photos of london!

If you've forgotten how i look like in this 1 week of absence... haha

this is the street where i am going to be staying at for the next 3 more weeks

That's the street to work. autumn hues!

me with a street busker with ultra long arms. ^_^

Westfield shopping centre, during its opening. it's HUMONGOUS at 1.6 million square feet! i'm so gonna go there everyday after work. many brands that i have never seen before!

more other photos on facebook, but more on flikr http://www.flickr.com/photos/31958478@N06/sets/ enjoy! ^_^

WESTFIELD, europe's largest inner-city mall

Today, 30th of october 2008, marks the opening of Europe's largest inner-city shopping mall!!

'With more than 265 shops from over 15 countries, and 16 brands that have never been seen in theUK before, you'll be spoilt for choice.'

and guess what? it's within WALKING distance from where i work!!!! lalalalala i am going over to check out DAY1 of this phenomenal shopping experience very soon!! totally excited!! show your enviousness please!! ^_^

look at the list of shops here. and that's just for fashion. can't imagine we were all so excited abt the opening of vivocity in singapore. >.<

West End!!

i bought tickets to Lion King and Les Miserables!! yayyy!! they're not as cheap as they can get, as i bought them really late! like only today, for les mis on saturday, and lion king next thurs. i didn't know they get sold out so fast! so i ended up having to get them for like £30, which is about 75sgd. it's not too bad a price actually, but les mis has tickets as low as £17 if i had booked earlier! Now i'm so tempted to book tickets for the rest of my trip here, but then again i want to check out tkts on saturday first, to make sure i'm really getting the best deals! up on the rest of my list are wicked, hairspray, grease, sound of music, dirty dancing, sangre flamenca. all of which i can get for about £10-30. i'll get them on monday. hope the deals are still available then! others that i want to watch but are out of my budget are mamma mia, cabaret and stomp. but i'm happy. 6 musicals and 2 dance shows are good enough for a 25 days trip! hahaha~ my card is so going to bust

(and that's still not including the $$ i'm going to need when i travel to cambridge, loughborough, oxford etc!! yikes)

24 on the 24th

oh and i forgot to mention, i'm now my favourite number 24! =) had to work that last day before i boarded the plane to London. had tonnes of work to clear and handover before i left, so it was crazy. even left a couple of hrs later than expected, OT-ing til 630pm on a friday night! then had to pack... so it was a nice night with the family. and yes, thanks to fsc for the wonderful personalized presents! love em. ^_^

it has to be post-bdae luck, coz i bumped into qling at the airpot! she was heading for perth, but she told me her friend was on the same flight as me. sure enough, i met her! and she shuttled me to an empty row for me to have to myself. woohoo! the last time i had a whole row od 3 seats to myself was on a 1hr domestic flight. this was 13 hr flight! amazingly comfortable. =) i've almost forgotten that SQ is more comfy because of more leg space, and yummier food n beverages. i had red wine with steak! (no haagen daz tho. humph.) the screen was further from my eyes (due to more space) thus i didn't get a headache from it. managed to catch 5 movies with good sleep in between! =) hope the flight back is as comfy. hehe

in LONDON!

it's cold, it's windy, it's rainy, but it's LOVELY. autumn leaves are beautiful. the family i am staying with is wonderful. There's no wireless internet there yet, but i finally got my dose of internet here in the lab, where i'm waiting for ym safety course to start. oh finally i can get in touch with people. =) abit of jet lagging (and thus waking in the morning at 5am the past 2 days), but i'm settling in real fine. serene's sis was really great bringing me around yesterday. i covered many places! london's roads are messy tho, just like singapore. so it'd take me some time before i can get around without getting lost. haha.

BIG PRIZES TO BE WON!!

discovered a really fun game, with high chances of winning big prizes!! go go play. it expires 25th oct so hurry! and do share your prize with me if you win, coz i recommended it! haha http://project.omy.sg/onegame/main.php

for at the end of the rainbow is a pot of gold

Am so upset that my london trip would make me miss a picnic. i so very much love picnics, and i am going to miss it. am so so so sad!!!!! =( Well at least i am not too upset about not being able to make it to kusu island, after discovering that there really isn't too much to see there. but I STILL WANT MY PICNIC!! *wails* oh geez. i'll stop whining like a baby after this. London should be more fun than a picnic at kusu island anyway, right? =P

speaking of london, i am finally going! flight confirmed, lodging confirmed. i never expected the flight to be so cheap, less than $2k! i always had the impression that everything would be more expensive than going to the States, flight incuded. haha. ok suaku me, never been to London before can? Now it's my chance. And i'm flying SQ!! i wonder if qiaoling and the rest would be on that flight? Then maybe the 14 hr flight wouldn't be too boring, with friends who'd appear at a press of a button. hahahah.

I cannot help but remember what he said to me. Why must some people talk so dirty? I had such a hard time trying to understand what that joke targetted at me meant. Spent the next hour pondering over it, until i finally got it. and felt so offended. bah. you think it's cool? you think that chemistry would fly just because you speak that way? you're totally wrong man. so sorry. but that's the biggest turn off ever.

Sometimes it really is very difficult to read a person's mind via internet. there's so much less you can receive as compared to meeting the person physically. i don't know what is wrong, or if anything is wrong at all. maybe it's the overload of work recently. but i just pray that he'd be fine. he was a special one all along. to me and to others.

Wii Rockband rocks!

And FSC rockband rocks even more!! ^_^


Thanks FBmummy and daddy for buying the set, for having us around, for feeding us like pigs.... ^_^

Heroine in the making

can't believe it's over. finally. it had been on my mind for ages, but no time to prepare until 1 hour before the real thing. last minute couldn't find mouse, then my thumbdrive kena virus cannot use. whoaa.. never been so worried before. by then, there was a qhole big crowd and no speaker. then i was so stressed i plugged the wrong wire for the projector and nothing would show up. had to get the director himself to help me.. "sweetie, you got the wrong one!" >.< so embarrassing.

anyway, i was done speaking 15 minutes before my estimated time. as usual, i speak twice as fast as i rehearse, just because i am ultra nervous. everyone was very encouraging after tt, but i know i can do better. will train up my guts in this one year! *oomph*

during the discussion, he mentioned that "if this works, you'd be a heroine!" indeed, i really hope it'd work. not because i am desperate to be a heroine, but because i am genuinely doing this for a cause. an important cause for the cancer patients. let's all work together for the greater cause! (and for to be heroes and heroines. haha)