Thursday, 28 February 2008

LOCK ur DOORS!

last fri: full stop to cny celebration. it ended wif a diff note tho.


was rushing my research project results (last min again) til 6 sth. *gan cheong. even a bitch yelling at a mathafarkin decibel outside the block din quite bother me, ah another blardy drunkard again i tot.


later only i found out that it ain't a blardy drunkard! there's reli a commotion outside involving sum of our batchmates wif balls n... 3 THIEFs!!

so there's a THEFT in JBC!


n GAH... 1 of the theft victims was actually MY BF!!! (usually in those drama series, the gf shud have an instinct suddenly to open the window n check out wat's going on outside... nah, it's tested n it's not true.)

below is a summary of the incident. they may not b in order. i'm not a witness n the victim suck in giving full account of the incident.

  • dear found that he's laptop was closed. he's sure he left the laptop open. *sniff sniff* sth's fishy!

  • confirm housemates din touch laptop. PJ go check his room.

  • laptop's gone!!! window left open n he saw a man lying uncounsious outside, AH the THIEF! (harh 3 metres away from ground only wor... padan muka!)

  • dear n guys ran out to confront the baddies.

  • dear ran back to room to check whether he lost anything. sei foh! his wallet n lau beh handphone gone!

  • PJ's laptop recovered from the unconsious baddy. dear cudn't find his stuff.

  • commotion got more chaotic!

  • dangerous-looking baddy came shooing the guys off by threatening them wif a big glass beer bottle.

  • female baddy helped the slowly-regaining-consciousness baddy to flee

  • dangerous-looking baddy followed suit

  • the guys chased down different paths but lost track of the baddies

  • patrol car came. dear n PJ hop on patrol car hoping to track down the baddies

then the WEIRDEST thing happen!!!


the dangerous-looking baddy with the beer bottle REAPPEAR rite bside the patrol car!!


  • POLICE ARRESTED THE BADDY.

but WHY? why did he came back to the crime scene? even the stupidest thief on earth won do that! is he on drug influence? or is there sth in his mind that v dunno? WEIRD!!!


  • dear's wallet n sum contents were found in the laundry.

according to every1's detective-ish mind, the thief' muz've been hiding in the LAUNDRY. WY even claimed that he cudn't go into the laundry at 4.30pm that day cos sum! was blocking the door from inside! the laundry gives easy access to the units above! the thiefs muz've been eyeing on dear's unit for sum time. juz happen that many ppl went in n out, nobody bother to lock the door that day n so the baddies had chance to sneak in!! 1 of them went back to the laundry after stealing the wallet. either same/different baddie went into PJ's room n upon hearing sumbody's coming in, he clumsily jumped off the window as fast as possible n *boom.. hence the bad landing.

  • a team of very yeng CID. gives ppl impression that they r very efficient.. yi ga mm hai si bit yiu lei gong, dan lei soh gong geh yat chai jiong wui seng wai cheng tong zheng gong.

  • 1 by 1 had their statement recorded... word by word.

dear's losses-IC, driving license, sum valuable cards, a box of coins, lau beh handphone.


PJ-laptop, 1 handphone n 1 camera retrieved. he din know that he's camera was stolen until he saw it in the evidence bag wahaha. another handphone lost.


lesson to learn: LOCK ur DOOR. LOCK ur LAPTOP (that's y dear's laptop was safe).


after that i treated my poor stomach wif a great steamboat dinner, yippie got prawns n porridge-based steamboat!. ala it's supposed to b a perfect postponed chap goh meh celebration if not marred by that crazy incident. it's stil a merry affair nonetheless.


i sincerely pray that u get all ur belongings back.. esp the IC n the driving license. wu wu who to chauffeur me around nx time... haih juz when i tot that the glasgow police department is very efficient.... v'll c!

=hungryHillary=

Sunday, 17 February 2008

人日

amidst of our stressful schedule, v stil find time to celebrate this very meaningful day (*ahem like i know wat's the meaning behind it). partly for the meriah-ness of lou sang, partly bcos v haven't reli had a decent dinner wif our neighbour of 9 months.

come evening, every1's at the kitchen bz wif sth. yes preparation is an important process.. to ignite the cheery cny mood in every1! sth i've learnt during this cny celeration abroad. so ppl go bake sum cookies nx time n stop complaining y no cny feel geh.

after a very long time, v were finally ready for a great meal. i mean GREAT!

