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Hello!!! :D

*Welcome to 2009!*
* - fireworks

I'm currently bunking in with Marianne (and she says hi. So lazy to blog!) so I'm in Oxford...smartass town with lots of weird traditions! I decided to drop by because we both are lonely people who have no money to fly home and go for ski trip/Paris/Eurotrip or have aunties in London so we decided to keep each other company especially since it's the New Year (which we spent karaoke-ing in a non-soundproof room in this HK restaurant - Lan Kwai Fong). Supposed to go for countdown in a local pub but we've got carried away watching movies (it was Sweeney Todd when we transited to 2009 [Btw, trivia time! Did you know, Darrel Ang Tzer Hong slept in the cinema while watching Sweeney Todd? How could he!! And I know D'Ang won't ever come here so I can say this:D]).

Spent the 1st of Jan visiting the Botanic Garden...which has no form of living thing...except this one lonely winter rose and lots of branches and stems with no leaves. Even the pond/fountain are half frozen :( There was an urn with black stuff inside...I believe it's a form of plant because it's in the Botanic Garden and it's under the Oriental Plant category. We didn't see much there actually...only geese and ducks and cactus. Didn't spend much time there (because there's nothing to see anyway), so we left for one of Oxford's college - Magdalen (pronounced at Mow The Lawn - people here are trying to be funny/different/clever) College. In this college, there is a deer park (I know, wth right?) and trivia time (again), did you know, the number of deer corresponds to the number of fellows (ie staff) in this college? So if a fellow dies/retires/leaves, they will shoot one of the deer and eat it. So what if one of the deer dies? Don't know if they will feed the deer with human meat... :-O Yet another trivia - did you know that Susan from Narnia (whatever her real name is) is a 2nd year student in Magdalen College? So cool..Marianne actually saw her at this restaurant once but didn't know it was her until someone mention it later. Anyway we didn't see her there cuz she's probably hiding in the wardrobe or talking to the lion or trying to be a White Bitch...I mean witch.

Anyway, Magdalen College looks like Hogwarts. Actually I think it's just an Oxford thing. We went inside the college and took a couple of photos which we will put it on fb sometime when we're more hardworking. Since it's the 1st of Jan and most of the shops are closed, we went back for dinner.

Day 2 - Slept at 3 because we're talking about JC (like trying to remember people's name...people like Jion Chun and how Cheng Feng looks like, and who Canaan's gf is/was, trying to name the whole girls' bball team etc etc). Woke up at 9.30am and we left for the covered market in town. I had the most awesome tasting milkshake in my life - Toblerone milkshake!!!111 This stall (it's called Moo-moo's milkshake...I know, so cute!) has like 200 over different flavours for milkshake like Ferrero Rocher, Kit Kat, Hershey's, whatever other chocolate, Scottish Shortbread, SWEETS (Yeah, gula-gula. Disgusting I know) etc. Even today's special sounds disgusting - it's Hershey's cookies and chocolate and banana and white Kinder Bueno milkshake. So basically, if you try the more normal flavoured ones, you should be safe and you don't have to visit your local loo :D Heh I don't know, didn't wanna risk it. But they are not all so disgusting because they have fruit sMOOthies! Okay, maybe not because I saw one which has the weirdest combination ever! They had watermelon, pineapple and banana in one drink. Ugh. We walked around the market and bought beef for dinner and we saw lots of clothes shops and pastry shops etc etc. Left for the Oxford Museum then. Took a few photos illegally before we got told off by the woman there :( (but we still get the photos anyway!). Museum's was rather interesting because it's basically all the artefacts they dug out from Oxford's ground (like a rhino's tooth etc). But at the end of the day, it's still quite museum-like. Moving on, we went to another college in Oxford - Christchurch aka Hogwarts. They shot some of the scenes in Harry Potter here like the Great Hall and staircases and stuff like that. Was quite interesting - went to the cathedral and got shouted at by the caretaker of the cathedral (just like Mr Filch!) because we took a photo with some special pew (apparently only the High Priest/Duke can sit/stand/enter it...but we still got the photo anyway:D:D). We went to the gift shop (I know, so commercialised!) and tried to buy a coaster/bookmark for ourselves but we can't find our names! Marianne's name might not be so common but I can't even find mine!:( Sad:(

Anyway, after that we went shopping...bought some clothes because there's still crazy discounts going on everywhere which we simply must take advantage of! Came back around 5-ish and had dinner (because we had no lunch) and erm...we just finished dinner. And now we're here telling you how we spent the last two days and I said "Hello!!! *Welcome to 2009*" hmm seems like I'm repeating myself!:P

So how was your celebration? I bet it's not as fun as ours because Marianne + Grace = pwn all your heads:D:D:D:D:D Yes we're still pretty much the same!

On a side note, those who have not contributed any post here *cough*Ten*cough*Dang*cough*Huey Yuen*cough*Yi Jiet*cough*Nat*cough*weivien*cough*Samuel*cough*Wan Xin*cough*Eu Choon*cough*etc*coughcoughcoughdiealreadyla* by a certain date...I give you hourly report okay:D

Okla byebye

Lots of Oxford love (No Ten and Darrel because they PANGSEH!),
Marianne & Grace,
GREATEST people in the whole wide world...oh wait, that's an understatement - universe!

PS: Jojojojo...it's reminiscence :)