Saturday, June 30, 2007
The europe trip was awesome (: i had so much fun and i wouldnt trade the memories from the trip for the world. i must say that i gained so many new experiences and i learned so many things about life!First day. hahaha okay this is irrelevant to the trip but ctg caught shrek! hahahahahha okay shrek is damn funny i think its like the funniest show ever. then jean and i rushed home to do last min packing and went to the airport! okay i got stopped cause the guy didnt believe that the photo in the passport was me and i had to produce my ez-link! (sigh second time happening) AND AND AND i got stopped after that again! cause i accidentally brought a scissors in my pencilcase. uhhuh. so my scissors got confiscated and i have a blackmark. haha goshhhhh. so wheeeeeee the plane took off! it was thai airways though so no tv ): but the food was grrrrreat (:
Second day. we arrived in london! it is such a pretty place. all the bulidings and everything are so unique and nicely sculptured sighhhhhhh i really want to live in london next time. and like shops have one buliding to itself? so there can be one whole building for zara and all that. its so cool. okay so for a start we visited the bank of england (: haha okay the talk was so boring i actually fell asleep but later we could go round the exibits and lift real gold! (it was like 10 kg i think) haha okay my wrist almost broke. after that was lunch! we had pizzzzaaaaaaaa most delicious meal everrrrr (:
afterrrrr that we went to the uk parliament. it was soooooooooo pretty. it is like an old palace where the kings and queens of england used to live in but now its used for parliament. there are like so many paintings and sculptures of the past king and queens and everything was so beautiful. sigh if i were a king or queen during that time i would be so happy everyday. anyway there used to be this rule in the parliament which i find so so funny. usually when debates go on right, like to pass laws or something. when a verdict cannot be reached, all the ministors are given 8 minutes to travel to the building and run to the 'for' or 'against' side. its so funny! like even if he is in hospital he has to travel there by ambulance i think. hahahahaha okay its quite interesting.
after that we checked into our hostel! its so horrible cause we had to share rooms with seven other people and we were given like double decker beds. but the company was fun (: haha apparently our holstel room was the biggest and nicest. but there was like a sliding window and the people told us not to open it in case there were foxes outside? hahahahaha okay but i think foxes are quite cute. then went for dinner! it was some indian thing and it looked good but it tasted so bad we just lost our appetide. ohwellllll. after dinner we went to sainsbury's! some supermarket place and bought stuff that we needed! then we went back to the hostel and bathed! the tap in our level was so crazy it kept dispensing VERY hot water so we had to go to diff levels. then we went to sleep!Third day. ate breakfast in the hostel. there was nothing much to eat so ms chuah cooked eggs for us! haha she's so nice. okay so we visited the british museum! okay but it was quite boring actually cause the exibits were like all ancient stuff like stones and manmade tools. but the city tour after that was fun! haha we visited buckingham palace! the cute soldiers werent there though. ohwell. but actually i think the old palace is nicer that the buckingham palace and the king and queen should move there. hahaha.
we saw many pretty things too like trafalgar square, St pauls cathedral, harrods and the london eye!
after that was dinner at some chinese restaurant. the food wasnt very good and it was so stuffy! we almost died there okay. alright after that we went to sainsburys again and this time we bought lots of stuff!
then we went back to the hostel and bathed and slept!Fourth day. we visited the science museum! haha the exhibits were sooooo nice i was so intrigued. there was so many sections to see and so limited time so we were running from one place to another. my two favourite sections were the diamonds section and the dinosaur section (: but sigh we didnt get to view everything cause we were only given like 3 hours? ohwellllllllll.
after lunch which i think was at subway, we were given time for shopping! how amazing is that (: we were so excited that we were running from shop to shop. we bought so many tops and stuff and we were so happy after that (: the very nice boys helped to carry our stuff and waited outside each store for us to be done with shopping! gosh they are the nicest man. my favourites were the disney shop and H&M where i bought so many tops from!
dinner after that was gooood for once and it was at some italian place! the atmosphere was really pretty and the toilet was sooooooooooooo nicely decorated hahahah there was like a bar outside it? so after that we walked back to our hostel!
Fifth day. we visited the london school of economics! haha ms chuah graduated there! its quite a cosy school but i think that the building wasnt very pretty. so anyway we had a tour of the school by a singaporean studdent there and it was QUITE fascinating. haha so anyway, we ate at the canteen. the food looked so appetising but it didnt taste very good! aside from the pizza in the first day and dinner the day before, i dont think that the food we ate was very good. ohwellllll. following that we went to the london metal exhange! haha i think it was so fascinating cause we were able to REALLY watch how people bid for metals LIVE. there is like this group of people inside who start a bid for the metals and the people outside are the dealers who are like crazily doing hand actions to one another while others are holding two phones at one time frantically trying to make a deal. it was like some live cartoon show. haha. dinner at the horrible chinese restaurant again and back to hostel! haha OKAY i'm quite tired now and i'll stop here for now! will complete the other days later on!