From a spending frenzy to a pain in the ass

i spent so much money today that i just want to forget all bout it....but how can i??

damn sad man i invested in a decent bike today for 100 pounds(mind u thats the regular price for mountain bikes here) with the money ive been earning to earn more money since ive been spending 4 pounds everytime just to get to work. so i had to go all the way to the this place called manchester fort and cuz i dunno the shorter way back to my house i had to cycle the bike all the way back to the city(10 minutes) then back to my house (20minutes) then to work(40 minutes) and then back again(40 minutes) hence the fked up ass cheek bones and quadriceps. so damn hilly oso. my body is beyond pooped but my mind doesnt let it sleep...celeka

check out my new ride








oooo and this combi lock doesnt come for free man......10 pounds mind u

How would u expect everyone to go green if cycles cost so much in the first place? the government should provide cash rebates or something seeing as they are so fanatically environmentally conscious now.

aside from that i finally got myself a coat for winter after getting my bike and u dont wanna know how much it costs. even after the new VAT reductions and a student discount the amount is still relatively substantial.

oo i and i bought a german gammon ham sandwich at the christmas market...4.5pounds....bloody overpriced but i had to try it for some reason....

On a side note, the thomas left for paris this morning at 350 am leaving elo alone. she couldnt stop crying till he left. which meant that i couldnt fall asleep till he left. OOO OOO btw i forgot to mention something.....nvr ever ever ask french ppl to help u buy some groceries even if its just 2 simple items such as milk and bread and even after they take pictures of it......like seriously ......they took frikkin pictures....lesson learnt

aunty

I just realized how aunty i really am.

I honestly really enjoy grocery shopping. its one of my few escapes

wads more, i love to do price comparisons, cutting out coupons, looking for great deals and collecting points.

I also generally enjoy cleaning up (after myself only of cos). dunno la...im weird :P

My first european tip!

Woooooooooooot!

I remember when i got my biggest tip ever of rm3 while i was working back in tao, i practically couldnt sleep dat nite cuz the excitement and thrill of getting it drove me nutz.

Check this out.....



Yes count it....

12.85 pounds altogether. n guess wad.....it came from only 2 customers. but im not as excited as i was like back when i got 3 ringgit....




y? u ask...


mainly becuz one guy who was servicing only 4 tables the whole nite got 99 quid in tips all from also only 2 customers....yes 99 quid. one guy gave him 74 pounds and another gave him 25....wtf -.-


ive also heard of someone getting tipped 200 pounds by 1 customer b4. thats currently the record at the place im working


seems like its commonplace to tip like mad over here. good for me then :p


but mind u i did work my ass off and had to embarrass myself by going through protocols of introduction la, constant customer focus la and personal connections la....but it did pay off



though my legs are killing me now after working for almost 10 hours today....


ooo n yes, there were a few CFH(customers from hell) if u know wad i mean.....really knn wan. and i noticed that how ppl like to sabotage others just to get away with their own mistakes.....
there're plenty of bullies around too and seeing as im quite new and meek, they tot i was a pushover.....no no no mister, u messed with the wrong guy




yea a few racists sexists ppl around too but wadeva...england is shit after all n im only doing this for the money :p






ooo oo oo and 1 more thing i forgot to mention, someone left this behind lol







a limited edition manchester united paul smith designed key chain....nyak nyak nyak. well he din return for it so wadeva la

Aisi man

My sleeping time is all screwed up now thx to my assignments and this weather.

So wads with the title u ask?
Well its cuz i woke up at 4 pm today and i realized it was already dark...AGAIN. so that means i din even get to see the sun today. so this is how a vampire would prolly plan his winter eh....

neway it finally SNOWED! after much anticipation i realized snow isnt as great as its cut out to be. y? becuz manc is such a dirty dirty place that the snow becomes all gray and icky. Dust & litter everywhere...

In fact, theres so much litter around that even after the frenchies cleaned up the front yard, it only took all of 2 days for it be scattered with doritos and bloody indian take out packages again....ewww prolly cuz im staying in a student concentrated area la but do they have to litter when theres a bin just a few metres down the road....

hmmm....im losing all my creativity in cooking. all i do know is cook something that is simple, fast and requires the least amount of utensils and plates to save on washing later.

been watching british tele without a liscence lately and i must say, there are some shows which are really great like 8 out of 10 cats and never seen before independent movies. good stuff good stuff.

o and i learnt through 8 out of 10 cats that 1 in 5 or was it 10 parents think that jaffa cakes and crisps/chips/potatoes contribute to their 5-a-day.....wth

anyway gonna continue watching shipuuden now. :p

Oooo

Last week was rather disastrous and depressing....

