Living in London

i went to the kyokushinkai karate lesson and then found it very tiring. ( coming from a person who never does any exercises) it was fun. ( well if u call working the whole body till the point of exhaustion fun) learnt the usual mawashi, or somethings.. garis , jo dan, cho dan ukes. too many names .. can't remember them . but i think it's pretty good. classes are about 20-25 ppl per class. we do the usual basics( kihon) to ensure we are able to do other stuffs. they train like 4 times a week(4 different locations in london). the sensei's pretty cool! :D Kyokushinkai London anyways, just something to show the blog is still alive until i manage to get my stuffs in order.

litu came back to uk with a whopping bill from new york and still reeling from the shock. how can i spend that much in just 6 days ??? more than 30 pieces of clothing from outlets/fifth avenue including ralph lauren, fcuk, dkny, ck, nautica and some accessories from abercrombie, ck, oakleys, tumi, crazy.. need to save up. anyways, i can't believe i spent that much. my friend asked me about true religion, seven of all mankind jeans, rock and republic jeans. dunno i see them like at the price of 150 USD each.. ( and that's the discounted price) i would have bought it if it was the start of my shopping trip.. but i've only noticed it towards the end of my shopping trip that there were places that sell those jeans. sigh .. next time anyways, need to eat grass and rocks for the whole next month .. *cries*

I've been lazy these past few months. i've stopped cycling to work since i started karate. it's lucky karate is near to my office so i can walk there after work. it's been good. though i've had some ppl giving me weird looks saying violence ??!!?? geeez... well i figured its more fun and better than going to the gym. so i paid 35 a month to join up. it's 35 a year for insurance. if i don't do it now, i may never learn.. i got my materials from open university as well. i'm gonna start a course this oct. i need to find out how to study part time as well as karate. i am planning to have a holiday every month for the rest of the year. which i've already done 1 out of 4. this month will be the second holiday. now now, before saying i've got a lot of holidays, i'm still getting 25 days. in comparison with msia, it's about the same some even less. i get about 8 bank holidays a year + 25 holidays = about 33 days holiday in msia we get about 16 d...

Munich first. Nymphenburg Palace or Schloss Nymphenburg litu went with a few friends this time to germany and walked till his feet was REALLY tired. on the right is the marienplatz in munich. st paul's ? or something.. the most beloved church in munich. apparently there are still bodies buried under the church cos it used to be a cemetery. the other one is marienplatz at night. some castle ludwig the second stayed in before he built Neuschwanstein Castle. Neuschwanstein was supposedly the model that the disney's castles was modeled after.

Will Hayes: [rehearsing his proposal] Here...I wanna marry you because you're the first person that I wanna look at when i wake up in the morning and the only one I wanna kiss goodnight, because...the first time that i saw these hands i couldn't imagine not being able to hold them but mainly when you love someone as much as i love you [pause] Will Hayes: getting married is the only thing left to do, so... will you... hum... [pause] Will Hayes: marry me?

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In Remembrance of Ooki(Mandy) 12:30am (Australian Time) on 24 July 2008 I first chatted with her back in the summer of 97 when i was in malaysia. she used the irc nick of ooki and i've always remembered her as ooki sakuragi. (blame it on the slam dunk anime) I remember that she was a vibrant, and cheeky girl and also a very tall girl ( IRC = image swapping = a/s/l) hehe. methinks she used to go to the undernet irc servers and hung out at #miri. or #mamak but i forget the details. After the IRC fever slowly edged away, we grew up. i guess. IRC was a thing of the past. We caught up again i think about few years ago when i think i came across her blog or something via something.. and i STILL can't remember. (i must be starting to forget stuffs) then i got her msn then we chatted then google. Her life was a journey of interesting sorts. i heard about her travels, her love for the canon d, and anime bokura ga ita and kenshin. she wanted to go nepal and china and trek back to nature ...

wow.. it's been quite a while since i last blogged. i haven't been doing anything at all. i'm gonna try to start a course in oct with open university to get something out of life. as well as planning to take a few holidays starting from sept. i guess by september i will have more photos to be seen. otherwise i think i have a book that shows a rough history of london. maybe i should go do that. okies. this weekend if weather is good . i'll go and take out my camera. i think it's rusting at the moment. nothing else. i've been busy with work. i closed my capitalspreads spread betting account. ( registering a lost of 98£ ) lol i got 300 fpp from pokerstars.com and apparently it's not a valid base fpp for me to claim my bonus deposit.. T_T i was like WTF ?? FPP is FPP right ?? anyways, the extra 7 £ i put in for a play in the poker game was lost in about 3 weeks. because of one night of insanity i go join the bigger stakes sit and gos.. roast lamb is always good....

