Have you heard of this super car? Even though I'm more of a BMW fan but this beauty really makes me fall in love with it. It was launched last year in England for £77k as only around 430 was imported.
As for the TV advertisement, I really love it as well. The soundtrack - "Beep Beep Song" by Simone White is so lovely that I download the whole album.
Audi - Vorsprung durch Technik
Audi R8 Microsite
Today, I have my weekly day off and so as tomorrow. I sent out 23 CVs to another 2 companies "begging" for accounting jobs. As I place the mails into the mailbox in the Post Office, I start to think how many replies will I get before the end of next week. I sent 20 yesterday, 23 today.
What if I really won't get any job offers? I start to look at Masters courses today, maybe try to look at professional courses tomorrow. I counted the money I can earn and save before my visa expire by the end of August, I looked into the bank websites to see if they offer loans and how much do I need to pay back every month. University of Sunderland is still the cheapest in tuition fees if compared to others. The university's ranking in The Times is at number 81. I wonder if I take up MBA in University of Sunderland, will I able to get a job. Friends around me and university mates are taking up Masters one after another. It proves that Bachelors Degree is not sufficient at all nowadays. That is why I am thinking all over again that if I don't get a job offer, I'll take up a possible loan and continue to pursue a higher qualification.
I am going to the bank tomorrow to ask about the loan. If it is available for foreigners, I will surely go ahead with my plans to go further, if I don't get a job with work permit. Tough either way, but I will choose one. I am not ready to leave England yet!
This is the shop I work. 18, Hanover Street, London. It doesn't look big and it really is not big but we are a bit different from other shops around our area. We do deliveries. This makes our shop operation different from other nearby shops. We deliver lunch to surrounding offices every weekdays and some weekends. We have an electric van which is small, easy to operate and environmental friendly, a flat tyre bicycle and a horrendous looking cart for deliveries. Because I am not eligible to drive here, I am doing walking deliveries, instead of pushing the damn cart in the middle of the fully tourists packed street or riding a bicycle with no air in the tyres.
I learned a lot for the past nearly 4 months. I make sandwich, I make coffee, I operate tills, I operate the huge French oven, I do deliveries, I start to learn to set-up the shop before opening, I close the shop, and I am looking forward to learn other new duties soon before I got my true job, if possible.
Accidents in the shop includes, knife cutting fingers deeply, slicer slicing off piece of the finger and cut fingers, burnt by oven's hot surface or coffee machine's hot water. I got minor burnts by the hot steam and hot water from coffee machine, hot soup spilling on my hand, cut by coffee machine's sharp edges and by thin crossaintery papers.
Nationalities in the shop includes Malaysian (me), Polish, Brazilian, Portuguese, American, Carribean, African, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, Latvian, Moroccan and German. No British though.
There are good times and bad times like other usual jobs, just that it's ridiculous sometimes that how the American assistant manager loves money... which leads to us working like machines... until we are so stressful that some of us cut our fingers in the kitchen or burnt by oven and coffee machine. My break time was cut down before as well... duh... Interesting thing is when I am on the till. I collected many coins from the till as British coins has many designs. Got to know regular customers and having some chat with them. Lovely Stacey from Headmasters hair cut, some Japanese customers from House of Hanover next door, and Andrew from HSBC around the corner even gave me his name card!! Of course there are many daily customers, some even come few times a day for coffee and food!!
Anyway, it is a place which I earned my life in London and learning new things... and learning nearby street names and going to offices that usual people won't have the chance to step in to like MTV, Sony, Fallon, Total Gas, Barclays Ventures, etc.
In the end, this is not gonna be my job forever damn it!! I am an accounting and business graduate!! :P
So, I finally settle down in my new flat in Streatham, London. After some time buying some simple furnitures, I sort out my room. I think I won't be buying more stuff as it is very troublesome if wanna move to somewhere else.
Black table from Ikea, Ikea dining chair which is supposedly to be with dining table in the kitchen, duvet cover from Argos to match existing blinds and a bedside 2 drawer unit to put my stuff, also from Ikea.
So this is my table from the other angle. As you can see, it is still the same old laptop that I use, the same mouse, and the same speakers that I bought last year when I was in uni. Far right is the new printer which I just bought 2 weeks ago from PC World so to "start printing my future". Does my table match the gadgets' colours? :)
This is the nearer view of my new printer. Canon Pixma MP210 ink jet with photocopy and photo printing function. Pict-Bridge USB connection port available as well. It's the cheapest Canon I can get from PC World, for just £49.99, including 1 black and 1 colour cartridge. The strange thing that you buy a printer in Britain is that, you have to buy a USB cable yourself to connect it to your computer as it is not provided. It cost a massive amount of around £9 at least depending on quality. I think you can get that for RM5 in Malaysia?
