boxing : notts, leeds, junction 28

boxing day, 26th december 2010, kami tak pergi ke mana-mana. mengikut pengalaman yang lalu, kat notts ni kedai dia sale boxing day pada 27th. setelah tengok kat internet dan confirm kedai kebanyakan buka 27th, maka aku dan DrNotts pon bergigih la (gigih ke?) pegi ke arnold, salah satu small town di notts ni. DrNotts siap pakai wallington boots ok pasal hari sebelumnya tu macam snow-snow manja hala ke basah.

botak dan sengih tak nak ikut. sengih biasalah, nak kne keep up to date dengan variety show korea dia. botak pulak memang tak suka shoppng.

bila masuk time tengah hari, snow suma cair habis.

nasiblah orang yang shopping kat arnold semuanya tenang aje. takde adegan rebut-rebut. lepas dah rembat hiking boot claks dan DrNotts dapat leather boots beliau, kitorang jalan-jalan lagi cari barang lain yang sale dan worth beli.

lepas dah penat kaki, kami pon decide untuk pulang. sebelum ni singgah di sainsbury dulu. pekena caffe latte dengan makan lite-lite you all!

apakah saya sudah menjadi coffee addict?

esoknya (28th), pagi-pagi di kala sedang mau breakfast, DrNotts ajak pegi leeds jalan-jalan. dengan pantas kami breakfast dan search kat google tempat-tempat yang boleh kitorang jalan-jalan kat leeds tu.

mula-mula nak pegi 3 tempat, leeds city + war museum + thwaite mills. tapi was museum tu parking sangat jauh. kesian DrNotts kne jalan jauh. maka kami kensel saja.

leeds city

buli

takde le sale mane pon!

aku tak suka rooney

orang belakang main guitar tu nyanyi lagu "when you say nothing at all" by ronan keating dengan sumbang. tak jadi nak sedekah.

by samsung ST550

 komdian kami terus saja ke thwaite mills..

mane tau nak tengok swan lake ke esok-esok kan..

tapi tempat tersebut ialah tutup!!! cisss. dah bergambar sakan, kami terus menuju pulang ke notts. dalam perjalanan tu memang plan untuk singgah di factory outlet di junction 28 (2 junction sebelum sampai ke notts).

orang ramai, tapi boleh tengok barang dengan tenang. takyah tarik-tarik rambut..

sungguhhhhh foggy!!

lepas dah puas jalan-jalan sambil kengkadang buat aksi mencari-cari orang sebab foggy sangat tebal (lebih 10meters dah tak nampak), kitorang pon pulang ke notts. nak get ready untuk next day trip.. sesi melawat rakyat lagi..

laugh

botak : along, your laugh is contagious.

a comment from a boy, who just won the rock-paper-scissors 5-1 to his big sister (sengih).

why the competition? actually, sengih and botak were arguing on who's gonna be sleeping in the other room. sengih, being a so-confident big sister of botak suggested that they played rock-paper-scissors to decide on that matter.

botak, with his confident face said "yes, go on then". then, with one go, botak won. i was laughing looking at sengih's disappointed face.

sengih was not satisfied with the result so she said "lets do it five rounds yes?".

well, the result was 5-1, botak won over sengih. i was laughing my heart out. then botak looked at me and he laughed too.  DrNotts was asking me what had happened. i told DrNotts  the whole thing in short and she laughed too.

that was how botak came up with the above statement.


well people, age doesn't promise anything in any kind of competition ok! including batu seremban! hmmm

golden hair

me, botak and DrNotts watched Tangled for the second time and it is the first time for sengih. it still makes us laugh all the way.

suddenly, having a long hair is not bad at all. as long as you know how to take care of it.

well, i decided to cut my long hair just before i came back to notts. i mean, the longest ever in my life. but, not to worry, i did not colour my hair to golden. it is still black.

long time ago, when i was still in my primary school, some friends told me that if you are having a not-black-hair, it means your hair is not healthy. however, as i learn more and more science, i got to know that the colour of your hair is determined from the root of your family.

sometimes i got to think that it is so cool to colour my hair. i mean, to be looking in the mirror in the morning with a different hair colour. every time before i went to the really cheap local saloon in taiping, i will have some idea of what colour that i want to put onto my hair. when i actually at the saloon, i got to think that i need to change my shampoo, and i have to buy an extra conditioner or hair treatment for the sake of making sure the colour stays the same without damaging my hair. to cut the story short and not wanting to do all those hard work, at the end of the saloon session, i came out from the shop without colour in my hair. but, a really refreshing minty feeling hair after half an hour of hair washing + head massage and another half an hour of hair steam. make my day!

it is so hard to find a good hair saloon here and living in nottingham, you can't be picky as there are not that much saloon that offers good treatment for a cheap cost. so, i guess tomorrow i will ask sengih (kerahan tenaga) to give me the head massage. i mean, if she's no busy watching korean variety show over and over again.

