Malaysian society gathering

The whole bunch of us including the odd Geoff attended a gathering organised by the Malaysian Society. It was just a rather simple dinner in Leisure Centre, pretty much like Chinese styled restaurant, few round tables-a stage.. Tbh, we were there for the food only. Well, we paid £4 for registration, we’re obviously not there for the performances, what else do u think we, poor students were there for =P. Both Sheryls, Sarav n I had our plates piled up =P.. The food was so so, obiviously not as good as back home, but still edible.. Performance was.. I don’t know lol.. the stage was kinda pathetic..  then they had some games, just like the usual gathering agenda. We left rather early.. like 10pm-ish.. Went to look for a pub to play pool. Jesus christ, pubs here r like Canteena =P Old-man pubs… we passed by The Point, we wanted to go out, but Geoff doesn’t like clubbing, so we ended up in Sunderland.. something.. Sunderland Bistro or something.. That pub *bleh* was pretty much like Coliseum back in KL. Too bad I didn’t manage to take any pictures, due to the fact that I do not have a camera =(

I’ve been scoping around for digital cameras lately. Check this out Fuji Finepix S5700, 10x optical zoom =O 7mp, for just RM700 + delivery! =P well slightly cheaper than Malaysia, I think this camera costs about RM1000. So certain things like mobile phones r cheap that’s if u sign contract which isn’t very beneficial to us 1-year student. Food, no way… shirt, winter wear yes.. strawberries? definitely. I bought 2 boxes of strawberries for £1 this morning

I went to the Chinese shop again after class.. well it’s actually called Aroma.. something lol, we called it the Chinese shop. Bought chinese soy sauce, sweet n sour sauce + black thick sauce.. for £3. Gonna fry rice sometime soon. I’m definitely improving in cooking. These are what I’ve made for the past few days.

2 sirloin steak for £5 in Tesco. Bought some seasoning to marinate the steak + potatoes. Walaa, a perfect meal.. ish.. Geoff said it was really good.. I like bloody medium rare steak, this was bloodless well-cooked steak =/

First attempt on making sushi. Turned out ugh, the rice was too soft again.. What is wrong w/ the rice cooker!! I guess this time, I’m just gonna put 1table spoon of water for 2cups of rice. HMFT! The egg however was good, =D I kinda like it, I’m gonna try to make more n put in the fridge for breakfast =>

Then yesterday, went over to Sheryls’ place to eat nasi lemak. That was how we celerated our Hari Raya. The rice turned out pretty ok, the curry was like Chinese styled watery curry ahaha, but nonetheless still a perfect meat. After that, Geoff n I went over to his parents’ place, coz his dad needed help to get his laptop connected to the router. So, it’s Mr.Wade’s birthday on the 22nd. =D Going out for dinner.. yey yey!!

Now I’m gonna prepare dinner, just boring hamburger + chips. Toodles

No classes on Thursdays!!

WeeE, classes on Thursdays are canceled. How cool is that?! I was complaining bout Thursday lectures from 9am - 5pm. Due to lack of students for Environmental Biotechnology, that module has been canceled and students who chose that module has no choice but to take Medical Microbiology. It didn’t quite affect me, since I chose Medical Microbiology & Industrial Biotechnology. I was supposed to have 4 modules this semester, but Industrial has been deferred to next semester x2 woohoo. So this sem, 3modules, 1 project/research, and my personal tutor is Dr. Keith. nice man I love talking to him.

