26th December:
Boxing day shopping @ centrale @ Croydon and Christmas dinner @ kar’s relative’s house, full dou high high di friend XD
27th December:
Shelock Holmes @ Stratford.

28th December:
Went to Jobie and Kalvin’s house for hot pot session! Anyway the highlight of the day was the number of times we had to change train/bus to reach their house due to a partial closure of the light rail line. First we got on at Leicester square, changed at endowment, changed at monument, changed at tower gate, changed at canery wharf, changed at ????? (I forgot) and finally reached east India. A record of 6 different trains/bus!!! We were supposed to meet at their house at 6pm, but only reached at 8 plus and started eating at almost 10pm. Went back to Kar’s house for hardly 3 hours and left for the airport.

Sayonara London~

24th December: Christmas eve!

Firstly we watched Incredibles to celebrate Christmas eve.
Secondly, I exchanged Christmas wishes in Hong Kong time, Finland time and London time.
Thirdly Kar dropped our newly baked broccoli and salmon quiche pie and left the whole family hungry. Nice, I hate you for this one until now.

25th December:
Gosh its Christmas, I had my skype in front of me, had TVB drama to my left and europle to my right, with occasional outburst of songs from girls generation haunting my ears.

Christmas Dinner @ Kar's house.. Thanks for the super sumptuous meal!!

Its London again!

2/11: Slept for barely an hour, thanks to the creepy hostel. Eating ikea meatball and walked around ikea before deciding to just go back home and laze around. We realized that we love to go ikea once we reached a new place, I remember how we did the same when we reached Bergen for the first time.

@Ikea with a starving stomach..

23/12/11: Met up with Yvonne’s friend Szeto (like finally after seeing her skype with Szeto for 4 months but not knowing her personally). Went to London eye then china town then harrods then oxford street then bond street then tower bridge then Westminster and back to London eye. Well I still remember how “passionate” Yvonne and I were with the London eye the first time we were there.

We were supposed to meet up with ivy, jobie etcetc but no one was on time even though we were already late. Since Yvonne and I reached first, we went for a walk at London eye until ivy called, we went back to waterloo station to meet her then went for a walk at London eye until jobie called, we went back to waterloo station to meet them then went for a walk at London eye (again). Consecutively 3 times in a single pathetic morning.

Night View of London eye..

Berlin in a tiny nutshell: 19/12-22/12

Lazy like mad so I'm deciding not to blog everything in details..

In front of the berlin parliament with yvonne's friend, Kelvin..

Brandenburg Gate of BerlinBerliner Dom, the largest church in Berlin..

The hostel in Berlin is giving me terrible sleeps every night!! On the 2nd night Yvonne was in the room alone while I was downstairs, she told me afterwards that someone came into our room twice accidentally (or maybe 2 different people, she couldn't recall).

We didn't really care about it cuz we just thought it was stupid people forgetting where their rooms were and hence mistake our room for theirs. It was until about 1am at night when we switched off our lights and went to sleep (without locking the door cuz we both forgot) when our door was being opened AGAIN!! Whoever that was, he held the door open for a few seconds before closing it back. I was wondering how come this hostel got so many retarded people until our door was being opened again the 2nd time after about 3 mins passed. I spoke and asked who’s that and a man replied “sorry” in an unapologetic tone. That was when I realized things weren’t this simple.

On the next night Yvonne and I locked our doors after this scary experience. BUT THINGS WEREN’T OVER!!

I was being awoken by footsteps sounds in the middle of the night, while trying my best to sleep again, I heard someone trying to open the door!!!!! But whoever that was, he/she/it couldn't open because it was locked. I gotten really tense. I checked the watch and it was 5am!! Who walks into the wrong room at this hour?! And then before long I heard another attempt to open our door. OMG I seriously freaked out!!! And it was worsen by the sound of the key tinkling, I was so afraid that that person got the key to our room and if that’s the case, its definitely not something friendly ahead of us when someone tried to break into your room while thinking the people in the room were deep asleep!!! I checked for my source of light so that I could switch it on immediately in case anyone enters.

Luckily that person didn't manage to come in, but the adrenaline made me madly awake for more than an hour and I only could get back to sleep at around 7am.

Budapest and stuck in airport..

12/12/11: Heading for budapest!

The day before Yvonne and I cleared our room in fantoft and moved all our things into another friend's room (and now anyone hardly has any place to move around in her room).. The emptied room somehow reminded me of the first time I stepped into it..

