Rayman Raving Rabbids 2
Singapore relived.
Bagel Street
Poppy seeded bagel with tomato & beef I think.
Decorated for the occasion.
Carnaby Street
Croissants with icing on it?
Wei Hehn insisted on sitting outside to get the best out of the ambience and weather. Cold as hell, but worth it.
Don't say I don't let you choose which pictures to put up =P
Nicer one! (sorry See Ki)
Princess Garden Dim Sum
The food! Looks awesome eh =D
Me, Siang Loong (Chester) & Teng Teng.
Xin Yi & I
See Ki & Xin Yi
Me & Huey Yuen, the most ham sup of all. He took up polo as a frigging weekly sport, wtf. And you complain your monthly allowance drains too fast.
Small world. No, wait, small London. Me, Jenq Yan & Ding. Banged into him, he was having lunch there too.
4 out of 6
St. Georges Church
Hamleys, the largest toy store. Bought my youngest brother's birthday gift.
Ferrari. I will revisit this store next weekend at the end of the trip, if I have any money left to spend!
Fwuuuaaaahhh...
Don't know their names since it was already on the table when I sat down, but this dish was the nicest! I only know it's pork.
Dunno what name. Mussels.
Dunno what name. Prawns. The sauce was awesome though, sweet kinda curry.
Vanilla Ice cream with blended pandan + cucumber
Suat Ling & I
Chan Sze Hua & I. Finally. You better get up at 10.
The table.
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>Sunday, November 15, 2009
London Day 4
(again, click to enlarge the photos, no idea why in this form it looks blur, but looks okay when enlarged)
Good morning world! This is how the living room looks like when we first get up. Notice my laptop at the bottom left corner? With a tripod and my harddrive. Ding Shyong is the one sitting at the upper left corner with his desktop.Anyway, we were supposed to get up really early today to go to Waterloo Station to get our railcards done. A huge bulk of the itinerary of the day was to shop in Bicester Village = hole in my parent's pocket (I'm honest, I didn't say MY pocket, lol!). But before that, Ding brought us to this place selling Bagels for breakfast just downstairs to where he stayed. It was awesome, don't think we can find bagels as nice as these in Malaysia.
My classis NY bagel (smoked salmon + cream cheese ;) )
Waterloo Station, supposedly one of the busiest station in the UK.My very first London post I had a picture of the station but we didn't actually enter it. Well, we did this time. And it immediately gave me this Harry Potter we're-off-to-hogwarts kinda feel. Was looking for platform 7 and a half (was it 7 1/2?) to run through and see.
Inside of Waterloo Station.
Playing with my camera on the train. Was playing with low shutter speed effects, lol.
The ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) kid.
The people who holds her reigns so she won't go wild.
(Didn't bother waxing my hair this time since it rains in London everyday anyway and buying clothes = constant changing)
Ding's camwhoring skills!The whole plan was to sleep! Since the train ride was 50 minutes long and we didn't get much rest the night before. But aiya got a liveplug with us, who were we kidding? (Big Ben is ringing now, so cool). Anyway, 50 minutes later.......
Bicester Village.
A peep inside. Weather was lousy though.
Sorry, lighting not nice, but it was the only pic with Vivienne Westwood, lol.
Random picture of the inside.
Oh, and we were supposed to meet up with Teh Tzun Tzin (tTt) at 12pm. Not surprisingly, he turned up at 2pm, lol. But turned up, nevertheless!
The CBK & I.
Me & tTt. Nice shot Ding.
(We didn't even enter the shop, lol)
The 2 ham sups!
Tzun Tzin spoiling an otherwise cool picture.
Seeki & I at the end of the shopping trip. Yes, it was dark by the time we were done, lol. But it was only 4.15pm at that moment. London weather.
Mummy's not gonna be too happy about this.We gleefully made our way home, sorted out the receipts for tax redemption and who owes who etc etc, and rested before dinner. We reached home at 6.30pm, was supposed to meet Dian Hoong and Wrn Wrn for dinner downstairs for Mediterranean food at 7pm, when we called Dian Hoong at 7pm...
"Hello..?"
"Oi, where are you?"
"At home. Leaving now."
