Still about Day 1 : Dinner was great!

UK TIME : 0746hrs

There was a downpour before we set off to dinner, its not supposed to rain in summer. Think I'm unlucky. The rain lasted for about an hour and we set off to dinner. Yesterday's dinner was good. We ate at cowherds, a traditional restaurant pub. The waitresses were pretty and friendly. We had a starter (tiger prawns in creamy white wine sause), mixed grille and 'hunters' chicken. We had to wait quite awhile for our main dishes though. Lucky, we weren't very hungry.

After dinner, we walked down to the city area and walked around the place. The place is kinda small and quiet. Actually, southampton is seldom have tourists, so while walking around, it looked weird when we started taking photos. haha

We will be moving out of his hostel today. So I will not have internet access internet access until I reach Poh's place on 2nd july.

DAY 1 : I'm in UK!!

This is so exciting!! I survived the 13hr flight! I boarded the plane at 0030hr and it took off at 0040hr as promised. The first one hour or two was kinda fun cos its the first time I'm taking such a long flight. I was reading my Da Vinci Code and watching Robots at the same time. After the show ended, supper was served. The pasta was not fantastic but still edible. Well, you can't expect much from microwaved food. The lights went out at 0400 and I managed to take a three hour nap and was woken up at around 0700hr becoz there was some kinda turbulence. After about 15mins, I dozed off again and woke up at 1030hr. Watch abit of tv and breakfast was served. Microwave food again... By that time, the sun is already up and I managed to see the ground below me. I was at the window seat so I spent the next few hours looking at the scenery below me.

Reach Heathrow at 1345hr which was 0645 london time. The queue at the passport control (custom) was soooo long!!! It took me almost an hour to get my passport 'chopped' before I went over to collect my baggage. Once out of the place, I looked out for Guojun, couldn't see him, called him and he was at the wrong terminal!! So I had to wait another half an hour for him to appear then we caught a 0945hr bus to southampton. The bus trip was almost 2 hours. Reached the city area of southampton and went to look for some food. Bumped into one of his friend Pam and her sis, went to Mark & Spencer's cafe, ate some sandwich and make our way to his hall montefiore.

His room is real small! Even smaller then my bedroom! Well, but I don't think he need a big room anyway. I will be bunking in with him from today till 30th June. I'm taking the bed and his settling with comforter on the floor. Poor Chap.. well, thats too bad.. u can't expect a lady to sleep on the floor...

Slept for about 3hours due to jet lag... now going to Cowherds for dinner...

DOUGLAS WON~!!

Douglas won the singing competition I mentioned earlier on. He got FIRST!! I am soooo happy and proud of him! I think he did great on thursday night and he definitely deserve to win especially after seeing him dance for the fast number! He sang both Jacky Cheung's song and I think he better for the fast song. It was the very first time I saw him dance. He didnt show anyone his dance moves before the competition, not even my sis. WAHAHA he must have practice really hard at home man! WAY TO GO DOUG!!!

For more details, go to http://www.dongli883.com.sg/EventDetails.aspx?UID=99

6hours spent in the hair saloon...

Yup, I rebonded my hair on sunday!!! Its super straight now and I think I look like a china doll with fake hair haha But it should look more natural after a few washes. I reached the saloon at 12.30pm and left at 6.45pm!!! Imagine sitting in the chair for 6 full hours and only moving a few times to wash my hair. I spent $170 on it and I think its reasonable becoz I really pity the lady rebonding my hair. Its much cheaper than the previous times where I had to pay $200. I am happy with the outcome. Next, I want to colour my hair.

*POH.. any free deal over at your side? Becoz I cannot colour my hair now, I can only do it 2 weeks later. I will be in UK at that time.. haha :P By the way, whats the name of the mag u wanted me to help u buy? I will be going down to TAKA this sunday so I will be able to get it for u.

Shawn have been disappearing from MSN recently. He seems to be really busy packing his stuff and hoping he is planning our trip. He told me that he needed me to buy some things over. I'm still waiting for his email. *SHAWN.. I only have less than 1 week left, so u better be quick!

Sick...

I practically sneezed my whole friday away. I was alright in the morning but once I stepped into the office, my nose started to itch and the sneezing started. I was sneezing so badly until my colleagues nearly wanted to quarantine me haha I managed to hang on till 5.30pm and went back home. Luckily, my colleague gave me a ride home, so I didnt have to sneeze my way home on the bus.

Reached home at around 6.30pm. Popped 2 flu capsules and slept. The pills were great! I managed to sleep my flu away and only woke up at 1am for a toilet break and carried on sleeping again. My phone alarm rang at 7am, when I'm supposed to go to work. But I decided to take the day off and slept till 3pm.

Now, I'm sitting in front of the computer listening to Stefanie's song. I'm feeling very bored. There's nothing on tv and I'm really starving becoz I skipped dinner last nite and breakfast & lunch today. I can't find much things to eat!! Right now, I'm waiting for my dinner and hope its good.