We spent a couple of ours in the seminar room, and then I went to Bridges (small shopping mall) with Sheryl, Sarav & Melissa. Melissa is the only European in my class.. the others r.. Malaysians hahaha =P I had fish n chips again today for £3.80, pretty cheap I’d say. After lunch Sheryl brought me to the “Chinese Shop”.  Oh my god, I was so happy when I entered it… so many familiar soya sauce, instant noodles, frozen dumplings/spring rolls, yeo’s can drinks.. bihun… bla bla. I was basially jumping in joy. But stopped right after I saw the price tags… jesus christ! £1.0 for Yeo’s green tea.. O.O Melissa bought lots of stuff, fish sauce, oyster sauce, bihun bla bla bla. She’s French but she loves Asian food. So I was *cough* being a Miss know it all, teaching her how to make spring rolls. =P Hey I don’t get to do that in front of my mom =P. As for myself, I bought sushi vinegar & soya sauce = £3.80. Come on, rice cooker, come already!

O, and guess what, Geoff was desperate for Chinese food yesterday, so we ordered take-away from Ming Dynasty. He ordered egg+duck fried rice, n I ordered chicken fried rice + 2 cans of coke = £10. Fried rice was HORRIBLEEEEEE.. MOM COME OPEN A RESTAURANT HERE!! Jesus holy molly christ.. >.<;; Sorry I can’t help but to convert =P I’m a poor student here.. *sobs*

So last night, did a lot.. went to Dav’s place to play Halo 3 till 10.45pm ish. Halo 3 was confusing for me =X. As usual, Geoff’s score was sky high compared to others. Ian , hehe the funny one among them was the lowest. He’s like the pitiful one among Geoff’s friends, everyone was teasing him a lot. =P We then went to Tesco. Hooray for 24hours Tesco. Bought lots of grocerries, I’m as usual always checking out the ‘buy 1 Free 1′ sections or ‘buy 2 for £3′ kinda stuff.

OMG.. the weather today is crazy.. crazy waves.. I almost got blown away when I was walking home

Sister’s Birthday Party & My Farewell Party

Yesterday was a blast! My house was totally packed w/bout 30+ ppl who were here for my sis’s birthday + my farewell party. Well, my sister’s birthday is on the 17th, but she decided to have an early party before I leave. Most of my relatives were here including my cousin brother, Chai Ween, who just came back from Ireland. My friends were just Kevin, Ming and Emily. Oh and not forgetting Kok Beng. A friend whom I’ve not seen for 12years. We used to play together a lot when he was 7, I was 9 at that time. It’s good to meet up with friends whom I’ve not seen in ages, but it’s kinda depressing  at the same time.. since I’m leaving, so there isn’t any chance for me to spend more time with them.. =( Leona was supposed to come, but she couldn’t seem to get a day off from her dad or something. I’m pretty much saddened by that =( Well, I’ve not seen that girl in ages, and she’s my close friend since high school. Kinda miss her to be honest and not forgetting Charissa =( sad that my close friends are not here to hang out with me before I leave.

Anyways, *wipes tears* The entire party was tiring, the food was fantastic. Barbaque was sucky, like usual. It was firstly just barbaque, but mom decided to cook so everyone ended up just eating mom’s food. Barbaque was left for the flies.. >.> 

I didn’t get a chance to try every dish that my mom cooked, was pretty busy serving guests + entertaining my little nieces. The whole thing ended about 11-ish, did some cleanups, and played a bit of Xbox 360, took some pictures with Kev, Ming and Emily before heading out to eat Sai mai loh in SS2. 

=P yeye, I know I looked silly, was promoting my mom’s fried wanton. We took that pic in the kitchen, that’s actually a reflection on my mirrored refrigerator.

Another silly picture =P

I got home bout 3am after the yumcha session. Kev stayed over night in my place coz we had another gathering the day after with Billy and Yen Kheng. He’s pretty lucky, he got the largest space + largest TV in the house that night. Yep, u guessed it right, the living hall =P Hey, who wouldn’t want to have a free security guard, even if it’s just for 1 night. As for me, I went to bed like 3.30am-ish, and my baka woke me up at 4 something ish. I missed him a lot, wish he was here to celebrate with me, would make everything more meaningful. I talked to him for a couple of minutes and I fell asleep =X yeye, I’m a pig.. oink.