main course of the nite.. ASAM LAKSA.. oh after 9 months! chi mou chi yong wor. lotsa sardine, serai, lime, cili padi. of course, thanx to the laksa paste that mom parcelled me. yummy!!!



nx v have sambal trimmed beans. the sambal super delicious n chi gek omg!

that's not all. presenting u a sexily tanned booty-licious babe.

ta-dah!



dish of the nite... SIEW GAI! by my luvly neighbours. this is even better than wat i had in msia. every1 knows i'm a fan of chicken breast. don call me stupid for this again ok! bcos this time even the boobs were sooo tender, tasty n JUICYlicious!

half way tru the meal, every1's stomach was overloaded til the extent that v felt sum kinda chest block kaka... v haven't even finish our bowl of laksa. so wat?!

v stil have tong yuen, loh hon goh n lou sang!

boy the tongyuen were like bouncy ping pong balls! very yi ngan, summore got peanuts n black sesame paste as fillings de wor don play play.

n alas, dish of the nite was... oh wait i oredi had dish of the nite. anyway wat's 人日 w/o lou sang rite?

人日之星


as our biggest plate was not big enuf for our lou sang ingredients (green apples, purple cabbage, carrots, timun, grapefruits, ground peanuts n crisps in plum sauce).. v had to use our biggest wok instead.

wa reli choi gor dai gat lai si.. don u get it?

DAI WOK!! = BIG TROUBLE in cantonese muahaha.

had a gud laugh at it, v kat ang moh country tak da pantang la... it's called big frying pan here anyway haha.

v lou n lou n lou (wif fork, choi! again), blabbering stuff like muz pass exam la muz graduate la n *uummph....

omg!
i nvr know that homemade lou sang can taste SO GOOOOOD it put those readymade lou sang kit at supermarkets to shame. muahaha ni panggil self satisfaction.

at sum pt v had to stop eating bfore v burst like a balloon. so v sat in our unusually clean n tidy lounge for sum games instead. joanne taught us how to play monalisa banana tree. it not only sounds silly, the game itself IS silly! it's drop dead simple but our muscles tend to get confused all the time, v reli laugh our lungs out wakaka!

well of course there muz b punishment for the losers, hohoho it's noneother than eating our disastrous fried mushrooms. it's failure of the day cos the batter won turn crispy no matter how, wth! wasted la...

v ended the day by playing ala tvb style 辣辣寿司边个食. how can sushi b a punishment when u r in glasgow. so the game was aptly renamed as 油油蘑菇边个食. muahaha!

it was soo fun! i shud start celebrating 人日 when i'm back to msia.

oh too bad i had to miss bai tin gong this yr.



=stressedSheryl= biopharm on mon. y do i feel like the things that i've studied were flushed down the toilet bowl tgt wif my poo poo....


oh oh n not forgetting HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY ppl!

ah bosco wong zhong zhak, can thee b ma valentino?!

Sunday, 10 February 2008

年初一

ahh woke up in the morning knowing it's 年初一, yippie!! but too bad this yr i din find myself in taiping, i din put on new clothes, i din receive ang paus from the elder ones. *sobs

instead v went to ss house to bai nin.


they have a variety of cny cookies n OMG! BA GUA!! ahh pineapple tarts! i cud've gobbled up the whole tin! it's precious over here, so kena control sikit la.. it's not nice to let ppl curse u on nin cho yat y'know. so i munch this n munch that like nobody's business.

yes u r rite, i unashamedly admit that i came for the cookies=)


check out the G7 gals, soo damn tam jiak tsk tsk!

only 1 house to go bai nin this yr. *sobs

in the afternoon, skype wif cousin bro in TAIPING. n awww.. every1's there! waving halo tru a comp screen juz made me feel sth's terribly missing! no la i din go to the extent that i need to hold back my tears. oh i played card games wif my uncle n bet over the computer screen kaka, wif my cousin sis showing me my cards. it was reli funny. i won!!! ya so wat.. like i'll get the money. i think my uncle manipulated the cards juz to make me happy haha. no time to get emo after the call, had to rush to a class dammit.

at nite v open up our apartment for a cny potluck dinner, where the home students n sum lecturers were invited to come over.

the preparation was fun. i was cutting n pasting 新年快乐 out of red xmas crackers. juz then jenny n the neighbours joined in wif tanglungs, lotsa MICKEY & JERRY angpaus (it's yr of RAT!) n fishes. oh luckily v don rear cat in my unit muahaha.

v all started sticking all these lil cute decos in place n whoala... the once messy, unsightly living & dining room was gone. it's now nicely decorated, filled wif cny mood. so hepi!!!

