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At first I am so excited to complete my homework during the break because I have extra time compare to others who celebrate Christmas.

Now I am not.

Completing the courseworks is so boring and so stressful.

Why boring?
- You only stay in your small room and face laptop everytime

Why stressful?
- See everyone going to travel and shopping but I just couldn't! :/

I already spent 2 days producing unproductive result, hopefully tomorrow can produce some fruitful outcome. 

Sometimes I just dont understand why people want to to leave Malaysia because they did not get scholarship from the government. Is not written in your birth certificate that you will be guarantee a scholarship when you birth. Do you know that the government of other country do not even give scholarship as generous as our government to their citizen? 

And so what you get a scholarship? You will then say Malaysia working system is lousy, corruption everywhere la bla bla bla and dont plan to return. Why not brilliant student like you go to do something for Malaysia?

When I see someone who look like Malaysian in London, I dare not ask where does him/her come from, I dare not ask how long does he/her had stayed here.

Because my heart break when I see talented Malaysian in worked for long time in London.

I still remember a conversation when we met one uncle at Oriental Market:

My friend: Uncle datang sini melancong ke?
Uncle: No lah, I already been here 10 years ago.

Salam dari UCL.

Entri blog ni adalah untuk menjawab soalan junior yang semangat sambung study di overseas. Antara preparation yang telah akak buat adalah seperti berikut:

Vegetables

Autumn approaching

Every people going to everywhere when they are in UK. I only went to the place that can arrive by bus pass. It sounds so wrong if you use your parents' money to play instead of study. I even don't dare to buy a postcard at £1 for 15 pieces because I do not want to use the money for unnecessary things.

How I wish I can post my cooking in the Facebook, but I just feel it is so uneasy to let others know I come to London without a scholarship (yet). Here are some food I would like to share. The most delicious dish is Sambal Udang! xxx

I never do my revision during my bachelor degree. 

This picture was taken at the Victoria League Garden

This picture was taken when I came back from Tower Bridge

     I would like to talk something about the differences between laundry in Malaysia and UK.

     When doing laundry in UK, I need to reconsider again and again. First of all, it's expensive. In my house it is £1.70 per machine wash. And when I look at the lable new clothes I bought, "wash below this and that temperature", "hand wash only" blah blah blah, I was too confusing. Thus I made the decision to wash all my clothes by myself. So, guess what happen? The water from the clothes was dripping everywhere. :( People here just don't hang their clothes under the sun. (oh, I still need to get used to the four season country)

      Another interesting thing is that, they don't use or sell pails here! When I try to type "PAIL" in www.argos.co.uk and www.ikea.com/gb/en/, the word "PAIL" can't be found at all. Besides that, I can't see any pail in the laundry room as well.

No pails is selling here!

      Right, it takes time to get use to the life here. Still keeping my finger cross for JPA. ><

Ieda and me go to Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and China Town last Wednesday. Enjoy the view but hate walking. 

Hyde Park

Dont know what is this building called

Its so beautiful

And me.

The well known Buckingham guard. It looked so fake.

Ieda with the guard

They are marching for the Guard Changing ceremony

Guard changing ceremony

There are so many people and I dont know where the horse came from

Me with Buckingham Palace

Ieda with the guard.

Me with big ben!

And this is the scene that we always saw in advertisement

Eye of London. The posing will be good without the umbrella!

Brought this at Primark. Guess how much it cost. 20 pound (approx RM100)! In Malaysia it would be RM200 and above

Guess why am I so sad about this? Not the price but the expiry date!

Okay I admit this is where am I now. I just don't like to 'announce' in the social website (to be exact Facebook and Twitter), cause it might makes people envy of me. Haha. It actually feel uneasy haha. However, I wrote this because I want my friends get update of my activities and also wrote down my memories when I can.

I flew to Dubai with Emirates, then to Heathrow, London with Qantas. The thing I like the most on the plane is the food! I always get to be served before other because I order Hindu Meals (can't eat beef). So below is my food, just share like others always did:

Emirates Dinner

Qantas Breakfast

After I reached (usually people use touched) Heathrow, I took Heathrow Connect to Paddington Station, where I met a very helpful UCL girl called Christine. She travelled all the way from Euston Station to Paddington Station to show me the way to Victoria League. Carrying a total of 37kg luggage all the was exhausted, plus it was really cold out there. 

Writing 8.5
Reading 8.5
Writing 6.0
Speaking 6.5

Overall: 7.5!

It is really my expectation score, but I never expect writing will get such a low marks. :(
Btw, it is the minimum requirement to apply my targeted university!

HOORAY!!

Tada, I am going to share my speaking test:

Part 1:
What is your name?
Do you work or are you a student?
Do you enjoy student life?
Which part do you enjoy the most?
Do you like photography?
Do you like to take photograph when you travel?
Why?
When is the last time you took photograph?

Part 2:
Describe a team project you have gone through.

Part 3:
What do you think we need project work?
What do you think a good leader should have?
What makes a good team?
What is the quality of a good team?
What else other than people?
Do you think children should expose to the team work?

(ps: The examiner din't let me speak for long answer in part 3. She just cut me off after I finished one sentence. This is quite different from the resources I get as they said I need to provide long answer for Part 3)

My schedule is on 3.15 PM but I started at 2.20 PM!

I think I speak quite fluent but I forget to notice I SHOULD USE PAST TENSE in Part 2!!!
Haiz, because of being too nervous! 

For self-study student, I always advise you to start one month before the exam begin. Below is some useful website you can refer:

1. Website from an ex-examiner: http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/
2. Essay correction (AUD19.95 or about RM64 for 8 essays checking): http://www.ielts-blog.com/check-your-ielts-writing/
3. Cambridge IELTS question: If you need the books, you can ask my help to get the books in hard copies at cheap rates. Last time i used to buy Cambridge 4 to 8 for only RM60 (including postage). Ps: Its imported from China and might need 1-2 weeks to reach your home, but it is exactly like the one sold in any book store! (pss: you can reach me via kwenying900103@gmail.com)
4. Target Band 7 is also recommended. :)

That's it!

I think that will be sufficient enough. I don't know how to train my speaking, seriously. Anyone? 

Hi everyone,

Its time for me to share my IELTS experience, although I still have speaking test on 27 February later.

I was taking the IELTS test on this morning in my own campus, UTM. It is quite convenient as I do not have to take a taxi to go to the examination hall.

The listening test is quite hard. Below is the some brief about my listening test:
Section 1: Situation in Airport
Section 2: Meeting in Library and the expansion of library
Section 3: A student how had just enroll in university and conversation with Dr
Section 4: About music industry

While the reading test has only 3 Yes/No/Not Given questions.
Passage 1: About adolescence
Passage 2: forgotten
Passage 3: forgotten
Passage 4: forgotten

Writing:

After I take the examination on 23 and speaking on 27 Feb, I will share the useful link and provide the scanning of the materials I used for self-study.

Please urge me if I do not do so. Wish to help all the candidates who is suffering like me looking for materials since long time ago.

Wish me luck! Thanks!