ok.. you're wondering why I posted this photo... but since this is a completely random post, mehbe the photo is random too.. hmm.. maybe not.. haha... it was actually taken today while it was snowing when we were coming back from lunch for our practical... of course, you have to stare really hard at the photo to tell it was snowing... ;p

it's amazing how traffic lights in the UK respond to bicycles... on my way to Yvonne's place just now, i stopped at the traffic light (i was cycling), and then the traffic lights turn green, and the cars crossing in front come to a halt to allow.... two bicycles to cross. And this was a major traffic junction... How cool... ;p

having taken over CUMSA, i spend much of my waking moments not spent thinking about girls, girls, girls rowing/coxing, work and friends, thinking about CUMSA stuff now... but it's good.. i'm really enjoying it... really enjoy working with my committee! =)

i'm coxing bumps tomorrow... first bumps race for me... i'm getting the jitters... wish me luck! may the SPEED be with me. =) (oh and btw, for those who don't know what bumps are, i found a wikipedia article here. Check it out!)

Haven't had very much time to think about stuff to write although lots of stuff's been happening... ;p

A random Cambridge joke that was on my JCR mailing list....
Q:Which college are the fastest drinkers?
A:Downing.

Listening to the pitter patter of rain falling can be quite soothing when you're doing essay planning....

Bumps start tomorrow! How exciting!

At 5.30am, while the rest of Cambridge is still snuggled up under their blankets, a very interesting phenomenon occurs... A certain breed of students, known as rowers or boaties, get out of their beds, head off to the boathouse, dreary-eyed, in the deserted streets. They diligently get their boats onto the water before lighting down (ie. sunrise) and anticipate the moment.. at the very precise moment, twenty or so crews push off the banks at approximately the same time and head off into the river... This is the very sport of rowing... =)

And being a cox, I am swept into this vicious cycle too... Haven't been out of bed past 6.30am this week... *frown* i miss my bed... but of course, next week is the lent bumps (it's a series of races where the only aim is to bump the boat in front of you and not get bumped from behind.. ;p), which is why we're training so hard... i'm tired now...

Well, let's look at what else happened over the past week. Over the weekend, there was the CUMSA AGM, which as you may recall, where I was running for President. And many thanks to the support and encouragement from my friends, I've succeeded. It was really nice to receive SMSes and messages from people wishing me well... Really appreciate it... :)

And there was also Malaysian Night, which I must say was rather impressive... considering it was mainly the work of Irene from putting the script together, writing the songs & lyrics, directing the play, etc etc... very very impressive indeed...

Some shots taken by Sean...:


ooh... Pirated DVDs.... =)

I should be off to bed real soon now.. I'm soooooo tired... I've got a pimple on my nose! *ouch* I'll hopefully write about something exciting soon! Stay tuned....

So here begins the adventures for Dublin...

Day 1 - 15 Feb 06 - Stansted/Dublin
Woke up at 3.30am, left my room at 4am, in order to catch the 4.30am train to Stansted, so that i could catch my 6.30am flight to Dublin. It's soooo tiring! Especially when I was rushing to finish my work the night before and works till 12+am... *yawnz* But it was all worthwhile..

Reached Dublin around 10pm, was greeted by Harivinthan s/o Sellappan at the bus-stop. Put some of my stuff in Hari's room before setting off to visit some cathedrals.

St Patrick's Cathedral. Some people will know that Ireland/Dublin is pretty famous for its St Patrick's Festival, and i think it has something to do with the cathedral. Anyone knows? haha...

Also went to visit Christ Church Cathedral after that and then met up with Hari again for lunch (he went off to do some shopping first) Harivinthan s/o Sellappan. The only reason why I was in Dublin was to see this guy! Apparently it's become quite popular to visit this guy, cos a group of my friends were over just this weekend to visit him too! But only for a limited time now, for this guy heads off in 2 weeks time back to Malaysia...

Kenny with his Irish stew... yummy yummy...

And what better way to spend an afternoon than to visit the Guinness Storehouse to enjoy some Guinness right after lunch!

I must say that I was somehow really excited and happy to visit the Guinness Storehouse.. it's like wow... haha.. "Lovely day for a Guinness" it says.. But it says so everyday though.. haha... ;p

After the tour, which takes u up 7 levels, you reach the Gravity bar where you can exchange a token for a pint of Guinness! woohoo! What a fantastic view too! Here's Kenny with his lovely pint of Guinness.

