I had my eyes fixed on a stunning wool felt and leather case by Charbonize. For further detailed review of this case, please go to @jonchoo's blog.
Here are some pictures of the beautiful 13" Macbook Air sleeve case by Charbonize.
Saturday, March 12, 2011
MacBook Air 13inch wool felt case by Charbonize
As you know I recently invested in the new 13" Macbook Air. The gorgeous notebook demands and deserves the best sort of protection, so I set out to look for the right case for it, one that is simple, unique but also chic.
I had my eyes fixed on a stunning wool felt and leather case by Charbonize. For further detailed review of this case, please go to @jonchoo's blog.
Here are some pictures of the beautiful 13" Macbook Air sleeve case by Charbonize.
I had my eyes fixed on a stunning wool felt and leather case by Charbonize. For further detailed review of this case, please go to @jonchoo's blog.
Here are some pictures of the beautiful 13" Macbook Air sleeve case by Charbonize.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Moving on to the brighter future
27th October has been carved in my life as the second most emotional moment in year 2009.
Let's put it this way:
If everything goes well, St Albans will be gaining us as their residents!!!
Let's put it this way:
If everything goes well, St Albans will be gaining us as their residents!!!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
The end of a chapter and the start of a new chapter
It’s been more than a year on now since my last blog entry and glad to say that another chapter has been successfully closed in my life, with 7th January 2009 officially been engraved in my life as the first time I walked out from the university building as a “free bird”.
I've found myself being challenged with a particular question constantly:
”if you are being given the chance again, will you go back to be a prisoner of education?”
and I thought to myself:
Oh well, maybe I’ll go and have a think about this and decide in ten years time! For the time being.. let me get a breather and start to enjoy the fact that I've got my life back (!) ;)
Some points that I would like to share with everyone who is preparing and sitting for their viva:
1. Plan to arrive a day earlier if your viva is not held locally
Planning to arrive two hours earlier on the D-day is really really not enough! Especially if you are based in the UK and planning to take public transport (in particular train) in a typical British unpredictable weather!
Personal experience: Nothing will ever prepare me on what's been waiting to happen on the day. Despite the fact that I planned to arrive in the uni 2 hours before the viva, I was, in fact, being greeted 8am that morning at my local train station with the announcement board screaming “CANCELLED” on all five scheduled journey due to bloody power cut at Wembley! With the fact that I need to endure with delays and many train changes all the way to my final destination, it felt as if every mile of it was bringing me closer to hell!
2. Believe in yourself and relax!
Nothing worse than stressing out and flipping your notes on the day of the viva. Trust me – it’s not worth it! You have prepared the best you can (well, I hope you do) and jamming everything last minute will not improve anything.
Personal experience: I have been stupid enough to flip around my notes (five pages long notes that I have carefully prepared for the past one week during my revision time) and while I keep making sure that the bloody notes is not leaving my side till the last second before I step out from the train at my final destination, I still managed to conveniently left the notes on the last leg of the journey to the Uni!
The good side is that I then able to appreciate how a gladiator feels when they walked into the coliseum to fight grinning hungry lions weaponless!
3. Never give up!
No matter what: never give up! You have gone a long way and have gone through everything! there is only one day left for you to fight and win the battle!
Personal experience: knowing that I am now weapon-less, I’ve managed to drag myself into my supervisor’s office only to declare to him that unfortunately “I am NOT FIT for the viva and that I shall go home now and declare myself as FAIL”
Imagine how my supervisor reacted (bear in mind he actually flew on a six hours trip back to UK to attend my viva).. I really thought that I would actually die in his hand rather than died during the viva having to defend my thesis without any notes (!)
I've managed to make a fool of myself in the beginning by forgetting what the aim of my research is (three years to do the research and one second to forget what the aim is – nice!) and frantically flipping my thesis searching for it for five seconds with a quiet eerie background accompanying the noise of me flipping the thesis pages.
The end of the story: one and a half hour of grilling, still with no notes in my hand, but glad to be informed five minutes after that that I have PASSED the viva!
