Literature Excursion.

Finally, we're at the Shakespeare Globe theater!
If you look at this ceiling of the stage closely, not only does it represent the sky with the sun and moon and the stars, it also has spiritual significane with animals of the zodiac on top. So it kind of has reference to the heavens.

And hell, you ask?
Its a trap door on the stage. Open it up and meet the devil. Either that or lots of dust bunnies.


The attic.

The best possible way to destroy this theater: burn it. Its entirely made of wood, so its really easy to burn down. But if you try it, i will kill you.

This ain't the audience. An actor's rehearsing on stage, while the guide gives us a tour around. Pretty cool huh?

See the space before the stage? Its called the yard, open air and only meant for standing. You can stand there to watch for 5 pounds per ticket, and you'll be called a groundling.

When it rains, put on a raincoat.

Its pretty cool, because the actors will just brush pass you during the course of the play. Direct interaction!

If you live in the Elizabethan era and need to answer nature's call, you can't get out because of the crowd. So what do you do? Poop on the spot and hope for the best. Grand!

How it would look like if you looked it with a bird's view...

We watched Othello that afternoon, 3 hours and 15 min of standing and pretty good weather, bless our souls. This is definitely an experience that I'll never forget. Its pretty amazing and I'll strongly recommend watching a play there if you ever pop by. And not to mention, the gift shop's great. I bought a tiny book called the Bard's guide to abuses and affronts and a set of magnets called Shakespeare's insults. It teaches you how to call a stinky person "Thou smell of a mountatin goat".

On a sidenote, remember to wear comfortable shoes. No less comfortable than sport shoes. Wear heels if you want to go home with a blister the size of King Lear's ego.

Physics Presentations

Hi Melissa, Meiling and Husaini,
great effort for today's presentations. Although half the time we couldn't really comprehend what you were saying, you guys sure sounded like you knew what you were saying :). At least you can now tell others you gave a talk at Cambridge!

Group photo of pioneers and the 3 Cambridge directors of the programme- Jon, Paul and Ed.

Aye Aye London Eye!!

Hi,
just a preview of what it will be like when Singapore gets its very own eye next year, which is supposedly bigger than this!!


View of Big Ben and Parliament House from the Eye.

Top of the Eye.

Teachers waiting patiently in line.

Space capsules in orbit.

Interesting piece of engineering. Defintely lots of physics going on in this thing.

The view from afar.

From the motherland of the likes of Shakespeare and Austen...

Lessons at Girton Gardens because we had nice weather. But come to think of it, it was rather cold...







Hello! Jingwei here, taking English literature at Cambridge. I know lit students...sorry, student, has been rather inactive in blogging. But hey, there are pictures! The above here is Girton College, where we have our classes. The biotech, physics people are here too.









This is my lit class, 9 mates from Meridian JC and Rebecca from the US of A. This is the cosy cosy crammed classroom we were squeezed into the first day. Thank goodness we shifted. Oh yeah, and our tutor Antonia too, teaching us Pride and Prejudice.










Stanely Library. We have lessons here during the 2nd week.

Got a lot more pictures from lessons, punting, globe theater fieldtrip today (finally!) Unfoturnately, Im a complete idiot at blogger... i need LJ. So yup, its too irritating to upload all those pictures up here. Do it next time. Thanks for reading (or glancing).

Anyway, I just want to say that I love literature more than ever now. This is THE place to study english lit... i mean, its england! You learn stuff about the text with bigger perspectives, something you can't do in JC because we have to do intensive close reading all the time. It really opens your mind and you have lots of fun too.

Photos from Mr Loh

Hi everyone back home,

this is Mr Loh here :). S14 and S27 and my H1 students, how are you people doing ? I hope you are not missing my lessons too much :). Here are some photos taken by me, enjoy.......



The Burst of Summer at Cambridge !

Melissa, Meiling and Husaini in action at Girton College

An example of the many many historic architecture seen at Cambridge.

Melissa at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

Our students hard at work

Bella and David, the two course instructors for Physics

Melissa and Husaini. Stephen Hawking's office is actually

located at the top far end of the buiding in the background.

In fact, some students saw the man himself in his office while wondering

around. They were promptly shooed away by his nurse when it created quite a stir.

He was in his office while this picture was taken. Sigh....... so near yet so far.........

The futuristic looking Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

The Freedom of Speech at its very best !

Me at the oldest underground train system in the

world! The carriages are smaller than Singapore's and they are

not air-conditioned. Hence in summer, nobody really wants to be down here

too long. But it is truly extensive and goes to all corners of London.

Before we left, Mrs Tan insisted that the teachers must try

the famous crispy duck in London. So we did :). And it is really

quite nice. Here you can see Miss Toh and Mrs Beh looking satisfied after

having their duck. For those who want to know how to get there- simply get off at Queensway

tube station, turn left and walk down the road and look out for Four Seasons. Alternatively, you can print the picture and ask anyone 'Have you seen this restaurant?' when in London. Thanks to Miss Toh's mum for providing the directions via long-distance call from Singapore.

The most recognisable icon of London- the Tower Bridge. This is

NOT the London Bridge, as wrongly thought so by many. London Bridge

is a more modern and rather unspectacular looking bridge further down the river.

The fair lady wouldn't be too sad if that one falls down :).....

Pioneers and the Big Ben !!

Astronomy lessons at the Institute of Astronomy.

The observatory in the background is the very same one

used by astronomers in the last century!

The bust of Maxwell and some the orginal apparatus created by him

at the Cavendish Laboratory. Many of the original apparatus used in

the discovery of the electron and the neutron are actually exhibited here.

Punting down the River Cam. A must-do when in

Cambridge. Basically, you hold on to this rather long

and heavy pole and dig its end into the river bed and simply

push the boat forward, that is if you can get the boat to move

in a straight line in the first place!

Our students having Physics lessons

Punting is a great way to see many of the beautiful

colleges at Cambridge, such as King's and Trinity- provided you are

not the one punting.

Me at the very Gothic looking Girton College.

Miss Toh and Mrs Beh taking a leisurely stroll

round Girton College with students.

here's the three of us...errrr hanging from the gates of king's college...=>

Pictures from History course

this is wilfred int he plane to cambridge...trying his best to act cute in vain....;)

here's vicky and tabitha at King's college....beautiful aye....