Birthday 2001

It was 24th September 2001. I was celebrating my 20th Birthday. We had a drinking session for my birthday @ my Hall’s pub i.e Tapton Hall. I had 4 pints (1 pint = 1 1/2 mug) of Snake Bite Black (beer, cider and cranberry juice). I was fcking pissed and was running around. My classmates were also damn drunk. They were running around talking cock.

I was at the lobby trying to recuperate. My friends and some strangers were talking there. There were 2 girls. One of them spoke to me. Everything seems so blur and I didnt pay attention to who I was talking to.

She said, “Are you okay?”
Me: I’m fine. What?s your name?
?I’m Dorothy?
Me: Oh what are you doing here in Sheffield??

Then suddenly, someone shouted, “She’s my mother!”

I turned and looked at the person sitting next to Dorothy. I tried to focus. And as everything got clearer, Dorothy was actually a middle age lady and the person who shouted was actually Dorothy’s daughter. Oh man, I was so embarrassed,.

Last of Sheffield photos.

Dont know what to post today, so I guess I’ll just post some photos of Sheffield. 😀

Sheffield University student union. During exam period, it’s open 24 hours. There I get to ogle white chicks 😀


This Ice Cream truck sells really good shit ice cream. It’s really creamy 😀


While I was taking the photo of the Ice Cream truck, this 2 guys whistled at me. They asked me to take a photo of them.


So on my way back, I bumped into this dog.

Sheffield University photos

To those who didn’t know, I graduated from Sheffield University.

Sheffield is a beautiful place. So beautiful till every scenery looks like a photo opportunity

It was a bright and sunny day, so I decided to snap some pictures. Here are the photos:


Arts Tower – the tallest building in Sheffield


An aerial view of Sheffield from Arts Tower


Paternoster lift – An elevator constructed of a series of doorless compartments hung on chains that move slowly and continuously, allowing passengers to step on and off at will.


Main library

Despite its beauty, Sheffield is a boring place. You can actually die of boredom there. If you send someone to live there alone, he will start talking to himself and see weird shit. Well, if you had the right friends who shares the same enthusiasm with you, it would be a great place. But for me, not in front of the computer playing computer games or in front of the television playing PS2!!

Graduation day

Octagon Centre was crowded with soon to be graduates and their parents, relatives and friends. Everyone was smiling happily as the camera flashes onto everyone’s face. Everyone grabbed anyone they knew to take photos together.

By 9:30AM, we proceeded into Octagon Centre. The soon to be graduates sat on the middle while guests are seated on the spectator’s stand. But the event was uber boring. For half an hour we were subjected to torturous traditional organ pieces. I sat around a bunch of locals who I’ve never seen in my life throughout my entire 2 years stay in Sheffield.

The convocation ceremony was entirely procedural. The big shots walked into the hall while everyone stood up, we lined up to get our certificates by getting on to the stage one by one and lastly, the event ends after a short speech by the Dean and Vice Chancellor. Sadly, there wasn’t any hat throwing ceremony.

Dad and I proceeded to the professional photograph session. The man with his huge digital SLR camera, made Dad and I stand in a unique pose (this body part turns here, and that body part turns here and so on). He even forced us to smile by shouting, “Be happy!”




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Good news
I got my luggage back from Watson 16! Screw Robert Neal! We had a short chat with the new tenants. They were pretty nice. In the beginning we thought they are going to screw us for the mess we created but thank god they didn’t know anything about it. Khai Fei had to scout the house before we head back to Watson 16. Initially we were worried that no one will be there to open the door for us. Fortunately, the new tenants moved in hence we had no problem gaining entry. However, we had problem moving my stuff out from the house, as it was too heavy. I found out that I packed canned food, packets of Milo and loads of useless stuff inside. CM, Siew Lee and Wen Dee helped me to move my things. Thanks guys. 😀

Tuesday
London was great! I met up with Daniel and Ka Bien. Daniel accompanied Dad and I to the British Museum and we met up with Ka Bien for dinner. Dad didn’t join us for dinner cause he had jet lag and had to sleep early.

