Brighton Day One

I have the blogging itch to tell you guys about my recent trip to the United Kingdom. Okay, it's not that recent but it happened a month ago. hahaha. But memories will never get old =)

My family and I, along with my grandparents, survived the 16-hour flight and arrived in the famous Heathrow Airport, London and quickly got into our taxi and headed down to our first destination, Brighton. Sorry ah no picture of the airport because pa booked the taxi beforehand so after collecting our luggage, we went into the car straight away.

I remember the moment while walking towards the carpark, I very sakai, amazed by that tiny part of London, that I almost got banged by a taxi at the crossing. LOL. But the driver pro lah so I didn't get killed on my first big trip to a place so grand.


Brighton is home to my aunt (小姑妈) and her husband, Uncle Dennis. Both of them are from Malaysia, but have been living there since, FOREVER! Pa also studied in Brighton for a few years so, that's why we are there for holiday =)

Arrived Brighton earlier than expected. I think all of us were tired and jetlagged. Oh, one more thing. IT WAS VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY COLD!!!! It's summer there but it was so cold. I think it was because of some wind blowing from somwhere so the weather had a sudden change. So being people from the tropical part of the globe we were practically, freezing.

But breakfast came to save us! My aunt (okay from here onwards I'm gonna call her Sai Kuma) prepared a very typical English breakfast? Which I think they have it every day but for us it's only once in 10 years. LOL

Table to feed 8 person. No worries. Lots more in the kitchen.

Didn't take a picture of my aunt's apartment!! Uhm, I think I did but it's in another album hahaha. Sorry lah you might say that I'm lazy and that I'm being a lousy blogger (which I might be) but I took around 2000 pictures with my own camera and there are around 4000 pictures all together. =/

Quick brief about the place. So Sai Kuma's apartment has only 3 rooms. One is their bedroom, and the other two rooms are occupied with their work desks and fishing equipment. We slept in sleeping bags (not for me, I slept on the sofa!) for the two nights and had to share a bathroom. You know how I like to jump around while I walk? I was not allowed to do that because I was afraid that the family downstairs might get a heart attack.HAHAHA. But I enjoyed the two nights we spent there cramped in that tiny space. It was totally fun and much warmer than living in a hotel =)


Now, where was I? >.<

They have mushrooms for breakfast =O RARE.

After that, took a drive to a nearby church. Took lots of pictures along the road. It may be facinating to me, but WILL BE boring for you. because I take pictures of almost everything

bread no dust meh when you reach home?

The church we first visited (I'm saying this because we really visited A LOT of churches) is named St. Bartholomew's. If I am not wrong, it's one of the oldest Catholic churches in the UK.

Nick and I inside the church. Note the organ behind it's like WHOOOAAA!

Everytime I step into the churches there kan, my jaw drops. Like, it really drops and I feel that my saliva is almost going to drop too. I'm in awe.


After visiting the church, we headed down to the heart of Brighton, where they're having their Fringe Festival. It is a festival held once a year in May where they have bazaars, dances, and all that fun stuff.

Grafitti along the road...

The famous British postbox and phone booth

So we walked around North Laine and the place where they sell loads of antique goods, and the alley where they sold farm products. Quit the quacking, I don't really know the exact names to the streets but I know what I saw there =P

My favourite shop in the whole entire world.

I know I sound like a kid but I really DECLARE it as my favourite shop in the whole entire world. I've been in there on day one, then went back there for 2 and a half more times. And it's still not enough!!! Okay, now I feel like going back into that shop again.

houses along the road. So pretty the flowers!

The Antique shop that we went in. Lots of cool stuff in there which I have never, ever ever, seen in my life. The most bizarre thing I've found is an antique 'Twister'.Now I wonder how you play that.

Temptation along the road =O
We just had breakfast but quickly we got hungry
maybe it's because of the cold weather and our fats are too thin to keep us warm

I HAVE NEVER, EVER EVER, SEEN THIS KIND OF SCRUM-DIDDLY-LUMPSCIOUS CAKE BEFORE!
and I regret not buying one to try T_____________T

One of the stalls in the farm market...

So after walking for hours and hours with our jetlagged bodies (not that I mind but seriously, it was exhausting) we wanted to settle for lunch. Unfortunately, most of the indoor cafes were occupied, we couldn't sit outside to have tea because of the cold weather, so were walking here and there to look for a place to fill up our tummies.

We went into a very cool bar and thought we can have something there but were soon chased out because Nick and I were under 18. Pfft. They didn't put the sign outside pun.

In the end, we went into a place where they're having an all-you-can-eat kind of promotion so we were well fed.

pa's. Didn't take mine because I was too hungry, and cold =O

Visited a candy shop after that and it was, another jawdropping moment.
After this trip I realized that I'm a person who is easily facinated with tiny things. LOL

So yeah, everyone was tired (except for my uncle and aunt) so we went back to their pad. Showered and took a short nap.

This is the view from the window of the living room at their place.
IKR. *jaw drops

We wanted to have Fish and Chips for dinner at the club house nearby but their kitchen was closed by then. Cannot blame them because we left the house around 9pm, FOR DINNER. hahaha. We (sai kuma, ma, pa and I) took a detour to another restaurant to tapau Fish and Chips while the others went back to the apartment to wait for food.

So here we are. The Fish & Chips takeaway.
YUMM!

They don't only sell Fish & Chips...

This picture does no justice to the Fish & Chips =(

It's really yummy lah. We ordered 3 Cod sets plus an additional piece of Haddock but the 8 of us could not finish 'em!!! The portion is THAT big. The next day we got up early(because of jet lag) and finished the leftovers while waiting for my aunt and uncle to wake up.

After the food, we hit the sleeping bags.

Except for Nick who was too tired and decided to sleep in his jeans.

