its been 5days since i got back from my holidays. now im rushing like mad in my assignments.Got lots in my mind. work begins next week.
i love 6pms in the weekdays.Theres prayer meeting! Julee and the leaders are great.my spirit is lifted everytime i see them and talk to them.Pray with them.
Besides that recently something really bad happen to someone very close to me. Will share more when i ahve the time.now am keeping him in prayer.
Sara came to cg for the first time lastnight.praise God.
GOt more pressies from leeds friends when i got back
Been doing what i like in the mornings. Exercise and gym.
Lots lots lots assignment. and im slow in it. very cautious in what i write in my asignment. pressure is on me. Pray for me!
anyway, sorry for the random photos. will edit them and tell more about it.when im free (again).
enjoy the updates.
19th dec 2005
Ring Ring Ring!!!!
That’s the noise of my handphone, waking me up at 500am in the morning. Fizzily , I went for my morning shower and quick face wash up. Pasted a Christmas card and present for Pris at her doorstep before I left. Waited for the bus at at 6am. So tired leh. I was yawning all the way. Bus arrived at like 630am. And I reached the bus station at close to 7. so sleepy man. Boon kiat and the girls haven’t arrive yet. I literary took a short nap. By the time boonkiat come, we all start to board the bus d.
So yea…
That was how my journey for a fun Christmas in England begin. Kinda sucky and very sleepy because of the very very super early bus.
At 9am we arrived Sheffield. I gave a phone call to evelynn wishing her happy birthday. Me and the others just lepak around meadowhall (sheffields’s biggest shopping complex). Actually I didn’t lepak around.me and boon kiat just spend most of our time, playing free Ps2 games. Fifa 06 and harrypotter goblet of fire. Didn’t really do much in Sheffield.its just a city with a big shopping complex that’s all.haha. to me la.what to do. Anne wong like so friggin long didn’t contact d. cant travel around Sheffield with a tour guide.
We lepak at the same big shopping complex until 4pm.
And at 4pm finally we arrive Newcastle. Ungkey and funkee picked me up from the nevill street station in Newcastle.
Walked to ungkey’s room. Which is approx. 30minutes walk. In the 30minutes walk it is then I only realized that im carryin too much luggage d. damn its heavy la. After carryin it for 30minutes.
Well when we got back to ungkey’s room. We staright went over to funkee’s apartment. Mark and ungkey prepared dinner. And I just lepak around funkees room, and takin silly pictures. Haha. Not long later Kenneth chong…aka the joey tribianni of the law program, join us for dinner.
We talk rubbish lots in dinner. Man, its been a while I have such fun talking nonsense with my old guy friends. We had good guy time man. Talking shit stuffs which guys only talks. Haha. We talk about ol inti times, how smelly ungkey’s room was because his was just next to the inti toilet.haha.
I also took lotsa photos when the guys were cooking. I have never seen before 4guys helping one another to cook dinner. Hahaha. Apparently they eat dinner everyday together without fail. Haha. Sound kinda gay. But cool male bonding dude.haha.
Mark cuts the chicken in the scariest way I have ever seen. I holds the chopping knife unto the chicken. And ungkey will have to do the job of hitting the chopping knife with the Yellow pages book!. Its so damn friggin weird wei. Hmmm…maybe the pictures will give you a better idea of how they do it.haha.
Then later in the night they wanna take me to a club for some drinks. But I decline. Not to say I don’t like the atmosphere of what. But I was just way too dead tired to do anything by then. Woke up at 5am and didn’t get any proper sleep the whole day plus traveling. Stone dead wei.haha. so yea, I slept at 11pm like that.
Had a very tiring day but superb fun.cos get to meet up the inti law monkeys. Kenneth, ungkey,funkee, and mark.
Cant wait for tomorrow. Will have the chance to lepak with Sharon and more siou tims with the guys.
20th dec. 2005
By 9am I was wide awake. And there I see ungkey sleeping like a piggy still. I took my time, washup, did my quiet time and all. And use his wifi service. 10am. He is still asleep. Mark, funkee and Kenneth all still asleep. 11am. He is still asleep!!!. 12noon. “Woi…wakeup la. You sleep how long wan?!?!?!” . that was enuff to wake ungkey up.
This people waa lao really lazy lo. Sleep always. Kenneth still asleep. Funkee have just woke up.
By 1pm we all left the house. Ungkey and funkee took me to china town. Its pretty small. The only significant thing about their Chinatown is that they have the big big welcome to Chinatown gate. Leeds Chinatown and supermarkets are way better. Ungkey and funkee took me to this Chinese buffet restaurant. 6pounds!!! Chia lat.somemore no discout!. I rather eat pizza buffet at pizza hut.haha.
Hmm..then after lunch ungkey and funkee took me to the millineum bridge at Time street. The bridge is great. So very nice. So big man. Haven’t seen anything like it before. Very modern architure. The gate like moves whenever there is a ship passing by. Took lotsa photos there. Funkee is a big chicken.found out that he is afraid of heights and water. I mean im also afraid of heights too.but the bridge walk is not as scary as it should to be one like me to be scared. Haha.
