More picturesque moments :)

And so boredom has driven me to upload more pics here.

haha.

Again, they're of scenery cos poor Cassandra still has to sift through literally thousands and thousands of photos and then burn them into a CD.

except the last photo but I stole that from sue anyway so it's not counted.

So here's more pics, Afie, go steal some more if you want. heh.

Sue, I wanna steal your pics so like hurry and upload them you loser! :P

York Minster.

Away before me to sweet beds of flowers.


And thou shalt go in and order a large Hawaiian pizza.

I'll wish upon this penny that I drop into your depths.

The Royal Crescent at Bath.

The two streaks of white that cuts open the morning sky.

Christ Church, Oxford.

They were having a promotion of bee movie. thus the bee.

The view over the river Thames

One of my favourite places, the GLOBE.

I'll take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

St. Paul's cathedral again, up close.

As he stands guard over our hearts.

Can you tell the time through the rain drops?

This is another one of my favourite pics. Credits to Afie who took it. :)

The 2 afiqahs and loser sue in between. haha.

opps. I'm wearing the cambridge hoodie she really wanted.

Sorry sue. I'll lend it to you k. heh.

speaking of sue, me and her came up with a plan.

We were thinking maybe weekly lunches for the girls and j1 dinners on every 17th of the month.

Cool shit right?? heh.

Plans are to be finalized but trust me, it IS going to happen cos we so need to reinforce the friendships we built all the way away in UK.

love and miss you all.

:)

The Picturesque moments

Finally I got the pics uploaded.

Here are some random bits here and there cos I can't possibly upload every single photo I took.

Mind you, they're all of scenery and objects and such.

For the rest of the photos, I'm still waiting for Cassandra's collation.

Although it may take quite a while since she has over 2000 to sift through and edit.

So enjoy.

And the stones beneath our feet.

The Angels that watch over our sleep.

Model of the Globe

In the actual Globe.

And all the world's a stage.

The gate to a magical world.

The dining hall of Hogwarts.

The equivalent of the MRT, the London Underground/Tube.

Teddy Bears dangling on a string at a fun fair.

The Grilled fish and potato dinner at an English Pub.

The Roman Bath.

Bath Abbey.

Stratford.

Statue dedicated to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Where Shakespeare took his first breaths.

The scary mansion we stayed in at Haworth.

Roses by the window.

Haworth.

Skipton Castle. Des or Mais. Forgot what it meant though.

The ray of hope through an archer's slit.

Lord Clifford's crest.

Untainted Skies.

From the window of Skipton Castle.

Carved into stone, our love will last.

My personal favourite, A rainbow under a different sky.

Castrated

Just like water frozen
An empty hollow
A bubble trapped with lack of air
It's a castrated heart, veins that are dead
A masterpiece of yours I see
Why not carve your name?
there. right there by the corner
perfect.
I'll go display it, along with all our sins
For the stars to see,
for heaven's court to rule for me
and decide it's time for your own heart to bleed

shaeira

With only 2 minutes left. Thanks.

My dad's digi cam just died on me with only 2 minutes left of picture uploading time.

thanks.

Not to mention that this is the third time it died on me.

2 words. extremely frustrated.

it's 2.24am and I'm still very much awake.

The jet lag + my already insomniac self is not really doing any good at all to my internal clock.

I'm going to be in big trouble when school starts if I don't get around to more sane sleeping hours.

I'm pretty much done with my history essay for IH.

Still have SEA to do but I'd rather not think about it until tomorrow.

And again, the procrastinator gets the better of me.

My heart on a string

It's just the deafening silence I hear
The crash of the waves on the shore
A whisper said by a shooting star
Why do you have to go?
Is there somone out there?
Are you?

shaeira


And before you go I'll have to tell you this
I don't mind if I give it to you on a string
I'll lace goodbye in between the seams
My heart's yours, hold it in your fist,
that tiny beating thing
Then in exchange give me your smile
I'll place it in the pockets of my voided heart
To keep, I'll sew the pockets shut
Give me a rainbow, all the drops in the ocean but
I sealed it shut
It's still mine to keep

shaeira

Just the deafening silence

5 am. I'm still wide awake.

Which is strange but maybe I'm still in London time or something.

I think my internal clock's still spoiled.

Afiqah(damn is so weird saying my own name so from now onwards, she's afie.heh) and Esther's still up too. Haha. Think Charles is up as well though he keeps going offline now and then.

I wanted to post the pictures in this post but then I can't seem to upload them so I shall leave it to another day.

Hmm, lets see, I'm supposed to blog more about the trip I guess but I'm too malas to do so, so again, I'll give tiny snippets.

Anyway, I don't think any amount of words I say will do the trip justice.

