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Monday was kha hong's birthday..so we went to Chukoku - a chinese buffet restaurant to celebrate kha hong, suokteng and hui koon's birthdays..the food there was simply delicious!!!i LUV the dessert..the 13 of us ate for 3 hours..and took lots of pics..

with the birthday gurls- kha hong and hui koon

with peifong..

non-stop posing..

with monkey glen..the hand holding a fork is suokteng's..

with the J7 residents..:)

all dressed in red..

we even took pics in the toilet..tats why we stayed in the toilet for so long..:P

Yesterday..

we had sarawak laksa for brunch!!:P..thanks to suechoo who woke up early to prepare the food and also thanks to mum who brought laksa paste for us..hehe..it was VERY delicious!!

after that..we brought glen to kelvingrove museum..

and with glen's canggih camera..we had lotsa fun taking pics non-stop..(esp suokteng..cant stop taking pics of herself..tsk tsk..)

the 1st group pic we took outside kelvingrove museum..HAHA..we sort of covered the whole museum behind us with our heads..

so we took the group pics again..

AGAIN...outside the kelvingrove museum..from another angle..

and again...still outside the museum..

walking at the glasgow uni compound..

hahaha..squatting and bending just to take nice photos..these are only part of them..

i like this pic..:)

and trying to take nice jumping photos..

OBVIOUSLY..we failed...

OMG...cant stop laughing when i saw this pic..but the next is worse..


WAHAHAHA...the moment we saw this pic..we burst out laughing..took a few pics but this was the only one showing that our legs actually left the ground..teruk betul..

taken outside the Hunterian Museum..

Hunterian Museum is located inside the University of Glasgow..it shows the collection of Dr William Hunter, a scientist..doctor and a collector..was our 1st time visiting that museum..and in fact i find it kinda interesting..

we oso met up with syed who is currently studying in University of Glasgow..

then..we went to the asian style restaurant highly recommended by paikling and housemates..

had been looking forward to this meal the whole day..

BUT..when we went all the way there...hungry and cold..

THE SHOP WAS CLOSED due to electricity prob!!!!haha..we stood there watching in disbelief for a few seconds..*kinda disappointed*

so we went to o'neil instead..

while waiting for our food...

and at nite..we sent glen off to buchanan bus station..as usual..we'd to walk super fast again so tat he wont miss the bus back to london..

so tat was basically the summary of our short but memorable holidays..:)

ahteng and kha hong..hopefully u 2 enjoyed ur burfdays...cos i surely did..HAPPY BURFDAY again and stay happy..:)

and thanks to glen and alice..the presence of u 2 for the celebration of suokteng and kha hong's birthdays mean a lot to us..it was really fun..reminds me a lot about the funny things that we've been through together..kinda amazed me that its been 5 years since we've known each other..

alice told me that she missed us a lot after she left..and i felt the same way too..

cant wait to meet up with u guys again..:)

suokteng and kha hong's birthdays..

alice came on friday nite from aberdeen as a surprise for suokteng and kha hong's birthdays..

when she was about to reach the bus stop, i sneaked out of the house to pick her up. Before going out, i was so scared that they'll sense that something was on..so after preparing everything..i used the fastest speed to run out of the apartment so that they wont have the chance to ask me where i was going..met up with alice and sc (after her work) at the bus station.. so when we reached the house..kh and st were both SHOCKED to see alice (yay!!even kha hong din suspect that alice was coming). st even shouted in disbelief..

but the sad thing was..just when i was expecting them to say "hey..no wonder lah..i was wondering where u went jz nw..etc etc".. instead...they said.."WHAT??did u go out just nw??i din even realise u went out.." and i actually took the effort to rush out..*faint*

practically spent the next day on shopping..sat was oso d day when Scotland football team played against italy..so we could see all the scottish fans singing and cheering along the street during the day..and the match actually started on 5 pm..sc, alice and kh successfully bought winter jacket..too bad i still couldnt find something suitable for me...

watched my 1st ever movie in glasgow cinema, was rili excited cos back in m'sia watching movie in the cinema was one of my favourite pastime!!we chose to watch "american gangster" starred by denzel washington and russell crowe..both are really good actors..it was based on true story, portraying a black gangster who smuggled drugs into the country in American service planes returning from the Vietnam War. At the height of his career he was even more powerful than the Mafia when it came to dope dealing! anyway..i think the movie was definitely worthwhile to watch..:)

on sunday, it was suokteng's birthday..so we prepared some simple meal and invited the others to come over..

haha..cute smiley face..and peifong and yishan din notice the smiley face on the cake!!

thanks to kahyee who baked this delicious fruit cake..:)

the 2 birthday girls..

oops...we forgot to take the group photos tat day..

taken before sending alice to the bus station..

when we were at the bus station...

finally..the secrets were revealed..

knew that alice was coming for suokteng and kha hong's birthday more than a month ago, and glen confirmed that he would reach glasgow on sun evening..since then i was trying hard to keep the secret, which was obviously a very difficult thing for me..and oso for the others..

a few stories to share..