Then later, the both of them took me to the castle at Newcastle. Took lotsa silly pictures. The castle looks like the map “dust” in our counterstrike games.haha. nice place. Lotsa green and bricks.
Then after that..we balik rumah again. They all went to sleep. Haiyo!!! This people ar. Always sleep wan. But we are tired la I have to admit. We walk walk the whole day. I also slept. Well, tried to sleep. Till dinner time
Funkee and Kenneth prepared dinner. Simple dishes. Talking about dinner. I realized that my friends in Newcastle eat very little. Even the guys too. Their portion of food is like only enough to feed 2people. But there are 4 of us. Waa laoo.. no wonder I look like I gain more weight than them when im in leeds. Even Kenneth lost weight!!! that joey who sleeps always and has a belly. Is now a lot more skinnier.
Hmm..after dinner. Mark and I talk nonsense. I tell him stoires of leeds. He tell me stories of Newcastle. Newcatsle, student life and leeds student life Is so different. They are so many Malaysians everywhere.its like a little asia. Hardly I see any matsallehs. Stoires of them havin matsalleh friends is zero. Mark was always telling me of how hard it is to know other friends besides Malaysian friends. Souns very familiar to me. I had that before too..but not too long.well, I guess what it takes to solve this. Is effort and openness. Join clubs, talk friendly with anybody u meet ,etc.
After dinner, we all kumpul at funkee’s room to watch American pie 4. I didn’t stay for long. Cos I went to sharon’s place.
At sharon’;s place..waa so nice leh. Her house is an ensuite house.where everybody has a bathroom to themselves in the room. And the house is really big =).
Anyway, when I arrive,Sharon is busy making apple crumble. Looks easy I must say.haha. apple crumble for supper later.yumyums
I met jade e at sharon’s place!! Apparently she is in newcastle for a holiday too. Met new friends at sharon’s place. Namely, Samson and Alvin. Really fun dudes. Damn funny.at first kinda quiet.but after the ice broke.waaa…. ta;lk nonsense like no one’s business. I think it all started because of the bananas that Sharon have. She have so many bananas! She make two banana cakes with those bananas and still have left over.and Samson cant stop making joke about bananas , how they are squash, how they are mashed together..eyeerr…geli fella.haha.
At about hmm 10pm. We (Alvin, Samson , jade,Sharon and me), all went to nevill street and to the millineum bridge again. Its like the only attraction of Newcastle.haha.
The walk there in the cold and dark night is worth la I say. The bridge is so different in the night. The lights. The atmosphere around it and all. We took lotsa pictures on the bridge. Haha. Cant wait to get photos from Sharon and show you guys the poser pictures we all took at the bridge haha. Poser betul kita.
Then. After that, we took a long long walk back to sharons place. At sharon’s place, we makan apple crumble! Wooohoo.oh ya, boonkiat and some of his friends join us then too.
By the time we makan and talk talk.its like close to 130am d. we all tired liou. I jalan with boonkiats friends back to their place. And zzz…
Sucha fun day. Very fun leh.new friends. Lotsa fun.the bridge is awesome. Am thinking of coming for another Newcastle visit again maybe next year. When laiying,serena,alice…etc all are back.haha.
Thank You God.you bless me so much with so many friends from everywhere.
21st dec.
Man I cant believe it’s the 21st of January already!!! The highlight of my England Christmas Trip.i woke up in the morning super excited. Ungkey as usual,still sleeping.had my shower and all.when I got back, I onlined to send some emails to important people regarding my bvc application in PBB (London bar school).
At about 11am finally the giant ungkey arise from his slumber. We left his place at 1130am. Went to funkee’s room,marks room and ken’s room.say goodbye and all.nothing mushy okay. Just cant wait for them to come down leeds nextyear.then haha go hiking!.
I went to primark before I went to the train station. I forgotten to bring my towel for the whole trip.how careless I am.bought a cheap 2pound towel. And had my lunch at kfc. Yuck. Don’t ever eat kfc in uk. So eyeerr.waste money. But its cheap la. 2pounds for 2piece chicken meal.
Ungkey waited for the train with me at the station till 130pm. I really thank God for such great friends as him. They actually are kinda busy with their assignments and not to mention they have to sleep super a lot.
Well, just thought of note from my conversation with ungkey. I ask him. Why does he keep on sleeping?why wake up so late and sleep so early? Somemore sleep in the afternoon. Like come back from berkerja buruh only!. He told me la. He do that because he has nothing to do. Everyday the same routine.wake up.online until dinner time then go back room play same game. Then sleep. Haiyoyoyo.i hear for him also I feel susah leh. How true it is…without a purpose in our days. How easily our days just pass away.
