10NOV10 Fireworks fever!!

Woo, I know I owe most of you an update. LOL. So sorry, I've been depending too much on facebook - it's too convenient! LOL. You think so too eh? =)

Here's my recent update. Fireworks have gone really hyper in the UK in conjunction with Guy Fawkes Day & a little of Deepavali Festival.

I've got you guys two video snips of the fireworks, one in Birmingham and the other in London. AWESOME fireworks *heart*

BIRMINGHAM - Pype Hayes Park

LONDON -Victoria Park

Mum's coming over...

THIS FRIDAY, 23rd July.

Whoa! I'm so looking forward. Plans for trips, transportation, even food, all set!

Pray that God provide a safe smooth trip throughout, and good weather for photo taking!!

woohoo~!!

The Big Read - Top 50

Since I'm still unemployed, I might as well get my hands and eyes on a good read!! =) 

Source: BBC.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

Any shout outs on 'must-read'?

Counting down!! :)

It's my L A S T paper tomorrow!!! XD

study s t u d y study s t u d y... hang on!!!

Coming back on..

Hiya!!

Since there're so many questions pertaining to "when I'm coming back to Msia?" I might as well post it here.. =)

Arrival: 10th August 2010 :)

Looking forward to see ya guys, be good. =)

Too warm for me!!

I AM SUPER DUPER HOT!!!!!!!!!! arrghhh~!!!!! LOL

Imagine having a weather slightly cooler than Msia, by say, 5 celcius. But!!! No fan, no aircond.. Imagine it!!! 

& oh, a window that can be opened less than 45 degrees... Imagine that!!!

I'm no better than u who are in Msia, at least u have AIRCOND!!! LOL~!!

Fancy Disney.. :)

Recently, I kinda fancy Disney classics a lot.. :)

Hence, changed my blog audio.
Theme : Disney Classics!!

Warmer & warmer..

Spring is moving towards its end while summer approaches. :) Temperature these few days have been fluctuating a lot, between 15-22 celcius. You Malaysians in Malaysia might think 'COOLING'.. but well, it's really warm for bodies of ours which had adapt comfortably to temperatures of 5 celcius, -2celcius.... or to at most 10 celcius. :)

I have been sweating a lot these days.. which means, thick cloaks put away, more baths & *grin* ICE CREAM (no 's') !!! XD one is enough! XD

It'd been really really warm...!!!! URGHHH!!! XD

The fruit of my hardwork..

Result notification on 10th May 2010. 

- The fruit of my labour -

Mum says: "It's the best Mother's Day present I received" :) 

Felt honoured & touched. :)

Cake Baking [Tiramisu]

Vivien invited a few of us over to join her cake baking session: "Tiramisu Cake"

That was kind of you, Viv. :)

Stephanie, SamC & me helped out throughout the process. It was fun though there were several hiccups. 

Tada... Our Tiramisu cake..

It's our first trial. :) Not too bad. XD

After the cake making, we had to chill it for 4 hours.. we had movies at her lounge!! XD

The 3 UK *would be* prime minister came to Brum

The final Prime Minister debate was held in Uni of Birmingham today.. woohoo!!! XD What an honour. 

Consequence of that, media were everywhere...!! XD

Laser Quest

Jackie organised a SEEDs outing to Laser Station, Star City on the 5th April 2010. Some of the ROOTs members came to propose a challenge. We're ready mate!! :) It was superb fun!!

Laser Station, Star City.

All set!! :) I'm in the red team, they're in green.

Graduated :) 

Team SEEDS!!! :)

Officially settled in.

Left my accomodation (i.e. The Coppice) on the 21st March 2010 in a perfect condition (per picture). I think I left it better than when I came. LOL~!!! That's a guide spirit! :)

Leaving The Coppice, I now settled in a rent room.

- The room I rent : a view before I touch anything :) -

In between, I've gotta buy stuffs for my new room eg. pillow, bed linens....etc.

After 2 days of unpacking & arranging my stuff plus rearranging the furnitures, I present to you a new look of my room!!!!

