GOLD COAST!!!!

Here I come!!!!!!!! wooo hooo!!! Luckly I recovered in time for the trip =) It should be awesome. Can't wait to get on the rides and see the shows. Will blog bout it when I come back and actually have the mood for it.

Holidays

I know this post is long overdue but better late then never right? Finally exams ended last Wednesday. After 2 bloody weeks of waiting. Been having quite a bit of fun since then. I went for Laser Tag last Thursday and it was indeed LEGENDARY. Now I know why Barney loves Laser Tag so much. 12 of us went for laser tag and we split up into several teams and played with some random people as well. Its a definite must go again thing. I never knew there was laser tag in Melbourne. Thanks go to Mr Ow for inviting all of us.

Since then I've been pretty much hanging out at Xiang's place with most of the Ke Wei's, Ah Mai and Wei Jin are down from Adelaide. Been playing a lot of PES as well =p Oh also, I had dinner with Alex, my cousin just now. It was nice seeing him again. I think were meeting up again one more night before he goes back.

I cant wait to go to Gold Coast. Just 5 more days!!!! WOOOOOOT

La Di Da 2

Yet again, I've been neglecting my blog. Sorry for that. Well nothing much has been going on. Exams etc. Nothing major =p I have one more paper left on the 1st. Finally. I am sick and tired of waiting almost 2 frickin' weeks for my last paper to be over. Meh.

I watched Transformers 2 yesterday and it was AWE- wait for it - SOME. And to those people who didnt like it or even hated it, you can just SUCK IT!!!! you probably have no taste in movies and share your views with some knuckleheaded, overly self absorbed, brainless movie critics. Who only know how to bash great films and their makers such as Michael Bay in favor of films with generally do mediocre or bomb at the box office.

Well that rant aside, I dont really have anything else to say. So.... Ta' till the next time I blog again. Whenever that migh tbe.

La Di Da

As usual, sorry for the lack of updates. I've been super lazy to blog. Well not much has happened since the last post. Couple of people's birthdays, watched a couple of movies, mid sems, assignments. The usual. Oh I also turned 21. Meh, no biggie.

Exam timetable this time is a bit screwed up. I have Consumer Economics on June 12th, Commercial Banking on 15th, AUDITING 17th and Monetary Theory on July 1st =.= The most panzy subject for last. Bleh.

I'm going to watch Star Trek tomorrow. Maybe with Tommy. Hope its good.

The Day I Will Never Forget

2nd of February 2009, is a day that I will never forget. It was the day that I visited Anfield, home ground for the Liverpool Football Club. The train ride to Liverpool from London took about 2 and a half hours. It was quite boring really. I did see some animals on the country side though. Horses, dogs and what I think were sheep.

I arrived at the stadium quite early and had some time to kill before the tour started. So I decided to walk about a little and take some pics.

The one and only, The Kop end from the outside


The statue of Mr.Shankly outside the club shop


The entrance to the club shop and museum

After walking around for a bit it was time for the tour. So I headed back to the meeting point. The tour guide that I got was a guy who was pretty funny and the gal that was his assistant was quite cute =)




Inside the locker room












I spent too much time in the locker room so I coudlnt take pictures of the hallway where they do the interviews in. Also, sadly I couldnt get a nice picture of the legendary 'This Is Anfield" sign.


This is the best one I could take. Pity though. At least I got to take it =)


The Anfield Road Stand


The board which shows the scores


The Centenary Stand. The light thingies that are on the pitch help the grass grow. Anfield is one of the rare few stadiums that actually grows the grass on the pitch and not have them laid on.


THE KOP END


The seat that the end is the seat that Phil Scolari sat on the day before


I'm sitting where the Big Boss usually sits =)

After the stadium tour, I went to the musuem to see some memorabilia.


Kevin Keegan's boots for the 76-77 season
















Me in between the 2nd & 3rd European cup




No.4


No.3


No.2


No.1


No.5!!!!!




