Metallica concert

Urgh, accounts is getting even more challenging than before :( I can't even get one final answer right for my homework! This is one disadvantage of taking on a speed course for A Levels. There is barely enough time to finish the syllabus properly and all the teachers are basically zooming past all the chapters. I don't even have a proper understanding of what is being taught now... I only have my O level knowledge to rely on. Daydreaming in practically all classes just make things worse too. -_-

Oh well. Anyway next week is Easter break. It's going to be for about 2 weeks, which is on average 2 week shorter than what most schools here in UK have. LSE actually has 5 weeks off for their Easter. Jealous, I am so. I understand why the college decided to only give us with only 2 weeks though. It's basically what I rambled about in the previous paragraph. I have a feeling that this break is going to be wasted as well, just like previous breaks that I had. Remember I always say how I am going to use it to revise school stuff? I never did that. Except for a rare couple of days, or hours even, that's it. Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh I've lost my drive and desire. Bad, bad. :/

Okay enough about college stuff. This bit might be interesting: I went to Metallica's concert last Saturday!!! Omg, is that awesome/ shocking/ unexpected or whuddd. It was kind of a spontaneous thing because Shaun and Naz got extra tickets and no one wanted to buy them... so Boobs bought one of the tickets and Shaun kindly offered me the extra one. Naz is the hardcore Metallica fan anyway and Shaun agreed to accompany him to catch the concert once more. Yea that's how hard core he is. Naz went to the same concert twice. Like, whoa.

The concert was rather awesome. It was very eye-opening, metal-ish and freaking loud. It was so loud that when I came out of the stadium, I could barely hear properly. It was as though I lost my sense of hearing after the 1.5 hour long performance. During the concert I actually feared that I might go deaf and had to cover my ears to try and prevent further (temporary) damage to my ear drums. I got it back though, thankfully. Or so I think... hmm.

I find it quite a waste that I only knew 2 songs out of the handful that they played. Nearly everyone were like singing (or rather, screaming) with the lead vocalist. Oh yea, I find that James (lead vocalist, guitarist and band leader) is very charismatic. & the drummer (Lars?) too. They are quite old though.

Someone's watching us.

The cab driver who couldn't catch whatever we said.

Naz, in white, and boobs, holding the banana skin.

"Don't put 2 rotten bananas together" or something.

Doodling away on the window~

O2 Arena was where the concert was held.

Outside the stadium. (Not very interesting)

Our seats were pretty high up and far away from the stage. Naz and Boobs sat at different places, closer to the stage. Btw, the picture with shaun talking on the phone was to illustrate how far we were from the stage, lol.

James!!!

Other hard core fans cheering and throwing their empty plastic cups of beer down. Oh yea, I experienced an uber mini beer shower, wts. Thank goodness the smell didn't stick on to me.

Some guy dozing off/ orgasming in silence.

If you can distinguish the faces from this pictures you can actually see Shaun yawning lol.

Metallica!

James again! :D

James changing hahahaaahahahahahahahh

& 1 Kirk. Haha. Most of the pictures were taken with maximum zoom btw. It's quite surprising that this Kirk one is clearer, relative to the other pictures.

The weather is getting warmer lately albeit the weird difference in the change of temperature from day to night (think from 16 to 4). It's not that extreme yet but it's really quite troublesome. I have to dress at the right thickness, enough to keep me from being baked by my layers and frozen by the night wind. Oh well. Spring oh springgg, thou make me ponder what I am going to experience this time round.

happy white day :)

After I complained that he doesn't take pictures with me anymore. Haha ♥

Today was a really huge contrast from the past sucky week I was complaining about yesterday. Like, really really really different. It was a nice day even though there wasn't that many nice programmes. Simple, quiet (quite) but enjoyable. I would say maybe it's because I tasted the best cod fish ever OR I found out that Shaun's sweet side can really be diabetically sweet OR both added together to give me my dynamic day. Oh yea, and part of the credit goes to the awesome weather as well. It reminded me of August, when Amanda came over for her Cambrige thing with her SAJC mates. I love this sort of weather: sunny, cold yet warm-ish and not as humid as back in SEA.

So anyway, it was White day (still now now though) of course I have to treat Shaun back right, because he treated me on Valentine's (traditionally, it's supposed to be the other way round- girls are in charge for Valentine's, guys for White). We were supposed to go to Madamme Tussauds but he was sick so we decided to do like a teeny bit of shopping. HIS SHOPPING, fyi. I was only given like 45 minutes to window shop?!?!! I know, what a (time) miser. After shopping, we went to Starbucks to chill until 7, since I made the restaurant reservation for 7.30PM.

