Michieissuchanordinaryname

Happy Valentines Day & My Beautiful Wales

2012-02-14T00:26:00.000-08:00

Happy Valentines Day to every couples, lovers out there. It's #foreveralone day for me & i gonna spend this day to write about wales. Wales is part of UK as well, i went there with a group trip of about 50people, its a day trip, we went to Conwy Castle & Llandudno.
We went there by bus, and we went to Conwy Castle straight after we arrived at wales. It was built during King Edward I era, which is 1283-1289. The picture show us climbing up the stair to go up to the castle.

And more stairs to climb!

After the stairs, we need to cross a bridge to reach the inner part of the castle. The castle were designed to have inner and outer ward. Each ward were protected by 4towers.

The ramp that access to the castle

Took this photo at the half way of "climbing up" the castle, this is the outer ward of the castle

The castle were kind of maze like, which make us fun to explore all the stairs and route to the top of the tower.
Some view that can be see from the castle, there were plenty of sheep on the green grass, and they really do the "mehmeh" sound like what we saw in cartoon.

some bridge inside the castle

This is the bridge with the River of Conwy

we're on the top finally!

The view from the top;x its very windy on the top, and look at the sky! its so bright.

After came down from the castle, we went for quick brunch, here's the shops around Conwy Castle, i like the architecture of it, which is very different from contemporary or modern architecture. i like how they arrange and the height of the shops.
We head to Llandudno after brunch. Llandudno is a seaside resort, so it's difference from normal town. It was so relax and peaceful that make me feel like stay here for entire of my life after i retire wtf.

Some cute gal

This is the sea at Llandudno, it's difference from Malaysia's seaside, Malaysia's seaside is full of sand while here is full of rocks and stones wtf.

This is the present i wanted to brought back for my so called bro.

The sea were full of people since it's summer time!

some shopping mall in Llandudno, and Llandudno have more of its own local designer shop beside than those famous shop such as H&M. All the clothes designed by the local designer were so cute & the quality was as good.

i shall end with a random church in Llandudno.

*Some powerful words from my mum 2day make me emo and cry, i wonder if she knows that her words is tht powerful that it hurts. How i wish she would care or talk to me probably that nagging or quarrel with me.

Freezing Manchester

2012-02-10T08:47:00.000-08:00

Manchester is just an hour of train ride away from Liverpool, so Manchester had been like an weekend escape for me;x Below are all the photos from my 1st trip to Manchester. i went with Foonfoon, she's from HongKong as well, that explain why i picked up Cantonese after stayed in UK for 9months.
This is a random pedestrian Bridge which i saw after we arrived at the train station, we were waiting for Joyce, Joyce from Malaysia as well and she stayed in Manchester. She's a super nice tour guide!

Manchester United become our 1st to go place after Joyce meet us up, & its a few bus trip away. Took the Picture above while waiting for bus at the bus stop;x The tree were just so pretty with the snow below of it.

Out of boredom, we start to Camwhore! This is FoonFoon.

And this is joyce! look how thick our clothes is! no wonder ppl always say winter clothes is matter of survival already, not matter of fashion anymore;x

On our way, Everything were so pretty when covered with snow!

Some random artifact again, the name of the building behind make me took a picture of it, it read "The Liverpool ..........(something):x.

Finally we're here!

This is the entrance where Christiano Ronaldo or Rooney walked be4, must stay here a bit longer and feel the atmosphere of superstar of footballer wtf.

Also not to forget to take picture with it;x that is me with joyce.

merchandises shop inside, we didnt get to go in, i think there is a match going on or so, cnt really remember.

On our way to Manchester Town

Looking very seriously for which bus to ride ;x i still have my black long hair by tht time, kinda miss my long hair thou!
Here's the Manchester town, it was about Christmas time so there's a lot of Christmas stalls which u can shop for food, gifts etc.

Camwhore again;x

More of Manchester town;x

And more

we're attracted by a stall with a long queue which u can see from behind of the picture above, so we went to queue as well *kiasu*;x it was a hot-dog stall, the sausages were grilled under charcoal & it taste so good, tht why must take picture with it;x

We've the eye of Liverpool, they've the eye of Manchester

More shopping!

