October has been....

I have quite a lot of stuff to do but I just don't feel like doing any of it right now. Maybe because I know I have an unfinished blog post that I just need to get over with or else I won't be able to focus on anything else....

I'm always saying how I feel like time just flies by so fast. However, this month seems to have went by slower than usual. Looking back at these photos, I feel like it was more than a month ago when I met with Hueyying! Weird... I thought that when I get busy, time will pass a lot faster. Anyway, I still can't believe it's going to be November soon. Just two months away from 2015! How crazy is that?!

A lot happened this month. Firstly, on the 3rd of October, Hy came down to London! And I decided that we could go to Camden and Primrose Hill since the weather was super nice on that day~ If the weather were to be bad, I wouldn't know what we could do.... probably go to the museum or something LOL. Lucky for us, we had the sun shining for us that day and we manage to spend a few hours enjoying the good weather and the cool vibes of Camden!

I've never been to Camden or Primrose Hill before that day. Nia kept saying how we need to go tgt but we just never got around to it but we'll probably go there one of these days to see the night lights of London~ But we're just so busy that I don't see that happening any time soon.
So I met Hy at King's Cross station that noon and after she got her Oyster sorted, we headed North to Camden! It's a more of a hipster area with loads of tourists. I actually didn't expect that many tourists but I guess it was busy because it was a Friday. Markets are always busy over the weekend. And although I complain about the amount of tourist around, I myself am a tourist as well! XD Anywho... managed to take a few photos around the markets~

 It's always nice to see a more artistic side of London!

 The infamous sign of Camden Lock market~

I'll probably instagram this one day. LOL

 Cobbled streets are always appreciated.

And that building on the right that reflects the sky is so nice~

And as you can see, there's lots of stalls selling overpriced goods....
These beautiful sights makes me want a better camera.... I should really start saving up for one.
All these photos went through quite a bit of editing before being able to look like this LOL

 You'll probably see this photo on my instagram feed one of these days as well.

I have no idea why I haven't already posted it.

I just love this photo; probably because of the geometry of everything.

The canal, the bridge and the willow trees.... It just looks very peaceful doesn't it? 

It was nice being away from the hustle and bustle of (central) London. Although I don't stay in Central, the area I live in is still quite busy... there's rarely any peaceful moments to enjoy.

 Literally drooling right now.... So hungryyyy

We shared this big serving of Polish cuisine, Kielbasa, and it was delish!

The mustard added some spiciness to it~ I really enjoyed it.

While enjoying our meal, Hy filled me in on all the info about people/friends back home kekeke It's nice to know that everyone is doing well~

We then walked along the canal to find our way towards Primrose Hill.

 Look at how nice the weather was~~~ I miss it. Especially since it's getting darker earlier and earlier and colder and colder as well. Although the weather is not as cold as it should be.

 Blue sky; white clouds.

It was tiring to walk up that hill (I am so unfit) but it was worth it! This isn't even the top yet!

Any familiar buildings you can spy from here?

 We then found a spot to sit down and relax a bit after that workout.

And look what Hy got me from South Korea???? kekekek This photo/image of Dongwoon is from Beast's Bad Girl era LOL so cute~~~

This photo is a bit out of place but I was too excited when Hy gave this to me that I forgot to take a photo of it LOL. I asked Hy to help me buy this BB cushion from Etude House because everyone's talking about them and I just wanted to try it out! 

However.... it didn't really meet the high expectations I had for it... There is so much hype around how amazing these cushions are but unfortunately this shade is too light for my skin tone... and this is the darkest shade in their range. Korean brands should really start coming out with darker shades for people like me!!! Another sad thing about this is that, it makes me break out. Well, at least I think it does. I cant be totally sure about this, I might need to use it another time to confirm this fact. But the day after I used this, actually on that night itself, a few pimples (around 5!) popped out on my face. Although I have acne-prone skin but normally not that many pimples pop out within one night for me (at least not after Roccutane). So I'm assuming this product is the culprit!

There are still some positive things I would like to mention about this Any Cushion. It's cushion is really good; it's probably something like the infamous Beauty Blender. I feel like using it to apply my other foundation. It just makes the application so much easier and quicker. Other than that, this foundation has SPF50+!!! (which probably contributes to fairness of the foundation). One more thing, it has a nice dewy finish and quite a high coverage. I have not tried anything with a dewy finish before mainly because I have oily skin so I prefer everything to be matte but I guess I do see why people would like the slightly shiny finish. I still prefer a matte finish though.