I thank God that he has always make my life exciting every single day. There’s not a day which is the same like the other.well…unless I allow it to happen. For example for days like I have to study like crazy for exams and assignments. Those days are like the only days which are ‘same routine’. But other than that kind of days. I couldn’t think of a day where everyday im bored with nothing to do. Hehe. Just give ben a holiday waa laa…he will have do the funnest things and experiences.
Anyway back to the train station…
So yea. I got unto the train. Sat next to an old lady. We can’t simply choose any seats we want.because when we purchase the tickets , we purchase the book-ed seats as well.
The train ride is so comfortable.i have enough room space for my legs to move around. They even provide a cable plug for us to plug power into our laptops.
I on my laptop the whole journey letting it play the same hillsongs album: God He reigns.over and over again. The scenery outside the window of the train is beautiful thro out the whole journey. I see a lot of farms. And lotsa sheeps.yes SHEEP!. Very nice leh. Such peaceful animals. I tried to take pictures. But the train is moving so fast, that everytime I take a picture the sheep looks like marshamellows on the fields instead or tak jadi keluar.
Very peaceful leh the scenery. Listening to God He Reigns album. What a great way to reflect everything about God and all His blessings in our life. I have sucha good God!!!
Then when it is about 4pm like that. I created a conversation with the old lady sitting next to me. We had a good chat. She’s really friendly and sweet. It gives me good practice for an English accent.i told her of God’s blessing to me. How he have bless me in bringing me to England. And ya.i hear her story too. The conversation was short one though about half an hour I say. Cos she left off at Peterborough station while mine is at London kings cross.
At 530pm finally!!! I arrive London kings cross. Waaa laaoo the place is mega pack.i haven’t seen sucha busy train station before in my life. So many humans leh. Kinda complicated at first because I had to figure out a while from the tube map on how to get to waterloo.and then to chesington north( where eelynn stays).
When I got to the underground tube station.waa laaoo lagi packed.i was carrying my luggage bag somemore. When the tube doors open.you can literally feel the people from behind pushing u to the front. And when u are in the tube.you are really sardined to the max. its not shoulder to shoulder its like ermmm…sardine to sardine. Dunno how to explain la. All I know is that it is so very uncomfortable.
After all the sardine process. I got onto the train to chesington north. Less pack thank God phew. Was a bit lost before I boarded the train.because I dunno how to look at the digi board which tells which train will arrive at which platform. Very bigla. Over 20platforms with over 50 trains goin up and down.
The live band in the waterloo station make the Christmas atmosphere really nice. I just love carols being played by brass bands. Why didn’t Penang Free School Band do that?!?!?!?!! Ish. Lin yun…should have suggested that to him.
By the time I reach chesington north. Eelynn picked me up from the train station in her car. Her house is massive big! Big and long. Really long. Got big garden behind. Garage behind. A office behind. Eelynn’s hubby , Michael, works at home.the house is so so cho cho nice.
Eelyn’s two little girls are so cute. Danielle is only 2years old. So cute leh. She watch nemo when I came.haha. very playful girl. Holding my leg always. Laughing. And you know what? I had to spoon feed her. Haha. Nanny ben. But the experience is indescribable. ( mum I know u will be laughin on this now).
For dinner. I had the bestest dinner ever in my whole life in England.writting this entry down now. Makes me feel hungry. Eelynn cooked hokkien mee for me!!!!!!! OMG OMG OMG OMG. Real hokkien mee. The soup is really like penang hokkien mee. Lotsa prawn shells and bak kut use to make it. So nice. I really can cry man. So so so so so so nice. My favourite dish to greet me my Christmas holidays.
Then Michael helped set up the sofa bed for me. The bed is big leh. Bigger than my own room in lupton.
They are such great host. Danielle is so cute and playful. Eurasian baby so cute la. The hair color omigosh. haha. I helped eelyn with the dishes and takin care of Danielle for a while.
Henry’s mum which is also eelynn;s mum is here too. Real nice to converse in hokkien after sucha long time. She told me about me about mum and church.
The rest of the night Michael and I talk a lot about uni life,work and others. Basically just casual conversations to know another person better.
God is so good.now here I am layin on the sofa. Writing down this entry. I couldn’t stop thanking God for all He has done. Im getting more than I deserve. The next few days are just going to be more and more exciting.
Guys let me encourage all of you. Live a life blessed to the fullest. See the good in God. When you see the Good in God. You will see that God is really real in your life. Your daily routines are transform to out of the ordinary routines. Im really bless because I choose to honor God and see the Good in God in all circumstances.
22th Dec. 2005
Wokeup early at 8am.got myself ready.brush teeth and all. Play play with Danielle, Abcs.
Then I went off to the train station to meet up suelynn at Leicester square.
Met her at about 11something. So nice to meet her. So nice to meet a fellow firebrand in England. Leicester city is simply awesome. Theres a fun fair over there too. So many cinemas surrounding it. Theres the Odeon cinema and erm..haha I forgotten their names. But they are really big porsh cinemas.
So many pictures to take at that place. Suelynn was so surprise when I randomly took pictures with her concord friends when they met.
