The yucky side of London:

• Drivers literally drive over the puddle just to drench passerby.
• People always want convenience. They always walk the shortest route to a destination. Hence, there's always trouble trying to pass each other.
• Place is too small and people are too big.
  
• Family so far away.
• Crowd in tube and bus public transport during peak hours. Uugghh
  

The wonderful and amazing side of London:

• Offer for tea/coffee at work all the time.
• Colleagues take the initiative to bring some deserts to work on their birthday or when they come back from a holiday.
• Being independent :)
• Shopping shopping shopping.
• Free locker and towel everytime I got to the gym.
• Free chocolate coated Krispy Kreme! (Till end of this month).
• Free samples at Borough market!
• Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr shot Sherlock Holmes 5 mins from my office!
• Free gifts at the Olympic parade!
  

Isn't it ironic

By observing two mid 20's ladies who dress up to the 9 and were wearing easily ₤100 of clothes and accesories, I come to think of what good is it to spend all the cash on the irrelevent things than to save it.

Saving it will get you earning interest, so much so that you can save to get a mortgage, and further invest into a house or properties, and after having money to make money, you can live more comfortably in later life...

But what is the point when after earning your comfort, you have already moved out of youth, and no longer able to wear that ₤100 worth of clothes and accessories once before?

Life is ironic, you need to live the moment and think about the future at the same time. Does go to show that sometimes 'Time' cannot be defined in certain ways but it is part of the human race as we are made to die physically....

Hehe, yes, been slacking off here, was more waiting for photos to arrive before I upload them on flickr....

Okok, here goes:

Last Thur - Shot to Westminster to meet up with Dad's lecturer. I finally manage to come up close to Big Ben at a wonderful day! The sun shone on it brightly under the blue dark sky. Headed to meet up with an NZ friend to watch Lion King. THe show was excellent but the main Simba's both young and old didn't perform as well. I didn't know why I was irritated by their english accent :P



Last Sat - woke up after sleeping in, mop the entire lower floor, before heading out to meet up with an NZ friend and checked out Borough market. This market is like a small taste of Europe. Lots of home made cooked food as well as organic food to sample and buy. Was quite amazing, I saw this wierd Cauliflower that shapes like an acorn! And I saw a purple one too.

After that, we headed out to watch my first soccer football game. England vs Kazakhstan. It was sold out and was held out at Wembly Park. Took as a good half an hour to get there....Crowd was huge! But suprisingly quiet at where we sat when there is no excitement. But the chants on the lower floors kept going and going...there were a band of trumpets too and we all had to stand up when the National Anthems were playing


What was really amazing is that one part of the seating area had to hold up coloured card boards to represent the England flag


Quite cool. I manage to see football stars like Lampard, Rooney, and Beckham (who only came in the last 6 minutes). D was amazing to tell who is playing by just studying their football skill and the way they run! We left 10mins before the game finish to avoid a 2 hour queue later on.

When we were coming out of the area, people were literally running to the tube stop. THere were about 9 rows of policemen and women lined up outside of the stadium! Scary,D felt like a prisoner escaping!

After that, we headed to chinatown to celebrate another friend's birthday. THe cake was amazing! Triple layer sponge cake with fresh fruits decorated on top. Was a beautiful cake. And yummy to eat too.



We headed to a bar owned by 3 different people who decorated the inner bar separately...Very interesting coz we couldn't order drinks at the bar but had to grab a table to order. We were sitting very close to this art where it's a 3D ship shaped by layers of glass. Very pretty and there was a pacman print on the ceiling. Cute!

Last Sun - Think I went to play badminton...boring kekeke

Weekend hasn't 'started' yet but I got a expensive nice dress and I can't wait to wear it.

Gosh, I saw this advertisment in a tube stop about 2 weeks ago and I was thinking of going to it (although there was a price to pay)


And then I found out that my company were giving away FREE tickets!!!


God really works in mysterious ways....

on other news, Pasta Hut is replacing good ole Pizza Hut

I got an absolute shock when I pick Carol up and she handed me this Huge Glassons bag full of Kiwi goodies! 'Advance Xmas Pressies for you and Dave'

Aaaaaaaaaaw, I was so touched when I opened them, so much so that I was suppose to wash the dishes and clear the table up for my flatmate's visitors.

Thank you Carol, Gene, Mike, Howell and Novi :) . And I am guessing that Miranda and Anthony know about this!!

Super sweet of this group of friends to always think of me no matter how much I'm a pain in not replying to their emails or make it a point to do a gathering online to chat. HAHA. I owe you HEAPS of pressies from here.... o.O


On the other hand, piccies of Kiera is getting cuter and cuter each day!!! Superbly enjoyed looking through them no matter what :D

Being such a doofus dits again, I thought I'd bought some yogurt for dear D since he hadn't been buying any. It was quite a bargain, since it was 4 for £2. But it turned out to be sweet rice instead.

So....I have no choice but to 'attempt' to eat it



And...it actually taste quite nice!!! I think they put too much toppings to hide the rice :P

Speaking of purchases...I spoiled myself with something...mwahahaha....and there will be more coming,wahahahahahhahahaha


Photobucket is kinda cool...allows you to do funky stuff now like effects etc. Like this:

Oh boy oh boy oh boy....my first attempt back at the gym. I can't believe how just walking 1 min from my office to this place gives me a great place to work out!!


Fitness first is amazing..£10 for a casual entry, £55 for concessions of 10, and £45 a month (need to go more than 2 times per week to make up for the cost). I chose the second one to begin with, although becoming a full member entitles you to any fitness first all over the world!! Not only that, other facilities that I even get as being a casual person is a sauna, a tanning room, scanned card for lockers (I don't need to bring a locker!), fast flowing warm showers and hair drying and make-up mirror areas with proper stools and bench! Jeepers, the gym has all the typical equipment plus the vibrating machines! Woooooooow, and there are heaps of classes available, although they took pilates off this time (stink).

I tried out two of the classes - one was LBT (Legs, Bum and Thighs) whereby we work those areas including abs. Was aching the next day and didn't realise how unfit I was. There were lunges, side lunges, squats, side and front planks, proper sit ups, leg lifts and skip and lunge backward exercise all for 45 mins.

The other one was spinning classes...where I literally wished I didn't go and was already died halfway through the exercise. I couldn't keep up with the exercises! OMG, first time I had a full on work out in years. I was flooding pouring with sweat. We had to sprint cycle, do bicep perss ups and tricep press ups while we cycle, alternating to cycle up hill and downhill, and be in racing position. I was struggling with the alternation and was trying my best to keep my posture in good position. Man, felt like I just sprinted 1k in the pool...

And the funny thing is spin cycle is super full at lunchtimes...wierd how people prefer to exercise then and not after work. Good for me :D.

Nyhoo, sent Miranda off back to NZ. Manage to plan up a small day trip for her and she has tasted one of the best indian and duck food, window shopping in oxford street, she got a dress and finish off visiting the British Museum...all in a span of 10 hours. So proud,heh.