things you will discover when your living far away from home...

Too be honest, I do miss being a student, going to lectures and dreaming away or playing with my phone while having a lecture. Ahhh those days.. and i wouldn't believe it myself either that i would say this but I actually miss the stress that I would feel weeks before the exams or even hours before the exams for my case since i always do last minute revision! I know call me weird or insane. Its really fun being a student! so appreciate it while living a student life...

So what would you expect when your far from home.. one of the things that i learn while i was in the UK is how to tell if your beef is rotten after leaving it overnight outside the freezer. Now all you need to do is first look at the color of the meat, please refer to the illustration below to aid your understanding

the pile of meet on the left is proper red while on the right as you can see is looks black (that means its rotten)

So from here you can decide whether to ditch the pile of meet into the dustbin or if your like me leaving in the UK and think GBP2.75 is a bit to expensive..... Then the only way not to go to waste is to only get rid of the area affected, sometimes areas around the rotten area might already be infected but doesn't show the colour, what you need to do play the sniffing game, get your friends to join in. The more the merrier...

facial expression to be expected when your sniffing rotten beef....

Make sure you get one of your friend to sniff with you, for quality control ISO900 reasons. But be aware after sniffing a few rounds your sense of smell might get a little use to the sour smell. As you can see, Mr. A has sniffed a good beef hence his happy special expression (he seems to be enjoying the smell). Whats left now is to chop off the affected area and the beef is good as fresh to be cooked :D but if your living in Malaysia, and you are facing this same situation; don't bother to even smell the beef, just throw it away its probably rotten to its core!

Here are things that you will definitely come across as well when your living aboard on your own;

potatoes n garlic sprouting (this is indeed a very common findings in your cupboard)

the crazy weather of Leeds!!

Leeds weather seems to be off lately.. not sure if its because its transiting from winter to spring or just plain Leeds weather? Surprisingly it was snowing more this year in Leeds compared to last year. But i missed most of the snowing days.. cause i was back in Malaysia soaking up the sun and i got sunburned too! Malaysia Boleh!! No idea why did i just say that for! Anyway...

When i got back to Leeds, the weather was just nice! Imagine air-condition room at 16 degrees! But that day the weather was 12 degree with S-U-N which is a superb weather if you tried living in the UK through 4 seasons! So the days was getting hotter (excited cause it was sufficient enough to wear only 2 layers of shirt and go out) Till a few days ago, suddenly the air was all foggy and it was lightly snowing!! with those naked tree branches covered in frost for the entire day! I mean even if it snowed before, the ice never lasted for more then an hour! Amazing!!

trees outside my house 'orang sakai bah'

So it was cool and everything, ya the weather is damper and colder so what! Wait till i tell you whats the weather today!! I tell you, those 'atap' house (if it existed in UK) also wouldn't be able to survive!

Today, it was windy but not to your average windy day in Leeds, ever experienced those days in Kuching where its like typhoon? with trees uprooting and roof tile flying? I mean you will experience this occasionally in Leeds (on avg the wind speed is about 14mph = 22.5kmph) . Today the wind speed was 30 - 35mph (= 48-56kmph) I mean try walking against the wind!! Its madness. Even if you ran its feels like you running in slow motion. Or even worst walking in the same direction as the wind! almost feels like its possible for human to fly. Even if you were driving in the car, you can feel the car vibrating, imagine a Kancil driving and being squashed in between 2 trailers in a highway. Yup thats the same kinda force you will experience. Plus it was raining! No way any umbrella can survive that.. I myself have broken countless of umbrellas!

having insomnia? read on

If you think your having insomnia, then despair no more... here are ways to make yourself fall asleep as soon as your head hit the pillow!! ok maybe it might take a few minutes at least its beats tossing and turning for hours! :D

1) Have a turkey sandwich for your supper! forget all the kueh chap, kolo mee n laksa. Turkey is believed to have amino acid tryptophon which will help your sleep. No wonder me and my mates felt weird/sleepy after our x'mas dinner last December! We thought we were drugged!

2007 X'mas Dinner

2) if the 1st one failed or finding turkey to expensive to afford, then maybe you could try this method. Wouldn't cost you a cent. Prepare to sleep by deepening your breathing and lengthening each out breath, inhaling for 7secs and exhaling for 14secs. This method should work when stress is your primary reason for causing you to experience insomnia. p.s: Not to be tried by those who has been smoking for years, we don't want you running out of breath do we :)

3) Don't READ before bedtime!!Sometimes reading can cause your mind to be set in a imaginative/creative mode. Hence you will be thinking a lot. Instead try sudoku!

As for me.. i don't think I'm experiencing insomnia.. but i do have weird sleeping patterns, sleeping at wee hours in the morning and sleeping for 12 hrs daily. I know you must be thinking I'm such a pig!

But do you want to know my secret of sleeping so much? Play solitaire! After a few clicks, your guaranteed to be sleeping on your keyboard, i know it worked for me!!

Or maybe...

