Long Time No Blog!

HARLOW EBERIBADI!

Hehe. Guys and girls, don't expect me to come back with an engrish accent please. The INTO Newcastle is packed with many Hong Kong, China and Taiwanese people! They are a majority here. HAHA. What a joke right? And I'm considered one of them by the British people. Sigh.

Anyway! Me is so sorry for not updating my blog! I've been really busy trying to manage the first few weeks cos I've learnt my mistake in TP. No more slacking. We are learning to reference books and stuff properly here and IT IS SO STRICT!!! (MY GOSH!)

We have an online system that checks your work for plagiarism. The system checks my submission with all the books,journals and assignments other people has done, in the world! Crazy shizz.

I've been studying hard so I am taking a break on my computer, eating my £3 Haagen Dazs. (^.^)v

So now, where do I start?

Hmmmmm.... There has been a lot of things going on. Maybe I should start with friends and the people here.

Well, Daphne has officially left our clique. HAHA. Thank God, as I think its for the better. Its a really long story and I have no idea where to start. I've found her a little weird and a bit full of herself since I met her. Daphne is the girl in the photo on the right. The girl in the centre is Yan, my room mate.

Daphne seems to be a bit clingy to my room mate and she kinda made jokes about how Yan is an awesome room mate and so kind cos she washed the dishes one day. Yan, by the way, is a genius. She's a mathematical genius and a musical genius (going to be but still wayyyyyyy better than anything I am). Hence, for Daphne, ( who needs help in maths cos she's studying pharmaceutical science)  Yan, is a genius and the perfect room mate.

Hmm.. Its pretty hard to explain Daphne's character. She kinda has 2 personalities I think? One is the nice girl when she is with her friends or rather, classmates. She controls her temper and smiles. But the other personality is one we have all now seen. Her true colours. She complains about every single thing that goes wrong in her day. She skypes her mum and dad everyday and complains to them. Her poor room mate, Samantha, has to bear all the shouting and screaming that she does to her parents. We were fine with it until one day she wasn't very happy with us.

Me and Yan at the Millenium Bridge

What happened was that it was supposed to be a dinner with just me, yan, samantha, her and yajunn. Turns out 2 of my classmates came along. Andddd just because of that, she wasn't happy. She just couldn't get along with them. \(O.O)/

Whattttttt. She didn't talk to us for a night. I would think that she wouldn't have talked to us the next day but she won a mini competition in her class and her tutor praised her about it. (so she was happy and talking again.) \(o~o)/

Talk about weird, the night where the incident that made her angry took place, she told me and Samantha (her room mate) that before she came to Newcastle, she had a dream that she and her room mate would fight because of something and they wouldn't talk after that. HAH! wow..

SO, this is what happened that caused Daphne to be angry at us for some reason. (I don't think she should even get angry in the first place)

My room mate, Yan, was down with a flu and cough. She doesn't really drink water and she takes her meds with tea or any other drink besides water. She is also a sugar addict and loves to eat sweets and candies. Yan has a whole drawer full of them. (-.-) I have nothing to do with her candies. HAHA. My stash is pretty small and it's been with me for quite some time now. (O~O)

My secret food stash

 Anyway, back to the story... Daphne and Samantha, after dinner, came over to my room to chit chat and chill. Daphne wanted to make Yan drink some water and find her a proper medicine. (Yan has a medicine stash which she doesn't really use.) Daphne being the to-be "pharmacist" wanted to help and we were all laughing and joking while making Yan drink water. It was all good, until Daphne went to Yan's table and started clearing out food that was on the table. Yan got a little annoyed but didn't really say anything until she went for the drawers. /(*.*)\ Yan kinda had a moody face on by the time and Daphne and Samantha were suddenly in a n awkward situation. (I was in the loo at that time and I came out to a pissed off room mate.) Yan nicely told them to "go back first lah ahh.." and so they went back to their room. I settled things with Yan and told her that people may not realise other people's limits and she understood and let it slip.

