Last Day of Spring Term

Looking back at what I did for this term, hmmm, I would say it's much better than the Autumn Term which ended last December. I'm less playful this term I think (don't laugh when I say this) :S

I had the toughest last week of term and I thank the people who were there to support and motivate me along the way! (you know who you are) Seriously, thanks! The continuous support I had certainly helped me during the week. Having 2 tests (Online test, Lab test) and 2 deadlines (Final programming, Radio design project) in a week is certainly not easy. Hopefully, I've learnt my lesson of not doing things at the eleventh hour from this.

Besides that, life is still alright. Currently, I'm having a 4-weeks hiatus i.e. "holiday". And oh, I know this is REALLY random but I just have to say it: Heng Kai suddenly LOVES eating bananas! (don't ask me why) I hope NONE of you will think I'm crazy or drunk after reading this post. I'm still sober okayy?? =)

Bananas rock! =)

Malaysian Night 2007

Malaysian Night 2007 was seriously a BLAST! Here are the pictures/videos as promised: *it'll be a miracle if you can spot me in the videos!* LOL. DVD will be out later! :P

PICTURES:

Before the show

Opening Dance

Stomp Dance

Dikir Barat. IC BOLEH!

Lion Dance
Modern Dance

Finale Dance

The audience! Can see Kim Hong! =)

VIDEOS:

Opening Dance (sorry for the bad quality! Hopefully, someone will upload a better version in youtube. Anyway, I doubt you can spot me in the video =P)


Stomp Dance (you should be able to see me in this, I hope)


Dikir Barat 1


Dikir Barat 2


Dikir Barat 3


Modern Dance: footloose! (I was the one doing the cartwheels! =))


Finale Dance (supposed to be the gay-est dance of all but I thought it was alright)

feel free to give your comments! =)

Malaysian Night Fever

Woohoo! Imperial College's Malaysian Night will be in 4 days! FOUR! Pressured? LOL!
To be honest, I'm quite worried of several things. Some are fine though.

Short Review of the dances I'm in:

1. Opening Dance: I think Chloe, Yih Lin, Colin did a great job by polishing up the moves. It looked really messy and terrible initially, but now, I think it's quite good =)
2. Bhangra: Hmmm, not too bad as well. Only thing I'm worried about is: the stage's so crowded!!
3. Lion Dance: I always thought it was terrible. It's probably because I always have this weird feeling when I do the routine. But, nevertheless, it turns out to be quite good to the rest of the people, so yeah. Quite happy about it
4. Modern Dance: Whee! I love this dance. Its very funnn!!
   
5. Stomp: Not ready yet, in my opinion. We seem motionless! Ok, maybe not we but me!
6. Dikir Barat: Errr, no comments. It's the worst among the rest of the dances I'm in :S so many things to remember!! :(
7. Finale: Appeared to be the most gay-ish dance of all but it's improving :) at least, I don't think it's THAT gay anymore! Kudos to Wei Li!

So that's about it! Will probably upload the videos of my Malaysian Night once it's over!
We gonna ROCK on Sat! =P

First lion dance performance for CNY!

*Note: The content of this video may be rather obscene to certain people. If you think you'll be offended in anyway, please do not view it =) And, it's my FIRST performance! It has mistakes here and there (that is if you can point it out) but do forgive me okayy? Overall, our captain was impressed and we did pretty well!





Give me feedbacks about it :) And, hope you like it

Counting down

3 more days to go and I can see my family in London! wheee! Really excited now =P

Knowing my family, I really have to start planning for them or else they'll get really bored here. Hmm, let's see what's on my mind at the moment:

1. British Museum
2. Buckingham Palace
3. Houses of Parliament
4. St.Paul's Cathedral
5. Victoria & Albert Museum
6. London Eye
7. Madame Tussauds
8. Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens
9. Shopping : Oxford Street, Harrods etc.
10. Visit other unis: LSE, UCL etc. (definitely going LSE since my brother wants to go there!)
    

Ok fine, I know London is boring! But, what can I do?? Will probably suggest them to go Cambridge as well, but I'm unsure if I can follow them :( I have lectures during weekdays and rehearsals during weekends! sigh.. And oh! For the past 2 days, it's rehearsals and rehearsals for me. MNight in 3 weeks time!!! pressure.....

Imperial Centenary Launch Day

30th Jan 2007 marks the Centenary of Imperial College London. It's a day of celebration for all the people at the College. Unfortunately, lectures were not cancelled and had to go on as usual :( Nevertheless, the celebration was rather impressive.

It all started off early in the day when the Queen Tower's bells were rung to herald the start of this momentous year for Imperial. Music was then played throughout the day. When I reached College, it was somewhat different to me. Not because there were balloons everywhere but I felt a slight change in environment. People were exceptionally jovial, excited and boisterous.

I had my lectures until 12pm and then, FREE to join the celebration! Lunch in SCR (Senior Common Room) was awesome. And, it's cheap!

Menu for the day. Only for £1.50!


This was what I had. I should have taken the Salmon! It would have been much better.

Imperial even has its own red wine :S

After lunch, we headed to Queen's Lawn and started taking photos. There were jugglers as well.

Me, Shin Hung and Deng Wei [At Queen's Lawn]

London Fire Brigade! This vehicle is maintained by the people from the Mechanical Engineering Department

And, the interesting part: They allowed students to enter Queen's Tower!
For your information:
The Queen's Tower is 287m tall. There are 324 steps from the ground to the base of the dome.

They lock Queens Tower for a very good reason: This is where students of Imperial committed suicide in the past.

We waited for about 2 hours to enter Queens Tower :S


We were all bored and decided to take more photos. LOL




In Queens Tower


Top of the Tower!


Royal Albert Hall from the top of the tower!

We had a free Centenary Cake!

Happy 100th Birthday Imperial!

Brugges, Belgium

Brugge (also called 'the Venice of the North') is fantastically pretty. Personally, I think it is rather unique due to the preservation of the medieval-looking image of the city. This place is a popular tourist destination because of its attractive building and canals.

Panoramic Views of Brugge

A famous town hall

Belfort Tower

Surprisingly, we managed to stagger up the 88m tower! What an achievement for us! Hehe.

View from the top of Belfort Tower

And, of course, who would miss out the famous BELGIAN CHOCOLATES!! I'm craving for chocolates now :(

*drools*

I don't know what to comment about this pic. Interesting huh?


Pictures with friends who went with me:

L to R: Me, Poh Lynn, Yin Mei, Jenn, Cindy, Hong Ping