Time for a New Layout... Soon

Right.... Too many people have complained the font on this page is too small and I have realized that the column width is too narrow as well making it hard for my pictures to be big and high reso-ish...

SO! I am on a search for a new layout. I'll change the current one soon. :)

G20 Protest Finished with a Movie

I went to the G20 protest today as an observer with Tian and his colleague. The place was packed with people and the whole bank station was blocked off. From the angle I was at, a fight even broke off. Unfortunately (?) I didn’t get to see any bloodshed. But Tian Han managed to see a woman get shoved in the face by a cop. It was so much drama. It felt cool to be part of protest, even if I had to see it from afar. By the time I got there the police had started to separate the crowd from the protesters. The city almost came to a complete standstill. A guy behind me asked the police if he could get through because he was suppose to be in court, but then wouldn’t even let him through. Though, who knows, it coulda been a ploy just to get through.

 

 

 

After standing there in the front of the barricade for awhile, it wasn’t going anywhere so I turned back to see if there was any way I could get around. And there was :D I managed to find a way in front of the barricade I was just standing at just to make it to another wall of police. Luckily this was closer but by the time I got to the front of that row of police, they started pushing the crowd back and separating us from the protesters. There is even news that they broke into RBS, but from the angle I was standing at, you couldn’t see jack shit. You could just hear a lot of cheering coming from one direction.

Here’s a short clip of just an overview of what was going on… nothing special from my video taking skills =.=

G20 Demonstration, London

 

 

Can you spot the Joker?

 

At one point the police sirens came from one end and the entire crowd shifted their attention to the other side of the road and everyone rushed that way. Me not included, but Tian was there. He saw that a fight had broke out and he was part of it for awhile too!! He quickly ran away though. Check out his photo album in Facebook to see.

There was even helicopter coverage. I’m sure it was news, not police haha.

After that, nothing much happened that was overly exciting there except for the RBS break in, but we didn’t know how to get into there and would probably be blocked off. So we went our separate ways, Tian’s colleague home and us to Leicester Square for lunch which was dim sum :D

After dim sum, we went for my first movie experience in London at Leicester Square Vue. Every Wednesday, Orange (my phone network) offers 2for1 movie and pizza. So me and Tian went to watch Knowing starring Nicholas Cage. I enjoyed the overall plot, but the stereo system in the cinema was deafening. Other than that, the seats were comfy and we managed to smuggle in Sainsbury snacks to enjoy :D

p/s Stemming from Sharon’s idea. I’ve decided to watermark all my pictures too :)

 

Resurrection

I haven’t blogged in ages. Mainly because I just haven’t had the energy. I’ve downloaded this new program called Windows Live Writer, so I’m hoping that it’ll make it easier for me to update regularly.. I’ll try to be more consistent with my updating to keep you guys knowing that I’m still alive. As a journalist student, I think I have to continue blogging to at least keep my English from becoming mang-lished. Especially since I’ve been hanging out with so many Malaysians ever since coming to London. I can feel my English deteriorate.

My course has been going okay. For my online journalism course, as a group we had to run a blog for 2 weeks. I had my experience working with Wordpress. Didn’t like it, at all. I still love you, Blogger. :D If you want to check out the blog go to LondonizeMe. For my course, we also learned about different things online such as rss news feeds, twitter and del.i.cious. So I’ve become a member for all those things, but I’ve only become a fan of Twitter. So I am now a tweeter. Would you like to follow me, if you too are a tweeter like me? I only have a few followers and me following, but its ok, its not like some sort of competition for me. I tweet ‘cause I’m bored.

Its Easter break now, everyone is on holiday. I am in my room watching anime and slowing melting into my chair. I’m such a slob. gah. Just before the holidays started, I finished reading the whole Fruit Basket anime. It was awesome; made me shed many tears. I recommend it to anyone. I read it from MangaFox which provided me with all the free English scanalations. Now I need a new manga to read, but I’m currently watching Vampire Knight Guilty. The vampires are all so hot and gorgeous. But alas, no one can be as hot as my lovely Hakuron. hehe ^^

For Easter, I’m going to do a bit of travelling; even if I have a ton of work to do >.<” This weekend, I’m going up to Peak District with a bunch of Tian Han’s friends. Then the weekend after, I’m going to Amsterdam with the Angel gang. Can’t wait!! The only travelling I’ve done so far is to Nottingham and we didn’t do much sight seeing there. I wish a GISian like Melissa or Clare would be coming with me on these trips though… Its just not the same without them with me. Whenever I was back in Malaysia, I was never allowed to go on trips with the S.R gang… And now I can finally go on a road trip with friends, but it’ll be with the boyfriend and his friends… it’s not the same.

Things I need to do before my holidays end:

1. Story, Sound, Image, Text production piece
2. Media & Society essay
3. Online Journalism log
4. Essential Journalism log

Gah… I need to think of something to do for my production piece. If I start a blog… it has to be centred on a theme… Ideas anyone?

Look what Tian got for St.Patricks day. You had to buy 4 glasses of Guinness to get one hat. I tried a sip of it, it was disgusting :(

Ah well, Happy Easter!! Give me some blog ideas!!

First Time

Long time no hear frm me, eh? LOL

well.. since the last time i updated... alot of stuff has been going on.

