i love holidays :D

Happiness is a function of how closely our world conforms to the infinite variety of human preferences, but that makes it easy to forget that sometimes happiness can be found in having what we’ve always had and everyone else is having. – Malcolm Gladwell

I’m currently reading What The Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a really nice book. There are some parts I find hard to understand, but the main gist really makes a lot of sense.

anyway, since i last blogged, there's brighton, bricklane and half of my netherlands trip :D

Brighton

a really small town meant for summer. haha. seriously. we walked around the area, looked at the nice buildings and walked around their main shopping area. and went to look at the port, basically all the tourist attractions and finished them in a few hours. the real attractions like water sports and the orb rolling thingy cannot be done in winter. but it was nice all the same, just time for my mum and i :D had a good lunch, nice htht. wanted to catch an earlier bus back but all buses were stopped because of the heavy snow in london. so we decided to take a train back instead. more expenisve, but at least we recahed home:D

Bricklane
decided not to go back to brighton since we alrdy saw everything there is to see. so we went to bricklane with jaipei and lujie and jiapei's friends from warwick, haikal and elizabeth. good good food. yummy :D then home to pack for netherlands trip.

Day 1 to 5 of Netherlands trip
pretty good trip so far. place is covered in snow. like totally. arrived at eindhoven after an hour's flight. got a little delay, but no too much. went to visit my 1st uncle in Panningen and 2nd aunt in Sittard. and that was day 1.  

day 2 my mum and i just walked around the city centre of eindhoven. just stroll and look see look see. the highlight was the dinner at Avant-Garde, which is a 1 michelin star restaurant. OMG THAT WAS AWSOME. eating went to a whole new level. like seriously. it was an art. food was so good. and the whole process was so meticulous. amazing. one day i will have my 2 and 3 stars. hahahaha. 

day 3 we went to aachen in germany. walked around a german xmas market, ate german sausage and german potato fritters. haha. bought belgian chocolate from germany also. haha. then on to vaals where the three lands point is. went to 3 countries in 10secs. video on facebook. hilarious. haha. then we went to valkenburg cave xmas market. the market is in a cave, and its the biggest one in europe. bought a 1m tall giraffe, dunno how its gng to go back to london, but it will. haha. trying to think of a corner to put it in, my room lacks that. haha.

day 4 we went to antwerp. walked around the area, looked at the buidlings and markets. omgomgomg the chocolates there are like mmmmmmmmm. if i could, i will buy one of each flavour from every shop i see. but sorry no moolah. haha. and we saw many branches of the belgian choc we bought in germany. haha famous yo. then we headed to zierikzee where i am now. my 4th uncle restaurant. the b&b above the restaurant recently became a 1star hotel. haha. eating good food every meal :D cos my uncles are great chefs :D


day 5 nuaed around the restaurant, cos its xmas eve and everything is closed. tmr also close. sunday maybe will open. so these few days are just for us to nua around :D i like and eat good food :D i like also :D haha. and read my book. oooooh :D


ok photos all on facebook im too lazy to uplaod here. im off to eat again. Doei!

OMGOMGOMG THERE GOES TERM 1!!!

WOOOHOOOOOOOO HOLIDAYS ARE HERE! SCENARIO 2 HAS ENDED! TERM HAS ENDED! OMMMMMMMMG. seriously, it's not the holidays that's making me happy, it's the end of scenario 2 that's really really really what cege students were looking forward to. haha.

ok so since the last time i blogged, we went to oxford. it's pretty much like cambridge. we went around looking at colleges. personally, i feel that the architecture in oxford isn't as diverse as cambridge. and i prefer cambridge. prettier. omg went to both with dunmanians. muggers united -.- haha, anyway, it was a good trip. a relaxing one with the people i feel most at ease with :) a bit of enjoyment before scenario 2. haha. photos are all on facebook. :D sorry i just finished scenario 2 i'm lazy. haha. blame it all on scenario :b

so anyway, yup monday was the start of hell. haha. scenario 2 started. my group consisted of me, alexa, dave and jack. it was really fun working with them. many different perspectives and we all specialised in something different, so it was good in a way i guess, though we didn't split up the work like how the professors wanted us to. haha. but yup, it was a week of intense calculations, drawings, writing and yah. that. our footbridge is cool and it can stand. hopefully. haha. stayed up late all week and there was one day we left school past midnight, after the security guard shooed us away. haha. worked hard, but fun i guess. oh and my group had very good welfare. the night we stayed till midnight, alexa made pasta for us and brought magnum. one morning dave brought doughnuts and ytd afternoon fuwei delivered ben's cookies. (awww so sweet hor? walk in the snow somemore leh :)) envy of all groups :D haha. but yup, we slogged hard and we handed in on time and we ended with a group hug :D hehheh.

