Covers

Recently, I've been meeting quite a lot of people in Newcastle. Asians mostly, and I felt a lot more comfortable being around people of my own kind. I do get along with my coursemates, but sometimes, I'd still feel pretty awkward. I mean they are nice people, but there is still, a small barrier that I'll need more time to break through.

Back to the people I've met, some clicked real well but not the others. They look like the cool and lan si guy you feel like giving a tight slap right in the face, but over time, they're actually not that bad. They're actually quite nice which sometimes made me realised that I really shouldn't judge a book by its cover.

On one of the nights, they mentioned about a meteor shower appearing in UK. I never saw it but I secretly made a wish.

And it feels like its becoming a reality :)




P.S: Kangaroo Burgers sounds good... Anyone joining me?

P.P.S: I just bought 3 books! They're all Science related ^^ and they're not fiction >D

On the Move

After going through all the hassle with the payments for the new house, everything seems in place and I started moving most of my stuff over to my new house. Its pretty sad to be leaving Grand Hotel so soon... Although it doesn't look as grand as it sounds, I'm still pretty attached to this place after spending two months in this place. Haha the first day that I set my foot into this awesome place seemed like yesterday.

The very place where I managed to make my first successful carbonara (forget about the number of times I failed =__=), the first time I chopped a whole chicken and fully utilised it to make a variety of dishes, the first place where I made my very own soup, the first time I've used a washing machine that requires coins and washing tablets to operate, the first time I had a private shisha pot and learnt how to set it up myself, the first time a bulb fell off when i tried to switch it on and the first time I've made some close friends when I came to Newcastle all by myself. There are just too many memories dwelling within the building itself...

The door that miraculously exist between the display windows of the bookshop which seemed so Harry Potter-ish; still amazes the people who never noticed its very existence all though it had been there for years. The busy streets that I'd always look at whenever I have my breakfast. The ubiquitous sound of clanking on the loose metal plate whenever a car passes by. The singing of songs I never knew by the drunkards walking in front of my very flat. They may not be the most pleasant experience I've had, but its definitely something that I will miss for sure :)

Its been real tough moving all my belongings over my new place. In addition with all the equipments (i.e broom, mop, cleaning agents, table cloths, duvet sheets, pillows, etc etc etc) needed to clean the house, trust me, its a hell lot of work... But I'm pretty happy with my new room too. Red carpet, soft yellow lights, black bed runners, white and black streaks on the duvet covers and pillow cases, surrounded by cream walls with a window where you can see straight into the kitchen of a group of Asian girls living in the house nearby ;P Just how much cooler can that be? >D Yeah speaking of cool, the major drawback is that the heater is still not working well, and theres still loads of cleaning up and washing to do... I guess you have to pay a price to earn what you deserve..

Yours truly :P

Most prolly the last time you'll see my messed up room in Grand Hotel.

P.S: My new place is at Spital Tongues.. Quite a pain isn't it >D

P.P.S: I had a fucking awesome Friday night out... Seriously...

Another week has come and Gone away

Of warm sunshines and the humid air I never thought I'd miss home. Well, just a bit but yeah.. You get the idea. The weather is so bad that it started raining quite frequently lately. The worst situation you can ever get into is a heavy rain that comes along with a strong Autumn wind. Icy droplets of water pierces the surface of the skin, giving you the shudders and shivers while you're trying to walk and maintain in a cool manner. I don't know if its just me, but I feel weird if I were to bring an umbrella to my lectures. Plus, on the bright side, its quite refreshing to walk under the rain once in a while.

Oh, and did I even mention, one of my coming practicals will be evaluating food which is part of a research programme that I'm also participating in. The only drawback is that the main focus goes around carrots haha... Its a funny thing to recall the series of events happening around me lately. Things just... happen... The time passes so quickly and the workload is always there to occupy the free times. I'm happy most of the time being here and I'm really grateful for that.

Man, I really felt I've grown alot haha..

P.S: 2 more to make it 10... >D

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话不能乱讲，照片不能乱post...

为什么会变成这样的呢？
他说因为我把他和一位女同学的照片放上fb，他的女朋友因此跟他分手了。。。
难道真的是我的错吗？糟糕了啦。。这次真的内疚的很。。

P。S：未免太过敏感了吧。。

P。P。S：终于看见雨后的晴天了：）

Chiuh

For my previous practical session on Microbiology, we had to innoculate an apple and 2 weeks later, we sliced it open and cultured the infected areas. Part of it was to draw the diagram of the apple and record the observations. The thought of when I last drew a picture of an apple never came back in my flashbacks. I just realised how long was it since I first learnt the alphabet A, which is almost always associated with the phrase "A for Apple". I thought that it was easy to score for my practicals and I felt pretty confident in my lab sessions. But when the paper was returned, I felt a certain degree of disappointment as I thought the scores would've been better. But then again, I realised that I was so used to telling my friends around me that marks are not important which ironically, I failed to grasp the whole idea of it. I felt contented because I realised that I knew relatively more compared to most of the people around me. Some of them simply "emulated" the work of their peers and still got a higher score compared to mine eventough they never really seemed to understand what was going on.

Marks do not signify anything as compared to experience and knowledge. And I embraced this fact and took another step forward, constantly trying to keep up with the competition of walking a journey along a path that I chose for myself.

"Don't space out. There is still a long way to go, my friend"

P.S: Haloween is coming to town :) What should I dress up as?

Tired Legs

I've been walking so much lately.. Been to the Beamish Museum on Saturday, which was quite fun :) Got to know a few more people and the night before the trip was quite a blast ;) The morning lectures for my IT module was crap. Nobody turned up for the whole 2 hours.. I could've stayed in bed and get some extra sleep...

I was fiddling with the webcam the other day and took a whole lot of pictures >D

Ogre

Sepia

Crocodile..

Blob

Swivel

Brainy

Humpback! Reminds me of a cartoon character but I don't know who..

Alien

Emo

Just plain me :)

Quite a lot of things are coming up and I'm quite glad that I've found a house to move into around end of November.

P.S: Confessions of a Narcissist >D

Drizzle

Newcastle is becoming a pretty familiar place to me. The social circle is slowly, but definitely spreading out its reach. I never really felt homesick for quite a long time since the assignments and tests gradually appear as the course proceeds. I joined the Malaysian Society(Malsoc) and the Rifle Club in the University. Attended the Malsoc Deeparaya celebration which was pretty interesting but haven't really met the members of the Rifle club. I finally had my cili padi supply and to add on to the list of luxuries, my roommate bought a Shisha pot which I put in my share recently :) I'm not sure if its the chemicals on the flint or its just body rejection after eating, I felt quite uneasy after my Shisha sessions sometimes = =

Most of the times, instead of dwelling on the same songs I had in my outdated Music folder, I will now be streaming on OneFm, Hitz or MyFm online. Although the time zones are quite wrecked, I still manage to catch a daily dose of Gotcha calls before going to bed.

Things are going well and hopefully it will be for the coming time that I'll be spending in Newcastle ;)

The weather here recently is so messed up. Its been drizzling throughout the days = =