Feruz in Cardiff

Local weather:

Friday
light rain

max 14°C
min 10°C


Saturday
light rain

max 13°C
min 11°C

FINALLY!!! Even though it's raining, but it's not as cold as yesterday.. I'm really looking forward to spring... ^_^ I ist happy today because it's not effing cold!! <3 <3 <3


(PS: I Still miss my cats to bits... my mom said Boolat is turning into a stray.. she only comes in the house for food... :( I'm afraid that she'd forgotten me when I get back home... Yes I know.. I've been complaining about her since like forever.. but I have this Love/Hate relationship with Boolat...)

I'm missing home so bad today... and I'm really really really missing my cats back home... I miss my weekly Gilmore Girls downloads... I miss my Yakitate!! Japan... I miss my bed.. I miss my car... I even miss going to class... *sigh* I'm not used to doing practically nothing for too long... maybe that's why I've been using a lot of money, coz I need something else to occupy my brain so I think of buying this and that... God I miss being back home...and it's only been a month! :( :( :(

Soooooo.. anyway, today we went to Swansea, coz we wanted to go for a tour at this Chocolate Factory named... The Chocolate Factory.. duhhh.. :P It's actually a company name Michton. We got out of the house around 10 a.m. I had to drive coz my sis wasn't feeling so good this morning. She drives at 80 mph on the M4, I drove only at 60-65 mph.. hahahahaha... nasib.. :P, BUT I got a reason lah why I drove not as fast... the winds here are CRAZY! kuat nak mampos O_O I had a hard time trying to keep the car steady! So anyway... the drive to Swansea took about an hour or so, and we straight away tried to find the factory, which was rather small. Because we reached there at around 11 and we had 4 hours to spare, we decided to find a beach, which my sister said was quite near, and we went for it.

It felt like AGES for me to get there! of course lah.. I was driving like a turtle okay... still not used to the roads here, PLUS the rural roads were dead small.. I mean REALLY small... I get freaked out everytime a car comes from the opposite side! So anyway... We got lost for a while and found a castle, which we couldn't get into, so we went back the other way, and went into this carpark, and LO and BEHOLD... it was actually the access to the damn beach! There was no friggin sign to say that it was!! So anyway, we paid £2, and parked our cars nearest to the beach. It.was.friggin. AWESOME! you don't get this type of beach back home! BUT it was super windy!! The sands+small rocks got thrown at us by the wind, can you believe it? We were there for about 1/2 hour taking piccies and just looking around, coz by the time we got there it was already around 12 something, thanks to my super duper slow driving.. ehehehehhe...

Then my sis took over the wheels and we were off to the choc factory! well, not before we had lunch at a McDonald's on the way :D all of us had Fillet-O-Fish coz thats all that we can eat here anyway apart from their salad *sigh*. We finished eating around 1.35 p.m and made our way to the factory, finally :P

So we got there, paid our tickets (£6 adult, £4.50 kids), they gave us these shower cap thinggies but it's made our of a tissue like thing, we waited at the cafe' for the others, at at around 2 p.m the tour started.

We first had to listen to Coco the clown (our tour guide), who informed us about how the chocs are made in the first place, where it came from etc. that took about 30-45 minutes, then they split us up into 2 groups, coz the factory is rather small, and we got Coco as our guide while the other group got the company's sales and marketing exec I think...

So anyway, Coco showed us the form of the chocolates which were brought to the factory, then how they melt it, how they put the chocs into moulds, how they cool it, and other techniques they use to make stuff like easter eggs and champagne bottle shaped chocs and cars and stuff, also how they wrap those chocs in foils. That took about.. 15-20 minutes or so, then they lead us to the shop. There were loads of things but there was nothing for us to bring back to remind us of the trip like a magnet or something. the only thing that had "the chocolate factory" on them were only caps and also some baby-t's... Which was rather dissapointing. Then there was also a candy shop, but we didn't bother going in there coz most of the things were like liquorice and stuff so...

