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Wan Zu, da man!

by christock on Mar.29, 2007, under Living Life

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Oh, and btw, Spring is LOVE-O-LY here!! Check out the pictures *here*
I’ll be putting up more here after this post, so do come back!
ps. Non facebook members can now view the photos, so don’t worry about joining *wink*

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Vibe Space Gate – 38,800 Watts of Thunder

by christock on Mar.23, 2007, under Prodcut & Tech Review

How much bass is too much? When the ground beneath your feet rumbles and you get a tingling feeling in your belly? Do you wait for the increasing pressure on your eardrums to build to an uncomfortable degree, your brain melts, or, until your frame is vibrating uncontrollably like someone having a fit?

At least that seems to be the goal of the Vibe Space Gate, an imposing demonstration unit from the car audio specialists, Vibe. There are 32 Space II subwoofers with 16 amps in this tunnel, helping to drive a head-popping 38,800 Watts of sound. I’m sot sure if people are actually allowed to stand in the tunnel since I’m pretty certain that deafening or killing potential customers is not the best sales pitch.

Still, with this much power, there’s every chance that once this baby kicks off, they’ll be pouring what’s left of you into a bucket.

You’ll be smiling, of course, but you’ll still be a puddle of goo. -Martin Lynch

You don’t say… I think it may just be able to burst a hole through my floor if I turn it LOUD enough mwahahhaha! *take that, you stupid neighbours!!*

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Sashimi galore @ Hi Sushi, Soho

by christock on Mar.21, 2007, under Food Galore

What a way to end the term! The bunch of us: Charlotte, Wei Kiat, Hong Wee, Zhon Wei, Sulwyn, Chun Huey, Christina and Belinda May Tan decided to go for some good ol’ sashimi buffet! The plan was to try and gobble down anything we have and start calling more more salmon sashimi, which is by the way, free flow for 2 hours! (Yes, there’s a time limit boys and girls), and then settle in Edgware Road’s Shisha Cave where we had both shisha and goza, the latter being something of a hardcore even for Lebaneses! I’ll explain later, in the meantime, on with the pictures!

Some of the assorted choices ala carte menu, but we don’t want that do we now? Bigger fishes to fry!

Can anybody tell me what’s wrong with the sashimi? Answer: they were all gone in 5 minutes into my stomache! hahaha! *lame*

But there’s more to come, oh, so muuuuchh more!!

Doesn’t stop there now, does it? A fresh bunch of crispy fried tempura seduces us with its pinky, scrumptious tail…

Teriyaki has always been a favourite sauce, and this wasn’t an exception: juicy in the inside and tasty on the outside, it was a delicate burst of flavour when chewed!

The “First Plates”, those are limited, only one portion as it’s not included into the free flow (which are mainly the sashimis and some other foodstuff)

There were plenty of these, included into the free flow as well. Although not very tastebud-stimulating, it served as a way to make us full, a tactical strategy to avoid the restaurant going into bankruptcy =P

How expensive? I thought it was good cause it amounted to about 16 pounds per person, definitely worth the while!

The buffet isn’t the normal kind of buffet you get in Malaysia or other places… It’s the kind where you request more of the free flow items, in which case we always chose the Salmon Sashimi (our favourite). We thought we did pretty well, but swore that the next time we come back, we’ll bankrupt the place haha! It’s at Soho guys, Hi Sushi, link here. With our stomaches full, we then proceeded to our shisha hangout!

How can we not avoid taking picture under the beautiful Chinatown’s entrance?

The place we went to had this uber cool submarine-lookalike kettle haha… Cute right?

Finally a group picture at the Shisha place. Can you see the bamboo stick? That’s a Goza!

I really want to put more pictures here but I think it’s really too much! haha.. Maybe I’ll put the rest on slideshow, then you can all see it All in all the day was AWESOME and from then on, now starts the studying period and less of having fun. *right*

*lol*

By the way, UKEC Graduan Careers Fair coming up this weekend, have never been so excited cause meeting up with Air Asia’s CEO Dato Tony Fernandes as well as Standard Chartered’s CEO Brendon Hopkins! Check it out at www.ukeconline.com

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Sheffield Games 2007

by christock on Mar.19, 2007, under Living Life

HOORAY! I’ve found an easy way to upload my pictures without going through them one by one… Required some good ol’ hacking into Lord Time’s modification of the ImageWiz’s multiple upload plugin for WordPress. I’m feeling proud of my abilities now, forgive me as I bath myself in limelight and glory. *shines*

Alrightey then, on with the games!! It was fun meeting lots of new people and playing in a football tourney with such a high level of competition… It was amazing! We were just unlucky that we had to face the eventual Champions, the Seven Kings, during Quarterfinals… but we were glad of our achievement, certainly a feat to remember *click on picture for description*

Missed the train, so had to take bus instead… reached at 4.30am!! But it was all worth the trouble (and money! =P)

The entrance to the coach station, where I caught a passing taxi: dman lucky!!

Oh did I mentioned that I was playing for Edinburgh Uni? Woaaah, import player man

The whole bunch of us met up with hundreds of other Malaysians studying in Sheffield!! Crazyness..

We chilled out during the Opening Ceremony, which was quite extravagant I must add.