Too bad its over and this week started out much better i guess, except for the part where i walked straight into a bloody pole...frikkin pain man

hmm...one of the worse things that i still remember very vividly about last week was about a nightmare i had...

its like in Lodge on the top floor at block C via the canteen after the stairs on the right theres like an open ended brickwall railing rite? then when u look down its like all the jungle, a stream and fencing rite?

then omg in my nightmare, suddenly a student seemed like he jumped of the ledge then it caused a ruckus and everyone started going to the railing and one by one they all fell over....then me being my curious self went to see what was going on and i was probably the only one that could see like a long-hair pale 'samara' shoving students one by one off the railing in a grotesque way and when she saw me...that was when i woke up and noticed how much i was sweating despite it being cold.

celaka i tell u after that i was so scared cuz like my house is 98 yrs old and my room is like in this dark alley in the most private section of the house. who knows whats happened behind these walls these past few decades.

Its giving me the heebee-jeebees man! especially when i have to go brush my teeth since i always sleep at 3 am. scared later i encounter a momok/ju-on...











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Cold

omg...

O M G

It get so cold over here sometimes that even when arberdeen is at 3 degrees, its -2 over here.


It also get so cold sometimes that when i want to turn in my sleep, i would have to think twice becuz the rest of the surface of my bed is like an ice block.


It is so cold that i make sure that every single particle of water is wiped of from my body before i even step out of the shower(sometimes eevn before i turn off the shower)


Funny enuf, it is so cold that my french housemates are amazed that i still wear shorts and a T-shirt around the house when they are wearing trekkies with layers and scarfs and beanies indoors(basically cuz thats my attire for cooking. those 2 want to get half of their wardrobe stinking with their french camembert cheese & and onions is their problem)



O have i mention before that its so cold that i open my fridge just to feel the warmth inside...



Its so cold that as i m typing this out i wouldnt dare move to prevent my skin form contact with my pyjamas as i move(takes a lot of effort)



Its so cold that i eat every 3 hours



Its so cold that i crave chocolate and butter everyday



Its so cold that i shudder to think how much would my gas expenses be if i were to switch my radiator on(central heating ma)


Its so cold that even at -, the snow is also scared to come out


Its so cold that i once slept for 14 hours


Its so cold that my french housemates decided we should start using the radiator edi even though theyre broke


OMG....i don even wanna think how im gonna get through january and it makes it worse to think that all of u in msia are having round 1 and round 2 w/o me! nooo i so need laksa to warm me up right now...

Funny>?

...

It stops being funny when the inside of my fridge is actually warmer than the outside...


Its even less funny when the gales over here make u dance for them involuntarily....


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Whats funny is this!



LOL its a deli in manchester. u know what to insert in between la ho :p



k give me a break la & dont give me that look

Come on...

i went to the city again yesterday to pass around more cvs and to apply for more jobs cuz ive given up all hope on last months applications *ahem ahem wagamamammamam*

damn la...then today i just recieved an email from M&S rejecting me! chow ku *^&%#@$

luckily i manage to apply to 10 places this time lol :p

y is it so hard for them to hire me??? ive got experience gua, my english oso not that bad, and im legal to work. *crosses fingers for debenhams & hard rock*

on a side note,

somebodys been stealing my red sauce n my nutella ella ella eh eh eh stealing my nutella ella ella ella eh eh eh....





























dum dum dum....be careful, ill catch one of u redhanded one day soon

Bridge to Terabithia

wow.

its been so long since a movie touched me this deeply...

wonder y i didnt pay too much attention to it in Form 1.

the way its been directed is so human and mature and the story so profound at times with all its indirect symbolism and link to each idea the story dishes out till 1 may think hmm this is definitely not targeting just a family audience. and the two mains' acting is so totally spot on and believable. wow man. the only qualm i had was that the ending could have been a lot stronger. doesnt hurt to say that annasophia looks really pretty too lol
















Do yourself a favour and watch this.

Theres also 2 more id recommend if ud like movies(like these) that strike u as generic but has a surprising amount of maturity and profoundness in the msg it delivers .









Trust me..:p

Shucks...

Sometimes life is just so unfair....no not to me, i try to stay as grateful as i can for everything but its tough cuz honestly, i have no idea what a hard life really means and usually take for granted a lot of things in life.

But my heart goes out to 'u' right now n im so very sorry to here whats happening atm. as if life could not get any tougher for u...i dont know what u did to deserve all these things in life but i do hope things start turning around for your sake and i also hope with all sincerity that if anything were to happen, u wont lose your direction in life. i know it may seem like u dont have anyone to turn to anymore in life but know that there will always be ppl ard u who care and that you arent alone. im truly ashamed of myself for whining bout all the little things in life. this song is dedicated to u...

