Friday 19 December 2008

圣诞节

最近才发现自从在SPM的那篇中文作文,这三年以来都从来不动中文。加上离乡背井的来到了英国两年,读了一些朋友们的中文部落各,突然很怀念以前处在的中文背景和情怀。 以前的我一向来都不爱接触中文,觉得学来只是为了在文凭上添加多一科人家都认为很难考到的科目。 基本上不少同学们已放弃中文,我也之所以偏要把它考好,至少A2也能炫耀一下,就是这样而已。

来到了英国,认识了不少中国与香港的朋友,因为不止会说也会读会写中文和广东话(会念得出吧),发现这是我唯一身为马来西亚人最特出的一点,也因此引以为荣。其实大多数的马来西亚朋友,都是半条香蕉吧, 所以我说我在我的圈子里是中文最烂的,也没人相信,哈哈哈!!

圣诞节快到了,在这里的气氛是要比在马来西亚过农历新年(我快要习惯把它称为春节了)还要浓。前几天我跟我一个沙巴的朋友聊天,更加发现我原来是那么的不同。她告诉我她重视圣诞多过春节,每年圣诞倍思亲。可是我告她,记忆里我好像没有度过什么特别的圣诞节,最感气氛的还是在英国这里,还有一次在SPM后的派对吧。她感到惊讶的说了:WHat?? omg I cant believe that! so sad... 也许这也是对的,打起中文post,特别思念以往的我,我怎能忘记我的根呢?

说起圣诞节,明天我就会到法国滑雪和过圣诞节。可是我一点也没什么兴奋和期待。这是很多很多人梦寐以求的,童话般的,白色圣诞节!也知道不少人读了这篇部落各都想过来骂我白痴!可是我告诉你,行李我还没打算收拾,等下打完部落各我还要和朋友来几场痛痛快快的dota! 反正我就是没什么期待,不知道为什么没有感觉,只是朋友们都去滑雪,一向来讨厌孤单的我当然要参与啦。等我回来再告诉你我到底有没有爱上滑雪。

我的好兄弟,已每位尝到了爱情的滋味,可是我选择了这里,这所大学,这个科系,就有心理准备这里只是追求知识的好地方。这三年来,我不断努力,为了争取自己最好的将来,我也许忽略了身边的人。如今学业上,我也没有更大的渴求了,毕竟我觉得我的努力没有白费,我满足了。不过,总觉得缺少了幸福....是爱情吗,亲情吗?我从来没什么感受到幸福,别问我为什么,我不会说。对于爱情,朋友们都说随缘。真的随缘那么简单?我身边的例子就是真的,可是我越来越不相信缘份这个把戏。伦敦帝国学院是有名的工程学院,也是有名只有男生的大学。或许被以前的一斑朋友影响,变得大男人了,我不喜欢比我能干和聪明的女生。可是现实正是我所不喜欢的,怎么办?还是用随缘来安慰自己。

最后祝大家圣诞节快乐,新年快乐。不经不觉我又在这里度过了一年。2009年,“老”一岁咯,想不到我也怕老!不再是少年了,我不想长大。

Saturday 13 December 2008

Pre-Christmas

What are you doing for Christmas this year ?

Hmm... Christmas normally doesn't mean anything to me, as for us cny seems more important. I dont remember I ever celebrated xmas back in Malaysia, the very one was the party at Zk's house and the A level year, a group of friend did some countdown at pastry shop behind Blue Junction.

But... being here for more than a year, I start to forget how the celebration of cny is like and feel the spirit of Christmas. For these 2 years, I went to Christmas dinner for our BioEngineers!! This year dinner was a little bit more formal as it is in a hotel, (evening dress code).


the All black pic of the day .


Malaysian and borneo gang


Flat gang


Year 2 gang



This year both of my good friends studying abroad are going back home. Although I do miss home, I am not going home. After the summer, I realised that I start having more memories of home Malaysia....

Year 2008 is coming to an end, Merry Christmas!!
Enjoy your holidays back home!!

