Friday Night - Part Two (the Non-study)

Okay, it was a Friday night, my friends just finished their card-signings, so they wanted to go out, not for dinner or anything, but instead just for a walk around Dublin's heart - Dublin 1 and 2.

St.Stephens Green, very near to where i stay.

So we did, we supposed to meet at 9pm at my room, but malaysians being malaysians, managed to gather at 9.30pm. So we left, on foot, to Temple Bar (an area famous for its nightlife in Dublin), just walked the whole area for quite some time. Here we saw and awesome local new kinda music dudes. They were a band of 3, one with a violin, one with a drum/box kinda thing (weird thing) and he was sitting on it and playing it at the same time! and also another dude with another stringed instrument. They were awesome!!!! I tell you, i loved their music like nuts! they sold their CDs for 10 Euros, i was soo tempted to buy it, But i had to control there... Control... After watching 4 songs of theirs, we left, to continue our temple bar walk. Walk, walk and walk we did...

What temple bar is at night...

And then went to Dublin 1, by crossing river Liffey (the river splits Dublin 1 and Dublin 2. I stay in Dublin 2). We wanted to find a cinema, we roughly had its name in mind, but we were not at all sure where it was. All we knew it was in Dublin 1 and a rough location of it in mind. And i must say, our sense of direction and orientation was awesome, (and Ken's eyesight too) that we immediately found the Cinema. Got the show timings, the price list and then headed home. Planned to catch Quantum of Solace tmrw night (saturday) 8.10.

Wonderful Dublin in the Evenings...

We passed by a hall which was having some Irish Punk Rock Concert, Ambassadors. Then down O' Connells Street (the main street in dublin), passing the Spire (a needle like structure, very tall, significant to the irish for their woolen item export). Along the way, we saw another cinema, we just popped by to do our research there. Then, concluded the First cinema was the better option. As we exited it, we saw this arcade.

O' Connells Street

We wanted to just have a look in it, they had huge pick-up-with-robots-games, where you use this buttons to control this robot to pick up the thing you want. They had Ipods in the boxes too!!! and huge Barney's, dogs, Cool Watches!! Each one had its own box. Then, there was this Scuderia Ferrari racing cars. 4 Cars, each car can accomodate 2 people, and the video was soo damn smooth, and nice graphics. They had a ceiling high poster just for this too!!
All we could do was compare it to Genting...sigh. lol.
Then they said they were closing shop, so they asked us to head into another door, there is where we saw the real thing going on! it was a place full of Gambling!! it looked so illegal-ish. We got sick of that place, and soo wanted to leave, but the thing was, we couldnt find an Exit. We made 3 full rounds, and couldnt find anything saying a Proper Exit. All exits looked closed or runned down. With each round, Rachel looked more like she was gonna puke. ;) It was that discomforting for some.
Anyway, i never really imagined this happening, as in i never imagined asking someone "excuse me, how do we Get Out of Here please??!?!" lol, but we did. With innocent primary school kids faces on, we asked, In hope of getting an answer, so we did, but the exit was kinda creepy, loads of guys smoking there, and we actually needed to press a bell to get out, and there was also this half drunk guard sitting there. It looked like we were exiting an illegal drug warehouse - that bad it was.

Then we decided to head back to temple bar for a short walk just to see how things were, on a friday night, then headed to McDonalds on Graftons Street (the street with the most live performances, the most happening street All Day and Week Long) which is near to home. Went there, had a nice chat with friends, wanted to get Twisty Fries, but they didnt have it anymore... :(

On the way back, came across this shop, so i took a picture of it.

To those who dont know what this picture is about, go back to two posts before this.

Then headed home, and now, blogging bout my 2nd part of a friday night in Dublin.

Yes, now that is what med life here should be summed up as, we Study hard, and then "try" to Party hard.



Below are pictures, of the things ive done lately, also in random order, just took it off my phone.

While queing up to make our Garda(visa) cards, at 6 AM! out in the cold, Freezing Cold! sitting at the road side!

A senior (jeffrey's) birthday... that'd be Wan Lin (a senior too)

Thats Kevin, working on 3 Laptops, wow, hes cool hah!? He was doing "his Thing"- Fixing our computers at Mercer.

Thats Alvin singing during Jeff's B'day

The Salmon we made, Soya sauce, butter and sugar, mayo and cheese, and Hot Sauce

The time we pranked JG telling him that i was Gay and i liked him, Things almost got outta control man! Little did i realise all of us were actually that good of an actors.

With Yvvone, on her B'day night at McDons

Scene 1- Start
Venue: O'Flannagan LT
Occasion: HBS class,
Time: 2.20pm

Scene 2-End
Venue: O'Flannagan LT
Occasion: HBS class,
Time: 2.30pm

Nabil knocking on a girls room door.... talking like a girl in that process

I wonder what she just did. Kiss a guy? maybe so. :P

Irish Dinner, On Deepavali. Irish Lamb Shanks

Alvin stocking up for the winter...

Yvvones B'day late night short outting...McDons, Grafton St.

Butlers Chocolate Cafe, great coffee...

Yvvones B'day letter...

Once again, late night studying session...

Too bored, ken and i disturbed our neighbour, no not by knocking on the door, but on skype.

Weird things we'd try...

During Garda queue (wait in the cold to freze us to death before actually giving us the card). In pic, two good friends, Evelyn and Rachel.

Me and Aly, i needed flash, it was that early in the morning of Garda (visa)

in short, Milo for 4+ Euros for 500g ...

Late hours with books...

Another dinner....


Halloween, October 31st Pictures... :

Yeah guys, thanks for hanging on till the end, that sums up alot of things i guess, couldnt blog on most of them. Well, pictures do say a million words people say...i hope it did. i dont have the time to write on all of them. :(

Okay then, till my next post. :) cheers.
Have a great weekend.