"#*!(&$*!($&*&@#$*"
"Eh, Wrn Wrn gonna take much longer to get ready, wait ah"
So i went to take a nap since jet lag was kicking in.. =.=" Once a malaysian, forever a malaysian. When we finally got to eat dinner..
Troia. Food was pretty good!
The appetizer. I think it was bread + yoghurt & sour cream. Was awesome. Olives too of course.
The chicken soup. Was full of potato, pepper, onions, chicken etc etc.
Some mushroom dish, forgot what was it but it was good too.
My succulent chicken dish. Was damn tasty.
Chopped lamb with yoghurt =D
The cousins! Dian Hoong and Ding Shyong.
Me, Dian Hoong & Seeki.
Wrn Wrn(My neighbour!) & Seeki.Uh oh, Seeki woke up screaming already, tyrant is up.. means I gotta run and get ready now. Gonna be another shopping day I guess, for her, window shopping for me. Update again later tonight.
>Saturday, November 14, 2009
London Day 3
Okay, day 3 started off by us taking tube to London Bridge Station, this time by ourselves since Ding Shyong wasn't following, he had to finish some of his work so he can join us on Saturday. Original plan was to head to Borough Market for their fresh fish & chips. Met up with Vanessa and Wei hehn there, who were way earlier than us!
London Bridge is falling down, falling down......
Stinko in the tube!
Wei Hehn & IWei Hehn was on crutches, he tore his ligament training for Nottingham games, but he still walked with us all the way. Poor thing.
Insensitive joke of the day:
(sms early in the morn before we left)
Wei Hehn: Raining eh :c
Me: Use umbrella la, lazy bum la you! Bet u wanna sleep in.
Wei Hehn: Very funny boy. No hands.
Me: Oops, shit. =X
We were too early I supposed, cause the place only opens at 11.30am, and we were there at 10, supposed to catch the changing of guards at 11, so we abandoned fish & chips (T.T) and made our way to the palace.
The garden we walked through
Fwuahhh.
You can obviously see we took turns taking photos, lol.
Here's some pictures at the palace. We were basically camping there till they made the switch.Cool eh? =)
All of us
Changing of the guards.
Vanessa then brought us to this cool retro place, those kinda soda shops last time with jukeboxes and all? They have awesome milkshakes! and typical american-leading-cause-of-childhood-obesity kinda food, but it was awesome...! Yeah pictured the place in your head already? It looks something like this:
Seeki & Vanessa
Me & Wei Hehn aka Nigel in London, lol!
Our milkshakes!
My set. Gosh I'm hungry looking at it already.
Fantastic food + fantastic company = fantastic time.We headed to Imperial College after that, since Nigel was supposed to go to uni to complete his work. Met Nicholas Yee along the way, didn't take a photo though.
The university. My first time there, lol. My first time in London in the first place.
I paid 1 pound to take a picture with this guy so I might as well post it up!After sending him off to uni, Vanessa brought us to the national museum! It was much cooler than I expected it to be, had that "Night in the museum" feel about it, it's architecture, the displays, everything! Was really good for photo-taking.DNA! Lol.
Outside the museum.
Upon entering.
10 times nicer than those in Malaysia.
Looking AT the entrance.
Charles Darwin himself.
Awesome-ness
Joel, don't say I never do anything for you. =)Other displays which would interest readers or looks cool:
Embryo
For the guys! Click to enlarge, they even labelled it, lol!We headed to Harolds after that. Huge mistake! Uber cool shopping paradise for girls, walking torture for guys. Omg. My legs had an orgasm when I sat down! But yeah it was a nice place and worth the visit anyway, thanks vanessa..!
The place, in green this year, eww.
The memorial of Diana and the other dude in the building.
Cool confectioneries sold there. *salivates*Last event for the day -- dinner at Arang. Vanessa & Seeki dragged my tired ass(more of legs) to the bus and travelled back to Picadilly Circus for dinner. It's a korean restaurant, since I had the urge for Korean BBQ and they said the food there was good. Met Kok Shen, Ding Nen & En Li for dinner there, along with Ding Shyong, Seeki & Vanessa. =)
BBQ beef
My chicken rice on hot stone.
Complimentary oranges. Thought the way they cut it was cute.
The table. Was nice meeting them in London.