There has been other several things that I have learned while living as a hermit and buried within my own research:
1. that “silence is not always golden”
2. that “energy and persistence concur all things”
3. believe in yourself
4. Be DEAF when people tell you that you cannot fulfil your dreams!
All in all, this achievement will not be possible without the never-ending support, encouragement and believes from my family, partner, friends and colleagues.
Now, with that done and dusted … what am I to do with the free time?! *twiddling me thumbs*
I've found myself being challenged with a particular question constantly:
”if you are being given the chance again, will you go back to be a prisoner of education?”
and I thought to myself:
Oh well, maybe I’ll go and have a think about this and decide in ten years time! For the time being.. let me get a breather and start to enjoy the fact that I've got my life back (!) ;)
Some points that I would like to share with everyone who is preparing and sitting for their viva:
1. Plan to arrive a day earlier if your viva is not held locally
Planning to arrive two hours earlier on the D-day is really really not enough! Especially if you are based in the UK and planning to take public transport (in particular train) in a typical British unpredictable weather!
Personal experience: Nothing will ever prepare me on what's been waiting to happen on the day. Despite the fact that I planned to arrive in the uni 2 hours before the viva, I was, in fact, being greeted 8am that morning at my local train station with the announcement board screaming “CANCELLED” on all five scheduled journey due to bloody power cut at Wembley! With the fact that I need to endure with delays and many train changes all the way to my final destination, it felt as if every mile of it was bringing me closer to hell!
2. Believe in yourself and relax!
Nothing worse than stressing out and flipping your notes on the day of the viva. Trust me – it’s not worth it! You have prepared the best you can (well, I hope you do) and jamming everything last minute will not improve anything.
Personal experience: I have been stupid enough to flip around my notes (five pages long notes that I have carefully prepared for the past one week during my revision time) and while I keep making sure that the bloody notes is not leaving my side till the last second before I step out from the train at my final destination, I still managed to conveniently left the notes on the last leg of the journey to the Uni!
The good side is that I then able to appreciate how a gladiator feels when they walked into the coliseum to fight grinning hungry lions weaponless!
3. Never give up!
No matter what: never give up! You have gone a long way and have gone through everything! there is only one day left for you to fight and win the battle!
Personal experience: knowing that I am now weapon-less, I’ve managed to drag myself into my supervisor’s office only to declare to him that unfortunately “I am NOT FIT for the viva and that I shall go home now and declare myself as FAIL”
Imagine how my supervisor reacted (bear in mind he actually flew on a six hours trip back to UK to attend my viva).. I really thought that I would actually die in his hand rather than died during the viva having to defend my thesis without any notes (!)
I've managed to make a fool of myself in the beginning by forgetting what the aim of my research is (three years to do the research and one second to forget what the aim is – nice!) and frantically flipping my thesis searching for it for five seconds with a quiet eerie background accompanying the noise of me flipping the thesis pages.
The end of the story: one and a half hour of grilling, still with no notes in my hand, but glad to be informed five minutes after that that I have PASSED the viva!
There has been other several things that I have learned while living as a hermit and buried within my own research:
1. that “silence is not always golden”
2. that “energy and persistence concur all things”
3. believe in yourself
4. Be DEAF when people tell you that you cannot fulfil your dreams!
All in all, this achievement will not be possible without the never-ending support, encouragement and believes from my family, partner, friends and colleagues.
Now, with that done and dusted … what am I to do with the free time?! *twiddling me thumbs*
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Missing Brighton
Things that am going to miss dearly when am leaving Brighton:
1. the close proximity it has to South Down
2. the beach (despite the thought that it is not a sandy beach!)
3. Office pub with its gorgeous Thai food!
4. brighton laines/lanes
5. Manna sandwich shop
6. last but not least...boxercise.. (!)
1. the close proximity it has to South Down
2. the beach (despite the thought that it is not a sandy beach!)
3. Office pub with its gorgeous Thai food!
4. brighton laines/lanes
5. Manna sandwich shop
6. last but not least...boxercise.. (!)
Monday, July 23, 2007
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
SUNNY!
I am so over the moon!!! Don't ask me why, but I have received a massive good news today! I haven't been smiling for such a long time and it seems that I can't stop grinning and fidgeting today!!
OK, enough of that.. back to work!
OK, enough of that.. back to work!