Saturday 6 December 2008

London's Frustration

After 3 months of great summer, welcome back to London! Now lets see what's happening in London for the 1st term of my London-Imperial life....

Woohoo, move in my new flat, and we got the whole flat for ourselves, we know each other and hope we have a wonderful year ahead... right?? ( not so true.... hmmm)


By the way lets look at my room 1st :




And a nice view outside my window...

NExt my beautiful lecture theatre that looks like a glass house!! And lectures are "interesting"!







But, we get tired sometimes, so we need some rest...


Then, we woke up to find the lecture slides the lecturer have gone to.

With blurr eyess..... sometimes... what?!!? Frank Condom Condon principle??
What is the lecturer talking about, even the imba 92% overall Singaporean can fall asleep..


Playing around with camera in the class is the best way to keep awake.
And of course after using millions of symbols and weird names, sometimes you run out of name to name your constants .......so its just too lame.





Besides, there are more cooking mastery than engineering mastery. Good food keeps you from home sick, despite the lousy London, food is just source of misery.. Imagine sandwiches and salads and pasta every lunch and dinner, cereal every morning. Even joanna aiwoon can slim down.

Thats what we do during weekends, challenge each other's cooking skills
Sweet and sour pork (咕噜肉) Belacan kangkung, some china dishes..


When its someone's birthday, we smash him into cakes, hang out till late night, and sleep the next day in lectures.


Chritsmas is coming!! How is your plan to the wonderful christmas?? Although I must say it doesn't mean much to me, I reluctantly post some pics of London to show the beauty of it......


Window of Selfridges! That day I went with my friends to shopping for the 20pound BioEngineering Christmas Dinner, evening dress code!
Guess how much is 1 cheapest and normal dress??
120 pounds only ma for just a semi transparent cloth that you cant wear without a inner layer.(girls should get what I mean)
Guess how many dresses my friend bought? two only ma! haha

entrance decorations...

Seems like what I am writing doesn't tell why I name my post title like this ?
Come on... London Sucks!!!
Luckily I got scholarship, if not I will cry and run back Malaysia. Its not easy to live outside in London, now I understand how much you need.

5 good friends decided to stay together for 2nd year, so they rented a flat. Suddenly 1 flat mate says not coming 1 week before I was going back to London. Aih nevermind we find 1 more, should be ok.
The 3rd day in London:
I woke up knock my friend's door open to find him not in. Hmm, ok la he might be out for "awhile". 1 day, not back yet, called him but didnt pick up. Hmm .. whats wrong with him.

The following week:
We posted 1 advertisement to find a flatmate to replace the 1 who told me he is not coming back. ok settled. Another hk friend come ask for a room, but ... due to I cant contact the suddenly missing ppl in my flat, I say sorry we have no rooms liao.

2 weeks later:
The missing friend is still missing....

3 weeks later:
Suddenly, some1 called me: I m in Bristol now, erm.... got forced my parents to study there...
Okay, now got 1 room empty again. 5 people left 3.... And how the hell are we suppose to find another people to stay in our flat now?

November:
This month each of us (the 3 people left) paid extra 260 pounds for the rental because of the empty room for 2 months... 260 pounds = RM1.5k just gone like that, for no reason.
Finally we manage to persuade 1 of our friend to stay in from December. First mishaps....

2nd incident:
I don't know why, but somehow the person who came 2 weeks earlier to the flat didnt check the flat before moving in. Aiwoon should know. I remind every1 of you, you should check that every mm cube of the flat should be check for conditions before you accept your flat from the landlord.

So when we move in I happy happy go kitchen, open the fridge, hmm looks like got 3 mutated fly flying out from the fridge, and a very dodgy cloth inside, nwm lo... clean clean clean !!

