Tuesday, 21 September 2010

Saying goodbye has never been more difficult…


I’m currently like erm 31998 feet above sea level. I’m in india! (Hi Thad!) I’ve eaten my first meal on the plane which is white carrot cake. I’ve watched Marmaduke. I’ve read the Sunday Times. Ok flipped..

After counting down for 60days, 19th September 2010 has finally arrived. I’m on my way to London, on my way to a whole new life in a foreign city. I’ve been so excited for sooooooooooo long, but I just didn’t want to go in at the departure gate. Because I know that once I go in, I’m leaving behind my family, my friends, hugo… basically everything I treasure. I’m really glad I didn’t work and all I did was slack around. Because in this way, I have more time to spend with the people important to me before we become like I don’t know how many thousand km away from each other. Thank you for spending time with me :D
Thank you to all who came and all who gave me your well wishes. Really means a lot :’) I’m gonna miss all of you!
I WILL MISS ALL OF YOU!

Saturday, 18 September 2010

OMG I'M FLYING OFF TMR! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED :D so in preparation of my new life, i've done up a list of to-do and to-see. just a guide. hahahahaha.

DO
  1. Appear on the Dean’s List (i'm sorry, mugger by nature :))
  2. Climb/hike up a mountain and camp at the top
  3. Cross the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
  4. Cross the Millau Viaduct in France
  5. Eat at a three-star Michelin restaurant
  6. Go horse-riding
  7. Go on a caravan trip
  8. Go on a cycling tour
  9. Go on a hot air balloon ride
  10. Go on a volunteer trip
  11. Learn German
  12. Make friends from at least 30 different countries
  13. Run a marathon
  14. Savour cheese from every country visited
  15. Skydive/Hang-gliding or anything from the sky to the ground safely
  16. Take part in a weird quirky competition
  17. Travel alone
  18. Try local delicacies no matter how disgusting they sound
  19. Watch a famous musical
  20. Watch a soccer match
SEE
  1. Baby-Jumping Colacho Festival in Spain
  2. Cheese Museum/Factory
  3. Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling in England
  4. Fjords of Norway
  5. Giant's Causeway in Ireland
  6. Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
  7. Harry Potter Filming Locations
  8. La Tomatina in Spain
  9. Land's End in Cornwall
  10. Leaning Tower of Pisa before it becomes the Fallen Tower
  11. Loch Ness
  12. Neuschwanstein Castle in Germany
  13. Northern lights / Midnight Sun / Polar Nights
  14. Olympia and Ancient Greece
  15. Queen’s Day in Netherlands
  16. Real Mona Lisa painting
  17. Roman Bath
  18. Stonehenge
  19. The Coliseum in Rome
  20. Vatican City, the Angles and Demons way
OMGOMGOMGOMG SO EXCITED :D

Wednesday, 15 September 2010

F-O-U-R

weiliang and shunjie came over for popiah on sunday. dear little weiliang never had homemade wrap-it-yourself popiah so he very very noob. me is the pro :D hahahaha. maybe, i should go over and have like popiah party. everybody is going to want me as a best friend i can cook so many things omg so ego. hahahahaha ok sorry feeling high.
yummy yummy :D


after eating we were supposed to go cycling but it was sooooooooooooooo hot. not that i'm lazy but it was really too hot. so all we did was nua around on the sofa. haha. then we had teabreak at 3pm, eating the cakes and mooncakes from friday's dinner. then we nua somemore. and then we left for some fruity icy dessert that weiliang the little girl was craving for. haiz, no more nuaing around with them for dunno how long :/

after that, i made my way to novena to meet mabel and celebrone for the greater london exco dinner. it is sooooo ulu. how can mrt station not have old chang kee and bubble tea and mr bean? celebrone was late, like duh. haha. then we made our way down to ulunisation. the prata place was close as it's the hari raya period so we ate at some chinese restaurant. met like some people from the various excos and they were all like "eh, why got freshers one?" sorry la, dhsya(uk) 1st year and not enough year2s -.- we then headed to udders for icecream. ooooooooh oooooooooooooh oooooooooooooooooooh soooooo yummmmmmy. love love love the maoshanwang and tiramisu. YUMMMMMY. after that, jiapei came to fetch us to supper with his og cos you know? *winks at mabel and celebrone* ya you know. HAHAHAHAHAHA. then he sent us home. yay car :D
at udders *slurp*
monday i packed. ok i know very early. i dun fly until sunday why pack so early? i kiasu ok. i needed to ensure that everything can fit and they will not be overweight. plus it makes me feel more settled. so i packed. cannot fit! then i unpacked. then i pack again. so now i have like last few things to buy and put in and the luggage is 24kg and the backpack is 16kg. yay 40kg! plus a few more things, maybe 42kg?

