BOOOMBOOOOMBOOOOOOOOOM!

OMG SCENARIO 1 IS OVER. O-V-E-R. OVER! :D such a tiring, intense but actually it was quite fun week. woohoo! i hope we come out of it fine :D but anyway, i think my group's really cool. the best thing that came out of this was that i made 6 new friends :D haha. yeah. i didn't knw my group members before this. lol.

 

Group A+

5th November was Guy Fawkes Night. so guy fawkes is this guy who wanted to blow up the houses of parliament on the 5th November 1605. he was caught. On the night of November 5th, throughout Britain, we commemorate the capture of Guy Fawkes with bonfires and fireworks, and by burning an effigy of Guy. yah, google it.

so there were fireworks on friday, saturday and sunday at many different locations. some free, some charged. so i went to the free ones. like duh. haha. originally wanted to go for just 1, but i got hooked. haha.

friday went to the one at clapham common. left the hall with fuwei at like 6.20pm. the tube was sooooooooo crowded. the stations were packed. you don't know what is people mountain people sea till you see it, the tube stopped at like every single station for damn long cos of the human traffic and dunno what. so yah, we decided to get down a few stops earlier and walk. while walking towards the place, the fireworks started, so we kinda missed 5 mins of it. but the display was 25mins long. so we still caught 20mins of it. the fireworks were really really pretty :D like boom boom boom. haha. omg boomz. haha. yah ok i dunno how to describe it, you have to see it for yourself. the clapham common one was more like ndp or new year's one i supposed. like really huge and grand and wow. yah. ok i suck at describing. haha.

pretty. but there were trees blocking ):

after that we went for dinner at fourseasons. the roast duck very nice. and i'm great at picking up tofu with my chopsticks. woohoo. omg and the kailan. chinese vege leh. haha. and then despite the cough, we went to eat haagan daz icecream. bailey's, rum and raisin and belgian chocolate. yummy ttm :D satisfied my icecream craving. and we were at leiscester square and there was this fun fair going on, so we went to take the carousel. like £2 per person. and we were the only ones on it. lol. but their merry-go-round turn daaaaaaaamn fast. like daaaaaaaaaamn fast. but it was fun. love merry-go-rounds :D

yummmmmmmy :D

the very fast merry-go-round

Saturday went to blackheath at greenwich to watch the fireworks. we left earlier in case the same thing happened again. and we had to change tube to tube to dlr. first time on the dlr. we were like 2 suakus, dunno where to go and how to pay and yah but we found our way and we reached blackheath like an hour before the display was supposed to start. haha. there was a funfair kind of thing there, so we went to look see look see and ate a hotdog bun cos i was freaking hungry (brunch was bad that morning). and then waited around and finally the fireworks started.

yummy.

OMG THIS ONE IS DAAAAAAAMN AWESOME. LIKE SERIOUSLY. i think this is the best show out of the 3 i watched. the fireworks were sooooo nice. they were like soooo near we, putting them off 50m away from us and we could feel the debris dropping on us. ok maybe that's not good but it was that close. and yah it felt like the fireworks were going to fall onto us and like omg it's just sooooooooo pretty. like hogwarts dining hall feel u knw. you look up and it's sooo magical :D and the best part was the place was just this really really big grass field. so no trees no nothing and we were standing quite in front. perfect view :D

im so sorry the picture is doing the fireworks no justice.

after that we headed back and it was like 11pm by the time we reached so most of the places were closed. ate at chinahouse. recommended by many people. so yah i went to try. food was quite nice. see below. haha.

king prawn fried noodle. the prawns were so crunchy. very got kou gan. yummy. and got taugay :D i love taugay :D

fuwei ate beef horfun. very nice also. beef very tender.

ok after that we ate ben & jerry's icecream. chocolate fudge brownie or sth like that. yummmmmy.

sunday, since lujie the poor little boy missed the friday fireworks and i could totally feel his disappointment like the vibes were so strong, so i asked him to go watch the one at victoria park. so him me and sam went to the victoria park one. had to miss dinner, so we packed a sandwich meal deal from tesco to picnic there while waiting. reached rather early, like 45mins before. so we just stood around and ate our sandwiches.

the 2 small boys eating happily and in anticipation of the fireworks haha

i personally feel that this one paled in comparison to the other 2. but it was still very nice and pretty. and it was like a pyrotechnic show. they had lights and music. the music made the whole atmosphere really fun and lively. it was a very cheerful feeling. watch alrdy will very happy one, which the 3 of us were at the end :D

:D :D :D

while trying to get out of the park and squeezing with the people (it was another people mountain people sea), we saw benedict. and he looked like he was with another girl. we got super excited and high. haha. we started stalking him. lol. until lujie saw that he was with 2 girls. sian. hahahaha. but it was damn funny. maybe the whole cheerful atmosphere minus off a few numbers off our age or sth. lol.