So... right now, I don't know what to do with this cushion foundation... If I ever get really fair then I'll come back to it LOL

 Enough with the rambling about that unfortunate event.... back to the amazing view of London!

Can you spot the Shard in the middle of the photo?

I just can't get over how beautiful the sky looked that day~

Thanks to Hy for this cute photo~

:)))))

After enjoying the amazing view of London, we walked back to the underground station to catch a Tube to Oxford Street!

As usual, it was super duper busy. I have that love-hate relationship with Oxford Street.

Because I love shopping (or just window shopping), so Oxford Street is like the perfect place for that because all the retailers have their biggest stores there (which means more stock!!!) but the amount of people there on a daily basis just throws you off. 

We walked around for a bit before Hy's friend Vivien came along and then we went for dinner tgt~

I really wanted to try Bone Daddies because so so so many people have been raving about it. A friend of mine said it's probably one of the best ramen places she's been to in London.

It's definitely a very popular place coz by the time we left, there was a queue outside the restaurant. Thankfully we went there early. 

I must say, because of all the hype around it, I had high expectations for their ramen but it didn't really meet my expectations I had for it. But I still enjoyed it. It wasn't bad or anything; it was good. I especially liked that they added bamboo into the ramen, I love bambooooo. Not a big fan of bean sprouts but I've grown to not hate it. Might ask them to leave that out if I ever go there again. 

I saw someone from another table having the Tonkotsu Ramen and it looked really nice.

After dinner, we decided to part ways :( 

It was really really nice seeing a close friend from back home in London~ I don't really have any friends from Msia in London, except for Ben i guess. I should probably travel up to Sheffield next time~ I having a plan of traveling around the UK but I just don't know when that's ever going to happen. I really want to go to Scotland to visit places like Edinburgh and all the Isles. Especially the Isle of Skye, I've seen amazing photos of its beautiful scenery .

Anyway, after dinner, I didn't head back home straight away, I went shopping! and spend quite a lot of money..... *eeeeek*

But they were all clothes that I needed for work so... kekeke

I got a little bit carried away in H&M since they had a 20% sale (for Unidays) on everything!

I wanted to head over to Primark as well but it was too late by the time I got out of H&M. 

I am really starting to love a lot of H&M's stuff. Although I wish I could afford other brands like & Other Stories and COS.

Oh, before we had dinner, we passed by Ben's Cookies on Oxford Street so we decided to buy some of these yummy cookies~ Probably one of the best cookies ever! I love these soft cookies. To me, cookies are supposed to be soft. Crunchy cookies are just biscuits!

I'm sure all their flavours are delicious but because of their prices, I probably won't have it again anytime soon LOL

And here's a belated bday gift from Sue~

I'm in love with this. As you can see from the packaging, it's Holika Holika's Gradation lip tint!

The colour is really nice and the clear gloss keeps the tint in place all day long. Plus, it's super moisturising. I want more of these~~~~ I haven't checked out their prices yet though.

I just wanted to take a photo with the flowers in the background LOL

I didn't have a big enough vase/glass for all of them so splitting them up just made them look very messy. Up until today, only the purple flowers remain alive. I had to throw the pink ones out because they looked miserable. 

On a side note, ytd I went to uni (for an exam) without straightening my hair and only had foundation and concealer on, and a friend of mine said I looked miserable. =___= It might have been that I just looked miserable because I was stressed but I believe if I had put in the effort to look presentable, she wouldn't have said that. *never leaving my room without make up again!* LOL jk

It happened again this morning again though. Because I woke up late and I was only going into uni for one hour so I just couldn't bother with putting on any make up and when Nia saw me, her first reaction was, "Oh my god, you dont have any make up on." zzzzzzzz

The main point of these events is that -- make up has a huge impact on your image.... (for mine, at least)

I wanted to take a photo to show the gradation lip look but these photos doesn't do it any justice!!!

It's a lot brighter irl and a lot glossier. And I didnt really do the whole gradation look where you have to apply concealer before applying the tint because I just preferred not to. It just didnt look very natural/normal.....

And these £1 goodness! I have been buying these for a few weeks now and I should probably stop before it becomes a habit. But I just really want to try out all the different flavours they have in stores. I tried this Cookies & Cream one last week and it was a bit too sweet. Before that I also tried the dark chocolate KitKats and the chocolate & mint KitKats (which is always good!). And of course, I had to try the chocolate orange flavour one as well. I bought it this week but Jaffa Cakes are still the best when it comes to the chocolate and orange fusion.

