The Week Before That Week

The week before the exam is always one full of joy and happiness. I can't even pull off a sarcastic remark anymore.

If you remember me way back in my old uni, the revision week usually mean beating my own high score playing games from my laptop computer. Not this year. I've changed. I've moved on to aimlessly browsing the internet, watching Friends while having my lunch and dinner, and staring up at the ceiling wishing I am somewhere else. I've also spent an entire day reading a crime novel by Stephen Leather. I bought that from the iBooks store because it has got great reviews and it's cheaper than the other books. It was a great read so I highly recommend that one - Hard Landing.

Thanks to my cute housemate Izzy, I am totally addicted to playing with fire a.k.a burning candles. I'm off to the city tomorrow to get me more scented candles. It's like an addiction, the smell, ah, adrenaline rush.

As random as this post could get, here's my two lovely housemates and I totally forgot where they were heading that evening. Was it the movie?


If you know me even better, you know I can't pass up the opportunity to bore you with more of my tennis talk. Tomorrow Djokovic will be up against Murray and I really hope he will beat Murray and either Nadal or Gasquet in the final to win the Rome title. I've been waiting for this moment for almost three years because I know eventually he will be able to go this far. Don't you just love catching the sports that you love the most? Be it football, basketball or tennis, despite you not being physically involve in the game, you still feel like you're a part of it. You, the spectator. You make it happen. (change "You" to "I")

And the outro for this post would be me trying to push my notes into my brain.

FYI, it didn't work. All I got is a messed up hair.

Tennis: The Surging Champion

(source: guardian.co.uk)

It was an impressive win today for Novak Djokovic as he dethrones the clay king to win the final of Mutua Madrid Open and continue his winning streak in this season of the ATP world tour. Having won this match, Djokovic now stand at 32-0 wins this season. Most would've predicted that Nadal would end Djokovic's winning streak in the match today but it turned out to be the other way around as Djokovic ended Nadal's 37th consecutive win on clay.

The straight win today at 7-5 6-4 in Djokovic's favour came not without a fight from Nadal. Both were equally solid in their performance. It will be interesting to see how the ranking will change in the months to come if Djokovic continue with this new-found glory.

The next major tournament is the clay court Roland Garros which will begin on 22nd June. The good news is everyone will be anticipating the championship match, and hoping to see Federer against Nadal, or this time, Djokovic against either one of them perhaps. Either way, I will be following that tournament closely. But the bad news for me is it will be in the middle of my exam week so I may not be able to catch all top matches.

Here's how I caught the live streaming earlier today. Yes, I needed two screens just in case if one is buffering and also now that I think about it, I feel like I'm obsessed with it!

Royal Wedding

Today is a historic day for Britain as the royal wedding between Prince William and Kate took place at Westminster, and it is the day the world tuned in to news channels to watch history in the making live.


My plan was to wake up at 8:30am in time to watch the attendees arrive at Westminster but alas, I slept really late the night before and couldn't even open my eyes when the alarm went off. As a result, I missed the vow and only managed to watch from the point where they were about to enter a private room for the signing. But thank god for the internet as I was able to click on highlight videos and catch the key part of the event. I just want to add that David Beckham looks dashing!

Vlog

This is one of those spontaneous things we did for the birthday week. Izzy decided it would be fun to make a vlog of us answering tag questions. Special thanks to Vance for recording and editing the video, and of course for "interviewing" us too :)

Falooda

If you haven't had one, it's like ABC but not exactly. One of the reasons why I love it is because it's pink! And of course it tastes great! To get one, we have to travel from Leeds to Bradford to an ice cream parlour called Moonlight which is quite far from the city centre.


Not unlike ABC, to get a cup, our family have to travel to Seria to the mien tang to get one too. But by the end of the day, it's always satisfaction guaranteed and before you know it, you're craving for another cup again.

Movie Nights

I love movie nights, especially if they are not planned. We've had a few of those nights this month. Last night, the Spenceleys watched Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night in our living room. I hate how they let us watch one scene that seems like nothing was gonna happen that lasted nearly one minute before something suddenly move. I wouldn't watch it alone actually and NOT because I'm afraid (I swear!) but I simply don't normally watch thriller movies that contain paranormal events. You would agree that they don't usually make much sense especially the ending part.

Watching it with people brings a different kind of flavor to the whole thriller type of movies, you know.

One of those days during the Easter break, we watched The Roommate with some of the group...The movie was okay and I only say that because I just watched Source Code the day before watching this movie. Source Code was awesome!

photo credits to Izzy

This is random but I love this picture below, taken during a picnic day sometime in March.
photo credits to Ken

Alton Towers

Yes, one of those days during the Easter break this was what I did!


And before I forget, I want to wish my very best friend Mijah a very Happy Birthday! Thanks for being a very dear friend and I'm really glad I get to know you!

Spring

It's April and this could only mean...spring!

My cousin is spending his spring break over here in Leeds and so far it's been good. I've honestly never eaten this healthily in a long time. And what do you know, I cook on a daily basis! I never thought I would do that because I thought I've hung my apron for the year.

True to my word, I have also been exploring the neighborhood. It's good to be out there taking fresh air and getting the sun on my face. One thing I miss is jogging. I've been up so late every night that I find waking up before midday a really tough task to do. And so I feel like my day is shorter and hence it's precious.

And to end this rather short post (as always), here are some pictures my cousin took with his camera which is so much cooler than mine.





And a random person sitting amongst those lovely flowers. LOL