Scary drive...

I think it's been awhile since I had a scary driving experience. This isn't the fact that I didn't trust my driver as a passenger, in fact is the road that is scary. Basically, we were driving to Leighton Hall to pick up one of Kit's friend, we drove up a junction, the motorway part was nothing, or I should say its a piece of cake, since we used to drove from Lancaster to Oxford in midnight and vice versa. However, I think the scary bit was the small narrow road, especially where its actually going steeply uphill and the road sign was national speed limit. The roads are just very narrow, very dark without any street lights, a lot of uphill and downhill, sudden emerging junctions, cows walking in front of you and not planning to move away at all etc. I guess there are countless of these scary moments that I cannot recall all of them.

However, all I can say is that Leighton Hall is definiately somewhere that is worth to visit, as it is a very nice place, really popular venue for weddings. I just think it is indeed worth visiting (apart from the drive). To be honest, I think it would be so much better during day time, as you can see your direction so much better.

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Sick...

I can't believe I'm sick, I bet its because Oxford was too cold and I've got the wrong type of clothes when I went there, therefore I'm having a flu at the moment. Its a pain, I really hate it when I have a temperature, the discomfort of being hot, especically I hate to be warm, so this just make me very annoyed about it.

On Thursday evening, I wasn't feeling great at work, started to sneeze. And to be honest, I really didn't want to go to work on Friday, as I wasn't feeling great. I just want to stay home and rest. I guess I should have done that instead. However, I didn't and I went to work, had a very rough night at work with loads and loads of problems plus mean awful guests. I just think that made is worst. Therefore, I decided its about time to stay at home and rest. I need some rest before I am really really ill, it can get really bad when I had a temperature, that was my previous experience. I know that when I had a temperature, I need to get rest otherwise it might just get worst.

At the moment, I'm still not sure if I'm going to work, felt better but still ain't great. I would still shiver from time to time, I guess thats a bad sign. Anyways, I think it might because I had a hard week at work, that might just made things worst.

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Konfabulator for Windows

This is something that I've been waiting for, I wanted to use Konfabulator for a very long time, however it was mainly available for Mac machine. Basically what Konfabulator does is a software that allow the small program to run - Widgets. It is amazing how handy can widget be, as I would always love to have another clock which display Hong Kong time, so everytime when I want to know the time in Hong Kong, with a touch of the key I can find out easily.

I have been looking forward to be able to have my own widget, I had even thought of buying a Mac so I can use widgets, however its been changed now, since Window user can use it as well. I would no longer need to envy KitKit and all the Mac user anymore. I guess I could live with Window for just a little bit longer until Mactel is out in the market. The best thing about Konfabulator is that Yahoo bought Konfabulator, so a lot of widget is free now (unlike before many of them need to be pay for,thanks to Yahoo). I was so excited when KitKit told me about this and I am having so much fun using it in my computer.

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Back to normal

I'm back to normal live, work, home, online, cook, tv. Sometimes I just really missed my time back in school, sometimes I just want to go back and study. Anyways, worked in a late shift today, for some reason I was just very tired and not in the mood to work at all, perhaps I just got back from Oxford and might be the reason why. I guess I'm just lazy and want to stay at home and online, cook, tv, going out with friends.

Perhaps I should seriously re-consider whether I should be a student again in a few years time. At least after I worked for a few years with some saving, then I could go and study without letting my family to provide my financial support. I guess that might be a good idea.

Anyways, I might just be dreaming now, it's getting late and I should take a shower and go to bed.

Goodbye Oxford...

I've left Oxford before dinner around 6:30pm, I just think the trip was a bit short as I haven't manage to do everything that I wanted to. I still haven't walked down Cornmarket Street, to see my friend, visit the hotel that I used to work. There are just lots and lots that I want to do. Anyways, I will be going back in September for graduation, I hope I can spend a bit more time in Oxford by then.

