:: Day 125 @ Glasgow ::

Hi ya'll~! It's been a month plus since I last blogged, had been busy on assignments, working then exam (I know it is not a very good excuse, lol~)... Anyway, I finally got some free time and mood to blog again now, but tomorrow is my second semester already... time flies... It has been a hundred and twenty five days since I left home, everything seems to happened so fast...

Alright~! UPDATES:
Studies: First semester done, waiting for exam results; second semester starts tomorrow.
Work: From waitress become cashier (plus helping out at bar) - good thing!
Health: I think I have put on some weight, trying to lose a bit now.

If you were to ask me to tell everything little thing that I have been through for the whole one month which I didn't blog about, I would really need to apologize to you all, as I can't remember that much already, LOL~ Well, like what I love to do previously... I would say:"A picture speaks a thousand words!" I'm going to show you all a few of my Northern Ireland trip photos; I went there a few days before christmas, not a bad trip though.

Day 1: @ Belfast

Belfast Wheel

My flatmates and I @ Victoria Square, Belfast

Guess what... This is TESCO~!

Our dinner @ The Crown Bar, Belfast - Highly recommended for local taste~!

Day 2: Package Trip

The walk to Giants Causeway...

The Giants Causeway - ain't as gigantic as I've imagined...

The classic jumping shot~! (a must-do for travel photos~! LOL~)
The guy on the right was a stranger we met there, where he and his friend find us quite interesting taking the jumping shot, so he joined in for the jump... =.="

I like this photo... ^^

@Londonderry

Day 3: Belfast Day Tour

Queen's University, Belfast (A university, but also a tourist attraction~!)
Great Hall @ QUB

Enough of serious photos, starting to act dumb... =.="
(@QUB - yes, we ruined the beautiful scenery of Queen's University Belfast...)

The Palm House @ Belfast Botanic Gardens

Lunch: Irish Coffee @ The Crown Bar (Yes, again...)

Our lunchie~ Now you see~

Now you don't~! LOL~

Belfast City Hall - left angle

Belfast City Hall - right angle

Beacon of Hope @ Thanksgiving Square, Belfast

The Big Fish, Belfast

We went to quite a few places, but I didn't upload all the photos here (just some nice ones I uploaded here, LOL~)... Anyway, it was a really nice trip, tiring but managed to visit most of the tourist spots; enjoyed the food very much (it's the main thing I expect from a trip, yummy~) I really wish I could bring my family, best pals to these places I went, especially to try out the food~ Well, since I can't at the moment, I'll just share the photos with you all... another photo before I say "Ciao~" and... it's just for fun... ^^ CHEERS~

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:: It's week 9 already~! :: London Trip

It has been three weeks since I last blogged, in fact, it has been a month plus since I really update ya'll about me trip, my life and so on... And ya! I've been really really busy, just passed up three assignments, then I have started working part time during the weekends and it's three weeks already I've been working there. So my life now is basically all about classes, discussions, assignments, work and gym. Not as interesting as it sounds, but utilizing my time till its fullest~! Good isn't it? Ok, where were we... Bristol trip~! I guess I have to use the same trick again - as a picture speaks a thousand words, here's the story about my London trip~ ^^"

Tower Bridge
(being misunderstood as London Bridge by tourists, like me...)

A photo that stirs up a lot of comments from my friends, but personally...
I prefer this one more... ^^

St.Paul's Cathedral

Big Ben

London Eye

Big Ben, again...

Big Ben Across the Thames River

London Doubledecker Red Bus

Trafalgar Square

Chinatown

Tower Bridge - Night View

I had a real fun but tiring day in London, head back to Bristol around 11 something, reached there almost 2 in the morning. Well, tiring because walk a lot and didn't get enough sleep, but well, it's worth it... ^^ Thanks to Kevin darling again, and his cute friend, Vivienne who belanja me dinner. Hehe~~

I would really wanna write a lot, but my mind is stucked for the moment because I had been working it too hard for the assignment, LOL~ But anyway, ya... Like I've mentioned earlier, I've been working part time lately, it's quite difficult to get hold of me online during the weekends... Weekdays I will either be in class or discussion, maybe gym sometimes, but I will try my best to be online (Malaysia time) where possible. Please bare with me for the moment and thanks~~

Will be writing again soon, hopefully... =P another working day tomorrow~ aza~! Until then... ciao my beloved friends~ ^^

A song that I like a lot lately...
I'd wait up, wait up, for you...

P/S: I do miss having you around...

:: Week 4 - Bristol Trip ::

I can't believe it~ It's week 5 now, and I've been staying here for a month already~! Time flies everyone, time flies... Well, nothing interesting for last week especially weekdays, it's all about classes and study. HOWEVER~! I had a really great weekend and an unforgettable one. ^^ I've promised 'someone' to visit him in Bristol and after a few weeks of delaying plus 'kan chiong -ing', finally I kept my promise and arrived in Bristol on Friday, 23/10/2009. Will have my whole trip's story separated in different post, so please be patient~ Let's start with Friday...

