Back to Skul

Haih.. most ppl hate goin back to skul rite? me too of course.. T.T another long holiday ended wif nothing achieved.. thatz me! hehe..

University of Sheffield

So here I am. One of the best engineering universities in UK.. hehe. sud be proud of it. As I sud be arriving a week earlier, I was unable to attend any of day of those intro week.. including registration day, orientation day, n lotz of activities.. haih.. I dun care la.. so i was quite nervous coz i had no idea about when and where is my 1st class.. and b4 that I wanna thk my bro for helping me whole day to sort out my regristration problems, getting all the info i sud noe, and buying me my lunch! hehe.. nice bro I have, don't I?

My class got about 40 ppl.. most of them r western of course.. haha.. i was able to meet up wif a couple of Malaysian Chinese who were studying at UTM. They are the direct transfer student like me as well. I oso found 4 Malaysia gal! exicted? no.. y? coz they all malay.. T.T haha! for my second class is Electronic Circuit class.. haha.. that class got some chicks there from Biomedic! hehe.. other than Biomedic, our EE class oso had the class wif Aerospace students as well as 'System and Control' students, if im not wrong..

Registration

After that, which is 12 noon, my bro took me to walk around the campus while waiting for the registration to open at 1.30pm. Nice campus and the buildings are not near at all.. u need to cross a couple of main roads to reach another department.. wow.. we managed to finsihed our first half of registration just on time.. which is 2pm.. was oso the time my final class starts! shit.. The lab was like 1 and a half kilometer away from the registration building ler! I ran like hell lo.. T.T anyway, late oso.. 5 minutes late lo.. can't help

Choosing Course Rap

In the lab juz introduced all the stuff we 2nd year students need to noe lo.. all those bullshit things.. hehe.. n we chose our course rap oso.. woa. swt.. they all like well prepared for their fight to become the leader ler.. we had to choose 2 out of 4 volunteers; each of them got 2 minutes for presentation of 'y we sud choose you as our course rap'. First 1 was a local, brought lotz of biscuits and said that if we voted him then he would treat us the biscuits! haha, thatz bribery, isn't it? 2nd 1 who was an Indian I think, talked well in english, very confident, quite funny and juz got the sense of humour very much. Most of us liked him i think.. at least i did.. hehe, though i din vote for him eventually.. :p Third 1 got a lot of confidence as well and said out that he would step up for anything. He is a local either. Last 1 is a Chinese, from China.. quite weird when a ppl giggling after he said that he was a 'Chinese from China'. That guy propably tot that 'from China' was unnecessary, tot Chinese only come from China gua.. @@.. haha, this Chinese juz emphasized that a course rap sud be a person who is able to help his coursemates to deal wif their homeworks and tutorial, saying out that how high the marks he achieved last year.. @@ (actually his mark quite high ler.. haha.. though mine oso almost same as his la.. paise.. hehe :P) ... eventually, guess who are 2 course rap? haha.. both oso not western! hehe.. it was the Indian n the Chinese! haha.. they were so thankful after that.

Finally, hehe.. i would like to share wif u guys one of my favourite videos.. hehe... yup! itz Liverpool again!! haha! Xabi Alonso's 70-yard goal against Newcastle! It was the finest, greatest and the furthest goal ever scored in the English Premier League! Enjoy!

P/s: When I was walking around the campus wif my bro, he introduced me to his frenz wif the name 'Steven'! haha, I was joking wif him last time of using a Christian name onli.. nvm lo.. using Steven oso quite cool! hehe.. amiration of Steven Gerrard..

Sheffield

Liverpool vs Tottenham

Haha, today is my 2nd day at Sheffield and today's a big day for me n Liverpool! Me, bro n sis three ppl went to a pub to watch this particular match ler!! hehe.. I had my lunch there too. It was the famous Fish n Chips! hehe.. again, it was served wif lotz of chips n green peas.. haha, i did enjoy that very much, crispy n yummy.. hehe.. the more important is.. Liverpool won 3-0!! :p

Haha.. damn chun! It was the first time I could watch a live match in day time ler! summore celebrate wif lotz of Liverpool fans over there! hehe.. damn happy back there. At half time my sis left edi... After Dirk Kuyt had scored the second goal for Liverpool, we went out to buy our stuff edi.. T.T i was damn sad afterwards coz later i found out that Liverpool scored another fantastic goal! haih.. (riise's thunderbolt!! goal of the week ler..)


