waiting...

...in my room. Sitting by the window on the sofa. Staring blankly at the screen of my laptop.

Thinking.

Still thinking, but slowly my thoughts began to transform into typed words that you see now.

I finished my packing. Except for my toiletries, which I will pack later. I just need a bit of relaxing. I was excited to go to London since last Monday. But the excitement took longer than it needed to. In the end, I got so tired and I couldn't help but think that (well this part will be repetitive) I am more tired than excited.

I'm trying to say that, all the excitement has gone, and its replaced by me getting exhausted. I'm supposed to be extremely excited to go to London this weekend. After all, I'm gonna spend my time with my best-friends and have a hell of good time. I'm still looking forward to this!

Well, here - in this paragraph - I would like to dedicate a song..HAHAHA, seriously, here in this paragraph I would like to contradict myself a lil bit. I'm not totally NOT EXCITED, i think it's because I've been looking forward to this day (Friday) since last Monday, therefore the novelty of it has somewhat been corroded a lil bit.

In exactly four hours, I will be on my way to London (reasons? - it's a story for the next post) using the bus! THE BUS!...I hate using the bus (or as the call it here, coach) for long journeys. First of all, it's slow, much slower than using the train. Secondly, it's not comfortable, and then I can't move around in the bus (in trains you can go jalan2, buy some food, or just stretch your legs). Fourthly, the toilet!...i don't like using public toilets, but when the time comes, i just hate using bus toilet!...and lastly, it gave a hell of motion sickness - this is the time when my stomach will feel like it wanna throw every last bit of whatever food i have left inside of me out..ahhaha

Seriously, I hate using coach/bus for long journeys.


Well i gotta go and rest up, before my journey to London. ehehhe

ciao

xxx
lufias

so...

SO...what?

:D

alright nothing much happened during my weekend (again!) eheheh it's a fast weekend. I wished I can wake up earlier everyday, lemme see, around 6 or 7 in the morning, so I can have a fuller day! but that's not happening! Either i wake up around 11.30 in the morning (except every Friday, cos i have a class at 11 in the morning) OR I wake up around 9.30am BUT either i continue to sleep til 11.3o OR just lying there in my bed, arranging my schedule for the day in my head..ahahha

Okay, enuff about my 'waking-up-in-the-morning pattern'...eheheh

hmm wat am i gonna talk about in this post?

okay, im gonna talk about or write about my saturday...It was great, i didn't waste much of it. As you all know Azmi bought a Wii Console, and we play it almost on a daily basis...just to loosen our mind from studying ehehhe...

Also, Mizah's laptop was crashing ALL the time, and she couldn't stand it anymore and she had to call Zyden to reformat her laptop because Zyden has all the drivers and stuff for Mizah's laptop. Hmmm maybe i shud ask him to reformat my laptop as well, since my laptop is the same brand as Mizah's and his. :D

anyways, azmi downloaded ehehhe the game Trauma Center, which is cool! since you got to be a surgeon, who gets to open people's insides and tear em up and then get to stitch em up again..(the tearing part i just put there, it sounded more interesting...ehehe)

and i did my wii fitness test, it slightly dropped from 38 to 33, but i took the fitness test again last night...and guess what! it dropped to 27 ehehhe i guess i'm almost FIT! ehhee...

Zyden slept over for the night and had dinner with us, it's been a while since we had him over :D ehehhe and also the he had to sleep over because he was alone and here it starts to get dark around 4.00+pm and it's quite un-wise to go out alone.

The next day, i think i basically did pretty much the same thing i did on saturday, played wii, watched tv and sleep...and of course i had a bread pudding baked by fish and assisted by miz and lei! it was yummy!...i had this sudden craving of sweet things....and today i bought candies from the german market fair watever in sheffield ehehe....


alrighty! i guess that's it for today :D

Let's recap

All is well again, the week is not over yet...but i just feel like writing something here...after all a blog, well at least for this blog is about writing stuff - my experience, the occasional video postings from youtube or even dailymotion. Also pictures.

