Hi,
was just feeling a little jobless...so i thought id just bore u all with another mail..well actually.. i thought id just talk abt sum amusing things here.well..back home in india..i geuss using plastic cards...u know the ones...like credit cards, is fashionable..but here its almost a mania....u have a card for every damn thing that it actually gets on ur nerves....well at the moment i have an international students card. a university of plymouth card, a marine biological assn card, a National unoion of students card (NUS). a sainsbury nectar card( for shoppin in sainsbury s) and a Tesco club card( for shoping there)..(they are the main super markets there...(see attachment) and i`m yet to get a bank card..and then i`ll be getting cards for takin photocopies at the univ , another one for the same at the MBA, ...and maybe i`ll have to buy another card to make calls to india...how many were those?..i`ve lost count...well..to be a little optimistic...i hear they had separate cards for the library.., to hand in coursework..and for sports...last year. they ve combined them this year!.....well u can imagine what my wallet looks like now.....well actually..its not too fat...i wonder why...maybev because there`s no money in them....oh yeah talking about money here....i geuss u atleast need 10 pence in the least to buy something..(havnt found anything i can get for it though)...but the thing is that most of the items are like 86 pence or 2p0und 93 pence or one pound 52 pence.....well i wonder why they dont round it off. ..and well they actually insist on returning every pence of the change back.. so if something wer 52 pence they would actually give u back five pence and 3 one pence....ya i know what u all are thinking now...how much is that in indian rupee.,,is nt it...well how much ever that is....i dont care because i`ve already got a huge collection of one pence coins...and i`m not exactly pleased with it...ya i know many drops make an ocean...but can u imagine me counting out a hundred and fifty coins to pay a bill of 1£ 50 cents?...in a way ..i wonder what everone does with their change...i was not surprised the other day when i went to a chinese friends place and saw a huge mug full of one and two pence...ooh if thats the way my money gonna go,...it does nt sound very good.
mmm..thats enough blabbering for now..
will be back with more nonsense.
love
Thomas
05 October 2004
03 October 2004
update 3..walk in dartmoor
hi folks,
just enjoying the weekend here. i didnt really have any class untill thursaday last week. my first experience of lectures was...hmm..i have to admit a bit intimidating...especially with all the fancy accents and all. but overall i survived. and i hope to get attuned...well. we had an overview of a few of the research that goes on at the MBA. we had a talk on the Alister Hardy foundation For Ocean Studies(SAHFOS) which is almost a sub lab of the mba...and we actally gotta see the hardy`s continuous plankton recorder...things which we have only seen in textbooks during the course back home(er ..all non marine bio folk...please excuse a bit of technical jargon)...it s amazing cause, this is the place from which they actually despatch these recorders on sea routes all over the world.
then we had another session on Electron microscopy..i ve chosen that module....and there are actually 4 or 5 of them (i saw 3 scanning and one transmission) here. the other lecture we had..which was a three hour long session was on fish toxicology....a bit intensive though..and i had to concentrate a bit to pick up the concepts. well those were the sessions for the week... now what did i do today?...hmm thats what i really wanna tell u. well i went for awalk to a place called Dartmoor...does that sound familiar to some of u? i wont be surprised cause it did to me ...o.k for those of you who are sherlock holmes fans...and have read ..The hound of baskervilles...this is supposedly the place that inspired Sir authur Conan Doyle to write it.. he stayed here and wrote the book based on locations around here...the moors...the prison ...its all here...oh yeah there are other reasons for Dartmoor being famous....its the home of the dartmoor ponies. and also its really huge and has the highest altitude in u.k.
there s this walking group at the MBA ..led by Nick Bloomberg..whos the IT techichian there..and they go for regular ..long walks.. our group today consisted of Nick, Suzanne..whos my classmate, christine , and Michelle who r workin at the MBA and michelles son Kaylin... Suzanne was kind enogh to pick me up from the MBA and we drove down to a place called Roborugh where nick took over and we drove down to prince town which is right inside dartmoor.Nick was so friendly and informative...hes one store house of knowledge..knows everything about the moors.
