just browsing my blog (and not reading about TNCs which i was supposed to have finished but haven't started yesterday because i was more interested in baby P poor baby P) and looking at my archive - did you know you're not supposed to click on the month, but the little cross beside it, so annoying. i always seem so much happier on retrospect. like i remember reading my diary when i was sec 4 and being amazed at how stupidly happy i was in sec 1 despite all my great misgivings. and then again reading my diary in the middle of j2, and seeing how blissful i was at the start of j1. it's so exciting to start a new phase of your life, and no obstacles seemed too important to remember or to leave a mark, and then, somehow you get tired, and every little thing worries you, and you just wait and wait, till you get to the next phase. the next phase is one long phase - the job phase. i know i'll be happy when i first start, but i wonder how long that will last. and then what's next?

anyway on a happy note, i shall finally post my trip to dundee/st andrews.
we stayed in a nice hotel in dundee, a river away from st andrews - the land of golf!

dundee was famous in the past for its shipbuilding industry, and so famous in fact, that it managed to get itself a contract to build the first (?) ship to go to antartica, the RRS Discovery
Oh and did I mention because we're beside the River Tay, everything is called Tay, like Tay Road Bridge (is the bridge from Dundee to St Andrews in the first pic) and Hotel Tay and North Tay Street and so on. This may not be very interesting,but it kept reminding of my darling Huiyan who gets very excited at her river Tay.
We managed to reach the top of the hill (called the Law) at night (not really night, just dark) and looked down at the bridge connecting Dundee and St Andrews. For once, all the stars were below.

We went to St Andrews the next day and it has a very pretty university building...


Along with very pretty lawns =)

And the lucky Business people in the University of St Andrews has a campus that overlooks the sea. There's ruins of an ancient castle beside it
Drawn to the sea, we walked towards it, and along a very scary, narrow ledge, and looked back at the towering remains of some ancient church.

We visited the church and its cemetery and I found a lovely inscription:

As
measured notes
of set music
we pass,
in fast or slow
marches
to the grave

And then we went to... the golf courses (duh!) Millions of people were playing golf. To play at the Old Course (the best golf course in the world, some say) you have to queue up at 6am to maybe get a spot.
Coming back to Dundee, how can we forgo a chance to embark the RRS Discovery?

And there we end our journey, catching a train back to foggy Edinburgh.
Amazing. The weather.