~*A Little Bit of Everything*~

I haven't been updating my blog for 5 days...perhaps i needed a little break from the blogging world after posting up so many pictures of my recent holiday trip. Anyway, yesterday had been a fun day for me...i went to watched Batman: The Dark Knight with one of my closest housemate (now ex-housemate), her boyfriend and another current housemate's grandaunty. Before watching the movie, we had dim sum at a restaurant in Chinatown...we ordered a few dim sum dishes and a large plate of Singapore style fried beehoon to be shared among four of us. After lunch, we managed to catch the 2.30pm screening of The Dark Knight. By the time we arrived at the cinema, it was already packed with people...thankfully we managed to find a suitable place to fit four of us with an excellent view of the screen...for your information, the cinemas here in UK are free sitting and you can sit anywhere you desire if you are one of the early birds. In my opinion, it's definitely a great thing to have free sittings in cinemas. If you are early, you can choose the best sitting location and if you are late, that's too bad for you...well, that seems very fair, ain't it??

Batman: The Dark Knight is definitely one of the best movies i have seen this year and for a very long time...no wonder it's getting excellent reviews from mostly everyone. Although, i totally heart Christian Bale, his performance as Batman was just good...nothing spectacular as opposed to the late Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker. Heath Ledger played the character of the Joker so well...indeed, an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor should be presented to him for his portrayal as the Joker. And of course since he won't be able to collect the award personally (duh!), his family members should collect the award on his behalf. Aaron Eckhart played Harvey Dent / Two-Face very well too...i mean everyone in this movie played their role amazingly with the exception of Maggie Gyllenhaal who played Rachel Dawes. To me, her performance as Rachel Dawes was just so-so...maybe the role of Rachel Dawes in this installment of the Batman movies wasn't significant enough. Overall, this is a superb movie...and if you haven't watch it yet, get your ass to one of the cinemas near you to watch this movie...believe me and everyone else in the world, you won't regret it!!

After coming back from the cinema, i had a long chat with two of my new housemates during dinner time...one of them is from Taiwan and the other is from China. Actually, there's another new girl from South Korea but she wasn't chatting with us at that time. My first impression of the guy from China was pretty bad...i didn't really like him on the first day he arrived here in UK because he didn't seem very friendly at first instance. However, after getting to know him a little bit more, i think he ain't that bad after all. His English sucks very badly but at least he's trying to improve on it. As for the Taiwanese guy, he seems pretty alright to me...quite friendly and talkative too. I didn't have much opportunity to talk with the girl from South Korea since she's always out from morning till evening...with the exception of the first day when she arrived here whereby we just introduced ourselves. Since most of my old housemates has already went back to their respective countries, i have no choice but to talk with my new housemates. They are so naive and don't know anything about the lifestyle, environment and culture in UK (just like me when i first arrived here last September)...thus, i had to explained some basic stuffs to them and that took plenty of time. It's always fun getting to know more friends, especially friends from all over the world...learning about the lifestyle, environment and culture of people from different places of the world is surely beneficial.

Anyway, I've been busy searching for rooms to move into when i come to KL in September...searching on the internet but could not find any as of now. Some places are either too far, too expensive, too horrifying, too small and et cetera. I wanna look for a room in a house or condominium which has an attached bathroom, an air-conditioner and it must be fully furnished...and it's better if the house or condominium is still new (built less than 5 years ago). Sigh...why must it be so difficult to find a room...if the rent for the whole house / condominium is cheap, then i don't mind renting the whole house / condominium (that's if my parents will actually allow). Decisions...decisions...decisions...why must life be full of decisions?? I hate making decisions, especially major decisions!! Anyway, i am counting down the days till the day i am going back to Malaysia...whee...i can't wait!! Will be leaving Newcastle on the 26th of August at 1.40pm...arriving Dubai at 12.05am the following day...wait at Dubai international airport for a total of 3 hours and 5 minutes before catching the plane back to Kuala Lumpur at 3.10am...arriving KLIA at 2.15pm on the same day and gotta wait there until 5.10pm for my flight back to Penang...arriving the beautiful island of Penang at 6pm. Upon arriving, my parents, my koh koh and maybe my 2nd aunt will be picking me up from the airport...immediately i will pester them to take me to Double Good restaurant to have Chu Char since i'm craving for it!! The second day will be spending the whole day bloating my stomach with delicious Penang food such as Char Koay Teow, Hokkien Mee, Curry Mee, Laksa, Fried Oyster, Chendul and much much more...and eating good Penang food will be on my schedule for a long long time until i had enough of it...which i think i probably won't.. =) =) I can't believe i've already start making plans for my comeback...gosh, i am missing Penang so so much!! Until then, take care and have fun always!!