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New Things
22 July 2006Elena has got a new (older) brother and a new boyfriend (that her boyfriend bought for her)… Me, I’ve got a new phase of life to look forward to. And this new phase of life will start a month from now.
I have gotten past the “maybe I don’t want to go” stage… I do want to go to Belfast, I do want to start studying again. In fact, I can’t wait to go. It’s been too long an idle period, and the lack of intellectual stimulation is making me very lethargic. Apart from wanting to get my brains up and alive again, I am also looking forward to exploring a new place, experiencing a different culture and getting to know other people.
Yes, there’s no doubt that I’ll miss home. But since when is there something that’s entirely good, where there’s no flip side to it? I am sure I will manage.
I have done almost everything, bought almost everything. All that’s left to do is to figure out how many packets of Brahims and A1s I am bringing with me. ;) If anyone has good pre-prepared foodstuff ideas, please share k? Anything Asian’s good, anything Malaysian’s even better… it just has to taste good, and is easy to bring/send over.
Oh yes, to my other UK-going friends, if you plan to send your things over, it seems like poslaju is the best option RM753.50 for a 20kg box and that’ll take 2 to 3 working days. Alternatively, you can send via ABDA excess baggage, that’s a little cheaper but I don’t think it comes with a tracking service. But I believe with ABDA, you may be able to arrange for your stuff to be sent on the same plane you’re on. As for the cheapest option, that’ll be pos malaysia’s surface mail, that takes anything from 1 to 3 months and cost RM100+, but seniors have lost their boxes before, so make sure whatever’s going by this route is easily replaceable (your 30 months worth of notes are not replaceable :P)
Me… I think I’ll be using Poslaju. They even have a pick up service if you’re willing to pay the extra RM2! Whee!!!
on July 23rd, 2006 at 12:06 am
Hey yeep… can ask u ahh… y u take poslaju instead of ABDA?
on July 23rd, 2006 at 12:14 am
i can think of one flip side for u.. me missing u that is.. hiks..hiks…. crying edi..
muaxx
on July 23rd, 2006 at 9:39 am
shiching: ‘cos abda dun have tracking service… I’m anal ’bout knowing where my things are.
linda: awww… *big hug*
on July 23rd, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Ohh Ic… well how packing? Having headache now… dunno wat to pack… regret packing so many stuff that i use up the baggaage allowance…
on July 23rd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
shiching: heehee, I haven’t figured that part out yet. i think i’ll bring davidson’s and oxford handbook in my luggage, the rest that are not so urgent, poslaju lor. i’ve got 40kg ‘cos i’m flying via SIA. when do you fly, btw…
on July 24th, 2006 at 5:56 am
wah.. why so jialat wan..? ur seniors lost their pos malaysia boxes before..? from what i heard, pos malaysia surface mailing has a pretty good track record.. if u dont mind the wait, that is.. hehe. get kunyit powder.. easy to cook, taste great!
on July 24th, 2006 at 7:46 am
caryn: apparently ching ling’s stuff never appeared in belfast lah.. eh, I’m thinking of doing what Zen mentioned in her blog. Pack a box of foodstuff and send by surface mail. heh.
on July 24th, 2006 at 7:38 pm
Eh, what else you bringing, ah? I haven’t packed, bought, or even PLANNED what I’m bringing.
(I sound so unexcited.)
I know I’ll definitely be sending foodstuff by the cheapo, ie. surface mail route. Was thinking of doing that with my books, too, but after hearing you, I kiok already.
(Excuse the Manglish… Best I can do after speaking in BM 60% of the time.)
on July 24th, 2006 at 7:42 pm
OHMIGOSH, I just realised… Where’s your tag-board, dude?!? And can you please set it up that your blog pings blogrolling when you’ve updated? I decided to check your blog for fun today, and to my horror, I found that you’d written 4 new posts that I didn’t know about, ‘cos I’ve been relying solely on my blogroll to tell me when someone’s updated.
on July 25th, 2006 at 5:28 am
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on July 25th, 2006 at 8:12 am
UK Doc: Thanks! :) Your msg is definitly not spam…