Life in Glasgow 格拉斯哥之恋
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We're coming back!!
We'll be back in Singapore from 29th March to 12th April! See you soon!! =) Anyway, it's spring time in Glasgow and the streets are lined with thousands of bright yellow Daffodils!! =)
Yonggeng's SURPRISE birthday party! =)
Yonggeng turned 24 yesterday!! and we just want to thank everyone who turned up for the surprise birthday party and helped to make Yonggeng's birthday a very memorable one! =) We had the birthday dinner at The Loft, which has both a restaurant and a bar and the atmosphere was pretty good! =) This is Yonggeng's very chocolatey birthday cake, which I ordered from Patisserie Francoise! I think he was very delighted to have such a chocolatey cake!! =) Now Yonggeng is...
Valentine's Day!
Yesterday was Valentine's Day! =) Yonggeng made a reservation at an Italian restaurant called La Riviera! it is such a popular restaurant that we were only given the 5.30-7.30pm slot for dinner! but nevertheless, we wanted to try out the food at this restaurant! When we arrived at the restaurant, we were pleasantly surprised to find out that all the waiters and chef are true blue Italians! This is really rare in Scotland! We were offered a 3-course Valentine's Day special menu, which...
Trip to Grenoble, France
I just came back from France! it wasn't a holiday, but a trip to the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), with my professor and a post-doc, to perform some experiments! so what is a synchrotron? "A synchrotron is a huge scientific machine designed to produce very intense beams of x-rays and ultraviolet light. This “synchrotron light” can penetrate deep inside matter and allows scientists to investigate the world around us at the scale of atoms and molecules." if you are...
More snow in Glasgow!!
Glasgow has not seen so much snow in 20 years!! This is the perfect time to build a snowman!! =P At my research center, some guys decided to spend their lunch break building a snowman and a snowalien! =P
This snowman is as tall as me!! =P
and this is a funny alien-like structure!! Isn't it cute?? =P
Delicious Japanese food found in Glasgow!!!
I never expected to find such good Japanese food in Glasgow! I just came back from dinner with my lab mates. We went to Ichiban restaurant to have some Japanese food and this is the first time some of my lab mates are trying sushi.... Marta (from Poland), Guen and Charles (from France)! The 3 of them each orderd a mixed sushi platter! They wanted to try all the different kinds of sushi... and they had great fun learning to use the chopsticks and daring each other to try the raw...
More Chinese New Year photos!
Since I'm in the Chinese New Year mood, I thought I would write another post and add some photos of my visit to Chinatown (in Singapore) with my parents! The two lions greet us at the start of the Chinatown street! What a crowded street!! Everyone's at Chinatown to take in the Chinese New Year atmosphere! What a sight! I love those chinese sausages!! This prosperity plant looks so twisted! =P Lots of chinese new year decorations! That's me! i'm born in the year...
The year of the Ox!! =)
I just received an email from a friend asking how I spent my Chinese New Year in Glasgow.... She mentioned that (in Singapore)... "Traditions seem to be slowly ebbing away...less visiting, less emphasis on customs and so on...or perhaps, I'm just getting older and things just don't look as they did from a child's view? Hee..." well... I replied and said that things are very different here in Glasgow! probably because we miss home so much that we are trying to recreate a chinese new year...
It's snowing in Glasgow!! =)
I can't believe it!!!! It's actually snowing in Glasgow!!!! and the snow actually accumulated on the ground!!! it's sooooooo beautiful!!!! =) I miss seeing so much snow!! I think I was the only 'crazy' person running out of my lab, without my coat, to take photos of the snow!! =P
2008 is the year of weddings!
2008 is really the year of weddings... at least for me! first, there was Joel and Tam's wedding in April.... next, I attended Teck Chuan and Chyan Ying's wedding in July... then we had our own wedding solemnization in Sept... and to round up the year with more love, we attended Patrick and Eunice's wedding!! =) Here are some photos of my favourite friend's wedding!! hehehe... hope eunice doesn't mind me publicizing her beautiful wedding photos! =P
The groom is...