The next day, Billy woke me up and I was like, o crap I’m late. Rushed to get ready and stuff just to find Kev was still taking his shower.. It was 11.30 at that time, and we’re supposed to meet up at 11.00am >.>. Reached 1U, Yen Kheng & Billy were already waiting for us. Had lunch buffet in Shogun. Wow, there were so many various Japanese dishes, for just $55, it’s so worth it IMO. If only Geoffy was there, he would have just kept eating cucumber sushi rolls for the entire holy 3hrs =P. We spent like 2hrs chatting, and getting updates on everyone. Apparently lots of us are going to England. => After lunch, we just walked around the place. I bought some skin/facial care stuff to bring over to England. Well, cold weather, I bet my skin would go really dry. We left the mall at bout 5pm-ish, and Yen Kheng came over to my place for a couple of minutes, to look see/see look my new house. That’s how my Sunday went by. Pretty enjoyable, but tiring as well.

I’m gonna start packing my luggage tomorrow.. I guess…

Pre-departure preparation pt.2

Thank god I do not have to reapply my student visa. Today was “hell-er” than yesterday. Woke up at 6am, rushed to the embassy, got there about 8am. The queue was massive and messy, ppl who got there ealier ended up getting later numbers, and ppl who got there later ended up with earlier numbers. At 8.32am, the number given to me was 64, and at that time, the officers were serving upto the 3rd person. So ye.. 3————–>64, long way.

So I was busy getting myself out of the crowd, at the same time I sensed someone was looking at me, well I looked back.. I was telling myself, hm.. she looked like Syuen’s mom.. so I searched around for sight of Syuen or her bro. Nope, not there.. A couple of minutes later, I saw my mom talking to that lady, and it turned out it was indeed Syuen’s mom with June Heng, Syuen’s bro. Well, I’ve not seen June Heng in like forever, so he has pretty much changed, can’t blame me for not recognising him =p

Syuen has finished her accountancy degree, and is back working. Wow! She’s definitely something, I guess Syuen is the earliest from my year to graduate. Now it’s her brother’s turn to go to Leeds to pursue his Engineering degree. Hey, there’s where Geoff studied. So anyways, after grabbing our numbers, we went to the Ground floor, kopitiam to chat a little. The good ol times. Then I went back up to the 3rd floor, the waiting auditorium. Mom left me alone there coz she needed to settle some banking chores. It was about 9.30am at that time. I waited till 12pm and I was called up to wait again at the 19th floor.

You’d expect Brit embassy to be something grand like the American Embassy. But sorry to dissappoint you, no. The visa application office is no larger than my A’lvls classroom. There were 4counters, 3counters were serving us - 1 specially for the government sponsored students. That 3 counters which were serving us, somehow turned to 2counters a while later, so the processing moved to the pace of a pregnant tortoise.

That room was so small and freaking noisy, kids. There were this bunch of ignorant kids, making a lot of noise & playing deckcards in the embassy. So this naggy security woman came in and sounded them, asking them to lower their voices and no gambling cards. Those ignorant kids just kept babbling away. Well, I’m not annoyed with them talking, but their ignorant behaviour pissed the security lady off, and she just kept complaining and sounding them. That’s the last thing you would want to hear from anyone near you, and sadly I was sitting near those kids.

At 4.15pm, the display showed 63. I was like, yes it’s me next. I waited till 4.40pm, nope.. still 63. The officer who went for lunch came back, and he started off with 65. I was like #$@!@!#!~ where’s 64, so I went up to the naggy security lady and told her, n she did the 6-4 hand sign to the officer. He was like “okok, I’ll attend to her next”. So I was like, “ok next is me”. But! the display then showed 66 to another counter. I was like >.>.. The officer who just came back from lunch could have just informed his colleague to press for 64 instead of 66. Inefficient!!!!!

So I pretty much waited longer than I needed to. When my turn was called, I was pretty nervous. The officer was pretty much checking every single bit of my documents. When it came to Geoff’s letter.