Other than KitKats, I also bought these chocolates for the Msian Society Potluck two weeks ago. 

I had to go for it after work so I couldn't cook anything fancy. I went into M&S the day before the event and saw these on offer (2 for £7! The original price was £6 per box!) so I bought two boxes. In the end, only one box was opened at the event so I enjoyed the other box all by myself kekeke

A group photo of the Msian Society~ Can you spot me?

The event was on a Friday and it started at 6.30pm but I was only to join them at 8.30pm. I was starving by the time I arrived but most of the good food were finished :( I still managed to have a nice dinner though. And a lot of desserts after XD. 

There's a guy who I think is really cute in this photo, I won't tell you who it is but you can guess. :P

This photo is quite shitty though. LOL probably because of the bad lighting.

Anyway, I stayed around and talked to a few people. I actually wanted to meet some freshers, just to get to see some new faces around but by the time I got there, a lot of them were about the leave.

I hung around there until around 10.45pm but before walking back to my place, Ben and I stood outside his accommodation and talked until midnight LOL

It was really nice catching up with him. We actually said we'll contact each other to have dinner one night last week but I was just so busy and tired that I didn't contact him LOL I'll probably be very busy up until mid-December when term ends... 

this book~~~ I actually reserved it around 2 months ago and only got to collect it around a week ago but I haven't even got the chance to start reading it yet! Can't wait to read it~~~ It's supposed to be really awesome. 

Just a random shot.

I work 4 days a week so I'm back to taking the tube all the time. 

Finally~~~ I went to The Breakfast Club!!! It's probably something that everyone does when they come to London and I can't believe ytd was my first time there after being in London for more than a year. 

As mentioned above, I had a Econs test ytd. Before the test, my friend, Keziah, asked me if I wanted to go have lunch after the exam and I was quite hesitant. But after the exam, I was totally in the mood to go have lunch! We wanted to go somewhere near to uni but there aren't many nice places worth going near uni so Keziah suggested we go to Liverpool Street for The Breakfast Club! Both Keziah and I love Shoreditch and I really want to explore more of it with her if we have the time~ Which is another reason I should get a better camera because Shoreditch had lots of artsy/photo worthy stuff around! 

When I was thinking of where to bring Ben to for dinner, the first place that popped into my head was Shoreditch and when a guy in the Msian Society asked me which is my favourite place in London, I also said Shoreditch~ I haven't really explored much of it yet but I love the vibes of that place. 

So back to ytd, we took a bus to Liverpool Street station and walked over to the restaurant and they were all decorated for Halloween so it was nice and quirky.

It was quite busy when we went (during lunch time), but we managed to get a nice table by the window under this huge clock.

There was also a few cool neon signs around as well which I should have taken photos of...

We both went for flat whites. 

I normally rarely order drinks because to me, they are always overpriced. After working in restaurants, you'll know that the prices of drinks are hiked up a lot!

But in this occasion, it felt right to have a nice cup of coffee.

We both love our strong coffees as well.

I had a really hard time deciding what to order. I was telling Keziah that I probably will need to go back at least 3 times in order to try everything I want to try on the menu!

In the end, I went for a favourite, banana french toast topped with bacon! yum yum yum

To some, this might be a weird concoction but I loveeee it.

Keziah went for pancakes with a veggie sausage which was also delicious. I tried some of her pancakes and it was really good. Everyone loves a bit of pancake right?

So we just ended up chatting about everything. And I finally found a friend to go for musicals with me~~~ I really want to see Mamma Mia. But Keziah said we should really go for Matilda. Can't wait till we get over with all these assignments so that we can go!!!

After lunch, we wanted to check out Spitafields Market but Keziah had to get back for a seminar. We'll probably go there another time~ 

Okay, that's all for tonight. It's almost 3am... This bad habit is here to stay. Thankfully I don't have my usual morning seminar tmr but I'll probably need to force myself out of bed to do stuff.

I want to mention some stuff about work and how it's been going but this post is long enough alr so I'll keep that till next time!

Good night!

Sweet dreams~

x

Entering My Twenties!

If you are not aware that my birthday is on the 30th of September.... then you are not my friend. kekeke
But it's still not too late to become my friend! LOL
So.... I celebrated my birthday this past Tuesday! Although not everything went the way I wanted it to (which I would go through in a sec), it was still a very happy day~
Last year, I didn't really get to celebrate my birthday... I had a very yummy crepe cake before I left JB, but on my exact birthday itself, it wasn't very fun.
I rmb specially dressing up a bit for uni and putting some extra effort in doing my make up... oh and I bought myself some Jaffa Cakes! Other than that, not much happened. My aunt gave me a present..... which I didn't really like.... which is actually still at her place.... LOL She also gave me two sweaters which are not really my taste but they're not too bad.