"Lift"

I know you're hurting
Feels like you're learning
'Bout life the hard way
And it ain't working

Seems like forever
That you've been falling
It's time to move on
You're life is calling, yeah

This was never meant to be the end
Close the book and start again

[CHORUS]
Cause I know how hard it can get
But you gotta lift
You gotta lift
And sometimes that's how it is
But I know you're stronger
Stronger than this
You gotta lift
You gotta lift

When you can feel your
Whole body's aching
What's left of your heart
It won't stop breaking
You gotta let go
You took a hit
Time to pick up now
Move on from this

This was never meant to be the end
Close the book and start again

[CHORUS]
Cause I know how hard it can get
But you gotta lift
You gotta lift
And sometimes that's how it is
But I know you're stronger
Stronger than this
You gotta

Lift yourself up above all the hurt
Don't give it
Wipe your eyes and remember
You're better than this
Let them know
That they took their best shot
And missed
C'mon and lift

This was never meant to be the end
Close the book and start again

[CHORUS]
Cause I know how hard it can get
But you gotta lift
You gotta lift
And sometimes that's how it is
But I know you're stronger
Stronger than this
You gotta lift
You gotta lift

Pick up now...
Pick up now...

hmm..

ive been rather unlucky in finding jobs for this past month la...but i want to fund my own hols in dec...sighs

...also it has been super cold recently but like its only 6 degrees...where as last month it hit -5 and i still walked over to my neighbours house using shorts and a t-shirt...

on the lighter side of things,
i know all of u have heard of wi-fi... but have u heard of wireless electricity? (mebbe im a bit outdated since this article was dated 2007)

"The experiment exploits the phenomenon of resonant coupling. It involves two copper coils of two feet in diameter. One, the transmitter, is connected to a power source and the other is connected to a light bulb. The two coils are set up two metres apart, and when the transmitter is switched on, the light bulb (attached to the receiver) lights up.

MIT explains how resonant coupling can add energy to a system by drawing a parallel with a child on a swing. The child can, by pumping his or her legs at the resonant frequency of the swing, add energy to the system and swing higher. Similarly, an opera singer can, by sustaining a powerful enough note for long enough, cause a wine glass to shatter, so long as the note matches the resonant frequency of the glass.

In the experiment, the transmitter generates a non-radiative magnetic field oscillating at MHz frequencies. This field mediates the power exchange with the other coil, which has been specifically designed to resonate with it."

my lecturer went to a science expo in london and he saw a laptop running on wireless power. thats just absolutely wicked sick man. totally going to be revolutionary. ive tot about the idea a long time b4 but like was wondering wad would happen if someone walked between the power output and the receiver...sot tiok man

but like according to my russian coursemate, the idea has already been ard since the 1930s with Tesla but it didnt catch on. Can u frikkin imagine wad our world would be like if we all stuck with tesla's idea of transferring energy? No wires, cables, and total freedom of moving things ard(within certain ranges of course) but id bet that within 78 yrs of development & innovation electricity would be able to reach kms away...

hmm...so well just have to wait and see how this resonance thing shapes the world then

French

....where do i start?

first things first, for those of u who dont know, i m currently living with a french couple



















this is what they look like.















hmm does the arrangement of photos always come out cacat on blogger?
one more shot of them...this was the day they cooked a french meal for me. was pretty darn good.

...and now for the bad.

omggg man sometimes i cannot tahan edi. after living with these ppl for the past 2 months, i realized how shitty the french language is. sounds like crappppp crap crap. i dont understand why ppl think its romantic or y lionel even bothers to learn the language. mebbe cuz 50% of the time all i hear is shouting and fighting. its like ' je beh beh beh beh , Se be je se BEH... BEH BEHB EH JE SE DEH!'
omggg its driving me crazyyy i tell u. they fight like exercise.

within the first week i moved in here, they broke up twice, separated once(stayed in dif rooms), moved out once(guy) and destroyed my stainless pots and wok. oo did i mention the guy has got an aiming problem(if u know what i mean)....its like hes got scattershot upgrade...ewww. oo and the worst thing is that he used to only drink coke so liek u know how fking pekat and yellow the stains get if u dont be neat and wipe the seat. :/

newayyy u may be asking y did i take this long to write about them....well coz theyre fighting got more intense and this time it looked/sounded(cos i stay in a room directly above them) serious.
the past few days i can hear the girl crying at 5 am and fighting away. but 5 minutes ago she was running up and down and slamming doors and throwing around stuff and like ran out of the house(saw her through my window lol). thomas(the guy) gave her 5 minutes and then he too went off, after doing some vacuuming wth....

oo oo theyre back....i hear her banging the door. i think he locked himself inside the room. ok i hear him letting her in and now shes sobbing...looks like theyre making up again....just STFU CAN OR NOT!

talk about a volatile relationship lionel...

thnk goodness they arent the overly passionate loving type otherwise things would go bump at nite..../morning.../evening

phew...

Bonfire Night

hrm...very disappointing indeed. its like a fake cny eve nite with a huge bonfire in the middle of the park. Luckily the company was great.
















