*cough cough cough*

urgh. i'm coughing again ): sucks ttm. and i haven't blog in forever. been busy with i don't know what also.

school has been busy as usual. been sleeping a little too much during lectures though. especially context. boring ttm. and then there's chem and bio. eeew. but ok though. can still catch a bit here and there. need to do my own self-study to catch up. sian. toy is still not working properly. works at time and in random. i'm just going to cross my fingers in front of the professor or sth. zzz. 5% of module which is 25% of total. so it is like erm 1%? but i think my toy is bright and cheerful. effort for making it look like a toy :D heh. ok that's it for school. really nothing interesting. just lectures after lectures.

ok so we had our 1st month in london celebration at Goldmine @ Bayswater with jiapei, lujie and ziyang. 4 of us damn gungho. we walked there. like a freaking 1 and a half hour walk. reached cold and hungry. made the food yummier i supposed. the food is damn nice :D so long since i had like real chinese food :D our budget was £15 per person and we ate till £13.20 per person. left £1.80 just nice tube back. hehheh. we didn't want to walk back cos we will be hungry again by the time we reached home. then we went back and had haagan daz bailey's ice cream with cocktail :D yummmmmmmy :D super satisfied sunday cos of great food with great company plus we washed our jackets and hoodies and bedsheets :D hahahahaha.

Roast Duck, Curry Fish Head, Hotplate Tofu, Wanton Soup, Egg Fried Rice, Sweet and Sour Pork

next significant thing was the trip to Borough Market and Tower Bridge on Saturday. wanted to go Borough market for such a long time already. heard so much about the cheap good food. not exactly cheap, but good. the cheeeeeeese daaaaaaaaaaamn nice. had a great time sampling :D hehheh. and yes, we walked there too. haha. went with jiapei, lujie, ziyang and jiapei's friends yunbing and joanne. borough market was so crowded. squeezed here and there. walked around, sampled, bought brownies and cookies and looked damn long for savoury food. finally found curry :D i had carribean curry, ziyang had thai green curry and joaane had malaysian curry :D yummy. after borough's market, since we were in the vicinity, we went to tower bridge to be tourists :D the wind was so strong. coooold. and we took photos, like duh! we wanted to take a group photo using jiapei's dslr, so we waited for somebody who had a dslr so that he/she will know how to use. and we had a nice picture. but i don't have it. must wait for jiapei.

after an hour's walk...

the front of the market, hiding all the chaos at the back...

CHEEEEEEEESE

the curries :D

the Shard, europe's tallest building to be

Tower Bridge

i think this is so cute.

hahahahah mountain climbing

sunday had the first dhsya(uk) event. we went to cambridge. it felt sooooo good to be with dunmanians. like the frequency is there you know. then we talked about our teachers, the school food and rooms and all that. nostalgia :') cambridge was really pretty. the weather was so nice somemore. clear big sky :) but i think cambridge is only worth going if you actually know people from there, or else there really isn't much to see and do. the pretty things are all in the colleges and we can only go in with students. good thing wenxiu is cambridge pr :) hehheh. oh and we went punting. but i didn't punt. cos i didn't trust myself to stay balanced on the boat. and i didn't want to fall into the water during winter. maybe if i go in summer i will try. haha. OH and when i was looking at the sky, i commented that the rainbow was missing and everybody say i wish for too much. but later in the day, the rainbow really appeared! :D but i couldn't get a picture of it ): hopefully the pro cameras caught it. and i think i caught a cold in cambridge ):

rare lovely weather :)

Market Square! FOOOOD!

Ostrich Burger! Yummy!

King's College, the prettiest of the 3 we saw and supposedly the prettiest in cambridge!

so postcardish

their chapel is soooooooo pretty. i went in and WOW

GoodBye Cambridge!

went to finsbury for brunch. horrible service.

but nice food :)

punting! and phototaking :b

rum and raisin ice cream on a cold day. shiok!

