It's all a game of chance they say in Wonderland.

One weekend almost the whole extended family packed and left for....

2011-09-06T23:12:00.005+08:00

We all left to a resort in Raub, Pahang. With only us as guests in the resort.

We did flying fox...

We did some hiking to the waterfall...

Some jumped off the ledge and in to the river... (I was a scardy cat)

PARIS (10/7- 15/7)

2011-07-29T12:27:00.026+08:00

THE ONLY SHOT OF THE FOUR OF US.

FOOD

urh... YUM ?

Where the escargots were. ;)
Creme Brule.
French Steak Tartar.

THE SCHAUS' HOME IN PARIS.

3D gkasses for the TV.

Ah.. Champagne for MY Smarty Pants who passed the BAR.

ARC DE TRIOMPHE

RANDOM EIFFEL TOWER PICS + some from Bastille day (French National Day)

I know of people who go to Paris on New Years Eve hoping to see fireworks. Let me break it down for you. There ain't no fireworks at 12midnight on New Years Day in Paris.

RANDOM CITY PICTURES
This is the tunnel where Princess Diana's car crashed.

Entrance to the metro station.

Fire engine exhibition.

LOUVRE MUSEUM by night.

NOTRE-DAME.

PARIS-DELHI-BOMBAY ART EXHIBITION

This exhibition is the single, most awesome art exhibition EVER. Possibly the only one i like.

DISNEYLAND

We went to so many rides. All the extreme ones. This is the one that made me SICK. But I still went on another a couple of rides after that. :)

The tan we got at Disneyland. Twas raining SO HEAVILY in the morning when we arrived. But it got so much better after an hour.

Golden tickets for rides....

This was when i left sick after the ride. He thought it was amusing. Clearly.

Matchy flowers.

That's the end.

Time to leave em all behind.

They're all just past memories now.

Time to move forward and face reality.

LUXEMBOURG, HOLLAND, BRUSSELS. (3/7 - 10/7)

2011-07-24T16:41:00.042+08:00

LUXEMBOURG

Went to Luxembourg for a day to have Chinese food with Bertrand's parents. No pictures though.
I think this is where the Duke lives. Luxembourg is ruled by a Duke btw.

Rox. Baldy. Ranjit.

MAASTRICHT, Holland.

burnt in the Holland sun.

BELGIUM.

Belgian Steak Tartar.
Indonesian Food.

Belgian French Fries and all the unhealthy Belgian stuff.

Belgian Beer.

More Belgian Beer.
See this glass? Cart drivers?Riders? would drink their beer in this. coz it wouldn't spill over.
the 'Beer Museum'.

F1 TRACK - FRANCORCHAMPS, SPA.

Hair Shot 1#.
Commentators Room.
Podium.
Press room.

F1 MUSEUM. ( + Art Exhibition + Archaeological Site)

Hair shot #2.
Piggy Back: Rampoortab & Schaus.

Seah & Wong.

F1 Museum.

Brussels.
Rampoortab and Schaus.
See these buildings. A long time ago, these buildings used to be a 'union' for each trading item? Gold. Textile. etc etc. So each building had their own identity and each would compete to have a better building.

Weather looks amazing here. That was until it started raining cats and dogs.

Parliament? i really don't recall.

St. Michael? Apparently you get luck if you touch his arm.

Mannekin Pis. It's super tiny. They usually dress him up in clothes. But i think coz they knew it was going to pour, they didn't.
Up close shot.

There's a museum of Mannekin Pis dressed in many many many many outfits.

Jeannekin Pis. Female version.

That, is NOT the phone directory. Its the beer menu . Order up!
Those things on the ceiling, they beer trays from diff brands.

SCHAUS' HOME.

Little Bertrand. HAHHAHAHAHAHA!

On the way to the pool! :)
Zazhi!

The pool by day !

The Pool by night.

The Schaus' Home.
That's where Will and I stayed. 2 minutes walk from the Schaus Home.

Use to be his mom's office. She was a psychiatrist.