look at the people. and spot benedict. hahahaha.

 after that met up with fuwei for supper before he left for austria. went to hare & tortoise which sold malaysian singaporean food. wanted to go there the previous night but it was closed. so this time we were early enough. haha. and i ate penang prawn mee. nice leh. not very penangish la but it was nice. and it made me think of the beach road prawn mee. i want!! haha.

wooooooooo~

OMG. NORWAY TMR I AM SOOOOO EXCITED. OMMMGGGGG. BYEBYE PEOPLE IM OFF TO NORWAY TO EAT SALMON AND SEE THE FJORDS AND HAVE THE TIME OF MY LIFE :D WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

OMG A WEEK BEFORE NORWAY!

lunch break now and since i finished eating i shall blog. i wanted to take a quick nap but cannot cos the nap will really be damn quick. been sleeping at around 4 and waking up at 7 plus 8. dark eye rings coming out ): ok fine so it's my fault for going out even though i have work to do but i'm in london, ENJOY LIFE, YO! :b

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.

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

£22

group shot!

off we go! :D

adventure island!

at night... ok fine so it was like 5pm...

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!!! 

watford!

OMGOMG CONGESTION! -.-

zha jiang mian :D yummmmmmmy

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

woohoo!

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

and the squirrels are getting real fat

Hello! it's an unearthly hour of 4.37am right now. i can't sleep i don't know why. maybe i'm too excited about the theme park later. haha. and we just had daylight saving. like after 1.59am is 1am. so cool. hahahaha. we gained an hour for no reason, but we will lose it next spring ON MY BIRTHDAY (!@#$%^&*)

ok so since im awake at this kind of time, i decided to blog :D woohoo. and the greatest thing that happened between now and the previous post is that WOOHOO THE TOY IS OVER OMG YAY. it was due on thurs. couldn't wait to hand it in and get it out of my head. went there with my ultra portable toy in a plastic bag and when i saw what the others have i was like "oh dear..." but ah well, it was so interesting to see other toys and the mechanisms people use to make their toys work. when it came to testing, mine worked but needed to be tweaked a bit. so yah cross fingers toes and eyes x) this toy project was like sooo troublesome, i spent so much time effort and money on it but it was a good experience. a kick in the butt for us to start the course. haha.

some of the toys

everyone waiting for the testing to start...

my toy :D i watned to throw it away after the thing, but couldn't bear to so it is now sitting in a little corner collecting dust.

friday long day at school and a happening happening night. went to get shiqi's cake and then had an EWB social dinner between UCL and imperial. we went to this ethiopian restaurant at finchley east which was in zone 2 (ooh my first time out of zone 1). it was had such a cosy atmosphere. a perfect place to bring shunjie and jolene. haha. it was a buffet of ethiopian food. haha. the food is quite nice and yummy. pretty worth it for £8.50. and because they wanted to give us a really ethiopian experience, we had to eat the ethiopian way, with our hands. there were no utensils at all. haha. really interesting experience. glad i went :D

ethiopian deco...

we filled up the entire place, more behind

the food :D

queueing for the food

after that rushed back for shiqi's birthday celebration with the cake. supposed to celebrate it at ULU bar but they didn't allow outside food (the cake) so we adjourned to my hall's common room. and we just sat around and had orientation. like introduction and playing orientation games. it was quite funny and suaning was damn focused on his games and introduction objectives. but it's a really good way to know people :) and connaught bar was having a halloween party. so there were 2 parties in connaught that night. haha. stayed till like 2plus in the morning. yay hope shiqi enjoyed himself. love celebrating birthdays :D

sitting around like an og. haha.

birthday boy! :D

:D

saturday i spent my entire day doing work so that i can go out at night and on sunday. ok there's nothing much to blog about doing work so fast forward. i finished my work early and went for a jog. the squirrels are sooooooooooo fat. getting fatter and fatter. luije suggested catching one back to watch it sleep in the room -.- after that went off to vic's house for her housewarming, the bus is so cocked up. we got up the correct bus number and on the way, the bus driver just announced that the destination has changed. then at some angel place, the bus stopped and all passengers had to get down. we alighted and the bus stop does not cater for the bus we were on -.- so we had to hunt for another bus stop and wait for the next bus. and pay again. baaaah. ate and talked and chatted at vic's house. there was a weird atmosphere, maybe cos i didn't know the people there well enough. so it wasn't as fun as i thought it would be. stayed for a while and then headed back. waited to watch the daylight saving thingy :D haha so cool. like a min ago it's 1.59am and then it becomes 1am. haha. chatted and talked till like 2 plus 3. came back, tried to sleep and can't.

WE'RE GOING TO ADVENTURE ISLAND LATER! :D WOOOHOOOO!

*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!