International High Table Night - 6 Mar '08

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All of us attended a dinner session organised by the Butler Court wardens. IT's called International High Table (i think...) haha... where all of us had to prepare a local dish as best we can and bring it over for everyone to share in the common room. So derek pulled out his precious pineapple tarts to share w everyone ;) Derek's pineapple tarts
Nice that they serve us free drinks - including wine~
Seehwei taking a sip
We met other students staying in the same block from HK and Italy. It was really great to mingle around. At first we thought we were the only ones there... but we arrived to see some food and 5 other pple from HK. It took us a little time to start warming up... first by introducing the food we brought to the table. hehe... INTRODUCING OUR...
Pineapple rice! (not S'porean though,haha)
BKT!!! Thanks YS~ very huai nian :P

Newly made friends:

Derek - Me - Kinya (who's a great fan of Tanya, thus her name ;)) - Hazel-
- Kinya - Hazel - Michelle -
Playing table football really brought everyone together. Atmosphere super high!
YS and JY ... losing the game to hazel and I. lol... *way to go roomie!*
Interacting : Seehwei - Derek - Kinya -
Gathering around to watch the intense match. Guys vs. Gals

Ben & I
= SH - me - Mich - Hazel =
Me & Jared
= JY - YS - Catherine - Jared G. =
Nice to see eveyone having lots of fun ;)


Catherine & I
Ben downing a glass of wine
Me and Kinya. Hm.. I kp thinking she looks a little like Guijin. =P
= Jared - Ben promoting his wine - Derek =

Dunno what Jared's pointing at --> YS monkey face? =x
WAHh... super obscene!!! Pls guys, get a room. lol
Jared - Derek - SH slacking and watching American Idol on tv
= Me - Kinya - Catherine - Ben (another one..) - Derek (dunno what he's doing again) =
I love Tigger!
Overall, I really enjoyed the night. Getting to meet pple, interacting with them and learning sth new with every conversation. IT's really an experience. I tried a little Italian with the Italian guys... Learnt how to pronounce my name in Cantonese. It's all fun and great company. That should be what an exchange is all about ^.^

Bums

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An incident this morning totally irritates me. Hazel & I went to Union to print some photos using those kinda DIY Kodak machines we have in Singapore. It wasn't working when I touched the screen, looks like it's not turned on. So i got help from the counter. This young guy sauntered over. I sorta have this premonition from his half-awake face tht he's not really bothered to help.

So he looked at it, touched the blank screen, turned to me and said, "I don't think it's on on weekends. It's deifnitely on during weekdays."

It's a MACHINE. I don't think machines take off on weekends when the store is still open. There must be a ON/OFF button somewhere.

"You sure?", I asked. He started to look around for any switch to turn it on.

After like 3 secs, "Nah, I don't know. I'm sure it's on during weekdays. Come tmr." Another female colleague came over and helped to search for the ON/OFF button. But she can't find any and said dunno too. And both of them walked away.

So we walked about and when we're just about to leave, an older senior staff was signalling to us tht the machine was working. And she turned over to tell the 2, "There's a button here, you just need to press it to turn it on." =_= ... wth. Now he's called bum.

Den when I finally developed the photo, I paid at the counter where bum is the cashier (it's the only counter open). He wasn't even looking at me or the photo when I passed it to him. I doubt he even hear me say, "I printed one piece".

Bum took the photo and held it in front of the scanner. *#$%&#?@! Until the female colleague said, "What're u doing?" Then Bum broke out of his blur trance and looked at the piece of photo, not knowing what to do. Bum doesn't know what to key in. He looked over to the female colleague, she replied with a shurg and "I dunno"... totally bochap.

I stared at them.

Finally, after 5 secs of moving his hands above the cash register, Bum gave a 'wth' face and shouted, "Hey Steph!". So the senior staff came out again to help settle the payment.

I just don't understand why Bum and his friend have this totally-can't-be-bothered attitude. They brush it off when they don't know what to do, they dun even bother to ask for help, and they don't know that whatever reply they gave to the customer sounds stupid.

Bums. Either that, or they're having a hangover.

Not just another ferris wheel

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I've seen a few ferris wheels during stay in UK. Belfast Wheel, Nottingham Eye, London Eye. Those are in europe. Let's not forget the one in Asia.

Singapore has unveiled Asia's largest ferris wheel - the Singapore Flyer!
All aboard!
Looking forward to take a ride on it soon~ hehe

Easter's coming!

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Easter's starting on 14 Mar = school holidays for a month!!! Woohoo~!

Very interesting choc easter egg designs in stores ;)


Nottingham - 010308

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Five of us, Yisi Derek Hazel Ben and I, ventured for a short day trip to Nottingham over the weekend, while the other exchange peeps who are from VJ attended a gathering in London. Nottingham's the home of legendary Robin Hood. So not surprisingly, there are a lot of attractions relate to him. Of course Nottingham is also quite a place to SHOP~! ;)
St. Peter's Church
interesting gift shop along the alleys
Old Market Square
Tram services running along roads of Old Market Sq Council House
Nottingham Eye

Reached a place called 'Tales of Robin Hood'

Me trying to draw the sword out of the rock
Derek seems to have a harder time than I did. hehe
Nice outfit?
"No I'm not the bad guy!" Me and Robin Hood
Lego version of Robin Hood story... nice~
There's Robin Hood spinning around on his white horse.

Statue of Robin Hood
Trying to steal his sword...
Hazel trying her best to listen to what Ben is saying. haha
In the background, that's Nottingham Castle ;)
Mansion in Nottingham Castle
All geared up for battle with Robin Hood / Crusades... both ba..
This inn is the oldest inn in England. The interior is actually a cave. really cool!


Careful not to sit on those spikes

Well, Nottingham city is actually built upon caves. So over the years, some of these tunnels and caves are revealed... such as this one behind me.


I like it a lot when such architecture is preserved... with shops below like Zara. haha

Love this photo ;)
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