Curls & Twirls

HeLLO from the greatest capital in the world! (According to my uni rector lah). YEsh…the alluring London. But before I go on ranting about this grand city, let me update on a few things:

1. I’m gonna be moving blogs because friendster blogs suck. You can’t put any pics up and configure the fonts and background and put skins and stuff. And because Rudy offered to set up one for me. Haha. *Btw, it’s long overdue, Rudy. Hurry up lah.*

2. For those of you who understand it: Although I surveyed London and found that in this beautiful city of theatres and posh hotels, where all the men are gentlemen and the ladies are…ladies. *lol. lame i know*, and my wandering eye decided that I shall not keep my audience limited… *damn*. Today, after one long week of abscence, my target audience decided to waltz in and remind me of my little adventure in Malaysia just prior to my departure. And guess what? *Crash boom bang pet-te-bam dush* *ouch ouch ouch*. Yesh. I crashed. Hehehe.. if you get my drift ?

3. SOrry! I can’t reply any emails or msgs quite personally until my damn broadband gets working and that will be this friday. And by then I would get my mobile and house number and I will not forget to give it out to you. Until then, I’m paying by the minute for this internet service! But the writer in me refuses to let that stop me from updating my blog…!

*Phew*. Now to the more interesting bits…

LONDON! Wahaha. It’s impossible to tell you EVERYTHING that’s been happening in the last week coz there’s just so much to say, but I shall try to give a summarized version. When I arrived at the appartment, I dreadfully realized that the tennants that had been occupying the place were VERY VERY BAD. They left the place in such a terrible condition that for 2-3 days, I felt more like a maid than a student. SEriously, you guys know right. I’m the kind who likes to do the minimum neccessary. (Is that a correct sentence?) What I mean is, if I have to study chapter 1, I’ll study chapter 1. And that’s it. Who cares if chapter 2 will give you a better understanding of chapter 1? Or if I do some worksheets, it might improve what i’ve studied. But anyway, the place was so crappy that I felt it neccessary to stay home and clean clean clean. Seriously, even my dad was impressed. (I quote him : "One thing I have to say lah. For the way you left your bedroom in Malaysia, I would never have guessed you would be doing what you’re doing. Shows you’re more sensible than I thought you were." Bah. Calling me insensible. Ape ah.)  I did the whole works. Even down to vacuuming the whole appartment. Only the bathroom was saved - for thankfully, they left THAT in a good condition. (Although I had to do a little cleaning of the sink and mirrors…*sigh*)

So anyway, since the first few days I had my hands full with cleaning and washing and what nots, my dad was kind enough to take care of all the cooking. But soon after, he finally forced me into the kitchen with a frying pan instead of a broom. I chased him out of the kitchen during that time, for I was afraid he would see what a mess I was when cooking. But I was brave, I took that kuali fearlessly. Wahahhaha. But I was still practical, and had convinced my dad (and myself, of course) that he shouldn’t expect anything tasty and that we should be happy if I managed something edible. But lo and behold, to my surprise, my food actually tasted like FOOD! Really, I was so impressed with myself that I just HAD TO BRAG ON MY BLOG. Hahahhaa. (Daniel: I so know what you’re thinking, and no. I’m not volunteering to cook for you.) In fact, i reckon cooking is not as bad as baking. WIth cooking, you can afford to just estimate what you put in, but with baking, one minor mis-measurement and you’re screwed. I cooked chicken curry and some vege lah. I forgot what vege, but the chicken curry was what I was so impressed with. It was almost like eating the curry at home! Ok, ok. Before you guys get your hopes all high up in the sky…it tasted like food doesn’t mean that it tastes like something out of Pandi’s ok. So don’t expect something extravagant!

And since then I have gone into the battle-field, armed with my laddle and pot, many a times!

Translations: Since then I’ve cooked more often.

Oh and speaking of baking, wahhhhh….they have such nice stuff here that when I prance into a baking shop, I want to buy the whole thing. They have all sorts of pans and moulds and milks and cream and flour and stuff….so nice to bake!!!!!!! I only wish that the prices were all in Ringgit. Damn Sterling.

