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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Monday: There were no classes on this day as i had an off day so what i do is just slack around and watch my animation that i brought over from singapore. It's the jpurney to the west and it was so funny as the characters were so different than the actual story. Monkey king is still a monkey, Zhu ba jie is very nerdy and he has somekind of qi gong power, Sha Zhen is one very horny guy who always like to see pretty girls and of course their master is someone with very powerful summoning power and carrys a gun. It is very enjoyable and i only watch 2 disc out of the 20 disc i think.
Tuesday: Start of actual lecture day which was suppose to be a e-commerce module, but to my surprise they cancelled the class and was to be postponed till next week, damm i woke up early for it. Anyway what can i do but just wander around in school as i have a team project meeting at 2pm. I went to see one of my last semester lecturer as i wanted to get him to supervise my dissertation but to my dissapointment he was fully booked so which means i do not have any chances of getting him to supervise me at all...DAMMM...wat to do he is very popular with the students...Anyway i spoke to him regarding the topic i'm doing and he said that it's best for me to try and send out some email and see if anyone know about this field. Got a few replies later in the afternoon all negetives...SHIT!!!. It was team time get to meet the new members of the team and get around and discuss on the new project which was to buiild a database for a client in school who is a lecturer...Anyway later after that went home and saw my flatmate edmund getting to go to work which was at old trafford as there was a game between Man Utd and Feberence, champions league game was going to be an exciting match with wayne rooney playing. the match started at about 8 i think hahah...forget the timing so i on the tele but damm it was not clear bent on watching the match i shfted my television around the room and finally got some decent reception. I sat down and watch the match at the same time had my dinner as usual which is a staple of rice and vegetabls with some meat.It was indeed and exciting match with Manchester United winning the match Final Score 6-2 Yesssss...It was a great result for them and a morale booster...The man of the moment of course is no other than the man himself Wayne Rooney who scored a hat-trick and it was a damm 99-year wait before someone scored a goal like that. Indeed he made history after that with the crowd going wild and he got a standing ovation after being substitued out. Anyway the next day there was going to be a lot of headlines abotu him in the papers.After that match it was about 10pm and edmund came back around 11pm which was usual due to the crowd. After a few more hours of reading i went to sleep to get ready for the next day.
Wednesday: It was another early day for me as the one and only lecture started at 9am in the morning so i woke up at 7+am ready to go to uni...Upon reaching the class was already fulll of people and finally the lecturer arrived who was a lady and she is very friendly. After the lecture i went to look for her to request her to supervise my dissertation and to my delight she agreed and i was so relived that i do not have to worry about it anymore. when she asked me where i am from and i told her Singapore and she said she always wanted to go to Singapore which might be a good sign hahaha....After that i went home, then while walking my phone rang...my friend called me and he was just walking behind me, together we walk to the salford precient to get some stuff. Upon reaching there we went to Argos and get a webcam for about £24 and it was buy one get one free so we then decided to share it. I also bout a USB port connector which can take up to 4 USB applications, and last of all i got a TV arieal which was much better than the old one. After that we went to the market to get some meat and other stuff, and went to TESCO finally to get some daily stuff from there. Once reaching home i heated a medium sized chicken which i bought in Gabot's Farm and it taste quite alrite, while waiting for the chicken i setup the arieal and webcam. When everything is done i mess about with the webcam and it was pretty good and clear. I used it on MSN and talk to my friends who are the first lucky ones to see it hahahahah kaimen and wanling. It was kind of fun with a webcam so everyone who is out there get a webcam soon okies then can fool around hahaah...That's about it for the day time to get some dinner done...Finally got the software Hello working again after getting a patch file from it and i was able to upload photos now for everyone to see yeah.
Wednesday, September 29, 2004
 The four musketeers 
 A Few of my supper ka ki in singapore from singapore poly.Thanks a lot people.
 Me with my best army buddy.
 My Friends in singapore sending me off at changi airport
 Clear view of the Troopers in the HMV store
 Me with a trooper guard at the door posing with me was a bit shocked hahaha
 Me one of the crazy star wars fans who went there at the launch of the DVD boxset at 12 midnite, with the Dark Forces of Star Wars
 Finally the area towards the door area and some new poster from the rally
 My working desk area and as u can notice a new shelf on the right is a new one bought by edmund to put his files and notes.
 View of the bed and can see tesco from the window.
 Me standing at the PITSTOP area in wales
 Back view of WRX
 Front view of subaru WRX
 Pictures from the Wales Rally GB
 Me at the Wales Rally GB Headquarters. Behind is the winning car last season.
Monday, September 27, 2004
Weather report in manchester, it's cold and wet raining almost everyday for the past one week which makes life pretty boring and dull always waking up to see the beautiful sun but...none came as the clouds has imprisoned the sun behind them...