Anyway, this is my room which I am gonna stay for some time...
with my own laptop... in my own room in London... for 24 hours... and it's already 30 minutes used already. I bought the BT Openzone Wifi minutes for £10 with 24 hours access. Happy but frustrated as the speed is worse than dial-up connection. Just realized yesterday in my wireless list that there's a network without the 'lock' icon. Don't know since when they started this network in the area I'm living now.
Anyway, updates and New Year eve will be up after I get my real connection.
Greetings to all out there who still comes back...
It's the last Saturday of 2007. I am going back to London in few hours time so I just drop a post here. I had been feeling sick for the past 2 days but today I'm alright already.
Just that most probably I still won't have internet during New Year Day, so, wishing all my friends here Happy New Year. Have a great 2008!!
So what's so special about today for me? (I mean yesterday 27/12). Well, aunt Lucy, Uncle Stephen, cousin Stephanie and Alex came here to stay. Now we got Aunt Wendy, Aunt Lucy and Aunt Anne in the house. Family reunion eh. It's been long since I seen my cousins though. Quite happy to see them again after all these years.
Anyway, I'll be going back to London in like 8 hours time. Now I'm not sure of going back to London or stay one more day here as it's at my own choice. Decisions decisions. I don't know...
well, gonna chat with them a little then sleeping soon... It's been months since I had so many familiar people around me...
It's 1 year again. I was still in Sunderland at her last birthday party... well... half way through the birthday party while not with her on the actual day... :p This year... I am totally out of her sight during her birthday... Actually I promised her before she left for summer holiday that I'll be attending her birthday party this year... sadly I can't make it... Seems like I'm always not there huh...
Anyway, she's still the same after a year. She still makes me laugh every time we chat. She still complains a lot. She is still known as "Abu". She still say I'm not neat. but as long as she's still original "Abu"... then it should be fine...
Happy 21st Cath. Have a great year showered with blessings, lucks, and may all your wishes come true...
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It's been long since I last update my blog. I was so busy dealing with the new flat and sorting out Christmas presents. So I am now here again at my aunt's, Foxleyend, enjoying my Christmas holiday. Just had Christmas dinner though, it's filling. with 2 glasses of Martini to go with my meal.
Life is not easy in London, but I'm gonna get through it. Wishing myself good luck this Christmas and Merry Christmas to all out there. I'll keep updating when possible.
Few days ago when I read the newspaper, I saw the Avril Lavigne 2008 UK tour advertisement!!!! It will be at 4th June next year at O2 Arena.... I went to the ticket website to look at the price... around £29.50 only.
This is the concert I have been waiting for and I'll be there definitely!!!!!!!!1
Love you lots Avril!!!!!!!!! Yippee!!!!!!!
Ticket website
Official Avril Lavigne website
Well... just some random photos to share....
Recently I bought a 8Gb USB drive from eBay... costing around £15 only, which usually cost £35 or above on high street. But... the drive is unstable... gee.... so difficult to use... not secure at all...
These are me 2007 coins collection which I found in the cash machine when I'm working...
This 2 pence seems different right? I thought it is a special edition but after that I found out that it's a 2 pence coin from Gibraltar.
That's just something to share...
Last Thursday is Guilherme's last day in the shop as he'll go back to Brazil at 12th. We went to the bar next door to have a little drink and bid early farewell to him as he'll be going to Greece the next day to visit his friend.
Ahhh..... we're all gonna miss him damn lots... wishing him all the best in Brazil when he goes back...
Early last month, there was a fireworks display happening in London. I'm not sure what is it for, jsut that there's some event like that happening every year. Fireworks are displayed in various locations, some need to pay to see and some of them are free. At East London where I live, there is one at Victoria Park. I took a lot of photos but the results were not really good. I used the Fireworks function on my camera, but most of them seems quite blurry so I don't wanna put it up here. It's not easy to take fireworks photos... -_-
Did you see a human like figure there? It was a huge human rib cage model they set up and the little fire beside which shoots fire is the "Big Ben rocket" model which just lit up. It then shoots up to the sky, of course not real... just using an industrial crane to lift it up.
Anyway, this is a random photo outside Victoria Park, taken with higher exposure. Not bad..
After this event, it will be the motor show which I will go later on, and the Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park which will be open until early January. There are ice skating ring there and lots more fun. Many ice rings were set up already and I am yet to visit them.
Why? Because of something really serious!! I am very frustrated as well now.... Seems like I'm really on my own now and I need to think of ways and pray hard.... I really need to hang on and hope for the best and do my best... I'm going for it.... I am going for it.... no turning back anymore.... no way back.... I hope I can find someone in the next 2 days.... seriously...