Usually if I haven't got the chance to blog daily, i will try at least to recap what happened during the weekend. Like now!..ehehe

As it happened, I kinda had a pretty interesting week...Let's go back to pre-school (just kidding!), the week for me starts on Monday (some people might start theirs earlier, like on Sunday or the next day Tuesday <--this is the day after Monday, hehehe). Some people might have Monday Blues, this is how I see what Monday Blues mean, since monday is the start of another week, people tend to look at it a lil bit unenthusiastically - you've got a long week before you hit the next weekend...ehhehe that's how i see it. But I usually don't have Monday Blues.

My monday started off when I woke up. I expected it to be just like any other Mondays i had in the past. True enough, I woke up but I didn't wake up in a palace, with servants all around me, with breakfast prepared for me. Hahaha, it's just another normal monday for me. and since my bed has only one side (the other side is facing the wall) so i couldn't use the saying 'woke up at the wrong side of the bed', because i have only ONE SIDE of the bed, if i woke up at the other side of the bed, it'll definitely be the WRONG side, cos i'll be wedged between the bed and the wall! :D

As always, hygiene is the utmost importance to me, especially oral hygiene (gotta keep the perfect teeth intact!!) I went upstairs and brushed my teeth (using my green Aquafresh toothbrush and Colgate, and gargle some Colgate mouthwash ). Then, went downstairs to prepare myself some breakfast. I can't remember what I had for breakfast. Get ready for lecture at 1pm and contemplated of not going to the seminar/tutorial at 4pm.

Oh, now i remember I DIDN'T have any breakfast or lunch that day, that's why I can't remember what i HAD for breakfast or lunch.

Lecture (Corporate Social Responsibility) was not fun that day, because the lecturer kept on droning and droning and I suspect most of the class was feeling the same as me -BORED TO Death, since everyone was unusually quiet. And indeed, during the second half of the lecture (it was two hour lecture with 5-10 minutes break after the first hour) a lot of the students didn't return for the lecture.

Me? I stayed on...ehhehe I am GOOD student along with my friends Mizah, Rashie, and the rest of the Bruneian students - azi, dauz, sheila, ninah and salwa.

During that break, I was extremely hungry...and it felt like 'puasa' hahaha

okay, the second part of lecture was not fun either. After the lecture was over - Mizah, Rashie and me went to the Management School, but there we just figured we didn't have anything that we really need to do. So we just hung out at the library. ehehhe Mostly talking! (hehehe our library is COOL, we can TALK...not loudly but it's just friendly...and everyone is understanding)...we talk about general stuff! ahahha

then the clock struck 4pm. It's time for us to head to the Management School and go to the seminar room...our friends are there already...and we kinda waited about 15-20 minutes for the lecturer. After almost half an hour of waiting and wondering whether the lecturer was gonna come or not, he finally came into the room and apologized to us that he had to cancel the seminar/tutorial because he was feeling extremely unwell. So we were dismissed and asked to either come his other seminars next week.

Sounded like a bad start right? what's with me being hungry, the lecture was boring and then the tutorial/seminar that i contemplated of not going was CANCELLED. It was almost like a bad start BUT things weren't so bad after that. BECAUSE Beng Hui some time in the past few weeks promised to treat us SUSHI at a place called WasabiSabi at London Road in Sheffield. ehehhe I WAS CRAVING SUSHI!!!! There were around 10-12 of us (lemme list 'em, Me, Rashi, Mizah, Fish, Lei, Azmi, Beng Hui, Azi, Ben, g-din)...it is 10 ehehhe I stuffed myself with Sushi! ehehhe it was great and arigato Beng Hui.

Then we went home after dropping by at Rashie's place -Beng Hui stayed over at our place -. At home, heheh i deliberately left this part out. Azmi got Wii, Nintendo Wii!!! (i tried the fitness test on Wii and my age is 37! disappointing!) ehehhe and we played the whole night...i got addicted (you see, before this i didn't really like playing it...but somehow i got hooked!!).

We spent most of the night playing Wii..and the next day (Tuesday) gathered in Azmi's spacious attic room playing his Wii! ehehhe it was cool!

Then Wednesday came, we had lecture (Financial Reporting Theory) and then Thursday came, i called home got the news about my granpa. Then Friday came, went to tutorial for (Advances In Financial Accounting) and went to lecture in the afternoon (Advances in Financial Accounting), got depressed and feeling a lil' unwell..and now Saturday! Things are yet to unravel...but I'll keep you guys posted! :D

xxx
lufias

Disharmony with reality...