(opposite of the table were Seeki & Vanessa =) )Okay, I have to get changed now, Seeki is screaming already since we have to leave within 15 minutes and I'm still in my pyjamas. Plans for the day -- Bicester sales & dinner with the ham sups! (Dian Hoong, Siang Loong, Huey Yuen) Till then!
>Friday, November 13, 2009
London Day 2
Note: I have no idea why the photos looks blur in this view, but if you click to enlarge it, it's the normal quality from the camera. So yeah, to enjoy it the the fullest, click on the pictures. =)
(pictures quality aren't perfect yet but that's cause I haven't learnt the photoshop aspect of it yet. Let me kao tim the basics first with the camera)
It's 7am now, didn't manage to upload the photos yesterday because I literally got knocked out for the whole of last night due to jetlag. Was supposed to get up at 8.30am to have breakfast(their supposedly freshest fish&chips) at Borough Market with my favourite combo, Vanessa & Wei Hehn (=D), so I guess that leaves me with an hour to upload what I was supposed to last night!
Today, Vincent was supposed to meet up with us. So while waiting for him, Seeki & I accompanied Ding Shyong to his uni, King's College, to hand in his coursework. Along the way, we took a handful lot of pictures. His place is surrounded by tourist's destinations. What would I expect from a person's apartment which is sitting directly next to the London Eye? Lol.
One of the memorials outside his university. Forgot what war was it, my apologies.
Ditto.Met up with Vincent in front of Waterloo Station. Haven't seen him in 2-3years I think? Lol. We headed for some english breakfast in a restaurant below where we lived (County Hall).
The place.
My Hot Chocolate.
No, that's not English Breakfast. I figured it wouldn't be filling enough so I opt-ed for Chicken Fillet.
Ham Sap(Ding) & I
Vincent & I
The London Eye.
(Due to bad impression left by Malaysia's Eye, we didn't go on it)
Better view from across the bridge.
Big Ben. Roar.
The Natioal Gallery.
Me & Ham Sap in front of the National Gallery.
How London cinema theatres look like. No, I didn't come to london just to catch a movie, just went in for a peep, lol.
If u enlarge this pic, you would notice the horse is stepping on his pile of shit. Poor thing still not allowed to move.
Guess he doesn't have a choice but to take the picture with us.
Somewhere in Leicester Square I think?We passed by a whole bunch of memorials walking around London, mostly were to commemorate the soldiers lost in World War 2. So yeah, this is the collection of pictures I took along the way:
In front of 1 of the cathedrals.
Much gratitude to Vincent, Ding Shyong & Seeki as they had to stop and patiently wait for me every 10 steps we took cause I wanted to snap a picture of something we walked pass.Okay, there's something I wanted to point out. The night before last, Ray (Ding Shyong's housemate) was teaching me how to take nicer pictures, like exposure (aperture+shuttlespeed+ISO) and how the subject is the most important, angle, etc etc. So I was pretty much applying what he taught the night before (noob in the learning). Then, I realised, it just means people around me are going to have nicer pictures, how about my pictures! (I forgot to bring a tripod, and it'd be stupid to use one when there are 3 friends with u!) Dont believe me?-----
Taken by Ding. I still love you ham sap, no worries!
Hers is so much nicer. T.T
Me with main man, Abraham Lincoln. This is actually a nice shot, but...
Isn't this better? T.T
Hence, the bitter me decided to do the best alternative -- taking it without anyone inside. Nyek!
George Canning. Honestly? I have no clue who is he. XDAt night, Seeki & I met up with Wei Shen, my cousin studying medicine in Cardiff. He's down here for a conference I think, and to meet up with one of his professors for academical purposes. We met him at Waterloo station, and walked all the way to Covent Garden for dinner at Belgo, supposedly for the best mussels in town and fruit beers =)
The menu. =)
Wei Shen & I.
The camera shy girl.
Wei Shen's lamb shank. Looks damn good.
His Honey Beer.
My Mango Beer. Doesn't taste anything remotely like beer, hence, nice!
My cheese mussels with some marinate, forgot what was it, lol.
Seeki's Mediterranean cheese mussels with forgot what marinate again.Okay it's 8.20am now, gonna get dressed since it's almost about time to leave already. Will upload more photos for Day3 when I get back!