BERTRAND'S SCOUT CAMP.

Oh the view.

BASTOGNE - WWII Memorial: Where the American fought for the Belgians. (Hint: Watch the Band of Brothers.)

Enlarge this photo to read abit about Bastogne.

TW CLASSIC FESTIVAL - Bryan Adams

Festival bag and shoes.

OMG. SO SO GOOD.......

BARBECUE at the Schaus' Home.

MADRID 29/6 - 3/7

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ROYAL PALACE.

SANTIAGO BERNABEU - Home Ground of Real Madrid FC

AROUND THE CITY.

Ranjit and I

TEMPLO DE DEBOD

An Ancient Egyptian temple in Madrid. Which is also a park now. There are alot of pictures from this park. Candid pictures of people - really nice pictures that Deevs took but I ain't putting em up.

A really good spot to watch the sunset. Filled with locals and tourists.

Check this kid. He was at the playground. But he was on his Nintendo.

RETIRO PARK.

Ranjit and I of course.
My host parents who hosted me an exchange student bank in 2003/2004.

It's a statue of a fallen angel(or some may say the devil) @ the Retiro Park.

The Crystal Palace @ Retiro Park.

FOOD: TAPAS regular tapas in MADRID.

POSH TAPAS .the most amazing tapas EVER tasted. which i will not tell you where it is. coz i don't know where. :)

the best ever: cold soup~~ oh so amazing.....

SIENNA's ICE CREAM.

REINA SOFIA CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM.

THE GAY PRIDE PARADE in MADRID.

The 2 were really excited to be at the parade. joy.

Equipped with water guns.

Some went all out. In costume.

That's all for Madrid.

Didn't want a long post.

So, do stay tuned for pictures from Belgium.

EnDZzz!!

Random pictures and a picnic.

2011-06-16T04:14:00.009+08:00

2011-03-06T07:02:00.007+08:00

Twas in London for another dining session last Thursday.

Deev & I arrived at Euston in the afternoon.

Were suppose to meet Steve and Mike at Kings Cross & St. Pancras Station & also to wait for William there.

As we were going back to the hotel, in the station, I heard a McFLY song playing. Stopped and waited to see if i could recognise Danny/Tom's voice.

Looked up and THERE THEY WERE !!!!!!!!!!

OMG.

SO here, i managed to see them Danny & Tom McFLY in the flash!

:) :) :)

(Tom's back is facing me here)

Then off to Middle Temple for another Qualifying Session(QS).
This is moi in the robe room.

This is us at the dining table. The Three Musketeers. All fat and chubby now.

Dee & I.

My 2 monkeys.

1/2 of my monkey.

My other 1/2 monkey.

Take 1: With Robes on.
Take 2: No robes on.

After dinner. Stuffed to the brim. Yet still able to get one picture down.

Wennie was in Manchester over the weekend. She wanted to watch a football match. As United was over in Liverpool this weekend, we opted for the other.

We watched City v Wigan at the City Stadium. (1-0, if you're interested)

The next day, as usual, the tour to Old Trafford.

All in all, twas a busy busy 2 weeks.

With Assessments and sightseeing.

So tired.

Yet so much work to be done.

EnDzZz!

Dining at Middle Temple.

2011-02-20T21:53:00.005+08:00

Thou shall ignore the massive amount of weight I have put on.

EnDzZz !!

The Differences.

2011-01-18T03:07:00.008+08:00

So, in the day time, this is my view from my room.

This is what i see at night.

and you'd be thinking i get to see cool stuff through people's windows, yeah? NO.

Nothing ever happens.

This is what William Wong sees in the day time. River. Sports Centre. Bridge. Blah.

This is what he sees at night. City Lights and Multi-coloured bridge.

Life is such.

EndZZ!!

Re-cap of 2010. (HUGE post ahead)

2011-01-02T06:34:00.027+08:00

2010 will definitely hold a very special place in my heart. For the rest of my life. I would say the BEST year EVER! (with the MOST ups and downs ever in one year)

Lets re-cep the best bits of 2010! January to December!

