London Trip (15/12/07)

Alrite... since I've got nothing else better to do... I just wanna post some pictures I took during my London trip last December.

LONDON

First day


London Eye.. din went for the ride though.. just took it from a bridge which I forgotten the name of it... lol... It was so nice of Yan Yan's uncle to bring us around London on the first day I arrived.. he even let us have the whole house and also bought us dinner in WAGAMAMA which I heard was quite famous in UK.. have got a few branches around... However, the food was just so so... Yea... tat nite we just walked around the city... Trafalgar Square, Oxford road, China town and some other places...

Second day
anyway, the next day we went to Madam Tussaud's... It changed so much since the last time I went there when I was a little kid.. lol... After that, I met up with Choong Lee and his brother at Hyde Park.. From there we just walked all the way down the street till we reach Harrods... went into Harrods... man, that place is awesome... It would be better if I had few hundred thousands in my bank account.. hahaha... he told me about krispy kremes, so I just bought some to try.. not bad but I prefer Dunkin Donuts... hahah... while on the way out, I saw a Rolls Royce and there were a crowd of people surrounding it... I heard someone said that Victoria Beckham a.k.a Posh Spice was inside... wanted to join the crowd that was waiting for Posh to come out but then I got bored so I just walked off... not really interested in her anyway... lol....

THen Choong Lee brought me to CHinatown for dinner... He said that there's this famous restaurant that sells duck rice.. So we went there... Once we reached, I was told that we have to queue up for 30 mins before we can get our table... Since it's that famous, I said its fine...so we waited... well, it was not bad and not too pricey... tats all I can say about it.. if u compare to Malaysia, well, obviously u cant... hahah... After that, went to Majestic Theatre to buy ticket to watch Phantom of the Opera for the next day...


Sherlock Holmes...


Old skool telephone booth...


Julia Roberts..


Keira Knightley... woo hoo...


Captain Jack Sparrow..


Princess D...


William Shakespear...


some chinese monk.. I dun really know his name...








and how can one miss taking pic with the ever famous Marilyn Monroe....


Harrods....

Third Day

Met up with Choong Lee again and this time we headed to London Bridge and Tower of London... DIn manage to go into the tower of london... Just walked around, take some pictures then we left to Trafalgar Square... Dinner in Chinatown again... this time we ate earlier coz we got to go for a play at 730pm..
Went to Majestic Theatre for Phantom of the Opera... It cost me 35 pounds for that show but I have to tell you guys, it was all worth it... The show was awesome...There was the moving stage effects and all.. the story itself was a good one.. Phantom of the Opera wat... lol...


London Bridge... took it from far coz too lazy to walk nearer... lol...






Big Ben...




outside the theatre after the show...


Fourth day

Lauren and Hwei Chuin joined us on the 4th day before we leave for Germany... Since I was in London 3 days earlier, I took them around... hahaha... We went to St. Paul's Cathedral.. Went up to the tower where I had to climb more than 400++ steps to reach the top... It was exhausting... din really get to travel much that day coz had to leave to Lauren's Fren's place earlier where we took a cab to the airport together... his place was somewhere up north of london in zone 5(forgotten the name dy)...
However, we managed to meet up with Kok Hong and gang for dinner before we left... had buffet dinner in one of the restaurant's in Chinatown.. yes, Chinatown again.. lol....







Alrite guys, tats all for the trip.. there are so many pics just uploaded a few, the rest I think you guys can check it on Facebook... alrite then.. cheers...

CNY updates..

First of all, I would like to wish all the couples out there a very HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY... hope you all have a great V-day...
As for myself, I will not be having any V-day celebration or watever...sigh...

Anyway, the main purpose for this post is a little update on how I celebrated CHINESE NEW YEAR over here in the UK... lol... alrite, here goes...

CNY EVE

After class went straight down to Bradford where Vincent held a party for the CNY...Everyone who went were from Inti... They even played CNY songs just to suit the mood.. lo.. well, tat's the least you can get over here unlike back home.. lol..