Once in a while, i feel depressed and seemed to be out of touch with my inner self...Wah! Bida eh! I mean i think the above statement is a bit too much..ahahha

Here's the thing, I was feeling down yesterday (Friday) and apart from feeling not well (I had a headache - not a splitting one, but an annoying one), I was totally not myself yesterday (basically the last quarter of the day). I was supposed to go watch football tournament - the guys (the BruSheff guys) against Malaysian and Singaporean guys (I think...), okay i was supposed to go and support them but I had this annoying headache and this sick feeling in my stomach, and to top it I got depressed all of the sudden.

SO...I just wasn't my usual cheery and smiley self. I went in my room and chatted with Vi and tried to look up my bestfriends all over UK, Brunei and Australia - sadly but fortunately Vi was the only one around, so I just talked to her and I found a lil' solace by just chatting with her, I didn't tell her about my depression or wat's bugging me tho...I'd like to share but I have nothing to share...it was just one of that 'unexplained depression phenomenon' that I occasionally experience. ehhehe and I almost - out of that unreasonable bouts of depression - go to London...ehehhe i was seriously checking the ticket fares and I couldn't care less about using the bus to go to London...that's how unreasonable i was yesterday! ahahha

basically i was not harmonised with my own reality...everything doesn't feel right!!!

After a prayer, a little bit of chocolate bar and crisps and a good night sleep - my depression and annoying little headache was gone, now i'm up for a more cheery and smiley day! ahahha

Basically even someone as cheerful, smiley (wah! self appraising ni!) as me, will suffer a bit of depression occasionally, and when I do, i tend to be not me...and the weather was not helpful either! it was freaking cold yesterday...it reached a low low! ahahha of -2 degrees celcius..It was freezinngggg.....


oh yea, the sick feeling that i felt in my stomach was because...okay, here's the thing...

i called home, because i usually call home once a week...this was less that last semester! ahahha okay, i called home, but my parents weren't home, so my brother - afnan was on the other side of the receiver - i made a small talk, asked how he was doing, about his exams, then asked where my azib was (my lil' bro), he told he was with mum and dad visiting my grandfather who was admitted to the hospital!...this shocked me! so i asked when did they go, he said, it was two hours ago...so i said my good bye and take cares and stuff then...

i called my grandparents' house, and one of my aunts answered, straight away i asked about how 'nini aji' was doing...how he is and what really happened..THANK GOD! it was just a cut on his head. Apparently the weather in Brunei is rainy at the moment. My granpa was outside (against the wishes of my granma) and wanted to use the toilet outside the main house (this toilet is attached to the storage building - just in case we're outside and 'malas' to go inside). Getting on with the story, he was using or wanted to use that toilet and that was when he slipped! and he is very vague about it til now...I guessed he just don't want to make us feel worried...but i think the WHOLE family is worried...when i called, everyone was there! except for my uncle in Kuala Belait or was it Seria...Hmmm my granpa got 4 stitches and the x-ray didn't show anything out of the ordinary...Alhamdulillah :D

So, it happened on Thursday, but I am still worried...i know they won't tell me about it, because I'M HERE! and they don't want to make me worry too much...oh well at least everything is fine and i just hope everyone back home is alright! :D but...i guess the worried feeling dragged itself to Friday...that somehow contributed to my depression..

Oh well everything is okay now..

see ya soon :D

xxx

lufias

My Sundays

Today is Sunday.

Every Sundays and Saturdays I have no classes, and its called weekend. Weekdays are Mondays to Fridays.

During weekends I usually find or look for something fun to do, but most of the time I would just take a rest and laze around the house.

However, last week I kinda had a very long weekend. This was not because I had something to do. It was because I had to complete my MGT355: Advances In Financial Accounting Assignment which I had to hand in by 4.00pm last Monday.

I completed the assignment but it felt like that I didn't do it up to my usual standard. But what to do? It's already over and I can't go back in time and do it over. But what I could do is, do a better one the next time I'm given an assignment.

