[Winter 2009] Edinburgh Part II

It's day T.W.O in Edinburgh. Our pres-scheduled plan was supposed to see us in Loch Ness but then, we have like 101 reasons not to go at that time. One which makes up like 100 portions of the 101 is the WEATHER. It was so cold that all of us were freezing and we were told that we would not get the best view of Loch Ness during the winter cum snow. So that's when we've decided that we were not making a trip to Loch Ness; not seeing Nessie :( We'll do it in the future, I supposed :)

Day two was fun and we had the whole day visiting different places in Edinburgh. All prominent places, I think.We were lucky to have Eddie (Angela sister's good friend who had settled in Edinburgh for few years already and also the photographer of the above photo) to show us around :) (No photo of him to protect his privacy and integrity *haha*)

In a way, I really like Edinburgh :) It seems and felt different from other city. I'm not sure if it's because of the heritage or what, but I just felt more peaceful in Edinburgh than any other place. Perhaps, it felt more native?

The first place we stopped at was the parliament. At first sight, it doesn't look like one. It looks more like a place where Picasso get his inspirations from, seriously :) The place was really huge with unique design and everything over the top. Unlike the one we have it here and here  -_______- The only image I can see from those pictures linked are images of politicians having catfight, which I've watched in youtube *shakes head*

The place was not that big but we spent a lot of time inside. Either we really find it fascinating inside or we were so cold that we don't feel like going outdoor -.-

*Be honest: Am I rounder?*

Dionn & I

Next short & quick stop:

Holyroodhouse Palace

*The place where the Queen will stay when visiting Edinburgh*

Next: dunnowhereisthis

Like I said, we have a friend who brought us around and with someone to depend onto, I did not really see what this place was.

Okay. The place is called 'dynamic earth' where you will find out anything about protecting the Earth, I supposed?

We headed to a Museum of Edinburgh/Scotland (I can't remember which) after that. No photo because everything inside is typical museum stuffs -.- BUT when we were leaving, heavy snow stroked! Wait, not quite right... it's HEAVY SNOW + HEAVY RAIN. It was so scary because the weather looked fine just before we went into the museum. We spent like 45 minutes inside (despite being a typical museum) and once out, it's like we were in another place.

Once the rain stopped, the heavy snow did not but we were so excited (snow amateur wtf) so we ran out one by one to have our photo captured! Shiok!!

Mine!

We were under the museum's shelter for sometime before getting elsewhere. It was really heavy that my photo above would not be able to present it as it is >.<' We were starving after the snow and after lunch, the sky turned dark (about four?)

So we headed to new town again (we were there every single day).........

Scott Monument

surrounded with........

Fun fair!

NOT FORGETTING.....

Edinburgh Castle (again and I've told ya!)

So our Day 2 probably ended after a walk at New Town and also the worst fish & chips dinner at Old Town. (Writing 'Old Town'; now I missed Malaysia Old Town's Ipoh Hor Fun T_T )

Day THREE was the last day in Edinburgh. We proved to have not plan our trip well as we have the whole day in Edinburgh without anything much to do. Our train back to Manchester was later in the evening so here are photos taken on day THREE:

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Visiting Bobby at Greyfriars Kirkyard

I have once heard story of Bobby from Seakchiew and I'm not going to tell the story over here. Summary: Bobby spent 14 years guarding his owner graveyard before it died. Wikipedia here (and my summary is quoted from there as well wtf).

Bobby's Grave

In National Museum of Scotland I

In National Museum of Scotland II

JK Rowling's 1st Harry Potter's inspiration begun here!

Piper playing Great Highland Bagpipe

Right opposite our hostel is Museum of Childhood. That's where Devonn turned 8.....

Haha. Laugh all you want but it was really fun :)

Lastly, you would have guessed which spot *coughcastlecough* that we've been seeing everyday...

The mighty Edinburgh Castle. 

