Newcastle

We arrived Newcastle on Sunday night around 8.30pm and went straight to Osbert's friend house. We left our luggage there and went out for dinner. I think we arrived at his flat approximately midnight. Really late though but who cares.
We got the airbag but don't really know how to pump air in so we decided to leave it. Poor Osbert had to sleep without the airbag. But it was nice of him to let me sleep on his bed. :)

The next day, I followed him to his Maths class. It was all revision. The class was boring. So, I decided to go shopping alone after his maths class. Marks & Spencer, Monsoon, etc. I practically walked around the city centre. I did buy something in the end after much persuasion of not buying anything for myself. Had lunch at McDonalds with Osbert. He had to walk back for his labs after lunch. Went groceries shopping after he finished his labs.
That night, borrowed a hair dryer to pump the airbag but turned out that the airbag has its own in-built pump. No, the hair dryer was very handy, I dried my hair. 'Lucky me', quoted from Osbert.

The following day, he went to class alone. I stayed in his room till noon and took the bus to city centre, meeting him there. After that, he took me to look around the city. In the afternoon, we took the bus to Metro Centre. That place was awesome. I wanted to buy a lot of stuff but reminded myself that I cannot bring them back either to London or NZ. *big sigh..
Would it be better if I was staying here. Then, I can buy lots of stuff. *Ahem.. I shouldn't be actually. Poor Osbert had to walk in and out the shops with me. :P But he did say that he's ok with it, so yup... You don't mind if I drag you shopping in London the next time? :D

Was thinking of posing doing the laundry but I don't think it looked like me doing the laundry

Eating Mcdonalds in Metro Centre, taken by remote control
It's cool how we have the same camera, I didn't have my remote control so we used his to take photos for both cameras, amazing how both cameras needed just one remote control



The bridge in the background and The Sage which looks like a peanut

This was taken when we were walking on the bridge. You know what? I could feel the bridge shaking. It was scary.. :S

This is the bridge, called Gateshead Millennium Bridge

City Centre

In Metro Centre

We had dinner with one of his flatmate. His flatmate prepared 5 dishes!! Osbert prepared 3 dishes, one was prepared by his mum, he only heated and 'modify' it. O.. there may not be 8 dishes because some of the dishes wasn't on the table.

That night, Osbert got his new speakers. Man, the bass system is so cool. I so want one like that. I could just blast it out. Er.. actually I can't but I just love the speaker system. We also watched some movies though the quality isn't that good. Stayed up till almost 3am. I nearly fell asleep waiting for him to transfer songs from my hard drive as well.

The next day, I slept till 9.30am. Osbert got up to go to class. Only came back at 10 something am. At noon, we had lasagna. Soon, I was to depart for London. *sob sob.. I'm going to miss Newcastle... ok.. I'm going to miss him as well, miss punching him.. *muahahaha...

This was taken on the second last day in the morning. I won't put yours la.. cos u do look like you just woke up and you said your hair looks messy.

Edinburgh

Taking the bus in the morning from Aberdeen to Edinburgh, we arrived there at noon. There was a fun fair around so we went there. I called it fun fair, don't really know what they called that fun place. The photo below was taken at night, that shows the fun fair which we went. It was so hard to take photos at night because the photos were either blurred or too dark. I guess Osbert is a good photographer. I'm a lousy photographer.

I'm not sure what is the thing behind me but we just took photos of it.

That was the train tracks in the background with the fun fair just beside it. The bus station is nearby a shopping centre, which is a good thing. For those people who are transitting here to go somewhere else later, they can just waste their time to shop. The train station is also nearby. This is good for us, as we walked around to see the castle and everything before heading to the train station to go to Newcastle.

This is Edinburgh.

This was taken at one of buildings that we passed. The mirror makes us almost the same tall. Cool le.. I'm not the shortest one anymore. Haha!

Aberdeen

Arriving Aberdeen at noon, Osbert's dad took us to see the fishes. Unfortunately, I did not manage to see any fishes swimming around. Does that mean I am not lucky enough? Well, his mum said that if I did manage to see fishes, I would be lucky for one year. Wow.. is it true? I wanted to see some fishes though. I was told that the salmon swam upstream to lay their eggs. Isn't that taking a lot of energy? Yea.. it is and they just die after laying eggs. Poor fishy!!

At the river

This was taken at one of the castles. Hmm... what was the castle's name again? This is only one of the castles in Scotland. There are a lot of castles. I like to visit all of the castles but I don't have a lot of time in Aberdeen, I'm leaving the next day for Newcastle. Sigh.. it was fun staying in Aberdeen.
It's called Crathes Castle.

This was taken at the city centre. It was a bit dark because the lights weren't on. They should have it on, right?

Well, I think only some of the lights are on. This was more colourful.

This builiding is made from granite and is the oldest building in where? I'm not sure. I forgot already. I was told though. Very forgetful, am I?
That is Marshall College, the second biggest granite building in the world.

This was taken in the shopping mall. It was really cold outside. I didn't have enough time to walk around and also window shopped. Sigh.. but I went to church that night and watched movie with Osbert and his friends. He said that watching movie price in Aberdeen is cheap. Rite???
After movie, his dad came to pick us up. We only slept at 2am in the morning. O.. I think it was only me because he slept at 3am. His mum, sister, dad, him and me were chatting. They are also related to Tommy Ting, who is also my cousin. wow.. long relations huh? But then, Bintulu is so small, who wouldn't expect such connections/relations.

London

Travelling with friends really is a good feeling. After coming back from Malaysia and rest for one day, my friend, Osbert came to London.

First day, we went to Musuem of London and Tower of London. We took a lot of photos but mostly about the stuff displayed in Tower of London. But I will include few photos of us.

Second day, we went to Madame Tusaed's Museum and Emirates Stadium. It was nice to take photos with the wax stars but they are not real. Isn't it good if they are real. One thing, chamber live is really scary. If you like to scare yourself, you should go in. I got freaked out when I went in. I was about to walk thru the in doorway when I saw something moving. I quickly ran out and didn't want to go in. Funny but I can't help myself being scared.

After coming out from the museum, we went to Regent Street, just walking and also went in Hamley's. The biggest toy shop in London, a seven storey building. After that, it was the Emirates Stadium. Cool! Arsenal! Haha.. I'm not a fan of that club and I have been there.

The Queen, Prince Charles???

Tony Blair and George Bush???

At Emirates Stadium

That night, we took the bus from London to Aberdeen, stopping in a few places in the morning. It was a night bus, so I had to sleep in the bus. My first time overnight in a bus. I never went on night bus though I have been on the plane at night. Hhmm..