Catching up

Seems like time doesn't fly any more. It zooms by at lightning speed. One moment I was anticipating somewhere and in the blink of an eye, it's over and I have to wait for my next anticipation to come.

February was a great month for me. My good friend dropped by for a month and we went places, ate lots of food and finally watched a real football game. Who would have guessed that England has better dim sum than Penang.

March descended upon me without me having any preparations for it. Reality reappeared in my life and I have literally tonnes of work to get off my back. It's so hard to get back into momentum to work my ass off... and that reminds me that I need to shed off those extra pounds that I put on while on holiday. Easier said than done though. ('¬')

Glimpses of 2011

Another has come and gone... and because I was inspired by a video I watched on youtube called move where the guy took 1 second footage around the places he backpacked around the globe, I'm gonna do it with a lil twist to my yearly looking back post with a picture for each month that went by in my 2011

I kick started the year with my dear family all around the world.. Call them quirky, weird..young and old, I still love them non the less.

The highlight February... 10 years of friendship with my dear Kiddies.. I hope that our friendship will continue for many more 10 years...

It might a lil too late for some people, but love found me at age 23. We're never too old for anything if you ask me.

I finally turned 23! Time flies. I feel like I haven't grown since I turned 21

Saying goodbye to my coursemates of 3 years and bye bye to undergraduate life

Sekinchan with a not so familiar yet familiar gang of fun people

Taking the lead as Head Girl, she took the big leap forward in life in July 2011

August took me to 2 polar opposite countries. My almost yearly pilgrimage to Singapore except this time with an addition ;)

A weird but fun combination of family travel to Hatyai in August

Hello UK! Continuing life as a student once more

My dearest family in UK made my arrival even sweeter.. I just love my cute niece so much!

Experiencing the true Halloween spirit for the first time on 31 October 2011

Seems like I've always been in weird combinations.. This time 4 guys and a girl as a laboratory group.

Finally, a great ending to a roller coaster 2011...Christmas in London. A real western affair.

2011 was an interesting year. Things happened. Things that I wouldn't have imagined happened. But altogether, it was great and I will definitely miss it. Come to think of it, I happen to go somewhere every year. And crossing my fingers, I hope this tradition will continue on for many more years.

New Year's Resolution: Be happy in spite of what people might think about me and just be me. I realise as I grow older, I strongly feel that nothing is more important than being content. So simple, yet so difficult to attain sometimes.

P.S. Looking back at the resolutions I made last year... I achieved all of them! Woohooooo! *pats myself on the back*

Random Part 2..

Realised my writing has been sporadic and with not much content.

Today I'm gonna write about bring away from home (Although I've been away from home for 3 years, but nobody bothered).

When I came, I was excited..felt that it's great to be in the UK. I like the place, the people, the school and even the gloomy but always cool weather.

And then, I met my flatmates, which turned out to be really nice people. Friendly and

responsible..Small chit chats to pass time and occasional flatmate dinners for get together and socialising among ourselves. It's a wonder how a house of American, Chinese and Malaysia can get along so well.

Going to classes are sometimes a bore, but interesting at the same time. They give a different feel to what I experienced back in UMS. Students are more interactive (except me) but still as last minute as ever. Guess students are all the same all over the world.

Partying? No..I've not been to any parties...Strange but true. Someone told me: But you are in the country with the highest density of pubs! Maybe I have not found a clique that will do those things with me.

Inside, I feel a little tad cut off from the world. I don't have much friends which can be a little lonely at times but I don't look at it as a bad thing. I enjoy being alone.. or rather I've gotten used to being alone.. just like how I went through my undergraduate life. Apart from that, life's been treating me good here I guess.

Tonight, we had another flatmate dinner, a Thanksgiving dinner and it made me reflect on what I have and I felt thankful for them.

Picture of the church opposite of my house on a rainy autumn day...

Random..

Since I have not blogged for some time, I think it's time for an update.

Life in Sheffield so far has been plain..like plain Jane plain. I go to class, cook, do some work and sleep and the whole cycle restarts the next day... True, I in the highest pub density country in Europe and yada yada but I haven't got the right friends to spend some fun time with. Everyone's always locked behind their room doors or either not a social butterfly. I am not a social butterfly too but sometimes, I need to have fun too. This is the only downside to my university life here.

In my 6th week now, and I am liking my life here although there are things that I do miss back home. Realised that no man is an island. Even more when I went to visit my aunt over the weekend. The town was small with nothing fun but I totally enjoyed my 24hour stay there because of the company. Miss the foods at home as I have to make dinner for myself here and sometimes just doesn't taste right just not as delicious as what I get at home.

Weather's turning cold here. Gets colder by the day but I'm liking it. I can walk and walk and walk but need not sweat and pant. And I enjoy the autumn breeze and colors of the trees. Overall, I'm taking a liking to UK :) *hoping to befriend some fun people soon*

A new beginning....

Finally the long wait and uncertainty is over. I am once again back on the studying path, but this time in a totally different setting. I'm currently writing this from my flat in Sheffield on my 3rd day here. Sometimes I wonder why I subject myself to studying all over again (I can't get a job; hence studying is better than being unemployed)

So far, adapting to life here has been good. There's not much adaptation needed; I speak as much mandarin as I did in my previous university...just as the Chinese said: China Chinese are everywhere.

The weather and the people are nice. The only thing that I still have not let go is always converting the amount of money I spend back to RM. But hey, this is only natural as I am paying everything at 5x more expensive than the price tag. In actual fact, if you don't convert the money, things are considerately cheap here. Maybe I should get a part-time job to sustain myself.

Just because I enjoyed it

Last night, I went to a David Archuleta concert. So, I decided to blog about it because I enjoyed it so much and he gave an awesome show.

For the first time at a concert, I wasn't busy clicking away on the camera. I was just relaxing and enjoying the show. The experience gave me a totally different feel to enjoying a concert. Maybe in the future, I will not bring a camera to a concert to fully enjoy the show.

Anyways, back to David...He really indeed is an American Idol. All he did was sing..His voice was powerful, not once did his vocals failed the crowd. And the more the crowd reacted to him, the more powerful he became on stage. He improvised as he went along, running up and down the notes and interacting with the concert goers. Everyone was so excited and all jumpy.

I may not know the words to every single song, but David really got me starstruck by his vocal. No costume changes, no back-up dancers...just pure 1.5 hours of good singing. Leaving the concert, I have a totally different perspective of David Archuleta now.

His fans were great...They go from as young as 5 year olds to 50 year olds....and surpisingly (maybe not), adults were partying harder than their younger peers. However, speaking of aggressiveness, the younger crowd wins hands down. There's this instance, when the concert ended, the band (apparently the band is very popular with the fans as well) interacted with the crowd while packing up their gears, they were throwing their drumsticks and score sheets to the remaining fans and all these young girls were fighting with their life to get those souvenirs...And their screams...totally deafening I tell you (think I'm getting old to get into fangirl mode).

If you ask me: will u attend another David Archuleta concert in the future..My answer's a definite Yes!

This and That

I just realized that my previous posts were words. So today I've decided to put up pictures instead of more ramblings.

I took this in Sekinchan ( more like grabbed from facebook). This was my first time in a paddy field. I love how the picture turned out. The color of the sky and the green paddy fields.

This was on top of some KL hill in Ampang. The place has quite an awesome night view of KL city.

Finally, the long awaited wedding. The wedding was wonderful to say the least. Good food, good music and best of all good company.