let's get the party started!!!

cheongsam delight.. ooh babelicious! gives me the urge to go tailormake a cheongsam for myself.

oh sheez i think i need a boobie transplant to fit prettily into a cheongsam.



wif lecturer .. he's a sweet guy, alwiz looking for glutinous rice kaka.


wif home students.. they were taught how to play heart attack haha. noob betul.

n among ourselves...


i bet it's a merry affair truout the nite. food, card games, laughters, every1 was having fun. after abouts of unit-hopping, the party sumhow ended. this was definitely the way to celebrate cny when u r abroad.. wat a bang!

back to my own living & dining room, can't stop admiring our work, wahaha v cud've won best decorated unit ngek ngek! oh juz in case u dunno the 新年快乐 i made 1 ok!! wat a great piece of artwork...

i mean the gold tanglung. i know i know the size n strokes of those 4 words cacat de ma.



=prosperousPamela= in her cosy living room, filled wif cny joy.
wish u all a properous yr ahead!!

Saturday, 9 February 2008

恭喜发财

to blog on skiing trip/ cny celebration 1st?

skiing trip or cny celebration?

... n the last petal goes to... ah it's obvious. so in cny mood now, my brain got no place for biopharm. my post today...


除夕

issh been too pampered as a msian all these yrs, 1 week holiday for cny n oso holiday for other festival that's totally none of ur business, fulamak so muhibah! ang moh only know how to celebrate xmas.. too bad so sad. wth 1st time in my life i had class on 除夕!

tu pun it's not an ordinary class, i had a presentation.. 20 marks de weh dun play play.. make me so gan cheong. thank gudness was in the morning slot n i escaped being assessed by that pepsi-holic. boy i was so lucky phew!

i wan to go taiping!!!
i wan to have dinner wif my family n relatives. i wan to get many many ang paus.
i wan to chat n play card games wif my cousins.
i wan to eat big big prawns, grilled chicken, ba kien, 酸辣菜. i wan to drink 胡椒猪肚汤 (w/o the pork intestine but abalone instead), well the list goes on...
i wan to visit my relatives, finish up a tinful of 黄梨酥 n kueh ka pek n drink yeo's crysanthemum tea.
i wan to c illegal but openly displayed fire crackers n fireworks!!!
i wan to listen to formulaic dok dok chang cny songs playing non stop everywhere.
i wan to watch those outdated tvb awards n charity shows on national tv!!!

i'm at glasgow... *sobs.

as for this yr reunion dinner...

8 pretty gals from G7 n J9 (the house that sell cornflakes n cereals) in cny mood,
a pot of tom yam n a pot of 清汤,
a table full of ingredients bought from chung ying,
wif cny songs non-stop playing in the background...



omg so long i din eat such big PRAWNS wif SHELL attached! so yummy.. summore la la meat n all the fish balls, crab sticks n stuff. my gudness... heavenly!!

whoalala... a perfect STEAMBOAT reunion dinner million miles away from home.

as usual the amount of food was overestimated n as usual i juz stuff my stomach til bloated like i had starved for a month. ahhh... syokness!

of course v had other entertainment truout while v digest our food... like taking a couple of nonsensical pics keke.



hoho i put my man u jersey to gud use.

in the silly face photoshoot session, every1 was champion in their own rite haha. lazy la, it's all at mying's n schoo's blog. n the loser of the day goes to...


shan's face but choo's hands. ngek ngek!

alwiz claimed that her muscle STIFF wor.. padahal wan to JAGA IMAGE ma.. chiu! soo typical of yishan. beh tahan her tsk tsk.

that nite was a cure to watever homesickness v had bfor this. a different but enjoyable reunion dinner.


新年快乐!!!




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i miss u guys back home.

THANK U yvonne n tien hong!!! it's very totful of u guys. i have NVR been so DELIGHTED to receive red red CNY CARDS bfor in my life haha. blessings that travel million miles by airmail, aww so precious=)



n on that very day i received a parcel of cookies sent by mom!!! omg my fav 黄梨酥!! i was so touched.
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ah CRAP how i wish this is true. seems like my ba gua 'colder than water'.

anyway glad that my neighbour jenny n batchmates mun can make reli gud cookies.

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i feel very sry for ah giu. i think that gal wil have her worst ever cny in her life. kesian.


=万事如意=

Sunday, 3 February 2008

rojak

few days ago i came across a forwarded email that reli made my day.

pre-sen-ting....

ta-dah!




