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Six days in Italy

On the July 6, 2013, a group of friends and I visited the country Italy for 6 days 5 nights. The whole trip was eventful and dramatic, we have our stories to tell almost everyday. The places we going to explore was the smaller cities of Italy, which was Pisa, Siena and Cinque Terra.

Day 1: Pisa

Our flight was in the evening. After waving goodbye to Michelle, who was excited for us about the trip to Italy, we took the cab and left to the airport from Clifton, Nottingham. After arriving East Midlands airport, we chilled in a café before boarding on Ryanair airplane. After approximately 3 hours of flight, we have arrived Pisa, Italy. It was all dark as Italy was 10:15p.m, and we have to figure our way out to the accommodation we booked for. Fortunately, it was not too hard to find, as it was just walking distance from the airport we have landed.




We met the owner of the accommodation who is an Italian, he was the alone standing beside the street waiting for us. When he saw us, he greeted us with their local language “Ciao!”. He showed us to the place we going to stay, and explain some of the things in the hotel with us in Italian mix English languages. He was friendly too as he tried hard to communicate with us, asking about where we came from and what we are doing and stuff. After awhile, he left us and everybody started to visit around the place, everybody liked the place. The place is vintage and look old. The furnitures remind me a lot about the Disney cartoon Beauty and the Beast. It looks alike. After admiring around the accommodation, we left to the restaurant nearby for our late dinner.



We have went to the pizzerias called Rostlcceria, we can see it a lot of pizzeria in Italy. I have ordered their Carbonara, and somehow none of us thought of ordering the pizza, in a pizza shop. I was expecting the creamy Carbonara, but it turned out the dry type with egg. You can try imagining maggi goreng in Malaysia, which tasted exactly the same.


Day 2: Pisa & Siena
We woke up early in the morning to visit around Pisa by walking. By looking at the map, we passed by a few tourist attractions. Pisa area was quite dodgy and rundown; the weather there was as hot as Malaysia, or even hotter. Our main destination was The Leaning Tower of Pisa. The tower was mind-blowing, I was glad that I get to see it at least once in my lifetime. The tower is leaning because of an accident. It was some problem during construction; the foundation on ground wasn’t strong enough to hold the building so it tilts to one side. Italian thought it was quite cool so they have decided to keep it like this.



After having a long consideration about what pose should I do with the tower, this is the coolest pose to do, LOL!



After posing a lot with the tower, we left the tower to have our lunch. We stopped by a restaurant nearby the tower of Pisa, and I ordered their famous pizza with seafood. It turned out very nice, and I couldn’t finish their whole pizza on my own (everyone has one pizza). We also tried the restaurant’s Tiramisu and it was so good. I find Italian food very nice and suitable for our taste.
  
After the lunch, we left and continue our journey to next stop in Italy, Siena. We took a train from Pisa to Siena, cannot remember how long it took. We have arrived Siena and we need to find our way to our accommodation. It was still bright when we were looking around, and we found the place smoothly. The accommodation was really nice and we feel like just staying in the house. It is a farmhouse with gardens, and it is vintage, looks like an art gallery or a museum. At first, we can get lost in the building itself when we cannot recognise the way, as it is quite big. We took pictures around the house and then left to a restaurant nearby for dinner. The restaurant environment was nice and it served very good beef, we all was really satisfied with the food. I always heard Italy beef is good, and it is true. 

We also continued to drink when we got back to our accommodation, the white wine made by the farmhouse. While drinking, we also sat in the balcony to watch the stars, and fortunately, I saw my first shooting star in my life. I got no time to react to it at all. The time I actually realised it was shooting star, it vanished away. The feeling was amazing.


Our shutter speed attempt to capture the stars in the balcony.

Day 3: Siena
We went to Siena’s town by taking bus from our accommodation. It was a beautiful town with amazing architectures. It was also a tourist spot where everybody sitting around to enjoy the bright nice day. Today we had tried Italy famous Risotto; it is something like porridge with some ingredient. I have tried their Seafood Risotto and I liked it a lot. 





Then, in the hot weather, we had our Gelato, the ice-cream famous in Italy. It was not as good as expected, maybe we didn’t visit the right shop. After a whole day of sight seeing, we went to a restaurant and had something like fine dining for dinner. The food portion was small, but then it was very fine and surprisingly filling too. I had ordered pasta tomatoes sauce recommended by the chef, it was a common dish and it tasted good. Before the day get dark, we got in the bus and head back to our accommodation. Same as yesterday, we enjoyed the other red wine from the farmhouse and watch the stars in the balcony. I would like my life to be like this, how simple and satisfying. But I know there is always no short-cut, I have to work hard for this.





