A year has passed :)

I've just got my results for my phase 3A exams and decided to reward myself with a new Canon camera which I ADORE so much. This was the first picture taken using that camera. This was taken whilst waiting for the train to Manchester to arrive.


After waiting anxiously for almost 2 hours at the airport, they finally arrived! Yeay! Heheh. Papa with his plastic-wrapped luggage. Classic. Hehhehe


1st day in Manchester. Both father and son apparently still sleeping whilst the mother and daugthers all already hyped up to start on with the journey! Breakfast on the first day in Manchester was roti canai (papa brought the frozen ones all the way from Malaysia. hehe) and the a-bit-too-spicy nasi goreng which I cooked.


This is one of the oh-so-cute-i-want-to-pinch-her-cheek daughters of the hosts. We bunked at two separate houses, which was just side by side as they were too many of us!


First stop was Manchester city. And this was where I dropped my newly bought camera. I almost cried! And apparently I dropped and lost my railcard here as well. Oh, dammit.


After spending a good few hours strolling around the city, we headed to Izyan's place to rest. We fought for Subway, watched papa showing his skills with the fries, we (ie Me, Izyan, Eza and Yana) hang around and talk and laugh like 4 mad people in the lounge room when papa and others were fast asleep in Izyan's room. When we went to the room, we found Papa, Mama and Mohd all curled up on a ridiculously tiny single bed! How they manage to do that still puzzle us. Hehe.

We had dinner at Rusholme and headed off to Moonlight for dessert. Yum Yum.

Yes neither of us are football fans. Haha. But we still acted as if we are interested in Manchester United. Oh at least, I did. Haha. Including this trip, I had been to the stadium 3 times. So that might explain the lack of enthusiasm. Hehe

Later that evening, we went to Old Trafford shopping mall for dinner. This picture of Mohd was taken by Izyan. Izyan with her 'genius' ideas with photography. Hahahha. This was taken whilst waiting for the bus in the freaking cold.

Next stop was Sheffield.

And this was how my room looked like when all 9 of us bunked in one room. Hahahhaha. Rest assured. My room is NOT like this all the time. Hehe.

Shopping trip to Meadowhall later that night. I bought myself a nice Topshop bag for just 15 pounds! Only to find out later that one of the zip was ripped off. Damn you. But I managed to sew them back together, another 8 months later. Heheh.

OMG. The trip to Castleton. Our so called plan to have a picnic at Peak District. My so-called plan that is. Horrible, horrible idea! Hahahha. We took a bus to Castleton and upon arrival, right after mama stepped her foot out of the bus, she said "Mama nak balik." Hahahahha. OMG. I felt so damn horrible. After discussing, mama and papa agreed to go home by themselves. The other 7 of us decided to continue with our plan, freezing our arses off in the icy cold weather. Thankfully the scenery was superb. But even we surrenderred and headed home earlier than planned. Haha. They must have been silently cursing me all the way home.

Later that night, we decided to do something fun. Headed off to Hollywood Bowl only to find them fully booked until quite late. We thought ice skating would do, but the place was closed due to a hockey practise. Hahahah. I could not remember what we ended up doing that night. Hmmm. Perhaps we just went home and sleep?

The next destination was Leeds. We left Sheffield early and reached Leeds around 10 am I think. And we headed straight to Junction 32 to shop after leaving our luggage at the place where we stayed. We shopped til the place closed. Hahah. Kak Lisa went missing for a while. But oh, that was predicted. Hehehe.

It was Christmas Day the next day and everything was closed. So we decided to spend our 'Christmas' at Eza's place which was like 30 minutes walk from the place we stayed. We went all the way to her place to get our laundry done. Haha. Eza's friend joined us later and we played pool and Flush the whole day. Hahah. Such an unproductive day!

The next day was Boxing day!! We woke up early and got a cab to the city centre. We were all apparently appeared chatty and excited that the cab driver could guess that we were off for the Boxing Day. hahhaha. Were we that obvious? Hahhaha. Obviously we shopped like mad. And obviously we were too busy shopping that we did not have time to snap any pictures! Hahahah.

London was our next stop. Funny story. I mistakenly bought First class train tickets for me, Izyan, Eza and Abg Amir. Hahahha. So we ended up enjoying a rather pleasant 2 hours journey, playing Flush all the way to London. Oh, we were too afraid to get ourselves any drinks offered by the stewardess (is that what u call these people?) cause we taught we have to pay for them. Pardon us for being so jakun as we had never ride on the first class train before. Hahah. Only later to find out that the drinks were FREE!

Our favourite shop in London. Or to be more accurate, papa's favourite shop. Haha. Everything was very cheap in this place. And it was near our apartment! And the apartment was worth our every penny. Or papa's penny to be exact. Hahhaha. We LOVE that place.


First night in London, we attempted to try shopping at Oxford St. And failed. Oh wait a minute, does Primark counts? Hahhaha. There were too many people and I hate that! It was a day after Boxing Day but still, that area was flooded with human.

Oh look how happy we were. Hahha. We went sightseeing around London the next day.

I think this is the only proper family picture that we have! Abg Amir was the one who took this picture. This was taken when we were on the cruise along the river. It was freezing, the wind was so chilly, but we decided to sit outside still!

The last night in London, I spent it with the girls at Starbucks. We acted like 4 drunk girls, laughing, talking and recording that stupid video, padahal we were gulping Frappucino. Frappucino in the cold. Yes, CRAZY!

Kak Sa and Abg Amir left the next day. The other 7 of us headed back to Manchester.
Amazingly, it snowed on the last day they were here. And whats more amazing is that it only snows at Izyan's place. Mama and papa stayed at a hotel elsewhere in city centre, and interestingly it was not snowing there! So, we dragged them to Izyan's place and it was so nice to see their happy faces, enjoying the beauty of snow.

After almost 2 weeks of fun, they headed back home to Malaysia.

Oh I can't believe a year has passed since all of you were here. Sigh. Miss you all. A lot.