It has been a long and kind of adventurous day for me, waking up at 2 o'clock in the morning, which is the time normally I still not in bed =S, and travelled all the way to London, then taking underground to Zone 4 Southgate station, and next changed bus W9 to Chase Farm Hospital. All of these I have been googling so it didnt trouble me much, the most challenging part, was that the hospital was GOD DAMN BIG!! it's more like an industrial area lol, with NO clear signs at all = = luckily it's always my habit to arrive early to place that I've never been, so I just took my time to walk around and look for this "Camlet 3" (you know, the Camlet 3 building itself, has no sign board saying Camlet 3 at all.. what the.....*censored*).
I arrived the lecture theatre at 9am (the invitation said 9.30am), and there were already about 10 people there!! There were like 60%-70% Blacks (in fact i found the whole Enfield (in North London) has got so many Blacks, unlike Cheltenham), and a mixture of the rest. The manager of the department has given an introduction regarding the trust, a forensic mental health trust (in which, their patients were mainly mentally ill people who were prisoners/offenders), so they talked about risk, security, relationships to patients etc bla and bla... It's what they do that really, really interest me, as I really like forensic psychology and clinical psychology, this is like the part that i really want to explore!! yet she mentioned about how competitive it is, there were nearly 400 applications!! god, four hundreds!! (F the recession!!) and I guess there were roughly 30 of us there today (it somehow made me feel - should I give up and let them have it? xD).
We sat for the tests after the presentation. The literacy test sucks a bit, as it's like a memory test to me.. I'm quite sure I'm well literate = =, yet the paragraph she read was so long, not allowing us to write anything down (but there was a lady writing, and this behaviour was distracting me >"<), by the time she finished, i forgot some of the front and most of the middle part HAHA (the primacy and recency effect). But I'm pretty sure they aren't that demanding (oh ya I saw the guy next to me reading my answer LOL). Whereas the numeracy test was MCQ.. easy la.. quite a bit of counting, a bit of understandings how they talk in maths language. They marked the papers immediately and we got to know whether we're through in about 40 minutes later.. and those were through stayed to let them take copies of documents bla bla bla..
Then I can't wait to leave the place (trust me, it doesnt feel like a hospital at all.. but I can't wait to go to central London xDD) so I failed to take any pictures of the hospital = =. My next stop was Hyde park! I don't know why I have been missing this place a lot, I feel like walking through the whole park again, but I did not when I arrived. Because the park itself was SO DEAD! I thought this is Spring, and there should be pretty flowers in beautiful scenes.. but all I saw was still winter =S, plus Usher's Papers playing in my headphone.. I was like.. /.\ So wondering around a bit and I took the tube back to Victoria station. Then walk from victoria to London eye (dont ask me why didnt i just take tube to westminster/waterloo station.. I just enjoy walking there..), sat by the river.. guess what I did? ... reading!! xDD I did shop a bit in Zara and Topshop.. and on the way back I saw House of Fraser actually having quite big sales.. But I was SO SLEEPY to try any clothes on = =. so I was like walking around like a corpse >"<, get sushi ordered by BeePeng then walked to coach station..
Hyde park corner.. Oh this is Spring?
I revisited some of the places..
All and all, London is the place filled with memories with family, whether it's few months ago when pama gor and jeh came, or 3 years ago when erge came.. And I feel if I were to "feel it", tears would fill my eyes. Anyway, I suppose I'm going for the interview next week.. would just try my best and I would accept whatever comes out =))
They have been there for really long already. I wonder whether this works. and I even wonder whether there is anyone in the camp of strike? =X
Can anyone tell me what this means? Genocide of theirs?
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was bored :p so went and google'd a little.. and found this link.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23674084-why-these-tamil-sons-in-london-mourning-their-slain-mothers-in-sri-lanka-have-placed-westminster-under-siege.do
wouldn't have thought the article was that interesting, till i saw:
“No, not that...” — he looked a little bashful — “but y'know, these Malaysians an' that — they set fire to themselves. I wouldn't want to get my hands burnt patting it out.”
but still, its just unnecessary because i doubt any of such protesting really works/make a difference.
Why Boycott Marks & Spencer / Tesco:
Navarathnam Shanmuganathan, 68, of the British Tamils Forum organisation, said: “Why is Marks & Spencer doing business with a country that has been committing human rights abuses?"
Karan Murgavel, a 22 year-old student at Queen Mary and Westfield College, said: “M&S keep opening factories in Sri Lanka, it is a major boost to the government. They are not only endorsing genocide but indirectly funding it.”
p.s. see, i was clearly procrastinating :p
Yes such a procrastinator! but thanks for the information, I hope they are coming out on your Psy and Crime paper HAHAHA
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