Went to school for registartion on friday, where i just need to pay the school fees...i can't help but only grumble about the school fees which went up this year by £300 damm...Anyway got everything done including my new ridley's membership and NUS card...during the weekend me and my flatmate went to get a shoerack and shelf to put his books...then the cleaner complained that it's a hazard but come on, it's so big and noticable so nobody should fall over it man...hiaz...the very next day i went to the fleamarket to get some magazines to read as it was very cheap for only £1 for any magazines...good deal, then me and my friends stop by argos to get his weights which is 2 dumbell and 1 barbell with a combined weight of 35kg that's heavy we had a hard time carrying it back luckily found a trolley and wheel it back.
It's monday and the day hasn't improved still the same old cloudy sky as usual as promised i took pictures of my room to show to you guys damm...the network got problems can't load up the pictures...will try again later...that's all for now...till next time...
Wednesday, September 22, 2004
Okies been out cold for the past 3 days without the internet as i do not have the damm CABLE...must call jim carrey (aka cable guy) to fix for me hahaha. Anyway i went to HMV on the 19th of September in midnight and guess who i saw in person, the characters of Star Wars...Darth Vader and his minions...took a photo with them using my phone as i forget to bring my camera shit...Anyway have to see if i can get the hp cable and transfer the picture onto the laptop. The reason they were there is because the launch of the Star Wars Trilogy DVD special edition...I will upload the picture soon...
It was monday and my friend Hilmie just arrived a day before and we decided to go to spaces and get all my stuff and his and mr edmund ones. Upon reaching there Mr Hilmie got a shock of his life when he saw the locker as it was full. We had a hard time moving out the stuff by transporting the stuff onto a trolley up and down for some time it took us about 45mins before we get everything down. We then phone Mr allan minibus for him to come and take pur stuff to eddie coleman...he replied that he will need reach SPACES at 3pm which was like one and half hours to reach which was long but the cut short to 2:30 so it was still ok. We took two trips to transfer the stuff and ask a few of my friends to help me move the stuff... It was very tiring but in the end it was worth the effort. Due to the fact that edmun had more stuff so it will be a headache for him to unpack his stuff out...I began to unpack a few boxes but by the end of 2 hours i was totally maxed out...dead tired and hungry... I went for dinner at tai wu with a group of my friends and later i met up with a good friend of mine whose name is Mr Paul at tribaca...We had a few drinks before a few of my friends came over my place and stay for the nite as they havent got their room keys yet and also they were fetching Mr edmund from the Airport...It was 6:10am and Mr edmund called me to let me know that he has arrived at the airport and i told him that his friends are on their way to go and fetch him.
when he reached his place he couldnt get his keys yet as the office was not opened till 9am. Upon getting his keys he opened his door, to his surprised the room was quite small as he and me didn't expect the room to be of different sizes but my room is bigger so i think it took up the spaces...Anyway he unpack his stuff as there was too many he put some stuff in my room...and he will be getting a shelf unit and put in my room to put all his notes and books. What can i say about edmund, he is a person who is very hardworking and very into his studies which was why he had so many notes with him. We went for dinner again at tai wu with a few friends before i started writing my blog now...on the new internet broadband which was fast and i was very happy about it as i have been waiting for a long time for it.
Okies time to go and sleep and be ready to buy some furniture tomolow...Yeah!!!
Friday, September 17, 2004
Finally back in cloudy manchester...The weather was same as usual rainning and windy. I started off from singapore with a couple of my friends sending me off from changi airport, and they even got me a card which i like it. Upon taking a seat on the place i started a conversation with this man sitting next to me, it happen that he is a mancunian. We talked a lot about the different places of intrest around the world and it was intrresting as we share different experiences. Once touch down i met up with 2 of my friends who is on the smae flight and we booked Allan minibus to go to eddie coleman court. Along the way we were stuck in the horendous traffic on the M65, it was only after an hour when we reach our destination.
There were a few changes around the site...the pool table was gone, and there was a lookout desk at john lester which was fuuny lor. the next thing was the bloody police station is not ready yet still got lots of construction going on...what can i say they work damm slow leh. Soon we got our keys after waiting for about 2 hours and we got into our room. I was astonished to find that my room was so big or is it due to the fact i haven't seen it for 3 months. Anyway i got about unpacking and tidying up the place. The cool thing is that my unit has a new fridge brand new which was very good.
after doing everything i went to tesco and buy some food, finger food and pizza as there were no pots and plates with me and i couldn't cook. I bought 2 goodfellas pizza which was a small one good for 1 person. After that i saw lots of eggs which singapore is deprived of due to the bird flu...here you can buy as many as you want. After finish buying i went back and had a nap before i went to school and do my blog. I will be going to wales tomorrow morning maybe for a car rally show hopefully it's good.
