Friday, July 27, 2007

magical..

Ok, i just got back from KL. well, actually, a few hours ago. The highlight? supposed to be my making my student visa, but turned out to be meeting my friends. =D it was really cool to be seeing them again - i didnt think id be meeting most of them until a few more years. met wei shen on my way to subang parade. then i saw leh boon and dexter from the distance, thought they didnt see wei sheng and me (owh boo hoo~). had dinner, went back to their place, aaron was on the laptop, then barged into hao hao's room, and saw sie lun peeking from the door. so yea, thats about all of them. theyre so lucky to be together~

And owh what luck for you guys!! I just figured out how to post few photos at one time, and guess what? its quite fast!! so i guess i wont be as lazy as i was before to be posting up photos. To think that ive been going through all the trouble posting up photos one by one when its there all along. anyways, these are some more photos..


This here is where we left our prints to be imbedded onto the wall of history with the knowledge that future generations will gawk and admire us. ;)



well lookie here.. isnt that mickey with pluto at the back?


Nek Yam just made a new friend! Count dracula asked her to call him.. *ehem*


Pluto has a hard time looking and writing past his nose it seems. wait. pluto can write?!



Kak Eza, Fizi, Nek Yam (the evil Queen?) and myself. Owh no, i got forced to sit on there. it was against my own will, i have nothing against narnia~


Ratatouille!! Fizi and i just couldnt help not squeezing him.. he was so *tsk tsk tsk* we got shoed away though.


thats a bit of nek yam, and lina, fizi and kak eza. "HELP!!! we're gonna drown!! owh, photo!*smile* HEELLLPPP!!!"


Well, um, sad to say, this is London.. was, rather..



Cruella eh? care for a peck on the cheek?




Need i elaborate?


I nearly got it out.. nearly..


Princesses that colour the childhood of many "princesses".


Ever wonder who cleans ur clothes?




Nearly got me there..



Thats my new home.. ;)


If you can spot Lina somewhere in the crowd.. imagine, everyone waiting for the same thing..





Even more people... and this is about half an hour before the thing starts..




And there it is.. the parade of dreams.. Guessed where all the photos are taken yet? No? Ok fine i'll just spill. Disneyland Euro!! The parade of dreams is really all that. looking at figures from my childhood pass by, i felt like i was a boy again. It was really something, nostalgic, if im permitted to put it that way. One thing about disneyland that makes it so special. When you're in it, you're in a whole new world. a world where everything is possible. and not just that, it makes you feel like everything is possible. It gives you back the feeling that you lost while growing up, the feeling that was driven away from the world where people laugh at possibilites and sneer at differences. one word - magical.


Im kinda sleepy right now. So i'll be stopping here and be posting more photos next time. owh yea, there are more.

Friday, July 20, 2007

WOWer!!

ok, so here are some more photos. since posting photos is hard work (=p) i dont think i'll type much.. someone said a picture speaks a thousand words.. im gonna trust that for now..

in university of leeds, the geologist department or something like that. we're practicing for an album cover.. not bad eh?
right outside university of leeds.. dont know whats it supposed to be, but, yea.. thats fizi on the right.

vandalism! even on the signboard of the university.. tsk tsk.. makes me feel so much better about the rate of vandalism in malaysia..

er.. york.. after all the shopping at the designer outlet.. cheap stuff.. but cheap, no good.. good stuff, cheap price, more spending, less budget..

somewhere in the middle of york's roads.. its quite a nice place..
Constantine.. no, not the exorcist..the emperor.. i dont know why hes in york..

kak eza: oh wow! so shiny~ bez nya shopping!


you would expect the sizes in europe to be bigger, but looks like asians are not too much smaller..

the things that make me proud im a malsyian.. you can also see kancils on the road.. quite a lof of protons as well.. MALAYSIA BOLEH!

i didnt get to go on this one.. but its so good to hear the clip clop of horses again..
a: binatang apa yang paling kedekut?
b: apa?
a: kuda!
b: kenapa?
a: kalau kuda lari.. *ke de kut! ke de kut! ke de kut!* haha

any familiar names there, can u see? i dont think its big enough.. dont know why these boats are here though, but, oh well..
setting out to go to paris! thats one-stop, by the way. the nearest department store. we stayed just on top..


learning as much french as possible.. je ne parlez pas BIEN francais~

We're at Eiffel tower!! after all this time just listening about it..

thats the reason we didnt go up.. rugi.. there were thousands queuing up to go up.. maybe next time..

we tried to jump up, but didnt even get close to the top.. oh well..

me, fizi and lina.. trying another time to jump to the top of the eiffel tower..

musee d'Orsay.. one of the many statues..



guess?? the louvre!! if u read da vinci code, here it is!! if u dont, ignore this photo..
i'll save more for future posts yea? the next one going to be disneyland photos.. owh yea, disneyland! ;)
btw.. i read harry potter!!! three words.. "its a WOWer!!!"