WAR!   
Hugo kept walking around. i wonder if he knows what's happening.
i will miss hugo ):
sent mabel off on tuesday morning. saw kassandra at the airport and she was apparantly taking the same flight  as mabel so i sent her off too. haha. went home to sleep then i went to bugis. needed to get a phone for my father cos its actually my student plan. one hour wait o.O so i went to make my isic (international student identity card). it's actually more like a discount card for travels with sta. and the card making process is so manual. the person printed stickers, then paste on a blank card then put my real passport size photo on it then pasted a plastic cover over -.- then i had lunch. then i went back to wait a while more and finally my turn. they needed proof that i'm a student. so i flashed my isic. hahahahaha.

met my mum at mandarin gallery. went to arteastiq. it's this tea lounge by marx. like a tea lounge in a furniture shop. SUPER DUPER ATAS. but pretty nice atmosphere. good for just sitting around, reading, relaxing. only recommended if you have too much spare cash.
triple scoops of gelato $12.90. maoshanwang (yummy), lychee martini (no martini taste), ginger spice (good if you like cinammon)
pomelo tea $11. very nice :) i like.
arteastiq
the bill went to $25 after ++ and a 10% discount cos i have hsbc card. atas hor?

today, nothing is happening. i'm gna stay home and make dog biscuits for hugo :D

Saturday, 11 September 2010

8 MORE DAYS!! OMGOMGOMG I'M SUPERDUPER SHIVERING WITH EXCITEMENT :D

monday
had an OG dinner. it was a rather adhoc decision. on bbq night at the camp, we were trying to get people to go to allure but nobody wanted to go so we decided to have a dinner. and we just "ok monday free?" nobody objected. so we decided to have dinner on monday. and we decided on the place very quickly at city hall cos it's the centre. and then we decided on jap so we wanted to go to azabu sabo. BUT THE PLACE IS CLOSED! so we headed to another jap place. we went to waraku instead. we got the biggest room and no shoes allowed. i thought we had to sit crossed-legged but there's like a hole under the table. those cheater try to be traditional but comfortable type you know? so we ate and talked. but biggest it was a long table with like 21 people, we just talked in small groups and the place was damn noisy. played polar bear and william is a very good story teller with very interesting descriptions. haha. we sat till the place was closing and headed to durty zelly's for drinks. talked a bit more and headed home. you know what's the most remarkable thing? THE ENTIRE OG WENT! OMG FULL STRENGTH. WE ROCK TTM :D

long long table.
MALIBLU :D (w/o kat cos she left early)




tuesday
hahahhahahah joke joke. had dhsya(uk) orientation. dunmanians love to pangseh. we were supposed to have more people. but in the end like... ah i dun want to say. you look at the picture yourself. so we kinda changed the whole thing. was supposed to have a food trail and like games like oh so orientationish. but in the end we went to old airport road to makan. then we headed to plaza sing to shop at daiso for like vacuum packs, files and dunno what. then we went to playnation to play games. the games are sooooooooo lame. but i think its a pretty good deal like pay $5 for 4hours of fun and lameness. i change my mind about paying to play games. haha. we ordered finger food all the unhealthy deep fried stuff. haha. after that we went for dinner at nihon mura then we went to frolick. ok la ha? still food trail. hahahaha. but it was a rather cosy orientation. nuhbad. lol. the only thing that went according to plan was taking picture with kongzi. that will be the tradition. following batches will have to do that too. haha.

strength of the day. haha (ultra cute photo)
wednesday
went to get my vaccinations. exciting morning. called tantockseng to check the stock. left house and decided to take 518 (direct bus) because i prefer buses to mrts. bloody hell started to rain so heavily i couldnt leave the bus stop even though i see tts in front of me. the rain was getting heavier and heavier so i hailed a cab. got my back entirely wet just by getting up the cab. starting fare $2.80. end fare also $2.80 -.- ouch pain pain. and i went in and out of tts in 15mins. damn fast. love it. went in,register,nurse brought me in, inject,pay,leave. the nurse is damn good. she just told me to breathe in and out and concentrate on my breathing and tada! 2 needles went into me already. best part was after i told her she was good she said "ok, now is the painful part!" i was daaaaaaamn shock i was like "HUH?!" then she said "you have to go and pay :)" -.- cute nurse. but seriously, she's good. haha.