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Outcast
Oh Dear, been really busy with write up has left me living like a hermit without the sense of time, day or night..
Not having to enjoy the sunshine for a long time has left me looking like this at the moment:
I think it's about time I step out for a bit, enjoy the sunshine so that I will look like this:
Summer, here I come!
Not having to enjoy the sunshine for a long time has left me looking like this at the moment:
I think it's about time I step out for a bit, enjoy the sunshine so that I will look like this:
Summer, here I come!
Friday, March 23, 2007
The Joy of Gaming
I have no clue which one is more embarrassing:
1. to be caught by your student playing Nintendo DS
or
2. to be caught by your supervisors playing Nintendo DS when you are supposed to be meeting him with a report in one hour time.
All I can do to defend myself when they "nudged" me was: "Oh, am here while waiting for my panini to be ready".
1. to be caught by your student playing Nintendo DS
or
2. to be caught by your supervisors playing Nintendo DS when you are supposed to be meeting him with a report in one hour time.
All I can do to defend myself when they "nudged" me was: "Oh, am here while waiting for my panini to be ready".
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
New Year 2007
Just a quick post to wish everyone a very Happy New Year 2007!
And for the New Year resolution:
1. to do C2C
2. to get a proper night out with all my old mates
3. to have a better organised office desk
4. to recruit more people for Boxercise *evil grin*
And for the New Year resolution:
1. to do C2C
2. to get a proper night out with all my old mates
3. to have a better organised office desk
4. to recruit more people for Boxercise *evil grin*
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Feeling "Frustrated"
Yes, not a good blog entry indeed! So, if you are not in a mood to hear
grumble please turn away .............. "now"! :)
It just amazes me that no matter how hard you tried to make sure
everything went smoothly on the D-Day, things will always jump up
in front of you and mess things up!
Just like other semesters for the past two years, I have been doing
teaching for the dept and instead of having the same record for every
semesters, a new record has to be made every semester and so imagine
how "banana" I'd get when I always managed to receive late payment
for the first two months on the past two years here just because somewhere
on the line my contracts has been sitting remorsely on someone's in line tray
- waiting to be picked up for ages.
This year is no exception either. After learning from numerous occasion,
I had make sure and reminded everyone fortnightly to make sure that
everything went fine.
I have been assured that everything went fine..
To my horror at the end of the month, again, no wages.
Complaining here and there has resulted in me running an errand in the
morning chasing people up.
Being totally frustrated already about the whole thing, I decided to go for swimming at lunch time to release the tension and never
in my life, I had been greeted with the shock of my towel gone missing!
A good 20 minutes search for it is a total no luck either!
It forces me to draw one vital conclusion:
grumble please turn away .............. "now"! :)
It just amazes me that no matter how hard you tried to make sure
everything went smoothly on the D-Day, things will always jump up
in front of you and mess things up!
Just like other semesters for the past two years, I have been doing
teaching for the dept and instead of having the same record for every
semesters, a new record has to be made every semester and so imagine
how "banana" I'd get when I always managed to receive late payment
for the first two months on the past two years here just because somewhere
on the line my contracts has been sitting remorsely on someone's in line tray
- waiting to be picked up for ages.
This year is no exception either. After learning from numerous occasion,
I had make sure and reminded everyone fortnightly to make sure that
everything went fine.
I have been assured that everything went fine..
To my horror at the end of the month, again, no wages.
Complaining here and there has resulted in me running an errand in the
morning chasing people up.
Being totally frustrated already about the whole thing, I decided to go for swimming at lunch time to release the tension and never
in my life, I had been greeted with the shock of my towel gone missing!
A good 20 minutes search for it is a total no luck either!
It forces me to draw one vital conclusion:
It is totally a bad luck day for me. Maybe I should just lock myself up in my flat
and not buying lottery today.
and not buying lottery today.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
Feeling "Philosophic"
In the recent two years I have learned that:
1. No matter how hard you try to stay away from office politic,
you WILL always get dragged into one.
So, just accept and live with it!
2. It is NOT normal to reply to email too fast! (*cheeky grin*)
3. It IS, however, normal to only check your email ONCE a day
this is to avoid getting into office politics.
