makaze no toki

This posts literally translates to "The Evil Wind of Wintertime". First and foremost let me stress that I have close to null sense of styling my hair. So it's already as messy at it is. Top that up with the 15 km/h winds here, and I get to total hair do-over! Maybe 15 is a bit too exaggerating, but you get my point, right?

Anyhow, my usual route home would be up a almost steep hill from the tram stop everyday. While walking uphill, the darn wind blows downhill towards the large open field without mercy =(. But I'm lucky enough that no darn ass**** farted at the top of the hill spreading scent, marking down territory XD.

Ok, the real problem starts there! Since winter is coming, the winds are getting rougher these days. First, start off the day with the typical messy hairstyle of mine. Next, go out, wind blows and Tadaa --> my hair totally sways to one side! So FU*KING untidy!!!! It's like a giant bird nest on my head every evening =.=""""

So, now I'm left with 3 options, which are

1) Get new hair wax which is as strong as super glue!!!!

Super Glue to the rescue! Now I can get HARD LONG LASTING spikes!

2) Get a hair straightener and get my hair straigthened out!

Let my hair sway-by with the wind, haha!

3) or, Dye my bird's nest hair rainbow and become a clown at the circus!

Bobo The Clown is Back!

So, any suggestions? =D

Signing off,

~Guy with a bird's hair nest ~

Remembrance Day

Courtesy of Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-u9zYZCUJc

Courtesy of youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tlVShzXvZI

Guess what? It's Remembrance Day today in nottingham. Every year, around this time, everyone would gather around chatting about their loved ones who had an untimely death. Remembering the fond memories of the laughs they had together, the fights and arguments and sometimes the special one-of-a-kind memories about them. So, everyone in the city today is in a bit solemn mood over Remembrance Day. Soft and slow songs are played everywhere to remember the passed aways. May it be a lover who's loved you, a parent who cared for you, siblings who you fought with a lot as a child, family member who's not too close, the neighbour down the road, a best friend since primary school or even a distant relative, they are all remembered and honoured today.

For me, I'm going to honour 2 of my relatives on this faithful day. The first would be my maternal grandmother who passed away in 2006. Whe suffered from a brain stroke and was in a coma state for a few weeks. She finally passed away quietly in her death. Her last hours were peacefull as family members who she always cared and loved were by her bedside.

The second would be my dear aunt who passed away recently. Unfortunately, she got contracted wit the the infamous deadly flu during the mid of the year. Her death was sudden, but all of her dearest friends, family and relatives were there to pay their final respects. Today would be a long day for me, as I'm going to honour them in my own little way. No games and slacking of today as I'm going to study as hard as possible. Even though it's just for a day, in my heart I'm just showing my gratitude in my own way that I will not waste this short life of mine. We will never know when 'the time' finally comes and regrets after that would be useless. Signing off~

~From ashes to ashes to ashes, dust to dust. May you be gone, but you'll always be remembered and cherished~

Fireworks and Bonfire

This time, I went to the Bonfire and Fireworks event at the Forest Recreation Ground. Every year, on the 5th of November, the people here would gather round and watch the fireworks display, while a giant bonfire brightly lits in the middle of the field. This yearly event is to actually commemorate a certain guy, named Guy Fawkes. The story was, back in 1605 he tried to BLOW UP THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT! What a way to go! To 'congratulate' him on his great effort, the people here hold this event every year for him ^^

The initial mini-fireworks

Tried my best to be there and arrived just nicely at 7.15 pm. The timing was nice as the mini fireworks have just started. Guess they just wanted something early for-show to attract more people to come and to watch the bonfire later on. The place was rather crowded when I got there. Had to squeeze my way here and there to get to the bonfire place. Almost an entire ONE THOUSAND people showed up for the night! IMAGINE THAT!!!!

People crowding the area

As far as the eye can see!

Some people were even enjoying themselves by playing with lil' fireworks

Putting aside the fireworks, people did come early for the fun fair rides! Food stalls were set up, games booths for couples and kids, amusement rides for the thrill seekers, and best of all, the local radio station Fly FM was also there. (Yupz, Fly FM, version UK!!!). Well, you didn't expect one thousand people to show up JUST to see some measly little fireworks display did ya? ^^ (Oh wait, that only happens in Malaysia, haha!)

The Big Swirl that spins horizontally, then turns straight up to spin vertically

The Big Spin that has spinning seats attached all around it

Super Bungee that shoots you HIGH UP into the air!!!

Bonfire Starts!

