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Its already Sunday – the end of Half term! where did all the time vanish to?
5 more weeks and I’ll be home. Sounds too good to be true! damn. I just counted. Its 6. Oh wells…
I went to manchester and scarborough to visit people. shopped a lil too much (in fact not really, cos I only bought a shirt, and 4 pairs of shoes.) And went to london again yesterday!
Nothing much, just pictures of the beach and some mouliu things, like colourful doors by the beach and huge furry white dogs and people. Then i went to manchester! To see…
these two people!
This picture was taken in GBK – Gourmet Burger Kitchen.
Lewis was DAMN lame! He suggested to the waitress that they should call their restaurant ‘Gourmet Burger King’ or ‘Great Burger King’ or ‘Genuine Burger King’. The waitress just nodded and tried to look interested! ahaha… but I still miss Grill’d! Mighty Melbourne yo!
We shared two burgers among three people so they cut it in half for us. I preferred the beef one but Flora said she liked the lamb one more. sigh.. all these lamb people (hint:eve)
And a salad because we are healthy!
Manchester was mainly about eating I guess!! Gained weight!! Yeahhh I can totally hear that thought in your head. “riiight, like she is not fat enough”
Then London yesterday! After lunch Alice and Tracy wanted to go shopping, Oxford Street. But I was broke and I didnt feel like shopping! So I went to Rendezvous for sugarfree cappuccino Ice cream, then I went to watch happy Potter and the Half Blood Prince. yes i am THAT outdated! It was nice I guess…. I dont really ask for much when I watch movies so I cant see why youre frowning in disgust then I said it was ok.
Then I went for forzen Yoghurt! hahaha… talk about eating. Walked around and met up with Alice and Tracy again in Chinatown.
I think I have reached a stage where I am SO sick of complaints! Why do you have to complain about everything? Food too cold, food not nice, too little people, too many people, train too early, ticket too expensive, line too long, shop too crowded, other branch too far, this branch have to wait too long, like seriously EVERYTHING you do you can find a thing to complain about!! Not gonna mention any names, but yeahh!
And I woke up this morning. someone nudged me on MSN. she said “Oh thank god you’re online! Are you there?”
I thought, wow… emergency issit? Then she said,
“pictures”
=_______________________________________________________=” Give me a break willl ya?
Enough rants. sometimes I complain too much. but about relevant things, so it makes sense.
Heee… I just realised it says “Howdy, veeronica” on top! How cute is that!
Anyway, finally back from all the Aussie! Going for a final trip to Mulu on Friday, then in less than a week I’ll be flying back to London, to take a coach/taxi back to Northampton and study. Boo =((( Doesnt life suck.
Perth, Perth, Perth! Perth is pretty much like a cold, bigger, more civillised version of Miri! Life is most certainly laid back as it is here.
We spent a few days to go down south to Albany, sceneries, sceneries and more sceneries, not to mention strong strong winds and lots of rain. The skies cleared up towards the end of the trip, but it was still freeezing at night.
Pics are on fb, and I’m guessing all of you have access to it. Oh wait, maybe not.
In 7 days, I went….
tree climbing!
reached the top
parrot feeding!
sceneryviewing
natural bridge crossing (spot the people!)
Kangaroo feeding!
Cake and coffee drinking!
Udder squeezing!
Fish n chip buying!
to experience something different
wine tasting!
dim summing!
Old family friend visiting!
awesome background capturing!
Andddddd lots of other things. Shopping, late night coffeeing, car rides around perth, etc!
Its a nice place, but its not as happening as Melb. Or maybe its just the company.
I am very emoing now… ok wtf that totally didnt make sense.
I just got back from Awesome awesom Melbourne! Thanks to everyone who made it so nice! Cait, Daryll, Jackie, How Ven, Aaron (lol sorry ah, communication breakdown, I didnt know you thought I asked you to go out for dinner! But hey, you wouldnt have gotten that good talk with leslie if it wasnt for me!! =D ), Leslie, Ronald, Cathrine, PANCAKES AND WAFFLES!!!!
Check my facebook for pictassss..
Summer is awesome so far! If all the Aussie peeps were back it Miri it’d be awesomer!
On a totally random note, I’m looking for my bead box! I cant seem to find it ANYWHERE!! beads beads where are you guys!
on another random note, I suck in dota lor can. I’m like a serious NOOB. I’d like to hire a presonal trainer pleaseandthankyou!!