oh and my mummy is here. felt like i've neglected her. haha. went to fetch her from the airport with fuwei on monday. after she arrived, both of us left for school. then that day i fell sick. had some funny stomach problem. brought her to gbk. tues i left home early, then fuwei brought us to hi sushi for jap buffet. food not bad but not enough variety i think. went back to do work. weds left at 9am and came back at 12.30am. haha. mummy had to eat microwave pizza. ytd a little earlier came back at 10plus pm. then dabaoed beef horfun for her. haha. so poor thing.

but we're going to brighton for the weekend and then to netherlands until the 28th :D

yay i'm so tired now.

o.m.g. it's december!

woohoo. busybusy :) do i even say anything else? why am i blogging at 5am in the morning? i dunno. i slept at 2am. then i woke up at 4am, thinking it's 8am, on the com, saw the time and went o.O. and since i'm awake, might as well, do what i keep postponing. haha.

the past 2 weeks as been rather crazy. had so many meetings. every lunch break, there's a meeting somewhere. i also dunno why i got so many meetings. i just have. haha. information overload sometimes. heh. that's what minutes are for. best one is sunday 9am. later 9am also got meeting. enthu ttm. so early on weekend meet. haha. but what to do? timetable clash until cannot clash.

and i've started running again. but somehow i only run for like 3-4 days consecutively then the next 3 days no time :/ must run! or else cannot take part in marathon ): i refused to get a gym membership cos i dun really like running on treadmill, so i just run outside. and it was the cold spell recently. i ran in -4, i ran in the snow, i ran while it was snowing, i am great. omg my ego is terrible. hahahahaha.

i watched 2 musicals, oliver and chicago. both with fuwei and his friends. omg oliver is amazing. the set is awesome, like really really nice. we should totally recreate it for a twist of fate. haha. yup sure :b haha. love the oliver set. like really really love it. and the cast damn cute, especially the small little black boy. super high. but i like the boy who was dodger. i think he's damn talented. grow up will become a very charming performer. and the guy who acted as bill sikes had such a bloody sexy voice. can fight miao qiao wei. haha. stall seats for 23.50 :)

chicago was a different type of musical, more dancing than acting. very sexy and sultry. the guys, good bod but ah well... none caught my attention. velma and rosie were like the leads. i liked velma better, i thought she carried herself and her character much stronger than rosie. but both were great. can sing, can dance, good bod, sexy ttm. haha. must watch must watch! stall seats for 28.50 :) and my next musical will be phantom of the opera with my mummy :D

jiahui came down last weekend, to pass mabel her bday card. so sweet. jolene i will fight to go back singapore to pass you bday card. haha. cross fingers eyes and toes. so went to winter wonderland, ate at four seasons and candy cafe. aiya is all eat eat and eat. really. all we do is eat. at this rate, sure fat. haha. that's why must run.

thurs go paktor with fuwei :D haha. went to covent garden to light up xmas tree :) then just walked around aimlessly, ended up at trafalgar square and saw the burnt xmas tree from the demonstration, and then walked aimlessly again until we reached this restaurant. italian. azzurro. the food is sooo good. love my chili seafood pasta. and the tiramisu and chocolate mousse so good :D best meal in london i can say. like omg it's not chinese food. haha. make me miss eating good food with jolene and shunjie ):

ytd my hall had the xmas celebrations. had xmas dinner at the decorated dining hall, then a party at the bar. didn't stay long for the party. too noisy. went down, show face, had a glass of champagne, left. too noisy, go mabel's place do work until 12. come back, party haven't stop. zzz. then do some stuff and slept. haha.

going to ealing broadway today to support john and other archi students for their exhibition, then maybe watch harry potter. like finally! urgh. everybody watched it alrdy. tmr, going oxford with michelle. who michelle? ms leong. haha. she's here in uk and she bought yakun kaya! :D omg. haha.

it's the last week of school next week. soooo damn fast. it's scenario week. i wonder how many hours i will be sleeping. the previous scenario i slept 20hours in the entire week. o.O after this scenario is the winter break! :D woohoo! and my mummy is coming on monday. ultra excited! :D

ok im too lazy to post pictures. go facebook see tyvmbb.