Nott Games

So I went to the town of Nottingham on Saturday for Notts game. Its actually a sports event for all the singaporean students across UK, and hosted by Nottingham Uni, so all the singapore societies brought their athletes to this town for the 1 day event.

Basically, it's just some friendly competition with games like soccer, basketball, badminton, frisbee, tennis, squash, hockey etc... all fun and games. I played tennis doubles with Jinyang, and we lost in our 1st round match 2-1! (against UCL ...sigh) .... and 1 match lasted 3 games only. yes 3 games, so 1st to 2 games win. which meant the game was over in like, 10 mins. And the wind was really really strong during the game, such that all 3 servers never managed to hold serve. So when I opted to serve 1st .. haha, well you know the rest.

But all's good, cos I then took the time to check out the rest of the beautiful campus. The size is about the size of NUS but with way more flora... the gardeners have been doing a wonderful job! I'll let the pics speak for themselves

The main games field, Ultimate Frisbee!

Me playing tennis! It was so windy I had to wrap myself up, if not I would have froze.
Walking along one of the school paths

Brilliant garden!
fountain, flowers, clear skies. Sweet
Wouldn't it be nice, eh? This is the campus Lake, so peaceful aint it.


The battalion of ducks falling in

took many shots to get this one right... cool!Imagine walking into school like this heh
Soon after, we headed off to Nottingham city centre... though a bit disappointingly the town's didn't really have anything specially impressive (or maybe I went to the wrong places), so I didn't take any pics. Bought some stuff off the 1-pound shop, ate hot piping donuts (the bomb la!), and it was dark before we knew it!

And as usual with my bad weather luck, it started pouring! Jinyang, Binghao and me were caught in the rain, and we started a 'fast march' to some building to have a free dinner... haha, really brought back army memories of the platoon marches and stuff. And we mused that we had a tougher workout fast walking than the tennis game itself! We even managed to take pics on the go heh.

Jinyang

B .. with the kawaii peace sign. hurhur
Soaked when we reached the dining hall, ate a lil snack, and it was time to leave Notts already. Concussed like a pig on the bus ride back... before reaching london at abt 11pm.

Not a bad Saturday at all =)