It was the renaissance era for the 5 of us.....England the new experience for 5 kampung girls.......no more belacan and keropok lekor...it's more of cheese and chips experience.....THEN..THERE WERE 5 :Chik the cheeky one, was the joy to the group. Lina the witty girl always wise and curious. Rahmah, demure and ladylike . Yati the sensible one with a reserve character and then there was me ...talk too much and stubborn.
22 North Holmes road brings a lot of memories ....there, we learnt to live together and also accidently learnt on how to make keropok lekor with some fresh sardines from Safeway and some bread flour. It was the discovery of the century ...we rejoiced the moment and savoured the authentic almost terengganu like keropok lekor we created....it was heaven for us...[yeah the 5 of us comes from the east coast of malaysia where keropok lekor is more or less a daily cuisine....]
We also discovered the real truth about each other ...our characters and preferences........yes there were fights and sorts...but that is what girls do ..we fight !..it's parts and parcel of being girls living together , we can never see eye to eye in many things ...yet we are still friends ....[I hope]..Maybe a couple of us got their feelings hurt a lot but deep in our hearts we knew all of our fights weren't meant to hurt anyone at all...it was all some silly misunderstandings......... [ maybe it was just that to me not to our reserve housemate...soweyyy mate!] Anyway ...i believe most of us really enjoyed our English experience....we adapted to Asda, Netto, Safeway & Sainsbury instead of Jusco in Maluri & Tops in Leisure Mall . We even became addicted to the famous Wincheap carboot sales.. [i got some cool stuffs from there]....on some days we loved to go to ASHFORD to shop ...it was a marvellous place to shop! you can get anything from pots and pans to branded underwares...
i remember a nice little trip to Dover with chik, lina and lina's friend....we had quater pounder burgers from a turkish shop and ate them on the banks of dover overlooking the shadowy glimpse of France...it was a lovely day out!
I remember having lunches out in the garden of our house in Canterbury...we were the ladies who lunches!!!we had so much fun preparing food and we ate outside and talked about our future and silly stuffs.....i really misssssssss that happy moments..
.....i know this would be a boring article to read if you are not part of the 5 North Holmes girls pact but that's the point of it ...the article is meant for the 5 girls to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girls......do you remember the first night we're there?...we got our house key and we went to the wrong house and that was the start of a silly war with the racist guy who lives with his grandmother next door....anyway we managed to find the right house and we got in and we got excited...each and everyone of us was assigned to a room...[well most of us...Lina got a store room as a room ...poor Lina! ...but I'm sure she got some fond memories of that room...in fact the room turned out to be our chill out room, we had meetings and lots of gossip session there! ] After we looked at our room we all were very happy ..[except Lina of course!] ..as it was the sign of freedom to us ..asa sign of maturity in a foreign country ...the memorable thing that night was our supposedly welcoming dinner ....being Malaysian and all we expected something more than just a big loaf of bread, a big chunk of cheddar cheese and a basket of apple....we were so hungry that night after 3 hours delay in the airport, and all we got that night was that 'mat salleh' welcoming snack.....what were they thinking of?...cheese sandwich for dinner?GILOS! so that nite almost 5 years ago we went to bed in a foreign country with an empty stomach yet everybody could still managed a sleepy smile before we slept..yeay...I'm in England!..5 years ago...yet it seems just like yesterday to me!
Working in the UK
We got a scholarship from the government but it was like peanuts and should i say of very minuscule amount so we all have to find work....we found work everywhere.....rahmah and yati at the Canterbury college of art doing weekends cleaning, chik at Ersham Lodge...making beds and cleaning on weekends, Lina and me at Ebury Hotel....making beds and cleaning on weekends....on top of this weekend jobs we also have other week jobs ....but i would say the most memorable job for me was doing the newspaper rounding on my old bike...Lina and me had wonderful memories of falling off our bikes on an icy road for braking too hard, shoving newspapers in the mailbox so quickly because we were attacked by dogs.......we also did some factory work...HOPPER'S? remember our night shifts with those flirty Albanians?...hehehhe
22 North Holmes road brings a lot of memories ....there, we learnt to live together and also accidently learnt on how to make keropok lekor with some fresh sardines from Safeway and some bread flour. It was the discovery of the century ...we rejoiced the moment and savoured the authentic almost terengganu like keropok lekor we created....it was heaven for us...[yeah the 5 of us comes from the east coast of malaysia where keropok lekor is more or less a daily cuisine....]
We also discovered the real truth about each other ...our characters and preferences........yes there were fights and sorts...but that is what girls do ..we fight !..it's parts and parcel of being girls living together , we can never see eye to eye in many things ...yet we are still friends ....[I hope]..Maybe a couple of us got their feelings hurt a lot but deep in our hearts we knew all of our fights weren't meant to hurt anyone at all...it was all some silly misunderstandings......... [ maybe it was just that to me not to our reserve housemate...soweyyy mate!] Anyway ...i believe most of us really enjoyed our English experience....we adapted to Asda, Netto, Safeway & Sainsbury instead of Jusco in Maluri & Tops in Leisure Mall . We even became addicted to the famous Wincheap carboot sales.. [i got some cool stuffs from there]....on some days we loved to go to ASHFORD to shop ...it was a marvellous place to shop! you can get anything from pots and pans to branded underwares...
i remember a nice little trip to Dover with chik, lina and lina's friend....we had quater pounder burgers from a turkish shop and ate them on the banks of dover overlooking the shadowy glimpse of France...it was a lovely day out!
I remember having lunches out in the garden of our house in Canterbury...we were the ladies who lunches!!!we had so much fun preparing food and we ate outside and talked about our future and silly stuffs.....i really misssssssss that happy moments..
.....i know this would be a boring article to read if you are not part of the 5 North Holmes girls pact but that's the point of it ...the article is meant for the 5 girls to read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Girls......do you remember the first night we're there?...we got our house key and we went to the wrong house and that was the start of a silly war with the racist guy who lives with his grandmother next door....anyway we managed to find the right house and we got in and we got excited...each and everyone of us was assigned to a room...[well most of us...Lina got a store room as a room ...poor Lina! ...but I'm sure she got some fond memories of that room...in fact the room turned out to be our chill out room, we had meetings and lots of gossip session there! ] After we looked at our room we all were very happy ..[except Lina of course!] ..as it was the sign of freedom to us ..asa sign of maturity in a foreign country ...the memorable thing that night was our supposedly welcoming dinner ....being Malaysian and all we expected something more than just a big loaf of bread, a big chunk of cheddar cheese and a basket of apple....we were so hungry that night after 3 hours delay in the airport, and all we got that night was that 'mat salleh' welcoming snack.....what were they thinking of?...cheese sandwich for dinner?GILOS! so that nite almost 5 years ago we went to bed in a foreign country with an empty stomach yet everybody could still managed a sleepy smile before we slept..yeay...I'm in England!..5 years ago...yet it seems just like yesterday to me!
Working in the UK
We got a scholarship from the government but it was like peanuts and should i say of very minuscule amount so we all have to find work....we found work everywhere.....rahmah and yati at the Canterbury college of art doing weekends cleaning, chik at Ersham Lodge...making beds and cleaning on weekends, Lina and me at Ebury Hotel....making beds and cleaning on weekends....on top of this weekend jobs we also have other week jobs ....but i would say the most memorable job for me was doing the newspaper rounding on my old bike...Lina and me had wonderful memories of falling off our bikes on an icy road for braking too hard, shoving newspapers in the mailbox so quickly because we were attacked by dogs.......we also did some factory work...HOPPER'S? remember our night shifts with those flirty Albanians?...hehehhe
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