Basically my friend and I didn't do much today, just have a good night sleep and get up around lunch time, went to city center to yum cha and I went and did a bit of shopping, such as food and some things that I can't get when I'm in Lancaster. Talking about shopping, I bought a nice outfit, a black jacket and a white pair of jeans. It had been awhile since I dare to wear a pair of light colored trousers. I'm always afraid that it will look too fat on me, but this pair of jeans was just great, it looks nice and I'm happy about it.

We went to a nice pub called Trout Inn yesterday, it was one of my favorite pub as there is this great view of the river and a bridge. In summer time, it is a beautiful place to just sit and talk with friends or just to read. There are peacocks around, which they are very pretty, they just love to wonder around you.

It was just great to see my friend in Oxford and had a long chat during my time in Oxford, girls' chat is something that we haven't done for awhile and it was nice to do all those catching up.

I am looking forward to go back to Oxford in September, hopefully I can go back sometime sooner, to see my friends and visit different places.

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Oxford - Day 1

I've arrived to Oxford yesterday, one thing that is missing in here was the weather, it was cold and raining (which I wasn't prepare for that at all, I was hoping to be sunny and hot). Therefore realised that the clothes that I had was totally wrong, I'll properly freeze to death again (what wrong with me, for the past trip to IOM, I can manage to pack the wrong clothes, and it happened again this time, it's really annoying.

Anyways, my friend picked me up at the train station, as usual the train was late, so I 've arrived 30 minutes later than the expected time. We went to Cafe Noir for dinner (it's one of my favorite restaurant in Oxford and I used to work there). It's been nice to see my ex-colleagues again and to taste the food that I love. Later on, we've tried to find one of my other friend in Oxford, but some reason I just cannot get hold of her at all. I don't have a lot of friends left in Oxford, as most of them either went home after study or went to work somewhere else.

We kinda drove around and I just realise how past memories flashed up, I do miss here but then it just felt so different when you were in the same place, yet the people had moved on.

Still trying to think what to do for today, the weather is really ugly and it wasn't what I was expecting it at all. Perhaps going to chill out in my friends home, or probably go to city center to do some shopping.

Something strange that I've realised, there are a lot of police siren around, even in very late at night and early in the morning. I'm just wondering is there anything to do with London or it just happen to be one of those night in Oxford.

Anyways, I won't be posting posts in my travel blog, since I don't think it is a travel, this trip is just to see my long miseed friends.

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Oxford here I come....

I will be going to Oxford later on today by train, I cannot wait as I haven't been back to Oxford for ages. Last time I was in Oxford was during Chinese New Year, which is back in Feburary. I'm really looking forward to go back and just to hang out with my good friend, have a drink, wondering around.

Before going to Oxford, I still need to work and its an early shift as well, which I think I might be quite tired. I think I will be catching some sleep on the train, at least I will be in my best when I arrive to Oxford. I just can't wait now....

This time KitKit isn't going to come with me, somehow I felt sorry for him, but then again I just want to spend sometime with my friends, which I'm sure he will understand. I won't see him for 2 days, this feel kinda strange, as we haven't been seperated for ages.

I hope I can go to sleep tonight, otherwise it will be a very rough morning.

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Back to work.....

My 4 days of holiday are over, time just flies. It feel so strange when I was at work, since I'm just not in the right gear yet, still very lay back and not in the mood to be at work at all. Anyways, I'm working early today, it is one of those late - early shift, I know you can't avoid it, but still it could be very tiring, especially as I mention I'm not back in gear yet. However, my colleague was very nice and let me go home a bit earlier, which means I will have a bit more rest (to be honest, this wouldn't make a huge difference for me, as I just sat in front of my telly when I should be taking a shower and go to bed).

One thing I wouldn't complaint is that it wasn't that busy tonight, that is quite good, at least sometimes at late shift, you might get queues of people trying to speak to you or even just check in. That's what the hospitality industry about isn't it....

I still love my job even though I hate the shift work, I just wish I can get out of this shift patteren soon (when I'm back in Hong Kong). At least I can have a better sleeping pattern and a bit more rest. Anyways, gotta go to bed now, it's really late and I need to get up in 4 hours time.

