Sunday, December 06, 2009
11:35 PM
Last weekend in London (: Awesome weekend! Okay I know I use the word awesome to describe too many things, but awesome is really the most apt word to describe loads of stuff here.
Went to allsouls in the morning to looksee, and it was really rather an eye-opener haha. I have never stepped into a more conservative church. I can even vaguely remember my sunday school praise and worship being more enthusiastic than the one here haha. But good sermon! London needs better churches, they all either have great praise and worship and horrible sermons or the other way round..
After that we had duck rice at four seasons in chinatown, then made our way to Harrods. Harrods is seriously out of this world man. More specifically, their prices are out of this world. Feeling filthy rich? No idea how to spend that spare £10,000 in your pocket? Just go down to Harrods and buy a monopoly set! That's not even near the most unbelievable price. While zhi wei and I were looking at furniture, we chanced upon a huge pool table, and it cost --wait for it-- 1 million freaking pounds. w.t.f. You could buy a bloody landed property back home for that pool table. Can you imagine? Our education here in London isn't even worth a third of a pool table. Incredible bargains also included a small mint tin-sized can of caviar (looks like 50g?) worth £295, and cherries for merely £52/kg!
Haha then we went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde park, which was really pretty!! You could never build such stuff in the parks in Singapore aha. You can look at the photos I will (soon) post on fb cos I can't describe what it's like lah. Anyways we decided to be adventurous and take the roller coaster. From beneath the rollercoaster really looked damn mild! But when I was up there I totally freaked out haha I thought I was gonna DIE okay reminder once again that I can never ride such stuff in amusement parks.
For dinner we tubed to goldmine restaurant in bayswater, which has really good food! We realised then that our definition of good food dropped dramatically upon entering London, because in general food here all suck. A good rating here in London would probably be somewhere around posher food court standard only in Singapore heh. Ohwells Singapore food soon! :D Had frozen yoghurt for dessert yums :D
Ooh yesterday was some OCF xmas event at some chinese church which was quite decent. Mildred and I wanted to go portobello market, but decided not to because someone said it closed damn early.. so we ended up shopping in covent garden. Covent garden really rocks haha it's like the ultimate tourist trap! After that I went to Rasa Sayang in chinatown to meet the PUB-ers to celebrate ed's and zhenxiong's birthdays (: Haha we eat alot of Singaporean food here actually. Just that our charkwayteows and prawn mees cost like 7pounds.. Anyway! Cakes and pastries here are beyond awesome, just fyi. Covent garden has glittery cupcakes that are so pretty you can't bear to eat them, and they even taste very nice haha.
Okays I need to do my tutorial for tmr I'm so dead! Haven't been bothering with my studies the past week woops :P
Tomorrow our cute badass crim tutor is inviting all his classes out for christmas drinks at a random pub near school :D Hoho!
Portugal next weekend, Singapore in two! :D