part 3 - ships punting call zoo toy

part THREEE!

warning : super duper long post with loadsa photos... more than 20photos altogether!

act 1 : TALL SHIPS RACE 2005

location : newcastle & gateshead quayside
date : 25 july 2005
note : went there too late to be able to take the photos of the amount of ships anchored in river tyne... :(


SHIP!!! ; a performance; the famous Millenium Bridge in blue lighting; HMS something and 2 policemen.

if i'm not mistaken, that ship pic is of the really cooooool ship from sweden. it's super old and made wholly of wood. and HUGE!
silly joke heard : "nanti nampak MADE IN IKEA" *nosebleed*


group shot on gateshead quays; the ferris wheel & the sage from newcastle quays; the ferris wheel from gateshead quays; La Bowe De Paris - cool shot eh?

nopes, didn't go up the ferris wheel... TOO LATE AT NIGHT EDI! almost midnight!!! and i missed my last metro... ...


gosh, he's sooOOOoooOOOoooOOOooo cute! 3 pics of him... the beagle that is *lol*; owen??? the dog!


wooden flowers shop; sausages galore; sausages galore 2; may's back & pie man.

MAY!!! missing the pm nectarine tours to quayside edi!!! *sobs* :(


"mr candyman show me ur goodies!" - he er, looks scary; OoOoh.. liquorice, lollipops; eeeeee... fudge, nougat; mmm... strings, mashmallows!!! *faints*

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act 2 : LONDON

scene 1 : cambridge - 27 july 2005


i'm off to HOGWARTS!!! ; welcome to king's college, cambridge; err... somewhere in cambridge; 3 gorgeous ladies!


PUNTING!!! didn't go on though... bad weather and $$$! but lena went..... see her???

and then when we arrived back in london king's cross...



EVACUATED!!! the station was completely EMPTY except for US and the police! *brrr* bomb scare... and these silly companions of mine decided to take take pics and pose too! forgot how dangerous it was!!!

scene 2 : starbucks @ leicester square - 27 july 2005 night


huggies eme; group pic - eme's hubbie, eme, lena, may, winter, jian; the gorgeous lady barristers *lol*

met up with eme and her dahling at starbucks!

gosh... that was like a month ago edi!!! eme... may... I MISS YOU SOOOOOOOOoooooOOOOOOOoooooOOOOooo much!!! *sobs*

scene 3 : call day - 28 july 2005

locations : gray's inn & lincoln's inn


i trespassed onto gray's inn! ; winter, jian & leen @ lincoln's; ren helping winter put on ugly wig.

note : see!? i onli hav sooo few piccys of call day!!! SOME PEOPLE havn't sent me any piccys yet!

note 2 : "SOME PEOPLE" mentioned above is referring to REN!!!

btw, eme... send send send send send pls pls pls pls pls pics of call day and the video ur hubbie took!!! speaking of ur hubbie... ur hubbie's suit... EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! *grins*


this is onli one part of lincoln's... ain't it MINT!?! BETTER THAN GRAY'S! *lol*

scene 3 : london zoo - 29 july 2005


"show me the way to the zoo"; "hmm, where are we?"; "are we there yet?"; "YESHH!!! I FOUND THE ZOO!!!"


zoo updates; show @ zoo; this is the way to the DRAGONS!!!


giraffe's names; guess who's who; "llama llama..."; owl? *lol*


pepe le pew; CUTE OTTER!!! ; timon!!! ; err, forgot what cat... *paiseh*


tortoise... cute; do u see the frog? ; sssssnake!!! ; er, red bird with something in beak.


this sand cat didn't stay still earlier on when we tried photographing it... but, AIN'T IT KAWAII!?!?!


i want a ferret as a pet!!!


me? the most destructive animal in the world?! ; gosh, gorilla's hand bigger than mine; weird bird & name... tawny frogmouth.

note : london zoo is cool. wish i had a longer time to spend there though... didn't get to see all the animals!!!

scene 4 : Hamley's Toy Store - 30 july 2005

note : I LOVE THIS STORE!!! ESPECIALLY THE GROUND FLOOR!!! oh, this toy shop is FOUR STOREYS HIGH!!!

