Invigilating Exam

This week and next week are exam weeks for the undergraduates; I'm taking the opportunity to invigilate exams as I certainly need the money to pay for the increased utility bills during winter. I don't know whether I'd receive the allowance in GBP for the next three months. I hope I would. If not, I might pack my bags and leave when the kids are done with their school this summer. With the kids' treatment being put off because of the recession (I guess), there is no reason to stay. Besides, Aina is in Malaysia preparing for her SPM.

As at now, I'm quite busy to meet the deadlines of the conferences; there are papers to write, as well as experiments to perform. Well, I guess I need to take it one at a time yea...

Celebrating 2009 in Eskisehir

Since the guest house was closed during new year, I stayed with Mujgan & her parents for two days. Initially, we were not planning to go out as it was really cold but when the clock turned midnight which was the beginning of 2009, we decided to go out to look around. The intention was to just drive around and stay in the car, but we managed to go out and snap some pictures. Here are some of the photos during night time in Eskisehir. Pictures below were taken during the day. We went out by tram to the city center and managed to get some souvenirs from Eskisehir. It was really cold; this morning the temperature went down to minus 10 C! I've never experience this cold condition before; the nose became red, the fingers almost numb. I managed to get a pair of leather socks (khuf) which is really comfortable.
At the point of writing, it's snowing outside. It was blacked out a while ago; luckily the notebook is on! The road lights also went off for a while. Just to keep safe, I'd let the notebook on tonight in case it blacks out again...