Thursday, July 19, 2007

2007.2007!!!

Okay, so i just got back from uk, familiar surrounding once more!! in brunei, but still, its familiar. hehe. gonna go back miri in a few hours time. i wanna be there when they release the book! if u dont know what book, then dont worie about it.. lol.
anyway, i promised some photos, so here it is.. here they are i mean.. lol.


ok.. these were when we were at dubai international airport on transit.. i know i know.. the first pic is with a toilet figure guy.. lol. thats kak eza and nek yam with me in the 2nd picture..


aahh.. and this was the baby that made so much noise all the time during the 5 hour bus ride from london to leeds.. good thing she was cute.. haha.

right before my first time entering lina's house..


me and lina getting out of her house.. first time! hehe

ok, u know what? this is taking forever.. im gonna end this post here for now and post some more next time.. man man lai, no? ehe. there are thousands more of photos.. now thats exactly why i dont post them up.. >.<

oh, btw.. another historical day in history - the 20th day of the 7th month of the 7th year of the 2nd millennium.. what does that make this day? 20072007!! =D

Friday, July 13, 2007

terima kasih!

ok you guys know what? im actually in leeds right now. yea, thats right, leeds as in leeds, england, UK.. hehe. ive been here for the past week. well, not really. arrived on friday if im not mistaken. it wasnt much of a difference, because, well, everyone here speaks english. the only thing is the long long flight. there was actually a phase during the 15(approximately) hour flight when i just thought "lets just turn around and end this flight!". rase rimas betul ah kekadang, coz almaklumlah, nak buat ape kat dalam kapal terbang tu 15 jam? asyik2 duduk, makan, tido. kalau boleh jalan2 takpe la jugak kan? ni tak, duduuuuuk je. kejang a kaki. but it was ok. all in all i think it was around a 30 hour journey, adding up the busride all the way to leeds and the traffic and the transit and the waitings and stuff. but it was worth it. ;)

tuesday we went to paris. now that there was something different. for one, not everyone speaks english, they speak french, obviously. i kinda think its something like indonesia. everyone, tak kire org asal dier ke, org yg pindah masuk ke ape, sume cakap the national language. and i dont mean know. sometimes, its the only language they know. im amazed. theyre just so proud of their own culture, that they dont care what the rest of the world thinks of them. to them, let the world learn about their culture, let the world fit it. and just think about it, french is one of the world's major languages, aside from english, spanish, chinese and, to some extent, arabic.

but the stay in paris was really something. just a short stay. but lets some it up. we got to see the eiffel tower (!!), the louvre (!!!!! ive been imagining the place ever since i read da vinci code. i couldnt believe i was actually there at first. it was.. wow!!) and the notre dame (again, ive only seen it in cartoons.. also, wow!!). u know, its all those places that ive been fantasizing about through the books and movies, and ive seen it! owh, and went to disneyland as well!! and this is something to note. disneyland. i know it seems childish and all that, but i actually had a great time! the thing about disney is, it gives us this feeling that, no matter who, what, where, when or whatever, dreams really do come true. theres nothing about impossibility, about limits and about outrageuosness. as long as u can and dare dream it, if u work towards it, its gonna come true. thats what disney is all about. and at some point, i dare say i really thought i was a child once more. back in the days when anything was possible. i dont know why, but at some stage in our lives, people say we grow up when we start to not believe anything and everything is possible. its kinda sad really. coz without dreams, we have nothing to aim for, nothing to achieve. it was a really touching moment. =)

