Another Big Day of My Life

Graduating tomorrow, mixed feelings.

I remember I used to say I want to grow up quick and start my high school experiences.
And once I started high school, I wanted to start studying in a university.

Tomorrow, I am graduating, no more studying. (at least for now)

WOW. seriously WOW.
It feels like it happened out of no where, like I'm here because of a mistake of a time machine or
experiment. And yesterday, my father, mother and I realised
my father is no longer young.
His beard is turning grey...

Sigh.
SIGH.

I cannot believe it's actually happening.

香港solo几天

So many nice prints!

Protesting,

四面八方，都是高楼呀。

我写这篇时根本不在香港，
因为6天在哪里实在是很忙很累。

几天在香港，去了潮流很hit的地方，一些比较工业区的，还有比较乡村的地方。
当然也幸运的认识了很多来自不同地方的人。
其中以为真的值得一提。
她是yoyo, 在东京修读literature and film的北京人。
在日本混了有4年，laptop也是用日语的，日语当然是一级棒！
可能是和日本人交流很久的她，说话方式，字体语言都很搞笑，
实在是很开心。她就睡在我床下！每天都很晚回来，
但很巧的我都没睡，所以我在她床上谈天谈了三个晚上。
非常健谈，搞笑，也很低调，和我很投契。
说好了，有机会去东京我肯定会去找她，然后让她带我去“服务店”看看。
呵呵呵呵～～兴奋！

这次我深深明白，我的方向感真的好差，尤其是
处在四面八方都是高楼的香港。
太复杂了啦，完全记不住我吃的牛肉面在哪里！！！
岂有此理。最后一天找到我半死，放弃了。
目前我只是知道怎样去mtr station.哈哈哈哈。

在香港这几天我的client,也是我的中学同学都很热情招待我，照顾我。
还特的大老远来接我去他们的university stadium. 也买了很好吃的东西给我，
带我去吃点心等。很棒！
虽然比较贵，但是很值得，因为很大颗，而且真的很好吃。



Ink'Chacha

我上网查了这是香港唯一一间有risography printer的design studio.
原本是想要去看看纸，看看有什么需要，
但是一去到，哇，简直是个studio，有些小紧张。
里面有3个designer. 都是香港人，其中一个还是从英国留学回来的。
他们都好友善，可能是年轻人的关系吧。
我也不知道什么胆量带我来这里。
还进去聊起来了呀。。。。。
也带了一本香港插画家的小作品回来。
这一有好多好多书，超想在这里读书！！！
很好的体验，他交流了一下，但可惜他们没有请人。
这个design studio非常万能，有 riso printer, laser cut machine, digital printer, offset printer,
letterpress.....
真的好好哦！！！

Chelsea and Michelle

The Gherkin.
Had dinner with Chelsea there.
Sadly we dont have photos together, my bad.

We had some macarons after dinner at The Gherkins.
I love the coffee macaron the best!

Super cute packaging!

Michelle, me and Csaba :D

De Olde Mitre!
Since 1546. Such a long history.

Very hidden man!

Look at all the mugs and cups!

/// Dinner Time ///

Before leaving UK, I have to meet this 2 person who brought me and my mother around while
my mother and brother in law were in UK this February.
It's Chelsea and Michelle, my sister and my brother in law's friends.
Very very friendly people who lived in UK for many years!
I admit it's pretty last minute to ask them out. HAHAHA We met few days before I leave man!

Michelle brought me to one of the oldest pub in London, De Olde Mitre!
It's a super rainy day, very moody.
Csaba came to meet us up because he's nearby, haha he was wearing an oxford shirt+tie + cardigan.
So unlike the usual Csaba! This pub is quite crowded, so we had our drink upstairs, first floor!
Ordered Lager, and some small bites like pork pies and sausages.
UHUHU such a nice place to drink. Very old it's very british.

Chelsea brought me to The Gherkins the next day for dinner, right in front his work place.
Such a funny and friendly doctor, I believe his patients must be very happy to have him as a doctor.
He gave me so much motivation to explore other countries, to work somewhere else and experience.
We were planning to eat dessert next door but sadly it's closed. SOBS!!! Those cake look really good.
But it's alright, plan B is Laduree's macarons, he said it's pretty popular but he never tried it.
So it's a good chance for both of us to try. YAY!!!!
He only ate 2 out of 8, leaving 6 for me. Woahhhh so happy!!!
Coffee is the best flavour!!! Pistachio is pretty good too.
Very very soft. mmmm nice!

