Car Drift
AJ Jorge November 9th, 2007
I cooked up this animated gif last night before going to sleep.
Will post the other exotic cars on display next time. Just like to share this one today.
Taken handheld thus the shakey hand.
I miss Initial D.
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Christchurch Trip
penny June 21st, 2007
Pics from Christchurch, NZ trip here. No people pictures. Just the sights. And some random shots of moi.
The conference was Evolution 2007. It was too big a group to get to know everyone, so I took it slow speaking with fellow postgraduates and a handful of professional academics. Biologists are an interesting brood, I have to say. Even more so the theoretical lot. It was particularly curious to meet Mark’s colleagues from his honours, postgrad and postdoc years. What I found quite funny was his Stanford peers saying how Mark’s academic lineage extends to as far back as Karl Friedrich Gauss… so that they were calling me their academic ‘niece’, ‘cousin’ since I was, they said Mark’s ‘daughter’.
[storytelling put to a stop... i've typed up really long narratives only to get them lost into internet oblivion... guess I wasn't destined to tell too much. maybe just a bit as we go...]
Women’s Day
penny March 6th, 2007
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God may have created man before woman,
but there is always a rough draft before the masterpiece.
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Fabio, our Italian postdoctoral researcher in the lab, was telling us about Women’s Day in Italy on the 8th of March, now just 2 days away this year. “Men of every age have to put up with women’s atrocities, like spilling coffee down trousers. Also, men give mimosa to their girlfriends, moms, wives, etc.” It’s ridiculous to think that this festival is unique to Italy, so I looked it up and indeed, I felt a bit silly not to remember that it is in fact an international thing. [Click here for UN website on International Women's Day] The picture I insert here is from the UN website on the event, calling on the world to “Take action to end impunity for violence against women and girls.” It’s a sad state we are in, considering these statistics on unending violence against the female gender.
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