JANUARY.

Kick-started 2010 with the Winter break!

Venice, Italy. - the Gondola was definitely an experience. Water taxis. Wished it didn't rained so much though.

Rome, Italy. - Thank god for the Italian. ;) We went around Rome with A CAR !!!! :) :) :) More stadium visits. We went to the Olimpico Stadium. Home ground to Roma and Lazio. Also, where Barca beat United 2-0 in 2009 to be European Champions.

Strasbourg, France. IT WAS AMAZING there. I'll never forget. Dipika's sister and Bro-in-law took us in for a few days. Went to a Spanish bar. had HEAPS of tapas. And apparently it was my birthday that one night. Told the DJ it was and got free shots. heee! Also went hiking in the mountains and saw one of the most amazing views in my life (as per the picture). Ate the most amazing food and attended one of the BEST house party ever...

See the JAN2010 post here !

FEBRUARY.

William Wong bought me flowers. I remember being grumpy because someone rang the bell of the flat whilst I was still sleeping. And none of my flatmates would get the door! And even better, the intercom button wouldn't work! So I had to go downstairs in my bathrobe to get the door, still in sleeping mode! Turns out to be roses for me. Stormed upstairs and told William Wong "You stupid !!!!!!!" He said there was only one slot for delivery. 9AM!!!!! wtf.

OOoh... I remembered we watched 'Valentines Day' at the cinema as well! :)

MARCH

Ahhh.... March. One of the worst ever dilemmas I've had. But i went with Manchester Metropolitan University. And realised it's also one of the worst decision i've made in my entire life. no further comments.

APRIL

Apart from the London Stadiums we've visited last autumn, (Stamford Bridge-Chelsea,Emirates-Arsenal, White Hart Lane-Spurs), this Easter break we headed up north for more stadium visits.

Anfield, Liverpool FC. Where Chua's dreams came true.

Then to Old Trafford. Where more dreams came true at the theatre of dreams.

Then my dream came true. I watched a match at The Bridge! :) :) :) And went on become league champions !!!!!! SO HAPPY SIAL!!!

(from champions to 5th in the table now. i already hate 2011)

See the APRIL2010 post here !

MAY

This was one of the LAST time ever we, as a big 'Clive' group got together. Probably for the rest of our lives. The group was big. Probably one of the reasons why I was always entertained in Oxford.

Nico - crazy French person. Sfia & Hermin - also French. Suraj - My man from India. Ben - Half French, Half Thai. Bertrand - Belgium monkey whom I've gotten to know better even till today. :) Suzanna - Czech Republic. Achutan - Switzerland whose always in space but nice. Lorenzo - the Italian, most annoying one EVER.

Not forgetting the people I've become so close with. Deeviah, My Mauritian and William, My Malaysian. These people stood my be when I was going to fall to pieces. Stood by me when II spoke utter rubish and spoke "sarcasm" and told me to stop burping when I had to. Amazing how ONE year brought us 3 so close together.

JUNE

Our holiday was cut short due to unsettled shipping problems. We had tickets for LONDON-POLAND-BELGIUM-BARCELONA-MUNICH. But we had to let go the first two stops. Once we had our boxes sorted it was right before the Barcelona trip. We decided to buy new flight tickets from London-Barca to continue the trip. And we ARE glad we did it! the trip was AMAZING!!

Yes, of course we did the stadium visit as well! ;) heee!

See more pictures from the Barcelona post here !

Munich was AMAZING. The HOTDOGS...... OH MY GAWD. i don't know how they do it !!!!!! MELTS IN YOUR MOUTH !!!! We had those for breakfast, lunch, dinner. And the beers. German beers...... OH MY GAWD!!!!!!

Besides food, yes, we also did stadiums! Allianz Arena, home ground to Bayern Munich & TSV Munchen!

See more Munich photos here !

