Belgium
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Since Kinyew is in Belgium.. might as well meet up with him right? Just so happens that Eng Kheng will be visiting him at the same time too! So coincidental! So here's to the land of fine chocolates and waffles...
Brussels
Decided to conquer the capital of Belgium on the 1st day.. Oh well.. but as Kinyew had lessons most of the time EngKheng and I were walking around on a route Kinyew drew out for us not knowing what the hell we were seeing. So we went by Engkheng's rule - Take photo first, google later. (I never bothered to google haha) Probably the only thing I remembered was the Mannequin Piss (an overrated small statue symbolic of Brussels) and the Grande Place.
Visited the comic museum.. but too bad everything was in Dutch (or was it French?) Haha.. but both of us agreed the only part of the whole museum where both of us understood was the Erotic Comic part haha! guys...
We went back to Brussels again the next few nights... because it happened to be this Sablon night where the high class streets had 'open houses' and we could walk in to have free samples of.. HIGH CLASS CHOCOLATES! On the first night it was by accident when EK and I were given the best hot chocolate in the world for tasting. Then it was a whole night of acting atas and trying out the best chocolates in the world.. yum yum...
Bruges
By this time Fangxi joined us. Yeap after her last missed flight to Brussels I jiooed her to join us and she managed to come here by bus/ship. So we ventured to Bruges.. a nice small town where we took lotsa photos and only remember a bustling marketplace with an outdoor ice-skating ring. Oh yes.. and nice cheap chocolates =)
Antwerp
Didn't know Antwerp's the city of Diamonds until now. Went to the diamond museum then walked along the streets lor. The only think i remembered was the wooden escalator. Haha.
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London
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Was going to visit Kinyew in Brussels.. via train from London Waterloo station.. so decided to pay Martin a visit as well (as well as bunk over at his place hahaa) Lucky was his free day so he brought me on a one-day tour round London.. visited the main sights.. and thankfully there was FANTASTIC weather!
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I have to blog this coz it's the most significant thing that ever happened ever since I moved into my room... AREA CLEANING!
Yeah.. wa lao our place was in such a mess.. especially so when I came back from Nottingham 2 weeks ago there was litter all over the place and everything was like a war zone. 我的邻居就是真的没有清洁的观念- 垃圾随处丢、饭后不清洗碗碟、厕所和洗澡室脏兮兮的。搬进来的前几个星期我还会好心帮忙清理，哗过了几个星期我真的是懒得去管。不过这次真的是忍无可忍，我就向大家提议来一个大扫除！
We were supposed to clean up last week but I wanted everyone to do it together. I mean, 1 or 2 pple can clean up the whole place but how long will it take for the whole place to be dirty again? At least if everyone cleans up together there will be the sense of satisfaction and ownership of the place.. and hopefully it will last clean for a longer time =)
And it worked! I guess everyone really felt good that the place was so fantastically clean after the whole clean-up. Haha. (ok la there are 5 of us 1 guy siammed dunno where he went to)
Anyway I was backdating typing my post on the 27th Meetup many weeks back but I think no time to continue already. Haa gonna catch my coach to London now. This weekend is Belgium weekend to visit Kinyew! So till I come back... Tata!!
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Updating Blog
Monday, November 20, 2006
Yay I just finished my 2000 word 50% Sociology Essay! So happy!
Yes that's why I haven't really been updating this blog. Too busy with work (and travelling haa) Now that I've gotten this load off I guess have some free time to catch up with my other 'obligations' like this blog and ShAMCast which I owe Adrian for more than a week already!
Oh well.. when Cherlene (my senior that came to Leeds last year) told me that I wouldn't have time to update my blog I didn't believe her. Haha.
I'll update past events as Previous Posts so constantly check back!
Some interesting stuff I saw at the supermarket some time back
And an update of the tree outside my window taken 1 minute ago.. BOTAK!
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Nottingham
Saturday, November 11, 2006
Nottingham Games is the time where all Singaporeans from UK get together to meet up and see each other again.. too bad Leeds didn't participate.. so the 1st 2 days Manhon and I just spent the whole boring time walking around the small boring Robin Hood town.. 2nd day went around with Fangxi and friends to some park and some windmill. Oh well.. luckily there was 双天之尊 to entertain us at night haha.
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Carlisle
Monday, November 06, 2006
Had 3 hours to spend in transit while travelling back from Glasgow to Leeds... so might as well take the chance to explore the place?
Carlisle is the small city between England and Scotland. Visiting the Carlisle castle somehow completed the story on the whole Scottish experience =)
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Scotland
Sunday, November 05, 2006
Flew from Dublin straight to Edinburgh. Met up with Fangxi and Summer and it was a great trip laden with cockups..
We booked our day trip tickets to Loch Ness only to be informed the morning itself that the trip had to be cancelled due to lack of people joining in the trip! So we wasted the whole morning planning to go to see the monster ourselves...
We had to take a bus/train down to Inverness.. then a 2-hourly bus to Drumnadrochit to where the lake actually is.. but the timing just couldn't work out. It's either we couldn't get there in time to catch a tour or we could not get a trip back to Glasgow.
Not till 20 minutes before the next Megabus trip when I called the day tour agency and he informed us of a tour that could fit within our timings! Voila! Immediately we went ahead to book our Megabus tickets..
BUT IT WAS FULL!!!
Whoa.. desperation almost drove us to take a 80 pound taxi or even rent a car to drive up to Inverness.. but luckily we didn't.
So we went up to Glasgow instead to spend the night there. Went to Inverness from Glasgow instead.
And so I thought the bus back from Glasgow to Leeds was at 2330hrs. Rushed back from Inverness, picked up our bags from Zhiyang's place and hailed a cab with Summer to the coach station.. only to find out in the taxi that the bus was at 2300hrs! We missed it!
What to do? Stay one more night at Zhiyang's place and take the next morning's bus back lor...
Summer kena caught for using my National Express card.. had to pay the balance.. wa lao so sway.
But it's things like these that make the trip memorable =)
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In Dublin
Friday, November 03, 2006
Haha I'm in dublin now I have less than a minute to type this post. Going to scotland tomorrow. Haven't got time to update blog
Check my photo page at Flickr!
Cya!
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Dublin
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Ireland.. the home of fantastic Irish tap dancing and songs and of course.. Guinesses. Dublin's a place I will remember for it's great nightlife.. as contrast with boring Leeds (or UK in general).
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