Ireland Trip (19/12-23/12) report Day 1

Anura, Kavitha and I flew in to Dublin from Stansted and met up with Adrian who flew from Manchester. So the weather appeared to be worse than in England – gloomy skies and strong winds which almost blew all of us away. After leaving our luggage at Barnacles (which btw was quite a rip-off IMHO), we headed to Dublin ‘castle’ but our timing wasn’t right and the tour has already started so we moved on to Christ’s Church Cathedral instead. Met Yiu Ti and Pal outside afterwards and we went for lunch somewhere in Temple Bar. Gosh, stuff in Ireland is so much more expensive compared to France and the UK (although Adrian did manage to find the cheapest Chuppa Chups ever!). And the euro has just decided to do a ‘1 for 1’ with the pound.

Next stop was probably the highlight of our stay in Ireland – the Guinness Storehouse. This place was amazing, and Guinness did taste slightly different here. There was chat about me opening up my own brewery soon as well, we’ll see… Pal and Yiu Ti accompanied us to Old Jameson Distillery where we continued our boozing while they went home.

Now the next destination was truly weird. Who would have Bram Stoker’s Dracula experience in a health club? We probably had to pass through the health club, a bar, some people playing pool and a rather odd looking receptionist to get there. Did you know that Bram Stoker’s wife was going out with Oscar Wilde at some point? And that Bram actually knew people like Tennyson, Arthur Conan Doyle, etc? I wonder if Kavitha still remembers his address…

It was raining by the time we got out of that place. After a quick dinner, we took the bus back to Barnacles and called it a night. So much for Purty kitchen!

Say NO to turtle eggs

I hope all of you are well, wherever you may be, I just want to create awareness regarding Malaysia's turtle species. If we don't do something about it, they might face extinction.

Please have a look at the petition and sign it if you are keen on helping them. I don't think any of you eat turtle eggs anyway, but it would be great if you could sign it, so that we can urge the state government to enforce the laws on turtle egg poaching.

To sign the petition, click here.

We can make a difference! =)

september

yes, it's been 3 months since i came back. it was great meeting up with some of you. a full reunion didn't seem very likely, but hopefully we'll sort that one out for next year.

i'm leaving on saturday so take care, all of you!

reunion!

boo!!!
we just finished our exams!!!!!! =D=D

a get together?? we're uber free now. it'll be the last time we'll be free for a long time. and the uk and aussie ppl on hols right?

so.... leave a comment. and tell us when you'll be back and i'll try and plan something hopefully.
do want to meet you guys. some of you guys i haven't seen for quite a long time. haha.
till then. take care!

XOXO

And if any of you are blur about what on earth Kiew's talking about, look at the comments under Joon's latest post. =P

Great to know you're better, Yiu Ti! -_- though seriously, if we hadn't been phat enough to be blog-hopping with exams just around the corner (possibly the first time I'm not regretting doing this lol) I'd probably have missed it. Write a full post la , barulah nampak kan? =P

Easter term love from Cambs,
Ryan

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!

EH... yiu ti, you're BACK!!!!!!!!! O_o

It's so good to know you're okay... It was so worrying, not knowing how you were, and whether or not you were going to get better. :) :) :) welcome back, amiga!

love from aberdeen,
kiew

*waves*

hi people. glad to see some progress in the blog!

what you guys doing now? joel and us at imu are doing repro. hehehe. and i know ryan has tests this week. wat have the rest of you been up to?

i don't think i have hols in july but please come down and visit. we always have free time, yeah, we only have 2 hours of lecture everyday after all =).

keep in touch people!


p.s. GO MAN UTD!!!! go kick some chelski ass.

just a little laughter...

Just a bit of humour, to spice up your day... :)