randy... i want that bear piccy!!! load load load!!! xxx

i cannot refrain from putting this pic up... soo, don't angry k?


the MAN has a soft side for all things cute and cuddly!!! aww...


darth jian; rasta jian; omg! jian enuff! ur hands swollen edi! ; catwoman & zorro! *grins*

london was superb randy! wish it was a longer trip! we MUST MUST MUST go on one more hol!!! speaking of which... i havn't done any research yet. [>.<] busy blogging this piece out larr! miss ya tonight, xxx.

and that's it. the end of part 3. and probbly the end of this 3 part series... *lol*

--- THE END ---

part 2 - graduation class of 2005 & dinner

and so, part 2 is finally here...

sleeping randy. words fail me as i try to express how grateful i am that u r here helping me thru. all i can say is thanks. thanks so much.

...i'm really very lazy to properly blog it but here goes... my half-hearted sleepy attempt... let the pics talk for themselves k?

and sorry. sorry for being mendoksey.

date : 18 july 2005
location : northumbria university, city hall, happiness

opening ceremony of convocation 2005... and... guess who's looking pretty funny on stage???


the photos are really dark. i tried my best to brighten them up a bit. so pardon the poor quality.

couldn't stop laughing... *lol*

note : do homework or else rf will poke u with the long sword! *lol*

thoughts : his shoelace is undone!!!


ren & evidence lecturer - michael stockdale; err,dunno, jim gray, dunno, lena, ren, dunno; me & boh; margub, james & may.


jen & azzy (oops! i mean ramachandran); ren & linus; elena, charlton & me; blake & me.


soo hoon, me & laulau; leonne & me; shameena & me.

the following shots were taken in the moot court... SUB 212. the place where almost all our advocacy takes place... where we learn the skills to be a barrister.


may, me, ren, jen & lena; ren, lena, me, may, jen, jian & azzy; ren taking oath & jian starting to ask questions edi... patience!!!; lester, tze chin & ren.

thoughts : i miss j.o.!!!


see what meena got for me???; random shots with meena & deeda... *grins*

note : mortarboard is ugly...


anthony, jian & charlton; jian, jen, me & ren; throwing the ugly mortarboard; we fight the wind... ren, jian, jen, me & azzy.

enuff pics... go home take rest... and it's out for dinner at happiness...

laulau was the organiser... *lol*


the future great barristers & parents; us again without parents; inti-ans; the food...

note : tak sedap. too salty... never never ever again. but thanks laulau!!!



ok now i am sleepy... move! shoo!

---e n d---

coming soon... part 3...

-anger-

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!!!




F**K!!!





ALRIGHT THAT DOES IT…

NO MORE NICENESS… (is there such a word?)

…HELLO EVILNESS!!!

WATCH OUT B***H!!!

thank u for being geram on my part. xxx.

part 1 - the one with the parents

small talk : now let's see... where should i start? so many things have happened over the past month and they have all rolled into one big blur. some things i remember so very clearly, while there are others i just don't seem to remember very much. am i suffering from short term memory lost??! oh well... i'll make do with what i remember and what i don't remember, i'll let the pictures do the talking. enjoy the story... or whatever there is...

act 1 : 14 july 2005
i went to manchester to pick my parents' up at the airport. my goodness the journey down was freaky and BORING! freaky in the sense that there might be another bombing... i was taking the train down. and BORING cos it was well, just BORING! imagine 3 and a half hours train ride all alone!!! *yawn*

the train station was huge and for a moment... i felt completely lost and helpless. well, can't blame me.. i haven't been to manchester and everything just felt soo foreign! anyways, after a while of getting used to, i left the train station to roam the city and somehow managed to find chinatown and the city hall! no pics though...

thoughts : manchester is just too busy and big and dirty for my liking. newcastle still rules as no.1.

at the airport...

meena and deeda took ages to come outta the arrival hall. met blake and his family... as well as trevor and sheryl. they were on the same plane as my parents and yet they all came out before my parents. sheeesh....

feelings : kinda worried. wondering whether anything has gone wrong. kinda anxious. kinda happy they're finally here.


