100808--Trip to London

Hello once again.. so this post will be about our trip to london on sunday.. we walked to the coach station at 8am, boarded the coach at 8.20 and reached london at around 11am... returned to cambridge at 11.50pm, walked and reached hostel at 12.30am. by the time we showered and went to bed, it was already 1am...


london wasnt as polluted as i expected, though there were many ppl smoking... the CONGESTION was really HORRIBLE. the bus literally inched forward while in london. it'll start moving for ten seconds and then stop for another ten to fifteen seconds before repeating the cycle... as a result, motion sickness slowly creeped in... :(

we went our ways once we alighted.. Xinyi went with 6h since they all wanted to sit in the London Eye. So in the end, we went together with Lisa, Xinyu and Yingzhen... SMTP outing yet again :) bought a map for 3 pounds when its supposed to be 2....stupid machine cheated me of one pound. oh well, we walked A LOT (didnt take the subway or bus) yesterday.. (today is still monday while i am typing). Xinyu, President of Ventures and Rovers, was a pro at map reading and guided us the entire trip.. hee hee.. and i wonder why the only guy in our grp didnt lead the way....

Eh wa lao, you all hogged the map lor... And I was looking out for other stuff like your safety (let alone cubes)... Besides since Xinyu so zai... might as well just let her get on with it...

we went from Victoria Street to Big Ben, Buckingham Palace and then Oxford Street. didnt find the cubes and megaminx (cos the girls sort of dao-ed Northern London, where we know got shop there have stock)... so here are some photos:

I'm not that short 1 actually... stupid Xinyu, insisted we take photo together... under the excuse of 6K reunion...

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.. didnt see Prince William or Harry :(

Buckingham? More like Boringham... that golden winged thingy of a statue looked more beautiful la...

Guess whoz the cameraman... AGAIN...

since we left the hostel early, breakfast was packed for us. couldnt eat on the coach so we ended up having brunch.. picnic at Green Park..thankfully we brought along some biscuits and granola bars... the weather was really cold.. Mr Samuel Tan sent me an SMS: 10 deg c, forecast rain in evening.. aiyoh, had we known earlier, we prob wouldnt have sat down in the park for lunch..

so after a not so hearty but definitely very cheap lunch (not to mention all the pigeons staring at us... 1 even perched in the grass, OMG), we continued our journey.. there's this super long walk in the park and to keep us going, we sang WE WILL GET THERE!!! still in the national day mood :)

My little idea of fun and motivation... since the lyrics of the chorus so fitting... Deep in my heart, I just know, right from the start, we will go, look where we are, we've come so far, AND THERE'S STILL A LONG LONG WAY TO GO, with all of my heart, bla bla bla, bla bla bla bla, bla bla bla, with family and friends, together we'll stand, and in the end, hand in hand, WE WILL GET THERE...

AND WE DID... that's why we're blogging from the comfort of our hostel...

all right here are some of the more random and lame stuff... we heard the police/ambulance sirens at least 7 TIMES in less than 24 hours in London... at different parts though.. kinda appreciated Singapore's safety at that time..

Not forgetting our GP lesson

Not forgetting our SMTP teacher in charge either...

we bought lots of food for 6K...

Poor things, they need seat belts for protection...

we went shopping the whole day.. started raining and we went to this departmental store to wait for the rain to stop... yea right, had to be THIS departmental store huh, the 1 which sells all the women's stuff... ended up shopping there.. Lisa and I helped DK pick stuff for his GF (man dun captalize it) as well... in the end, DK was the only one who bought stuff from that store. (yea yea thank you girls for picking the gift) The shops closed super early at 6am... had dinner at Pizza Hut in the end since it was one of the few stores that hadnt closed.. DK paid for our dinner (wow so gentlemanly...) and we walked back to Victoria Street..

Then SOMETHING VERY SCARY HAPPENED. we stopped to look at the map and figure out the correct orientation. so 4 girls standing in a circle, crowding behind the map, 1 guy standing not far away. SUDDENLY, some ang moh guys (drunkards to be exact) towered over us (the 4 girls) and said: WHAT ARE YOU LADIES DOING HERE? we got toally freaked out and all 4 of us walked away... DK walked away too... we walked for abt 50m before turning back to check that they werent following us... HORRIBLE EXPERIENCE. that moment, i was really petrified.. thankfully we are safe (to my family reading this post, i am fine. dont worry. i prayed all the time) i think they were drunkards... like what Lisa said, next time, no matter what, we must not look lost... luckily there was a guy with us.. (actually did it really make a great diff?) anyway, end of horror story. dont want to think abt it anymore.

Hey told you liao, they stopped cos I glared at them, then they realized we had a guy watching over you 4 (well, literally watching over, in a sense, since i so tall)... I ready to fight if i had to ok... I kick ppl stomach very accurate 1... just carry my plastic bags for me while i do that... I was also checking to see if they came... Warnings from tall yellow lighthouses are very powerful... And I paid for everyone's dinner, for, er, compensation? Hehheh...

that's abt all.. sorry for the very long post.

Mui Suan

Jia Guang

Once again...