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The picture up there is me testing the spaghetti =_=

Week 2 is quite an improved method, we don't go out to get our ingredients everyday..haha, we discussed the menu for the whole week and try to do all the shopping on Monday.



Friday:


Went for Manchester trip, so prepared something simple, just throw everything in and ta-da!

Accomodation however is uncomparable. Hotels and rentals are really expensive here in the UK, again, if you earn British pound here, you wouldn't give  a damn anyway (because everything is cheap to you if you earn here). Same case to transportation.

What a dream place to live in eh? I actually enjoy the weather here alot more than the sunny and hot weather back in Malaysia, if only my dear is with me here, I would've wish that I can live here forever. Who knows, maybe I can have such a chance in the future. I recall once my father told me, if I have any chance to work overseas, especially western countries e.g. UK, I can then pick my parents over and enjoy life. What a nice dream.

P/S: To Malaysians working in the UK, I envy you!

After the flight, we made our first step on the land of United Kingdom entering the Manchester International Airport. And we were greeted with...a loooooooooooooooooooooong queue to proceed through the custom. Took us about 1 hour plus just to wait for our turn, to my surprise the officer just checked my offer letter and passport, nothing else. I was worried that they might check my laptop or phone.

We then met the university staff and brought to the coach after reclaiming our luggage. We waiting for more than 1 hour on the bus before it started moving. The bus is so packed and the seats are so small compared to the buses in Malaysia, when it is filled with people and the air con is not on, I can barely breath.

Basically the room is quite spacious, more than enough for a single room, feels like a master room back in Malaysian condo. Did some shopping in the first two days, of course mainly food and also some living essentials.

After a rush preparation and a not-so-wonderful flight journey, im now sitting in my own room in Sheffield, United Kingdom. Summer has never been so different in my life, afterall we never had any seasons other than summer in Malaysia.

Lets talk about the not-so-wonderful flight. It was separated into 2 parts. My journey started from KLIA to Abu Dhabi, then from Abu Dhabi to Manchester. People are excited boarding the plane, well, I was greeting by a cacat-ed monitor and I was thinking "How am I going to survive 7 hours flight without the monitor?", come on I need movies!! Somehow it became normal again after the flight took off, I watched some movies, namely I am Number Four, Rango, and I Love Hong Kong. Yes, I Love Hong Kong, I watched it before but the movie list is so boring that I had to watch it again, and the worst thing is I am still flying with the same airway on the next flight, so still same shit.

Flight meals, nothing much to expect. Thats exactly what you should be expecting. When you expect nothing, things will somehow turn out to be great, and my first flight meal was quite good. And when you start expecting more because of a good first meal, your nightmare comes after. Heard anything about Hardrock Cafe? I suppose they dont serve Hardrock breads, because the Hardrock breads are on the flights, they can easily kill someone if the bread hit their head from a distance.

After the first part, we basically sat down and wait for about 3 hours before we board our next flight to Manchester, it is so tiring and boring to wait for transit. The second part of the flight is kinda straight forward, I did not get any sleep during the first flight so I kinda slept.

The good thing was however, many people came to sent me off at KLIA, felt pretty good, ahem. Miss my dear, and hopefully she will be able to survive without me, hopefully she don't get any food poisoning from my mum's cooking.

The post was at June (Sorry I just discovered the blog), the good news is, It's December, and I'm still alive :D and the fact is, it's not possible for me to spent 10k alone, and I was in Kuantan at June. So it's not me (the bill combines), but I still spend alot mainly because of petrol though.

Due to some really interesting incidents now I'm down to RM50, its 3rd of December. R-O-F-L, what a financial crisis. I'm looking forward to upcoming weeks though, I'm interested to see how I can survive in KL with RM50 XD

I do realise I'm always overspending here. Year end sales is coming, I promise no shopping unless I got a go ahead and get your CNY clothes sign by my parents. Ok 50% spendings cut down from now on, and I don't want an iPhone anymore.

Being honest in my ptptn application really turns me down, I din't expect to get such a low loan, basically they only offer me enough instant noodles for the rest of my course. Sure I'd start packing up instant noodles now, I don't like instant noodles but it doesn't seem like I have other choice now.