(I have problem on sticking to these principles, though).
4. No matter how hard I tried, I will always be mistaken as first year undergraduate students every new academic term and that 90% of time am buying booze, I need to have ID on my hand!
5. Cycling doesn't have to be only during good weather.
6. I have even find a comfort in cycling during wet weather.
7. It is the sense of freedom and thinking green that drive me to cycling.
(and the ludicrous increase of local bus fares, obviously)
8. I have made more new friends than I ever did before
(from teaching, doing my research, doing charities, getting back into cycling) and tends to value all my friends and stay in touch with all of them.
9.I also have learned that no matter what I do,
my office desk will always be in "chaotic" state!
10. That having Nintendo DS has keep me sane for the past two years! ;P
1. No matter how hard you try to stay away from office politic,
you WILL always get dragged into one.
So, just accept and live with it!
2. It is NOT normal to reply to email too fast! (*cheeky grin*)
3. It IS, however, normal to only check your email ONCE a day
this is to avoid getting into office politics.
(I have problem on sticking to these principles, though).
4. No matter how hard I tried, I will always be mistaken as first year undergraduate students every new academic term and that 90% of time am buying booze, I need to have ID on my hand!
5. Cycling doesn't have to be only during good weather.
6. I have even find a comfort in cycling during wet weather.
7. It is the sense of freedom and thinking green that drive me to cycling.
(and the ludicrous increase of local bus fares, obviously)
8. I have made more new friends than I ever did before
(from teaching, doing my research, doing charities, getting back into cycling) and tends to value all my friends and stay in touch with all of them.
9.I also have learned that no matter what I do,
my office desk will always be in "chaotic" state!
10. That having Nintendo DS has keep me sane for the past two years! ;P
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Thursday, June 15, 2006
The importance of TV and World Cup
How "convenience-ly" done!
My TV aerial decided to kill itself right when it's World Cup time!
*twiddling my fingers on the table*
My TV aerial decided to kill itself right when it's World Cup time!
*twiddling my fingers on the table*
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Thursday, March 16, 2006
Are you responsible for climate change?
Climate change is not a new topic any more now and in fact has become a worldwide problem since late 20th century and caused mostly by human activities (such as deforestation, heavy fossil fuel use and population growth). Isn't it time for us to act?
One way to do this maybe is simply by "donating" some free space in your computer to run a model to predict the impact of the climate change in the future!
You might already have seen the programme in BBC Two on 14th March 2006 (if you do, stop reading this and quickly download the experiment!), which underlining the great thought of carrying out the largest climate experiment to work out what will actually happen to the Earth's climate in the next 50 years, which can be done by making use of about one thousand free computer power.
More of it and other BBC programme in regards of climate change can be found here.
One way to do this maybe is simply by "donating" some free space in your computer to run a model to predict the impact of the climate change in the future!
You might already have seen the programme in BBC Two on 14th March 2006 (if you do, stop reading this and quickly download the experiment!), which underlining the great thought of carrying out the largest climate experiment to work out what will actually happen to the Earth's climate in the next 50 years, which can be done by making use of about one thousand free computer power.
More of it and other BBC programme in regards of climate change can be found here.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Back to Normality
Yes, one of my New Year resolution is:
" to be able to find anything I needed on my desk in five seconds rather than five hours"
And, YES, I know it still doesn't look that tidy either, but at least I'd started somewhere. If you care to compare it with my previous post.
" to be able to find anything I needed on my desk in five seconds rather than five hours"
Monday, January 23, 2006
New Year New You
Sorry (as usual) for the lack of posting. I am still "living in denial" and try to "hybernate" for some time from blogging and wishing that time just stop on 31st December 2005 and let me catch up with my breath and not being greeted in 2006 with lots of un-finished business!
It seems that being greeted by my supervisor in the beginning of 2006 with the expectations to produce a substantial report by the beginning of February has "whipped" my arse so badly that I need to drop everything I had planned beforehand and live like a hermit for the time being.
It seems that being greeted by my supervisor in the beginning of 2006 with the expectations to produce a substantial report by the beginning of February has "whipped" my arse so badly that I need to drop everything I had planned beforehand and live like a hermit for the time being.
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