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。
Friday, 19 December 2008
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
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. Evenjoanna 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 ourfucking 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 ourfucking 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 wontfucking 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!!
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 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
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
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
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
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
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!!
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