travel log

in the midst of clearing up pictures from my laptop and decided to put my memories in pictorial.. it's been a good year and looking towards a brand new 2010.. ;)

my previous travel log stops at my visit to leeds for the educational trip on aqua vermi ponics. after leeds, we make our way to blackburn and the journey throughout was good.. all of us were hungry and decided to stop at the rest area along the highway for lunch.

of course being at the land, where fish and chip is their typical food like rice is to us.. we ordered fish and chip.. only to realize that fish n chip may no longer be associated with england as chicken tikka masala is fast becoming the nation's favourite... 

we continued the journey to blackburn and went to this shop where 2nd hand shoes is really at a bargain price.. found and got myself a pair of flat that cost 99pence.. 

we then navigate our way to cumbria looking for the place where we are having our nite there.. it;s a countryside place.. really out of city with beautiful and awesome scenery.. mountains, stones and lamb, of course...

after that we went out to search for our dinner.. u'll be surprised how many ppl were there at the country side and almost every restaurant are fully booked.. we search deep inside.. and finally found a restaurant with the name of 'The Fat Lamb'.. as the name of the restaurant, of course.. i ordered lamb steak as my dinner.. nice.. nice..

other dishes.. and a dessert.. pudding rhabab... ( dunno the spelling) but it's really nice and a seasonal vege that only grows in the spring.., if i;m not mistaken.. 

fat lamb... we headed back to the rest hse and call it a day..

the next morning.. we had typical English breakfast before checking out.. and headed to the nearby place for a trout fishing.. dr hakimi taught me how to fish as i never fish before.. 

so there i was.. with rod in my hand.. and then flung that rod to the lake and waiting for the trout to eat my bait.. waiting.. waiting.. and voila, suddenly i feel this heavy strength of thingy bitting my rod.. i quickly ask for help.. and as advice by dr hakimi, i managed to wind back the rod slowly.. and i saw the trout flipping here and there.. with a stick in dr's hand.. he beat the fish to death.. and slowly taking the fish out from the hook.. 

me with my catch of my life. hahaha.. 1st time fishing.. i think i would love fishing now. even if i dun get to catch any fish.. i think it's a wonderful experience.. and fishing is actually a way to teach us about life.. and how we must be patient and perseverance does pay off... ;)

with the rod.. and the trout fishing owner...

after trout, we were on our way to lake district.. on the way, we saw lots of windmill along the highway and that kind of remind me of teletubbies.. so peace and serene..

at lake district.. and my north england trip came to an end.. we then headed to Lancaster for a while and straight back to Manchester...

another nite in Manchester before we flew back to Germany.. 

I would surely visit england again next time.. and of course..to watch Manchester United live in Old Trafford!!!

evolving.. revolving.

i hate the fact that i can be real happy and the next second.. i could be very emo. 

i hate the fact that (not rejecting but merely asking for a reschedule interview because i cant make it for the interview 2moro because i am having a meeting with the managers and i cant freaking abandoned that).. so i am plea-ing for that person to call me back for a reschedule because that is my dream company and still is.. the place i wanted so bad in the 1st place. sil vous plait, call me back!!! i am waiting for that calll.. 

i am having a difficult time thinking because my work laptop got crashed last week with the reasons i do not know and don't want to know and i feel like an idiot because not having my laptop around means i cannot work which makes people around me looking at me (that interprets that i am either stupid or an idiot and makes them thinking that i know nothing about computer that it got crashed barely 2 months since i got hold of it).. it sickened me because 

a) i am not a person who do not know anything about computers because i know how to format and know how to fixed motherboard, graphic cards, ram, hard disk, sound card and whatever shit into the CPU)

- sometimes it's better to left everything unsaid so that i can act like i am stupid and not one will ever ask me.. cause they know they will only get 1 answer from me.. which i.. I DO NOT KNOW.. SORRY..

b) i wanted to do give my best and all to my current job but people just don't give me the chance at all..

- so it's better that i just do what i can and look things at the smaller scale... the more i think, the more i get demoralised and hopeless on my current situation.

i want to be a volunteer for a NGO and am trying to look for ways to help them out.

i realized that i have so many stuff that i wanted to post up for year 2009 but i just couldnt find a decent way to put it here.. and as a reminder that 2009 was a ending and start to a brand new aspect of my life.

i have so many things going round my head but i just couldnt put them into words here.

praying that next week is going to be a good week ahead and that i have the strength to face people that i have to face weekly.. and please dun make my new week  miserable. thank you.

life

life can be real short, sometimes you wonder what can be done, yet we sometimes postpone doing things that we can finish instantly.
and then we only reflect back with regrect things that we didnt do.
i hope this is a lesson learnt for me to do things i wanna do now rather than postponing it.

a month to not whine but rather producing results. and hoping for the best to come. ;)