-1~9 degree

It's become really cold all of a sudden over the last two days. I was told that the temperature was only -1~9 degrees today! No wonder my legs felt frozen on the street... I like the cold weather though when I have worn enough clothings. It feels more romantic with coat and scarf walking along the streets with puffs of smoke coming out of your mouth.

I had the very first real British fish and chips for dinner tonight. Unfortunately I still don't feel it's that great even when my lab people and friends' friends highly recommended the one we went to. I got a huge piece of cod and lots of chips for 5 pounds. The fish just didn't have the fresh taste of sweetness in it. I want Auckland snapper and blue cod!

I went to the firework display at St John's College tonight. It started at 9:15 pm, but I remembered it wrong as 9:30 pm. I rushed over when I heard the booming noise, but I managed to catch the last 5 minutes. It was disappointingly small and short. The fireworks around Guy Fawkes (which is on the 5th of November this year) in Oxford seem rather quiet. I haven't found any fireworks for sale in supermarkets as in NZ. Various colleges have firework display on various days throughout the week, but if they're all like the one in St John's, I don't expect to see anything major. Sigh... I miss the crazy time in Mission Bay on the weekend before every Guy Fawkes Night! You just get fireworks in the sky non-stop throughout the night!

I think I'm going to be extremely busy for the next few weeks. My reagents have arrived for this experiment that Peter (my supervisor) has been very excited about. I'm going to have a meeting with him about planning the experiment. I'm a bit screwed since I hardly did any readings the last few weeks. He's going to know that I still don't know much... Stress!