The next day, Samantha came and asked me how Yan was and if she was super angry about it. I cleared the air and it was fine between Samantha and Yan. The thing was that Yan was not angry at anyone already and when Yan tried talking to Daphne, Daphne was the one showing attitude towards Yan! *Dafugg* \(O.O)/

She didn't tell us what happened and just stayed silent the whole night. The next day, she still didn't talk to us and we wanted to go to Tynemouth (the seaside). Yan was evil and said we should leave her alone. I told Samantha to just ask but Daphne said briefly to her: "You all go lor." Before we left, Yan went to knock on her door but she didn't reply. (o.0) weirdo.

Tynemouth

We found out later through one of her shouting/skyping sessions with her mum that she was angry at Yan and that we all gave her attitude and that we knocked on her door but she was studying so she didn't reply. *DAFUGG* A bit mad don't yea think?

Yan told us to ignore her and let her learn from her mistakes. Yan felt a little bad at first but now she doesn't really care. She feels that Daphne is being childish and her mum is allowing her to be like that. tsk. Yajunn told us to ignore her as well and that she should learn not to be so petty and self-centred.

I felt bad initially but now, it's becoming a joke everyday.

What made it ultra bad now is that Daphne has moved out of the shared rooms into her own single studio. Well, it's good for Samantha and bad for Daphne. She will totally not mix with anyone and its gonna be quite hard for her to have friends living in a single studio. What's more, she made her own nightmare, a reality. Tsk.

Me and Samantha 

I was so kind as to try and find out from her mum what happened. Her mum saw my message on the day I sent it because Daphne was complaining to her mum that night when I sent it. We all wanted to know why and we gave her the benefit of the doubt that she may not find it easy to share her feelings. Well, sad to say, her mum is the reason she became this way. Whatsapp has a few ways of showing you if your message is received right? 2 ticks means that its received and read. Plus they also show you the time and date the user was on their whatsapp.

Her mum took 5 days, the whole weekday to actually reply me. During that 5 days, we didn't talk to her at all and it was slightly awkward for Samantha and I seeing her at the INTO building. She can totally just look right past us and not say hi. Awkward...

Here's what I said:

"Hi Aunty, Noreen here. Me and Daphne's room mate are a bit worried about Daphne. She seems to be angry at us but we are not sure why. We have tried to find her for lunch, she didn't say a word. Did she tell you what happened? Did we do something wrong? She doesn't really tell us if she's angry so we are not sure what happened. We are very worried for her."

After 5 days, here's what her mum said:

"Sorry for the late replies, i think there's nothing wrong now.Daphne has a really genuine personality. She doesn't like anyone to misinderstand her kind intentions and getting suspected. As friends, mutual understanding is required."

1) She isn't answering my question on what happened and what made Daphne angry.

2) No one misunderstood her daughter at all. Yan knew her intentions were good but her daughter should not have touched other people's things. She only knows Yan for 3 weeks please? If I touched her stuff, she would have been angry too.

3) Suspected her of doing what? No one was suspecting her. She didn't even tell us anything!

4) We had a mutual understanding between all of us. It was her daughter that seems to not have an understanding of friendships at all!

5) She was siding with her daughter and she made it seem like we were the bad ones here. WTF. please.


ANYWAY! Enough angst in my post. HERE is OUR NEW CLIQUE.

Me,Yan, Samantha, Cherlyn and Sally

The jacket made me look fat in the photo! I know I look so fat in the photo but trust me, I have been going to the gym at least 3 times a week and for Body Tone lessons. Haha. My muscles have been aching so bad. We're kind of missing Yajunn in the photos. (O.O') But overall, its US six. We had a lot of fun and since all of us except Yan is not in business, we spend most of our time together. We even saw snow together! WHEEEE! SNOWW!

OMG!!! ITS SNOWING!

I can't wait for the snow to come even heavier! We have a really nice slope at the back of our hostel and we are planning to buy sledges to slide on the snow! WOOHOO! Can't wait!

I also can't wait to go back to Singapore! I wanna see my awesome friends and tell them all about the people here. No one can beat them in terms of friendship!They really know how to make me smile! hehe. I still have loads to share but just one person can take up all of my blog post. What about my other class mates I wanna talk about? phew. Tiring. haha. Anyway, Ruben's family has invited me to join them in their Bangkok trip in December too! I can't wait! Mummy has said yes and I'm so bloody excited! MASSAGE, HERE I COME BABEH!