I love my concept of shifting the bed towards the wall, it makes the room looks more spacious :) And oh, and oh, I improvised the small little rack by the brown wooden cupboard (initially) as a sectorial rack on my study table *applause*

I decorated a section of my wall too.

Looking good so far, more to go ~!!

Yup, this is what that has been keeping me soooooooooooooooooo busy these few days. 

I'm officially settled in!! Proud of your independent girl, mum? :D

Last but not least.

Why do we have only 24 hours a day? silly question, LOL. But I do, I really do wished that we had more than that. :) Time would not passed that quickly.

In a blink, it's Day 7, the final day. I'm currently in Edinburgh, mingling around the rest of the city while waiting for my train at 12.05pm. About 6 of my friends from our group had departed for Europe early this morning, 2 left yesterday morning, reminds me again of "dispersion".

Yesterday night, we had buffet dinner in 'Jimmy Chung' :) cy Low, Juri, HuyLey and LiMin met up with us all the way from Glasgow. How thoughtful of them. We had great chats and laughs, once again. But they left for Glasgow at 9pm. *sigh* I wasn't holding my emotion too well then, what a shame. I had a little, very little stir of emotion. :) Tears of a drop or two came running down when they left. I did not cry for their leaving, LOL. I got mostly everyone confused. :) I was jz thinking of my next few months without these dearies... They were ALL part of my 6 months growth in Birmingham :) Although I may missed out several occasions at times, it's their presence, that made me love Birmingham, that survived my loneliness. The tears shed, were for ALL, were for the words and actions of love from all of you, and were for my future uncertainty.

We've made an arrangement. I'll meet up with them when they come back from Europe i.e. 16th April in London. See you then peeps. :) Thank God I'm not saying my last goodbyes in Scotland. That would be  awfully dreadful. God's being merciful I guess, LOL. He's giving me 1/2 a month more :)

Till then, see you back in Brum, gotta sign off~

ps: A pre-thank you  to KahWei, ChiunBin, KeanTack, SuezMuh, AiLyn, PikCheng, Melissa, Jess, Cat, June, WenZhong, Victor, Fuh, Ying & NeeNee for making this Scotland trip alive. I had an awesome week!! :D cheers.

Nessie says Hi.

Hiya again!! :) 

It's Day 4 today!! :) 3 more days to go, hate it when I have to count the days that remain~ LOL.. I remember once saying "Make your days count rather than counting it". Hence, that shall be my motto or should I say slogan, for my trip! :)

Besides Edinburgh as updated, I've been to Glasgow. The scene in Glasgow reminds me of Brum itself, shops shops shops. Not much of historical monument whatsoever. Night in Glasgow was really quiet. After having dinner, we had K session! LOL~ I've never had K session in any of my outdoor trip so far. How cool! :) Late night, I met up with Samm!! *wink* She brought her 2 best pal along - Huy Ying and Su Mei. They were all lovely. :) We had great chats & laughs, thanks for making the time girls. :)

I'm now in Inverness. :) 

Does this scene rings a bell? 

How about this?

Yeap!!! Loch Ness monster a.k.a. Nessie!! :)

We went to Loch Ness today. :) That's why we're in Inverness. The view was marvelous! Couldn't ask for any better! :) Would not mind coming once more for the Loch Ness Lake Cruise. :) As for Inverness, it's a very small town, very very small. :) Did not take us long to finish walking the whole town. :) O yes, walking. :)

Alright, I shall stop now. Not using my lappie! Stay tune for more! :) ciao~

Greetings from Edinburgh

Hiya!!

I'm now in Edinburgh, heading to Glasgow tomorrow!!

Edinburgh's been great! Not only the castle, the city tour & the night ghost tour too!! :) It's a very different group I'm travelling with this round. So far so good. :) 16 of us travelled this round - 12 of which are my coursemates while the other 4 are friends of friend.

Days are passing really quickly... *sigh* that's the problem with happy moments.

Can't write more~ using a public computer, free but not that convenient. LOL~ Hope to meet up with Samm in Glasgow tomorrow!! :)

''Scott''ing out~

A week off !!

