University of Birmingham

Life has come down to a routine now in the second largest city in UK.
Everyday, alarm clock rings at 7 and it will be snoozed for another 9 minutes straight away. 9 minutes later, it rings again and unfortunately it will be snoozed once more. This repeats itself until 8.03 am. I wake up reluctantly, tidy up my bed and go into the washroom. Exactly at 8.30am, I walk down the street to take a bus to city centre. It is another 5 minutes walk after that.

"Good morning," I say to the security guard. "Good morning," again to my colleagues.
I sit down, turn on the AMD Duron 900 Mhz with Windows 2000, and start my day by looking at the works I did the previous day. After a while, either I ask "anyone wants a drink?" Or me been asked. Normally, I ask for a cup of coffee. The office is normally very quiet except some background air conditioning noise. Everyone is focusing on their own task from the outlook. This tranquillity is broken when a geologist comes in. He likes to tell story and he can walk around to tell people his story. This sounds that he only talks boring stuffs but it is not; his story is mind-blowing. Every story has its own twist and excitement in it. It is good entertainment.

Time passes without anyone notices its existent. It is now 12.30 in the afternoon. It is time for a break and fix our stomach. 3 placement students walk down to a shop and grap some sandwiches in no time. We are then chit-chatting while eating in the office kitchen, normally for half an hour before I walk around the office and try to talk with my other colleagues or to find out what they are doing. It is good to know what people are doing and how they do things.

Every now and then, I walk to the water cooler for some water. It is considered some sort of exercise in the office. Sitting all day long is bad for health.

Time passes but the sun still does not want to rest. He is too energetic to rest. He wants to see the land sleeps before it does. Welcome to summer. After the work, a group of friends normally gather around for dinner or go for a movie. The members in the group changes with time; Singaporeans, Malaysians, Chinese (from China of course) and BBC. There is no boring life here in Birmingham.

The cyber space is my second hometown. I normally have a walk on this land before the day is concluded. That's a day in Birmingham.~~

KW