Whoa !

How weird...
going to your first class when the sun's setting.
When everyone's coming back from work..
And there i was walking to school...

so i went to check out liverpool and wales during the weekend.honestly...i love to travel. It's this insatiable thirst i have...to get out of one place....everytime i feel suffocated that is...
course if the opportunity comes along, go with the flow ^_^ so took the train with elaine and her dad to liverpool for a night.
DId i mention...trains.are.so.freaking.expensive.
even with a young person's railcard, which cost me 20 freaking pounds to get,it costs like...£31 for a one way ticket to liverpool!!! gah....i almost had a freaking hard attack,my budget alone for the whole trip was 50 pounds.
anyways, liverpool was this small half countryside half city place.apparently it's really famous for its pubs and docklands...i didn't really have the time to explore the place since we had to get to bangor,wales early the next morning.
liverpool didn't really leave much of an impression...
but the nezt day....
that's when it all started..
bangor, wales is a really ulu place in the middle of nowhere..not really the middle of nowhere, since that's where the university of wales is, but we had to take 3 trains to get there. after every stop, we had to wait for like a half hour..in the freezing cold.*since london is the warmest place in the uk, every place to me in freezing cold*
i think we reached wales at the third stop..
you know you're near wales when :
signs and everything are written in welsh and english...
the most i can remember is
araf=slow
you see more sheep everywhere..
the country side looks more wild and untamed..
and then we finally reached bangor...and it was..so amazingly awesome. think pride and prejudice...
i could even see snow at the peak of the mountain tops. which didnt' really elict awe...mostly panic since i kinda assumed it'd be so.freaking.cold.

but welsh 's so fascinating. it's such a mish mash of letters.I finally understand how foreign people feel when they're reading malay. it's like..you see letters, but they make no sense....
words like.
rhiwalys,
or
yt mawar..
there was this really unpronoucable word...saw it at a volvo shop..
llopwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllantsygoch
i'm serious..i'm not making this up. that's really a word..
kinda wondered why there were hardly any volvos on the street.

met up with one of elaine's dad's old friend from university, hugh. so we went hunting about for a typical welsh b&b place. we went to quite a few places before we finally found one which was vacant. that was after hugh's wife made some calls around. oooh....don't you just love small towns? :P
hugh brought us to this place up the mountains, it's one of those blink and you'll miss it roads.an elderly couple owned the place...and i forgot what it was called *did it even have a name?*
i shared a room with elaine.there was a common room, and books....!!!satellite tv*been ages since i watched tv*, and dvds!!! a lovely little garden outside with a bench to just sit and stare at the view....
so for dinner had a beef lasagna. huhu my first 'real' meal in ages...strangely it felt like i had a host family. Had dinner with hugh and his family. course the 'kids' had to sit on another table. ended up chilling with laura and kim. kim was an assistant teacher.it did feel kinda awkward at first...but then it did feel great to be talking to someone who wasn't
a) a law student
b) a city person..
huhuhu...course another reason why i love the countryside....you can see the stars....
sitting on the bench, with your ipod on, all alone, staring up into the endless sky pondering over life..
it's really relaxing...nyek....it makes one wonder why one worries in the first place..

and to top of an almost perfect evening,elaine and i watched grease *one of my all time favourite musicals!!!*
the simple pleasures in life..

unfortunately i don't have pictures atm since my lap top's still out of action...


mmmm wonder if my coat's enough for me to survive in the us...ah sheet...think i've got to start shopping for thicker clothes...gah!

I feel like a royal ass right now. In one week i have managed to
a)spill water on my laptop..thus ruining it for the next three weeks.I AM LAPTOP-less...
b) lose the fantastic furry gloves kaori sent me for my birthday..*still really upset about tt*
c) forget to save my EU and public law essays in a back up drive. Hence, i have to do it all again. which is fine...but i forgot what i wrote. And it's waaayy past my due date.
d)get sick. *i think it's cos of all the walking in the rain the other night and a general lack of sleep*

i think my iq's dropped by at least 50 points.
I miss my roomie ...^_^

You tell me how liddat???
Gone...all gone...
well at least i get time to sort out my life..
of to the library for now...
gah!