While we were there, I got entertained by the budding coin magician. Yea, Shaun has a hobby in magic, mainly coins, since like... early last year? He's getting more talented in his magic tricks seriously. His hands are like really quick with the coins and the thing is he only learnt the trick in like less than a week wts.

Time went by rather quickly and soon we were at the restaurant (sounds so composition-ish wts). It was the restaurant that I wanted to bring him during Valentine's but I couldn't get a reservation then because it was fully booked, even 2 weeks before the actual event! It's insane. He had a place in mind anyway, and it was nice. Back to the topic, so yes, finally I get to sit down in the restaurant with him. The ambience was partially romantic because it was kind of lively with the people at the bar. It's like a fused restaurant, "exquisite, futuristic designed venue overlooking the vibrant buzz of Regent Street" - as mentioned on the website. There are the main restaurant, sushi (something like that) bar and champange bar in one area. Really cool layout. It was bigger than it looked!

The food was even more amazing. Oh my god. As mentioned, the best cod I have ever tasted so far in my 18 years and 14 days. The texture was super smooth, really like how you know japanese always say "omg it melted in my mouth, oishiiiiii!!!" Yea, it was really like that. I am not even kidding. We had another type of fish as well but it wasn't as nice as the cod (I nearly spelt that as god wts). IT WAS THE SEX. Oh, the dessert was really fantastic as well. We ordered pistachio crème brûlée and pandan sticky rice and poached something (it's so good that it's not even on the online menu) + cocktails which were damn good. Everything was so good. Even the edamame beans tasted sexy. Omg, I think I am in love with the restaurant. Even though the bill was a bit more than what I expected, I didn't mind paying 70% of it. It was 101% worth it. Really.

White day was indeed a memorable one :) with the companion, especially, and the new found butterfly (I doubt you understand what I mean). Life is indeed really good for today. :D

(y)

Winter Wonderland

Landing hard on your bum at the first few minutes of your very first try in ice skating isn't exactly a good start to your journey in mastering (or gain apprenticeship) the sport. Basically, it hurts a freaking lot and gives you a sort of phobia of falling down in the same trend again. That, happened to me last night. How unfortunate.

Yea, this is an interesting picture. The polaroid turned out to be really nice :D even though only one of my eyes was in it!

Yesterday was the day when we (Viriya, Koi, Danial, Syazwan, Le, Harshini, Zahabia and I) went to Winter Wonderland, initially with great excitement. The moment when we reached the venue, we were kind of disappointed. It wasn't as beautiful and grand as how the pictures, videos and whatnot had potrayed it. Well, maybe the giant wheel was the only exception. It stands next to the stunning lake and the size of it is really quite giant-ish. The beauty really tempted me to buy a ride but, a pauper as I always am, it's just not financially right.

Queueing up for the roller coaster!

Rolllller coaster! :D

We spent a good half of the day attempting to entertain ourselves with some of the available rides: roller coaster, some round and round thing (not the carousel) and Haunted Mansion. That was listed according to how much I enjoyed myself during the ride. Seriously, Haunted Mansion was such an... oxymoron? Viriya (whom I sat with during the ride- yes, a ride) and I practically laughed at most of the manequins. There was one with flashing white lightbulbs as the eyes and it's really hilarious because the way it flashes was really monotonous and fake. Ahh~ makes me think of good old Japan days. Their haunted house was za bomz. We screamed so loud until the people acting as the ghosts had to check up on us. (y)

Checking out this bungee doll thing at the German Market.

Unwanted by the duck.

We found a duck which looked like naz. The hair, white patch on the wings and erm... black feathers? Naz has black hair... so...

Naz waddling away~

Danial imitating the waddling actions of Naz.

Awww, Naz was insulted by it :(

Oh, and we found Naz's twin as well!!! The one at the back is called Karan. He's a junior in college and we always made fun of how Naz resembles Karan.

Chilling at the cafe, yo~ hot chocolate time :D

Doing the tango baby~

This is from my camera.

Hot chocolate gives Harshini orgasms. :) KIDDING.

KOI! :D Her 3rd anniversary with her boyfriend is tomorrow, very (y).

What a scary woman. I feel for Le.

