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WooT! My first rainbow sighting in England ＼(*T▽T*)／

Good morning! A break for me at last, I have been working from 9am to 6pm from Monday - Friday lately, project, assessments bla bla. Anyway, despite that, I still have like two reports due next two weeks.. So gonna work on them now ;D toodles. Oh, by the way, Geoff bough GH3, with the guitaR! v(≧∇≦)v I was basically glued to it yesterday ^^)v. So much better playing this game with the guitar, back then I played GH1 & GH2 with controller =.-, u know la, hardly anyone buy original games in Malaysia =p

K, off I go to make myself some breakfast before working o(^o^o)o(^o^)o(o^o^)o

Sunday Morning

Waking up at 10am to find that the dock was missing!  Holy molly! What thick fog¬

Happy Chinese New Year!

Wee, it’s the year of rat! Wishing u all a happy-ratty-year! I hope the Chung family will be visiting all of you¬ The family members will include …
Chung Ma Piew (strike Big Sweep)
Chung Tai Choy (strike big prosperity e.g. big business contract)
Chung Man Chee (strike 4D)

They will be wishing you Good Luck and Prosperity for the whole year.
Don’t worry, two of the family members will not be visiting.
Chung Sum Mann (being issued summons e.g. traffic summons) and
Chung Fan Shee (plant sweet potatoes meaning life expired)
since they will be out of town for the whole of 2008. (Credit to whoever wrote this)

CNY for me was ugh, I wish I was back home-playing mahjong/poker/blackjack with my family-relatives & friends. (T-T )( T-T) ウルウルI spent like 2hrs celebrating CNY in Stadium of Light. They had some performances-lion dance, wushu, and some other dances, and they were promoting Beijing Olympic 2008. Sounded like China were seizing this opportunity to grab more tourists to Beijing due to Olympic. IMO, it’s pretty silly to have such ‘advert’ during CNY dinner. All of us were basically there for the food, seeing that we paid £7 to enter, and the food was ugh and insufficient! We were only given a plate of meal =.-. Stingy ¬no CNY atmosphere! Most of us left right after we finished eating ;p

My hair was being messed up by Melissa =.-

My CNY dinner (T-T). Once again, thx to Sheryl LLJ for the pics!

New MP4 Player - Sumvision Sempra Pro 4GB

I’ve gotten this for a while now, my x’mas present from Geoff. He didn’t bought it as a surprise, I pretty much asked him to get it for me ;P. I believe it’s one of the cheapest mp4 in the market, costs about £45 which is like, 4x cheaper than an Ipod nano? Don’t be fooled by its price, some cheap stuff r pretty decent. This little player(smaller than a credit card) does a lot despite its size. Plays mp3,wmv,avi-fm radio-voice recorder-built in mic/speaker-ebook reader-image viewer-game(tetris) and supports mini-sd card. The only thing I don’t like much is the music library. Well, there isn’t a library actually. It’s just like an explorer with folders. Musics are not sorted by album/singer and guess what the folders aint sorted alphabetically. It gets a little messy at times. And the rewind button doesn’t really play its purpose, it doesn’t play the previous track instead it plays some other random track.. =.- The sound quality is pretty decent I’d say, no grainy/distorted noise. Picture quality is acceptable.

I was watching DragonZakura on em. Everything was fine, till the later bit, audio/video went out of sync but I’m pretty sure it isnt becoz of the player, probably error when I was converting .flv files to .avi

Interesting drama, basically bout effective studying techniques to pass the entrance exam of Toudai which is University of Tokyo, the prestigious university where ANYONE would die to get in. Well, lots died for not being able to get in as well ;p.What can we say, R17 in the world, R2 in Asia Pacific after Australian National University, gives me the shivers to step in the Akamon = the red gate.

Anyway, this drama sorta motivated me to study, which is a good thing! I definitely need that!!Oh +++ Yamapi starred in it *winks* but he looked too chavy in this drama.

Another unfinished task at home, jigsaw puzzle which we bought before Christmas.

It’s some sorta wild life picture. I ain’t too good in jigsaws anymore, am I getting old! O.o! ヤダ！ Geoff did most of them, I was basically just separating the puzzles according to the colours.. =.-

Opz, 2am here, time flies, off to bed now.. brrrr 4C cold cold! Ppl at the docks are still working tho, god how can they work in such weather.. brrr- gnite

Life as a science student, possible future scientist?

Hey, I’m back! Haven’t posted in ages, *points at title*. Been so busy lately, projects/reports/assignment/reports/projects. I have classes from 9am mostly everyday, and usually get back home at 5-6pm. Like even when some days my lectures end at 12pm or 2pm, I still have to stay back in the lab till 5pm for my project.

