Birmingham and Cadbury World

I know I've been MIA for like months now. First of all, I was in Sibu and then even when I got back to Glasgow like 6 weeks ago, I'm still lazy and partly too busy to update. A lot had happened since the last time I wrote. I will try to update as much as I can. This is to continue where I've stopped...

I went to Birmingham before I went back to Sibu. I know this is like ages ago!! But, I haven't told you about it....

Zoe went there to do her elective, so I just followed her and there's a place to stay as well. I mean why not?

She has a friend there who picked us up from the train station and to the host's house. And we met the house's cleaner who showed Zoe the places in the house and things she needs to know. The house is big!! And so many freaking rooms...and it's sooo British like. I'll show you later..

So, after exploring and stuffs, we went out for lunch. Hungry.... We went to this bar-diner place called Country Girl.








The menu.
I felt like getting a draught.
Me and Zoe's dish. Fish and chips..

Some roasted salmon thingy...

Roasted chicken..

My desert. Sundae...yumm.
Strawberries and ice cream.
Zoe's. Apple crumble tart.

Then, we went back home and rested.

Cats. White, shy one.
Black, friendlier one.
The back garden. Unbelievable!


My room. The guest room. SO lovely lace.




It has it's own bathroom and toilet.


Downstairs from the upper stairs.

Kitchen.


Dining room.

Hallway near kitchen and dining room to the garden behind.

I think it's a sitting room...


The conservatory! They have a conservatory!!

Stairs going up one floor.

Living room.

Upstairs bathroom.

Computer room.


The hallway on the 2nd floor.

Between 2 parts on the 2nd floor..

The host's room..?..


Stairs to the 3rd floor..

Downstairs toilet.

Garden from the dining room.

Upstairs toilet.

Zoe's room.

Self-contained room...explains all the microwave and stove etc etc..


Her room toilet.

The next day, her friend came to take us around the city. We took a bus so Zoe could familiarise her ways in the city too.

The city.





Birmingham Children's Hospital.


In one of the malls..












Chinatown. They called it Chinese Quarters.



Lunch.




And we continued walking.


We bought Krispy Kreme for dinner...-_-

The next day, we decided to go to Cadbury World!!! Yoohoo!!

The canal next to a train stop. Birmingham is known as Little Venice for it's many canals..

We walked sooo long and finally found Cadbury World!!

We paid for tickets and stuffs and went for our tour.

First off, is the Aztec Jungle and how cocoa came about. It keeps reminding me of Willy Wonka..






Then, there's something about European exports and things.. They are shown kinda like holographic images..don't know how it's done though..





And more.

And something else..
And how chocolate is processed. This is interesting cause it's an interactive kinda thing. As some guy in the video explains, suddenly the chairs will start to move or something else will start to move in the room when appropriate..

Packaging...


Cadabra ride!!











Some kind of demonstration. We get to write our names..

Advertising.





We went to Essense.

We get free chocolate concoction. Basically it's melted chocolate on whatever things you choose, eg jelly babies, biscuits, etc etc..



Toilet also looks fancy..




There's this museum as well where we went.

We went to Mount Fuji and eat when we arrived at the city from Cadbury World.




Tuna sushi. Pretty good..


Some curry..for Zoe.

A pork bento set for me.

Just some interesting sight..


These are the chocolates that I got for free and also bought from Cadbury World!!

Mistakes

We're humans.
People do stupid things right?
I mean people make mistakes.
What's important is that we realise that we were wrong.
That we committed a mistake.
Doesn't that give us a second chance?

There are a lot of things I'm not proud of.
There are a lot of things I know it's wrong.
I know I am a hypocrite, just like how a lot of people are.
I know I should have realised that, before it's too late to regret.

It might just be an excuse.
For the hurt I've caused.
In return it hurt me back.
Karma doesn't back down, does it.

Sibu

I'm back in Sibu to do my electives. So, with the lack of proper internet connection, do expect less updates:)

See ya.

Safari Park

I'm back from Birmingham.

So, yeah, some time ago, I went to the Safari Park. It's pretty nice.

My friend drove and we parked and there was this fun-fair like place.

There were even bumper cars!! They called it dodgems though...

I was hungry, so we went to the cafeteria and ate something and then went to the nearby souvenior shop but I didn't find anything I wanted to get...

So, we went and walk around and look at the animals. We saw zebras.

Elephants.