Anyways... I wanted to sleep in on my bday but I woke up before my alarm at 9am multiple times and I just couldnt go back to sleep. Plus, the weather is still warm these days so I actually felt like I was sweating under my duvet.
As I mentioned in my last post, I had to make 2 important calls that morning but failed to because one of them didn't pick up (it was my aunt's friend who I had to thank for a bday card and Jaffa Cakes she gave me) and the other call I had to make was to John Lewis but I was worried they weren't open yet so I didn't call. Then I spent a long time getting ready... as always...

 My foundation is finally the correct shade for my skin~~~

 I always take selfies next to my window so it washes out the colour of my skin so I always look really fair....kekeke I honestly am not THIS fair. I'm not born with fair skin! 

 I went a bit overboard with my eyeliner that day eeek but because I wear glasses, it doesn't show as too much.

I wanted to go to Sainsbury's to buy chicken and potatoes for the curry but because I had to carry the champagne (which was very heavy) over to Sue's place, I decided that I won't be able to carry so much stuff over so I walked straight to her place to store the champagne in her fridge.
We then went for our Econs lecture tgt which was slightly boring.... After that, Nia and I walked over to Phuong's place to blend some of the ingredients for the paste of the devil curry!
When we reached her place, she wasn't in! So we had to wait outside her place for her to come home. We didn't have to wait long. After around 15 minutes, we got to start prepping everything.
Nia had to leave early because she had a seminar to get back to.
And when Phuong took out her blender and attempted to start blending, the blender didn't really do a good job..... which was a problem because for devil curry, the curry paste needs to be like a puree....
So after trying to get it to work for 30 minutes, we decided that we had to find another way to do it because we didn't have much time left before we had to head over to Sue's place.
So... we decided to go over to my place and ask my flatmate to borrow us their blender which ended up being a really really embarrassing experience. Long story.....

The important thing is, we got our paste to be near-to-perfect and then we rushed back to uni because Phuong had some admin stuff to do. However, we got to the office too late and everyone there had gone home... So we headed to the lecture hall where Nia and Sue were having their Business Law lecture to get Sue's key to her place.

Before going to Sue's place, we had to go to the Sainsbury's opposite uni to get chicken and potatoes and some beer (I got a red berry cider which was wayyyy too sweet)~ because we were so thirsty from all that walking and hard work. We then managed to start a bit of cooking before Sue and Nia came back from their lecture~

 While waiting for the curry to cook, it was time to open the champagne!

 Here is a photo of me "trying" to open the bottle when I actually alr popped the cork! 

LOL after i opened it, Sue said, "Why did you open it so quick? I need to take a photo!" So that's the story behind this photo. kekeke

 And as you can see, I changed my clothes! I wore my black top at first but then when Nia and I dropped by my room before going to Phuong's that afternoon, she asked me to wear something colourful and just not black. But I like wearing black! I still changed anyway LOL

 Mmmmmm~ the curry was finally done after almost an hour on the stove!

Phuong and Nia were so hungry that they kept tasting and trying the curry when it was still on the stove and they kept saying it was too spicy, even though they only took small bites of it! So i was really worried.... I didnt dare to try it because I was scared it really was too spicy and that I ruined it for everyone. But I followed the recipe correctly and I rmb my mum putting around the same amount of dry chilli as well. My mum normally puts in extra chilli boh as well. 

When I tried it, it wasn't really THAT spicy. But we knew that Sue can't stand spiciness so the three of us were really worried...... The important thing is that it was yummy!

A nostalgic taste of home~

Seriously, the first bite I took of the curry just brought back memories of the warmth of home~ ;')

My mum always makes the best devil curry because she makes it extra extra spicy.

While Phuong and Nia were eating it, their faces turned red and Phuong's nose becoming runny hahahaha I told them that the level of spiciness my mum cooks is to the extent that you would immediately start  to tear up and sweat like a cow. kekekeke

I think it's just because Vietnamese food are normally not that spicy so they aren't used to it. When I told them my mum never eats a meal without chili padi, they were so shocked. 

My mum has the highest tolerance when it comes to spicy food.

