Rindu kereta ku

First Boxing Day Sale Experience!

This year I attempted my first boxing day sale at Selfridges. Wa... scary.... aiming at MiuMiu bags this time... The queue was very long...But here's the result of waking up so early during a holiday and squeezing with so many others (Mostly Chinese.. hehe we are shop-holics...)

Prague in December

Well, I have to say never to go to Prague during winter cause it is really freezing, -5 to -8 degrees. Me and Lun were wearing three pairs of socks and three layers of clothings excluding our coats....Brr.... We did manage to get pictures of snowy prague only on our last day on the way to the airport. And lastly the pictures of our shoes standing over the manhole of prague...which i never did know y we did took this picture..

Sick~~

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

Or to say it backwards "docious-ali-expi-istic-fragi-cali-rupes". Went to watch "Mary Poppins" the other day. It was good fun especially when this song came along... hehe.. supercalifragilisticexpialidocious...

Enjoying our food!

We came across this Japanese restaurant near Leicester Square called 'Abeno Too'. The way they name their branches is similar to that of Taurean and Taurean Two in Brunei.. hehe they have two branches as well, Abeno and Abeno Too...
"Their Specialty- Okonomiyaki"




Their Okonomiyaki tastes like the Tako balls that are sold in Singapore.They cooked on the hot plate on our table. Just to share.. haha, its just cute and taste quite nice..The second one is"Om Soba" which is basically soba covered with egg omelette.

Dessert in Chinatown: I do look bit tooo happy cos shar lun was making me laugh.

To go or not to go?

A couple days back, Jason called me up from Osaka and we chatted. He asked me to go visit him next year around feb or march.. Should I go? Tempted, I do hv reading week.. heheh.... i shudder when i think about when we get back to brunei after masters, have to start working... no holiday for a whole year!!!

Spotted in the newspapers

To think that that day i was trying so hard, literally being pushed and squashed by people trying to get a pic with His Majesty which by the way i didn't manage to get to. My mom called me early Tue morning to inform that she spotted me on the newspapers.. haha so I waited to see the news online and there I was standing behind looking at another direction. I think I was trying to get shar lun to help me take a pic.

Yup, HM was very generous and so all of us get to have spending money for boxing day sale, I mean for buying extra study materials.. So after that we went to four seasons at chinatown to have a proper meal with roasted duck of course!

Okie, after a long long time here, it seems that I have forgotten about my blog. Anyway, I got a new camera cause i left my old one in Brunei.. hehe So when we went to TGI Fridays...we took some pics. Ada Cocktails some more heheheh...

Got a place!

Well, since i last put up that angry post, we have found a place and had already settled in for about 4 days already.. We are at a place called East Finchley and have two bedrooms and one bathroom. Will post the pictures up once we got our internet connected. :)

HOMELESS in LONDON!!

I am currently bit high... with Shar Lun by my side (who is also high by the way). We are still homeless.. Latest update is that the stupid previous tenant decided that he did not want to move anymore!!!!! What the %^£$, so we have to try to get back all our bloody money and also try to look for another place..... so sad... ok lar. have to stop cos bit blur.. hehe

Riddles

For all those who loves riddles out there, I had just been introduced to this website that will surely make you wanna pull your hair out. Anyway, just bit too dramatic but this site is very addictive and you tend to want to try and solve those riddles. So anyone interested here's the web address: http://www.weffriddles.com. There are websites that you can go to for hints and tips... maybe next time.

We are going!!!!!!

We finally 'found out' that we got the go-ahead for the Masters long ago, so me and chee are leaving for the UK. So, LONDON, Here I come again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many First-TimeS!!!!

To be honest, I think I have come to be comfortable with my job at UBD and met some very nice people along the way. Eventhough I may have certain things that I do not agree with the management of the insitute.. but ANYWAY......
I have done things that I never think I would have been able to do. Like the OBBD trip to temburong (as mentioned in the previous post). It was the first time I went on the flying fox and it was raining heavily... and it was the first time I camped... first time I kayaked.
What else ah....I actually went to the OGDC(Oil and Gas Discovery Centre) at Seria last week and first time slept on the bed of nails.


Then last tuesday we held a farewell dinner for the Japanese students and I was an MC for the first time!!! Can't say it was great but then I would like to think that it went fine.... hehe I wore a Yukata, a summer wear for the Japanese girls. It's less formal, less layers and less complicated to wear than Kimono.

It was really a fun night.