Giraffes.

As you can see, it was raining. It was not throughout the whole trip though. On and off. Still horrible enough though. Sigh.

And if it was quite blurry, cause most of the times, I had to zoom in A LOT to see the animals clearly...

We drove in to the Wild Animals Reserve. These animals are not exactly in cages...and they are somewhat in direct contact with the cars driving through the pathways. But, I think the only most dangerous animal in the reserve are probably the lions...

Buffalos..

So deer I suppose. Not sure.

Rhinos.

More deers?

Camel.

Lions.

And more.

Tiger. I only saw one tiger and it was in a cage...I wonder why..

Different type of camels.

Ostrich.

Llamas.

Bisons?

A herd of deers, I think, under a tree...

After strolling around we went to park the car and went for a boat ride.

The scenery looks nice. With all the nature and all you know...



We were heading to this island looking place where there are chimpanzees. Only 3 that we saw anyways...

This is the oldest monkey there. It was mentioned how old it was but I forgot...

Then, we went back in time for the bird of preys exhibition...or something of such name.. It was pretty interesting.


They show how the preying birds fly and attack the erm food... there's a falcon.


And a vulture.

The vulture is hilarious.. It was being disobedient that time and was really wasn't listening to the instructors at all...

And we went to take a look at the birds. Some eagles..

The vulture that was demonstrating before.

Some eagle. It doesn't want to turn over....

Another eagle...

A falcon. I loved this falcon. So pweeettyyy...

Another one.

Me and the falcons.

I totally forgot what this species is...

And this as well...

I know this. An owl. White owl.


An eagle owl.
Some other bird...

Wild animals ion transit!! Save me!!

All these childish pictures opportunities.

We found the zebra observatory place and took a closer picture of them...


And the giraffe observatory place but the giraffe was just about to go in...hmph.

We were walking leisurely to another destination as we saw several drakes trying to rape this poor duck....


We went for the sealions show. It was so cute...






The sealion is it's cage.

OOOooo one of the cutest things ever!! Meerkats.

Penguinss.

And well...

OOo these are probably the smallest monkeys around, the pygmy mamoset.

Then we went to the petting farm..but the animals are all closed in already..

Wallaby.

Guinea fowl. Looks like a turkey.

Goats.

Pig.
Peacock.
...........

After that we also went to get a drink. At Moskito. Thankfully no mosquitoes inside...i know...lame..

West End Festival

There was a West End Festival near the place I'm staying. And my friends and I attended the carnival on the first day and there was an opening parade as well. It was held in a park and they closed the roads purposely for the event as the parade was going through it. There were sooo many interesting things. These are some of the things that I saw.

There are guys holding a huge bunch of balloons selling them. Pretty nice ones too..


This is a view of the carnival from a distance away..


Near the entrance of the park, there's a playground.


Then we saw this EasyJet van, asking people to join in some lucky draw. Haha. EasyJet is like Air Asia but over here.,..


Bouncy castles.


Lots and lots of stalls selling cotton candies!!


There's the miniature version of rock climbing.

More vans selling cotton candy and ice cream!!


Some bouncing thing...


There are live bands and people singing on stage.

Food stalls!! Lots of em.

I bought crepe. Chocolate and nuts. Yummy.


We went to a shaded, grassy area of the park and sat down to eat.


Then, being the greedy me, I went an get another burger...


There's a part of the carnival that looks like a fun fair with all its game stalls and etc.

Look. Toilets. Port-a-potty. It's not actually the name..but something of such.

We saw people dressed up before the parade. Some flower girls.

Bananas and carrots.

Pwetty girls with balloons.
Another band somewhere else.

Another group of people preparing for the parade.

Cup of tea?

My henna tattoo when it's just done.

Glimpse of the parade over numerous heads...

And more...

And some weird creature...

And bulidings?..hmm...

And pink elephants!

I took videos of the parade but was too much to put up. So well...

I also bought a candle. Clean cotton. Eh, it didn't smell as nice as I expected.. a bit like detergent..

Loch Lomond

Went to Loch Lomond with a friend the other day. There were nice sceneries but really nothing much to see. Well, at least from what I see.

Beach.


Some flower.

You can take a boat cruise.



And it would also be better if you go in the daytime.

Atholl Arms

I went to Atholl Arms to eat once. It's a nice place.





This is what I had. Cheese omelette.

And my friend had cheese and ham toastie.