 Nia was so sweet to buy me flowers~ And she bought me more Jaffa Cakes as well kekeke

She also bought me Nutella & Go. She knows what makes me happy.

 Sadly, Nia had to go home early because she had important stuff to deal with. We did ask her to come back after she finish dealing with it but by the time she was done with it, it was too late alr.

So Phuong, Sue and I just sat and enjoyed our curry and talked for a bit before we started cleaning up and getting ready to head home.

We didn't even get to take a decent group photo of the four of us :( I dont even have a single photo of Nia from that day boohoo

After that, we left Sue's place at around 9.30pm and by the time I got back to my room, I was exhausted and just couldn't bother to do much. Thankfully our lecture at 9am on Wednesday was cancelled. That was the only reason we got to celebrate my bday on Tuesday.

A photo of my chocolates is a must. I actually don't like Nutella & Go so much, not because it doesn't taste good (it's Nutella!), it's just not worth the price. I rather get a huge jar of it. And I recently found a cheaper substitute for Nutella! It's Sainsbury's own brand of hazelnut chocolate, it tastes exactly the same! Trust me, I'm very picky when it comes to chocolates. If you have a big outlet of Sainsbury's near you, be sure to see if you can find it!  

 And I would like to give a special shoutout to my favourite nail colour~

I just had to have it on for my bday!

 More of the flowers bloomed the next day~

It's a nice combination of colours~ it's just that I should probably learn how to arrange flowers LOL

And time for the presents that Auntie Veronica got me~~~~

 OMG~ I still can't believe she bought them for me~~~ 

I have been struggling with drugstore foundations for a few months now and I now finally have a nice foundation to use (that matches my skin tone!) I can never choose the right shade myself! I blame the lighting in drugstores!

But yeah... rmb the story about the Msian make-up artist from a blog post some time ago? He wrote down the products he used on my face that time and on Sunday, I brought that list with me to John Lewis and chose them out~ Because Auntie Veronica has staff discount, it was a quarter cheaper than retail price. 

I have been using them these past few days and I have been loving them! But I must say that Estee Lauder's original Double Wear foundation would have been a better choice for me because it has a higher coverage compared to this 'Light' version which has a sheer to medium coverage which obviously doesn't cover up my pimples and scars.

But it's so light weighted that I really don't feel it on my face most of the time! 

Hopefully next time, I'll be able to get myself the higher coverage foundation.

And along with this purchase, I got some free samples, like a really really nice plum coloured gloss and one of their mascaras. And the very nice sales assistant gave me another tube of lip gloss as well! I, like everyone else, love free stuff so I was such a happy girl that day.

And I never really used any lip glosses before, I only used those Soap and Glory gloss sticks. I thought I would not enjoy them coz they're sticky but I am loving them now. Can't wait to get more~

And because it was my birthday, I had a gift voucher from The Body Shop, so I went it to get this oil cleanser. I don't know if it's good coz I haven't started using it yet, but my Biore one is about to run out so this is my back up!

and OMGGG THISSSS

My mum asked me if I wanted my godma's grandson, Ben, to bring me anything over to London coz he has just started his first year in Queen Mary and the first thing I thought of was THIS. And I ended up asking for some curry paste as well LOL.

But about this, I actually didn't check the price of it before I asked my mum to buy it. I only know that you can only get it in particular beauty salons in a few Asian countries. So when I met with Ben the other day and got this from him, I was surprised by the size of this. I thought it would be at least 100ml but it's only 50ml. So I regretted not asking my mum to buy two of it. But then I went online to check their website and I think this is the only size available and it's USD40..... So I asked my mum how much she bought it for and she said it was RM120...... I honestly didn't rmb it being that expensive the last time I bought it.... Hopefully it'll show better results than the last time I used it. Because my skin was so bad last time, it only managed to help a bit, which is counted as effective for me because normally nothing works on my skin.

I'm about to finish using my current facial cleanser (which is a Biore one which is not good!) so I can't wait to start using this!!!! I opened the bottle to smell it and the scent brought back so many memories. I loveeeee the scent of this btw, it's smells heavenly.