Then I open the laundry machine, because its the type the door is sideways open, I got a tonne of shit water just flood into my legs. I couldn't describe how smelly it is, because my friend from out side the flat was shouting.. "What the fuck is so smelly!?!?!" It took us some times (2 weeks to realise the origins of the holy water I got on my leg)
For 2 weeks, we can't use the washing machine because no matter how dirty your laundry is, it will never smell as bad as the washing machine!!! Now we realise that, the whole (yes the whole) piping system in our flat is stuck!! so all the shit water from the toilet and kitchen, overflowed into the washing machine!! And the worst time, after we wash our plates from the basin, our bathtub got overflooded with oily black water, Eh this is London!! Can you imagine that???

At last we got our fucking helpful landlord to fix our pipe.... dirtied our whole flat. And now 2 months later(yesterday) , some bad news again. Our washing machine was found with a layer of oil again!!!!!! OMG!!

3rd incident:
Since we moved in, our house got NO heater, and my window is leaking, imagine when outside is 0 degrees, calculate the heat and mass transport (conduction, convection etc) my room can be as cold as 15 C.... Fine, time to be strong, Cold is not a problem for me. (I wonder why the landlord still not fixing our fucking heater yet.)

ok la, fine la, we are super tolerant people... Since we know we are staying in London ma! So can't complain so much la right?
Oh ya (to joanna) that is only our unlucky times here, What for blame my beautiful and perfect London le?? right ??

Have anyone heard about staying in London, you have to pay tax! Yap, you place a tent in the forest and stay also you have to pay tax!!! But of course, we wont fucking pay the council tax la, because students are exempted. Well we got the letters from college to prove that the tenants in the flat are full time students and send to the stupid (the people in lembaga hasil negara are smarter than them) council tax people. Because previously I said 5 of us are staying in the flat, but unfortunately out of this 5 people, only 2 managed themselves to the 2nd year. :( So the council tax people send us a letter and say that because some of the tenants are not students, we have got to pay 75% of the tax !! You guess how much ?? 1000 over pounds. Kidding me meh ?? but luckily we found this photo in google image which was so useful !!

and we send this as an attachment in the email to the council tax of Chelsea. Problem settled!!

Next the British Gas people.
CB joke again. Totally speechless,..
WARNING :place some brace in your mouth before you read this. All your teeth might just drop out.

Yesterday again! happy happy come back for lunch and yay ! found out that afternoon lectures canceled! Nice friday. So checked our mail on the floor. We got a bill from British Gas.

Oh guess how much is the total electricity and gas bill for 2 months? Let tell you some figures. Our friend upstairs got a bill of 38 pounds a month, and some seniors said it should be 100-200 pounds for the whole year. Ours ??

NINE HUNDRED, 900,九百, sembilan ratus, Great Britain Pounds. woohoo!! so high now. For NO heater in our whole flat, we used the most energy. Sounds like I used all these energy to pump my gas tank and fly to the moon. YEAAAAAAAAAAsssssss!!!!! The bill estimated we used a total of near 10000 KiloWatts Hour of energy. Its equivalent to on 3 (2 horsepower) aircond for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for the entire 2 months. Sobz where is my heater? cold and shivering, still paying for the energy bill?? As if I on aircond to cool down my room now in winter!

you know why british people estimate your bill ?? because they are lazy and stupid... Come on even our people in malaysia come to your house to check your meter la dumb !!!!

Welcome to London!!

Friday 26 September 2008

Summer holidays .....

Yesterday chat with Ai Woon....

1st thing of course ask whether she likes uk or not
Reply : I dunno how i gonna stay there 3 years ...
Wah thought she wanna go uk so much & like it so much. Now give this reply ???

Then she told me good news that she finally got accepted into UCL hall gratz.. But later on my hk friend tell me he is not coming to London already. Ok straight away .... =.=''''' got empty room in my flat now !!! Anyone wants to stay in ??????

Well, I was suppose to post this long time ago in Malaysia before I come back to London again. Cant believe my summer ended so fast. Being quite emo during the summer, until I got the JPA scholarship which cheered me up and gave me way much relieve... never had felt so free in my life(although now I am bonded). Since I decided to leave smkb and went to A levels, I made too many changes in my life. Everyone knows what sort of noobie character I was back in form 5. I was too scared to do many things, never fail to obey the school rules, didnt fight for what I want, only know how to mug.... not socialisable...