meena at the arrival hall at manchester airport; deeda & meena on train to newcastle; meena at park on princes' street, edinburgh; deeda.

act 2 : 15 july 2005
urgh... parents' were awake since 5am! took train to edinburgh... meena feeling kinda below the weather. and edinburgh was freaking cold!!! oops... meena didn't bring a proper warm jacket.


meena & deeda managed to catch the last march of the scotland royal guards... (i think that was what they were called) ... marching to the castle for the very last time as they were being assimilated into... err, forgot into where edi.

went to the castle... tickets cost about £9 per person, if i'm not mistaken. but before that... had to queue for about half an hour just for a security check cos they were afraid of bombs. by the time we got thru the security check it was one o'clock and the one o'clock gun went off like clockwork.


meena in front of monmeg - a huge cannon; meena with a lil' cannon; monmeg's cannon balls; deeda and monmeg


meena and a scotman with bagpipe; meena boxing the mean soldier; deeda at the entrance; deeda fascinated with the long huge sword


meena & deeda were lucky to witness a wedding that was being held at the chapel in the castle. and me and meena got a piccy with the driver of the bridal car!


meena & deeda in front of edinburgh castle; meena & i; random shots in castle

act 3 : 16 july 2005
took meena and deeda to tynemouth... and it was a lovely sunny day! bless the weather.


meena and the priory and castle in the background; the beach; the beachside again; meena & deeda with town in background


deeda was kinda fascinated with the ruins of the priory and the castle


this is the way to the lighthouse; meena; meena & deeda heading towards the lighthouse; meena & deeda watching people fishing


isn't the sky and the sea blue?; one day i wanna go sailing...

act 4 : 17 july 2005
"...and a lotta walking we shall do today"

i think meena woke up today with that thought in her head. we walked soooo much my feet was close to just giving up on carrying me any further. and to think that the past few days meena kept complaining about how much walking we were doing.

went to morrisons. meena kept questioning why i didn't take her to morrisons yesterday instead of tesco. main reason number 1 - morrisons is TOO FAR AWAY from my house. but, meena is crazy over morrisons. she's nuts.

went to jian's place to show my parents' how other houses looked like compared to mine. *grins* mine's the best larr...
then we took bus no.1 back to town and changed onto bus no.100 to metrocentre.


meena & deeda on the double-decker bus; at the square just outside eldon square; meena is fascinated with newcastle's taxis; another taxi company with the weirdest phone number... 444-4444

from metrocentre we went to have lunch at jasmine in chinatown.


deeda & meena & 2 locals in front of the arch; st james' park in the background; i forgot the name of the church; one of the streets in newcastle


meena & deeda at central station; we walked all the way back to gateshead...meena at ellison street; meena became an elephant; meena & fort?

but before reaching gateshead, we went from chinatown to the quayside.


meena & deeda and the swing bridge; the tuxedo princess; tyne bridge; me and the crown court - NO, the court ain't on fire; the sage - never fails to make me think of a caterpillar; millenium bridge

act 5 : 19 july 2005
meena & deeda left for malaysia today. i only sent them to central station where they took the train back down to manchester airport on their own.

thoughts and feelings : i miss them. couldn't stop crying when the train started to pull out of the station. 5 days of them is just too short. wished they stayed longer. there's still so much i want to show them... i miss meena and deeda.

thank u for comforting me that day when meena & deeda left. thank u randy. :)

---end of part 1---

PREVIEW...

...and that's cos i don't know how to make a trailer... *bleh*


and so they march for the very last time...


...in the heat of summer...


...need i say anymore?


...and at dinner that night...


...whatever are they doing???


hey, isn't this familiar?


oOoh...


guess where this was taken?


..this looks so wedding photo-ish...


... urm... ugly...


... monkey see monkey do?

*LOL*

stay tuned...

...until i find my inspiration to blog fully about what's been happening.

actually, there's just too many things happening that i havnt found time to put into words. some things just can't be put into words... so i might just leave them as photos. the photos say it all...

but for the meantime... just HANG ON AND BE PATIENT k!?