Reading,UK

I know, I should really stop flying around the world. One minute I'm in Beijing, next in KL, and now I'm in the UK. I'm going to Alaska tomorrow to see Polar Bears & Eskimos so more updates then!


Ok, enough bullshitting. So sorry for the late updates, been trying to settle down in a whole new environment. My hostel is apparently a notorious party hall and I'm having a bit of a culture shock right now adjusting to the drunken parties going on downstairs. lol.


Neeways, I'm now over in the UK doing my final year. It seems pretty unnerving knowing I'm finishing my degree soon. I dooonn'tt wannnaa woooorrrkk yeeettt!! I want to PLAY PLAY PLAY!!


Slight updates from the day I first landed in UK...

I fuckin love Heathrow airport. I was lost there for 3 hours lugging 30kg worth of luggage. It was such a fucking fantastic experience I went back there again with Tracy & Suwen this morning at 4am to go pick up Sam coz I love her.

Its been ages since I last took a photo with Suwen!

A glimpse of Reading town

After the whole British High Commissioner disaster with my passport and with the way they handled our visas, I pretty much hated ang mohs when I first arrived here.................................until I met Primark. I love Primark. Maybe even more than Aaron. HAHAHA! (Oh, in case you didn't know we're together now! Yea, I understand, you're probably in utter disbelief).

The stuff there is like bloody cheap and adorable!!! I bought loads of other items but I forgot to take pics of them in my camera.

Elastic hairbands for only 1 pound.

Adorable shoes for only 6 pounds!

The only thing I regretted buying from there was this shower gel. I was desperate for one and since this was only a pound I bought it. But the more I look at the chemically enhanced glowy purple makes me have second thoughts about using it on my body =_=

We went around exploring Reading town and found other neat stuff!

Delicious Marks & Spencer cookies! I'm addicted

Delish looking one pound cup. Its all cakes and pies

CKin2U perfume for her *grins widely*

But boots were still my best buy ever. I adore them to bits. Going to wear these babies out tomorrow!

Me in a 90% Beijing outfit.Yes, the leggings were not warm enough.

I will post up some more pics of my room once its neater and better decorated. The stuff here is like absolutely ancient but nonetheless, clean. You can see in the background that my cupboard looks like its rotting!

My hair dye isn't brown enough!

Beijijng (I) - The FOOD!!

I will blog about first what I love most about Beijing ^^


When in Beijing, you absolutely MUST go to this street called "Wang Fu Jing". Some people have described it as similiar to the Orchard Road of Singapore.

Wang Fu Jing is mostly a high class shopping area, but then down further the road is their famous night market that starts at 5 pm onwards. This market isn't huge

Sweetened fruits

Stalls along Wang Fu Jing Street

Oysters

Crabs! I was wondering how to eat them

Silk worms

Cow LIVER!!

Some weird drink with dry ice in them! The white parts are smoke

Fried Ice-cream

Sea Urchins

Centipedes

Starfish! Looks damn cute loh. So I bought it.

The outer shell of a Starfish is rock hard. You have to flip it over to the softer underbelly....

which you must later rip open to reveal greenish shitty stuff. And it taste like....... rotten raw fish. I could smell the fishy smell from the flesh. I ended up throwing away half my starfish. Oh, and I was videod my this ang moh woma

Sea cucumber

This girl showed us how to eat sea-urchin

Lamb Shanks

Deep fried seahorse

Back from Beijing!!!

Will blog soon. Exhausted. Wiped-out. Bleary-eyed and is missing Beijing.

I digress....


Feeling a little emo right now. Had a lot of time to think over some stuff on the plane, I'm at a point where I know there is something I shouldn't do, but I really badly want to.

The consequence would be I could end up either very happy or very sad for the longest time ever.


But it is too late and my brain is too dead tired to ponder about life. Leave that for tomorrow. Night peeps!

Hanging out in KL one last time

I am now in Chi-Chi-Chi CHINA!!! WHEEE!!!



The getting back my passport thing was complicated but I shall not bother to repeat the story anymore. Think about it also damn sien to the point I want to burn down the British Embassy.