>Thursday, November 12, 2009
Day 1
....and we're off to london! Overslept for 3 hours(was supposed to go to the gym before leaving) and woke up at 11am, only to rush to 1u to have lunch with mum before she dropped me at seeki's place. We then headed to LCCT terminal for our flight.
The kid, dripping her ice cream all over.We then dragged our 22.5kg luggage (hers was 19.5kg) to check it in before hunting for magazines that we may find entertaining so we won't die of boredom throughout the 14 hour flight. We got so carried away that suddenly, on the PA system, announced "will the passenger Ong See Ki, please report to terminal 26 immediately".. we were late for our flight! When we made it to the terminal sprinting with mammoth luggages, she pointed at me and told the officer "sorry sir, he had a very bad stomachache was trapped in the toilet".... Nice........
Our seats were pretty small, and did not have much leg space.. Ppl going to UK from malaysia, please do not take airasia, unless you're fully equipped with sufficient entertainment, because my ipod touch and 2 movies + 4 sitcom episodes were not enough. Upon settling down, even before we took off..... (it was delayed by an hour, Malaysia Boleh)
Tertidur. Must be the sun. Whereas...
...seeki, camwhoring. *pengsan*We ordered this portable TV for rent from airasia, which was basically our entertainment, the screen in front of u in MAS airplanes? It went for $30, but we were desperate, so yeah. It looks something like this.
No, we weren't allowed to bring it home.
I love my new camera. =D
We kinda pre-ordered this "comfort kit" with our tickets already. Basically they just gave us this neck cushion, blanket and those they use to cover ur eyes when u sleep (dunno wats it called). So when you add everything tgt, you would get.....
Honestly, the meals in airasia were not that bad at all. The only thing was that I simply refused to use the airplane's toilet to crap, and maybe it was also because I was sitting on the inner seat and simply cant be bothered to get up, my stomach hurt like crap throughout the flight. When I've reached Stanstead airport, it felt like I had megacolon --> constipation. Ughh. Anyway, the meals:
Beef Lasagna
Nasi something. (I forgot, and didn't have a choice since I got hungry halfway tru and they did not have anything else)
10mins later: Oh! Remembered! Nasi Kandar!
5hours later: Shit, it's Nasi Briyani (credits to seeki)
Chicken Fettucini with carrot and corns.
Upon arriving, we met up with Ding Shyong, who took bus all the way to the remoted airport to pick us up, and whose place I'm staying at!
The kind sakai who came all the way to pick us up.
His crib. I'm sleeping on the right bed, LOL.It's 3.30am here, and I'm not sleepy at all. I'm gonna force myself to bed so I won't get Jetlag tomorrow. Goodnight everyone, will update on day 2 tomorrow night!(which is tomorrow afternoon Malaysia time)
Screw the ball-less fella who hacked my FB account
>Wednesday, November 4, 2009
This is so funny.....
A bat flew into San Antonio's basketball stadium, and they had to stop play countless of times because it would fly around the court area and disrupt everything..
So Manu Ginobili, got fed up and decided to take care of the bat himself..
....and the very next day, there was a new headline on NBA.com:'Batman' Ginobili undergoes rabies shot after catching bat
Ahahahaha. But seriously, I really hope he doesn't get Rabies. Not a very nice virus to contract.
...and for some seriously creative bullshit =D
(as usual, click on it to enlarge)
After 21 years on Earth, I have finally gotten a camera for myself..! Yes, I've never owned a digital camera before, ever, I've been living off snatching pictures from friends' cameras or, the easiest, saving them from FB when friends who attended the same function do upload them, means if they don't upload them, I won't have it, pathetic, right? XD
Anyway, after much pondering and enquiry, I ended up getting...........................Panasonic Lumix LX3
Honestly, I was leaning more towards getting a Canon G10.. but they say basically its the same, except that Canon G10 is more for people preferring to do the settings themselves manually, and the Lumix LX3 are more for amateurs(polite way of saying noob) since it auto-sets the settings. And it was a pretty good deal. =) Sample: (click on it, obviously my photography skills sucks)
And I've been listening to this song whole day long. Worth a listen. Okay, maybe 2-3 times, since this kinda songs aren't really appreciated on the first listen.
