[26.12.2015] 5th Day of UK Trip

Boxing Day!

Finally! One of my most awaited day throughout the whole trip!

First time celebrating Boxing Day overseas and dang you bet I'm super super excited!

Because Oily will be bringing me for the Boxing Day shopping, YAY!

I woke up at 5am in the morning for a toilet trip,

But no longer can I continue sleeping after that, 

Either it's because I'm excited about the shopping later, 

Or else it's because Oily is snoring loudly beside me. Lol.

The alarm went off at 7.30am but we only pull ourselves out from the bed an hour later. 

Oily's habit of procastinating. HAHAHA.

We only simply had a light malt soy drink and hurried prepare ourselves to head to the city.

As the shops and sales will start as early as 9am.

Oily said its best to go early when the shops just opened because it would be very very crowded by noon.

A little peek at the road in front of Oily's house.

The streets are still in clear coast mode when we went out.

The first place we went to is Drake Circus, which is the local city shopping mall.

There're plenty of shops inside which are having huge discounted sales,

And my eyes are in super bling bling mode seeing all the "50% discounted sales" or "1/2 price on everything" signs EVERYWHERE IN FRONT OF MY EYESSSS.

This is what I call heaven :)

We first went in Primark and came out empty handed when everyone else came out with few paper bags. LOL.
There is this one white winter coat that I am pretty much in favor of,
but too bad they don't have the perfect size for me :(



But owh, the second shop was so crowded with ladies!
This is how it looked like at the entrance of the shop.
As you can see, they are putting everything on sale at the most front section of the shops,
with red tags indicating the price range of the featured items.



It's probably because I was late to this shop,
all the nice clothes are like sorta gone :(
and due to my petite size, I hardly get anything suitable for myself except this black sleeveless top,
which I can wear to the office, and the best part is it only cost me for £3.00
But I managed to grab a pair of blue ballet flats in the end :)
Been wanted to find a new one to replace my current worn out white one, and now finally!

Missed out a blue jeans sneakers anyway cus they don't have my size as well.
Sad :(

The queue was extremely long when I was up for the payment.
and 95% are ladies. HAHAHA.

After New Look, we went into various shops inside the shopping mall,
and boy you bet, my eyes are so wide opened with all the on-going sales.
I am a happy kid dancing and hopping joyfully from one shop to another.
And no more photos of the other shops and sales after this,
cus my eyes are busy in scanning and hands are busy in grabbing. HAHAHA.

It was super crowded by 11.30am and I am super glad that we decided to came out early.
We were so hungry by then because we only drank a cup of honey lemon in the morning.
Our last station inside the mall was M&S,
which is something similar with Everrise in KK.

Oily said the bread inside are freshly baked everyday and he only comes here for the bread.
I was so hungry that time I forgot to take photo of how it looks like.
Perhaps next time :)

Then we head out to the streets,
Preparing to shop at other places.

The street and pavement outside M&S.

The view outside Drake Circus Shopping Mall.

The Plymouth Christmas Market Streets.

A genuine working Train Smoker serving Christmas Beef Brisket.

We then went into the biggest Sport Direct in Plymouth for shoe gazing moments.
And never would I expected to come out from the shop with three pair of new shoes.

Jjang! These are my shoe hauls.

They were so cheap you just simply cannot ignore their seduction.

The British Knights black red high heels shoe costs me £11.50

The Puma pink sequence running shoe costs me £22.00
And my best haul for the day is none other than the grey blue sketchers shoe which only costs me for £20.00
All of the mentioned shoes above are sold with halved the price today!
A deal you can only get solely during boxing day!
I am a super duper happy kid!

A summary look for my overall hauls today :)

Oily is being a super boyfie today as he holds all of my shopping bags from the beginning til the end. 

And even accompany me into all of the shops, 

Not forgetting to spoil me with all the nice goodies here and there, 

Showing me all the nice stuffs you can find in Plymouth.

And constantly holding my hands and checking whether I am tired or cold or not.

Attitudes and gestures that I have never seen before in our hometown.

It's not an everyday thing having Oily to be like this you know. HAHA

He is the ultimate "imagination" version of Oily today. 

I give him 90% marks today for making me feel like a dreamy princess kind of girlfie. 

LOLLLLLL.

