Air Crash Investigation

The Last Day

Daily, Geeky August 22nd, 2009

Yesterday (Friday) was my last day at GSK.
In fact, my line manager, the person who interviewed me in, assigned me works and looked after me, wasn’t in. He had gone for a conference in Istanbul for the whole week. However his colleagues (well technically my colleagues too) took me out to a lovely pub and treated me a nice lunch (and I was stuffed =) ). I was, undoubtedly, very impressed. Those were 8 weeks of an unforgettable experience.

What I actually want to tell is, they know that I’m a physicist, I’m from Cambridge and my work was programming-related. These may take an important role when they were finding me a leaving work gift.

I was given two books, one from all other colleagues, and one from my line manager. Here is the first one.

Haven’t read it, but it’s definitely something scientific. Could be a good read.

Right, this is the second one, from my line manager, who supposedly knows me better than others.

Umm, well, you are not telling me I’m a geek, are you?

The book catches my attention though, I’ve read a couple pages. Basically, they are all bout selected science-related places all over the world. The format is, the background info on a place, some related theories, equations and a little visitor.
I found many places I even never heard of, they are not just science museums. Though, I know almost all theories and technical stuffs in the book. Still, I swear, I’m not that geeky. Please don’t call me geek after all.

Oh, one more thing. I’m flying back home on Monday, so I got to temporarily stop watching Air Crash Investigation otherwise I might freak out on the plane.

Tags: Air Crash Investigation, GlaxoSmithKline, GSK, internship, Seven Wonders of the Industrial World, The Geek Atlas

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week ?

Daily August 15th, 2009

Oh well, my first intention was to post a new entry every week. But being me, I kept deferring until now. Not that I don’t have anything to rant about, there are in fact so many. I just didn’t start.

Well, week 7 has gone, it’s my last week at GSK next week. It’s been pretty interesting. I enjoyed it and learnt tremendously. Having said that, there were time that I didn’t have enough work to do, and those times were seriously insipid.

What was it all about? … I’ve been working in a not-so-large (~10 ppl) group of crystallographers. My primary works were programming. Not much I can say here otherwise I may easily get into trouble.

Last several weeks I have been traveling a lot to Cambridge and London. Countless times to Cambridge let alone three in the last week. Had an excursion to Windsor, photos are already on facebook, will put them up on flickr some time.

This may be the reason that motivates me to post this entry. Recently I came across this fascinating documentary on National Geographic channal, Air Crash Investigation. I’ve seen several episodes. I’ve got to say I’m already addicted.

Typically I’m not into any TV shows, I would rather spend all day in front of a monitor than a telly. Ok, I like movies, but not tv shows in general. CSI New York failed to attract my interest and I stopped watching it after three episodes. ‘24′ well, this one is exceptional, I’ve seen two seasons, but have no plan to start another as its so demanding.

Unlike others, I really enjoy Air Crash Investigation, I’m not sure is it because my former interest in large airplanes or aviation or something. You got to see it yourself and you may, like me, love it. If you don’t know where to start, I gonna post the episode I saw on tv last Sunday, this one is I have to say, exceptional.