One of the TOP highlights of 2010!! I graduated! :) :) :) All the hard work and tears paid off.

To see more from the Graduation album click here !

JULY

Will and I went to Redang for summer! Ans spent our days by the beach and night by the bar! :)

No pictures. just one. we just wanted to live the moment with no pictures! :)

AUGUST

Ah.... August.... August saw Faye and I turn 22. And Faye Faye made one of the most important decisions in her life. And I am so happy for she is living 'life' right now! SO VERY proud of her! I love you Faye Faye!

SEPTEMBER

We had a surprise birthday party for Soe @ McDs !!! twas like a dream come true!!! hahhahahaha! but NO, really. i'm serious! i bloomin' love McDonalds !!!!

OCTOBER

October saw another of my dreams fulfilled! I saw McFLY live at the O2 Apollo !!!!!! :) :) :)

I of course dragged my 2 buddies along..... HAHAHAHAHA!
NOVEMBER
November saw Family coming to visit moi!!! That was nice! A few days of loveliness!

December
I went for the Jingle Bell Ball! I saw the Black Eyed Peas! Who was crazyawesome on stage! McFLY again !! With Taio Cruz !! The Script !! Alexandra Burke!! Duffy!! The Wanted!! Nicole Scherzinger!! Olly Murs !! and Jason Derulo (WORST LIVE PERFORMER IN THE HISTORY OF LIVE PERFORMERS !)

Faizun came to Manchester to visit! Had so much fun !! crazy dude!

William Wong and I watched a match at Old Trafford on boxing day! I did the girliest thing a girl can ever do at a football match! I slept at Old Trafford ! hahahahhahahahahahahahahah!

Anyways, I know 2011 will not be the same as 2010. 2010 and will be a top year for me personally out of 22 years of my life. I hope there's more to come. If I had to have one new year's resolution, it would be to make it out of the BPTC alive. I'm sure many will agree with me.

God bless you guys!

Take care and have a lovely day!

Chimo!

EndDzZzz!

Greetings!

2010-10-06T20:01:00.003+08:00

I am still here. alive & my legs are still moving the last time i checked.

My whereabouts? Manchester. yes, Manchester. No, not in Oxford anymore, but nevertheless, still theold&crappy. (you know how people say "theboldandthebeautiful"? this is literally the opposite; you know what i mean?)

My life right now (to say that I have a life would be an overstatement. period. i'll tell you in abit) consists of 3 activities! knitting? sewing? counting sheep? NOT!

1) STUDYING

2) sleeping

3) eating frozen food.

Let it be known now, that if you are thinking of taking the BPTC course, do yourself a favour? DON'T!

Here's a summary of what my first week was like.

From Monday to Thursday, it's the same routine LITERALLY.

Wake up early, shower, have breakfast, go to class(lectures/seminars w/ever).

Come back, hv lunch( or dinner depending on the time the classes run till).

Right after that, STUDY or prepare for the SGSes (small group session/seminars w/ever)

Then pretty much study till you get EVERYTHING done or my personal favourite, fall asleep at your desk.

So then you think... OH WOW! i'm done for the week! 4 day weekend! how nice! NOT!

Pack your bags on Thursday night, and leave on a train for London the next day.

So Friday now, arrive in London, only to have enough time to settle down (includes walking in the rain without an unbrella ) and change into bloody suits to have dinner. and of course to be stuck in London during traffic hour is OMG.... therearenowordsforthis. Dinner ends at freekin 10.30, and get back feeling dead tired.

Next Morning, Saturday. Up at freekin 7am dressed in suits! Rush again, not much traffic this time but the cab driver can't find his way to where we need to go. We managed on time, thank goodness. Talk after talk. COFFEE. Talk after talk. LUNCH. Talk after talk. TEA. Talk after talk. DINNER. Again we end at 10.30.

With my suitcase in hand, thinking that I could get a late train back to Manchester from London, I was told there were NONE. WTF LAAAA! (We decided to put up a night at Ben&Suraj's place.)

