Swan Lake at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

I was so excited the whole day. I just couldn't wait to watch the performance. Ah, why can't they tour to Malaysia as well? I can't be flying into Singapore and Bangkok purposely for a show. And they cost a bomb there too. I can't remember when was the last time I watched a ballet piece. I know it was Nutcracker at the Istana Budaya. And also the River Dance about 4 years ago. No ballet dance companies ever came since then.

I'm not saying that it's super cheap here but for about Rm210 (after conversion), it's not too bad. The only fact that makes me feel guilty is that the other 5 of them bought cheaper seats while Rinoa and me wanted the most expensive one.

The auditorium was much smaller than what I expected. It look grand from the outside so I was expecting it to be a really big hall. Other than being small, the hall was quite nice la. The set for the show was abit plain. But the dance by the prima ballerina was good, that's the most important thing! Act 1- Scene 2 was the best! It was where the prince met Odette at the lake together with the other swans. I'm like WOW.

Oh yea, the prima ballerina's name is Irina Kolesnikova. If you try to google her on the internet, you would realise that she has a fan club (the IK Club). The company is not exactly that famous, but she is.

Do you think we girls overdressed? I think we did, looking at what the other people wore.
L-R: Esther, Jessycca, Xin Yin, Rinoa, moi, Xin Hui

I don't know if this is allowed. We did not use flash!!! That's the curtain when it's down. I got a great seat. From my view, it's the middleline of the stage.

LOL See what are they doing. Jessycca camwhoring herself. Esther trying to snap a pic of us.

It's our turn to camwhore!

Photo taken before leaving. That's the expensive booklet I'm holding. Continue reading to see how much I paid for it.

With a ballet-lover as well. And also my teman for ballet classes.

This is definitely one of our housemates-activity. All 4 of us. Plus the gentleman Kah Wei. I'm surprised by his interest.
P/S: Today's photos are thanks to Rinoa. I didn't bring my camera as it couldn't fit into my clutch.

One more thing, can somebody tell me if I look any fatter compared to before? I feel that my face grew fleshier! Why is it only my face? Salah tempat la fats. Of course la will be fat, eating 5 packets of biscuits in a week. I eat more unnecessary snacks during semester classes.

Coming to that booklet, I bought the SPBT's 2007-2008 European Tour programme booklet for 7 pounds. Mahal hor? That's rm49 leh. *Faints*

Ah, another week coming up. *Hates, hates, hates*

Happy 16th month anniversary

14th October 2007, a bright day.

There's not much significance of the number 16 months but there is a huge difference being with you. Because of u, I grew up to be a more mature person. Because of u, I learnt not to be such a spoilt girl. Because of u, I learnt the meaning of understanding and compromise. Because of u, I learnt that my actions do not only affect myself, but you as well.

We've been apart in a LDR for more than 4 months. The longer we're apart, the sooner we'll get to meet once again. The earliest 14th of the month we'll get to celebrate the monthly/yearly anniversary would be next year's August. It may seem long from now but as time passes, the date would approach really soon.

There were disagreements and moments where both of us got sick of each other's "attitudes". These are all part and parcel of being in a relationship, I'm sure. Even people living with each other for 50 years argue right?

I'm glad that my other half is YOU. It's one decision that I will never regret. Haha rmber me asking you before we got together "Do you think it's a better idea if we only start after I return from UK?" If we actually did it, I wouldn't be sitting down here writing this entry.

As I'm staring out of the window... admiring the brightly litted city of Glasgow, I wish you're here with me. Everywhere I travel to, I wish you could be with me. Every photo I take, I wish that I could just have 1 photo taken with you this very moment.


This entry is dedicated to you, my dear LUM WAI KENG! Love you loads!

*This entry is posted exactly at 3.45am Malaysian time on the 14th October 2007*

*Edited*

I got this website off Yannee's blog: http://www.feeleverysound.com/avatar.html It's cute!!!

Dear, I wanna dance with you. But neither of us know how to do any couple- dances. We'll learn yea?? LOL

This week's tiny-weeny update

Pretty much a boring life. With plenty of classes to attend, I didn't had much time for myself. Didn't seem like I'm adjusting to the "back to classes" mood yet. Argh. Can't I just spend one year here enjoying? Like you know, travelling. Since I love travelling so much. We're actually planning a 6-days trip to France in November but it's not like a confirmed thing yet. *I know, I know, don't spank me bcuz it hasn't even been a month since a came back from Italy*

Hey, Yipin, rmber Faris?? Our form 2 classmate?? He's in Nice! Hope to catch up with him a little bit!

I had 2 embarrassing moments this week.

No.1: I broke the handle of my room door. My housemates are calling me "ganas" now. They just couldn't believe their sight.

This is how it's supposed to look like. I took this from the outside where I didn't pull off the handle. *malunya*

This is the other side of the door. I actually cabut the whole thing out.

Obviously, I couldn't turn it anymore, therefore I got trapped inside. How did I get myself out: Banging the door to my housemate so they could open it from outside. *Reminder to self: Do not EVER close door from inside bcuz I won't be able to open it.* Still, I did it while rushing out for dance class.

No. 2: I fell down. Yup, you read correctly. Stupid boots were slippery on smooth tiles. So I just slipped onto the "guy kneeling down to propose" position and it resulted in a blue-black on my right knee now. I wonder if anyone saw. Ouch!!

