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Huhuhu... Still super lazy to blog at the moment... Why ah why ah? Could I have accidentally caught infection that causes laziness from Czech or Germany??? Arh.. Maybe I should start off with a post with many many pictures since "a picture paints a thousand words", as the saying goes. Kaka... =P

So, me and housemates Eng Su Ka, Ah Xin and Ganas Voon went to attend the Merchant City Festival going on near our campus yesterday. Hmm... Basically, there was nothing much to see. However, there was this French market selling real loads of tempting foods + snacks!!! Oooh ooh... I bought 2.80 pounds worth of super duper chun smoked cashews!! *Finished them all within 2 days time* XP Fancy spending RM20 on nuts alone.. I must be nuts!!!!! XD

EJ, something like this is only fit to be called a "nice graffiti" lo...
Unlike those on Berlin Wall... Erm... (-_-")

Super cute baby statue!!~ =)
and Hee Sheong, this is for you! "Ang moh baby got bigger meh??" XD

Then the four of us couldn't resist the call of a traditional French food known as Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes and took out 4.50 pounds to give it a try. Oosh!!~ It was damn nice la!! The chicken somemore got grilled satay fragrance leh!! Yum... ^^

Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes and our "tam chiak" look XD

Chicken A'la Provencale with New Potatoes close up! Yum~
Spot the chicken wing we purposely "digged up" from beneath the potatoes!

A postcard shot! Who dares to say Glasgow is not beautiful? *no idea what's this building though*

We found this bar known as Da Gate while exploring around and decided to have our dinner there. Talking about giam-siap-ness, we barged into the bar so that we would be able to place our orders before 7p.m. when the promotion of 2 tapas for the price of 6.95 pounds would end. Keke.. The ambience was surprisingly good! Very suitable for dating or small group gathering. The waitresses were all super friendly, too! We were brought to a corner meant for dining, known as Secret Garden. Apparently Da Gate was "the gate leading to the secret garden"!! How romantic and artistic that idea was!! =)

Was expecting some Italiano cuisine when I found out that they were actually expert in Asia Pacific foods! What a surprise!! Haha.. The service was good. It seriously did not look like a place where u could have a decent meal with just 6.95 pounds only! Anyway, we quickly placed our orders at 6:58p.m. to be eligible for the offer. Cheapo!! But who cares??? XD

Housemates!! =)

Posing before the foods arrived. Lalala~ XD

Soon the foods arrived. And now, be prepared to get ur saliva drooling all over the place. Woo hoo hoo...

Prawn Piri-piri Tapas

Sweet and Sour Fish Tapas

King Prawn Tempura Tapas

Lamb Meat Balls Tapas

Crab Meat and Potato Fritters Tapas

Needless to say, the food was awesome!!! Oosh!! Those meant to be spicy one were really spicy. Much more spicy than ang moh can tahan. Most importantly, the dishes were made from seafoods!!! SEAFOODS!!!!!~~~ Real fresh seafoods!!!!! Can feel the prawns "doink doink" in my mouth somemore! The chef didn't overcook them. Thumbs up!! Felt as if I was swimming in the deep cooling sea with the soothing sea breeze blowing on my face... Like shooting MTV like that.... Aaahh.... XD Anyway, that was my first time getting the taste of fresh prawn in Glasgow le... Sob sob.. Why must seafoods be so expensive here??? T_T

And, the final shot of the day... Tada!!!~~

The building right opposite Da Gate. A church maybe..

Nice leh? Glasgow's night view also not bad ma, right? =P

Aaahh... What a satisfying outing... Am so lucky and blessed... =)

tErIMa k@SiH LuYI~~ =D

So, on the 23rd of August 2007, Lu Yi treated her housemates and I dinner to compensate for abandoning us by getting exempted from PP3 Degree Exam. Who asked her to be the one saying "exempted liao must belanja ya!!" out loud during Hee Sheong's birthday celebration neh? Kekeke.. XD Eh, don't u dare to say that we bullied her lo!! Choosing between "getting exempted and belanja" or "not being exempted but having free foods to eat", the choice is obvious lor isn't it?!! DUH!!~~ PP3 is damn freaking hard to pass le!! XP

So, 5 of us headed to Ah Fhern's so-called "Whatever-Hang-Out Place", i.e. Campus East, which is just 5 minutes walk away from our hostel, armed with 4 booklets of vouchers, with Lu Yi "gi gi gut gut" shouting, "Eh, really want Campus East meh? So many vouchers.. If I dun get to pay for anything tonight, I will feel very bu shuang de leh..." Ah cheh, and she thought we were going to let her off so easily??? Ngek ngek ngek... By the way, these 4 housemates naik miang and decided to dress up nicely for the night.. Told me the theme of the night was 露, i.e. showing as much flesh as possible somemore.. Tsk tsk tsk... So all of them were in skirts that night, while I had to wear singlet with short pants as a consequence of not bringing any skirt over to UK.. XD

Voucher is simply the best invention on Earth, man!! By making full use of it, Lu Yi only had to fork out 12++ pounds for the drinks and foods which were enough send us bloating all night long.. The foods consisted of 2 super big pizzas, 1 plate of Rocky Mountain Chicken (chicken breast with bacon and cheese topping), and 1 Spicy Chicken Tortillas.. Yum Yum.. Not bad!! Quite tasty in fact!! Keke... Wern had a hard time though, because all dishes also contained her "favourite" food, i.e. cheese!! Haha.. What a waste.. It was H-E-A-V-E-N to us on the other hand le. The more cheesy the merrier!!! Mua hahaha.. Well, in case u wonder why we didn't take any photo of the foods, our stomachs were growling like crazy by the time the foods arrived. Kakaka.. =P

After the sumptuous meal, we were simply too lazy to move so we continued chit-chatting. I guess it must be due to Yi Jie's super seductive plunging neckline that an Asian-looking stranger took the opportunity to approach us when Qristine's camera fell onto the floor as she shifted in her seat. Qristine and Yi Jie were the only two he could see from his angle and according to Qristine later on, he had been staring at us for quite some time already.. Hmm.. But I think he seriously needs to brush up his pick-up lines..

