title reads as maresshia kairimasu... well my japanese is kind of crap at the moment.. haven't been using it for close to a year, either spoken or written... as can be seen since most of my blog has reverted back to the usual english haha.. but who am i kidding.. need to brush up on my japanese..

anyway.. title means, i m back in malaysia.. and well.. am still jet-lagging.. goodness knows why.. sleeping at 7-8 am malaysian time.. (is bout 12-1am uk time) seems to be my routine...

trying to break it... doesn't help that i m hanging out with my friends till 3-5 am .....haha, but i will eventually get there.. done it before in december when i came back...

so a little update on what's been going on....

ermmm i no longer have the fast 24/7 internet connection that i had in the UK so you people will be seeing me online much much less, since i m on dail up, and it can get really really slow.. my dad says he will install broadband.. so i m still waiting for it...

my computer on the other hand...is still acting weird, in the sense for my firefox and my aduim.. i type fasted than the words show.. which is annoying.. causing me to make quite a lot of mistakes in typing... and i have no idea what is causing this, i ve already repared the software of the computer.... blasted thing....

so the first day i came back, after dinner with my parents i was out with gene and nick leong for mamak.. haha..

had indon mee.. and believe it or not.. i actually had to ask gene to taste it, cause i said it tasted funny hahha ... the effect of not having mamak for a year.. ==

well then ever since then it was every nite out with nick and gene.. but last nite we went out for dinner the 3 of us plus huey... to atria for the japanese food...

sleeping at the time when malaysians are supposed to wake up.. is a real pain to me... =='

on another note.... i was told meng had let for canada and eugene is leaving tomorrow, so i will have to be up at 7am to have breakfast with him... == if i can even sleep.. and well, huey, nick, gene and i are planning to have a karaoke session, and at night i have a party to attend at marlyn's place in ss17.... real busy day no?

well, stuff will quiten down once my classes start.... won't be going out that much i think starting from this wednesday, cause sadly my transport minister aka gene will be leaving back for montana.. sigh... anyway.. good in some sense haha.. i really need to clean up my room and all.. its quite a mess since i left it..... and well my parents were part of the reason it needs to be tidied haha...

so anyway.. that's about it la...

a great thanks to aansan who helped me on the london underground on my day of departure.. miss you man!!! :)

take care and keep in touch ya people.. tho, i can get quite bad at it.. cause, well internet connection ma haha... but hopefully it will improve once i get broadband.. so just drop me a mail la people.. it will be 100% answered... :)

that's all for now.. signiing off...

-Oracl3-

got this interesting email from xin yin.. and thought that i would just share here.. it does feel quite true as to what a winner and a lsoer would do or think,.,, so which one are you? kekke
i think most of us are in between?? haha.. well don't know read on and question yourself la...

jsut a spamming post before i head to the airport hahaha...

WINNERS VERSUS LOSERS

♦ The Winner is always part of the answer;

The Loser is always part of the problem.

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♦ The Winner always has a program;

The Loser always has an excuse.

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♦ The Winner says, "Let me do it for you";

The Loser says, "That is not my job."

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♦ The Winner sees an answer for every problem;

The Loser sees a problem for every answer.

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♦ The Winner says, " It may be difficult but it is possible";

The Loser says, "It may be possible but i t is too difficult."

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♦ When a Winner makes a mistake, he says, "I was wrong";

When a Loser makes a mistake, he says, "It wasn't my fault."

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♦ A Winner makes commitments;

A Loser makes promises.

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♦ Winners have dreams;

Losers have schemes.

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♦ Winners say, "I must do something";

Losers say, "Something must be done."

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♦ Winners are a part of the team;

Losers are apart from the team.

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♦ Winners see the gain;

Losers see the pain.

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♦ Winners see possibilities;

Losers see problems.

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♦ Winners believe in win-win;

Losers believe for them to win someone has to lose.

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♦ Winners see the potential;

Losers see the past.

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♦ Winners are like a thermostat;

Losers are like thermometers.

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♦ Winners choose what they say;

Losers say what they choose.

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♦ Winners use hard arguments but soft words;

Losers use soft arguments but hard words.

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♦ Winners stand firm on values but compromise on petty things;

Losers stand firm on petty things but compromise on values.

