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Bought this last year and it has been in my draft post for so long and I thought I should post it out, colour my blog. Lol

Break the ice of this post. Hehehe.. anyway, I managed to watch some of my NCIS series. I haven't watch my series since last year. I haven't got time since as I was always busy with something, watch movies instead and spending time with hubby.

Anyway, just on a random thought. I am not looking to buy houses but browsing. Most of the old houses I look have bath tubs. Now I am not a fan of bath tubs even though I know it is fun to sit in it and relax in a bathwater. I much prefer shower cubicle. But these clawfoot tubs I saw online are quite nice. They are big though and I am sure they are going to cost a lot.

I mean, I can always renovate the house with nice bathtubs but. Expensive. =[

Sexy?

I probably sound weird to be talking about lingerie. But really, I think it is in every woman's heart to buy one. It's like shopping. Oh but not every female likes shopping. Well you still need to shop in order to buy new clothes. Anyway, shopping doesn't mean you have to spend the whole day in the shopping mall.

I always say I like shopping, but I can't really shop the whole day (as in literally walk in the mall the whole day) unless it is something that interest me or if I have a lot of cash (which is unlikely). Lol this goes back to square one. -_-

Dig more

Guess what I found?

That was so long time ago. Hehehe..

Anyway, holidays are coming to an end. Sigh.. did I really enjoy my holidays bumming around? I guess I did. Classes are starting next week and wait, that means results are coming out before classes started. Let me check, oh it's this Friday. Aaah.. it's scary to know my results. I hope I pass them all. The good grade doesn't matter to me, just as long as I pass.

Oh yea, cooking has been a bliss too. Not that it's hard. I just use packets and mix them up. It was stir-fry most of the time with rice or pasta. Hmm.. It was alright but I don't like my cooking. It can be too salty or not salty. Am I expecting too much? Or am I expecting myself to be like my mum? Maybe I am. I try to improve though. I want to make beef ball soup. =) I seem to remember mum giving me recipe for it and I am supposed to look through my email? It's taking my time. Aaah.. I should make the beef ball soon before my holidays totally ends.

Maybe I should check wholesale clothes since I do love clothes. It would be cheaper to get wholesale than getting individual at shops in the mall. Oh wait, I should tell my cousins about this. I am sure a whole lot of us would like it. Somemore, we can mismatch it and put them up on our fashion blog to share with other people. :D

Two day weekend

Last week, when sherp was here, we brought her to the chocoloate lounge. I love the chocolate drink there but after drinking for some time, it gets too chocolatey in my mouth. I do love eating chocolate but why do I feel too chocolatey after a while? Ish.. weirdo.

Have I started getting bored staying at home? Not yet. So far, I watched tv at night while reading my story book. Then, I have various housechores that I did during the day. Oh, I watched this tv programme about a woman slashing her groceries bill from $300 sth to under $100. Incredible. She made her own washing powder. Hmm.. sounds interesting. I wanted to try out too. I checked out the recipe online. So yesterday, I went to supermarkets looking for ingredients. Found all but one. That is called borax powder. I searched on trademe and they sell there. So do you think I should still go ahead to do that or wait till my summer holidays? I am not lazy, just a little bit troublesome.

I wonder if veep has done her braces. Last time, she told me that she is getting braces. Sure she will lose more weight if it's too painful for her to eat. Maybe she should check out orange nj cosmetic dentist since she is a little picky on some stuff. Hehe.. if she is beside me, sure enough she would be hitting for saying that. Muahaha.. They actually got discounts. Somemore, if the whole family use the services there, they would have benefits. Hmm.. sounds cool.

Updates

The last last week was cold. It was hailing ice from Friday night till Saturday afternoon. For the first time in the year, I actually switched on the heater in my room. Hehehe.. now the weather has gone to being normal, meaning that it is supposed to be autumn weather. It is still cold.

Anyway, it was Mother's Day yesterday. That was Sunday. I had a relaxing Saturday, meeting in the morning, went to a friend's house and then head off to shopping mall to watch movie and bought few things from Briscoes. The stuff was on sale. I saw a bed sheet for $5 and I couldn't resist not buying that. When I paid at the checkout, it was reduced to $3. How cheap. =) I also bought a laundry basket for myself. My laundry basket which I bought from M'sia is already 'cacat-ed', the wire around it has gone in a weird shape and kept on poking at my leg when I took it to the washing machine. Iron Man is really a nice movie. Li, Em and I left right after the credits started. I read her blog after I got back from YAG Bible study discussion that the movie still continues after the credit finishes. I knew that we should have stayed. Sigh.. I so have to watch the movie again to see the ending.



