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Monday, October 15, 2007
The most eventful, fun trip yet! Our trip to ScotLand- Edinburgh + Glasgow + the highlands...
Starting from wed night! In order to save time/money! we decided to take the 2300 bus to Edinburgh! The trip will take 8hrs! ( My back, neck and butt wasn't v cooperative during the ride) and we'll reach edinburgh @ 730am.. Just nice to start playing!!

and so.. In order to catch that bus, we will need to leave our small little hatfield town @ 730pm. last bus to london. and yes... we were still cooking our dinner @ 7pm, washing the dishes at 720! haha.. we were rushing for bus all the way during the trip! ( yesh! i burnt my finger while trying to retrive the chicken wings from the microwave at like 720pm! gosh!)

Reach london at bout 8plus.. v early! and we decided to explore london @ night! Its really very pretty! with so much lesser ppl around so you can really take nicey pictures!!
looks scary huh! Its westminister abbey!
part of london eye with Big Ben!! nicey!! we really know how to catch angle hor! hahaa.. okok.. self praise is no praise.. haha
I seem to be fascinated with the london eye ah! ops! the London eye at night is really nicey hor!!
nicey right!
Yeah we are in scotland!!!
where guys wear skirt! hahhaa..

Streets of Edinburgh
When we reached scotland, Edinburgh.. we were v blur about what to do. Went to check in @ our hostels.. ( more bout that later).. and luckily! a guy came over and tell us to go for this free tour that will bring us around the more popular places in Edinburgh... and so we went! We went to alot of different tours telling us different stories of Edinburgh! Gosh! they need to have some history lessons to get all their stories right!
One version of the story of charles II. He's the most hated king! But he still made the people have a statue of him. then there's a day to commemorate him and school kids will put flowers etc thingy on him. thn soon.. the top of his statue have a hole! and when it rain.. water kept going into it...so,to drain the water, the ppl there poke a hole under the horse! haha.. and so... when it starts to rain~.. it looks like the horse is peeing! ahhaha.. damn funny can!!

I forgot the story about this already. But the square area drawn out has the ashes of dunno who burried under! haha.. and the no. is 23 coz its in a carpark area.. lot no. 23! weird interesting city ah!
This is one area where u can legally spit! The story is... the area before this "heart" was a prison and the sanitary condition was really bad and people does not approve of that.. and so they will spit in there to show their displeasure. and up to this day.. they still do it! AND YESH! while i was taking this picture.. someone spit into the "heart" lor! how rude! bleah.. and so...that is considered the most dirty area!!
Something seemed to have happened there... coz there were many reporters around.. Do you all know what happened? haha.. anyways.. Hope it was a world news! coz ME just kept walking around there in hope that the tv broadcast will show in spore! and you all can see ME!! whaha.. ( kidding lar.. i wont be so bhb! haha)
The writers' museum! whhaa.. I'm a potential future writer!! I think its mentioned that some popular kids stories come from here.. Was it Pinnochio or something?? nvm~ haha
Buglary alarm of the past!! Story: There used to be a cobbler and they are in charge of making shoes for the kings! So you can guess how rich they are.. but with the wealth they have, they also faces a problem, Bulgars like to go to "visit" their house.. haha.. so look @ the steps! they are of different heights! The idea is to let the buglars trips when they run down! haha.. and this worked! and so.. that's their alarm!! Interesting!
The Scotch Whisky Experience that.. we did not have time to go into.. =((((
The guide was very cute! He's like saying the authentic Whisky has 3 thing!
1) It must be made in Scotland
2) It must be left for fermentation for 3 years
3) It does not have the letter "e" in it. coz the americans always spell it as whiskey

Trust me! Scotland ppl dun really fancy English! haha

While we are taking this beautiful picture of Scotland.. we lost the tour! SHIT! haha.. they walk really fast! One moment they are there and the next moment! gone! .. and so we decided to continue by ourselves..

Oh! i haven mention...While we go on this tour, Angeline decided she wants to go to the Edinburgh castle.. which me, anli and farah dun really wanna go.. hah.. All the castle looks the same lar! Experience it for once is enuff for me! yep... experience ( and somemore my prince william also wont appear here! haha).. so while we go on this tour, Angeline went to her castle!

so.. after getting lost.. we walked around the streets by ourselves! Cutey shops!!

A picture with the famous Edinburgh castle!

Next! After lunch, we went to the...

and me and farah decided that we should try on the scottish costume!! yeah!! ( tat cost a bomb!!)
this should be one of the best part of the trip! hehe..

So cute hor! whhaa.. so fun!! yeah!!..

Next! another Highlight of the day!--> Camera Obscura

Its like a amusement park feeling!! There's 4 levels of different kind of thingy for us to play... Showing some nicey ones..

along the stairways are these pictures.. that have many pictures in one! can you see this? using that "mirror".. showing a picture of a man shitting.. with that piece of art!! haha.. so cool ah!
can you see the man's face on the surface of the cylinder?! its super nice right!! one more for u all to appreciate...
a picture of a deer eating on the cone...
using lights and mirror to create the effect... wow!! i love that place! feels like its stars all around me! waaaa...

a 360 degree rooftop view of the city with their 'megascope'... its stated that its probably the most powerful public telescope! niceyy!!! I like it that there seem to be sea or wat surrounding this city.. niceyyyyyyy!!!!

me and farah combined! haha.. not v successful..
shaking my own hand.. haha
shortie me!
multiple me!
me boxing me.. haha
me and farah re-combined!! looks damn alike right!!
like this poster! there's a me in you.... and a you in me! think of the meaning.. nice~

3 colours! colour effect!!
the monkey me!
the baby me.. looks so ugly can! what's with the lips!!
the manga me! haha..
a complete scottish wear.. nice!
Next.. went to one of the Mercat Tours..- "The Haunted Underground"

WE get to use hand held electro magnetic field to detect any ghostly presences..This underground is being feature in newspaper and tv before.. and its said to be believed to be the most haunted place in Britain!

one pic that i thought looks quite scary! .. anyways we dun dare to take pictures in the underground in case we really capture something!

and its funny.. in the end we didnt feel anything! and we were disappointed.. and we are like saying.. if we really feel something.. maybe we would hope that we didnt.. such contradiction! haha..

tat ended the day in Edinburgh.. we stayed there for the night and will go over to glasgow the next morning.. Really enjoyed myself in Edingburgh.. i think i've spent my time v well and i enjoyed everything we did tat day!


