I went shopping at Tesco yesterday. And I found this penguin chocolate biscuit bars. It reminded me of Little Penguin, my friend. Lol. Haha..
I found this funny question at the back of the wrapper...^^
It snowed!!!
On the way back to our residence hall...
It's nice to have snow here.Lol. After arriving in St. Andrews, it was the first time that I had played any sports here. Well, all of us signed up for the membership for the sports centre which costs 23pounds. Okay, let me go on with my story...
All 8 of us went to play basketball at the sports centre. I must say that I ain't a sports person. And due to SPM last year, I was deprived of PE classes for a long period. So I thought it was the perfect timing for me to do some sports while I'm here. Lol.
Basketball was kinda fun. But I must say that it was a rough game as girls and boys are playing it together. Gosh, in all of a sudden, I was hit by the ball right in my face. I wasn't dreaming, was I? No, it was kinda painful on my nose. And my glasses was a little dented. I didn't realise that there was a slight cut under my eye and it was bleeding. My friend Joo Enn got hit by the ball twice too. Thank god she didn't get any cuts or stuff like that. Okay, I tried to keep my cool. When I got back to my room, I found out that I didn't have any antiseptic cream to apply! I have nothing of these sorts for injuries. So I phoned my dad, and he asked me to go get some salt water to clean the wound. Okay, quickly, I went to the kitchen and got some salt. It was kinda painful, I would say.
I'm quite calm all the time. But I don't know why suddenly I was almost in tears when my mum talked to me. I would hate to get a scar on my face, obviously. I was so damn sad that I couldn't concentrate well during my Physiology class. T_T
Okay, fine. Dad asked me to go to the pharmacy to get 'Fucidic acid cream'. But to no avail, I can't get it without a GP's prescription!! I managed to make an appointment with my GP the next day. I had to skip class to go to the health centre which is damn far away from my residence hall. I walked for 25mins. Thank god I manage to find my way there! Phew. The doctor told me that it will heal but it might take some time. I felt a sense of relief!
Now, it's completely healed. Haha~~
XD
Since then, I think I have some sort of phobia towards the ball. Lolx..
But I've decided to go to the gym weekly because I definitely need to burn off some fats due to the consumption of calorie-laden food that the cafetaria serves.
>Joo Enn, Shir-Li, Pui Yee, Sy Qiao and Matt playing poker.. =DAnyway, for this year, I'm not actually 'celebrating' CNY. But it was a blast!
24/1/09
My friends and I sort of 'planned' a reunion dinner among ourselves and with our seniors. We went to a Chinese restaurant for dinner. The name of the restaurant is 'Oriental House' (if I'm not mistaken). We went to book the places and order the dishes before the actual day. We wanted everything to be spicy! Lol. It's probably because we are Malaysians and we're used to eating spicy food. We seldom get the chance to enjoy spicy food here. Okay.. Everyone turned up just in time for dinner. Haha! And guess what?!?! All of the dishes were indeed SPICY!! I mean ALL! Even the soup is spicy~ The food was nice! I've not tasted Chinese food since I arrived at St. Andrews. Sort of miss the delicious food back in Malaysia.. After dinner, everyone went to Tesco (that's the only supermarket in St. Andrews, very much smaller than Tesco in Malaysia.).
Later, we decided to go to David Russell's Apartments, which is 15 mins walk away from New Hall. (Btw, New Hall is the place that I'm staying in right now.) After a long walk, we finally reached there. The facilities there are damn good! They even have a games room whereby you can play XBox or watch movies using the big projector and screen. Everyone had fun playing the games. After that, we went to the activity room with games like table tennis, pool, and 'table football' (I don't know what it should be called). Matt brought the table tennis ball, etc. so we could play. This was my first time playing table tennis. I played quite badly because I hit the ball too hard. T_T Haha..
We played and played till 1am. Wow! This was the first time I actually played till so late~ By the time I reached my residence hall, it's already 1++am. And I slept at 2am. Lolx.. XD
27/1/09
It's supposed to be new year's eve.
Mum called me and told me that they've just finished eating steamboat! Talked to my sis and bro. They wanted me to give them 1% of the angpau $ that they have taken on my behalf. Lol. I'm speechless.
Haha.. I've been struggling to finish my homework and assignments. Didn't manage to finish them though. It doesn't matter. We're going out for dinner again. Initially, we planned to go to get some fish and chips. Eventually, we end up in "Marmaris Kebab & Pizza Restaurant". Gosh! We ordered a lot of food~ I doubted we could finish everything. In the end, we didn't. The waiter even threatened us to finish up all the food! I can't help laughing. He was damn serious. And it was a real threat. He even took up a shovel (a very big one! I seriously don't know where he got that from) and that startled everyone!! Haha.. The situation was in a way 'scary' and funny~ Hahahaha.... XD
After dinner, everyone agreed to go to David Russell's Apartments (DRA) again! We played and played there. Matt and Pheng Shiew even taught us how to play Texas Poker and the HongKong style poker that we often see in dramas. Haha!
Yeah, these are some of my classmates. There should be 9 of us. But I didn't get a chance to include the other 2. (sorry...>.<) The other 2 are Michael Gurguhzi (hope I spelt it correctly) from Vienna, Austria and Mohamed Ahmed from Nigeria.
From the left:
Haha.. We took this photo when we explored St. Andrews during the weekends. All 7 of us are from Malaysia. Sy Qiao and I are from Muar. Shir-Li, Pui Yee and Faiz are from KL. Pheng Shiew and Joo Enn are from Penang. I realised that there's a lot of people from Penang although it's just an island. Lol. Even the air steward is from Penang. Recalling...--> When I was coming down from the plane when I reached Glasgow Airport, the air steward was bading goodbyes to every passenger. As I was holding my passport in my hand, he saw! And he said:" Oh, you've a Malaysia passport. Why didn't you tell me? (laughs*) I'm from Penang!"
My friends are damn funny. Almost everyone gets very 'high' when the sky turns dark. [Perhaps I haven't mentioned this, in St. Andrews, the sky gets dark at around 4-5pm due to the winter solstice] The funniest part would be during dinner when everyone sat down and eat at the cafeteria. Jokes would start 'flying' across the table. Everyone laughed and laughed! XD
Yeah, I've finally made it through almost 2 weeks in Scotland without my mummy and daddy. Lol.
I should have updated my blog since ages ago.
But too bad, I took quite a long time to get my internet connection fixed. And I'm kinda busy too. Days seemed to pass very quickly here.
In just a blink of an eye, I've been away from home for..12 days!
I'm neither sad nor happy to leave home.
Not really homesick.
But everytime when I speak to my parents in the phone, I'll always feel a gush of tears rushing through my eyes. (I didn't cry though..)
I still miss them a lot.
And too bad, my course has been extended till July, which means I will only be going home after 10th of July. T_T
Seriously, I wanted to blog about this.
[opps! ;D ]
