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Yo, I’m back from Manchester. I’m still not feeling well so I will divide this trip to 2 – Part 1 and Part 2 (duh).

3 of us (me, Kai Rou and Liza) went together in Kai Rou’s car. Since she is quite blur…and Liza cannot drive, I have to drive to Manchester and back. Quite tiring. I just pray hard I won’t get any speeding ticket because I thought the limit is 80 mph (all the cars are driving 80 or faster)…but it’s actually 70. 100 pound per speed ticket man! No joke. Just keeping my fingers crossed. So be careful if you’re driving because they won’t tell you the standard speed limit in UK.

Oh, and her car is a manual car…I didn’t drive manual car for > 1 1/2 year! Was having intensive training the night before….the engine kept on dying on me….because I thought the 1st gear is like our 3rd gear. Complicated car design. Imagine the first and reverse gears are actually at the same place. The difference is that the reverse gear needs to press the gearbox down. =_=

Anyway, Manchester is quite different from London. In fact, it’s very very different. The City Centre…sad to say…looks very very disorganized and dirty. And you can see a lot of weirdly-dressed people….or the so-called “punks” or “lepak” youngsters in the city centre. So many to the extend that my Singaporean friend Liza started to feel insecure. =_= Oh, and the tram is very lousy!! So old! But it does serve its purpose. Without the tram, I don’t think we can go around the city centre that easily.

We went to Chinatown as well….and it was very very quiet….not like the Chinatown in London. Complete opposite to be honest.

So if you are going into City Centre, please make sure you keep your belongings well and don’t walk alone. The security is not as good as London.

The weather was very very cold and windy. It was so cold that I started to shiver (i was wearing one short sleeve shirt and one wind breaker). I have to stand in front of little Liza to block the wind. No point standing in front of Kai Rou because she’s about my height…..or maybe taller =_=.

The first day was quite boring because we lost our way on the expressway and our car ran out of engine oil. We have to refill and stuff…took us some time there. We reached Manchester at around 2pm (we departed from London at 7+ am). We went to Urbis exhibition centre since there was an exhibition on Japanese manga and anime. I was quite disappointed with it though. Hahahha. So I just walked around for around 10-20 min and came out. My 2 other friends, on the other hand, enjoyed more than I did. =_= They took so many pictures there. =_=

Oops, it’s 12am already. I’ll post the 2nd part of the Manchester trip tomorrow. The complete photos are only available upon request since the album contains my friends’ photos as well.

Here are some photos that I can show you all http://www.flickr.com/photos/97762468@N00/

Do let me know if you cannot access the photos.

p/s…. i still haven’t recover from my flu. Manchester was much much colder than London. Been sick since i came back from Manchester trip.

In case you’re wondering what are the 10 things..it’s here http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/01/10-things-you-can-do-to-cheer-yourself.html

This is a very good blog. I’ve just discovered it today from one of Jamy’s post. You can read the post here “Why people read blogs?”

I’m going away for a while. Flying back on Thursday night and will reach Malaysia at around 6pm Friday. So do stay cheerful while I’m away. Sorry for not being able to come out with a comic. Been very busy packing up stuff.

Oh, and before i log off. I need a favour from all of you. i was planning to register my comic as one of the many webcomics in 1 of the sites (er..forgot which one)…..and i realized one thing. I haven’t come out with a proper name for the comic!

Do help me to vote in the poll. If you have any other names to suggest, just drop a comment. Thanks a lot!

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