He went

So you got a place to stay?

Yep.

What’s your relationship with this mr.

He’s my boyfriend.

O, icic, how did you guys meet?

Erm.. when I was a college student (I took as if he asked when I met Geoff. Officer was being too busybody)

Ah nice.

That’s the last thing in my list. After all those time I’ve spent in that darn building since 8am I’d like everything to go in a zap, and do not fancy casual conversation. After submission, I had to wait for my turn for the biometric processing. That took bout like.. 45m or mayber more, I don’t remember. Time flies when there’s someone to chat with. I was busy chatting with this girl beside of me who’s heading to Reading. She did A’lvls in Taylor’s as well, so she was telling me bout my ex-lecturers there. And wow, Miss Annie gave birth last year. That amazed me for sure.. Miss Annie the hip hop lecturer who kept teaching the girls to have control of husbands’ incomes…. I definitely never expected her to have kids.  But hey, I’m happy for her, and hope all the best to her and her family.

So, in the biometric room, all I did was placed my fingers on some green scanny pad and took a picture. And walaa, visa collection on Monday. Right after hours in “prison” I rushed off to have my haircut + treatment. I wanted to dye my hair red, mom said no.. =(

At the hair saloon, mom was flirting with this red-headed guy, their flirtatous conversation was pretty amusing. And there’s this guy, called Ah Seng. Mom was joking with him so much about me. She was like “hey lengchai, I brought my daughter to see you” So Ah Seng started talking to me. geez, thanx mom.

He started off saying that I’m pretty tall for a girl, and I told him I’m 170cm. and he seemed freaked out. Then he was like o you should try becoming a model, Malaysian models are short. And I just gave him a smile. Then he wanted to know my age, but my mom slipped into our conversation by just saying that I’m younger. Then he went “well younger could be 1month, 10 years, 20years..” Then I told him I’m 21. He was like, wow, I thought you were like 17-19.. >.>geez? a compliment or did I look immature.

Then he went asking, are you working or student. I told him I’m a student. Then he asked me do you like to study. I was thinking…erm..? weird question.. then I answered, well I get lazy at times. He wanted to have my number, and I couldn’t lie to him saying I didn’t have a mobile when my mobile was in my hand, so I just told him I’m going to overseas next week, so this number will be terminated. Then he went ooo.. overseas.. like UK-Aus-USA.. I answered UK.

During some breaks in between, he actually went to my mom asking “hey mother-in-law can I fly to UK with your daughter” my mom answered w/ laughter “ha, her bf would kick you”.  So throughout my 2-3hrs hair treatment session there, I was pretty quiet and couldn’t wait for everything to end. At 8pm, another guy appeared who turned out to be Ah Seng’s friend. Ah Seng was telling his friend, bout my age/height.. I was like.. OMG.. let me go.. right when my hair treatment was done, I gave them a quick goodbye and zoomed off to buy my luggage bag at the opposite shop.

Out for 12hrs, super tiring, bed now.. zz nite

Pre-departure preparation pt.1

Today had been a hell-ish day. Firstly, waking up at 11am to find that I’ve passed my previous semester. Horray! However, the disappointing part of it, is that I didn’t do that well, compared with the three previous semesters. *cries* Never have I gotten this low, but hey, I can’t complain seeing that it was my fault for not studying. So the first thing I did was drive to school to get my transcript. Thank god, with the help from Miss Foong, I got my transcript in less than 15minutes. It takes bout 3working days usually and I wonder why it could take up to so long, it’s just a piece of paper >.>. Drove home, filled up the student visa forms and went out with my mom to Subang to have some documents certified. Spent hours in the university’s regional office coz’ Miss Elizabeth just kept erasing my answers for the survey bit >.> I was just answering honestly!

What do you intend to do after graduation.

I answered,

to obtain some working experience in the UK.

