Uni-6-disaster week 1 & 2 report

It has been slightly more than two weeks since I took my first step on Glasgow soil. The journey from KL to Dubai to Glasgow was quite a torture. The flight from KL to Dubai gave me a claustrophobic feeling since it was a 2am flight and everything was dark in the cabin throughout the whole flight. I forced myself not to sleep by watching movies, TV shows and listening to music.

The transit in Dubai was another weird experience. Dubai is a very very hot and dry country that values water more than oil. That latter statement means that I was dehydrated for the 3 hours transit time, but fortunately or unfortunately due to the @#$%^ delay, we were given a bottle of water and some snacks.

After another 7 hours and 45 minutes of non-stop food from Emirates, we finally reached the destination.

Glasgow Airport

Then we were brought to our halls (that's what they call hostels here) to settle down and the university also prepared a light refreshment for us *which I didn't eat bcos too full from airplane food*. My first impression of my room was *why is it a triangle?*.

The shape of the room was not the worst part, the living room which is shared with our neighbor smelled like a rubbish dump. Just when I was about to vacuum my rooms dirty carpet flooring, the vacuum cleaner gave out the same rubbish dump stench too!!! What else can go wrong in this tenement? Somehow I managed to settle and survived till today.

Glasgow is very different from KL... duh! The currency difference released the "x5 multiplication calculator" every time I see a price tag. Despite the *£1 is RM4.97*, lots of stuff are actually cheaper here than they are in KL. Nevertheless, I still feel a little guilty for being slightly more extravagant than I was in KL.

I'm starting to love Scottish food

Scottish Summer daylight *even at 9.25pm*

Glasgow architechture

the cooking?

but starting to worry about my hair... hahaha!

and also worry about Sem6

It was a nice experience anyway. I just hope I can survive this short and unpleasant semester so that I can enjoy my holidays in Autumn.

lalanandaFRY

23/6/11

Uni-6-disaster on the way #4

Eager (6 points)

Excited (17 points)

Exhilarating (23 points)

46 points is the score for the anticipation I'm having now using Scrabble scoring without premium squares. I've been playing a lot of online Scrabble lately (after watching all 8 seasons of 2 1/2 Men) to make my brain reboot after being dormant for the past few months.

Guess what? I'm going to the place where these people were born:

Clockwise: Gerard Butler, Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Robert Carlyle, Dougray Scott, Shirley Manson, James McAvoy, Gordon Ramsay, Craig Ferguson, KT Tunstall, Franz Ferdinand, Tilda Swinton, Ewan McGregor, Susan Boyle.

I think I'm feeling super "high" now...

The final week before I leave NasiLemak-land is actually giving me mixed feelings. For a person who has not been away from his family for more than 10 days, I'm taking a great leap this time. I'm starting to worry about the probability that my brain isn't ready for a new semester in addition to the new unfamiliar environment I've to live in without the comfort and warmth of my parents. *I admit I'm a bit of a momma's boy* Hopefully the next 3 semesters will go by swiftly with a kilt-convo... :D

CRAP!?!

lalanandaFRY
4/6/11

Uni-6-disaster on the way #3

Now it is down to 11 days and almost everything is ready.

The last and most important thing to do now is to pack my stuff. It feels like moving from my old house again, but this time with only 3 new bags and a bag pack instead of boxes of old stuff. By the way, did you notice that all are BLACK? Yup! As a colourblind fellow, black and white are the safest colour. So now you understand why this blog is grey and most art made by me are mono-chromatic 'looks a lot like abstract art right?'.

This is what I meant by *colour disaster*.

I can't wait to lose all those calories from my slightly puffier tummy from the recent excessive consumption of Malaysian cuisine, I heard many people got thinner there.

Last week my family organized a house Dana, the first since we moved to our current abode. Memories of previous house Dana are quite faint since the last one was around 10 years ago. To be completely honest, it wasn't very 'fun', but somehow the whole exercise was satisfying.