I was supposed to meet my sis yesterday to buy my handphone coz my phoneline is under her name. Now, I'm still thinking whether I wanna go get it today. Wonder where is my sister now...

Going to give her call....

LAST LESSON TODAY!

haha.. so happy! I just came back from my last lesson for my Higher Diploma course. I'm supposed to continue with the degree after this, but there seems to be some complications between my institution and the university offering the degree. So I still have no idea what the institution have for us next year. Well, I'll just treat this as a very long holiday then. Guess, I will miss my classmates, especially those in my batch. We had great fun this module, gossiping and joking with the lecturer in class. But I will definitely not miss having to rush down to lessons after work... CONTRADICTION... Anyway, its not the end yet. Becoz I still need to sit for the exam before I consider myself done with the course. I hope the exam will be easy!

I'm thinking of getting a new handphone. I'm interested in the samsung E800 but it seems to be a rather old model. I'm currently on the business plan so I'm given a M1 voucher of $500 every year to upgrade my phone. E800 is currently selling at around $400, so that means I will be wasting my voucher!

Well, the most important thing I look for in a handphone is its size and appearance. I don't really need lotsa functions but one with radio will be nice. Any recommendations? suggestions?

Vote for Douglas!!

To anyone who is reading this blog,

Please vote for Douglas Seah (佘绍坤)! He's really good and I think he has a very high chance of winning the competition or at least get into the top 3!! Please send STAR 2 (i/c no) to 96630883 to cast your votes. As one person is only entitled to one vote, so please spread this around and ask your friends and family to vote for him too. I bet he will not let us down!!!

If you happen to be free and have nowhere else to go on 23rd June 7.30pm, do make a trip down to witness his performance!

For more info, please go to http://www.dongli883.com.sg/EventDetails.aspx?UID=97

Thanks everyone!

Doug's in the finals!!

Yeah! Doug qualified for the finals. He went from 100 to 16.. and now top 6! This is great! He will need to sing 2 songs on 23rd June, one fast and one slow. It will be at IMM at 7.30pm. Its open for voting! The website is not up yet, but once its up, I bet I'm going to vote till I drop. WAHAHA I will be spreading the news around to win more votes for him. I am so happy and proud of him! Can't wait for his performance man!

Anyway, I went to my primary school gathering yesterday. I was the organiser and the response was not good at all. There were only 6 of us. Sadz man. And I actually found out a cruel fact. Its seemed like I was not very well-liked when I was in primary school. I was known as the stuck-up gal. I didn't realise it at all! I was not as sociable and didn't speak to people much other than those who I hang out with. I used to hang out with the popular gals in school. So I guess I was abit arrogant too. But I believe I have changed huh? I do hope...

After the gathering, I went to chill out at doug's place. My sis, JB and his bro was there too. Drank abit, chat a little, watched tv and went back home at 2.30am. Reached home and pigged out.

I woke up at 4pm today! Its been a long time since I get to sleep my sunday away. After that, the whole family including my grandparents, doug and matt went for a-la-carte buffet dinner at Noblehouse. The dinner was great! I guess all of us ate till we couldn't swallow anything else. Wonderful dinner... Wish to go back there for dinner again...

Assignment done!

Hehe.. feel so much better after finishing up my part of the assignment. I only managed to finish and email it over to our project leader at 2am in the morning. Slept at 3am and I had to wake up for work. I'm so tired now. My eyes are closing. Well, I hope the project leader has enough time to compile it for the coming presentation on Tuesday. Okie, enough of project...

I had to give up ktv session last nite with Douglas and my sis to finish up this report. Douglas has a singing competition this afternoon. Its organised by DongLi883 at SAFRA Mount Faber. Today is the semi-finals. Me and JB participated for the first rounds last sat too but didn't qualify for the semis. Its always Douglas who qualifies!!! Haha.. but he's really good so I have no complains.

There was a small joke about the queue numbers me and Doug got. He was in the 12.30pm session while I was in the 1.30pm. So he smsed me saying he got unlucky 13 as his queue number and I actually made fun at him saying that he would have bad luck. So I happily made my way down and reached at 1plus. Went to take my queue number and found out that I was 44!!! Shouldn't have laugh at him, guess it was retribution haha..

I didn't perform well as my throat was giving me some problems so I knew I wouldn't qualify. JB chose the wrong song. He sang 'Tong Hua', yeah, its a nice song but the MTV had too much conversation in it, so it kinda covered his voice. So he didn't qualify too.

Before the results was announced, we went to play pool to pass time. We played until we forgot to get back there for the announcement of the results. So, when I realised.. I went in to ask the person-in-charge whether we qualified. So I gave him our numbers, and he told me that only 13 qualified and ask me to draw a queue number for him for the semis. And guess wat! I drawed 16 which is the very last number! haha That was really unlucky. I hope Doug doesn't fall asleep while waiting for this turn today.

Wish him luck!

Still doing research...

