a boring tuesday

the crepes i made yesterday didnt turn out as desired. in fact dear said my mum's pancake recipe make tastier breakfast, and i agree. but look! it's quite a pretty sight isn't it? with honey atop layers of crepes with peanut butter oozing out! yummy!

didn't go out today, not like i'm in the mood anyways. i've been very homely these few days even i'm surprised. but i guess it's really the inadequacy of glasgow city that makes me a homelier person.

i'm leaving for paris tomorrow and i haven't packed. haven't printed out the online reservations we made, nor have we exchanged our pound sterlings to euro! but i've been very rajin and dedicated in revising my lonely planet.

what to do at the airport tomorrow leh? buy magazines again? don't want to, it's quite a waste of money. sigh

darn i feel bad throwing so much money into trip though i myself chose to go..sigh..dilemma dilemma...

ok gtg byebye

p/s: just learnt from yen that GG season 2 is out ler but i cant possibly wait for a week just for one episode!! so i'll probably start watching it in december hohoho...

monday

bought my first H&M top here. it's a red coloured collared blouse and also some accessories from Topshop. it's a pity that sales is over already, nothing much left on the shelves, displays are mainly new arrivals that i can't afford. not that i'm interested anyways.

bored at home, preparing for my paris trip by reading up lonely planet, highlighting the 'cheap eats' column, which are not cheap at all! think i really am going to end up eating a few McD meals in paris. cow dung.

waiting for dinnertime, should be ready in less than an hour. sigh my life is so pathetic, waiting to eat only. don't know what's up with the internet connection today, have to wait for my moonlight resonance to finish buffering instead of watching it whilst buffering!

no plans tomorrow. i hope hope hope yen wants to go shopping tomorrow after exam - i will definitely tag along.

oh i weighed myself at the airport in london the other day. 2 kg heavier. cow dung right. how to maintain my weight when all i can think of constantly is F-O-O-D??

a day of continuous walking and eating

which is not something ordinary of me when it's that time of the month..

hehe woke up this morning, made pancakes for breakfast, chose pictures to be developed and then off to rumours with dear and yh and ahyi for our lunch - tomyam!!! =)

delicious satays

dear's fish head noodles for 7.50pounds. very nice and salty enough for my liking! ohya and those on a tight budget can order a plate of egg fried rice at a reasonable 2 pounds coz the portion is quite big for one person and it's yummy!

after lunch dear and i took the bus to braehead where i had a MEGA disappointment!!=/ the place is only slightly better than the shopping centre in buchanan street even dear complained!

so after less than 2 hours there, we took the bus back to glasgow hope street only to find ourselves in yet another bus to silverburn in less than 20 minutes later! another disappointment! the shops were all closed (we were 15minutes late) so we decided to have our dinner there (when we really shouldn't!!!).

we had 3 finos (portugese for posh) to choose from: ratatouille, sweet potato mash or vege salad for the half chicken set priced at 8.50pounds.
coleslaw - 1.70 pounds i think

i lurve the peri peri sauce so much dear suggested we find the sauce in tesco so we could make our own peri peri instead of always dining out like this so expensive!

anyways i love silverburn much much more than braehead. seriously, no reason to go to braehead, i'd rather shop in buchanan and argyle.

p/s: thanks homie flora for the egg tarts all the way from manchester =)

safe journey, adam cham!

adam and his wife were flying to belfast on the evening dear and i reached glasgow, just in time for a farewell meal with them. where else to have korean food?

this is the soup with clams (no.11 on the menu). i personally preferred the kimchi soup during my first visit to this.
jap tang bab.
pork
at 5.60 pounds, each set lunch comes with rice, a bowl of miso soup and starters. for lunch only though.

heh and two weeks ago i made pan mee =))

ok, time for moonlight resonance byebye.

sorry flora i ate the last piece of krispy kreme already hahahhaha

London part 1,2,3

after a tiring journey of train-flight-bus-tube to london, we checked in to Queen Mary's university hostel (highly highly recommended), freshen up and scurried to Chinatown for late lunch.

that's him stealing my lotus roots!


beancurd with beef and rice. mediocre.

after lunch, we took the tube to the world famous Harrods and windowshopped.

i especially loved harrods food hall as it houses so many delicacies, all equally expensive and beautiful! now i understand lady Diana's love LOL

after spending 2 hours in harrods, we took the tube again to trafalgar square. nothing much besides the fountain and many many people.

not long after, it's time for meal time again - something i look forward to, during every moment of the trip.

came across 'JOM MAKAN', a malaysian restaurant somewhere near trafalgar sqaure with omfg price tags.