Something big happened today as well, Diana, one of my travel buddies has dropped her camera inside the deep long drain. She stayed positive and asked around for help. The Italians was helpful enough to get her a long stick. Diana also daring enough to borrow a walking stick from an old man nearby, who was resting, and he was willing to lend it to us. In the end, Diana took her camera successfully by using the long stick and walking stick, the small crowd behind us started to clap hands and cheer for us. It was dramatic and funny. Then, to thank them, Diana bought thankful cards to the old man and also the bookstore staff who got her the long stick. The old man was so cute, he asked for a picture with his stick. What a day!



Day 4: Cinque Terra
Today we checked out from the nice farmhouse and took whole day to travel from Siena to La Spezia. Today was not a smooth day as we get troubles a lot. At first, we didn’t get our train ticket change right, and it was 5 euro less. We also almost get down from the wrong station. Fortunately, an Italian was kind enough tell us it was a wrong station. Actually, we kept on meeting good people along the way. When we finally arrived the correct train station, I found that I have lost my wallet. We were also waited in the wrong place where it supposed to meet up with our hostel owner. Everything was in a mess. After settled down in the hostel, we wanted to go out for a good dinner, but it turned out to be a worst restaurant ever. Our day could not be worst on that day. And we wish for a better day on the next day.

Day 5: Cinque Terra
Fortunately, after the bad day yesterday, the nice view consoled our mind. Cinque Terra (The five lands) was such a beauty. The view was exactly like a painting. We were excited and visited some places and also did an hour hiking to see the full view from the top. It was all worth it. Perhaps the place was too nice and we enjoyed too much, we have missed our shuttle van to go back to the accommodation. Because of this incident, it brought us a chance to meet two Singaporean who stayed in the same hostel. They had no place to stay for the night, so we asked them to sneak in our hostel and stay for a night. We have forgotten to take a picture for memory, but it was fun to meet somebody.


This is the view from the top of one of the five lands.


Day 6:
We have half day today in Italy. So we went back one of the five lands to have our brunch, and then take a train from there to travel back to Pisa. There goes our Italy trip, which filled with stories, laughter, tears, up and down, good food… It was super fun. I <3 italy.="" o:p="">




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不难 - 徐佳莹



作曲:徐佳莹 作词:葛大为 制作人:陈建骐 

我的東西 你早已經整理完 
其實 寧願你別 答應那麼快 
提分手的人 往往想 再努力看看 
誰真的能 一刀兩斷 
我也清楚 這次不該再心軟 
對於 你的體貼 全然不責怪 
反而羡慕起 有些人 分得不愉快 
才捨得 轉身離開 

說再見 不難 
就別問是誰 真心想說出來 
像家人 像朋友 都只是欺瞞 
當初多喜歡 只是 (當初越喜歡 越是)惡性循環 

說抱歉 不難 
跟我們 是否還相愛也無關 
形式上 去結束 某一個階段 
淡去的記憶 將由誰保管 
都不是太樂觀 

時間終究會比愛強悍 
忘記什麼都不難 
想復原 不難 
等某天各自 出現下個牽絆 
關於你 很自然 會煙消雲散 
當初多喜歡 多糾纏 
甚至 都想不起來 

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Happy 2013!

这个贴子将会成为我们2013年第一个ufaqiao的贴子。

每当在这里看到新的贴子,我的心情就会特别开心。因为,以前一起疯癫的画面又再次浮现在脑海里。

今年在不同的国家渡过了新的一年。虽然很感激自己可以身在此处,可是又不知道为什么,没有很强烈的跨年感觉,如果身边都有和我一起疯癫的朋友,感觉一定更加强烈。

对我来说,这一年,是我人生很关键的一年。这一年怎么样,跟未来息息相关。

2013年!我们23岁了。我还以为23离我们很遥远,突然觉得很恐怖。23岁,应该会要是怎么样的一年?

新的一年,我还是希望我们以前的大颠大废可以继续玩下去!



2013年快乐!









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说吗?