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Happy Birthday KitKit

It's my KitKit's birthday today, I just want to say:

Happy Birthday KitKit!!

Love you Lots
MatMat

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Celebration... Eating out....

As I mentioned before, we are going to celebrate today, so we decided to go out for dinner just to treat 3 of us (Kit, his brother and myself). We planned to go this Japanese restaurant which serves Teppanyaki, and we were thinking, it's only Monday we shouldn't need to book at table.

Unfortunately, I guess that is just life, whenever I didn't book a table, the restaurant will be closed. This Japanese restaurant just decided to close for one day, which really disappointed us, since we were soo excited to eat in there.

After that, we thought of going to this French restaurant near by, so this time, I've decided to ring and just make sure it is open and to book a table. I've rang the restaurant and the hostess is tell me its full. I cannot believe, a restaurant can be full on Monday evening, there must be something really good about this place or the world just gone mad. Anyways, we were really disappointed and we were up to the point to just go to supermarket, shop for food and cook at home.

At least, we've managed to agree to eat in one of the Mexican restaurant near our house. It was a very nice place, but I guess it wasn't our first choice. Therefore, when people asked me if we had a great birthday with great celebration, I would say, yes I had a great birthday but I wouldn't say I had a great celebration.

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Amazing....

I was looking on my sitemeter for this blog, when I was looking at the details, I realised someone entered my website by using Yahoo Hong Kong search engine, and searched with "London Blast" as the keyword. The amazing thing is that my blog actually came first place in the search result, I was shock by that.

After what I saw, I've decided to try searching myself on Google, Another surprising thing, I can find myself in second place, this is really quite intersting. I've capture the screen, I just think I must put it here.






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HaloScan Commenting & Trackback

Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to the blog.

Please leave comments and trackbacks, it would be great to see some feedbacks on the post.

Thanks.

MatMat

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Birthday...

I guess a lot of you wonder what did I do on my birthday, did I celebrated with drinks after drinks or pack with different activities. I can tell you now, I did NOTHING, stayed at home all day.

I spend my birthday doing some household chores and chatting online. Some of you might wonder why not go out and celebrate, I just don't like the crowd, there are just too many people around town on weekends. I think it is just too much hassle and effort to go out on weekend, especially Friday and Saturday. Therefore, KitKit and I decided, we are going to celebrate on Kit, his brother and my birthday together on Monday.

It's quite nice last night chatting to my friend online, its been awhile since I have properly chatting online, usually either I have to get ready to work or go to bed, so I quite enjoy chilling out at home and do nothing for the next few days.

KitKit posted an intersting post about birthday. I find it quite interesting...

Birthday and Harry Potter

It's a special day today, it's my little "sister's" and my birthday and something else that makes it special is the day where a lot of Harry Potter fans and readers have been waiting for. It is the day where Harry Potter - The Half-Blood Prince is on the shelf. It is quite amazing as we decided to go down and have a look and buy the book, we never expect that there are going to have people around and queuing for it. But we were wrong, we have 3 bookshops in town and all of them are opening at midnight because of this. It is amazing to see the people are queuing outside waiting to buy the book, this isn't just children only but with a lot of teens and adult. People are very excited once they've got the book and started to read it on a bench. I never can believe how popular this book can be. Anyways, we've got our copy and it will be a reading weekend for us.

As I mention earlier, it is also my birthday as well as my little "sister" too. I just cannot believe that I am getting older. I just think time flies too quickly. For the past 5 years, I just think time went by too quick and sometimes I just don't feel it's already been 5 years since I lived in UK. I was talking earlier on with 2 of my friend about our past, about things that happened when we were young. It is very interesting when looking back, especially with one of them. I've known her for half of my life (16 years), I can't believe its been that long until I started to think back carefully and it went by so quickly.

