Last week the whole tower was twice waken up early because of fire alarms. Wednesday morning at 5 AM was the first one, everybody had to leave the building and gather in front of the building. Of course there was no real fire, but that didn’t stop the security from personally checking each and every room in the building to make sure everybody left! It took until 6:30 AM, one and a half hours, until we could go back in. Not a particular nice wake-up call… Friday morning we had a similar story, at 7.15 AM the fire alarms went off again. Of course, again, there was no fire but we had to wait again for 1 hour before we could go back in.
This week we also got our exam timetables. I have got 4 exams from the 14th of December until the 18th of December, and then it’s time for holidays. Last Sunday I went with Jaffar to London, my first time in London! We participated in TATA’s Crucible campus quiz, a quiz between UK’s universities in which the winner can win 4000 pounds and a place in the finals in India. Unfortunately I and Jaffar didn’t make it into the finals, but we surely performed quite well in the quiz and even got a certificate which says we are excellent (as did everybody else get…).
On the way to the venue we got to see something of London from the bus, including the (not so) Big Ben. Before the quiz and during the breaks we were offered lots of sandwiches, snacks, coffee and tea. The quiz took until about 8 PM, before we could get back on the coach to Birmingham. The trip back to Birmingham took much longer than expected. A Chinese girl was suffering from traveling sickness and got a panic attack, which made the bus driver stop and her friends even called an ambulance. We have been waiting for the ambulance for 1.5 hours before it arrived; of course the girl was already doing fine after 1.5 hours. I can’t even believe the ambulance turned up for a girl with traveling sickness…
Friday is my first boxing match in Birmingham. 7 boys , including me, from my club are fighting this evening.
25 November 2009
14 November 2009
Coursework Submission and Sports Scholarship
This week and coming week are, in some extent, the first weeks of coursework submission. Thursday we had to submit our individual case studies for Strategic Management. My case study was about the Korean mobile phone market, which constraints apply to it and how Apple managed to penetrate it with the iPhone. Friday we have had the presentation of the external analysis which we made for the module “group project”. We, me, Jaffar and Paraskevas (Paris), made an external analysis of the European automotive industries. The presentation went quite well, we managed to bring our point across, and stayed very well within the time limits set by the tutor.
Next week we have to hand in the report on this external analysis, which we have actually already finished. Also next week, I and Jaffar have to hand in our work in progress report for supply chain management. In this project we are investigating the oil supply chain to the European Union and in particularly the aspects of exploration & production of oil and oil transport. Also with this report we are making good progress already. That’s a good thing, since the end of the term is coming closer (18 December). Other work in which we will be very busy the coming week will be a critical literature review which we have to write individually for the module Research Methods. I choose my subject as the key drivers in innovative eco-systems.
Last week my Thai classmate Kate had invited me and Jaffar to have dinner at her home. She had, together with her flat mate, cooked some wonderful Thai food for us, Tom Yum Gung, fried vegetables and a nice Thai style salad with tuna. Both I and Jaffar enjoyed it very much, Kate had been quite careful with the chili peppers though, but probably she didn’t expect us to enjoy spicy food.
Wednesday, a week ago, I have had my medical check for my ABA registration. We were checked quite thoroughly and I was, not surprisingly, approved healthy enough to fight boxing matches. My first fight is coming up within 2 weeks already. Friday evening the 27th I am fighting on an event organized by my boxing club.
Also last week I have had an interview with the Aston University Sports Centre regarding the Sport Scholarships for which I had applied. They were happy enough to email me yesterday that I have been granted the scholarship wish consists of 500 pounds contribution to my boxing expenses. Naturally I am not handed 500 pounds cash, the scholarship consists of a free subscription to the University Sports Centre and Swimming Pool (worth of 230 pounds), the other 270 pounds consists of expenses I make for boxing which I can declare such as equipment etc.
For the rest daily life is going just fine. Lots of studying, mainly working on the coursework assignments, and a lot of training.
Next week we have to hand in the report on this external analysis, which we have actually already finished. Also next week, I and Jaffar have to hand in our work in progress report for supply chain management. In this project we are investigating the oil supply chain to the European Union and in particularly the aspects of exploration & production of oil and oil transport. Also with this report we are making good progress already. That’s a good thing, since the end of the term is coming closer (18 December). Other work in which we will be very busy the coming week will be a critical literature review which we have to write individually for the module Research Methods. I choose my subject as the key drivers in innovative eco-systems.
Last week my Thai classmate Kate had invited me and Jaffar to have dinner at her home. She had, together with her flat mate, cooked some wonderful Thai food for us, Tom Yum Gung, fried vegetables and a nice Thai style salad with tuna. Both I and Jaffar enjoyed it very much, Kate had been quite careful with the chili peppers though, but probably she didn’t expect us to enjoy spicy food.
Wednesday, a week ago, I have had my medical check for my ABA registration. We were checked quite thoroughly and I was, not surprisingly, approved healthy enough to fight boxing matches. My first fight is coming up within 2 weeks already. Friday evening the 27th I am fighting on an event organized by my boxing club.
Also last week I have had an interview with the Aston University Sports Centre regarding the Sport Scholarships for which I had applied. They were happy enough to email me yesterday that I have been granted the scholarship wish consists of 500 pounds contribution to my boxing expenses. Naturally I am not handed 500 pounds cash, the scholarship consists of a free subscription to the University Sports Centre and Swimming Pool (worth of 230 pounds), the other 270 pounds consists of expenses I make for boxing which I can declare such as equipment etc.
For the rest daily life is going just fine. Lots of studying, mainly working on the coursework assignments, and a lot of training.
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