HAHA *slap me*

Before I forget, here's where we have stayed in Edinburgh:

Err...too small to see? It's the small door with orange plat leading towards upper floor, between the light blue shop and 'The Tappit Hen'. It's called Brodies Hostel and the place looked fabulous to us. Room was fine except with noisy heater. We loved the well-equipped kitchen and the location as well as clean shower room  :)
Warning: This is just how I felt about the hostel. Take the recommendation or just leave it.  Everyone has different expectation so do not complain  how bad it was, etc if you are there and unhappy with what it has to offered because of how good you thought I've said it was supposed to be.

Inside the hostel I

Inside the hostel II

*I'm rounder, right?*

Malaysians were here before (like-duh). Here is the proof:

Spot the 'Ringgit Malaysia' game.

If you can't spot it, here it is. 

ps. If you are bored of me wearing the same winter coat, there's more on the SAME WINTER COAT in my upcoming posts. So it's either you bear with it, or just don't look at me -.- Explanations: No money and I was glad I didn't buy many of coat since I don't wear it anyway at the moment. It's not thaaaaaaat cold anymore *rolleyes*

pss. Talking about my winter coat, it's from GAP okay and *proudlyandcoughcough* it was from the children's section which I can fit :) More importantly, it's like 50% cheaper than the adult one. Now I am fking proud of my height wtf!

Next up: MANCHESTER (Sounds over the top but I've been here for close to 5 months already ...)

Now: Busy with assignments and dissertation is starting soon. Chinese New Year is around the corner and I don't feel it at all -.- (nor Valentine's Day). Have to do research now, kthxbai!

It's DOUBLE N! Remember that!

This post is short as it is meant to be short as I do no want to say anything else but this(nothing serious so go on, read it :)


Forget about how people always pronounce my name wrongly. They usually called me 'Dev-Vern' (Dev as in how you pronounce Devil's 'Dev' and my name seriously sounds like 'Devil' then -____-


Just remember that my name is spelt with DOUBLE-N at the end.
It's D-E-V-O-N-N, remember that.
Surname is LEE and it is just DEVONN LEE, very easy to remember, right? *I hope*

Forget ONE N and when you are attempting to access my blog with just ONE N......*shakes head*
See it for yourself here. You don't have to click if you are under 18 and oh, aren't you tempted to click even more when I said so?

Thanks my ex-flatmate for letting me know ;)

Winter Trip (Quickie) Part I

My winter trip  begun with:

Yeap! All the way up...to the north.

Upon arrival, the sky is getting dark already, so we didn't have much time for sightseeing that day. We were just walking around the area nearby our hostel and stopped at:

The Edinburgh Castle

I guess this castle is place that nobody will missed when they visit Edinburgh (duh!). It is so significant that:

We were there again later that night! Hahaha

And talking about photos... we were supposed to have more photos for our first night in Edinburgh but there were all permanently deleted... so yeah, less photo.. hence shorter post this time :p

At the castle's compound, you can get really good photo of the entire New Town of Edinburgh:

Another one; for the night version:

Well, probably the pictures didn't speak of the beautiful scenery so much but when you are there, you can really feel it :)

Apart from visiting the castle, we stopped at a nearby 'magic shop' (sorry, but I didn't get the name). It was really cool though (just a bit further down from the castle, on the left) and I love this picture very much:

Cool isn't it?

(I was wearing my glasses though)

Before we went back for dinner (we cook our own dinner and...supposed to have photos...), we went to New Town to get groceries and also to visit:

The Christmas Market

Alright. I need my zzz now.