越来越年长,越来越不喜欢解释。


当身边的人在评估你的想法时,
我学习了把想法留给自己品酌。

最认识自己的人,
可能就是那些陪你度过那段感情用事时的人吧?

有多少话你需要过滤才表达?
有多少时候你需要词句重组才开口?
有多少八仙是你真正内心所想的?


有多少首歌你没能和身边的人分享了?


大颠大废玩完了。
长大了。
不说了。




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Back in Hometown

Back in Hometown, Kemaman..

Today is the sixth day im here. Day after tomorrow, it would be my day to leave. It's like... Just in a clip of my eyes. Days flied.

I thought of doing so many things here, I thought of meeting so many friends, but seems like they are all my imaginatios. I just meet a few of them, i forgot to do so many stuff. Im getting lazier, im getting slower, im getting more unfamiliar with things happened here.

Sad. :(

I haven't go to the beach.
I haven't eat rojak.
I haven't eat AiMeiJie curry mee.
I haven't take photos.
I haven't visit Kemaman Museum.
I haven't go Fojiaohui.

But, im glad that im back in here to meet my parents.
At least i meet Thinthin, Weichiann, Meiteng.
I had AhYap curry mee as my breakfast.
I went Air Jernih and MesraMall.
I used the abondoned new blanket I bought last time.
I post something on Ufaqiao.

Contradicting eh? I miss you badly.

And please post me some postcards. :p
And to your parents too. They will be glad. :)

That's all from me! Enjoy your life there!
Leave no regret! :)

Cheers!

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Blogging mode on!


Ops, ufaqiao blog almost become an abandon blog. I guess both of the owners are so busy with their university life, and perhaps, doing things that is more important, which is crucial to decide our future?

I have been slacking around these two days, past few weeks, or I would say, past few months was packed and have no time to breathe. Today since I am still lazying around, it is time to take a break and update a bit about my UK life here.

First of all, I am glad that finally I am here in UK. I cherish every single moment here, and in a blink of one eye, it is already my 3rd month here. Time flies too fast, Ish! Of course, It has been tough for me to deal with the different accent of English, and also different kind of people. However, so far I feel quite lucky that I am able to get some friends in the class. Assignment is another thing that is keeping me busy, it once again telling me that I need to improve my English. In the beginning, I have tried not to seek for help from anybody. But actually, I think I need help, a lot. Amazingly, the lecturers here are so helpful, they will always be there for me, whenever I need help, and encourage me. This is one of the best things studying here.

Besides that, I have secretly promised myself to travel to a new place at least once a month. One of the reason come from the curiousness for UK since I was young, it forms inside me when I was 7, my father left us for a year, and stayed in a place called London, UK. When he came back, I have been telling my father, one day I will come here to study, and he always smirk like it was impossible. But today, he has made it comes true. Right here right now, I am here!

The three months here in Leeds, UK, other than Leeds, I have visited the other states like York, Birmingham and Nottingham. I found the places here kind of looks the same, but just whether it is more industrialised, or a small city with a lot of historical buildings.

York


York Minister



Vintage Clothing



 Love all the posters! :)


Street artists! They are always so cool for me! <3 p="p">


 Sewing your name on the cloth. :)



So... English feel. ;)


 Aww, cuteeeee!
My picture of the day! (*^_^*)

 The Scambles! The tiny street that heard to be the most visited street in Europe and most picturesque in England! <3 nbsp="nbsp" p="p">



 York Art Gallery!

Enough of buildings! See pretty girl :x


"York is the must visit place in UK!"


P/S: I will update about Birmingham and Nottingham soon! :) 


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仨人



一个人的晚餐无聊寂寞
两个朋友能开心的直说
三个人可以给你勇气
可以安慰你的失落
异口同声地说
因为有你染上新的幽默
(新的幽默)
也因为有你世界变得轻松
(变得轻松)
我们呢属于非常难得
所以尽情大声唱歌
分享每一分钟
我们拥有一个真心的朋友
(我们是真心的朋友)
就算有风吹不走我们感动
(吹不走我们的感动)
真的希望你能够永远快乐
你懂我(你懂我)
不用说(不用说)
最想看见彼此的笑容

如果能够带走乌云的天空
(你带走乌云的天空)
爬到云端我陪你继续做梦
(爬到云端我陪你做梦)
好想每天陪你看日出日落
你值得交换我
一辈子最想要完成的
美梦