After Leicester square, we went to Chinatown. The biggest chinatown in all of England.really big place. We makan at this restaurant called golden dragon or is it silver dragon?cant remember haha.the waitress so damn slow leh.they layan other orang but didn’t layan us.ish. I ordered roastduck rice.yumsyums.i just love duck. Its great talking to suelynn. A great time of fellowship.talkin about England life, friends, good ol days, God,firebrands, missionaries and others.
And oh when its time to pay. I was kinda mean.well not mean la.but I had to get rid of my coins. I have a friggin heavy plastic bag of coins. To empty. The price of my dear duck 6pound something. I gave the waitress all coins. Not 1pound coins but in pents.!!
Well, this is one thing I remembered clearly in lunch.
Next suelynn brought me to the Westminster. Where the queen lives. I wanted to take a photo of me at the car gate entrance of where the queen lives. But gagal cos couldnt take it in time.haha. very nice leh the place there. The two soldiers guarding the queens palace march with such great timing and accuracy. There are a lot of big big statutes there too. We climbed on the statues trying to take some crazy pictures.hahah. was fun but scary leh. So damn friggin high…wat happens if we fall and into the buddle of water.haha. like that we will be the main attraction of Westminster.
Then next we went to a park near the westminister. Its so so so nice. So many kind of pond birds there. The ducks and geese are huge. All kinds of ducks and geese.great place to relax. Nice place to take pictures too.
Then next we went to big ben. I remember on the ay there sue, explain to me of the type of statutes they have in England. If the statutes show that the person riing on the horse and the horse have two legs up in the air,it means that the person resembled by the statute died in battle. Then if the horse have only one leg up in the air, that hero died in trying to recovered from a battle wound. And if the horse legs all are on ground, the hero died a normal death. Am I correct or not suelynn?? Haha.
Well at last we reach big ben.and yes big ol benny ben. People say the building is just normal only.i don’t think so leh. The big ben is huge. The architure is superb leh. Every detail of it. Is so precise. Took lotsa photos over there too. And oh then we went to the bridge.no not London bridge..forgotten whats the name d. they are so many bridges in London. The bridge is near to the London aile. Big big ferries wheel. Friggin scary to me. Cos its so high and they say it takes 30minutes for a full round ride.
Oh ya.talkin about tourism places. Suelynn took me to the covent garden first thing in the morning. I heard lots about it. Lots about people doing live plays there and live musical performances by musicians from music schools in London. Great place. Very pleasnt place. And oh oh… suelynn recommend me to try the Ben’s cookie.yeaps another place name after me. Haha. Ben’s cookie. I bought their choclate cookie. Its so so so nice. The feeling is great with rich chocs. But its damn ex. Wei 1.80pounds a cookie.thats like Rm10 something for a piece of cookie!!!! Hahaha.
Okay back to the London aile story. After London aile suelynn took me to the tower of London. It’s a place where they keep the queens jewels. Have to pay to enter leh. We didn’t go though. Saving it for another day when im down London.
So yea. That’s pretty much most of the day. Sue lynn took me to so many many places. I couldn’t thank God more for providing such a great friend. She not only take me to the places. She knows a goodhandful of info about the places we visit. Its is so nice. Thanks so much suelynn for the great day. You have no idea how bless I felt that day. My eyes was like looking everywhere, my jaw open most of the time, saying waa here and there..haha. absorbing every moment of my first ever sight seeing in London.
Thanks much suelynn.
The sight seeing day ended when evening arrive. And I quickly rush back home to chesington north. Eelynn prepared a nice English dinner for me. Its very feeling. And at night me, eelynn, Michael (her husband), we all played a board game called “Risk”
23rd dec.
Wokeup mega early again.same rountine as yesterday.english breakfast and took the train and tube to London notting hill gate. Theres where suelynn stays. A nice place. Very nice place super stradegic place. Sadly suelynn’s room is not what it looks from the outside of the building. Blocked from sunlight leh!!! How can. Sunlight is important for humans. We are like trees too. We need sunlight to make us happy and sexy haha.
After meeting up with sue at nottinghill gate. She took me to the shopping complexes near her place. Waaa so many shopping places leh. She took me to harrods. Harrod is this big shopping complex build by dodi ( diana’s new fiancé)’s father. Al farat is his name?damn porsh man that place. The suits they sell they waa laaooo…menjilat sekali. So so so so choc ho nice. But the price is crazy mega crazy. Lets say by the thousand pounds. Hmmm.. we window shop around that place lo. I think the best place to visit there is the jewelry section. Their diamonds is crazy. So blinkblink.not the lala land sungei wang kind. Its so Porsche leh!.
They have this section dedicated in memorial of princess Diana and dodi. They displayed the glass of wine which Diana last drank before she got into the fateful accident. They even displayed the ring which dodi gave to Diana as a proposal.
After that suelynn. chia me krispy kreme. It’s a donut shop in harrods. Its her favourite.i think is nice la but not the waaaaa so yummy kind of nice.haha. dunno.maybe its because I never really have a sweet tooth taste.