Random photo. =) But this was taken in Milan Zara. It was so big, I thought it was a hotel lobby. That is me and lynnwei. JY koko managed to take the photo before the guard told him off from taking more photos.

Hmm..

I will start the second post with what I have been doing during the 5 day 'holidays'. I just went to church service with friends on Friday. I didn't go to my own church because I know there would be a lot of people and I would have to stand outside. Another thing is I don't want to go by myself. My mood was good that day so I want to remain happy that day. After the service, my friends and I went back to one of friends' house to wash the car.

The next day, two friends and I went shopping. No, I am not simply getting anything. I definitely need to buy my field trip gears, eg sleeping bag, boots, track pants as pyjamas. Sunday, I went to mass in the morning and then Mosaic service in the afternoon. Monday, lunch with fish whom my flatmate and I haven't seen for so long. It was a good chat and lunch. That night too, we had dinner with Liyana and Anu, another friends whom we caught up with. Tuesday was just another lazying and assignments day.

So, this week is just going to pass without any excitement. I will need to finish off my assignments even though one is due next week and one the following week. International food festival is coming up on Monday and I am helping so I would have to start reading my lab notes to prepare for a lab test. Busy busy.. Then, I have a church camp conference on the next Friday. Ah, I got a field trip this Friday. I don't know how long it will take but I am definitely going to take photos. Updates coming up soon.

Day One

The next day, I followed Lynnwei and her friend to London Eye. Some of her friends came much later and they all went up. I didn’t go up though. Lynnwei commented that she felt a bit bored sitting in the eye tube. After they came down, they decide to go sight-seeing separately. I took lynnwei to Leicester Square, Trafalgar Square and then to Bond Street for shopping. It was really windy and rainy that day. It was a lesson not to bring umbrellas out.

It was raining while we took this photo, hence the umbrella handle in the way.

Look what happen to our umbrellas after taking them out on a rainy, windy day.

We went in the National Art Gallery and saw few paintings before deciding to go shopping at Bond Street. I forgot how many items lynnwei and I bought. It was really fun shopping, we were going to continue shopping till late at night but stopped when we were really tired, hungry and cold. We wanted to go to Marble Arch to take photos but end up going back home because it would be too dark that time.

She came

I will start the whole story from the time lynnwei came to London. She arrived on the afternoon on Wednesday. Showered and ate for a while before I took her around Ealing Broadway. She did not end up buying anything because some stuff is quite expensive. Sherp turned up much later and took us both to see her boss’ shops and her advertisement work which was placed outside the shop.

That night, I took out the candy floss machine as I did promise lynnwei that she will have her turn to make candy floss.

I think Lynnwei is going to upload more photos in her blog or she may put them in facebook or is it multiply?

p/s there are more updates to come. It just takes me time to choose and do a bit of changes before uploading them.

Shopping

This post is for Lynthia. She asked me to see if there are any sizes for her. Meaning, shop some clothes for her. Right after I told mum, she decided that both of us go clothes shopping. Yea, do you know how tiring it is to hold out both your hands to see the clothes, the sizes and the price without stoping. Oh, don't get me wrong. I didn't experience this when I was looking out clothes for Lynthia. I was saying that I experienced this on the other day when I was looking for clothes for myself. Really, it could an exercise for my arms. Maybe I was hoping too much for myself. Hehe.. It is so hard to find my size for clothes. Sometimes, I had to look in the children's section. I am even wearing children's boot size for shoes.

Ok, back to the main point. I found some clothes but but but I am sure if you would like it or not. I tried it on and it looks as if I am pregnant. Hehehe.. Sorry if the top wasn't what you expected. Will try to look more again tomorrow, day after tomorrow and the day after the day, etc.

:)

I don't think it is a shopping spree

Now I think I ran out of ideas to blog. But I can still update about stuff I did here. I did nothing much here except helping mum with her 'shopping spree'. You can't really say it's a shopping spree because we don't buy every single thing we saw. We just sort of look around and see if we like any of the clothes, think if we really really want them only then we buy them.

