What I did during Christmas..

First of all, I wanna wish u all Merry Christmas! haha, i noe veli late edi la.. went for a 10-day journey around UK for Christmas la.. no time for blogging.. T.T from 18th to 23rd I went to Birmingham, 24th till 26th I stayed at my sis' bf hometown, Worthing(South Coast). For the last 2 day, I went to London for shopping of course! ^^

When Christmas coming..

Before I went for Birmingham, which is 16th, I bought a cooking book for my sis as Christmas present ler! quite expensive.. T.T The streets n everywhere were decorated nicely to welcome Christmas!

Birmingham

At Birmingham there ler I din do much things la.. just playing poker n dota all day long lo.. :p celebrated Han Yang's Birthday on 22nd oso.. I gave him a bottle of beer (Magners) as his present.. n he bought us Carling!

I managed to take some pictures of the University of Birmingham. Took pictures of the historical building n the famous clock tower! The streets at Birmingham were oso well decorated.

The University of Birmingham.. Nice & big campus!

The street to Bullring.. crowded n nice view

I was on a double decker. Foggy Christmas... ^^

I was late for the train to London on 23rd morning! I was overslept that morning coz playing until too crazy edi the nite b4.. T.T sud have known that... sudn't buy a 8.30am punya train ticket.. then I had to waste another ₤23 for an instant ticket. T.T wasn't my lucky day...

Worthing

This was the place I spent all my Christmas at. I had a great time there as it was my 1st time experiencing a traditional English Christmas! Worthing is at the very south of UK. Country side, just walk about 10 minutes u could c the beach edi! It is my sis's bf hometown.. All his family member treated me so good. Though a bit bored, coz I m the onli new person among them, nothing much to chat.. T.T but I got a few presents during Christmas day from them oso! haha.. they got a puppy oso, veli cute la.. haha, now I want to have 1. ^^

A traditional Christmas tree wif lotz of presents below

The fireplace where the father of Christmas come out from.. I slept just beside it.

The puppy, 'Phoebe'!

I tot the big dinner was at the Christmas eve, but instead on Christmas that day. We had our big Christmas dinner at 2pm, which was very early to call 'dinner'. About twelve people were there for the party, n every1 gave n received presents. Every1 there seemed so happy n excited when they unwrapped the presents n got what they wanted.. nice to c that... wat a nice culture.. ^^ Definitely the best Christmas I ever had!

Itz Christmas! Every1 in the house was busy preparing the dinner, drinking n chatting

The Christmas puddings my sis's bf, Rob made. Looked very nice n delicious

After staying there for 3 days, I left for london on 27th... Appreciate very much the presents they gave me n the service had been great! Made me looking forward to the next Christmas.. ^^
pic: Nice view from the train to London..

London

I was there onli for 2 days.. T.T din manage to go places i sud have gone such as wax museum & china town.. too bad.. have to postponed it until easter break lo.. anyway, I did manage to shop around London during Christmas, though i din buy much.. wat a shame..

I used underground tube to travel around London. It was just 4.90pound to travel all the places wif train & bus for the whole day. For the 2 days in London, I onli managed to go to 3 places: Oxford Street, Harrods & Arsenal's Emirates Stadium.

Underground Tube at London..

For the shopping at Oxford Streets, one of the most popular shooping area for Christmas, Ah Keok brought me to some shops to look around.. din buy anything coz i was very tired edi juz arrived at London..

Busy busy Oxford Street

For the 2 days at London, I stayed at Qi Ting's accommodation.. He is a Imperial College student lo.. rich fella.. haha! I was wondering y there were lotz of museums around Imperial.. even the old palace was nearby.. some the buildings of Imperial were veli old edi ler.. onli the few main buildings were new.. @@ Qi ting was the 1 brought me to the famous Harrods n treated me the popular donut around, KrispyKreme Doughnut. ^^ thks man! i will definitely come down to London again soon.

inside the main building of Imperial, one of the few cool buildings of the college! :p

Do u believe it? one of the accommodations of Imperial College.. @@

One of the few museums around Imperial..

the old palace for the Queen of England.. Now become museum edi..

