MATLAB

I am attending a MATLAB practical lecture at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences; and then when I saw the words "This document can be downloaded from..." on the lecture notes I realised I shouldn't have come. I'd much rather be reading things from the comfort of my own room. In fact, I'm making preparations for obtaining next year's (Mathematical Tripos Part IB) notes already so that I can skip some lectures next year and take university in stride and freestyle. After 13 years of formal education I'm still anti-establishment.

The past few days have been spent just chilling around in Cambridge; having formals with Peterhouse Ruby Port/Lussac St. Emilion wine, afternoons by the River Cam sipping beer/cider (Kopparberg and Bulmers!) and eating strawberries, playing bridge, and watching Prison Break. Longtime classmate of 13 years Kok Ming is here in Cambridge for a couple of days and we had some Malaysian gatherings to talk about business and politics in Malaysia. The best sentence of the discussions was (however ironic):

"A ho lo chim set is banned in Kuching. You can only buy it from the police for RM200."

Other aspects of the political discussions should be left out of this blog for obvious reasons.

2 days ago the Lim family also made a trip to Cambridge and Kok Ming and I had fun taking them around the august and historic city of Cambridge. Lim Chern Wei studies at LSE (and is a GIC scholar) while his brother Chern Han is at Princeton. The brothers are certainly good at bridge, which forces me to up my game.

Then there's a Peterhouse Mathematician's Garden Party on the 10th of June 2010 in the Fellow's Garden, and a Malaysian Garden Party at Harvey Court on the 13th of June (I invited several Peterhouse friends for this one). Tonight I'm also due for a chess match and perhaps weiqi after Johannes' wedding formal. Gotta save some pennies and port for tonight!