yup~ I had a really great day today though it was busy again in the afternoon! did my lab book and physics hw! and then it's off to CNY dinner at dragon castle at elephant and castle station~

today's dinner was really really good! and i'm so happy. though i only talked to like 6 ppl sitting at my table. but i had a good time walking around be4 dinner started to chat with diff frens! had a good time also chatting with shawn tan sitting beside me who's from my bmt section 3. haven seen him for so long and today finally had the time to catch up. luckily i swopped seats with yang le, if not would not have been able to chat so much with shawn! haha. yeah and so the 8 course dinner was really really good. we had yusheng, fish, prawn balls and some other fishes. but the most significant ones are yusheng and fish cos u hardly get those here. haven eaten steamed fish for sooo long and today's 1 totally melts in my mouth. gosh, was really good.


camwhoring with ant and rachel be4 dinner!


the marvelous food! haha~ we can also get decent chi food in london!


solo photos with frens!


every1 is happy!

so it was basically a whole night of eating and chatting and listening to familiar chinese new year songs. every1 was totally immersed in the mood and guess i felt much relief cos i have finished my lab~ woots! can't wait for this sat dinner too!

had a REALLY busy monday! took the tube 5 times and 1 bus! haha was really a crazy day. had labs in the morning at 9am which was quite screwed up initially as the KI chemical keeps oxidising by itself when H202 wasn't added to it yet. was so worried that i prepared the solutions 3 times to find that it's an inherent problem to the experiment. next the lousy microburette that the lab provided me caused my experiments to go really really slowly! i changed 4 burettes! gosh! but it was faulty in a good way for the first part of the expt as it requires a really slow rate to titrate i guess.

so after lab, rushed home to cook lunch and dinner and feeling demoralised at the same time due to lousy lab! but was comforted when i plot my graph and got a R2 value of 0.999 which means that my graph is almost a perfect fit. cooL~ so my expt turned out fine afterall.

then it was wicked at night! haha, held really high hopes for this musical as it really looks cool from the outside and indeed it did not disappoint me. i felt the plot quite heavy towards the end cos the 'witch' kept sacrificing herself to help her fren, like saving her reputation etc. really love this play! songs were also beautifully sung by powerful vocals! costumes were so colourful and pretty too. basically it's a pleasure to the eyes and ears. argh~ there was a point when i felt like tearing cos the music and scene was quite touching. haha! well well, and the crew had a standing ovation yesterday night which ave q didn't have. enjoyed this 10000 times more than ave q, or rather infinity cos i dun even noe if i enjoyed ave q. woots~ made me feel like watching mama mia and les mis~

yeah and i'm glad to say that my experiments went well today~ got good readings too. wee~

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!

started my new year mood when i skyped with yang le and ant san when they're just at beit. haha! ant is really retarded. so i took a retarded shot of him on webcam!


he really cracked me up! hahaha~

wee~ yesh, i'm all charged up for next week's lab after tonight's reunion dinner with kok chong, kelvin, edwin and ben! was totally fun and kok chong was so cool to bring in speakers to play wu yue tian and other chi pop songs! really nice~ like a kbox session. well, there was also lots of catching up done with ben. he always says that he hasn't seen me for eons. so today i told him must catch up loads! yeah and we did. cooked so much for steamboat that i had to bring home some untouched food! but it's alright since i can use for next week's steamboat!


preparing the food! edwin keeps supervising me!

yeah~ and then more ppl came in and we tricked them into trying our food so they had to pay! HAHA, but we were just jesting la. and i was like wow-ing at our food! cos it's my first time eating dou fu after i've come here for soo long! my first time having jing zhen gu! my first time having fish and meat balls! basically! there's a lot of first time today! argh! yi nian yi ci! hahah, it was really chatting on the whole! weee!


cooked food~ weeee~ and many ppl came in after that~


all of us~ so homey~

alright, shall wish everyone a happy Chinese new year! and a smooth year ahead! 1 more dinner on wed and a steamboat on sat to go!

Today was totally a happy day but now i'm kinda really tired! well, went to CNY carnival at UCL today with ky, edwin and jk. was organized by HC alumni and vj.. woo~ hc rox! haha, well i always find hc alumni very zai as they're able to find sponsorship and it's a really strong network in uk! well, the carnival wasn't really big and luckily we went late if not it would have gotten quite boring after a while. but the real fun came when the lions came in to do the lion dance!



