Chinese New Year Shopping

Retail therapy is one of my options to recover from the negative emotions. As I haven't got a sustainable and stable income, so I have not shop for myself quite a while.

However, I found a solid reason for shopping this afternoon! Ha! CNY shopping. Although we don't really celebrate CNY here, still, it will be great if I can wear everything new on the first day of CNY which would be next Thursday, the 3rd of Feb.

The whole outfit costs only £8.99. I didn't bought it at last coz I think I look funny

Not sure why the sales continue till date, still, clothes and shoes I bought this afternoon were well worth it,especially when some stores are offering NUS discount. All together I have spent £69.19.

Lingerie (La Senza): £24.3
Socks (Sports Direct, 2 for 5): £5
Shoes (New Look): £16 (original price £29.99, slash £10 then another 20% student discount! Wahaha)
Tights (HnM): £6.99 (no longer buying Primark's tights, reason: you get what you paid for ;)
Dress (Mango): £16.90 (origninal USD59.9, I haven't bought any Mangoes for quite some time as I couldn't afford it if no sales..haha)

Wishing myself a very Happy Chinese New Year! Happy Rabbit Year! :D

Early Weekend with Chicago The Musical

Went to see Chicago the musical in Cambridge Theatre yesterday with Bee. It was quite a journey..ha!

Well, our original plan was to see Les Miserable, however, by the time we got to London, as we were trapped in the circle line, the good price tickets were all sold out. Eventually we went for Chicago. We bought the discounted ticket which cost £25.50 each in the London Theatre box office ticket booth in Leicester Square.

We got free pizza as a complementary. Pizza was ok-ish, however the servicing was awful. First, we ordered Cappuccino, but they gave us Hot Chocolate. Second, no smile on face and very slow in serving. I didn't get the name of the restaurant, but it was in the corner near Leicester Square tube station.

Complimentary Pizza...Can't comment on it as it is free...haha!

On the plus side, we got our tickets upgraded from upper circle to stall seats. yay!

I quite enjoyed the singing and dancing performance. The choreography was nice. However, I think they could have done a bit more with the props and staging. Stage was a bit plain, not many props like some other musicals that I have seen before such as sister act, Priscilla and Lion King that have fantastic staging and props. Also, I quite liked that they had a exit music to sending off the audience. Ha!

Wondering about my next pose!

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I am always inspired to do drama studies every time after watching a musical. I know now is not the time as I have my priorities, however, I know it is not long :)

Well, that's it my early weekend as I have to work on some paper work this weekend. Haha!

2011, I am ready!

In year 2010, I had decided to 're-enter' UK to pursue my master degree. I wouldn't say it was a 100% rational decision as there was an emotional element in making this decision. I was hoping to amend something which was broken, however, things had proved myself wrong. However, I had spent everything that I can possible spend to come over here, therefore, I clearly understood that there was no turning back. The best thing that I could do was to suck it up and finish it.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank my friends (Lydia, Suet, YouJiean etc) and family back home and friends here (Kent, Yau, Mei etc) for giving me moral support from time to time. This was my gasoline to move forward. I feel blessed meeting and working with some great people from IRC (Prof Kecheng Liu, Dr Lily Sun etc), Capgemini (Dr Sam Chong, Cameron Spence etc), Dedipower (Craig Martin, Grant Mitchell, KhengSim Sng, Wilkin Lo, Winnie Chen, Suzie Huang etc), thank you for giving me a good opportunity to learn. I have enjoyed working with you all. Lastly but not least, I want to thank Bee for assisting me in my studies especially before the thesis submission. I wouldn't do any better without your help.

Highlight of the year: MSc dissertation presentation. I was glad with the positive feedback that I have received.

I was glad on the 31st December 2010 (yesterday), because I could feel that I had let go the emotional element. Therefore, in year 2011, my resolution are simple. "Stay Focus" on the listed goals, and "Stop Worrying" on the uncertainties! I never feel that positive after the big lump in life back in Q3 2009.

Thus, I am ready!

I would rather to stay in, having a nice dinner (with Chinese New Year song as background, what a surprise! ha!) with good accompany, rather than going for the new year countdown in central London, although I quite fancied going. At last, I watched the London Fireworks on New Year's Day on BBC One in the home theatre :)

I am the cook though :)