I went ice skating for the first time in London. Went with Dion, Chen tze, Melissa, Bonnie, Eliza, Joyce, Sue Ping, Ashwin, and me. It was really fun but i got a HUGE bruise on my knee >.<" The day after we went Westfield. Europe's largest mall. The place is huge. its bigger than the whole One Utama... and its got so many different branded names.



that big chunk in the middle is the aerial view of the place. and its got about 3 floors too.. can u imagine how much of a heaven this would be to a shopaholic!?

the second time i went to westfield was with tian han (my new boyfriend). we were walkin around and this promoter girl invited us to the openin of a new shop- Brandy&Melville. The clothes were rlly nice too. There was drinks served and marshmallows and strawberries dipped in chocolate. and the best part was they were served by hot male models. and at one point one of this male models took off his shirt! FUCKING HOT. OMG. ive nvr been that close to a hot guy shirtless. EVER.. i rlly wanted to take a pic.. but i couldnt sneak it. fuckk i couldnt stop looking. it was so hot. i felt quite bad tho.. cuz my bf was standin rite nxt to me :(

ive been hanging out with too many people not in my uni lately. mainly malaysian. i m no where near getting a british accent. haha.. mayb my manglish will b gettin stronger >.<" fuckk. im goin bak to malaysia for xmas holi. the plan is frm dec 21 to jan 10. so if u want me to get u guys anythin frm uk.. say now!! son's already booked orange chocs frm me. haha. work is piling and my procastination habit is rlly takings its toll.. i hope i dont end up failing this course >.<" i didnt slp at all tuesday nite >.<" and managed to write a 1300 word essay including research in 4 hrs. it was shit. i m goin to die >.<" well..anyways, i'm off to my bf's place. :) thts my mini update. im probably skippin on a lot of things hehe

sue ping, melissa and eliza
air cycling?

House Party at Wui Seng's

On Friday me and melissa met up and went shopping at H&M at Oxford Circus. Right after we finished shopping we went outside and as i was puttin on my jacket, this dude (not british) came up to us and was like "hey ladies, i like your style." wtf.. O.o We quickly walked away haha.

After that, we went to a house party over at edgeware road. it was rlly fun! tons and tons of people there. i got to meet alot of new ppl too!!

tho the ending was a bit.. ngeh.. i think the fun from the rest of the day overshadowed that part. :D there was shisha, mahjong, poker, wii and some pot all throughout the apartment. after my experience on gettin pissed drunk, everytime i smell shisha i get a bit of nausea.. so i avoided that room. instead i played the wii with melissa and some new ppl that i met, COOKING MAMA n Wii Sports! haha its sooo hard >.<"" my arm was so sore. not tht i got to sleep much anyways. so anyways, instead of blabbing away.. here are some pics :D

the guys playing mahjong. in the pic from left to right: Deno, Me, Chris (standing) LoongJie (sitting)



Us sitting around after most of the people had gone home. Me and Melissa



High as hell. Melissa and Me



Yay! Group pic. Left to right: Kumalen, Wui Seng (behind), Melissa, Deno (red), Me

The next day, clare came down from Essex and we went to chinatown for shopping. I've stocked up on instant noodles.. so i won't have to starve.. especially since i'm out of microwave foods and its pouring outside so i cant go out and buy anything >.<" i forgot to get ice cream tho. ok, drifted from topic. haha me and clare went chinatown to shop around. She too stocked up on instant noodles. after that we went to visit melissa at her halls. we hung out at the hall's bar where i discovered my new fav drink; ARCHERS! haha. with coke its rlly nice too. cuz its sooo sweet. yum :D there are pics. but they're all on clare's camera. ok.. im getting a bit hungry. i shall leave you with a picture of what we (me, chen tze, ashwin, joyce, sue ping and melissa) cooked last last week on our cooking day.

Ta Da!!

alone

Its hard to be alone.

Especially when you feel out of place

and the one you want is off limits.

No Memory

Have u ever been SO drunk that you have no idea what the hell you did last night and how the hell you ended up in a strangers bed?

after drinking all these on an empty stomach... welcome to complete memory loss.

ingredients to this concoction are:

a bit of apple shisha

One Malibu Coke


3/4 can of beer
(any beer will do)


THREE and a half cups of JD on the rocks. yum.

and an exciting game of "I never.."

felt like shit the next day and till today i stil hav no memory of what the hell happened +.+
this is the first time ive ever gotten so drunk... EVER. apparently there are videos too (which i dont have) gawd. i m never drinkin tht much again. i dont even rmbr pouring the 3rd glass of JD.
anyways, this all happened saturday nite when i went over to LJ's place with some friends to just chill out since we didnt hav enuf cash to go clubbing. 5 guys and 3 girls. rlly fun. wel.. the part tht i rmbr was rlly fun. haha

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anyways, im missing out on Ministry of Sound London tmr because ive got an early lecture+seminar in the morning and if i go i will definitely KO during class. so.. im not going :(

i also am suppose to b doin research on UK's poverty because World Poverty Day is coming soon, so we're suppose to write a news feature on it. well... as procrastinator, i haven't started. woo~ big surprise.

some of my lectures are quite fun. for our first lecture for Story, Sound, Image, Text (SSIT for short) we watched an episode of The Wire. Its basically to analyze why they make this show this way and how it attracts viewers and stuff. And then for the second lecture, we watched an episode of Friends to analyze TV Series's technique. how AWESOME is that. haha.

Then, for our first lecture in Media and Society, where we learn about influences and effects of Media, we played with LEGO! haha. The guy who thought of the whole idea is our lecturer. David Gauntlett. They even did a news coverage on him!! Go here to read the actual article: http://www.artlab.org.uk/lego-thes.htm

The dude with the glasses? Yea, he's David. My Media and Society lecturer. Coincidentally, one of my SSIT lecturers name is also David. But he's a different David. haha.

bla bla bla. i miss malaysia :(

oh and for those who don't know. Me and Ashwin broke up on the 28th. I guess sometimes even the most beautiful things can fall apart.