Week 9

Hello again ppl. 1 word for this week : tiring. Well it's not tiring because of I have lots of things to do. But, don't know why, don't really have a good feeling since last weekend :(
    Finally done with FES essay. Next, the presentation is coming! hmmm I'm in a group with 3 chinese friends. The topic is quite heavy, literature. Yeah I sincerely have no idea about it but I hope I can do my best and get the best mark on this next Monday.
   Next week, I only have presentation on Monday and that will be the last week for this term. Time flies, huh? It's been 2 months with group A. How fast...
   Will spend all my days to study and revising next week. Hopefully I can do it well, because the exam is coming. Math and FES on Monday then BS1 on Tuesday. For Math, I have to get AT LEAST 70% no matter what happen. FES and BS1? AT LEAST 50%-70% no matter what happen.
   Feel quite worried about the exams especially Math. FES? I don't know what to study though. Maybe will only practice listening more. Well for me the most important thing for FES is the presentation because I'm satisfied enough with my essay already and so if the presentation can be done smoothly. I'll be very very happy and become less worried about FES. My AWA tutor said the test is not difficult but it is not easy as well though, so just can hope for the best.
   Will study more for business studies cause I'm not satisfied with my coursework's mark at all. Hmmmmm it's very tiring to think about the exam...
   On the last Wednesday and Thursday maybe I'll go to the city center to buy snacks, biscuits in Mark & Spencer and Sainsbury's for family and relatives. And, packing!! hehe..
   Well, gotta have a lot of sleep and prepare for the long journey on the Friday cause at midnight I gotta go to the train station. Then on Sunday. Hoila! hello Jakarta!
   Can't wait to see mom. Hopefully I can make her happy and we can have a very very fun year end holiday together in Jakarta. Amen! Hope everything will be going well :)
   And I lost my bbm application on my bb because I tried to upgrade it -___- don't know what's wrong and have tried several ways to fix it but no one works :") it will be the third time I lost my bbm contact if I loose it again. gahhh,,, hehe..
   Well, that's all though. Just gonna share some pics I took yesterday with my friends in the learning zone. :)

 with Sherry :)

 with Neil and Tony :)

Hope all the best for my presentation, exams, and all the problems. :)
Well have a good days ahead ppl. Hwaiting for my senior high school friends who are having their final exams. 
Good night! 

Cheers from Lancaster,

Jeslyne =)

Exciting Weekend

   Helloooo it's Sunday tomorrow ^^ Perfect day to have a rest, hehe :)
Well, just passed another week in Lancaster :) this week is quite fun. Have no really many classes to attend. Then, yesterday, Indonesian society had another meeting. We eat "bakso" which is really really delicious!!! ^^ I ate 2 bowls of "bakso", hahahah.. drink cokes, ate snacks, had fun, bla bla blah...
   Lucky is that some of the Indonesian society members are mothers, who are really really good at cooking. So when we meet we can eat their delicious fresh made Indonesian food. hehe..
   And, you know what? I feel proud to know that there are some Indonesian who are working as a lecture in Lancaster University Management School. So proud of Indonesia :)

 BAKSO MALANG ALA LANCASTER =)

 THE FOOD :D

Sharing session :

Chery & Kak Qisha :)

