hum.. i just realised that after almost a year here... i have made friends with a grand total of 3 girls out of the 160 something malay crowds in the campus. i should get to know more people right?
i'm beginning to feel like a social outcast.

owh well. it's more interesting watching movies in my room anyway. and i could always go to manchester for raya.

a few days back.. I had to go and demo some testing result on the smartphone which is so crappy I can't remember what's the brand. some UK brand. and because it was so crappy it only works fine within the safe 4 walls of my lab. when i brought it upstairs to that ex-wrestler whose face is so grim you don't know whether he's cracking a dumb joke or reading an obituary, the crappy thing just refuses to give the correct result no matter how many holes u poke into the crappy screen with the equally crappy stylus.
I didn't get anything good from that meeting, just more tasks. and a virus.
and The Grim, he said "you write your code like a girl".
"huh?"
"girls. always so complicated.when a man program, the code is simple and it works"
"huh?"
"yeah.just look at a girl's wall.. then compare it to a boy's wall..nothing.clean."

you mean after they strip off the nude posters?

and because I can't tell whether he's joking or actually being insulting...i'll take the comment constructively.. and replace my code with ABC.
and then he passed on his virus that he got from German.

and then I got the same miserable flu. with joint aches. and extreme fatigue.
maybe it's not the pig thingy. Joint aches..probably cuz I always bang myself too much on any door handles, lockers and fridge. and fatigue due to the blazing sun that was making the summer pretty painful to live through.

and then I went to Rome.and then to Venice.
And just like that.. the flu went away. The German virus is now passed on to the Italians.

although we don't really need it in the summer, one of my friends do face this problem. as do half the students living in that court.
no hot water on campus. when it's too cold to take a bath, and when she can't stand the smell of her own armpit anymore.. she'll come and take a bath in my shower. thankfully, that problem never happens to me, the benefits of paying double rental and burning a hole in my pocket i guess.

at that time.. why didn't we think of this..

"I live in an academic hostel of Warsaw University of Technology. Unfortunately, we don’t have hot water in our rooms, it’s only in kitchen and toilet outside. This inconvenience caused me to think about hot water. Commercial heaters are to expensive to students, it’s also a problem to assemble without temporary cutting off the water. Beside of that, the fuses would be immediately blown.

The cheapest device that have an electric heater is a cordless kettle. Some glue, a bottle and a pipe… voila! The hot water flows."

quote credit of ' there, i fixed it'.
a lovely site showing the aftereffects of stuffs, after being serviced by people with itchy hands and an even itchier mind.

seems like ev'one's picky about their food nowadays.
dolu2 blasah je. lepas belari or main games..bley je belasah nasik lemak, big mac, etc etc.
dekat sini..where ev'thing's made of cheese and grease.. kalau hari2 belasah, lidi pon bley membesar jadi kayu balak.
so kalau gemok..mmg kene salahkan makanan. that and lazy ass.

although i have been running again for some times here... i still can't be that picky about foods. i meant.. a greasy and cheesy lamb doner against a buncha green leaves? heck.. it only takes a second to decide.. and about 1 hour of guilt time afterwards.

and then this survey came out in the news. Suddenly a serving of Big Mac and medium fries is a healthier diet than salads.

"survey by consumer watchdog Which? found Morrisons' Smedleys Atlantic Prawn Marie Rose Salad contained 855 calories and 66.3g fat - more than a McDonald's Big Mac and medium fries and 70% of the fat a man should eat in a day." read it in full here.

i guess that means no more guilt time. meat over greens! it makes sense.. in a convoluted kinda way. we are carnivorous humans aren't we. and if i got fatter, i'll always blame it on the cheese.

for those who are more disciplined than i am.. just eat yr greens without the dressings.
the sheeps and rabbits can do it .. so can u. heh. i can't. I'm more of a tiger person.

I know I bitched about it being cold here. and now I have to bitch about it being sweltering hot.
Served with the hottest summer in 3 years with Surrey being the hottest hot spot (figures)..the brits didn't know what hit 'em.
The table fans are sold out in the town .. now you need to reserve a fan for crying out lout.
At the campus, and in the office.. people walk around without their tops on. kalau yg six packs tu ok la..kalau yg beer bellies tu..ughh takyah la nak bukak jugakk.
A few days ago some teens in Liverpool went crazy and light a man, who was napping in the middle of the field, sunbathing, they light him on fire. i told ya..crazy brits. the heat got 'em good.


Today it was a sweltering 30 degree celcius..dah macam kat malaysia. Ingatkan duduk sini bley putih sket.. makin itam legam adela.

became a farmer for a day.. and went fruitpickin.

Garson's Farm

road scenes

Another trip up north..and we are driving this time. the last time we went to Scotland was on a low cost flight, and it was scary. The flight was jumpy and erratic and is anything but smooth, and the landing was like there was 3 years old in the cockpit playing with all the switches.
The pilot, tried to cheer everyone up by blasting an annoyingly loud happy siren upon landing.. tantarannntaraaaaaaa. Listening to that while nursing a lurching tummy is enough to make the passengers line up to kill whoever it is in that bloody cockpit.

well this time, it was a fun road trip..minus some bad jokes and even worse riddles along the way.. but going to see the land of men in skirts another time is worth it. Scotland is officially now my fav trippin place (^_^)

pics in fotopages.

Seafood hunt - Whitley Bay

Hogwarts- Alnwick

The Garden

Seafood hunt - Whitby
Vampire's lair - Whitby Abbey