LONDON

A dream city for everyone. I think its like everybody's hope to be here at least once and alhamdulillah I got the chance to be here. Travelling away from the place you used to be is indeed quite hard, plus when you were tagged with a big luggage. Arghhh, troublesome indeed.

Upon arrival at London, the weather wasn't so great. There were like sun shine shyly and the pouring rain continuously pouring. Sadist. Albeit all that matter, me still  wandering all over London and finish it within a single day cause in my calculation, over my 2 and a half years here, I won't be spending more time here, instead I spent time else where, Insyallah. 

30euro across London

A must have photo once in London, Tower Bridge.

Basically London is an old city with lots of ancient looking building that is truly mesmerizing and stunning indeed. There are nothing much to be visited except you are a shopaholic, London is indeed a very nice place. If not, London is nothing more compared to Teluk Intan. Lol.

Royal Albert Hall, place where Siti Nurhalia hold her concert.

The so popular Big Ben

St. Paul Cathedral.

Most of the attraction here in London is just a couple bunch of building where I able to snap few photos and that is all. Nothing much to do here.

Me and Tower Bridge, again.

For me, to those who coming to London, its like a must to take the package to visit Madam Tussaud's, London Dungeon, London Eye, London Aquarium and River Thame's Cruise. Except the one spelled, there are nothing else to be done here. So, lets begin, Madam Tussaud's.

At the entrance.

Going into Madam Tussaud's was like you entering the world of glamour and popularity. The people inside was indeed crowd. So many-many people. Sampai Tom Cruise pun orang berebut nak bergambar dengan. For me, this kind of obsession towards these actor takdelah terlalu mambuak and almost half of them I can't even spell out their names. Lol, that is me indeed, susah ingat nama orang, even you are so-so popular.

 

Me and Britney. She look miserable in person.

From this photo, I can tell that am short.

With England Royal Family.

Rafael Nadal, my schoolmate's obsession.

The Beatles.

 Summing up, for me, Madam Tussaud's was quite boring and a bit annoying as the people are too many. It was like tin sardin back there. Plus, engkau baru  nak senyum tangkap gambar ngan Brad Pitt tetibe ade orang selit masuk plak. Kalau muka paras Angelina Jolie bolehlah, ini, ish geram sahaja.

Then, next stop, London Dungeon.

At the main gate.

Believe it or not, I queue for almost 2 hours in front here just to enter. Wow, just imaging standing out here with the cold wind blowing overtime, making your toe frozen. Totally unbearable. Not much photo inside here taken as photography and filming is not allowed inside. Daaa, fe-feeling copyright lah kununnyer.

Out of all the activities, I think this one is the best and totally worth-it the money. With 18 pits stop in total, surely the best way to know the old history of London. Most of the pit stop have its own interactive activities and know what, the activity itself was interesting. Even lepas kau keluar pun masih kabur kabur lagik history London yang sebenarnyer, the moment you had been thru inside was indeed precious.

London Eye

Next one, London Eye. Nothing much to said here cause mostly done by looking. Yet, the view is stunning and thank to Allah I managed to get into at night, thus the view of light city of London had come into my eyes and masyallah, beautiful. But one thing that I hate but London Eye is the blue lighting. The light making the photo taken inside looking indeed miserable and OMG unforgivable.

Blue me inside the capsule of London Eye. 

The eagle eye of London.

Even my package include the London Aquarium, due to time constriction, I wasn't able to enter and thus I miss this one but basing on the senior, they said the Aquarium itself wasn't that nice. Not many fish thou. Kalau kau menyesal masuk Aquaria, Aquarium ini lebih mendukakan. Gituuuu.

Me and the Big Ben Tower.

I also board the ferry along the River Thames but indeed nothing special bout it. It just like you taking a boat along Sungai Bidor. Nothing more or less. And that right night summing up my days in London. It is indeed a splendid way to spend your holiday and I hope that I won't be here no more cause I really do wanna see the other part of the world.

A Well Spend Day At Liverpool

Yeah, it was just a short quick trip to Liverpool. Arrived around 9.00 in the morning and leaving at 2.25 in the morning of the next day. Ha3x, short trip indeed. Liverpool is as well a very nice place thou but compared to Manchester, the Islamic population is less, thus the Halal restaurant is also less and daaa, memang berpuasalah aku sepanjang hari tue. Mengikat perut. Lol.

Central Library and Museum

And then we took a cab straight ahead to the very well-known stadium, Anfield Ground. Based on my single day observation, people here are very fanatic towards football club. The football team is like god to them and they are very enthusiasm with their FC.

Instead of just taking photo from the outside of stadium, me deciding to give a stadium and museum visit and know what, it is worth it. Not that kind-a worth it sampai kau sanggup sujud syukur tapik takdelah menyesal sampe rase nak tikam the stadium's receptionist. Going in, sempatlah to take a snift or two of the player's jersey, seeing the place where the player get naked together-gether, and even sitting on the chairs where millions of people will eagerly cheer for their football player. Yet, indeed the stadium is not as big, huge as I am imagining.

The battlefield.

So-popular KOP.