After the initial mini fireworks display, the bonfire finally starts. It was just pile after pile of crates left at the centre field, and someone just runs over and to burn it. Not much to see though. Was really disappointed at it as we were expected to JUST WATCH the crates burn from a distance for like an HOUR plus! At least have some folk dancing or singing around the bonfire la! Even we Scouts know better, haha! What a let down... =(

The main event finally started at 9 pm sharp. Massive amounts of long anticipated fireworks were shot into the air lighting up the dark skies! I think the whole thing lasted for about 25 minutes. The whole thing was filled with non stop displays of vibrant pyrotechnics and music in the background. It started of with a gospel like music and fireworks flinging in casually from left and right repeatedly. Soon, it picked up pace to a faster tempo beat and more colours and varieties of fireworks were added soon after.

On the final 5 minutes note, they finally pulled out all of the stops! GIANT amounts of fireworks were shot, which was like 3 times more than the ones before! The music changed to something like from Star Wars and the sky was totally bright with it! After 25 mins of ooh and awe-ing, the final shot was up! This final display was the best! Like any fireworks display, the finale was a massive one time shot of all the remaining fireworks and it went *BANG*BANG*BANG*BANG* with all possible colours! (I think I saw one that blew up with a black light =P ) With that, audience applaused and so ends the long awaited display ^^

Moments before the Final Shot

The Great Finale!

Video taken during the starting of the 9 pm show

(Cam memory was running low, so the duration's kinda short)

P/S : Despite my rambling on how nice it was, I still prefer Malaysia Fireworks over this anytime! It was just refreshing to see something so grand after being here for so long ^^

Finally, it's a month! Time to pay privellege

IT'S OFFICIAL!!! I've been cooped up in nottingham City for a month! Truthfully to say that I don't miss home would be lying to myself. Still, living in nottingham is GREAT and I wouldn't have it any other way! To start off, I'm living in the City itself, but not to near to the bustling city centre. So, you can kinda say that my neighbourhood's just nice and the only way to describe it, is the typical 'hood' environment. yea, you hear me, the 'hood'!

My landlord Mr. nandha is superbly nice as he gave us a large appartment/house, with loads of perks, such as a 20 Mb/s line, 40 inch LCD TV, washing machine, oven, kitches, ya' know, the usual appliances. Of course, all of them are included in the weekly 70 Pounds rent! Not to mention, he even subsidized our Tram and Bus Passes for a whole year!!! How KEWL is that?!?Some accomodations don't even have all of them, and they are paying for the same price! So, three cheers for Mr. Nandha, (Yeep yeep, Hurray! x3) Well, you don't expect me to copy paste three times do yea? =D

When I first arrived, everything was in a TERRIBLE MESS though. My bank wasn't settled, fees didn't get through, course scheduling was still midway being processed, GP (General Practitioner) problems, transportation issues and so dam much more. Of course, we have the handy dandy Malaysian Society here! Just one call, and the problems were solved! (LOL, did they just sound like an appliance that i just bought from a TV show?) Ahem... Anyways, thanks to some of them, i was able to get all most of the issues settled out rather quickly. I did say most right, coz I did settled most of the things by myself! Grown Boy Di mah. Hahakz hence, a proper thanks to the entire gang ^^

As for classes, they are quite boring. No, SERIOUSLY! It's bad enough to have 4 sems as compared to the traditional 3 sems course, I only get 2 weeks of inter-term time Holidays! Well, it's a Masters course after all. So can't complain much. Putting that aside, my 1st sem has 2 modules ONLY (keke, laughing on the inside....) which totals up to 2 or 3 classes a week only (KAKA, laughing even more on the inside! ). The first module is Software Engineering 1, whereby it's COMPULSORY!). So, i'm basically relearning my C++ which is something that I Had learnt and applied for 3 whole years!!! You can guess it by now that i'm mostly napping in class =P

The second module is Smart Engineering and Natural COmputing, and this time I'm RELEARNING MATALAB pulak! Another one that I've been using for 4 years~ OMG... relearning from scratch and all is so VERY BORING~ At least I'm finishing my assignments on time ^^ Speaking of which, this SENC Module's 1st assignment is very interesting. I'm given a share market graph of a certain year, and expected to make a projection forecast for the following month! Not only it's fun, but who would have thought that has something to do with smart computing? Watch out you share market swindlers out there, I'm so going to put you out of business! Haha!!!!

So,

Accomodation ranting, CHECKED

Malaysian Society, CHECKED

Complaining about Classes, CHECKED

Assignment ranting, CHECKED ^^

What's left is, I so need to workout again! the flabs are BACK!!! I went to the free student gym in Clifton (outside the Main City), and it's sooooo under-equipped! Can hardly do anything proper there! HELP ME~~

Besides that, got nothing more to say except, I'M ACTUALLY COOKING everyday! What an achievement! Tears of joy are rolling down now, >.<

~Ciaoz~