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October 30 FireI heard fireworks last night, for Halloween I guess.
I heard someone using amplifier shouting something this morning. Gosh, just 7:23!!
As expected, just as I was going downstairs to have breakfast, one of my flatmates asked if I knew there was a fire on the main campus.
"Really? That's too bad"
"Yes, and the guy you heard this morning was telling us to shut all the windows coz the fire was in the Chemistry building."
"Oh, that's terrible" Then he went on to the second floor to inform other flatmates about this. What a kind man!! In fact, I haven't been talking much with him. Nor did I often met him in the kitchen. Still, I don't know how to say his motherland in Chinese, which is "Channel Islands", not to mention his mysterious major, "Oceanography", A BRAND department of Univ of Soton.
Actually, I could see in the sky some black smoke flowing from the direction of the main campus. Oh, we are just 8 minutes' walk from the main campus!
In fact I started to get familiar with fire alarm recently, which is fairly beyond my life ever before. Still remember clearly on someday in August, we heard some alarm in CTC. In fact, I didn't realize that's a firm alarm. So were other interns working with me. Until I noticed the flashing singal outside the lab, I surprisedly found all the staff were flowing out of the office.
FIRE ALARM!!
This is the first time ever for me. I just picked up my cell phone and rushed out of the lab. I kinda know two principles: I shouldn't take much with me and under no circumstances should I come back. Out of the east wing, I found it quite spectacular
Actually, there was no fire that time, just a fake alarm. Yet I started to realize the significance of these preset regulations.
In UK, I also experienced some fire alarm one day during a lab session. This time, I ESCAPED with a much clearer mind.
Anyway, I hope it's always a fake one. I absolutely don't care being played around on this.
Helicopter is still hovering over my head. Bless Soton.......
Just gotta know that it was some explosion in the Fabrication Plant and Clean Room...
To be continued...
Serious FireOn Sunday 30th October a major fire at the University’s Highfield Campus has partially destroyed the Mountbatten Building, in particular the area containing the Silicon Fabrication Facility. Fortunately, no-one was injured or is missing as a result of the fire. Statement from the School of Electronics and Computer ScienceMonday 31st October A meeting for all staff and postgraduate students affected by the fire was addressed this morning by the University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bill Wakeham. Describing the Silicon Fabrication Facility and the staff whose research is based there as a 'flagship of the University's endeavours', Professor Wakeham expressed his personal commitment to delivering short-term relief for all those in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, the Optoelectronics Research Centre, and Innos Ltd, and to taking advantage of the opportunities which will now present themselves for future development. 'Out of these tragic events will emerge something bigger, stronger and greater,' he said.' Around 400 staff and students attended the meeting in the Turner Sims Concert Hall to hear latest reports on the catastrophic fire which yesterday destroyed a major part of the Mountbatten Building, including the Silicon Fabrication Facility, a unique national facility which was at the heart of the ECS research programme in microelectronics and the ORC research into fibre optics. The consequences of the fire have led to the closure of the rest of the Mountbatten Building and the adjoining Zepler Building while structural assessments are conducted. Support staff in ECS have been working continuously to restore web and email services and to ensure that undergraduate teaching can continue as smoothly and with as little disruption as possible. The majority of undergraduate lectures are expected to resume as normal tomorrow (Tuesday), and the School expects to be able to get back into Zepler in the very near future. However, access to the Mountbatte building remains uncertain. Until staff are able to enter the buildings it is impossible to know how much of the research material within the damaged buildings will be retrievable. 'We will be doing everything we can to support our students and staff,' said Head of School Professor Wendy Hall. 'These are devastating circumstances for us all and it may be some time before we know the complete picture. In the meantime we are asking people to be patient and to bear with us, despite the difficulties. 'Today we have been inundated with offers of practical help and support from around the country and for that we are extremely grateful. Our staff are working flat out to maintain our services and links with the outside world in the form of web and email and we are extremely grateful to all the emergency services who worked so hard yesterday to fight what was an extremely difficult and dangerous fire.' 'We are a five-star School, on the basis of our research and general quality ratings.,' said Professor Harvey Rutt, Deputy-Director of ECS and the ORC who directed operations yesterday on behalf of both groups. 'It's important to remember that it is our staff and our students who have achieved those ratings. We are so fortunate that no-one was injured in the blaze and we are all still here to plan again for the future. 'The next few weeks and months will be unusual and trying, but we are confident that the spirit of the School will remain predominantly positive and optimistic as we all work together towards the future.'