Haiiz.. This is what happens when you do last minute work. Look at the time now! I'm not even halfway through my assignment yet. Well, at least I have much more information today as compared to yesterday.

I hope I will be able to find some time off from my workload tomorrow to do up the report so that I will be able to do some fine-tuning at night and email it over to my classmate for compilation. We will need to present our assignment next tuesday. Actually, thats my favourite part of assignments. I do like doing presentation and sometimes I do wonder why. Haha..

Maybe I really like the idea of being 'up on stage', just like the feeling of singing on stage during competitions. The very first time I had this kinda feeling was during a singing competition conducted by Chinatown Point and some music company. That was.. I think... at least 3 years ago. That was the very first time I actually took part in a major competition. I got through the audition and went into the first second round. The second round was conducted on the centre stage of the shopping mall. I was up there singing, infront of at least 2 hundred people (I hope I estimated correctly). I was shivering with fright when I sang the first few lines of the song, but after awhile, I got used to the atmosphere and really enjoyed myself on stage. Well, I didn't do well enough so I was kicked out. But I still enjoyed being able to perform in front of so many people and that was not a very often thing. I love these kinda rare experiences!

蜗牛阿姨!!!

这是为了我的蜗牛阿姨写的. 这是为了要她开始blogging.

蜗牛阿姨,你不要让你的乌龟侄女失望,好吗?

Assignment due soonz...

The whole class of 11 people are supposed to team up and come up with an investment proposal for the upcoming IR land tender for the Marina site.

We have more or less came up with the figures using discounted cashflow, forecasting and also comparables in the nearby vicinity. The rest of the theory part are distributed among small groups of 2 or 3. Matthew and me are incharge of researching on the kind of expertise that are needed to run the upcoming IR.

He was here awhile ago, surfing the net for information together with me. It seems like there isn't much info on this topic. All we know now are some schools increasing their intake or coming up with new courses to train people on this field. Tomorrow I shall be using my work time to come up with a decent report on our research. We are supposed to show our parts to the lecturer tomorrow for his comments.

Yah, you must be asking why we are leaving till last minute. Well, its always like that.. haha becoz both of us are too lazy to start early. So, we always end up doing last-minute work. Sometimes, this can't be helped as we usually wouldn't have the time and energy to do these after work. Its just plain too tiring. Work have been really busy for the both of us. He starts work as early as 7.30am and end as late as 7pm. I am slightly better off as I start work at 9am but I usually leave the office at around 7pm too. Tuesday and thursday are lectures nights. So, we usually leave things till last-minute as we rather rest during non-lecture days and weekends.

Anyway, this will the last module for the first year. And we still haven't confirmed our next year's studies. So we just have to hang in there for another 2 more weeks...

I hate tuesdays and thursdays

Just came back from lessons. Yah, I'm taking my part-time degree so I'm hating tuesdays and thursday where I have to attend 3 hours lecture after work. I have been attending lessons for over a year and I am really getting very tired of them. I still have another 2 more years to go.

Well, something to be glad about.. This module have some calculations to it and that make lessons a wee bit more interesting. I used to like maths alot becoz I hate memorizing stuff like history. Seems like I also had better grades for maths during school times. I kinda miss maths lessons haha

Anyway, this will be the last module for my first year. I will be having my final paper on the 27th June. I am really looking forward to it becoz I will be heading to UK on that day too!!

OLD TRAFFORD!!! HERE I COME!!!

Start of my new blog..

Some memorable things happened eversince the start of YR2005...

January 2005
I quit my job at SMM and took on a new job with a contractor company. My job scope is still roughly the same as what I did in SMM but this time round, hard work gets appreciated. So therefore I'm much happier at this company eventhough I am very much more busy at my current job. I like the feeling of being appreciated for the hardwork from my boss.

May 2005
I did something which took lots of guts. I took part in the Channel U Superstar and got into the top 100!!! Thats the greatest achievement I have ever had from singing competitions!!! I was really excited on the day wheh they had to choose 24 out of 100. But, I didn't do well for my performance. Guess it was becoz of the long wait(from 1pm to 5pm!!!) which made me lose my mood to sing. Well, It was still a great experience after all. I lost to some very good singers and I hope the good ones will go a long way in the competition. Most of the contestants are really experienced. Most of them have either gone through proper training from famous singing school likes Wei Song's, Music Clinic. Some of them have even won competitions or sang in 'ming ge chan ting's. Guess thats why I lost out to them. Well, I have no regrets joining this competition and I have learnt a great deal from it.

June 2005
I have booked my air tickets to London. I will be flying there on 27th June. I am so excited about the trip! I have planned this trip eversince Guojun went over there for his studies and that was 2 years ago! He's already graduating and I can't postpone the trip anymore! I'm so glad that this trip is finally coming true! I will be touching down on 28th June to meet up with Guojun and we both will head down to Glasgow to visit Poh Ling and family. I simply can't wait for the day to arrive!!!