As usual, it was a pot luck party where everyone cooked something and brought it over.. there's curry, stew, vegetables, etc... Food was good.. and also there's lots of alcohol around which was placed nicely on the floor in the living room just waiting for everyone to have their dinner and start on the booze... lol...






Zhen Hwee and the BUDS..

After dinner, everyone gathered in the living room and there we played a game where the loser have to drink shots.. Well, I din lose much, so I din get to drink much as well... luckily.. lol... There were a few who got drunk as well even before the clock strikes 12am.. lol..


me and my smirnoff...




the guy who never survives any drinking session... wat a way to start the year.. lol..


a toast to the year of RAT

I stayed over for the nite and miraculously, I managed to reach back to Leeds just in time for 9 am classs... hahaa...

1st Day of CNY..

It was a very depressing first day for me as I had to spend almost the entire day in the LAB doing tests for my final project... sigh.. However, once I reached home, it was all good coz my flatmates and I organized a steamboat sesssion..wat would CNY be without a good steamboat... lol...we bought fish, pork, chicken, meat balls etc.. since we do not own any steamboat equipment, we have to settle using our rice cookerS.. lol.. we invited about 12-13 person, therefore we had to use 2 rice cookerS .. lol... Kok Hong, Kumar, Kenneth and Nizam came all the way from Bradford to join us for steamboat.. Well, we ate almost the whole night and felt so full after that..


FOOD!!!!




Kumar, Me and Nizam

After dinner, some other guys came over and started a mini casino in Wilson's room.. well, tat's typical CNY.. lol... they played blackjack and after an hour or 2 they headed down to the casino.. lol.. big time gamblers... I din follow them coz I was so tired due to lack of sleep from the nite before and the 4 hours tests...


gamblers...


2nd Day of CNY

Din do much basically, just spent the entire day in the lab again and went clubbing at nite with Kok Hong and gang...

3rd and 4th Day of CNY

Went down to Liverpool to look for my aunt.... Had a nice dinner and get to play with my nephew, Cameron... yes, I'm an uncle now... lol... my cousin cooked a goose for dinner.. my aunt made abalone and some other dishes... abalone was good... it has been a while since i last ate abalone... lol....

Once, i reached there we went around shopping, went to the dock, grab some ice-cream and had a little race with Cameron...

On Sunday, followed my aunt to Chinatown... they were having some celebrations over there... they had lion dance, and also dragon dance along with some fireworks... quite nice...anyway, here's some pics for the trip..




Cameron


Chinatown




these 2 kids are my cousin's best fren's sons.. twins.... damn cute..


my cousin, Gill and one of the twins...


lion dance


Dragon dance..

wel,, that's it... nothing much can be done here in UK during CNy.. lol... till the next time.. cheers..

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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2008 everyone.. welcome to the year of rat.. Chinese New year has been good to me.. anyway, not really in the mood to update on my how i celebrated CNY over here in the UK..

anyway, i found this video on youtube the song was song by marie digby.. nice song..
enjoy... cheers...



This is the third time this week
that I find myself wandering down your street - and i can't seem to give it up.
I've even stopped making these excuses for why you're stuck here in my thoughts when it's been long enough. I try to keep myself moving, but i'm not going anywhere..

I wait in the same spot
brain like a parking lot
you're the traffic in my head
you're the reason why i'm wrecked
I pray for it to stop
like rain on the sidewalk
traffic in my head
you're the traffic in my head
there's just too much to forget

guess i should be happy now
everything is back to how it was
before you came around
i'm already changing
i've even tried to find a new distraction
but still you surround
as if it's not hard enough

and i try to keep myself moving but i'm not going anywhere

I wait in the same spot
brain like a parking lot
you're the traffic in my head
you're the reason why i'm wrecked
I pray for it to stop
like rain on the sidewalk
traffic in my head
you're the traffic in my head
there's just too much to forget

a part of me thinks that i'm going crazy
the world's spinning
my vision is hazy
and none of this makes any sense
i never meant for this to end
i can do what i have to do..
if i could only get around you

Paintball in Darlington..