Trinity College!

very pretty also :)

St John's College! the rainbow is supposed to be there. use your imagination.

st john's college is huge

bridge of sighs

ended with dinner at nando's. very very hot officially killed my throat.

their moon always so low hanging.

yesterday was uclsingsoc FRIGHT FERRY! halloween party on a boat. my first halloween party and my first boat party. the scenery was so mesmerizing. it was so cold but i just wanted to stay out to look at the scenery. and we choped place to take pictures with tower bridge in the background. pictures with jiapei (again). so must wait (again). haha. anyway, there was a dance floor on the upper deck which i happily avoided. just went around taking pictures and catching up with people and talking and chatting and drinking. yay i got free drinks :D had a maliblu pineapple with the free drink upon entry, bought a bailey's, got a free bailey's with the ticket jeric gave me, and got 2 smirnoff ice with tickets from fuwei and chaorong. thankyou very much :D hehheh. it was really cool seeing people dress up. some really put in so much effort. i wanted to really dress up too, but my lecture ended at 6 and we had to arrive at 6.30. so erm yah. just did something simple. went as a london police. haha. pure laziness, but i didn't want to pon lecture. somemore the lecture is 4 hours lecture. and since we had to skip dinner, i made dinner for 6 and basically just sandwiches. and yogurt for desert. £1 per person. cheapcheap :D haha even cheaper than the bailey's i bought. lol. 

thongthong! ok but i anyhow say a name you also don't know. hahahaha.

Fuwei, looking good in the weird specs. haha.

catwoman, policewoman, spiderthief

Mabel :)

John! :)

Maliblu! seriously the best OG :)

the police :D

ok too many pictures. go facebook see! :D ok i'm going off now, maybe to sleep. i slept my whole day away. no i wasn't having a hangover i was sick. i went to nhs (national health service) and the clinic was so empty but the doctors all busy so i was told to go back later and try but i didn't. i just went back to bed and slept. heh. and today my hall had a thai special dinner. but everything was tasteless to me, except the rice pudding. so wasted ):

annnnnd... don't be jealous people... but... I'M GOING TO NORWAY FOR MY READING WEEK! :D COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

i am so busy, but i'm loving it ;)

school has been so busy. full timetable, assignments, readings, catching up on chemistry, trying not to feel too lost during lectures and trying to stay awake... urgh happens like every lecture or sth. ok not every lecture. not the maths and more physics based one. those like chem, sustainable devt and stuff are like zzz. oops. haha. but it's like having computing all over again. understanding but not understanding and feeling totally lost and not being able to comprehend what i actually need to know and yah all that confusing stuff. and the worse is that it's not for one module. but for like 3? bleah.

homework isn't really piling up, just the stupid toy i have to make? it's really really damn irritating and i'm at a total lost of what to do for it now. i'm going to try again tmr. bleah. hope it works or else i will like ~!@#$^&*() got so much help, especially from jiapei. but it's still not working i'm so depressed about it ):

oh and we had to do this drawing assignment in which we had to make a sculpture of shapes and draw out the different views. i just randomly picked things off the shelf and drawers and placed them together. haha. damn cute.

got straight, got round, got irregular pyramid

and my course is sooooooooooo expensive. so many things to buy. i had to get like drawing boards and special rulers and set squares and all that stuff. totally super duper expensive. but i found cheaper alternatives and like sourced for the cheapest available. but still expensive ): a scale rule cost £4. like hello? my ruler is 40cents -.- bah that's it for school.

i'm going to join ewb (engineers without borders). i made it into the committee, am the events officer. have loads of events to plan. sounds fun and yah, it advocates for human development throught engineering :) so i like. i'm going to join frisbee too. trainings are weds and sat for outdoors and mondays for indoors. i will try to make for all the trngs but competitions will see as i go. cos i just really love the playing and training is fun. frisbee people are cool :D though i go whammed during training and my mouth bled and i got send off the field. haha. but chill, nth serious. and the training is at regent's park so pretty and so near the 99p shop in camden. omg have to stop going there to buy snacks. i am going to become fat. and i wanna commit to a volunteer society, looking at animals and soup kitchen. but the animals one all damn far and the soup kitchen may not be looking for volunteers now so hmm... i'm thinking about running for ucl singsoc exco but just thinking. i'm still evaluating the amount of time i have for like school and social life. haha.

oh and i wanted to join asian boards but thurs and i went to the asian boards thingy cos i needed to play mahjong. and erm well..

need i say more?

ohhhhh sth super interesting. last friday, my hall's kitchen roof caught fire and erm we had to go to international hall (10mins away) for meals -.- and then on tuesday, while i was having lab, the fire alarm went off and we had to evacuate. turned out an experiment produced smoke which set the alarm off -.- and the fire engines arrive whether or not there's a fire. as long as the alarm goes, the engine arrives. there was this hall with this guy bathing with the max temp hot water and he set off the alarm and the fire engines came. hahahaha.

monday a few of us went to watch a concert by the singapore symphony orchestra. we walked/ran there cos we were running late and we refused to take the tube. reached just in time. the concert was nice. the pianist was cool but too bad we couldn't see his fingers. after the concert we took a nice long stroll back, still refusing to take the tube. haha.