Last but not least a big thank you to everyone who went to send me off and also those who didn't but was good enough to pen their thoughts on the card which i appreciate it a lot. BTW kaimen you still owe me the disc hahaha lolx....Take ur time just pass back to me next time okies...hope you get better soon.
Thats all for today...
Sunday, September 05, 2004
It's 6am in the morning which i just left Party World. The day started with me going to my friend son one month celebration. After the celebration i went to meet my friend and went to watch a movie called A Cinderella Story. It's a love and comedy story, which was of course made up of mostly funny moments. this story evlove around a girl who work for her stepmother in a diners, which of course you have two step-sisters who will make life difficult for her. It's only when she met her prince charming things started to get worst, but as usual the ending is predictable.
Next me and my friends decided to go to Party World and sing song, which is already 1am. We book a room and sang till about 5:30am in the morning which is the first time i sang karaoke till so late. It was a fun nite as there was a lot of fun and laughter. My 4 friends are Lijun,Alex,Weixiang and Stephiane. What can i say they are really one of my best buddies who keep me company till so late as i only have a week more before i leave Singapore.We then decided to head back home and by the time i reach home is alreay 6:30am.
My family has all woken up and ready to go to malaysia, luckily i was not going or else i dun think i will enjoy and survive the ordeal. Later in the day i will be going out with my singapore poly friends if they are free. then i will go to kallang where there is a flag day for cars. I knew about this event as my friends are all involved with it and i will be going down to take some photos of the event which i believe will be fun. Anyway that's all as i have to go and sleep now...ZZzzzz...
Friday, September 03, 2004
Yeah i want to thank my dad first of all, for approving me to buy something i like. It's so late in the night but i'm still blogging...I woke up at 8am but back to sleep and woke up again at 11am...which i called my friend as he miss call me. the day was fine and i went out with my friend as soon as i reach the MRT station at Ang Mo Kio it started to rain...but luckily it stopped when i reach city hall...so not much harm done...it was sunny...yeah.
I went to had chap chai peng (mixed vegetable rice)...then i went to cathay photo to go and buy my photograph stuff. I went to look for the person which i bought my first set of camera equipement. He was very friendly and still remember me which is good as i can get discount then. I bought about 42 rolls of ISO 400 film and 5 rolls of ISO 100 film. Then i asked him to showed me the model for the canon EOS 30v model, and asked him what's the difference. He told me that this is the mid range and the one i bought earlier is the beginner one. It is very good as it's black in colour and very durable. The lens is a 17-40mm wide angle so i can take wider pictures and more things into the frame. I will want to master this and hopefully can earn some money using all i learnt next time. I played with a telephoto lens which is a 100-400mm lens it was great having that lens and it's heavy. This comes with a price tag of 2000+ which of course i will leave it till next time then i will get it. After buying i went to kinokuniya to get look at some japanese magazines, but too bad all are sealed up dammm...
It's dinner time, 7pm and i'm meeting my friend at plaza singapura. Met her and her cousin at pasta mania which is my first time there. they served some quite nice pasta but i still prefer the pasta at bella pasta in UK. After dinner we went for a drink at a open air cafe which is opposite the istana. It's a very nice and relax place playing some light jazz for the romantic night along with the vehicles passing by disturbing the nite..lolz. I went home after 10pm and showed my dad what i had bought. He fiddled with the camera and didn't say a lot but just that the new camera is better than the old one. Anyway need to sleep early as i need to do my draft tomorrow morning.ZZZzzzz.....
Thursday, September 02, 2004
Today i did a few things such as packing getting ready to leave for manchester. Then started playing with my PS2 game..final fantasyX2. It was fun but difficult to play only can play for a few hours. Next i decided to go and watch some vcds. Its a korean show titled stairway to heaven, i recomend this show to anyone who is intrested in korean serials. It about a girl who lost her memory and is stuck between 2 guys. It has a lot of twist and turn...last of all it's a very sad show which i believe u will need some tissue for the girls and maybe some guys.
Caught the epsiode of singapore idols today and what can i say it sucks leh...The songs doesn't really turn the audience on i suppose. Anyway hope next week one will be better lor..of which i do not have any high hopes also. BTW i catch the cha 8 show of xiao hua and xiao cao...very funny and the result is not good at all to let the long hair girl win, the one with short hair should win mah just because the long hair girl got a better figure only mah.
Going out tomorrow after staying at home for nearly a week, need to get some sunshine and fresh air hahaha...need to do some shopping for photography stuff...which will be fun...hope i can find somethng nice as there is a camera which i want to get which is 800+...Anyway that's all for today...
Wednesday, September 01, 2004
Yeah...2 more weeks and i will be going back to manchester, time to get ready to dig into the books after slacking around for abt 2.5 mths. My dad is back from work see if he bought anthing for me hehehe, Will update again.
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