Sunday, November 1, 2009

Turned 19 in Dublin :)

My 19th birthday actually started on the 28th instead. That night, after ping pong practice at RCSI, we came back to Mercer and Kit told me that the light bulb in the kitchen KO-ed, and asked me to check it out. When I open the door, there were people screaming something, which scared the hell out of me and i walked/ran away from the kitchen ._____. After a short while, I realised what was happening after someone said, 'Why she run away?!'. haha! It was actually our friends in the kitchen, wishing me Happy Birthday! :D




From the left : Me, Eleanor, Chung Lee, Stephen, Eng Keat and Derrick.


Me (still in Ping Pong attire) with my first birthday cake in Dublin!



Lou kong planned the surprise thing for me! I didn't even suspect a thing! The spagetthi we made together and all the last minute grocery shopping (which was supposedly for Strahan's birthday) was actually for the party! Thank you, hubbie!! I didn't even plan to do anything for my birthday.. Thank you!! ^___________^ and also, Derrick and Stephen gave me a present too! Thank you! :D:D


By the time we finished the food, it was almost 12, so they decided to stay a lil' while more for my official birthday, even when they have classes the next day. ^^ So we played a drinking game (at least i think it's a drinking game) called 007.


Us, in the living room/kitchen playing 007.

Last picture before everyone went back. Thank you!! ^^



Me! hugging my hunny bun for putting in so much effort for my birthday!





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On the 29th, lou kong gave me a cute and tiny chocolate cake for breakfast! I know it's bad to eat so sweet stuff in the morning but what the heck. It was my bday :P:P


Cake. Without the chocolate design and already half eaten xD



So, anyway, after class, we went out with our friends for lunch at a place called Abrakebabra. I like their chicken shawarma :P really yummy! unfortunately, there's no picture of it to show you guys. I was hungry ^^;;; Afterwards, Stephen suggested we do something different.. like taking a bus without any seniors and get out of Dublin 1 and Dublin 2. Originally, I wanted to bake a cake in the afternoon.. Oreo Cheese cake :P so that 1. there's something to do on my bday and 2. i can blow my candle. That was cause I didn't know that I would be lucky enough to receive cakes. But I figured there would be too many cakes in the fridge, so we went with Stephen's suggestion. So, we took LUAS to Dundrum. The Dundrum Shopping Mall is the 2nd largest shopping mall in Dublin i think :)


Picture 1 of Dundrum shopping mall and..


Picture 2 :)


oh! and look! Roly, our bear, has a restaurant here in ireland :D


me! with my new bag! My birthday present from Kit!! I love it!! Saw it.. i think a week or so ago. Thank you, again, hunny!



Here's hubbie acting cool. :P:P HAH!


We are so kuai, you know! We didn't spend on anything at all in Dundrum!! Well.. I saw 1 top.. which Kit convinced me that I wouldn't wear it more than once T___T Anyway, after Dundrum, we had a pumpkin-carving competition in RCSI, organised by CIMSA (Canadian Society). Our team consists of me, Kit, Tyson and Hossana. :) Only Tyson carved pumpkins before. It's the first time for the 3 of us!!


me cleaning the pumpkin stump.




me, drawing the face of the pumpkin. took me so long!


Baby carving the pumpkin after Tyson and Hosanna did their part.


Finally! We finished much later than the others, but we were still in time :P

Cute right? Poor orange!

and yes.. we wore our blue nitrile gloves. surgeons.. :P hah!


Kit with pumpkin and orange.


Kit and I with our pumpkin!! The one on the right is not ours though ^^;


Our team! We won 1st place, btw. :P:P I have no idea what's the prize.. but last year the winner received 2 bottles of wine. Not sure bout this year.. yet. Maybe there aren't any prizes xD




A closer look!


After that, we went back home, Kit cooked salmon for us, and we had our dinner.. before we played poker with Derrick, Stephen and Choon Keat. I actually won a couple of rounds!! :P Kit and Stephen stayed up the whole night since we had to wake up at 4 the next day to go to Nottingham. I was smart :P I slept!



That's about it! Thank you HUBBIE!!!! Although you're beside me now :P but yea. mwah!

PMCSA Sports Day.

On the 25th of November, we RCSIans headed over to UCD (University College Dublin) for our annual PMCSA Sports Day! We both were lucky enough to be chosen to represent RCSI! I played Mens' Doubles for ping pong and baby took part in the Womens' Doubles event! Unfortunately, we both lost! Both also by 2 points in the deciding set! Cibit right?! I played Volleyball too! We all had tons of fun! And came back with medals too! Losers on that day would recieva a silver medal! :P



A pic of me and my playing partner (Chung Lee, in black, back to me) officiating!



( I took a video of my hubbie playing vball! but I can't upload it :( :(
any idea what I should do? )


This is a pic of the Volleyball team. Try spotting me!


Suddenly I feel so small! We won, hence a gold around my neck! xD




Dinner with friends after a rather tiring day! Eng Keat took us to Good World Restaurant!


Had loads of banter and chatter throughout dinner!


From left : baby, Stephen, Derrick, EngKeat, Joshua.



And that was our first PMCSA Sports Day! Very enjoyable indeed! The noise levels throught the games were magnificent! Ppl jeering, shouting, screaming! Real passion in the air! Looking forward to next year's games! Watch out UCD! xD

Thursday, October 29, 2009

17th.