And just to briefly mention that it was really nice seeing Ben here in London. I actually haven't seen him for years! And I actually am not sure how we are related (or if we even are related!). But I know he's part of the family so it was really nice getting to see a familiar face and nice to chat with him as well. I thought it was going to be awkward meeting up with him but it was really nice~

And I gave him some left over devil curry too~ kekekeke Hope he enjoys it~

Oh and one more thing, I got a new offer for a job at John Lewis!
It's another long story.... but in short, the first offer was somehow a mistake. They gave me 32 hours to work per week when I can only work 20 hours. And most of the times on the working rota were not suitable for me! So I had to call them up, which I spent almost an hour trying to do but the people at the call centres kept sending me back and forth between two call centres, making me so confused! I was so worried about the whole thing and especially since the first offer was just a Christmas temp job, which meant I would be unemployed again if I didnt find another job for the new year.
But some how, maybe God heard my prayers of angels were looking after me, whatever good karma I have, I received a call from John Lewis that afternoon saying that they so coincidentally have another role available for me at the branch which is a permanent role to work in the children's department! You cannot imagine the happiness I felt at that moment, it was like all the worries from that whole day just got lifted up my shoulders! And the contracted hours and the working rota fits perfectly with my current academic schedule so everything worked out in the end!
Can't wait to start working and earning again!!!!


September has been a crazzzy month.

Okay, my job here is done.

Tmr (technically, today) I'll be meeting up with HY~~~~~~

eeeeeek I'm so excited and can't wait!!!!! We'll have so much to talk about!

I should probably get some sleep now.... but i probably would still stay on my laptop for a while... or an hour..... kekekeke

Good night and sweet dreams.

x

The Last Day of 19

Okay, it's 12.30am on the 29th of September 2014. I'm listening to Yellowcard's Acoustic Album (LOVE IT!) and I'm allowing myself 30 minutes to finish this post and go to sleep as I need to wake up at 7.30am for my 9am lecture later (I MUST NOT BE LATE!). I don't want to leave this post till later because I know I won't have time so LET'S DO THIS!

It's still 29th of September... 10.15pm. Need to end this before midnight or else it'll lose it's purpose. I'm like multi-tasking at the moment (painted my nails and waiting for them to dry, and watching youtube videos rn). I knew I wouldn't have time to blog today but I had to go to sleep ytd....
Anyway, let's do this!

This is yet another post where I dump all my photos and just talk about what I've been up to recently. I probably would have a lot to sayyyy..... because I'm very long-winded.....

I kinda talked about this day in my last post (or the post before?). The 11th of September - the day I went for my interview at John Lewis and got the job! I will be starting the job on the 12th of Oct! I'm very excited and very scared at the same time. Fingers crossed that I'll enjoy the job~

And yes, after the interview I went to Oxford Street because I needed to buy a new bag and I did! Don't have a photo of the bag though, it's just a simple black tote bag that I can carry everything I need on a daily basis around with me (which is a lot of stuff!).

Besides the bag, I also got myself a big burrito and a bag of tortilla chips! I had a voucher for Chipotle's so why not. I ordered the chips just for the guac kekeke

And here you can see me enjoying my meal with Jo Insung/ Jang Jaeyeol.

I rarely watch Korean dramas anymore because after Heirs last year, I lost interest in them.... Watching Heirs till the end was probably one of my biggest regrets XD

But It's Okay, It's Love reignited my love for k-dramas. It's not that kind of typical k-dramas - there was one (?) slap given, one car accident and no one chased buses. They did splash each other with wine though. LOL

The relationship between the main characters was just so mature, which is refreshing for a k-drama. And the catch phrase for this show: 딱 좋아!

If you follow me on twitter, you would have alr seen this photo~ I dunno why I decided to post a before and after photo.... I was just bored on the tube to Heathrow Airport. I guess I wanted people to know I dont wake up looking like this? 

But yeah... I signed up to do this job for Queen Mary where I just stand around Terminal 3 of Heathrow with a sign saying "Queen Mary University of London" and gather students tgt to get on coaches to get back to campus. It was a boring job but it was nice getting to meet so many people! And it was good money. LOL I met this other Msian guy (a fellow airport collection staff) who lived his whole life in England (but he goes back to Msia sometimes) that just couldn't stop talking.

I did the job for two nights, this was the second night.... It was so boring (coz it was Sunday). I only manage to collect one student from Terminal 3 which was a guy from Singapore. And I was standing at this same position for more than 4 hours!!!!

After that job, I signed up to be a Student Ambassador for the School of Business and Management!

