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...

Street Dance

Since Leeds is organizing a Healthy Week campaign this week, I decided to take part in some of the course available. One of it was street dance... So Ken Wayne and I decided to just join this dance club for fun since it's only for a day.... So we paid our 1 pound and went for the class...

The lesson was held in the Dance Studio in the uni.. We reached there about 10 mins earlier.. We were looking for the studio as it was our first time there.. lol... Anyway, when we found the studio, we got a little shock coz it was all girls.... I tot we went to the wrong place.. So Ken Wayne went and ask one of the girls if that's the studio where the lesson will be held... SHe said yea and asked us to go in.. I was like.. Seriously.. We went in and after another 10 mins or so another guy came in.. Thank god.. I tot it's an all female lesson.. lol..

Well, the dance lesson was quite nice just that my body is too stiff to do most of the moves.. lol...and the instructor was really good.. I couldn't follow most of the moves that he taught.. lol.. Overall, it wasn't too bad..

Anyway, I'm kinda tired now.. Next up will be paintball this Saturday in Darlington.. woo hoo.. It's been a while.. will update next time.. till then.. cheers..

Germany trip

First of all before I start posting all the pictures taken in Germany I would like to wish my mom who celebrated her birthday last week, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY...


Dad and Mum

Alrite.. after weeks of slacking, I finally edited some of the pictures which I took in Germany.. There's so many of them.. sigh.. anyway, I just took a few to post it up... I stayed in one of the youth hostel in Mannheim..The hostel was very clean and it has 3 double decker beds.. However, one thing which I didn't like about the place was the toilet.. The showers has got NO doors.. It was cold and I am not comfortable bathing with other naked guys.. lol.. Therefore, I only went to the showers in the middle of the night when everyone else is asleep...

The weather there is so freaking cold and even though all of us were wearing 4-5 layers of clothes, we could still feel the cold... And it was also snowing over there although its not much but then u could see the frozen spider web, one of the river in the castles.. we even broke one some of the ice by stepping on... lol..

During my stay in Germany, I've visited about 5 cities (Heidelberg,Karlsruhe, Schwetzingen, Stuttgart, Mannheim) in Germany and 1 in France which is Strasborg.. Strasborg is about 2 hours by train from the place I stay.. Went to Stuttgart where the Mercedes- Benz Museum is located.. the place is pretty cool with all the types of cars mercedes has produced... However, since it was Christmas season, there's so many Christmas markets around where they sell the famous German sausages, candies and also Gluhwein(some hot red wine) which keeps your body warm.. Din really like it..

Traveling around in Germany is so easy with the trains and trams available and its quite cheap if u travel in a group.... Other than the christmas markets, we also visited some castles, gardens(imagine walking in the garden where the temperature is negative degrees celcius), museums and also did some shopping.. For me,, I was eating most of the time with all the candied peanuts, German sausages, etc.. lol... In Strasborg, we went to this restaurant called SEGA FREDO, where I heard from Isaac that they have a branch back in Malaysia.. I never heard of it though.. Anyway, the food there was just ok.. not too bad...

And on the last day of the trip, we decided to try the famous pork knuckle.. The thing is huge and I din know how I managed to finish the whole thing.. lol.. it taste good and we had some beers to go with it.. Imagine taking beer at 12pm in the afternoon.. lol.. It was a very tiring trip where I had to wake up like 7 am everyday so that we could travel to other cities... However, all of us had fun for that 5 days... lol... Hwei Chuin's friend who is currently studying in Mannheim Uni, took us around to all the cities.. Have to thank her for that..


the hostel...


Taken in one of the gardens..


chocolates..


Sausages...had it everyday.. now I'm feeling quite sick of sausages.. lol..


Heidelberg's christmas market.. the trip members: Ken Wayne, Lauren, Isaac, CC,Grace, BB and also Jesslyn..


Beers.. there's so many different types of beers in Germany.. no wonder most Germans have got big tummy...they can drink at any time of the day.. haha...


Me and my beer...


Boys and the beers...


Pork knuckle.. YUMMY.....




me and the girls..




LEEDS flatmates..


Lauren(the middle one) was so excited that he asked me to take videos of him running around in the gardens, and also where he talked about the cities in HOKKIEN.. funny fella.. he also started dancing and singing on the ice.. he even got scolded by one of the beggars on the streets when I started taking videos of him talking about the beggar in hokkien.. damn funny...


Me and my Gluhwein...


the boys...


COLD!!!!




Me and Ken Wayne on the top of one of the castle towers...


Lauren and Isaac the loving couple.. hahaha....


There's rainbow on her face...




Mercedes Benz Museum..



Mercedes..


some old school wheelss..


YENG..


check out my ride..


F1 Mclaren car...


Strasbourg..


One of the famous cathedral in Strasbourg...




a tired Lauren...


one last group picture before we left Germany...

On the last day, we packed our stuff and leave for Frankfurt Hahn airport and waited there for almost 4 hours before we could hop onto the plane for our flight back to London... there was an hour delay.. sigh.. since we were all so bored and got nothing else better to do, we decided to play Big 2 while waiting.. lol..





Well, that's basically some of the pics I took in Germany.. too lazy to blog on the stuff I did over there.. lol.. It was a nice experience... my first trip to Europe.. lol... So, till the next time... Enjoy reading and take care guys and girls...

Exams are over...

Exams are finally over.. 2 freaking miserable hours in the exam hall... the paper was kinda shitty.... sigh.. praying hard that i can pass that paper... for the first time in my entire education life, I'm going into an exam hall with no past year papers to refer to, no clue on the marking scheme and the format... just go in with whatever shits that i've studied... It has to be biggest challenge in my entire education life.. lol... anyway, now that's it's over, time to enjoy life once again before classes starts on the 21st.. lol... anyway, will update on the london and germany trip on the next post... sorry dad... was too busy slacking around.. alrite peeps.. till then.. take care and have a nice day...and to all who's having exams.. all the best... and to those still having holidays.. enjoy...