The Oxford visit...

We went to Oxford to visit some friends. To make use of the Megabus promotion, we woke up at 4.00 am , and on a bus- Oxford tube by 5:30. Dawn by just breaking. Between some semi-unconcious effort to check out the scenery enroute and desperate need to catch some sleep, we reached at about 7am.

Warning!!!! No toilet at the bus station at these times, as the two 24 hour cubicles had been vandalised!By who? I wondered. Isnt this supposed to be a genteel town, filled with intelectuals? The public toilet would only be opened at a later time. I spent the rest of the time, filling up suduko from the free papers, and fighting the urge....which was intensified after copious amount of good old cappucino and very yummy danish pastry for only £1.50 from the corner shop.
















It was a rewarding day though. Managed to see quite a bit of places.
We were "lost", after missing our bus-stop, but was rewarded with the nice scenery and beautiful cottages meant as student accomodations further from town, and some nice B&Bs along the way. Pity our friend, waiting for us at the bus-stop. Anyway, the driver was nice, and we just remained in the bus, and get off on the "way back".

We were lucky to be spared from looking for accomodation in Oxford. Hotels or even hostels and B&Bs in Oxford is known to be Expensive. We are returning to another visit again, soon!

We pass by some of hotels and B&Bs to our friends' home. These are really charming cottages to stay in, will be nice for couples etc.

Here are some images captured by my handphone. I will get nicer ones from our friend later.

The crest of colleges on a door.

One of the back lanes of Oxford. It is really really "ancient"!.

FREEBIE--Google Calendar is now launched!

This is where you could get your google calendar!!

I took have toured the Google Calendar Overview; and well, this surely looks very very yummy! For years I have struggled with various calenders, and always find them lacking of user friendly features. But this one surely looks good. What I love is the ability to manage multiple calendars- so I could have one for my hobbies-travel and shopping, and one for my work, and one for my social life, and one for my family member's important events. Since I can choose to share the calendar, better still, everyone will know when not to bug me, and what on earth I am doing. Hahaahh...

Apparently, Google also managed to work around some of the usual features that I hate in a Calendar, which is FORMs and more forms!.
Look at this claim:

Click a spot on your calendar where a new event belongs (or use the Quick Add link) and start typing if you'd rather not bother with forms. Google Calendar understands whole phrases like "Brunch with Mom at Java Café 11am on Saturday

And this is where you could get your google calendar!! The damage to our pockets? It is FREE! Just like the firefox browser, (which I am using and loving) it is FREE!.