Friday, July 21, 2006

A hot day

Yesterday, it was very hot in London. According to my supervisor, he said that that day is the record breaking temperature for about 100 years (it is the hottest day since year 1911) . The highest degree celcius of the day was 34. We just finished our PCR work, he suggested to go out for a lunch. He even mentioned about a chinese buffet restaurant in Shephard Bush, and asked my opinion. Oh my gosh, that is the most 'famous' and most frequently visited chinese buffet restaurant for Dave and Andy. I was there twice. So, i said , it's a nice restaurant. And then he asked another Italian phD student there, which is also my friend now, to join us. Yes, of coz, he showed his interest too. Then we sat in his new Honda car , and started our journey.
On the way to there, we discussed about the phenomenon of the current global weather. My supervisor is a skeptic about global warming. He argued, how can people can predict the future 100 years ahead? he said, it can never be accurate and so predictable as what they claimed is true. Well, he has such a strong view, plus he is my supervisor, haha... i give him face, and state my own views only. i don't argue back la, u know...i still think global warming is the indicator of how the global change which backed up by many scientific research. In my belief, it is true and now occuring.
My supervisor also suddenly popped up with this idea when he observed many people on the street took off their clothes and half-naked to cool down under the sun - he 'laughed' at those people that is not the way to obtain cooling effect. He backed his point with how those Middle east people dress up in hotter weather than this, up to 40 degree celcius. He said, if we notice careful enough, those people are wearing cloths from top to toe, to protect themselves from the direct sunlight and heat. He thinks that this is the way only will give people cooling effect 'coz clothes providing 'shade' for people. wow... how interesting thought is that! How impressive that i have this supervisor. I think i could learn to see things differently from this quite unique independant critical thinking supervisor = )

P/S: i must say that, that chinese restaurant food quality is only decent, but have vast variety of choices and cheap, though. But one bad thing is, i discovered that they are the first restaurant ever in UK do not provide 'tap-water' . haha... my favourite drink in UK :P

1 comment:

DaveCKW said...

I want to argue.
First, in my opinion, global warming is definitely the effect of human activities after the industrial revolution. Statistics have shown that the temperature started to rise at the same time as the beginning of this new industrialisation. For more arguements, visit - http://daveckw.blogspot.com/2006/07/environmental-engineering-essay.html [It is my 2nd year essay, :-) ]
The Arabian wears white robe covering them from head to toe to protect them from both direct strong sunlight and from sand storms. The UV light in UK is not as strong as that in the middle east and obviously there is no sand storm. So, wearing like an Arabian in the UK would be illogical. That's what I think~

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