do you think it's true

that you never realise

how political you are

until you do a facebook purge?

pffft it never rains but pours.

(I'm speaking about inspiration to blog, btw)

I totally forgot about this incident that I thought was blog-worthy, but I've just been reminded, so here goes:

because the walls of my flat are pretty thin, you can pretty much hear your flatmates going about their stuff - like you can hear people opening cupboards/drawers etc, and of course, you can hear them skype-ing.

now my Polish flatmate speaks pretty loudly, so there was one day I could hear her skype-ing with her mom (i'm assuming that anyway). and obviously because I can't understand Polish, i didn't know what was going on, but i could tell she was pretty distressed. And then to my great discomfort, I could hear her starting to cry quite heartbrokenly! I was like, omg what to do! So I left my room to the kitchen so I wouldn't be eavesdropping (as if I wasn't already!) on her .. er emotional breakdown.

then after a bit she came out to the kitchen as well, so I was like, you know, how you doing and stuff. and then it was revealed that she was upset and trying to come to terms with her recent exam results (she's taking Chinese, yeah CHINESE! she probably knows more than ME now! though come to think of it, that's not really much of an achievement, but anyway.)

so I was being really sympathetic and telling her how I messed up my first few tests way back when (lol) I was a first year.

then it comes out that she got a 69/90 for it.

and she's trying to come to terms with how bad those results are.

SIXTY NINE,

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

that's like better than my aggregate first and second year FINAL EXAMINATION results!

and this is a person who's never spoken/read/studied Chinese before!

cacat.

and I thought Daniel was OA. hahahaha

and oh, today she knocked on my door (which is what reminded me to blog about this) and asked if she could borrow an apple.

LOL!

basically, she eats 6 apples for dinner.

EVERY DAY.

and today she only had two. so she wanted to know if I had any extra that she could have for dinner today.

so cute right! hahaha

but it was serendipity, because I had just bought myself two punnets of plums and was wondering how the heck I was gonna finish the apples that I had in the frig before they went bad, because they'd been sitting there in awhile.

Clearly I don't dig apples as much as she does.

Unless they're stewed in sugar :)

or are in apple pies.

or are in juice form.

or are dried, and dipped in melted chocolate.

I digress.

and now comes that awkward moment where I don't know how to end this.

OH

SEE YOU GUYS AT THE NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA GAMES? :)

xx

(since everyone seems to do that here)

this morning i dreamt that i was at this massive buffet, and i had saved half my stomach for the awesome desserts but i kept on getting interrupted on my way to the desserts bar which i never managed to reach before i woke up.

and they'd had the pick and mix jellies/sour tape/gummies stuff too! pffft.

ummm and this is here because i haven't updated in awhile and it's too long-winded to put on fb. haha.

xx

Blogging takes ages! I salute all these blog-shop reviewers who update so regularly. Haha. Anyway.

I'm settling in pretty okay here.

Ummm what else.

I drink from the tap now.

I really hate cooking and eating my cooking ughhhh

sample 1. fail to the max. and sainsbury's cheap sausages are gross. or at least, how i cooked them anyway. haha.

sample 2. did a little better this time, but still.

I need some of this

(last meal before leaving - bindays made these. sorry, the photos are unedited because i really couldn't be bothered haha)

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Met all the Malaysian and Singaporean students that are doing law today (that have arrived, that is). At the meet and greet session it was like almost automatic that the Asians would congregate together. Not that it's a bad thing, but like .. it really is a little difficult to mix with the locals. Like someone said,

they're polite, but not warm.

I suppose it would be rather intimidating for anyone else to approach a big group of Asians too, so I don't really blame them I suppose. Haha.

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My flat is fully international though, which I really like. I've got Japanese, Italian (and they cook well too!) and Polish flatmates, and a Chinese girl moving in soon :)

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And oh, the people here are really green! Kinda. Like, there's loads of flyers on how to be green and all, and almost all packaging is recyclable. But I dunno how many people actually make the effort to recycle - plus, the amount of flyers going around during Fresher's week is a little crazy. Haha.

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I got a bike to get around, because it just takes tooo long to get to uni and back, and by the time I get into the flat, I'm tired and lazy to cook - perhaps explains the lack of culinary success?

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I really don't know how to end blog posts.

Breaking the hiatus

Not many anecdotes from the journey here, but

1. DON'T leave your x-ray behind when you go through the screening at the airports. Oh waitaminute, just CHECK THE FREAKING X-RAY IN and keep the report with you! So you won't have to suffer carrying the sensitive document around and be embarassed when you leave it behind.

2. DON'T bring paper or tonnes of maggi mee (both of which I did, cis!) because you can get paper here at pretty much the same price (CIS to all you who said stationery is expensive!) and the food here is so freaking cheap! (see below)

3. If you're using a surprising amount of effort to open the door to the airplane washrooms, it's because there's probably someone inside using the same amount of effort trying to keep the door closed -____-

(DO lock the toilet doors thank you very much)

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Picture time! :)

random English houses taken from the train

my new room! before

the new room! after

*uh .. my camera battery died so the pic will come later hahaha

the communal kitchen

the communal bathrooms

(one toilet and one shower to be shared between 5 people, argghh)

we were nicely welcomed by a welcome pack thing which included this

(krik krik)

and these! :D

reception area and laundry (£2 to wash, £1 to dry)

other random pictures of the residence

went grocery shopping today, and everything is so freaking cheap!

