I don't remember when I first heard of Cambridge, though that must have been in my secondary school years. It might be by virtue of the renounced Professor Stephen Hawking, a holder of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge, popularly known as the Chair once held by Isaac Newton. I still recall reading a Scientific American article on the remarkable Professor Hawking and his work. Or I might have come to know of Cambridge through Xu Zhimo's romantic poem "Farewell again to Cambridge", a set piece in the Chinese Language curriculum in Hong Kong. Or even, it might be because of any of the countless number of scientists at the University who had made ground-breaking discoveries.
While I had been to Cambridge on a couple of occasions in the past, each of the visits was fairly brief and I had not really seen quite enough of the university. So it was with delight that we planned a trip to Cambridge while we were in the UK several summers ago.
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| "Looking for dreams? Push with a long pole and roam towards greener pastures..." (Farewell again to Cambridge by Xu Zhimo, my translation.) |