As I had told my good friend ts, the biggest driving force of my life now is greed and inspirations. Getting inspired and have the courage to go for it!!

*1.5 months later*
Yesterday, ts called me and say that he would like to work for internship in summer next year. He would be glad if he come to London and stay with me during the summer. Then I asked him how long would it be... he said 2-3 months.... I was thinking of working in somewhere for internship during the summer, but I still miss Malaysia. So if I were to work in London for 2-3 months during my summer, it would kill me!! Miss mamaking sessions, food and people back home. Its weird, but the feeling of missing home is stronger, when I started to get bored studying here. I wish I could do so many things and reclaim much time that I wasted. London just sucks. It suck most during summer. Expensive, boring place!! I would never thought of London, and why must Imperial College be in London...?!.. sigh .... So sorry ts, cant accomodate you during summer le.


Ohh.. Lots more SMKB people came and are coming to uk! Proud to be the only cheap Kepong people here!! Jin Kuan (if you happened to know who, is my senior in kb) came to visit me. They who twin to Aberystwyth came to visit me in London. And guess what, we went to visit Greenwich! A place that I never thought of going, its a small area in London. If you do remember your form 2 geography, its where the time of the world 00 00 start. Garis meridian Greenwich, remember ??






Oh, being a more crazy engineer, lets show something fun and have some maths solving!

Prove that:
5 = 7

What??!! something ridiculous?? Its literally asking you to prove that five equals seven!! Think think think !! even a form 4 student can do it. Nothing stupid like using chinese characters or some shit. Simple pure maths.


Oh.. mmhmmm ...
Aha!!



*scribble scribbles*.....

write it down! get a paper and a pen!!

errr...

STupid!


.... wth



..bla bla bla...
lalala

give up la!!

Still scratching your head?? I shall give you the solutions...

5 = 7

5 = 6+1 ---> now bring the 6 to the left hand side

5 - 6 = 1


-1 = 1 ---> now square both sides!

(-1)^2 = (1)^2

And finally we get

1 = 1 !!!!!! proved (left hand side equals to right hand side)

Please dont feel stupid and forget your maths !!












Sunday 7 September 2008

Gay

I created this post just to further illustrate some other posts in the future.

This word has many meanings. But roughly, I only knew 3. Anyone wanna add?

1st.
Gay means happy!
Eg. During the 2 years studying in London, I felt so gay.

Its like the name of this laundry shop down the Fulham area, the area of my residence.
Go happy..! Man, can go there wash their clothes everyday. Cheer em up!!



2nd.

Often means greatness. Powerful, strong, extraordinary..etc

For example, a gay dota hero.

The hero is just so strong, nobody could fight against him/her.

Or...
A person is gay. Like the Singaporean in my class. She scored 100% for maths test and often near 100% for all the subjects.
She is damn gay...



3rd defination:


DO YOU NEED FURTHER EXPLANATIONS????

Monday 18 August 2008

Achievement

Woo.... near 2 months back in this place call Malaysia. A place where you will never see me upload any pics in posts although I loved to have lots of nice nice pics. Obviously because there is no broadband services available. I mean the real service... not fake streamyx.

I set lots of mission for my summer holidays. Well now I have to count :::

Congratz to myself, for never letting my fighting spirit down. Through hard and long battle, millions of dilemma and worries, I proved myself "nothing is impossible" . Thanks for my dad never giving up pushing and forcing me when i feel lost and hopeless. A little 1st class honour for my 1st year, didnt cheer me up at all. ... Not until I can ask myself. wow what to do with 950 pounds a month?? ^ ^ Now I throw my biggest burden of studying in UK away.!! yay surprise in this year, but still didnt get to celebrate it. Y ??