Went to meet up with Hari again after that cos he had lessons in the afternoon and went for the Evensong at St Patrick's Cathedral. It's been quite a long time since I've been for a service, I think the last being Louisa's wedding. But I must say it was a really nice experience to have a service in a nice old cathedral where the voice of the choir (of just 8 people) resounds through the cathedral. It was a magical experience.

After the Evensong, we went off to this italian restaurant to celebrate one of Hari's friend's birthdays, where I kinda got to meet quite a number of Hari's malaysian counterparts. (It does seem like I'm having lots of interaction with the Malaysians these days, what's with Malaysian night, food feast and this... *rolls eyes* haha) Anyway, it was a really enjoyable dinner and got to know some of the Malaysians too. Then we went back to Hari's apartment where we had lao1 yu2 sheng1 or lou hei.... and the strange thing being.... it was Hari's indian housemate who was organising it! haha... how weird when i didn't even have yu2 sheng1 here in Cambridge and I had it in Dublin with Hari's indian housemate... =)

Day 2 - 16 Feb 06 - Dublin/Howth/Stansted
So being really tired from a day of travelling and weeks of fatigue, when Hari tried to wake me up at 8am the next morning to see if i wanted to go for his lecture, I decided I'd just stay in bed. But never did I expect to wake up and find the sun way up high already! (11.45am) Haha. But well, it was much needed rest anyway. So while Hari went off to work, I went to visit this coastal town called Howth. It's about an hour's DART (kinda like Singapore's MRT) ride to Howth.

Kenny at the Howth Harbour Lighthouse...

And seeing the rolling hills and cliffs in the distance, I decided to go for an adventure and head for the hills. And that proved to be a decision well made. Having found a off road dirt path that was trodden by hill walkers, I decided to follow the trail, to be led to this lush open pasture where there were horses roaming freely, galloping happily through the fields. It was simply gorgeous. And then I saw this rock cliff/hill which was the highest point on the lands around and decided to climb up the hill so as to take in the sights from a bird's eye view. It was quite an adventure to climb up this slope though. It was a steep cliff and I literally had to rock climb up this rock surface. Thankfully for all the rock climbing I've done, that proved to be quite simple. It was just 5-6m up the side where I had to climb anyway, although without a harness and support, suddenly it feels so scary. (And did i mention I have quite a phobia of heights?)

Kenny sitting in front of the structure he conquered. Except that this photo doesn't quite show the right relations to the height, because the mound in the background was actually quite a distance away.

And of course, I failed to notice there was this sign on the other side of the mound, until I was on the mound, because I had chosen an off-road trail... hmmz...

Finally the view of the coastline. Isn't it just gorgeous. They say that "Pictures speak a thousand words" but this is a situation where while pictures speak a thousand words, they fail to describe the other million words associated with it. It was just so beautiful.

So having spent the whole afternoon at Howth, it was time to head back to Dublin city centre to get my stuff, and went to look for Hari at his work place before I left. Had a chat and a sandwich with him before heading to the airport to catch my flight back to Stansted.

My flight having been delayed by 20 mins (Ryanair.. *frownz*), meant that I had to catch the later train back to Cambridge, but upon arrival at Stansted, I was greeted by "Urgent Engineering Works" on the Stansted Express Railway... and when I went to the coach station which was supposed to replace the train service, I was told the coach was only going to Liverpool street. After making a fuss of how I already had my ticket (where I was supposed to change a train at Bishops Stortford), and how I was not gonna be able to make it back if I was to head down to Liverpool street, the manager came over and told me that, since I already have my ticket, then they'll hire a cab for me to go down to Bishops Stortford. OOh.. how cool is that! So I caught the cab and reached Bishops Stortford 5 secs before the train was due to depart for Cambridge. How lucky. And finally got back to the warmth of my room.

What a tiring trip to Dublin but a really really enjoyable one too!

More photos are available here. (Trust me, you want to check them out.. especially day 2)

Well, i was absolutely blown away in Dublin... ;p will write soon... 1.20am in the morning isn't exactly the best time to blog when you have a 9am lecture... =(

Hello everyone and welcome to the Valentine's Day Special edition of The Adventures of Kenny... it's pretty obvious that i've decided to decorate my blog with floating Cupids [it seems the cupids only float in my preview page somehow...] and it's pretty obvious too that since I'm writing this entry on the night of Valentine's Day, Cupid has somehow missed me with his arrow.... ;p Oh well.. C'est la vie...

Anyway, it's been such a busy last week for me and it's only slightly better this week. Over the weekend, I was mainly occupied by Spring Ball which took up almost all of my time... But well, it's quite worth the 2 sleepless nights in a row 'cos it turned out well. =) Photo time!