On another random note, I read lester’s posts on his blog and the bhood blog and seriously I laughed so much! Lester you gotta pass me some of those awesome skills man!
haha.. ok thats all I dont ahve anything to say. How can like this my life is damn boring!
I made carrot cake yesterday, and chocolate cake and deep chocolate cheesecake today, the chocolate cake was sugar free and turned out awesome. The cheesecake, EPIC FAIL!! I am such a failure.
ok. whatevs.. cya guys!
When I was just a little girl, I asked y mother what will I be. Will I be pretty? Will I be rich? here’s what she said to me.
Que sera sera, whatever will be, will be. The future’s not ours to see, que sera sera.
hahahha… this song is so cute, my itunes is on shuffle and it came up!
hello hello from the land of miserableness… where blue skies are rare, and rain is my best friend.
Ok enough of crap. Happy Lunar new year to you!! Had a good one? I bet you did.
I spent lunar new year with eve, a whole new experience. No more big family sitting in grandma’s house with a drumstick and specially cooked vegetables, no more blasting of fireworks 15 minutes before it is even CNY, no more card games, Blackjack and ‘red dots(?)’, no more smell blasting from the kitchen oven, sweet and full of mom’s effort and love, no more decorating and nagging to not just dump my bag aside everytime I get home.
This year, I spent it with eve, in a cosy lil apartment in Leicester Square. No, there werent any fireworks blasting at all, it was a house full of girls. Eve’s friend whipped up an 8 course dinner, with an official menu again!!
We had a crab salad, deep fried squids, sour and spicy soup, steamed cod fish, sambal prawns, brocolli and mushrooms, fried tang hoon, and for desert, ‘ji ma wu(?)” Haha, I know your taste buds are watering already.
Twas nice, after dinner, we cleaned up, and watched a movie while I did eve’s nails. Watermelon-ey nails…
then we went to sleep… sigh, a first miserable new year… well at least it rocked better than the girls’ new years eve. I think they stayed in the hostel. hahaha…
Anywayysss… its getting late and I gotta sleep. Sorry for the pictureless posts… I just cant be bothered to photobucket all the pictures. plus, I dont have any yet.. well just one.
p/s I am getting addicted to volleyball eventho I am not good in it… someone teach me fast.
just-right pillow fluffiness, check.
Driving, check.
Oven, stove, fire, check.
Short sleeve, skirt/shorts, flip flops/flats/wedges, check.
Looks like I’m home. And I’m enjoying every minute of it.
Seriously, I think I would’ve cried till I run out of tears if I had to stay back.
Good luck for xmas eve!! You gotta teach me HOW you do it next year!
I am back in northampton.
the trip was kinda holan to be honest.
To Nottingham, out train from Birmingham new street to Nottingham got cancelled, so we ahd to take a train to Leicester, and then change another train to Nottingham.
At Nottingham on monday, we took a bus to town, and we were supposed to get down at broadmarsh, but we went down a stop ealier, I think. We still got to town anyway. Eve was planning to cook dinner for us, and some of the guys, Sing Foong, Praveen, JD(?), and………. shit, sorry dude I forgot your name. *checks facebook* AHH u added me. SONG JUN. rite or not? ok I will remember from now on.So she was cooking, and after shopping, I was supposed to buy mince pork back.
so we bought mince pork, and other things and waited for the bus. Right station. bus number 5? Right bus. We hopped onto the bus, and FORGOT to get down at Dunkirk.
The bus went all the way to long eaton before we realised it wasnt gonna turn back.So I went to ask the bus driver “excuse me, does this bus go back to Dunkirk?”
“you forgot to get off the bus huh? Not till Wednesday!”
“so how can I get back to Dunkirk?”
“you can either take a taxi, or wait for the bus that goes back, there at the bus stop *points to stop opposite the road*”
“oh, ok. Thank you!”
HAHAHHA holan or not. I couldnt stop laughing myself. when I called eve, she asked me, “where are you?”I said, “errr… somewhere near long eaton” “WHAT??”
But nonetheless we got back in time. And cooked a nice homecooked meal. sorry no pics, they’re all still with eve.
AND!! on the train back, it started snowing!!!But we were inside the train so we could only admire it from the inside of the train.