we dined in wong kei in chinatown for dinner and i totally ban this restaurant, am urging everyone to boycott this restaurant coz the food sucks, service sucks and they have the stinkiest toilet ever ever ever pfffffftt!!!!

this plate of seafood noodles looks rather appetizing, doesn't it? it wasn't 'not tasty', it was horrendous! i would rate it 0.5/10. as for the egg fried rice, i'll give that a negative.

after the horrifying dinner, we took the tube again to catch a night view of tower bridge.

dear @ london dungeon, one of the last shots of the night.

on the second day, i received a very happy news at 9.35am but had some stuffs to settle so i literally wasted the whole morning worrying but when everything was settled, i was a happy bird again!!

went straight to chinatown for lunch in a peking and canton restaurant for their lunch set at 5.5 pounds per person.

honey roasted BBQ pork.
my lor hon vege with tofu. it wasn't salty enough but it was just like how i wanted it.

next stop was madam tussaud's, the house of many waxed celebrities.

mum's idol, lady Diana - the epitome of poise and beauty.

too bad my picture with harry didn't turn out as nice.

i don't know why he did that -__-

and then we walked walked walked around and got lost.

for dinner, we went to chinatown again *happily* for a little celebration. four seasons serves the bestest roast duck ever it was even tastier and juicier than the duck shop my uncles recommended to me back in kl..it was really good!!!!

gosh i'm missing it so much already sobsob

after dinner, we snapped away around the houses of parliament and big ben until we ran out of battery.

third day, started our day early by checking out at around 8am after having breakfast in the room. here it is, a little peek into the room we stayed in for 2 nights. i'd rate it 9/10.


the clean toilet
the tidy and spacious room


the national history museum

the big bird with the baby birds.
dinosaur's frame for ah boy. haha it's real ler...:p

it's obvious what i was trying to pull here which i have obviously failed.

london eye

capsules hanging in the air

beautiful sight
pretty sight LOL

the headless man
very extremely stinky telephone booth which smelled of urine!!

for lunch, we went to four seasons again coz i repeat, they serve the tastiest and awesomest roast duck!

dear's malaysian style fried flat noodles.
my roast duck rice. yummy!!

after lunch, we walked around regent, bond and oxford street for 2 hours. i didn't buy anything besides KFC fried chicken to bring to the airport for dinner hehe. sigh why do i always think of food. @@

finally...

i could breathe a little.

i hope i could clear everything up by tomorrow.

i wish i could have chilled more.

i hope what she said was right, the she no.2 was really mad for another reason, for a misunderstanding that shouldn't have been there. i hope it was my fault, so that i could clear the mess because i'm more than willing to.

on a much brighter side, it's PP3 no more for me! i have a few people to thank for, whether they directly or indirectly helped me through my exemption from sitting for the degree exam next week.

first would be the housemate yh who made a few trips to dispensary even though she was exempted just to help me talk to ian millar as i was away when the results were announced and to have made several calls to me when i was in london, at the risk of her own exemption. tsktsk. i know i sound like a bad soul here..and of course shianyi who accompanied yh to help me. i'm grateful, really.

and to you who made me realise yeah i could be a little over-sensitive at times, and is still very concerned about other people's opinions towards me sigh why am i so like that..=/

to you(s) who made me feel a little better about myself, that i should rejoice instead of being bothered about matters which perhaps are not even an issue at all.

and to the one who made my exemption possible - dear.

thank you very much, from the bottom of my heart.

baba........baaaaaaaa........

3 houses, 5 bbq pits and loads of food..



our pit (yen, jamie, huibee, jac, me, dear and a traitor)
we were intitially this near to one another but the neighbouring smoke was too overwhelming we had to move elsewhere, nearer to the cooked food hehe.

salad with malt vinegar, extra virgin olive oil and mayo.

aldi wedges with cheese and mayo. cheap and easy =))

chicken nuggets
bad idea for a bbq coz these cheese had too high a melting temperature my pit gave up eating them.

very yummy chicken but i only managed to eat half of a wing..sobs

bacon was too salty to go alone.

