.Food. Camera. Cheongsam.

GONG XI GONG XI!

Even though I'm in a foreign country whose ppl have not heard of CHINESE NEW YEAR, that doesn't mean that we don't celebrate it, ......MALAYSIAN STYLE!! =D

We had a BIG...I mean BIG open house during CNY and it's our first and hopefully last CNY away from home!!

Took me a while to finally decide to wear that cheongsam. Sick. I thought I was the only one who's gonna wear a long formal cheongsam AT HOME. Lucky not.

I have to give credit to my mum anyway, she made that cheongsam for me before I came to Glasgow =)

In fact, I think I forced her to sew me one.. HAHA Dahlah she malas wanna do for me, then in the end she did it at the very last minute. Have to burn midnight oil and all. So if I don't wear it, she's so gonna strangle me when I'm home. Yes, she will.

OMG The FOOD.
Ohhh Myy Goddd....THE FOOOOODDD!!!
*saliva dripping*
Seriously man, we're such awesome bunch of cooks!!
(Thanks guys, for all the effort put in to make this a success!) =)


The deco were very pretty too!
Everywhere we go, it's ALL RED!
But the place was really packed la, no doubt.
Imagine squeezing around 180 ppl in 6 TINY halls. REALLY TINY halls.


Everyone enjoyed themselves =) And so did the home students!
They were so curious as to how we actually celebrate our new year and all. Not to mention having a party without alcohol. It must have been their first.

Ahh...then it was time for the clean-up.
Sien.

.....Yew Jinn started playing Lady Gaga's songs....
.....Everyone was moving to the beat....
Then somehow or another, we started dancing on the "dancefloor"!
Off the lights, close the doors, BLAST!!!
Everyone was goin gaga over Lady Gaga!! (Her songs rock big time man...)

HE HE HE

HE HE HE HE HE HE HE

Here's a sneak peak into what we crazy ppl were doing....with a special appearance of 2 unexpected guests. ;P

MUAHAHAHAH! Weee!!
Hyperness!

Still bo kam wan....

.Yew Jinn and his "high fashion" poses.
GG time!

After zillion pictures,

=D

Ahhh...it was a great night! FUN!!

Cravings

Inspired by Hui Yen's peanut butter cookies, I die die..............CHOI CHOI! I mean I how also wanna make my own cookies!!

But I didn't have crunchy peanut butter at home and every night since then, I was craving for peanut butter like crazy...It was mad, man....
And when I finally decided to go Aldi to buy it the very next day NO MATTER WHAT, I came across the massive news about the US manufactured peanut butter contaminated with Salmonella.
....Babi betul.
Even Famous Amos was affected! Wth?

But that didn't break my determination! Hmph!
I want peanut butter and I WILL get my peanut butter!

WEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

Peanut butter cookieeeesss!! MAM MAM MAM MAM MAM!
Tho it flopped a lil in the beginning, but it still turned out nice =)
And no, I'm not gonna tell u why it flopped cause u'll just roll your eyes at my stupidity...

Gong hei fatt choy ppl!!

It's another big occasion.
It's another big occasion that I'm celebrating away from home.
It's another big occasion that I'm celebrating away from home and me no likey.

It's the first time that I'm NOT celebrating cny with my family, NOT receiving ang paos, NOT going out shopping for red clothes with a hope of changing my wardrobe for the new year (yeah, right), NOT getting to munch on cny cookies every 3 hrs, NOT being able go house hopping with my friends (I miss u guys!!), NOT being able to irritate my friends to teach me how to play mahjong again cause I've forgotten everything, NOT being able to chor di and test my luck for the new year, NOT being able to ugut my bros so they'll give me bigger ang paos this year, and most of all, just NOT being able to be there with all my loved ones and enjoying the cny moments with them.

Depressing isnt it?

But on a lighter note, my batchmates and I are having a humongous CNY open house!!
All 117 of us! or was it 118? 114? Ah whateva.
The best part is that we're inviting the home students as well as some lecturers!
We're so gonna surprise them with the amount and variety of food man...
Hopefully things will go well on that day. I'm just not looking forward to the crowded-ness of roughly 150 ppl in our small puny houses. Seriously. Better to not think of it.

May everyone back home have a blast on CNY!!
And those not in m'sia, oh well, go Chinatown and celebrate or sth!

GONG XI FA CAI!!

What an irony...

Back in M'sia during CNY season.

*On the radio*

....*Tong tong tong chang! Choi san tou! Choi san tou! (CNY songs were played)*...

*Change radio station*

....*Umbrella...ella...ella....ellaaaa*

Mmmmm...=)

Glasgow during CNY season.

"Eh you know yesterday I downloaded all the CNY songs!"

"Omg serious?! Send to me send to me!!"

"CNY that time must blast wei...yau heng fan tik ma..."

"yeah man!*

------------------------------------------------------------

*sigh*
No comment.

p/s: I miss malacca's pineapple tarts!!!!!!!!!!
Send to me mummyyY!!!

Notverylongfromnow

Time flies. Seriously.
It has been 6 months here in Glasgow and I'm already halfway through.
Another 6 months till I graduate, another 6 months till I pack and return to the place I miss a lot lot, HOME.
Another 6 months till I see you again, another 6 months till I finally get to do all the things that once felt so boring and dull, but finally cherishing it.
Another 6 months till my wonderful once in a lifetime experience comes to an end, another 6 months till I get to burn all my books. (YAY!!!)

Everyone has been talking about their new year resolutions and reflecting back on 2008. Come to think of it, I didn't even reflect back nor did I have any new year resolutions cause I don't believe in making them in the first place!

