woke up to a morning of haze and fog and coupled with the fact most of the scots and english are home for Easter, my neighbourhood appears to be a dead town. mind you, it's the school holidays not the Queen's birthday or St Andrew's day.

Taken at 9 am in the morning.

BBC weather reads: Morning fog then some warm sunshine. cloudy @ 5 degree Celsius. I was just wondering how warm sunshine really felt. just seem to miss and forgot how it feels to be 'burnt' by the blistering 'singaporean' heat and scorching 'singapore' sun. it appears that we are all sharing the same sun, if you haven't realise, but you hardly feel the strength of sun here in edinburgh.

its spring and the daylight saving thingy has kicked in it last sunday. so it's G.M.T +7 not +8, for people back home in singapore. don't ask me why cuz i can't really explain. check Wikipedia. it has answers for almost everything. not everything but most. is spring supposed to be this cold? well, the weather has been rather erratic and i can't really find a fixed weather template to label spring. i used to think that a temperature of 5 degree Celsius is cold but it's not that bad. i prefer to have a blistering cold day than a dreadful gusty windy day. winds here reach speeds up to 20-40 mph which is about 30-60 kmh. well, it sounds harmless numerically but it's terrible when you see things flying all over the place, overturned umbrellas, toppled road hoardings. so hold on to you sandwich when you are having a picnic on a day like this.

will be experiencing Italian air and cuisine the same time tomorrow morning, can't help feeling excited. got to pack soon cuz we are leaving for Glasgow Prestwick airport at 2.30pm. our flight is 8.00pm. that's all for now. ci vediamo (see you in Italian)

cold foggy morning's farewell to you

bye for now...

hello people. oh should i say "buongiorno" in italian. i will be heading for italy, the land of pizza, gelatos, pasta, renassiance art, roman cities and pretty ladies...well, not if you have your girlfriend lingering around you. well, that's beside the point. i will be away from edinburgh and be in italy from tuesday 27 march till 8th of apr. will be back for more exciting news from edinburgh..see yar!!!

welcome...

Good day lads,
Been pretty busy and sorry for the long wait if you have been yearning to hear from me. kenny will be home soon. i can hear the cheers!!! keep u just posted on the details for that. what have i been doing? school term is ending tmrw and easter holidays are starting this friday. therefore, i needed to turn in all my work before we fly off for the break. had this crazy report to do the week before and many other reports days before that. despite that, i havent been attending lectures diligently. I need to get my lazy bum off the bed and start revising for the degree exams which are due in may. Wanna see pictures? hee. welcome to warrender park crescent.


This is where home is!! green arrow!!


See the patch of greenery around my place. this is how it looks like! It's called the meadows!

Pretty Flowers!

ok! u can catch rainbows in singapore!

well, that's not snow. but frozen morning dew!!! brr...

The meadows is where people can play soccer, frisbee, laze around, read a book (when it is warmer), play catch with their beautiful dogs and do crazy things. There is a small patch where people play golf. yes! it's no joke but locals bring a few golf clubs and strut their stuff on the green. it's an intelligent sport! apparently, i am the only one who thinks so. the singaporean girls never understand the true meaning behind golf! nvm. got a "shaky "pic of dudes having fun in the rain. btw, golf is born here!! not in edinburgh but st andrew's.

Well back to the main stuff. look at the map again and u will see peaks of high ground on the far right of it. It is called arthur's seat! yay, standing at 251 metres, it is an old volancic rock extinct since the carboniferous age. well, that's courtesy of wikipedia actually. hee. judging from the name, you would think that there are some connections to the legendary King Arthur. it was said that king arthur watched his army's defeat of the Picts from there. Thks, wikipedia! Oops. this is how it loOks like!

Er..not a very pretty sight though.

How's this!! snow capped arthur's seat!

The view from up above is trememdous!! well not before the treacherous climb up.

yeah, not the usual bukit timah kind of slopes..

look at that....


and that....

and that!

Lakes are termed "Loch" which is of scottish gaelic origin. there are few mini loch located around arthur's seat! the area around it is arthur's seat. you can see pretty ducks and drakes and swans are waddling around...

Makes u think of a zoo right? but aren't they beautiful right...

i hope these signs really work!

Well, that's about it for the holyrood park and arthur's seat. well, wanna have a look at my crib? here are some pretty shots of my room.