Hectic but enjoyable trip. I’m already missing the cooking! And I didnt manage to bake. Going to Milton Keynes this thursday, and maybe to Birmingham to meet eve on saturday. Exchange rate drop already ma… (excuse only)
Babaiiiiiiiiiii!
Hello after weeks of not updating!!
Its finally half term, and I am now in Nottingham!! Eve is at the movies with her friends and me and yp are online gau-gauing at home. LOL… talk about being internet deprived!!
Our trip here was ok ish I guess. The train from Birmingham to Nottingham got cancelled so we had to go to Leicester and change a train there to Nottingham, and the journey took a while longer. Nonetheless we got to Nottingham safe and sound, wearing a little too little, as we were trying to travel light. HAHAH…
Took a taxi to the house, dumped luggage and went out for lunch. Dimsum yumyum see it rhymes. Sigh, no hope of losing weight this half term. And after luch we went shopping!! Shopping here is so much better if compared to Northmpton. Like duh… I got a skirt from Zara, and a few tops that were on sale, but besides that, no winter wear, no proper clothing, no nice shoes. T.T I shall not worry as tomorrow will come. More shopping we wil do.
Dinner was mexican. Kinda Chili’s style. I miss Chili-ing with tantan!! I miss home! I miss the doggies, mom n dad, cousins, uncles and aunts, little kids (terrence!!! <3) food, wantan! but most of all, I miss choosing what to wear. Short or long, sleeveless? top? dress? jeans? skirt? I miss matching clothes, I miss wearing pink shoes with a pink shirt and purple with a purple shirt..I miss my red wedges, my pink flats, my purple converses, my white flip flops(no I am not going to montion all my shoes you dumbo). I miss the long mirror. I miss makeuping myself even if it is only eyeliner.
Life here s just jeans and a tshirt, long sleeved or 3/4, and pumas/converses. to be honest I only have 3 short sleeved tops here… talk about having a miserable life! hahaha…
But I am on a mission. To make my life less miserable, I shall dig my way through eve’s cupboards and take anything that doesnt fit her back. MUAHAHHAHAHA…. I shall play badminton until I sweat like there’s no tomorrow tomorrow, and I shall shop shop shop (for cheap things) till I drop.
Sigh, less crap. but besides crap, what else can I talk about??
Amy’s in manchester, Angie in Leeds, Helen, Alice and Tracy went to London today, Yuki in Paris (zomg so lucky her parents are here for half term) Jacqueline going to Birmingham soon. We’ve all gone our seperate ways. I’m lucky to have met there wonderful people. Even though they’re not gonna read this, unless they miraculously end up clicking on a link that leads them here!
I am finally back from KL!
I fat already lahh!! (i think)
Actually for the past week I’ve been eating oats with some weird oil blend that is supposed to be healthy and make you lose weight cos they’re good oils. but I feel fatter now ok. Its not just a feeling its real! see, means its so obvious that its even visible!!
Sigh, swim, badminton, hill climbing, anyone up for exercises?
Oklah I know you guys are damn sick of me complaining about my fat already.
but besides that I dont think I can blog about anything else cos I dont have the pictures yet!
Oh! oh!…
Last week we went to Miri Crocodile farm cos xiao liu was here. so we brought him, and ah fen to see crocodiles. the kids, fifi, yvonne and terrence went as well lah. They were damn excited when we went for breakfast at 2020.
The usual lah, crocodiles and wild animals, damn kesian lah. Anyway, we saw an anorexic alligator lol… then terrence wanted to see the deer but his dad and the others have not finished touring the rest of crocodile farm, so I followed him over the bridge to see the deer.
Then this guy came up with a bag of bananas, to feed the deer lah of course, so terrence took the bag of bananas and I paid (what is 1 buck to make him happy) for the bananas.
Then after he finished feeding the deers, (obviously his faviourite was the baby deer, he kept feeding it) he started putting his hand in to pet the deer, then he started talking to it!
damn cute! he said, “hello, ni jiao shen me ming?” (hello, what is your name)
then the deer who obviously didnt answer, kept sniffing the bottom of the fence. he asked again “ni you guai guai ma” (were you a good boy/girl?) and the deer, who obviously didn’t answer, kept on sniffing the bottom of the fence, for food I presume. So he asked again “ni yao chu lai ha? ni yao guai guai oh” (you wanna come out issit? you have to be a good boy/girl ohh) while petting it.