Moving on... Beijing is absolutely fantastic!! My family and I are now staying with family friends so free food + lodgings for us *all smiles*. They are damn sweet people, and uncle purposely took 1 week off work to be our tour guide around Beijing! I am sooooo glad I'm staying with them instead of following some stupid tour group.





Taking a break now using my uncle's laptop. They are now off to buy fruits at the market. Today I tripped and fell at the Temple of Heaven. Yeah, it sounds much better than saying 'I tripped over a marble slab'. So my knees and elbows are scraped badly which explains why I'm not shopping with my parents.



Just giving a slight update about KL on the photos I had uploaded on Photobucket before coming to Beijing.


When I was in KL I stayed over with:

Jamie

She is so adorable and smelly. Every morning at precisely 8 am she dosen't give a damn I only slept 4 hours the night before and will scratch at the door non-stop till I let her in. Only to lie on my mattress, taking away my sleeping spot.

Kidding la. This is Jamie and David

Had lunch with Mel & Zhen too at SanFrancisco SteakHouse

I know, sometimes my fans can be a little over-exited when taking photos with me


Damn cilka lor the place. Everyone at the table ordered lamb chops with fries. I felt like having something healthy so I ordered 'salmon'.

Lamb Chop

Salmon.

Kanasai loh. 2 more thinly sliced lemons can block my pathetic salmon meat out of the picture.

Then we went over to Mel's condo to swim.

Does this pool remind you of something?

Ok I know there are tons of other KL pics but I can't be bothered to post them up anymore. I am going to see the Great Wall of China tmr. Bye bye!

*Sccreeaaaminngg*

Literally. I already screamed just now.


Yep. Its about the stupid passport. I am supposed to fly off to Beijing this Friday. Today is Wednesday. And its not done. I had sent my passport to the UK Visa application centre to approve it. Those ang moh pigs are probably taking their sweet sweet time drinking english rose tea and tossing peanuts through their nostrils. Yeah I can see they have perfectly good reason to delay the application of my UK Visa for so many days.

*panics*


Prayed to God last night to have my passport ready by today.


I think it never got through.


*panics*


My mom just applied to British Embassy to give my passport back to me.

But in doing so, they will cancel out my original appliction and I will have to re-submit my application to the UK embassy again.


The only time I can do this is on the 21st of September.


I am flying off to UK on the 25th of September.



*panics*

She has already written this email to them.
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Please kill me now.



UPDATED!!! (11/05/2008)


Wooo hooo!!!! British Embassy just called me 2 hours ago after I sent them one dozen emails explaining my situation yesterday in which they choose to ignore until tonight for some God Knows Why reason.


They have agreed to release my passport to me, but I need not re-submit my application. Woo hooo!! I just have to return my passport to them on the 21st of September, on the day I come back from China.


To British Embassy staff, all I can say is: Fuck You Very Very Much :)

Mulu Caves (II)

Day 2 of our Mulu Trip....

We woke up early the next day for breakfast & boat ride to Clearwater caves + Wind Caves....

Some of the local villagers that live along the riverside

According to Aaron he took this photo while there was a half-naked man bathing in the river =_=

The scenery from the boat was gorgeous!

We stopped by first at the Penan Long-house market. I haven't been to a kampung in a looong time.

Baby chickens!

They were trying to sell us stuff like these but we Sarawakians already see until sien. lol.

This lady damn cool. She played the flute through her nose -literally.

Went back on the boat again to head to one of the caves.

According to the tour guide this huge hole appeard in the Cave because the roof fell in..

Damn lousy signboard that ask more questions instead of answering them. rubbish.

HAHAHA!!! Day 2 also he wore a clean new silk shirt! how many does he have????

Rock formation inside the cave

Took a picture from our boat from above

Rolf is HUGE

We headed for the next cave Clearwater caves. It has a river running through it, which is apparently drinkable right on the spot. But I didn't dare try any water that is not bottled up or filtered. I am so chinese.

Phebe playing with cold river water

Taking the boat ride back to the airport

Must pose with my fav uncle one last time

Bye Bye to Mulu!

I digress...

Feeling kinda fidgety right now so the post was done with a rush. Still haven't gotten back my visa yet... *sigh*