Shopping seriously veli tiring ler.. din even buy a thing oso in Harrods.. coz everything there was so expensive! all the things jus 40% discount wif 100+ as their original prices.. coz onli branded things were sold there.. T.T not suited for poor ppl like me.. I did find 75%, but wif 800pound b4 discount... shit... nvm lo, juz look around n experience the atmosphere in the most popular shopping mall in London, Harrods, n u wouldn't believe wat i saw inside there.. a 500k pound watch! @@ I went back quite rush even b4 having roast duck dinner wif keok.. haih.. next time la dude! ^^

Harrods, the most famous shopping mall in London

Emirates Stadium, the new home of Arsenal

The official store of Arsenal.. 'THE ARMOURY'

Sheffield vs Aston Villa

It was my 1st time watching a live match in a football stadium. Even though Sheffield Utd was just a small club in the Premiership, lying down at the bottom of the table struggling, the match between Villa was very excited and I could feel the great atmosphere over there in the stadium.

Tell you 1 thing, the match only just cost me ₤5!(A normal Premiership ticket will cost you like 35pound!) haha, it was special promotion for student for that particular match onli.. couldn't ask for more edi la.. T.T i would prefer liverpool...

The players were warming up... No pics during the match.. I wanted to concentrate ma..

It was like whenever there was a chance for a goal, everyone in the stadium would stand up watching. If there wasn't a goal, everybody would like 'Arrrrrgh' then clap hand oso la.. if they scored, then ar.. all football fan should know la har.. ^^ great atmosphere. Fabulous stuff as the final score was 2-2. T.T I was sitting at the very high place where I could not c clearly enuf and 3 goals were scored at the other end... Luckily the other 1 was score from the former Liverpool player, Milan Baros, just below my seat! syok! hehe..

Hope I can watch a Liverpool match soon la.. but my frenz in Birmingham are asking me to watch MU vs Villa at Old Trafford... T.T

York Trip

York is kinda at the north of England, further north than my Sheffield! actually sheffield is said to be in the county 'South Yorkshire', which mean south york. Nothing particular interesting there but just lotz and lotz of historical buildings. In fact, those mid-ages castle wall and church were fabulous! Actually the whole city center now was a old city within the castle wall! You could just see the pieces of the middle-age old brick wall everywhere while you are walking around the city center. I just felt like so lucky to see it with my own eyes, especially the York Minister, one of the Europe finest cathedral... Here's the pics...

The Clifford Tower, built in 10th century!

Flood! heavy rain recently.. made us miss out a few interesting places to visit

The view of York Minister from the city center

The view from the local Art Gallery

The York Minister

The other side.. it was too big to fit in my n73 camera

The 'Constantine' statue in front of the cathedral

The view within

Big cathedral!

Me and Eric went up to the top of the York Minister! cost us 3.5pound for the entrance fee but it did worth it. 275 steps of stairs, made me so tired getting up there.. me fat edi la.. T.T.. Get nice views of the whole city back there though.

See the people at the right side of the pic? Enlarging....

I was there! below are the pics I took from that position..

These are the views from the top of the tower:

Sunshine!

City!

and York Minister!

Eric & Me!

Here some other nice pics I took around York.

The Art Gallery

Walking on top of the old Castle Wall.. Looked like The Great Wall of China. :p

P/s: Soon after we had finished our trip, the bus took us to the local shopping mall and I finally bought something! I dun really shop here much for clothing coz of the price la of course.. the clark shoe with 15 pound! branded, cool and comfortable wearing it.. worth it.. so i bought it without any doubt.. gonna shop more edi on the boxing day! (26th Dec) things are goin to be veli cheap!

End of 1st Sem

YO! hehe.. finally! no more lectures for this sem edi.. finished all. T.T lotz of them are new stuff.. have to study hard this coming winter break edi.. canot be like last time lazy lazy..

For the 1-month winter break, i'll be going to Birmingham to visit my buddies again on 18th! hehe.. then goin to London for the 1st time ever to visit my sister.. will have Christmas dinner with her bf's family! looking forward... shop there gao gao! i heard 26th onwards got big christmas sales! hehe.. coming back to sheffield on 28th nite.. then i think i should be studying hard for the rest of my holiday lo... T.T

thatz it.. kinda glad to have all the projects and reports done edi.. my credit card problem solved oso.. ^^ happy holiday to every1! Merry christmas! hohoho