Canteenless + Happy CNY :)

Moj projekt
Zdaj bi bil že čas, da napišem še kaj o svojem projektu :). Teden, ko sem prišla nazaj, sem pripravljala grafe, ocene parametrov (klirens in volumen porazdelitve), ki jih je NONMEM določil... vse to za izvleček, ki so ga hoteli napisati tisti, ki so mi dali podatke. Vse to je bilo treba narediti do ponedeljka. V petek pa sva z mentorjem ugotovila, da smo vzeli napačne podatke!! Ker so nam poslali nekoliko zmedene tabele, vse v različnem vrstnem redu...jaz sem pa napačno domnevala, da je povsod enak vrstni red podatkov... Tako je bilo vse, kar sem naredila v zadnjih 3 mesecih narobe! Jupi :) Joe na srečo ni bil nič jezen, rekel je samo:"Welcome to science." Potem sem v ponedeljek vstala ob pol 8 (zdelo se mi je kot ob pol 6ih!! še tema je bila zunaj), prišla na faks pred 9o (Joe je bil kar malo šokiran, hehh) in do popoldneva mi/nama je uspelo potem vse končati. Drugače se zdaj nekako že bližam končanju svojega projekta, saj so rezultati že kar lepi.. Čeprav sem pa ravno danes dobila podatke, ki so spet malo drugačni od prejšnjih, tako da bom mogoče morala kaj popraviti.

No Refectory
The week after that there was no refectory at the Uni. So, Elham and I had to eat in the park or in the nearby restaurants. Luckily I found quite a lot 2 for 1 vouchers, so it wasn't that expensive :). And there are some really nice restaurants just across the street: we eat in Italian, Japanese, Mexican/Chinese.

 

Sobotno nakupovanje
If you feel suicidal, you should really go shopping on a Saturday. Because it is suicide!! Especially if you choose Oxford Street and one of the stores, where there's a lot of people even during the week. Like Primark. But we (Roni and I) did exactly that. People were waiting almost 45mins just for the fitting rooms! (So just one look at the queue tells you who is probably not completely normal ;)..) How do I know that? Well...I was one of them :). I couldn't just buy boots without trying them on first :P. (Just in case some psychiatrists are reading this..I did try some clothes as well.). But the boots are really cute, so it was worth it. Just last week it was raining, so I could finally wear them. Honestly, it almost NEVER rains here. And if it does, it's just drizzle, light rain. In 4 months I only used my umbrella 3 times :)).

And I had a funny conversation about the boots with one of the Erasmus students
X: Did you buy them?
Me: Yes. (No, I stole them. / No, I would never pay money for something that ugly??)
X: Are they waterproof?
Me: Yes. (?? Hmm...they are RUBBER boots... Well, I hope they are waterproof ;). It wasn't raining heavily, so I don't really know... It would be funny (not really!) if they weren't...)

But I think X didn't really mean to ask this. Like all of us Erasmus, X probably has difficulties expressing Xself in English too. I think X wanted to ask (this was quite difficult to guess) "Do you have new boots?" and (this was a no-brainer) "They are really nice!" :).

protesters (Mubarak), Chinatown

CNY (=Chinese New Year)
Happy CNY = 恭喜發財 = Kung Hei Fat Choi (~ "Congratulations and be prosperous"; Mandarin)
San Nien Faii Lok (~ "Happy New Year"; in Cantonese?)
The CNY normally begins in late January or early February and is calculated according to the lunar calendar. The current Year of the Rabbit runs from 3 February 2011 to 22 January 2012.

Chinese Horoscope (ki sem ga sama naredila:) bjutiful..heh)

On Sunday we went to Trafalgar Square, where the main stage was. It was sooo crowded!! The celebrations started with firecrackers, quite loud. [They are suppose to scare away the mythical beast Nian. And the red colour has the same effect. That's why there's so many red lanterns..] It then continued with Dotting the Dragon's Eyes (some of the important people helped paint the Dragon's eyes, so he could then see...), the Dragon Dance, the Lion Dance (unfortunately we didn't see that. We went to another location (Hong Kong Stage): Shaftesbury Avenue in Chinatown), some speeches... We were really tired from walking so slowly and trying not to bump into somebody...that we decided to get some Chinese. But all the restaurants were full (surprise, surprise;)). We finally found one, but we had to wait more than an hour to get some food.. And by the time we finished eating, the shows almost ended...

Filmček (sicer je posnetek od lanskega leta, ampak vseeno)