#1

me, sc and kh were chatting in kitchen and we were planning on wat cake to make for their birthday..sc suggested sumthing..

and without realising i mentioned that glen wil probably like it..

SHYT..felt like kicking myself (sc actually KICKED me from under the table)

both of us froze for a while..and then tried to act normal by crapping..

(we tot we were successful in acting...until kha hong told us that from that incident, she oledi sensed that glen would come all the way from london...oouch!!im sure our acting werent that bad..just that she's way too observant and smart)

#2

after alice reached on friday nite, we were revealing to them that hw hard it was for us to keep the secret for more than a month!!

sc happily said, 'that ming ying larr...that day oledi nearly bocor rahsia..she...'

i was thinking...hey..the onli time i nearly said the secret was when i tok about glen during the time we were in the kitchen..

obviously sc was thinking the same thing too..she swallowed back her words and for a second or two..she remained quiet..then later she had to create a new story to cover up..HAHAHA..padan muka!!

the funniest story happened on sunday afternoon when the others gathered around in our house..

#3

yi shan: so wat time is glen coming later??

me, alice and sc: SHOCKED and SPEECHLESS..

within seconds..we acted normal.."wat??glen is coming??how come we dunno and u noe??"

sc pinched yi shan hard..and she realised that she said wrongly and started laughing..

pf the blur god still dunno wats happening.."yah..he's coming..XXX told us..u guys dunno meh?" we panically tried to crap and come up with a ridiculous story(a fake scandal) about glen to distract st and kh's attraction..

everyone else acted along (even those who din noe that glen was coming knew by then and tried their best to help, luckily suokteng was too blur to notice)..trying to act kepo and kept asking..

instead of tricking suokteng , blur god peifong pulak kena tipu..

she actually BELIEVED our ridiculous story and kept asking yishan to tell us more about glen's "scandal"
at some point..she pointed at yishan..OH!!!u BOCOR RAHSIA!!!" wahhhh..rili feel like whacking her..haha!!everyone else tried to cover up and she still dunno wat happened..

suilin who was beside her pinched her and stared hard at her..and she turned and ask.."why r u keep looking at me??why pinch me??"

until kha hong couldnt continue to act as if she din noe about this plan..and asked her to just remain quiet and dun speak again..

the blur gal obviously still couldnt get it and after a while..suilin had to pull her out and explain to her from a to z inside the toilet..:P

#4
and as time goes by..we kept saying the wrong things and tried to cover up..stress level increasing..haha.

and since alice's bus back to aberdeen was at 645pm and glen's bus to glasgow would reach at 530..we've to reach buchanan bus station at around 530..
we told suokteng that alice's bus was at 545pm..since suokteng was the onli person still in the dark..we were all very relaxed and walked slowly to the bus station..

whereas st dragged alice and walked super fast..

poor alice..in the attempt to slow down suokteng..she turned and asked us.."hey..did i tell u it was 545pm or 555pm??"..

we just showed the confused face and replied...ermm..not sure..keji suechoo even answered.."i think it was 545pm lar!!"WAHAHA!!

after we reached the bus station...alice had to continue acting as if she was too blur and searched for the piece of the paper that wrote the time..and acted surprise to see it was actually 645 instead of 545pm..

and finally....glen appeared from behind and shocked suokteng..haha!!
apparently suokteng is also a super blur gal..she never suspected anything (even after the afternoon incident when everyone kept bocor rahsia..)

so finally..the secrets were revealed..too bad alice and glen could only meet up for about an hour before she went back to aberdeen..

trying to act cool..:P

btw..ahteng can rili come out with sudden situation that we never tot of..before this, she said she wanna go aberdeen this weekend..so we had to come out with excuses to block her from going..after that, we'd an offer to work on sat nite..and ahteng kept persuading us to work..

so have to tell more lies so that she wont suspect anything..

phew..im just glad that i dun have to keep secret about frens coming for the weekend anymore..its so difficult.....!!:P

FRUSTRATED...

wats the WORST NITEMARE for a student?

im experiencing it NOW... !@#@$%!!!

on monday, i've a presentation about my research project, and until this moment, after browsing and reading thru articles, i still cant find enough useful information, which means the articles that i've read so far are kinda irrelevant and im still searching for THE ONE that suits wat my lecturer wants..:(

to make things worse, the lamp in my room just ROSAK!!!so nw i can only depend solely on my tablelamp..and 2moro's sunday..which means the earliest that i can find someone to fix the lamp is ..MONDAY?!!!

so this is me nw..

frustrated..geram..keksim..scheisse...ARGGGHH!!

looks like some character in the horror movie trying to find my next victim thru internet..

好凄凉的画面~~~

Today i went to work with kahyie and weimeng, with no idea that Im going to be witnessing the historical moment!!!!