My door!!

my table. studious right!!! my shelf.


dun ask me why my laces are there!

oh no! my mum shldnt be seeing this. look

that's where my gloves went!!

well that's for my room!! i have four flatmates. one polish, one scottish, 2 chinese.. i am located on the 2nd floor, otherwise known as 1st floor. people here regard the first floor as groung floor and the 2nd floor as 1st floor. never understand the rationale behind that. more pictures...

how i wish that mini is mine!!

my main door!! i am located on the 2nd floor

up the stairs to my room....

Well that's all folks!! be back for more post from kenny!! love u all

Check-In.......

Good Morning Singapore!
Kenny's back. Happy Chinese New Year to all and Happy Valentine's day. i know, i am late at festivities again. i didn’t have a particularly exciting new year, but the company was brilliant. We didnt do much. The singapore society met up on the eve and we had dinner at The Great Wall. Cost us each 10 pds. The kang kong tasted too salty for my liking but it was good enough for the time being. I hosted dinner for the new year. xinyi and i spent 3 hrs cooking for 10 people. It wasn’t the best of meals but it was the company that mattered. As usual, the girls will always find stomach space for ice cream though they complained that they were full with the table littered with unfinished food. We exchanged oranges (Clementine are oranges too!!) and exchanged new year greetings. man. I DO miss all that red packets, mahjong, proper reunion dinners, family and friends.

The parcel from Singapore arrived at my door on Tuesday. Upon opening it, I could feel a slight gust of singaporean air whisking past my face. Ok that was a just a little too much exaggeration. Give the guy, who hasn’t been home for 1/2 yr, a break. hee. Out came the bah guah, chinese new year cookies. maggie noodles, more maggie noodles. lap cheong, more bah guah. laksa paste, BAH KU TEH paste, Singapore Curry paste...... my mum is the greatest. i can imagine all that sweat and time put in to gather all these. thank u mummy!!! love u!!! long live the queen!!!! i don’t remember bah guah tasting that wonderful in singapore. My taste buds went for a roller coaster ride. bah guah, pineapple tarts, peanut cookies.... man. I really miss the people back home. Ok its quite incoherent saying all that but eating the goodies from singapore makes u think abt home so much more.

i hope everyone back home is doing fine. the a levels results are coming out this friday. all the best to u, JB!! ben, study hard for your prelims!!! Where is felicia??? But I have heard from the dubliners that kev and fel went back to singapore for the new year. So much for a good friend huh..hee

People, brace yourself, I will be back in 3mths time. So hold back all your tears cuz only hugs are accepted. Be back on the 27th of May. I will only accept hugs from the girls..haha nah.. Someone will kick me in the butt if she sees this. singapore here i come in 3 mths...
take care i love u and all. Especially my mummy, daddy, sister and brother!!!

where is that darn chemistry...

feeling guilty and remorseful. time to start blogging. can still hear the jb's ranting at the back of my mind, asking me to post something. welcome to kenny's blog. bahchormee? love it, cant find any damn reason(s) to hate it. hence, the address. yeah, i know i shld have started months ago. but i just couldn't find the time. haha. yeah i know u guys wont take that for a reason. it's a blatant enough excuse. blame it on the good old laziness genes of kenny. well to start things off. its time to remind everyone where i am currently in. Studying in edinburgh. university of edinburgh, in particular. there are a few other uni in edinburgh though. and mum, for the 4th time, i am not in england neither am i in switzerland. wouldnt mind if i am in that place though. edinburgh, captial of scotland. not glasgow though, much to the norm's surprise. beautiful city very much different from singapore. singapore-skyscraper.housing estates.humid.sunny.good food.really good food.nice roads.(man i do miss all that) edinburgh-old gregorian buildings.no void decks to hide from rain.cobbled roads.rainy.cold.gusty.dry.no warmth from the sun.lousy food.expensive.beautiful scenery.four seasons. (love hate relationship with all of these). well all these kind of sums it all. will start the blogger's ritual of putting up more photos and posts. till then. kudos and good luck. just finished playing soccer. bushed. angmohs are fast and good. got 2 essays to do. love. kenny

hello!! good day to all. there was this sudden impulse to ammend my blog.. to make it nicer and prettier. however, i realised that, i am have very limited resources up there and navigating ard blogspot is actually a big problem already, much less wanting to change the settings. i will be right back to make this even better..

love,
kenny

ohkay.kristin is this simple enough for you dude?
well its all i can do for now.i need to study and dad wants the computer.
hmms u takecare alrites. anything call or leave a message on MSN. hehe
please keep urself warm, and hold ur sandwiches to school when its windy.
hahas hope my pooh bear's going well.
lotsa smacking loves.
kristin!
check it out!
hehe.

BYES.