.. its not that red, im dark haired so its got sorta reddish tinge. the color we used was ultra-violet dark red.

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i am currently visiting my darling friend lin in southampton. i had to wake up SUPER duper early on saturday to catch my flight, which was at 8.35AM, so i had to leave at like six thirty to get to the friccin' aire-porttt..... and i took the tiniest plane ever !! well, the smallest i've ever been in anyway... i flew with this cheap airline, british european or something like that.... when i say cheap, i mean relatively cheap, because i am going to be broke after this weekend. i am NOT travelling anywhere till xmas , amsterdam 2 weeks ago wiped me out clean, so i figured how much more broke could i get right??

oh and the strange thing abt soton airport, there is a bus that picks up passengers from the entrance and drives them to the car park, its a shuttle bus that leaves every 15 minutes or so.. thats not the strange part, its called PINK ELEPHANT BUS. but thats not the strangest part either. the car park is across this very teeny street. like 2 minutes away. and there are trolleys. and its no huge mid-valley like car park. why on earth would someone have a bus??

i seem to have a lot of questions today, actually for the past few days. sigh. i think too much...

anyway, as if i wasnt broke enough we went shopping !! it was blissful !! i havent been shopping in ages, i got a cute new bag, and cool top and a pair of gold heels.. *content sigh* ... we're going shopping tom too hehehe..

.... last night we got drunk, i was actually more drunk than lin and we both had the same amount of alcohol : wine and 3 tequila shots. what is happening to my alcohol tolerance???? (another question) we went to this club called the bambuubar, the music was fantastic !!!!!!!! i had to pee halfway so i was waiting for a lame song to come on, but it dint happen !! it was all my favourite tunes, one after the other... so nice.

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this morning lin woke me up at 9.30 (what the hell?) cause she found jane austen's tomb in this cathedral and we had to go to winchester, she said , "i dint find that tomb for nothing u know"... i dragged myself out of bed, she was kind enough to make me some mocha and we got cracking... i was sooooooooooo hungry by the time we got ther (one hr bus ride) but we dint eat right away, (WHY???) shit another question-i must stop.... we saw king arthur's round table, it was on the wall not on the ground, that is something i dint get.... but my stomach won the battle and i dint bother bugging lin abt it.

we also had to take photos with this pig before we ate. i'll post the pic on tabs soon. u gotta see this pig.

we had sunday roast at this pub, god i was so grateful for food. i think i actually remembered to say my prayers...

after that we went to winchester cathedral, saw the tomb, and a whole lot of other tombs as well... all these kings and queens and their bones etc etc...

when we got back to southampton, we went straight to sleep.... of course 3 hrs later my dear friend made me get up , but it was for dinner so thats okieeee....

yawn. sleepiness is overwhelming now. i better get to bed....where is my toothbrush. her room looks like a warzone since i been here, we have clothes and shoes and everything strewn everywhere... hehhe, im having such a great time.

anyway, we chatted for abt 3 hrs and then sudha and myself decided to play a prank on nik and we told him that we were going out (as in me and sudha) and that we were confused, cause we were both straight but there was this attraction between us.

Nik: you guys did EVERYTHING??

me: yeah...

Nik: no like... all of it

me: uh-huh.

(sudha was covering her mouth the whole time cause she was afraid she was gonna laugh, i did a pretty good job, if i may say so myself)

he totally FREAKED OUT... sudha and i are both good friends with nik, and the fact that he totally went bananas... well some ppl are homophobic.

then we asked him what we should do, if at all it worked out, should we tell the others.. i e other friends... and it turns out most of our friends r not exactly open to same-sex relationships. oh yeah one of the ppl we ticked off was the guy i am currently dating, mr.ACP. apparently he doesnt even like it if a guy taps his arm. i did not know this, cause in feb when i was in my 'i think i want 2 be a lesbian phase' he was very supportive.... but that was before we were a couple.. i wonder how he would react now...

anyway back to last nite... nik told us that he wouldnt tell anyone. and we thanked him for that.. and then we kissed !!!!!!!! it was like.. we stopped walking.. and we just kissed, it was a short one cause.. well we're not used to kissing other girls.. nik started swearing and now he REALLY freaked out... he was so freaked out sudha decided to tell him we were just messing.. i was really disappointed cause i wanted to wait AT LEAST a day !!!!

... after we told him. he was still freaked. poor fella... hehehhe

apart from scaring guys, i have not been studying.. so guess what ill be doing this weekend?? plus boyfriend has gone home for the weekend so ill be pretty free with noone to sit with and 'touch balls' (apparently there is a spanish phrase that means 'to do nothing' and is directly translated as 'to touch balls')

oh time for class... drat

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I'm not feeling too fantastic, have been feeling a little under the weather for the past coupla days, plus my ear started hurting today so im thinking abt starting a course of antibiotics.. hmmm

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what are boyfriends for if they wont assemble your DIY table for u??

ok i have to admit he carried the 25kg of wood for me from the store, and even up the SPIRAL staircase.. but he wants to sit back and watch me screw the table (no pun intented)... hmmpppffff...

anyway, i have a lovely mahogany desk in my room... and i did some studying today, yes i did, at my brand new table. im going to get as much studying done as i can before the novelty wears off...

anyway, off to go photocopy jo's notes for lecture... at least that way noone will steal em :P

im having such a bad hair day and my hairdresser refuses to pick up her phone.