Heheh...i just felt like writing something which more or less sounded like a composition style of primary school children. :D (I have nothing against composition style of primary school children :D) ehhehe

But coming back to today and yesterday...

Yesterday I was dragged by my hair by mizah to watch Princess Hours...eheheh no la...i wasn't dragged by my hair. If I did, I might as well cut my hair bald...ahahha Well Miz bought a DVD box series of Princess Hours, so for lack of anything productive to do around the house (actually i wanted to finish and update myself with watching the Bleach Series...but the internet connection wasn't that fast so...) me and the house-mateys (ahaha) + plus Rashie watched the series from afternoon til midnight! ehehhe

and today...we might continue watching the series..

oh well, i think that's enough update for today.

ciao

xxx
lufias

Bon-fire night recap

Bon-fire night is kinda one of the highlights or events that's probably highly celebrated in the month of November in UK (here's the link if you wanna know more about that night).

On that night, alright it's nearly winter or it's already winter, and that night was totally freezing, but i had tons of fun! Took the tram to get there to Don Valley Arena and my other accomplices (is this the correct spelling, i'm sure it is...but recently I have been (heavily) criticizing a particular person's english literacy and spelling as well as grammatical errors so i'm just being careful, cause Karma is a two edge knife heheh).

Returning to what me and my other accomplices did during that night. Alright my other accomplices are Mizah, Fish, Lei, Azmi, Rashie, Beng Hui, Firdaus and Sheila (thank you Dauz and Sheila for arranging the ticket buying ehehhe).

First as we stepped down from the tram, we were 'sakai' (or was it just me?). Sakai is a bruneian malay word which simply means, I've never been there and....err...okay i don't really know how to translate it...so...eheh im sorry. Alright moving on, i get to go on this freaky ride which kinda revolves 360 degrees and makes you suspended on air (actually i don't know how to describe it...and from now on, i have this feeling that everytime that i wanna describe something, it will end in 'i don't now how to describe it') HAISH!!! ehehhe i think somehow i lost my describing technique...ahahha

After that, we went to see this HUGE BONFIRE! it was huge, and even in the cold weather we can still feel the heat, and we're talking (okay, why am i writing in 'we' form??!!)...okay i'm talking about the BONFIRE was several meters away (around 10-50meters) and we can still feel the heat!

After that, it got boring, I mean there's only so much you can look and experience from watching a big-ass and huge fire..ahahha apart from giving us the much needed heat. ehehhe okay after that we went to this game section/stall (and before that, Fish tried a dart game, but it was kinda tricky)...and there we bought tickets and try to add up the numbers inside the ticket into 21..sounded easy? ahah hell yea...it was easy..but!!!! we were only supplied with even numbers! ahhah so we had to buy lots and lots of tickets..in the end we got an odd number to win a huge big wolf! and we gave it to Rashie...because, she's the one who bought a lot of tickets! we were just lending our luck! ahahah :D

Then we went to see a concert, saw local group from Sheffield and a solo and then WET WET WET performed. It was good! ahaha and after that, we went to find a spot so that we could sit and enjoy the fireworks that followed. The fireworks were spectacular, and we could watch it without any hindrance at all...almost the perfect view, and I could only remember a couple of times when I watched a firework display up-close and clearly, once at home and then once at Empire Hotel.

Once the firework display was over, me and my friends went on a couple of rides...and we had fun throughout the night! eheheh

:D

okay it was unforgettable!

see ya

xxx
lufias

A lot has happened...

Nothing much has happened actually, but a lot has happened! Okay, I'm just not making sense now. Why? I don't know...:D

Anyways, I haven't got the chance to update my blog, and that means something is or was hindering me from making me update this blog. Another blog (Mizah's) is quite up-to-date, some of the posts mentioned me...

Alright, I'll try to make the London series complete, sadly it will be a much shortened version - the even took place in The Dorchester Hotel in London, one of the best hotels in the world with a 5 or 6 star rating, but i am pretty sure its the latter.

Nothing much interesting happened on that day, I met a few old friends but that was it, and I was kinda hoping that we would win one of the lucky draw prizes but lady luck and fortune were not on our side that day...oh well, at least we had fun!