"Hey, what happened? I heard a huge crack from my place. Was it your chair? Haiyo.. Too fat already la.. Time to go on diet lo.." (-_-") *all of us went speechless immediately*

Then, leaving Qristine out, he started guessing our age, saying that me, Lu Yi and Khang Wern looked like 小妹妹 (little gal) but Yi Jie looked like a research student. Lu Yi felt so "Ouch!" when he said she was only of the age of a Primary 6 student. Then he brought his beer over, sitting down next to me without even asking for permission, and started talking about Taiwan political stuffs with his eyes fixed on Yi Jie.. Apparently, he thought we were from Taiwan.. We could only give him a nervous laugh and throw him the you-are-not-welcome-here look. He didnt seem to get the signal, though.. His pi li pa la of "国民党... 民进党... 共产党..." whatsoever stuffs went on.. He assured us that he meant no harm and introduced himself as a Neurologist working on acute stroke in the Royal Infirmary and then showed us his name card as an evidence, but none of us took his words for real.

When he finally realized that we weren't, by any chance, interested in whatever he was talking about, he decided that he should switch to talk about the current pop idols and touched my upper arm as he did so!! Lucky him.. for he was in time to take his hand off before I gave him a Taekwondo back elbow shot on the stomach. Celaka betul... At this point, Qristine saved the world by voicing out to him that we were "in a rush of time" and so had to leave immediately. He seemed reluctant to let us go at first, for he didnt even move his butt a single inch following that. However, he had no choice but to give way when all of us stood up and started moving outwards. Once we were out of the bar, we walked all the way back to JBC at full speed while at the same time kept looking backwards, making sure that he wasn't tailing us behind..

And when we were finally back to the familiar surrounding of JBC once more, aaahh... who cares about some psycho neurologist freak from Hong Kong anymore? It's camwhore session!! Lalala~~ =P

Huhuhu.. Come come.. let jie jie touch touch... XD

Set up!!! It's me looking the fattest again!! Grr...

Look at Yi Jie's plunging neckline!! WoOHOo~~ No wonder le... XD

Last but not least,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE TREAT, LU YI!!!!! *even though we were the one who threatened u to belanja in the first place*

CONGRATULATIONS FOR NOT HAVING TO SEE AUNTY ANNE ANYMORE!!!!!
MUACKS!!!~~ ^^

ScOtTisH "R@mLy bUrgER"~

Ooh.. we just can't get enough of Ramly burger, can we? Not even when we are a few thousands miles away from Malaysia and find ourselves overnumber by the caucasians.

Me and Chua Ah Ming had a taste of the Scottish "Ramly burger" at a road-side stall/van known as The Vineyard (in case u are wondering, no, they dun sell any wine or grape or whatsoever things to do with a vineyard, except for some bottled fruit juice which we weren't char siew enough to try) during one of our first few sesat attempts in exploring the city centre of Glasgow. As quoted by ah ming, "the price is the same ma, just that one is in ringgit while the other one is in pound..." XP Hmm.. A big bite of scalding-hot-super-sinful-cheese-oozing-out-burger on a cold gloomy drizzling day in Scotland... Ooh... Is there a need for me to further elaborate the bahagia-ness anymore? XD

So last Saturday, me and ah ming got a sudden unexplicable crave (no, in case u are wondering again, we are two gorgeous gals who are still single and available and we are definitely not pregnant) over this "Ramly burger" so much so that we were willing to walk all the way there, not hindered by the fact that it's in a totally opposite direction to that of our shopping destination of the day, i.e. the Buchanan Street. We finally got the burger in our hands and after comforting ourselves that even if we end up having food poisoning due to handling of our burgers by the waitress who sneezed and coughed into her hands and merely wiping them with a piece of tissue after that Royal Infirmary was just across the road, we put the burgers into our mouth, anticipating the chemistry to happen once again...

"Arhm..... munch munch..."

The burger turned out to be slightly cold, and the cheese was falling apart, and apparently the sneezing waitress forgot to add ketchup and mustard (oh ya, and in case u are wondering why I didnt get chili sauce instead, here in Scotland, if u were to ask for chili sauce to go with ur burger, u would most probably end up getting a "Har? Which planet do u come from?" look from the attendant. I kena once before in McDonald. Ouch!!) into my burger... Chua Ah Ming happily said, "yong ge man tai" and was in time to run away before I turned into HANNIBAL... XD Anyway, what a disappointment lor!!! Sigh... what to do? It was a different cook ma... Uncle Ramly was most probably resting at home when we ingested his daughter's bacteria-loaded burger... Yeeeeewww... (>_<")

Still, we finished the burgers within 5 minutes time, although we weren't satisfied at all... Hey, it cost us 1.50 pounds each, ok? Try converting that into ringgit and see how many biji Ramly burger u can get la.. Well... Royal Infirmary didnt have 2 new patients being admitted that day, but Buchanan Street was visited by 2 Malaysia jakuns who swore to catch Uncle Ramly in The Vineyard when they feel like char-siew-ing again next time... XP

Leng lui promoter of The Vineyard XD