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♦ Winners follow the philosophy of empathy: "Don't do to others what you would not want them to do to you";

Losers follow the philosophy, "Do it to others before they do it to you ."

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♦ Winners make it happen;

Losers let it happen.

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♦ Winners plan and prepare to win.

The key word is preparation.

YES!! finally this is my last post before i leave for malaysia.. all my long overdue posts which had been hanging over my head since march has been taken care off, all posted, though not in chronological order, but at least everything has already been loaded onto facebook, the links posted here, and the pictures sorted and posted here.. wah.. a lot of work... =='

but i managed it, and this is the latest that my posts can get.. it's only a day.. well technically it's 2 days old only haha...

sigh have to say good bye to teh united kingdom, but i already said my good byes and all that in a post that i posted a few hours ago, before i started this crazy multiple posting.. yes.. so happy that this is the last one.. till i head back to malaysia..

my blog posts won't be this hectic in malaysia cause i hardly go anywhere.. ahha.. usually sitting at home, that i can go for months wiht nothing to post.. now it's the opposite, i go out too much and have more than enough to post.. but it's all done now... everything posted while i still have fast connection here haha..

so ok down to business then i can sleep early...

on the 13th of august... i decided to close my bank account then... cause well i have been travelling all the while, and when i went to leeds, i still needed my bank account in case i wanted to use my debit card right?? and when i came back from leeds it was a friday night.. which lloyds bank will be open for me?? and i don't think they were open on saturday nor sunday, so i had to set monday ie the 13th as the day to close my bank account.

since i was going out, i might as well make full use of my day right??

well, the day started out kind of bad.. i was having an upset stomach, which i suspect was due to the chili crab that my cousin gave me the night before as dinner.. but then again.. could be that my stomach couldn't take such spicyness after so long...

anyway.. due to my upset stomach, my day started out late.. well wat with sin calling me then aansan ==' also not to mention that there was no electricity!! and no electricity meant no water!! cause this is a flat, which means no electricty to pump the water up to the 4th floor.. where i m staying, and no electricity to cook since the stove works by electricity.. gosh.. really terrible.. to top it off, my cousin's washing machine is spoilt so i can't wash my clothes.. sigh.. have to bring it back home to malaysia to wash.. jsut my luck eh?? =='

so anyway.. after settling my stomach as best as i could... i went to the post office at liverppool street to get my stamps for the letter to mail to sin (as said before i m mailing my sim card to him the day i leave. refer to post below to find out how to contact me!!!) i finally found the freaking post office mum!!!

so anyway.. bought a little something for lunch, and had no choie but head back to the flat for some medication, and rest before heading of to south kensington...

why you may ask i chose to go to south kensington when there are obviously more nearer lloyd's branches, like the one at baker street...

well if you recall from the eastern europe trip, i said that des made us get off at south kensington to get to the MAS office right, and yes.. i wanted to go to baden powell's house haha.. that's the reason..

having no electricity meant the router was out, so i had to call sin and ask him to search for me, and he found a lloyd's branch there for me so, off i went...

got lost actually intially, cause tehre was OLD brompton road (where the freaking bank was) and brompton road.. and they are at opposite ends.. idiotic ass who named teh streets... =='

ended up at the wrong side, before back tracking and finding teh correct place.. took me almost 30 minutes jsut to get to the bloody freaking bank... arghh.....

so anyway, closed my bank account there, and decided to head of to baden powell's house, now, thanks to des i knew where it was.. so it was impossible for me to get lost now muahahha.. and off i went.. :p

so ehre are the pictures...

the world scout logo outside the building... this place actually doubles up as a hostel as well.. i was wondering how does the thing survive, and well it was answered for me.. haha

yes, me being outside.. well had to ask people to help me take pictures, since i was sight seeing a lone.... and well.. err.. these people have no skill wan la .. they had to take my picture bout 4 times just to get it right.. waht's so hard with trying to get the words and me inside? 0_o'

a statue of baden powell...
first i took his grave, now his statue.. and i m not even a scout fanatic haha :p

well i entered and.... there's nothing in there.. it was like a hostel.. albiet a not so dumpy kind of hostel, but it had the hostel look, and well, they had like one small section with some of baden powell's relics, and a huge lounge!! and well that's it, the counter sold some scout souveniers like badges, woggels and pins.. which due to the jamboree was all SOLD OUT!! sob~ jsut my luck la...

