Summer Holidayz, Phase I - COMPLETED

I'm finally back from my trip from York and Hull. The trip was uber amazing! I would rate it 9 out of 10, despite the spending of 120 pounds part :p. All of it was well spent of food, accommodation, admission fees, shopping and souvenirs for family and friends back home. Non stop laughter from Breakfast to lunch and till dinner was something that was the highlight of the whole trip.

Did I mention that I got to try an authentic Malaysian food outlet? Got to try Rendang Chicken, Nasi Lemak, Thai Green Curry, Pisang Goreng and Ayam Masak Asam Pedas all together Not a bad deal at all! Totally enjoyed myself with zero regrets.

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Clifford Tower, York

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Lunch at famous Betty's

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Evening stroll in York's Shambles

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Authentic Nasi Campur with Sambal Prawns, Rendang Chicken and Green Thai Curry Vegies

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Watching 2 Seahorses make out in public =)

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The Yorkshire Army Regiment Marching through the city

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Visiting all sorts of trains at the National Train Museum

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Firing Artilleries everywhere =)

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watching Ferrari's Parked everywhere

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and finally have fun being myself XD

The only lash back from this trip is I'm extremely tired after unpacking and going through all 500 pictures on my cam. Will update more tomorrow. Nitez peeps!

Summer and 2 weeks of freedom

Was supposed to type a new post on "Top 5 Things about Simon Lee" but lets leave that aside for now. As some might have noticed, summer break has started and I'm finally free from my torment! 10 assignments or assessments as you call it in one month was a true thriller~

Anyhow, summer is here, and I got 2 weeks of official holidays from uni! Truth be told, I should actually be doing my masters project, but even I deserve some break. I'm human after all right? =)

So, for this upcoming week, I'll be in York Shopping, Hull sightseeing, Sheffield Chilling, London tourist-ing and maybe Liverpool to visit and old friend. When I look back on my plans, they do seem a bit tad too much, BUT I do need the break from uni stuffs. After all, I'll be tortured again for another 4 months.

Well, like I said in my previous post, summer holidays would mean most of the people I know or befriended here in Notts are back in their respective home countries. Although some remained, still for those that went back, I would miss them dearly. Reason being, either they are coming back or not, I won;t be here after November, and these few days were the last chance I will ever see them. Brings a teardrop doesn't it? :(

Hence these last few days were coffee with lots of people. The funny thing is, I've been drinking more coffee this week than what I normally drink during assignment hand in weeks. What a joke indeed! Btw, does everyone know that football or THE 'World Cup' fever is back? Since I'm not a real footie myself, I'll just cheer for whoever is winning :P

This season's trophy

Quote a friend's nick on msn : "I support guys who do not watch FIFA world cup"

Anyone wanna join his petition? LOL

Today was slightly different from 'Coffee Days' as it was Movie day! Finally got to watch Prince of Persia, Sands of Time which I've been itching to do so since weeks ago. Overall I liked it coz it's a game to movie thing AGAIN. Since I don't personally own a PS3 and hence I haven;t played it, but I had watched the cinematics of it, played from a friend's console and even played the original. Wonder if anyone remembers it...

Not bad, for a Disney flick =)

The future, come and meet the past...

Original PoP (Prince of Persia) where you go jumping from plane to plane finding access to new floors and dungeons

and the occasional booby traps you'll encounter on the way

Overall I would give it a rating of 9 out of 10 for the cool graphics and stuffs. ALthough some might say it's cheesy, some parts were lacking, yadee yadee yadaa~ as a gamer myself, I love it when I get to see games I played comes to real life on screen. It's better than watching 1 3D character then you can repeatedly kill and select load to revive him right?

Speaking of game to movies, am patiently waiting for Avatar: The Last Airbender to come out in the cinema. Fans been waiting for almost 4 years for the movie, and it's finally coming out! Yay Nickelodeon for the effort and thank god it's not a small girl who'll be playing Aang =) [fans who watched the series would understand what I mean, haha! ]

From the ruthless iron and machine based Fire nation, to the nomadic and peaceful monks of the Air Nomads, Fierce and Courageous Hunters of the Water Tribe and the stable and tradition keeping farmers and soldiers of the Earth Nation, War will break loose. Seriously can't wait!