Before giving my lappie a week off, here I am announcing:

"I'm off to Scotland!!"

Farewell Blues

The day I'm afraid to face all the while has finally arrived. *sigh* A day where goodbyes are everywhere, a day where calories are burnt till max (due to packing & luggage carrying LOL~).. the dispersion of us all begins.

I know I'm emo, who doesn't in this kind of situation? :) 

I don't really bring myself into tears. I think I control them pretty well, I don't know why but I'm positively sure I'm not at all talented for movie cast, perhaps yes for other casting, but definitely not crying scenes. I can't cry in 10seconds, okay 10 sec may be too much, but not even 5 minutes! LOL.. unlike artist. I know they can, most of them can. LOL.. 

I was reflecting myself this afternoon, thinking of farewells that really hit me emotionally. So as I was counting, I noticed that there were only one farewell that forced my tears out of me. Oh yea.. THE Samantha Lau Yan Yee cried for bye byes. How ironic. I'm usually the one who will go "COME ON!! It's not like you're not gonna meet after that." sounds familiar? LOL.

Well, that happened when we were leaving National Service. The 3-month-training & living together. I cried when my mates who took Form 6 had to leave the camp first. More them half of them gone.. I cried, honestly, cried. The atmosphere was so emotional. I couldn't hold it, seeing my friends heading to the coach one-by-one, I burst into tears. Oh yes, into tears. I didn't even cry the day I came to UK, when my family send me off. LOL.

Today, is the day. The day where emotional bye-byes come to play once again. Thinking of my next 2 months without these bunch of housemates I so comfortably live with, my seed of emotion began to sprout once again. I'm luckier this round, because we still have a farewell trip together. At least I have like a week more to bring myself to accept the fact that 'Oh yes, we're all dispersing'.

Everything happened so quickly. Exam, Assignments, Dissertation..!! Everything ended yesterday, and today, it's the day we're moving out! I have no time at all to bring myself to accept that fact, no time to emotionally adjust myself, YET!! aww.. *sigh*

This is exactly the same feeling the week I knew my friends taking form 6 who had to head back for studies in NS. That happened really quickly as well. Oh no!!! I hope I control myself well these few days. Thank God PMS is over, otherwise, uhh! I couldn't even think of it! XD

We gave ourselves the name "Willowers", from the name of our house - 'Willow House'. And we gave ourselves little slogans for fun too - Once a Willower, always a Willower; Where there's Willowers, there it will rock! :) Though it sounded lame at times, these will keep us reminded of each other in future. That's why I don't go against lame-ness. There're usually the little things you remember in your catagories of memories. :)

I love all of you Willowers and I'll miss all of you too. I'm definite I will!! I'll definitely feel different without you, all of you the next 2 months in UK!!! :) May our wonderful memories cherish in us always!

Great, there's a phone call intruding now - broke my emotion flow - LOL!! Thanks Rachel. I know I should stop my emos!! XD  A short update, things are pretty well up to what I'd planned. House moving's alright, packing's fine! I'm left with my lappie & Scotland prep stuff. Lappie will be moved to my rent house tonight. Final trip of house/luggage moving. Thanks for the help, Mary.

I'll try to keep posting!! If I don't, it means that I ran out of time and my lappie safely landed with my landlady!! :) I'll see you after my trip then, where my emotions should be well-dealt by then! XD 

Farewell Willowers, farewell. Love ya all~!!

A short one.

Woohoo!! 

Handed my dissertation up for binding! :) Will see it the week after next!! yay~

As for now, still busy - not studies - PACKING!! phewh *wipe sweats*.. We're moving out from willow, Coppice!! It felt like I just arrived ytd.. time flies~ boohoohoo.. I'm so gonna miss "Willowers"... T,T

This Sunday.. We're backpacking Scotland!! woohoo~ it's the biggest group of Willow since. :) 12 of us if not mistaken!! Looking fwd. *lip of joy*

That's all for now, pack pack pack!! :)

A reboot.