Day 2 coming up in a lightyear.
Having trials in about, a month =/

128 more days

SO YEAH. Only 100+ days till SPM, till doomsday. I really hope I can get everything cramped in my head by then. =/

And after that we can all shout,


At least for a few months before enrolling into college. haa

The day we will never forget!

This has been, by far, the most interesting day of our (Marie and I) lives.

Today's the last day of ... uhm, the half-year. Tomorrow marks the start of the second half of 2011. Yeah. Everyone knows that. But what they don't know is that Marie can officially say that she's 17 and a half!! HAHAHAHA.

Unfortunately, Marie said that it is the worst day of her life. How absurd. I think it was fun today (: I tell you why she thinks that. It all began when we were putting our Addmaths project together. Marie had punched 6 holes ( I dunno why so many) on the pile of paper, and tied them together using the yarn that I brought. Her initial plan was to go to a stationery shop to bind the project but then she was lazy, I guess. So she did it herself. After tying them up, she realized that she had forgotten to put in the score sheet!!! So she took of the yarn and put the sheet in. THEN SHE HAD TO DO THE YARNING AGAIN!!! (Okay. I don't know what term to use besides 'yarning'). Okay, mission accomplished. NOT!!! After a few minutes, I heard a swear coming out from her mouth. Then she was like, ' I forgot to draw the graph. nggggggggggggaai'

I was already bursting into laughter.

Then she said, 'This is the worst day of my life!!'

And there goes the drawing of the graph, the un-yarning, putting in the graph, and slowly poking the yarn through the 6 holes that she punched.

Oh, it's not over yet.

While putting the project together she sort of spoilt her table's wrapping ( uhm FYI the both of us wrapped our tables only TODAY!). Then she was frustrated again.

And so the misfortunes continue. And I was teasing that she's 17, and a half. HAHAHAHAHA


Moving on to my next interesting point,
The class sort of miss Bio today. As in, they miss having the lesson, not that we skipped class. The whole class was talking about the chapter that we're studying, reproduction. HAHAHA. Audrey even told the whole class that one of our friend (cannot say name lah later tohsoi) was ovulating today. LOL. Then everyone laughed gao gao.

Oh yeah and another friend was sad because she couldn't drink coconut water because she's having her period. LOL.

NOW. During Math class I got bored so I started clicking my pen non-stop. I WAS BORED, and I do weird things. So I was clicking and clicking and suddenly a girl which we nicknamed her "badminton girlfriend" turned around and stared at me. And so I stopped. Then I started to laugh. I told Marie about it and we started to have this idea of me clicking the pen to make the teacher look at us. I couldn't stop laughing after "badminton girlfriend" looked at me so I waited until my laugh stopped, and then i started clicking my pen, VIGOROUSLY. And we were both tahan-ing our laughs.

Sadly the teacher didn't look my way, instead Mimi (girl sitting in front of me) turned back and gave me the stare. hahahaha. And then we started laughing.


So yeah. The few things that made my day, and a few things that ruined Marie's day. Had to say that this is a day that I'll never forget, though it's lame and stuff but i still enjoyed it. =D It totoally lightened up the miserable weeks we had before today!


Going to the school concert this Saturday. FYI I've never been to the school concert for the past 4 years. Since this is the last year, I might as well go. hehehe. And tomorrow we got tickets to watach the Chinese Singing Competition in school. Someone's having a comeback stage, and we could not wait.

Teacher only got noodles, no rice (inside joke =P)

Moooooot (:

So today raps up our tough days of preparing for the High School Moot Competition!! Hehe. Had loads of fun and learnt a lot, though I was only acting as a solicitor but I really had fun brainstorming =D



So a group photo of us all joining =)
Sorry crappy results.

Have a break, have a ___________

KitKat?


Probably everyone who pays attention to advertisements know this catch phrase. If having a KitKat means stopping time and actually enjoying your bar of chocolate, then I will have less worries.

There a around 10 packs of KitKat in the refridgerator right now. All I can do is take one bar, quickly shove it in my mouth, and continue on with what I have to do. Planet Earth knows what. Homework, revision, mooting, church stuff. If I efficiently divide the 24 hours I have in a day to do all the work needed to be done, there is no time for me to have a KitKat. ='(

I've realised that I have compained and complained about not having enough time. Well, is there? People in class managed, friends I know kept up, what about me?

Perhaps I don't really plan my day well, use the tiny split seconds to complete a task with satisfaction. Ugh. I don't know. We all have 24 hours but somehow I don't think it's enough. I'm only 17, only sitting for SPM. I'm only a teenager. And I'm already complaining and struggling. What am I going to turn into when I'm 27, busy with my career? If I have a career...

The mooting competition is this Saturday and yeah, I'm nervous. For my team, for my team mates, for me. For our submissions. Oh no.

Holidays

So this is a photo out of the 2000 I took. I know it's blur. Can't upload a nice one or else if I upload a lousy one the next time, you'll be disappointed. Am not going to post about my trip to the UK and to Belgium right this second. Sorry to say that I have no time. I need to catch up with my studies and focus focus focus.

But I promise, one day I'll post them up. It will take about 20 posts or so due to the large amount of pictures and tons of happy memories to share (:

Happy 25th Anniversary!

Yesterday, The Church of the Good Samaritan (my church, YOOOO!!!) celebrated its 25th anniversary! It was a blast and the dance performance was SU to the P.E.R.B!

Thanks to the English Youth and GS Kids and the teachers involved. Love you guys to the max and I can see God's name glorified =) Couldn't have done it without the support and tolerance that you guys have shown. I know that I'm very fussy when it comes to these kind of things but thank you for hanging in there with me. For those of you who hate me now, I'm sorry. But you can't deny that we rocked it on stage last night kan???


To God, be the glory.