bearbear’s world

Nothing particular special to blog about here, just some random updates about my life here.

Finally i spent my 1st weekend staying home as they organized a trip to Manchester and i decide to skip it cos they are visiting Old Trafford as part of the trip. I didn’t join mainly because i was kinda exhausted travelling so much and that place is pure evil(MU -> devil, you get the drift) =D

Basically my usual weekdays will be going to class, go for groceries, cook dinner, watch some drama over PPS and call it a day. Sometimes playing basketball as well but ya life is kinda boring here. Weather starts to get hotter day by day and makes it more like summer now.

Right now i’m starting to get kinda busy with assignments, study is getting abit more tedious compared to the 1st few weeks, the visa extension thing which is troublesome as always. I’ve being receiving news over past few weeks telling me that i can’t extend my visa that i need to go back to Malaysia again to apply visa, for that split second i’ve actually thought of changing my plan to go back and never come back again. I’ve start to miss home, mum’s cooking(yup, a whole week of tomato sauce fish will not bored me now!), dad’s caring(kinda nag alot but i know he care for us), sis’s gossip, my car(miss it alot especially when i walk around like mad man!!i miss hentaming the fuel pedal >.<), my dogs back at home(seeing wiwi sleeping on my bed is priceless!!) and etc. Things are so different in my life now and suddenly it just felt like i’ve left home for a long time. All those memories just seems so old.

Enough of ranting before my sis go to my dad and tell him i wanna cancel the master plan(my sis reaction at this moment will be -.- or swt lolz). I’ve told myself to be more decisive and do things that i’ve plan so nop, there’s no change in my plan(unless they don’t gv me a visa then maybe i’ll hv to find a Plan B). Although i have my doubt with what kinda value i can fetch with the master but heck why worry something that is so far away and this is mainly because i have a supportive family who always let me do what i wanted. I know i would never say this to my dad face to face because i will feel shy but thank you daddy for what you did for me, i’m glad to have you as my dad because i couldn’t possibly ask for a better dad. I love you too mummy and sis, i just love my whole family =)

oh ya recently my cousin sis which was also my classmate back in standard one told me some touching stuff i did to her and she rmb it till today. Sorry la i really forgot about it but hey, a good boy will be a good man =p She seems a little down so come talk to me if you wan cos i can get really bored here sometimes.

As for my cousin’s jie mei, sorry that i didn’t realized what happened to you until i go to your blog after chatting with you. Hope you can get over that bad incident cos it wasn’t worth you spending your time on it at all(Spend the time chatting with me better =p).

That’s all for now.

Initially i wanted to post this in mandarin but my typing is so slow >.<

Anyway i should be happy cos i’ve booked ticket for the Anfield stadium and Liverpool Football Club muzeum tour for this coming saturday. I’ve being a LFC supporter for 11 years now and this can be considered as one of my wish come true after many years. Of course i would like to watch a match but it’s off season now so a tour would be sufficient for now.

I have a housemate who is a LFC supporter as well so i booked the tour ticket for both of us. This morning when we were on our way to the train station i told him the train ticket would cost £28 and i knew from that moment he would not go with me. I know it’s alot but i already told him it will cost around there yesterday yet he told he to book the tour ticket for him as well. (the tour ticket requires CC booking thus i book it for him as well.)

I have nothing to say cos i told him i have another friend who is also TARCian at UK currently who is interested but do not have a tour ticket. This guy talked to me last night in MSN and gosh he made me felt kinda guilty when he said he can’t afford to watch a match so he really wish to join me for the tour. Seriously i felt so guilty the whole night for not helping him booking another tour ticket. Guess what when i told him i have an extra ticket today, yes he told me he can’t make it. Imagine if i book another ticket yesterday, i would have 3 tickets in my hand.

Fabulous, now i have 2 tour ticket with me and i’m going in alone. No more mr nice guys after this no matter how guilty i feel anymore. I’m tired to be taken advantage of and i hate it. Why don’t you guys let me take advantage of?Why must it always be me?

With a ticket that cost £6.50, i teached myself a lesson. Be farking selfish and care only for myself.

How’s life in Sheffield?That’s what most people will ask me these few days.

Well i have to say i love it here, the cold environment, the friendly people, the beautiful city and after few days of classes i have to say i love the way they teach as well. It’s just so different than what i’ve experience in Malaysia for past few years where they really want you to understand what they teached. I often got lost when we have lab session back in Malaysia but over here, they’ll go step by step and make sure everyone is following and not miss out anything.

Only thing i find troublesome so far is the weather, well it seems to be a little unpredictable. I’m here for 7 days now but it has being raining for 5 days. The rain here is different from Malaysia where you can wait for the rain to stop after awhile but it can keep going on non stop for the whole day. Worse case was yesterday when we went to shop for groceries after class, it started pouring when we were shopping around and eventually we spent some 2 hours waiting for the rain to go off. After 2 hours the rain got noticeably smaller and at the moment we try to step out from the store, the whole parking area in front was flooded!!we try to walk a big round back to the main street but there’s a bigger surprise for us, part of the street were flooded too causing masive traffic jam. With no choice we just moved along in the rain with wet pants, socks and shoes.

Interestingly while i was in front of the store wondering how to get home a local guy actually apologize to me about the weather here. It’s just so much difference compare to Malaysia where we wouldn’t even speak to anyone especially tourist.

