MURDER!!! (mystery)

Ah...what a lovely way to end the term with a murder mystery! We had a sumptuous 3 course black tie dinner cooked by the domestic goddess whilst solving a delicious mystery full of spies, stolen war documents, a run away diplodocus and a castrato!

Ha ha, I was 'Henry Worcester', a sly attempt by the writers to get me to say the 'W' word to claim the money - you'll have to try better than that!! I simply said that my friend's called me 'Worty' and that I didn't want to say my surname because it reminded me of "dear father and mumsy". Ha ha! Who would have thought playing a posh 'total waster' would be so much fun?!!?

And yes, I did uncover the murderer (arh!) and I managed to complete my objective of slagging off my cousin Constance at least 10 times in the evening.... :)

WAHOO!!

Haven't blogged in a while as I've been snowed under with work but now I'm FREE!!! I finished my last essay this morning at around 2.30am (pretty early for me!) then had 4 1/2 hrs sleep before getting up to get a train to Banbury where I mentored some kids...wow..rough school though the kids are nice enough!

Grrr...I was assured that I'd get back in time but I was late to my last tute of this term by 20 minutes! I'm sure my tutor wasn't best pleased (and tute's are the main enjoyment for me in terms of academia! Oh well..).

Anyhow, really knacked so will go to sleep now....hee hee..murder mystery dinner tomorrow evening! Should be fun!! :D

Existential crisis

Really pissed off :O (not sure whether that's the 'angry' face..).

In stressing over my essay crisis, I forgot to apply to this placement at the foreign office which I *REALLY* wanted to get...well..I say forget but (due to sleep deprivation..well...that's my excuse for stupidity), I thought 12pm meant midnight instead of noon :(

Anyhow, links to my existential crisis because I have recently been thinking 'deep' thoughts; one of which is about future careers and something in the foreign office was definitely something I was keen to find out more about/experience...

NOTE TO SELF: apply for something as soon as you find out about it!

Because I was pissed off at myself (I cursed myself for a while- "you plonker", that type of thing), I procrastinated to keep me from thinking about a missed opportunity. In times like these, you turn to websites like miniclip and facebook - apparently I'm only 62% Chinese!?! My Chinese identity crisis may rear its ugly head again.

A day of contrasts...

I recently had a day which once again saw work sidelined (nothing unusual there!)...alas..it'll be the undoing of me! Anyhow, despite the river being wayyy to high for us to do any training, the river was now low enough for torpid qualifying rounds and thus we went out having only done one (or two - I forget) river sessions in the term. I can't say that all our erging sessions helped much!

Anyway, the time trial itself went reasonably smoothly until one of our crew 'caught a crab' in the last 100m! Noooo! Hopefully it wasn't the reason why we *just* missed out on qualifying for Torpids. Although I only took up rowing as it was an 'Oxford' thing (and I like trying new stuff), I was very disappointed having immersed myself in rowing culture. Oh well...hopefully come summer eights, we'll be more fined tuned to race! Ha ha..and maybe the photos of me rowing won't look so..'constipated' as one friend commented :/



After a quick change, it was off to the Oriental Ball (held at Freud's cafe) to sort out the dancing area for the dancesport pairs which were performing on behalf of OXCIA - ha ha, not exactly demonstrating 'Chinesey-ness' but my committee certainly wasn't going to do an act (despite my own enthusiasm!). The ball itself was *ok* but a bit lacklustre at the end true to the sad truth that..well...Asian people don't really do the whole 'UV-light raving' scene and so I left earlier than I usually would from a black tie event!

Tired and exhausted as usual, I couldn't muster enough energy to look at another e-journal on refugias and so I just went to sleep. Oh dear. I can already see myself in a pre-tute essay frenzy come Wednesday night/Thursday morning :( and then the now obligatory moaning post about essays! It's all become rather routine for me!

Half-way through!! WHOOP! :)

Just had half-way hall which is our formal hall where we celebrate getting through half of our Oxford degree! I'm half sad/half happy....probably the latter though that's only because of recent stress.

Talking of which I'm SO pissed off that literally the rest of the year in college are going out celebrating whilst I had to go to Sainsbury's to get some GOOD coffee (I'm sick of cheap tesco coffee - false economy) and that will comfort me and keep me awake till morning or whenever finish my essay AND my presentation both in for tomorrow :( I'm predicting a 9am finish. I hate such work crises.

Ok...I've moaned on facebook and moaned on here. I *really* need to just start working already!! :(

Lunch with Krebs!

AWESOME. That's one word to describe Lord Kreb's house. I recently got invited as part of the JCR committee into the principal's home which looks modest in 1st quad but is MASSIVE inside and so luxurious. Being principal of a college isn't too bad! It's like some sort of plush mansion/museum within a college with paintings of Elizabeth here and there, those marble head things, mahogany long tables etc. Mmmmm.....the food was delicious too! He had these fancy people around serving stuff whilst we talked about college welfare and stuff! I knew there were some perks to being elected into the committee :P

Oh yeah and yes. This is THE Krebs of Krebs cycle fame!

(Well...the son of! Though he is a world famous ornithologist himself!)

Happy Birthday Darwin

Yeah it may be a bit of a geeky post but well worth it. I've had a bit of an evoltion overload this term though as I'm doing my option of biogeography this term and there's loads of evolution happening on islands and stuff :)

I still can't believe that some people don't believe in evolution and I met someone who didn't know who Darwin was! People should watch that Attenborough show - see BBC iplayer!

Anyhow, going to have a work-free day today - need to clean up my room which is strewn with notes, books and clothes. My excuse is that I've got no time to clean up - this week saw the worst essay crisis I've had so far - 8am finish and then I had to skip lectures to sleep :/.