This is the venue where the interviewing session held on

Lucky Anfield sign board

After spending the whole afternoon touring the Anfield, we headed back to the Liverpool City. As so all know, Albert Dock. Spending bout an hour plus there, strolling around like a foreigner, solat tepi laut, ouch freezing cold and the walk along the sea side and then off to The Beatles Gallery.

Albert Dock it is.

The view

Beautiful architecture along the canal's side

The Beatles

Across the canal at dusk.

After the day goes by and things get darker, me and my fellow mate decided to crash into the cinema, have a good seat in a good environment, which is not cold absolutely, while waiting for our next bus to London at 2.25 am. Phewww, what a day indeed.

Kalau convert harge tgk wayang, memang tidaklah kan.

So, London here we come.

Jaulah Di Manchester

Manchester, a very nice city thou. Am jelly to those studying here because Manchester is indeed a heaven of Halal food in the west. There was like hundred and hundred halal restaurant along the roadside that will eventually make you feel like you're home. LOL.

So, I stayed here for quite sometimes, 4 days I think and thanks to Syed Hussein my ex-mate in INTEC for being so nice, showing me around. First stop is a Christmas Market. Basically nothing much here cause most of the things sold here is food which are in Haram OR Syubbehah categories. So, nahhh, can't eat those even it is so so scrumptious-ly looking. Ha3x.

Christmas Market at the city

Manchester Town Hall

Then, after a tiring walk and long day, we stopped for a glass of paradise. Kalau kat Malaysia mesti nak pekena cendol, dekat Manchester as well got this kind-a cendol. LOL. Quite nice thou but still cannot beat the cendol at home. Rase manis gula melaka tue takde, no umphhh di situ.

Manchester's Cendol. 2.50pound

Then, I paid a visit to the University of Manchester. It is structurally beautiful and amazing. Kind of old patern building is surely making it seem, wow gaya luar negara. Instead of UCD building that is more modern and more Malaysian-look. Kah3x. Lantas, another jelousy to the Manchester's student. Even so, the Malaysian + Pakistani here are alot. There are like everywhere. Sometimes, as I walk along the road, there was no single english man or woman passing by, just malaysian and pakistani.

At the main entrance

 Whenever you in Manchester, it was like crazy-hell to have a look and go around their football stadium kind-a thing. I don't know, even a super duper non-fanatic football like me was very eager to come and visit the stadium. Ha3x. Btw, here then I learnt that Manchester City and Manchester United are two different football team and both of them have separate stadium. One is Etihad Stadium and another one is the so-called popular Old Trafford. And guess what, I visit both. Ha3x. Jangan cemburu yer.

Ethihad Stadium.

Old Trafford.

I also went to Salford Quay. Interesting site of the city indeed. Beautiful.

The canal

Salford Quay.

Visiting Manchester was indeed an amazing memory that will not be forgotten forever. Till we meet again Manchester and perhaps I come again to watch a football match.

Last words from Manchester

Lepas 3 Bulan Merantau

It had been more than a month I left this blog un-updated but yet, I still got no real thing to tell. Lol. Is it my spirit in blogging drifted away? Hopefully not.  3 months, phewww. It is a long period. Very indeed. So, what is it about Ireland now, my study, the happiness, joy and yet life must be balanced kan, so where ever is happiness must surely be accompanied by sadness. Kah3x.

One fine day at Giant Causeway 

Rainbow-ing

Btw, the very first semesta of me as a medic student had finally come to an end. Next week am gonna sit for my final exam. Nervous, feeling-shitty, perghhhh, only Allah yang tahu. And currently, am having sleeping disorder, just why there must be a TV series I must watch upon examination. If during a level I bantai 4 seasons of Hot In Cleveland, right now me just spending like more of the time watching Lie To Me, and currently at season 2. hu3x. Hurdle of the examination perhaps.

Cuaca nan iklim di Ireland. I got to admit that the first time you here it gonna be like, OhhhMaiiGod, adalah very amazing dan indahnyer bercuaca sejuk. No need for air-cond what so ever but overtime you'll feel that, how I miss Malaysia so much. Except the too much sun-blazing. Lol.

Makanan. As a food hunter, am really quite disappoint with Ireland. The food indeed is not as best as it was recommended and been told. I miss Malaysia food so much, yet cooking with limited ingredients, the taste won't easily be the same. Plus, am really missing the spicy-ness of the food. Ok, drooling. But still am fully-feed here, no worries. Makan, pakai, tidor sumernyer bahagia ajer. Ha3x. 

Me.

Apa lagik mahu citer? Oh yeah, currently am not been on any travelling mode. Not sure why; examination, tired ka, or perhaps just wanna have some times alone inside the chamber. But still I got plan for this winter break which is just a week away. Really looking forward for those adventure. Ha3x. Hopefully everything gonna be fine.

Alumni IGOP.

So, by restating the blogging today (which make me seminggu nak siapkan post nie), hopefully the cascade event is back where am keep updating what am doing here so far and fort. Till the next post. Adioss.

**Gambar-gambar berkenaan semua berlokasi dekat Giant Causeway, Belfast, Northern Ireland.