After dinner, stood at the door to realise that it was POURING.

Walked to the tube station IN THE RAIN!

Got on the tube and reach our station. My phone had died. Will's phone had died too. Deev's was on the verge of dying. we only had enough battery life to call Suraj ro ask for his address.

Will stood in line for a cab for the longest time in the rain. NO CAB!

Buses were delayed. (No point taking the bus coz we didn't know where to stop and we didn't know the way and we sure as hell didn't want to walk in the rain.

By that time i was shivering in my wet suit! the wind !! OMG!!! how it had no mercy!!!

One hour had passed by then. we were EXHAUSTED.

We walked across the street down the road to find a cab company and told them to get a cab for us to the address we wanted. (we told them we literally didn't know where the place was)

finally CAB!!!! we arrived at Ben and Suraj's place. We didn't know which floor there were on and conveniently, ALL OUR MOBILES HAD DIED !!! ALL 3!!! We had to ask a stranger to borrow us his!! Finally, we got in. ALL OUR CLOTHES and everything else in our bags were soaked in rain water!!! including my books and documents !!!

Chilled for a bit with Ben & Suraj( oh how i miss them.....) then CRASHED.

Next morning! 8am! We got on the bus to the tube station after breakfast. Got to the train station and took the train back to Manchester. Arrived home, and took out all the wet clothes, and then started to STUDY again for class the next day!

And yes, the whole MONDAY-THURSDAY jargon repeats itself again.

Now, my friends, can you see how I have no life?

I am a wreck right now. Drained. literally drained.

I have had no time for shopping - which like really like.

The only shopping I did was for groceries and to equip the very empty room with bedding materials and the toilet with toiletries.

I haven't really been cooking. Since classes started, i've only cooked once or twice? And both times it was because I didn't want Will to have microwave food, So i cooked.

I can't even tell you how Manchester is coz I've not been able to go out at all!!!

I feel so guilty when I watch something o my laptop. I have watched the 1st half of Glee(season2) twice. I never get to the 2nd half because I feel so damn guilty that I wasn't studying or reading my materials to prepare for class.

When I shower, I feel bad if i brush my teeth a little longer or w/ever it is.

Typing this blog, I tell myself that I need to do this or I'm gonna explode if i don't get it out!

I know it was me who wanted to do this course but right now, It's WAY more than what I bargained for.

sleeping at 3am and waking at 7am is not fun!

It's exhausting! Dosing myself with coffee/redbull SUCKS !!!!!! but i have to go on.

I need a break. But I'm still contemplating on that. but I most definitely need to get away from my room after tomorrow or I WILL be crying hysterically and waking the entire neighbourhood up.

Anyways, to pictures.

This is a bag. A trolley-bag. Not just some trolley bag. It's also my school bag. Why do I need this ugly bag? *scroll down*

THESE are my BOOKS. BOOKS that I need to bring to class! They're not just anybooks!

*scroll down"

They're THICK books!!!

I've got the most RUBBISH view from my room that one can ever get. EVER!

On the bright side, I've got the McFLY concert to look forward to on the 23rd! :)

If you wanna come, I'm very sure Deevs and Will is more than happy- you're doing them a favour, really. give you their tickets! HA HA!

That's all for now. It's almost 3pm now. I am going to study.

Update me about yourself in the chatbox if you would like to do so.

Right, i gtg. coz deevs is bugging me to do my work!

ChimO!

EnDzZ!

barcelona

2010-07-30T23:30:00.017+08:00

you really wanna know what we were fussing over? cooking mama. it's true...

El Poble Espanyol. - originally built for the 1929 international exhibition. buildings, typical spanish places and view conremporary artworks.

dungu!

my little indina boy~! heh!

Sagrada de familia. a roman catholic church. they've been building it since 1882. and they are STIL at it. expected to be done in..... 2026. yeah. seriously. 2026.

camo nou ? no introduction needed yeah? barcelona fc.

