The Beginning....

Taken from the slide projection. Composition of students according to countries

Today we had an induction of the masters programme. There are 35 of us from 18 countries. From the briefing, it looks like we are going to have a tough year ahead of us. As a start, we would be going to Stonehenge this weekend for a class trip to study about the relativity of landscape and road at the Stonehenge. Don't ask me about the details, we will only know more on that day.

This is the other Malaysian in the course, Eskandar Samsudin who did his Engineering degree in Imperial College before coming here

There are 3 Malaysians this year. It is a very good mix and the entire class possess impressive working backgrounds and portfolios. Most of us came from engineering backgrounds and have worked from 2 to many years. There was also a good mix of other working backgrounds like computer programming, mining, aviation, NGOs and etc. We even had a retired course director of a British university as our student. Impressive, impressive, impressive....that's all I could say.

Mori Hirotoshi, a bubbly chatter from Tsukuba, Tokyo who did his degree in Kyoto University before coming here for his Masters.

We spoke in Japanese the entire lunch break! He must have felt so relieved to finally get a break from all things English. I know how it feels when it was all things Japanese for me too, when I was in Japan. We even talked about eating nato and geishas of Kyoto, can you believe it...hahahha! When we spoke in nihongo, some of my coursemates were surprised and thought that Malaysians speak Japanese too, like one of the other dialects....hahahaha. Well, I didn't bother to explain...;)

Tata!!