Amongst The Clouds.

Monday, November 2, 2009

Nottingham Games.

Our first visit out of Ireland. It wasn't a very good experience for me.. but wtheck. I don't quite remember the details.. so this post will be brief :)

me, hubbie and ice creams! I'm not sure what ice creams were those but Kit said they're quite popular.. and he used to take them in London? I'm not quite sure.. but it's some ice cream from a van. Mine with extra Flakes chocolate :D:D

Group pic with Robin Hood statue.

Entrance of the castle.

A closer look.

museum inside.

before entering the museum :P

last bit of the museum :)

before leaving the castle.

walked around after we left the museum.
I have no idea where we were so not gonna elaborate much ._.

sorry for the short story. :P Maybe Kit would like to add in when he's free. Anyway, the following day, we had Nottingham Games. It's where all Malaysians around UK? compete with each other in games like ping pong, badminton, tennis, futsal, netball.. etc. I played mixed doubles with Kit for ping pong. I was so friggin scared cause I couldn't even play properly, but oh well :P

men's singles were playing first, so we cabut to find food. they were selling malaysian food in Nottingham U for that day so we waited for a bus. yea.. the uni is too big so most people used the bus to go to another building to buy food.

hubbie with the bought food. we bought lots of food!

several boxes of nasi lemak, satay (which was very cold ._. ) and roti canai.

oh lookie at the colour. not the face. i like the colour :D after makan, we went back to the ping pong area and was waiting for our turn. waited for approximately 4 hours. =.= was so bored till...

they told us we were about to start and I got nervous. Kit wanted this up xD

look at him!! so 'lan si' ( sorry for the rudeness but it's the only way I can describe D; )

Anyways, guess what? we managed to win the 1st round against Warwick if I'm not mistaken :P:P:P was so surprised!! but we lost to UCL. I suck. and the girl could take Wai Kit's smash.. so.. :P:P After ping pong, we went to watch Chung Lee play tennis! He managed to get into semi finals if I'm not mistaken :D

We headed back for Dublin that night itself. Nearly missed our flight.

my 1st Ben & Jerry's at the airport. :D

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!