I planned to work on my assignments during my holiday season. Exams in row and papers are in due by days after these holidays.
I am realizing what I have set was not achievable :) I am just 1/3 of what I planned on 28th of December.
No, I am actually wrong trying to put myself out of a loving life. I have enjoyed far beyond my realization on these days. Good food, relax and just time with your friends - this is a holiday season. I even discovered my ability of cooking gooood.
Thanks Onon feeding and caring me like a King - I felt so bad when someone treated me soo well like that, indeed I loved it:)
Thanks Melissa vising us which allowed all fun girls and a honored man to discover amazing world of music in a 'gay village'!
Thanks all my friends coming over for my house and warming up rooms with your smile and good talk! All Thai, Mali, Chinese, Indian and Mongolian foods were all delicious.
Thanks Gary and Chris having me for Christmas dinner. I loved my present - Penguin Dictionary! Oh Christmas putting was very filling:)
Saturday, December 29
Friday, December 21
Eid ul-Fitr in Manchester and cultural deviation
It is Eid ul Fitr today. In evenings, I was impressed with the dress and joy of Muslim families crowded on street. How beautiful outfits and all suit so well with them.
Late in the evenings, I had to take my friend Yanin home, she cooked amazing Thai food with combination with Indian dish from Neela. I happily took her home.
On street, it was full of people, but only two distinguishable groups; police and young Pakistani(I knew they were Pakistani as they screamed Pakistan! Pakistan and wore flags all over).
Youn men and few girls were apparently excited about Holiday. They pressed honks and played car musics out of loud and make loud noises all ways down Oxford and Wilmslow streets. Some formed in a groups and gathered around.
Many thought me as Chinese and greeted me "Ni Hua Ma" with strange ways. I smiled and passed all, feeling threatened.
At home, I talked about this holiday with Rohit- Indian. He knows all about culture and celebrations in India and associated countries around such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. According to him, how Eid celebrated was very different from what I had a quick taste of it.
So, I think this is one among examples of cultural deviation. Celebrating tradition is still big event in immigrant populations in UK, but it certainly changed the traditions way different, somehow wrongly than what it meant to be. It is now more of expression of cultural or national identity.
I hope peace should be carried on all transformation of any cultural celebrations at most.
Late in the evenings, I had to take my friend Yanin home, she cooked amazing Thai food with combination with Indian dish from Neela. I happily took her home.
On street, it was full of people, but only two distinguishable groups; police and young Pakistani(I knew they were Pakistani as they screamed Pakistan! Pakistan and wore flags all over).
Youn men and few girls were apparently excited about Holiday. They pressed honks and played car musics out of loud and make loud noises all ways down Oxford and Wilmslow streets. Some formed in a groups and gathered around.
Many thought me as Chinese and greeted me "Ni Hua Ma" with strange ways. I smiled and passed all, feeling threatened.
At home, I talked about this holiday with Rohit- Indian. He knows all about culture and celebrations in India and associated countries around such as Pakistan and Bangladesh. According to him, how Eid celebrated was very different from what I had a quick taste of it.
So, I think this is one among examples of cultural deviation. Celebrating tradition is still big event in immigrant populations in UK, but it certainly changed the traditions way different, somehow wrongly than what it meant to be. It is now more of expression of cultural or national identity.
I hope peace should be carried on all transformation of any cultural celebrations at most.
Wednesday, December 19
Niki - my best friend
His name is Niki. He just turned 2 years old on 14 december 2008. I made a good friendship with him through his mom-Onon and dad-Sergey.
Amazing feature about my friends is that he enjoys from so many activities for a day. He loves train and cartoon of 'Thomas and Friends'! He is the happiest person when train goes on:) he calls it 'du du'
He explains everything to me with mysterious language which is much mixture of Mongolian, Russian and English. Indeed we know exactly what he means. He loves reading Sea Life and Animal Zoo. Then, he plays in roles of all animals.
He like bikes and running around his home. I always wonder how the energy of running all the long can be generated!
Yes, he never misses to go shopping with her Mom because the train, aeroplane and cars outside shopping malls are his favorite past time after Mom finished shopping.
Besides my best friend, I am very pond of his Mom and Dad - beautiful people. I will talk about them in next blogs ahead.
Ok, I've got to catch my 'du du'
Amazing feature about my friends is that he enjoys from so many activities for a day. He loves train and cartoon of 'Thomas and Friends'! He is the happiest person when train goes on:) he calls it 'du du'
He explains everything to me with mysterious language which is much mixture of Mongolian, Russian and English. Indeed we know exactly what he means. He loves reading Sea Life and Animal Zoo. Then, he plays in roles of all animals.
He like bikes and running around his home. I always wonder how the energy of running all the long can be generated!
