Glasgow diaries: Of museums and such.

Last week, we went on a city hall organised tour. Went to two museums, Riverside and Kelvingrove. Kelvingrove was, its impressive self, and we even got to see an organist perform. 

This trip consisted of Shalaka from India, Eline from Netherlands and me. We had good fun, and took loads of pictures. (They will be posted soon)

Then we went to watch 2 movies, so far. One was Ruby Sparks, which was, um. Interesting. It was strange, but not bad really. This we had planned after going to a ceilidh on Friday. Ceilidhs are Scottish dance events where you dance and have a really good time, and we ( Holly and I) had attended one together earlier. It was good fun. So back to this ceilidh, it was alright and we did 2 or 3 dances. Then we decided to catch a movie, and only Ruby Sparks seemed good so that it was.

Then The Perks of being a wallflower was also playing and we had all wanted to watch it, so we decided to watch it one Monday (no labs, so no reports and a little more chilled). This was great fun, we got the FRONT row to sit together. Good movie, although I have not read the book. 

Also, attended the Malaysian society intro session (and the movies ceilidh) where I met some nice people from back home! Lovely. (Went to gurdwara with one of them) For the Nottingham games I may be playing netball with these girls (gasp!) Haha. 

I think thats it besides the sporadical shopping sprees (most of the stuff is actually necessities) and other trips around town to do or see things. 

Yesterday, Eline had a Halloween do so there we were. I was excited, as even though back home we used to do a little bit, we never really did costumes much. So I was Helena Bonham Carter. Woohoo. Fun stuff. Pictures coming soon. Shalaka was Harry Potter (irony of it is she's never read or watched the series) and Holly was supposed to be a burglar (I know, cool) but she couldnt make it. The party was cool, her flat is huge so it was great. Met lots of new people (from my flat too, so it was just like a housewarming haha) and the best part it was just upstairs from us. 

Alright, that should be it for now. Post pictures soon, and new post for new adventures. 

Love always. 

Glasgow diaries

Went to gurdwara today. It is Sunday, the perfect day to walk the half hour or so journey. So, lets start from start. 

Had gone for a friend's Halloween do last night, and by the time I got home and got some sleep (too much sugar from all the soda) it was LAATE.

So in the morning its a mad dash as I think I am late. Reach in record speed at the place I had arranged with a friend, and when she arrives she tells me I haven't changed my time, we are actually an hour early. HAHAHA I forgot to set my phone on auto change, so it was perfect really. 9 am sharp we walk for gurdwara. It is a rainy, dreary day, and we talk little, just hunched down from the cold and steady drizzle. 

Reach and it is quiet, I am happy. Quiet time means quality time. See some people are sitting in langgar, head straight up to darbar. 

Akhand path is going on, I sit and listen. And enjoy these moments, the few more minutes till it is time for the semapti of the path. The giani jis sing a shabad, he has a deep solid voice, the tune buoys me into calm and peace. Then as we are served hot delicious parshad I realise there are some girls climbing on stage. The secretary announces that Asa ki Vaar is now to begin. Ah, the joy! 

I grin and thank Guru ji, after all ohna ne meri sun leyi! 

She is good, the singer. Lots of gusto. I am just having a GREAT time, while noticing that people are coming in by the dozens. We decide to have some worldly nourishments (langgar), albeit reluctant to leave, I go. Soon after, we see the jatha is also in langgar, so it must be 4 chants that they did. 

Anyway after eating we sit for abit more, listening to the end of one jatha and the start of the melodious giani ji again. 

I decide that it is time to head back, with the rain and walk back it will take me some time to rest and prepare for homework and preparations. 

I arrive home boosted and buoyed. 

Thank you, Guruji. 

Keeping it going

Today was the official first day of lectures! Although we had the introduction lecture last week, this week is when things are getting going.

The two lectures today were on Policing and its roles and in the afternoon, we had a statistics lecture. (It was great that they provided printouts!)

While I was sitting in the statistics lecture, I could not help but think of my undergraduate days. The statistics topics were exactly what I had done in Maths (Statistics), dealing with the t- test, f- test, and the likes. Just thinking of maths and Ms Chong. See, she's the Math lecturer that (thankfully) my class had for both our math papers. She is more teacher, and was extremely dedicated to ensure that we knew what was going on and she persevered so we knew the material in and out. 

Always armed with paper and a pen, she utilised the overhead all the time and showed us how the calculations were done, armed us with a good amount of tutorials, and most importantly, prepared a manual of such delight that I got an A for that paper. Also, it might have been attributed to me not being excellent in statistics (not liking it that much more like) that I probably use to do the tutorials and be freaked out about math papers. (I know)

SO, as I was sitting in class today, looking at the slides, I could not help but smile at how lucky my class was to get Miss Chong, and how lucky we were that she was such a dedicated person. (It helped no end that she  was a very nice person) Looking at the material, I told myself, I can do this. It'll take some revisiting, and revision, and exercise, but I have got it in me now to tackle this. 

How did we get here. Ah yes, statistics. So, scientists need to use statistical measures to analyse things like the precision, reproducibilty and a whole lot of things about the instrument and human error. 

Tomorrow I have two labs, one on document analysis and the other on fibres. Yipee! 

I had gone to the store that sold Indian foodstuff yesterday, and came home with a packet of rice (YAAAY) and some precooked food. Aloo mattar (Peas and potatoes) and dhall. Also got some food from Tesco. So dinner today consisted of bread, aloo matar and some eggs. Yum. I feel warm inside now. 

There's a department lunch for international students tomorrow as well, so if I'm done at the lab I will make a mad dash for it. 

Besides that I feel a cough coming on (its already in the initial stages) so I am gonna take some cough syrup and bundle up and hope it goes away. Maybe I should get my hair washed and dried at the shop (which, coincidentally is also right outside my flat). 

Ok I think that's all for now, as always, love.