With the gang of Jason, Chris & Me!

MY The rowing babes with Kenny (who said rowers can't look good?) Betsy-"only-rows-for-jelly-babies", Noel-"cox-to-be", Kenny!

well, that was like most of the photos I took, cos 1. i didn't have a lot of time to wander around cos i was working. 2. i was too tired. 3. i had no idea where everyone went! the rest of the photos are available here

And then barely 2 hours after clearing up from Springball, I went to cox an outing because we had a race on Sunday... so poor me went to cox, came back, finished writing my manifesto, and then to bed only to get up 8 hours later to race at Bedford. Of course, it's nothing much for me compared to the rowers. Here's a photo taken by Jet Photographic (duhz.. its name is printed right across the photo.. ;p)

Gee.. I need to work on looking good from behind.... ;p

Anyway, having said all that, this is an official announcement that I'm running for CUMSA (Cambridge University Malaysia & Singapore Association) Presidency. Have thought about it for the longest time and decided on it when the nominations were open and had to bring forward my trip to Dublin to tomorrow instead of this weekend cos of the AGM. At this point, I just need to say that Ryanair's a b*tch when it comes to changing tickets. I was gonna change my air tickets, but they were gonna charge me 70 pounds to change my tickets!!! Goodness! My tickets only cost me 30 pounds! Well, so in the end, I had to buy a new set of tickets for another 30 pounds, but much less than 70 still! So yupz, i'm off to catch the train in a few hours time...

I feel like a little girl,
trying to conquer the whole, wide world,
.....
I've got work piled up to my head,
All I wanna do is jump into bed,
And wash away my troubles with lemonade...
-Little Superhero Girl by Corrinne May

GO GET HER ALBUM NOW!

And a Happy Valentine's Day to all you single people (like me) out there... =)

It's been such a busy last week for me and it's only gonna get worse this week. Taking a break now after writing my essay before shuttling off to help out with Spring Ball in a while. (yes, it's almost 11pm..) Well, anyway, I went up to Manchester over the weekend, enduring 6.5 hours of coach ride in order to get to Manchester. Good thing my iPod didn't die on me on the way back and I had my travel pillow with me.

So in case you're wondering if I went to Manchester to watch Man U kick Fulham's ass at Old Trafford, I wish I did, but life is so wonderful sometimes... ;p Went up for SingNite, organised by the UK Singapore Students' Council, which we (the VJ Councillors) went to support Gillian, who was the organising chairperson... (we give ALOT of face man.... for 5 guys to travel all the way to Manchester for a dinner... ;p)

Well, anyway, it was a good dinner, had lots of wine fun and the food was good... ;p

The bunch of us VJ Councillors - Rajesh, Ziyang, Gillian, Allan, KENNY & Giri...

The token Cambridge representation... which consisted of myself, Yanning & Lay May... could have been more if CUMSA had publicised it.. =x ooh, i love my pink tie!

Then of course, who can go to Manchester and not go to Old Trafford? ;p And I'm not even a football fan... haha.. and the Manchester SingSoc had an organised trip there anyway, so why not join in the fun? I must say Old Trafford was very pretty.. Everything was red.... duhz... haha... and i'm so gonna go back there to watch a match, even if it means to have to endure another long long journey....

Woohoo! The North stand in the background, with "Manchester United" proudly displayed...

oooh... anyone recognise this stand here? ;p

right... so after the visit to Old Trafford which I had to rush off soon after, cos I had a coach to catch, (hence missing the awesome Mega Store... but i'll be back!) i finally got back to Cambridge, and as if the weekend hadn't been busy enough, I had to rush off to attend the CUMSA Ball...

gee. what a life!

oh, forget to mention that i've got more photos up here

ok.. i'm back in my room FINALLY.. been a really long and tiring weekend.. i promise i'll blog soon, once i get the stuff sorted out and work done... =(

-a very knackered kenny

haha.. I'm doing my maths probability examples sheet and there's this question that goes:

You are travelling on the Hogwart's Express with a companion whom you dislike. Neither of you has a valid ticket and the inspector has caught you both. She is authrosied to adminster a special punishment for this offence. She holds a box containing nine Bertie Botts every-flavour beans, apparently identical. Six are fruit flavoured while three of them taste of ear wax. She makes each of you, in turn, choose and immediately eat a single bean.

(a) If you choose before your companion, what is the probability that you enjoy a fruit-flavoured bean?
.......

Looks like my lecturers might have a sense of humour afterall... ;p haha