Phrases I won't forget:

-London Baby! (credits to Wen Jia)

-Okay can! (credits to a certain jester named sue)

-daaaamn good (credits to Vani for making it unforgettable)

-you sucks!(credits to zul for teaching us all good english)

-tiu tiu tiu(don't ask)

-Shakes his spear (don't ask again)

Random things I won't forget:

- the Streets of London song that was afie's alarm every morning

-the rainbow at Covent Garden

-The loud Hoot by Little(not so actually) Red Riding Hoot outside Haworth YHA

-running to BK from the travel lodge sans all our winter coats that is

- the "wrestling" match we watched on tv at the travel lodge

- dancing to Rihanna's Umbrella provided kindly by Little Red Riding Hoot

- cooking on the hot plate

-zhai and zul's underwear dare during breakfast at some hostel (I can't remember which)

There's so much more which I can't really remember.

(the trip is in my mind in snippets you see)

Honestly the whole trip is filled with them, memorable moments.

moments that took my breath away, moments that crack me up.

Lovely moments for me to collect.

Travelling to UK was magical to me and I loved every single minute of it.

I've only known them for 12 days but I guess the 12 days really bonded us together.

which would explain why I kinda miss all of them.

oh well, I'll be seeing them soon when school starts.

I really hope, like what afie says in her blog, that I'll get to travel around the world with the same set of people after A's.

It'll be daaaamnn fun.

:)

London Baby! - direct quotation from Teo Wen Jia. :)

And so I just got back from a wonderful trip to the UK.
I'm not going to blog about it in detail until I get all the pics uploaded so this post will just be about the moments that I remember most about the 12 day trip.


What I remember most is;
the long 14 hour plane ride,
the first gust of winter wind on my face,
my first glimpse of the London Eye,
touring around Shakespeare's Globe Theatre,
seeing a rainbow in London at Covent Garden,
dinner at a real English Pub(grilled fish and potato.again),
going about London in the Tube,
platform 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross,
stepping into the house where Shakespeare was born, centuries before,
writing Gothic stories at Stratford,
visiting a real castle at Skipton,
stepping into the house of the Bronte sisters,
frost on the blades of grass early in the morning,
instant and cup noodle parties at the youth hostels,
monopoly on the last night at Cambridge,
and mostly,
the wonderful friends I’ve made over the course of the whole trip,
The girls: Afiqah(yeah she has the exact same name as me),Wenjia,Joey,Esther,Suehaila,Rekha,Syuhrah,Pei Bao and Vani whom I already know.
And the guys: Zul,Khai,Amin,Zhai,Charles
And the rest who followed as well.

On a sidenote, I went totally crazy and bought 18 books in total. The prices were so cheap compared to Singapore that I couldn't bring myself to resist.

And so that's the complete works of William Shakespeare, 4 Jodi Picoult novels,Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, P.S. I Love You, The Time Traveler's Wife, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, The Life of Pi, The Other Side of You, The Scarlet Letters, Moby Dick, the complete collection of Shakespeare's sonnets and also a book on his quotations.

Yes. call me crazy. :)

To end off, I’ll place here the piece I wrote for ms yap’s creative writing assignment about the whole trip.

We first arrived under cover of drizzling rain
Newly born, from the stomach of a jet plane
In a big coach, we traveled by
Through winding streets, past London’s guarding Eye
We toured around Shakespeare’s famed Globe
And learnt about his dreams and his hope
Then we took the Tube for a Literature trail
And found magic on King’s Cross station’s tail
That night we got swallowed by another plane
Boeing Boeing, watching it was not in vain
In Oxford, we explored realms of fantasy
Intricate worlds and heroes fulfilling their destiny
In Bath, we stepped where the Romans had their bath
And shopped at the Christmas Fair which sells lots of stuff
In Stratford, we saw where the Bard took his first breaths
Noughts and Crosses taught us prejudice can cause innocent deaths
In Haworth, the Brontes entered the diary of our lives
Along with the lovers of Skipton castle whose eternal love still strives
In York, we admired the goodness of a Machevil
And traced York’s ghosts, messengers of the Devil
In Cambridge, where Newton’s blessed apple fell
We heard the sweet chiming of their church bell
And now, back to Heathrow our bus heads
For a last night’s dream on hostel beds
And soon we will arrive back home
And leave behind this great country, that was for 12 days our home.

Cos I'm leaving on a jet plane

And so I'm back from KL.

The trip was great and I had lots of fun and memorable moments to keep.

:)

I'm not really in the mood to blog about it day by day so I'm just going to save it for when I come back from UK and when everyone's posted all the pics up so I can upload the pics as well.

Can't really say I'm super duper excited for UK, even though I'm leaving tomorrow.

Hmm.

Haven't even packed yet.

I think I'm still tired from KL and I don't know, there's vibes that I hate flying around in the air I'm currently breathing in.

Hopefully I feel better when dilah crashes later.

If not, oh well, there's plenty to reflect on,on the long plane journey there.