Then after harrods, suelynn brought me to oxford street, and bond street. Waaaaa. It’s the shopping heaven of the world. The best shopping place I have ever seen. And its super super super mega crowded. For me the humans there are like anai anai all around. And suelynn told me that this is not bad yet. I couldn’t imagine man.
We ate Korean food for lunch at this underground Korean supermarket.haha. its illegal I heard. Nice.great kimchi . delicious kim chi.
After lunch. Me and suelynn. Departed and go our own ways.
I went around oxford doing my thang! Shopping!!!!!! Yes this Benjamin khor shops a lot! I cant help it leh. They have everything there. Their gap store is so omigosh 4storieshigh. And so many sections. They even have nike town which is like ulalala 5levels high and mega mega big. Their FCUKs is awesome. And their esprit is awesome too. Firsttime I bought stuff for myself in esprit. I always thought it’s a girl’s brand.but no leh…their baju and pants…nice leh.and now its close to boxing day. They are on mega sale. I couldn’t imagine how much cheaper couyld it possibly be on boxing day!
Hahaha.after a good 6hours of shopping I met up with my buddy from Freeschool. The one and only Superman boonkheng!!! Haha. Alan ong. Child hood friend since Wellesley primary school and now we still hang out even in England.
Me, alan and Pamela went to Trafalgar square at night. So nie leh the scenery there. The Christmas carols and all. Man. …its perfect. Felt kinda emo cos I see so many families there playing with their kids. So many couples having their romance there. Its a
Happy place leh I can say.
Thenlater at about 11pm haha. We went to Leicester square. There they have theme parks lots games and stuffs. Very happening place. Really really happening. Not the clubbing kind of happening but the fun fair kind of happening.
Me and alan tried our luck playing the hoola hop game.
Play play all night till tired.and then at last I went back and zzz.
Another wonderful day in London. Great time shopping. Greattime hanging out with friends. Great time sightseeing.
God you are so GOOD!!! I can’t express how much u have bless me this holidays.
And I know there’s more to come.Amen!!!
25th dec 2005
Jingle bells jingle bells rock!
Woke up with the sound of Danielle bouncing on my bed and laughing. This kiddo really active leh when she wakes up.
Its Christmas!!! My first ever Christmas away from Malaysia.hopefully I woulnt be the last. Wokeup. Wishing everybody merry Christmas. Well. It wasn’t a white Christmas. Theres no snow at chessington north.
I got myself dress to my best. And I followed eelynn and her family to church. At church the service was short but good I must say. Its kinda traditional church. Nothing big. But the atmosphere of christms can be felt everywhere =).
When we got back. I helped eelynn with taking of the children while she prepare Christmas lunch food. Kinda easy..just let Danielle watch sound of music she quiet d.
At about 1pm. We left to Michael(eelynn’s husband)’s parents place at elbon district.the house is the typical English house with lotsa Christmas deco. And a nice chgmney. Ebsom district is said to be the most popular and the most expensive district in all of England and wales. Cos of its location not very long from London and the great country side it has to offer and the very low crime rate.while waiting for Claire ( michael’s stepmum), me and Michael take Danielle play play at the garden behind connected to the forest. We saw a small fox! Haha. And one thing I notice of English houses is that they all have this little box where they put peanuts so that birds can come and feed on them =).
The weather is awesome. cold and sunny.
Then at 2pm we all start to makan Christmas lunch. Ate with eelynn’s mum, eelyn’s family and michael’s side of the family. It was a very happy Christmas lunch. Peter (michael’s father). Gave me cherry wine. Nice leh. Better than vodka or other types of alcohol I like.
Each one of us is given a cracker.not the biskut kind of cracker. It’s the kind of thing which English people here have. Its like a present thingyee.we have to pull hard hard till it pops and breaks. Then there will be a present thingyee in it. Haiya..i dunno how to explain la. Let the pictures show ya better =). Its an English thing. “crackers” for Christmas.
Christmas lunch was superb!!! Turkey, and all englsih dishes. Bread sauce, pies, etc. so many la. The fellowship was great. Had a great time talking and joining the laughter. Hearing jokes and childhood stories from michael’s side of the family. Claire is so sweet. She gave me lotsa food. And praise me for my big appetite. God bless me so well.
Dessert we have chocolate cakes and pudding with the cream and custards. So syiok leh. Their chocolate pudding ar. If we pour our alcohol drink and light a flame on the pudding.waa..cantik leh. Wouldn’t burn the pudding. But don’t eat it when theres still flame on it la.
Then after dessert. We had a nice walk around elbon district. We walked thro the forest. There’s a pathway which walks through the forest. The scenery is nice. And its safe. The trees really feel like the lord of the rings walkin thro the forest heading towards rohan.