After that event we went back to Brunei hall and went to London Eye and then I went back to Brunei Hall and spent my time with Vi and Amirul. Had a good night sleep on the floor and then the next day prepared myself to go back to Sheffield, where my home is...yeah...Sheffield is my second home! I'm gonna miss Sheffield once I go back to Brunei for good!!

Alright, that's it, I think the 'burden' of completing this series has been lifted, and I think partly that it hinders me from continuing with my normal blogging pace :D

reasons? excuses? of course....eheheh

xxx
lufias

Lamp-posts

For lack of inspiration to continue writing the London series, I will discontinue it and continue some other time...

but here ya go...my lamp-post series, it's a series of pictures taken on the same night (5/11/2007).

Pictures of me wearing the same clothes.

Posing 'near' lamp-posts on my way home after the 'after dark bon-fire event'



Walking confidently to the lamp-post...jeng jeng jeng!




Gotcha! ehehe...



next lamp-posts are around here...ehhe




hehehe...




Money Man: I'll pay u to stop this non-sense...leave the poles allllooonnnee.....




Nope...i wont stop!




Ninja Girl: Jutsu@#$%^& stop!




i'll give you a bag of butter chicken curry watever from
Cafe Masala...u want?



Ninja Girl: mmmbah...manasaja...continue with your lamp-posts..



Jedi Master Beng Hui: Oh NO!!! Money man and Ninja Girl are no match for him!! Maybe i shud light saber him!
Azmi Skytalker: No SMOKING!!!?? wtf!! Master, look white roses!! <-- he's high!! kihkihkih balum lagi ia jadi Darth Boarder
(i'm busy outside lurking around to search for another lamp-post)




Ninja Girl (center): Lakastah pilih menu for our late dinner...
Money Man (left): I got the money! The S.O.B won't take the money,
might as well use it to buy me some food!
Fish Girl (right): Aku mau hmmm.....wat do you think I should have Ninja Girl?...Pink..wat do you want?
(Mun 1000pounds mau ku!! ani 10p!!)




Pink: ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzZzzzZ!



AHahHAHHA...I got all the food! I got all the food! and my lamp-posts!


(p.s: I didn't get all the food...aku masak maggi asam ja!...ehehe)


Disclaimer..no lamp-posts were hurt.



ayuh pulang kawan2...we can't stop him and his lamp-posts!
yipppee!!


xxx
lufias

London...2

Chapter 2
~*~

It might stand to reason since I spent three days in London, the chapters of the this London post will go up to the number 3. Logically after this chapter I will write another chapter. A closure. But let me think about that as I go along. I'd like to let a few surprises and not let the circumstances of what I do dictate what I should in the future.

Arrival in London
-26th October 2007-

As soon the train stopped, our contingent (hehhe macam ramai banar kami ah) took our luggages and stepped out of the train into St. Pancras Station. The time was 7.52pm. Yeap it was night by the time we arrived there. Cold? A bit. We all had our coats on so it wasn't that chilly.

Once we regrouped, we all began to head towards King's Cross Underground to go to Brunei Hall in Norfolk Square. In between this hustle and bustle of heading towards the Underground Station, the girls and a boy went for a pit stop in the 'washing chambers' ehhehe another fancy for toilets..:D

Unfortunately, all the boys didn't have Oyster card and apparently the girls do. So we made our decisions - the boys were to take taxi and the girls go ahead using the tube to reach Brunei Hall.

Long story brutally ended with a blunt meat cleaver (hehehe) both parties arrived safely in Brunei Hall, checked in but it was already full. The girls crashed at Dijah's place. Some of the boys - Naseeq and Wan crashed at Naseeq's cousin. Zaiem and Ikmal looked up their friends. Izzul and Hisyam, unfortunately had to sleep in the surau. As for me, I crashed at Amirul's room there.

Settled in. Rested a bit. Then we gathered at the Lobby, and decided to go have dinner. Wan, Naseeq and Hisyam went to have theirs at Nahar, a Malaysian Restaurant. Me, Fish, Rash, Miz, Ikmal and Izzul went to Chicken Cottage around Edgware Road, London. We've been craving BBQ chicken, more like me, fish, rash and miz craving for that 6 piece chicken wings, Izzul and Ikmal just followed and ordered the same thing (cos' its their first time there...).

