Sheffield Food!

What make me changed my blog address?
1) Its F***ing too long with a stupid hyphen. >.<

2) I am not a sadee nor a dumpee anymore ^^

3) Its better with my name on the title. @@

crusty bread + cheese + beef patty


stuffed chicken + chrushed beef patty + kacang panjang?

beef patty + stuffed chicken

roti +telur, cornflakes

Carling + maggi. Ck so pandai. He said "Calling Maggie". WTF.

Hotdog + beef patty

WOW! this is the 1st meal with curry! The best! (although Sabrina forget to put salt and I added too much santan inside) =="

U see! sauQ! Yummy! and i miss CCM nasi lemak!!!!!!

Sabrina the curry cooker! Our housemate from Taiwan!

One of my favourite set in Malaysia! coffee + biscuit!

Cheap buy-and-kasi-owen pizza! £1.10 ! and I shared with Beng.

stuffed chicken + hotdog + beef balls + milk that make me lausai everyday. =="

baked beans + ham + canned salmon!

Vege Vege! Expensive! Kacang panjang + mata kerbau + canned sardin!

Yucks?! Lolz. My 1st own made spagetti! with some "still-survived-from-hangus" hotdogs. I made some hangus. =="

crusty chicken + brocolli + mata kerbau!

Me and Pharm's shared meal! canned beef curry! mengalir air liur.......

KFC for 5! Salty =="

Cooking time!

Cooking time!

Cooking time!

To Whitby Abbey!

It's my first trip to other state of England. It's part of weekend trips organised by senior. It's around 180km from Sheffield. Some part of Dracula novel was written here. With a broken castle (founded 657AD), historic church and graveyard with many headstones of 200 years old, it's completely creepy during the night. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby

To Whitby!

Whitby Abbey. The historic castle.

It's windy and cold.

Whitby the fishing town.

The jaw bone of a whale.

Captain James Cook

Aged more than 200 years old.

Beautiful house in a beautiful town.

Gay?

The historic castle.

Me. Dare game?

The lighthouse of Whitby.

The lighthouse of Whitby.

Two lighthouse.

Something rare found in Whitby.

Currently, my room..... :'(

My time is too limited for writing any blog. ^^

No laptop, No internet. Thats all for now. Good luck to u all! ^^

I am here! Sheffield!

It's already been one week here in Sheffield. There are many unusual, weird and nice things in UK. Probably, it's only for a frog that has been in the well for 22 years. ^^ I don't know how to talk bout my life here. Too much. Haha.

The weather!
Its quite normal as many of us expected. Average around 18 celcius. Night or raining day can reach 7 celcius and hot day around 25. The people here like to sit under the hot sun, enjoying their drinks and kids playing around. They like hot day. I guess I'll be same as them soon, coz the cold weather here not really for me especially after shower. FREEZING...... The day hours here last for around 16 hours. The Mr.Sun here is too hardworking. Work earlier and does OT. But winter is the other way round. The worst thing with the weather is...I can't dry my clothes which dryer is the only solution. The BEST is...i went to play football, and I didn't even know that I was already sweating! I didn't even feel tired. wahahaha! syok...but there is no futsal or football field. Just an ordinary large grass field without goal post. : (

The Classes, The Lecturers!
I just attend my 1st week of my classes. I still don't know how it will be in the next few weeks, but during the 1st week assignments already piled up for us which seems very complicating. There are only 3 modules. Classes only on Tue, Wed and Thur. Very relaxing? Hehehe. But most of the time shall at Uni for the assignment. The lecturers here are very friendly and keep smiling. But some of them are very strict on time punctuality. So, we have to discard our lewat-lima-minit attitude which has been the trend for us in TARC. ==!

The People!
The people here are very polite, friendly, humble and helpful. They have a culture of saying Thank You and Sorry. Whenever someone offers services or helps, the other surely will reply with a thank you with a smile. So, whenever I unboard the bus, I'll thanks the driver too, to collaborate with their friendly culture or otherwise they may have a bad perception towards Chinese or Malaysians......or....perhaps...they have already? @@ Besides that, citizens here do their job ethically and responsibly. Cashier at every supermarkets and shops serve us with their happy or pleasant looking faces. Even the car washers wash clients' car energetically. That's some of Sheffield good parts. For the bad parts, I don't think I have bumped any during the 1st few days....ya....the food....+_+"