this should have brought my storage space up to 2 TERABYTES !!! but i chickened out due to the price and money constraints. anyways, i bought this for about 42 and 1 TB hdd for 110 totaled up to 152£ . not cheap. i think it's cheaper back in msia. anyways, maybe it's the time of the year again where i find myself interested in computer stuffs again. that being said. i didn't know formatting a 1TB hdd takes about 3 hours.. or maybe less.. but i know it was LONG !!! so far no problems. i just slip the hdd in to the slot. and connect it.. and my computer detected it as 931.50GB . okay.. so i bought 1 TB drive and then i got 1 more slot free.. so i took my 500gb out from the coolermaster ext casing and slipped that into the icybox as well. there whaddya know.. it works too. so i save one usb port and one plug point. my usb ports are all used up. i have an old casing so i can only manage to use 4 usb ports that comes with the mobo behind the comp. 1 is used by the ext hdd. 1 is ...

woot. this was a while back but because we had a private party there. and check out the website. it was fantastic imean from the photos on the site itlooked good. even tom cruise the last samurai party, and scarlett johansson birthday party and etc etc.. really posh ! Direct from their website - "The Pinstripe Club was where the 1960's rich and famous mixed, partied and exchanged numbers - all whilst enjoying plenty of champagne!" but the photos in the website is really bright. when i was there, it was dark. we had like a street magician who poked a nail into his nose, girls who provided massages at the end of the room, girls who played the saxephone, and a man who made music with his mouth, lotsa cocktails and drinks and mixers and beer. oooo they had tequila girls walking around with the outfit.. it was like in the movies, to get in the club, u need to be on the LIST. hahahha drunk and pissed after 6-8 hours partying.. at 3 am when the club closed.. it was not a pretty ...

0 to Tasty in 70 Seconds was contemplating what i could put in the office's microwave which is cheap and easy with absolutely no nutrition at all. at first i took the sausage rolls, but i saw it wasn't recommended for microwave ovens. so drat. put that down. saw the chicken and stuffs.. they were like 2.89 for 1 but serves 2. but because i don't share my food i gotta eat them in one sitting so that's out too. anyways, bought that. smells alright. did feel a little rubbery ( just a teeeny weeny bit rubbery) but had cheese and tomato ketchup prepacked. 190g . not too little not too much. i made the call to the american embassy today. called from an o2 pay as you go. ( because my office blocked off the 09 numbers) lol. that phonecall costed me like £18.42 for about 10 mins. they had this guy with a scottish accent.. ( it was soooooo thick that i couldn't really hear what he was saying over the phone) T_T. i mean if it was the guy from LOST.. the desmond guy with the s...

woot.. !! i saw my heart lol. like a pregnant woman who sees her baby on the monitor.. it was so cool !. the techician stuck 3 wires to my body. made me lie on my left side with my left hand up and elbow facing downward. like a sleeping position. and then he pressed a few buttons on the machine. i could feel the gel on my chest. weird. it wasn't cold. not like the movies. and then it seems like ages when he was taking the echo. then i could hear weird noises coming out from the machine. i thought wtf.. what the heck is that.. ooo it's the sound of my heart pumping blood. ( it really sounded weird. i thought it was supposed to sound like dub dub. dub dub. but mine sounded like weird. different parts of the ultrasound gave different heard pumping sound) then he said to turn a little over that was when i could see the monitor. ahaha nice ! i could see my heart. i think i he was looking at the triscuspid valve, or the mitral valve.. not sure if that's how it's spelled. ( i ...

it was either Fishworks or Orrery on marylebone high street for dinner when my friend told me to look for places to eat at a last minute. doing a google search places to eat marylebone high street came up with londontown.com's listing of these 2 places. when we walked in there .. they asked if we had reservations.. ( i forgot.. london is a place where reservations needs to be made for dinner) anyways, they had lotsa free tables. ppl came trickling in at about 8ish. London Dining / Fish and Seafood Fishworks 89 Marylebone High Street, Westminster, London, W1U 020 7935 9796 i had monkfish. it was GOOD !! or rather nice ! chewy succulent juicy ! yum ! i would go there again if i was a millionaire lol close to a £100 for 4 person. water except wine for 1 person. kalamari starters and 1 portion of chips for sides. ( i don't like greens) the others didn't want any. the mayo they served there was bland !! ( i dip my chips in mayo) the chips there was kinda old i gues.. didn'...

i went for a walk with my flatmate to the park since it was a nice and warm sunday. it was nice. i guess. nothing much .. just the walking made my feet ache. ( i didn't wear proper walking shoes. lol) it had 3 ponds. men only. mixed. and girls only. ( we could never find the girl's pond.) i wonder where's that hidden. rumour has it that the men's pond is frequented by gay ppl. ( nothing against them. some of them do have good bodies). we walked up the hill and it sorta could see the skyline of london.. it was a good photo opportunity but i didn't bring my camera. aww.. next time maybe. there were ppl flying kites and some ppl flying something like a miniature parachute. ate some iced lollies. then had kebab for dinner.. then poker again. but yup. hampstead heath is a nice park to go to if u wanna take a look at london's buildings :D