the orchestra

free tickets from the suka dinner :D

ok anyway highlight is probably like today. there as the ukssc hyde park picnic and jiahui came down from manchester. so last night mabel qingyi and i went to buy stuff for the picnic and mabel, fandi and i stayed over at cindy and qingyi's room. oooh dunman high gathering. i love being with dunmanians. gives me a sense of comfort :) morning 3 of us woke up to prepare the food (basically just tear the wrapper and throw into the oven) and then we wanted to walk to hyde park but little miss meng had to put contacts, decide to roll up her pants or not, straighten her hair dadadada in the end we just took a bus. it's my first bus trip in london. haha. so we went to hyde park and dhs mat has a lot of food :D yay. so i just ate, took photos and played frisbee. ucl played against imperial. i'm going to refrain from saying anything here. ucl won :D haha yay!

the food we prepared

a little corner of hyde park

dunman high! :D

after that mabel, fandi, jiahui, anthony (jiahui's friend from manchester) and i went to south bank. we wanted to walk but it was raining and it was quite far so we tubed. had lunch at this chinese place called chopstix (they don't have chopsticks though). buffet for £7. quite ex, but then it's south bank so yah. and the food was not bad. then we took photos with big ben and london eye and went to the royal theatre place. i wanted to go to the cheese and wine exhibition so they went with me :D yay. we went to this art exhibition by inmates first. some of the art pieces were really nice. then we went to cheese and wine. omg the cheese so nice yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmy. i tried and refrained from buying. i have great self control. after that, i headed back to hall while they continued touring. and i nua until now. haha. bad bad. i should be doing work.

part of the buffet for lunch

my favourite piece at the art exhibition

OOOOOMMMMMMMMGGGG CHEEEEEEEEEEESE

tmr we're going to celebrate our 1st month in london. so fast. it's been a month. time really flies cos life is so packed with activities. and in fact, i don't really like miss singapore that much. i mean family, dog and friends of course, but on the whole, yah london is like home alrdy. there are always times when i wish my parents were here to watch ppstream with me, laugh with me, eat dinner with me, my dog was here to welcome me home, walk with me, look at me eat, and my friends just to be there (yes shunjie jolene leeyan weiliang i'm talking about you guys). friends here are just different. baah.

and i've made a pact with myself. i'm gng to start running. if i end late, i will wake up early to run. i must run, then i can take part in the marathon i set out to complete :)

School finally starts...

omg i haven't blogged for a week! i'm so busy ): ok fine it's not that bad. at least i'm doing sth in london and not just hanging around.

weds 29/9
had a walking tour for my first assignment. went to the river thames area. it was raining, so there was just this big group of people standing in the rain, drawing the london eye -.- so we took a walk along river thames, saw some famous bridges and stuff. really pretty. after we completed the walk, i walked back to connaught, taking in the sights along the way. everything is so old and quaint. and i stopped by the horse guard museum and saw the guards changing. the horses were quite smelly though. haha. horsey smell. so took a long walk back. wanted to go to borough market, but it wasn't in the way, so i headed to covent garden market. a market aimed at tourists. there wasn't much food, so i didn't buy anything. haha. found my way back by just walking and following random signs. woohoo i didn't get lost :D

drawing in the rain

graffiti on some building

River Thames

at the horse guard museum

a part of the covent garden market

some church i went in to look look see see

later that night, brought a cake which i bought from marks and spencer to ramsey hall to celebrate john's birthday :D oooh i love surprises. he was so touched :D yay :D mission accomplished :D

the cake. yumyum.

birthday uncle

thurs 30/9
went to freshers' fayre. took a lot of chocolates and sweets -.- signed up with a whole bunch of clubs and societies. but i don't i will be able to join all cos my timetable is really really cramped ): and a lot of activities clash. plus, it will be quite expensive. horseriding, gliding, mountaineering... all too expensive ): so i've got to decide on which one to focus on, and i'm inclined towards frisbee, engineers without borders and hiking and walking. oh and asian boards, just for the mahjong. haha.

the fair. had to queue to see the booths. for like 20mins -.-

after that met john and we headed to the buidling centre, which is like singapore's ura. they had exhibitions on too :D totally going to visit every exhibition :D so nearby somemore :D yay love it :D

engineering exhibtion

london plan

fri 1/10
had a meet the mentor session. well... i was the only one in my tutorial group to turn up. lovely. really. and my mentor was telling us how busy we will be with homework and assignments and all that stuff and how 30% fail and only 2 get first class. really, a great welcome speech -.- after that had our first official lecture. and by the end of the lecture, we had another assignment. we have to make a toy which will accept 3 spheres and 10secs later, the spheres will come out via 2 exits in the sequence of exit A exit A exit B... and the toy is for toddlers and must be able to be dismantled into 3 pieces to be kept in a box. like real toy. rumour is that 5 quit after receiving this assignment. not sure if it's true though. haha.

