UK Year 1 Life Stories (Part I)

First, I need to apologise for not updating my blog for so long. Sorry about that because I've broken my words to do so. Ermm, so let me just make everything shorter. What my situation for now is,
-I just finished my final exam for this year 2 days ago.
-Gonna have a month for travelling before GOING BACK TO MALAYSIA!!!
-Plus, I just finished reading a book. (Small matter but I just want to mention it. Haha)

After a few months of busy and tiring study life, finally I can take some rest throughout my mind. So, I've been thinking about my life in UK on these few days. Like, 'what I've learnt in here?', 'What I gained in this 9 months?' , 'Did I changed?' 'Changed to what? A better or even worse person?' ...
All of these things just keep moving around my mind. Sometimes, you can't have the answers until you write it down. Hence, I would like to share my life stories and what these stories have taught me within these 9 months.

1. I got a chance to TRAVEL to a lot of places whenever I have my vacation. My travelling dream came true! Traveling became much more easier since I came here, you can get everything though online and sometimes you can really just go without planning. Travelling abroad is just like our local travelling in Malaysia. Whenever you want, you can just arrange your schedule in few days or maybe more and it depends on you. What I've learnt and gained from here is: I was able to plan a trip better than before, got a chance to know more about the countries such as, geographical location, culture, life, people over there, foods and etc. There is always a lot of invisible skills you can gain whenever you do something, go ahead and do whatever you like by yourself BUT NOT RELYING ON OTHERS. Because this is the way you learn. =)

2. I got a PART-TIME JOB as a waitress since February. So, this is my FIRST part-time job in my life and I enjoyed it so much. I worked in a Japanese Restaurant near city centre and it took 20 minutes from my place to there. At first, I didn't know about the other route so I need to spend 40 minutes to get there(What a stupid)and I can feel those KL people who needs to go to work one or two hours before their working time. Undeniably, I was nervous on the first time I worked. I remembered the first day I went to work, I didn't even tie up my hair and this is a COMMON SENSE. =.= I know, I'm kinda speechless for myself. Nevermind, it's fine. A lesson for myself. Actually I feel so lucky to get this job cause I realised there is a lot of people who came to apply a job but never get a reply (same for my friend) However, for my case, we never had a meet before even at the first time I passed my CV to them. Coincidently, I put my CV into their mailbox on the day I was seeking my job because they were closed. Til now, I never know the reason my boss hired me but anyway I was grateful to have this opportunity. My colleagues are so friendly and nice. Sometimes, we'll hang out for lunch or movie. As a waitress, I learnt to be more observant. You'll need to observe what the customers' needs because there is some difference between customers in UK and Malaysia. They'll just closed the menu to show that they're ready to order instead of raising their hand. Most of them were so friendly and you'll feel that they were just like your friends. They always showed their good manner and respect and I feel so willing to serve them. Somehow, having a nice chat with the customers gave me a sense of achievement. Out of my expectation, I found confidence and happiness in my job and I really appreciate everyone that gave me this chance.

3. UNSTRESSFUL UNIVERSITY LIFE. Yes! This is truth! I'm doing Bsc Mathematics with Actuarial Science in University of Southampton so everything I described is according to MY SITUATION. I'm not sure about the others but I can tell mine. I'll have 16 hours of lecture class and tutorial per week. In addition, we have only 6 months of study period minus all the vacations. Therefore I got more time for myself. Usually I'll spend my extra time on baking, cooking, doing research, papercraft or watching drama. Definitely, this study lifestyle is actually what I always wanted. The reason why I said it is non stressful because there is no one will tell you "YES, STUDYING IS THE ONLY JOB FOR YOU, FOCUS ON YOUR STUDY, DON'T PLAY, DON'T DO NONSENSE THINGS. I think it's because the different education system, the lecturer won't tell you to get 90 marks, get A*, get a first class degree. He'll only tell you try to balance your study and life. 60 marks and above is considered good result in UK. What I can tell is I GOT FREEDOM. I got a freedom to do anything I like and I totally enjoy it. =)

4. HEALTHY LIFESTYLE. Since I've been here, I think this is the biggest change in my life. I admit at first I started to change my lifestyle is because I wanted to lose weight and have a good body shape. So, I started to workout 4-6 times per week. Besides, in order to have more effective results, I started to control my diet. I did the research and find the workout and recipes online. Until now, I not dare to say I know everything but at least I have a basic knowledge about healthy lifestyle. I can tell that the process is tough and not that easy. You need to have determinant and motivation all the time. Sometimes, I do calculate the calories that I've consumed per day. But I failed to do this everyday, although I wanted to=.= I'm not yet success to reach my target but I'll maintain this lifestyle and work hard for it. It was a long way to go though. =) I believe I can do it!