I seem to be pretty silly. Alvin says we're supposed to tell jokes to each other at each other's morning call. Just for a laugh. He makes up jokes to tell me. But I don't need to. I just do silly things everyday coincidently and telling him all my silly actions is enough to make him laugh like crazy.

Today is supposed to be a green/yellow/black/ baju Melayu dresscode day. Since I skipped the final class (Health Economics, wth??), I didn't make it for the class photo. So tadaa...

Me in baju kebaya. See those leaves changing colour. They are falling too. Everywhere's gloomy.

Well, SELAMAT HARI RAYA to all my friends, including all those back in Malaysia and those here in Glasgow!

That's it!!!

Ooooohhh, there's something very exciting this weekend too... Will be at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall for "Irina Kolesnikova and St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake". Ticket prices are 19.50, 24.50, 27.50 and 30 pounds. Haha, I bought the 30 pounds seat. *=( getting poorer again*

Ceilidh

What a huge turn up at the Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee) dance- the traditional Scottish dancing organised for the international students. Definitely a very Scottish event. A stay in Scotland wouldn't be complete without trying it out. Love it and would of course be glad to go for more. Hopefully, there will be another chance. But be prepared, you need lots of energy for it!

Danced and danced non stop for hours, except for the occasional short breaks in between dances to catch our breath and the snack session- oatcakes + cheese, shortbread and this really sweet candy thingy (I forgot what is it called). Esther banned me from alcohol. =( So Rinoa says "no" too. I know I'm not supposed to drink. Sigh.

Damn semangat, I even had my arm painted with the Scottish flag by one of the girls there. *They were doing it for early birds before the crowd got really big* I've got to announce this, I sweated! Yay!!! Damn happy like got free gold like that hahaha.

Me with Scottish flag.

Housemates showing off our arm/face paintings. *Esther why you washed it away?*

*Spot me!*

Later, we hopped into Barony bar, also at the Student Union. Again, another round of dance. I must have burnt up so much calories. Here comes the sad part, calories replaced with the supper I had. Actually I don't care about losing calories. With Khai Yong's sandwich and Desmond's Indomee, I'm more energised. That's why I'm able to blog now. If not, I would already be sleeping like a pig.

Since semester has started, being in Uni finally feels like being in one. During summer, it was so quiet and damn sien leh. Maybe should have came overseas since 1st year haha. Not too late though since I'm here now! Met quite a number of people lately, most of them international students. Those Italians even named me "Valentina" because it's easier. That's the nicest name among all they suggested. Still, so randomly. Gosh, Jessie is considered easy la. Their names lagi hard to remember.

Yikes, running really late now. Quarter to 4am. Better go to bed. Nitey.

Happy 21st Birthday Ying Qi!!!

Remember that we were in the same class in form 2? Wow, that's a long time ago. Blink blink, I counted... 7 years ago. The pretty prefect girl back then in lower secondary school. Then, u quit being a prefect but you never stopped being the hardworking and smart person I know til today. You cared for people whenever you can. You never fail to cheer us up when we're down.

University life brings friends far away from each other. Although we only meet once a year, we will always remain as good friends.

So, HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY to you!!! Hugss... Take care and I'll see you in December.

Sem 7 Fever

Final year in university... I usually start with wearing something new. I did, last Friday, a cardigan. I'm not superstitious ok? Well, I thought it would be a good start. Somewhat similar to wearing new clothes on the 1st day of CNY.

Bombarding us with hours of briefing about our final year. I don't even know what subjects am I taking this year, so you can imagine how blur was I during the briefing. Well, until now, I still don't know. Hold on... I will when the holiday mood is over and when I feel there is the urge to do someting about my studies.

There goes the briefing. And I'm allocated with the research project titled "Lyophilised insert formulations for nasal drug delivery". What I would have to do is formulate active therapeutic compounds of interest with varying chemical properties into lyophilised nasal inserts. Gosh, it involves a whole lot of research in LABS to be able to achieve that. I sort of copied and pasted one line from a whole paragraph of description to briefly show what would I be doing. I hope it will turn out well, and I hope my supervisor Fionna McInnes is nice.

1st day of class... I would always remember this day. Bcuz it's the 1st time I'm able to wake up and get ready in 15 minutes before I run out of the house. Supposed to leave at 8 with the rest but I woke up at 7.57. This girl can never leave house without bathing, so I did, plus... I shampooed my hair as well! N not to mention, I blew dry it as well. It has already became a habit to do so, and I cannot kick it off. I was practically running to the train station to catch the "underground"... Why?? Bcuz of a workshop at the University of Glasgow at the west end with some 4th year medical students. Kan cheong gila the night before bcuz medical students are supposed to have more knowledge compared to us pharmacy students.

I thought I wouldn't make it there in time. But, thank god I did, so yeah.. I guess my day wasn't that bad after all! hahaha. Warns myself "No more late night shows for me if I have to wake up early the next day anymore".

Not forgetting, the fire alarm rang again. AGAIN bcuz it just rang last Friday, thanks to Desmond. I know I sound sacarstic, no offence ya? *I know you will read this hehe* We're so happy today's wasn't bcuz of any of us IMU students. Must be some "gwai lou" guys on the lower floors. Yipeeee!!! If not, people would think this bunch of chinese students are a nuisance.

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!