Anyway our plane to Budapest is at around 7am, only cheap flight have this kind of crazy timings.. We headed for the airport with barely any sleep only to hear the announcement that all planes to Oslo are either delayed or cancelled due to terrible weather conditions, and damn it we had to do a transit in Oslo..

So there we are waiting for the airport to open again and praying that our next flight will not be gone before we reach Oslo..

After stoning in the airport for about 4 hours, some staff brought together the passengers he could find on transit onto the first plane that fly to oslo.. We managed to reach budapest with much luck despite the delay! The best part was despite us changing planes, the luggage that we checked in managed to show up at the right place in Budapest XDDD Bosco who was supposed to meet up at Budapest on the other hand thought we flew him aeroplane cuz we didn't show up on time..

13/12/11: Day 2 @ Budapest

Busy day cuz we were half a day behind our schedule and we had to finish budapest..

Had a simple sandwich breakfast..

The weather for that day was amazingly good!A very successful jump in front of the hero's square.. Thanks to cameraman Ivy!Vajdahunyad CastleChains Bridge that connects the Buda side of the city to the Pest side of the city..With the Buda as background..View of the Chain bridge at the castle hill..

View of the chrismas market with St. Stephen's Basilica church at the background..

Budapest is famous for its baths but none of us had swimsuits so missed the opportunity =(

We had being walking continuously for a freaking 12 hours with only stops for 3 meals, eventful!

Fantoft

Its surprising how much of memory is built upon things unnoticed at the time..

I know I should have blogged about my spain trip 1 month ago but had being procrastinating because I kind of dread the trip.. Not that I dislike spain, but the person you choose to travel with is (for me) the main determinant of whether the trip would be enjoyable or not.. I couldn't think of a single day whereby I had not hoped to return to bergen immediately..

The spain trip was 9 days with a tour from hongkong with my mummy..
I flew from Glasgow to Barcelona to meet up with them..

Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family, It is listed in UNESCO world heritage site and the construction has being going on for more than 100 years..
Park Güell in BarcelonaStill Park Güell..

We spent one night in Zaragoza.. I cant remember whats that in the picture but i guess its a roman catholic church.. The next day we headed for Madrid..

Puerta del Sol, one of the busiest place in Madrid..
An interesting baskers i see..

In front of the Madrid palace..

Felt really terrible from the very first day..

Suddenly I heard one of the songs that I used to listen a lot to during my secondary school.. It reminded me how far I had gone..

New experiences overwrite the old memories each day..

We become a little more different from each other everyday..

These negligible changes accumulate quietly without our awareness, by the time we tried to look back and trace the origins of the transform, the reasons had already diffused..

~Neopets (2002-too embarrassing to state when i actually quit this game). Come to think of it, does my possessiveness of neopoints=money minded?

~Chung Cheng High (2003-2006), thank god the connection bridges from buildings to buildings weren't build while we are still in school.. We can miss some of the boring arts or design and technology lesson while walking XD

~Fruits Basket (2004) Actually I listened to fruit basket theme song and that's what inspired me to write this post. Quan, why can't our liking for guys in real life can't be like our likings for guys in mangas?

~Dunman High School Hostel (2005) Ignoring curfews and climbing gates, we can't sleep at night if we don't break the hall rules for one day XD

~Creation of SCORN (2006), At one point of time I really thought the idea could be made into a movie.. And yes now I know scorn means something is despicable while scorch is the word that got something to do with heat..

~The O Level and A Level intensive mugging period (2006 and 2008), Note the sign at the back "No studying is allowed in airport staff canteen" Not as if anyone give a darn about it..

~Our second FOE chalet at DownTown (2007), freaking miss someone shouting "Im the number 1 asshole!"~Madly in love with Pilot G2 Pen (2007-present) Up till this point of time I still cannot use another pen other than pilot G2 0.5..~Leong Chun Kiat (2007) Posting this just cuz I like this pic, haha the question mark on the wall fits his expression perfectly..~Harmonica Band performance (2007-2008) That was me with the double bass and Jinci on the keyboard.. ~Jing Bao Ying (2008) 18 for me on my 18th birthday! Is the jing bao ying aunty some sort of monopoly or what? I still can't find a second person selling this!!!!~VJC lecture hall (2008) Everyone was ponning their last lesson before A levels, I dare to say that my class had the best attendance in this lecture hall..~Way out from VJC (2008) And that was the last time we walked out from VJC after our last A level paper..

