eden

Eden Project. 

Cornwall (2011)

Hello non-existing people who don't read my blog anymore.

Here, have a lovely picture. This was taken in October 2011 at Eden Project, in Cornwall, England. The Garden of Eden is a sort of a nature sanctuary where artificial climates are made by manipulating the humidity, moisture and sun penetration levels.

It's pretty amazing. Designed by Nicholas Grimshaw. Amazeballs.

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My current mood at the moment? Life sucks. Boohoo. 

An immature mood for an immature person.

waxed

I've been in a really shitty mood since I got back to Malaysia. Idk why, but I think it's the exposure to lotsa good looking people. ._.

Anyways, above is an attempt by my Lithuanian friend to cheer me up and she did! :D

Cheers, Arty. :)

home

The place I lived in for 8 months in the UK.

Only one picture with the front door. D:

And I came back in time just to bake a cake for my mom's birthday!

Nahh. I had a whole week to do whatever I want to lead up to my mom's birthday. :)

I'm back in Malaysia!

WEEEEEE! :D

Cheers, Arty. :)

bath

The year's gone. What have I done? I have absolutely no idea.

Why?

Because I haven't been blogging.

Cheers, Arty. :)

soon

Long hair. ALL GONE NOW.

Um, winter's over and spring started. I'm in my last two weeks of my final project of my first year in university. I made lotsa good friends and bonds with old friends stronger. That's basically all the update I can give for now.

I NEED TO UPDATE MY BLOG.

I read some of the comments from my older blog posts and there's always this Anonymous commenter that would encourage me, saying nice things to cheer me up and stuff. Oh, what I'd do to cheer this person up whenever needed. :)

Bon courage, everyone.

Cheers, Arty. :)

happy

I got a First! :D

Cheers, Arty. :)

me

I'm back? =|

Cheers, Arty. :)

greeeeeeen

I swear it's accumulating. I'm taking a picture a day!

..I've just been busy studying, so yeah. :3

Brb, study.

Cheers, Arty. :)

onesix

Day Six - Melted snow sunny day.

Nice and sunny day today... and I took a picture of melted snow drop?!

HAHA.

Day Six - Chocolate cheese caaaake.

Baked it myself. I didn't actually look up the recipe for a chocolate cheesecake, but yeah.

I'm good. :)

Funmbi and Reena came over for the cake and we revised Building Environment exam papers today! YAY! How exciting! :D

Cheers, Arty. :)

onefive

Day Five - Milk and cookies.

I've just been eating and drinking (milk) and Facebook-ing and play CityVille all day.

(Cup is a Christmas present from Janice)

I'm just. So. Freaking. LAZY. D:

Cheers, Arty. :'(

onefour

Day Four - Study buddies!

Reena's room, doing U-values and Thermal Comfort.

TIRED. And pointless days. I feel like dying.

On a side note, I did some major grocery shopping yesterday. Whooping 28 pounds. D:

Cheers, Arty. :)

onethree

Day Three - In the library.

With Bieber hair.

Studying isn't something I do on a regular basis, so yeah. DYING. :(

Cheers, Arty. :)

onetwo

Day Two - Southampton Dock.

I made good friends here in Southampton. :D

I'm back in Bath now! Came back about half past ten tonight. :O

Cheers, Arty. :)

oneone

Day One - First time drinking alcohol.

Susan's room in Southampton. :D

It's a brand new year.

I'm sure that most people regard this as a good thing and I do, too, as well. Though it means that my last teenage year is gonna end in about ten months, I still think it's a good thing.
Meh. I'm writing from my iPod and it's half past three in the morning. I'm currently in Southampton and I'm in Pikky's room. She's on her laptop and I'm on the floor, unable to fall back to sleep. Woot.

2010 was one hell of a year. I had my A2 exams. I received the results of my application for universities. I went to Singapore with my friends, first holiday with friends outside the country. I worked for the first time in Coffee Bean and that literally made my mind a plain mess. I flew to a foreign country, all alone and no one to look after me. I spent my last day of the year having the first alcohol drinking session of my life.

I'm planning on starting Project 365 and properly finishing it by the end of the year. I've got to do this, I really do. I don't have time to blog anymore, or I *simply* don't have the mood to anymore. So I guess starting Project 365 would be a good replacement for the time being. :)

I haven't been writing as well, my English is getting worse. Shit. HAHA.

Meh. Apart from that, I think I'm ready to find someone again. I've been thinking about it and like, I've finally got a grasp of what I should look for and not miss the important thing. Feelings, for one, is something you can't neglect. Be it of your own or your other half, you must make sure you understand what you're feeling is real, regardless of why you think you're feeling that way. If that made any sense. :D

I drank alcohol for the first time yesterday. Define: First time drinking alcohol. Drinking a full glass of liquor and finishing it.

I finished four glasses of Breezers mixed with Smirnoff. Mind you, first time drinking and starting with vodka isn't really recommended. But I ended up just being tipsy and not even red. And so I've been told that I can hold my liquor, which I'm taking as a good thing! Means I can join my flatmates for drinking sessions now! Banzaaai!

But I still hate the taste of beer. Disgusting. ._.

WHAT SHOULD I DO NOW?

2011. I expect a great deal outta you. Make me proud, beetch. :D

I wish everyone a merry, jolly, Twenty Eleven! :)

Cheers, Arty. :)

snow

Snooooow.