October 26 WeatherWeather in UK.....I totally understand today.
Also, I am so confirmed that British people don't like umbrella.
October 24 Happy Birthday, 眼亮A shining Sunday here in Soton, but I have to devote it to Matlab
Happy Birthday !! 眼亮
And I happened to find you share birthday with great Director Ang Lee.
game游戏规则: 被点名的人在自己blog上写下答案, 并出一个题目,然后把所有的题目丢给另外五个人, 并且到这些人的留言版上留下:“你被点名了。” 这五个人在自己的blog注明是从哪一个blogger那里传来的题目,然后写下所有题的答案,并再出一个问题,再去贴另外五个人。 比如你自己回答了30个题目,回答完后再加一个,被你点名的博友就要回答这31个题目,如此继续下去。
提问1:2005年,你的野心是什么!
提问2:为以下物品撰写一句话。此物品为二锅头。
提问3:叙述你或者你想象中的最囧的一次恋爱经历 限原创;字数250字以上 Ans: N/A
提问4:一天早上起来,发现自己身边的人都变成蛤蟆似的只会跳,只会呱呱叫,你怎么办 Ans: Run away.
提问5:如果发现自己最近衰到极点,你会怎么办? Ans: Think, then make some "first time" Ans: I hope a SIMPLE one, yet it has to thoroughly fulfil my wife's expectation.
提问7:如果你可以变成动漫/卡通里的角色,你想变成谁,说出原因。 Ans: I haven't seen many Cartoons. So N/A
(Sorry, Steven. I did not mean to copy ur ans, but this is exactly what mine will be) Ans: Definitely a serious question. I'll try my best to find out WHY. Ans: the time machine
Ans: from the very beginning Ans: N/A Ans: S*lly question^^ Ans: Rest..Rest..Rest Ans: "What are u thinking about?" A bit complex for this one: I frankly prefer those who are sure what I'm thinking about, or those who have no idea while prefer not to ask.
提问18:最喜欢的一句话是什么? Ans: I don't have any outstanding motto. Just read the following one today, which had some impact on me. "To be a winner, you must poccess three things: perspective, mind, emotion." --quoted from Vinson.
提问19:大家这么熟了,你最想对我(指点了你名的人)说的一句话? Ans: u r indeed very cool, cool with a decent style.
Ans: no special feeling for her. If there is, then "我愿意" Ans: I do.
提问22:你用哪只手指挖鼻孔呢? Ans: little finger Ans:Life is a bit tough for me now, but I do cherish every single day.
提问24:恋爱经历中,拖手拥抱代表星星,接吻代表月亮,性行为代表太阳。你有几多星星月亮太阳? Ans: N/A Ans:I don't know about him/her 『出题人:BUBI』 Ans: Focus on everything I'm doing, I mean totally.
『出题人:Gouki』
Ans: Power.
提问28:你最近的新HOBBY是什么? 『出题人:Chloe's』
Ans: Not any new one at the moment. On the contrary, I have to lose some hobby these days
提问29:想不想,或者有没有想过考私人飞机驾照? 『出题人:~JoJo~』
Ans: Guess this is what I'll consider later, yet I do yearn for a jet of my own like John Travolta does.
提问30:有没有想过一个人徒步去旅行?什么地方?
Ans: Yup, I have. Sometimes I prefer travel alone.
问31:活到现在最想跟谁厮守一辈子,白头到老?如果还没有,就fantasize一个啦! 『出题人:麻花』
Ans: N/A
提问32:覺得發給你這個遊戲的人最讓你受不了的一點是什麽? 『出题人:狗』
Ans: Actually he's nice, I don't wanna squeeze out some point here.