David Fairclough's first pair of boots


One of the match balls used in the 2005 Champion's League final


The boots that Alonso used during the '05 CL final


Jamie Carragher's medals




I spent almost 2 hours in the museum and took quite a bit of pics. I didnt post all of em up though. After that my batteries were almost flat. Luckly there was still abit left because I have yet to take a pic of the Hillsborough Memorial & the Shankly gates.


Rest in peace 96

The Shankly Gates


This is a trip that I will never forget for the rest of my life. I feel very fortunate that I could visit Anfield. By far it was one of the happiest days of my life.


YNWA

England Trip

Sorry for the delay in posting up about my London trip. When you see how long it is you will understand that I was a tad bit lazy in doing this. On a side note, this will be a super duper long post. Probably my longest post ever. There are about a 100 odd pics in this one. So warning for people will low cap. This will take up a lot of it. Also, I wont be posting about my Liverpool trip in this one. It deserves a post of its own. Which shall be up in due time.

London had its worse snowfall in like 20 years for the first couple of days I was there. Sadly I didnt take any pics because I thought it would snow some more but it didnt. Oh well.

I decided to do some of the typical tourist stuff because I havent been to London before. So I went to the Palace Of Buckingham. Coincidentally it was on one of the days that they were changing the guard. I tried to get a better look but couldnt because there was shit load of people there.




The first musical I saw while I was in London was The Lion King. It was a really good musical. While the actors & actresses were good but nothing to shout about, the sets, costumes and props were on a whole other level. It was just AHmazing. Of the 4 musicals I saw, this one had the best set, props and costumes by far. To those who have the chance to watch The Lion King, please do. Btw Rafiki stole the show for me.








I also went to Madam Tussad's. Which was quite cool because you get to see some really life like wax figures of celebrities.




One of my favourite actors








The funny thing is I cant even cycle =p


I am the greatest!!




The world's smartest man and....... Stephen Hawking 0=)


One of if not the greatest band of all time




Wacko Jacko!


My personal fav wax figure in the entire museum. Live On Freddie


The legendary stoner






I have a dream......






This dude proves that short people can do great things! Which is what I am hoping would happen to me. Minus the horrible death part


I expected the Fuhrer to be taller some how.







The wax head was made from Marie Antoinette's death mask (supposedly)


The very guillotine that was used to lop the lady's head off (once again supposedly)


Keys to the legendary French prison The Bastille


One of the great lady actresses of our age. Who incidentally was in a play of some kind in London but I cant seem to remember the name of that play.


The name's Neo, Neo Wykeith


The motorcycle that Daniel Craig was using in Quantum Of Solace.




The ever sexy Marilyn Monroe




The 2nd play that I saw was Mamma Mia! I wanted to catch the KL production but unfortunately I wasnt able to get tickets in time. So I took the opportunity to watch the London production instead. The set wasnt much to shout about but the way that they used the props and sets were simple yet innovative. It was definitely a very enjoyable musical. There's something wrong with you if you do not enjoy ABBA music. This is another must catch musical.




Somewhere in the crowd there's you!






Next up was Wicked. Which was by far my favourite musical of all. Kerry Ellis who plays Elphaba is simply AHmazing. Of all the musicals I watched while I was in London, Kerry Ellis is the best actress that I had the pleasure of seeing perform. Wicked certainly puts a twist in the story of The Wizard of Oz. It makes one think a little too.








The pics I took of the theater during the day wasn't so nice. So when I was walking by the theater one night I decided to take more pics of it because it simply looked better at night.


I also managed to sneak a picture of the stage.


Next up is the Tower of London. We decided to walk there so we could see more things on the way. Also, I can now say that I walked across Tower Bridge =)






The River Thames






*London Bridge is falling down, falling down....* I always thought this was London Bridge. I never knew that this was called Tower Bridge and that London Bridge is well...... bridges in London.


