311010 ADVENTURE ISLAND!
we went to a theme park in east london called adventure island. it's a family theme park, so they had rides for all ages. we got the tickets for above 1.2m which was £22 inclusive of return train tickets. so it wasn't that expensive :D met at 8plus in the morning, tubed down to liverpool to take the train. it was an hour's ride and i dunno what happened. i was sleeping. haha. reached southend victoria and started to feel like a little kid all over again. like woohoo im gng to the theme park :b
the theme park had quite a number of rides, finishable in a day. they had a lot of spinning rides. like spin spin spin and spin spin spin and spin spin spin. they only had 1 rollar coaster which wasn't very big. and too much spinning makes people gong. haha. at the end of the day, only lujie nv complain about queasiness or gongness. and he took the most rides. zai. i had to rest after some rides. old alrdy. haha. the worse was a ride called scorpion or sth. omg spin finish when i got down i thought my world will nv stop spinning again. it didn't for sam. haha his world spun for another day. poor thing
oh and cos it was halloween, they had this halloween theme. so there were like halloween songs being played and there were people dressed up as zombies all over the place trying to scare people. quite cute. really put in a lot of effort to create the atmosphere.
oh and cos it was halloween, they had this halloween theme. so there were like halloween songs being played and there were people dressed up as zombies all over the place trying to scare people. quite cute. really put in a lot of effort to create the atmosphere.
anyway, we played in the morning, then we had a late lunch and after lunch cannot play so we went shopping! omg the shopping centre is amazing. they have tkmaxx (big brands at 60% off), primark (cheap cheap cheap), h&m and poundland (everything for a pound) in the same place. and it wasn't crowded at all. but i didn't buy anything except for sponge (to wash stuff) and tablecloth (to clean stuff) and a vaccuum flask. haha. i shopped in the home section. lol. after shopping, 4 of them went back to catch the hall dinner and the other 4 went back to the theme park to play again :) then we headed back and had dinner at chopchop. cheap and good :D yummy :D
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£22 |
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| group shot! |
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| off we go! :D |
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| adventure island! |
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| at night... ok fine so it was like 5pm... |
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| yummmmmmmmmmmy :D |
011110 Scenario 1
omg like binary code or sth. but yah this week is my first scenario week. it is a week of no lessons/tutorials/lectures. we are given a task and we have to kind of like work on it in groups. like project work in a week. so we were supposed to have 8 a group but there some unknown in my group who nv appeared so we have 7. and all 7 of us are from different places. quite exotic somemore. like singapore, spain, bahrain, pakistan, france, lithuania and cyprus. cool right? haha. it's really interesting working together. quite tiring, with all the research work, meetings, discussions and stuff but a nice break from normal school.
021110 Watford
for the scenario, we had to go to watford which is southwest of london to monitor traffic conditions. we went and surveyed and took a look around the city centre then we had to make our way to our spots. and for an hour, we stood there looking at vehicles. 6 of us had to copy down the license plate numbers and 2 of us had to track the types of vehicles. turned into a snowman after that. it was so cold. not because the temperature was low, it was fine, but the wind was damn strong. brrrr. everybody was so glad to be back on the bus after that. haha. original plan was that we will leave the place at 6 and reach london around 7 but there was some miscommunication with the bus company and it became reach london at 6. so originally is cannot make it for hall dinner become can make it for hall dinner but i still went out to eat dinner. haha.
since we reached early, i went to the study abroad fair and took a look at some universities. eth zurich is on the list :D im choosing between that and delft. maybe open my options to usa. im not sure. but no guarantee, there are soooo few spots. after that went to put my stuff down cos they were soooo heavy and helped people take food (since im not eating don't waste ma haha). then met fuwei and we went for dinner. had dinner at leong's legend in chinatown. it's a taiwanese restaurant. not bad the food is nice and it's not expensive. i had the zha jiang mian, oh awesome :D the lu rou fan that fuwei had was nice too. the sauce was very fragrant. the xiaolongbao was soso, not dingtaifungish. haha. but the chili oil was mamamia :D haha. after that is desserts, like duh. went to a frozen yogurt place called snog. they had bittersweet dark chocolate. and the toppings quite generous. yummy. miss frozen yogurt so much. my yami yogurt!! j.co!!!
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| watford! |
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| OMGOMG CONGESTION! -.- |
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| zha jiang mian :D yummmmmmmy |
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| frozen yogurt! :D |
031110 Wicked!
went to watch Wicked last evening. thongthong helped like 30 of us get group discount. so our tickets were like £14. not bad not bad. the musical was really nice, but i think i was too tired to appreciate it fully cos there were actly some parts where i dozed off. oops. but i think the focus of the musical was the plot. there were some funny parts too and their vocals are amazing. totally worth the money the time and having to stay up till 4.30 to finish my work. haha. next up: oliver or phantom :D
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| woohoo! |
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| most of us who went. hahaha so big group. |
time passes by daaaaamn fast. it's alrdy november!!! so amazing. and yes life in london just started. i realised i've been eating bread with jam for like forever. so all i eat is like bread, hall dinner, bread, hall food, bread bread bread bread. cannot! i must save and i must go out eat. and i kind of only have lunch time to meet up with people so i must do that more often! new target is eat out for lunch twice a week. cheap good food. haha. yes i must enjoy life in london by enjoying good food, right jolene and shunjie? haha.
and this time next week, i will be in norway looking at the fjords. amazing :D