[出题人:房]
ANS:Just heard of it, never seen.
提问34:[如果你发现你已经失去了你这辈子的最爱,怎么办?] [出题人:娃娃]
Ans: If she really is, I will never lose her.
提问35: 你可以接受一个曾经背叛过你的人吗? Ans: Absolutely NOT.
Oops, I'm done to be named: Selina, Aris, William, Margaret and Dani H
and my question is Thanks for ur Corporation
To Steven: Sorry, several answers of mine are exactly the same as urs. However, believe me I'm not copying from U, just "Hero meets Hero". October 20 LOW"Magic" messed me up again today.
Bread for breakfast, bread for lunch, and as to dinner, I spoiled the chicken wings. Currey chicken wings were made to fried ones..... Gosh, I start to miss Mom while washing dishes after dinner. How she made those delicious currey chicken wings? At least not as easy as it looked I'm sure now. Dinner took me 2 hours again today. So difficult it is to make a meal for one single person, especially some guy with a huge appetite like me... Always extremely hungry before dinner these days, yet exhausted after having a big meal as I am feeling now
Kinda depressed these days, partly due to the damn weather here. Rain, rain, rain..... Missing life in SH: the daily noon gap, the drive back home with Dad, the dinner fixed at 19:00 G-sports news. Guess my life did swerve too rapidly from a worker back to a student.....
Cheer up Neil.
Cheer up!! October 18 No Title yetI intended to write something today. Unfortunately no time.
Space is so crap in function that I have to add a new log today or I won't be able to blog for this day, so just leave this space for future writing.
October 16 140 vs 23^^It's still Oct 15th here. ^^
I'm 23 today.
SHS is celebrating its 140th birthday today.
I don't know how to comment on SHS, where I was always dreaming to go in primary school, where I stayed for seven years, seven years of the most significance in my 23 years life, where I experienced so much, learnt so much, where I met so many great friends, where.......
Yet I haven't revisited SHS formally after graduation, but one day I will......
Anyway, I have allocated some space for SHS in my brain, just for SHS, never released for other use in the future......