The guest of honour arrived, and with him there was the new Director of MSD, who’s a pretty nice guy =)

This is when the games officially started: with the ang moh kicking a football into a mini-goal post…what if he missed? The games get cancelled, of course

My hockey jersey and its lucky number… I sweared I scored more than 13 goals in my college days!

Everyone looked so happy, even after we lost the game to Seven Kings.. it was a really good match, that!

Our team picture, with players consisting of students from Sheffield Uni, Edinburgh Uni, Manchester Uni and Imperial College London :Grin:

This is the KTJ team, who were supposed to be our rivals but they got beaten by Seven Kings too, although they had much more fight then us =P

All of us watching the highly anticipated finals… between Seven Kings and Dublin University… Wicked!

Finals, and more finals

Finals, and more finals, and that’s it! *Phew*

See the happy faces? All was good, Sheffield Games was a great experience!

Does the bus not look Londonish to you? Try staring at the seat colours, familiar, no?

This is Bonk’s room, one of our host who let us stay at their place. So nice kan?

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All was good with one of our friends winning 1st in the Chess Championships at the Games. Go Mahat!

One of the night sceneries in Sheffield… very townish I must say…

We went to have dinner at an Indian Buffet restaurant, and saw this peculiar vehicle…

Sheffield peeps aka Muffy and Sherve, have you been here? It’s GOOD!

It’s interior is so beautiful, I like! Notice tht the waiter below is like, super short and cute hehe..

We then sitted down on this super long table, and before we know it…

we went to queue up and grabbed our scrumptious selections!

and before you know it, we were back with food on our plates

So yummy…

Are you drooling yet?

Does this look like a glass of beer to you?

Because it WAS a glass of beer, except, it’s NON ALCOHOLIC like wtf?!

My favourite curry of all time: CheeseButter curry (pseudoname, I can’t remember what it’s called hehe)

I loved it so much I had a whole plate of sauce and free flow of Garlic Nan… Can you imagine the orgy in my mouth?

After the main meal how can we not resist dessert, yes?

See that reddish ball on the side? It’s fried flour soaked in sugar water. Ugh =.=;

Ladies n Gentiles, here is an example of a Scottish pound. The first time I’ve seen one!

How can we not have a group picture after such a satisfying meal

Estikutum vehicle gets attention too

Heck even one of the Ang Moh wanted to join us! You rock la Lady of Estikutum! (she was one of the customers too hehe)

The Sheffield Gig was the last event for the night.. It was okay but wasn’t my cup of tea… Missed Sherve here too!

All in all my trip to Sheffield was fun, fun and FUN! I almost met a few peeps I met through blogging in Sheffield, who are MuFFy and Sherve, but fate didn’t allow us to… meet hhaha.. Let me explain: MuFFy was apparently in the same bus as I was, and she noticed me while I was fiddling with my camera, but NOOOO she decided to ignore me, so sad! :’( Wherelse Sherve was also at the Gig, and probably while I was there too! It was just too bad we contacted each other too late (namely, after the event) so that’s that… hahaha! That’s it then!! *omg super long post wtf*

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House Lovetimeeee

by christock on Mar.13, 2007, under Food Galore

Dear readers,

I’m pleased to announce that once again Imperial has been very helpful to me this year. Applying for Hardship Fund was never an easy decision to make, as obviously there are people in need of the money more than me, and so, I’m never one who expects anything from my application eversince my first year attempt to do so. Fortunately for me, after the Board’s assessment of my situation which involves a whole complicated issue, I’ve been receiving funds from them amounting to about 800 pounds a year. The amount may seem negligible comparing to the hefty internation tuition fee totalling to about 17K pounds a year, but trust me, it really did put off a load of a burden from both mine and my parent’s chest.

This year was no exception: in fact, I’ve never been more surprised myself. Joanne Harding, the woman in charge of the Hardship Fund Trust, wanted to interview me again, which has never happened before. In two weeks time, I received a letter from her, stating:

I was granted a total sum of £1,000 for the academic year 2006-2007
I was granted a waive off the 4% instalment charge on my tuition fees for dual instalments, equivalent to about £700

Now that’s a whopping total of £1,700, and I’ve never been so shocked in my life. I’m very thankful to my personal tutors, my Senior Tutor Margaret Cunningham and Lynda White for their testimonies, my friends, ever supportive family and granduncle, and of course, God. This is truly a blessing, and with this I then spent my housemates a round of…. SUSHI!
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Origami love in Dept. of Computing

Sushi Platter X, looks can be decieving…

Every flesh has a yummy scent to it… *drool*

Not so interesting-looking dish…

Wui Seng & Wen Yen, the Inseparables!!

Jun Hui ready to dig in, it’s free sushi anyway!

Coming Up: Sheffield Games 2007

I have never tasted anything so good, get ready for a good run of SHEFFIELDS!!

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Imperial College Malaysian Night 2007

by christock on Mar.07, 2007, under Living Life

Need I say more?

The event turned out to be quite a success! But before that I met up with my ex-committee members of the Anime Society, or what’s left of us hehe. We hanged out like the ol’ times, talking about weird stuff while heading towards an Iranian Restaurant recommended by our President himself, Sadegh! So the few of us including Kamilah (the guest member), Kishore (our PR guy) and The Swede (JohanNP) managed to bind together in our own secret little world….

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