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Scotland Trip Part 1

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Hello People!

I'm back! As promised, the pictures from my Scotland Highland trip! When I was sorting out my photos I realised that there's waaayyy too many to put up in one go so I'm gonna have to split it to at least three posts. I will feel bad if I do not post the nice pictures otherwise... it's so beautiful! I just have to post the pictures! Also, I need to get photos from my Facebook account, posted by Yvonne and the rest. Hmm.. lazy man. This upload function is not exactly the best in the world.

Our first day started... no wait... in the beginnint there were supposed to be more people joining us in the trip but due to some unforeseen circumstances, only 4 stout hearted ones remained. May Yen and I flew to Glasgow to meet up with Yvonne and Eric. FIrst day was spent in Loch Lamond, then we drove to Stirling, then to Inverness.

Swan in Loch Lamond! Beautiful isnt' it!

Lone tree on a hill.. ugh.. doesn't looks so nice after uploading.

Picturesque view!

Artistic...... konon. lol

Falkirk wheel! It's a super cool lock.. which May Yen seems very unenthusiastic about and very keen to complain to her colleagues she went all the way to Scotland and I bought her to see this ... wheel. (She's the only non engineer. LOL)

IT"S COOL RIGHT!!!

Wallace monument in Stirling. That's right, WIlliam Wallace. FREEDDOOOMMMM

Drive to Inverness. ALl the way, the journey is amazing! A shame it's hard to capture it in the car.. Tried taking a few videos but not sure how well they turn out to be.

Second day, we toured Loch Ness! We went to Falls of Foyers, took some pictures, then decided to drive around the Loch... which is very... big! (Long is more accurate i think). So lots of driving again! But nice scenery! Above is a picture taken near Falls of Foyers... my initial plan was to walk around to the other side of the valley.. but.. due to rain and lack of enthusiasm.... we didn't get around doing it.

The falls! of Foyers!

Yvone's hairy cow!

The sight of us humans posing must have been quite confusing for them.....

Random picture... Ok, more to come.. maybe tmrw, maybe day after... busy with work and other sutff!

Back to Work

Wednesday, 9 September 2009

Hello all,

I'm back from my Scotland trip! I'll write all about it later, at the moment I'm trying to catch up with my work. I have overstretched myself this time, but it's keeping me efficient and quite satisfied!

Wil update more when I have time.

Pictures from Cornwall trip!

Sunday, 30 August 2009

Hello hello!

As promised, the pictures from my Cornwall Trip! Unfortunately most of the pictures are at my friends camera. He has a DSLR so... I let him do the picture taking. That's the reason the absolutely stunning beach next to Minack theatre is not here.. but if you do go to Cornwall, I highly recommend that place!

This is where we stayed! We rented a house which is waayy cool.. it even has a small pond with fishes!! It's right in the middle of no where... because the roads are usally lined with tall hedges we couldn't really see where we were going.. we just trusted the GPS!
Anyways, the inside of the house is absolutely beautiful as well! Feels so homely!

Played some board games!

The beach near Lyme Regis! We went there to look for.. fossils.. but... found none!? It was a long walk ... and we took a hike to another beach where there's supposed to be more fossil but ... din't really find many.... although the ones the sell in the shop are impressive! I bought one.. might take a picture and post it someday... to think of those fossils that were preserved for MILLIONS of years!? GENGZ.

Sukh posing!

This pigeon build it's nest INTO GODDAM STONE AND MORTAR!! How cool is that.

Oh after that, we stopped by St. Michael's Mount!! Which is one of the coolest thing ever! It's basically...a fort? Complete with it's garden and shit... on an island that is accesible by foot when the tide is low! So at high tide it's a island... Gengz!

We where there at high tide

Keat and I took a boat to the island... we where there at the wrong time! I wanted to walk to the island!

Finally! Land's End! The Westernmost point on the UK (except Ireland lol)

It's absolutely beautiful!

That's the Atlantic Ocean!!!!

Oh yeah.

And then I saw this warning sign. lol

Anyways, the other stuff we did are, we tried to go to a farm and... pick fruits and have them for lunch but we were out of luck because the fruits haven't..er...ripen yet. So, instead, we had very posh tea with Scones and clotted cream and absolutely fantastic jam! Damn it was good!!! I can't describe how good it was and how nice it felt.. you just have to be there!

Erm.. i guess that's it.. I can't be bothered to write more description lol. Until next time!

I'm back!

Monday, 24 August 2009

Hello everyone!

Yes I'm alive!

Now, a summary of what's happened in my life lately:
1)It's almost a year since i've started working!
2) I went on my first business trip!
3) I visited Italy for the first time!
4) I visited Cornwall for the first time!
5) I will be visiting Scotland for the first time in September!
6) I'm still building muscle very slowly!
7) This year's summer really felt like summer!!!

Ok, more description/photos to follow soon!

self reflection

Sunday, 19 July 2009

More trips coming up. These days have been quite carelessly spent. Something reminded me that time flies when you don't notice, my my life is slipping by quietly. Funny how I realised that whilst watching a drama.

Anyways, I feel that at this rate, before i know it I will be old and filled with regrets. So from today onwards, no more movies or ficiton books!

I gotta take control of my life!

Update!

Monday, 15 June 2009

After so long! I finally updated!

Although I have a number of pictures to post, I can't be bothered now. This is just to keep the blog alive!

Last week or so was quite hectic.. but nowadays, I'm just taking things easy. Anyways, I seem to have quite a number of plans for the next couple of weeks, gotta make full use of the good weather! Make hay while the sun shines... something like that...

So hopefully, there'll be more pictures coming up!

I'm supposed to be wriitng up my bloody ImechE report now.. so I can't really be bothered to write much here... but stay tuned for more updates!

I'm alive!!!