The Tower of London was pretty cool. There was a lot of nice things to see. The guy who was bringing us around the place was pretty cool. Made a lot of jokes. Funny fellow. He told us some stories about the place. It has a very long and bloody history. Quite cool really =p


One of the most interesting things in the place is one of the most famous gates in the world.


Traitors' Gate. This is the gate where prisoners of the Tower are brought through. Anne Boleyn herself went through these gates all those centuries ago.


The White Tower, which is in the center of the Tower of London. This is the place where some of the Kings of old used to stay. First of whom was King William the 1st. He was the one who ordered the keep to be built.


The Jewel House, where the Crown Jewels of UK are kept. Pictures werent allowed inside. So, I couldnt take any.


A closer shot of the House


There was some medieval equipment on display inside the White Tower. I think these were the lances that the horseback knights used to use.





Kiddie armor


Not so Kiddie Armor. I think they giant armor stood at about 6ft 8inches




The Chapel Royal of Saint Peter ad Vincula. The church where the body of Anne Boleyn is buried. The circular thingy towards the bottom of the picture is the spot where she got beheaded.


I took an outside pic of the Tower but I'm not sure which side this is.


Also, I took a night pic of the Tower Bridge, which looks much nicer at night.


There was also quite a bit of time to kill after that. So we went to Ripley's.




A very beautifully carved wooden cathedral clock.






Believe it or not there is a million Swarovski diamonds on this Mini Cooper.


Ancient Giant Shark Teeth


Believe it or not this wooden carving of an eagle was made out of only one piece of wood.


A carving of a dragon and some horses. I think its made out of marble. Not sure.






Believe it or not this miniature version of the Tower of London is made out of only matchsticks.






The 4th musical that I saw was We Will Rock You. It was the one that I was most looking forward to. I mean who wouldnt look forward to a musical based on Queen songs man?




However, to be completely honest I didnt think the actor who played Galileo and the actress who played Scaramouche were that good. I preferred the actor who played Brit and the actress who played Meat. Incidentally Kerry Ellis originated the role of Meat in 2002.


I went on one of those bus tours around the city. I sat on the top deck. It was open topped. Twas' a bit nippy. Some of the places that we saw were where Magret Thatcher lives, where most of the embassies are, the area where Roger Moore lives, where Sean Connery used to own a house.


The Eye of London


The house of Parliament


Big Ben


A nice 2 for 1 shot of Big Ben and the Eye of London


The Tower Bridge and the River Thames


Hamleys, the oldest toy store in the world at an anciently 249 years of age.


I couldnt resist taking a pic of the Lego Storm Trooper inside the store =p


The first Hard Rock Cafe in the world. Started in no small part thanks to Eric Clapton.


I went to the Covent Garden market before heading to Heathrow on my last day. I had nothing better to do and have yet to check out the place.




Sis told me to check out this shop which sells nice cookies.




I cant remember all 3 of the flavours that I tried but I remembered that 1 of them is oatmeal and raisins and the other peanutbutter.

All in all I quite enjoyed the trip. Especially since I got to go to Anfield (post will be up soon..... hopefully). However I did stay in London abit too long because the trip to Ireland & Scotland got cancelled. I wanted to go to places like Oxford, Bath, Cambridge, Stonehedge & etc but thanks to a certain someone I wasnt able to. Oh also, thanks to Junny for letting me bunk in his place for a few days and for saving me from the dodgy ass hostel.

Back In Melb

Back in the land down under. Flying in Air Asia was okay. Not that bad actually. Only that the seats were a weeee bit small. A bit uncomfortable for people like myself. Touched down at Tulamarine at bout 12.30. Only got to the girls' place near to 2. Baggage claim took ages to get through. When I arrived at their place we chit chated for a while and I passed them the stuff I got for them. Slept at bout 3+.

Unpacking took a suprisingly fast time but that was only the easy part. I have a lot of spring cleaning to do at home and that would not be fun AT ALL.