Episode 5: Week 1 of School

School has begun with a 2-week Foundation Course. This meant that we have to sit through formal instructions through lectures and prepare tutorials.


Yap, I had homework and preparation to do on Day 1 of school and I think many of us did not like it. In fact, I did not get to meet my tutorial mates until Wednesday! So, for the first 2 days, I felt quite lonely and a little stressed over the work I needed to do.


However, on Monday afternoon, I received an invitation from an old friend of mine, Jordan, his girlfriend and another 2 friends for dinner. I gladly accepted the invitation and we headed for Bayswater's 4 Seasons Restaurant for their famous Cantonese duck. The restaurant is just opposite Bayswater Tube Station.





We queued for an hour and a half just to have a table! See pictures below.





4 Seasons







Food Glorious Food
(We had Sweet and Sour Pork, Lemon Chicken, Duck and some beancurd)






Jordan and Jo outside 4 Seasons while waiting






Jo, Jordan's [not so photogenic] girlfriend (Hui Nee)
and Jordan on the Tube on the way home after dinner.





But, things got better along the way. I received a PINK iPod nano on Friday courtesy of the school. One of the lecturers gave it to me before everyone before the lecture proper on Friday.





The iPod was a prize I got from a draw way back in March at the Law London Fair where the school had a booth. I attended the fair because I wanted to accept a place on the LPC and the school had a booth there. Later in the year, I was informed by the school that I won the iPod. :)

Further, the prize in March was a 2GB iPod nano. What I got on Friday was a 4GB iPod nano with a colour screen! :)



Now, most of my coursemates (and lecturers I believe) will remember me as the "[Pink] iPod Man". This is how pink it is:

The pink iPod...

Apart from these, I reestablished contact with an old church friend of mine... We grew up together in Sunday School. He and his family moved to Scotland many years ago and he is now working as an IT consultant in London. I hope to meet up with him in due course.

So, things are beginning to take flight here in London. There are many things to think over, prepare and submit. I do trust that as the Lord has provided the opportunity and the resources, He will also provide what is necessary for me to go through during this period of my life.