Ok ok. Enough of the housewife in me. (I can just hear Curt laughing. I quote him : "You? Studying engineering? I always thought you were the housewife type.")

Well, besides that, I’ve just been going around in London and on Sunday my uni organized a special tour for us. I won’t talk much about that because reading about London isn’t half as fun as experiencing it first-hand. Oh, but I watched "Mama Mia" (the musical performance, originally by ABBA) last night and it was AWESOME. All the way home I was singing "Mama mia…here I go again!" The cast was really good and all of them would give the Malaysian Idol contestants AND Jacklyn Victor a good run for their money. Seriously. The lead actress had such a melodic voice that I was hooked as soon as she started her solo. And when the final song came to pass, I wish it would never end.

Well then, today I went to the Fresher’s Fair at uni. It’s a fair where all sorts of organizations and clubs come and set up a booth so that students have more information. Most of them were societies from the Student Union itself, but there were a few outsiders such as National Theatre, London Student Newspaper, etc. I wanted to sign-up for practically everything ! All the clubs were so awesome and exciting and so different from the kinds u get in Malaysia. I mean, you had your usual Malaysian Society, Debate Club, Christian Union, Dance Club, etc. But you also had all these exciting clubs like Musical & Drama Club, Rifle & Pistol Club, Racing & Karting Club, Gliding Club, Horse-Riding Club, etc. ANd the best part is, you can sign-up for a trial basis. I did sign-up with quite a lot, but what really piqued my interest was the Karting Club. They had a model race-car at their booth, and all the specifications etc, and although I know nuts about cars, it looked impressive. And they had students themselves building these cars! Talk about awesome, eh? And they had a track you can race on and stuff. I was SOOOOOOO tempted to join (especially since beginners could get lessons or something!) but I decided against it for 2 reasons:
1. The price was just too high.
2. The fact that there didn’t seem to be any female members intimidated me.

SOme other clubs that really got me interested and which were considerably cheaper AND more gender-balanced were…err..I can’t remember the names. Haha. THey have funky names lah. But one club did TV programme productions! How cool was that ey? I told them I had no experience whatsoever but they said that training would be given so I needn’t worry. If I joined, I’d have experience with producing short tv shows, documentaries, movies, etc. SO COOL. Another one was a club that built satellites. I was really skeptical about this one and told them I REALLY don’t think I have the capacity to do anything like that. But the guy managed to convince me that even the most ignorant engineering student will be able to with their training, and since it was a free trial, what the heck ey? And of course, true to my roots, I joined the dance club & Felix (Uni Newspaper). OOh. ANd how can I forget? Malaysian Society!

You know, the great thing about MSOC (Malaysian Society) is that the committee is really friendly and nice. They try so hard to be helpful, within a second I knew I wanted to be a member!

Besides that, I got a lotta free stuff from the fair too. Chocolate bars, free lunch, student discounts for a whole bunch of stuff (ranging from disco parties to orchestra tickets!) and even a personal alarm from the National Security. Haha, yeah, even they had a booth up! And the alarm is really really loud and painful to the ear…so anyone who tries to mug me….WAHAHAHAHA…I advise you to get some serious quality ear-plugs.

Oh! And today I met 2 Malaysians: Wei Kit & Terrence. Terrence was from BB school and knows the whole BB gang (Jason, Deepak, Rahul, Carlos, etc) AND Ming Wang, Tsu Lynn & naturally, Swen too. Wei Kit, on the other hand, was from SSC and knows Wern Yuen, Jassie, Jon Wung, etc (college friends). My my. All 3 of us were quite surprised to find out that we had travelled about 600 miles only to meet friends of friends!  And to top that off, I also met Eunice Liow & Yew Horng. Eunice somehow knows Cheng Heng (college friend), and Yew Horng used to be very good friends with Sinthi back in sec school. It really is a small world, ey?

Haha. OK, I think i have written enough, and in about half an hour, my friend is coming over. So till I get my freaking broadband up and working, ta-ta and I miss you all!

Lotsa love, sugar & spice, 600 miles away and 7 hours behind time!

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