Damn, how cuter can he get? then the chased the goose! cos he wanted to sit on it! and he hated the duck cause it pecked him while he was trying to feed his new friend, the baby deer.
I had a fun time there… even though it was crocodile farm. And I’ve been there several times. The time with cikgu tajudin, fishing competition, LOL!
sorry, I couldnt be bothered to take out my camera that day cause it was hot. Uncle ricky has pictures though!
Imma categorise this under ‘holiday’ cos I SUANG. you dont give?
sorry.. feeling very malaysianey tonight lol…
I find myself going to nowhere but China. sigh, maybe its cos I’m too kiam siap (stingy) and everything in China is cheap so I go there.
This time we went to Gui Lin, mainly cos dad wanted to admire the scenery *cough*boring*cough*, the endless views of mountains and mountains and mountains , and what else but mountains?
I’m not really a scenery person, so the trip was so so for me. I think the highlight of the trip was the 12 hours car ride from Guangzhou -> Gui Lin. Bumpy and Rocky roads were a good source of free massage. I think my butt is FLAT now.
Actually in my opinion the thing about going on a holiday is the company. Auntie Kelly was there this time and I love it when she’s around cos she’s so happy and jolly and all we do is laugh. Be it at card peeking when we play chor dai dee, or stupid things we say, or things we do, or at her sudden love for Pearl Milk Tea.
I quote uncle Ricky, “What happened to my wife who loved to drink kopi-o??”
Nevertheless, I had tons of fun, even though it was all scenery.
Our flight was from Brunei to Hong Kong. Then from HK, we took a ferry to Macau, which we toured a lil bit on foot being brought around by Ah kok who also had his apartment ready for us to stay a night.
The endless casinos that filled the streets, from The Venetian, to Grand Lisboa, to Wynn, to other casinos that I did not really bother to check out, if you’re a gambler then it’s your heaven. But none of us were so it was just meh-
Then we headed down to Shenzhen where Uncle Ricky and Ms Chieng had their meeting whilst Auntie Kelly and I shopped around. She bought 2 pairs of shoes and I bought nothing. I know, so sad.
Then down to Guangzhou, stayed in an awesome hotel with bad service, breakfast consisted of SOUP with a few grains of rice, their so called porridge, two lil’ pau’s and an egg/sausages. But the room we got was HUGE!
And we went for Rapids while Ms Chieng and Teo shopped for furniture. I think that was the only fun thing we did! We divided ourselves into 2 teams, being Uncle Ricky and I vs Auntie Kelly and xiao liu. We won, supposedly cause auntie kelly said they slowed down cos they were worried about me! haha… nonetheless, we had an awesome time!
Then dad came and we drove to Gui Lin, left at about 12 and arrived there at 12 midnight. Checked into a cosy lil hotel, went out to check the place out a bit, then went back and slept.
Sigh why am I even describing the trip to you guys even I bore myself typing it!
picturesssssss!
From the bus, heading towards Venetian. If you know the routes, you actually can go from one casino to another for free. Good for cheapskates like me.
First picture of the trip!
Notice the celings. Awesome artwork. this was outside the casino. GIANT casino.
In the food court. The cool celing with clouds makes it seem like you’re shopping/eating on a nice breezy day.
The Canal Shopping thing, with lots of shopppssss!
The bottom is actually a hemispere with colourful LED lights on it. coolness…….
Outside the soup place we went to the first time we went to china. after we got our tummies filled.
After a 15 floor climb up a hill just to have a view of the ugly town.
Dad
Before the boat ride
On the boat
with dad and the supposedly famous elephant trunk
my facebook picture!! sigh I am so cool wtf.
mountains and fields of paddy.
On the way back we stopped by this place and went rafting?
I’m such a poser lah wtf
before rafting
while rafting please ignore me looking stupid trying to act cool actually the bamboo is so short it cannot even reach the end
And that ends china. Rest of the pictures are still in other cameras.
On another note, CONGRATS FLORA!! and Lewis and Alissa and others who got the shell scholarship!
Although I’m not the one who got the scholarship, but I’m damn happy for my cousin! And that means another companion in UK!! yay!
Cait and sarah are talking non stop on skype that they dont even notice when I talk. sigh, maybe I am too gentle and soft.. LOL!! and cait is like “eh eh you know that day blah blah blah” then “eh eh you knowat there’s this girl called caitlin also!” and “eh eh you know I fat alreadyy!!”
damn I am very full man!