:P

It was fresher's nite for med students at this bar: Bo Jangles, 6euro got you med soc membership and free wine...  by the time i got there (which was still pretty early) they had pretty much almost run outta wine so i only had to pay 3bucks... good for me cause if i had had another class i would've been flat on the floor.

Despite the shameful low alcohol tolerance for the night (i will have to give up my punjabi name now) i had a pretty good time, the music was EXCELLENT.. all my fav songs... but noone wanted to dance with me *sigh* why is life so hard... of course in the end i did get on the dance floor, and some first meds introduced themselves (i tot that was mighty nice of them) and then they asked me if i was a FIRST med (????) hello, im in my third year... but no worries, this one girl told me im a good dancer. im a sucker for compliments. i just love flattery. hehe.

oh and when i got home, plopped my handbag on the counter top, got some water, then when i grabbed my bag, i grabbed it upside-down, spilled all the contents of my bad on the HARD kitchen tiles... poor mobile, and i broke my compact powder... as in the powder itself broke into pieces. i keep breaking things.. sigh. thank god i dont have a child.

anyway, off to the movies with Jo. and i havent had mcdonalds in ages, neither has Jo... we're gonna go break 'the fast'

;)

Lecture was pretty interesting, so it was worth leaving the house for..it was about head injuries... scalp bleeding.. all that stuff.

Speaking of head injuries, Jo and myself must have hit ours somewhere because we actually opened my teeny tiny black and white ( not some weird color) brolly and braved the rain and wind to get sharaine's birthday present.. we ended up getting her gift vouchers (how original) to be used in any bookstore in the country... cool huh? ANY book shop... she likes reading all those regency/mills and boons type romances... the kind my mother never let me read :P

I am really gonna miss Jo when i go back to penang, cause she;s doing her clinical years in dublin :( :(

we're both just at the computer lab together right now, we had nothing to do and with the bad weather its always wiser to just stay indoors... im trying to convince her to go to this wine reception with ariff and myself.. its FREE wine and cheese... hehee.. yesterday i had this gold rum(nice), perhaps too much of it, cause i accidentally spilled some on nik... (sorry) he was not pleased.

Oh well, alcohol doesnt kill brain cells so its fine.

have to cook my own food :(((

oh well...

i dont feel like it right now... tired..

after sweating it out (it was v. hot), we ate LOADS. (we showered first of course) ikan bakar, popiah, satey, and claypot chicken rice. god it was so good.. also bumped into Paul, this guy i used to know when i was still in school, he's looking rather thin, or maybe i just feel really round today.. especially after that feast.

If that wasn't enough , i suddenly wanted ice cream. i am a real pig sometimes.. anyway i got this Tropicana Lime and Vanilla Ice Cream, it wasn't too heavy and i shared with Sha and Kaema...

.. yeah and then they broke the news about what nonsense they were up to on saturday night. They went to this club in ipoh called y2K, and they asked me to join them... i crashed the car so of course im not going to dream about taking the car out in the middle of the night. Now, Apparently, Sha told her dad that Rano would be going with them (i am older and her parents have plenty faith in me(?) ) and thats why he agreed, and later that night when he picked them up, he goes...

MR DAD: so, doesn't Rano need a ride home?

LITTLE NUTS: oh, no, she's so into the music, she wants to stay !

now, y2k plays this funky-ass, chinese techno music, that goes like ... boom boom-te-te-tetete-tetete- .... gosh..

and also, y on earth would i ditch my friends for any music??

its so fishy, i bet u he;s going to be asking plenty questions...

and there goes her parents faith in me, her mum was shocked when she saw my tattoo, and now her dad thinks i like chinky techno...

oh but her little brother, shastri, who is 11 yrs of age, (he's so cute) saw this hideous (its not that bad) orange plastic tumbler i have been carrying around for the past month and told his dad he wants one.. within hours he was the proud owner of an identical tumbler, only in green.

The only reasons i use it : one, i need to constantly drink water... and also my mum keeps telling me those raggedly mineral water bottles are way harmful.

im going to die one day anyway.

on the way back home, the guy in the next car looked a lot like this other guy i used to know when i was in school, Francis. I tell Sha to slow down so i can see his car license plate number. But he slows down too...

so i roll down my window and shout, "are u francis??"

he says something that sounds like "huh/hah"

and then he uses sign language to say "call me"

im so confused. i dont even have this guy's phone number. at least my ice cream was really nice.

and some people r just born jerks, that's the best explaination i can come up with.

sometimes i just want to cry, but in this humid weather i have to conserve body fluids.  

i went shopping TWICE .

i went to indulgence, my all time FAVOURITE restaurant/bistro/cafe... what is it anyway??doesnt matter... the chocolate moist cake is just... pure luxury. nyum.

i couldnt really finish my milkshake cause sometimes the food can be a little.... too .. rich. but delicious all the same.

im going shopping again tom... yeay...

and rite now i have a craving for caramel custard and kai si hor fan.... ooh satey !!!!