NO~, changed to -

intend to continue taking post-grad courses.

Honesty is not the way to success. *nods nods* k, anyway, mom n I left the office like, 5-ish.. The entire place was rather quiet. As usual, Taylor’s students usually disappear at this hr. Talking bout Taylor’s, it hasn’t changed a single bit. Students were pretty much the same. You could pretty much divide them into several groups, the studious, the playful, the wannabes etc. I’m glad I ain’t there anymore, well, don’t get me wrong, lecturers were amazing, students were annoying, well some of them =P. It’s the opposite in UCSI, lecturers were annoying, students were amazing, some of them as well =p I’m definitely gonna miss Jes & Ming T^T) They pretty much helped me through my 2nd sem.

Anyway, enough sobbing, time to sleep now. Need to wake up at 6am O.o to put my lazy bum in queue for student visa application.

Gathering before leaving

K so this morning, due to no raid spot, I went to bed in frustration.. nicely dreaming of.. ? nothing….=.- n mobile went *beep beep* I was like.. ugh.. who the hell at this hour. Checked it n it was Billy. “Hey morning, Billy here. About the gathering, let’s make it on the 9th“. I was like.. hm what gathering, then I was like.. o ye, gathering before we leave.. My group of friends from A’levels are having a farewell gathering for both Billy and I. Billy is leaving to Bristol, erm.. a couple of days after me. Wow, I’m so looking forward to all these gatherings.. going to have lots, with Leona, with Ming & Jes, with Kev and Eugene.. with Vivien if that girl stopped MIA-ing.

Kev called me like 4am last night. $@!##$ him =P nah I wasn’t asleep. but still he deserved some scoldings =P. So the first thing I did when I picked up was “oi u! check the time” then he was like “cheh, I know u haven’t slept at this hr” very true =P Oh and I spoke to his mom, felt weird talking to a friend’s mom at 4am =p don’t u think so. Kev’s mom surprised me with Negaraku(national anthem) and I was like LMAO + blur. Then I found out that she just watched that big hoohaa video over Youtube, so the song was stuck in her head apparently haha. Well at least she knows the national anthem. I doubt my parents knew the lyric.

Anyways, Kev called just to talk bout gathering and bout him coming back to KL earlier so we could go yumcha. I really miss the yumcha sessions. Back when I was doin A’lvls. Charissa (I MISS HER!), Kevin and I were always out, we didn’t do fancy clubbings or sort, juz plain yumcha since we had lots to gossips haha and we were poor students back then. I remembered going to mamak with Kev at 12-4am the night before A’lvls exam. It was a Maths paper, but hey I still got an A for that, ha! =D

I haven’t been out at night for a long time.. a very long time. I think I’m getting old =X . Now, I rather stay at home and spend some precious moment with my baka, and cough WoW. =X ye ye I’m pretty addicted to this game! I love progression. hmpht! shoo u.

But hey, my parents like it this way, Geoff loves it this way. My mom was like “thank god u’re done with night outings“. Well I understood her entirely.. going out at night in KL aint safe for a girl, but back then I was stubborn. I was like who cares, I wanna enjoy after weeks of studying.  But whenever I say I’m going out with Kevin & Charissa, my mom wouldn’t stop me. Mom knows Kev, and she kept calling him lengchai. lol, even my neighbour calls him lengchai the first time he came to my place*uh* and you should check out his face, was red like squashed tomatoes hahaha.

But don’t think we can do that anymore, I’m leaving, and Charissa is in Maldives. Boy I miss that girl. I still keep in touch with her through emails. hohoho I’m so happy for her, she found someone at last. The best thing is that they’re having some really fantastic time in beaches and resorts =D. The sucky thing is that she’ll be back to KL like, 3days after I leave for England.. sniffy =( I guess I’ll come back to KL after graduation.

K off I go, my warlock is standing in the middle of nowhere =P she needs some attention, toodles