Yes, he never misses to go shopping with her Mom because the train, aeroplane and cars outside shopping malls are his favorite past time after Mom finished shopping.
Besides my best friend, I am very pond of his Mom and Dad - beautiful people. I will talk about them in next blogs ahead.
Ok, I've got to catch my 'du du'
Bad and Good services in UK
Public or private services in UK are something I call 'extreme learning experience'. I have two categories so far.
1-Bad
I spent two days(non-stop) trying to have just one answer for my question from British Telecom. All service operators had to transfer me to another and then to another. How inefficient service was it, wasting time and effort of customer!
I found great deals in Virgin train online and I had to go to their ticketing office as I didn't have my account online. But the ticketing officer lady insisted me to buy far more expensive a ticket than what I requested, claiming that there is no such route in Virgin train service. Why would they post it online then?!
2. Good
A visa officer man at Hungarian Embassy in London was the best service provider whom I ever met. He patiently listened my inquiries and responded with great regard and suggested helpful tips for applying visa. Although I was there for not achieving what I planned, I was happy enough to leave the embassy with a big smile. This is what I call a good service:)
1-Bad
I spent two days(non-stop) trying to have just one answer for my question from British Telecom. All service operators had to transfer me to another and then to another. How inefficient service was it, wasting time and effort of customer!
I found great deals in Virgin train online and I had to go to their ticketing office as I didn't have my account online. But the ticketing officer lady insisted me to buy far more expensive a ticket than what I requested, claiming that there is no such route in Virgin train service. Why would they post it online then?!
2. Good
A visa officer man at Hungarian Embassy in London was the best service provider whom I ever met. He patiently listened my inquiries and responded with great regard and suggested helpful tips for applying visa. Although I was there for not achieving what I planned, I was happy enough to leave the embassy with a big smile. This is what I call a good service:)
London
Everytime I visit London, she smiles at me with sunshine! Yea, sun! That is rare moment in UK. Fortunately, London blesses me always.
Some may argue London is too big for that I can't make judgment from a first see. My friend Tamir had robbed in Victoria bus station last September.
At some moments, I believe some superficial ideas:) I start believing that London likes me.
Starting from the train stations, it hooks me up to the fast pace of running people and immense structure of London. I just have to follow it, so do the money:)
Some may argue London is too big for that I can't make judgment from a first see. My friend Tamir had robbed in Victoria bus station last September.
At some moments, I believe some superficial ideas:) I start believing that London likes me.
Starting from the train stations, it hooks me up to the fast pace of running people and immense structure of London. I just have to follow it, so do the money:)
Wednesday, December 12
Inspiration
It is great. Everything looks promising and I keep telling myself that it is possible! I am happy. I smile and I sing.
Singing out loud, I was cooking my vegi dish last night, Rohit, my flatemate, came and asked why I was very happy and if I met a girl to love. I assured the former and neglected the latter.
Since beginning of school year, I have been haunted by notion that I lag behind or fail to achieve better results at Manchester as the quality of education requirement and competition across wide range of students increase simultaneously. But, I prove that one never be 100% sure.
Inspiration makes me happy indeed. At the moment, it is inspiration induced of the fact that I got good mark on Environmental Impact Assessment class. I received 77 mark on my EIA assignment which was one of the top marks Carys Jones gave. Even my classmate Andy- hard core English nerd, whom I always thought he was the top on class, got much lower a mark than me. What it is telling me is that I produce something that people like it:) especially in harsh marking UK University!
And, my frustration of undervaluing myself eases closer to reality now. I am really inspired by her mark and happy to study [more].
La la la
Singing out loud, I was cooking my vegi dish last night, Rohit, my flatemate, came and asked why I was very happy and if I met a girl to love. I assured the former and neglected the latter.
Since beginning of school year, I have been haunted by notion that I lag behind or fail to achieve better results at Manchester as the quality of education requirement and competition across wide range of students increase simultaneously. But, I prove that one never be 100% sure.
Inspiration makes me happy indeed. At the moment, it is inspiration induced of the fact that I got good mark on Environmental Impact Assessment class. I received 77 mark on my EIA assignment which was one of the top marks Carys Jones gave. Even my classmate Andy- hard core English nerd, whom I always thought he was the top on class, got much lower a mark than me. What it is telling me is that I produce something that people like it:) especially in harsh marking UK University!
And, my frustration of undervaluing myself eases closer to reality now. I am really inspired by her mark and happy to study [more].
