Saturday, October 18, 2008

MANCHESTER . TRIP

Woke up ishy early today, and we (Bryan, Celdrick, Cecilia, Jason and I) went to the Liverpool National Express station to take a coach to Manchester at 6.15, it only took like 55 minutes to get there. One of us said, there will be no more TOO EARLY morning trip, because morning was so freezing cold, our hands are numb. Hahaha. Manchester National Express Station
This is cute.

The first stop is to Tadao Ando's work in Manchester, The Piccadilly Gardens and his designed Pavillion, it isn't that big but the simplicity of it is really serene and blends in well with the surrounding. It was said that this is his first British project. A part of the garden design.the Garden BridgeThe PavillionNext to the city centre... The Wheel of Manchester
The Triangle Sculpture.
Urbis - Museum of the Modern City / from left - Cecilia, Jason and me/
/ From left - me, Cecilia, Bryan, Jason, Celdrick/Manchester Cathedral
The Trinity Bridge By Santiago Calatrava - It's elegant!The Manchester Civil Justice Centre, one of the important architecture in Manchester and had recieve several awards due to its outstanding sustainability credentials, creative engineering design and WOW- factor architecture, it's cantivilers are the most outstanding part!Manchester Town Hall, so ishy they close today, dun let us to go in. Haiz... It's hungry time, and we went to China Town / haiz thought that Manchester China Town is very big, sien, only like cover like 2 streets only/, hehehe, and of course we like went to the restaurant which can offer us the cheapest price, but with the best foods, and with big portion, and we went to Chinese Buffet, muahahaha.It's not like "CHINESE" chinese foods, it's a bit Westernise, well I mean the taste... but it's alright, as long as it has that lil bit of Chinese taste... o man miss home cook foods.Look at Cecilia satisfy face with chinese - ops nope, fruits foods... now look at this - the satisfied faceand for me.. muahahah of course i took several tiems of meals here man... until I'm SUPER FULL... then baru we ciao... I think the workers sien me... nola joking. LOL.LOOK AT MY PORTION!!!
Next we took tram go to old Trafford and there is where the Manchester United Stadium, Daniel Libeskind, Imperial War Museum North are located.Ai, some of my pictures are with the others so I'm gonna post in my poser pictures next time. Next to the Libeskind, Imperial War Musuem North which located not far from the stadium, the form is fucking cun man... but not all the spaces are cool.. only some parts...

The Lowry Theatre and Art Galleryme and Cecilia overlooking to the river.

There is a match today at 5.30 and there is hell pack of people... and we were walking the opposite direction because we are going home, and this si the funny part where people ask us, "hey guys the stadium is over at the opposite direction are you guys lost". No we are not lost just that we are not watching the match... The polices on the hourses... cool rightgoing back time... taking the tram back to Manchester city and we had a small dinner. We went back at around 8.15p.m. and well, I really enjoyed this trip, explored and learnt a lot, though the sad part is that we din manage to go to CUBES for the architecture exhibition, maybe there will be a second trip to this city again. My next target will be Nothingham trip which is held by Malaysian Society... hope to go to Europe soon, but no $$$... wait till I work during the holiday and earn some money for that. :P


Will post up more pictures for this blog soon as there are not with me right now.. tata bye!

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