Oh man.. today, mum, dad and I went shopping. I think we sort of shop like crazy. We bought quite a lot of stuff. It's nice to shop if they are cheap. I went to Monsoon with mum and I looked through every single clothes rack for size 6 or 8 but found a few. I saw a lot of size 16. I think my flatmate, Em would love the shop because they has her clothes size.

Other than shopping, I went online, watch tv and sleep most of the time. Look how lazy I am. But but but it's still my holidays. 16 more days till Lynn Wei comes to London and 17 more days till Jinn Yuan koko comes too.

Fun photos

I can't remember when was this we took this photo. It was one fine night when we took these photo. It just so happen that Osbert took the bear and put it on Sherp's head. I found it funny and interesting so I took a photo of it.

This was taken on the 26th Dec. It was predicted that sales started that day and there were people flocking around waiting for shops to open and rushed in to buy stuff.

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Yum

Sunday

After church, went for lunch with WZ, Jon and Michelle. It was a good chat. Accompanied Anu to Riccarton Mall as she wanted to buy a pair of jeans. At night, Anu came over to pick her laundry. After that, we suddenly decide to go to the beach so we ask WZ and Jon if they wana come along. Beach that night was cold. The sand was cold too.

Monday
Did not go anywhere in the morning but I got work that night. Blogged about work on the other blog so I will just copy here since not many people knows the blog.

Working on a job is not easy. Who ever said it was easy. No matter what kind of job you are working as, it is going to be hard. I was working on Monday night, I thought it was going to be one of the quiet nights and I have brought a book along. But there was a table of 29 people booked that night, another girl called Kim was also working that night. We both brought out food for the tourists. It was a group of tourists from Thailand.

Many times when I served them, they spoke to me in Thai which I have no idea what they were talking about. I heard Japanese, Korean and China word. I assume they were trying to guess where I am from. So I answered, I am from Malaysia. Then, they went, aaa.. Malaysia..

It's interesting that they would even wonder where I am from when they are eating their dinner.

Tuesday
I finished one of my assignment. Two more to go. Went to Ric Mall for a walk cos I feel that I stayed in my room too much. Everyone is going for holidays, either just going somewhere north, road trip or to Australia. I wana go too but this holidays, Em and I did not plan to go anywhere. We should have gone somewhere too.

New sports shoes

My new sport shoe.

How nice is that. I just bought it today. I wanted the other one the moment I walked in the store. But there weren't my size. Actually, it was the children's shoes on sale. The colour is nicer than this one. But oh well, I have no choice.
Guess how much I bought.
I sure hope this will last longer like my ex shoe. It feels weird saying ex shoe. Should I say former or previous. Maybe I should have said previous. Oh well.. I just wanted to say it. Muahaha.. no one can stop me. Ok, I should stop. Crapping.

Celebrity Gossips

I remember my cousins used to buy teenagers/celebrity gossips magazine and we would often browse them together and did whatever quizzes they have.

After moving to New Zealand, I think I got more interested to read teenagers/celebrity gossips magazine. So, I would often go to the supermarkets or the bookshops and check out the price. It’s normally more expensive to buy there.

So, I was trying to be smart by buying in the airport where there is 12.5% tax free.

Now, it’s even better because there is this online celebrity gossip website. We can all just check out the website, there’s no need to even go and buy those magazines anymore. =)

Isn’t this good?

celeb gossip

From last Monday onwards

I went to Polina's house on Monday, spent the night at her house as well. We talked, talked and talked... caught up with a lot of stuff, either talking about school, friends from high school etc..
Anyway, we went to the Petone beach on Monday evening, Veronica drove there to meet us there.
It was really good to catch up with Veronica as well. We played at the playground as well. I'm not showing it here. Muahaha! :)

From left: Veronica me Polina

Me Polina and Veronica

I went back the next day at 2.30pm, only had lunch when I got back. Didn't do much except studying.

On Wednesday, Uncle Benny dropped me, Jordan and Kim off at Westfield. I treated them lunch and movies. We watched 'Meet the Robinsons', it was really good movie.

Thursday, Eugene came to pick me up and drove over to North City Shopping mall to meet Kate as well. But Kate did not join us watching 'Mr Bean: The holiday'. The movie was hilarious. I recommend you all to watch it. :)

Anyway, Friday came, Kim and I decided to go to Wellington to walk around and to Tepapa Museum to see exhibition on Eygpt. It was really interesting. I took some photos but... there's nothing new about Tepapa. Just the same old Tepapa.