bought all this for £8.31 (aiyo don't convert please + I forgot to add in the cereal box), and yess I'll be cooking I guess.

everything was £1 each except the milk (45p) and the juices (£3 for 4 cartons) and the cereal (£1.something for 600g)

was pretty chuffed with my buys until I got home (wow, calling it home now) and my friend was like, [good tip alert] oh if you go at 5pm-ish they start reducing prices for the perishable items.

great.

sainsbury's self-check-out counter! amaaaazing. if it was in malaysia i bet alot of people would abuse these things

I <3>

and oh, second hand shops are so cheap!

can get like, winter jackets for £3.99!

and with this, you could've knitted me like, 3 other scarves for half the price of the one you did, eh?

and lastlyyy, what we had for lunch today

sausages and mash £2.99

there was this young tipsy guy (at 2pm!) who came up to us and was like,

him: what day is today?

us: wednesday

him: what does a guy do on wednesday?

us: krik krik ..

him: *some unintelligible stuff*

us: still krik krik

him: where are you guys from?

us: malaysia

him: ohhhh it's a HUGGE place innit?

us: ummm not really

him: no no no it IS a huge place!

us: um okay *smiles awkwardly*

and it went on for a bit. good thing we had finished our meal already AND that there were three of us together, so it was quite funny really.

um. that's all for now! haha.

Miscellany

It's 6 days into the holidays and I'm already bored.

(hence the blogging haha)

Heck, I might even have had my fill of Korean dramas! Nahhh not really - would I kid about this? HAHA

Anyway.

It's 6 days into the holidays and I'm already broke.

(what's up with Paint anyways - I don't know how to use it anymore, hence the preschool-esque scribbling)

Also,

It's 6 days into the holidays and I've already cooked!

*cue amazed sounds and claps*

Grilled Chicken Breast with Orange Sauce

We didn't have any veggies - I know this would've looked better with a sprig of green somewhere.

Recipe here.

Had to modify it abit because I didn't have some of the ingredients, but it actually didn't turn out too bad. So if I, the cooking noob can do it, so can you! :D *cue cheesy smile*

Additionally,

It's 6 days into the holidays and I haven't bought anything online yet! Massive achievement, no? Yeah yeah I can already hear mumblings about me being broke having something to do with it.

Um. No comment.

It's 6 days into the holidays and I'm not done with my first jigsaw yet! OH EM GEE. But it's mostly because it looks like this:

It's only 1000pcs but because the picture is a photomosaic, which is like a big picture made up of many small pictures, it's a killer. Gah.

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I wish that internship firm would hurry and get back to me so I can move on with life and get a job 'cause I need money.

I NEED MONEY.

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I wish that the exchange rate would go back down to 4.72 so I can change that last batch of money too.

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I wish I had something better to say than all that I've said above.

Because now I'm thinking,

how do I end this!?

OHH YEAH.

Today, we went out for the best chicken rice in the world

(no, obviously I didn't take the picture - pic credits)

Droolworthy! :)~

[I don't know how a drooling smiley should look, my bad]

And so my sis was like,

"Eh, why you never eat the veggie (in the soup)?"

"Meh.."

"Nice what! Did you even try it?"

"Yeah, but not worth my enzymes."

The look on her face was priceless.

Ha. Ha. Ha. :)

this is really not much fun, just in case anybody is wondering

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on another note, try Sweet Basil Restaurant for some pretty good Thai food.

sorry no pics :P next food outing, anyone?

Green chicken curry is great for the spicy-intolerant.

Hyperhydrosis-sufferers should bring a hanky to mop the sweat off their brow after attempting the tomyam.

And oh, they also have this Kerabu Chicken Feet, which is like, kerabu with translucent chicken feet skin

like, the SKIN! how gross is that! dah la chicken feet, but the skin?! obviously, i didn't touch it

k moving on..

so we were at the restaurant and andrea bocelli came on tv and was singing something

and my ignoramus sister was like,

why is he closing his eyes the whole time?

sighs.

for those of you who don't know, he's blind.

although i should be happy that my sister at least knows a little more than her friends, who, before watching invictus, said

eh, who's nelson mandela? what did he do?

and

i know, nelson mandela was assassinated right!

sigggghhhhhhh

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can't wait to go to LEEDS!

KL-Manchester, 14th September via Emirates. Anybody wanna be my flight-mate? :)

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i have officially given up online shopping. or at least, i'm breaking away from it.

yup.

really.

fine, i can see the eyeballs rolling already, thanks for your support everyone -_-

but i reserve the right to still browse shops and get stuff that i need, which as you all know will be subject to interpretation.

from the subjective point of view of course :)

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and oh yes, the checklist to make up my 40kg

(random fact! the combined weight of my check-in and hand-carry luggage will be approximately my entire body weight. just great. so now i can look forward to lugging this from manchester to leeds)

1. 2kg of milo

2. 70 packets (min.) of various instant noodles

3. rice cooker

4. bak kut teh herbs

5. chicken stock cubes

6. pork stock cubes

7. one set of cutlery

8. malaysian traditional dress

9. popo's sambal

10.

11.

12.

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k obviously i'm so not prepared yet, but yup that would be the beginning of my list.

and i'll end all this crap here.

now i've remembered why i neglected this blog for so long.

heeee. see ya! :)