2 more weeks till freedom..... my title for the day says it all, 2 more weeks of hard work. then exams will be over. i noe i said tht i would blog about the massoc ball in this post but i guess i will leave it for another day as there are too many pictures to upload. i feel rather relaxed nowadays because i have stepped down as president in massoc. i can just feel the difference in my lifestyle, so much more time on my hands, less problems to worry about, and just the general relaxation mode i am in. it makes studying and revising so much easier. i have been working hard since easter hold in london, and i must continue doing so for another 2 solid weeks (as this week is study break) to make all the hard work count. im a bit lost at the moment, not sure where im going with biochem, as the topics and sectors are so tedious and difficult. the sylabbus is sooo wide, although interesting, i feel a bit lost as to where im going with my career. but i will strive on and finish my degree before actually worrying bout the future. okok recently the buzz has been going round, tht was tht the apple iphone had dropped by 130 pounds, the news spread fast in leeds. after sum thinking and since the rate from malaysian conversion to pounds dropped, i decided to get.......
i never thought i would own one of these, but the price dropped by so much it was almost inevitable i got one, but who knew....
two??? why?? haha one for my mum actually. by the way, the phones are all sold out every single shop in leeds. The thing is ppl who owned 2 iphone would be quite boastful and wanna show off, but the thing is im not,,, i actually have to be humble, because some of my frends bout 5 iphone each!!!!!!!! no wonder its all sold out, and instantly they went up on ebay!! so if ure looking for one at this price or a bit more, u will have to bid from them! SUMMER i cant wait for it!!! i want to go home and eat nasi lemak till i get sick! because im sick of cereal every morning!!! cornflakes with milk!!! i noe cheryn will tell me, why la, have CHEERIOS!,,, the thing is I AM SICK OF CEREAL!!!! i want some sambal. although i must admit tht day wee leon and jean made sum homecooked nasi lemak for all the cell leaders durin one of our meetings!!! it was sooo good!!!! i have a very blur picture of it!!! by the way so it is confirmed tht all my relatives are comming down from london this july, for a belated celebration of my grandmas 80th bday!!! its gonna be meal after meal after meal i can imagine!!! and we will prob be going to kijal or sumthing!!! n quite a bit more!! and im going to japan again!!! and maybe angkor wat!! haizzz cant wait for summer...................... ok, back to stuff happening in leeds.... till now... from who knows when.... earthquake recently in leeds, well not so recently,im sure all my frend bloggers in leeds will scold me for blogging bout this only now when it happened so long ago. There was an earthquake! in the uk! i dun think many ppl in malaysia knew about it because i did not get a text from my mum or any of my relatives in malaysia!, although i did get a few texts from my aunts in london asking how i was (cuz it only happened in north england). Well it was just like any other night in leeds, i was on my table studying. And all of a sudden everything started to shake, n i was thinking, wow the wind is strong tonight or 'must be tht james thaxter moving his stuff again in his room'. well so i just left it and continued with work, and suddenly the house shook again!!! all 5 of us got out of our rooms and asked wht happened! it was scary!! never experience an earthquake before.... i switched my msn nick to "earthquake in leeds?" and instantly i got like 20 messages, all over uk, sheffield notts, portsmouth....
tht night it was so funny because almost everyones nick was about the earthquake!!! sorry for the low quality shot
i think we were all quite worried, scrambling websites to find the latest info on the websites. thank God it was only those 2 tremors. it just shows we can never take anything for granted. who knows wht might have happened. regarding natural disasters, i just heard about the cyclone that hit myanmar a few days ago. 
so far there have been 22000 deaths and still 41000 people are missing. its very sad to hear of such tragedy. prayers go out to all the families of the victims and all the people of myanmar. only recently after some crazy weather, we had s week of spring/summer!! which was this monday!! its been hailing, snowing, windy, cold unstable weather since christmas and finally the sun came out to play, so we decided to hold a small bbq at our residence with our small gang.... pics....
bbq-ing 
played badminton for the first time on our GARDEN!!! 