Thanks to my sis and brother in law, also these friendly friends they have!!!

Toys R Us

the one and only on the shelf.

Went to the nearest Toys R Us to help my sisters to buy 2 robofish. HAHAAH
Very canggih toy pet. Gotta record a video when they swim. XD

Was checking soft toys and I saw that annoying pear.
OH MAN it became a toy.
Very creepy. HAHHAA

Now

"You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart will always be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place." 

Bye UK.

Wow. It's 29th already, and I am flying back to Malaysia few hours later.
Time flies :)

Still remember those days studying in Selangor, doing my degree second year,
thinking should I have my final year in UK or not.
And now, I completed my course here, and preparing to go home to where
I originally came from.
1 year, not long but not short too. Adapted quite well in UK.
I'm feeling nervous of going home, thinking how life's gonna be there.
The first thing I feel like doing is, go back to Ipoh, and eat.
Eat out 3 meals for 1-2 days. Because my tongue is "sweating", I can't hold
back my cravings anymore. URGH!!!!!!!
I don't mind if your give me Old town kopitiam food. (the one with lots of branch)

Time to sum up my journey with one word - AWESOME.

I think what makes me want to stay is the Nobody Cares culture and
also the design culture here. I felt so free.
Plus the safety level is a lot higher, I'm not afraid of walking alone outside.
In Malaysia, you'll worry about your safety when you're driving, walking outdoors,
even eating out. Will be very worried when you see motorcycles, and those people walking
with helmets. Or even parking your car in the parking lot of a shopping mall.
I felt safe here. :)

Of course not to forget my awesome friends, classmates and lecturers.
Met a lot of talented people here, they showed me how far a designer can go.
How awesome and far can a student can achieve.
I would like to thank my classmates for helping me out all the time when I'm facing loads
of difficulties in studies, life, relationship etc.
Suhan, Halie, Feline, Ee Suen, really thank you for being my listener all the time.
I would like to thank an unexpected friend, Csaba for always motivating me and
supporting me whenever I need help.
One of my favourite experience in England. :)

Felt pretty sad to leave this university and country.
But ITS OKAY! Need to move on, hope I can come back again with
stronger portfolio and experience.

Life goes on, what a beautiful experience,
thanks for giving me this chance daddy and mommy.
Sigh! It's kind of like an end and a starting point.

Good Quote.

双手是用来拥抱的，而不是用来抓住过去耿耿于怀的。

Drunk Flatmate

Ever since my coursed ended, most of my old flatmates moved out and new mates moved in.
One girl (don't want to specify her nationality but she's European), staying in the middle
of the hall way (we got sections in this floor), brought us loads of problems.


1- being dirty

I got no idea how can she live with all the trash and dishes uncleaned.
The first week was alright, the kitchen is still very clean but after this week....
I met all of my flatmates who uses this kitchen, and I have idea how these people treat the kitchen.
We all knew it was this girl who leaves her unwashed dishes after eating, not cleaning the hove,
table, or any mess she left in the kitchen. holy shit. disaster.

Never took the trash out even it's her turn on rota.
My new flatmates cook a lot so this is really troublesome, especially the dirty and occupied sink.
Sometimes she just left ingredients around, messy messy messy.

2 - always drunk and partying in the kitchen

Okay, most of us finished out course, or on summer holiday BUT
few flatmates of mine are master students and they still need to submit work during our holiday period.
My room is at the end of the building, far far away from the kitchen but there's many of them
staying near the kitchen. These people party until 6am in the morning,
always going in out from the kitchen and also our floor, going upstairs downstairs,
running, banging door loudly, knocking, screaming yelling names etc.
I can hear it clearly because my room is quite near to the floor entrance. GEEZ!
Too much, if you party until 3am, OKAY manage to tolerate. BUT 6AM!
Some security guards came to warn them before but the party didn't end that easily.

That thing that made us so mad is they made the kitchen so dirty, ate our food, left our food and tools
uncleaned and lying all around the place. Come on if you wanna steal food, at least put it back to
it's original place bro. That easy!