Stayed in a student hostel.. the 4 of us shared a room.. and im really quite amazed by the standard of the hostel!.. Initially was still quite skeptical one.. wondering if will have like bad ppl wanting to steal our stuff.. and the condition of the place, since we are going to share the toilet.. BUT amazing! everything is quite okay! Just like.. maybe hall 15?yah!.. satisfied! value for money! yeah!..

Reached Glasgow.. angry! haha.. suppose to hug me! haha

shopping! one jacket that i think is nice! angeline bought it!
like white colour one as well! but dun really like the design.. anyways.. not planning on getting one.. need one for winter but till then.. im going to keep a lookout for nicey one!

Glasgow really got nothing much.. so we booked a highland tour for the next day!
Highland tour- to last the whole day from 830am to 745pm!
Tour Highlights include: Loch Lomond, Rannoch Moor, Glencoe, BEn Nevis, Loch Ness, Urquhart castle & Cruise option, inverness and pitlochry... BUT... after travelling the whole day.. I only know where Loch Ness, Urquhart castle is!

Beautiful scenery of the highlands! But i feel abit cheated! coz we are not allowed to go down and take pictures!! most of the time is spent in the bus, listening to them introducing to us everything about scotland.. which sometimes is nice.. but sometimes.. I just fall aslp!!

area we are at.
at one of our few stops.. haven gotten the grp photo from angeline!
some really nicey scenery that i've got to share with u all!
Finally! Reached the Urquhart castle... Its a abandon castle~
entrance to castle
another nicey view of the castle..
hehee..
time for thr cruise!! yeah.. on Loch Ness.. Its the largest body of water in scotland! and the famous legend about the Loch Ness Monster.. otherwise known as Nessie!
me on cruise! yeah!
cute friendly Nessie! and that ended our trip in Scotland!
Went back to our hostel in Glasgow.. which is of a hall 3/16 standard! cool man! and the price is okay as well! Im loving hostel! hehe..
and the next day is the bus ride back to C. London!... Our hostel is like a 5 min bus ride from Glasgow bus station... so that morning.. i ask thm if they wanna go central Glasgow earlier! coz i wanna buy the bottles of world's smallest WhiskY! its damn cute looking! I saw it while we were shopping the day before.. but coz i couldnt think of who to buy it for.. i didnt buy! BUT THN.. its still so cute and i really wanna buy and i know who to buy it for already.! haha.. BUT.. haix shops are not open so early in the morning.. sad!
so.. we were hanging around... when farah realised! She left our pretty scottish costume photos at the bus stop! wha! luckily we were there early.. and she went back to get the photos.. *excitement one*--> we were so afraid she wont come back in time to take the bus back to C. London.. and finally! at 1045am.. she appeared! wha.. so relieved..
took the super long bus.. and supposed to reach back C. London @ 745pm.. so we can take the last bus back at 845pm.. BUT! the traffic was so bad we reach C. London at 850pm. yep! we missed the bus! GOSH! and this is *excitement 2*.. so we were deciding.. whether we should
1) stay in london for the night at the cost of 25 pounds per person in some student hostel
2) stay in a 4 star hotel.. which cost 65 pounds per room.. but 4 of us squeeze into one room and pray tat we will not be detected
3) take a cab back to hatfield from C. London and should cost around 65 to 70 pounds.. ( my reservation price was 100 pounds for the total of us)
4) take the rail.. go to some station nearer to our hatfield town.. and pray there's a cab we could take back to our place at a much lesser price! ( yep! there's like no cab around this area one.. u gotta call! gosh!)
and so.. we decided to check out the rail one.. and WE WERE DAMN LUCKY!!!! coz.. not only did we manage to get the rail.. we reach back to hatfield station and were in time for the last bus!!!
wha! dunno how to describe how lucky i feel we were! =)))
and yep.. tat really ended our eventful Scotland trip! I really like this trip coz we get to experience different thingy like- the costume, the fun thing- camera obscura, the scary underground, the cruise, castle, the rushin for buses, the resoucefulness in trying to solve our problems..
*beam*
oh yah! and of coz! our thoughtful housemates who called us at 11plus coz we haven reach home when we are suppose to reach back at bout 9 plus.. haha..
we are a lucky lot!!!

lastly lastly... after travelling around for so many days in different weird hours.. and slping at different weird place... last night i was slping in hall.. and i woke up in the middle of the night.. and for a moment.. could not "understand" where i am... quite a scary feeling i would say.. coz i just blur... look at surrounding.. okayz.. i'm safely in hall.. and back to slp again.. yah..

OKAY!~ Finally end of this super long post! time for dinner! I blogged from after lunch till dinner time! total of 5 hrs!! GOSH! yea.. im really wasting my time.. BUT... hehee..i dun have much things to do as well u see.. yeah! 2molo's the student union day! no class whole afternoon! yeah yeah yeah

*I'm hungry*




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