And we ended our a day trip with a dinner at a restaurant in Chinatown!

Liverpool Part 2

2012-02-06T06:29:00.001-08:00

Part1 can be read from HERE

Ended my part1 with Liverpool One. Here's Albert Dock post. Albert Dock is the place where i love to chill out myself most,especially after assignment submission, the sea breeze in Albert Dock can be just so chilling.

This is a Pedestrian Bridge i saw while walking to Albert Dock from Liverpool one. It was installed with LED lights, so u can see the difference color of the bridge at night.

And this is bus stop, why UK's bus stop can be so chio?T_T

Here's the Hilton hotel behind Liverpool One

Some random external spiral staircases in Albert Dock

The eye of Liverpool

This is Albert Dock, where Titanic departed from here & sad to know that most of the passengers were from Liverpool even the musicians that play music till the end were from Liverpool. There's a Titanic museum in Albert Dock as well.

Some random artifact at the Dock

This one should be a pub or bar house.

This is the walkway beside the sea, this is where i hang out most of the time in Liverpool

The Dock Vs The City

This one should be a museum, i got no idea what museum it is, it's closed during my stays in Liverpool & i heard it's open now for visitors.

Last one, the Beatles Museum

Overall, i enjoyed my stay in Liverpool. I love the urban planning of it where u can reach most of the places within walking distance. I like the people there as well, most of them were friendly & helpful. Most importantly i can find most of my favorites brands in Liverpool, Such as River Island, Zara, Armani, H&M, TopShop & so on, in fact that they are so much cheaper compare to Asia.The life in Liverpool are kind of relax & that makes me cnt really use to it, i prefer hetic city life. It's freezing cold too during winter, dry as well.

*I'm happy that Citra changed her flight ticket to Australia, she will be arriving at the 18th & I'll be arriving at the 19th! OMG! i dunid to be #foreveralone during my orientation week :).

Home of Beatles and You'll never walk alone

2012-02-02T08:24:00.000-08:00

It's none other than Liverpool. Been stayed in Liverpool for 9months for my Degree Year 2. Liverpool had been a love-hate place for me & i choose to leave in the end. I stayed at on-campus hostel, so i need to climb the brown hill to get to the town of liverpool;x and i did it almost everyday, but still gained weight like free wtf.

This is the largest Catheral in the UK. i'll pass by it whenever i walk down the hill. It was built during the 1880, and here's the full history of it.

This is the entrance

Here's the main chapel, the interior is pretty, much more pretty than i expected & i was amazed by the architecture of it, i cant find where i keep the rest of my photo. The details were just so good. The craftsmanship can be compared with the building now even it was built over 100yrs ago.
From the Anglican church, walk down of the hill then you will see this arch, this is the entrance to Liverpool Chinatown, where u can get Asian groceries and Chinese food.
Here's the starting point of the town, the cathedral in the picture above, i called it "bomb church", i don't really know the exact name of it. It was boomed during war world II and that 's what it left, it's empty in the middle.
This is the "interior of the church" everything were bombed and left her the surrounding wall & made her an-open-air-church as well.

This is bold street, the street where all the shop began with till the center of Liverpool

Town Police with the horse

This is Liverpool One, the main shopping mall in the town of liverpool

Below is some events they had during Christmas in Liverpool One

From Liverpool One, walk straight and u'll reach Albert Dock. Albert Dock is where the Beatles museum is, other than that, they have Titanic museum, Art museum etc & u can get most of the souvenir from Albert Dock. I didnt get to Anfield during my 9months stay in Liverpool, but i did visited Manchester United, will blog about it sometime soon.

*I had met a bunch of great friends in Liverpool esp those from HongKong & Msia(Sean,Derek,Marco,Foon,Zarifah,sorry if i miss out some1)thanks for all the memories. i'll definitely visit Hongkong one day!
*Everything to Australia almost settle done. Enrollment done, Visa done, Accommodation done, Flight Ticket done. Left with packing to go, will be flying off at 17th Feb!

