James adventure in written words

Back to school to continue on my project of Lua and Irrlicht. Whole day was spent trying to mix these 2 together with totally no experience and only online tutorial which is crap or you don’t understand what the hell they are explaining about.

I guess today, the only comfort I had was the morning scene when I woke up to…

I miss my friends, I miss singapore, I miss home, I miss scolding wee kiat in real life, I miss playing poker with Ivan, Michelle, Nelson, Yong yi, Mason and winning their money. I miss those good times which I just hang out at clubroom and picking on people/subcomm. I miss going to movie with my friends even though we are seated right in front.

2 more weeks and I will be back home.

We are home! Resting! After two days of walking here and there, doing this and visiting that. Today is our rest day~

We stayed home and just cooked a simple dinner and its bed time already. The day went by very fast, everyone is tired and I was drunk by beer. HAHA……

Ok, maybe i was sober, just being funny.

Now, it’s 11.02am (Ireland time). We are on the train heading towards Belfast, it’s a modern train, not exactly those old style train which we originally thought it was. The ride is comfortable and the view is very nice! We are zooming past farms, houses, shops and hills full of sheep, cow, horse.

We had a nice night at Dublin, the room which we booked had a little heater problem when we try to bath, they were very kind and changed our room right away to a 6 bed room. Excellent service from Kinlay hostel. Definitely recommended for anyone travelling to Dublin! They provide towel and breakfast for us too. How nice eh?

So we left quite early from the hostel and made our way to conolly train station. Like 9am? Ok, maybe not that early afterall.

Reached Belfast at about 12.20pm, immediately was picked up by the Belfast famous black taxi guy who we booked. He brought us around to Shankill, the place which we learnt in social studies. There’s a lot of mural drawn by people about the war and its very interesting. We also go to the peace wall which separate the protestant and the catholic resident, quite interesting and enriching to see it instead of in the book.

After the whole tour, our cab driver drove us to our hostel. Very kind of him and the whole tour was 40 Euro but I guess it is worthwhile for the whole trip.

After checking in and putting down our bags, we left for some food and found a small restaurant which serve pizza but upon closer looking of the menu, IT’S ONLY MONDAY – FRIDAY!! Emo… but lunch was still great, its not something we always have in singapore. Fisherman pie was very good, the seafood portion was big! I was so stuffed but we still ordered cake to share

We also went to Queen’s university for a walk. The university building was very grand and very old looking. Inside the building is quite modern though.

Queens University

After our lovely lunch, we made our way to city square and they were having a continental fest there. There’s ostrich burger, kangaroo burger, hot chocolate, churros, hot wine and a lot more. Its a new experience and its really interesting. Once in a lifetime

City square continental market

Oh, and before I forget, they use sterling pounds there.

PS. Happy birthday my dearest friend, Dorothy. Sorry that I didn’t wish you on the day itself because I didn’t have any wi-fi.

The weather was lovely today as compared to yesterday. As you can see below.

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The view was directly outside of Zhen Ming room. Compromises of about 8 photo stitched together? The weather is just lovely. So we walked to school and it was open day at school. Their open day is somewhat like our open house but more messy. We just stayed at the library most of the day anyway.

The usual affair of researching, playing game and researching. We also planned and booked our trip to Dublin and Belfast. So for the next 3 day, most likely I won’t be updating my blog much because most likely it won’t have Wi-fi at the hostel.

Time for dinner now. Update after dinner with photo’s and stuff.

Today was great, the morning started off with us getting ready to go to the university campus for a tour and briefing of what we are suppose to do.

Caroline was very nice to drive us and show us the way so that we will know how to get there when she’s not around. The morning of Ireland was lovely, very cold but yet the view was breath taking.

The short drive to the university was enjoyable and upon arrival, we had a tiny incident! Shavonne found 3 euro worth of coins on the floor but no one bothered picking it up because it was cold so I did the dirty job :p

Met with the international Non-eu in charge, Mr Donal. He was kind enough to show us around the campus and bought us breakfast! Its on the school tab actually but oh well, it was a nice gesture. Irish breakfast was dammmmm good. The bacon tastes much more meaty and tasty compared to singapore. I had scrambled egg with hot dog, bacon and a bread. It was simple yet very very satisfying.

After the simple breakfast, we met up with our in charge of our project, Joseph. He is a very knowledgeable guy in gaming. We are suppose to research on AI and the different implementation into game engine. Over the course of 11 weeks. I can sense a lot of work to do. Hopefully, it’s easy.

After the short briefing and knowing our job scope, we left the campus and went to do some grocery shopping. Shavonne is doing a dish but she forgotten about the recipe, so we bought some stuff and headed home to check the recipe. Something which we forgotten is that EUROPE country doesn’t give out plastic bag when you buy stuff anymore! So we have two 2 litre of lemonade, a whole chicken, some celery and carrots. It is funny with Shavonne having celery sticking out of her pocket. I had the 2 lemonade in my bag while Pei Sheng had the chicken in his bag. Zhen ming got all the other vegetable

Now I am back at home in the living room with Thomas by my right side and Shavonne by my left doing her checking. It’s 2.32pm local time, with a temperature of 5 degrees outside. >_<

UPDATE 8.00pm Ireland time : Just finished dinner. It was lovely. Well, the rice is over cooked but the other things were nicely done. The chicken is EXCELLENT! Good job well done Shavonne! :p
I helped a bit but I guess she should get all the credit

During dinner, there was red wine AGAIN. Well, I don’t hate red wine but its not easy for me to drink it. It was lovely though. Great company and great food.

I really love it here. Lots of fun and lots of laughter. My OSIP mates are great. Really, they are.

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