Paul Frank mini makeup pouch for gift :)

Boxing Day sales for numerous brands of little gifts.
I managed to grab some to be gifted to my hometown friends.

After getting all the little gifts for my friends, I realized I have not got anything nice for myself.
Well, except for the shoe hauls. HAHA.
But, I really wished I had more cash to be spent here :(
There are just so many things I wanted to get for myself.
I haven't shop for months, just for the sake of this trip. LOL.

Oily said I always spend my money on other people rather than on myself.
It's just my nature to do so all these while :(
It always cheer me up when my friends happily received goodies from me :)

We went to check out the purses in Debenhams.
And I spot this beautiful chic blue purse with a huge stripe ribbon.
It instantly caught my attention from far, but it was too pricey for me to buy it.
Oily caught me stucked at the same position for quite some time,
and ended up he bought the purse for me. Thank you so much!
Together with a new red-pink wallet.
He told me it was my belated Christmas Gift :)
I was so delighted but at the same time,
I didn't want him to spend anymore excess money after my airticket.

I can finally kiss goodbye to this old wallet of mine who has been with me for the past 5 years?
I forgot when was the time I bought this, I only remembered it was purchased at KL together with one of my Form 6 friend, Candy.
We bought the same design of wallet together, and to my surprise, she is still using the same wallet until today as well!
We even promised to buy a new one together in January 2016 when I will be meeting her up during her wedding in Johor Bahru.

This is the only haul Oily got for himself.
A real deal for such high quality tableware!
£40.00 being discounted to £12.00 only!
How can you missed it right?

And Oily spotted a halved price mini cute pan.
He bought one for himself and one for me.

Tonight's dinner was prepared by both me and Oily.

We always love simple and cozy house dinner, it's healthy and cheap as well.

so everyday we would open the fridge and think what kind of dishes we should cook together. 

Tonight, we are having tomato egg and vege.

We done the laundry together as well tonight. *bright smiley face*

You bet! I'm enjoying this sweet and simple life very much hahaha!

This is how they do the laundry over here.

Oily's studio apartment doesn't comes with a balcony.

So we can only hang up the clothes by the big window and hope that there'll be sunlight the next morning. 

I was feeling super sleepy by 9pm.

But I still restrain myself from sleeping too early, 

Cud I tend to wake up at 5am if I sleep now. 

My jetlag has left me since 2 days ago and I think I did pretty well. Hahaha.

I was writing my blog and watching some YouTube videos. 

And finally I went to bed at 10pm when I no longer can stand it anymore. 

Leaving oily playing his Dota alone at the living room. LOL.

It has been a very good day today :)

Good night!

[20.12.2015] One Day Preparation Before the UK Trip

24 hours before departing for my UK trip.

Only heaven knows how excited I am. Like seriously.

After counting down for months,

This is it :)

I've been preparing bits and pieces of little things over the past few months.

I didn't really take photos for all of it.

But I'll show you some of the major ones.

My body is always prone to suffer from few little sickness.
Number one on the list is usually migraine and diarrhea.
 My migraine series will visit me every month just right before those crucial days.
It's sort of like a warning sign for my menstrual.
But, sometimes when I am lack of sleep or when I am experiencing hyper level of tension and stress,
It tends to strike as well.
Another thing is that I am having a weak stomach myself,
I will either end up having diarrhea or constipation during any of my trip,
AT LEAST ONCE.

I am kinda worried that both of my essential chinese medicines are not allowed inside my hand carry luggage.
Cus I somehow have a feeling that I will need it up on the plane.
First time flying for at least 15 hours with limited excess to any pharmacies or a proper bed to rest.
I can only pray that the pain would not be too serious to handle.



I went for a small shopping in the morning right after my church.
I thought I wouldn't be buying anything again for myself,
But I seriously cannot resist the temptation when I saw some long sleeves Christmas clothing. Argh.
And with the ongoing Christmas sales in all the shops just right in front of your eyes,
How can you go home empty handed right!!! *ROAR*

I ended up buying 5 pcs of long sleeves clothing for a total of RM120.
Considered that this total price is very very cheap and will only happen whenever there is festive discount and sales going on.
Thinking that all of it would come in handy for me in UK,
I ended up bringing only 3 pcs because my luggage is already over full.
I even plan to wear this white and black one either on Christmas Eve / Christmas / New Year Eve /
New Year dinner.
We'll see how about it. LOL.