   Talked with a lot of seniors which gave me a lot of new general knowledges during the sharing session. Started from talking about neo-libelarism and the western countries, until talk about our own country, Indonesia, with every wrong decisions our government has made. The sharing session ended at round 9 pm. Then stay a little bit longer because of talking about Korean drama with Kak Qisha, my senior. Ended up gathered as another small group then continue our conversation until 10:30. 
   Well it hasn't come to the end at 10:30. We decided to go to Graduate Bar. Where some of my senior live in there, the Graduate college. It's my first time in life to get into a bar. hahah, just have a sit for about 10 minutes because actually non of us want to have a drink that night. Move on to another location....
   We went to Mbak Desy's flat. Gathered in her kitchen. Eat snacks, drink hot chocolates. Continue talking about bla bla blahhh lol.. There are 9 of us in the kitchen. Kak Haikal, Kak Firza, Bari, Kak Dhani, Kak Qisha, Mbak Desy, Adriana, Chery and me :D
   Wanna know what time we finish our talk? The answer is at 03:40. hahhaha, yes, around 3 am in the morning!!! crazy huh? lol this is my first time to stay out of home until this late. Around 2-3 in the morning Mbak Desy cooked rice and so we ate that hot rice with "ikan teri balado" original from Indonesia. Believe me, it was really really delicious!!! hahahah
   We talked about a lot of things about this and that. Found out that actually Kak Dhani already had a girlfriend, who is living in the US right now, Stanford. And, while talking about food and I mention about Pluit-Muara Karang. Only Kak Dhani knows where pluit is because actually he lives at Pluit Timur!! lol.
   The more funny thing is, actually his parents open 2 chinese herbal pharmacy in Pancoran!! A area which is very very familiar for me.. hhahaha what a small world!!
   Finish our talk at 03:30, we got back to Pendle with the boys, but because I have to take my bag first at Chery's room. I ended up going back to Bowland alone :s hahahha but this university is very very safe though, which is very good though I'm a girl. Even Kak Haikal have to catch the last bus to get back to his home in the city, lol.
   That's Friday. I went to bed at around 5 in the morning. Woke up at 10. Go to the city center with Erin & Chery. Groceries in Sainsbury's. We spent about 2 hours in there, lol. Chery keep struggling while choosing the right butter and cheese with the least calories. Erin has a lot of things to buy. Me? I only bought milk, some pack of hot chocs and one dark kit kat. Have bought bananas and pears before though in the market..
   One thing I love from Saturday, every morning I get to see a beautiful view from the bus while on the way to city. It's very very beautiful (for me) seriously. Green wide field. The trees's leaves are starting to change its colors. Some sheeps, goats. Parks where the children were playing. And the sunshine! Luckily almost every Saturday it's always sunny in Lancaster which is very good! hehe.
   Had lunch for again and again at Mc Donald today, hehe.. Here is the story, actually, we never want to eat at Mc Donald. But on our bus ticket. There is a discount for buying Big Mac, Mac Chicken, or Fish burger with medium fries for only 2 pounds! Very very cheap right??!! (especially if you order Big Mac) :p that's why, we don't want to waste every opportunity we have because it means that was a waste of money if we did it, lol. Today is the fourth times I eat McD every Saturday!! lol. I'm already totally fed up with it. Definitely not going to McD again this Saturday (I hope) lol.
   Then for dinner!! We have PASTA!!! hahahha cook pasta with Erin & Chery. Bolognese pene with sausages. Very very delicious ^^

OUR BOLOGNESE SAUSAGES PENE ^^ 

   After dinner me & Erin did the laundry and study in the library while waiting. 98% finish with my FES essay. Will print it out on Monday and I really really hope it can make my tutor feel satisfied enough. Seriously can't wait to finish this essay! lol. Well, have to finish another homework tomorrow but it's not that much ^^

Pic taken by Erin. Lol my hair is already that long :D

pic of Erin taken by me at library :) 

   Time flies, huh? Next week I have to attend all classes again, back to normal. Then on the following week is the essay's due date. The next following week is the FES presentation week (hope all the best for this), then after that? FINAL EXAM!!!! On Friday at the exam week. I'll go to the airport and fly back to Jakarta! Yippieee ^^ Just a few weeks left..
   Well, on Monday/Tuesday my BS1's coursework result will be out. Hope I can get a good score!! :) And so what is left is only FES essay which is almost done and the presentation ^^ Have to study more for math though. But yeah! Let's do this! hehe
   Heard some good news and bad news as well on this week from Indonesia, well. Just can hope everything is still fine and it can be okay at the end :) Will call mommy tomorrow, I miss her *hug*
   And here are some pictures of my laptop's desktop picts :)

this is my newest desktop picture. miss them!

Well, have a enjoyable and blessed Sunday everyone. Do enjoy your day-off :")

And have a great days next week!!

"Place you thoughts on a sheet of paper. It can become a plane, or it can become a crane"

Cheers from Lancaster,,

Jeslyne =)