By the time we're finished with the food it was around late 9ish or early 10ish. So we all headed back towards Brunei Hall, I don't quite remember why we wanted to go back to Brunei Hall, but once we're there, the girls kinda want to settle and rest for the night. The guys - me, wan, naseeq, izzul, ikmal and hisyam went out to 'explore'...ehhe :D

We started off by going to Edgware Road, then towards Oxford Street...then I was lost and never to be found! ahha..Nope that didn't happen. :D OF COURSE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. Otherwise I wouldn't be sitting here now...typing this. hehehe

Okay after Oxford Street, our navigators Wan and Naseeq brought us to Trafalgar Square (which was closed), we went to Piccadilly Circus, we went to see the Big Ben, Downing Street, Parlimentary House, the London Eye....and all of this ON FOOT! or feet. ehhehe owh we went to China Town. I've been to all these places last year...but the scenery was different at night. It was a good exploration...and of course it took us around 2-3 hours to do this. Really! London is huge...especially if you're on foot... :D

The watch on my hand -i vaguely remember this- showed it was a bit late already...it was 2.00 - 2.30 ish am...I gave in...most of the guys did too. We hailed a limo and asked to be dropped off at Hilton Hotel!...I wish!..Nope...we waited for the bus around Trafalgar Square bought a one way journey ticket and then spend the next 10-15 minutes in the bus...in silence..hehehe we were tired and we just need to rest our mouth as well. :D Arrived in Brunei Hall...and slept. :D Of course that's the brutally chopped off onions version...the only version :D

Alright before I brutally diced the potatoes, I think i better stop now and get a good refresher and a nice breakfast. I woke up early (as usual) ehehe and had a bit of spare time that's why I started to blog and continue the London post...and it looks like a third installment will be on its way too...soon i hope...if not, I'm just gonna do a brutally -whatever- scenario thing :D

Ciao

xxx
Lufias

(approximately 10million words) ehhehe <--- essay tia karang!

bye

London...1

Chapter 1
~*~

As you all know I went to London, exactly last weekend to celebrate Hari Raya there with other fellow Bruneians...

It all began during 'Sungkai' gathering in Sheffield and Wan's place (ahaha story telling time!). I broke the news to all my friends and the new faces there (my juniors - ehhehe i feel old!!)...long story shortened - I got quite a great 'sambutan' from the juniors albeit only 4 out of them actually went to the celebration, and 6 (including me) of the seniors went to London.

Sungkai at Wan's
(Wan is the guy on your right)


Me, Fish and Rash, arranged for all the train tickets and the event tickets and everything was settled 3-4 days after I broke the news...if the internet at my place was available...I could've done it a bit faster (by a few hours..or minutes or seconds...ehhe)

Alright...that's the prelude to all that's gonna come! hahaha

-Going to London-
26th October 2007


St. Pancras Station in London

Again, I'm gonna make an abbreviated version of this...We had class on that day, so we had to drag our luggages into class. Our train bound to London is set on 17.27 (5.27pm) and our class ended at 4.00pm.

Oh, before I proceed further 'we' means me, rash, fish and miz. :D

Alright, after class, the four of us went straight to West Street, just around the corner of Management School Building and board the tram there. By the time we arrived at the Sheffield Train Station, we had about an hour to kill (better early than late - that's our motto! it only applies to boarding trains or any other transport that's a bit 'mahal' fare-wise)

We arrived there, waited for the juniors - Izzul, Zaiem, Ikmal and Hisyam as well as Wan and Naseeq. :D. There I distributed their tickets and we boarded the train.

Me, Wan, Naseeq, Izzul, Zaiem and Hisyam boarded the same coach...and the rest - Fish, Miz, Rash and Ikmal boarded another coach...nothing much happened during the train ride...just the occasional chats and I tried to read the readings that I was supposed to do, but I couldn't concentrate so...I just didn't read it :D

It took around 2-3hours and finally we arrived at London St. Pancras Station.

hmmm...i think that's as far as I'm gonna write today...my hands are getting cramps :D hehhe

so i'll leave ya all and i'll update again tomorrow or soon :D



Ciao

xxx
Lufias