But it's true that there has been many ups and downs back in 2008, which is usual. I just hope that 2009 will bring more good memories and joy to all my loved ones and myself =)


(missing Cheryl in the pic ;P)

Life will never be the same without u guys in my life! I missshhhhh YOUU!!! I will be home soon!! I promise!

p/s: Cheryl: Damn mengada la u! Get to go home meet everyone and be in time for the reunion thing sumore! Ishk..Make sure u come back berholiday when I'm back home! We still need to plan our long-delayed trip!

iheartlondon

Some went to Salzburg,
Some went to Prague,
Some went to Paris,
Some even went to the freaking cold Norway,
but nearly 70% of my batchmates went to London for New Year celebration.
It was like another P106 reunion there!!

*excited excited*
*LONDON! Finally!! =)))*

Hyde Park

Gorgeous gorgeous hyde park...damn freaking BIG too! Jog around half of the park, u'll get to lose 2kgs d. And btw, the ferris wheel is NOT London Eye ok. Tipu keling betul.

Thai food!!

Our first proper meal in London! Deliciousness! And got kangkung!!! I miss miss kangkunggg!
Oh..and we just got to know that kangkung is actually called morning glory! Weird man...felt as though we were ordering purple flowers as vege.

Hustle bustle city

I love London! There's soooo many things to see, sooo many shops and everything is just sooo...alive! Public transport was awesome too..but considered quite ex lor. The lightings at night was also very pweettyy =) Ain't the huge snowman awesome??! There were sooo many along that stretch of road!

Avenue Q!

Our first musical! When I first heard that it was about puppets doing a musical, I wasn't very impressed. The poster even looked like some Sesame Street poster wth. But wah liow, when they started singing, everyone was rolling of the chair laughing man! There was lots of vulgarity and 18SX stuff but damn farny!! That was when we decided that we should watch another musical!! LOL

Walking back home at night =)

The view was amazing! The river was 1000X nicer than River Clyde! LOL ;P
And we were staying right beside London Eye! How awesome is that?! Haha!

London Bridge is falling down

falling down, falling down, London Bridge is falling down, my fair lady...
I still don't get the song even though it was prolly the first song I could sing and have been singing for about 20 years. And I don't get why is it SOOo popular that every kid in the world has to know about it. If not, they'll have a deprived childhood.

HEAVEN!!!!

OMG Super heaven lor!! U know, we even had to QUEUE up in the COLD just to get into Haagen-Dazs?!! But it was all worth it I tell u!!!
We had a hard time choosing what we want. The menu was like.....the BEST menu to look and drool at. And the ice cream was omg...orgasmic... hahh...

DIMSUM!!!

Omgomgomgomg Yummy yummy dimsum!!! AND OMG...EGGIE TARTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Freaking niceee!!! Too bad it was too darn small. Letak dalam mulut, habis d. Ishk. But really, the dimsum there was damn good man...every single dimsum was good. Oh, except the lou mai kai la. White colour wan. Weird.
Ahh...I miss London already....

Overrated Buckingham Palace

I know this place mmg got nothing much to see wan lor. They even simpan-ed the guards behind the gates now so we won't be able to poke and buli them. And they weren't even wearing RED coats!! WTH?!!!

Stupidity

*Slurps*

Italian food. My all-time fav! Malas wanna put other pics. Go check FB for more. LOL
The mango sorbet was super duperly insanely awesome man..no joke!! I want moreee!! I can still rmb how it taste like...MmmmMMm....
Coconut ice cream....mango sorbet.....mix with mango sauce...*drools*

2009!

Happy New Year!!
We actually planned to watch the fireworks at the place where we stayed which was near London Eye, but mana tau when we came out from the restaurant, there were already beribu-ribu ppl walking on the streets and all the public transports were closed!!! Ahh!!
It was a disaster trying to walk towards London Eye when u have a big group of friends and there were MILLIONS of ppl walking on the road, you even have trouble trying to walk ahead of them cause it was sooooo packed like sardines and we only have limited time to midnight!! *sigh* You get the picture. And there were some drunkards too, which was damn sickening and annoying and scary at the same time. Halfway thru, we realised that they blocked the bridge so we couldn't cross the river to London Eye which was opposite the river. Aih. So we terpaksa berhempit with the crowd to watch the fireworks from opposite the river. Dahlah all the kwai lous so tall, I couldn't even see the fireworks. Have to see it from my camera when I hold it up. zzzzzzz

Madame Taussauds

This was another place with some really crazy queue!! If u're planning to go to Madame Taussauds, be prepared to wait for around an hour to go in. If u go in the afternoon, then I guess u would have to wait for AT LEAST 2 hours. Damn giler.
Then it's SO packed inside somemore. Can't take pictures with the wax figures properly cause someone would be posing with the figure on one side and u're on the other side. Wth right?
But it was still fun! Some of the wax figures don't really look like them in real life but some was ok. I did expected more Hollywood celebrities figures tho.

Wicked, our 2nd musical

We heard many many ppl said Wicked was really good and it's a MUST watch etc. Lucky for us, we manage to get a not-so-exp ticket BUT still ex la ok. The place itself is much bigger and more glamorous than Avenue Q's and even their stage and settings were much more impressive. The singing was also really good. But I guess it was way too good that it made all the guys fell asleep throughout the whole show. HAHA

I'm missing London already....
Can't wait to go back there again!

p/s: Thanks Alan, for being our tourguide and bringing us makan good food everyday! Damn lucky to be living in London man...