The hotel we stayed was amazingly huge. Our floor itself has already 400 rooms. But dad complained the room doesn’t have aircon. We had to open the window and expose ourselves to the noisy traffic outside.

Museum
Dad has been telling me how fascinating British Museum was. During the height of the British Empire, we foresaw the colonization of countries by the British Empire. It was once said, ‘The sun never sets on the British Empire’ as the British has colonized many parts of the world. But those unscrupulous motherfuckers stole many items from those countries and brought it back to England and claimed that they were gifts from the rulers of those countries.

We set off to the British Museum as soon as we got in to the hotel and met Daniel there. The entrance was free but 3 pounds can be given as a token of appreciation. Hmph, I wouldn’t pay a single cent to see a display of stolen good (VCD is an exception of course).

Our main attraction was the Greek and Rome, Egyptian, Chinese and South East Asia section. The Greek and Rome section, oh boy, it’s superbly boring. It’s all about statutes, this god that god, stones and philosophical shits. The Egyptian section was ten times better even though the display of dead bodies was pretty morbid. However, the Egyptian considers death as a pathway to another life hence bodies are preserved so that they could reenter their body in the future. Chinese section on the other hand focused on wealth. There were loads of royal artifacts stolen from the Imperial palace during the Ching dynasty. As for the South East Asia section, I don’t remember what I saw there. I couldn’t find anything about Malaysia. Hence there you are, Greek and Rome section about life and art, Egypt about death and Chinese about wealth.

Harrods
Daniel brought me to Harrods shopping centre, one of the most expensive shopping centre in UK. I bought a tie for my convocation. It costs me 15 quid and that the cheapest I could get. Harrods is pretty strict as ‘please do not take pictures’, ‘please do not stand here’ and ‘please carry your bags’ were heard in Harrods. But there’s one section that we could take photos. It’s the Princess Diana and Dodi shrine. Picture of Diana and Dodi were put side by side with 2 cups on the table. Apparently, the cups were left as they were after their last meal.

The place was so big that we couldn’t finish walking it.

Encounter with the famous (finally)
Guess whom I saw in Leicester Square’ Claire Danes in black silky dress, Kristanna Loken in pink and Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger! There were loads of people crowding around Odeon. Apparently it was the premier of Terminator 3. The atmosphere was pretty hype up as we waited for the trio to appear. As the trio walked out to the balcony, people screamed in excitement. The kid next to me kept on shouting ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger!’ Kristina Loken is damn tall. She’s even taller than Arnie (probably by a head). I could see her head popping up from a crowd, as she was the tallest in the crowd. Oh yeah, she doesn’t look gorgeous in real life. The trio gave a short speech and I remember Arnie saying, ‘I’ll be back’ once. The director of Terminator 3 gave a reluctant short speech as well after Arnie pushed the mike to him.

Unfortunately, Daniel missed the event cause he had a little problem in the train station.

Day II
Encounter with Japanese
While we were waiting for the river cruise ticket counter to open, Dad made me talk to a group of Japanese. He wanted me to ask them to ask them to take a picture for us. It took me a while to recall the Japanese that I have learnt 9 months ago. And it went,

Me: sumimasen, shashin o totte kudasai (Excuse me can you take a picture for us’’
Japanese man: ‘hai dozo’ (sure)
(Picture taken, Dad and I posed on the walkway of River Thames)

Me: Arigato Gozaimasu (Thanks)
(I bowed in gratitude and walked away)

Japanese man: Ah, Doko de nihon kara ikimasu ka’ (Which part of Japanese are you from?)
Me: iie, Watashi wa Mareshia jin desu. Demo Daigaku de nihon go o bengkio shimasta. Demo watashi no nihongo wa jyouzu ja nai desu (I am Malaysian but I studied Japanese in University but my Japanese isn’t that good)
Japanese women: kirei kireii!! (I think they were assuring me that my Japanese is alright but kireii means beautiful or clean in Japanese. I guess it also means good)

Conversation went on in Japanese for a while. They kept on bombarding me with questions. I guess they felt pretty proud to find a Malaysian that could speak Japanese. The Japanese man had 2 women with him. The man is from Kyoto while one of the women is from Tokyo. I vaguely remember what they said cause they kept on asking me a lot of questions as if they were testing my language skill.

