Umi & Ayah di Glasgow

Hehehehe.. Alhamdulillah, umi & ayah dah selamat sampai di Glasgow hari Isnin selepas beberapa hari merantau ke Paris, Amsterdam dan London untuk honeymoon yang dah keberapa kali tah.. XD

Ni saje nak letak gambar preview sweet couple ni.. hihihi..

Olympic ring at George Square

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

berlatarbelakangkan University of Glasgow

Birthday ayah 6 Jun, so sempatlah kami anak-beranak sambut kecil-kecilan kat hall. Buat tiramisu untuk ayah. =)

Esok nak sambung journey jalan2, tapi result exam dijangka keluar pulak. Huhu..

Wish me & my friends luck! 

=)

Family Visit

I'm so happy that my family is with me right now in Glasgow. But sadly, they will go back to Malaysia tomorrow.. cuk cuk cuk.. ='(

We had a few tour around Glasgow city centre and also I brought my younger brother to the two famous football stadiums in Glasgow which are Celtic Park and Ibrox. We visited University of Glasgow for its splendid architecture, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum plus Scotland Street School Museum which are all reachable by subway train. It's quite worthy since one-day subway pass (Discovery Ticket) only cost us £3.50.

I brought my parents to city centre to shop for some souvenirs. We bought a lot of Twinings Tea at Sainsbury because I heard it is quite famous in UK. So we chose Earl Grey, Peppermint, Raspberry and English Breakfast flavours.

With my brother, I brought him up until River Clyde where we could see Glasgow Science Centre, SECC, and a few bridges along the River Clyde. There are 17 bridges all together crossing the river.

Glasgow city centre

At the stadiums, we just went there to take photos and visit the shop. We didn't enter the stadium tour though. I bought a few pin badges as usual plus postcards and keyrings. Celtic Park is reachable by bus while Ibrox by subway.

Celtic and Rangers stadiums

University of Glasgow is popular as one of Glasgow landmarks. It has a unique 'Hogwarts'y design similar to Harry Potter. Well, JK Rowling is from Scotland, maybe this building inspired her a lot. This was my second time visiting Kelvingrove museum. It's still look the same. It was raining heavily that day. We had to spent our time longer waiting outside the museum until the rain stopped.

University of Glasgow & Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

University of Glasgow & Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Street School Museum was quite creepy especially with the statues of school boys & girls located along the corridors. But it's still interesting to visit as we could experience sitting in old classroom and kitchen. We wanted to try the costumes but they were too small.. >.<

Scotland Street School Museum

I'll write about Manchester and Edinburgh in another post.


I love my family so much like I always had.. =p





Tralalala~

Hansel & Gretel Opera

Last night was our first time experiencing Scottish Opera. It was awesome!

The title was Hansel & Gretel and I'm pretty sure most people knew this fairy tale from their childhood. The thing that I remembered most about this story is the delicate house made from cookies, sweets and pastries.

So after class yesterday, we headed to Theatre Royal Glasgow which is located at Hope Street not so far from Cineworld. The weather was a bit chilly as usual. The show started at 7.15 pm but we reached there early to collect our tickets. The ticket costs £10 per person (for group + student). So it's like we got double discount.Our seats were at the top balcony and the view was quite good actually. We could see the whole sets and the theatre itself is not very big. Most of the viewers were the elders. You we were like kanak2 sekolah here. Lol

Theatre Royal - Balcony View

 

Anis met her Scottish Edward

Plot summary:

Hansel and Gretel are getting under their mother's feet and, at the end of her tether, she sends them into the woods to collect strawberries. As darkness falls, they realise they are lost. Terrified, they spend the night on the forest floor. Next morning, to their amazement, they discover a house made of sweets and are soon helping themselves, unaware that are falling straight into a trap set by the fabled Wicked Witch..

- from the leaflet

We were mistaken this show as a theatre performance but instead it was actually an opera. So the scripts were all fully sung by the casts. The sets were simply gorgeous. From the house, to the wood and finally to the candy house. The vocals were terrific as well. But because they sang it in a soprano manner, sometimes we accidentally laughed.. XD

The show finished at 9.20 pm and we had our dinner at Chilli Grill right after that. This restaurant is located at the end of Sauchiehall Street. The food was awesome! I love the buffalo sauce so much! The chicken was good too! But the coleslaw was quite hard. Me no likey~

Half chicken with fries and coleslaw.

What a night. We surely enjoyed it to the max! =)

Alhamdulillah.. Lepas ni boleh fokus siapkan assignment pulak.. XD

Glasgow Christmas Market @St. Enoch Square

Didn't buy anything here. Just came to take photos. =)

Oh! It's Snowing! Compilation Video

A compilation of snowy videos that I recorded during the first snow & around Glasgow on Ice, George Square

I'm so loving the snow! 

However, recently the snow has been washed away by the rain. The grasses are back to green.
So we couldn't play sliding, sledging and snow fighting anymore.


Plus, the weather is a bit horrible today. With the class cancelled and hurricane is coming..

the rain & the windy

*swoosshhhh swoooshhhh*

Oh! It's Snowing! Fun & Joy

Oh-em-gee! Just one hour after I wrote a blogpost about our 'jakun'ness about snow, a blizzard dropped by. Okay, itu tipu. Snow were falling down quite heavily after that. Without hesitation, I changed my pants, wore my coat, grabbed my camera and wore my shoes to go outside to enjoy the beautiful moment. 

The JBC-ers also went out to cause havoc launching snowball fight and playing slides at the slope in front of JBC. The locals also went out to play snow though a they came bit later. The scenery was a pure beauty. The snow covers the grasses, trees, blocks and the pathways turning them into a white winter wonderland or playground should I say. Really pretty and exciting to see. 

Few minutes later, we messed up with the pureness of the white snow turning the grass to dirt. We korek2 the snow turning it into snowball and throw at others. We were sliding by using the shovels which we took from the toilets. This is all seniors' idea. That's quite helping. The locals played hard I see.. They attacked us out of sudden. Revenge is coming okay.. Siap kau! Pasni aku bubuh racun kat dalam snowballs aku.. Hua hua hua...

At first we played in front of JBC, but later when there were to many people there we moved to the back of the block. Haaaa, no ones here. So lucky! We played more sliding here, without the shovel this time. Wetting our butts with the ice cold snow. It was fun, enjoying and memorable moment of my life so far. Plus, tonight we got the chance to see a 'life show'. Cuba teka apa dia?... XD

More photos from tonight JBCers-gone-wild:

Okay, that's for tonight. Let's hope tomorrow will be better InsyaAllah.. =)