The other half of the day was spent in the cafe chatting because it was freezing cold outside and our skating slot was at 7.45PM. We had some good time taking candid pictures with Danial's DSLR! & talking on the phone ahahahahahhaahahahahahha made my day, really.

So, back to my attempt in ice skating... in a nutshell it sucked 1000%. Despite Danial's and Viriya's effort to coach me, I just couldn't move my legs in outward V motion/ balance on ice. Danial was telling me to have confidence, but that is the thing that I am always lacking of. It was demoralising like crap, really. Seeing the way Syaz skates was really funny though, haha! Harshini told me that there was this once when Syaz actually separated a pair of lovey-dovey couple because he nearly lost his balance. When she told Syaz about it, he said that he did it many times. LOL! It was hilarious like crazy when he was telling us about it. :D

Viriya acting tough in front of the machine.

Hahaha, this picture is self-explanationary. I think he (syazwan) found the other half of his christmas present.

Oh, and that guy actually managed to get a monkey from the machine thing where you have to manouver the claw-like mechanism, without his specs. Not bad, but 10+ pounds for that monkey? Lol! I am sure he's going to treasure it. :)

Taken by yours truly, she didn't like it though. I think it has a unique smurf feel to it.

The eventful and tiring day was ended with a german sausage feast which was waaaaaaay bigger than average sausages and overpriced. The ones that we had wasn't scarily huge though, it was more of long and thin. We walked past some booths which sold like huge, long and fat sausages which instantly gave us grostesque thoughts. & speaking of which, there was this ride which little kids enjoyed very much. It's something like fake mechanic reindeers that move along a track. The movement of the thing was quite queer, because it's like bobbing up and down, like sudden and short bobbings, making it look like... nevermind. I think this post is getting too long.

The event ends on 4th January, a good place to go at night if you want to experience a nice walk in the park, get a different view of London on the giant wheel (London Eye does get boring sometimes) and experience a bit of German delicacies. Yea, the German market was also considerably enjoyable!

Don't let your imagination run (too) wild, people!
(What a nice way of ending this entry :) )

Missing you on Wednesday wasn't a big deal afterall

Where did our heads go?

Quite a few of us(CTC kids) decided to skip a day of school to attend University of London Open Day. Basically, University of London refers to most Universities situated in London, e.g. UCL, LSE, King's College. Imperial isn't in the UL group though. I heard that they decided to become independent or something. Anyway, the whole event was average. There wasn't much for me since most of the Universities in London does not have Accounting and Finance, which I don't know why. It'll be damn good if UCL have the course. ;)

Nevertheless, Serene, Calvin, Syazwan and I visited a couple of universities. We went to see UCL(of course) and School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS). UCL is formed of multiple buildings. It's reminds me of like, a district. & each department feels quite distant from one another. I like the main building though. It has patches of nice green grass which give the warm typical university feel(like those on TV hehe). SOAS on the other hand,... it was kind of sad. The main building is quite old on the inside. There were some parts of the school, like the Library, which I find scary. It's like a scene where you can film a horror movie in. Haha~ but Serene finds it cosy.

& Calvin is very cool. He claimed that he wants to take Physics when the Student Advisor from UCL asked him which course he's applying to. Damn funny!

After visiting UCL & SOAS, we had lunch with Jooooooooooooooooanne! She cut her hair, ahah~ Then Serene and I went off to shop(she wants to make full use of the 13 pounds ticket) while the 2 guys went to visit some other universities. I think it's Queen Mary and/or King's. A stopover at Starbucks made me discover quite a few things resulting in me going"WHAAAAAAT!". Hahah, very interesting indeed. We all met before dinner and went off to Misato. I want some more udon!

The people I went with.

Thanks Syazwan for the cheeky pictureS.

Look out...

TA-DAAAAAAAAAAH!! HAAHHAHAHA

While waiting for UCL tour.

They decided to play boxing...

...and pinching. Her pinch can break your bones. (kidding, but it was excruciatingly painful)

Outside SOAS.

LOOK AT CALVIN'S EYES!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH

One of the courses offered in SOAS. Interested? ;)

We were in Niketown just before we went off to Leicester Square(where Misato is). Take note of the phrase on the chair. Hahahahaha~

Syazwan's buka puasa face. (again, kidding. This was candid)

Hahaha, my attempt with buka puasa face even though I am not involved in it.

Normal pose.

Joanne in the middle of saying "can you don't take picture of me?"

Oh well~ picture-hating people...