So, it's time to end up this part. I will continue my part 2 soon. See you guys soon. =) All the best to my friends I'm so looking forward to hear the stories from all of you.

My top ranking desserts in KL

Most of the people like desserts and cafe. So do I. In my opinion, this is the best thing to do in KL instead of shopping. I would like to spend my time in the comfy and relaxed ambience. A cafe without a good ambience is just like a cake without sweet taste. Now, I would like to choose my top raking desserts that I've tried in the last couple of months. The raking has no particular order. =)

1. Sweet potato cake from Namoo Korean Dessert Cafe and Bistro on the park, Publika 

This is one of my favourite cake because it doesn't taste too sweet and it don't have so much cream like other cakes. 

2. Valrhona Heaven from NOSH, Bangsar. 

 Omg, I still can imagine the taste in my mouth when I see this photo. There's two flavour of chocolates inside the chocolate cake. You can feel the different taste of chocolate mix together in your mouth. This must be a paradise for chocolate lover. <3 I miss this dessert so so muchhhh.....><

A small introduction from the menu for this dessert. 

3. Straight from the Oven Chocolate Cake, Raspberry Sherbet, Vanilla Anglaise Sauce & Thirty 8 Signature Cake 2014 from Thirty8, Grand Hyatt 

 The speciality for this dessert is the raspberry ice cream! You must try the chocolate cake with the ice cream!!

This is the signature cake of Thirty 8 but I prefer the chocolate cake. =)

4. Chocolate Fondant from Cafe Barbera 

    Address: 18, Lorong Maarof, 59000 Kuala Lumpur. 

5. Sizzling Brownie from Acme Bar & Coffee, The Troika 

A brownie with sizzling chocolate and ice cream on top. This is the signature dessert from ABC. Must try. =)

6.  Waffle with fruits and chocolate & Brownie from Good Friends Restaurant and Cafe, SS15 Subang Jaya. 

 A simple brownie but taste awesome! 

Soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, these waffles are served with bananas, strawberries, pumpkin seeds and chocolate. I love it. 

7. Matcha Parfait from Nana's Green Tea Cafe, The Gardens 

There's a variety of combination of parfait. You can choose the parfait according to your favourite combination. =)

The matcha doesn't taste too bitter and when you eat the matcha ice cream with the red beans is the best!! 

8. Homemade Lave Cake from a friend who works in Regent Hotel, Singapore. 

This is the best Lava Cake I've tried. =) I heard that he plan to start his own cafe in KL soon. Hopefully I still can eat this after I go back to Malaysia. =D 

However, all of these desserts are according to your own taste. There's still a lot of delicious desserts I'haven't tried yet. So, this ranking will be updated on next year when I go back to Malaysia. =D 

My first experience when flying alone to UK

I have been here for almost 1 month. I couldn't say that I did well for everything since I came here. In the other way, what I want to say is I'm just a normal 19 years old girl who choose to study abroad and everything she faced is just same as everyone.

I remembered that the moment when I want to enter the boarding gate in the airport, I feel scared. I felt like I can't return once I enter the gate. I felt I'm not yet ready to go in. Til now, I can't forget the feelings on that day. At that moment, I was no longer the strong and independent girl in front of everyone. I was scared and nervous. At the same time, I start to worry about everything. 'Can I go alone? Can I settle all the problems alone? Do I have the ability to do so? What if some unexpected accidents happen?' All of these question marks came from my nervous because it was an unknown in front of me. I don't know everything about my tomorrow because I never go to UK, I never fly alone. Everything is just the first time. Ya, so this is my first experience which I would like to share with you guys. Of course there are some of them didn't feel same as me but I admit that I'm not strong enough to be one of them. =)

However, due to time limitation, I decided to enter the boarding gate without caring my feelings and I just left my parents, my boyfriend and my friends behind. =( When I went to the passport control, the female worker said' Sayang, janganlah nangis.' In this situation, even a simple sentence will make you feel touched and warmed your heart. I replied her a smile with tears face. =') After that, I went to the security checking to check my luggages. On the way, my boyfriend called me, because it was too rush and we didn't have time to talk. We both cried in that phone call and everyone just stared at me. At that time, I don't care about others anymore.