OBBD trip

I have not been posting anything recently as.... well been busy.... at work... I went to temburong for the first time in my life. And it was for the Outward Bound school. Went with one other colleague and 16 other students.... It is not a holiday resort if anyone is interested. First day was fine in a sense, still in touch with civilisation. Still got shower, still got flushing toilet, lights.. Second day, at ten a.m. is the beginning of a 7 hour jungle trek (with a giant, heavy backpack) to our destination: Camp Semut which literally meant that there are tons of ants crawling around.
It doesn't help that we are carrying about probably 10 to 15 kg on our back and trekking through mud and it had to rain!! Which jus turns the whole jungle into a sauna, as we could feel our sweat pouring down after the rain. When we finally reach the camp, we had to set up the tents and it rain again!!! And it was dark, so we decided not to wander to the river to take our shower... so ya... i did not shower for the whole day after soaking in my own sweat for the whole day... ewwww.....

But the next morning, we did sorta... took a dip just to refresh ourselves and its kayaking time!!! Which was difficult by the way. Looks easy but then... i think i ached more kayaking than trekking. ok then next post will be fine details.. :)

Nice song

如果我能看得见
就能轻易的分辨白天黑夜
就能准确的在人群中
牵住你的手
如果我能看得见
就能驾车带你到处遨游
就能惊喜的从背后
给你一个拥抱
如果我能看得见
生命也许完全不同
可能我想要的我喜欢的我爱的
都不一样

眼前的黑不是黑
你说的白是什么白
人们说的天空蓝
是我记忆中那团白云背后的蓝天
我望向你的脸
却只能看见一片虚无
是不是上帝在我眼前遮住了帘
忘了掀开

你是我的眼
带我领略四季的变换
你是我的眼
带我穿越拥挤的人潮
你是我的眼
带我阅读浩瀚的书海
因为你是我的眼
让我看见这世界
就在我眼前

Sang by a Taiwanese in a singing competition, well he won. But this song is really nice. Original singer is not that er.... well-known. hehe

New Puppy!!

See this cutie pie!!! Its our new puppy. He's tiny so I am not scared of him.. heheh. Apparently, he has been given a name already called Johnny, though we are thinking of changing it. He has blue eyes!! So caucasian lar. haha.. Need to get something for him to bite on..He's chewing on everything.

Cola n Sprite

Don't you love bottled soft drinks? I stumbled upon this in Miri, not here. But if you see closer, there are some thai wordings on them... :P Anyhow, I still like to see these bottled soft drinks. Dunno the taste difference because I don't want to open them up.hehe

Just A Random Thought, Please Vote..

Can a guy and a gal just be best friends? What do you all think? Please vote and give comments... thanks.

Kampung Ayer Trip..

Went to the Water village yesterday with the staff of I.M. with other professor-professor sama doktor-doktor from partner medical schools. Woke up at 7 to see the skies gray and rain pouring down again!.. Anyway, we went there from centrepoint to the jetty using a tour bus, I feel like a tourist again. hehe Anyway, provided with oversized yellow raincoats, which are life savers cause I don't want the water to be splashing my face and hair..... :)
After searching around, we did see the probocis monkey with the orange hair and their oversized nose.. hehe although not so near. It was good enough... before we went to makan makan at a local house at the Kg Ayer. The trip actually extended to the Berakas Forest reserve to see the pitcher plants, but have to leave halfway because I step into quick sand and my pants got half submerged but luckily my converse shoes did not get stuck into the wet sand. I cabut and then spend the whole day being groggy and super tired... Enjoy the pictures of the monkey...courtesy of my colleague at I.M.

Paintball...in the rain!!

I tried paint ball today, and it was fun... well except for the rain. Which just make things difficult because our mask keep fogging up and I can't see where I am shooting. The place is actually someone's house at Manggis I and we are literally playing at someone's back garden. It is just a simple set up with bunkers which are basically inflatable things that you can hide behind. You divide yourself into two teams and when the marshalls(those people wearing orange T-shirts) shout "Game!" then we start playing. Once you are hit, you are considered 'dead' and have to pull your self out of the game. The game will be over when all the members of a particular team get shot at. We are provided with a vest, a mask and a paintball gun or a marker each. The mask as modelled by Shar Lun in the picture shown above. As it was raining, me n shar lun both wore our ten-year old MSPSBS PE pants. It look horrendous by the way but i dun wanna get my proper sport pants dirty. Its good fun and it is worth playing another time when its not raining. We were all drenched from head to toe and i got hit three shots, blue black for a week!!

Love Hurts..

