Leeds is the future

Wow, school hasn't started and i'm having a hell of a wacky time here. Leeds is really the famous place where everybody gives 2 thumbs up for its night life - it offers the best night outs in the UK and i have to agree with that. So i try to get accustomed to their culture and once again, I just went to another party!!!The theme is "Fruity" this time. haha...

The music is great, the company is great... somehow i've never been so sober after drinking before (or maybe they put less alcohol into the drinks), its convenient from where i stay, just a 10 minute walk away. Then i start to wonder why i dread going to parties in Singapore.

Firstly, its cheap to club here. today i only spent 8 pounds the whole night, including drinks. I spent only 5.50 pounds when i went to "Flirt" the previous time.

Secondly, i don't have to take a cab home

Thirdly, i don't have to report to anyone, having the fear of waking anybody up when i get home, or receiving calls and all i hear is "AIYOOOOO now what time already?!?!! u better get home now....."

Forthly, well i can sleep in till the next day.

Fifthly, everybody is so enthusiastic about dancing and nobody ever laughs or poke fun at how i dance. Everybody just wants everybody else to have fun together.

Maybe the international students aren't so crazy, but the English people will pour beer everywhere, sing and cheer loudly, and simply letting their hair down. So naturally, i become like them too. i find myself behaving like them when i'm on the streets, talking to people like we're a kind, saying hi to strangers like we were friends, and kissing everyone else on both cheeks before we part (except with fellow singaporeans).

okie, i've joined the Malaysian and Singapore Society! haha, and we will go out together tmr and meeting even more and more new friends! I love meeting friends! And on the condition that they come with the same purpose too. I really hate being with close-minded people who just keep sticking to their clique of friends, not introducing each other, or being the poor thing who just keep to myself because its so difficult to integrate in. That's why i love Turkey too (somehow not with a-i-e-s-e-c), because everybody wants to make their guest feel at home. and i want to adopt such lovely hospitality, because its so kind to human nature.

anyway, here are pictures!

Gingerbread man!! Yay! very very nice and makes me happy seeing them... i didn't want to eat the head, so Clement ate him all. The cost is okie what right? 45p = S$1.35

Yea this is their version of their CCA matric fair... cool lah, they also have "Kick Out Blair" campaigns and someone asked us to sign up for a demostration against him. interesting to be involved, but must pay, so forget it.

And they have mountaineering Club!! Yay! how cool is that! They have Gliding club too (which i'm going to join) and Hiking Club ( which Clement and I will join). I think i will put travelling aside after Paris. I think doing activities that can't be done in Singapore is more valuable than sightseeing.

Yea close up view of fellow Singapore exchange student... we don't just stick together and do one thing. What i love about us is that we venture out, experience new stuff and meet new people together. We don't just keep to ourselves and do things by ourselves. He's a great guy!

And yes, we go to pubs often. to Chill man.


Anyway, we 4 Singapore exchange students came together to cook chicken rice. It was a treat for ourselves, but it was also to test out on how we should cook good chicken.

Then Clement and I decided to cook for 18 people!!! We offered to cook, and we invited everybody! His new neighbour, my neighbours, and all my neighbour's friends! so at the same time, we made new friends!!! And the food is cheap cheap cheap! 15 huge chicken thighs for 5 pounds... rock on!

Yea, great people, great place! This is in "Mine" in the Student Union (discotheque on campus leh...) and yea, having great fun together! and these were the people who came to our chicken rice invite and we got most of them to come to the party together!! so we drew closer bonds to everybody.


From me clockwise, Japanese boy, Singapore boy, Singapore boy, French boy, Japanese girl and Japanese girl. Okie, bad choice of picture, not very diverse.

eh, from left : Japanese, French, Japanese, French , Singaporean.

okie this is a better international picture. The girl in bright blue is a Brazilian - Italian and the girl on extreme right is from Ireland. Cool cool cool. Its just so nice to see people again whom i just met the previous day.

The place where we have our parties... Stylo Mylo...

Alright, i know i know... everyone is busy mugging, but i'm still on holiday until 2nd Oct. i can't wait for school to start, really!

p/s: I know in my previous entry, i said i didn't like to socialise anymore... I just felt out-of-place coz everybody went thru the international camp, except me. Many people were friendly to me, but i just found myself stuck in a situation where i had to stand in a group of people where they were having their own conversation and I was just standing at the corner, trying to find someone to talk to just to fit into the group. Ya, i don't like that. I admit, i like positive attention and i really appreciate those who helped me integrate into the group. All i can say that it takes time to know each other, for others and for myself.

Hello everybody

hello everybody, just to inform u guys, i'm having fun in Leeds! sorry i didn't mean to gloat larh... but i'm really having fun!

just came back from a party with the theme "Flirt" and its only 1.50 pound! they play pop, cheese and retro party anthems and i really enjoyed it!! and the great thing is that they have it every Tuesday! Hooray!! I get along really well with my flat mates, otherwise i just keep meeting new people again and again.

i skyped zhuxiu today, and u know what she say? she said i got ang moh slang already!! HUH?? haha... no larh, where got!!! i still have a very strong singaporean accent (i hate to listen to myself sometimes), my vocab is stagnant but my usage of singlish has decreased very significantly. anyway, impt is i finally can skype her le! haha, last time she had to talk through the mic and i could only type it out and she feels stupid talking to no one. haha... well, nice to hear her voice again, like i'm in singapore and i'm going to meet her soon. well, soon, real soon!

