Life goes on… in Amsterdam!

Day 6 (05.08.2008)
Jogging! Yes, Bee Hwa and I went jogging that morning, healthy ler, hahaha… We went to visit her ‘Si Fu’ (master) in front of the faculty where the APYers studies. His name is Sir Henry Cotton, leng chai or not?  :p

Then from there we jogged to Albert Dock. Took some pictures too along the way… like 2 silly ladies because it was an early Sunday morning and we did not see many people on the street, except for some guys who looked at us strangely (they were picking up rubbish from the streets, working for the Liverpool City Council I guess).
Ok time for some pictures…

We all live in a yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine… :p
Ohhhhh, Friendster just annouced this to me:

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Well, as it seems I won’t be able to upload anymore pictures here. Too bad… Well I will just put up the pictures at my photo gallery then…
After jogging we went to the city together, was in the Liverpool FC store, and then went to the Heritage Market with Michelle too. In the evening I cooked spaghetti for them. Ok I am going to skip the rest of Day 6, I want to write about day 7!

Day 7 (06.08.2008)
This is one of the happiest day because all those APYers who were in London came back at night, and it was Chee Chong’s birthday too! So it was like a big gathering for us, with nice food and nice alcohol and nice people in a nice place at a nice time! We played cards, and mahjong (but not me la), chatted, take funny photos and it was really a warm and happy time together. So much laughter and energy! Hmmmm, but strangely nobody got drunk, the Amarula was not strong enough to get anyone drunk ehhh? :p Yet the sad thing was, it was also my last night together with these 9 people in Liverpool. Yang Kuan and Yih Yun were in my room till almost 3a.m. Really appreicate that… you both know what I mean ya, what happened to the door and all, hahaha…
I have no idea when will be our next gathering together. Maybe some of you would like to visit me in Germany? Or maybe like what Gilbert said, we might meet again on my wedding celebration in Kuantan next year? Who knows what tomorrow brings? Whatever it is, I want to wish you all a happy stay in Liverpool, enjoy yourselves yet do well in your studies too. Whether you are planning to stay in UK or going back to Malaysia,  I wish you all the best in whatever you do. Keep in touch ok? Take care my friends! Hugs!

Day 5 (04.08.2008)
It was an ordinary day, Bee Hwa, Michelle and I had a long chat about some very interesting topics (which is not too appropriate to be revealed here :p) in the kitchen after breakfast. Had lunch with Yee Chen and Sing Ko in a bar, the food tasted good and the toilet, I must write about the toilet because it was ‘introduced’ to me by Yee Chen, hahaha… some pictures…

Mixed steaks with chips

Panini bread with chicken and bacon, plus chips

Burger and chips…
If you recognise one thing, the food that we ordered are served with chips, because…because… the British likes to eat chips, hahaha… it is true! They can even eat hmmm….. what do u call a burger with the bun and chips in between, but without the beef patty??

The toilet, or restroom, or the ladies/gents… whatever you would like to call it… this one looks nice ya? It looks kind of like a disco to me…

Ok, then after lunch I met up with Michelle, we went shopping for food, because I will be cooking dinner (actually I thought I don’t have to cook one ler… aiyo mana tau, kena masak di Liverpool juga, hahaha). So I decided to cook the most easy to prepare food - spaghetti carbonara (Rebecca style :p). We bought the ingredients and some other stuffs, then headed back to Marybone… In the kitchen, we found out that Chia Shing already cooking chicken soup for dinner, hehehe… So my spaghetti was postponed to the next day, yeah!
To cut the long story short, here are some pictures of the nice dishes Chia Shing prepared.

Chicken with mushrooms

Chicken herbal soup

Some dunno-what-melon with chicken floss… I really have no idea what that good tasting melon is called… anyone has an idea?? It looks a bit like a guava with light green skin colour, inside it is white and quite soft, doesn’t really taste much…

Hungry, but take a photo first ya…

After dinner we went for a stroll, to Albert Dock. A nice and rather famous dock in Liverpool where the Beatles Story is located. Since it was already quite dark by the time we reach there, I didn’t take many pictures that night… a bit moody too, probably it was because I have not seen Vik for 4 days! Yet it was fun to meet this guy, Ah Tan, a student from TARC who studies in JMU too, he is really a joker with a great sense of humour, ahhaha…

Ah Tan is wearing a yellow shirt, the other one who appeared funnier in this picture is Chun Wei…

The Royal Liver Building, with the famous Liver birds perched on top.

Liverpool waterfront, along the River Mersey… you can see the Cunard building behind…

The Merseyside Maritime Museum… I need a tripod ler…

The Albert Dock… want to know more, click here: Albert Dock, Liverpool

It was an ordinary day, with lots of sharing, I like it. Ok, that’s all for Day 5. Stay ‘tuned’ ya… to be continued…

Ok, where was I… hmmm, I’ve finished with Day 3, so Day 4 now… Oh yes, our trip to North Wales, cool one! :p
Day 4 (03.08.2008)
We rented a car from Arnold Clark, and drove all the way from Liverpool to North Wales and back (covering more than 250 miles). The five of us, Bee Hwa, Michelle, Dorcas, Chia Shing and I, we’ve been to Bala Lake (’Llyn Tegid’ in Welsh), entering the Snowdonia to the Betws-y-Coed (please do not ask me how to pronounce this word), then heading north towards Caernarfon, and north again towards Conwy, before we decided to call it a day and drove back to Liverpool. Some pictures of the nice places we have visited…

renting the car…

I was the driver that day :p (nice pic, Bee Hwa!)