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds
And mars, any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Love is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Love hurts......ooh,ooh love hurts

I'm young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
And I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Love is like a flame
It burns you when it's hot
Love hurts......ooh,ooh love hurts

Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves I guess
They're not foolin' me

I know it isn't true, I know it isn't true
Love is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Love hurts......ooh,ooh love hurts
ooh,ooh love hurts

Ambuyat First Timer

OK, I know that I am a Bruneian but after 24 years, I finally eaten my first Ambuyat. Went with my colleagues from I.M. who 'encourage' me to go...hehe. It was a big pot of.... (like they describe) glue. But I have to admit the condiment sauce is really nice. I can't say that ambuyat has an acquired taste, i would say that ambuyat has an acquired 'feel' to it when you swallow. Though they say to swallow, no need to chew, but I am so tempted to chew on it. Definitely will go for the second time. So I hope no one would say that I am not a pure Bruneian. HA HA, as if this would make me look any more like a Bruneian. I feel and look like a tourist with my colleagues around me at the restaurant. Anyone wanna follow for my second trip?
Thanks to Fendi for taking my picture at the office n also thanks to chee n haiza who bought the cake for me...
Oh ya! I played bowling on Friday and got my highest score ever, 136!! The students nicknamed the way i throw 'matrix' cause its so sloooow... haha but killerball.. :)

Sad n Skint at the Moment!

Sometimes, it just feel that you don't want to wake up and just feel like sleeping the whole day away. Well today is one of those days, really feel like just staying in bed. But as usual have to go to work...
When you feel that you are down from the morning, things probably just go downhill from there. By the way, I am not depressed, just bit..whiny..things can't always go the way we want. That is how life is.
My salary is not out yet for last month so I am a bit skint right now. Have to think properly what to spend on... Boo Hoo..

Driving Range

My tattoo is scabbing and feels weird to touch... its normal by the way. Well, the first two days when I got the tattoo. It did not sink in until.. the 3rd day when I woke up in the middle of the night. And .... I realise I must be really high on something or crazy to get this tattoo. But no regrets..
Hari ini went out from 10 30 am til habis lunch at around 1.20 pm baru balik office with lychee. But we have good reasons.. that is to send chee's letters. hehe, no good reason for me. Sorry KCS, always can't talk to you when you call. We will be even more free after 19th May because exams will be finished by then.
Finally after AGES, i went to driving range tonight. It was crappy at first, but i manage to hit the balls... tho not far or consistent. hehe... that is why I am sleepy now....

Singapore..

Hello Hello,
Just got back from Singapore and I know my blog was weird, but no worries. I have got it back to normal already but it might change again cause I am trying to change the template.. hehe I miss the Xiao Long Bao and I have been eating and eating so much since I reached there. hehe the ice cream are Japanese icecream from 2 different shops. The pink ones are actually Sakura flavoured. It quite Yummy... Yuppie, gain bit of pound but still alrighty....
One thing I went bit crazy and got a


My.... it was a 'painful' experience... once i chose the design they put on a fake to show how the outline looks like and if the position is alright. Then he started to outline... wahh lau.. so painful,...... I tot I was gonna cry but did not lar. then after about 30 mins of outlining, he started shading in the colours.... its not too bad, the pain is more tolerable...
Anyway, I tried to rotate the pics again. Still the same.. Sasak ku... Tired still.. so Will have to find the mood to update the template of my blog. :)

hello

Blog under Construction!

Hello there.

I am currently not in Brunei, will be back soon. My blog looks weirds cause i was on 'trial and error' phase. So hopefully when i get back it will look the way I want it to be.

Food!!

Wen was here!! for a couple of days. And time really flies.. she is back already today. Just to post a picture of Char Kuey teow for someone in Canada. :)

Aku Bukan Pilihan Hatimu

Jika memang diriku
bukan lah menjadi pilihan hatimu
mungkin sudah takdirnya
kau dan aku takkan mesti bersatu

harus slalu kau tau
kumencintamu disepanjang waktuku
harus slalu kau tau
semua abadi untuk slamanya

karena kuyakin cinta dalam hatiku
hanya milikmu sampai akhir hidupku
karena kuyakin disetiap hembus nafasku
hanya dirimu satu yang slalu kurindu

Happy Birthday Chee!

Today is Lychee's birthday and we surprised her today with a birthday cake that Haiza_bunny bought for her at the office. She was embarrassed by us. haha... Anyway, hope that you are happy and may all your wishes come true. (at least one of ours is coming true) hehe. Unfortunately we did not manage to take the picture of the whole cake, just the picture of a slice of the cake as requested by KCS. We did not manage to go out for lunch as we have to work at noon for the students' presentation. But we did manage to eat after two... hehe kesian..By the way, the guy standing at the back is one of UBD lecturer, Dr.Salim.. He is a funny guy... hehe.
P/S Dunno why the photo is like this, sasak, dunnno how....rotate still like that..