When I reached to the departure lounge, I don't want to enter the departure gate because it is the last chance for me to talk with my boyfriend in the call. I need to wait for about 18 hours after this call. I feel really sad to leave this country, my everything.

After getting onto the plane, I found my seat and I was so lucky because a malaysian guy was sitting beside me. His name is Jimmy. We talked and shared our life story together and I was so glad to meet him. He was going to purpose to his girlfriend who was studying master in Sheffield. I truly blessed for them. <3

My dinner on the plane. 

My flight will transit at Abu Dhabi Airport and after 7 hours of sleeping and eating in the plane, we finally reached. I need to wait for 2 hours something before departure. The sad thing is the Malaysian guy will not going to take the same flight with me. Sometimes the god will send you a special guest to you and left a memorable moment in your life.

On my second flight, it was unbelievable but it was still happened because I met 1 more Malaysian as my side. Thanks god for blessing me all the way from Malaysia to United Kingdom. Haha =D She is called Dona. She is a very friendly person and she is going to study in University of Newcastle. Hopefully we can meet again at Malaysians gathering event on every year.

Breakfast which is provided in the plane.

**Remember to wear more and bring a thick jacket when taking a long journey flight because it was so cold!! Although the blanket is provided but it is totally not enough.

I was extremely exhausted when I reached London Heathrow Airport after 18 hours on the plane. Dona and I helped each other to carry luggages from luggage reclaim. It was so glad when you know some new friends in a unfamiliar environment and helping each other. When we were queuing for the customs, I just realised that I forgot my sport shoe in the plane from Malaysia to Abu Dhabi. T^T It was totally a sad case, I love that shoe so much so much... =( I was so careless...Arggghhh!! I know this kind of things must be happened on me every time. =(((

At the airport, it's time to say goodbye to Dona. =( My university has provided me pick up service at the airport and I need to meet them at Terminal 3.

Then bla,bla,bla...all the registration things and finally I went out from the airpot and I can feel the cold weather outside there. The first thing I saw is the blue sky and the red brick buildings. Yeah, I am in UK now! Everything is fine and not that worst. =)

Just want to share my first experience and tell the others who wants to go study abroad alone, 'EVERYTHING WILL BE FINE =)'. 

Feel shocked when I realised I had written so long for this post. I supposed to write until my life in Southampton but since it's too long already, so my UK life will be the next post. =)

Thank you for the video you've done for me. I Miss You & I Love You, My Friends

Hi, long time no see, my blog. =)

Ya, I'm in Southampton now and I've been busy settling down my life in UK on these couple days. Today I'm not gonna to describe my life in here but a THANK YOU post for all my dearest friends. 

Before flying to UK, I've received a lot of blessings from my family and my friends. As well as the farewell in airport, thanks for those who is coming. I'm truly appreciated for that. =') It's my pleasure to have a bunch of good friends. 

The most surprising me is the farewell video which is directed by AH TERNG and it's really touched.  =') I've cried for few times when I watch this video. I remember that I watched it when I just woke up in the morning, I received a message from her to watch a video. At first, I thought it was some inspirational video that she wanna to share with me but ended up that was a video FOR ME <3 

There was a lot of wishes sent by every single of my friends in the video and I felt appreciate because everyone was still there and they never leave me. 

My friends, 

thank you for walking into my life and never abandon me for years,

thank you for understanding and accepting me patiently, 

thank you for the forgiveness and tolerance for all my bad.

Saying is not enough, I promise that I will take good care of myself and wherever I go, I will bring along all the blessings from you guys and stay strong. Until the time we meet, our story will be continued. =)

Must be so tired of editing the video, thank you. Love you always. =3=

ermm, ya. This is me when in front of them. 