23/10/2009 Friday: While chatting with my mom on skype, I started to pack some of my stuffs for my Bristol trip. Getting more excited when the time gets nearer to my flight time - 9:15pm, Glasgow to Bristol. Being really committed to my Hip Hop class, I went for an hour dance and leave myself an hour to get myself ready and to be at the bus station by 7:30pm, taking bus to airport. I dashed back to my hall right after class, showered, and rushed to the bus station which is freaking far but luckily I got there on time, PHEW~! Can't believe I feel hot under the temperature of 12-degree... =.=" We (Me & Sin Ye, a Malaysian friend I got to know from Hip Hop class) arrived early at the airport and since we haven't take our dinner, we went to Starbucks for a cup of hot chocolate. Well, she got herself a hot chocolate, I got myself a cup of Caramel Macchiato (if you are not sure about what is that, google it. LOL~ I've just got to know about it from a drama, thought of trying it out... =p)

With my Caramel Macchiato

Being too relax, we were almost late for boarding. As I said, 'almost'... Yes, we got there on time as well, such a 'kan-chiong' night I had. Maybe we had overworked ourselves for the night, wasted our energy, felt a bit sleepy on the flight to Bristol. After an hour plus, TA DA~ I'm in England already~ Welcome to Bristol~! Ok, I'll make the long story short. We took bus, arrived at Clifton Triangle, went to Sin Ye's brother's place, unload her luggage, then we headed to Buddha Lounge, where the 'someone' I'll be meeting is working there - MY DARLING KEVIN, I MISSED HIM SOOOO MUCH~ Haven't seen him since May 2007 if i'm not mistaken, it has been two years plus. Both of us looked so different now but he is as playful as usual. =P Being served with the best cocktail in the house (LOL~) by Mr Kevin, Sin Ye & I spent our first ever clubbing in UK that night watching people dancing while waiting for him to finish his work. That night, was also my very first time to have rice with like 4 or 5 dishes as my supper at 2 in the morning, thanks to Kevin that worried I might starved to death. Haha... anyway, nice meal~ Head back to Kev's place after supper, and we chatted our way till 10 in the morning. >.<" Long time no see mar... 24/10/2009 Saturday: Got myself 4 hours sleep, then I started my Bristol day-trip. Our main destination today is Clifton Suspension Bridge. On our way, we passed by Wills Memorial Building, then The Victoria Rooms. Then we arrived at Bristol's landmark - Clifton Suspension Bridge.

Wills Memorial Building

The Victoria Rooms

View over Clifton Suspension Bridge

Side view of Clifton Suspension Bridge

Long shot of Clifton Suspension Bridge

We headed to Kev's work place - Shanghai Night for dinner after that (Yes, it's dinner time already, missed my breakie and lunchie =P) Didn't took any food photos, sorry gals... (you know who you are, LOL~ told you I'm not a food blogger) We went to Broadmead (is it Broadmead? I'm not sure... WAHAHA~) ahem~ anyway, a shopping area, to see see walk walk... I don't really fancy shopping, but I do like watching movies. And yes, I went for my first ever movie in UK, late night movie, and guess what - "Saw VI"! Emm, I will not elaborate much on the movie, it is just plainly disgusting. LOL~

That's all for the night, for my Bristol day-trip. We went home around 2am and we have to take 5am bus to London that very same day. It's also the day we changed to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, 8 hours behind Malaysia) and I got myself an hour extra to sleep. ^^ Lucky me~ but it doesn't really help, I felt that I haven't really got into my usual 'sleep soundly' mode, I didn't get enough rest. And...

Story continues in the next post... ^^

Patient patient~~

Mugdock Country Park Visit

Hi ya'll~! I've mentioned in my previous post that I was going to blog about my Mugdock Country Park Visit, so here we go~

03/10/2009 Saturday: My flatmates and I are always up for free meals and free tours you see, so one day, my Hong Kong flatmate asked the other three of us whether would like to join her for this trip to Mugdock Country Park. Lol~ We will need to pay for the train, but others like travelling from train station to the park and tea time snacks will be included. So we got ourselves ready around 11.30am and we head to George Square to meet up the rest of the bunch who are going for the trip as well.

There are quite a lot of students going, not only from Strathclyde, there are students from University of Glasgow along and totally 'international' group of students. So we walk to the train station and took a train to a place called 'Milngavie' (wondering how to pronounce eh... and it actually pronounced as 'Mile Gaive', which sounds similar to the word in Cantonese used to describe no place to stay = 'Mao Gai', LOL~) This is what my Hong Kong mates said. =P

Below are the photos that I've took during the visit. I can't really tell you how nice it is by words, even using photos it is still not as perfect as the actual view. Well, enjoy the photos first, then if got the chance, come here and visit. Lol~

After the visit, we had the chance to visit the Scottish's house and enjoy some snacks for tea time. It was basically a simple refreshment for us to get some bites and to socialise with each other. There are students from China, Hong Kong, Spain, Italy, Singapore, Malaysia (just me =.=") etc. And there's one guy from Czech Republic looks so cute and got really nice eyes. LOL~ where my flatmate can't really get her eyes off him, but mine were stucked with the Italian guy. LOL~ Ahem~! Emm... anyway, here's how the house looks like, and I love the cozy feeling of the house~

After tea, we headed back to the train station and took the train back to our place. Well, like I've mentioned earlier, we are always up for free meals, so the next station would be a Christian Mooncake Festival Dinner, hahaha~ Hey, we miss home dearly on Mid-Autumn festival so it's not wrong to get ourselves a good meal and mooncakes right?? HAHA! So I enjoyed a full chinese cuisine dinner and not to forget, MOONCAKES~

We stayed for a talk about don't know what regeneration and science from the view of Christianity or something (Sorry, not being disrespectful, just I really didn't concentrate and I forgot the title of the talk~ I'M SORRY~) Well, we went back to our hall after that, then this is the last picture I took for that day...

'月亮代表我的心'

Will blog again soon, I promised~! Well, at least once a week ain't that bad, correct? ^^ Until then, cheers mate~