Happy Birthday, SHS.
Remeber this buiding, Dani?
October 11 周末记 在英国的第一个周末,还是挺充实的,周六上午一个懒觉,起来上了会网。午饭随便塞了点以后刚在盘算着下午要不要去Steven推荐我去的Portswood采购点吃的,手机响了。一看是季哥(从现在起叫他Ryan:P),问我何时出来逛逛。原本我想这个周末好好休息一下,可一想开学以后就忙了,何不趁这个周末去London逛一圈?于是立马约了他,周日中午在Waterloo Station碰头。休息了一会后,3点半走出Glen Eyre去坐U2。等车时看到对面Hartley Grove里的英国学生男男女女好多身穿白色England队服,为首的一个还挥舞着了一面硕大的国旗,一群人冲向Pub。原来是主场对Austria关键一战。当时心里的一个念头就是感觉在这里看来不关心英格兰队看来是不太现实的(虽然我一向不迷英格兰队,只迷一个半数法国人的伦敦球会),不过这里的足球气氛太浓了。
不知不觉U2到了Civic Center,下来对着地图看来不少次才找到Southampton Central Station,进去办了Young Person's Railway Card,买了第二天去London的return ticket和London Metro
Ticket。出来时已经下起了雨,事实上这是我到Soton以后第一次真正意义上下雨,可我偏偏没带伞,还好穿了件Sweater,赶紧带起帽子。考虑了一下,还是直奔ASDA,好多东西要采购,去了伦敦
回来这个周末就没有了,必须得把该买的都买了。
从ASDA出来已经是5个沉重的袋子了,等车时雨突然下大了。Sigh, 看来英国的天气真不能开玩笑,伞还是要带着。这靠海的城市,雨一大再刮点风,可真是吃不消。
周日的伦敦行还是很尽兴的。由于时间关系,只是和Ryan一起大致逛了下China Town, Oxford Circus,看了下Buckingham Palace(可惜女皇没出来接见我:P),这中间还有一个小插曲,嗨,不说
也罢。然后出来一路走向London Eye, 经过了Downing Street,Diana Memorial都没时间仔细看。到了London Eye下面发觉好长的队伍啊,其中许多是国内或是日本来的赴英旅游团。Waterloo
Station就在附近,所以就和Ryan找了个地方吃了点东西。靠,当时没看清楚,坐下来才发觉是一家日本菜馆。NND第一次在伦敦逛就让小日本赚了钱。。。一碗还比不上味千的面要了偶6.6磅,痛
阿。。 我还是不习惯英国的物价。吃完后还给了偶平身第一次小费,不给不行啊。。。Sigh, 最近“第一次”特别多。总结一下这次伦敦行,就是下次来要好好Plan一下,而且至少要在London住一夜,才能把这些地方仔细看一下(大英博物馆这次压根就没去,就等着下次来了),还要去拜访Cass的LJ大哥和LSE的Clama。
今天由于课表调整所以没课,晚上又做了一次“第一次”————第一次下油锅一口气给自己烧了三个菜。鉴于明天有4节课,只好下回再写了。可惜没把我的处女作拍下来,今晚真是太饿了~~~~ October 08 Basically settled明天是我到Soton以后的第一个周末,虽然我知道国内的长假刚刚结束。今天的晚饭总算吃得早了些,晚上可以有空静下来做些自己想做的事。 先贴上3号那天在飞机上实在睡不着以后随便涂的几笔……
现在是北京时间10月3日21:08分,我仍然坐在Virgin Atlantic的VS251航班上。从早上11:30起飞到现在已经过去了近10个小时,即使是Virgin上号称超强的个人娱乐系统也已无法继续满足我了。晚餐要到21:45才提供,无奈我只能从箱子里掏出一根火腿肠吞下,然后打开了自从毕业以后就没怎么用过的笔记本,开始我第一天的blog. 早上和家人按照原计划7:30就出了门,到了机场以后没多久就开始托运行李。队伍很长,但却在排队时认识了两个同去留学的飞友(实际上后来也没能成为飞友)。一个来自湖北,去Surrey读Information System, 还有一个是大一的小女生(不过看上去很干练),去帝国理工读EE。称重时发觉在比家里称时少了3公斤,到现在没想通怎么可能差那么多,早知道就再多塞点了。Kerry又出乎我意料地和Sammi特意赶到机场来送我,让本来没什么感觉的我顿时多了几分离别的惆怅…… 虽然提前三个小时到了机场,但不知不觉办完手续后就要登机了。我那件12公斤多的手提行李令家人和我都很心神不定,生怕东西被扔出来。在officer不停地在我身上照来照去时,我紧盯着那位检查行李的老兄的眼神。Luckily, 他竟然什么都没说就放我过了,感谢老天保佑…… 起飞后发觉飞机并不像想象中那样满座,空了不少座位。不过先前认识的两位飞友和我都各自找到自己的座位后就分开了,随后大家就都开始享受Virgin提供的强劲的娱乐系统。