Recently.. I have been feeling depressed and void. What I need is some motivation in LIFE, a reason to continue in this game called L-i-F-e. Even though there are things that I need to do and I know I need to get it done I can't seem to drive myself towards it; like getting a JOB! (i can hear all the echo of my friends nagging at me).. maybe its because I'm feeling I'm not ready to take the responsibility, afraid to grow up, afraid to actually WORK! not just some sort of part time work but WORK WORK! the real deal! or maybe its just the winter, making everyone depressed, sad and lazy. Or maybe for once God existed for a reason.. to keep people having faith, hope n "something" to believe and rely on! To be honest I actually think I've drifted apart from God.. I've always doubted God in some ways, I guess not going to church for almost 3 yrs (probably the most twice a year) has taken its toll on me. Any how I hate this "feeling" I'm feeling now...
A cig before I sleep and hope for the best tomorrow.. sigh

Valentine's Eve

L-O-V-E is in the air~ Calling all Guys out there! Have you all confirmed your reservation for d restaurant yet? Or at least plan something really romantic? If not be ready to be clawed by our girlfriend! just kidding... What would everyone be doing on the eve of Valentine.. I can imagine a lot of money hungry people.. setting up small booths near the bus stop and every traffic light there is in KCH selling (quite expired) roses just to take full advantage of this occasion where people believe the more money you spend = the more love your showing. But its totally different in Leeds, you don't see people selling roses in the street (wouldn't be surprise its because of the weather.. i mean who would want to freeze to death!?) But surprisingly the clubbing scene in Leeds was quite happening on Val's Eve (eventho it wasn't the weekend).. looks like they are lots of single people who just want to get wasted, get over with Valentine's, waking up the in morning in the wrong bed with the wrong people. Maybe thats how the Brits shows their love; more shagging = more love? Tho I may be single this year, it was all about my friends! Got myself ready for a Valentine Party organized by Oriental Quintuplets (all Asian society) at TownHouse.

The first thing I felt when I step into the room was... "Wow" with a excited tone and ending with a urghh tone... first I felt O-L-D, it felt like I went for a High School prom Nite but as the chaperon. I mean I'm only 23, shouldn't feel like I'm too old to party!

To be honest the party sux-ed! the crowd was typical.. standing around do nothing (kids tsk tsk).. I mean there is a dance floor ready but everyone was just standing around it.. how pathetic.. never mind it was forgivable maybe everyone is not drunk enough to dance but when everyone was getting into the mood, the music sux-ed! Comeon.. who plays some RnB then moved to really slow romantic "jiwang" song and the next thing you know you have to change your dance move to Red Hot Chili Peppers?! F%$@ got ripped of GBP4! Thank goodness I didn't spend GBP8 instead (got special price :P) Overall rating of the party - 2/10

With my Mates Mr.V (looks like Elvis), Mr.G and Mr.L

joshua's birthday bash & not so fortunate events

Josh + Me on his B-Bash

Where was it held? Halo, Leeds.. a very intriguing place, a place where even a person without religion would think it is so wrong.. Why? Well lets just say or imagine a discotheque in a church!~ Its like watching those movies where the vampires took over a church and used it as their breeding ground (like Supernatural!!)The building and its structures are maintained as a church even when your inside the chairs on the side you can easily tell it it was a humble church chair... tsk tsk tsk

A glimpse of Halo, Leeds

Nevertheless, I'm not that angelic myself. I enjoy going there and yet I have this sense of guilt after partying at Halo.. and this isn't the first time. Its like I'm always tempted by a dark evil force. It isn't easy to look past the fact that it was a church and since I was brought up in a very conservative and religious family background somehow it affects you no matter how notorious/rebellious you can be.

What can I say about Halo? There are rumors that it's one of those clubs in Leeds that are racist. Apparently they can reject you entry anyhow they wish even on very lame reason.. like for example; just the other day a guy I think might be a Pakistani or Indian got rejected entry because he was wearing a glittery bling bling t'shirt (how pathetic) whats even worse was that I saw an English lad wearing exactly the same t'shirt but he was inside drinking his arse off! Now now isn't that unequal rights? Considered myself lucky for not getting rejected from Halo yet if not my effort of q-ing up would be vain! it takes bout avg 1hr-2hrs to q if you arrive past 11pm. and a word of advice from my experience don't bother to get yourself in the VIP list, the queue moves slower then the normal q...

For that particular night.. things weren't going so well for most of mates.. first of all Miss SabC lost her mobile phone.. we backed tracked our steps carefully searching in the dark for her MarinaDuck mobile. Of cause we didn't manage to find it, the place was pitched black~ tried the coat room till the lady was annoyed at us cause she thinks we were accusing her of stealing the phone.

Then there was a mate of mine, Mr. A, got into a fight because of a boxing game machine and a 50p. It was really a sad case, he was being held back and a straight punch to the face. He cut his tongue in process and had to send himself (no one was sober enough to notice he got into a fight) to NHS.. poor guy. On the other side of the club, Mr.J who's mind is being controlled by alcohol punched an innocent guy! Well he got kicked out of the club obviously and so is the rest of his friends! Well look it that way, he was carried out and he doesn't have to walk! I'm sure you will appreciate it especially when your drunk~

Lucky bastard Mr.D changed his mind at the very last second on joining us that night, solely based on the reason he got a bad feeling about the place... probably if he was there he might meet with some unfortunate events like the rest.. me on the other hand, I think I managed to slipped past the unlucky luck.. Like what Mr. D said, i was profiting from people misfortunes; picked up a 50p from drunk people who simply can't keep the change in their pockets.. Maybe if only I had given that 50p to Mr. A, he might had be spared

xoxo

again and again

Countless of time have I tried to blog.. again n again I failed to keep the blog alive.. this would be like my 3rd attempt.. lets cross fingers this time I actually finish doing something i started..
Here are 5 crappy reasons why I'm starting to blog again:

1. I've got too much time to spare (should be doing something more useful like looking for jobs)
2. My life has a meaning to it now (not that I'm pregnant or anything - touch wood choi)
3. Leaving in the UK is bloody boring (so don't think coming to the UK to study is a fun thing unless u can stand not going out after 5pm)
4. I need to keep in touch with writing proper English (how crap is that)
5. I need people apart from my friends to witness my life

Anyhow I do look forward in writing good entries and not just ranting about my boring life in Leeds :D