this is my weak attempt in remembering watever happened the past week on this lousy dial up connection of an internet which i'm not even bothering to try to upload pics and probably the last time i'm getting internet access until i get home.
long sentences rocks. somtimes =)
24th June 2008
2.5 hours flight to bangkok. ice cream again for the 3rd consecutive day. good for post trauma from very traumatic email the nite b4. spent an hour in the toilet. more PS I Love You. book + music == very bad emo combi. decided to keep the book and music away b4 silly asian tourist starts crying on the plane.
another 12 hours to london. slept my way thru next to thai mum+son. must be rich cuz well, i can tell. they spoke in thai but boy went to international school. mum wore burberry. boy was very dressy for a loooong plane flight. but he was cute hehe. not very friendly tho.
raz and co came to pick me up. put on the lenses and off we went. 6 pounds for 30 mins of parking. sheesh. my ride was a mercedes sports car. now i understand why she can't get used to mitsubishi lancer back at home. then we got lost, missed a few exits, and went a few rounds around her campus, which she knew little of, and was told to shut up while her fran gave a much better intro of school life.
a whole shitload of kebabs for dinner. the lamb was great, the rest were salty (always tinking of zhang ziyi in mastercard advertisement). her house is such a dump, it was a comfort to know that my room was extremely neat when compared to hers. =D
25th June 2008
that silly girl had to go waxing of all days. honestly annoyed, but well it's over so i see no point in making a fuss out of it. got my nails done. had some Pasty. (it's pasty, not pastry, i did not spell wrongly). spent a shitload of time waiting for this slow internet connection to bring us to train websites. cock up. had to abandon initial train plans to edinburgh and did last minute search for different train services. 2 hours later it was un-productive so fucked it and went for dinner at Zizzi's where we got cheated off really baaad food. we learn it the hard way and never going back. headed to school to print and book train tics.
26th June 2008
Brighton today! =) =)
apparently most popular beach spot in england. i tink not for beach activities that's for sure. more for the extremely beautiful scenery and landscape.
let's count our mishaps today: missed the 1st train out of canterbury. missed the connecting train from london. her phone went flat. i walked in on a fella pissing who didn't have shit sense to lock the door. she forgot bout a potential tenant's house visit, left her waiting outside the house for 15 mins. the weather was bloody cold like we didn't expect of it. absolutely under-dressed. found out we paid too much for the edinburgh tickets. ate shitty food thru out the day, threw half of them away. spilled drink directly on my crotch. (argh) got stared at by weird guy on the train, creepy so we changed cabin.
as usual we always gave ourselves away as tourists. almost walked into a moving bus ard the corner. were the first to curse 'fuck' all the way once we stepped out of the train. extremely bloody cold and she didn't even have a jacket or shawl with her. walked in so many shop which didn't sell hp chargers or offer charging services. until this one shop carphone warehouse had the cutest most awesomest customer service dudes who offered to charge her fone for her. collected it 2 hours later and they joked bout paying 50 pounds for service, but really it's free. awwwwww.
braved the extreme winds and decided to walk along the beach. by extreme, i mean our 2 boxes of krispy kremes were flying upwards and in circles everywhere. but b4 we hit the beach, of course we spent a good 1.5 hrs in H&M as an excuse to get clothes to cover ourselves up, where i got a dress, a skirt, and a singlet. hehe. and well, she got her jacket to cover up, a vest, a blouse, a singlet, and some random stuff.
i liked brighton lots too. would have gone back to stay a nite along the beach, if not for the time constraints.
headed back to canterbury. add to list of mishaps: tyres punctured -_-
showered. and packed allll the way till morning and caught the train out to edinburgh at 5 in the morning
27th June 2008
5.40am train to edinburgh. changed at london kings cross. took the tube to london victoria. then the train that connects to edinburgh. first time we're not late! and the whole ride was sleeping and eating. tic tac toe. many silly pictures. conversations about nothing. how to seduce the prof to let me graduate. silly talk mostly.
we giggle a lot. hehe. hehehe.