SPONGEBOB KAT MASJID INDIA!!!

BWAhahahahaha...
i was so amused by this pic that wth, my mouth almoz spray water to the keyboard. yep spongebob is 1 of my fav cartoon characters that nvr fail to make me rofl=) other than shin chan keke.

yeh yeh had a great day at aviemore, seeing snow capped mountain n skiing for the 1st time. gotta sleep now so stay tune for this!

ah my neighbours were baking cookies juz now. as usual, when there's food, there's alwiz me. tsk tsk so tam jiak! u know wat it's not only the smell of those delicious cookies, it's the smell of CNY. ahhhh~

so 1 day's gone n deng! i stil haven't draw out my pharmacetical care plan! my presentation wil b this coming wed, test on 18th n 4 essays due in march... my gudness! can sumbody pls inject me wif

5mg/ml sense of urgency, i.v 100ml, stat!

indication: last minute mentality, laziness.

s/e: stress

yes, i reli need sum stress to keep me going!

dammit. i'm NOT getting anywhere NEAR to my new yr resolution.

=GuiltyGwen=

Tuesday, 29 January 2008

of New Sem n Angel in the Lab...

don feel like doing anything hence time for sum random crapping.

1. new sem. lectures resume in SIBS101. same old story. 1st u get bored. then ur mind wil wander sumwhere else. then u feel sleepy. then u doze off. as for ytrday, out of total randomness, i was

imagining the sensation of digging out a large chunk of earwax??!!

my gudness, damn WEIRD la weh!

2. 2 sems' gone! wth time flies like nobody business n i'm now in my final sem! on how i fully utilized my holiday.. very satisfied. as for my studies.. ADOI masih slack sangat. dump that attitude gal!

3. it's been 8 months in glasgow! 1 yr is not enuf, stil many things n places UNEXPLORED. how i wish this twinning programme is 2 yrs abroad.

4. n i'm not feeling homesick yet! guess it's a sweet taste of this newfound FREEDOM. except that i tend to get bit sentimental on a relaxed fri nite, alone in the room listening to.. well mayb once's soundtrack. i'll think abt morning walk, dim sum n dinner outings wif family. think abt yam cha wif my dear frens/ fan cheongs. those spicy food n seafood.. aww.. hehe.

5. lab session ended last week. i feel so LUCKY that i had a casual n STRESS-less session plus an ANGEL (dang he's not even MY supervisor). reli a big contrast wif wat other batchmates were going tru, kesian.

howz our computer lab? u wonder...
-feel free to go at 10am n have lunch when u wan to.
-12 of us packing in a small room, not even space for a star jump, so pathetic.
-taking photos or snacking, as u wish.

n oso, blurring wif mingying (2 comp illiterates dealing wif sickening canggih softwares=LOST).


it's all too canggih-manggih that i don reli understand wat i'm doing. every step was guided. juz blindly run jobs, save files, n alwiz the last pair to go back home cos there MUZ b a prob everyday haha.

the best part was WHENEVER v r lost, angel was alwiz there, nvr hesitate to help us tru. this angel come in the form of a tall man wif a charming grin.. professional n frenly AND

a pair of revealing CK WHITE boxers when he bends over to help us... *ooh blood oozing from nose

aww don u juz luv this angel?




=imissblair=

Monday, 21 January 2008

Paris - Day 4

23rd Dec: aww... it's the last day of our paris trip...


jardin du luxembourg

the grand bassin


palais du luxembourg, built for Marie de Medicis, Louis XIII's mother. was a palace, was a prison, now.. for the senate.


hoho they've got a weighing scale in the park?! to monitor how much weight they've lost after laps around the grand bassin.

so this is wat they do bfor they weigh themselves on the cute weighing scale
oh so this is wat they do bfor weighing themselves on the cute weighing scale.




wat a serene picture... winter morning n trees w/o foliage...beautiful but somber.
hope to come again in the summer where flowers bloom everywhere


Pantheon of paris, not rome

was an abbey, is a burial place for sum french heroes


seriously v stil can't have enuf of eiffel tower. this time viewing from trocadero.
hey this is no photoshop.. it's very foggy in paris that day. well.. there's more to the story than this.
anyway we've got dayview, niteview n foggyview of eiffel tower in this trip. how abt that keke...

v marched from trocadero to below eiffy to champs de mars back to the peace monument v went on the 2nd day.. it's a long stretch.. all for the sake of eiffel tower from dif distance n dif angle. sot geh!


from trocadero


getting nearer


below.. looking towards palais de chaillot


on champ de mars.. yo lean again!


back to peace monument.. haha!