at night went for singapore uk association (suka). they had their annual agm and dinner. half of the people there were from uclsingsoc. it was like a singsoc event -.- they elected their new comm, which is like a walkover. after that had dinner. and there was singapore food! omg. satay, nasi lemak and sambal. you don't know you miss the food until you taste it. not the best, but better than nothing :D and the teh tarik was great :D

singapore high commission

yummy yummy

sat 2/10
connaught hall had a basketball session and i went to watch. it was pretty interesting watching from the top. i could like analyse what each player likes to do and what they cannot do. haha. after that, connaught brought us to camden town. then it was free and easy for us. walked around the markets. wanted to buy things for the boat trip but didn't get anything. bought cheap door hangers and liquer chocolates from the 99p shop :) that will be my favourite shop along with primark. haha.

connaught hall basketball

camden! :D

love the way they try to attract attention

then had a dhsya(uk) meeting. settled things for the picnic and day trip. and yah ate at the korean place assa again. why are we always eating korean food in london? and it's not that great. good, but not great. would rather grab a sandwich. cheaper. haha.

the food we had...

sun 3/10
jio-ed people out last minute to play frisbee at regent's park. lovely day, lovely weather. and it was really fun :D i want more frisbee sessions :D just recreational and all fun, enjoy the company enjoy the weather :D

oooh and we cooked supper, using minghao's induction cooker and jiapei's pot. bought the ingredients, and we had a curry party :D for what we had, i think the curry was not bad. yumyum :D 1st homecooked meal in such a long time :D i miss cooking ): ohh the pot was totally empty by the end. satisfaction yo! haha.

marketing! :D

had to use the curtains to cover and people fanning so that we won't activate the smoke detector :b

even had toasted bread

yummmy :D

stop salivating :D

mon 4/10
lectures officially start. but then i alrdy have 2 pieces of homework. so it doesn't really count as an official start for me -.- and seriously, they just plunged us head on and kick us in the butt. still need getting used to after such a long break, but hopefully, i will be fine. ok fine, i will be fine. i'm sure :) yes! haha. ok i'm being optimistic :D

):

had a welcome buffet by connaught hall. the food was quite bad. normal dinners are so much better. the buffet wasn't really free flow. you can only take up to a certain amount each round you queue. they had to control the food so that there was enough. and yah, the food was quite bad ):

tues 5/10
lessons again ): even more. 9am to 6pm with an hour's lunch break. but i finished my work earlier and went back to rest before going for a volunteer meeting session. was so hungry by then. after that, rushed to meet and speak the engineers without borders chairperson. put my name for comm. then after that went to the hiking and walking meet and greet session. after the briefing, lost them when we were heading to the eating and socialising place. so i didn't get dinner ): had lujie's digestive biscuits to curb the hunger. and jiapei's apple. and some chocolates. and tea. haha. great to have hallmates who stock up for war. hahahaha.

weds 6/10
omg today! my summary skills are great. so fast 1 week alrdy. haha. anyway, had lessons, like duh. see my timetable. it's terrible. ended at 12 today. and yah it's so early cos it's like "do you own things day" something like cca day. so i ended at 12, rushed back to changed, ran to the bank to activate the card that finally came, deposit leftover money, ran to nando's at brunswick (yes shunjie! they have nando's here and water is free flow) to say happy birthday to rachel. sat for a while then jogged to the northern end of regent's park for frisbee! :D yay it was really fun :D i'm going to join it :D it's fun, it's something i like, and it's one of the cheapest sports club. haha. but then, joining frisbee, i probably won't join hiking and walking cos both have activities on weekends. sucks. in such a dilemma. eeeek. so frisbee for the entire afternoon, went back to connaught for dinner then headed to sports night and the uclu bar with frisbee people. first sports night. interesting experience. i just concentrated on the game so i won't lose so i don't have to drink so much. but i'm actually feeling woozy. see, and i still blog, so noble :D haha.but it was really amusing seeing them make people drink (as long as it's not me) :D haha.

ah well, school has been really really busy. cramped up timetable, lots of activites from clubs and societies and connaught hall itself. and i still need a social life. baaa. but i will find a balance, i'm sure. and yes, i'm aiming for the prize given to the department's top student :D go jasvin! :b