and then we had LOU HEI! lao yu sheng. lao-ing yusheng in london! credit must be given to the alumni for making the yusheng themselves! they're really cool. i think it's more of a singapore thing rather than chi thing. and these days i just realised that the chi eat diff cny goodies from us singaporeans! yeah so lou hei was seriously fun and we cam whored a lot. made 2 new frens at this carnival, with this senior called qiao yan(ky a star senior), she's from hc too. and our hc alumni pres! woosh! so cool to know the pres i feel and the pres is really friendly. haha i kept saying he has an aura. gao xiao. so after the carnival, we went to leicester square and nice senior brought us there by foot! went to get food there for tmr's steamboat and the queue in the shop was ridiculously lonG! but we still queued. wa fishballs are ex i realised but i still bought it. haha~


lou hei! so nice! qiao yan, ky and i ate a lot!


see the hc alumni pres? so cooL! in the foto on the right, centre row! wa got his aura~

then, had dinner at edwin's place after which we went to imperial for the back to sch party organised by sing soc! clad in our hc uniform that we once wore 4 years ago, we braved the cold and went to imperial. but i think i'm getting really acclimatized to the cold cos i can just walk with just 1 jacket. woosh! the party was quite fun too, talking old school fotos! argh and i wanna be a jc kid again! guiyi says i look very j1! wee! hahah and i told her i'm a p6 prodigy actuallY! ahha, i don't know when's the next time i can wear my uniform, somehow i find it very gorgeous today. haha! well, i love hc~ i'm just so happy that hc has such a strong network here. fancy meeting a hc senior working in switzerland, hcnians are everywhere! hahaa... so proud of my school. =)


back to school! haha took quite a lot with rj too! hahah rj and hc can fight!


the best hc foto~ couldn't get every1 ahhah cos all were scattered around!

today was another long but fun day! hosted joanna and went around part of london together with her friend and kelvin. we went to borough market first and was terribly late, like for half an hour. firstly, it was because i woke up late. secondly, that stupid tube lines keep closing here and there. every update is so crucial, cos some lines may just suddenly close and choose to terminate at premature stops. haha~ anyway, borough was fantastic but it's really far from our place, nearer to east london. think i would prefer to revisit portobello cos it's only 2 stops away from me! borough has really LOADS of food and i couldn't resist buying this very beef bread. actually wanted to have wild boar sausage but i'm not a fan of sausage so got beef instead. wa really delectable! woots! and joanna kept grabbing stuff as if they're free, i guess cos they look seemingly cheaper.(that is when compared to swiss la)


At Borough market!

well, then we made our way to westminster, gosh this is my 100th time visiting there. haha actually 3rd i think. but yeah, it's just like that lor. but it's always a new experience for those ppl who come and visit us~ and i think big ben still looks as nice. after which, we went on to our school, south ken and visited the natural history museum! thot it was the history of london museum but it turned out to be 1 about geography which was actually quite interesting i felt, cos there were at least some science stuff in it instead of pure mundane history. so we made our way to imperial lib to print the 2 for 1 zizzi vouchers for dinner!


at westminster and buckingham palace~

wa and we went to earls court for zizzi! it's my 3rd time there this week cos earls court really has SO many good restaurants and i think i've tried most, if not all. zizzi was as good and calzone remains as my 1st choice! love it man! too bad i forgot to take pictures of it! was too excited in eating it when it was served. and then we had dessert which was seriously SERIOUSLY good. we ordered this banana thing, and this other choc waffle with ice cream on it. i've nv tasted such nice waffle. no, not even in sg. i think cos it's really hard to find a good italian restaurant in sg. but that 1 was super good. can bring yx and gang there in may! and we all chatted for hours at the restaurant. now i understand why the french or italian or whoever can have their meals so long cos they serve slowly! but well it was really good cos we get to chat a lot. chatted really a lot with serene, and esp kok chong. well, kok, me and joanna are from hcco dyb cello! and it was well catching up with kok, updating each other about the ppl in chem and physics. well, it was quite interesting after knowing so much from him. well anyways, dinner was really satisfying too!


at zizzi! i love calzone and the desserts. and the supervisor thought i went to zizzi yesterday! we broke a glass be4 leaving and he bluffed me to pay up~ haha!

finally i will have a day of rest be4 school opens tmr! shall pack my notes and tutorials, do groceries and a little shopping at hammersmith. then maybe read a bit about the things to do soon. wa it's gonna be a slack week followed by a hectic cny week!