So, that's all I have to blog about this time. Just finished packing for my trip up to York and Hull for the weekends, so will be MIA from facebook and MSN for a few days. Till then, ciaoz world!

P/S : How on earth do you update pic tweets on your mobile? O.o

251st Day

It's been 250 days here in the UK and the days keeps on ticking by! Rejoice for crossing the 200 day mark you say? Maybe later, as I got tons of work piled up and 1 final week of torture to go through. Everyone that I know of right now is so riled up about the end of the semester and have already preparing for the 4 months long worth of summer break. For those who have finished their exams, I see them jollying about everywhere, while the remaining ones are studying hard to make sure that their past few DAYS (erm.... i mean MONTHS =D ) of studying are not wasted. Well, to you peeps out there who still have exams, Good Luck and study hard!

It's a waste that I can't go home for summer, since I need to conduct my research project during summer. Another 4 long months of work and torture before going home. Oh, how I miss the smell of chicken rice, wan tan mee and nasi lemak from back home~ Yum yum yum~ Well, what to do other than to wait for another 150 days to pass, and ~Home Sweet Home~ alas...

Back into perspective, spending 250 days here has really been, how would I put it, 'interesting'? I can truthfully say that everything that i encountered here has been one of a kind experience. So the question arises, what have I learnt in my 250 days of staying here in the UK? To count and explain each one of them would be a bother and time consuming, so let's sum it up to my "Top 7 Interesting Stuffs that Happened here in UK For Me" shall we? =)

7. Learn how to cook decent food and even bake too!- Since back home we have 'mamaks' everywhere, I actually rarely cook or even don't cook at all. The baking part was just an added incentive. Even sister was shocked =)

6. DotA and play online games less frequent - No cybers or people to play with. So yea, I seriously haven't touched it in months and NOT missing it one bit. On the bright side, I can have ALL of my spare time allocated for my 'beloved' assignments (somehow feels like I just declared that I have close to null social...)

5. In love with ASDA chicken and turkey hams - These two has been my daily breakfast since Day 1 being here. 6 pieces of bread, and 6 slices of ham and breakfast's all set. Well, there's the occasional cornish pies (^O^)

4. I miss going to the gym and sweating my body out =D - Well, that not something interesting, but heck who cares about my random rambling here~ I used to work out like 3 to 4 times a week, but here, I only get to work out about 2 to 3 times a week, (sometimes only once or none at all if I'm too busy with my assignments). Yet, even with the lack of exercise, I can still shrink down to a mere 61 kg...~WHAT A SHOCKER~

3. Dim Sum in a foreign country tastes better than back home - You heard me right all-right. It's not because that I miss eating it and it's causing me to love it even more, but it really IS THAT GOOD! Maybe the people here have more skill than the Dim Sum cafes and stalls from back home? Anyhow, it's also cheaper here :D

2. Toilet cubicles back home have water hoses or faucets accompanying toilet rolls to clean up after your ~'AHEM'~ business, but here, you will only find toilet rolls - It's a bit on the culture difference side, but plain wiping is still dirty! Try to imagine small bits and pieces got left behind in your pants and you have TO DEAL WITH IT while spending the the entire day sitting down, walking and scratching your arse. The only way to get fully cleaned will be taking a bath during god knows when~

and finally, the most interesting of all IS...

1. Everyday is a battle between saying "Thanks" and "Cheers" - Seriously, I don't really get the whole time-specific usage thing. Can't even tell the difference at all sometimes. So which is actually which? Confused~ @.@

Well, not so juicy or interesting as I firstly imagined it would be. Way to pass the time while my laptop spends the past hour simulating some results for my demo tomorrow. Well, Guess I have to make it up in my next post, wouldn't I? So, stay tuned for "Top 5 Things about Simon Lee", WAHAHAHA Excuse the spark of insanity here as I haven't been on a holiday break for 3 months....

Ciaoz~