Bonfire...i dont really see whats the big deal with this...ok lar its quite a huge bonfire but ppl are like literally stoning away for hours just staring at that fire..
















hrmm does it usually take this long to upload just 2 photos?...if it always takes this long i wont put liaw lo...wasting my time nia..see some furniture burning in the midst















k shiat...that may very well be the last time i upload photos....worse than kura-kura..wads worse
are the lau-hong fireworks















k la at least it was free and 20 minutes long... i can give them that, seeing as they are selling one bomb at tesco for like 20 pounds each

















k lar towards the end it got ok...some big flourishes and weird bongo shaped ones
















the only ride that looked interesting enuf ....very disappointedddddddd


Neway, what i learned today from the ppl i went to the bonfire with was that even if u tell them u are chinese, but u are a malaysian, u are a 'malay'. lol this misconception is not only thought of by the brits but the turks, taiwanese and chinas. hrm glad i cleared that up.

my turkish fren very cute and funny la. baked two of us a frozen pizza for supper...she said it was the first time she ate pizzas with pineapples and chicken on top...and asked if it was normal? me and a china girl looked at each other in disbelief lol. oo and she eats plain rice mixed with plain yogurt....and her nigerian housemate eats poached shrimps with red sauce for breakfast.

funny world we live in no?

ooo yea. i also forgot to mention that theres 1 girl from china whom i met through the turk....she happens to be a szechuan survivor. She said when it happened her whole ceiling fell and hit her head and bled and like cannot even walk properly so cannot evacuate the apartment. she also tot that that was the end cuz like shes living on the 7th floor. but when it all settled, there was no electricty/food/water/telecommunications for the nxt 10 days and the whole city (which is damn big) turned into a graveyard. Luckily her mum was a doctor and they survived on plain dumplings for those 10 days and slept on the grass in a playground. so like when their phones were back on, she had found out a few of her friends and relatives had perished.

amazing huh? she said the governement fabricates the figures where in actual fact 100s of thousands actually died. and that happened oni 5 months ago..cant belif she got over it that quickly

another interesting person i met was a local who happened to be enlisted in the british army. and when i asked him if hes ever been to asia before, he said hes only been to iraq....to fight for 6 months. he said it gets very exciting when theres action but really scary cuz always got bombs flying here and there. cool huh?

Remember remember, the 5th of November...

y? wads so auspicious that needs remembering?

well i guess cuz im finally gonna announce to ppl that i actually have a blog after lying to them over these past 2 months haha!

.....n also cuz today is bonfire night

.....n also the day the parliament houses gets blown up in a sci-fi totalitarian future by some masked terrorist.

hmm i think theres some relation to the fireworks of bonfire night with that movie.....oh wait, no duh .. something to do with history...and according to wikipedia, 'Guy Fawkes Night (also known as Bonfire Night, Cracker Night, Fireworks Night) is an annual celebration on the evening of the 5th of November. It celebrates the foiling of the Gunpowder Plot of the 5th of November 1605 in which a number of Catholic conspirators, including Guy Fawkes, attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London, England.'

rite its back to my assignments then

Noob

damn...i just realize how noob i m with this blogging thing.

so un-user-friendly wan.

I feel damn shy blogging la....but ill do it since i promised many that il start one when i get here lolz...but seriously im like giggling to myself with every word i type out lol zzz... wth rite?

Newayyyy, most of u should know by know that im actually studying in MANCHESTER and not london....its considerably cheaper n also got no uni in london for me to study in. well actually not 'in' manchester but liek in the ouskirts which happens to be not too far out..like 12 minutes bus ride to the city. When i first touched down in manc, it occured to me that it resembled melbourne so much. I guess ill be posting up pics soon when the internet is less erratic but i think on my fb already got lo...

Its like an un-terancang-ed(those of u hu payed attention in geo should know) unfriendlier melbourne...yea thats how id put it. They use trams...theres like chapel street la and some others that resembled bourke strt and its wayyy more modern than london but so much smaller even though its the 2nd largest in uk. but malang i kena racist attack during my first time in the city....fking bicycle punks. but it is still nicer than london thats fer sure.

now i shall introduce u to my house lol



Tada! Small but cute. ill be talking bout the insides soon enuf lol rite now the internet is acting up again. (actually facebook oso can c i think)

till nxt time

Pilot

Im seriously blur bout how this blogging thing works n m too lazy to actually start doing anything bout it atm...so this is just a test run and shall technically be my first evr blog post!!!

Im currently in london n like its so not like what the movies all cut it out to be...hmm words cant really express how i feel rite now. i feel emo-less yet out of place, anxious but feel apathetic bout the whole thing...a mixed bag of nuts....

neway a more substantial post soon when i actually get this blog up and running in shape.