The Transport!
Cheap! Second hand BMW 525i cost only ₤11K (RM70K). Many cheap cars here, Peugeots, Citroens, Audi, Leon, Mg, etc. I saw quite a lot of Lotus elise too, Celica, AudiTT, Mini Cooper and twice I saw Ferrari 355. There are very very less motorbikes. Cycles are seen here quite oftenly, moslty with very nice bike. The cheapest bicycle in Sheffield also cost £70 =.=! Some of the tar road are designed for cyclers, quite similar like our motorcycle lane in Malaysia. There are also tram which is a mutation of bus and train. Haha. It moves along the street with cables hanging above it like our KTM. There is also train station jsut behind my Uni, which travels to other state but it's very costly. Bus would be preferred by stingy people like me. ^^ Forget to mention about the drivers attitude here. They seldom cross the red light even it can be seen obviously the only vehicle there is his. The best part of Sheffield transportation is a free bus service called FreeBee! Anyone can travel by FreeBee to certain places in the city. Its Free! We always go to Uni by FreeBee as we are quite lazy. ^^ A walk to my Uni is around 25 minutes.

The food!
Actually, I am not sure whether how is the local food taste like, because I tak sampai hati to eat a meal of £3-£5! The first day we reached our accomodation, we went out to have our dinner. Ended up in one of the cheapest and nearest kebab shop. The fired chicken is salty, fries are too dry and there is no cup for us for our 1.5litre Coke. =.=! So, the first impression of Sheffield food is bad. Lolz. It cost us £2.50. After the first meal outside, we cook ourselves until today. We shop in many different shops and supermarkets to get the cheapest food or worth by "value vs satisfaction". So our common foods are cornflakes, sardin, pork, beef, chicken, rice, instant noodle, egg, ham and sausages. Did I miss vege? No. Vege is very expensive here. I can eat £0.45 (RM3.00) of taugeh with 2 spoonfuls. So, our best solution is choose the food with lousy brand like our "Tesco" brand or choose raw food with near expired date which cost cheaper. For me, seldom I will choose tasty food, it's expensive and I am afraid that I'll have my budget upside down. Haiz. The conclusion. Food = expensive. Or maybe only for me? Only 3 things I would like to say about the food here. 1) Expensive 2) Expensive 3) Expensive...and Sux?

It's too much to say here for a tiny little frog in a far away city. ^^ Thank you dad and mum who did so much, pay so much and sacrifice so much bringing me up and let me to UK. ^^

I'LL BE FLYING ACROSS THE WORLD TOMORROW

It's been quite a long time since my last post. Am I too busy? or my brain is empty of words? :)For now, I have mixed feelings. Nervous + Happy + Sad + Exited + Curious + Worry + a lot more which i don't know the correct word to describe them. I'LL BE FLYING ACROSS THE WORLD TOMORROW! should i say....yahoooo?!!

My dad has been doing so much to prepare the cost, going from this bank to that bank, buying bank draft and exchanging notes. Where my mum prepares things to bring and also shopping with me for my clothings and food. My friends, will be enjoying the last toast for the next few months with me tonight....lolz....its just months, not years or decades. And also last futsal! ^^ Thank you to all of you! My parents have been trying so hard to help me to UK. I can see they are glad and happy, but there is also worriness creeped inside them, secretly getting stronger and heavier. Don't worry! I will be back! It's just like a period of National Service, probably slightly longer. ^^

Tomorrow 30th May 2008 12.55a.m.......will be the first time for me, so far away from my home. Hahaha....Sometimes.....My brain works "disobediently" again, make me think of the person who I should share this joy together. The person who I had wished to hug before i left. Now, it just isn't as perfect as i had thought. - A jigsaw puzzle that lost one of its pieces is not perfect anymore.

Sometimes most of my friends asked me a similiar question. "would you stay together with her if she wanted to, now?" I always ask myself. Is it possible? How if it comes true? I think I'll choose YES. But, why? I dont have the answer too and afraid i'll regret to say YES......Hahaha. My blardy friend always shoot me with this kind of question.....beware, u may be the next victim....beware......and beware......hahaha. Cakap saje. Good luck to all of you all babi.

My flight to Manchester. 30/05/08 time 0055

My luggage. My popiah clothings, which has been taught by her.

A must? One of the most important things after passport and air ticket. ^^

The Return of BATABOY!

It’s been over 2 weeks I worked at the well-known BATA, which was founded in 1894! Let me crap a bit about my working days at Bata. Bata is well known for its under-paid salary compare to other easy job, such as Pdi, Voir, Osim, Padini, bla bla bla…..I already calculate my total income of one month, its just around 900-1100. That’s for 12 hours per day and 6days/week ! World Taekwando Federation!