最近一个月就没怎么完整看过片子的我已经在飞机上补掉了两部早就该看的电影——《Mr and Mrs Smith》 and 《Hide and Seek》。后者还是没让我失望,Robert De Niro和Dakota Fanning互飚演技,的确很精彩,还有我非常钟爱的Elizabeth Shue充当配角(不过死得也太惨了点吧)。写到这里,发觉我右前方的老外忙活了大半天工作以后也开始看片——正是此片。不过第一个血腥的镜头就让她单手遮脸……影片的Original score也还是不错,这个叫什么什么Ottman的家伙写出来的东西和James Newton Howard的风格有点像,我喜欢。睡觉前翻了下CD Jukebox里面的东西,找到了Coldplay的《X&Y》,又是我早就该听的东西,在这里正好补上,听着听着就迷迷糊糊了…… 第三部本想看《Kindom of the Heavan》,不过一看到Olando Bloom那张脸我就打不起精神。可想睡又睡不着,只好拿出电脑先开始涂点Blog, 坐长途飞机可真是辛苦啊:(看看表发觉都飞了整整10个小时了,老爸老妈九成已经睡了,可我这里窗外还是阳光明媚。Sigh, 下飞机以要痛苦地倒时差了。
下飞机以后到现在除了睡觉一直在忙,忙着办手续,忙着买东西,还有Induction Lecture. 现在也没冲动要接着写了,就这么着吧。 虽然我对语言适应期有一定思想准备,不过事实证明我的思想准备还不够充分,听不行,说不行,读其实也不行(在超市里买东西好多都不认识)。英国人的发音真的真的得很不习惯,不知道要过多久才会适应,希望时间能短一些。其实也不光是pronunciation的问题。昨晚和flat里的土耳其女生聊了会,真的好累啊!觉得说英语还是别扭,可以前在国内没有这种感觉啊。看来语言环境的影响真的很大的说。自己的oral还是太差了,早上吃早饭时正巧住楼上的印度人下来出门。据说他住进来两天了,可我还从没见过他,厨房貌似只有我们三个中国学生在用。和他寒暄了才几句,就不得不感叹人家的英语这叫XX。Sigh, 我的语言适应期,不知道还要多久…… 窗外隐约传来DJ的声音。从我住进dorm那天起每天晚上这里的学生都要party, 看来周末他们会更疯狂。 October 01 last week in SHIE不知道出了什么问题,竟然贴上来的blog被删掉了那么多HTML控制符,回车都没了。几段东西被捏在了一起。不过还是要赶在今天贴上来,明天是明天的心情。。。
最后这一周。
上周六,见到了Kerry和久违的Feng。 可惜眼亮和波都没来,让我倍感可惜。。。
下午的那场篮球还是很尽兴的,发觉以前超级勇猛的Feng现在打球温柔了不少。好久没有一起打球了,我们这帮人打球的风格总是和别人有点不太一样(可能是从小一起被关在上中里打球的缘故吧),但却让我倍感亲切。晚上在Kerry的推荐下尝试了一家新的烤肉店,觉得那家店的味道很不错。可能是达伽玛吃得太多了,也可能是当时太饿了,anyway...
周日下午和大学的若干好友重温了一二年级时投入了大量金钱,时间和精力的CS,然后去钱柜high了一把。唱歌不是我钟爱的娱乐项目(不过大三时一帮男人去TTQ通宵K歌的经历现在想起来还是会不由自主地傻笑一把),对钱柜倒是早有所耳闻,也算是赶在出去前开了开眼界^^ 晚上我原先安排的FB计划由于钱柜的自助餐而被打乱,不过大家边吃边爆料倒也不亦乐乎,尤其是我们寝室那几个永远也解不开的“谜”让我笑得肚子好疼。。。
经过周一的修整,周二又回到了GE开始了最后一周的工作。这礼拜Lab里人特别少,YY在忙着准备签证,William早已牵着佳人躲到喀纳斯的某个角落里去看风景了(极度羡慕中……),Zongliang的Schedule似乎也变成了由Jocelyn电话控制。在和Ryan交接的过程中,总感觉两个半月前Vinson把接力棒交到我手中还好像是眼前的事,现在还没跑多久我又成了交棒的人。在GE的两个半月过得太快,在可惜我没有更多的时间能继续internship的同时又由衷地感谢这次来之不易的机会。Anyway, 让我带着这段美好的回忆开始新的征程吧。Thanks to Gang, Bob and Leo. Thanks to we lovely interns—— William, Zongliang, YY, Vinson,Vincent, Jason, 阿Cai and wish Ryan good luck.
周中还约了Haifeng和毕业饭上错过的Square, 怪我通知得太晚没能见到Jack,Edison等兄台,sorry.从Square疲惫的神情中不难看出大家的工作都很忙很辛苦,但还是乐在其中而且对未来充满了憧憬。GL, guys! 下次回来找你们踢WE车轮战,嘿嘿^^
And It suddenly turned so hot yesterday. Yet last night was..........really Gorgeous........... |
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