was supposed to meet lorraine from visitBritain about the visitor of britain thing but i was too early. so i went popular to buy stuff then to national library to read and then fell asleep. haha. the visitor of britain thing is like a 2 month campaign in october and november. we have to blog at least once a week. and that's it. i get a britrail flexi pass where i can travel for 4 days in 2 months. im gng to aberdeen to find kim during my reading week! super excited :D ok that's the best part :D there's also a british heritage pass, a flip camcorder and lonely planet didn't give us britain travel guides. we got one about singapore -.- OOHH!!! and i'm also go to go on a day trip to see the castle used as hogwarts :D weehee! oh and there will be like a winner at the end of the campaign and the winner gets an apple ipad. oooh. ok i dun really care cos i think the whole travelling thing is like damn good a prize itself and im not a very techy person. but still... GET PEOPLE TO COME READ MY BLOG OK? :D
bloggers :D
after the meeting went to plaza sing to meet my parents. had dinner and then walked around and headed to cathay to watch cats and dogs. it's my father's company movie screening. the movie is so lame and stupid. but the bird and the mouse quite cute. totally not recommended if you need an intellectual movie. good for kids i suppose. after the movie, we just kept going on about how hugo is actually a secret agent and he's partner with my neighbour's cat. haha.

thursday
allure@zouk. my first time in zouk and 2nd time in a club. really not my kind of thing. had dinner with kim before we find our way down. watched the pageant. so lame. seriously. the q&a part was -.- the "Thankyou for your question" is so super duper rehearsed. but then again, i think the pageant helped kill time. pageant ended then one of my og mates david brought us into velvet. like vip like that. didn't need to queue or pay or whatever .just walk in and sit down. david bought us 2 jugs of long island and 2 jugs of dunno what. play games loser drink .went out for a bite cos people were feeling woozy then headed back to zouk. then joshua bought us a bottle of sour plum shots. had a few before heading home. i think the event itself was quite boring. there wasnt a high note and like not happening enough. oh keezhiyin was there.
dunmanians!
friday
treated my relatives to dinner at my place. I COOKED :D they say yummy ok? so many people had seconds. and they were like next time new year ask me prepare. but a bit expensive cos must fly me home. haha. but yah, just a simple dinner gathering with my relatives before i fly. glad they enjoyed the food :D worth the effort. ok now so all self-catered people, make friends with me quick :D oh and cos everybody was praising me (ego inflates), my parents wanted credits too. so my father keep saying watermelon he cut one cos they were impressed with the watermelon (but i choose one hahahahah) and my mother keep saying the drinks and gingko with beancurd skin she make one cos everybody say the tongshui very nice. very homey kind of food :D hehheh. and so many people bought cakes. there were like 1 box tunglok mooncakes, 2 boxes homemade mooncakes (damn nice), 1 box yummy chiffon, 1 huge homemade chiffon marble cake, 1 emicakes durian cake (YUUUMMMM), 1 durian lapis. and liqour. red wine, lychee wine, champagne. nobody drunk. haha.
I COOKED THIS! :D
cut already still in one round watermelon. cool hor?
today, i just stayed at home. and shiver with excitement about my scotland trip. haha. tmr shunjie and weiliang coming and there is a dinner at bukit timah omg so far so ulu.

Sunday, 5 September 2010

yummy :D

ytd, went to the temple to bai4 my ah ma. the temple was having some chao1 du4 thingy for 3 days. so ytd being a saturday, it was pretty crowded. and there was free food, eat for ping2 an1 one. so i eat. haha.

after that went to make specs with my brother. he got a pair of black nerdy toot specs and i got a pair of orange red striped funky specs YO! :D whee it's my 4th pair and i think i will make another one next week. what colour should i make? hmm...

that night had dinner with some relatives. it was at some steamboat place in joochiat. called 锦记. it's alacarte not the buffet style one. so we ordered a lot of things. the food was fresh and the fishballs, dumplings those things are all homemade. pretty yummy but oh woah damn expensive. the bill came to like $382 for 10 people. damn expensive. after that we went for durians :D hahaha because i wanted to eat :D yummmmmmmmy. the durians also expensive. like $170 for 5 durians. o.O hor? haha. but yummy. thought not as yummy as the one near my house at tampines mart.

