Nottingham Games
Its a fulfilling trip. Im glad that I made up my mind to head down to nottingham early in the morning.Its my first time standing in the cold and waiting for the sun to rise because everyone else is late.
Then we had a jam due to an accident where some lorry crashed into some other cars and blocked up all 3 lanes so they had to close the expressway and divert all other vehicles out of the expressway. We were almost late and the driver had to take another route. By the way after we came back from the games, the driver told us that the news reported four were killed in that accident. Gosh.
University of Nottingham is huge and there is a lake where there are ducks! Basically, I only see Singaporeans and Malaysians around the campus today since it is a Singapore game held in Nottingham. This is also the very first time im seeing so many Singaporeans overseas because each uni in UK had sent a few representatives to participate in the sports and games. Leeds is too small to form a team so we ended up playing mahjong and poker.
Anyway, we went around the campus (only the areas near west entrance) to take pictures!
This is only about 1/3 of the Singaporeans there.
The mahjong, poker, bridge and chess room.
The multipurpose sports hall where practically all sports are held here.
The Singsoc people.
Ian came in 2nd for his Poker competition.
And I was very surprised to meet 2 JJCians there! Henry (my fellow shadow mate who is holding MOH scholarship to study for 3 years in Southampton) and Khew Fai (Bingren’s friend from S29 who is holding SAF scholarship to study 4 years in Imperial London). They dont look like them right? They approached me and said I dont look like the JC Collen so they wanted to double confirm. LOL. Do I really change a lot? And Henry is going to travel around 5 countries in Europe including Germany in Dec so we might be able to travel together since he had some SMU friends too (SMU = exchange students?)! Finally found some friends to travel together! Khew Fai is actually going skiing trip with Ian. OMG. Singapore is so small.
I also saw Kelly Ang look alike! Gosh. The picture dont really look very alike but the real person is from the way she walk, dress, talk, behave and the flower on her hair! oh my, I look damn shag cos I practically had not enough sleep in order to catch the early morning coach.
We headed to a Thai Restaurant in Beston! Finally after so long, we had some asian food and its quite reasonable! 5pounds! I thought it would cost more actually. I randomly took a picture of the figurine because the elephant kept staring at me beside my seat and I dont dare to move it in case there is some spell or curse cast. I know im thinking too much but its better to play safe.
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