Sunshine in London

08/06 (Thu) – I went down to London (to spend a few days there). It was not a good plan to go down in the middle of the week, but I must meet Nat before she went off to Houston. She spends 2 weeks in London and 2 weeks in Houston. What a job! Anyway, the big surprise was; Nat is seeing Ko now, another close friend of mine when I was in Uni. It was rather strange to see ‘close friends’ holding hands and ‘touching’ each other. They took me to Oriental City not so far from Edgware where I ate Laksa and Nasi Goreng. I wanted to have Roti Canai, but the stall was already closed by 6pm.


09/06 (Fri) – The next day, I was supposed to go to Anne and Al’s house in Rayner’s Lane. These are 2 specialists working in London till October 2006. They can’t stand the working condition here. NHS is way too much. I was supposed to be at their house by 5pm. Before that I spent some time in National Portrait Gallery. It was great. I had been wanting to check it out ever since I got to UK.



And then, I walked from Westmister Abbey, along The Thames to go to The Tate Modern. I guess I like Tate more than the portrait gallery. I spent good 3 hours there. I was late to catch the opening ceremony of World Cup 2006.

10/06 (Sat) – Al said, I should check out the Car Boot Sale at a place called Denham. Yes, it was a big car boot sale really. There were some nice antiques, of course and they were all cheap. I spent some money on books, they were all old books on evolution of English costumes, punting and London 1937 guide. Then we headed home. It was just in time for England vs. Paraguay match on teley. On the way back, the pubs were all full and suddenly, all I could see was red and white. England won, it was not a fantastic game to me (it could have been an embarrassment if the free kick by Beckham was not 'deflected' by that idiot from Paraguay to score its own goal!).

I left Al’s place at about 6pm to go and meet Ben in Shoreditch. Had a drink with him in the park – chatting away. At 8.30pm, he walked me to the station he gave me a quick touristy guide of the area before we came to Liverpool St. I met Ghaz at London Metropole at 9pm. I used to work with him, so it was good to catch up really. I was done by 11pm and got back to College by 1.30am. Uh it was a long tiring day.

11/06 (Sun) – I just watched Poseidon with Luke at 9pm. It was an OK movie. I had lots of questions. But Luke was so into the movie. But I managed to make fun of the movie. I think, that is another Titanic with some desperate people in it. Tomorrow I will watch a movie called “Time to Leave” (88 mins), a French movie. I will catch that at Cambridge PictureHouse. It will be screened at 3.00pm tomorrow.