Asalammu'alaikum people! One fantabulous thing happen to me. I survived two hectic weeks! Definition of hectic? Hectic lah! Antah eh, my brain is seriously cramp with information. Tests, assignment... and extra co-curriculum activities. Actually, I just have like 3 assessed labs, 2 in-class test (I assume the tests doesn't affect my overall first year marks, so nothing to worry about.. I still study for these tests tho) and 1 assignment. At someone (lazy), who hasn't been studying for many months, point of view 6 important things to do in 2 weeks is a handful. Nevertheless I survived! Passed all my labs and one of my in-class test, I haven't received the marks for the other two.
I WENT PAINTBALLING on 15th October 2011! Mwahahaha! It was a joint social activity organized by MASSOC, they invited BRUSHEFF. I dont really know what MASSOC really means but it's something like Malaysian and Singaporean Student Organisation Community?... Idk, something like that. And I'm not sure if the money I spent on playing this kind of paintballing is worth it or not. It sure was one heck of an experience playing it but it's quite expensive. 100 pallets (bullets) cost around 7 pounds. We played on 6 maps, consisting 2 games per map. One game should 'eat' around 100~200 pallets. Imagine how much does that cost! I didnt play on all of the maps, expensive!
Another kind of downside of paintball, it hurts! The pallets is not just bunch of paint, the paint is stored inside a capsule. That capsule is not soft, its not as hard as rock but still considered hard. When the pallets hits you there is a chance that the pallets won't break, instead it bounces off. Okey, that doesn't sound too bad but imagine this. Say a rock, perfectly round goes towards you, fast and bounces off your shin. It hurtsssss!!! I got bruises all over my legs. T_T swollen. And the map I was playing at was muddy, smells like shit. Kamahhhhh. I did my laundry day before I went paintball, went back then I realize I need to do laundry again... and my one and only shoe got dirt all over it. Took me 4 days to dry my shoes.
BruSheff organized an event couple of weeks back, Hari Raya and Breaking Ice Session. I'm not sure if it was still Raya. haha. Cool things happened that day, but I can't seem to recall.. moving on.
Okey, so one day me, Luqman, Fizi and Amin decided to eat at Nando's, AGAIN. We just finished our class, I think, and we were so so so hungry! Just got out of our building and it was raining plus it was soo cold outside, but for food we will get thru, for Nando's. It was just a lil bit of water. We were on our way to the tram station when that lil bit of water became more vicious and suddenly we heard *tick tick tick* sound. Not like clock *tick tick tick*, more like gravel falling kind of *tick tick tick*. Our faces felt the pain. Before we know it, we were *attacked* by hailstones! Then the 3 'S's strike. Sakit, Sajuk and Sakai! hahahahahaha!!! We ran and took cover inside a never-before-step-in building, uni's building tho. Then off to Nando's! Great food! Worth the pain. XD
Krispy Kreme! We got it at Meadowhall. hehehe
Watched a drama! Don't really understand the storyline but who cares. it was FUN!
Ever since I'm in Sheffield I have been kind of karit with money. Like Ribena, I would only buy them at Wilkinson because it cost almost 1 pound per bottle, but when you buy 2 u can get it for 1 pound! So 50p for 1 bottle!
Same with shirts! We bought it at NEXT in Sheffield's City Center. 1 for 7 pounds, 2 for 12 pounds! 1 pound lesser when we bought 2 of them! Tarus bali, no questions asked. haha!
What C programming can do. Cool stuffs! But complicated..
22nd October 2011, Amin, Fizi and I went on a day trip to Birmingham! We took a train, duration about 1hr plus. Our aim to go there is to explore UK and SHOP! Getting ready for winter, so buying winter clothing! The cheapest ticket from Sheffield to Brim that day unfortunately departed at 6.50am. So I had to wake up around 5.30am. Sigh. I was so scared I won't be able to wake up that morning, I gave my key to Amin. Just incase... then one historic thing happen. Their apartment got a fire drill at 4+am in the morning. So they got up and decided to come to my room... to wake me up.. at 4.30am, -____-"
Anyway, I woke up and was ready for Brim! We reached Brim around 8.30am. Zero shops were open. We haven't eaten breakfast yet. We were so desperate for foods~ not desperate enough to eat anything la. So we were just looking around the city, looking for a place to go, looking for halal restaurant. And around 10+am we found a halal Subway restaurant!!! Awesome, then had our breakfast. 11am, off to shop. We went to several shops, didn't eat anything until 7pm! haha! We spent alot! Nuff sed!