Went for bible studies with Seeds yesterday. :) I thought bible study yesterday went really well!! :) Way to go Stephen!! :) There were lots of aspect discussed that made me reflect a lot on myself. A very rare term for me, reflection. After the discussion last night, I felt an instant growth, spiritually.  It has been a long long time I felt since I last felt that during bible study. Bible study was usually, 'another lesson' for me. Real glad. :)

I've been skipping devotion these few days, dissertation excuses. LOL. The phrase created for that excuse ytd was, 'a slave to dissertation'. LOL~ To give myself a kick-start, I'm gonna continue/reboot my daily devotion, starting today!! At least 1/2 hour to begin!! :)

God loves!! :)

A brief update..

Yay!! I've finally completed my dissertation!!!! Yay! Yay!! After days of sleepless night. :D

Brought my whole set of work to my supervisor for final review today... :) A little amendment to be made, and then - I'm done with it!!! :D Hope I'll get a D' status too.. :D pls pls.. have been tearing my hair out for it. LOL~ *pray pray*

I miss u 'kawan-kawan sekandang'!! :D LOL~

When scarcity of resources & time takeover, accountants perform best! That's why we are chosen for audit, tax & FRS~ LOL. No time to cook? Pressure cooker works best. No money to buy pressure cooker? tA dA!! Presenting to you, 'creative' accounting (i.e. improvised pressure cooker by my housemate). Save time, save money.

Fill me with ideas~

Morning sunshine!! It's sunny today but I'm stuck with work!! How ironic.

Today's aim: Complete my 12,000 words dissertation!!! 

Dissertation supposed to due on 30th March. But well, my supervisor's planning for a holiday next week.. :) Gotta accommodate to him hence, good in a way. *think positive*

Fill me with ideas, Lord!! :) 

Cals burnt!! LOL~

Went for a jog in the gym just now.. LOL~ Guess what, I burnt 500 cals!! woohoo~ No muscle pain (yet) LOL~Will see tmr!

Back to work~ =.=''

P/s: I'm going to 'The Yonex All England Open 2010' finals!!! It's next week~ All the best Msia!! :)

Potbless at Jackie's

'Panda' (Ex-Seeds leader) came back to Brum for CNY visit!! :) 

Hence, we had Potbless at Jackie's. 

As usual, the scene of FOOD...

Not gonna upload lotsa pictures this round, my blog's too load up! :)

A group picture of us all who went!

Seeds-Seeds-Seeds!! XD

God's working on it :)

Further to my previous post, I ended it with, 

"...If God decides someone from "there" has to see this, I'll thank Him for that. In a way, I had the chance to voice out..."


I think God's doing something with it!! :) *happy*

Hungry by Kathryn Scott

Heard this song in Seeds today :)

Thought of sharing it here.

.God Bless.

Dublin Arrival

Hey ya! hey ya!!

Had quite a short flight from Birm Int Airport to Dublin via Ryan Air. The flight was comfy and not pricey. :) We got ourselves quite a good deal.

I'm right now in Dublin, announcing my arrival!! :) Updates with pictures will come soon...

night.

Lifehouse - Everything

Simple, yet good & meaningful. :)

Dashing through the snow ~♥

The Snow saga.. :) on the 17th December 2009

The snow lasted for only 10 minutes.. which forms a very thin layer of snow.

The first day of snow, we were all so so so excited! People in their flops came out with flops, with bathrobes - came out with bathrobes! haha

It snowed very heavily on the 5th January 2010.

The snow lasted throughout and it was really solid and thick!!

What thick snow we have! That's so rare in Brum!

Dash through the snow!!

.Arch Angel makinG.

Everybody, arch it!

.Snowball fighT.

oops!! "No Ball Games??" Does snow ball counts? XD

.Snowman makinG.

Snowman of Flat 6!! :) We made this snowman ourselves. :) Great teamwork girls!

Our 'Frosty'

Someone else made this snowman.. :) It's so cute & tiny!

Andrew and a few guys made this HUGE snowman!!