2ndly I worked for the 1st time in my life. Thats one of my must hit target for this summer and I did it. Working is piece of shit. If work is that simple, no wonder ppl keep complaining for low salary. If I ever get into job like this, I would bring a psp to work or even sleep there... till you give me sth to do !!! Working is a different experience and a worth taking 1... just not as great as studying overseas. hehe... Ok, my job involve solving problems for computers, hardwares, network in offices etc. And my master get paid 2000-3000 a month with fully fuel and car allowance. What a easy life. Morning come to work at 10, sit down and chill for 2 hours. Afternoon go to customer's place fix computer, collect cheque DO PO invoice etc... Then come back evening and call it a day. And yes you dont need a diploma even.. you just need to use a little bit of memory to remember how to fix computers. But i dont think many people will prefer life that way, me 1st to say no no ... I want a challenging and brain drain work. Work like tis is boring!!!!!!!! sien ahh!!!!!!!
Quote from 1 of my master: " Dont complain ! work like this not good meh? At least you get to sit in air conditioned office and not going out carry shit load of heavy stuff or serving people."


Next, I plan to get my music skill a little bit higher. Ori plan was to hardcore practice 4 hours a day. In the end 2 hour also duno got or not... shit .. Somemore say freshers party have to perform a short tremolo piece.. dun wan sia sui again. aih.

So everybit of leftover of holiday must enjoy to the fullest !!!

Wednesday 25 June 2008

1st year!!

Once upon a time I was thinking what would life be like in uk and how could I survive in that cold place far far away from home. Now, I officially completed my 1st year of uni in imperial college london. Wow that's fast... even faster than I thought it can be.

Studying in uk is the best experience I had in life. Before. I might have pictured myself in overseas or fear the harsh environment to study there, through medias, dramas movies, articles....etc. My experience proved me wrong. Studying here turned out beyond what I expected. Friendly people, beautiful country, lovely streets, freestyle life. I feel less worried, less fear, less anxiety in facing life. If i were to go for an interview, imagine 2 years ago after spm, I couldn't sleep for the night, nervous and scared. There are just too many things to learn here.

Surprisingly, I don't feel homesick. This is some kind of life I was dreaming to have. Days just pass by easily. Lectures, cooking, leisure time on swimming, jogging around the park, visiting London. And yea.. of course staying in uni halls is a great challenge, especially with a roommate.
This is not discouraging anybody to save money and get a share room in any uni. Just that there are infinite many various kinda attitudes and "traits" in this world that you can ever find out. So, you will meet these people when you share your room.

Of course, degree course is not that easy. Work hard doesnt mean you will get what you expected. We have to accept failures, and always try harder. I am glad that I never rely on tuition classes. Because they never ever feed you enough information in lectures here. Lets say they will teach you abc ... and they expect you to know how to write an essay. You will be like what the heck ??! I dont even know what is a word!! Yea... to all my fellow friends who are going to university, it will be like that, no spoon feeding, no notes, just work and thinking.

I think an extra credit studying overseas is learning how to take care of yourself. Especially cooking. Everybody start from a total noob from dont dare to touch raw chicken to pro. We tried everything here, from deep frying to baking, steaming to even making roti canai.

Few more hours I am going back to Malaysia, a all summer terrible hot place call home. Now I can understand why summer is so nice. Because its time to have fun and party!! Strip off thick jackets and walk out to the warm street. And yes, after exams means party like crazy !!

We had a bbq straight after our last paper. People just get drunk before the party start and lie on the grass, 1 even got send to hospital because of alcohol poisoning.
1 really dead guy lying on the grass with 1 pretending to be drunk.


And a must for exam after party: clubbing!





And then I went for a trip in Bournemouth for 3 days. Its a famous seaside in uk.2 hours away from london. The place is really wonderful, the scenary is just so fantasy like. But it gets kinda boring after a while... anyone like this place, you can try to apply for Bournemouth university hahaha.

The place look so sunny in summer, yeah, but its freaking cold, the wind is so strong and the temperature its about 15-18C. And the seawater, we tried to jump in to swim for 10 minutes, and ended up everybody shivering, its so cold, just like ice water. No wonder people still come to malaysia for sunny beaches.


The sea side is not like malaysia. Its a cliff around the coastal line with beaches at the bottom.


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