Snow on a leaf! :D

It's not easy taking pictures of snow. REALLY REALLY HARD. But yeah. :D

I had a great time. Guess who acted like a small kid when he got a text that it was snowing outside when he was in a lecture?

I wonder. :3

..and thus ends November!

cheerioseets, arty. :)

blog

Hello there, dear blog. :)

I feel so ashamed of myself for not being able to constantly blog about my life. I really wonder what made me stop blogging. Maybe it was my A Levels exams? Or was it just simply because I lost my mood to blog or all emotions whatsoever (which really happened, btw, when I was working in Coffee Bean).

Have you ever experienced a point in your life where you were just simply on autopilot? Now, what do I mean by autopilot is that you are so used to a very sequential, mundane routine that you have to follow everyday and thus not actually thinking when you're carrying out certain actions. It happened to me this year, and as hard as I may have tried, I just couldn't get my brain working at all.

..which I think was the main reason why I stopped blogging. Maybe I couldn't cope with my exams, the pressure from my fellow classmates who are geniuses. Maybe I'm just not suited to be "the best of the best" which I have always imagined myself to be.

I work hard. I strive. Most of the times I succeed, seldom I'd fail and often I'd be super upset over the failure.

But

Now, I am a first year undergraduate at University of Bath studying Architecture.

Now, I am a proud student of the esteemed Architecture and Civil Engineering department at University of Bath, for which, Architecture is ranked second in the whole of UK, second to Cambridge.

[Source: ONE and TWO]

Now, I am spending most of my time, having fun designing in design studios. Something which I longed to do for a very long time now.

Now, I am also able to score full marks for my Structures test just now, which consists of a mixture of Mathematics: Applied Mechanics and Physics.

This is bliss. Pure bliss. :)

Apart from that, I brought Domokun along with me to the UK. It accompanied me throughout the entire flight here. Which was freaking long, mind you. Six hours from KL to Dubai and then another seven hours from Dubai to London. After landing in a foreign country without your parents' supervision, I got extremely scared, but Domokun was there to comfort me. :)

My family was there with me at the airport that day. It was a night flight, so I kinda spent my entire Saturday out with my brother and mother. Then we just talked, and talked, and talked. Until it was time for me to go.

It was good, I suppose. I've never seen my dad so teary-eyed before. I didn't know it would be this difficult, saying goodbye. They always say that I love you are the hardest words to say, but I beg to differ. When you're departing with your loved ones, try saying goodbye. It hurts, knowing that you'll probably not gonna be able to see them in person for the next three to four months, but for me, it's about ten

I couldn't stop crying. I looked back, and I saw them waving goodbye to me. I held back the sobs, the tears. As I passed through the gates to get to the departure lounge, I took out my phone and texted my mom. She was replying till I got on the plane. The entire time, I was busy taking tissues out of my bag pocket and wiping away the tears that just wouldn't stop. Annoying. Really annoying.

Well, the flight was pleasant. I met a lady flying to Dubai. She's Malay but she looks really Chinese. She was wearing a scarf (tudung) but still looked really Chinese. She was nice. I was glad that I made a 33-year old friend. HAHA. But still, she was great company to sit beside with on a six hour flight. She was definitely better than a 3-year old baby kicking on my seat for the seven hour flight! D:

Haha, damn. At least now I Skype with my family every Sunday. Because I spend a lot of my time in the studios. It keeps the homesickness at bay. :)

I can't wait to go back to Malaysia in June next year. :)

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I met a lot of different people. My flatmates are amazing people. I learnt so much about the UK, like places they're from and the different slangs that they use. It's pretty much like the different dialects they have at different provinces in China. It's super cute when my Hull flatmate speaks HAHA. :)

But yeah, the Malaysian society here, aka BAMSA, Bath Area Malaysian Singaporean Association is pretty cool. :D

Got cute Malaysiaaaaaan. :)

Until next time, dear blog. Hopefully sometime soon. :D

cheerioseets, arty. :)

university

University of Bath is beautiful. :)

Full rainbow! :)

Architecture is awesome, too.

cheerioseets, arty.

mocha

Mocha - I TOOK THIS 10 MINUTES AGO. :D

LOOK AT THAT WINCED FACE, SCRATCHED EAR. *cute*

Mocha is so clingy to me. It's so annoying yet adorably cute. I took so many pictures of Mocha omg. Let me upload them. :D

Scraaaaaatch. :D

..but I have to put eye medication for him cause his eyes will close themselves.

That white colour thing at the edge of his eyes will blind him soon if I don't put the meds. D:

I'll upload pictures of Latte as soon as she's attached to me. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

college

Things that I'll probably miss when I'm not in Malaysia

Arty Farewell Notes
♥ 2 - My college third home

College.

I think the one and a half years that I spent in this place were the most productive, emotional and eye-opening time that I've spent compared to anywhere else (in an educational way, the artistic way still belongs to KLPAC. *kudos*)

Imma miss college so much. My lecturers, my college mates, the staff and the LIBRARY. With freaking bean bags! Haha. :D

There're one too many experiences to list out, but I wanna point out that I met one of my closest friends in the whole wide world! HAHA. I think I blogged about her when she left for Australia the month before last. D:

Go see, go see. xD

cheerioseets, arty.

mocha-latte

Cute kitty is cute. :3 :3
He's called Mocha. :D

..and this is Latte. :)

cheerioseets, arty.