It is quite funny as she mentioned in her blog about our friendship, I think she will agree with me that it is describe as a "smooth" friendship, we had our ups and downs, our arguments (good that we don't really have any physical fights =P). But thinking back, we've been through a lot together. She has been always there to protect me in many ways, she will fight back for me if others being unfair to me or treated me badly. As she say we both been cherishing about this friendship and I hope it will last no matter what will happen to both of us, especially our strong bond of trust and honesty were build upon our tears and time. Thank you for your blog girl, I'm sure you know who I am talking about without mentioning your name.

I am sure this 2nd girl know who she, it is unbelievable that these 5 years had gone by. As we were talking on the phone today, we were mentioning about one of my birthday celebrate back then, we or I should say I almost got one of our friend beaten up by my other friend just because I was in tears. I still remember at that moment we were really freaked out and left the club in such a rush, I was really tipsy and we walked around Victoria Station trying to find our friend. Thinking back about it, its actually quite funny but at that time it is just scary. Anyways, I still remember my last birthday celebrate where we went out from club to club and ended back in the place I worked where as usual I was tipsy again. It was such a laugh.

I just want to say, thank you for anyone who remembered my birthday and who either ring me or messaged me today. And I want to thank Kit for his lovely present =D.



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The wait will be soon over....

Soon the wait will be over, in about 4 hours all Harry Potter fans can stop waiting, the new book will be out at midnight on the 16th July (a speical day.. hehe =D). I will be going to town and get a copy myself (although I didn't pre-order one).

I'm going to have 4 days off starting from today, since it is my birthday tomorrow and KitKit's birthday on 19th. Therefore I just think I should take the weekend off (this is something that I wanted for awhile, haven't had a weekend off since we are short of staff), as well 18th and 19th as well. Just to spend some time with Kit before his birthday. I think we are going to celebrate together with his brother, as his birthday is on the 12th. It is quite scary when I think about there are too many of my friends' birthday is in July. If I have to celebrate with everyone of them, it might means that I have to go out every single night to party with them.

I think it worth to mention is that my little "sister" - Audrey, she has the same birthday as I do but 2 years younger. This is kinda cool in someways, the only thing about us was that we never ever had celebrate together at all since we know each other. I guess we should do that someday, perhaps next year.

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A thought after reading my friend's blog....

After reading 1 of my friend's blog, I just had a though about relationship. I cannot say that I disagree with her perspective about love, but I will have a different thought about "being scared to fall in love".

I think everyone will have fear when they had previous bad experiences about everything, especially love. I think you ain't the first one or the last one who are scared to fall in love again, there are a lot of people who are just like you. I was one of them before, really scared of being in a relationship, I just think why would I fall into this "relationship trap" when I know I will get hurt, ain't going to be stupid enough to do that. But when I think back now, I just find its quite interesting, you won't fear about it but when the right moment and the right one comes, you will actually forget that you are scared to be in love, to be in a relationship, and just walked into this "trap". I think sometimes human is stupid, knowing its a trap but will still walk into it because of curiosity and others.

I think what I've learn about relationship is that I might fear about it when I was heart broken, but just remember that there are times you are enjoying someone being, love you. All those happy moments that you might have with him/her, going into this "trap" might be worthwhile. As you never know if he/she is the right one for you until you have been with him, otherwise you will still dream and imagine what it will be like to be in love with him/her. I would think it is more an experience when it comes to a relationship, and hopefully this experience might turn into a habit (marriage) one day.

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Firepapillion: It is alright to be realistic and pessimistic about relationship, at least it just mean you are being sensible about it. However, I hope you won't give up about getting in love and a relationship because you never know what is coming up next. All of us do long for a passionate but light hearted relationship and hope this dream relationship might come true one day, but without trying you will never know. So please don't give up and don't be too pessimistic about it.

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[轉載] 其實他並沒那麼喜歡你

以下係我係電台聽到, 而網上搵到, 我覺得要同大家分享, 所以就放係我個日誌到 (特別係我一位好朋友, 希望佢睇左之後可能諗開 D...).

