Winter wonderland

I awoke on Thurs morn to this!

On the way to class


And the serene atmosphere after class.


Before it was disrupted by a huge snowball fight between us biotechs and our biomedic classmates ;)


With over 21 years of experience, we were no match for them! It was extremely good fun tho' :)

Brrr...! Watch out!

What a mad bunch we Malaysians are!

It started off when the three of us were startled but a sudden banging on our kitchen window. Looking out, we saw one of our coursemates pointing at the sky excitedly and saw that it was snowing rather heavily. Of course this being our first time, the first instinct was to rush out to jump around in it. But common sense prevailed when the blast of cold air hit us. We all ran to our respective rooms, grabbed our jackets and ran down again into the snow!

Scene from our doorway

Snowball fights and dumping of snow down each others’ backs ensured. It was so crazy! We were all running about, screaming, flinging snow at each other and taking pictures. I saw a few ang moh’s looking out at us from their windows. Probably wondering what crazy people would actually run into the cold. In shorts and slippers too! Omg! My hand and feet were totally numb after that! Hahaha… I’m still on high as I’m typing this so don’t mind my ridiculous excitement. Pictures will be up on Fb soon.

poser XD

Our fun wasn’t without drama lol. In our excitement, none of us had brought our keys and I didn’t jam the paper properly to prevent the door from closing so we got locked out of the house! Thank God one of our housemates whose room faced the outside hadn’t decided to join our madness! Otherwise who knows how long we would have been stuck outside! Lol.

A few minutes after I had gotten into my room, it started snowing again! I was about to knock on WP’s door which was next to mine when it opened and another friend came out. This is the conversation that followed.

Me: It’s snowing again!

CT: I know!

Me: Are you guys going out again?

CT, WP: Of course!

The four of us then ran down only to find the rest already posing for pictures and engaged in more snowball fights. Lol. It was one hell of a night. Wonder if the snow will be deep enough to cancel the project meeting tomorrow ;)

Only Crazy People Attempt to Search for the Beach at Night

Why is it that whenever the three of us are together, we end up doing crazy stuff? Lol... Like rowing in the cold for example, or the two of them teman-ing me for the LGBT pub crawl. That really meant a lot guys :) Thank you!

Anyway, this time around, it involved CAMPUS hoodies, a steep, almost pitch black staircase, getting lost, and trying to hold in a full bladder. I'm not gonna get into the details but we somehow ended up at CAMPUS before dinner to get our free (terms and conditions apply) hoodies.


Taking the colder more scenic route along the river, we soon came to the bottom of that bridge you see in the picture and the only way to get back to the main road was this extremely dark and steep stairs where we were only able to see 4 steps ahead and looked as if it just came out of a horror movie! Y'know, the kind that you'd think "Why is the hero/heroine so stupid as to walk there as something is so obviously going to happen". But it was either that or walk all the way back to where we originally were. I kept praying and praying that all would be fine lol. "...Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me..." Psalm 23:4. Thank you Lord!

The view

The next plan was to explore the beach in Seaburn as we still had our Metro tickets from rowing in the afternoon. First thing we saw worth photographing was Fulwell Mill. After walking some distance and not seeing any beaches, we stopped to ask some people who happened to be leaving a nearby restaurant. Turned out that we were walking in the opposite direction! :( The lady pointed a road further up from where we had came from and told us that the beach was about a mile's walk from there. A whole mile? In the dark? On a full bladder and an empty stomach? Make that an extremely empty stomach as we had used up lots of energy for rowing. That's when we decided we'd come back another day. Probably when we have to take the Metro for rowing again.

Fulwell Mill

After a satisfying dinner, the three of us huddled into Wk's room to camwhore with our newly acquired hoodies! ^____^

Faces censored as usual

Till then, ja~

Whutta Spendrift!

I ought to change my Facebook status to g**** is a compulsive spender!

First came the wine


Then the shoes, which I totally *heart*


And just last week, a whole box of Fosters!


What next??

If I hadn't bought all these, I can makan for a month d!

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Sejak bila aku jadi begitu shopaholic? :S

Row, row, row your boat~

What do crazy M'sians do in extremely cold weather at about 5-6 degrees? Where the skies are dark and gloomy and not a ray of sunshine is able to pass through. Where the winds are so strong and cold every exposed part of your body feels like it's in the freezer. And to top it off, rain begins to fall...

View of the sky from my room

Why, they go rowing in the nearby river of course! An extremely fast flowing river that unlike our stagnant and polluted Sg. Pinang, will wash you away in seconds. What an experience!

The morning itself was indication enough about the bad weather we were about to face. Dark clouds, strong winds... Can't believe we were still excited enough to follow through lol. Anyway, we learnt how to row both on the boat and in the mini training centre on their rowing machines. It was fun! And cold! More layers for me next round! Being the sun-loving person I am, I almost decided to switch clubs. But after stepping into the boat, there's no looking back. I can't wait till we get to go out to the middle of Tyne(?) river :)

On another note, I tripped on the stairs today... Caused this huge red patch on my knees and light scrapes on my elbows. Here's a pic of my left knee... Traces of 2 bruises gained during the rollerskate night are still visible :S

Ouch!

From Sunderland with love

Hi all! Been a long time since my last update.. Partly 'cause I've been settling into this new environment and partly 'cause the internet connection here sucks. But lets not go into that.

Life has been great so far. I love the friendly smiles on the road, the level of civic consciousness, the building architectures, the amazing variety of colourful flowers and oh, the random conversations the locals strike up every now and then. We attended two Fresher parties last week! :) An 80's Rollerskate themed party and a UV White party. Both totally rocked! I prefered the UV party tho'.. T'was more fun and had more drama lol. This girl came up to my housemate and started dancing with him. The next thing we knew, she was kissing him full on the lips! Then, after she was done, she moved on to my other friend and started kissing him too! His very first kiss lol! We also managed to squeeze in a visit to Newcastle. And it was beautiful. So fucking beautiful. I can't wait to see how the rest of UK looks like!


And to think that the UK was a place I never wanted to visit....

What an idiot I was lol.