Then we found out that the sales exec had been to Malaysia a couple of times, and one of the family that were with us in the tour lived in Singapore, and comes to JB quite often for shopping! I think Malaysia is food heaven, coz alllll they talk about was food... their fav food, what food they missed and so forth... Satay, laksa, chicken rice...and the guy from singapore (they were phillipines by the way, they live in s'pore now methinks) said he loved "kambing sup" (lamb mutton soup?).. huhuhuh.. and they surely missed living in s'pore... They're now in Swansea coz the dad was doing his clinical there I think...

So anyway, had Hot choc, even though I was full to the brim with free choc they handed out during the tour... took some more pics and we went home...

not quite..

We stopped at Brigend, the fav place for my sis to shop (hehehe) coz I desperately needed a new pair shoes... (Sorry mak and Abah, kasut mahal tu tak berapa practical nak pakai all the time!) The winds were blowing superly hard today... even the tent thinggy at Brigend was shaking like crazy... Got a pair of sport shoes for £18, Lonsdale...then checked out Clarks... and MIRACULOUSLY I found apair of boots thats MY SIZE *shocked*, PLUS, it was a further 40% off from the amount stated... so that pair was £35, and it's now £21 O_O leather some moreeee.... after much contemplating... I BOUGHT IT... reasons? 1. the pair I loved was 2 times that price... 2. You can't find a boot at that size back home.. 3. You can't find a boot at that size, AT THAT PRICE back home 4. I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT BOOTS! It's far too cold here for plain shoes.. omaigod...

so there... and eventually we went home... pooped and tired... oh..we stopped over at Medina to buy some lamb shoulder meat to cook for dinner... and some lady fingers.... dinner was delish.. thanks to Kak Ju :D... ok .. tis all... for Piccies.. PLEASE CLICK HERE... Ok ok I KNOW I've been changing where i upload my pics and all... this time it'll be on fotopages, PLUS on Flickr when I have the time... okai?

BYEEE!!!

past few days have been un-eventful... Went to Asda yesterday to buy a few things, and I bought this cooking mag, fully loaded with uber-delish recipes... now i just need to get myself of my fat ass and start trying to cook some of em.. heh

Anyway... that magazine led me to know of a chocolate factory in Swansea, AND WE'RE GOING THERE TOMORROWWWW woooott!!! pegi round chocolate factory..yeayyyy! mari menggemukkan diri.. hohoho...

Oh..lepastukan... the weather is really being a bitch I tell you.. It snowed.. AGAIN... TODAY! bodoh tak bodoh ar.. COME ON SPRING! haih...

Jadi dengan itu... sile look forward to my next entry..aboutmy trip to the chocolate factory... yeayness!

TODAY I DROVE FOR MY FIRST TIME EVER IN CARDIFFFFF OMFgKAHSh'lsajgfajgbfhkgefh!

I ist hepi... i dun have to walk 2 km in the freezing cold + windy weather we are having today

tengkiu

I'm effing pissed off coz I've been sick since the week I got here... and it looks like it's getting a tad bit worse than yesterday... yesterday I didn't have a headache..and today I feel like I just want to lie down and DIEEEEE....

HOI BADAN... KO DAH 3 MINGGU KAt SINI!! TAKKAN TAK BIASA LAGI KOT!

woke up at 5 a.m coz my nose was unbearably clogged... when i got up from the bed it felt like all the blood rushed to or from my head in a rush..and it wasn't a pleasent feeling at all... went to the toilet, came back in the room watched some tv... got dizzy after about 30 minutes and managed to get back to sleep... and when I woke up around 8 a.m, I look like shit, I FEEL like one too.. and my eyes were red... luckily after I showered it wasn't all red and shitty looking... but the headache persisted... i just took some Sudafed + Panadol... if Sudafed isn't working today, I'll start eating my Actifed..since it's the weekend.. I can't take it on weekdays... got things to do... I'm supposed to follow Kak Ju to help out with some family moving their stuff into a truck coz they're going back to Malaysia soon... but I'm too effing tired+sick so she went by herself instead... demmit.. i really really really hate being sick... and the clinic here costs a fuckload...