Thank you Joanne (the other one, not my sister), Huimun, Phinn, Yee Chin for worrying/telling me about instant noodle, Thank you xx xxxx for your vegetables (hopefully not those in your country story/famville), Thank you YY for offering me your kidney, Thank you san san jie jie for being kind say want belanja me makan XD Thanks alot and love all of you!

CW just offered me a job in upcoming pc fair this weekend, too bad I'm really busy at the moment (2 tests, 2 presentations and 1 assignment submission next week, WTF?)

Looks like I'm gonna sum up year 2009 in poverty, no problem. I can bear with it, very big bear :D Not a good year for me, but it's already December, Christmas is coming, New year is coming too, having a really busy period now but who cares, I'm gonna beat those assignments in no time.

Friday, 27 November 2009

So it seems that the Paypal thingy won't work out after all, kinda having all kinds of shit over me lately, maybe I din't work hard enough to get what I want. People tends to see me relaxing all the time, it wasn't my intention to create an image of a lazy dude, but I really plan for myself, what to do on Monday, Tuesday, even what I want in the future. When I rest, I play hard, and when I really work, I can do my stuff real fast, and nice.

I dont take serious stuff easy, assignments for example, is really giving me alot of stress. One thing I found interesting is that I have no worries on upcoming presentations at all, I'm completely confident on those, even I've done nothing, right at the starting point, is this good or bad? Overconfidence? I don't know, but time will tell.

Speaking of my future, I see myself working over at Singapore, as a stepping stone for my carrier in Dubai. Yes I wanna work in Dubai, I guess every single young QS, especially males, will want a job there. Highest pay, latest technology, largest projects, there is no limit what we can learn there, and it's a dream that must be fulfilled for us in the construction industry, perhaps it's the most happening place for us.

Personally I've came across to alot of people, broken up or always single ones lately, alot of them are starting to feel lonely. Is this a phenomenom? Single life is still great but something is always missing, really really feeling empty sometimes I guess? Maybe problems of people around me affected me day by day driving me crazy.

Seems like it has been quite long ago since I wrote something this personal, everyone is acting strange lately, even the weather is strange. I've got emails saying that we can see snow in Malaysia? I hope it's real, but it turns out to be the biggest joke of the month. 4 hours of sleep last night, 4 hours of class, 4 hours of driving, must be those, everything is going out of order today.

A longer weekend this week, clear up my mind and finish up my assignments. And to all my dear friends, life is good, only if you know how to live it good, treat yourselves better, everyone deserves a good life, and life are meant to be enjoyed, that is what I've been telling myself at least. Cheers, good day for those who successfully read up this post up to this point.

P/S: Thanks to my lecturer that taught me success is not necessary dificult to achieve, and there's always a shortcut to it, if you know how, and if you do it right. Quoting Mr. Gopala, "People always say that success is a long way, nonsense"

Celebrated my birthday again with my TARC sei dongs at Look Out Point Ampang, as another fine day of our usual Tuesday routine! Met up with each other after our classes at 7pm then drive to Ampang.

As we arrived we climbed up on the stairs, it's pretty dark over there, some girls were afraid of lizards, LOL. Then as we got up we were busy choosing which restaurant to go, theres about 4-5 restaurants up there, non of them was packed with people, maybe because it's weekday. Since we couldn't determine by the crowd, some of them start making phone calls to ask around.

Then we walked to this restaurant called "Haven". As we were reading the menu, the waiter was promoting their restaurant non-stop, showing us their article on the papers and pro-claiming "No charges if it's not delicious." and so we went in.

Ordered grilled lamb, Below RM20, taste was above average, so we did paid XD and they took out the birthday cake, eh...not cake again, the birthday mutton pies they got from secret recipe. I think they want to eat only buy =_= the waiters even microwaved the pies before they took it out, so caring.

As it gets later many couples came to enjoy their dinner while having a great view of the city of Kuala Lumpur. Although it was raining a lil bit, but the scenery there is really a blast!