Bradford Day 1 26/07/2011

1 of 3 parts. On 19th July, me and Fendi went for a visit to Bradford, West Yorkshire, where we used to stay before we moved to Canterbury. Just a last visit before we go home for good. Don’t know when we will visit that place again. Another reason is because Fendi wanted to buy some graduation souvenir which last year we didn’t tought of buying. This souvenir only available during the graduation ceremony. So, best go to Bradford this time of the year. 🙂

A lot of changes made since we were last there, some new buildings and some shops are closed. I would say, some good changes were made.

Travelled 5 hours by train with 2 train changes and arrived in Bradford at around 2 pm

The grass area in the middle is new

Fushia where we sometimes have lunch or gatherings were closed. I guess it will be reopen soon

Construction still going on since last year

Alhambra Theatre

The old unused Odeon

As soon as we arrived, we went straight to University of Bradford. This was taken on the way there

Ppl are busy with the graduation ceremony

Lobby/reception

Lift are going to lecture rooms

Ppl registering for thier ceremony at 4pm

If you can see, Fendi is taking out money from the atm machine. hehehe

Souvenir booth.

I bot this tshirt last year, haven’t seen it yet

Bumped into some friends graduating this year. Dizah. Congrats~ congrats~

Muiz and Fendi

Qawi, Muiz, Qawi’s bro and Fendi

The new health department building next to Horton i.e. my old department

Down there is Bradford College

Had lunch at subway in front of uni

The new self-sustainable hall. Not yet open

This is the new student central

Also another new building

From inside the student central

Some construction going on near my old department

My old house

Dixy and Great wall, where we sometimes buy our takeouts

Ice skate rink / student hall

Then, we went to National Media Museum to watch Harry Potter 7 The Deathly Hallows Part 2 in IMAX 3D with Ralph~ ^^

Then supper in Nandos also with Ralph. So glad he could come~ 🙂

This is what we came for. The round thingy is a metal jigsaw globe which cost £32

Last year, if i’m not mistaken, this tube cost £20 each, now it only costs £5.. 😀

Uni of Bradford shield plaque. I love this one. It’s really nice cost £35

Graduation Day 21/07/2010

20th July 2010 marks of me and Effendy graduating from our Honours Degree. It was a long and a very eventful day. But it wasn’t ideal to walk around with heels. LOL~ Which I did.

The day started off early, woke up around 10 am, showered, had breakfast, dressed in our formal dresses and suits, wear our graduation gowns and arrived at Uni around 12 noon. Me and Fendi went straight to Norcroft Center (one of the building in the Uni) for some food and beverages. I even didn’t get to go inside the food and beverages room coz i saw my classmate Rizipa and she told me we need to get group(Computing Department) photo at Amphitheater which is the other end of Uni. Well, to be honest, it is not that far, but when u were wearing heels. Its feels reall2 far away! And bear in mind my computing department should have the most number of students in School of Computing (SCIM), Informatics and Media. When I arrived there, only few ppl came i.e. less than 10 ppl when there were suppose to be 150 students and it started raining, then they cancelled the photoshoot. Went there for nothing.

Then went back to the other end of Uni i.e. the Atrium where the rest of the ppl in the department were queueing for registration. LOL! Queued for a good 20mins then we just realised we need a letter from Uni saying it important to bring that letter for our graduation ceremony registration. Which Fendi said he never recieved his and I did recieved mine but I forgot to bring it along. Then my brilliant idea not to bring my student ID which didn’t help at all -.- but Fendi brought his, so he’s good. So with my heart throbing, sweaty hands and non stop praying I just bravely registered myself on my turn. Fortunately, they weren’t very strict like they said in the letter. Nasib. Alhamdulillah, I don’t need to go home and fetch my letter in those heels. She ask for my student number and comfirm my name then the nice lady gave me my ticket and seat number (I08).

We started entering the Small Hall where the ceremony took place at around quarter to 2 pm. Seating at your given seat, talk to the person seat next to you. Meet my first friend from Uzbekistan whom I thought all this long was an English guy. His name is Shukrat. FYI Uzbkistan is close to Russia.

The ceremony started off at 2 pm with procession of faculty of staff. Started off with speech from my AI for Games lecturer Professor Peter Cowling introducing this excellent student taking PHD. Then the rest of us got on stage and recieved our Degree certificate.

The ceremony only went about an hour. Just after 3 pm we went out of Small Hall and off to Amphitheater (again) to take the SCIM photo. On our way there, we meet up with Teresa (International Officer), Melo and Erman. It started to rain on our way to Amphitheather and we did take the photo outside in the rain. hahaha..

Then off to the Uni Sports Center to get our professional photoshot done. Then, I went home, changed my shoe to slipper and get my purse to but frame and Uni USB stick. Then went back home around 5 pm…

Fendi, Anna (Rares’s Mom) and Rares

Anna and me

Ralph, me and Shaun

My friend Shaun was playing around with his gown and hood to make him look like Darth Vader or Assassins Creed. LOL

Yea, that tree is in the way

Me and Dizzy, to bad she doesn’t get to graduate with us.

Me and Alex

Me and my classmates

Crystal, Hiwa and me. They are my Computer Communication and Network teammates. We always do assignments together.

Rosario, Ralph and me.

Rares

This guy got a special award for having one of the best project. Well done!

My computing and information systems classmates

my CIS friends again

My friend who couldnt make it that day

Patrick was the 4th person to get his certificate

Crystal

the last two chinese are my lab tutor, they also graduating PHD. They always help me with Java

With Teresa

With Erman and Melo

With Wing Kin

Banks came down just to take photos with us in the rain.. hehehe

On the phone with Uncle

The pride and joy. hehehe

Graduation Live Streaming Worldwide 14/07/2010

As some of you know, me and Fendi will be graduating soon on 20th July 2010 Thursday at 2 pm (UK time). That will be about 9 pm Brunei time. The university is providing a steaming web cast live from the ceremony especially for family back home.

Click on the link for further details http://www.brad.ac.uk/news/awards/.

*On the day of the ceremony, they will update this page and give the link to the live webcam