I also got to invite my friends from IMUBS to join this joyous occasion. The best part of the event was the chance to meet so many relatives and family friends, especially those I've not met for so many years.

Recently I have been obsessed with orchestrated soundtracks and orchestrated songs. Listening to powerful songs like Michael Jackson's Thriller performed by the London Symphony Orchestra through my "cheap" headphone in a slightly higher volume is still very enjoyable. Why not have a try?

lalanandaFRY
29/5/11

Uni-6-disaster on the way #2

This waiting period is feeling so
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG......
that it is unbearable!

I'm starting to lose some of my sense of humour watching all the varieties of comedy everyday.
This is a list of shows I've been watching throughout my holiday so far:

1. 海派甜心
Watched it because Show Luo is in it.

2. How I Met Your Mother
Always wanted to watch but didn't have the patience *seriously who is the mother?*, luckily my father isn't as long winded as T-Moz "and doesn't have the voice of Bob Saget".

3. Family Guy
Totally love all those pop references. I couldn't stop laughing while watching Blue Harvest, Something Something Something Dark Side and It's A Trap! as a Star Wars fan.

4. Two And A Half Men
Charlie Sheen is being replaced by Ashton Kutcher? It just isn't the same anymore.

5. The Big Bang Theory (again)
This was my staple comedy during the previous semester break and now I'm just following new episodes.

Initially I had that Legen-wait for it-dary feeling -quote Barney Stinson

But then boredom brought my sense of humour back in time, somehow I ended up in the '80s with The Cosby Show.

the only comedy without dirty jokes

Now I understand why William 'Bill' Cosby Jr. is a legend in the comedy world, this show is and will never lose its awesome-ness. After so many seasons, the show is still the best African-American comedy show I have ever watched (I'm not a racist, I just don't quite understand other AfroUSA jokes).

Before leaving home for my distant "temp. home", my parents decided to have a overhaul for my house. In addition to the 'makeover, my "temporary relocation to a foreign land"also involves complicated Visa application procedures and wardrobe transfer (into a luggage bag).
I have been hearing suggestions like the one below:
Friends: Are you sure you don't want to bring a rice cooker?
Me: I'm prepared to eat lots of potatoes and pastas.
Friends: Later you might miss eating rice.
Me: It's not like I'm going there forever mah!
Friends: ...... =_="
With only 22 days to go, I'm starting to worry about the Visa, airplane ticket, luggage, and travel cash. I've also used Google Maps and Google Earth to explore Glasgow virtually and surprising myself with the online prices of groceries from Tesco and Sainsbury.

Gotta start thinking in British Pounds!

Today is the 2555th tri-sacred day to Buddhists around the World, so I would like to wish everyone

lalanandaFRY
17/5/11

Uni-6-disaster on the way

Since the start of standard 1 when I was 7 years old, I've not had a vacation longer than 2 months. Holidays seemed fun only after months of studying, but the fun slowly exhausts, slowly switching to Stand By. Sometimes I wonder how other students wait for lower6 to start and how they wait for university placement after STPM...

38 days since EOS

18 days since Hospital placement

52 days to Fly-day

Total of 2 months 11 days of slacking...

Stand By is synonymous to Lazy Strike to me, and Lazy Strike is synonymous to Drama Crazy. I watched How I Met Your Mother's 132 episodes in 4 days! That beats my previous record of 溏心風暴's 40 episodes in 3 days! To be honest, I'm not proud of this... :P

Four months ago, I bought an Asus notebook which was so screwed up that it visited the hospital (repair centre) 3 times so far. If you think that was bad, now their replacing mine with another, maybe mine was *screwed beyond repair*? That could be my bad luck or Asus quality may have dropped, who knows? Hopefully the new one would be ok *touch wood*!

the screwed up A52JC

their replacing with N53SV

**Update 18/4/11**

Just realised I won 2 Show Luo's Encore 3D Concert tickets but missed it already!!!

GERAM!!!

That's all for now. I'll update when something interesting come up!

lalanandaFRY

17/4/2011