The labs here are really something to look at.. they have ALL the technical stuff u can ever imagine that u would need in engineering and they're all in pretty good condition. And most are the stuff are like DAMN expensive.. for example, in my first basic measurements class we were sitting around this really black and smooth table (which i suspect was made of granite) and we were admiring it when the supervisor suddenly grabbed a metal component(which we were suppossed to measure that day) out of a guys hands which he was about to put on the table saying that we can't do that.. we had to slide the component on from the edges of the table cos apparently the table was manufactured to be PERFECTLY level and cost bout 10,000 pounds each!!!! and there were about 4 of those in the same room... at that point everyone immeadietly pushed themselves away from the table and was VERY afraid to touch it after that. Needless to say, the other equipment we were using that day was also very expensive.. sigh... really different standard here..

I fill my nights with...
       visting my various friends' rooms and houses and so on so forth.. we call it room hopping... its a really interesting activity really especially since we finish our dinner bout 7pm and don't feel like going back to our tiny rooms..dinner is kwai lou food of course and sometimes they serve curry which I don't realise I'm eating cos it DOESN'T TASTE LIKE BLOODY CURRY AT ALL!!!!!! ocassionally we (as in me and my other international friends) will try to break the monotony (thou the food here is ok lah... not to say bad..cos they actually serve us salmon here!!!) and cook chinese food with our meager utensils and ingredients...the stuff here is so bloody expensive like for eg: 1kg of kai lan costs £5!! and 4 garlic costs 40-60p...(pls do the math and times 7)  and the vege doesn't even look as great as what we get at home and the garlic is small too... sigh... so we always cook without garlic which makes the food slightly substandard... sigh...but nevertherless... its good enough cos we have tons of fun trying to cook decent food...
      And occasionally being the cheapskates we are, we'll sccrounge around looking for other ppls dvd's to watch a movie on the laptop in someone else's room... it's good fun I assure u..

I fill my weekends with...
         Travelling around uk... I'm serious... ever since I got here, every weekend I've been somewhere.. it quite surprising actually since b4 I came I was claiming that I will only travel next year and bout how expensive it'll be... but surprisingly, if u know the tricks of the trade u can do it pretty cheaply. like for eg, I can go to london via coach for only £1... interesting eh? so far I have seen london, leeds (duh), sheffield, lake district, bath... and coming soon... amsterdam(hopefully.. still in the pipeline)...

My lecturers are...
         rather young...Really... I always thought that my prof will be really old ppl with snow white hair and eccentric and all.. but they're all pretty young. and ALL my lecturers are minimum a dr. interesting isn't it?... but they're pretty nice and cool ppl. my personal tutor is Dr. Brian Henson (I keep calling him sir and he keeps asking me to call him brian) and he's rather young PLUS he has green eyes!!lol... voooonnnn!! But the weirdest thing is (man is this world small) that my tutor is married to my hall's (I'm staying in the Charles Morris Halls where all the students are taken care of 2 wardens and 5 subwardens) warden (the female one of course) and the worst part is that since I'm living on the 7th floor, the warden lives right above me and my tutor obviously lives there too.. lol... now must make sure to not make too much noise at night... kekekekekek...
      My mechanics of fluids lecturer is this really young fella (I suspect he's about late 20's or VERY early 30's) who's not too bad looking. and he's really fun probably cos he's so young and knows how to interact with us.
      However, my mechanics of solids lecturer is this asian fella who till now I can't tell if he's korean or chinese. But apparently he's rather brilliant thou his lectures leave much to be desired... thou boring as hell, I recently found out that he's actually quite cool. Cos recently one of my coursemates visited his module webpage(all of our modules(ie:subjects) here can be found online) and apparently he started this competition for all his students to build a paper aeroplane in his class and trow it in his direction. The aeroplane that comes closest to him without hitting him (of course!) will win. and we were discussing that we should get the WHOLE class to throw it all at once and surely someone will get it right.. lol..

My friends here are...
      ALL seniors... hardly any ppl my age. ok.. got lar... but I'm the ONLY malaysian in the whole (Don't care which kind) engineering department cos the reast of the population went to inti... bloody hell... but because of that I'm mixing with other ppl from various parts of the world. Mauritians, Chinese, Taiwanese, Hongky's, Japanese, French, Brits(duh!!), Thais and of course, singaporeans! So MOST of the ppl I mix with are older than me and the BEST part is that some of them cook REALLY well...lol..heheh... tumpang makan... and the EVEN BETTER part is that one of my senior's girlfriend is ALSO in bath so now whenever I go down to visit en ruey and my senior and his gf is so understanding that they are VERY WILLING to help me plan incredible stuff for my 'trips' down..lol.. en ruey would know best..

Thats all I can think of to say for now... but I'm sure some of u will want to ask me... 'so... how are the brits like?' Let me put it this way, my senior taught me this when I first arrived.

The top 4 british questions:
         (i) Where did you go last night?
         (ii) Are you going out tonight?      
         (iii) Where are you going tonight?
         (iv) Do you know where you can get some free beer?

I rest my case... untill my next blogging mood!!