This is that Riise's goal!! hehe.. wat a cracker!! :p.. too bad i missed it.. T.T

Shopping

We went into a few shops: Tai Sun, where you can get ur chinese stuff and food, Argos(where u can get all kinds of furniture wif cheap prices) to get my mattress. We also bought a whole chicken too for our dinner... New experience..

Haha.. after that, we met up wif sis at Tesco there and my bro left me wif her. He was quite bz wor he said.. Hehe.. then we went to Starbucks Coffee there to get ourselves a drink. U noe wat? at first i was quite shock to c the price list. 1-3 pounds onli for all those beverage! haha.. i noe la.. u wanna say if convert to RM still the same rite? haih.. u noe?.. i went to starbucks quite a lot of times b4 i go UK ler.. so i was used to c the price list like 10++ lo... summore the price list there no stated pound oso.. :p

There were many options for the hot choc over there. Got caramel, hazel nut.. haha.. Malaysia's one juz got one kind of hot choc rite if im not wrong? hehe.. my sis got me the normal 1 though.. then we just shopped around buying some clothes for me lo... hehe. we oso bought some stationeries at a quite famous stationery shop in UK called "WH Smith".. My sis got the some nice winter clothing which cost us just 4 to 6 pounds onli.. ^^ that nice shop is call "Primark".. :p

Dinner

We had our dinner at home wif my sis cook chicken rice for us.. nice meal!! even better than Malaysia's one! hehe.. then i was just enjoy the TV programme, including X Factor (UK show like American Idol), who wants to b a millionaire(got 1 ppl became a millionaire that nite!) and EPL highlights! damn a lot of nice programs ler.. hehe.. itz like got hundreds of channels available but we onli got like 100 over lo.. enuf edi lo.. hehe.. wat a nice day! :p

The New Land

Road to Sheffield

Haha.. nice train ler.. if compare to Malaysia's 1.. hehe.. Malaysia's 1 canot eat inside 1; UK 1 they prepare eating tables in front of each seats!! haha.. big difference ler.. (LRT ppl lazy? hehe) another difference is: the train waits at each station quite long 1.. for the final station.. is like half an hour there.. like ktm lo... and u muz press the door button urself to open the door.. hehe.. and u noe? they dun have the ticket check-in machine 1.. u can straight away go in the train without ticket oso.. haha.. but most of the time got ppl check la.. can buy on the spot oso if u had no time to buy the ticket. chun? haha.. wanna try to sneak in and have a free ride? i tot of that too! hehe..

Great view!

I had my lunch on that train lo.. 3 sumthin back there.. that was sumthing like beef pie.. shit.. that was cold ler.. u noe 'char xiu bao'? tasted like it but cold 1 ler.. can imagine? haih.. then after a couple of bite i decided to take home to toast it 1st.. and my drinks is.. Diet Coke With Lemon!! haha, 1st time drink diet coke ler.. summore is with Lemon! eh, i tell u, not sweet at all.. :S WOw.. the view outside the train was owesome!! big pieces of green grass wif sheeps and cows having their meals, with low brick walls around it, it is just the views that u can onli see inside the movies. Great views!

Soon after we've reached Sheffield, me n sis took a cab to go home as it was raining ler.. big luggage wif me summore.. haih.. about 6 pound ler.. T.T 6X7=RM42!! hehe.. i noe canot convert like that la.. summore rain n traffic jam ler..


91A, Gell Street, Sheffield

This is my new home. Though it is quite small, now i m inside this living room typing ler.. this is the place where i sleep either. haha, my sis and bro living here ma.. got 2 rooms onli.. waiting for my dad to find a hse over here lo.. suffer a bit nvm.. seriously i was damn tired, but i was equally exicted too! hehe.. canot sleep ler.. about half an hour i reached my hse, bro came back edi. For our dinner, we went to a lovely restaurant and had a nice meal there.

Meal

All the steaks there is like buy 1 get 1 free.. hehe.. and even u r a big eater, i think itz enuf for u juz order one set of it.. so itz better for u to go there in even number of ppl. U noe? in UK, chips = french fries, and they gave damn a lot 1. Chips and green pea are like nothing for them 1.. they serve damn a lot for each meal ler.. T.T so u din manage to finish them oso nvm 1.. that wat i did.. hehe..

In here the potato chips r called 'crisps'. Haha, here got 1 brand of crisps quite famous 1, "Walker".. UK Crisps got damn a lot of flavours 1.. paise, i oso forgot edi.. @@ I had a try, no difference at all la... same old taste.. hehe.. Pringles over here oso quite popular.