[轉載] 其實他並沒那麼喜歡你


『你真的了解你的男人嗎？也許他滿口甜言蜜語但其實他並沒有那麼喜歡你，也許他和你約會講電話，但其實他沒有那麼喜歡你，也許他和你上床，但其實他並沒有那麼喜歡你。』

1.要是他不約你出去，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
2.要是他沒打電話，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
3.要是他不跟你約會，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
4.要是他只有在醉茫茫的時候才想見你，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
5.要是他不跟你親熱，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
6.要是他劈腿，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
7.要是他不想結婚，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
8.要是他要求分手，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
9.要是他演出失蹤記，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
10.要是他是有婦之夫，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。
11.要是他是個自私自利的痞子、以大欺小的惡霸、道道地地的怪胎，他其實沒那麼喜歡你。

男人老是告訴他們的女友他們很忙，不要增加他工作上的壓力；他們老是要女友獨立，不要打擾他們工作，女人也很好心的幫男人找藉口：「我不應該吵吵鬧鬧，我要獨立一點。」「他一定是因為壓力太大，所以不喜歡我常打電話給他。」

前進吧!一刀兩斷!不要再浪費時間!

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Swimming...

KitKit and I went for a swim today, I wanted to do that for awhile, but I just kinda lazy, never really wants to go back to work when I don't have to. Anyways, we've finally went to the health club in my hotel, went for a swim, gone into sauna (which not really my cup of tea, too hot, the only reason I want to swim is to cool down, but doing the opposite) and gone into the jacuzzi, that felt nice, really relaxing.

I've been really tired after the swim, I guess I haven't been doing much excercise for awhile, especially swimming. I haven't swim for ages now, I think since I've left high school, I have never swam at all. Thank god that I still remember how to swim in the pool and not sink instead.

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Blog design completed

I've finally complete my blog design, it took me awhile to understand and change the template. But it is the finally complete and I'm happy about the color and layout, it felt like its been a very long time since I've design and program a website. I've forgotten most of the coding and need help from Kit (my technical consultant) =P. Anyway, a big thank you to him.

I should be using this design for awhile, I know some of you might think it isn't my style, but I just want to use some pastel colours. So to anyone of you that doesn't like it, TOUGH!!

Please let me know if there are any problems and I'll try my best to fix it, at least it is good to know about it.

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Heat wave

I really think we are having a heat wave this year. At the moment, it is so hot and it is quite unusual, I think just thinking back it might be the hottest year since I've been here. Anyways, this is the reason we bought a fan (at least), every year about this time we would say yes we are going to get a fan, but it is just something that we never do, since whenever we are about to get one, it will cool down. However, I don't think this would happen this year, it is just so hot around here and no wind. I think this is the important thing, no wind but with loads of sunshine.

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Interesting...

I think it was quite interesting today, first I received a phone call from my friend - Shisha in Hong Kong, it wasn't something that I was expecting it at all, as it is quite unusual for people to ring me from Hon Kong. She was my friend from high school, both of us came to UK for uni and at the moment she is working in Hong Kong. She rang me just to see everything is alright with me, as last week London was under attack, she just want to make sure all her friends in UK are alright. This is just so sweet of her, it is really nice to speak to her again.

Anyways, the second thing was kinda freaky or coincidence. Shisha and I was talking about this other friends that we both know, just updating our friends around us and somehow we just mentioned my other friend - Firepapillion. Anyways, she was messenging me on msn and start talking to me, it is quite unusual for her to talk to me since I know she had been busy in Hong Kong and just got back to Switzerland. But just somehow she was talking to me online. I just think that is quite a freaky coincidence, especially after my conversation with Shisha that we actually mentioned about her.

It was really nice to talk to both of them, it's been awhile since I've talked to them again. I think when I was talking to them, especially the one that I've talked over the phone, I just find that she had changed a lot, in our conversation I find her grew up a lot, the way how she talks was quite different, I reckon that might because she started working, this experience would cause people to change in many ways. I just find that amazing though, as she always been the little girl that I had in my mind, I think she had grown up even more. Another thing that I find in our conversation was we had really different lifestyle now, I guess its because her profession and the salary that she earns. Whenever I think about it I would wonder how many years would I earn the same as her, my profession will never be the same as her (by the way she is a lawyer).

