cold cold day

Another cold, cold day. The temperature finally hits 0 degree Celsius. I could see ice on the streets this morning and even the Astro pitch was frozen white. Cars were covered with frost. And according to the weather report, it might snow tomorrow. Snow, let it snow!

Ok, 8 more days and I’ll be back in Malaysia. I wanna club club club!!

Him and I were talking about Japanese language just now. He was saying that he’s going for an English and Japanese interview. It seemed that taking Japanese language has many other benefits (yes, other than able to communicate with Japanese girls and understand Japanese porn. Hope you ignorant people out there are reading this. hehe). If I could improve my Japanese and speak fluently, I could easily get a job in an international law firm, which has frequent deals with Japan.
– 11:00PM

Sam’s birthday

It’s Samantha?s 21st birthday today. As usual, we had birthday dinner at Mei’s Chinese restaurant. It was good. 20 people turned up.

I had a mild hangover this morning. No idea why, I wasn?t seriously pissed last night. Darn, it was giving me a headache whole day. I couldn?t study at all.

Cold, cold weather. Absolutely chilling. According to the weather forecast, it?s about 2 degrees Celsius but it sure feels like ?4 degrees Celsius. Most people on the streets wore beanies and gloves. I myself had to wear 2 layers of clothing and a beanie.

Despite the cold weather, it didn?t stop a small group of people protesting outside Firth Court. They lighted up a lot of candles around them, held banners saying ?Animal have rights too? and ?Sheffield University Animal Laboratory?. They were handing out flyers with ugly pictures of mutated animals.
– 11:00PM

Muay Thai christmas dinner

uh oh, I’m having a sore throat. I just came back from the Sheffield University Muay Thai Society’s Christmas dinner. We rounded up 36 people to dine at BB’s, an Italian restaurant and booked the VIP room with 3 long tables and 30 bottles of wine. I sat around Avin, Fiona, Rich and Andy. Basically I spent the whole night talking to Avin due to the fact that we have a lot of mutual friends. Fiona was busy hitting on Simon (: x hope Scotty doesn’t say anything about this to Fiona, hehe).

The food wasn’t good. My Funghi pizza was too salty.

By the end of the night, I finished ½ of bottle of wine. I felt tipsy and my face was scorching red. Man, I hate wine. I hated it ever since I finished a bottle of wine by myself last year and ended up having a hangover the next day.

The atmosphere in the room was good. Everybody was tipsy and lots of laughter going around. The magic of alcohol is undisputable.

Instead of going to Cavendish with the Muay Thai bunch, Avin and I ended up at Lionel’s place at Victoria Hall. He offered to give me a lift home and therefore I followed him to Lionel’s place. Simon was forcing Avin to go to the Cavendish with him but Avin didn’t want to drink anymore. Avin had to run away from him. We ended up chatting with Lionel for couple of hours.
– 11:50PM

dead sunday..

16 Watson Rd baked Bailey’s Cheesecake yesterday. All we needed were,
Cream cheese
4 eggs
4 cups of sugar
Baileys Irish cream.
Milk
Digestive biscuit
Butter.
Sour Cream

First, crush the biscuit into crumbs and then mix it with melted butter until it sticks together. Then cover the entire baking pan with the buttered crumbs. Bake it for 10 minutes. Pour in the mixture of cream cheese, eggs, sugar, Baileys Irish cream and milk. Bake for 1½ hour at slow heat.

I forgot to get the most important ingredient, which is sour cream. I ran to the nearest groceries shop but couldn’t find any. Feeling desperate, I had to surf the net for an alternative but I couldn’t find any. In the end, I decided to use yoghurt. Don’t ask me why, it was just a guess. Thank god the cake turned out well.

I see dead people – http://thestar.com.my/lifestyle/story.asp?file=/2002/12/8/features/pghantu1&sec=features
Schizophrenia or reality?
– 8:00PM

Leeds & Manchester

My day was amazingly adventurous. There were many things in England that I’ve heard about but haven’t seen them with my own eyes, especially the hitchhiker Frederick and I saw while driving through the highway. The scruffy fellow was holding a sign saying ‘Manchester please’.

Leeds as usual, was bustling with people, just like how it was last year (I visited Leeds last December). Both of us, armed with our cameras roamed around Leeds city. We shopped for a while. I bought myself a GAP long sleeve shirt and a beanie. Yeah, it’s been months since I shopped!

Leeds city is boring especially when I’m not a woman. I don’t like spending sterling pounds here. I’m saving them for my Easter trip and Europe backpacking trip. That’s why Frederick and I left Leeds 2 hours earlier than our intended time. We decided to have dinner at Manchester’s China Town.

Frederick, with a skill of a F1 driver, speeded all the way to Manchester. The highway wasn’t exactly straight and it was wet. I always have the feeling that my car would skid every time I go through a wet road. However, I slept throughout the journey to Leeds. Poor Frederick had to drive alone. Haha

We had no map and no idea how to drive around Manchester. We had to make couple of phone calls to get direction. I called my former tenant at my house, Lek Yew. He’s in Manchester University reading Law. I asked him whether Chinatown is located near Piccadilly. He answered yes and gave me some direction. I thanked him and without asking how he’s doing and stuff, I put the phone. I felt so bad. Hehe.