first i coldn't even make it as a day visitor to the jamboree site no thanks to teh freaking shipping company, and now all teh stuff are sold out.. but well since i m not that fanatic about scouting, what can i do? so i jsut let it be la.. not like i will die without having done all those stuff..

so from my description, you can very well gather that there was nothing for me to do tehre right?? and well i saw some german scouts and what i think are spanish scouts.. saw some uniforms that's it.. too bad i don't have any malaysian scout scarf with me, would have loved to trade with them.. their's is so colourful....

anywya.. having nothing to do at baden powell's house.. i went next door to the natural science.. or was it natural history musuem,...

looks like one of the musuems i've seen around europe...

the moment you enter you are greeted by this.. haha i asked a korean lady to help me take this picture ;p

a dodo....


they had this explore antartica thingie in the musuem, so i thought that i would try it out.. and well, yes here i am taking my own picture.. as i said the pain about sight seeing alone is the taking picture. part and well, about the mengada part.. that doesn't really affect me, since i don't really mengada to start with.. but i find it so annoying when i want to take pictures.. =

but anywya, if any of u guys happen to go to the musuem, don't go for this antartica thing.. it's a waste of money... all they do is make you go into this freezer which is negative ten degrees, let you stay tehre for about 2-3 minutes, let you out, and then you walk into this exhibition thing.. see some "penguin" vomit...
try on some of teh jackets... play a few games.. maybe it's cause i ve been to better musuems.. that's why i feel this is crap..anyway.. personal opinion was that it wasn't worth it la...

so that's it for now.. i m done with all my posting for now..

sigh.. my last post here in the UK... =='

some people asked me, am i sad to leave the UK? well, hmmm~ close friends will know that i don't really have much feelings for anything.. so ermm.. i am feeling neutral?? but i guess deep inside
i do feel a little sad, i mean who wouldn't right? this place has been my home for a year, and i dn't know when or if i will ever come back here...

about leaving malaysia, that was a different story, cause i know that definitely i will be back in malaysia, and furthermore.. most of my friends are actually already over seas... ==' so i had no feeling when leaving malaysia..

bout family members.. well i m clsoe to everyone in my family, but closest to my sister.. so i like UK better cause the time difference is only an hour, meaning i can chat with my sister anytime.. while compared to the time difference back home ==' but then how do you miss parents who bug you online everyday? haha.. so tha't answers some of you people, yes?

but anyway, i m the kind that rarely shows her emotions, and well even if i do, it's really last minute... like well, taking exams.. i don't feel anything till i sit down and read teh questions.. realise i cant do it then panic ahha.. unlike most people i know, panicing before they enter the hall.. but well this year i did panic quite a lot haha.. cause i studied last minute and there was a lot of pressure to at least get a 3 rd class... or i m screwed for CLP ...

oh before i forgot, on the 12th of august i went out with rory to hammersmith, and had lunch at pizza express and watched rush hour 3.. real nice and funny movie haha.. then after that i cabut balik asap.. and well yes, teh shipping company finally came and took my stuff, the guy was much nicer than the last one haha.. well this paragraph is just for my records la haha :p

ermm.. guess that;s all, nothing else to say la.. have said my good byes one time too many.. and well we will see whether if aansan is free tomorrow to come and see me off, since he says he will be in london.. if he can see me off.. i wonder whether he can see me off all the way to holborn?ahahha :p my luggage is kinda heavy and the picadilly line at holborn does have 2 flights of stairs.... hmm~ kekkek >:p

oh well.. that's alll for now la...

to contact me on the 15th of august after 3pm, please do not call my uk mobile number but my malaysian number, the number can be obtained below... but yes it will cost you more to contact me that way, since it's like you are calling out of uk, since my number is a uk number.. so if you have anything to say or whatever, call me to say it before 3pm or forever hold your silence.. ... hah well tehre is msn and email as well haha :p refer to the post below to learn how to contact me :)

みんな　さようなら！！元気で！　まった！！

p/s: for all the posts lately, all those involving pictures, please don't mind the spelling and grammatical errors, i just went along as it is, so i didn't bother to check on my english, and many a time, my sped in typing has caused many typo errors and all, and my computer has been acting weird, in the sense that the RAM is like not enough... =='

so i type faster then the words show.. and i mean way faster.. it's like watching a whole paragraph type itself out, when i ve stopped typing, as i usually look at the screen when i type, i make mistakes instead when the words don't come out on the screen as i type, thus all the mistakes... and in abundance..

