We landed safely in Manchester, the city of the infamous soccer team, after a pleasant 13 hour flight which included a transit stop (poor student) at Dubai. The only thing I felt uncomfortable with was that because of the time difference & change of flight, I felt like we were treated like sows because they kept feeding us multiple full meals during the journey. lol

From Manchester, we hopped on a coach and began our journey towards Preston, where our University is.

Oh yes! I realised that my blog content rarely state who I am with while I’m traveling, so please let me introduce to three of my other classmates who I spent most of my time with. (We were so close that we even spent a night together on a queen sized bed, where we are positioned neatly like sardines in a can *Please see badly done diagram below*)

Here’s Ain, I, Amanda the little one & Syahidah.

The point of the trip was for us students to be immersed in the university life in the UK, as well as to widen our knowledge of Architecture and it’s Interior. Of course, tutorials/consultations with the lecturers, attending lectures and being in a critique (!!!) in the university during this trip were a must so I wouldn’t say it was all fun and dandy.

^ Ain being serious during her critique

The one thing that captivated me the most was the journeys we had on the coach. As boring as it may sound, I loved it personally cause during the short and long transitions of travelling to and fro from a concrete urban jungle to a scenic mountainous environment allowed me to be a crazy sheep-spotting idiot as well as to think.

Glasgow was an amazing place. Although the field trip to Glasgow only lasted a mere span of 48 hours, we all enjoyed ourselves thoroughly. The people were friendly, roads were grid-like (therefore easy for us to drift around), had Urban Outfitters – which Amanda & I though was damn cool because we always thought we could only get items from them via the internet and never did dream of stepping into one of their stores (!!) and the highlight was that we were able to visit the School Charles Mackintosh designed – The Glasgow School of Art. 

^ The disintegrated & The new

^ The Glasgow School of Art door plate

We signed up for the tour and had to respect their regulation of “no photography allowed as we would like you to respect the student’s privacy”, so.. I’m sorry that I do not have photos of the interior of the School.  But! The tour gave us a deeper understanding about the thought process behind Mackintosh’s design in the school where he creates spatial qualities that relates closely with the routine of the art students.

^ Sights in Glasgow

Would love to visit Glasgow again if I had the chance but for now, saving up for India seems to be the top priority! (Taj Mahal!)

….Sooo here’s an abrupt end to the first part of the trip of the UK trip! The photographs are taken with my Canon G12 Powershot Camera and I have to say though the functions are amazing, the image quality can never be comparable to my other DSLR Olympus E-500. Lens and bodies comes before the megapixels, folks.

You know, after not being a frequent blogger for such a long time, I found myself staring at this post for a very long period of time like staring into space, wondering what I should type and how my already little talent of blogging has already dilapidated in my brain. Well, I blame it on growing up. – xoxo

I had been there several times, but this is the first time I came prepared with my camera!

Materials used:
MDF Board
Threaded Rods
Nuts