Chinese New Year 2012

2012-01-26T08:27:00.000-08:00

Chinese New Year is the festival that i always look forward to. When I'm still a kid, what make me look forward to is the new clothes, CNY snacks & most importantly angpao-s! As the time pass by, i'm no longer look forward for those stuff, family bonding is what i look forward to. Chinese New Year is the only time when all my family members get to gather together and i start to miss most of them already since most of them flew back to the place where they stay.
On the day 29 of Chinese calender(there's no day30 for this year),which is the new year eve, all of us gathered at my grandpa/grandma house in the morning for family photo shooting session. The one above is my baby cousin, he is so adorable!.

And that is me carrying him! After all of us reached at grandpa house, we head to photo shooting studio.
Ta..taa! & here is our family photo. total 28of us. This is the sample we get from the photographer in 3R size, too bad they refuse to give us the softcopy of it, so we need to go back to the studio if we want bigger photo.
And here is the one with my family plus grandma & grandpa. i'm the one at the left(Top from Burberry, skirt from somewhere in KL). After photo shooting session, we all had our lunch at grandpa house, & grandma cooked of us. we slacked, talked & chatted while some of us helped grandma out with reunion dinner. The reunion dinner was so good, and the food were so much that we cant even finish 50% of it. I was so hungry that i didnt manage to take any photo of what we had for our reunion dinner, i'll grab some photo from my uncle soon!
This is my other cousin carrying the baby cousin after the reunion dinner in my grandma house & where the fun part of the day is. Fireworks & firecrackers! what make Sibu a-must-go-back-for-CNY-place is the numbers of fireworks & firecrackers. You can buy most of the fireworks or firecrackers from the town & u can light up fireworks urself! when the clock struck 11.30pm you can hear the sound of firecrackers non-stop until 1-2am.
Day 1 of Chinese New Year, we all get ourselves dolled up & time for visiting. Picture above is my living room with all the CNY snacks total 21boxes & majority baked/made by my mum & the visiting goes on for day2, day 3 & so on. Overall, CNY this year is really awesome, in fact that everything is happy at home. Today is day4 of CNY and i still can feel the atmosphere of CNY & i still feel happy, it really different from CNY in UK(i celebrated my 2011 CNY in Uk).

Some outfit i wear during CNY:-
Top from Zara, Belt from Primark Liverpool , Skirt from Zara (ignore the weird face expression)
Top from Forever21, Watch from DKNY, Skirt from Primark Liverpool
Last one, a vain photo of me. Okay, time to do some packing, I'm leaving to Australia at February!

Short update

2012-01-18T07:31:00.000-08:00

This is my new haircut for today & i really happy for it. Kalvin is the hairstylist that i definitely will visit whenever i at Sibu. And yea, i'll be in Sibu for coming Chinese New Year, i gonna appreciated every moment with family while in Sibu, its been a long time since i celebrate my CNY in hometown<3

Top from Forever21, tank top from Gap, bottom from H&M

Of Baguette & French Toast

2012-01-15T08:06:00.000-08:00

Went to Paris during last summer break, overall the trip was good & Paris is beautiful. i went with Elizabeth, a friend from Hong Kong, she's my best travel buddy so far. we share the same budget, have the same interest.
This is Elizabeth, & i miss her already. We're both super kiam type, so we're both okay with hotel that is not within Paris City district, even an budget hotel in Paris city cost a bomb for us(we're both student), so we booked a hotel that is a little away from Paris City, provided the hotel is within walking distance to nearest RER station, so travel is not a problem to us. Other than that, we're both okay with convenience food stall, & try to save as much as possible for shopping.
All the RER station name were in French, so a RER network map might help u a lot to figure where u wanna go. Airport transfer to hotel is easy as well,as there were RER station too in airport. U can pick up map of Paris in airport upon arrival. We arrived in Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport at nite around 11pm, and just nice for us to catch the last train. On the 2nd day, we woke up & the sky drizzled a little. Then we head to Chatelet-les halles station, from there u can reach The Louvre within 3-5mins of walking distance. It was Tuesday, so The Louvre was not open. Take note when u wanna visit all the museum in Paris, they were all off on Tuesday. That is me trying to read Paris map in front of The famous Louvre Pyramid.