anyway we walked right into the moor to a place called Hexworth where there was a country pub..had our lunch there..i had fish and chips...hmmm not too bad ...its basically a slice of fish dipped in batter and fried and served with fried potato chips.its a pretty popular item here...after lunch we walked back. oh yeah dartmoor is also famous for its archeology...yeah..right down to the stone ages ...about 4000 years ago. we saw a burial chamber..which probably had buried an important member of the community. . and also a hut cicle...a hut circle is a circle of assembled stones which was the base of a house in the stone ages( see photo..)..it was exciting to think that the very spot where i stood would have been home to people in the stone ages,,,and if i were transported back in time id probably be seeing all those people walking about and doing their normal work.... ..there was also some medieval history with a prison that dated back to the napolean times ..and some old broken down farmhouses..
overall..exciting...but a bit tiring for my poor legs which havent seen much action back home[thanks to my good old scooter(more old than good)...oh i miss it]...i really did enjoy the english moor...and moreover it was a chance for me to develop my communication skills with the others...ya..there s a bit diificulty with that initially...and so i`m back here now ..sitting with a cup of tea.(good old Indian tea)..trying to get the excitement to u people befor it fades into memory. hows that?
take care all of u...i hope to keep the updates coming..( even if u think they are boring)..bye
take care
Luv
Thomas
just enjoying the weekend here. i didnt really have any class untill thursaday last week. my first experience of lectures was...hmm..i have to admit a bit intimidating...especially with all the fancy accents and all. but overall i survived. and i hope to get attuned...well. we had an overview of a few of the research that goes on at the MBA. we had a talk on the Alister Hardy foundation For Ocean Studies(SAHFOS) which is almost a sub lab of the mba...and we actally gotta see the hardy`s continuous plankton recorder...things which we have only seen in textbooks during the course back home(er ..all non marine bio folk...please excuse a bit of technical jargon)...it s amazing cause, this is the place from which they actually despatch these recorders on sea routes all over the world.
then we had another session on Electron microscopy..i ve chosen that module....and there are actually 4 or 5 of them (i saw 3 scanning and one transmission) here. the other lecture we had..which was a three hour long session was on fish toxicology....a bit intensive though..and i had to concentrate a bit to pick up the concepts. well those were the sessions for the week... now what did i do today?...hmm thats what i really wanna tell u. well i went for awalk to a place called Dartmoor...does that sound familiar to some of u? i wont be surprised cause it did to me ...o.k for those of you who are sherlock holmes fans...and have read ..The hound of baskervilles...this is supposedly the place that inspired Sir authur Conan Doyle to write it.. he stayed here and wrote the book based on locations around here...the moors...the prison ...its all here...oh yeah there are other reasons for Dartmoor being famous....its the home of the dartmoor ponies. and also its really huge and has the highest altitude in u.k.
there s this walking group at the MBA ..led by Nick Bloomberg..whos the IT techichian there..and they go for regular ..long walks.. our group today consisted of Nick, Suzanne..whos my classmate, christine , and Michelle who r workin at the MBA and michelles son Kaylin... Suzanne was kind enogh to pick me up from the MBA and we drove down to a place called Roborugh where nick took over and we drove down to prince town which is right inside dartmoor.Nick was so friendly and informative...hes one store house of knowledge..knows everything about the moors.
anyway we walked right into the moor to a place called Hexworth where there was a country pub..had our lunch there..i had fish and chips...hmmm not too bad ...its basically a slice of fish dipped in batter and fried and served with fried potato chips.its a pretty popular item here...after lunch we walked back. oh yeah dartmoor is also famous for its archeology...yeah..right down to the stone ages ...about 4000 years ago. we saw a burial chamber..which probably had buried an important member of the community. . and also a hut cicle...a hut circle is a circle of assembled stones which was the base of a house in the stone ages( see photo..)..it was exciting to think that the very spot where i stood would have been home to people in the stone ages,,,and if i were transported back in time id probably be seeing all those people walking about and doing their normal work.... ..there was also some medieval history with a prison that dated back to the napolean times ..and some old broken down farmhouses..
overall..exciting...but a bit tiring for my poor legs which havent seen much action back home[thanks to my good old scooter(more old than good)...oh i miss it]...i really did enjoy the english moor...and moreover it was a chance for me to develop my communication skills with the others...ya..there s a bit diificulty with that initially...and so i`m back here now ..sitting with a cup of tea.(good old Indian tea)..trying to get the excitement to u people befor it fades into memory. hows that?
take care all of u...i hope to keep the updates coming..( even if u think they are boring)..bye
take care
Luv
Thomas
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