It's the first day of December and I'm having a bad day.... (again complaining in my blog...)
Recently, beside working, Kevin and I had been looking for a new place to stay. We had seen a few places but some of them were already rent out when we just manage to go see. Viewed one yesterday, the area is good, and it's a 2 room flat. the bad point is that the single room is hell small. The other one which Kevin's girlfriend go see is nice as well (from the pictures). I will be going to have a look at that one with Kevin tomorrow afternoon after finishing my work. Hope it's gonna be fine and all the arrangements are fine then we can get the flat as soon as possible. It's like hell at the place we live now. why?
2nd November 2007, Brian, our manager brought us to a Lebanese Restaurant for dinner as we achieved Star Team Award worth £850.
Before we had our dinner, it was a meeting in the shop to understand more about the company and our shop's performance. Below are few of the photos to share with you all. As I am short of time, I just edit few of them.
My Colleagues: Svetlana (Latvia) - Team member Star, always arguing with team leaders; Usoa (Spain) - Team leader, very friendly, real profession is an artist; Ricardo (Germany) - Barista, Valerie (Bolivia) - Part timer, charming lady; Lilian (Brazilian Japanese) - Part-timer.
My Colleagues: Guilherme (Brazilian Italian) - Going back to Brazil next month, a great colleague who works hard and friendly; Mohsin (Morocco) - Barista, talking non stop all the time; me; Samy (Arab) - Dad Malaysian Mom Chinese, super noisy.
During dinner time.
Some of the main course food. Before it came out, we were all full already as the starters are already like main course. 
My Colleagues: Julian (Colombia) - Part-timer, name pronounced as "Hu-lee-ann", me, Dagmara (Poland) - Hot-Chef, in short we call her Daga. She's lovely and only 19 years old.A week past and I haven't been writing anything here....
I'm now sitting in a 24 hour cyber cafe at Tottenham Court Road as I have no keys to go into the house again... haha...
This week at work... overtime again today as I'm only closing with Guilherme, usually 3 person. Yesterday overtime as well as the whole shop is a mess I don't know why... and there was a lady with her hand bag stolen with passport inside... gee... feeling so bad for her though... she keep crying as her husband is trying to sort things out for her....
Something I feel after working for nearly 2 months in the shop... English people sucks sometimes... they complain a lot... eat like babies... (we have to clean the damn floor full of food on de floor every evening)... everyday eating sandwiches only... I don't understand... and some customer's face is like shit... gee...
nah... finish with the complaints.... I really have nothing to write now... I got tonnes to update but I can't!!!!
I WANT INTERNET ACCESS AT HOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! F*CK!!!!!!
Well, it's been long time since I updated photos in my blog... As today I got time, I try to upload some photos about my life last month....
6/10/07
I went to Chinatown to have Dimsum with Kevin....
At that period it was after Mid-autumn festival so Chinatown still has lots of lanterns hanging around....
13/10/07
What's this? Well, a gay guy.... but as I used my phone camera with lack of lighting... this picture is bad... anyway, the gay guy basically, came up to the bus... I was sitting alone in the last corner seat in the bus alone as Kevin sits at some seat near to me... so the gay guy come in at one of the station and sit next to me... damn the fuckin' story began.... I didn't know he was a gay... only after chatting for some time (as he chat with me first)... he keep on holding my damn hand for some reason... n start touching me.... OMG!!!!!!!!! ARGHHHHH!!!!! still a nightmare that night...
14/10/07
Next day, we went out again... we went to the amusement centre... Kevin wanna catch that bear from the machine for his girl so he tried... usually it is not that easy to catch one... as usual... but...
The bear got stuck there on the "claws" of the machine... he got lucky that day... with the help of the workers there, he got that cute little bear for his girl....
21/10/07
Again, one week later... we went to church... cos the past 2 weeks we didn't get there on time so we decided to go at later week...
so here we are, at Hillsong church... at Dominion Theatre, Tottenham Court Road...
Praise and Worship...
Well... about my work... last Thursday was bad... Don't know why there's suddenly so many people coming to the shop after 3 days of grave yard scenery.... That day was hell busy... until the kitchen was so busy that we keep on making new stock for the shop... Everyone doesn't have time to do the washing up and cleaning... then poor me...
I need to close the kitchen as usual... alone... but with extra work to do.... I took extra time to close the kitchen that day.. it was horrible...
After Thursday, it was Friday and it was my off day!! luckily.. so I went for a hair cut at Tony & Guy after 5 months not cutting my hair... ah.... £43 for a Art Director cut...
That night I went for shop's dinner at a Lebanese Restaurant as we got Star Team Award of £850 weeks ago... not bad...
I'll update about it next week, with the fireworks display last night as well... it was so so cool... hiak hiak... cya all soon...