A bit of my update: I've just submitted an assignment last Monday 9hate that assignment for many reasons..) and  yes, THAT'S NOT ALL. There's another one due on the upcoming Monday. New term had started and assignments are pouring in... INCLUDING DISSERTATION! wtf!
I can't think of a topic that I want to do yet... any suggestion? It's such a headache :(

Anyway, got back one my assignment sheet! It wasn't a brilliant mark but still, I'm satisfied :)

Off to bed. 9am class tomorrow.
Coming up: More of Edinburgh :)

Eyes on Manchester (I)

Sorry guys! Without realizing, it's been a month since I have been missing in action. I was REALLY BUSY with being a nerd and all. Thanks to my procrastination, I was rushing so badly to finish 3 assignments and I am keeping my fingers cross that I am going to do just fine :)

So here is an outdated post about my trip around Manchester. Err, I don't think it should be called a 'trip' since I am from Manchester after all.....well whatever...

Dionn and Angela were here visiting us back then. So Jon and I were acting as tour guide, bringing them around and visiting few places. Yeah...only FEW places as time was limited and they were here for a short trip only...

Obviously, lots of cooking involved. Oh by the way, I learned how to cook ginger chicken (something very Chinese-ish), I might show it next time (I am fking proud of myself, can? :) )

Guess where we were heading?

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Old Trafford :)

As you can see from the photo, it was pretty late when we arrived so we didn't head for the museum tour but we weren't intended to go at that time anyway... we are going tomorrow (or later today) actually :)

So we were just walking around and checking few section in the stadium.....

Right after that, we headed to the nearest shopping complex:

Paiseh but you obviously can't judge the location by its interior :) It's Trafford Centre actually! My bad but it was dark so there's no photo from the outside....

My hair was ugly >< (Now even uglier -_-)

We ended up shopping till the mall closed... with few bags.....

Bought a GAP winter coat which you'll see me wearing

in all the time in the winter, so no need for me to show the pick-up...

By the time we got home, we were so hungry and we craved on something that we missed badly from home:

Roti Canai + Curry Chicken + A1 Soup

(yum yum yum)

Apart from that, we visited All Saints Park (sounds so great but nah.....it's only a park outside my hall)

*Autumn*

Took a few shots:

I love this one :)

Well, it's winter now and it's snowing! Freaking cold and the park is all white right now. More pics next time. I am off to bed.

Oh, my mom and brother are here! We are heading to Old Trafford tomorrow, then the day after to Paris, and then on the 27th to London and I wont be back to Manchester until Jan 3rd. We've just got back from Edinburgh yesterday. I officially hate snow right now, too cold to bear with :(

Goodnight

Jacob's Body is Hot!

So I have watched New Moon on the day it was screened. It is obvious New Moon is going to be a BIG thing because every corner in the cinema is very New Moon-ish....

ALSO.....

Me With the huge banner, right by Edward's side =)

The show is kind of disappointing. The show is pretty static, there isn't much action, Bella looks freaky when she's having nightmare....
JACOB'S BODY IS SUPER HOT! HOTTER THAN EDWARD'S! SERIOUSLY!


New Moon is the first show I watched in UK and I had a good time in the cinema. I like how the staffs talk to the audience before the show starteds, introducing New Moon (everyone was shouting) and then asking us who's Team Edward and then Team Jacob. The answer is obvious: Team Edward (I'm in)! Edward's fans can be really REALLY fanatic:

It's only a cardboard!

Thank god there wasn't a long-winded part on the whole Jacob-Bella part. I don't know if it's only me but among all the books, New Moon is my least favourite >.<'

I can't wait for Eclipse and Breaking Dawn.

Updates on me: I am trying to stay home as much as possible to complete my assignments. I have one due on the 7th December and another TWO on 14th December. It's War Mode people! The blog will be mia a while after this...

Oh before I go, I think people hate Jane very much. If not, please explain this:

I seriously think the girl portraying Jane is very pretty. She reminds me a bit of Natalie Portman + Dakota Fanning. I might have seen her in other movies... I wonder who's so mean.....

ADD ON: Alright! She's DAKOTA FANNING. I may be Twilight fans but I do not follow up on the movie okay!

New Moon is Coming!