so forgive this blogger here for her crappy writing skills haha.. it's malaysianized as well ahha, at least i do my best not to use SMS spellings when blogging, after recieving numerous complaints from my parents, and i guess it's also cause i text less here in the UK so it was easier to revert to the proper spellings but still, i need to read more books.. but i won't cut down on my anime and manga haha :p

and yes, i admit, my english has become somewhat horrendous, and months of not using my brain has rendered it rusty, making me somewhat stupid, and lacking in common sense.. haha.. i need mahjong.. to sharpen my mind.. anyone back home up for it?? :p
well this is a long post script kekke.. that's all la...

-Oracl3-

on the 8th till the 10th of august, i made a trip to leeds,west yorkshire, to visit my best friend.. well since he got a girlfriend we hardly spent any time together, and since we are both in the UK, so i thought that i will just drop by and give him a visit.. first thing, i must say that i m impressed with leeds, well comparing it to reading =='

reading is like so small.. guess it's cause we are more like a town where as leeds is more city like.. totally not suitable for those who like to shop haha.. but i guess after a while it will wear out.. there were a lot of branded shops there , like louis vitton etc.. dunno how to spell. hahah i don't know about all this branded stuff.. they were taught to me by des and mel :p

anywya.. so i stayed with him in his house and met his other housemates, they are all really ncie people even his housemate's girlfriend... well i had fun..

i had to wake up early and head to king's cross station to catch a 3 hour train to leeds... was reading neil gaiman's smoke and mirrors... ermmm.. not my cup of tea is all i will say... maybe cause it was all short stories kind i guess... =='

anyway, arrived, dropped my luggage at his place, and out for lunch and a movie, went to watch simpsons... really stupid show la.. haha at times i felt so annoyed with teh stupidity but the pig was cute haha :p


nice little walk, like london only... the part where des brought me and mel... (haha yes des brings us shopping.. he brought me to ms selfridge haha :p )

yesh i am in the city of leeds.... :p

sin and i cooked dinner.. simple stuff la, and i boiled chicken soup, which sin calls ABC soup.. well guess it is called that haha... and well seen here in the picture with his housemate vincent aka kok hong.. haha yes... dad... i know ;p this is the second friend i have who is called kok hong haha :p dad your name to common laio haha :p

the next day we headed to york, and visited the tranport musuem there.. it was trains and more trains... was nice and quiant.. but errmm sorry... if i didn't look that intersted ;p

on the shinkansen.. well it's a model of it haha

waiting for my train.. where isit??? haha :p


the york minster.. didn't go in though... expensive la... ==

errrr.. cant remember what it is called...
a ruin in the middle of the city haha well this was still in york.. after that we went back to leeds, and got ready to go out clubbing... well we had a bar dinner, and we called gene on the phone and talked and laughed.. must be the alcohol.. i swear that sin is trying to kill my liver haha.. i had vodka and lemonade.. ehhe yum.. and well after dinner we rested for a bit then went clubbing... with sin's other housemate, shawn and his girlfriend teng..

woah the club in leeds is so much bigger compared to reading, and looks more posh as well..the drinks were also way cheaper than reading.. but well they do say the further you are from the london the cheaper it is, leeds is 3 hours away while reading is 35 minutes away from london.. go figure... ;p

well that idiot of a friend really gave me a lot to drink that night.. i had vodka and lemonade.. very low precentage... 4% only.. followed by.. errra shot of something that tasted like chocolate, but from the taste of it, it was about 40% i think.. then i had a beer, and well there was no effect, so sin bought me a jack daniels (JD) shot mixed with a shot of vodka, and after that anotehr shot of JD, and 2 shots of baileys, one after another.. i know..some of you who know my limit.. must be going oh my god!!! hahah.. but that was how it was... ==' so we left the club early bout almost 2am and went home to sleep haha :p


nice sun set ya?? haha.. outside sin's house... this was coming back from york.. :p

next day we woke up late in the mornig and headed of for a chinese buffet with his friends :p
oh my god man.. that sin ate nothing but siu mai oni.. gila... == my last day here in leeds, so vincent was joking saying that it was my farewell?? 0_o ahhaha...