language. i was in paris for only 3 days. the first 2 days, i was so desperate to speak french with them. "comment allet-vous? tres bien, merci. et vous? bien!" etc etc. and i did pick up some french, im proud to say. hehe. but then, something at disneyland struck me and gave me this realization. there was this spanish man (his south american actuallay) and this chinese gurl. we were waiting for the parade, and the man asked the gurl "hablar espanol?" to which the gurl shook her head vigorously and went "bu hui!" and the man started talking in fluent spanish about how it was ok, not a lot of people speak spanish there, and he was talking about the cameras and stuff, all the time using his hands and facial expression and pointing to make the gurl understand him. and the gurl did understand him, and she talked back in mandarin in the same manner. the point is, each is so confident and comfortable with their own langauge, that they can just use it anytime anywhere, regardless whether people understand or not. dont get me wrong, im not implying we should learn about other cultures and languages. thats another aspect, another point of view. but after that, i started thinking, and then started speaking in malay with anyone who spoke french to me while i was in paris. instead of saying "merci!" i went "terima kasih!", stuff like that. it felt so good!!

well, sorry to say, im not uploading photos again in this post, coz im using my cousin's laptop. but i'll upload them once i get the chance to. sorie!! but now i gtg. im back in leeds now btw. =)

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

orang sarawak..

Memandangkan ramai yang telah memutuskan untuk menulis dalam bahasa ibunda masing-masing, diri ini terasa dibebankan untuk turut menulis dalam bahasa melayu. ok lah, since kalau tulis macam ni formal sangat bunyi, lets lighten it up, and buat lah macam kalau kite cakap2 kat semenanjung. (aduh aduh.. dah nak rasa kedak lepeh dah tok.. tapi sik hal lah.. skali skala..).

jauh rase. dulu, mase kat spore, tak rase sangat, coz kat sane tak banyak beza dgn msia. makanana dekat nak same, bhs melayu masih dpt gune, kalau ckp oputih pun, diorang macam same je loghat dgn kite kat msia ni. so bile pike2 kan, bile dah pegi kat UK in september nanti, rase macam pelik sikit ah. bukan nyer ape, rase macam, a whole new world.

msia nie kan bez, indah, sempurne, sume ade. lebih2 lagi kalau kat sarawak nie, and especially bile dah kat miri. aa, nie yg aku rase orang2 lain tak suke dgr, tp ape nak buat, dah jadi fakta. haha. so anyways, aku pke2 la, kalau dah kat sane nanti kan, susah la pulak kalau nak masak ke ape. kalau kat spore, pi je kat gelang ke mane, dapat jumpe sume bahan2 masak. sampai ke rempah pun same! so imejin la, nanti kalau dah jauh sikit, nak masak kari, tak gune asam laaaa..

but pd ms yg same, ade la pulak rase tak sabar nak pegi. i mean, think about it, kan bez kalau dapat pgi jauh2. pengalaman dpt banyak, mata pun bez tengok macam2, fikiran tbuke, and everything lah. lebih2 lg ble tengok aktiviti2 yg ade kat sane. dah la sekolah tu castle (fuiyo.. rs mcm harry potter la pulak..), tepi laut, pemandangan indah permaaiiii~ so harap2 lah nanti dapat njoy abis2 kat sane. yela2, tak lupe, pgi jauh2, tujuan nak belajar. memang a, blaja tu blaja la jugak, tp mane boleh nak blaja je kan.. kalau pegi siap nak belaja 24/7, same je nak blaja kat miri nie.

ntah la nak tulis ape lagi. wpun nie taip je, tp kelu pulak rase lidah. dah sebulan tak ke sekolah, mane la ade nak cakap macam nie. maklumlah, orang sarawak.. =D

Sunday, July 1, 2007

a million places..

i'm a malaysian!! i'll say it out loud, i'll say it proud, i'll say it anytime, i'll say it anywhere! everytime i hear the visit malaysia song and the videoclip, i cant deny that i get this warm feeling inside of me, tingling my every sensation. a million places, a million colours, its all in malaysia. one day, some day, when my time comes, i'll help push malaysia up, up, and up, all the way to the top. my country, my nation, my home.

the past week has been really hectic. been squeezing so many activities into such a short period of time. it really goes to show - so much to do, so little time. And what has it gotten me? Besides the appreciating time with my friends and family, seeing how much there really is to do in miri and stuff. Barely enough sleep. I've been sleeping so early (technically) and waking up early as well, that i think i had more rest when it wasnt the holidays. but u know what? its worth it! ;)

To tell you the truth, im really coming up with blanks everytime i try to write an entry. but then, i guess, even when there's nothing to write, i'll at least just put this short one in. Still, no photos. But i'll put some in if im feeling rajin enough. Alls well that ends well..