First 17th in Ireland! ^^ First celebration here! On that day, we woke up rather late. And we left for lunch soon after. Along the way, we encountered some pretty interesting stuff! This is all on Grafton Street!



Statue? Think again!

It's so real isn't it?!
There's this one guy who will carve animals out (mostly dogs) out of sand every single day!


This guy is good! He won't move! Not even if you tickle his nose!

Pay him money and he'll change his pose gladly!



The previous guy was good but this guy's the best!

His movements when paid are so funny! Definitely the best!


And we made our way here for lunch! Madina!

Serves pretty decent Indian food I must say!



The interior of Madina! Nice right the decor?


Starters : Papadom and some weird gravy!


Tandoori Chicken!
However, it's not as good as Ananda Bahwan's back home! Nowhere near!


Vindaloo Chicken! Take it at your own risk!


Their Cheese Naan. Again, Ananda Bahwan's is still better! Miles better! ;)


And this long metal pole you see in the middle is The Spire!
The tallest sculpture in Ireland! Which serves no purpose! xD

A shop owned by Evan!
Evan, if you're reading this, you better tell them to not charge me when I shop there!
Thank you!

And this was where we had dinner! Gourmet Burger Kitchen!


Me! With the ultra cute tomato bottle!


Baby! With all the food on the table already! Yumm!!!!!!!
She's so adorable laa! *pinch*


And that was our first 17th here! Simple but very meaningful! Till next time! For further 17th updates! :D

Monday, October 26, 2009

Oktoberfest!

In our second week, we went for our first Oktoberfest! The festival of beer and sausages! Our senior, namely Gan, called me at about slightly pass 7pm. Asking me to get ready to go for the Oktoberfest at 7.45pm! And we were eating at that time. Halfway thru, and we haven't showered yet. And the place is about 20mins away from where we live. In my mind, I was rather skeptical about this as I played a prank on Ganesan earlier in the day. But we went anyway! :P Met up with a few seniors and made our way to the Oktoberfest place (sorry! I didn't take the pains to find out what the name of the place is!) And the very first thing we did was to sink our teeth into these (below!)...



Yummy isn't it?! :P



This is us! With the HUGEEE sausage in hand!

What you're seeing is a half-remaining sausage as we both couldn't wait!


A few of us! From left : me, baby, derrick, andrew, gan, stephen, evelyn.


One of the trumpet blowers! Playing it hot! Literally!


This is the Beer Garden!

The place where we enjoyed our Paulaner beer and danced to tunes

unlike what one would get at most clubs out there,

i.e. grease's songs, michael jackson ones and the likes.


After dancing till we're soaked right thru! Tired us! But happy us! :D



Baby! Having ice cream on a very very cold night!

Not her fault! I made her get it! xD




And it was a memorable Oktoberfest indeed! Enjoyed ourselves tremendously I must say!





Cheers,

Kitching!


Freshers' Week..

Holla people! I know i know! It's been awhile since the last one..... Sorry! Anyway, here are some pictures to tell you of what we've been up to all this while! :) Enjoy!

This! Is a picture of the rising sun when we were at Amsterdam Airport, Schippol Airport if I'm not wrong! :P We had to transit here after 12 LONGGGGGG hours onboard the plane. Mind you it was sardine-packed and trust me, it ain't fun at all being restricted to so little movement!


This is a shot of Buger King's logo. Baby's first time having BK! But ever since we arrived here, I've lost count on the number of times we've had it! Arghhh! :( It has only been a month, but I'm already bored of BK .__. Just to add, BK outlets outnumbers McD ones by -this- much and KFC outlets by -------this------- much! ;)


Freshers' Week ;)

This is a shot of us, at Coffee Doc, which is just a fancy name for the cafeteria. This was taken during Freshers' Week! But thankfully, we didn't get bullied by our seniors!
And this is Guinness. Like who doesn't know right? That black Irish drink everyone has talked about so much lately due to the founder's 250th celebration! Personally, I have not acquired the taste to fully appreciate it. :( But I should have done so by the time I get back to Pg! *wink wink*


This is another shot of us, this time outside Clarendon Bar, which happens to be the place we both took our first sips of Guinness! Cheers!


One more pic of us! This time just before we went out for clubbing! You see, throughout Freshers' Week, the SU (Student Union) decided that it would be good thing to expose us freshers to this thing we call clubbing. Hence, every single night of the week ended with a session at various clubs around Dublin. But we being the kuai kids we are, only attended 2 out of the 7 sessions they had planned for us! See see! We kuai! :P


This is our lecture theatre (O'Flanagans Theatre). Lecture theatre by day, rock stage by night! And who ever said doctors don't know how to have fun?! Various bands belted out hits after hits after hits! With beer and wine being served outside, I'm sure everyone enjoyed! We surely did! ^_^

My first shot! Its called a Jägerbomb! Where one drops in a shot of Jägermeister into a glass of Red Bull. It's not THE strongest but it tastes good! :D And we had a couple of others and jiggy wiggied till about 3 in the morning. (Should have taken a video of Kit dancing :P:P:P haha! Had lots of fun!) Not bad la hor? Considering it's our first time into clubs!

And that's just the start. Our first week. Next update to arrive within a day! Or two! xD Take care all! Cheers!
RCSI-ans,
Kitching!