So we’ve progressed into the 7th day since we started w/ our projects. And just recently, we found out that our methods were inappropriate O.o So we had to start from fresh using a new method. Ughhhh frustrating? well slightly. But it’s always good to have mistakes, like what Barry said, the more mistakes we do, do more we understand.

The horrible thing was that, every time after getting home, say 6pm, well when I was in Malaysia, I had my dearest mom to take care of me, I didn’t have to care bout food, it’s always there whenever I needed it. This time, all I can do was look at myself n push myself to cook. But lucky me, I don’t have to hover the house and stuff. Geoff does those ;). It’s good to have a bf who is tidy ahhaha, every time I mess things up he’s here to clean up. Only at times where he gets really fussy n whiny bout me putting my bag on the sofa.

We’ve moved things around a little in the living room. Bought 2 desks a couple of days ago, took us the entire saturday to build them >.<” + It’s like a month more to Christmas, but Geoff seems to be already in the Christmas mood, so am I. This is the first time I’m going to have a proper Christmas celebration. We have Christmas tree up and some Christmas lights, but I’m not going to post the pictures just yet. Geoff’s dad did mention to put it up like 9 days before xmas, but Geoff himself is being impatient =p. I need to learn to cook turkey, ugh, need to lookup for recipes ^^;;

Tomorrow we’re going to Durham for a study trip to some brewery. Durham, =P it’s like my 2nd hometown ^^

Lonely Meow-meow

There’s this stray cat in our neighbourhood.. well, Geoff and I called it Meow Meow. We came back from Metro Centre and saw Meow Meow sitting on a car.. So I was like ‘meow-meow’ and he responded by jumping off the car and went to the door to our apartment. Like he was asking us to open the door for him. And like usual, we did. Meow Meow seemed to know the place well, he dashed up to our floor, and sat on our neighbour’s door mat, like he was waiting to be let in.

 

We sorta lured him to our apartment, and let em looked around.. fed em some water, he didn’t seem to like our apartment that much. 

 

Mins later, neighbour came out of his house and Meow Meow went to his door  , so we asked him whether is this cat his, he said no and sorta kicked Meow Meow like shooing Meow Meow away.. =( I was like %$@#~ poor Meow Meow. He’s probably very lonely and missing his owner or something… Too bad I dont have the time and money to take care of him. I hope he’s not freezing out there…

That’s that bout lil Meow Meow. As for me, I’ve been pretty busy lately, assignments and practical report and journal readings not to mention my project just started this week. I have an assignment due this Tuesday..

 

Well it’s pretty complete-ish, left 2questions which I’m gonna do after this. Apart from that, I haven’t started revising, I think I will when I’m done w/ assignments and reports

Got my project title today

Keith gave us 6titles, Sheryl One n I are doing the same project - Growth & survival of brewing yeasts and development of a bulk culture scheme. Sounds boring? maybe, but it sounds pretty exciting to me =p. Well, the project is fairly simple. Our objectives are to grow and cultivate few types of yeasts for brewing, making sure that we can grow big sum of them in like 3-4days and finding an optimum condition to cultivate them so that they could last for weeks-months. I like microbiology myself, so I’m pretty much looking forward to this project. If it’s successful.. I could prolly work w/ Keith after graduation =P. Just found out that Keith was one of the founder of  a brewery company in England > Darwin Brewery. Gotta work hard from this very minute! Yosh¬

Study + Play = Me

Just downloaded L’Arc~en~Ciel’s  latest single, My heart draws a dream.. was pretty good, but like what Geoff said, it’s the same old typical laruku-sorta song. O and I heard from my friend that they’re going to perform in Mexico..O.o GrR! When r they going to perform where I am! I waited for 3years when I was back in Malaysia, and now I’m all the way in the other side of the globe hoping to see them perform here, but no! =( o well, one day I’ll step foot into Japan I guess.

Ppl who knows me know that I’m pretty much into concerts, well of course not just hoolaa-beeloo’s concert.. I only attend quality concerts =p cough, ahem.. bands that I like, and lucky me, most of my favourite bands are English bands =D. yeye, I know I’m here to study.. not to enjoy.. >.<; but hey, all work and no play makes JU a dull girl! agree? Next week, there’s a tour by the University to Beamish.. where the hell is that? Beamish is North England’s open air museum, located in county Durham. It costs £8 to go for gold-card members, £12 to be a member. Well, I’m intending to go but I haven’t paid for my card.. reason? Coz my damn cash/debit card hasn’t arrived ie I-am-broke. I wonder what’s taking Barclays so long to send my card over.. geezz..