Most of the ambassadors actually signed up earlier through email but for me, I went into uni on Monday (for some admin stuff) and I saw these friends of mine and decided to go ask them about their job and then the guy who is incharge of hiring ambassadors, James, came around while I was there and so I asked him if he needed an extra hand and he said he did! The main reason I wanted the job was because they were paying good money kekekeke

The job was super easy. I spent most of my time just talking to people (fellow ambassadors and other students). Our main role was to gather students together and get them to their social event in a pub/cafe that the school has prepared for them. The venue was really nice! and they offered each of us one free drink and lots of free finger food! We manage to get more free drinks though kekeke

I worked for only 2 days - the first was for the first years' social and the second was for the postgrads' social. In between those two days was the second years' social! So here is a photo of the day of our social event~ Everyone was there mainly for the food though LOL Every time the waitress came around with food, everyone's attention just turned to the platter of food kekeke

And of course, we got to catch up a bit with friends and talk a bit with our lecturers.

Because of my role as the ambassador, I had to go to this place, The Proud Archivist, three days in a row! and got free drinks 3 days in row! 

fyi, i didnt take this photo. It was our photographer for the event. 

this is James btw >___<  I just wanted to post a photo of him. He's just one of the nicest people ever.

And he's so smiley all the time (charmingly smiley kekeke) 

The first reaction from most of the females that got to know him over this week when they knew that he was married was like, "awww :(" kekekekeke

Another sneaky shot of him kekeke

And there was a "photobooth" which wasnt really a photobooth. Just our photographer taking photos of us which wasn't as fun as I expected it to be.

This is the view of when you look out from the second floor of the venue!

It's right next to the canal and it's so niceeee

The interior was really nice too~

Phuong lost her phone (iPhone 5) that day and it freaked all of us out. That day, we stayed at the social till 9pm after like 3 drinks each and went back to uni just to look for it but it wasn't there! But thankfully she found it a few days later. Can you imagine that? Someone found her phone on the tube and handed it in to lost and found!!! 

On the day of the postgrads' social, we (ambassadors) actually weren't required to stay back at the venue, we could just go home after we brought the students to the venue. But we decided to hang around (for drinks and food, of course LOL). There was an art exhibition going on at The Proud Archivist, so Renita and I went to check it out~

The name of the art exhibition was called Papercut.

I sent this photo to my bro and said that this was a present for him and he thought I really bought it for him.

How cute~?

All the 3D stuff were amazing!

On this art piece, the words cut out on it are....
"COUNTLESS MOONS CIRCLE COUNTLESS PLANETS...
AND COUNTLESS PLANETS CIRCLE COUNTLESS STARS....
STARS AND GALAXIES ROTATE ETERNALLY
AND YOU AND I CIRCLE EACH OTHER FOR YOU
ARE MY UNIVERSE ENTIRELY AND I
WILL ALWAYS BE YOURS."
I love it. I wish I can have it in my future house which I hopefully would be living with someone I can share this message with.

These are just amazing. The colours are so nice as well.

That day I stayed at the venue until around 7pm. I wanted to go home earlier and I didnt want to have any drinks but I just started talking to people, one after another and the time just flew by. And a friend of mine, Jason, who was probably a bit tipsy that night got me a glass of red wine so I stayed till I finished my drink. And I met a few new ppl that night, all postgrads. A girl from Indonesia and a guy from Cambodia. Apparently, there are very very very few Cambodians studying in London.

Because I worked in a Thai restaurant, I thought he was Thai because of his accent. LOL

After that wild week, it was time to really go back to uni again. After our first day of lectures, the girls and I went to have Korean food for lunch near Tottenham Court Road, I can't rmb the name of the restaurant eeek

But when we got there, it wasn't opened yet so we went over to Starbucks, to just sit and wait LOL

Finally reunited with Sue after the whole summer~

With the sweetest and dearest~

FOOOOOOOD

We love our poultry

Somehow after all that food, we were still hungry so we went to Bobajam (is that how it's spelt? I can't bother googling now) for desserts~

kekekeke Sue can never see this here!

it wasnt very tasty thoughhhhh... :(

rabbit teeth kekekekeke

Thanks to Phuong for taking a nice photo~ and Nia for holding up the fork because Sue said cutleries in photos make that food look more appetising LOL

The next day~ We had our Microeconomics lecture which was 2 hour long and everyone that has experience a 2-hour lecture would know how that feels like.

and Nia was bored so she drew this Queen Mary's logo) on my hand.

After the both of us worked on campus and for Queen Mary, our affection for our uni has increased. 

Our uni really puts in a lot of effort to offer the best experience for every student.

The next day, as Nia had a 20% voucher for the uni's shop, we went to buy some merchandises!