POSEUR !!!!!

no girls in bikinis sorry! busy chillin in the sun with our apple liquor !!! ;)

munich

2010-07-02T15:46:00.050+08:00

And so the 3 Musketeers made it!

2010-06-29T05:25:00.016+08:00

more pictures? (old ones actually)

2010-06-06T22:14:00.007+08:00

jap at edamame!

i freekin love that place!!

coz i never pay when i go.

heeeee!

chai's birthday! picnic and the club!

righto!

going.

now!

making tacos for dinner!

crunchy shell ones!

wheee!!!

endz.

OF BBQ and CREPES and cupcakes?~

2010-06-01T21:23:00.003+08:00

The entire gang had a BBQ that night.

Followed by crepes made by the French girls.

And one fine day deev and I made cupcakes. and we decorated it with gandhi and ben!

hiya! long time no see!

2010-05-24T19:29:00.005+08:00

i've got videos from May Day in Oxford. u know, crazy ppl jumpin off the bridge and choirs singing at 6am. yeah, that May Day.

And the trip to spitafields market.

Spring is here.

2010-04-26T06:06:00.010+08:00

So yeah,

(just when u thought the last post was the last football post...... neh...)

i'll just let the pics do the talking.

7-0 btw hee!

(gawd, i feel like i'm 20 shades darker than him)

ENdZz!

Liverpool and Manchester

2010-04-15T23:35:00.083+08:00

*there's a somethin' somethin' in these pics for you bren~

PICNIC one FINE day !

2010-04-15T21:59:00.020+08:00

*pictures courtesy of Ms Rampoortab!

When people came to visit.

2010-03-27T00:46:00.016+08:00

Almost all pictures are by Miss Rampoortab.

hee!

Strasbourg, France.

2010-01-29T05:29:00.052+08:00

Rome, Italy.

2010-01-28T21:17:00.040+08:00

heaps of photos ahead!

enjoy!

Venice, Italy.

2010-01-25T20:24:00.017+08:00

WARNING : Roxanne has put on ALOT of weight. There is a possibility you can't recognise her.

when 37kgs came to visit me.

2009-12-29T06:56:00.017+08:00

righto.

i shall go now.

chimo!!

ENDdZz!

sup!

2009-12-08T13:00:00.008+08:00

italian. italian. french. italian. mauritian.

italian. french. malaysian. - so tiny la the malaysian!

daniel and i.

mua.

will.

deev. (i thought tht D was the one takin these shots, but then she's in one of it too. hmm...)

D and i!

right!

off to bed now!

Chimo!

ENDZ!

omgomgomgomgsomuchtodosolittletime !!!!!!!!

2009-12-06T06:30:00.002+08:00

Jeff Young, all these books had better be worth it !!!!!!!!!

chiMO!!!

EnDzzz!!

Update!

2009-11-28T06:17:00.014+08:00

It's always that when you have work to do, you have 'something else' to do.
MEH!! (i haven't 'MEH'-ed in a while!)

So anyways, the other day Deeviah had to fix the mess on Daniel's hair.
(see his mess on Daniel's blog)
People started trusting her more.
Will got her to cut his hair.
Half way through in the kitchen, Freddie came in. He wanted his hair cut as well.
(if you look at the older posts, there's a picture of will and freedie both wearing the same shirt as they are in these pics-haha!)

Ah, Malaysian friends !!

Hui Xian was the first to come down to Oxford.

Then i went to London and met Tina!!!!

Then the A-level friends, Tze Yi and Nicole came from Aberystwyth to Oxford and stayed the night.

Ah... Tzun Tzin is here at Brookes with me. the middle one is Tze Yi.
Deevs and I. waiting for the bus.

Deevs, Will, and I at the park.

This is what 'fall/autumn' is in Oxford.

Chimo!!

EnDZZZz!!

Roxanne's Room.

2009-11-24T23:58:00.012+08:00

Roxanne is at Block X.

Corridor X2.

Walk in, first room the left.
Room 'f'
TA DA !

chiMO!!

EnZZZ!!