出国留学前...

9月1号了，离去英国的时间不到3个星期。
开始觉得担心，担心自己英文不够好、担心学业跟不上、担心这个担心那个。
一开始的期待和兴奋早就不知飞哪去了。
觉得很紧张，时间过好快。很快地，我就要站在不同的地方，接触不同的人，看着不同的风景，生活下去。
我知道这是挑战，也是成长。
未来的几年我想像不到我会在哪里，但是我依然会记得这里的一切。

I got my A-levels results!!!

As the tittle shown, I get my results today. Ermm...just as what I've expected for my results. =D But I feel a little bit sad because my further maths get B. =(

Never mind, I accept it =) 

Let me talk about happy things. The most happiest thing is I can enter the University of Southampton which is my firm university that I've applied. Aww,,,and and and I can go UK!!!! This is my dream~!!! =D Finally I've pursued my dream and that feels good. My hard work finally pay off. T^T

Thanks god! 

Until now, I feel like all the things are just like a dream. PLEASE WAKE UP, YINS!!! YOU'RE GOING TO STUDY IN UK IN THIS SEPTEMBER!!!! BE READY FOR THAT!!! BE SERIOUS!!! Ohh, a lot of things I need to do now. Celebration, Visa, flight ticket, accommodation, english speaking....dot dot dot~~~~

Gonna say bye bye to all the dearest friends and family, and my love =( 

CAL Graduation Night

After 1 year and 2 months, finally I had finished my A-levels in Taylor's College Subang Jaya. Felt proud of myself because I never believe I could do well in my A-levels. (I haven't know my result yet but at least I know I had try hard to do my best)

I still remember how hard was I to overcome the pressure in my study. I never thought that I could be such a hardworking girl in my life. In my high school, there is no 3 months early preparation for my study. At here, I could study everyday in learning hub and done my preparation EVERYDAY for my exam. OMG!!!! I just CANT believe it!!!! I still remember the feeling when I came back from college, it's freaking bad. I almost cried for everyday in the first few months but this was not because homesick it was the pressure I couldn't  withstand. You will feel panic when you can't follow what was teacher teaching but everyone still could follow. Sometimes, I ever thought about giving up my A-levels but fortunately my brother stopped me from that. Thanks god and thanks my family and friends, they were those persons who supported me and stayed beside me. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW HOW STRONG YOU ARE.

Today is our graduation night and we all had experienced such a wonderful night. Oh ya, this is my first time to attend a prom night =P

  Before that, make up and hair styling is a MUST. =D 

Take a selfie first! Must capture down the prettiest moment in my life. <3

The venue is in Renaissance Hotel, near KLCC. There's another annoying thing I need to say, originally me and Zhen Lin have prom partner but they are not coming yet so we decide to enter the ballroom first. We've no time to care about our such irresponsible partners. ~,~

As usual la, we keep taking photo photo photo and photossssss

 Zhen Lin, Cherlyn and Me

 Cherlyn and Me

 A genius in my class, Yor Wei

 A talkative guy in my class, Han Ning =D

 Girls in my class, Zhen Lin, Me, Nicole, Chui Wern and Cherlyn

 My class =D All the pre-engineering students, haha~

 Me and Pikachoo, same colour gown. 

 Me and Glenn, very handsome on that day =D

Me and Nethalie =)

Me, myself, my eyes are so scary O,O

 Me and Chean Li, my irresponsible partner >_> 

 Me and Rik =D

Boon and Me, beatbox guy=.=

Me, Zhen Lin, Xue Ying, Cavien, Nethalie and Pikachoo, all the Taylor's Girls =D

After the photo session, we entered the ballroom and my class is table no.16 

 And here is the menu =)

Must take a photo since I meet up with them when I'm going to toilet. 

 Chocolate brownies with ice-cream, delicious!!!

 Received a rose from my prom partner as his apologise, ermmm....

 My further maths teacher, Mr Peter, a very friendly person =D Thanks a lot for sacrificing your time and give me a lot of consultation patiently.

Ermmm,,,,must take a lot of photos in this night

 Hock Hong and Me =)

That's all for this memorable night. =D