I wear this to sleep because it so comfy and too baggy kekeke (and it's XS)

I've been wanting to get one of these hoodies for a year now but they're normally quite expensive so thankfully I could get a discount thanks to Nia~

It's so warm and so comfy and I want to wear it all the time but the weather has been weird lately.

This was last thursday I think. I dunno why but I was very tired for no reason and I just wanted to curl up in bed but I didnt feel like sleeping just yet so I watched videos and shows in bed. 

My room was in such a mess that day. 

I've read all the other Rainbow Rowell books (Attachments, Fangirl, Elearnor and Park) and this one, Landline, is probably my favourite. I haven't finished reading it yet but normally once I start reading it, it's hard for me to stop! Fangirl and Eleanor and Park seem to be the more popular books of hers but I personally love Attachments and Landline more because of the more mature relationships of the characters (nothing PG rated or anything!) but it's just.... I don't know.... more dimensional? I'm not good with describing books (or anything, really)

But this is Rowell's latest book and if you get the chance, read it! I reserved this at my local library and had to wait almost for a month for it! But the wait was so worth it.

Then on Friday, because I had nothing better to do and I got really sick of reading about Microeconomics, I decided to go out!

The weather was beautiful! The Malaysia Night 2014 was happening at Trafalgar Square that day and I decided to go check it out because I missed it last year.

I went there mainly for the food tbh.

I actually saw one or two people from Taylor's but I acted like I didn't know them LOL. I've only seen them on campus before so.... I didn't want to say hi........... *awkward*

I was supposed to go to Roti King (the restaurant in Euston) ytd but it's not open on Sundays... boohoo

My bowl of laksa! Probably not worth the price I paid for it but whatever, it was yummy.

but ughhh the tofu soaked with all the goodness of the laksa gravy~~~~

Some there were two asian stores that set up tents and sold some Malaysian stuff so I went and spent my money on these~~~ The laksa paste and the curry paste are for my friends and the Nyonya Sambal and Asam Pedas sauce is for me~~~ Cant wait to taste the spiciness of these!

And I bought serai because I'm going to cook Devil Curry tmr~~

And my godma's grandson who is coming to London tmr (he'll be studying in QM too~) is bringing me more curry paste! kekekeke I need to use these sparingly.

And yesterday, I met up with Auntie Veronica and went to Oxford Street again. We always go there because she always has shopping to do.

This is a small lane tuck behind Oxford Street~

COS on Regent Street~ We walked a lot yesterday. But I was really happy to walk around with her because I love window shopping on Oxford Street~ and also because she bought me my bday present! which I will show post photos of in my next post. I've alr started using these presents today because I just loveeee them. >_<

Because Veronica will be going to the States soon, she had to get a new suitcase and a lot of presents for her family over there so this is just a £20 suitcase from Primark but the stuff inside it is what is important hahaha

And I mentioned above, we planned to go to for Msian food ytd but because the place wasn't open on Sundays, we went to Busaba Eathai instead which was so good.

Our glorious table of food!!! and my virgin grapefruit mojito that had mint and chilli in it was good!

Maybe it wasn't the best Thai food I've eaten but it was a nice meal~

Any spicy meal would make me happy tbh LOL

That's it for now. 11.32pm. 

I still have some stuff I need to do and prepare for tmr before I head to bed. 

Thankfully my lecture is at noon tmr but I have lots of stuff to do tmr~ which I'm so excited about!

I need to make some important calls in the morning (get the annoying stuff out of the way first), then i'll probably just get ready (which I normally spend a long time doing)... what else?

And I need to go to Sainsbury to buy chicken and potatoes. 

And then it'll probably be time to head to my lecture. 

And my godma's grandson would probably want to meet up for a bit... and then I need to head to Phuong's to blend stuff, coz I don't have a blender and then head over to Sue's for our celebratory dinner tgt~ I'll finally get to get rid of that bottle of champagne in my fridge. If I forget that tmr, I would hate myself. Or i'll just drink it all by myself. LOL (Just joking)

P/S: After I read through my last post again then only I realised that I didn't mention anything about my family. While I was helping out at the airport, I saw so many people meeting up with their friends and family when they got to arrivals and how some students came with their parents and I just started imagining how it would be like when I meet my family again (probably in two years' time). But tbh, I don't feel homesick that much, sometimes not at all. And when people hear that about me, they go, "Really?" and somehow think I'm lying but I'm not. Well... there are days where I wish I could be at home with my mum but most of time, that's not the case. But everyone's different and... I don't know why I'm highlighting this but.... I guess it just popped in my head.