saturday the birmingham

I know i ve created an impression that im slightly retreating myself into my herbit shell in UK here, but I know my reasons why. Being able to study here is a bless, i shud be sparking here. However I dont want to get too carried away being in the limelight or indulging in pleasure. Moreover, I still have 2.5 years here, i guess that are rooms for all that. But anyway i think im having my essence, just a little smudged.

Anyway, went to birmingham for an adventurous trip with chewy and sue today. Have been hearing bout how much gigantic is bullrings from coventry precinct, how cheap is the birm market from cov market, how lovely is chinese food at the chinatown........THis time, the thought of wanting stHing different suddenly popped into my mind. No longer shopping trips.. i want to explore the other part of birm, im sure the onli attraction of birm is not merely bullring..

Well, im not wrong. Let me usher u to our journey of exploration of birm.

THe birm nature centre..

The entrance..
Animals that we couldnt find in msian zoo..
The slender tailed meekat.. THey should be trained for marching.. Haha.. THe black and white lemur..
The otters...
We were lucky as the keeper came to feed them.. I was shocked to see lovely animals becoming carnivor.. Chewy complained that it's disgusting to watch theme eating the chicks.. But i understand that this is nature..
Porcupines.. Not sure if u can see this in msia, but, they are rare at least =P
Many more animals, which is too much to be uploaded.. Capture them in fb if u r really interested.. Got to open my eyes a lot there. Other than these, there are also invertebrates house, reptiles house, aquarium etc..

After that, we headed over to lunch at the mailbox (not ur yahoo or hotmail mailbox). Hehe.. It's 10 pounds for all-u-can-eat sushi. There were a wide range of sushi, fried rice, fried veggie, fried kueyteow, tempura n many more..

I would say it's quite worthwhile bcuz i gobbled up a lot.. N i dun even need to hv dinner after tat =(After an extremely filling meal.. Next, we took the train to jewellery quarter.

As its name suggests, it is a small town where all the streets and shops are selling jewellery.. Rings, stones, necklaces, earrings, i guess, if u want to buy sthing for valentine or engagement, this is the place to shop.
Well, we went to the museum of jewellery quarter, which boosts of its potpourri of exhibits of renowned designers, despite its small size of building.. Yet, honestly, was really amazed by the delicacy n fineness of the art of work.. and admission is FREE!! Sadly, we could not stay long there due to time constrain. Our next destination was the cadbury world! I assume u know what cadbury is..
Welcome to cadbury, the world of chocolates =)

First of all, we were directed to the 'essence'. Here we were given some history of cadbury, the most interesting part was where we were allowed to mix our own chocolate that we want!! I chose a chocolate + candies one.. Kinda sad that i couldnt ask for more.. Sorry if my 'ugly' eating look scare u away.. THe chocolate was really nice..

Followed by that, we were guided to witness the production of chocolate.. Sry no photo-taking was allowed in that section..

Then, we went for cadabra, where 3 of us jumped into a mini automated car and brought to the magical world of cadbury.. Tel u what, the queue was super long, n we waited almost 30 mins for the short ride..

Some nice settings in there..

Little Snowworld.. A naughty attempt to imitate the puppet beside..

Arrgghh.. too obsessed to the camera..2nd try.. THis time, it was much better.. =P

Didn really pay concentration on the explanations and stuffs. I duno why. Probably quite exhausted running here n there whole day. N was rather fed up having to wait so long.. Anyway, im not a super fans of chocolate, n i cant really distinguish quality of choc, so...

That's the end of it.. A day to polish it up and watch me sparkle :D

Oh ya, thank you god for the sunny but not too sunny, comfortable but not too cold weather..