And last but not least, Maplestory (2006-2009)..

(I photoshopped everyone in except for maddy3 ggnks and littlecomet)

I don't regret, because that was exactly what I wanted at that point of time..

Dwelling in the past is tempting.. I did try to stretch out my hand, but it kept moving on.. I am apologetic, it is too heavy for me to bring everything into the future..

Let's farewell here..

I believe...

~Portugal, Cabo Da Roca, the west-est part of the europe continent..~Portugal, Lisbon, the tremendous wind that day was the culprit for the fall of the signpost..
~United Kingdoms, York, during my sleep in the hotel..

~Spain, on our way to the city of Granada..

For something that you gain, you lose something else..

But for something that you lose, you gain something else..

A long awaited morning.. Ohayou~

Its 10.30am in the morning and we were already in the city centre..

No exam no lesson no obligation..

We managed to wake up at 8am and catch a glimpse of the morning sun!

Cheers to our self discipline!

Or rather to our sleepless night?

18/10/11 scottish highlands

Im visiting the scottish highlands today! The coach leaves at 715am in the morning so i had to wake up at like 5+am to catch it..

The coach first traveled up North to the largest lake in great britain called Loch Lomond. Actually Loch is the scottish word for Lake so the name is just Lomond.

Loch Lomond

After a short rest we continued our trip to Glencoe, where it is infamous for the massacre of Glencoe in the 1690s. The Macdonalds' clan were murdered on the orders of King William II as they did not pledge alliance to him. What shocked the people at that time was not the fact that it was the king who gave the orders, but because the soldier's who executed the King's orders had accepted weeks of Macdonald's hospitality in their house before killing them. The whole clan was almost completely wiped out.
The song of "The Massacre Of Glencoe"says the whole story..

Oh cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And covers the grave o' Donald
And cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe
And murdered the house o' MacDonald

They came through the blizzard, we offered them heat
A roof ower their heads, dry shoes for their feet
We wined them and dined them, they ate o' our meat
And slept in the house O' MacDonald

They came from Fort William with murder mind
The Campbell had orders, King William had signed
Pit all tae the sword, these words underlined
And leave none alive called MacDonald

They came in the night when the men were asleep
That band of Argyles, through snow soft and deep.
Like murdering foxes, among helpless sheep
They slaughtered the house o' MacDonald

Some died in their beds at the hands of the foe
Some fled in the night, were lost in the snow.
Some lived to accuse him, what struck the first blow
But gone was the house of MacDonald

Oh cruel is the snow that sweeps Glencoe
And covers the grave o' Donald
And cruel was the foe that raped Glencoe
And murdered the house o' MacDonald
The scenery made the story more miserable..

After lunch at the Fort william area, we drove pass the highest mountain in Great Britain, Ben Nevis, before arriving in Loch Ness.

Loch Ness (It was rainy and gloomy in the afternoon so the photos doesn't look very nice). Loch Ness was best known for the alleged sightings of the Loch Ness Monster, also known as "Nessie".Nessie.. (I didn't take this photo though)

It was quite strange that Nessie is protected by the 1912 Protection of Animals Acts of Scotland. Although Nessie provides quite an economical impact because she is worth $40 million annually to Scottish tourism industry, i doubt its actually real. Someone please tell me how can you protect a non-existant animal.

At around 3.30pm just after the Loch Ness stop, something happened to the coach. Collin, the guide had to bring it to the garage for repair. I thought it would be quick and the fault could be fixed soon enough for us to continue our journey. But repair time was being extended again and again while all of us waited for the time to pass at a café. When the café closed at 6pm, the coach still wasn’t ready and we had to stand in the Mercedes car garage to wait, not to mention it was cold and rainy that day. The only compensation we had was that we could order drinks and snacks from the cafe while being paid by the tour guide.

The coach was finally ready at about 6.45pm, while on our way back to glasgow, we met with some road construction and had to take another longer route. We arrived at glasgow George square only at about 10.40pm when the scheduled time for return was 715pm. The places we didn't get to visit was the Inverness, Grampian Mountains, Perthshire, Forest of Atholl, and Pitlochry.

Although I wasn't particularly displeased, I wrote a letter to the company and they only took 3 days to reply me that they would refund me in full =D