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Hot at work

All I can say was it's just a very nice day but its just too hot to work... I find it hard to concentrate on what I need to do. Anyways, it going to be my day off, I hope it will be same as today, great weather as I really want to go out with great weather. However, it would be nice to cool it off a bit, I love the sunshine but I hate the heat, especially in here there is no air con at all.

London blast

It's quite ironic about what had happened in London, but it was just scary and fill with terror. Yesterday, London won the bid for Olympic 2012 and Londoners were celebrating with joy about this upcoming event in 7 years time. Today, London was under attack with bombs - the London blast, 3 undergrounds and 1 bus attack. This day will going to be remember by a lot of britz, it is a moment full of fear and terror. It's just something that no one would like to see happening although it had been expecting to happen since September 11th. I truely hope anyone that I know who lives in London are alright and hope they managed to escape this nightmere.

I don't know what else to say, but all I can say is that hopefully we will have a better tomorrow.

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Moving out...

I am planning a move of my weblog... I might be moving out of xanga now and going somewhere else. However this move isn't just a small one where I start to post new entries in the new blog, it will be a move of everything, all the posts that I've posted in xanga will go there. It might take awhile, so I might start writing from this new blog. I'll let u know any updates, but this is just a thought for now.

Haydock races

Kit and I went to a horse race in Haydock with my colleagues yesterday. It was quite interesting to go, since I never been to one in my life. In general, I would say its a nice day out, the weather wasn't bad, I think I've managed to get a tan as well (which is something that I wanted the least, Brits might be happy to get one but I reckon I would be the other way round).

Of course we did place bets on different races and horses, I think this could be the first time I've ever bet in my life, I never do lottery nor football. However, I find betting on horses quite amazing, especially when we go to the parade ring to visit the horses and see their condition before we placed our bets.

The interesting thing about today was the betting, especially when I was betting on one race for Traytonic, I've actually wanted to bet on each way (basically means as long as the horse get a place, either 1st, 2nd or 3rd, sometimes can be a 4th, I would be able to get my winning). However, its not the first time, I've got the wrong bet, I've managed to buy a "to win" ticket, basically if the horse doesn't win, I would be able to receive any money. Kit realized it once I've bought the ticket and I was thinking, oh no, I've done it again. That horse does seems like a good chance to win, the only thing was when I was queuing to place my bet, Traytonic was actually getting ready to go to the gate, but it seems like there were some problem that it doesn't want to go in and the jockey had to step down and get the horse to go in before he can ride on it again. This little incident actually made the odds to change from 12:1 to 14:1. I really freaked out and annoyed about myself buying the wrong ticket, I started to think what if it won 2nd or 3rd, I must be very angry about myself. I was praying that either it doesn't win anything or it come 1st place at the race. Then I guess what I can call miracle or luck happened, I wouldn't believe what I saw when that happened , it seems like Traytonic actually won the race , I just didn't believe my eyes, I had to look at Kit to get some sort of confirmation. However, I think he is very confused himself . I think it's when my colleague told me that I've actually won then I've started to jump around. That bet won me £75 and I've only placed a £5 to bet for that race. I think this is quite amazing .

I want to go to another race again before I leave UK, I think going to these races are quite different to HK and I will enjoy it much more in here. Anyways, I should stop now, time for me to hit the bed, its work again tomorrow, it's been awhile since I worked and I have to work 9 days in a row (I think).

I came back from Isle of Man (IOM), so if anyone is intersted about my travel journal, but have a look at Travel blog

Anyways, back to my xanga I will be going to see horse race today, it will be quite interesting as I am going with my manager and I was kinda surprise that Kit is actually willing to come along with me. In order to go to watch the race, we have to do some shopping, since Kit doesn't have the right clothes to get in, it requires to be smart casual. Therefore we went to Trafford in Manchester last night. We had dinner in Nandos as usual, its great food with great price. After that, we came home and I was editing my travel blog, since there are still a lot of things to do, i.e. putting some picture that I took during the trip.