After partying, we can see mayo and coke in toilets and bathrooms, juice as well.
I don't know what they do with that huge bottle of coke, stuffed some mentos inside I think,
and somehow exploded. The whole bathroom is like coke shower room. No water yo, it's coke.

I can hear people coming in and out almost every night, and sometimes I saw her lying on the
ground with a container for her to vomit. It was 4am in the morning and she's accompanied by 2 girls
one boy while she's being ultra drunk.
Funnily one of my flatmate told me she heard this group of friends who partied with this messy drunk
girl gossiping about her, laughing at her drunk acts or something.

Every since they started having party in our kitchen, we started to find our tools and utensils missing.
Food too of course. Very annoying...... very very annoying.
We have 2 brooms to clean this kitchen, and I can see one of them is laying outside at the field.
Oh mannnnn!!! Why you guys do this to our kitchen!
You know it's very normal to vomit when you get drunk, so sometimes I can find disgusting
smelly liquid in the bathroom. Around the toilet bowl too.
The worse part is:

THEY DON'T FREAKING CLEAN UP THE MESS.


Seriously you cannot imagine how bad it is, nandos sauce everywhere, cereals,
drinks, tissue or toilet paper sometimes, food, everything. DISASTER.


*Fresh News*

A bunch of ma mates were chilling in the kitchen at night just now, and one of this girl's friend,
a boy CLIMBED up to our kitchen window and said HI.
First floor kitchen man! And he's coming into our kitchen pretending to find his charger.
OH MAN.. Super weird. So strange!!! Super creepy!!!
This girl also left her room trash in front of her room, 3 bags.
A mate of mine said most of the trash are pill boxes and drug bags. wow.
And she's studying something to do with nursing.
WOW!!!! This combo.
My Cyprus Flatmate got into an argument at 6am with these bunch of party people.
They were still partying, using her coffee and utensils, and not cleaning up.
Headache. BUT!!! Luckily this girl moved out yesterday.
PEACE!!! YES!!!!!!!

Same day in London

Beautiful girls in London.
Lovely evening.

Assassin Csabi.

Cute birdie~~~ EEEE!!!

Csaba said I don't need to bring DSLR, I can shoot photos with my phone instead of big chunky DSLR.
BUT NOPE. See why I wanna take DSLR?
I want to capture moments like the first few photos of this post :)

I remember a packaging design that looks exactly the same.

Csaba dropped his iphone many weeks ago, now I see how it looks like.

Ah, fly my love.

So we went here!

Csaba took this photo for me cause he said
I have dark brown eyes.

Day out with Csabi part 2

This is a super good looking blue eyed cabbage dude.

Some old barber shop.

Accompany this hungarian man to cut his hair.

I said this is good. Angelic,

But he wants to be badass.
Seriously. HAHAHAAH

Some super blue shirt in OSM.

One of the nice book cover.

Some cute pouch and notebook!!!

Cute canteen!!!!

Meet up with Csabi

 

A real french waterproof jacket for £25!!!

London Eye.

The Royal Courts of Justice

Woah, this tea company.
That chinese sculpture tho.
STYLO.

He says he wants to be badass. HAHHAA

Polish sausage. 

/// A day out with Csaba ///

Felt like this might be our last/ second last chance to meet up, so
it's a little sad. We went to Old Spitalfields Market around Liverpool Street Station.
Kind of like a craft + apparel market. Got some designer crafts, clothing stores there.
Of course restaurants and cafe. This is where Csaba found his favourite jacket.
It's a French Army jacket, waterproof! Check the photos!
He's super proud of this jacket now, AHHAHAA!!!
We kind of explored a small part of somewhere around Temple Station in London.
This is where we found the Royal Courts of Justice. Nice nice building.
And we found some nice pubs!

Before meeting him I don't really know where is Hungary.
See, fail malaysian geography education.
He introduced me some good hungarian and polish food, so i bought this Polish sausage to try.
I tried one Hungarian dry paprika sausage before, wow, so awesome.
It taste really good when I add in with my scramble egg!
He made me a meal that day, with pickles and mash potatoes!
Really good, its a paprika pork stew. :D