At the end of the forest, there’s a duck lake/pond. So many kinds of ducks and geese there! Something like the pond in London Westminster there. Haha. And uncle peter told me of one of michael’s inventions. He make a duck which is powered by motor engine.making it look like a real duck that can swim in the pond. A rem0ote controlled duck how cool is that??!!.haha.
When we got back. We exchanged presents. At first I was kinda shy at this session cos I know I wouldn’t be expecting any presents. But to my surprise. I have 8 presents!!!! I barely know eelynn’s family and michael’s family. they got me presents.i actually couldn’t hold back my gratefulness towards God. I never really have presents for Christmas. And the presents I got are kinda expensive ones too. And I got stuffs which I really need and I actually intended to buy when im in London.
God really take care of me so well here. How many would be so bless to be able to come to England for the first time and be able to celebrate their Christmas with an English family with so many presents receive.im not comparing or what. But honestly I don’t know anybody else who is in a position like me. First time Coming from a far far home, and being invited to an English family for an English Christmas lunch and dinner.
My hp is full with sms-es and phonecalls from leeds friends and many of my friends from the Christian union. I even got a penang phone call from meihui on Christmas!!!! Hahaha thanks tons mei. That was very sweet of ya.
After the exchange presents session. We watch Wallace and Gromit as a family. I think im addicted to it d. I can watchi it over and over again and not feel bored of it.then after Wallace and gromit we watch Madagascar. That movie brought back some old memories. Happy ones. =).
At night me and Michael makan dinner from the lunch left overs. It’s a lot kay!!! Very much. Lotsa turkey still. Michael is sucha cool ang mo. Got lots to talk about him.
And now im back home. Its late. The baby joselbel is awake. Cham leh. I pity eelynn. Have to stay awake for the baby.Being a mother of two babies is not easy. Wonder how does my mum go thro it lasttime.
Even though im having like one of the best Christmas ever in my life. I miss my family lots I have to admit. miss sarah’s wackiness and mums silly talk. dads talk.
Miss sarah’s wackiness.yes. lastnite I watch silly videos of sarah I took when Im in penang, videos of me nearly throwing her into the sea water. Couldn’t help smiling to myself. Well, its just a year or 2 only. enjoyed it to the bestest.
God is great. I have one of the best Christmas ever. Well better than last year’s.way better than last year’s. cos…
Last Christmas I gave you my heart but the very next day. You gave it away .this year to save it from tears I save it for someone special.
Haha emo-ness.
Thank you God for this great Christmas!
For sending your son , for being man and being God fully.so that I can gain the joy I have today.
26th dec. 2005
I got my cash ready. I got my mentality ready. And I got my adreline ready. Had the enough sleep for today’s big day. What big day you may ask? Shopping day! Christmas boxing day shopping! The day when the oxford streets and bond streets go crazy and sell their goods at extreme insane prices. Have Been waiting for this day all holidays.
When I got to the chessington north railway station to waterloo and to oxford circus.the horror of horrors happen to me! The station is close!!! The southwest trains are not in service on boxing Day!!! ARGGHH!!!! Geram betul I was that morning.
Walked back to eelynns house. Eelynn and her family have to go for a relative’s boxing day Christmas lunch. I stay at home. Make my own lunch. I should be at oxford street now. Consuming the insane cheap sales there now!
Anyway. I watched the lord of the rings:the two towers.extented vcd version. Then I watched chicago too. Chicago was nice. I like music and singing movies. Except bollywoods. Then imake dinner for myself. And enjoy a good time of reading the bio of Billy Graham. It is written by some Christian guy about the whole story of billy graham.
Eelynn and family came back at night.brought yummy cheesecake for me to consume haha.
Im stuck now leh. I just hate making decisions. Tomorrow half of me wants to go to oxford street and shop. But the other half of me wants to hang out with dave buckley ( my matsalleh friend in london). He lives at st.margerats, very near to Richmond. The country side of London..wheres theres deers roaming everywhere just like bambi., he also plans to take me to all the museums in London.for the plans to carry out it will take about 2days.
The original plan was to shop my mega sale on the 26th .and on the 27th -29th I stay and hang out with dave. But now the plan will have to change that I stay at daves place for 28th-29th only. That is if I choose to shop on the 27th.
Haihz…I tak tahu leh. Right now the plan is I shop tomorrow and only over night at daves place on the 28th to the 29th.i still feel like changing my mind and telling him that I will stay over his place tomorrow too. But the other half of me dun wan. The other half wans to shop. Ish. Im so screw up in my planning hor? Im a rubbish planner haha.
Dunno la. See la tomorrow morning how. When I wake up what will my first instincts be. Will I go shopping. or will I make a phone call to dave and let him know im over-nighting his place.
My shopping adreline is pumping hard dunno if I cant resist the temptation tomorrow haha. Dave is nice. He told me he is fine with whatever plans I have in mind.
Darn even as im writing this entry now, a ques. Just pop into my mind. Should I spend new years eve at Trafalgar or somewhere central London?? The train services will be on 24/7 then. Must be the lack of sleep. Have been a potatoe coach the wholeday. =P
Nitenite.