Japanese man (In a slow tone and proper Japanese (not with slang an all): Nihon ga itta koto ga arimasen ka? (Have you been to Japan?)
Me: Arimasen desu
Japanese man: Nihon ni ikitai desu ka? (Do you want to go to Japan?)
Me: Hait, ikitaii! (Yes!)
(He sounded like my Japanese lecturer)

Dad gave me a thumb up after they left. I guess the amount of money he has put into my education hasn’t gone to waste. He also advised me to speak to Japanese on the street whenever I see them.

Another encounter with language
Unfortunately, something happened just now. While I was in the computer lab, a Chinese lady in her mid forties from the opposite table, approached me. She asked,

‘Are you Chinese’’
‘Yes’
‘Ni hui chung wen mah’ (Do you know Mandarin)
‘Hui, tan xi wo de chung wen pu hau’ (Yes but it’s not that good)

She came over and passed me a piece of paper and asked me to translate it in Mandarin.
‘Wo kan dau ni de yin wen hen hau. Yao ni pang mang.’ (I see your English is quite good. Can you please help me’ (She saw me talking to the girl next to me, see below)

I was talking to this voluptuous Spanish pharmacist sitting next to me (Wei hai, she initiated the conversation ah). She showed me a website of a company. She was fascinated (and also laughed) at this shareholder of a major company who had no university degree qualification but a diploma holder. The shareholder was also involved in loads of public international activities which is surprisingly more than the Chairman. Now the shareholder is the President of Boeing German. She said she wants to meet up with that guy and ask him how he did it.

Back to the lady, she gave me a pen to write Chinese character. I had to explain to her that I cant write Chinese characters well and instead I tried to translate it orally. However, I failed miserably. She muttered loads of Mandarin that I couldn’t understand. I had to explain some words with actions and examples. For example, I explained the word experience with ‘experience zhiu shi heng xin ni koh lai ying kwok wan shuah (Experience is something like you come to England to play, Ha ha). She somehow got the meaning. I guess I managed to explain something to her. She thought I was from China but I had to explain to her that I’m from Malaysia and studied Malay. We chatted for a while but there were loads of words I cant say in Mandarin. I can’t even say the word “just now” in Mandarin. How shameful.

Graduation day tomorrow. Gonna try out our gown tonight 😀

p/s sorry for the long post. haha took me few hours to type it.

Everybody here is sleeping tight…

Like Wee Kiat, I was also happily typing a post yesterday when my IE decided to close on me. BAHHH! So I shall cut short the drama of my sister and I fighting yesterday – she pissed me off I slapped her she whacked my head so I whalloped her an hour later many tears and hugs all is good now. 😛

Moving on, if you guys remember about Vivien, our resident ghost in Watson 16 – well, she has made an appearance! *insert appropriate Twilight Zone tune again* It was another typical night in the house, the guys were at the PS2 and Frank was doing some tarot card reading in the livingroom. Then someone in the room (whose name I don’t wanna reveal) suddenly became very pale, very cold and she started to cry… I noticed, so I pulled her out of the room and asked what the hell was wrong? Then she told me that she saw a figure of a young child of about 8-9 years old with shoulder-length dark hair and a fringe, wearing a flower-printed dress to her knees and socks but she couldn’t see if there were feet. The figure was standing by the entrance to the livingroom and started off rather blur but slowly got clearer bit by bit. She had no face.

(I was silently screaming inside when she was telling me all this)

We went back to the livingroom but she couldn’t see the figure anymore. She didn’t know about our Vivien story either, so she couldn’t have been making it up to entertain us. Something playing with her eyes or was there really an apparition in the livingroom that night?