I haven’t been taking lunch in quite a while, prolly for like a couple of days. Imagine if Geoff wasn’t here.. O.o Juppie would have died in starvation.. >.<;; + I need to stop shopping for clothes xD. I’ ve been grabbing cheap autumn/winter wear lately.. like £3 for a top.. £20 for a coat or so.. The other day Geoff brought me to Next… Next is like the branded boutique here, unlike the one in KL. Well, u know me.. I never looked at price when shopping in KL.. had my dear..cough.. mom by my side.. =X and I bought a long sleeve shirt + jacket.. shirt cost £12 O.o and jacket was like £50 or so… That’s like RM400 or so.. meh still cheaper than winter clothings in KL. Then the following day Sheryl brought me to Peacocks, saw long sleeve shirts there for £6 ea! half of what I bought! damn… =/ It’s like, I complained so much bout £4 lunch meal but not £12 shirt..bleh >.<

No more shopping for me, unless I feel the need to.. since winter isn’t here yet, I do not know how cold it could get in January. Probably need to wrap myself up or hibernate at home.. So that’s that bout the fun bit.. Now the study bit.. I’ve been studying quite seriously despite just being my 3rd week in uni. Im gonna start gathering info for my project. We were given few titles for our final year project. I submitted the titles which interest me to Keith. Hope I get what I want.. Btw, Keith is my personal tutor/lecturer. Well, if I was still in KL I’d prolly address him as Dr. Keith. But apparently it’s weird to address ppl politely here, so Keith it is. Even when addressing Geoff’s parents.. I used to call them Mr/Mrs Wade… *no such thing as auntie/uncle here*.. they were like, na just call us by our names… hm.. feels weird.. but I shall go w/ the flow eh.

Woops, Geoff is almost home, gonna prepare dinner now. I’ve been having dinner at around 5-6pm lately =D healthy eh! Gonna make sushi tonight! Ganbatte to myself. Toodles~

HorraY! TNT parcel from home

Boy I <3 Mom n Sis! *hugs* They sent a 20kg parcel to me last week consisting 2x packs of Milo, lots of Korean instant noodle, Panasonic rice cooker (the new technology 1), my lab coat, 2ring files, big bag of rice, and my Microbiology book. OMG OMG! I missed Milo so much! The moment I opened the parcel, I made myself a cup of Milo.. *slurp.  Everything was in pretty good shape except for the rice of bag, somehow the bag was tore and I had to scoop grains of rice from the carpeted floor.. tedious >.<;;

I wanted to make sushi for dinner yesterday, but there wasn’t salmon nor any sort of raw materials.. so I made roasted chicken + roasted potatoes + steamed carrot/brussels sprout. Hey, not bad for a beginner right.. maybe I’m starting to express my mom’s gene.. =P

Geoff’s dinner without roasted chicken sauce.

Mine with sauce+onions

Some boring ship, yawn… 

Everyday I’ve been waiting to see Queen Elizabeth 2 docking in front of my apartment but to no avail. I missed the chance to see her once when she docked here for a couple of minutes last week when I was in university =(.

Back from Sunday dinner

yum! I *heart* Sunday dinner at Geoff’s parents’ place. Beef-mashed potato-broccoli-carrot-beans-yorkshire pudding + gravy as main course, and dessert was profiteroles + milk + chocolate & trifle. *slurp*  I met Mark’s gf, she’s Irish, Kristy, she’s a lovely lady, was talking to me a lot and she loves Cantonese food =D. Dinner was as great as usual, Geoff’s mom was talking to me a lot as well, she was like “come over anytime u feel like to, and if u do need help don’t be shy to ask” ^^) Feels very warm, lots of hugging and kissing too, something which I’ve never done back in homecountry, Asians r shy I guess. As we were talking, his mom asked whether am I coping alright, then I went “yea very well, apart from when Geoff bullies me” Then she went, “ahh.. the Wades, slap him if he does that again” =D

Oh n Geoff’s parents are coming over to our place sometime soon, hm.. I need to learn to cook some Chinese food, coz she wanted to try them.. hm.. tuff task =X.. need help from mom XD.. Then there was a part where they were talking bout grandchildren, I was somehow lost. The conversation started when Geoff’s mom said she would like to have grandchildren soon.. then Geoff went, “What are you talking about, we’ve started trying already”. Geoff’s mom was like O.o… “u serious, u’re not kidding right?”. Then she looked at me, .. I was like blur.. I didn’t understand bit of it, and I went saying “maybe..”..  Then his mom’s eyes went even wider O.O… lol.. grandchildren… hm too soon =P …

Erm… we didn’t do much next.. We left the place kinda early, like right after dinner.. Coz Geoff had some work to do, and I needed to study.  Since I didn’t have Immunology back when I was in UCSI, I’m doing some self studying.. I couldn’t understand a thing Dr. Anne was teaching on Friday =( pretty frustrating to be honest. So I borrowed like 4books from the library, and hoping that I’d understand her lecture next week.

K time for bed now, have to go in early tomorrow, and electrician coming in the afternoon to fix non-working lights in house.