27th Dec. 2005
( mission impossible music plays…)
Agent benjaminkhor stands at the train station of chesington north, in 45minute time he will be fighting with million other Londoners for the mega boxing sales.
Ok ok sorry for being so drama on this. But man, I have been saving some amount of cash just purely for this day. Excited ma.
There is heavy snow at chessington north. Very heavy like heavy rain like that. The snow so nice. I actually purposely took off my bean hat so that I can feel more the flakes on my head. Haha and I open my mouth to eat the flying snowflakes. The experience is awesome. I totally didn’t expect it to snow so heavy this morning. Its like cms deep.
Anyway. The snow is for 30minutes like that, nice leh. Heavy snow.
I shoped like mad today. Niketown suddenly become all so cho cho cho cheap.gap store is insanely cheap. Esprit is insanely cheap. Topman. ….is super insane cheap.haha. Im crazy I know but they really are cheap. Sweaters which use to cost like 45pounds become 14pounds!siou bo?
So yea, I shoped from 11am to 5pm. By the time I got back to chesington north. I am so tired and hungry. I only ate a sandwich cos most the places to eat at oxford circus is either too expensive or too crowded with people.
When I got back to chesington north. Michael and his friend Lawrence took me out for a walk. And we talk talk. Great conversation. About churches in England .about hillsongs London and all.
After the walk we had dinner.i ate like a shark.
After dinner we watch madagascar’s special dvd edition. They have the Madagascar penguins short movie in it. So nice. Love it
And oh we watch gromit and Wallace. Then at night , eelynn and Michael and I have long talk. Just talk . about makin friends in England, English culture and all.
A well spend day I must say. I dunno how to blog about shopping. I shop a lot. I scared to count the items I bought. i dunno how many khakis, jeans, sweaters, shirts, jackets I bought.its a lot.really a lot.
And oh I bought a my very own nike T90 futsal boots.wee. I got it for 20pounds. When the ori price is 65pounds
28th dec.
I met dave at saint margerats district. He took me to his house. A lovely place. Typical british house. After putting my stuff at his place and some breakfast. We went off to Kensington south. To visit some museums.
We visited the natural history museum and the science museum.
The natural museum is nice. They have dinosaur bones in there. Took some photos in there.the t-rex is stupid. It caused such a massive traffic jam in the museum. I thought the attractive thing about the t-rex is the bones. Manatau..they don’t have t-rex bones. Only a silly robotic figure of the t-rex. Not many dino bones in the museum. The basic dinos la..like the triceratops , diplodocus, etc. I think my main attraction to the dino setion is that there have the baryonyx dino bones. And its almost full!! Damn syiok. One of the most dangerous meat eaters.
Ermm..after that we went to the mammals section, then to birds section. And we actually got bored after that.haha. so we went to the science museum instead
In the science museum, we went to the spitfire section. That’s the coolest of the museum. Spitfires are planes used by the English people during the war to battle off the nazi’s bomber planes. The spitfires have a significant history because of the victorious battle and the death of its creator. I love the planes in the science museum. Makes me wish I had live thro the war times and be a young plane cadet in England. Flying one of those. Shooting down those Nazis planes.
Well after the museums. We ate some sandwiches and straight went off to Richmond park.
Richmond park is gorgeous. The forest is big! Really big. Great place. The lakes over there are all frozen.i wanna step on the lake see if can tahan my weight lucky dave stop me if not I might drown myself.
We throw big stones and branches into the frozen lake to break the ice.climb high high trees. Like small school boys only. Haha. But it was pure great fun. Richmond park is nice its big and spacious. Its not so much of the green it is but rather more of like the country plus forest side of England. The area is the lord of the rings:the two towers, u know the journey to rohan scene?ya something like that la.
At the park you can even see people riding on horses galloping. Damn Porsche leh. I wanna ride on a horse on day and gallop around the woods too.
We saw deers!!! Its common for dave. It is so mega uncommon for me. Its not the silly small small sang kancil kind of deers. But it’s the big adult bambi. Too bad I cant capture any pictures cos by the time I saw them its dark. The sun is down and we are in the forest.
After the syiok day at Richmond. We went back home to daves place. His mum prepared dinner for us. Then after dinner. Daves family talk talk. Tell stories. Its nice. Feel very warm and nice to be in his family. Daves brother is this cool dude. A police officer who has some legal authority with the drug rehab.
At night I went to oinkoink.
A great day. I love Richmond. If I ever live at London. I will go for Richmond or chessington or Epsom.
God night god Bless!!~~
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31st dec.
Very well it’s the last day of the year 2005. I remember the last year when I celebrate the final countdown to the year 2005. We were at gary’s places for potluck. Was major fun! Not because of the food and party. But the people there. Boolat,Jason, joj, me, Daniel goh, sookie, bon li all gather there!. It was like the ultimate lepak pfs gathering ever. There was not such a big gathering as dat after that new year. Come to think of it. Geezz…its been like 1whole year we all haven’t got together and do shit.
for this new years celebration.i helpd eelynns family prepare for their new years party at chessington north. We started preparing at a very early time leh. I helped Michael with cleaning up the house. And also helped eelynn in preparing the food.