Indeed, today was a really boisterous day! well, yl pang seh me in the morning cos she had insomnia yesterday night, so i went to westfield alonE! haha but it was quite nice shopping alone at a cavernous mall so near me with so few ppl on a fri afternoon. and yes i bought a trench coat from zara for 70 pounds, was originally 129! and another scarf from h&m to go with this trench! well, i shall not spend anymore! after which, went back to put down my stuff and went to meet rachel at south ken.

and we bought this super round choc cake, called a choc bomme. haha! and it so looked like anthony's face! so we decided to get it! and we kept losing our way, but rachel found it quite fun! hahah there're so many small roads at south ken station. and finally, we landed ourselves at tesco express and got some fruits to decorate the cake. so we were left with a candle! and we went to get that candle from hummingbird bakery. it's kinda funny buying a small candle from this bakery shop!



we were so enthusiastically decorating ant's face! look at yang le using a chopper to open the box!


the result!

well, then to yang le house to decorate the cake be4 ant comes! had lots of fun decorating and eating the fruits at the same time. and soon ant arrived and we quickly lit the candles be4 opening the door. and i bet he got a big big surprise! cos he has nv expected this. well and so after cake cutting, we only had a portion of it cos we still had to go for dinner. the cake was seriously good! oishii!


and ant san came so we took loads of fotos with his twin! haha bet he's surprised! prize giving ceremony.


cam whoring! each with the bday boy!

finally we made our way to earls' court kisso for dinner and we were lucky to reach 5 min be4 the lunch menu ends cos the dinner menu is totally too attas! and alright, the jap food was totally awesome! the best 1 i had so far in london! misato can go and slp already i feel. we chatted so much with the lady boss. and i got all too excited talking to her cos it's so rare to be able to use my jap tongue. haha! but it's not really easy to form long sentences now i feel, just able to speak with a little speed for not-too-hard sentences. haha and when she replied in a really really long sentence, i will be lost and it's tiring to keep concentrating! luckily there's ant and rachel around to help! and i tried ordering the dessert in jap by translating the eng words! hahaa... and i told the waitress that it's for the kid(ant) bday today.. and she came back putting the dessert in front of ant and called him kodomo! haha and we all burst into laughter. dessert was seriously good. green tea mousse, so smooth and i totally loved the green tea taste. haven't tasted it for a really long time! nihon ga daisuki!!! i want to go back to japan! maybe this coming summer with ant san! we're all on a jap craze! haha~


look at the food! and the big wasabi the lady gave me. she spoke so quickly to me in jap that i couldn't catch it! haha!


at the jap restaurant! woohoO~ was totally good! we were so happy eating. really, the chef put lots of effort in preparing the food. can taste it!


and a really well taken pic by me! we were so amazed by my skill! haha

and i was really glad ant is happy! =) woots!

yeah! exams over! actually it was just 1 paper yesterday. and today went out with ky to the science museum beside our sch to take a look. though it's so near school, it's actually my first time there! hahah cos i'm not a museum person and i usu yawn when i step into 1. but this was quite interesting cos i got to see many ancient cars that london used in the past. can imagine how it looks like, exactly like those from movies in olden london setting.


yeah the museum


haha like this car

then went to meet ks and bing quan at harrods! and we saw the zara beside it having FURTHER reductions! it's hard to find the right size, but 1 will be sooo lucky if he can find 1. imagine getting a trench for 69 pounds which was originally 129! argh!!!


harrods~ ahaha 2nd time there but nothing to buy as usual. it's just too ex!


isn't their lift cool?

as we were dissatisfied, ky and i went on to high street ken's zara and i saw 1 coat i like sooo much! but one of the buttons came off. sad! well i'm going to try my luck tmr at westfield with yl! strangely, i'm hoping they wun have my size so i wun spend money again! haha. anyway, there was a demonstration at high street ken outside the israel embassy cos of the gaza fiasco~


the demonstration!

yeah so after that we wanted to walk to big sains and got a little lost while walking a short cut. so we went to a mama shop and asked the cashier for directions. the customer behind came to ask where i wanna go. and in his perfect queen english, he directed us. i was really quite shocked! cos it's really hard to find a brit who speaks the queen eng, most of them usu drop their T which becomes very intolerable to the ears! haha yeah and it's really rare to bump into such a helpful brit. thought u can only find that in switzerland!

well, tmr will surely be an exciting day! westfield, then get cake and then have dinner with ant at kisso! yeah~ managed to bluff him and so he doesnt suspect anything!

alrighty, i met weijun for dinner after all! after all the hype about masala being an authentic indian restaurant, we decided to have dinner there. actually i was interested to see how good the food is and the moe ppl are also having dinner there with their superiors. thought it would be fun to jump tables and talk!

yeah and all masala was to me was just a 'unsatisfying' meal. quality is good but portions are toooo meagre. not worth a second visit i thought. lots of sauces in a plate, but i was a little confused on how to eat them! haha~ but well, the company counts and i'm just glad to have had this dinner with weijun and wl. wasn't a fabulous dinner as wj isn't really a close fren of mine and i guess i prefer meeting long-time-no-see frens 1 to 1 cos u'll have more to talk about and u wun have to feel a little out of place when the other pair reminisce about their past. HAHa~ well, it was still a good meal nonetheless~


me in the toot specs ah mun bought~


mun and i!

and i actually felt more at ease when i went over to albert's table and talk to pin quan and the other moe ppl. though i'm not from moe, i'm kinda surrounded by lots of them and thankfully, they're nice ppl to chat and have fun with. and feels more at home when i was with them. haha!