We ate until about 8 like that then we went home edi lo.. I just straight away went to bed edi after bathing.. damn tired edi lo.. no sleep for 2days edi ler.. pity pity.. nitez.. zzZZ

Fly to the new land

Hehe.. wanna leave Malaysia edi ler... That was kind of weird that I got no sad feelings leaving all my frenz over there at Malaysia (Haha, sry ya), instead, I had been quite excited all the while.

KLIA Airport

When I reached the KLIA at 10.30, it was quite late edi coz i supposed to arrive half an hour earlier as ALL my colleagues did. T.T shit. I was lining up at the back of a long line and trying to contact them. Then.. haha.. i was damn lucky ler.. my frenz were checking in at the counter edi and i juz cut in and line up juz behind them.. ^^

A bit of mess when i was checking in at the counter coz i took my jacket out from my big big luggage which was packed properly, making part of my pyjamas could be seen outside the big bag! T.T because of the mess, i forgot to inform the the ppl at the counter that i wan a window seat.. haih. sad sad.. but anyway, i wasn't that sad after all coz all the while in the plane it was night!! haha, dark dark wanna c wat wor? hehe.

Actually all my classmates were there except Sharif only who was busy 'shopping'. Everthing inside the airport just happened like straight after each other: taking pictures wif my buddies, chatting wif my dad and mom, then went into the departure hall edi.. damn. no time to chill at McDonald oso.. blame myself lo.. T.T late comer... haha.. actually that was the first time ever I travelled by plane without my parents lo.. though got a bunch of frenz wif me la.. hehe.. geng ler.. :p (Eh guys, give me ler those photos ler! >.<)

I'm gonna miss u guys ler.. T.T

Flight to Dubai

Ok, inside the plane now.. 12.30am.. hehe, that Emirates plane dunno is Boeing 777-300 or wat so ever la, quite a nice plane wif great service. haha, u noe? the last time i ever travelled by plane is back to the time when i was standard 6 ler.. (hehe, class trip to Kuching!!) So, i was quite stunned by the facilities inside there ler.. got a TV juz in front of u, wif all the things u ever nid inside: hundreds of movies, radio stations, CDs(but depend on the destination la.. if u go to Dubai then all the CDs r arabic 1.. shit!.. so, if u go to UK then u can get all the UK songs, even 40 years ago 1 oso got!!) and even got the pilot view! haha.. quite yeng. I sat wif a middle age indian lady who had been quite all the while. Sien Sienz. Aiya, too bad la because most of the time on the plane the 'fasten ur seat belt' sign was on! haih.. the stupid wat 'tropical weather' la.. shaky flight.. haih.. so all the while to Dubai I was just playing wif the TV lo.. watched 'Big Mamma House 2', playing mini golf, searching for some 'cool' music.. (haih.. i said earlier rite? all arabic 1.. T.T..) initially i wanted to find my buddies on the other side of the plane.. (haih.. dunno y the emirates ppl arrange my seat so far away from my fellow frenz.. they all were sitting next to each others except me!) T.T lonely trip.. anyway, at least got that super 'chun' TV teman me.. ^^

Dubai Airport

After about 7 hours, finally we reached Dubai.. it was almost 4am in Dubai's time. I can tell u that I was awake all the while on the plane ler.. so I was very tired back there. As soon as we checked out, 4 of us just went straight to the toilet, including me.. haha, i saw a lot of ppl brushing their teeth inside! haih.. too bad i left my toothbrush inside my big luggage.. then we walked around the airport, looking around, searching for some cheap stuff in those 'duty free' shops.. u noe wat? the dubai currency is almost the same as ringgit ler.. dunno ler.. 1 Dhs = RM1. T.T shit.. most of the shops here juz accept Dhs and US dollar onli lo.. haih.. trust me, u dun wanna shop there seriously if u wanna buy something other than cigarattes and alcohol, and dun u forget to bring US dollar too if u wanna shop here!

Dubai Airport.. Cool..

After a while we ended up in a foodcourt. haha, here got McDonald oso wif the McChicken meal would cost u 16 Dhs! (Thatz RM16 !!) wth! summore they dun accept UK pound! zzz.. how about credit card? thatz a stupid question, isn't it? so we juz sit inside chatting without ordering any food. haha, so there was a guy in another stall kept staring at us ler. Hehe.. paise.. in the end, Kok Leong who had US Dollar wif him decided to buy 1 bottle of "Natural Mineral Water" from that guy. Wow, u juz can't imagine how that "mineral water" tasted like!! It was like Sprite when it first went in my mouth then it had no taste at all.. weird rite? all of us tasted it and wouldn't want to have another drop of it... haha! Guess the price of that 400ml "mineral water"? haha, itz 2.5 US Dollar!! anyway, we din finish that small bottle ler..even wif 7 ppl! haih.. kind of waste. U can imagine how bad is the taste of that water now, can't u?