Poor Bug

Hello there,
Anyway first thing first, our dean finally gave the thumbs up to let us go further our studies.. hehe.. Chee was praying hard for both of us when she asked us to go to the office. We thought she was going to give us another long lecture again. But heyy... she told us we can go this year. Thank God.
And last night i terlanggar my bug... the ass kena bang. Well I banged it myself at the pillar of the UBD Chancellor Hall Basement parking. So if u go there, saw a pillar with chipped edge, That's the freaking pillar!! But luckily, eventhough there was a super loud bang and this caused me and Haiza( my Bunny Colleague) to scream, there was no dent on my bumper. But as illustrated by the picture, the paint came off quite a lot... Boo Hoo. Poor car, Poor Bug.. And I have to pay $180 for respraying... hope it better be good! I think I better get my eyesight checked.. what is wrong. But my baby bug is at the workshop for the night, Kesiann.. lonely...
Went to 20+ care group with Chee today, quite relaxed and enlightening, though I was a bit blur. Anyhoo, bit sleepy now. Went for a drive by myself just now. Oh yeah, KCS, Congrats u finish your exams.. relax lar. Wendy coming back... soon. This Saturday which is also Lychee's birthday!!!

P/s: Apple took the photo for me when she took the car to "hospital" Workshop.

Movie

Went to swensen last night for dinner, had the lamb chop. It was..alright..lar. I think Charcoal is better and the portion is much bigger as well. More worth the $$. Anyhoos, although it was a Sunday night and both me n Gab are suppose to wake up early tomoro for work, we decided to catch a movie at 9+ after dinner. It was a choice between Wild Hogs or Sunshine. Seeing that Michelle Yeoh is in Sunshine, we decided to watch that..
And I regretted it... it was a sorta nonsense show.. and we sat through it, without dozing off amazingly. The editing was bad or brunei cinema edited it, I dunno...

World most expensive chocolate

Did not post for the past two days, not sure why but then as usual probably hit by the lazy bug. hehe. Anyway, came across a magazine article talking about the world most expensive chocolate."a hand made chocolate with 70 percent Valrhona cocoa powder rolled over French Black truffle for a chocolaty $250.00 each or $2,600.00/pound". As stated in a Singapore magazine, the rate is S$4,010/pound. So who wanna pay for this piece of expensive (crap) i mean chocolate?


The ideal plate for $5.30, i think..don't remember. It was alrighty but then i think i wasn't that hungry. Been hard to think what to eat out for lunch recently, running out of places and food. haha. Any suggestions? Or I guess have to start to bring food from home... bento... :)

Rainy Day..

Bought this two towels for $2.99. Veli cute and one is in the shape of a bear hmm... There are these $2.99 shops popping out and they are selling nice 'Japanese stuff'. The ones i know are at Rock Berletter translated to Malay means? This is taught by my colleague Haiza... haha, Haiza bunny. The other branch is at the Gadong properties. Went to one at Gadong Properties today at lunch, went to have Ideal. (KCS, don't drool...hehe) Have the quarter chicken and the cheesy fries, pardon that i forgot to take picture of the food haha...


Hey, the one in Kuching, here is your fav food, we had it yesterday. hehe I told mom that I'll show it to you. Sudah you come online to visit my blog?

Kena Tegur...

Well, today is not going on that well so far. Woke up at the 'wrong' side of the bed, already in a foul mood. And lo and behold I was asked to go to the office with Ya Chee and we were interrogated about what we had done for the past few days (which was nothing much). I guess, everyone has heard of this line i am going to say "LIFE SUCKS". By the way, this is how my working table looks like, its pretty messy by the way. And if you look carefully on the left corner, is a pink furry pencil case belonging to my colleague, Ya Chee. But to be serious, we did manage to get some work done this afternoon, serious discussion... :)
Life is weird, there are all sorts of situations where you end up being in the middle and not sure what will be the best thing to do. What will be the perfect solution to make both side happy, and most important of all, also to make yourself happy? Just can't please everyone. oh ya, for the benefits of those not in Brunei, I will try to snap some pics of the food and make u all suffer. haha I am evil..if u miss any food, leave comments.

MY FIRST POST

Ok, crap. This is first post and by me doing up a blog means that at this point of time, I do still have time at the office to do 'unofficial' things. But anyway, we'll hv to see how long this blog will last. N how many ppl actually will find out about this blog. :P
Hm..... at last some place where I can spend my (excessive) free time on and mind on. So I won't try to think of other weird stuff. Okie Dokie. Here goes..