Edinburgh

Hello guys! How's your week? It's Friday tomorrow! yeay, TGIF! hehe..
Well just wanna post about Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland. I went to Edinburgh last Saturday. We went by coach for about 3 hours and it cost  £23 per person (expensive? yes it is).
And soooo around 12 am we arrived at Edinburgh! A big beautiful city. While we got into the city center, me and my friends are so excited to see a lot of buildings, traffic lights, wide streets, a lot of buses, etc. So typical big hectic city. We were so impressed. Yeah it's been a while since our last visit to a 'real big city' (Lancaster is not a city, lol)
First of all, we went around the city center, enjoying the sun, and go to a chinese restaurant to have lunch. There are 4 of us. Me, Chery, Elizabeth (my friend from HK) and Aleeza (my friends from Bangladesh), then when we were just about to get in to the restaurant, we met another friends, so then 6 six of us had lunch together.
I ordered a hong kong style fried rice (I forgot the name), Chery ordered a noodle with "cha siu", Aleeza order a hong kong style rice with roast chicken, Elizabeth ordered noodle with beef and the other 2 friends ordered 2 bowl of porridge, pork, and some other dishes. The restaurant is very very good! The food are in big portion so we were so full and the taste of the food is very very delicious. Although I spent  £8.5 for that lunch, somehow it's worth it because I was so full and it was very very delicious. The "cha siu" is the best for me. It is the best "cha siu" I've ever eaten until now. Well, Elizabeth from HK said there are a lot of more delicious "cha siu" in HK. Woo I wish I was in HK, hehe..
Then after lunch we were walking along the shopping street. There are H&M, Zara, Topshop, Primark, Lush, The Body Shop, GAP, etc that I didn't remember... 
Primark store in Edinburgh is really HUGE. It has 4/5 levels. And it was really crowded. Things they sell in Primark are really really cheap. Well my friend said because the quality is not good. But I don't care, hehe. Fit some clothes and got a cheap cardigan in Primark. The price is only £12, and I like the color. So, why not? Oh ya, I bought a headband as well from my sister. It only cost  £2.5. 
We can only stay until 17:45 so we don't have much time. I didn't go to Zara because the shop's location is too far. But we went to some shopping malls as well. There are a lot of shopping malls actually, but once again. Because of time I can't visit it one by one. :)
Then I went to the souvenir shop. Bought some postcards for my friends and a magnet for my mom. 
Oh ya, when we stop in Starbucks, I bought a tumbler as well, and it was really cheap! It cost only  £4. Well the original price is  £8 but if you buy it, you can get a free tall beverage. And so my friend got her tall hot chocolate and give the  £4 for me. :D hehe, very cheap right, compare to tumbler's price in Indonesia :)
Well, that's all about my day. We visited a lot of shops, but found nothing which is really good so we didn't shop a lot. But overall we do have a lot of fun!!! Took a lot of pictures from my friend's iPhone (I love iPhone's camera) But unfortunately all of the photos are in my friend's mobile phone and she hasn't upload it :( I hope she can upload it soon, hehe..
Edinburgh, overall, is really really beautiful. It's cold, it's windy, but at least it's still sunny. And I love sunshine! It totally makes us feel warmer. But we hardly ever see sun in Lancaster.. That's why I love Scotland. It's cold but we can meet the sun very often :)  Edinburgh is a big city, very crowded, but it's still very clean and neat. It isn't the same as Singapore and Hong Kong. It's crowded but still peaceful :) There are old and modern side of the city, which makes it more beautiful. The city center has a lot of shops, restaurants, a lot of buses, cars, and everything! Well, Edinburgh is one of the best city I've ever visited. 
I promise to myself someday I'll bring mom to see this city. One of my dream is to have a shopping and culinary holiday in Singapore with my mom and my second sister (Yessica) and bring my family to here, the UK. Visit my campus, Lancaster city, see another beautiful cities as well. Lancaster is very green, I can imagine my mom will definitely in love with it <3 
And, here are some pictures, though it is not much, but, enjoy!

 view  from the coach. It's autumn, so the trees are starting to change its colors. So beautiful

  About to arrive to the city center

 Arrive!!!

 My fried rice and Chery's noodle. Just remember to take photo when we're about to finish it, lol.

 View from shopping street. Very crowded.

 Sunset in Edinburgh :)

Things I got from Edinburgh :

Cardigan, tumbler, magnet, postcards, and headband.

 Magnet for mom <3 My mom likes to collect magnet from all over the world.

That's why I bought one from Scotland for her

 My friend from HK and Bangladesh. Elizabeth and Aleeza

 Me with Chery

 Photos in the chinese restaurant

Me & Chery on the bus otw to Edinburgh

Although it is just a one day trip. Edinburgh has successfully made me fell in love with it <3

Well, it's Friday tomorrow! And I am having my business studies coursework presentation on that day. :) Wish me luck guys! Hope I can do it well!! :)

Cheers from Lancaster,

Jeslyne =)

Scrapbook from My Besties

Hello again ppl! Gonna post some pictures of a scrapbook which is made by my best friends, Ivana and Marcia :) Iv & Caca are my best friends since junior high school. Each one of us go into different high schools but we still keep in a very good relationship. And because all of us are very very busy :p We only met twice a year, hehe. During summer holiday, and at the end of the year.
Then before I go to Lancaster. About a month before, we met again, and hoila! They give me a hand-made scrapbook!! I was so touched and happy :") Just so you know Iv is a very creative girl. Her drawing is awesome and so I'm very happy seeing they make a farewell scrapbook for me.
Well, once again. Thanks again my superb best friends Iv & Caca! I miss you guys a lot and can't wait to see you in December! 

the cover

And here are the pages on it :

And some photos of us :

 Caca & me

Me & Iv

 Ivana =)

 Iv & Caca

 Caca & Iv

Three of us :)

Have a great week tomorrow guys!!

Cheers from Lancaster,

Jeslyne =)