today went for lunch with shunjie and jiaqi at ajisen cos i didn't want western. omg sooooooo long never see jiaqi already. people's traffic light status change alrdy yo. so fast. haha. then yuxuan joined us for dessert at berrylite. should have eaten the original flavour instead of the peach mango one cos the original is supposed to be more sourish. and yuxuan has very kiddy toppings and she said i have very old toppings. it was great catching up with long time no see friends :D still have so many friends i haven't had time to catch up with and i only have 14 more days and this week is packed alrdy. ahhhh.
Guess who ate what :)
and i met wenyi! poor thing mugging for exams haha.
:D

Saturday, 4 September 2010

MALIBLU! :)

that's my og for the uclss orientation, spirited away :) we got 2nd for the orientation. there were 6 groups altogether, not 2. haha. i don't have any pictures to post so i'll wait for the orientation pictures to be up somewhere.

the orientation was held in pasir ris park inside inside there where a bungalow chalet was booked for housing us. as always, the orientation turned out ok. made friends with freshers and seniors. it was quite good lor actly. maybe cos of the higher level of freedom and the games were less lame. haha. so the first day started out with icebreakers and we broke the ice. played those lame icebreaker games and it was a good start. after that was like mass icebreaker and then we had to find out 2 fake freshers. the male fake fresher was in my og. we felt so cheater ): haha.

after that played some games. there was this race where we had to transport water using plastic bag with holes, eggshells, mouths, hands and there were restrictions. my group sucked at it. haha. after that was an intellectual game. the 1st part we had to memorise 2 horizontal lines of the periodic table, the picadilly line of london with 40 stations and a fried rice recipe. so 4 of us memorise the recipe, this guy william memorised the periodic table before so he did the 2 lines on his own like WOAH. the rest did the tube line. and i think we are the only group with full points for that station. haha. william is not doing chem, he's doing econs. haha. 3rd game was captain's ball. they tricked us into thinking that the first game was played with a pineapple and i volunteered and it turned out to be papaya. ultra uber gross. the 2nd game was cabbage, 3rd game soap. after 3 games. the score was 0-0. so there was a 3min extra with cabbage and my group won with 1 point. the final score was like 1-0. haha.

after that just sat around and then dinner. i left after dinner because night game was water game and i was having my time of the month. damn. everybody said it was damn fun. my og won, but there were no points so they felt cheated for a 2nd time. haha. anyway, good thing i went home cos there was absolutely no space for over a hundred people. some people had to sleep on the corridors and outside. and some went all the way to dte to bathe.

went back the next morning for the murder mystery. omg i felt so useful. we had to travel around the east (pasir ris, airport, tampines, bedok, hougang, dakota) to get clues by playing games. and most in my group dunno the east. they stay in like west, north but not east. haha. i was an asset. haha. we got the clues and we had fun guessing the storyline which involved lingerie, gays and duh a murder. haha. quite interesting la but i think the stations are too far we spent too much money and time travelling. we were the first group back and then after finishing our story, we continued playing lame big group games. haha. and then came a confession.

there was a 3rd year medic in my group who crashed the orientation. and he's from imperial. when asked why he chose ucl, he said cos the buildings are very quaint -.- cheated x3. my og kept getting cheated ): but it was so interesting. it was like another case on its own haha.

that night there was a bbq for us to meet our seniors and mentors. learnt more about life in london and stuff. and it's the first bbq i attended where i stayed indoors the entire time. haha. went home after that when my og started leaving one by one. hitched a ride out yay :)

didn't go for the warwick games today cos there was some temple thing go and bai4 my ah ma. i wanted to bai4 her before i flew so yah. skipped the games. and my og dun wan to go for the imperial clubbing event. i dun mind going so maybe i will just see if i know enough people who are going then i crash their ogs or sth. make friends ma hor?

overall, the orientation was fun and yah made new friends, learnt more about studying there and i'm glad i went :D and we are having an og dinner on monday. yay.

WHAT YOU DO
WE CAN DO
WE ARE WE ARE
MALIBLU! :D

Wednesday, 1 September 2010

oooh it's september already. so fast.

anyway, went back to dhs for teacher's day celebrations but i only arrived when the celebrations were ending. so only saw the ending part. the sing-a-long was lame ttm. after that went to the staff room and hod room to find teachers and i saw mr gi's table for the first time. and i found him in the staff room. amazing. haha. save me the trouble of climbing up to the com labs. had a good time chatting with them.

qingyi is damn disgusting. she planned to wash her clothes once a month. ultra disgusting.

today i went to collect my xray. my heart is of a normal size and my lungs are unremarkable. that's the description -.-

tmr is uclss orientation. i wonder what it will be like.