after the buffet, vincent brought me around leeds to see some things and take some pictures.. he's a better tour guide than sin la haha
here in the picture above we hve vincent and i posing in the town square.. gaya right both of us with sunglasses hehehe :p

leeds city town hall... chun man... looks like something out of europe... oh wait.. uk is considered europe right? hahaha >:p


well that's all from leeds..

one more post.. and that's it till malaysia!!! :p

-ORacl3-

*When you have eliminated all that which is impossible, then whatever remains, no matter how impropable, must be the truth..
*I take a short cut when i can get it
*Don't be hurt, my dear fellow. You know that I am quite impersonal
*I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
*But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.
*There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
*You see, but you do not observe
*I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty
*Any truth is better than indefinite doubt
-Sherlock Holmes-

well, yes i ve read i guess all the stories on sherlock holmes... and well.. yes i like it, but i m not really a fan haha.. i m not really a sherlock holmes enthusiast, but i like him and teh stories.. so since i had the chance, why not visit where he lived?

finding the place itself was like a mystery itself haha.. coming out from the tube station one is greeted by the bronze statue of holmes. somehow i ended up on the other side of the street and had to cross the big dangerous street, and find my way to 221b baker street, for the great detective's services.. :p

well not like it was that hard to find.. just ask around if you don't know haha.. i had all the time in the world then, with nothing to do in london, and no one to go out with.. i embarked on this solitary journey, to find the great detective's home :p

so yes, in the end i found the place :) but again, it's such a pain when it comes to taking pictures =='

i found the place!! but what is this, there is an officer guarding the door...

my dear man... he was just trying to stop me from having my smoke indoors.. sigh, all is well then the government has passed a no smoking law in public places after all.. as one who assists teh law.. i shall abide to this.. absurd ruling....

kekeke :p simply making up a dailouge haha

ah finally i can enter my nice little study.. my voilin in the corner tempts me to play it. a stradivarius no doubt.. got it quite cheap as well :p the fire in the hearth fills the room with warmth, i hope it does not affect my chemicals for my experiment, right behind my chair....

ah.... forget the rules.. i do not play by them, let me have a smoke in my room.. ;p

some of the err... "artifacts" from the cases that holmes had solved...

so that;s all for now.. if you are a sherlock holmes fan then make sure you come to his musuem... on the upper floors there are wax musuems, depicting scenes from some of holmes cases, for those pictures go for the links..

two more posts.... and i will be done posting for now, before i head back to malaysia :p

-Oracl3-

to attend my graduation, my family, excluding my borther who couldn't mak it.. came to londnon, for a week, and well so we met up with my sister's freind who was also our neighbour
choi lean and err.. choi ping?? so anyway we headed to london, covent garden for lunch.. des first brought me , mel, weili, and chelle a few months back... i think it was somewhere during easter break.... before or after i came back from prague i guess.. i think it was before i left for prague ahha... anyway.. so going there with the yong sisters made it my second time there.. and actually on the 26th of july when we came back from our eastern europe trip, des brought mel and me tehre to eat again haha so in total i ve been there 3 time hehe :p

well teh food isn't bad.. so give it a try :p
but you will have to ask des for teh restaurant name, for teh life of me, i can't seem to recall it.. ==' but taht's cause i don't remember reading it anywhere... but the cristal lager is good.. give it a go :p


group pic before the food came..

with the food.. and no my sister was not abused.. she got hit by paint balls, before she came to london ==

in leciester square with my sis, and well parents who aren;t in this pic, we were buying tickets for teh phantom of the opera the next day :p

in the underground.. how come i don't take such pictures with friends???!!

brought my family to harrods, and yesh.... we had crispy cream & donuts, bought a dozen, and thought we could keep it till breakfast the next day... we thought wrongly..... well... there was some still left for breakfast haha :p

yups the one of the name of the streets where the flat i stay is.. haha the other is folgate street, the other is commercial street. and apparently tehre is another street haha.. interesting place i live in :p

chilling out while waiting for my dad to finish cooking dinner.. he cooked chicken curry!!! haha, well wasn't really chilling out, as can be seen i was busy, calling teh bank and the handphone company... ==' and well settling some stuff.. ahh.. my shiro chan looks so nice :p heheh contrasting to my black track pants :p

well that's all from my parents stay with me in london... ;p

i don't have to say it anymore, but what the heck, one last time... for the rest of the pictures look for the freaking links haha :p

