Vanity, Cardiff x Festival of Diversity

Was at Vanity on the 8th of February for a CNY pre party with the peeps, the best asian party I've ever been to so far! The crowd was great, most of my favourite hits playing and of course with the best bunch!

With Jasmine

With Han Pin

With Szen

Amidst sleeping at 6am, woke up at 10am for our day trip to Cardiff for Festival of Diversity, a play by Malaysian students! It was also CNY eve and managed to skype with the family while they were having reunion dinner minus my presence :(

My subconsciously sad face. Lol

Wet day in Cardiff

Lunch at a Malaysian cafe; teh ais

Yummy nasi lemak

Curry mee

Hainanese chicken rice

Cardiff's living expenses are way cheaper than Bristol! Cab was calculated via distance while it's per person here in Bristol. Took a cab down to Mermaid quay, though we didn't see any mermaids ;)

Malaysia's One Direction? :P

Having a caramel macchiato while sheltering from the rain

With the bezz flatmate :P

Did some shopping in St David's Square before heading to St. David's Hall for the play. 

Bowled over by the violinist!

Dikir barat

The play was better than I imagined it to be! Mesmerizing performance and great vocal skills by the actors. Brought back good old memories in Interact days where we had our sketches too! :') Headed back to Bristol right away after the play ended.

Freshened up and had supper & gambling session over at Jia Xin's place to usher in the lunar new year! This time, in pounds sterling wahahaha. Managed to win about 20 pounds, for the first time in my life, not losing money! :B

CNY posts and my 21st up next!

Manchester I

Visited Manchester on the 16th of November, the day of Ryan's 20th. Such a long bus ride, took about 4 hours if I remember correctly. Upon reaching, we checked into our serviced apartment at Princess Street near Gay's street. Walked to the bus stand which took about 20 minutes to hitch a ride to the Old Trafford.

Our stay for the night

Could hardly believe my eyes when I was here, though not an avid football fan.

Bought tickets for the museum and tour for the stadium which cost us around 12 pounds each cause we had some discount thing. 

The legendary theatre of dreams.

The Munich disaster that took away lives of many players:

Proceeded to the players' lounge where they rest, change, and catch up with their families.

Marching in the stadium with the anthem playing in the background, as though we were the players.

With Mr Alan, our guide.

That's where the team players are seated! ;)

Finished off with a visit to the gift shop.

Departed next to to Lowry bridge and a nearby shopping centre before heading back for dinner.

Dinner at a typical pub/restaurant which I didn't really enjoy the atmosphere cause it was really noisy and it was more of a pub-ish place. Food was mediocre, nothing to rave about.

Fish and chips

Calamari

Beef burger

Sticky bbq ribs

Gammon and eggs

Steak

Roast chicken

Venison sausage and mash

Surprised the birthday boy with a cake in the hotel instead cause it was too cliche to do it in the restaurant and it was too noisy. Checked out a club in the town that night but t'was not to our liking due to the crowd, music and atmosphere. Lol.

Came back and surprised Wendy too cause she turns 20 on the 17th. Talk about coincidental following birthday dates. 

Visited Liverpool the next day: next post up!