Imperial College Centenary

It's 100 years now for Imperial College! Today we have this Centenary Launch day! First thing I arrived in the morning at 9am, was the tower bell ringing! It rang for 1 hour :P At first, it sounded nice .... but later i found it too annoying! Nevertheless, the bell will only ring on special occassion, i.e. convocation! Few years from now, it will ring because I graduate! :D

Then the next thing was the prize draw! The college generously ditch out quite a big sum of prizes, such as: video iPod containing Imperial vodcasts (i'll delete the vodcast immediately if i win the iPod), £100 travel vouchers, £100 book tokens, £100 of membership at Ethos (IC Sports Centre), 100 chocolate bar (i'm not sure whether it's for 100 people or for 1 person), 100 free cups of coffee (again ... 100 people or 100 cups for 1 person), 10 bottles of IC Centenary wine, centenary USB sticks (i wonder how big is the capacity). Nevertheless, all you need to do it email centenary@imperial.ac.uk with your name n you are in for the draw! I wonder how many emails 1 is allowed to send.

Next one up was the one i most interested in! FOOD!! :P They are selling the main course plus a dessert for a mere £1.50 (equivalent to 30 shillings in 1907) and a glass of wine for £1.05 (equivalent to a guinea in 1907). I'm soooo excited about this! I tot of even going to have my lunch alone, since Jacey and Kian Ping were not in college today (they really missed it big time). But thank God met Mustafa, Rashed and his wife. We had a great lunch! I wish i had bigger appetite to consume another meal since it's sooo cheap!

Here's the menu:
Starters
Mixed Hors doeuvre (salami, mortadella, russian salad, stuffed tomato)
Bruniose of winter vegetables & barley in a seafood bisque
Devilled Whitebait with fresh tartare sauce

Main
Sautee of Guinea fowl on a petite pois a la francais base
Lamb Canon served on toasted brioche with sprigs rosemary & redcurrant with a red wine jus
Grilled Darne of Salmon with a cream of Lobster sauce
Roasted Chicken breast with watercress
Bean and Lentil cassoulet

Vegetables
Roasted Mushroom & Tomatoes
A selection of rustic winter honey vegetables
Chateau Potatoes
Parsley Potatoes

Dessert
Apricot Condes
Vanilla ice cream topped with maccarons
Lemon & Orange sorbet sprinkled with kirsch

I had the grilled darne salmon as main and apricot condes as dessert! Besides that, the college also gave out free cakes to everyone! I personally consume another 5 small slices of cake. I took 2 pieces for Prof Duncan! Oh .. had a nice meeting today, because i managed to finish most of my report! Seriously, thank God for this transfer report due, coz it forced me to read n really understand my research problem n think of way to tackle! It's tough though! Anyway ......

HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY

IMPERIAL COLLEGE!!!!!