I can't wait for my parcels to arrive too! Woots woots. (^.^)v I LUBBS YOU ALL! <3 <3 <3 Me has some stuff too but I can't send it through post. I'll send out my letter soon though! Haven't finished them yet! Anyway, how have you all been? What's new? Tell me about yours too lehhh! (^.^)

Here's a nice motivation for everyone!

Believe the positive things and it will come true! (^.-)v Learn from Daphne's story! HAHA. 

***For Ruben: HI HONEY! I miss you and I love you soooooo much! hehe. Facetime you soon! (^.-)v***

Xoxo,

Noreen <3

WTF just happened???

OMG. Almost 3 weeks since I've been here. Time has really flown by! I really miss Singapore and my friends and my dear Ruben and my family. Sigh. The one little creature I miss the most is Tinkie. I'm so sad. \(; . ;)/

How can you not miss that face????  It seems that he knows I am missing cause apparently my mum has told me that he keeps looking at the door and he seems to keep finding me. (Insert : bawling emoticon) oh man. Seriously? And my mum FaceTimed me a few days back and let me see Tinkie! When I called out his name he searched the room and meowed back in reply!!! (insert: x12 bawling emoticon) Sigh. Super heart wrenching. I miss my kitty. meow.

Going out of my hostel...

My week has been pretty busy and super full of school. I'm suddenly the "joker" in the class for some reason I don't really know and it's been kind of a huge change for me. I used to be the cool one, relaxing at one corner. HAHA. yeah. Cool my arse. HAH! Yeahh.. We have some pretty nice girls in our class (nice as in personality wise) and we've been going out for lunch and stuff. Nga Kwan and I are in the same class again so I am not alone. (THANK GOD) Daphne's room mate, Samantha, is also in my class! So I'm quite happy where I am. :D Thank you all for your wonderful prayers that definitely helped me.

Anyway, some update on what Daphne, Samantha, my roomie, Yan, and me did during the previous weekend...

Yan and I at the Hancock Museum

 We went to the Robinson's Library to have a look around the school before this week started. It's HUGE! With loads of OLD OLD books. Super huge collection. Gosh. We came out and were walking to the Sports Centre when we came to the museum above! It's super cool! It's got an actual mummy in there and all the Egyptian artefacts and animal stuffing of most of the species and a whole lot more. Pretty cool shizz.

Wolfie.

Live Boa Constrictor!

Axolotl Salamander! So cute!

 I love this little Axolotl. HAHA. It looks HILARIOUS! Bloody hell. Anyway, I have not posted up photos of Daphne and Samantha so here's one for the record!

From the left: Daphne, Samantha, Me and Yan

They are super sweet and funny girls to be with especially my room mate, Yan. Seriously thank God I have her as my roomie. We have a lot of fun cooking and shopping together. She's studying to be an architect! (o.o) Cool eh? Her textbooks are super small and light. And she complains that it's not fully worth her money she paid for them. HAHA. Funny donkey. (^.^)

Ahh... I have got some people who do get on my nerves but well, these kind of people are everywhere. I'm very blessed to have so many awesome people around. :D Anyway, I've gotten some curry chicken paste packets from the Chinese provision shop nearby so I''m gonna try cook that for dinner tomorrow! Yan cooked omellete fried rice today and it was pretty good! (^.^)

The damn stupid fire alarm rings every bloody single day and we haven't gotten by without one day having it ring in our ears. (*.*) crazy. No one goes running out of the building now even if there is a second stage, continuous alarm. It's so bad that the school has placed a fire drill without telling us when so that they can catch who ever did not come out of the building. They even placed a fine of 30 pounds so that people will come out. Tsk. Desperate. This is what you get for messing with Asians. No one will know if there is a real fire now. So stupid.

So here's a postive photo/quote! Always end off positive! (^.^)v

And the quote is true! I laugh about things everyday and it always is so amazing. :D Laugh people laugh! Find something funny to laugh about! End your day with laughter. It really is the best medicine. (^.-)v

Okay! I've got morning class at 9am everyday. Tell me about it! Urgh. I've gotto go sleep now! Nighty nights!

Xoxo,
Noreen <3

Ps: I LOVEYOU BENNY!  

Connection-less few days...