She cook so much food!!1 beef, chicken, charkoayteow, jack potatoes, harsh browns, etc. many leh.she is one super cook.
Was fun helping her prepare the food.
At about 3pm the lunch start. There were many people in her house. A balance mixed of ang mos and Chinese people. I talked to the uncles there. Sadly there aren’t anybody around my age in the party.
The party ended at 8pm something like that.then Michael and eelynn went over to their neighbors place for the countdown. I was so tempted to go down London and meet up with alan. Since he also offered a place to stay in London. Felt really bad. Wanna celebrate the countdown with someone I know well. Sorry boonkheng that I couldn’t meet up with ya in London for the countdown. I just wanna play safe and get myelf into no trouble traveling down London at that time.
So how did I spend my countdown? I read the biography of billy graham written by john polluck. When the clock strikes 12. Im still reading the book. Didn’t shout happy new year or anything. The house is quieeeet,a babies sleeping. I can see fireworks from a distance. To be honest felt kinda emo. Lonely then , cos I always do the new years countdown with people and its always loud. This year its really different I must say. Regretted that I didn’t go down London to meet up alan then for the countdown.
Do I have a new years resolution? Yes I do! But aint goin to let you know.haha. ask me la in person if u wanna know.grins.
So yea. That’s my quiet new years.thought it will be very nice since im in England. But being away from the people that make you feel comfortable and happy on sucha celebration brings up the emo-ness in me.
1st jan. 2006
Good day 2006!!!
Hmm did nothing really much for the whole day. Until like 2pm. Me, michale and eelynn went to hurthill. It’s a private park make public owned by some multi rich guy in Epsom. Hurthill Is nice. I see another sight of England which I haven’t seen before.
My first hiking ex. Hurthill Is nice. I see another sight of England which I haven’t seen before.
My first hiking exercise in England. The top of the hill is gorgeous. I can see the whole of London and also the English channel. It’s a really a nice view. And when we reach the top, we are in time to catch the sunset.
The sunset is so nice. I love to see the sun rise and sets. It always remind me of the beauty of our Lord.
After the hike, we went back home. Eelynn cooked fish head for me! Woohoo!! My favourite.i take my time eating the fish head while talking to Michael.
After dinner, we watch Chicago. Danielle so cute. She dances everytime she sees the renee and Catherine zeta jones dance.
Now its 930pm. Tomorrow I will be takin the train back to leeds. I wonder how my life will be like for this upcoming new year in leeds? I have gone thro so much in just 3months. The lows and ups of my life in leeds…is tremendous. Im excited of the ups coming. But at the same time im just scared to face the lows coming. I hate the lows.
2nd jan. 2006
Lastnight I cant sleep at all. I slept at about 5am . don’t you have nights when u are tired but you can’t sleep?
I had a movie marathon to watch till I sleep. I watched shanghai knights and shanghai noon. Then after that two movies I watch legally blonde. Heard lots about it from chris last time.
Woke up in the morning at about 11am like that. Cause Danielle was pulling my face and hair.=P. I packed my bags. And got myself ready.
Eelynn prepared hokkien mee for me. Wee!!! I came to London with hokkien mee as my first meal and now im leaving London with hokkien mee as my last meal. What a good finale.
Ate till I bloated myself.what to do. It will take ages for me to make a proper hokkien mee in leeds.
Eelynn drop off at Epsom train station at 1pm and from then on my journey back leeds begins.
I have been thinking a lot. H0ow I come to England. How I have struggle thro to make new friends and go thro some bad experiences. I realized thro out this whole process it only just makes me lean unto God more and more. I admit its not easy adapting to the life here in the beginning. But now I have much adapted to it. I pretty kind of like it. I remember the end weeks of the semester, how I keep on saying I love leeds I love leeds.haha now I have only been to London for two weeks. My mind set change d. it’s a I love London I love London!! Its furnee how unpredictable we humans can be. How easily our feelings for a place or a thing can change.
I was reading the billy graham bio book to the countdown of newyear. What amazes me most is of his simplicity of sharing the gospel and yet can reach to millions.
Over the whole two weeks when im in London chessington north. I have been watching a lot of cartoons! Ya cartoons! Disney cartoons!watched every single kid movie there is. Having kids in your house makes your tv set become the auto Disney cartoon channel. Eelynn and Michael play the movies from morning till Danielle sleeps everyday.
Oh talking about cartoons. I realized Disney cartoons don’t have any blood involve. I mean if you get whack so hard on the head by a frying pan…wouldn’t you at least bleed something right?
Ish im so random in my entry today.maybe its because I have nothing to do. Just waiting for the train to come. Passing time now.
Tomorrow mua and siawwan gonna register to join the uni. gym , must do something with the amount of food I have consume over the two weeks.
