Serene farewell!

She is half Malaysian and Half Thai, grew up in Johor, studied in Singapore, citizen of Australia, and on an exchange scheme in Nottingham. Being nationally diversified, she is Serene. 

We had things in common, badminton, food, travel, language and she actually looks like Chai Ann. 

Birds of a feather flock together.

Went to fie's pent house for a quick dinners, boost and have fun for the whole night! 

I was drunk at the beginning of the boosting session, and end up sleeping the rest of the night.

After that we send her off in Broad marsh Bus-station.

Hmm, we had a typical farewell drama in the bus-station, it all started with Ken. 

Ken, called serene while she is just inside the bus

Shea yung was constantly worried about which terminal the bus will stops and the amount of luggage that she brought for check-in luggage  (50++kg). 

Chai Ann, sending off her identical twins, seems to be confused. But i think she experienced this before in US. 

Fie, sending her off as well, although they were just newly met.

me, holding my camera taking pictures for remembrance! :)

再见

Had Group Project discussion today, 

Our title is about Whitewater Kayak! 

Don't like it at 1st, but after seeing our helpful lecturer, i think i am much more relieved!Perhaps is because of the 2 new group mates that joined us today, Jack & Con. They seems to be approachable and they are Greeks! 

Went for Business module today, econometrics(stats in a very business way)

Its my 1st day studying in jubilee campus, which is modern & artistic. Compare to our grumpy engineering building (60-70 years old i think), Its like Mona Lisa vs Avril Lavinge

 

Met Sarah and a friend from Malaysia on our way to a massive lecture theatre. Didn't talked much with them, as we were late for class. 

I didn't expect to have so many people in the room.of course, there were much more blonds in the class than girls in our class room! hahaha.. :) 

Good reasons to stay awake.

Went to jubilee campus for badminton social night out. Crowded, but did manage to play a few rounds of games! 

Of course, i filled up my waiting time on the other side of the sport centre. Cheerleaders. They were doing some moves. toe-touch jump, pike jump & Etc. They are mostly Blond, 

Walked back home with a newly met friend in hopper bus, Brian. 

Alcoholic

When? -I am addicted to alcohols. Beer becomes not as bitter as i remember.

Yesterday in the middle of the class, i have a sudden urge for beer and I skipped the rest of the lectures(introductory lectures) for beers!

Went for a drink with Ken, SY, Serene, Chai Ann in their hall,

had Serene's thick Curry, Grilled prawns, SY home-made spaghetti and of course packets of beers. what a night.

 

SY and I had sofa talk till dawn, those heart to heart talk with someone from the same 'kampung' is just different. The accent that we shared, bring those memories back to me. Of course, 'Gong Lin Hwa' is the main essence of our conversation.  

 

Registered a Business Module today, wanted to study in somewhere different, away from my old engineering building. And to meet up different group of people. :) 

can't wait for the 1st lecture tomorrow. 

 

Went for badminton today, Bernard & I had a match with the Uni team (which i have been looking forward to for ages), I invited them for a friendly game, but i end up disappointed as they were bloody cocky! And they showed me those 'who the hell are you to play with us' faces from the beginning of the game! Although they played with us, they didn' show any friendly gesture for the entire game. 

Despite being looked down, we eventually won the 'unfriendly' match. 21-19. 

 

 

slept 13 hours, after a day hangover from those intense party, and a short 2 hours module introduction lecture. I look like an undead on the 1st day of Chinese New Year, literally soulless.

I miss my family, Especially during this period. As we would travel around, and strenghten our bond together. This year, we were all scattered around, Mom & Dad in Jeju Island, while my brother is in Brisbane. 

I received a wonderful cny greetings from kok tien(a charming guy indeed). Although his card is virtually dodgy, i could physically feel the CNY greetings he sent from 6k miles away.

I receive a tq message from fie this morning, 

I noticed that i had a wonderful evening after i woke up today. Probably i am just feeling abit down & tired that night. 

Financially Challenged

OVERBUDGET

Being incredibly stupid, i end up buying £200 worthed of alcoholic drinks and 7kgs of shrimps (which could normally feed up to 60 aldults) for a party of 20. The food & drink are amazingly massive. I don't remember if someone have ever spoilt a party like how i did, bought a massive amount of food, and charged on the guest.

Probably I am the 1st,

Luckily Ken, Eefie & Shea Yung bail me out from all this mess.

Never again.

Slept in serene & chai ann's flat for the past 2 days. Been steam boating for the past 2 consecutive days, i enjoy every part of it!

As usual, my relationship has been put on a test, just like my exam lately, where the examiners set the rules & regulations. A typical Long Distance Relationship's Drama happened, which the scripts are instantaneous and not pleasant at all. 

 

Scarlet (from china studying Phd) came to our house today had some tea before we leave together to a church meeting tonight, I enjoyed the meeting to bits of pieces. Sad to hear that Allen's family is going back Taiwan this coming 11th. Although allen once entered my room during his 1st visit to my house without actually asking my permission. I would still think him as a kind, and sweet and loving brother to have in church. As brother Allen has offered everything he possibly could to church, he got that strong passion for loving people.

 

Piin( my cousin), bake a chicken pie for the gathering tonight. I think i  helped him out, I prepared the potato, while he prepares the fillings for the pie. He seems to be discreetly annoyed, when the saints praised the potatoes instead of the fillings. I am damn evil and cheap. Although i am notoriously happy but I tried to be nice and insisted my cousin to take all the credits. After the dinner, he shared things that i could hardly encounters here, maybe not in the next 10 years. Probably a talk with my cute and naive cousin would be very helpful for me.