pretty much wasted our day pass. rested a bit b4 heading out. once again stopped by the H&M mystical powers. erm fell asleep in one of the shows we went. and then it rained -_-
pretty much dampened the mood. ankles were hurting. rained even more during the night tours and ghosts walks we had to head back, since we had no brollies.
very filling lunch. we refused to heed advice and ordered too much for lunch. embarrassed ourselves once again at lunch. beautiful hotel tho. fantastic location. everything within walking distance. get Old Waverly Hotel when u head to edinburgh yeah =)
28th June 2008
once again we were just on time for the minivan tour bus. i swear we were not late. everyone else was too early.
we were really good and eating and sleeping and taking too many silly pictures and talking too much in the otherwise very silent minivan. boarded the van, sleep. got off and bought shortbread, pie, butter bread, eclairs, brownies, ribena. eat. boarded van, took shitloads of stupid pictures, giggled too loudly, and sleep. got off and took many pictures. boarded van and sleep. saw the prettiest wellies but at 32 pounds made my heart ache when walking away. got on the river cruise around the loch ness river. almost eaten by the loch ness monster. existing videos to prove. boared van and sleep. got off bought fish and chips and black pudding. black pudding != pudding. yeah i was bloody cheated. it's like mashed pig's parts and breaded and fried. boarded bus and bloody ang moh stared at us cuz we brought food up. not that we were gonna eat it and we made sure it was doubly tied up. of course we were hoping the pple from land of smelly feet were more condemned cuz well, sometimes chinese are racist against chinese too, some pple wld know wat i mean.
in the end, threw all the food and black pudding away. we were down with bad bad sore throat. skipped free whiskey tastings sadly =(
went for famous Auld Reekie's ghost and ghouls night walk. we made it up to the last third of the tour and chickened out! everyone walked into the level 3 paranormal vault (the most haunted kind) and we stood outside, waiting for tour guide to escort us out.
walked back to hotel and took too many photos again like bloody tourists. hehe.
went back room, ordered food from room service for our bad throats.
crashed.
29th June 2008
the day we came home with an extra bag -_-
in the morning, well as expected, exceeded our own plans by an hour. checked out. boared the open top bus. i tink she was too tired. i was too excited. hehe. got off and into another very boring ghost thingy tour that's indoors. frankly, it was pretty funnily amusing how un-scary it was. if we were 10 we wld definitely have cried already. but it was jus funnily boring. haha.
and suddenly we bought a shitload of stuff. went Argos (this amazing place that sells everything, i mean EVERYTHING.) to get a shopping bag to dump all our stuff in to drag home. it's like u look thru the catalog, go to the machine and key in the item code, pay by card, take queue number. and in 3 mins ur number flashes and u collect it at the counter. FASCINATING AITE!
so 2 little asian girls struggling with 2 heavy bags. (mostly shortbread and more shortbreads. and all shortbreads in our bag) up the train from edinburgh. down the train in london. down many steps to the tube. lugged them onto the tube. (thank goodness past peak period). off the tube. to the connecting train. down the train at canterbury. up many fucking steps to get out of the station. and finally home.
too tired for dinner. one can of mushroom soup and goodnite.
30th June 2008
slept a solid 14 hours to recover from fatigue and sore throat. nice long hot shower at 3 in the afternoon. camped in front of the laptop talking to pple i love =) received bad news of offence for jumping redlight. fine and demerit points feels like shit. tink i'll get some ice cream tmr to cure this shit. did last round of packing to make house clean b4 her mum reaches. 2 packets of toffee hoops with yoghurt (yummy!) and a half subway. and here i am again, blogging away.
i need to go sleep now and make better use of my day when i wake.
the bloody birds are chirping. i can't repeat myself more about how much i hate birds.
and well, i don't believe in proclaiming love and affection on blogs simply because it's plain stupid to do it when u should really be showing it to the pple u love.
but i feel the need to let it off my chest, and also because i'm too lazy to email =D
i miss u boonie.
i miss my mum who doesn't read this blog.
and i miss gina and shikai even tho i tink we met bout 2 weeks ago.
i tink it's the circle. that comfort zone.
i used to tink i like the area outside the comfort zone, but now i don't tink i'd last long outside of it.