-Oracle-

after windsor. the next day i brought my parents to cambridge, having already been there before, and relying on my not so excellent memory ahha, i became their tour guide and brought them around, it so happened that it was open day as well, so we got into some places free, and cause i seemed to know the place, the people collecting the entrance fee seem to think taht i was a student tehre bringing her parents round to see the place, so they didn't charge me either hahaha :p

*me a cambridge student?? kekeke >;p*

st mary's church... gua.... ;p




Trinity college :p
last time i was here we weren't allowed to pass to this part of the college grounds so paul and i tried to take pictures of the college up close.. i still remember haha it was no easy fit tring to fit the whole catherdral in such a near distance haha... refer to old cambridge pictures if you would like to compare the links... are err.... well somewhere within my old posts as well :p

posing in cambridge again hehe

sister and i posing in front of the tree where the apple hit newton's head :p


ahha bet none of you have been in here? haha it was open day so we could go in.. can't remember waht college this was though.. == '

well that's all for cambridge :p
-Oracl3-

when my parents were here, i very well couldn't expect them to sit around in london the whole 7 days, so well i brought them out of london haha, and when four people buy a train ticket we get a concession price which made it way more cheaper hehe.. so here we were at windsor..

mind you there is notning to see in windsor but the castle, so all 3 of us, sis, mom and i stared at my dad when he said that he didn't want to enter the castle when we reached there... ahha.. it's like since you've arrived might as well go in.. haha so in the end the girls won and in we went :p


the winning ladies :p hehe

and well the man kekeke >:p

inside the castle, the courtyard..

nice view behind :)

on the streets in windsor.. met elaine my coursemate there, she was bringing her mum and grandpa around.. :p well the castle wasn't bad la, it was ok, jsut that around europe you can get nicer castles than this..... but still it was interesting and ncie to see la.. if only i wasn;t so jaded.. but i still managed to appreciate it.. so it's fine.. if you can, make a trip there la :)

-ORacl3-

with the fellowship of five now broken.. the 3 remaining Malaysians strived to continue on their journey striving through eastern earth.. errr Europe... riding along the tracks.. following it all the way to Salzburg, the final leg of their journey, before their mission is complete, enabling them to return to London... but what a sight beholds them in Salzburg!!

upon arriving at the Salzburg train station, our heroes were given the task with finding the Strawberry Youth hostel.. yes the name sends shivers down your spine... the strawberry youth hostel.....

anywya, so armed with nothing but a map, as it always has been in eastern europe.. (that's how we explorer's got around.. a map and luck :p get one from the travel information counter at the train stations when you arrive, really useful things they are hehe)

we found our hostel which actually turned out to be quite a grand hostel, when compared to our other hostels.. i recall the one in Bratislava to be a student hostel actually... mel, des and i in one rom, xian ai and maggie in another.. our room was quite nice and cooling...

in Budapest, the room was quite warm and noisy... 8 beds in a room, all 5 of us together.. and as mentioned before we had a little adventure before finding it...

in Zagreb, the lying directions, which was in NO WAY 10 MINUTES WALK!! emphasised at least 3 times on my blog already i think haha.. well in Croatia, hostel lika was like a 3 storey house converted into a hostel?? and well the room was super hot.. and stuffy.. met a nice roomie, who actually was a black from america, and was working at the hostel, borrowed us his eastern Europe book.. what's it called.. travel a lone?? lonely traveller.. anyway.. useful things to have on you.. borrowed it to us and recommended splitvice lake to us..

in ljubljana... the hostel was ok, it was a 3-2 situation again as we had 2 rooms. this time our room was kinda warm.... and well des left the window to me. cause he claims he doesn't know how to open it, i bet you, he knows but he's just lazy.. he's a guy he can figure out how it works..
but it was ok.. i kind of flooded the hostel on the day we were leaving hahaha >:p