HELLO EBERIBADI! :D

It's so nice to have some connection to my lovely ones in Singapore. Before I explain myself, I just have to say one thing:

HARPPY BUURRRFFDAYYYY 

MYYYY LITTLE MOOONKKKEYYYY SHREEEEEEE!

(technically, its belated on your end, but ITS STILL THE 25th HERE!!!)

 Happy Birthday my little Monkey! I'm so sorry I couldn't call you! I just had not internet and sim card to even call or oovoo! I know the rest would prolly come up with some prank on ya and I saw the PREETTTY photo Manda posted on Instagram. (^.-)v hehe! I MISS Y'ALL SO BADLY! :'( I WANNA PRANK DIVYA TOO! (and throw some flour over her!)

I am so sorry I was unable to update everyone on my school life! Its been rather chilly here with strong winds and cold freezing rain pouring on us... My umbrella broke. Yes, Broke. WHEN in Singapore, can your umbrella break during a downpour? The most, it flips up, and it's still perfectly fine once you've flipped it back. Well down here, IT BREAKS! Want an example? Here's mine friend's new umbrella she bought on Sunday :

How's that???!!! It's a real mad weather here. AND I've fallen ill with flu. Sucks to be me at times. Sigh.

Monday was rather chillaxed, with some registration and stuff. I currently have friends from HK, M'sia, China and of course, Singapore. HEH. My roomie is a HK-er. Hiu Yan's her name, but I call her Yan. I'll prolly get a photo of them sometime soon! (^.^)v  Lydia is a M'sian and Elaine is from China! Lydia and Elaine is from my course, together with Nga Kwan/Yajunn/Chloe.

Yes, she has three names. Now, at least. HAHA! She's been really nice to me, lending me her sim card for the internet. She has unlimited free data for her plan so I'm using it for the meanwhile. She's only lent it to me cos her boyfriend, Thore is here with her; so she doesn't have to text him now. HEHE! He's a good guy. Thore is really sweet to Nga Kwan and he's super gentlemanly.  He makes me miss my benny so much. I would love to have benny's cuddles. Sigh. Can't wait for him to come over here. Then it'll be my turn! I'm so excited!  (^.^) It's been really tough not talking to Ruben. So much things have been going on. I'm still waiting for my damn sim card from Giffgaff to come in. So irritating. I MISS YOU SO MUCH MY LOVE!!! <3 <3 <3

Wanna know what happened today? ITS THE MOST EPIC THING EVAAA!  \(O.O)/

Your dear friend here (ME), and her room mate (Yan), decided to get some pizza from Mark and Spencer here. (I forgot to tell you the mark and spencer here is HUGE I tell ya!) We came back and decided to use the microwave to cook it. SO, we throw it in for about 15mins and we went to do our own thing while waiting. NEXT thing we knew, when Yan went to check on it, our kitchen, WAS FILLED WITH SMOKE. Smoke so thick, we couldn't see the appliances in the kitchen. SO fucked up I tell you. Serious. Did I mention that the fire alarm sensors here are extremely sensitive?? Faggots. You can imagine what happened. I was so stupid to ask Yan to open the main door so some air could go in, that it not only triggered our room alarm but the WHOLE BUILDING's alarm. FCUK. It EVEN CAUSED AN EVACUATION BITCHES!

WTF right?? I CAUSED THE BUILDING TO EVACUATE and ALL CAUSE of a STUPID FREAKING PIZZA! You can imagine how much Nga Kwan was laughing at me. Fuck. I was freaking out like mad. Me and Yan ran out after we heard the fire alarm change from a broken interval to a full force continuous alarm. Fuck. It was the most scariest moment ever. Fuck. And it was just day 2 of my life in campus. And this happened to me. WTF!

I can imagine y'all laughing like hyenas. Shitty bombastic. Nga Kwan even made a joke out of it! HAHA. Evil. I tell you. EVIL.  sigh.  Yan and I kena warning letter and we have to see the in-charge tomorrow. Crap. Please pray for me that we don't get fined. Anyway, we are going Ikea tomorrow to get bedsheets and other crap. HAHA.

I come in to school in the most epic way ever. By testing the fire alarm system. The people who came to switch it off were prolly thinking "Crazy asian kids can't even microwave a pizza properly!" sigh. Anyway, I had a good laugh over dinner about my incident!