THE inverted pyramid

act v saw this on Day 2 oredi, in a shoping complex a floor below musee du louvre.
"look dear, there's the inverted pyramid! tom hanks claimed that mary magdelene lies underneath it haha."


that fella juz shrugged me off. "ga ge la.. dou mm hai zan geh!"

puzzled! huh so this is juz a replica? r u sure? this looks so real!

well he's so confident abt it so i stupidly BLIF him that THE inverted pyramid is sumwhere else.
manatau that's actually THE inverted pyramid. shit la u! so v went back on Day 4 juz to take pics of it muahaha.



since v gotta board a flight back to glasgow that nite, can't reli make it anywhere far so we had a stroll at rue de moufferard, the street where our hostel is situated.

after days of baguettes, paninis n crepes (ah no complaints... i seriously luv crepes, they r soo yummy!), time for sum french cuisine.

my starter.. shrimp wif avocado. it'll b a luvly combination if served wif fresh big prawns caught from kuala selangor.. aiks! this is gud enuf.


escargots!

then i have cod for main course. erm taste like frozen cod je! mom's steam cod better. then dear had duck confit.. not bad but bit salty.

dessert. tarte pommes.. ok it's apple pie. eggy-licious!



further down the st... boy there r many lil surprises here n there.


vin


omg fresh seafood everywhere!


fromagerie... cheese!


boucherie... omg those hanging there were HARES!

then off v went to the airport, au revoir paree!


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rmb the foggy pic juz now? unfortunately, ALL flights that nite were cancelled due to the stupid FOG. like that's not causing chaos n panic enuf for the passengers, they suddenly announced that ALL flight r FULLY booked for the NX 1 WEEK n there's a free bus to shuttle passengers back to paris. wth!!!

u c it's xmas eve the nx day. chaos n panic were everywhere in the airport! many ppl left.
get a flight of other airline or train or v r frigging stranded in this small airport!
enquired for other airlines n the cheapest v can get was a whopping 300 euros!!! no way!

this was the 1st time i encountered such a not-so-ordinary incident. as the usual me w/o sense of urgency, i find this experience kinda syok haha (siao!), the tot that i'm gonna b stranded here for 1 week nvr occur in my mind at all. hang around in the airport aimlessly, don quite know wat to do.

v r all stranded in beauvais so cham... flight cancelled. y? hint lies in the eiffel tower photos.
when the crowd had pretty much dispersed, went to try my luck n request them to put us on waiting list for the nx flight (am a fan of amazing race keke). SURPRISINGly...

they offer us us a flight to DUBLIN then transit back to GLASGOW the nx day, free of charge! huh?! can't reli blif my ears... so there's a way OUT, totally FREE. v quickly said YES to the offer.. phew! tin dou gong sai=)


had to put a nite in the airport. i saw ppl setting up foldable BEDS.. wa sai mm sai gam soh fu ah.. then ony i realised that the airport staffs r giving out the beds so i quickly ran to the other side of the airport to grab 1 for myself.

too bad, the beds were taken n wat's left were blankets.. jiu sat!

v lay the blanket on the floor. the ahpek bside us was kind enuf to offer another blanket for us to keep us warm. aww so sweet=) then the airport was closed, locked n lights off. beds n blankets.. so this is paris afterall, all equipped for a strike haha. seriously, nvr so sound asleep in an airport bfor.



i dozed off not long after that. then in the middle of the nite, i was half awakened by sounds. sheez few airport staffs standing rite in front of us were saying sth while looking at us. then they turn to the bed bside us. then move our blanket or watever...

was in a haze n cudn't care wat's going on as long as they were not eyeing for our belongings, juz continue sleeping like a PIG zzzzzzzzzzzzz....
nx day, i woke up n found myself covered in a THICK GREEN blanket instead of the thin GREY blanket. huh?!

then i vaguely recall wat happened in the middle of the nite. ah~ha, the airport staffs muz have seen 2 poor souls shivering (oh did i?). so they exchange the THICK GREEN blanket of the guy bside us on the nice warm bed wif the thin GREY blanket that v have. so that's how i got the WARM green blanket. awww.. so thoughtful ppl=) thanks!


boarded a flight to dublin.. mou duen duen step on irish soil. alas, back to glasgow. stil, a nice ending to our memorable paris trip.

=happyHalle=