Few days ago, I was feeling very grateful towards June for lending me her winter clothes,
because she has the most similar body figure and height with me!
Her clothes usually fits perfectly on me.
Only that we have very different fashion sense. HAHAHA.
A month ago, I was so worried calculating about how much I need to spend on my winter needs,
As I only manage to borrow a few sweater, warmer, and jacket from my aunt,
Which are all not even my size and are not sufficient for me to survive for a month there :(

Least would I expected, June texted me right after her two weeks trip from Spain,
Asking me whether I need some winter apparel for my trip,
RIGHT ON THE SPOT! YES PLEASEEEE YESS!!!
 I immediately drive over to her house two days later.
She has a mountain of winter apparels piled up on her sofa bed inside her room,
She actually ask me to grab as much as I needed. LOL!
And before I leave her house at the end of the night,
she wished me a good trip and holiday ahead, and even gifted me with a perfume souvenir from Spain.
I appreciated it, you always knew what I needed the most!
Thank you so much June! *huggies*

Oily had always wanted some cook book for himself over in Plymouth.
Since he always cook all his daily meal at home,
He was a good cook by the way :)
About two weeks ago, Oily asked me to get him a complete cook bible for all the chinese cuisine,
But, I couldn't find anything good in my designated budget range,
So I ended up buying these two books,
Which I thought would suit his needs the most.
And I decided to wrap them both up and turn it into his Christmas Pressie :)

Besides that, Oily has also asked me to bring all kinds of Bak Kut Teh ingredients over for him.
I bet he has already been craving for that famous Gaya Street taste for a long long time.
Apart on picking up the finest Bak Kut Teh packets for him,
I also picked up some Japanese food ingredients to be tag along,
As it will definitely come very much in use to a huge Japanese food fan like him.



Just as I have done buying and preparing things for Oily,
It got me thinking hard about what sort of Christmas gift can I get for his chinese course mates.
Cus they would definitely already had what they needed all the time (just like Oily =.=),
I suddenly came across my Nano Blocks at home.
And yes, I ended up buying Nano Block for the three of them, one for each.
The Yoda was an accidental treasure hunt item,
So I just grabbed it for Oily since he was always a huge fan of Starwars :)

Jjang!! This is what my Santarina Gift List look like for this year!

I've decided to clear my Gift Museum before my trip,

It was already a long overdue project since years ago, and I finally take it into action now. 

HAHAHA.

Those items which are wrapped in yellow / white / grey wrappers, 

Are all gifts I received over the years where they were still nicely packed inside their boxes.

There are even gifts that I received 10 years ago and still nicely put inside the box until today! HAHAHA.
So, rather than having them all getting rotted inside my museum,
I have them all wrapped up nicely again and prepared to be given out for the unfortunate teens in the outskirt areas.

Hopefully, this will become my annual routine to clear and donate my ''still brand new'' properties to the unfortunates.
Next up, it will be my wardrobe when I come back next year.

There are actually two more things that I didn't manage to take a good photo of.
Since it was quite last minute, LOL.

Knowing that I will be meeting up with my primary school best friend, Melanie in London,
I've ordered a Christmas set of handmade soap and skin care products for her from KL,
Some uncommon gifts to pamper her and her boyfie :)

1 Love Gift Bag + 2 Christmas Edition Soaps.
Which the items looked something similar like these.
By the way, these photos were taken directly from Earth Care Soaps Facebook page,

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Do support Earth Care Soaps and you can purchase their products from them via their Facebook page here : https://www.facebook.com/earthcaresoaps/timeline
Enjoy the best of Mother Nature :)

Speaking of which, I also picked up something from Bodyshop for one of Oily's childhood buddy, Jason.
Who recently just flew to Plymouth to continue his Master.
I wouldn't want anyone to be left out from my Santarina list :)
I actually picked up two of these cute Bodyshop boxes,
Where I ended up giving the orange one to Oily for his Christmas gift as well.
You know, I cannot stop showering him with little gifts here and there. HAHAHA.

So.... I guess that pretty much wraps up everything.
My luggage is seriously so overloaded and heavy!
Fingers crossed that it is not over the maximum weight >.<
Do stay tune for my next blog post about my upcoming trip!