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Blast from the past

Sunday, 30 October 2011

Went back to Sheffield with Yvonne over the weekend.

Met a few new friends, and had a great time at the peaks and clubbing for 5 hours straight! Can't remember when's the last time I did that... my left ear's hearing is still affected but heck it was a really fantastic time!!!

Sheffield is gradually changing bit by bit, but not much. The new Student Union is nicer than before!

Anyways, I don't know what's going to happen in the future, so definitely not sure what's going to happen to this blog. Should I post photos and keep it alive? Blogging seems like a past nowadays.. no more regular readers, just the random one or two once in a blue moon.

Oh well, we shall find out in the future =)

May post

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Hello all,

I'm back again after such a long absence. So here I am again, typing away in my little room in Reading while snacking on smoked salmon trimmings garnished with lemon juice.

Anyways, it does appear that many events will take place on May 6th... just one more week... decision on project, election, one of my friend getting his interview....

Tomorrow is bank holiday so I can afford to just chill and relax a bit.. not particularly feeling well. Too much wine? Which reminds me I have utterly failed in my efforts to finish taht bloody bottle of wine. Aiya, i should start slower I guess.

In any case, I'm enjoying my prawn noodles ^^, finally got time to cook them (well it doesn't take that long considering the sauce is ready made) with prawns and meat and taugeh!

I need to get back to my bodybuilding regime... my hard gained weight.... I must get to 60 before year end! Sometimes I'm amazed by my ability not to be fazed by the bigger problem (potentially)... I think it's just my natural instinct to ignore lol

One last thing I'll like to add is, life sometimes throw suprises at you when least expected... and when it rains, it pours.

Oh ya, all the best to Wai Loon hahaha.

Spring

Monday, 12 April 2010

So it seems I survived the first round... what is to come remains to be seen. How many more rounds to go?

Spring is here finally! FLowers are blooming, birds are chirping, normal sunlight hours..... It seems like April is the actualy month spring begins!

good bye laptop!

Friday, 19 March 2010

Tonight, I shall bid my good ol' trusty Toshiba laptop goodbye. This is the last post from my laptop!

I'm going to return it to my dad. After using for 4 1/2 years.. it's time to say good bye lol!

Did my final year project on it...

Cursed it for being so slow for the past 2-3 years.

Played so much Dota on it.. completed FF8 on it... Almost finished FF7 (LOL) on it...

It's time to move on.

=)

Friends.

Friday, 5 March 2010

Hmm today, I organised a dinner for my work friends I'm closer with. The usual a dinner. Again, I feel indebted/ bad for like... not "taking care" of everyone.. but what can I do right, so many people and they all don't really know each other.. fortunately they have their own little groups so it's not so bad. Then after dinner, I wanted to go have some drinks with Jessie, Logan and Rachel but... FORGOT MY ID. As a result we all just went home early without.. getting any drinks at all.

Aih.. I should have just gone home earlier with the rest, then I wouldn't have spoilt their night. Anyways, nuff of moaning, I've not blogged for ages. Still waiting for my bloody kettle plug, i'm gonna buy it somehow tomorrow, somewhere SOMEHOW! Gotta go town early to get it.

Yes.... gotta do that.. then tmrw night, gotta go out with Jess and the lot and make up for tonight.
Sunday is another..... working day... ahhaha not litereally working but... well stuff i'll need to do.

New PC

Monday, 22 February 2010

I just bought a new Desktop PC!

Cost me a fortune but i've been wanting to do this for a long time now.. more than a year! Probably 2 years! Laptop was dying.. anyways, here's the specs:

"Titan Krypt" build (whoa even the name sends shivers of excitment down my spine)

Case	Coolermaster Elite 335 Case - Black
Graphics Card	ATI Radeon HD 4870 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Hard Drive	Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500 GB
Memory	Corsair XMS2 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 PC2-8500C5 TwinX Dual Channel
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 AMD 770 Motherboard
Optical Drive	LG GH22NS40 22x DVDÂ±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter
Sound Card	7.1 High Definition OnBoard Sound Card
Warranty	1 Year Onsite Collect & Return Warranty
Processor	AMD Athlon II X4 Quad Core 630 2.80GHz
Processor Cooler	AMD Approved CPU Cooler
Power Supply	Corsair CX 400W ATX Power Supply

Gengz? Cost me a bomb, especially now that I've stopped receiving overtime pay.

But I think it's worth it. Also, all these researching has some how made a little bit of a computer geek... well computer hardware geek.

hello

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Hello, another short update.

Had a terribly busy and somewhat stressful long week, travelled so much in the SE England region thanks to some train cancellation (gotta remind myself to get reimbursement), slept for 8 hours-ish for two consecutive nights and still wake up feeling tired, very happy with my new rice cooker, still experimenting with my phone, still no time to buy computer.

Weather is still hovering near zero, average about 3-4 degree celcius everyday, more sunshine now, but still not getting/seeing enough of it.

Need to decide what to cook and do my grocery shopping later and then..........

Money Matters Pt. 2

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

I would have probably blogged this before but traveling in the UK is very costly. Sometimes, when I think about it I shouldn't agonise so much when deciding what to buy or when shopping and just travel less.

Oh I just realised I got paid overtime for December. That is a pleasant suprise, and I'm not complaining. Not that it's a big amount but hey, it's still money.

Oh I was recently told to start on a new project. Starting this Thursday and next few days will be very busy.

Up till now I have managed to get up at 6 everyday (well this week, get off the bed at 6.30) and I'm proud of that. Tmrw will be another long day, no time for gym again. Funny now that my gym payment finally got sorted I don't have time to go to gym.

Another thing, I really need a rice cooker. Burnt my rice again today lol

Money matters

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Hmm, I feel like I've been /will be spending a lot. Got a new phone contract, and wasted 5 quid on a wrong cable which I hope to have it returned on Thursday (chances are pretty slim, the receipt seems pretty dodgy and it's not a modern Western shop).

And then, there'll be my new desktop. Yes, I've decided to buy a new desktop because my laptop is soon dying on me. (Funny enough it's working fine today.... hmm which again makes me rethink my need for a new computer) I need to find time to start checking the prices online etc whislt the "sales" are still on.

Oh, lastly, I think I'm not gonna get any overtime pay for the next three months at least. The joy! (there's also this pay freeze... T__T)

Time to tighten my belt and eat only white rice.

New Discovery

Sunday, 17 January 2010

I just discovered a asian food store in Town centre today! I was just wandering around, trying to get to argos to get my new rice cooker when I found it! I'ts in Broad Street mall, and although it's small it's got instant noodles and quite a good stock of chinese cooking ingredients! Woohoo! Now I don't have to go that far to get instant noodles! Hopefully they will expand and have a fresh vegetable section... I didn't see any kang kung there =(

Homesick?

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Woke up at 4 this morning and feel down ever since. Is this homesick or is it just slightly depressed over the bloody grey weather outside ever since I've arrived in the UK?

Even the snow is not cheering me up.

Hm.

Pictures!

Sunday, 29 November 2009

Ok more pictures posted in my facebook!

Finally! Got about doing it!

Past month or two felt like I lost my purpose and just.. existing... but that must stop now.

Yeosh! Life!

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!

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!!!