cold chinese new year...

first of all.. let me say, happy chinese new year.. no fancy post or what not planned out cause im less than 48 hours away from my exams in which im kinda screwed for...

if my mum was here.. she would be saying "choi choi choi!!!! *whacks my mouth* cannot say such things during chinese new year day"

so yeah. just wishing everyone a happy chinese new year, do eat loads on my behalf and collect loads of ang pow on my behalf as well!

and this is how i celebrate my chinese new year...

stuck at home studying for exams... gonna have a baguette sandwich for lunch me thinks..the boiler in the house broke down yesterday and apparently we will only get a new one on friday... so there is no heating right now... nor is there hot water to shower.. had to do it the old fashion way(boil hot water and put it in the sink, mix it with cold water to create... warm water, and use a small pail to mandi kerbau a bit.. however, no small pail was used this time.. instead.. a huge beer mug..! hahaha.. now thats a man's shower right there!)

either way, it was fun the first time around when i did it yesterday.. but i think when i go and boil my water today.. aint gonna be that fun anymore!

anyways, its back to studying for me, lots of info about beer industry to read up on(yes, thats one of my compulsory questions, worth 25% of one of my exam.. some may say i should nail that question cause.. cause its beer.... man.. aint easy thats what i can tell you)

then again.. been slacking off lots.. hahaha.. ah wells.. feels like im back in my 1st and 2nd year in IH.. which is definitey not a good sign in terms of exams and results...

exam fever...

since everyone is on holidays... and im the only one stranded here studying for exams.. in which im dead for... heres a little video in which i think most of you will enjoy...

have fun with it...

a busy month ahead...

exams are around the corner... in 20 days to be precise... and am i prepared? nope... zilch.. havent started jack all...

my only consolation is that, for the 2 exams ahead, i actually attended almost all the classes so i actually know whats going on and what im meant to study, does that make it easier? i really hope so...

still on holidays but it all ends on sunday! and am flying off to paris on tuesday! with sheanee and zhen hong! cant wait...

in other news, got my tokina 11-16 lens that i really wanted so ill be bringin that along with me since i think my horizon is dead after that drop in egypt....

off to paris for a few days, then back to london for a day and a half to meet up with miss veronica yow!

funny note.. this is how small the world can get... sheanee is traveling around europe right now, and had a couple of days in vienna... and guess who she bumps into.. another tourist who so happens to be in vienna.. miss veronica yow.... now thats how small the world can get!

so yeah... ill be back the following monday, and its 9 days of hard hard hard core studying for my exam.. hopefully 9 days will be enough.. after all. i need to try to get an average of 64 to get my second class upper honours...

exams end on the 30th... finish my paper at 5pm.. somehow have to figure out how to pack my bags, and find a way to heathrow(mid nite bus or ) to arrive heathrow to catch my flight at 10am in the morning on the 31st.. flying back to malaysia!

yes... you did not just read the last part wrong.. i AM coming back to malaysia for 7 days.. to celebrate my mums big 6-0 birthday and also cause i reli need to celebrate.. its not even a want anymore.. its a neccesity to celebrate CNY considering i think i have missed out on it in 5 or 6 straight years...

then is back here... on the 8th.. would have skipped a week of classes.. so have to start going at my books hard cause my 2nd semester will just about determine everything...

wish me luck

all for a futton...

so here is the story of my long long day yesterday... it wasnt that long.. just seemed that way...

back story: had a drinking session with some friends about 2 months ago, in which a friend of mine passed out on the couch and puked on it (kinda like mu man on cc and ken's couch), so we chucked away the futton... we have been trying to get a new one from ikea but the nearest ikea is in bristol ( an hour and half away), and we cant buy it online and ask them to deliver... so my friend had the car yesterday.. and thought.. might as well just go and get it done and over with so we cant give him any more shit about puking on our couch...

left for bristol around noon.. got there.. kinda got lost but somehow managed to spot a huge asian groceries supermarket.... those who have been to exeter(basicaly none of you!) will know that its impossible to find any asian groceries (apart from instant noodles and soy sauce, and oyster sauce as well)... so we went full on, spent about 60 pounds on random stuff, tong yuen(the one with peanuts in it), lots of instant noodles, lots of sauces(chilli oil being the most important), udon noodles, bee hoon, soy milk, man tou, steam dumplings.. basicaly i went hardcore! even bought a 10 kilo rice!

after the asian mart, we manage to find the ikea.. went in and got the futton... and head off to bristol city...

bristol is basicaly the capital of the south west of uk. basicaly the biggest city in the south.. so thought we would check it out since there would be lots to check out..(way bigger than exeter). really nice city with a little river with some sail boats in it...

now this is how cold it is in uk right now.. its smack at 3 o clock in the afternoon and the water in the river.. well. isnt water.. it has turned into ice... while waiting for my friend's friend to meet up near the river... my friend and i started giving each other bets... such as.. "i give you 1000 pounds if you jump in that water now and swim for 5 minutes and so on and forth".. no i didnt take that bet.. even though i should have.. desperate for money now!

had lunch at this random jap place... upon entering the restaurant.. they had a little koi pond thing outside the restaurant.. there was this 2 hobos outside like.. the guy literally just took a fish out of the pond and started squeezing it ! and when we left.. the fish was facing upwards.. leaning sideways.. floating on the water.. not quite dead but getting there.. poor fish!

walked around bristol for a bit.. friend wanted to gamble so we went to the casino.. didnt last long tho cause my friend lost 40 pounds in like.. 5 minutes.. so we decided to head home...

while exiting bristol.. it was JAM! and we were quite shocked cause it was almost 7 , so the rush hour should have been cleared.. friend called his ex homestay mum and she told him that the highway home has been closed cause a lorry(the ones carrying new cars on it) flipped over and had an accident..(something like that).. so they closed the highway... my friends and i thought that it was impossible to get home now.. even with the country route cause everyone will be taking that route and it will take us 5 hours to get back.. so we found a service near by(service are like. those random stops near the highway), but we found a huge one with lots of restaurants and even a cinema..so my friends decided to watch a movie instead.. and we ended up watching... YES MAN



didnt have much expectations going into the movie.. and have to say.. i liked it.. really liked it.. so weird tho watching jim carrey.. cause never realised he is so old now! it was also good cause i got to watch lots of trailers of new chick flicks coming out! bridewars! confessions of a shopaholic and he is just not that into you! cant wait to download em! ahhaha

anywyas.. after the movie.. we decided to head off.. after all. its 2 hours after .. cant be that bad right.. or so we thought.. the jam was still there.. and we were stuck in it.. took up 3 hours 20 minutes to get back in the end.. and the jam was not that bad .. it was only one part that was stuck.. so we were still quite happy we watched the movie.. cause if we had tried to head back earlier.. the whole way would have been jam.. and we would have arrived the same time anyways...

got back at 130am.. so tired..

kinda makes me feel like.. it was my version of harold and kumar goes to whitecastle... jsut slightly different!