card

by the way, over here, one thing that i am still surprise about is that people still sending christmas cards to each other. even we gave christmas cards to our neighbours. we don't know their names then, but now we do. i thought this trend is not carried out anymore because of the technology (text messages and emails). however, up until now, i have not received any christmas text messages. instead, i got christmas cards.

in malaysia, the trend of giving raya cards  is still going on but the amount of cards given is much less than text messages. i guess people are too busy to too the tedious work - buying the raya cards, writing, put it in the envelope, go to the post office, buying the stamp and finally posting it. as for me and my family, it is our trend to design our own raya card, print them out and give them to our friends and family. yes, i did the tedious work people. i did all te writing and posting those raya cards. i can still remember the faces of poepole whom i hand over the raya cards to them. they were surprised, but yet really happy and if i can recall what they said, "bestnya dapat kad raya! lama dah tak dapat" or "aliaa ni every year tak lupa nak kasi kad kan". alhamdulillah, i was able make them feel really happy for at least 5 seconds right? the thrill of doing all those stuff reminds me of when i was in primary school. i was the only one who gave raya cards to all of my classmates and even my friends from the other class too. it is just that this year i don't have the opportunity to do that. sorry my friends.i hope next year i could.. aminnn.

well, if the traditions are good, why not we carry them forward and teach them to our younger generations so that it will be one of our sweet memory in life. right?

enemies

DrNotts cakap, bila datang sini, banyak orang anggap kita ni musuh (enemies) diorang.

ada hikmahnya kan bila selak satu-satu lembaran.


aku nak fikir positif aje. you gain something, you'll loose something.

clarks

dapat hiking boot clarks for 15pounds je.

dah guling-guling seronok.

itu pon nak bagitau kan.

settle

settle:

1. sorcerer's apprentice
2. tangled
3. piranha

coming :

1. buried
2. thirteen
3. tomorrow when the war begin
4. saw

fine

aku nasihat ko tanak dengar.

yelah, buat ketupusan pon tak fikir mak pak anak bini tok nenek segala kan.

keseronokan sementara yang ko carik sangat.

buat keluarga merana buat ape.

fine. aku malas dah.

melawat rakyat : Nottingham Castle

melawat rakyat : intro
melawat rakyat : Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
melawat rakyat : Old Market Square, Nottingham
melawat Rakyat : Cadbury World, Birmingham
melawat Rakyat : Shakespeare : Stratford-Upon-Avon
melawat rakyat : Warwick Castle, Warwick

ok, ni part yang last. untuk siri melawat rakyat 20-22 December 2010..

pagi-pagi lagi aku dah sediakan breakfast cucur udang. agak susah nak cari udang fresh kat sini. biasanya kitorang beli kat ASDA aje, yang peeled and cooked punya.

malam sebelumnya, snow turun jugak di bumi nottingham ni. alhamdulillah. so sebelum bertolak ke nottingham castle tu, haruslah bergambar sakan dulu.

with zana

ok, over.

DrNottingham + mak zana

with zie

with girl (bukan gigirl - fasha sandha - tau)

lepas breakfast, kitorang bersiap-siap dah terus menuju ke arah town, masuk simpang ke Nottingham Castle. parking dah terus jalan-jalan di Nottingham Castle.

pintu masuk

tempat prisoners

abang robin

 dah puas bergambar dan melawat, tetamu-tetamu pon nak balik ke Bradford dah. aku mintak diorang tinggalkan aje aku kat town tu, sebab ada nak jalan-jalan beli barang sikit.

zie pon dah nak balik malaysia akhir bulan ni. zana still ada sampai september tahun depan. so nanti nak pegi bradford boleh suruh zana jadi tourist guide pulak.

terima kasih banyak-banyak kepada tetamu sebab sudi jalan-jalan dan bawak aku jalan-jalan.

terim kasih kepada pembaca yang gigih nak baca sampai habis siri melawat rakyat kali ni.

nantikan siri jelajah kami ke manchester dan liverpool pulak ye. kami gigih nak pegi cari rumah michael owen ni!!!

melawat rakyat : Warwick Castle, Warwick

melawat rakyat : intro
melawat rakyat : Sherwood Forest, Nottingham
melawat rakyat : Old Market Square, Nottingham
melawat Rakyat : Cadbury World, Birmingham
melawat Rakyat : Shakespeare : Stratford-Upon-Avon

habis puas jalan-jalan di stratford sampai kasut habis basah masuk sampai stokin dan mengakibatkan jari kaki juga sejuk beku, kami teruskan perjalanan ke Warwick Castle.

kekononnya warwick castle ni salah satu tempat persinggahan robin hood masa dia ondaway nak balik ke nottingham dari london, lepas lari dari perang kat france yang diketuai oleh king of england masa tu, King Richard the Lion Heart.

at the gate

layout

belakang tu the famous warwick castle tower

tembok dia memang tinggi.

lepas tu dah melawat semua, kitorang pon balik la ke notts. masing-masing kelaparan. DrNotts dah standby yorkshire pudding dengan curry mutton. dah aktiviti memanaskan kaki yang dah beku.