Okay, I'm gonna go sleep now! Let's leave this with a positive quote yeah, and may we all have a blessed day ahead!

AND that's what we should all do and that's what I am going to work for. Next week will be the actual start of school so Jia You to everyone and I hope you are all well in health and studies. God bless you all my dearies. Amin.

Xoxo,
Noreen <3

Settling In...

The Millennium Bridge 

So, the weekends have arrived.

Its been a rather long and winding week for me. I'm really starting to settle in. Still have to keep in mind that my parents have to go off on Monday morning though. And that really bums me out. That is when the real thing starts. Monday. (sigh)

Oh boy. Tomorrow, I move in to my accommodation. Its gonna be a busy day tomorrow.

Today, was a pretty good day. My parents and I walked down to the Millennium Bridge from our hotel. We saw this awesome contemporary arts museum called the Baltic, which has taken up residence in an old refurbished Flour Mill. Its pretty awesome. The installations there are A-MA-ZING.

There was this ONE installation which was so soulful. It was an choir involving 40voices but they were all recorded separately. It was a simple installation with 40 speakers in a circle and people are invited into the centre of that circle. It was Beautiful. You could walk around near the speakers to hear each individual voice that was part of the whole choir. Superb. I couldn't take any photos but just imagine. \(o.o)/ Beautiful. It gave me chills.

Entrance of the Baltic.

It was the best. My dad got this beautiful shot of the other bridge we were facing. Its a colour shot but the light made it look monochrome.

Beautiful right? So anyway, we walked back to the Eldon Square where daddy went to the H&M and got some pants. Meh. Nothing much. 

Came back and I was so touched. My love, Ruben Wong, waited up for me to come back so we could FaceTime. \(^o^)/ Imma happy girl!!! He is so sweet. My dad is worried that we would FaceTime often but I don't think its much of a problem. He makes me laugh, listens to me no matter how stupid I look or how boring my topic is. What more can I ask?? (^.^) Here's a photo of our FaceTime :

Ruben singing for me. :)

He is a sweetie. Talking about sweets, they have LOADS of SWEETS here. Its madness. So many different kinds, toffees, turkish delights, etc.  

LOOK AT THAT! Its no wonder they get big fast! I really have to watch my weight and my diet here. Its crazy. Anywhoo. I have to go to sleep now cause its 10.25pm here while its 5.23am in Singapore. HooHoo. (~.~) Me is feeling sleepy as hell. 

Lets end this post with a positive quote shall we? (^.-)

And YES! I believe Something WONDERFUL is going to happen!

Hope my love has fun at Lego Land. (^.^)v

Xoxo,

Noreen

Ps: I miss you all, my dearies. <3

The Big Move.

Newcastle University.

Me and Mumsie at the University

Wow. I can't believe that I'm here. Its been 3 days and counting since I've first got here on the 17th of September. The flight over was alright, with slight aches and the arrival of my "best-red-friend" who came as sudden as a turbulence in the sky.
-_-" Well, she's leaving soon already (and I bid you farewell!). 

Daddy, Mummy and Me at the Sandman Signature Hotel lobby.

The weather here has been rather forgiving, with slight drizzles and the usual gusts of cold wind. But nothing rather terrifying. (o.o) The English Georgie accent here is rather thick and hard to understand but I'm getting it. They have wonderful little phrases like "Could I pop these by the till for ye?" and "Cheers!" which brings me flashbacks of Kayla Kemoly and Divya speaking in their best British accent. (I miss you all!)

My Awesome Little Monkeys.

I just love my friends, family and my dear Ruben Wong so much. They were so sweet to send me off. I was so touched that even my primary school and secondary school teachers wanted to come. :') Sunday was such an emotional night for me... It was so heartbreaking. I made it to the plane without crying but once I was in... All the floodgates opened. I cried myself to sleep thinking about everyone and of Ruben. I miss him the most.

You are my world.

Cousins and Aunts and Grandma.

They have all been so supportive of me. Can't wait to Oovoo them too! Ruben has been FaceTime-ing me everyday but as I get over my jet lag the hours have become shorter. We will stay strong I know it. \(^.^)/ Well, I'll leave this post now with a positive note! Will upload more photos A.S.A.P in the next post!

And with that, I end my post. 

Xoxo,

Noreen