China Town in London.

I want to be a house wife!

I started working a week ago. Since my supervisor is on travel, I had a really relaxing start off. During the whole week, the only important thing I did was to meet people, say hi, smile, shake hands, go out for coffee together, ask people's names and then forget them right away.

Things started to change since yesterday. I went to the first group meeting yesterday. There were quite some discussions that I couldn't follow, including macros people use, protocal discussions, ethical issues, etc etc. That was fine, cause I told myself those were issues specific to cinical trials. People should understand that I have no experience in this area and will surely pardon me and give me time to pick up. Then I went back home happily. However, things keep getting worse. I went to a workshop today where people discussed data analysis problems emerged from some of the ongoing projects in the school. Those were dichotomous outcome with correlations embedded in typical (I guess) clinical trial design. They were discussing about pros and cons of GEE, simple logistic regression, aggregation aproach, ..... I got really depressed. Since I could do nothing except asking questions during the whole workshop. I could resort to the excuse of not being familiar with clinical trial again. But I guess there should be a point to stop, so that this excuse is not abused. This is the time when I "regret" that I shouldn't have decided to leave Bioinformatics after graduation and start to learn a totally different topic.

Such kind of moments have come and gone for quite a few times. It happens everytime I start at a new place, moving from suburban to city, going to high school, going to college, coming abroad, transfering to another program, starting at a new job. For the last couple of times, it had come with no exception, and gone after I had some short or long period of struggle, with no exception either though. At those moments, I had always thought whether there was another way to get out, but without having to suffer the pain of reborn. Right now, I want to be a house wife. It might go away again after a while, but I want to write down this long lasted wish before I start to look down at it again.

A street artist.

This looks like Beijing, doesn't it? I mean how crowd the street could be.

See, English do drive on the left! ...... and they drive crazy!!

OK, it's weekend. I went out to do some shopping. This is the famous Oxford street. The only thing I want to say is things are EXPENSIVE here! I crushed my glasses on the first price tag I checked out. An ugly china cup costs 6 pounds!! With this money I could buy more than 2 dozen of the same cups in China!! No way, I will definitely save the shopping here and go back home to check off my shopping list!!

Aha, this is the third day la! Here is my office. See the phone was already there before I went to the office, but it didn't ring. The ID besides the laptop also works as a security pass in the building. No kidding, I have to wear it anywhere I go at the school, even if to the restroom on another floor. On the beginning, I thought people here were too serious. However, my colleague told me thieves in London are quite professional and they have excellent reputation for what they do. This reminded me there is a whole section which talks about pocket pickers in London in the travel guide to UK that pangzi gave me. In addition, my officemate's experince came just in time to teach me how bad it could be. He lost two of his credit cards within 3 days. The second one was lost exactly on the first day I came to the school. Now even as careless as I am, I have been always watching out my bag in the subway, on the street, during shopping, ......... :(((( I am so tired of it!!!

See, this is the whole Kepple Street! 10 meters might be exaggerating, but I guess 20 should be close enough. :)))))

Oh, Thank God! Finally I found it!!

I promise I will get out of Russell Square after this picture! :))

still Russell Square .....

More pictures at Russell Square....

The brownian motion brought me back to Russell Square again!

Looks like typical European style to me.

Some random picture I took when I was doing the brownian motion. :))

I didn't have time to explore the museum on the first day, since I was trying to find where the school is. The museum is only two blocks away from where I work. I am sure I will have more pictures for the museum later. There will be "museum N" where N>100. :))

inside the museum

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meseum N, I've lost the number. :P