Another thing i don’t really like here is of cos the food. Well i’m so used to mum’s home cook food and occasionally i feel frustrated when i have to think what to buy when mum is not cooking. Now i relized what a silly mindset i used to have because in here a simple meal outside will cost 2-3pounds easily. Imagine if i eat out for 2 meals so now we started going to buy cheap groceries, making lunchbox and dinner everyday. gish i miss Malaysia so much now!~How i wish i can have the cold wind weather from UK + friendly people from UK + food from malaysia!!

wooot i’m finally here in Sheffield after some 15 hours of flight.

i reached KLIA at 630pm and the queue to check in was so long that i’m only able to check in after some 1 hour. Upon checking in there isn’t much time so after we gather up we head in to the terminal. Before leaving i hugged my parents and my sister (i think it’s the 1st time i hug everyone from my family). Well sorry to dissapoint those of you who predicted that i’ll cry, i didn’t. Seriously i didn’t realized how much i will miss my life until i was on the plane realizing that there’s so much that i can’t do anymore for the next 1 year or so.

A picture before departure, an ang mou was looking and laughing at us when we did this in the train bringing us to terminal

the flight from Malaysia to Abu Dhabi was kinda unpleasant as it went thru several spot of turbulence and i did not get any sleep due to the noise (plane + babies are horrible to ears!). Reach Abu Dhabi around 4am and straight away we went to wait for our next flight to Manchester. I was really tired at that point so basically i force myself to sleep right after the plane take off. Basically for the first 4 hours i was awaken and sleep on numerous occasion, it is really that hard to sleep on plane.

Once we reached Manchester we were greeted by the super cold air (whoever that told me the weather is like Genting, it’s purely BS!!Genting is nothing compare to here =p). We were then have to go thru the fierce immigresen officers, some of us got thru easily but some were asked alot of questions.

Upon exiting the airport we can see the university representitives waiting for our arrival. We got on to the bus but had to wait for another 1 hour as one of the guy was held back by immigresen and the whole group of friends actually wait for him thus the delay. Anyway 1 hour later the bus started, some pictures i took on the bus

Sheffield M67 =p

The houses here looks basically the same, boxy.

Great Scenery, i’m sure u DSLR-er would love it here cos there’s more along the road to Sheffield.

Next, my room. Well i have to say i was prepared for worse but heck this is not Malaysia. The hostel is clean and i can’t tell you how much i love it.

The corridor to all the rooms and kitchen.

My room, No 6

Overall view of my room

My toilet

Yes, we have our personal toilet here attached to each of our room here, how nice =D

The only thing i don’t like it is the kitchen, there’s one weird smell when we left it unuse for sometime.

That’s all for this post, next up is food.

1 week, 7 days, 168 hours, 10080 minutes, 604800 seconds later,i should be on plane flying at that very moment to start off another chapter of my life. i should feel happy and all excited mainly because England is one of the country that i have soft spot for ever since i was a kid. but right now all i’m feeling is worrying if i can adapt to the life there, there’s just so much to be worried off and i’m starting to have difficulty to sleep at night. I think i will have a sleepless night on the day before i depart.

It’s a tiring day for me today, woke up 7-ish had a light breakfast with my dad and we head down to Segamat to pray before i head off to uk in 2 weeks time. Basically we just pray at the old house and also a temple which i’m some sort of godson to one of the god, the ‘ceremony’ was done at that particular temple thus the idea. Spent around 2 hours before we head back home and reached home around 3pm.

The old myviclub gang sort of organize a bbq farewell for me at night. i was looking forward for it but felt kinda odd when i see my old friends who i used to see them like few times a week last time when we were active back in myviclub days. I feel that i have so much to tell them, so much to talk to but when i see them, i just don’t know what to say. Maybe it’s just because we don’t really meet up often anymore thus  the ’stranger feeling’.

Anyway a big thank you to you guys who organize it, thank you rock for his place and food that his families prepared (your house is huge! =p), ah girl and bf(is it bf?)for coming up all the way from jb, ellesha for fetching ah girl up, brian for buying the food, meilin manda rosham alien ys ah loy for coming so far.

I love the card you guys made and thanks for the wonderful wishes. =)

can someone pls help me out from my misery, my life is damn bored now >.<

you can basically count with one hand with what i did this week, settle my fees & living expenses. Speaking of which pound is like bull now shooting up like mad, luckily i changed it b4 it go any higher. I spent like 2 hours in the bank and if you think it’s the queue, nope it’s not but the time they take to process my bank draft is insane. I closed off both my foreign currency and local account with OCBC and i can hear the manager nagging in the back of the counter about the lack of info on the form -.-” she must have thought that i’m deaf or something.

i woke up early this morning to have my x-ray and some simple body check up. it has to be one of the most embarrassing visit to a clinic ever!!it started fine with normal check such as BP and etc until the urine test, it’s my first time and there’s no urine no matter how hard i try so i had a couple cup of water as offered by the nurse. 15 minutes later still nothing then the nurse ask me to do x-ray first. After that still nothing and i had a few drinks again and finally!!yes finally it came after some 1 hour, super pai seh de zzzz

o ya i sold off my ps3 already few days ago, sold to a random guy from lowyat forum with a fair price considering i’m leaving soon and my sis is not so much of a gamer. no wonder my life is so bored now and with less dota playing in my life, gaming is like out of my life now.

spent this few days looking at some friend’s blog, watching youtube and some random movies that i missed out last time. 2 weeks from now i will be on plane but still i don’t really feel the excitement(what’s wrong with me?). planning to cut my hair tmr before someone tell me i look like a girl again, will be heading back to segamat to pray and come back on the same day to attend the bbq at rock house at night. It’s being a long time since i’ve last meet with the old myviclub gang. =)

End of rant for now.