OK, enough about such scary shit… Leong-la! Told me to post about this, typing about it now is only making myself scared. need to get my mind off it need to get my mind off it need to get my mind off it

Ahh yesss, Fred bought durians for us today. WHat is this I hear?? DuriaNs?? IN UK?!? 13 POUNDS EACH!?!??!?! Ok, so I thought it was kinda cool, to be eating the all-heaty durians in a cold country like UK. Apparently the durians were from somewhere in UK. I didn’t know they had any durian plantations, or a tree even, all the way here. Here’s a photo taken today with (from L-R) Alex, Fred, Mindy, Chuo Ming and the fruit. It almost looks like home!!

And to all who know Wei Chen, his 22nd birthday is this coming Monday!!! He claims that no one knows, that he will be celebrating it alone, blah blah blahhh… I bet he would be too busy on that day to even bother chatting with me, so suCk it in boy 😉 you are gonna have a great time.

Before I forget, to all who know my sister – guess what!!! She got herself her first boyfriend!!! WOO HOO!!! I can’t tell who it is yet, but I am really itching to…. ah well, I will get my way soon enough. Wish you two the very, very best. 😀 *HUGS*

2.50AM

Khai Fei’s Birthday 2002

We had a little birthday celebration for Khai Fei at Fridays. About 15 of us, took a 15 minutes cab ride to Thank God It’s Fridays just to celebrate Khai Fei’s 21st birthday. The food is outrageously expensive but their drinks were good. I had this 12 oz steak, which I ordered medium rare. Chi Der ordered the same thing too but he wanted it rare. After the food is served and while we were happily eating it, we found out that our steaks has been mixed up. One of my steaks is rare while Chii Der’s other half was medium rare.

We made Khai Fei drank a lot. Frederick bought him a bottle of Champagne and Yong Chun and gang bought him a glass of vodka lime. As soon as we reached home, Charles made him few glasses of blue lagoon. We kept forcing him to drink more and soon, right after he had his last shot of vodka, he headed straight to the toilet to puke.

I had 2 pints of beer throughout the night and felt tipsy. My threshold is getting lower and lower. I don’t like the feeling of being too drunk. Happily drunk is just perfectly fine but it happens rarely, most of the time when I drink, I’ll be fucked.

There were many occasions I was too drunk. I ended up puking everywhere namely Bangsar Alley (very memorable drinking session, 3 of my friends and I drank too much till we had to puke in the alley) and toilet bowls (my usual spot).

I gave Khai Fei a burned CD with some movies and pictures on it. Janet and her housemates gave him a FCUK sweater. There were many birthday wishes via phone calls for Khai Fei. Anyway, HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY SIEWKHAIBEI!
11:50PMnote to Ben: FUCK U!!

The braids on the back of my head are falling off. I’ll make a trip down to the Saloon tomorrow afternoon to get it fixed. I feel like removing it but hell no! i just paid 20 quid for it! It should last at least 2 weeks!
3:00AM

Michelle’s Birthday 2002

Things haven’t been working well for me. Today, I bought a 5 satellites speaker for discounted price of £70. It sounds good and value for money but the only problem is my laptop doesn’t support it! The speaker requires 3 plug in sockets and all I have is just one. Therefore, only 2 of the satellites could run while the others doesn’t play at all because the cable couldn’t be plug into the laptop.

I went to Michelle’s birthday dinner at Orleans later at night. Her birthday is tomorrow but somehow we’re celebrating it today. Once again, the steak I ordered came out the way it wasn’t suppose to be. I ordered medium rare but instead they gave me an over cooked one. I complained to the waiter and all of a sudden, he ran to the other end of the table and got me a medium rare one. It was Frederick’s steak and it seemed that both of our steaks were given wrongly. To add insult to injury, Frederick eaten half of the steak already!

Many people turned out for Michelle’s dinner. 5 to 6 tables had to be combined to accommodate everybody. As usual, there were photo sessions, cake cutting and eating session and finally Michelle’s free shot of liquor. As usual again Michelle was in a state of comatose as soon as she arrived home.
11:59PM
Check out the new King Of Fighters 2002 videos! FUCKING ONZZ AHH!!

Mai Shiranui
Iori Yagami
Iori Yagami 2

For more videos go to http://allgames.online.sh.cn/kof/update/down/2002/9/9-7.htm
12:01AM