finally got my internet!! yay!
but i'm feeling sick. have to forgoe the curry trip wif my pbl grp today. sigh. having a sore throat now. if i still take curry and alcohol, i think i'll be dead tmr. sigh.

anw yest night was kind of scary. this guy we met at the international orientation was gg wonky. i think he was high on smth. cos at kept touching my fren and ask her to hold his hands cos his hands are feeling cold. den we escaped frm him back to my room. i think he found out so he came into my flat when my flatmates were opening the door and walked straight downstairs to look for my fren in the common room and everywhere else. damn it was frreaky!! he came to ask me where she was n i just told a lie. after that we sneaked back into my fren's room. lotsa weird pple ard. =s

met my mummy and daddy and my pbl grp 2day. there's this other international student frm malaysia. the rest are local. not too bad i guess. although i didn't really tok to everyone. there's jamie from london, conor from irealand, lara frm machester, hannah n erm i can't rememb er the name. but i know their faces! haha.

WARNING!! super long entry ahead due to no internet connection. combined entry of quite a number if days.

11th September 23:06
1st day of orientation. food dosen't taste that bad, although it looks kind of bad. nothing much to do for today.orientation starts proper tomorrow. nothing much after dinner, except for dancing clasess or visit to the pub. did neither cos erm we we late for the dance class thing and didn't wan to chap in. pub was well out cos i'm damntired liao. instead we sat down to chat at this open area and ate grapes. it then got too cold to bear and wewent to seek indoor shelter. we went to the com clusters. did what i love. go onthe net. :p there's a lan pt in my room. and a ph too! haha. not bad to stay in ashburne hall. everyone else's near the registration area cos they were early. unlike me who only turned up at bout 5pm. lol. anw this rooms quite nice.spacious too. =) i'll love to stay here if it wasn't to terribly far away frm the fac. there's a closet, big shoe rack, tableand err a drawer and of course a bed! heard whitworth park's small and cram wif even crammer stairs. =s i hopeit's not that bad. chose it cos the exterior looks nice lo. those old english building look alike. red bricks etc. and the most impt reason: it's sooo near my fac! it's just across the road. =) i got to know a girl from india, mauritius(or was it morroco), dubai, malaysia, hongkong. that's bout it. and ofcourse the sporeans. it's hard not to cluster together. hmmm... 12th-14th Septembercan't remember the exact stuff. most memorable was maybe the morris dance demonstration and them teachingenglish folk/traditional dance. we were kind of reluctant at 1st, shy mah. haha. den after we got dragged and pushedto do the dance, we found it so interesting we went for the next dance and went back the nxt day too. haha. lotsa turning and running around. helps to keep us warm too. lol. but it was fun. didn't really like to go to the pubs cos it's so damn smoky! i mean pple here really smoke everywhere and it's even worse when it's in enclosed area. i'll probably die of lung cancer from involuntary passive smoking. yuck. basically, i'm learning to survive alone. it'sstill dosen't feel that hard. went to open a bank a/c myself. *beams* actually nothing great lah. haha. we went to explore the city too. it's quite nice actually. especially the town hall. i just like the old buildings. so grand. =) we went to a pub wif the rest of the sporeans at deansgate. it was really smoky and yah i can't drink outside sonothing better to do. we just sat on the couch n started stoning. and this err old angmoh guy kept waving at us. =S and the last day's party, we well, sat ard while the rest drank. den tis angmoh guy tapped me and mx on the shoulder. i got a shock and tot who touched me. haha. I ignored him. not on purpose mah.. it's so noisy and i can'treally hear what he said. smth bout gg to dance. den he went to pester mx cos i just turned away. hee... rude rite?that's bout it lah. oh yah, our fav activity is to sit in the open and talk until we get frozen b4 we go off to somewhereto thaw. and we just seem to like to stand in the middle of the road and discuss stuff and nv get moving. alwayshappens when there's lotsa pple.