3 types of sausages, much to yen's delight.

after the bbq, we quickly tidied up, leaving 3 patches of burnt grass and proceeded to steph's living area for liquor. the amount of liquor we had was obscene. really enjoyed myself and i guess everyone else did too, except that i was really tired towards the end so people mistook that i was drunk but no i wasn't, yen was!LOL

ok byebye chowsingchi time =)))

kokuryo

after yieng's pp3 exemption paper, we took a rest and headed to 1138 argyle street for korean dinner! all thanks to steph and bee's recommendation, i think i just had a dinner comparable to thai lemongrass!
i'm still very happy now. obviously anything beats having western food here but korean? never liked. but this one really damn nice marvellous delicious droolicious almighty!
freakin far to walk there so we had to take the cab. fuh argyle street stretches far!!

we did not make a reservation so had to wait for about 45 minutes so we walked to the tesco express nearby and omfg dear and i saw a guy stealing cans of beer and hid them beneath his jumper. i don't know why i felt very scared then so i pulled dear away but then i wanted to see him but didn't want to be seen -__-'' and then he walked out of the store safely.

sigh malaysians remain as malaysians wherever they are.


yihui's jap tang bab, 8.99pounds. look closely you might be able to spot the scallop.

my kimchi jji gae. a little spicy, went super well with my rice. 7.99 pounds.
dear's oh sam bul go ki. 8.99pounds
sam also ordered oh sam bul go ki

yieng's dol sot bi bim bab and flora's bul go ki were very nice too.

ok gtg study for video practice tomorrow already cannot afford to be laughed at again.

rumours @ bath street

it has been a helluva day today. sitting for pp3 exemption test was a thousand times more stressful than betting on a roulette in gala casino, and a lower chance of passing than to win a bet. i woke up palpitating, kept reminding myself to not be anxious over such a minor thing like this, couldn't eat, couldn't drink and went to the toilet twice for big business. i could feel as though there really were butterflies in my stomach, alive and actively flutterring their wings. coherent to the fast beating of my heart.
and then after 3 hours it was over. silly mistakes were made and uncertainties remained uncertainties up till now (all the better). i try to tell myself that that's it, i've tried my best and if i were to flunk, godamn flunk it!
and i keep telling myself this - in fact is still telling myself but i can't let go. it was a chance after all, and i have to let it go just like that?? why did i even bother to feel bothered over something i was bound to fail?
i still carry some hope with me, i guess until somebody brings up something new and i begin to realise that i've made some new mistakes, yet to be known to me. i hate myself for not performing as i should have. i don't want to rejoice over other people's misery, i want to be happy for myself instead. but why haven't i experienced such joy in such a very long time?

well, at the very least, ian miller had some energy to spare today.

now some happy stuffs to share.

we were craving for tomyam so i thought we should give rumours another chance (coz my second trip there with another bunch of them was much regretted) after yieng recommended me their tomyam hehe and gawd it was so nice can die..really so nice can die..can die...

tomyam chicken. for seafood tomyam, they added a mussel and a prawn into the soup. not bad, for 3.80pounds.
rice separately ordered, 1.50 pounds.

mintien's prawn mee. he fancied prawn mee aot and thought this bowl was worth it, although priced at 6.80pounds lar..i think quite nice also, can pass.

tak boleh pass.

why

why did make so many mistakes???

why??

my heart is still beating fast. i hate this feeling. the feeling of injustice.

damn.

not in the mood to talk to you. or anyone else.

a place not to dine

kama sutra

nice ambience, with soft indian music playing. buffet priced at 6.95pounds.

if you think wow ok ma good deal buffet ler can eat alot and the price quite reasonable......
and the place looks quite nice also...

place nice doesn't mean that the food there is nice too. coz their curry wasn't fragrant, the buffet spread was limited, the only meat there were chicken and lamb, the only vege there was cauliflower cooked with spices i never knew existed or they made it so different from what i have tasted in the past ( in a bad way).

their papadoms were not crispy so i asked them to bring me new ones from the kitchen. which they did quite efficiently so i give them a star for their service.

dear's starter.

for dessert, we chose ice cream and were informed that they don't do refill for desserts pffft redefine ''buffet'' will u?? so i said if i couldn't refill could they give me more ice cream?? which the girl did so yes, two stars awarded to kama sutra.

in conclusion, kama sutra is a place not to go unless if u wanna berbuffet berdiet.

6.95pounds......VERY EXPENSIVE OK?!!

tiger tiger after fmt1 in spite of the slow service, i was happy.

with a bunch of girls, made our way there separately because of poor organising haha duno on whose part but anyways we got a table.

surprisingly we did only some minor camwhoring this time (for 10 girls and a guy). sigh age is catching up, i don't deny it anymore.





hehe funny weird face.

duck spring rolls.

spicy chicken fajitas with curry powder. it tasted so much better the first time we had it. regretted recommending this to shianyi.

aberdeen angus burger, love the salad and the thin fries!!

cheesecake with raspberry sauce. sedap syiok giler.

ok lah byebye very happy sem 6 is almost finally over teehee adios FMT!!