After that, we went to Gate 17 where it was just beside Gate 15(my departure gate). Wondering why we were chilling there? haha, coz there was a plug there which Yung Jia could charge his digital camera lo. haha.. thatz was not allowed though. so we put our trolleys around that switch, covered it well then we just sit down and chilled over there.. hehe.

After about half an hour, which is 6.30am, my gate wes opened for checking in edi.. T.T only me goin to Manchester ler.. others goin Birmingham wif their flight 15 minutes later than me.. so i was ALONE again... haih.. though I went there after just 5 minutes they had opened the gate, it was a damn long queue ler! haih.. y got so many ppl goin to Manchester 1? Most of the ppl in the queue are western and I was just standing just right behind of a Chinese. He was a father, bringing along his 3-year-old son to visit his wife who is currently studying at UK. T.T U noe wat? He told me he couldn't speak English at all! He said he hardly find a Chinese or ppl who can speak Mandarin and luckily he met me. haih.. must help him to translate everything lo.. gud ppl ma me.. Hehe.. >.<

Flight to Manchester

At about 8.00am, the plane took off. The plane model was exactly the same as the previous 1.. dunno wat 777-300.. haih.. no care la.. same facilities, but this time wif an old London-born western. Haha... I was damn tired edi la.. no sleeping for more than 1 day edi lo.. so as soon as the plane took off, I slept. hehe.. when i woke up and thought that I had slept like at least a couple of hours edi, in fact it was just half an hour!! zzz.. anyway, I had a good chat wif the old man beside me. Haha, quite ironic to hear that he is trying move away from UK to Thailand ler coz i m doing it the other way round. @@ Haha.. this time, I finally got all the albums from UK! The TV provided the top UK songs from 1962 onwards ler dudes, with all the recent albums in UK either... like got 100 over albums given back there.. cool huh? but all onli UK 1 la.. got Keane, James Blunt, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, etc. haha.. anyway, I heard the Coldplay a lot until i went asleep.. (haha.. no disrespect to those songs, itz nice but im too tired ma..) I managed to finish a movie too! haha.. "Monster Inc."... @@ swt..

That old fella beside me taught me how to eat those western food.. nice person.. haha, he likes to play sudoku a lot.. he even brought like 5 to 6 pencils wif him.. u noe la.. no sharpeners allowed.. he all the while was onli playing wif 1 particular sudoku.. which was quite hard.. haha.. he din manage to solve it even the plane arrived at Manchester.. hehe.. hope he have got it solved by now!

Manchester Airport

Now I am here! United Kingdom!! hehe.. here I come, Liverpool!! :p the plane arrived on time, which was 12.30pm UK time. now itz like 2 days without a gud nite sleep edi.. super tired ler.. so i was not that excited.. T.T I met that Chinese again and I helped him out wif all those English forms lo.. haha.. his son born in London 1. cool. he was very thankful for my help but.... u noe wat? bcoz of helping him filling up the forms, i was at the very back of a long queue! haha.. it was quite a smooth check out though.. juz asking me a few simple questions and went to check the 'TB' then OK edi.. haha. bcoz of all those stuff, I came out of the arrival hall at 2pm!

Hehe.. I tot like nothing but in fact, my sis had been waiting in the airport for 2 hours edi!! haha.. sry ar again! She was rushing her presentation and needed to pass it up on9 b4 5pm and she haven finished it yet! she even brought along her laptop to rush it. And summore, the train to Sheffield took off at 2pm sharp! haih.. i was running wif my big luggage like hell but still couldn't make it.. sad.. then juz had to wait for the 3pm train lo.. ^^ u noe wat? my sis forgive me. y? haha.. coz the train station there got wireless connection there! so she juz finished the presentation there while waiting for the train and send it out lo... hehe.. lucky! haha.. this is so call 'Hao Xin You Hao Bao'! hehe.. (if u've done sumthin gud u will get somethin back eventually)








The Manchester Airport Station where we missed the train

We orderd some food other there. oh.. haha, here the Coke got lotz of choices ler! Coke Zero, Diet Coke wif lemon... aiya.. forgot edi.. :p anyway, we leave the Manchester station at 3, then arrived at Sheffield about an hour later.........