La la la
Sir Nicholas Talk on Climate Change and My Reflection Over Coal and Mongolia
On 29th of November, 2007, the Climate Change, Ethics and the Economics of the Global Deal by Sir Nicholas Stern was one of the many presented at
In Withworth Hall at the
Sir Stern began his speech with genuine briefing on his work and slight a warm-up joke. He described Climate Change economics through stock and flow analysis focused on the risks humankind facing around the globe. His arguments were backed up with ICCP reports and economic modeling he used in his report.
Main message of this speech centered on the risk of climate change to humans and political economic instruments to mitigate those adverse effects. He valued great effort of human commitment and stressed more needs to strengthen and achieve those commitments trough cost effective mitigation tools. Knowledge foundation for all actions is based on economics as Sir Stern noted.
I was fortunate to enjoy fully comprehending his arguments and thankful for my educational background, which I am gaining from MESPOM. Meanwhile, I was tempted to relate climate change issue to my country
As Sir Stern highly warned increasing use of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, for major developing countries, it opens a controversial discussion of coal between economic development and climate change. Besides skeptics view of no energy substitute to coal, natural resource management of extracting and exporting coal to global market is a priority in
From side of saving the planet from ‘unequivocal’ heat-up, the coal favored policy seems to undermine entire human efforts to cut CO2 emissions. However, Mongolian economy, which has been suffered from systematic changes, does not act to be ‘anti-human’. Neither do the coal-lovers. What is missing is substitute policy options for coal that supports whole economic development and Energy in
Here emerges a missing gap in climate change policies for poor economies. Although the most of the adverse effects from global climate change threaten poor nations in coming days, there has been a huge lack of facilitation for climate change mitigation among leaders and societies in those societies. Promising is that more and more policy tools are emerging such as Clean Development Mechanism and Green Investment etc.
See more on Sir Nicholas Stern on the following site:
Monday, December 10
make myself heroe?
In Sunday evening of December 09, 2007, I was chilling with my friend Mugi while we were enjoying the soup I made and trying to understand lush music culture of Bollywood with Rohit and Neela. Neela and Rohit suddenly gave up watching their favorites. I set the remote on CNN to get latest headlines around the globe.
A beautiful host of show, a mix raced lady- forgive my lack of name memory- was so attractive that me and Mugi both stopped a second. Thank God for this pause, it was a wonderful TV show on CNN heroes - more meaning than what the hot host looked like.
Indeed I was touched many incredible stories and Mugi cried out upon heart-touching stories and achievements. Every single story had an amazing story and mind sticking video clips. A young boy dedicated to cancer fund raise, an African man seeds marvel of medicine to Kenya, a brave New Yorker saved a life of a young man and many more.
At all the time, I was thinking what I can make a change and make my 'heroesness'. I know that there are something that I can really make changes for others and in me.
Let me take a bit time to articulate about myself. Me?
Till now, I have felt like a heroe a few time at home:) Honestly, my heroe side is not enough to list out and announce yet. Rather, I must say I am being a common till now in most things I belong to.
The bottomline is that I will strive to make a small changes in me. That would account a score for heroe. I will collect my points and when it reaches a point. I will say I am a heroe.
A beautiful host of show, a mix raced lady- forgive my lack of name memory- was so attractive that me and Mugi both stopped a second. Thank God for this pause, it was a wonderful TV show on CNN heroes - more meaning than what the hot host looked like.
Indeed I was touched many incredible stories and Mugi cried out upon heart-touching stories and achievements. Every single story had an amazing story and mind sticking video clips. A young boy dedicated to cancer fund raise, an African man seeds marvel of medicine to Kenya, a brave New Yorker saved a life of a young man and many more.
At all the time, I was thinking what I can make a change and make my 'heroesness'. I know that there are something that I can really make changes for others and in me.
Let me take a bit time to articulate about myself. Me?
Till now, I have felt like a heroe a few time at home:) Honestly, my heroe side is not enough to list out and announce yet. Rather, I must say I am being a common till now in most things I belong to.
The bottomline is that I will strive to make a small changes in me. That would account a score for heroe. I will collect my points and when it reaches a point. I will say I am a heroe.
Saturday, December 8
A few words on starting my blog
Yes, I have decided to take my time on my amateur journey of blogging :)
Without having formal style, structure and grammar, I can throw my mingled thinking in English and in retunr I hope to evolve a step towards an inquirying mind. Internet is getting a significant part of my life. Get up and check news, emails and facebook, and check these constantly during a day, and stay connected with friends online. So Erdene is on and will be doing it as an amateur blogger.
Peace and Love,
Erdene
Without having formal style, structure and grammar, I can throw my mingled thinking in English and in retunr I hope to evolve a step towards an inquirying mind. Internet is getting a significant part of my life. Get up and check news, emails and facebook, and check these constantly during a day, and stay connected with friends online. So Erdene is on and will be doing it as an amateur blogger.
Peace and Love,
Erdene
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