normal bbq stuff 
and we also had a round of football
interesting..... on a brighter not, during the easters hols i did make a short trip down to oxford, the home of famous universities and harry potter! yes thts right! even hermoine granger (emma watson) studies in a college next to craig pattersons university accomodation, how cool is tht! most of the films of harry potter were filmed in oxford, and im not really a hardcore harry potter fan, but the only filming set i could vaguely remember was the dining hall at hogwarts. 
the place where harry had his meals!!!
the set i dont really remember, according to the information, it was the infirmatory, the sickbay in the movie.
there was also this bridge in the movie which i cant remember.... and quite a few more, the staircase, the playing hall, the gardens and the quidditch stadium, but i shall not post everything up here so tht this post wont be clasified as a harry potter post.
and if u guys are familiar with the show the golden compass?? this was also the movie set for tht film.....the show with the talking polar bears!! 
a rather dark pic with craig with the background of the golden compass again! stayed at craigs place for a night, was a well good holiday, as usual the dynamic duo would cover 'almost everything' to cover in oxford. craig hadnt been to any of the places yet in oxford although he studied there for about 6 months already due to his tight schedule. tht night we also went to one of the oldest pubs in oxford with his hsemates for dinner and sum really good homemade traditional ale.
picture of the place int he morning...
one of the famous n oldest universities in oxford, bill clinton used to study there as well as many other famous ppl, but ironically i cant remember any of them and i cant even remember the name of the uni, will have to do sum research and update this part i guess. easter is really publicised in the uk....
look at the amount of easter eggs we had in the hse, and the scary part was tht half of the amount was already eaten. u thought u would never hear shen wei getting fed up of chocolate? think twice!! ok and recently it was roberts ___ birthday!!!!! Secret!!! the thing was he had a really big deadline the next day, and so did all his hsemates, so it was quite hard to organise anything! but luckily due to my persuasion skills from MASSOC! hahaha, i managed to persuade him to come for his own bday dinner at red chillis! hahaha, there were about 25 of us, but after dinner and a cake we all went home to resume with work! just a few pics... 
cell group pic
and robert wanted a pic at milinium square! recently been watching the series MALAYSIAN DREAMGIRL! it just finished and the worst candidate won. I must say tht initially the show was terrible, but it did improve along the way! there was one whole episode just for girls to talk about each other (bitching fest)!!! thts crazy! and it was all one sided, they just let a group of girls talk about cindy without letting cindy explain herself, but in the later episode they tried to even things out by giving cindya lot of airtime. There have been so many blog reviews just cursing each girl and the producers, but i wont go that low. In fact it was not really the winners fault tht she won it, but the producers fault. I think the show was terrible, but it was our first try for such a show in malaysia, and there were sum good parts about it. but clearly the amount of talking behind ppls backs has to be reduced by the producers and more of modelling n stuff! well, i could go on and on bout things to be improved but im in the midst of my exams so i shall not write it. one thing i noe for sure is tht whether how many ppl dont like cindy or anything, tht is her personality n tht is the way she is! and she won the competition due to the producers loopholes and downfalls! so if season 2 is gonna be a success the production crew will have to buckup! but good first attempt! my british hsemates watched a few episodes in my room while i was out, n were appalled, but i had a hard time explaining to them tht it was the first attempt of a reality show like tht, appaled by the english as well! BUT HEY THTS MALAYSIAN ENGLISH! i met up with my cousin in london, and we went to the emirates stadium hoping to get cheap tickets to watch arsenal v liverpool but when we found out tht the price was like 100 pounds per ticket, we decided to watch it in a bar as it was not even the full strength teams playing! well done liverpool on that draw! after tht we went shopping n had sum really good food in chinatown. 
noway was i paying 100 pounds to get in tht stadium
there was this funfair a few weeks ago, just a random pic!!