<3 :)
Cakap org Brunei, "Belurih ku!!" hahahaha
On our arrival in Sheffield, we found something that gives out wap, you know like steam but cold... idk. But it was cool! See photo below! We also got to see lantern being released to the sky! Sheffield really misses us, they gave us a wonderful welcome back celebration. :p
Okey dudes and dudettes, I will blog again when I have something interesting to tell you. :)
note: In case you people are wondering, yes we got the same jacket. Only cool people wear same jacket at the same time on purpose. :p
Label: autumn, shopping, vacation
I am proud to present my shop. Decided to name it KIDS instead of AKID coz if I put AKID people might think that only one kid can come in at one time. So I discard the A & put an S behind my name. (no pun intended) Bicester Village :8)
Asalammu'alaikum. Yo peeps. Im starting to settle down in Sheffield. Started cooking but I'm not sure what was I cooking. I cooked salmon & mackerel. I tumis-ed some onions, then cook the fish, put in some black pepper(but I didnt at all taste the black pepper at the end) & put in a tomato, both tomato sos & fruit. It was edible, so mission accomplished. Had my first ever (real?) lecture, as in not lecture pasal kana marah. hahaha. I'll tell more about it on the next post, insya-Allah.
Now, lets rewind a bit. Stop at during my landing. So, I landed at Manchester airport. We took a coach(it's just another way of saying bus, coach is exactly like a bus) to go to Sheffield. There wasn't any direct journey to Sheffield via coach. We had to go to Leeds first then change coach to go to Sheffield. Took-off from Manchester to Leeds around 10am, reach Leeds around 12. I kind of enjoy the ride using coach, lot less stops than when we were traveling using train. And I get to enjoy the view when I was on the coach. We departed for Sheffield at 1pm, 1 hour break at Sheffield. Arrive in Sheffield around 2+pm, I think.
We didnt really do much at Sheffield that time coz we were actually preparing ourselves for London. haha. We just had a tour around Sheffield, led by my senior that was on his way to finish his masters. Few days after that my Sheffield friend arrived! Good to see few familiar faces again. hehe. Then off to London! Via train. 2 hours plus journey. Slept like 75% of the journey. Train was much more comfortable than coach but there wasn't much of a view. As of now I still prefer coach than train, my taste would probbly change as time goes on.
London. Oh, before that. I went on an aeroplane, so-called London taxis, coach, train, and other kind of transportation including *drumrolls* DOUBLEDECKER!!! Muawahahahahahaha! I sit at the front of the bus as if I'm the badass driver! hahahahha! So London was, warmer than Sheffield. Way more expensive than Sheffield (talking about standard of living, $$$), the food cost like twice the amount we would pay if we had eaten the same amount of food in Sheffield! Plus the place was too crowded with people, well I have nothing against being around many people in a place but get this. Like more than 50% of the people around you would be smoking. Thats what I dont like. But what can I do? nothing! Thats the only problem for me lah. Ok, enough with the bad stuffs about London. Lets go to the fun bit.
We went to Bicester Village. Took a train to go there from London, or was it tube, or was it both. I think we took tube first then train, doesn't really matter. It's a supposingly 'cheap' place to shop. I'll explain why I put 'cheap'. Take something branded for an example... a branded handbags. I dont really know what brand, any expensive brand would do. It'll cost around 1000 pounds, but in Bicester Village it'll cost 500~600 pounds. CHEAPERish. Thats why many Bicester Village become kind of famous I think. I wouldn't shop there tho, but I do like the place there. Very tidy. kudos for that Bicester Village.
ada shell's logo behind me actually, but can't really get both me & the logo focused at the same time. hehe
The views when I was on top of London.
Yes, it says Moon Jellyfish. I am not kidding. Hai Moon, hahahahaha
Rugged lah. Can change colour! :p Its just the light that are shining them at that time, it changes.
Upside down jellyfish! Yes, they swim downwards! only occasionally they'll swim like a normal(?) jellyfish. Oh, they make their own food. I suspect they have chlorophyll like substance in there tentacles, coz the bigger ones have kind of green tentacles. Cool stuffs.
Penguin!
So far what I really like about living in UK is the laundry. I dont have to do it everyday, wait you know what I think I can do no laundry in for 2 weeks! hahaha! I'm half-kidding.
One of my department's building.
Coffee~ Costa, it's like Coffee Bean in Brunei I guess.
If I'm not mistaken, Mappin Building. The main building for Faculty of Engineering.
OHH!! Saw this when I was in Sheffield, when we were still living in a hotel. Classic Batman yo!
Org seppil!
Got a free mug! Cool yo! I'm actually obsessed with mugs, kalau ikut hati ku I would have like 15 mugs right now. But currently I have a financial restriction. My debit card still not out yet. sigh sigh. Should be out in the next few days. Yeay~
The day mum & dad left I went to Meadowhall Shopping complex. My parents left sheffield at 5am. Anyway, didn't get to buy anything in the Shopping complex yet. I'll go there again & shop soon. Mark my words! So we were just wasting our time looking around the complex. Then came the best part, food. We ate in Nando's! I was actually sharing my food with another person. My tummy wasn't that empty so we ordered half chicken with 2 side dishes. Cost around 9pounds. Then the drinks Bottomless. We can re-fill our drinks, how cool is that??!!! VERRY!!! My side dish was mash potatoes. Wonderful dish! I think they add a lil bit of cheese. NYAMANN!!!!! Oh mai god.