Bala lake in Wales…

Me at Bala lake.

Bee Hwa and I, look at our belts, hehehe… we bought together from GAP the day before… :p
We actually had a picnic there at the lake side, but the pictures are not in my camera la…

At Swallow Falls, Betws-y-Coed, North Wales.

With Dorcas…

Souvenir shop in Betws-y-Coed…

That’s Paul in the middle of so many leng lui… hahaha, he was so kind to let us into the castle even when it was shortly passed the closing hours :p - this is called ‘girl power’, hahahhaa…

Happy! Being with these girls made me feel so young!

Posing with Chia Shing outside of the Caernarfon castle…

With Michelle outside of the floating restaurant where we had our dinner…

The seafood pie we ordered, was quite nice…

On the way to Conwy Bay…

At the Conwy Marina…

The Conwy Castle, very impressive…

Information board of Conwy valley…

Windy, but we were happy…

So that was it. Conwy was the last place we visited before we headed back to Liverpool. It was a really fun trip, the girls really made me feel younger and more energetic. I will definitely keep this sweet memory with me, thank you girls! Love you all and hugs!

To be continued…

DCLers or APYers, whichever it is, I am sure you know what I mean if you are one of them. I had a really great time being with all of you, even though I met some of you for only less than 24 hours, but I was happy (still am, and will be in the future, thinking back of the joyous moment we shared). Really appreciate the time, the hospitality and not to forget the great food (including the plain rice :p), I am really grateful to have met you all in Liverpool! This blog is dedicated especially for you all, and most especially to Miss Leong Bee Hwa, hahaha…

Day 1 (31.07.2008)
My flight arrived very on time at the Manchester Airport, I texted Yee Chen, told her I will be seeing her soon, excited! Then hor, the bus which I am supposed to take to Liverpool was about 5 minutes late, but luckily still managed to reach Liverpool on time. Yee Chen picked me up with her cool blue car, she still looks more or less the same like how I remember her in my memory, but later I recognised she got a bit thinner than before (but still very good body shape, hehehe). She brought me back to her place, showed me my room, taught me how to played Mahjong (hahahaha), and then went shopping for grocery. After that we went to watch Transformers with her laogong too. After the movie we had dinner at Stanley, a casino fulled of Chinese! The food was so so tasty… yummie…

Vege, fish and prawns (another dish - 3 burn? ’sam siu’, came later, and the soup was at the other side…). That was the best chinese food (eat out) which I ever had ever since I came back here in April. Thank you Yee Chen and Sing Ko!

Day 2 (01.08.2008)
Yee Chen has to work the following days, so I’ve decided to move to Marybone, where my juniors (cum ex-students) stay, as the place is much closer to the city. So I watched Yee Chen worked in her shop in the morning, and then after lunch she droped me to Marybone. It was really nice of her

The first person I met (and waited) at Marybone was Bee Hwa. She forgot to bring her mobile phone with her la… ahahha… anyway, I was really happy to see her (because she owes me a sandwich, hahahaha, kidding). After settling down, we went out to the city because I wanted to go shopping, scared not enough clothes to wear in the following days, kesiannya… As the shops closed at 4p.m. (except for Thursday I think), so we didn’t have enough time la, take jadi to buy anything… But the happy part was, Michelle cooked me dinner that night! Here are some pictures…

funny ler…

lettuce and carrot (Michelle cut the carrot extra thin because we both don’t like the taste of thick carrot :p)

ginger chicken, taste good!

tom yam with fish, yummy!

potato and ham, tasty too…
It was really fun to see Michelle and bee Hwa preparing dinner, as I have been doing the cooking here until I got so ’sien’ sometimes :p

Day 3 (02.08.2008)
We wanted to rent a car and travel somewhere that morning, but no more cars were available for us that day. So we changed our plan and go for SHOPPING at Cheshire Oaks Outlet Park. Actually I was the one who wanted to shop, but after about an hour walking around, Bee Hwa and Michelle both bought something for themselves already, and I was still empty handed ler… tension, hahaha… In the end, we all got something! I bought a pair of boots from Clarks, a belt and short pants from GAP, a jacket from MEXX and a tie for Vik from Marks and Spencer. Didn’t really buy much because I wanted to wait and shop at Primark in London (thanks to Cheryl’s tip).

with Bee Hwa, posing with our shopping bags, hehehe…

after some hours of shopping, we were hungry and had fish and chips as our dinner.

Ok, time for me to go to sleep now, to be continued tomorrow…