15th September 23:42

today's the big day. moving house!! a nightmare actually. had to lug my big fat luggage down the stairs. frm the 3rd flr.luckily mx came to help so the 2 of us lug my 4 pieces of luggage down. wat a work out! made me sweat lo. anw mx'sparents' were coming so they were gg to send us down to wp since we both stayed there. just a house away. we had to wait for bout 3hrs in the open. and it bloody hell rained the whole day. so freaking cold!!! gdness and all my sweaters and jackets were in the big fat luggage. nearly turned into an ice lolly. her parents were really nice lo. treated me to lunch and dinner. sigh i feel so bad. eating here's not cheap lo. somemore both meals we ate atrestaurants. they brought us to go shopping too. and they helped me carry my fat luggage up to my flat. and yah,it was on the top flr again. cos all the girls are on the top flr flats. i managed to mess up my room in such a shorttime when i tired to unpack. haha. didn't have enough hanger so i didn't really unpack much clothings. room's pretty small actually. i wonder how all my stuff's gonna fit.

16th September 21:57

weather's turning cold. although today's so sunny, it's cold. even worse when the wind blows. so i bought myself this nice khaki jacket frm primark. haha, gd excuse. wanted to get the brown one, but i tot it's better to get a bigger size which is not avaliable in brown. dad came down wif only my cups, so i can't cook. in the end dinnerwas just the mushroom soup-a-cup and rich tea biscuits. i feel so bad. i kind of chased my dad away when he came down today. i didn't mean it. sorry. i feel so bad. he came down all the way; he's sick; n it costs a damned £15. bank matters are irritating. i'm so confused. a flatmate just moved in today. but till now i don't see her except the once b4 i went out and she was viewing the flat and moving her stuff i guess. it's still as gd as living alone. i think i might be the only international studentliving in this flat. hmmmm...anw some pig downstairs decided to move in at 6:10am today. so irritating!!! i need to slp. n it didn't help that the silly heater was making weird noise. i got so fed-up i just woke up. another thing is the sun shines directly into my room and there's a street lamp directly outside too. sometimes it gets toohot and bright. the table lamp is oso damn glaring. oh well. the place pretty much nice to live in. cosy :) laundry's expenseive. £1.80 to wash and £0.20 to dry for 7mins. gdness me. we did laundry today and some stupidclothing's colour ran!! when i washed it at my uncle's place it didn't. mx's didn't run at hm too. damn weird. nowmy t-shirts have blotches. yuck. i look like some garang guni or smth.

17th September 23:00

got 2 new flat mates 2dae. hannah and lina i think. didn't get her name, or actually i didn't get what her mum said.been out 2day so didn't talk much. uncle and family came down with the rest of my stuff. finally got all my stuff, but still have some of them missing like my saucepan, knives and some other stuff. weather's turning cold now. it'll be snowing in a couple of mnths time. :) i think i'm getting more impatient. sigh. shan't talk bout it. i think i'm gg wonky. my 2 flatmates asked me to go for a drink. i was getting ready to go to bed. =s n there were pple knocking on thedoor and ringing the door bell after the 2 of them left. i suppose it was to go drinking or some party, so i didn't answer the door. they really are quite noisy, laughing and dunno doing what else along the corridor. i got wokenup at 3am cos pple were back from drinking and they were talking and laughing at the top of their voices. worsething is they are on the ground floor and i can still hear them. it's really different ard here. i get woken up at 3am everyday. i hope they won't do this when school starts. i seem to wake up auto at 7plus every morning. why? whY?why??

18th September 20:40

finally talked to some of the flatmates just now. now we have 6 of us around here. all of them brits. quite a nice bunchof pple. there should be better days ahead? haha. i sure hope so. at least one of them would be having sch in thesame building as me. :) but i still don't know all their names cos it's kind of hard to get what they are saying sometimes. there's nina,rachel,laura, hannah and another hannah i think. and one thing, hannah said my english'sgood. good for international students i suppose. and asked me when i started taking english. lol. smth diff ard here's that pple really go to drink a lot. maybe cos it's the wkend now. they went yest and gg todayagain. hehe but i'm not gg. maybe i would next time. i don't know. haha. hope the internet can be used soon. i can't take it anymore!!! oh yah, their rooms seem to be a lot nicer eh.. no £££ to decorate. so sad. n it's so happy to get letters in the mailboxaddressing to me! haha, although it's just the receipts for the initial payment for the room and the duvet,pillowsand stuff. send me stuff pple!!! oh and i got a webcam finally! got it from dixons. there was a discount of £5 and then it was also this buy one get one free thing! at 1st we thought the shopkeeper made a mistake, but they said it is. haha. so it's £14.99 for 2. one for me and one for home. it can be used to take photos too. comes with zooming capabilities too. from creative. it's notbad except that i think it looks like an alien. heez.