Luckily i have clement chio! yay! he's very sweet, he would drink my beer for me and he would wait for me outside the toilet for 10 minutes. He parties like mad too and just a simple boy, how unlike the first impression of anyone for a block head. =)


My Italian neighbour, posing at the Leeds City Centre

Me, Swiss girl (party animal) and same Italian girl

Thats Clement Chio (he claims his chinese surname is "piao liang" like "si tu"... and i still don't believe) and he's learning how to cook pasta!!! haha... he said he has to cook all the time coz he's in block comm, but well, it wasn't very convincing ... haha! k lah! =)

Yup, pasta party with Japanese girl holding up the plate of pasta... and Chio was the photographer...

Tmr there's a "Bar Crawl" where we will crash from pubs to pubs...
Then this Friday Chio and I will whip up a meal for everyone...
This Saturday i'm going to York with my flatmates... and lessons don't start till next week, but naughty me will be playing in Paris with xintian n kaixin n jiaxin (they all have a XIN) so lessons starts on 1st oct for me...
Then when i come back, i will go for Dry Suit diving with one of the most reputable dive centre in the whole of UK...........................

whoa... i'm seriously on permanent holiday sia...

This fateful day has arrived

Ah yes 17 september will be a date to remember for me. it's the day i arrive in Leeds and i finally got my accomodation settled and my last part of my 8 months journey. it's been tiring and taxing, really. I find very little motivation to go on and discover the rest of the wonders of the world. Thanks liren for the virtual flower, but my youth and energy is kinda draining away... i think i just need some rest due to the sleepness night before my flight.

on 17 sept, i decided upon something. I was left alone on the rooftop for a while. I looked towards the exit, hoping to see a figure reappear before my eyes, but it never did. I was cold and shivering from the drizzle and still i see no one. that was when i decided, it was the end of something i have always wanted but have never quite gotten it. Malta's over so it's time to move on.

then on 17 sept, i stepped into my room and i see people from France, Italy, Germany and other European countries... and i tot to myself, gosh, it starkly reminds me of A-I-E-S-E-C. i was turned off. Well, knowing people is good, but i had enough of it. I had enough of having to stay around and trying to chat up with people and waiting to go to pubs. ENOUGH. I want friends through a common hobby, not friends who will pull u to pubs and discos all the time.

and on 17 sept, it's someone's birthday too. and on 17 sept, i called liren after such a long time. and on 17 sept, begins my new phrase of my life once again. all i want to do here, has been done in turkey and malta already. now i just want to study and dive.

my updates

Greetings people!

I swear, Malta is a sinful place for me. i have never done so many sinful things in a span of 2 weeks. very very very , i repeat, very sinful!

what's worse, it is an expensive place!!! ARGH!

So people, don't bug me for souvenirs from Malta.

anyway, there's nothing much to do here, but today, i was at the seaside, and i saw a aeroplane show! those doing stunts kind... it was fantastic! something new i'm seeing... finally. The planes flew past all the audience like just 50 metres away from us! AH!it was scary like the pilot was about to lose control of the plane and crash into all of us. but as it flew towards us, it smartly made a sharp 90 degrees turn upwards and goes vertically upwards for like 500 m and plunges down! and before it hits the water, it does some somersaults and flies back up into the sky! gosh, my heart was flying together with the plane. and what was more amazing, the planes dropped REAL bombs onto a mock half sunken submarine. I literally saw the shell drop and BOMB! there was a huge fireball! maybe its all set up and pre-programmed, but still i'm amazed and totally swakoo! yay! GREAT show!

then i walked and walked around the very small capital city of Valletta, and just did some shopping, took nice sceneries. This time, i walked around on my own, without anybody... and it was good. =)

The best of Malta is seen under the water.

We enter the magical Maltese waters...













And we leave the magical Maltese Waters...

My new life in Malta!

Hello people! sorry for not updating! here are more pictures of where i am...

This is a typical scene on the small-small-only-half-the-size-of-singapore-island island. i walked down from where i'm staying and in 5 min, i feel the breezee..... HAHA to all those who have started school in NUS/NTU/SMU/SIM wherever... my holidays are too long.... *evil smirk*


This is, well, not so obviously, a church. It is the 3rd biggest unsupported dome church in the world, followed by St Peters in Italy and Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, which i have already been! yayayayaya!!!

They don't have carparks like ours, only personal garages... and it's everywhere!

118 m long wreck... sank in 1998...


need i say more?

Alright, i just to say some things to some people... congrats to all those who have found their other half while i'm away... hope ur r/s will last tian chang di jiu...
and sorry to those who have lost their half too. i wish i can be there for u, but i can only tell u thru my only medium of communication.
and i miss my family too! every time i come online, i look forward to emails from my dad... but just recently, the computer is down and i don't receive any emails. oh well.
and congrats to my BROTHER!! he came in 6th in NUS Triathlon after training with his newly bought S$2500 bike!!