all of them went on tht ride except me n hannah! i had to carry the bags so was excusable, i dont know why hannah didnt go on it! if ure bored and have nothing to do........ 2 things to pass ur time.... 1) Go to wikipedia the online encyclopedia at www.wikipedia.org and type in "Shen Wei" youll be surprised with wht u find, guaranteed! 2) Go to youtube and type in SNEEZING PANDA www.youtube.com If this video does not make u laugh, something is wrong with u! as i did in a previous post, the very good and the very bad! Part 2 please scroll down to the next topic if u r not interested in football!!! hahaha it was the quarte finals, and liverpool were drawn with arsenal of all other ppl! well, i suppose we had to meet the big guns to progress anyway. it was a rather tame affair which according to many biased ppl, liverpool didnt deserve to come home with the draw at the emirates, but like u know in football if u dont take ur chances, u dont deserve to win. and our euro hero dirk kuyt took his chance.... advantage liverpool..
euro star kuyt 
maybe it was just our year again to win the champs league. bentnar saving us from going behind by clearing for us a definate goal! thnks nicklaus! then it came the night in anfield, euro madness euro euphoria! the anfield crowd was fantastic and were hoping to be the 12th man again! but shortly we were silenced by an abu diaby killer shot. to be fair arsenal started off the game fantastically, and well deserved their lead. n in my mind i was saying it was a good thing arsenal scored, cuz we were on the backfoot for the first 15 mins till the goal, and now we at least had to attack. and then....
STEP UP SAMI HYYPIA! hyypia took advantage of weak defending and scored the equaliser off the post, euphoria again! finally liv were composed and took the game to arsenal.. liverpool were magnificant attack after attack, and then our wonder kid torres struck in the second half!! wht a goal son! perfectly placed!
well deserved hug from stevie G. However,,, i never felt comfortable unless liverpool scored a third due to the away goal rule. any experienced football fan would know tht it takes a minute of madness to change the complexion of a football match, and there was well over 30 minutes left, liverpool pushed on but i was as nervous as ever. and then, out of no where theo walcott went on a unstoppable run, getting pass liv player after liv players, those were very long seconds.and pulled back an inch perfect pass for the reliable adebayor, and suddenly, quiet struck anfield, with 9 minutes plus added time to play. it was over.... surely,,,, our euro dream was over,, but lets see how they respond. and just as the camera pointed back to the field from the replay, babel runs into the arsenal penalty box and goes down! PENALTY!!! CRAZY!!! WHTS GOING ON WITH THIS GAME! hardly 2 minutes after the goal where we saw fabregas smiling with walcott, we have a chance to be level? but it was by no means a goal yet! up step STEVIE G and ithing seconds we were in the lead again. 

stevie did say after the match he had one of his worst games for liv, but he scored a penalty andbeat arsenal! wht is a good game for u then stevie?? hahah,, thumping penalty... and a little while later... 
super sub babel put it beyond arsenals reach! wht a cheat cesc! well, i must hand it to arsenal, we were lucky to win this game, it could have gone either way, and this time luck was on our side! arsenal were a really good challenge and proved a lot of ppl wrong this season, but was it our year again? istanbul? tht weekend arsenal also lost in the race for the premiership to manchester u, and suddenly they were out of everything. like i said it was unlucky for them and their young squad did tremendously this season.
even ferguson tried to control an unconsolable wenger!! looks at wengers face! classic pic! the very bad..... then at the semi final the tables were turned! we had to play at anfield first! i thought it would be no prob, we dominated the game!!!! dominated the shooting!!! and petr cech was man of the match with 3 outstanding saves! Kuyt did get a goal but we would have been disappointed to just win 1-0 because of our domination, but in the 95 th minute.... 
a second of madness by riise... and it was 1-1, chelsea with the away goal
i read a lot of comments after the game, bout how some people blammed riise. fans like those dun deserve to be called liverpool supporters and change opinions of ppl just for such small things. HELLO, have u forgotten our RISSE? the one who scored tht screecher at old trafford! the guy tht scored againts on 2 ocasions againts chelsea to win the comunity shield and the facup! our flambouyant left footed red head! riise youll never walk alone! 
