Thank you, England, I had a very good time with you.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
Official Graduation Picture...
So here we go - on my knees in front of the vice-chancellor, begging to receive my PhD ... (she was indeed kind enough to award it to me).
Thank you, England, I had a very good time with you.
Thank you, England, I had a very good time with you.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Graduation Ceremony in Cambridge, 21 July 2007
OK, it was raining "cats and dogs" in England this month but fortunately only at "the other place" so our graduation ceremony in Cambridge was actually pretty fun. Here only a couple of pictures that can be shown to the general public, according to decency and political correctness. Here we go, in chronological order:
On the way to the ceremony - well, to be honest, firstly we had a rehearsal in College. It sounds a little funny, but your college person (the Praelector, to be precise) really holds up her hand and points her four fingers to a row of four graduands, each of which holds one finger of her while she says something like "those guys really deserve their degrees although you've seen them more down the pub than in the office" (ok, that's pretty damn close, but you can find the official version here: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/degrees/ceremony/). Then you go forward to kneel down in front of the Vice-Chancellor of the university, and she says basically "ok, if you think so, then so be it" (see link above for the precise wording). Not quite as impressive as the Harvard graduation I attended a few months back when a housemate graduated (and where also Bill Gates finally got his degree), but still nice and so amazingly historic...
In front of the Senate House (where the degree was conferred), right after the ceremony - with my sister, Florian, myself in the middle, and Alex and Sania to the right. Glad they were allowed to get into the ceremony without a ticket, but the insider knows: Sania is wearing a gown from Trinity College (i.e., the richest, most famous, and the best college anyway) which gets you anywhere in Cambridge (might also have been her hair which bedazzeled the guy checking the tickets, but we will never find out).
A more or less official looking picture with my degree...
And punting the next day up and down the Cam. This was a really, really nice weekend back in Cambridge and I was glad I went there for the graduation. Thank you to everyone visiting me and spending time with me there, you made it a really good time for me!
On the way to the ceremony - well, to be honest, firstly we had a rehearsal in College. It sounds a little funny, but your college person (the Praelector, to be precise) really holds up her hand and points her four fingers to a row of four graduands, each of which holds one finger of her while she says something like "those guys really deserve their degrees although you've seen them more down the pub than in the office" (ok, that's pretty damn close, but you can find the official version here: http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/univ/degrees/ceremony/). Then you go forward to kneel down in front of the Vice-Chancellor of the university, and she says basically "ok, if you think so, then so be it" (see link above for the precise wording). Not quite as impressive as the Harvard graduation I attended a few months back when a housemate graduated (and where also Bill Gates finally got his degree), but still nice and so amazingly historic...
In front of the Senate House (where the degree was conferred), right after the ceremony - with my sister, Florian, myself in the middle, and Alex and Sania to the right. Glad they were allowed to get into the ceremony without a ticket, but the insider knows: Sania is wearing a gown from Trinity College (i.e., the richest, most famous, and the best college anyway) which gets you anywhere in Cambridge (might also have been her hair which bedazzeled the guy checking the tickets, but we will never find out).
A more or less official looking picture with my degree...
And punting the next day up and down the Cam. This was a really, really nice weekend back in Cambridge and I was glad I went there for the graduation. Thank you to everyone visiting me and spending time with me there, you made it a really good time for me!
Saturday, March 03, 2007
India, the second trip
Ok, ok ... actually I have already been back for a couple of weeks by now but I have to admit - I was a bit lazy posting pictures of the trip here. But finally - here we go!
That was actually before the trip - for some reason there were a couple of really comfortable chairs at Boston Logan where you could watch the sun rise:
We have been to Pune first but also spent a couple of days in Mumbai. That's a park in downtown Mumbai, close to Victoria Terminus. Quite interesting architecture around the park!
The proof we really went to India for a conference: Karthikeyan from NCL Pune, the conference organizer, in the middle, with a lot of young and old cheminformaticians around him.
Conference lunch - brings not only impeccable food but also sunshine and a good scientific discussion!
Yes, a little difficult to see, but - that's the preparations for the conference dinner, in the form of a nice garden party at still around 85F (close to 30 degrees Celsius)! Lots of food in the background, waiting to be eaten after a long conference day.
And the garden party in action - intercultural exchange, the stupid tourist can easily be identified by the base cap he's wearing ... ahem ...
I have to admit - I wasn't here in person, that's a place in southern India. Thank you to Anamika for the pictures, I should definitely go there next time I visit India!
Read the tourist guide, and you can be sure to meet just tourists in the places you visit .. that's at Cafe Leopold, downtown Mumbai. Don't ask me why they mention it as a "must see!", I definitely prefer our favorite restaurant, the Gaylord, a million times over!
Bye bye India, see you next time ... not precisely the right order, actually this was the first night at the guest house of the National Chemical Laboratory, sampling the 16 year old cold distilled Glenlivet ...
That was actually before the trip - for some reason there were a couple of really comfortable chairs at Boston Logan where you could watch the sun rise:
We have been to Pune first but also spent a couple of days in Mumbai. That's a park in downtown Mumbai, close to Victoria Terminus. Quite interesting architecture around the park!
The proof we really went to India for a conference: Karthikeyan from NCL Pune, the conference organizer, in the middle, with a lot of young and old cheminformaticians around him.
Conference lunch - brings not only impeccable food but also sunshine and a good scientific discussion!
Yes, a little difficult to see, but - that's the preparations for the conference dinner, in the form of a nice garden party at still around 85F (close to 30 degrees Celsius)! Lots of food in the background, waiting to be eaten after a long conference day.
And the garden party in action - intercultural exchange, the stupid tourist can easily be identified by the base cap he's wearing ... ahem ...
I have to admit - I wasn't here in person, that's a place in southern India. Thank you to Anamika for the pictures, I should definitely go there next time I visit India!
Read the tourist guide, and you can be sure to meet just tourists in the places you visit .. that's at Cafe Leopold, downtown Mumbai. Don't ask me why they mention it as a "must see!", I definitely prefer our favorite restaurant, the Gaylord, a million times over!
Bye bye India, see you next time ... not precisely the right order, actually this was the first night at the guest house of the National Chemical Laboratory, sampling the 16 year old cold distilled Glenlivet ...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)