Went for a game of paintball today in Darlington which was organised by Leeds Paintball Society.. Signed up last week during the healthy week... It was very very tiring and fun at the same time.. lol...

Anyway, woke up damn freaking early this morning at 630am, had a cup of water and walked straight to Parkinson Building where the bus will be waiting to bring us to Darlington.. Darlington is somewhere up north.. While walking out from the flat, it started snowing.. I was like, 'Shit, am i gonna play paintball with all the high speed wind and snow all'.. and it was freezing ok.. the temp was about -2 to 2 degrees.. Since Darlington is up north, that place was even colder... the whole time i was playing paintball with gloves on..

We reached there around 8am, and we were given a pair of suit, masks and also a hopper where u keep the bullets.. then we were told to buy our own bullets... i was like wtf... i tot the 10 pounds i paid included everything.. well, i guess there's always a catch to all the cheap stuff.. and the freaking bullets were so exp.. 100 pounds for 2000 bullets.. god.. since it was shared by the 5 of us, each have to pay 20 pounds... sigh.. We were given a belt and a tube to keep our spare bullets so that we can refill when we ran out of bullets during a game... we were given free burgers and hot drinks for breakfast... after eating, we went into the game site...


Leeds students putting on their war suit... lol...


The mask.. freaking smelly and during the game, the glasses are so blur that u cant see much..


Lauren and I before the game started..


Ken Wayne and Hwei Chuin


me with my mask on...

We played about 8 games in 4 different sites... First one was the normal paintball site like the one i played back in malaysia where the first team to bring the flag back to the camp wins.. Wasnt a good one, got shot on my thumb and have to walk to the side... sigh.. and once i reached the side to check on my thumb it was already swollen... damn painful man..

Then the second site was quite even better... they call it the VC site where there are jeeps around and we were split into 2 teams, vietnam and americans.. the attacking ones would be americans and the defending ones would be vietnamese... the defending ones were suppose to defend the so called chapel so that no americans can enter and if any americans enter, the team lose... well, i was in the defending team, so i picked my spot and just defend from there with some other brits.. they were making jokes during the whole game and one of them even asked me, what do your family think when u told them u're goin for war with the vietnamese.. i was just smiling all and the other brit answered, i dun care what they think, jsut get this damn thing over with,i'm fucking hungry.. lol... jokers la they all.. lol.. in the end someone shot us from the back without any of us realising it.. lol...

We went out for a break, i din know they provide free lunch as well but i had to wait like another hour.. so i went and bought myself a burger that cost 1.50... i paif that fella 2 and guess wat.. he returned 3.50 to me.. i just walked away quietly and pass the 1.50 to lauren who was hungry as well... lol...

Then came the dirtiest site of them all.. the trenchers.. we have to crawl through muddy grounds to get to the opponent's side to win the game.. and there were thorns everywhere...thank god my cousin bro bought me a pair of gym gloves.. it proved to be a life saver since my other gloves was quite bulky which make it hard to shoot and i din want to dirty it, i used my gym gloves where the fingers are exposed... and my shoes were soaked in the muddy waters.. damn sakit hati...lol..

The last game was not a fun one if u're defending... the defending team will be placed in a fort and no one can come out from it as we were suppose to defend inside.. the opponent wins if all the team members in the fort are shot and walked out... i walked out once i saw most of my team members were shot as i din want to be shot by more than 10 fellas at one go.. lol...

Since lauren and i already ran out of bullets we decided to walk to the waiting zone and take some pictures while the others will play one last game just to finish off the bullets.. lol.. However, we only managed to take a few...






back from war..




muddy shoes.. i'm gonna have trouble washing my shoes as well as my socks.. i damn smart, wore white socks... sigh...


And lastly, the boys and their guns.. lol...

That's all for today's activity.. fucking tired now.. gonna head to the bed soon... lol.. today was all good even though i have to pay 20 pounds extra and it was a good experience playing paintball in cold weather.... to those who have not played paintball before, go give it a try... till then.. cheers...