That is another view of The Louvre. The entrance fee to The Louvre with exhibitions is 14euros & its worth the money. U can see all the famous art pieces such as Mona Lisa, while enjoying the architecture of the building itself. Photography without flash are allowed in the museum.
From The Louvre, walk straight and u will see this, which i called it "mini version of Arc de Tropmhe"
After u passed by the mini Arc de Tropmhe u will arrive here, where lot of art status will be on ur side, everywhere is art in Paris & that makes me love Paris much.
Walk towards to the end & u will see this, i cant remember wht is it called, but is one of the tourist spot as well, and look at the top, its make of GOLD!
Can't recall what is this building called too, after around 20mins of walking, & we arrived at the infamous avenue des Champs-Élysées street, where u can find most of the brands such as Louis Vuitton. From there where our shopping started, most of the brands were cheaper compare to Malaysia or Hong kong, & that makes us a happy girl. Moreover, tax can be claimed at airport too! so remember to ask for tax claim receipt.
U can get the famous Laduree Macaron too in that street. i dont really have a sweet tooth, but still their Macaron taste so good to me. u can buy them home as souvenir and they are nice enough to help u pack nicely.
And u will see Arc de Tropmhe' at the end of the street. The entrance fee to the top of the Arc is 9euros for adult & it worth the money as well. The location of the Arc were so good that u can see most of the Paris City at the top of the Arc.
All the tourist were queuing up for tickets!
After that, we head to the Effiel Tower & that tower is what excited me most about Paris. It was packed with tourist again as usual, and we went to queue for tickets. The tickets price were different depend on which level u wanna go, and either u wanna go up with elevator or stairs. we bought the ticket to the top of the effiel tower and by elevator and it cost us 11.80Euro each.
Picture of Senai River taken at the 2nd level of Effiel tower. Senai River just so pretty!
Reached the top of Effiel Tower, Malaysia is 10433km from Paris! It rained after we reached the top, didnt manage to take any picture, but still Paris were so pretty & romantic even it rained. At the top, the bird eye view of Paris were so awesome.
Me, after came down from the Effiel tower. There were a few souvenir shop inside the Effiel tower itself, i manage to grab some little gift for friends and families.
After that, we walked randomly around the Paris street, without any plan, i saw this status and the GOLD on top of the status caught my eye directly.

This is Eglise de la Madeleine

And this is Opera Garnier & where we ended our day 2 here. we took the RER at Opera Garnier and head to our hotel for a rest.
Day3, Disneyland! we bought our ticket at tourist information center in Paris city on day2, which is cheaper than u bought from Disneyland itself.

Even the entrance only can be so pretty already

And it says, Disneyland Paris, overall the rides in Disneyland were good, despite the long waiting time. Each rides took us about half an hour to wait. And it totally worth the money we pay. Everything were so cute inside, even our lunch were packed in a Mickey box! The Parade were good as well.
And that tells why i end up with so much shopping bags from Disneyland, when i'm a fan of stitch & Aliens from toy story!
The Last Day of Paris, we checked out from hotel early in the morning, and decided to walk around the City once again since our flight was like around 6pm something. That is me with my backpack and luggage in front of the Centre Georges Pompidou. Pompidou were worth to pay a visit, not only for the structure and architecture of the building itself but also the galleries inside.
This is the famous & romantic Notre Dame. u can go in too with some entrance fee.
After the pretty Notre Dame, we walked pass Le Pont des Arts Bridge where u can see thousand of lockpad hanging there with couple's name.

And a lot of stalls where artist set up for their art pieces

Lastly the Senai River again, the boat in the picture is worth to have a ride as well, too bad we don't have enough time for it. The boat will ride u along the Senai River and u can see most of the Paris landmarks. i'll definitely come back Paris again for the boat ride.
Lastly Pantheon, and the place we end our Paris trip before we head to airport. Paris, i'll see u again when i save enough money!