in Vienna.... oh my freaking god, the bloody hostel was on a bloody hill, took my breath away just trying to get there (hey you try it with 11kg on your back!!) the room... was ok, all 5 of us in it together again sharing with 2 other people. and suddenly... i don't know how this came about.. but ermm.. one of our innocent friend was getting a little pep talk on the birds and the bees.. and well it was the usual 3 roomies talking to each other, the other two went to shower i think or maybe they left for the airport already... when our friend suddenly asked, "how often do guys hit the air planes?? (translate to Cantonese)" hahaha and mind you, there was another guy in the room... haha i quickly changed the language from English to Malay as i suspected that she didn't know there was another guy in the room.. gosh, was a good thing for me to laugh at all the way to Salzburg.. i m so sorry girl, but it was really hilarious.. thinking about it now still makes me laugh so hard :p hehehe >:P

ok anyway enough with the hostels.. i was saying that strawberry hostel in Salzburg was like a 3 star hotel... it was once called Rosen hotel, which is German for rose hotel.. by the way Austria uses German.. unlike the other 4 countries which used their own language.. but i do know hvala is thanks.. (it's Croatian by the way) and it works in the other countries..(such as Slovenia) their language is similar haha...

so anyway nice hotel we were staying in, well for the price we were paying as well ==' and nice breakfast as well, which we packed secretly for lunch as well hehe... ok enough of the banter know to allow you to feast your eyes on the sight in Salzburg.. a really quaint and beautiful city... during this last leg of the journey my ankle started to hurt... ==' sigh old injury... well at least it lasted 10 days of abuse before starting to hurt... :p

ok- ok.. pictures... -->


nice view right? the salzburg castle is behind me :)

streets in Salzburg, small little town, love the signs for the shops.. so quaint.. :)

well, since the town was so small, we finished seeing it the day we arrived, so the next day we went out of Salzburg to the biggest ice cave in the world... or was it Europe?? well it was an interesting adventure for the 3 Malaysians.. :) who thoroughly enjoyed being in a cave with a temperatures of 0 celcius using what ever clothes they had to keep themselves from blending in with the ice... wonderful experience :)

above is des and i in the ice cave ;p the ice there was supposed to be a shape of a bear.. take a look at the picture links to see the full thing properly :p

the view from up there, in the mountains, near the cave entrance.. we had to hike a well, wouldn't call it short or long a moderate distance from where the coach dropped us.. and we walked up.. and yes des.. i know that i have no stamina... ==' the air up tehre was quit thin as well.. so imagine how high up we must have been :p

it was cold and to top it off it was drizzling,... we could see our breath condensing !! :p

nice view eh? haha guess how many layers i was wearing..?? hehe i was wearing a tube, my yellow long sleeved top, a cardigan, a t shirt, my readiing jacket and my wind breaker... :p hehe well nothing new right? you guys know that i m afraid of the cold haha
it was 0 degrees for crying out loud... colder than winter :p

welcome to the view ehhe

further down i could strip off some of the clothes.. nice castle behind :) forgot what it's called =='

walking around Salzburg we came to a flower garden...

with a view :)

in Salzburg castle, well we walked all the way up the hill and at the entrance we had to pay like 7 euros i think to enter.. so i was like.. since we took the trouble to hike all the way up, we might as well go in.. well mel was atas pagar, and des didn;t want to go.. but i don't know how we ended up going in.. guess those two scared i get angry?? haha.. am i that scary when i m pissed?? but i was ok if they didn't want to go in anyway.. but oh what the hell,we went in anyway la.. :) ehhe.. both of them are just being nice hehe.. and well my sister recommended the castle and so did other people....

inside the castle, that's a grand piano behind there :p
apparently sometimes they hold music concerts here :p


ah yes Salzburg is teh birthplace of Mozart :p and here we are a statue of our all time favourite composer... and musician... :)

so that was the end of our trip, we stayed in Salzburg for 3 days.. and on the 25th of July left for the airport to head back to London, where we arrived around 10 something in the night, so mel and des came back to Liverpool street with me to stay.. and the next day we went to Harrods... and Leceister square.. oh we also went to the MAS office at earl's court...

don't know how des uses the internet, but he said the nearest tube was South Kensington.. but when i looked it said earl's court.. unfortunately i had a case of amnesia in the morning and couldn't recall the station, which turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as des showed me the national history museum and Baden Powell house as we trudged along to the MAS office...

well more exercise is good for health anyway haha, and knowing where Baden Powell's house is, i returned, but that my friends.. is another story.. hehe

so there was the eastern Europe trip, for more pictures look for the links on the blog they are somewhere.. in one of the posts :p

-Oracl3-