thanks. That would only magnify my sleeping problem. Then a friend, Nat called from London, about our plan to meet up today (yes, I will be there, you do not have to call me at 8.00 am). So I was up early. I only had about 3 hours of sleep.

Went to the dentist – that was really an experience (let’s call it, a scary experience). There’s major thing to be done. She gave me 3 jabs. And when she was doing the drilling part, I complained that it was still painful. She gave me 2 more jabs and asked “Are you still in pain?”. I said, “Yes”. And she shook her head and said “Uh we have a problem”. In the end with 5 jabs, she got it all done. My head is half numbed now. I can feel the feeling of one when stroke hits. It is to even smile and I am slurry.

OK now, then went to meet David to return his book that I used for thesis. He was not that. I called Luke to join me for lunch. He just got up. I took the chance to get a haircut at Lui’s. Lui is a good looking Italian stylist who likes to pour all his miseries when I came for haircut. It is always the case, “I have to shut the other shop since the new girl called in sick today. The other is recovering from hangover”. That is the kind of line I get all the time.



On the way back to college, I passed Fitzwilliam Museum. I have been passing the museum for the past 8 months. The last visit was 13 years ago. I decided to go in when it said “Sir Isaac Newton’s Notebook” on display. I was intrigue to check it out. Upon finding the case, I lifted the thick covering cloth, there it was next to Virginia Woolf’s 1929 A Room of One’s View (the feminist classic). I was more interested in Newton’s 1665-1668 notebook; since he spent his lifetime in Cambridge and he is the father of modern science. He recorded in utmost details - his daily expenditure. E.g. Two pair of gloves – 0.1.6. OK, I asked the assistant what the figures mean? To my surprise, she replied, “I don’t know!” in a very unfriendly way. I went on to read the two notebooks and deep down, I ought to do something about this woman!

I went downstairs and greeted again by the receptionist and she asked “Did you find it?”. “Yes. By the way, what do the figures on the right most of the page mean? It looks like price, but how come, it has 2 or 3 decimal points”. “Uh, did you ask the assistant who sits close to the exhibit?”. “I did BUT she was so unfriendly”. That was the plan and I executed it well. Even better than what I thought. After getting the answer from someone there, I left the place. It was indeed the money that he spent (or received) on a particular item. And I sure have put someone’s job at stake for the complaint!

Right now I am in my room. I must check when the train leaves the station. I am meeting Nat at 6:30 pm, at Waterloo Station. She has a project with Shell down there. We will then go off to have dinner and stay overnight at her place tonight. I am meeting Anna tomorrow. Looks like I will be in London till Sunday or so.



Before I dash off, I was browsing the Net (as usual). I found this Golden Girls classic; episode in which Dorothy and Blench appeared on a TV show upon Rose’s persuasion but least that they knew; they would appear as a ‘lesbian couple’. Hilarious! Enjoy!