*I don't have awesome hair and most of time in paris i dont put on make-up, that explain there were not much picture of me;x

2012

2012-01-13T05:33:00.001-08:00

Been looking back to my 2009,2010,2011's new year resolution in this totally abandoned blog, & decided to make my blog public once agn! Sad to say that this year i dont have any specific new year resolution, maybe passing all my modules. Some past new year resolution that i have achieved were:

1. Letting go of you, you took me 2yrs and more to let go of u. i still remember how i so used to you for 3yrs and yet u just walked out from my life. (mean i've loved you for more than 5yrs FML)You brought so much impact to my life & i'm now used to lead my own life without you.
2. went overseas(UK,Europe) and had my holiday year, thanks to my family for their financial support always!

2012, so far had been an awesome year for me, it started with a short trip to Singapore & i m blessed with great hospitality. First of all, thanks to Alex&Sharon that let me stay over at their house & provide me with a nice and comfortable room. Not to forgot the rest, on my 1st dinner nite with david,ting,alex,kiat, i m just so worry i cant get alone with them, but yet they are much friendly than i expected, we planned out what to do for the rest of the day in SG & i totally enjoy the fellowship with them.

On the 2nd day, i met Thomas in the morning and we head to Universal Studio, we were lucky enough that USS was not as pack as what i heard, each rides took us about 3mins to wait, and we finished all the rides within 2hrs. Went in the casino with *big wet eyes* i never been to casino be4. Met up with Kelvin in Scape & walked around orchard. After that, met up with eden, we walked through Tampines under the hot sun for asiasoft office x.x had our lunch and we head to Marina Bay Sands, nice fellowship as well & Yang didi joined us later on. Yang didi was so funny that i just cant stop laughing.

3rd day was the day i enjoyed most, finally can have a little escape from hectic city life. had breakfast with alex&sharon, met up with tine, david and ting and alex drove us to Pulau Ubin. Picked up cycling in ubin after 10yrs ;x managed to cycle most part of the ubin with ting while david, alex and tine fishing. Overall, Ubin was the best day among all the days in Singapore even though by the end of the day we got ourselves sunburn & some minor injuries. At Nite, i took MRT to Dhoby Ghaut and meet up with Zeon and 2 of his frens, then Yue & JD came & fetch me to Parklane and meet up with a few more frens(sorry i cant remember who, there are too many of u).

4th day was a plan-less day. i dont really have any plan in mind, but yet it just can be so awesome with nice frens that actually planned for you. woke up, chatted with David in facebook a bit, then head to woodlands MRT station to meet up with bibi, was suppose to have brunch with her, but the moment we reach orchard station, i just cant resist and we went shopping, i bought a few tops from Forever21, which make me a happy gal, why UK you no have forever21?! Walked orchard a little, and david texted me that they waiting for me in mindcafe. Cabbed down to mindcafe, met david,ting,alex, zi yang, boon guan, kiat,Johnathan & Jes, have a few rounds of board games, then Johnathan & Alex fetched us to East Coast & where the fun part of the day is! It was a Korea BBQ Buffet Restaurant, most of us cant eat much and yet we went for buffet. Johnathan's car arrived 1st, which is him himself, me, ting, kiat & Jes, we went up the restaurant 1st while waiting for the rest to arrive. The gals went to take the meat & we took a lot, much more than what we can eat. End up the gal BBQ & passed to the guys to finish up all the meat. Sharon joined the fun later. i leave earlier than the rest, i cabbed down to bukit panjang myself, coz i know if i stayed till the end, my tears sure cant be control anymore, its the last nite that i can spend time with them & i m leaving back to malaysia the next morning. Even we just met each other in real for few days but yet i feel that our friendship its been forever. Reached Bukit panjang to meet up with Eden in MacDonald, by then my tears cant be controlled anymore. My hands just cant stop from texting David and Zi yang. After that, Sharon fetched me to Jurong Point.Packed my luggage in heavy mood, but every meet up sure got goodbye rite?

5th day, woke up in dying mood x.x. Time to say goodbye. Sharon fetched me to Changi, thx for waking up early and send me to airport. Checked in, & met Yi Kai in Changi, had breakfast & talked with Yi Kai, and YK sent me off at departure hall.

Singapore, i'll see u again on 18th February! Thanks to all the frens that make my trip so good. its not about the places i have went to, but its all about the people i met...

Lastly, a chio marina bay sands photo taken with my DSLR, i did bring my DSLR over but yet i was so lazy to carry it around x.x that explain why i got not much photo.