Now I'm gonna go drink some asam jawa drink I made yesterday....


-eNd-

mom sms-ed me today asking about my visa... I felt like talking to her so I called her up... asked her how things were at home and how my cats are doing... She told me.. Abi has been 'monyok' for quite a few days, so she sent her to the vet (which is rather unbelievable.. mak hantar kucing pegi vet?? huhuhuh terharu!)... The vet said "Abi ni tak demam nie... rindu kat Feruz je kot".. awwww... sedih aaaaa *cries* kucing aku monyok sebab rindu kat aku... huwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... but she still gave Abi medication... gave her some antibiotics, and my mom said she was pretty mad at my mom trying to give the medicine to her... poor Abi :( PLUS, Abi wants the maid to carry/dukung her every morning!!!! How manja is that???? omaigod... If the maid doesn't carry her every morning she'll go merajuk somewhere... ek eleh... drama queen betul la kucing aku sekor tu...tapi.. who could blame her... aku takde.. uhuk.. then si Boolat bongok pulak.. keeps on getting pissed off at people.. gigit kaki and all why? because no one wants to play with her..hahahahahahah.. tu ah..aku ade kat rumah jual mahal... kecoh buat perangai... aku takde ni.. baru tau.. bohahahahahhha.. kejam plak aku terasa... But I miss my cats so so so so so so so much :( 3 months to go before I go back home... dammit.. kalau lah boleh ku fed-ex kan kucing kemari.. huhuhuh...

k people..thats all.. bye

Went to the City Centre with my sis this morning... we just walked coz it's not that far anyway, plus there was gonna be a rugby match at the stadium which would mean it's gonna be a pain to get a parking space at the city centre. She told the kids we were gonna be home in an hour or so... so off we went at 11.30 a.m... My main objective was to find some personal stuff at Marks and Spencers, coz I KNOW it's there...We went to quite a few shops... Looked at boots mostly coz I'm trying to find one with my size. I actually found one the other day but it was like £40! And when we found a cheaper one at the city centre, it didn't fit me as well, and we continued searching but withno luck... *sigh*. We also went to Debenhams. Had a drink coz we were rather hungry and tired, and THEN we saw they had these racks of clothes for 70% off!! I was like.. whoahhh... so.. I got another pair of sweatpants which is uber best gile, and cropped cardi yang kene ikat kat depan... nanti ah aku tangkap pic.. malas ok... huhuhuhuh... We ended up being out for like.. 3 and 1/2 hours... hahahahha.. nasib la bebudak ni ok je duk rumah :P

Oleh kerana saya malas nak tangkap gambar ini hari, maka takde la pic to accompany it..eheheheheh.. later people! uhuhuh mwacchhss!!

You couldn't have been more wrong if you think that the snow in Cardiff was like WOW... so so wrong... coz yesterday we went to Brecon (I think it's a National Park) to se REALLY THICK SNOW... O_O I was stoked gile ah kan...ahahahahhaa.. And since I took gazzilions of pictures on the way there and also while we were there, I decided to upload it on my Yahoo Photos.. coz I can just drag and drop all the pictures at one go.. tried flickr but they only let me upload 20MB per month.. pfftttt... fotopages malas gile sebab lambat+hassle nak mampos.. So, please feel free to click HERE and choose UK-BRECON, and enjoy the pics.. but to tempt you people.. I'll post some on here ehehehehehehe... pegi ah tengok! sesusah aku upload! huhuhuh









NOW GO SEE!!!!

Today the Welsh people are celebrating St. Davids day. Which was marked by a snow covered morning (when it's supposed to mark the start of spring or something like that). so here are some pic that I took this morning masa snow ^_^







My Fav Shot Ever ^_^

Kanak2 riang ria dpt main snow




And me.. happy coz I got my first snow in Cardiff!

It's still snowing occasionally.. it's snowing right now actually hhuhuuh :D

Oh, and I went to a mini concert by Hazman's class at his school with my sis... it was cool, coz they sang in Welsh, but I'm not gonna upload the pics. I'll just let my sis do that :P