I never thought I’d say this but

Summer in UK is hot!!

Before I came, I was thinking ah, my long sleeve shirts can tahan cold anot… where’s the best place to buy windbreaker… whether to bring scarf and fingerless gloves…

And those considerations prove to be valid for the past 2 weeks.
Yup I’ve arrived in Sheffield for 2 weeks now.
Weather is cooling on average days, chilly with wind. But today…. =.=
Please gimme back the weather under 18°C, and cool wind if u must have sun. 28°C with no aircond or even fan feel stuffy inside the room. Air is STILL despite window is open.
(window can only be open inwards maximum for about 15°) Needa get a fan soon…

Am still exhausted from party on Fri night (kinda lousy) and trip to Cambridge on Saturday. Love the cool wind and the old architecture there. There are many cobble streets and bicycles and ancient colleges and churches…
Cambridge students’ accommodations are those buildings that look centuries old…but I think inside have been renovated. If I were to live in that city, I’d feel all scholarly and smart too lol. Just that I’d be annoyed with too many tourists xD

looking very tired after only 3 hours of sleep

Met Simon during the lunch break =)

finally reached after 3 and half hours of bus ride

cute

huge park
perfect place to spend a pleasant day out with loved ones

us lol

must snap pics in time before walking by thru the streets!

local market area
with delicious hotdogs

lotsa bicycles. the students are already pro in speeding while avoiding pedestrians.

Kate and William souvenirs still available everywhere

a corner in the souvenir shop

i like the letterbox, the doubledecker, and the phone booth...
but didnt wanna buy cuz think it's overpriced.
could get it in London later anyway

King's College (if not mistaken)

that double decker was booked for the day as a wedding ride haha, so yeng
to tumpang all the wedding guests from church
wedding bells can be heard from far

a miniature version of a castle

didn't manage to fully capture the entire castle though.
was too near

a corner of a college, which we're not supposed to be allowed into

Most of the churches and colleges either does not allow visitors, or require an expensive ticket per entrance. So we decided to take the punting ride to visit 7 colleges along the river Cam, and also the infamous Bridge of Sigh and the Mathematical Bridge.

Punting is a boat ride rowed by someone using a long stick.
Ok that’s not a very good description but ah, you get the picture.

The guy (this one below) rowing my boat wasn’t very careful, kept on splashing water on my back >.<

but Simon group’s boat was rowed by a hot guy lol. I think he heard my friends squealing from above bout how handsome he is, then he immediately rolled up his sleeves and looked up at us lol.

and this scene was captured by my friend.

Lol. He must have understood what lengzhai means and immediately responded.

ducks that avoid the punts

"that's Charles Darwin's house!" said the punter

That's Mathematical Bridge. Wiki for more info. I did, but lazy write here lol.

Bridge of Sigh. Named after the one in Venice.

Rumored to have got its name from the sighs of those pre-exam students who passed by this bridge on their way to exam.

Not many pictures taken 'cause my camera battery died halfway during the punting ride =.="
Been taking pics using ky's camera since. lol. ky faster upload!
Other pics are taken and tagged by friends in facebook, so can be viewed there.

Sleepy.
Tomorrow group discussion at 11am. Suppose to lead the discussion. But haven't really read new case study. Dai wok.
but never mind, sleep first then wake up earlier. haha.

(Don't know since when it started, but I seem to get more and more relaxed when it comes to deadlines... can't say it's due to over confidence. Maybe 'cause i'm already immuned.)

Anyway, good night! =)

Am now an international student haha

Hmm. It's been quite a busy week so far, since I arrived at Sheffield on Sunday.

Wanted to do a quick update, but am so freaking tired everyday. Eyes are like this =.= as I type this lol. But it's okay, weekend's coming soon!
(but so is presentation =.=")

Damn cepat lor the pace. Didn't really rest.

9 and 10 June - P4 and P5 exam
10 June night - pack
11 June night - depart from KLIA
12 June midnight - transit at Abu Dhabi
12 June morning - touched down at Manchester airport
12 June afternoon - reached accomodation (Charlotte Court), half dead
13 June morning - Orientation
14 June morning - First Corporate Finance lecture!


and that marks the starting of lectures and workshops and registration and enrolment and vaccination >.< (tmr)
and also presentation
(needa present next week omg, just met groupmates today)

damn tired. Walked alot everyday but that's still okay.

The thing is,
I still can't really recognize the way back to Charlotte court from university! >.<
'Cause almost everyday I walk back a using different way when I walk back with different friends. So cham tmr I havta come back my own, hopefully can find my way back.

Tido dulu. damn tired.
More interesting update when i'm more refreshed hehe.

TARC, my college =)

Yesterday I’ve got the academic transcript from TARC in the mail. Informing me my results for the last time.
And that gives a sense of finality that, I have officially graduated from TARC!

Haha…after 4 years. 4 longgg years, with the last 2 particularly excruciating. Which passed by fairly quickly, if you look back retrospectively.
Only in retrospective though.

I wanted to post these pictures in the blog earlier, but was afraid that I couldn’t graduate and don’t wanna jinx it by saying I miss college life etc (yes I’m superstitious sometimes). So now I can finally post these up ^^

Showing you guys some of my favourite parts of the college (mostly SPUS). Didn’t manage to capture much of SBS (School of Business Studies) though, where I spent most of my lectures. ‘Cause whenever I’m there, I’m either without a camera or not free.

park in SPUS

lonely fishy~

great hangout place, if not for the mosquitoes xD

if only our road to success is this straightforward

instead, it's more like this, on and on forever lol

very tall~

yin and yang park

nah edmund ur H block

like the feel this aged tree gives the pic

route beside library

our football field

leading to the main gate

loads of these birdies in college. even in the cafeterias.

always wanted to take some pics of us lying down here on a bright morning, but never got the chance...

that's Canteen 2 at the back

new freshies queuing into the College Hall for mass call.
i was one of them, 4 years ago

she intends to fully utilize her hoodie lol

hooi ling

Olympic sized swimming pool and cafeteria
spent more time in cafeteria

me!

lynyen

signing off.


Or maybe..not yet.

I realize that this post is uncharacteristically long, with lots of pics. But ar...

Since these 2 weeks I will be very busy preparing for June ACCA and flying away to UK, I might as well post the class pictures we've taken the other day, before our looming finals in April. So this will all sum up my recent years in TARC nicely before I proceed to my next phase haha.

class pic taken right at noon. 12pm on the dot.

in front of the TARC library

library entrace. Cooling in comparison to under the hot sun~

the girls of AFA group 8

class couples in the middle

that's our SBS admin block

yes that's how AFA* students constantly feel like LOL

another one at the Library steps
everyone shielding themselves against the sun

=)

okay signing off for real now.
time to study yuen pui yee =.=

*AFA (advanced diploma in finanial accounting)

I don't know what to do, how to feel and when this will go away.

Today, I failed my final, for the first time in my life.

You know what's the saddest thing in life? To me, ppl who studied so goddamn hard, you will fail in the end .
To some ppl, they r just real cruisy, and then they excel.
Stupidity or luck?