chelseas confidence must have really been boosted after they beat manchester in the weekend, love this pic as well! i actually quite avram grant! so much more respect than whiner mourinho! 
well the game was heartbreaking and i dont really want to go into details of it, as i have just recovered from tht loss! yes, tht is how much it affected me! drogba started off the flames with a goal n dived right in front of benitez! pre match benitez accused drogba of diving and said he had a four hour video of diving from drogba! how cute was tht? classic benitez! and whiny droggie came out and said he lost all respect for benitez bla bla bla,, well drogba! we all know u are a great player and great goalscorer! but ure a diver!!! 
this was funny as well, grant wanted to waste a few second by reaching for the ball but stevie grabbe dthe ball from him and grant slipped down! his face looked as if he was gonna have a heart attack! hahah chelsea dominated the game, and i was wondering where the goal was going to come from as the last 8 visits to stamford bridge has been unproductive in the goal department for liverpool, the last goal from bruno cheyrou.... well well well, a bit of fancy footwork by bernayoun, a killer pass to.... 
torres!!!!!!!!!!!! the complexion of the game changed! now liverpool needed tht away goal to win! FAST FOWARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! unfortunately chelsea killed us off with 2 quick goals and our euro dream was over. Well we cant win them all, and we have always been extremely lucky in europe, and this time our luck just ran out! jerome and i went to watch it in one of the loudest bars in leeds and the atmosphere in the viewing room was fantastic,,, non stop singing between liv fans (80%) and chelsea fans (20%). such the advantage. Songs like " Chelsea you aint got no history", "Terrys mum is a scouser" and they had songs for each player as well!!! it was crazyyyyy!!! unfortunately we lost the semis and well done chelsea.. 
i think tht is avrams winning celebration!! i dont think i can bear to watch the final in moscow now! i really dont know who to support, part of me want chelsea to win because of avram, and my hatred for manchester u, but part of me wants to continue singing tht song, chelsea f c, you aint got no history! 
distraught, well boys, we will be there again! Youll never walk alone! the future looks bright for liverpool! torres gerrard partnership! reina, looking so much better, 3rd year in the row golden gloves winner,,, then theres babel supersub, lucas and skrtel. not forgetting the rest, we prob need a few additions. crouch should stay,but kewell is leaving.... however one definate stay has to be our RAFA! my home as i have another few weeks in my hse which is 40 MINS WALK AWAY FROM UNI!!! i thought tht i might actually put up some pictures of it, as i think i am actually gonna miss it! besides the distance,it was a great stay, as i had the biggest room! hahahahah, ok let me take u guys for a tour!!!
our messy hallway, i took these pics before we did a collective effort clean!
our chilled out living room, with a mini bar, a ps2 and an ironing board.
kitchen,, dun get me started on all the problems with the kitchen. washing machine, heater, toaster, fuse, rats... yes rats.... problem after problem!!! 
my poor hse mate cant believe his luck,james sinclair who take spanish and politics,,, cant understand why in the world he has to study ARABIC as a subject!!! his course has many mor efunny subjects!!! 
no idea how to read them...
our dining room if u recall the pictures in my earlier posts where we had good meals!now called the laundry room, and we eat dinner in the living room 
random pic of our cupboard....
collection for the weekly recycling man! 
desk during study mode!
closet 
room. well i actually will be missing my room, by the way this was the video i made, with the help of daniel the webmaster. i used kek yee inspirational music choice!!! its about this year in MASSOC!!! alot of people actually quite afraid of tht word, cuz they know i will look for them to sign up for massoc activities, and being the good friends they are they would sign up, so this was a thank you video during the massoc annual ball 2008. we hope it was worthwhile... and you enjoyed urselves... What MASSOC is all about! Please pause the background music at the bottom before watching this video! Thts all for now peeps!! peace_out!!! |