Shifu

Today we had our first proper training with the clubs Shifu (master), he teaches the traditional Wushu session on Wednesdays. The traditional sessions are more focused on application and we also go through some self-defense techniques. It was fun, pretty sweaty and my hands are a bit sore now after the self-defense technique. Afterwards we had an early celebration of the mid-autumn festival by drinking tea and eating mooncake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake). And no, even if it sounds like they contain drugs, they don't.

Had my second meeting with the research group, I'm going to help out with a simulation now of an entangled dual-particle system. Going to get to the code they use on Friday and also get a MatLab ISO since it takes to long to download it from LiU's servers. I don't understand how I forgot to install MatLab before leaving Sweden... You actually feel a little empty without it.

Found this sign a few days ago:

Accidentally took more dishes than I had planned for lunch today so when paying I got the comment "Very hungry!" from the cashier, haven't gotten it before and the funny thing was that the cost of the whole meal was 3,50 SGD (ca 19 SEK). It feels good that you can get a "Very hungry!" meal for that amount of money!

I can end with commenting on one of the differences between Singapore and Sweden; here in Singapore the period of the traffic lights is much longer so that if you just miss a green light then you have stand and wait for like five minutes or something (okay, maybe not but you have to stand there for a while). Sweden's traffic lights you barely have to wait for but at the same time we have lower population density, I guess the difference in population density is one of the main causes for the larger differences between Singapore and Sweden. When taking the bus or the MRT here you never check any timetable, you just go there and it will always come a bus or train within ten minutes, compared to the Pålsboda - Örebro bus that you have to wait for for two hours on weekends if you miss it.

Now I'm going to bed, might read a little "A Clash of Kings" before falling asleep.

Nattinatt!