What a Technology

I was walking to my university just now. The weather had changed and winter seems to come too soon. I was wearing thicker clothes and gloves. The journey from my hostel to my campus takes about 10-15 minutes. As usual, I grab my iPod to accompanied my journey. However, I ended up placing it back in my bag.



I couldn't touch or function the device with my gloves T_T

Tatton Park (Sept 18)

I am finally back with more updates. It's been seven weeks since I have settled in Manchester and I'm not updating my not-so-exciting life here for some reasons:

• I have so many things to do on a per day basis. I have to run my Restaurant City about 18 hours a day, visit 130+ friends' pets at Pet Society, constantly race in Street Racing, cook breakfast/brunch/dinner)
• A day does not seems to be enough for me to do what I intended to do. Assignments, readings, blog, photos editing, video call with my family and the list goes on.
• I am a pure procrastinator! Serious shit. I finished an assignment which is due today only in the morning. When I am supposed to do my homework first, I'll delayed them till late night and go on with facebook-ing for the whole day.
• I insist to be in my comfort zone in the weekend aka I am hardly in contact with the outside world. Seriously, I have classes everyday in the weekdays and most classes end pretty late, between 4-6pm. By the time I get home, it felt like I don't have much time for myself (although I have) and I just feel like staying in during the weekend to do my own things..which revolve to the same damn things I do every other day anyway actually...
• Manchester is not as interesting as I imagined it would be, hence nothing interesting to blog about. Okay. I might be biased about this. I didn't enjoy that much here probably because of the workloads I get from my programme AND I am not into the famous night-life thingie in Manchester cause I am obviously not those type who enjoy that AND I didn't get the Man U job AND some nasty guy pee on my flat's door AND I am just pure lazy....the list keeps go on...
• I am just pure boring or you can call me nerd (which I think I am not but everyone thinks I am) *boohoo*

On second thought, I did not stuck at Manchester City Centre all the time...although 'most of the time' seems applicable. So this post today I will be blogging about Tatton Park, a tourist attraction I've visited on my first week here (THAT'S SIX WEEKS AGO)

TATTON PARK

If you have noticed, I was VERY PALE! 

The trip was organized by the university at a price of 5 pounds which include barbecue dinner, followed by Irish dance (which I did not participate,d-uh). 

Back to the pale-ness. We went to Tatton Park by bus and OMFG the ride was HORRIBLE. The problems lied on the uncomfortable bus (it's Bullocks) and the driving skills the driver had. He kept on press the break hard and that made me nauseous. I was having my worst half an hour bus ride of my life. My head was spinning and something ought to come out from my throat at the same time. Now, I have phobia taking Bullocks buses >.<

-Tatton Hall-

There is nothing much in this place or maybe there is but I was feeling so sick to even bother to explore.

The park was huge and obviously very green! The greenness made me feel much better later that trip.

Taking photos with the grass is a must over here I supposed. At least that's what I noticed from my bunch of friends' photos who were in Liverpool in the summer. Everyone has AT LEAST one photo of them on the grass! Here is mine:

I am glad that I have at least one photo on the green grass right now because it's the end of autumn and the park near my hall is not that green anymore. Falling leaves topped the grass in shades of red and orange.

Cheers~

The trip followed with a barbecue dinner and the food was delicious :)

Paiseh! Food too delicious that we couldn't wait to have its photo taken first >.<'

The Irish Dance which I was not involved in. I can't dance for god's sake.

The after-dinner section was pretty boring for people like me, who doesn't dance. Hey I was not the only one who did not dance. They're probably at least 50 others who did not dance as well. I was stuck on my seat waiting for the dance to be over but it never seems to come to an end. It was a very long night that day :(

Off to supper. Goodnight!
ps. I am going to see my sis this Wednesday!!! :) Excited =)

Why...

do we pronounce BREAKFAST as breakFIRST?

Hmmm....

www.devonnlee.com

It's up from today onwards!!!

=)