3 of us at the tube be4 parting our ways!

well anyway, after our dinner we went home and shall wish wj yi lu shun feng back to the states! he actually, for some reason which i can't understand, reminds me of baba. maybe cos he's also studying the states and is some1 whom i'll want to visit. well, i'll visit him next year march with kel, it's a promise made to myself unless something crops up then. he may be coming to LSE for exchange this june! woots and i hope to meet him up when i'm back from my trip and be4 flying back to sunny sg!

well, and i'm so looking forward to this fri dinner with rachel and ant! somehow, i think it'll be a boisterous 1, with ant cracky voice and rachel's easy-to-laf mode! haha! and we're the 3 jap food connoisseur~

It feels really good when a long-time-no-see fren suddenly call you when u're overseas. haha, yeah ah mun called me just now and he's in london now! we're just frens, not really close frens but suddenly i just have so many things to say to him! and could actually have a good proper conversation. he's studying in the states now and will be flying back on wed, the day when i finished my exams. it's kinda pity that i may not(most prob actually) be able to meet him now. and we really chatted like almost 20min? or more than. wa, it was the longest conversation in our life. haha but he's a pleasant and nice-to-chat to guy so yeah~ anyway, i knew him in bmt cos we were from the same platoon but dont really have a good first impression of him then cos i tend to be biased against some schools. and then we were in the same bridging course and it's only then, through real interaction, that i find him a nice chap.

we booked out on the same day for scholarship stuff from sungei gedong and his dad gave me a lift to to the scdf academy. he went to sign his mpa deed while i went for my dsta events. haha~ i took 1 night to think of how i got to know his scholarshiP! so bo liao right. yeah man, but anyway, i may visit him when i go to the states next year easter. woots~

it was a 2 good slack and happy days! yeah and i have so much motivation to study now! well, i had a really nice(at least to me) haircut yest. had it at chinatown with edwin, then we met up with kelvin to pay accom fees in sch, and bought a cheesecake and tiramisu cake from gloucester sains. then, when i reached home i realised my cny goodies parcel was here! there's hae bi hiam, crispy pork floss, pineapple tarts and ba kwa!


my CNY goodies! cant wait for cny though this year will feel a little different~

and today, went for lunch with yang le at high street ken. it was quite sian when london suddenly became shrouded in mist when forecast stated it would be sunny yest! such a letdown. we ate the exotic lebanese food which i found nice! the taste is really quite diff and very middle eastern. we got free bread and free desserts which is really really sweet but really really nice. no wonder it comes in really small portion too~ was really nice la! hehee.. and i get to wear my jappy trench with my knitwear bought from next! really nice! woots~ haha, am happy to wear such nice clothings haha!


look at the 2 police horses at my place! so rare to see them in somewhere like barons court~


find my cemetery especially tranquil today, esp when it's enshrouded in mist.


curry pok-look alike!


our main course! lamb shank i guess~


yums~ actually it looks like nun~


2 of us~


esp love my coat and knitwear! woots~ i miss japan!

oh yeah, and when i was taking the tube back, stood at the platform a while to deside if i should change to the other district or piccadilly line. and suddenly i heard MUSHI MUSHI in my ears! argh! and this pretty cool jap lady was telling her fren where she's at... i so miss japan! alright, back to studying after blogging~ there's so much motivation now~ hopefully, it'll last!

I was listening to vivaldi cello concerto and it kinda reminded me of the symphony rehearsal i saw in a cathedral in lucerne switzerland. it was totally marvellous, imagine the notes resonating in the cathedral. the song they played sounded a little melancholy with a little hope at the end. haha couldn't really describe that feeling.. but it feels so different listening it at a grand cathedral with all the sophisticated paintings.


yup, here's the video of it~

today was really a slack day! went to have dim sum at chinatown for lunch with albert, edwin and serene. and i've changed my francs back to pounds and i earned! woosh cos pounds's too weak now. hopefully it dun plummet any further.

and then albert went to choose the sauces for me to make my nice ba chor mee! wa bought so many big bottles like some big chef. and i made it for dinner. really really really nice! i like the noodles here.. bought mee pok and mee kia!





and i also made tang yuan with walnut paste(instant 1 of course) but it was really good i felt! had a really nice dinner and dessert! yeah, shall put mushroom in my mee pok in future~

well anyway and i watched naruto shippuuden movie just now. it was really really good, and it's the first time i felt like tearing while watching an anime. gosh, so was really quite an impactful and gripping movie!