Let the coffee addiction begin once more.

and i love my black rose...

mwahahahaha

I'm ready. But what if my ready isn't enough? I want this to happen.So bad.

Autumn's in the air..

Went to Nottingham for the Malaysian Games!! Basically all Malaysians from universities around uk go to nottingham for a day. It's like Sports Day for Malaysians.
Took the 4.45am bus to Nottingham. It being a three hour journey, Elaine and I didn't sleep the whole of last night. First impression on Nottingham...FARKING COLD. Insanely cold..Amazingly cold..Since the sports and leisure complex was at some secluded area, getting to the main food courts were such a pain. Under normal circumstances, walking doesn't deter me, but in the COLD>...
Of course it was all very scenic..Nottingham wasn't voted the most beautiful campus in the UK for nothing...

the millenium gardens


Finally had my first nasi lemak in months!! Joy...and it was comparatively cheap. 80 pence for teh tarik and 1.50 for normal nasi lemak.

mmmmmm...



lol...one way to get around campus...yellow buses!!!


After that we wandered around for a bit before we realised sports
wasn't our thing. So we headed out to the city for a bit of shopping..
and i found the most divine chocolate shop with the absolute BEST hot chocolate i've had in London so far...



creamy..smooth....mmmm...like melted chocolate..

ish ish i've got a thing for hot chocolate now..maybe cos it reminds me soo much of milo...
one of the good things about london are all the boutique chocolate shops around...

And the fireworkds at night!!!
Remember remember the 5th of November...
Guy Fawkes day *well it isn't called that but i can't be bothered to find out*
absolutely wonderful..walking through an english countryside watching fireworks..
gosh...you can almost forget the cold...*sighs*

And so the honeymoon's over..

Well apart from partying around once a week, i've been wondering WHERE time went.Staying up till three in the morning waiting for my bum of a best friend to come online. Of course wednesdays are the best since she gets of really early. Then what we do is we study together. Andrew finds it really funny that my study buddy and I live in different time zones. But no matter,studying with her, i really study. Strangely we both seem to concentrate better..Anyways, i've found a great place to study! Andrew's place! i absolutely LOVE it here! it's bright and sunny, In Britain, it feels utterly heavenly when you're sitting by the coffee table, the sun shining through the window sipping coffee..Absolutely perefect!! Thinking abobut it makes me feel all fuzzy inside...^_^

My birthday was absolutely insane. Seriously insane.
Caroline : You're a big girl now....:P


i really love the cake darling!! from a girl who almost never cooks...oh wait she NEVER cooks or bakes..apart from that one baking 'project' i made her bake with me.
wish you were here with me...


my absolute FAVOURITE present so far this year *courtesy of andrew :P*...fountain pens are notoriously tempermental things...after a few mishaps(one of which involved ink dripping down my back), i'm addicted to writing...seriously...damn farking nice...the thing about fountain pens is...it somehow adjusts itself to the owner..something to do with the nib.which is why when other people use your pen, the ink doesn't flow as smoothly..

For my birthday dinner, went to TGIF and i had to so the normal lame standing up on the chair rubbish. It wasn't that embarrasing..maybe cos i was quite stoned then. DInner was fine. I didn't have much but fries. All i remember was being really sleepy. By then it was almost ten. Caroline and i were in such a hurry cos we wanted them FREE cocktails at Silver!! Unfortunately Caroline convinced me that birthday girls should not leave their own dinners. Hence we were phreaking late we totally missed cocktail hour!! GAh....

So i headed of to Tiger Tiger for the KCL Malaysian society party!! huhu...

special request by xue lieh..something about gloating to jin...:P
wakakak finally met SOMEONE from taylor's.....happie pappie frappie


with caroline @ silvers



with ben and julia

then the rest of my week was spent in cambridge.had a nice birthday dinner with andrew. honestly had one of my best nights in london so far. we had a nice three course meal...live brazilian music and a nice bottle of good wine...*sighs*

anyways, was meddling with photoshop first time...nyek....okies. andrew was giving me a dummies guide on photoshop.
soooo.....


june and my lips look weird...



the warm effect..

so watched my first movie here ...the departed!! gah damn freaking expensive...12.50 pounds at the odeon.course NOTHING beats GSC.....