Nando's chicken. :9
My salmon & mackerel masak nyaman! (Y)
Best Ayam masak kurma you'll ever taste coz I was the chef.
Olrite. Bye.
Label: food, UK, vacation
Asalammu'alaikum! Hai hai~ As you all probably know I am now in Sheffield now. Reached here on the 11th Sept, left Brunei on the 10th Sept la tu. Im still settling in my room. I cant really say I have settled down in Sheffield. I'm here with both my parents, hehe~ Currently almost everything is being handled by my parents, so I can't say I have adapt with the environment in Sheffield. Breakfast, lunch & dinner, cleaning, laundry, transportation fees, almost everything is done with the help of my parents. It'll take time for me to adjust with Sheffield's environment after my parents left. Oh well, I should be able to survive.
I'll update about my 1st few weeks next time. Now story about my flight~ nothing ordinary lah, just a normal 16 hours flight! First ~2hour flight to Singapore, from Brunei, via RBA. ~14 hours to Munich, from Singapore, via SQ and 45mins flight to Manchester Airport via the same SQ.
Throughout the flight several movies can be watched, I didn't watch any movies. No mood!!~ A handful of people came to the airport when I left. Appreciate it. Sorry I didnt shed a tear when I was about to leave you people. haha. Was too happy my families & frens camee~ There were few surprises when I left. Discovered a card in my bag from a friend of mine, hehe. & a very surprising content of another card. :) Love it! I haven't read the content of the cards yet when I was still in Brunei's airport.
So I thought that I was strong(?) enough to not cry when I left, but I was wrong. Kindof funny story now that I think about it. During take-off in the aeroplane, lights were dimmed so there wasn't much I can think of that time. Memories flashed through my mind & the tears came running.. can't really stop it. Things that I would miss in Brunei. Kids growing up. sigh. ANYWAY, the light suddenly turned back on! "*insert bad words*" was in my mind. Me, crying? no no no! no way! I forced my tears to stop & succeeded.
Few mins after calming down, I decided to read the cards that was given to me, I started crying again! hahaha. Then I opened the 2nd card. First I laughed, one inside joke. hahaha. nice one btw. Then I cried my heart out, eseh. But seriously, cry lagi! I decided to listen to songs to get my mind out of these things that I missed. I pulled out the ipod shuffle I borrowed from me bro. As fast as a lightning I pressed played. Turns out the songs remind me of someone very close to me in Brunei... I gave up, I cried till the food came. At last something that didn't make me cry.
Lets go to the food section. OH MAI GOD~ the FOOD~ nyamannnnnnn~ :9 I forgot to take the photo for my food in RBA, and I forgot what did I ate. Yg penting nyaman lah. In SQ ofcoz we take in the muslim food lerr. Still awesome, but not the food during our flight from Munich to Manchester. I'll tell you why soon.
My first time watching this kind of thing in the plane. Cool stuffs
Food~ Eh, I forgot to take picture for our first meal in SQ. *facepalm*
Side meal? the bun abis dah. Notice the butter on the bottom left corner of the pic? hehe
The main dish, chicken ONLY.
Didnt eat the roti. No mood~ I drank lots of juice during the flight! haha
Munich
Reached Munich in 5~6am Munich time. Sunrise yo~ rugged
Ok, one not-really-important story when we were in Munich. We were about to take-off right, then on the lane which we were about to use there was a plane LANDING. Awesomeness! But of course we weren't actually on the lane when the plane was landing. hahahaha. See photos~
It's a bird..
It's a plane!
No, it's Superman!..... moving on
Early in the morning in Munich. It's really foggy. Like seriously foggy.
Almost look like waterfall or sumthing. Cool lah
Now, comes the food that made me sad. SQ do serve halal meat, but ada jua inda halal. During our flight to Manchester, I suppose there werent any halal food then. So they serve this vegetarian sandwitch... why witch?... obeserve.. FYI, the bread was as hard as a rock..
Moslem food...
Yes, timun & tomato. =_= I finished 2/3 of the witch then bailed out.
The fruits wasnt bad tho.
Landed in Manchester around 8am UK time. Check-in into a hotel, slept for 2 hours & off we went to eat out. Nyaman lah the food. I forgot the name of the place we went to. Our stomach were so empty, langis wah piring sorg2.
Water..
:) happy tummy
After one night in Manchester we went to Sheffield. Check-in in a hotel first, my accommodation wasn't open til the 17th Sept. I went to Sheffield on the 12th Sept. So daddy & mummy decided to show me London. So we went to London on the 14th until the 17th. A bit of synopsis about the next post. Sheffield is very very hilly. London was warmer than Sheffield. The price was amazingly not interesting. Went visiting to few interesting places, cool stuffs. Went to London eye. VERY cool stuff. AWESOME.
Until then, Asalammu'alaikum. Goodnight :) I miss Brunei & it's people.. & driving. & you readers. :p
Cheers
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