Tomorrow, it's Saturday and Uncle Martin (Jordan and Kim's uncle) will be taking us to watch TMNT. So cool.. I chatted to mum just now and she said it was my favourite when I was 3 years old. No wonder I feel so excited about wanting to watch it. I have no idea how many favourite cartoons I had when I was young. I was told that I loved to watch Duck Tales (apparently I watched one episode 100 times), Tom and Jerry and Ninja Turtles. I know I love watching Tom and Jerry Show, I still watch them. Isn't that cool? Muahaha :)

It's great this week, I have Math 221 Tutorial due in on Friday and I managed to finish early. I'm just happy that I finished it on Monday after class. I saw Liyana and Cheh Ah (one of the scholars whom I was introduced to last year) in the basement of the Maths Building. So I sat down with them and got Bibi to go through some notes for Math 221. Emma came after that. Hmm.. we were all gathering there? Hmm.. sounds fun but I was doing tutorial work. I continued to stay there doing tutorial work after Liyana and Cheh Ah left for tutorial, I think. Anyway, I missed out my lunch because of that but I don't care. As long as I finished it, it's ok.

Before heading back to our flat, we saw accident just around the corner. It wasn't serious though. Just the front part of the car. After getting backpacks and put down our books, Emma and I left to go to Riccarton Mall, Westfield Riccarton. We bought some food from Pak N Save and had our late lunch. Window shopped for a while. I let myself walk longer since I finished my tutorial work.

The next day, I stupidly forgot to bring my sandwich to uni. Luckily, Emma was still at flat so she brought my sandwich to uni. Well, lucky me. She forgot hers yesterday and I wasn't at flat to bring to her. I left to go to class while she skipped class. :P
I went to pick up my textbooks which I have tried to sell at the second hand booksale. Good thing, my physics book is sold but the mechanics books did not get sold. Sigh.. so I had to take it back. But I did get NZD90 for the Physics textbook. So, I should be happy.

Anyway, this is just to update everyone of what I have been doing. Ahh... test and a quiz next week. Have to study now.

Collections Or Not?

I went out yesterday with mum, shopping. In the beginning, we just window-shopped. It was ok to just look around, you don't have to buy anything, right? I saw some stuff I want to buy but I know I couldn't take it cos my luggage is full already, so I convinced myself that I will buy it at the end of the year when I come back. Convincing eh? :)

Anyway, when I saw 99pence clearance sale in the Bookshop, BW, I couldn't wait to go in. Then, I saw this...

Those postcards are so nice, I used to have collection of postcards, I have no idea where I put them, it is a waste to keep them and don't know where they are next. Oh well, these postcards also symbolize where I have been. It also shows the wonderful and amazing views of London. :D
I think I have postcards from Australia,US, Dubai...

Oh wait, I don't think I ever collect postcards from places I have been. I didn't even have any from New Zealand even though I am staying there. What la.. so you see? It is a waste to keep those postcards if you don't ever think of using it. Yes, I know you are right, Osbert. So, happy now that I mentioned it?
Well, these postcards are gona be stuck on Sherp's wardrobe. Hehe.. you have to let me put something as least. And, I better buy some from New Zealand.

Shopping

Saturday, mum and dad brought me to Brent Cross Shopping Centre. We took the bus from Ealing Broadway to the Brent Cross shopping centre. I saw IKEA on the way, I didn't think there is an IKEA here. Anyway, the shopping centre was really big, shopped with mum and dad at Fenwick first. After that we went to Gap, etc. I can't really remember some of the shops' name. Some stuff are cheap so I bought a few. One of them is a bag.


Nice bag, rite?
I also bought some other skirts and boots. I think I will write about them in here.


Sunday. When we were in church, I recalled what my friend, Osbert told me. Back in Malaysia, we don't have the choice of receiving the Blood of Christ. I didn't know that wine was really expensive to get in Malaysia. So, I thought we don't have to receive Blood of Christ. When I moved to NZ and went to the church there, I was confused, why did people receive Blood of Christ. Much later on, I went to London and it was also the same. Then, I happened to visit Osbert and he told that wine is expensive to get in M'sia. So, I thought I should really go for it. And I did. It was amazing that I feel so good after drinking Blood of Christ. The wine doesn't really taste like the normal wine I had. Thanks, God for giving the courage to go for it.

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.