London London

Never have thought that i will be walking down the streets of London at the age of 23. I’m a poor kid, not only poor, i’m a miser. The airfares are high, the exchange rate is terrible, the food arent cheap, and to shop here is really expensive.

Well now that the company pays for my airfare, pays for accomodation, pays for food, i just have to go to London! Even though it cost me 36 pounds (ard SGD110) to take a 2 hour coach to London over the weekend, i have absolutely no complaints. Hee..

Saturday morning, my precious non-working day, its freezing cold, my fingers are stiff, becareful, or they will break anytime. Had to wake up 6.30am in order to catch an early coach into the city. Tired, but excited.

List of places that i visited:

Buckingham Palace – Missed the guards changing shift, arrhhh…
Green Park – So green and so blue!
Big Ben – Old, big, beautiful architecture.
London Eye – 11.50 pounds, a clear day, perfect view, definitely worth the money.
Jubilee Garden – Lots of street arts.
British Musuem – Egyptian mummies, Parthenon marbles, Greek and Roman galleries.
Covent Garden – Too late, missed the ‘pasar malams’.
Camden Town – Massive streets of markets, lots of punks. Yummy asia food.
Shakespeare’s Globe – Watched A Winter’s Tale, love the theatre.
Tate Modern – Doesnt spark any interest.
Millennium Bridge - They said it was the most beautiful bridge between Bankside and the city.
Oxford St – Really really expensive clothings.
Tower Hill – Tower of London, Tower Bridge, and i saw the bridge falling down!

Life in UK

Today had ‘tesco’ lunch again. Tesco is a famous big super market, like Carrefour, where everyone goes to during lunch time.
Seems like that is the only available, economic and convenient place to buy lunch.
i bought a seafood sandwich, a tray of cheese patatoes and a large suasage.
Think i’m eating too much nowadays. You all wont despise chubby Wei Wei right?

Sunday night, i had Chevre Grill and a spicy pepperoni watever watever pizza.
Chevre Grill: Grilled goats’ cheese, topped with balsamic caramelised onions, on beef tomato and ciabatta bread.
Something new for me.
The cheese was abit heavy for me, but overall, its an interesting starter to begin with.

Last friday, the ang mohs brought me to a resturant for lunch.
This restaurant sits on a hill in Dorset, where you can oversee a field of meadows and the Corfe castle.  Cows, horses, green grass, blue sky, and a lovely weather.
The view was awesome, but the castle was too far away.
So Ron drove me to the village where i can take close up pictures of the castle.

Castle leh, where to find castle in Singapore? So i was pretty excited.

The village is made up of grey stone cottages, just like those described in fairy tales.
Then i went past a shop that has a board with Enid Blyton written on it, oh yah, i remembered.
Just like those houses printed on Enid Blyton’s book covers.
Did a search on the internet. Corfe Castle is actually the inspiration for ‘Kirrin Castle’ in some of Enid Blyton’s stories. Hmm.. Interesting.

A little history on the castle: Corfe Castle stand on a natural hill guarding the principal route through the Purbeck Hills.
It guards the gap between the south of Purbeck, where Purbeck marble was once quarried, and the rest of England.
Nothing could pass in or out without going past the Castle.

The very first castle buildings was built up of wood, in the latter half of the 11th Century, the Castle was rebuilt in stone by William the Conqueror.

Presently, only the ruins of the Castle remains.

See my hotel room.
Me getting ready, to get out of Bournemouth to enjoy myself!
Hee…

Convocation

10th September is the day of my convocation, what can i say. It feels great. Haha.

My ma and me, all my friends are amazed at how pretty and young she looks.

 

 

 

 

Some of the classmates from NYP 9908. 

 

 

 

Erm… Will you marry me? ok.

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