Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Selsdon Park Hotel

I am now at the hotel in South Croydon on training with the firm. It's a truly amazing place this is, the facility is superb, the hotel itself has been extablished since the 1920s! That's really something, isn't it! There's a golf course, acres and acres of land at the back of the hotel which I have not yet got a chance to roam, and the room is absolutely fantastic. Although I am feeling a bit lonely that mama dan abah are in Luton and not with me, I wish they were. I should have forced them to come, but there's costs to think about as well, but the room is massive, I really am feeling quite lonely in here all by myself.



Today before dinner somebody bumped into me and started conversing in bahasa melayu, and I could tell he's not had a practised in a while, but it's truly impressive really. Jamie used to work in Brunei, and had a friend in Kota Kinabalu and he's done Gunung Kinabalu twice! Mentioned it to him that I did it when I was 14 too. We had a nice chat and would have gone on for a bit longer until he realised I hadn't had my dinner.



Went to have a quick dinner, the meals.. well, there's not that many that I could eat, they tend to put wine or some other forms of liquor in most of the dishes which the waitress/waiter would kindly point out for me which was nice. But they do have halal chicken, although they seemed to unable to comprehend that when u put alcohol into the sauce that goes with the chicken, the meal would then be haraam. Oh well, need to educate them on them.



Oh ya, we did the synchronised swimming today (on land) during the intermission session, we performed last and ended first! Although we were all over the place with the synchronisation to be honest! We were the only group with natural sound, in other words, we hummed the danube song as our background music, there's another group with music, but they got it off computer which is not really that creative haha.



Ok need to get some sleep for tomorrow, I need to be early, as I was one minute late this morning!! Not impressive!!!



nitee