hello all!!! LOL i havent blogged at all since i reached UK!!!
but my facebook has alot of photos from the swiss trip!
everything has been so good so far but it takes ALOT of effort to start doing work!
here are a few pictures to share with u all...

me and molly missing local food.

we decided to do a steamboat on paper and draw things we want in the pot...

and then we had a competition to see who can list the most yummy food we miss the most :(


now are some photos from the highlands, where you can picture lord of the rings happening at any corner:

this was taken at culloden, where the jacobites (pro scottish independence) fought with the government (aka england). the jacobites used flimsy swords and wooden shields, which were formidable in hand combat, but the english had artillery, which killed most of the jacobites before they could get near.
as the tour guide said "if you are looking for a happy ending, well, there isn't"

here's a pic of inverness, where we stayed for 3 nights in the b&b here. its really v pretty!!! inverness is called the capital of the scottish highlands.


this is pic of glasgow's goma (gallery of modern art) the building is a 17th century government/bank served building which was finally converted into goma. the staircase is really beautiful.


this is isle of skye. too bad that day was raining super heavily and the wind is incredible (hence mine and my brother's expression)


this is salisbury church. its currently under renovation. it holds 1 of the 5 surviving magna carta (great paper), which is the only so-called constitution of the uk written in 1215. it was used as the foundation of the US constitution and probably most countries around the world today.


this is Bath Spa in Bath, where the romans came to set up a community before 973BC!!! some cool shite it is! its really amazing to see how well the conditions are carefully kept. the spa tourist circulations were elevated, really respecting the heritage even though its something left by the romans. (hello singapore government, so colonial landmarks aren't evil, pls don't tabular rasa it can)


beautiful beautiful stonehenge, its really quite small, but its still spectacular. i was really very moved upon seeing the real thing for myself. after so much reading on it for so many years, i finally fulfilled one of my life's 'must go' places.




ok here i shall end with a some pics of scotland...

this is taken on the highlands, please appreciate the natural wonders of geometry even if you arent a geog student!


picnic on the highlands with my family. tell me what else you need to do in life already.


view frm the window of an art gallery just beside the coast of loch ness. no theres no monster.

scottish pple speak gaelic here, which is their mother tongue but the government (AGAIN) wanted to unify the country so forced all to speak proper english (sounds familiar huh) so this gaelic which was considered like a dialect was prohibited! they were even prohibited frm blowing the bagpipes for a few years! ugh. now i know why the scots are so damn angsty all the time.

loch ness. loch is gaelic for river and ness is the name of the river.
like strathclyde, where i'm studying now, strath is gaelic for valley and clyde is the river name. hence strathclyde.

btw do you know? that loch ness never freezes before in winter?!?! thats becos its the largest water body in the whole of uk and it retains heat so well it NEVER FREEZES! i think it froze before hundreds of years ago, but never since then!!!!

okai, till next time!!!! :)