Working hours : 10.30am-10.30pm, 1hour each for lunch and dinner. But we seldom use that much time. Come back earlier, and sell more, and get a little more commission.
Morning : Wipe all the racks and bottom of shoes.
Night time : Sweep, mop, buang sampah.

Working period : Serve customers with a fake smile. Watch customer choose their foot attires and wait their order to get other size. Normally, 40% of the customers are dissatisfied because of well known Bata tradition, ‘No more size’. So, ask customer to choose others. Again, we will reply with ‘Out of stock’ or ‘Tarak saiz’ or ‘Sudah abis’. Once, I got a customer who chose 5 different model of shoe, again and again, all of the size wanted already out of stock. World Taekwando Federation! They blah with 101% dissatisfaction. Aku pun malu jugak.

The shoe store : The highest placed shoe is 5m above floor level. How to get the shoe? A long ladder, good body acrobatic, (kungfu is encouraged especially Heng Gong). The width of the route in the store, 80cm. Tuapuikia is not encouraged work in Bata. Booby girls with 36d are also forbidden to enter the store (shoes and racks may get damaged by your body!). Some of the shoes need to be reached by crawling under piping, route dimension of 80cm x 90cm! (I got a knock on my head against the pipe on the first day of my job!). Guys who don’t like to exercise can come Bata, rusted body to re-con body. Free gym. Y-fitness? California? Lose to Bata Store. Tak caya? Mari lah!

Why must choose Bata?
1) Gaji seBANYAK RM1000!
2) Free gym – Walk, Catwalk, Crabwalk, Moonwalk!, DuckCrawl, Evading, Climb, Jump and sometimes during peak period also learn Fall and Accident.
3) Memory training – recognize where all those ‘handsome’ looking shoe located inside the store.
4) Free view of lots of modernized-sexed human next shop – Really! Many! Horny? Unknown.
5) Free ‘jokes of the day’ – will be told later.
6) ‘Syok’music – Bata control the music in the shop, which is so ‘Harmonized’. We can sleep on the spot. Bottom 100 all here.
7) Staff price – 100%……….undeducted.

Jokes experienced by me.

Joke 1
Customer : Kenapa sekarang Bata punya kualiti banyak teruk?
Me : …..
Customer : Tengok jahitan dia, tak kemas langsung (pointing).
Me : …..mana ada, dah kira kemas ma. (its really quite nice and tidy, just a lil bit of misalignment).
Customer : Saya mau complen kat Bata, quality memang teruk, tapi apa boleh buat. Product dia memang macam ini.
Me : ………… (thinking….wtf! macam dia pemilik Bata!Pergi complen la!)
Customer : ok la, size 8.
Me : ……….(wtf! Cakap teruk lagi mau beli!! Nasib baik aku tak makan bakuteh hari ini, kalau tak, u sudah rasa bau dia!)
Then I go check at other brand shoe which cost 200+
….same la the sewing! Mana boleh perfect!

Joke 2
After I took the size required by the customer, he tried it and walk here and there testing….then unworn it…
Customer : Ok, give me size 7 (means he wanna buy it). But let me have a look at others first….
Me : Ok, Sure.
Customer : (walk again to the racks, looking for others…..suddenly, turned his body and walked out of Bata)
Me : *(&$”&%!$(*!!!!!!!!!!!!!!$&*”^$%”£)!!!!!!!!!!!!) err……..mati pucuk)
He never come back……….and I’ll eat durian and kiss u nextime I see you.

Joke 3
Customer : Can I try size 8 please?
Me : Ok, sure…..
So, I go travel to the exhilarating store…. climb up, moon walking, shuffle, breakdance and finally got the shoe to the customer.
Customer : Eh. Why size 8 is larger than size 9?
Me : (har! so surprised! And have a look..) Err……the previous shoe u have tried is size 6 not 9. So, u should ask for size 5…..(with a fake smile, I go climb up, moon walking, shuffle, breakdance again.)

That’s some of the jokes joked on me during this 2 weeks. I hope I wont get high blood pressure or heart attack. Luckily I will stop this job 1 month later, because tanjung rambutan already sent me an unconditional offer letter.

That’s all for tonight. I shall post more about my job at Bata in the incoming weeks. Probably took some pictures to post it here.

BATA cogan kata ; ONE BATA, ONE WORLD. ^.^