woot.. managed to net myself a free ticket to the show. and i didn't think of asking anyone else cos *shrug* too used to going at it alone. ( there were initially 2 tickets.) anyways, back to the show. i went in at about 7 pm sat down.. the show didn't start till 740pm. it started off as any other plays would. but it was really cool. based on songs sung by Queen, the play progressed in a way that had girls in skimpy outfits gyrating to the music.men too. (but of course i wasn't into watching men) only recognized 4 songs from the play. 1. another one bites the dust. 2. bohemian rhapsody. 3. we will rock you !! ( who wouldn't.. thanks to the MIGHTY DUCKS !!!! ) 4. we are the champions.. same as above. i think i had one of the best seats in the house.. or dunno the last time i came to this place was for a hillsongs church christmas special. sat right all the way at the back. the effects was very good. sound was awesome. (i used to dabble a little with the music and and so...

how much i hate my hindsight about not having to ask for overdraft limit when i opened my account a few years ago. or foresight.. to a mr SW of natwest bank. man.. u gotta loosen up .. lol though i'm not much relaxed myself. geez.. i wasn't trying to get at him.. i was just trying to find out ways to see if i can get it without being charged the £28. that guy wasn't of any help at all. and on his tie had a badge that says, are u extremely satisfied with the service ? OMG.. his service was HORRIBLE !! early in the morning to have to deal with a difficult customer does not mean that u can take a pot shot at him.. u're in the service industry.. u moron !! anyways, i'm not sure i would have done any better.. but i was sure he was on the verge of sayiing.. F*CK off, i'll close ur acct so u'll be happy. somehow.. i don't get much of these in the banks.. i think there was another guy in another natwest was much better. Deputy Branch Manager .. MY ARSE !! i shou...

woot !! i got my phone yesterday !! it is black in colour and had the cmc market software installed and unlocked ( not sim locked) so it's good. i can finally retire my nokia 7280 ( incidentally i think it was the first cam phone in the market that i bought years ago in bangsar for about RM 1.8k) this new phone is slim and a little larger than my ipod nano. bigger screen. the cover for the battery is metal. which is a new to me. because all the nokia i've ever had came with a plastic cover for the battery slide cover thingy. camera is alright. a little slow so the subject must be still for the photo to be taken. the menu buttons are a little too small for my hands.. since i've got big hands.. so pressing the menu buttons are like a chore. other than that.. i have no ideas how to use the phone. it came with a microsd card.. 128mb .. omg.. that's sooooo small... anyways, not like i'm gonna use it for anything else now i think i should be able to take photos with the ...

well i am about to think that it's beginner's luck that i won money in poker.. i never did make it to the finals of any other tournaments after that.. of course i've only been playing 1 week. T_T. anyways, some exciting news to day.. ( waku waku - (nihongo)) lol my ex boss offered me an interview as a manager back in penang. wow. i never thought of it that way. anyways, nothing set in stone.. just mailed him my CV that i took off jobstreet.com.my *shrug* who knows... i'm still weighing the possibilities.. like my friend said.. quality of life is zero ? come home la.. not like i'm making any new ties here and my old ties back in msia is getting further and further away. anyways, just an update. moving back is always an option. but i need to have enough money to pay off the legalised loan sharks(banks) lol then i'd be set. no need to be in a hurry. like in poker.. i always go all in without thinking.. this time i gotta think very carefully. what should i do.. i kn...

i was coughing up phlegm. well.. i rushed all the way to the toilet. and saw my indian colleague talking on the mobile in the toilet.. i made a 180 and went to the other toilet on the other side of the office. *i was thinking.. sorry dude,.. i just didn't wanna spit in front of u. Poor guy must be thinking i didn't wanna be in the same toilet as him. (actually that couldn't be further than the truth but this time it was i don't want him to see me spit) a few hours later.. i was in the other toilet. just finished washing my hands and pressed the button on the hand dryer. another indian colleague ( not the same one) comes in the toilet with a mobile while talking on it. and went straight out because the dryer was quite loud. now.. from these 2 encounters from the only 2 indians we have in the office. i can safely make the hypothesis that either it's a huge coincidence that the indians like talking in the toilet. maybe spanish too. i once found a mobile phone in the to...

first there financial spread betting. then came poker. man.. where am i going.. first things first. financial offices are REALLY cool. i went to 2 financial spread betting offices. well.. one was big and one was a little smaller. i learnt a little bit from the guys who were giving the seminar about support and resistance lines and then it seems to work. well not all the time la that is. and i'm booked to another full day seminar on how good their product is.. lol but i'm just eyeing the free lunch and the last session of the day where they teach technical analysis. and some works on technical indicators. (i'm not a man for news.. so .. i just follow indicators la) right okies. that one aside. next thing in my list was pokerstars.com i was talking to a friend of mine on friday then i don't know how we got into talking about poker.. then one thing led to another. we had friday pub with the company picking up the bill. :D i didn't know why i couldn't drink.. well.....