We finally found Chinatown, ate dinner and then walked around Manchester. Manchester is a dirty place. There are rubbishes everywhere, homeless people roaming on the streets begging for change and dark alleys offering a free mugging experience. We walked into a small carnival selling loads of things ranging from food, Christmas tree and pottery. Frederick bumped into his friend who he hasn’t spoken for 7 years. It’s a small world isn’t it?

The stalls were already closing by the time we arrived. I ate a piece of maple syrup crepe that I bought from a French looking shop. The crispy little thing was folded into a con shaped cup (funny looking cup). By the time I finished my crepe, I found that all my maple syrup has leaked into the bottom. What a waste!

Sheffield was our next destination. Frederick once again, speed back home. Within 1½ hour, we reached safely back in Sheffield.

– 11:50PM

Baileys cheesecake and new tenant.

Selamat Hari Raya to all my Muslim visitors!

I’m going to Leeds tomorrow with Frederick to do some shopping.

A group of local students will be taking over 16 Watson Rd next year. Robert Neal (our agent) came over to 16 Watson Rd with them to look at the house. I showed them my room and gave them some proper comments on the house. They were pretty happy with the house and signed the tenancy contract immediately. After signing the contract, I asked them whether will they be staying in the house next summer, that is when our contract ends. They answered no. I then asked whether could we stay in the house after our contract ended because we still have to stay for the convocation for our graduation. I expected a Yes answer probably because the previous tenant who stayed in 16 Watson Rd asked us the same question and we answered yes but this time they answered, no. fucking bitches. They said that they have to discuss with the other housemates and therefore they can’t give us a definite answer. Sounds like a valid reason but I personally think it’s probably they don’t trust us with their stuff when they leave it here during summer. Robert neal on the other hand, offered us a place to stay when we move out from our 16 Watson Rd. That sounds great but he’s not the person who keeps to his words. It has been many occasions he never keeps his promises and now we couldn’t trust his words anymore.

Frederick made me a link buttons. cheers mate!
It’s marvelooussss mmmm



link me!

– 11:45PM

Muay Thai Christian’s first class

I went for my weekly Muay Thai training again. It wasn’t so tiring this time and our new instructor, Christian, is good. He concentrated more on the techniques and hence we spent more than half an hour improving our techniques. His training is much different from others. While the other instructors concentrate on the power and the right techniques, Christian on the other hand based his training on relaxation. Muay Thai is all about relaxation and the most comfortable technique.

I received my pocket watch, which I bought from eBay. I’ve no idea how to use it. Any idea?
– 11:30PM

sweet and sour pork

I cooked sweet and sour pork dinner for my housemates today. It was easy. All I did was just marinate the pork with sugar, salt, sesame oil and egg. After that mix it with corn flour and deep-fry it. For the sauce, mix tomato sauce (loads of them), sugar (2 teaspoon), salt (1 teaspoon), light soy sauce, sour plum sauce and pineapple juice. Then fry chopped onion, capsicum and pineapple with the pork. Finally, pour the sauce into the wok and let it simmer for a while.

I mailed my dad about my Oxford trip and in reply he said,
I read about your interesting trip to Oxford. About 15-20years ago I went to Oxford once on a business trip. I stayed in an old historical hotel in the city. It was very cold (during Feb or so) and the heater in my room was not warm enough. I had to ask the hotel people to get another portable heater to my room.

At that time my host there was a British engineer who worked in a research lab near Oxford (not Oxford U). A couple of years later, this engineer went to South East Asia on a business trip. When he arrived in KL on a Saturday night, he stayed in the KL Hilton Hotel. But the next morning, he was found murdered inside his room. I was thus entangled in this murder case as my name was found in his visit list in his room ( I was supposed to meet him on Sunday for lunch together ). I went with my company’s boss to check the room (blood stains on the wall ) , identify his things, go to the General Hospital to identify the body ( went into the cold room that stored all the dead bodies ), make statements to the police etc.

But after all these, the police could not find why he was murdered and who murdered him, even after my company put up a reward for information. After about 7 (?) years later, there was a legal closing of the case. I went to the Sessions Court in KL as a witness. After some legal discussions among all the legal people there, the case was declared closed and the police ceased to investigate. Poor soul.
– 10:56PM

Carrot cake!

16 Watson Rd is a food haven. Food doesn’t seem to run out and everything taste great. 2 days ago, Wen Dee made Banana cake and the next day Mindy made butter cake and obviously they were good. And today, Wen Dee is baking another cake, mmm, carrot cake for dessert.
– 7:00PM

Last Muay Thai training Sunday classes

Muay Thai training was almost cancelled today due to the fact that Wicker Camp’s (the gym that provides us with the instructors) refusal to conduct Sunday classes. Scotty decided to continue with the training without instructors with some fitness exercise. There weren’t many of us and everything seemed to be very informal. There was once one guy took over Scotty’s place and taught us how to punch properly. From this week onwards, there will be no more Sunday classes, thanks to Wicker Camp.

For the umpteenth time, I felt nausea while training. I couldn’t even stand and felt like puking. I used to have the same problem when I did kick boxing but it stopped when I started training often. Fortunately, I felt better after I rested for few minutes.
– 11:28PM