Clutch of Inspirations.

I have a lot of fresh strawberries :D

Before I start, I apologize for something I am pissed about as well. As you see in my strawberries pic, there's a black line on the right. It just appears when I use my phone camera, sigh. =( So please bear with it...until I get back to Miri and have it fixed. That's next year.

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I managed to get sis to follow me to mass on Sunday at the Chaplaincy just opposite our Student Union. Since Dad was making a move to Nottingham already, he drove and dropped us there, but we were still a bit late x.x 2 minutes after we entered, I became sure sis won't be willing to come with me there again the coming week. Our mass procession must have seemed really unfamiliar and weird to her. I'm glad it is similar to Mater Dei back in Miri though. Just some minor differences like how they use 'trespass' instead of 'sin' in The Lord's Prayer, but that should be the original one I guess.

Just sitting next to it is this chivalric piece of architecture - the Holy Name Church, probably built back some hundreds years ago. Jane absolutely loves this stone church to every bit, apparently the old churches in NZ are wooden ones, most of them.

Attracted by the stirring music coming from inside, we entered the church to be impressed by the magnificent interior structure. It's a wonderful place to come quietly and pray or simply do some reflections in front of God.

Looking to the right after you enter.

It amazes me how the chiselers have such patience to produce these delicate carvings.

There's a torchlight procession along Oxford Road, prayer throught the night and exhibition this coming Sunday - about St Therese of Lisieux. I kinda felt like volunteering for being a helper that night but walking to and fro the church at night alone ain't a wise decision. My place is minimum 15 mins on foot away if I walk fast! Besides, classes starting next day after that so..hmm.

The three of us - Sarah, sis and I went walking up and down Oxford Road trying to kill time. That's the main entrance to the Old Quadrangle where Whitworth Hall is located.

We decided to pop in the museum which actually belongs to our university.

The two still taking pics. Felt like snatching away their camera/phone. My miserable 2MP cam.

If you look closely at the petite flowers you shriek ''So pwetty!!" in UK, they are the same flowers we have by the roadside back in Miri. In fact it's called "美里花" (Miri flower). Lol. But okay, we don't have such a nice array of colours to mix together.

The main doors to the museum. 1st second I looked I thought, yay, no one, we can have the museum to ourselves. 2nd second I realized it was closed.

Charles Darwin Extravaganza.

me and Sarah!

Using the timer in Sarah's cam. No one around to help take XD

The only thing we can see from the window is this Giant Spider Crab. Hello there.

Our University Place. Where we got free hot steaming coffee and tea after seeing people walking out with the cups. Luckily I didn't get coffee which sis and Sarah got cause it was very bitter. Sarah practically emptied several satchets of sugar and sweetener into hers :D And sis? A bee seemed to fell in love with her coffee and kept circling and getting close to her. You should have seen how she looked like twisting and running to avoid the bee..Sarah and I were laughing like what. Wished I had videoed it XD Bleehh..sorry sis! That's for exchanging my tea for your coffee and made me drank it stupidly when I was busy talking to Benny's mum.

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Skipping over the guilty breakfast at McDonald's. And skip the campus tour as well which Looh Zhen joined together..cause I didn't took a single pic =.=

We went for city tour in the afternoon at 3pm after walking at my fastest pace. I seriously thought we were going to miss the bus! Luckily there were just 3 seats left in the double decker - fits the 3 of us nicely, but separated. I sat next to a black guy. I don't know whether he doesn't like me or my voice was really that tiny but he didn't even glanced at me when I attempted twice to strike up a convo.

The town house or something located in City Central Area.

Homey little tavern.

This is the City Hall, Greater Manchester.

Passing through part of Piccaddily which I always thought is in London. Never knew there's another one here in Manchester. No Piccadilly Gardens here anyway.

Our tour guide didn't say what building this is so I guess it's of no significance. By the way, the way she speaks and explains the history of the buildings and also Manchester totally reminds me of the Listening test in IELTS.

The only place we were let down from the bus is Salford Quays. Salford is a sister city of Manchester, just a short drive away from the city centre itself. The place gave me a good first impression upon reaching. I like this river which acts as a border between Manchester and Salford. I was joking to Sarah she could swim in it. Turns out it really was used for swimming in the triathlon held here annually. T.T

Sis and I on the bridge leading to the War Imperial Museum, an oddly-shaped building.

Beside River Irwell where we met a Cambodian whose name is a bit alike sis'.

Nice glass windows.

Fabulous weather that day!

The Lowry Art Gallery and Theatre.

Bridge to W.I.M from afar. Red devils coming out from there.

Conducting in front of the Lowry Shopping Mall, sis?

That's our bus on the right. So funny how we were confused which is ours, cause there were 4 totally same buses. We asked the bus drivers gathered at one point which is the bus leaving at 4.20p.m. and they were like, dazzled too. So we continued with which bus driver is Ben? Lols. Forgot the name..They belted out laughing, even worse when Sarah asked ''Or Benny?"

In the end we just hopped on the bus we saw the others hopping on XD The driver's name, we discovered at the end of the tour, was Barry! (thanks sis =P)

Random shot whilst the bus was jammed on the road. Why sooo jammed?? You'll know if you are a...

...football fan! There was the match between Manchester United and Manchester City at Old Trafford! So darn excited as we approached Old Trafford, I was so hoping we get to go down and explore the place XD Maybe bumping into Owens or Rooney or Park Ji Sung. *snaps out of it*

Gigantic posters.

Craze of the Red Devils frenzy.

Old Trafford logo.

Poor Manchester City who lost 3-4 to MUFC. Never mind, you guys have a nice stadium.

I'm being honest, reallY! This stadium was used for the Commonwealth Games in 2002!

And this, is the Velodrome where 9 Olympic gold medallists in cycling trained!

A more modern building in Manchester.

The City Council undergoing some renovation(?).

I like those boxes protruding out!

Another glimpse of the City Hall as we made a second round there before ending the tour.

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Weston Hall was offering free pizza for dinner that night! So darn happpie~I got Pepperoni and Chicken Pizza while sis got Vegetarian and Chicken XD how I wish they organize free pizza events every night. hmm.

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