Since we were here in glasgow, there were lots of big posters, programmes, advertisements etc stating that glasgow is bidding to host the Commonwealth Games. Therefore, I noe today is the day that the host of 2014 Commonwealth Games will be announced, but i did not imagine that the place that i would be working (at the old fruitmarket/city hall)..was the place where about 1000 ppl including school children, athletes and politicians gathered to watch the announcement live from Columbo, Sri Lanka. There were also other performances by singers from scotland and other traditional scottish music..Before reaching the city hall, we saw lots of ppl outside, e.g the crew from bbc scotland..skytv...etc..preparing for direct telecast later, so u can imagine hw grand the event was..

Was a bit nervous at first cos i havent had any job since i went for trip..but lucky me!! today's work was pretty simple..ya i still need to carry stuff etc, but my main job was just pouring tea and coffee for all those who came to us..and when i mean pouring..i rili poured endless cups of coffee and tea for many hours.( at least few hundred cups!!) the ppl kept coming non-stop, but as usual, the crowd was frenly and joyful, e.g always thanking us, and some that came for 2nd or 3rd cup of coffee actually recognised my face,haha!! so basically it was fun and i enjoyed it..[excluding the part where kahyie and i kena scolded cos we ate AFTER we finished our job, which makes no sense at all..but nvmlar, my mood wont be spoilt bcos of some stupid #$%$]

at around half past twelve, everyone was inside the hall, so kahyie and i went to have a peep at the crowd..and we were just in time to witness the announcement!! As expected, glasgow won the right to host 2014 Commonwealth Games, by securing 47 votes against 24 for Abuja out of a total of 71 member countries..upon the announcement, the crowd went wild and the cheer was deafening!!!everyone started hugging each other and was rili excited...omg..i was pretty excited too when i witnessed this..

all the happy expressions and endless cheering when the results was annouced..

this was exactly wat we saw today..totally amazing!!!the above pics were taken at the fruitmarket (got it from online news)

Autumn in my heart..

Inspired by our other coursemates, we too decided to have our little photography session today, at Glasgow Green before the autumn ends..

thanks to the breathtaking scenery + nice weather + pretty gals + hebat photographers *ahem..we managed to capture these..

captured by ahteng.. look at the birds!!

the tall nearly-botak tree and the plump xmas-tree-look-alike...total contrast to each other..

looks like some scene from korean movie rite??:P

and..

a few pics that i captured..

the lonely tree that stood strongly despite the strong wind..

the sunlight that still manage to penetrate through the leaves..

my personal favourite pic..this tree still has lots of seeds though there is no longer any leaves on it..

of course, not forgetting our happy faces..

...and our messy hair (haha!!the wind was tooooooo strong..have to filter out a lot of pics cos our hair looks too messy!!)

professional background..:) (p/s: the 4 gals in front have similar height!!:P)

my solo pic..

another nice pic taken by photographer choo..liked the bright blue sky..

the above 2 pics are taken by kha hong..like it very much too! rili gt "feel" lerr??

my crazy housemates..

the cute and lame frens..

these are among some of the pics that we took..by the amount of pics that i include into my blog, its obvious that i rili liked the pics we took today..haha..and though it looks sunny..the weather was in fact VERY VERY COLD!!

the funny thing was..7 of us brought 4 cameras with us..BUT..suilin forgot to put her memory card in (BLUR!!!:P)..yishan and ahteng's camera went out of battery...and not long after that..my camera oso habis battery...so we were forced to end this photo-taking session..if not..we'd probably end up taking even more pics..and suokteng wil probably freeze til pengsan [*quote from lameking "then u guys wil have baked giraffe to eat" wah...super lame!!]

Bonfire night..

for the past few nites, had been witnessing small fireworks around the city from my room..

and today...A LOT of ppl gathered in Glasgow Green, a park situated near our hostel to witness the spectacular fireworks..there was oso fun fair and lots of stalls selling food..

Bonfire nite, oso known as Guy Fawkes Night, is an annual celebration on 5th of November with fireworks and burning effigies of Guy Fawkes on a bonfire. According to wikipedia and other sources..:P (life is so much easier with wikipedia around), this is to celebrate the foiling of the gunpowder plot of the 5th nov 1605 where some Roman Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the House of Parliament, together with the King, James I, his Ministers and Members of Parliament. This day is celebrated primarily in the UK, but also in other former British colonies such as New Zealand and part of Canada.

out of curiousity, i went on to search on why they wanna blow up the place and kill the king..apparently the government was treating the Catholics unfairly and when James I became the king, he passed more laws against them. Some of the English have been wondering whether they are celebrating Fawkes' execution or honoring his attempt to do away with the government..

This made me ponder..wat is right and wat is wrong? there is always two sides of the story, and the definition of "good" and "bad" is no longer clear-cut ever since we grew up..*life is so complicated*..

okay, back to the pics we took..a bit lazy to take pics cos it was too dark..


the 2 Eskimos..

some of us..i guess most of our coursemates were there 2nite..

haha..i took the 2 pics when the fireworks just started..lasted about 15 mins i think..was watching in awe the whole time (its definitely better than the above). i chose to concentrate watching (tats why i din snap any pics after that:P) probably wil copy other ppl's pics into my blog if im rajin enuf.:p. anyway, IT WAS TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE!! had a great time tonite, despite the fact that it was freezing outside..