Witnessed my very first demonstration anywhere in the world, though it was a rather sedate event, with the participants marching in an orderly manner, marshalled and herded on their flanks like sheep by the security agents on duty. Still, it was a bigger event than the only serious demonstration I ever saw in Singapore, which was a newsclip on the television. That was a couple of years ago, when four courageous souls assembled outside the American embassy to voice their discontent at the American-led invasion of Iraq. They were duly arrested soon after.
Oxford's High Street at night, which is twice as wide as Cambridge's equivalent, and a million times livelier.
Yes, I'm a staunch supporter of traffic lights! If only they would stop falling over half the time...
There's a Hobbitonish feel to this picture, and whenever I look at it once more I imagine the barely visible depression on the left hand side to be Bilbo's front door, and Gandalf approaching it from behind.No, this really is Oxford's Castle Mound, which, like Cambridge's, misses a Castle. However, there're still battlements and fortifications all around, which previously contained a prison but now houses a rather posh-looking hotel, unlike in Cambridge where the immediate surrounding area has long since been levelled.
Another reason why I like this picture is because I blend in effortlessly into the background. But that is only because the colour filter was switched on.
The University Church. English churches all over the country seem to have been built on one blueprint, with only the slightest architectural modifications here and there. I've only seen two (Cambridge and Oxford) to date, but those I saw in picture books look exactly the same as the two that I've seen thus far.
Oxford's elegant University Library, which goes by the similarly elegant name of Radcliffe Camera.
The Sheldonian Theatre, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, functions as the University Theatre, although its simple splendour is hardly as perfunctory as I've made it sound.
The University Church. English churches all over the country seem to have been built on one blueprint, with only the slightest architectural modifications here and there. I've only seen two (Cambridge and Oxford) to date, but those I saw in picture books look exactly the same as the two that I've seen thus far.
Oxford's elegant University Library, which goes by the similarly elegant name of Radcliffe Camera.
The Sheldonian Theatre, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren, functions as the University Theatre, although its simple splendour is hardly as perfunctory as I've made it sound.
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