Normally, January is a slow month for me. Winter break ends and school slowly gets back up to speed, but nothing much really happens until the final week. Not so this year. Immediately after returning home I was busy meeting one friend or another, watching plays and movies with my family, and even traveling to […]
Christmas is a time to gather with close friends and family and celebrate the past year. While I was unable to fly back to California in time for Christmas, I did have a wonderful time up in Newcastle. It was a nice way to prepare to return to my family back in the Bay Area. […]
Due to my prices of flights around Christmas, I booked my flight home for two days after Christmas. In the meantime I went up to Newcastle with Miranda to visit my uncle. We decided since we were already further north, we should take advantage of this opportunity to explore some cities in Scotland. Thus we made […]
As an official start to my winter holiday, my friend Miranda and I decided to go to London for the day and explore the Christmas markets. I had a play to attend in the evening so I decided I might as well explore London beforehand. First stop was the Borough market again, where we had […]
No grandiose sweeping themes for this post, simply a brief fun moment from last week I wanted to share. As this year marks my first autumn away from home, I became painfully aware of the absence of a hallmark of the season, pumpkin pie. I was distraught to learn that not only was pumpkin pie […]
As I promised in my inaugural post on this blog, I won’t be updating on a regular schedule because sometimes there just isn’t enough to write about. After taking time to reflect on the last week and a half, I finally have something worth saying. It is quite common to see people complain about having […]
My apologies for the delay between posts, I have been quite occupied each evening and have continued to put off writing this post until I had a good amount of time. Starting from last Wednesday life has been rather hectic, with research during the day and events in the evening. I shall start with the […]
Now that my back is finally healed, it seemed like a good day to have an outing in town. Of course the weather is a fickle mistress and has other plans, so I had to wait until 10:30 for a sunny gap within a rain storm to explore. Today’s destination was the Cambridge University Botanical […]
The past week has been a fairly calm one, with just research during the day and relaxing in my room at night. The days have been getting noticeably shorter, to the point where the sun is almost setting by the time I leave lab at 5. Eventually I will be coming home at nighttime, so I […]
While the past weekend was mostly spent at home or running errands around town, a few events did occur that will have lasting repercussions. The most important of these was matriculation on Saturday, which is a rather sophisticated way of describing orientation. Apart from a rainy class photo and sitting through talks on administrative affairs, […]