Happy Mooncake Festival to All

Hope all of you had a great time with your family and friends.

For us here, we had to entertain ourselves. Had a potluck dinner at Mei Fong's place. Yummy yummy food there. Fried rice, fried noodles, dumpling, sweet-and-sour turkey, 'yok choy' chicken soup, curry chicken and last but not least, the chocolate cake. Did I not mention any? I hope not.

Meal ended with chinese tea while sharing each other's eventful stories about holidays. Haha couldn't stuff anymore into our already bloated stomaches so we decided to leave the mooncakes for tommorow. Lets see if the moon is still perfectly round tomorrow for us to 'yan seong'. Hehe. And lets hope if we manage to play with candles and lanterns. *Wind... if you hear me, may you not blow as strongly tommorow and I will appreciate your effort in doing so. Million thanks*

=) I shall be a good girl and go to bed now. I seem to have morning calls everyday at 10am. Mau tidur and bangun lambat also tak boleh. Sigh.

Another 2 days before I officially step into my 4th and final year in university. Feels as if I haven't had enough of holidays. Passes by surprisingly quick this time. Time for making new resolutions again. But, sigh, I'm such a procrastinator. Girl, time to change!

Switzerland

Switzerland was my 2nd destination after London. This destination was the total opposite of what we've gone through in London. Switzerland was like heaven with all the luxury.

When we landed, there was already 2 men waiting for our arrival, one was the driver. And drivers wear coats! They pulled our luggages for us, thank god bcuz my hands were already aching from the 1st day.

We spent all our time at Gstaad, a village up on the mountains. We stayed at Gstaad Palace, the most renowned hotel there. It hosted many big named figures. Mind you, we did not need to pay for all these luxury. It's thanks to my mum's customer's company having their 30th anniversary celebration. So they invited 200 over guests from all over the world for a 3days-2nights holiday. I heard he payed about a million for this event. There's even a board outside the hotel saying "Hotel closed to public for private event from 7th to 9th Sept". Everything was payed for, from our meals to the spa and hair saloon, and they even provided shoes, jackets and golf clubs depending on whatever activity you chose.

The hotel front

There's a TV in the bathroom so that you can watch while soaking in the tub. Cool.

I love the mountains. It's so relaxing up there.

Snow on mountains.

Photographs of famous people who stayed here before.

Hehe. Luxurious car. I wonder whose does it belongs to. Anyone who owns a Bentley like the greyish-silver one behind can propose to me and I'll consider! Haha. Oh no, my bf will kill me for saying that. Which girl would mind having a rich guy?? The answer is none. Then I can become a siu-lai-lai, ohhh how I wish!! I need to wake up from my dream.

I mean owners of Bentley like this!

I love the scenery. Can I migrate there when I retire??

We took the ski-lift thingy (as in the photo above) up the mountain for picnic and down with this cute bus.

Swiss music

Before the gala dinner. Performances during dinner was good, but socialising session was pretty boring. I don't know how to socialise with people aged 40+ and who are millionaires ok? They talk about things which I've never heard of. Puts me to sleep only. So what I did to entertain myself was to look out for the cute guy I met earlier. He was there helping his dad, the photographer for the event. We started talking earlier that day when we sat together on the bus. At least we are of the same frequency, not like those rich uncles.

A surprise performance after the dinner by Boney M. My mum says my dad will be so jealous if he sees this pic bcuz I have a photo taken with Boney M. They're singers of our parents' generation. I actually didn't know who are they until my mum told me.

I wonder if I'll get to enjoy this kind of luxury ever again. Ever. It's like a once in a lifetime thing.

Oh yea, and if you do go to Switzerland, their butter, cheese, milk and chocolates are must-eat. I ate so much cheese and butter that I wonder if I put on any weight. I put butter in my mouth whenever I feel like it. Damn I must be crazy.

Sigh, not many photos taken bcuz mummy warned me not to embarrass myself by taking unnecessary photos. U know, like pics of food, etc.

London

Well, it's finally time for me to blog about my trip. 1st: London for 2 nights. It totally wasn't enough at all, but I guess I could get my butt there easily again. 1st day was horrible. I hadn't enough sleep the night before, waking up at 4am to catch the flight there. And to walk to Central Station to take a train to the airport was terrible. We even had to take a train from Stansted Airport and walk to the hotel.

So, it ended with me having a bad temper the whole day. If that's not enough, my mum was tired too. Travelling with each other while having a bad-tempered day spoilt the day. Luckily the following day was much better.

We took the hop-on, hop-off sightseeing thingy. Well, I had no make up on that day, so I qualified for the under-15 tickets, which was half the price of the normal adult ticket. I even bought the child's ticket to get to the Tower of London. Saved quite a sum from there. Haha.

In front of St. Paul's Cathedral

At the Tower of London

London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down, London bridge is falling down, my fair lady. Is it supposed to sound like that? I don't remember!

View of London Eye from the cruise at River Thames.

The White Tower at the Tower of London

At the Westminster Abbey

At Buckingham's Palace gates

View of the Tower Bridge from the compound of Tower of London

Palace of Westminster

2 weeks pass really fast huh

Well, I thought it would be long, but now I'm back in Glasgow again. Sorry for not updating for weeks. Although I did went online twice using the internet point in Italy, I was too lazy to blog. *Don't kill me!*

Updates about the holidays tomorrow. I flew 5 times in 2 weeks. I'm now airport-phobia. Sick of the waiting time. Not to the extent of airplane-phobia yet, but I will be if I fly again anytime soon.

The moment I landed... RAIN. I haven't seen droplets of water from the sky for ages. I've been under bright and hot sun for weeks and now, the gloomy and wet Glasgow weather again. Autumn's here. I see people on the streets with winter clothing. I desperately need some too.

I would love lazing around at home. No walking, no waking up early in the morning. That's all for today.

Merdeka Celebrations

We actually had one here, in Glasgow. It's cool. Thanks to those who organised it.

We sang Negaraku so semangatly. We sang Keranamu Malaysia by "lalalala" with the tune bcuz we couldn't remember the lyrics. Hui hoon sang a song. I didn't know she has a lovely voice!

Here comes the best part... FOOD. Glorious and sumptuous food. Quite a number of Malaysian/Chinese food. So much food til some of them have to 'ta pau' food home.

Li ping, yan nee, shirlyn and jing mein were so into the merdeka mood that they even bought paints to paint their arms with the Malaysian flag and each of them wore each of the 4 colours on the flag. Shame on me that I didn't even think of wearing blue, white, yellow or red. Instead, I wore a blouse in my favourite colour, pink.

Dr. Christine Dufes and me. She's my tutor. A sweet and cheerful young lady, always smiling and laughing. Love those chit chats at her office. Oh yea, and she's French with a really strong accent. No-problemo hahaha.

I know you people are laughing like mad with me and the huge metal bowl. But hey, Hui mei did that too. My fren, girl!!

I guess the 1st person you will notice in this picture is the red-haired guy. Very bright wei. I need shades for my eyes! :SS