FYI, he is getting citizenship next year. and continues his 3rd master program. 

 

Planned to continue my 'day' with Edith and her bunch of friend for a  karaoke session, but with my sore throat after the 2 consecutive nights of staying out. I called her, to tell her i am not feeling well. She is extremely pleasant during the conversation on the phone which didn't lasted for more than 30 seconds. Probably i 

Will be going for a CNY eve house party tomorrow.

 

I am tired, good night.

Post exam

Woke up with a my head being numb, probably this is the usual phenomena. Hangover. 

i get drunk and slept on a comfortable sofas in Serene's apartment last night. 

Although they (shea yung, chai ann and serene) chatted loudly next to me, I felt extremly tired.

I think they even recorded my 'symphony orchestra' while i am sleeping. But i think they should be glad that i fell asleep. As I would simply throw things at people while i get drunk. 

If i am not mistaken, before i fell asleep. I threw a 1kg cabbage at ken which fails to wake him up. Probably he is drunker than I am. 

We called off our Manchester trip on this Saturday. 

I am going for a 2 hours badminton session. 

By the way, I am rude to people this few days, especially strangers, i wonder why.

Work from Home

I met Tristan Soh in Shea Yung's birthday party that day, I was inspired by him when he told us about his working experience in UK during his term time. Whenever he is not clubbing, he will be working from 5 to 11. I felt guilty instantly and i made up my mind, to secure the part time job, which i once hesitate to apply, in order to cover tiny bits of my living expenses here. I worked for an accounting firm in Cyprus and help them to compile their client's portfolio in UK and send it over to them. I am like a bridge, linking the client and the accountant here. 

According to my employer, the job would only take up to 2 hours per day, which i think it is reasonable and won't affect my studies.

I am blogging constantly lately, because i will be sitting for some essay writing paper this coming Wednesday. So blogging has become a wonderful tools to improve my grammatical conjunction here. In a nutshell, 'Chotting'

Frustrated!

Can't get a proper sleep lately, something is just bothering me in the back of my mind. Not because of my studies of course, although i didn't do well in my pavement module.

I have been self evaluating myself lately, when a martian meets problems, he would pull away to his cave,stay alone and think for solutions. Which is exactly what i did for the last 2 days, stayed in my room, and think for solutions.

Back to what is bothering me lately. I started to project this traits since i was young, i used to bite people i met. My parents even consulted by teacher, principles and even some victim's parent. Besides, i am very arrogant, selfish and boastful; Is my family hard work that suppressed all the negatives element in me to the minimal and I use the word suppressed here is because i still believe that these negative elements within me would surfaces easily. 

I will describe more about it below, E.g:

As a Chinese, whenever i wanted speak English, i would 1st think the phrase in Chinese and translate it into English; And whenever i am confronted with matters, I would 1st think in a very negative way, then only i translate this negative thinking into a positive 1. Filter it before i actually project it out of me. That is why i feel fake sometimes, and tries to show some of my evil part (which i mean being hurtful), instead of being nice all the time.

:)

Love Machine.

How this machine works?

This machine is strategically located in a men's toilet, as this will gives the buyer all the privacy they need to choose a suitable 1. 

Of course, this machine doesn't just sell condom only, it sells:

-Chewing gum

  a fresh mouth for a good start,

-Blue pills

  to impress partner with nothing less than usual 

-Vibrator

  to satisfy partner with less effort.

Probably this is all about the love machine. 

P/S: Love isn't cheap.

Cash Cow@UK

After being robbed last month, I am so happy to see police wondering around my residential area lately, I feel so safe and protected.
But of course, we know that there's NO free lunch in this world.

This morning, while i am taking my bicycle off my house to library, just before i reach the main road, i was greeted by a policeman with his wonderful smile, and a positive hand gesture. In fact, by the time i approached with quite some speed i could get from my bicycle he blocked my road path and push me hard to stop me from going any further, without a word he started to collect my details & write on his booklet.
I was abit confused, as i don't remember people would get a speed ticket on a bicycle and i don't even have a chance to ask what is he up to until i get the ticket which clearly state my offence on it.

Which was cycling on a public footing!

This is how I am being Milked.
Mooo~~~

Paper #1

Technically I have just finished my 1st paper, and there are 3 more papers to come during this period of  10 days but instead of keep on studying; i granted myself a day out with Chai Ann, Ting Ting & Serene. We went shopping, domino-ing, iceland-ing and finally a leisure walk in the rain which I (as a typical cancerian) personally relish the walk the most, as the weather is just nice, drizzling and not too cold. After all the indulgence, its time for me to get back to reality again.

I couldn't study properly while my 23 inch wide screen is sitting in front, so i decided to ditch my wide screen at home to stay far away from the temptation; but end up in front of a larger screen in the library.

screen@home,

Bigger screen@ library

The library is massively crowded with notoriously noisy blonds and the thing which i don't understand is why they could wear incredibly less clothes to the library even during winter. Perhaps their purposes going to the library is to pull down the average of the university by showing off their greatest assets of all, which i admit, they did considerably a good job at it!

In a Nutshell, I am easily distracted.

Robin's Land

Not in Nottingham, where Robin Hood originated from.

While I am heading towards George green library in a foggy morning, i spotted something quite unusual to me. 

Which is a motorbike parked in a bicycle stand, and there is actually a big chain on its wheel locked to the rail as well.

As Nottingham has been infested by Robin Hood in a very large scale, its just not safe to let your assets wondering around anymore, even in my Uni campus. 

For those who are currently in Nottingham, I highly recommend you to invest in your theft insurance to buy a good night sleep in Robin hood's land!