Thursday, December 6, 2007 ♥
Hi everyone, i am finally back from the uk. Sorry couldn't blog about my trip earlier because i have been suffering from a very bad jetlag. I can only fall asleep at about 530 in the morning and unable to wake up until its 4 in the afternoon. Back to work as usual today. it is so damn sian. how can i take it. luckily its 8 months more before i distrupt anhead to the uk again to study. Here is more about our trip.
Before my trip could actually start, i met with an accident with a taxi. guess only jasmine saw the real damage of my car as i had to meet her to get glenn's psp from her.
23nov, nothing very much happened apart from my flight to london heathrow. met glenn and jas for a smoke at the airport before my flight as glenn was down at the airport doing his project or something.
24nov, arrived in heathrow at about 0545. i must say the immigration in heathrow is a real pain in the ass. they questioned me as if i as a terrorist. Why are you here, for what, where you stay, who are you here with, what is your occupation etc... after that, waited in the airport for about 3 hours before its time to take the coach with my aunt to wellington, a little town in somerset which happens to be my cousin's home. i must say that her luggage is really crazy. 160kg worth of baggage. wondering what is wrong with her mind. Even the national express staffwas complaining that he didn't see such heavy baggages in his life before, not even during his time in the army. upon arrival, just settled in, and head straight to taunton for our first of many waves of shopping. Dearie and i went crazy at burton, topshop, and river island. omg. we were a full load of shopping bags at the end of day 1. Overnight at my cousin's place for day 1.
25 nov, headed down to bristol where we got went crazy yet again. shop shop and shop until we even forgo the chance to go bath just to have more time to shop. Its FCUK this time around. I think i got 2 polo tees from there and a t-shirt while sharon got herself a pair of jeans and many others to name afew. overnight in bristol. hehe.
26nov, headed down to london today. decided to hope on the big bus tour that will take you virtually all the attractions in london. As this is the first time for sharon to the uk, it was a good experience apart from the freezing temperature as we were seating on the upper deck of the open top bus. Then after that, it was pizza hut for us for dinner. 2 pasta and a medium hawaiian pizza set us back about 50pounds. what is this man. haiz. overnight in london.
27 nov, its birmingham today. went crazy shopping yet again. got myself lots of tees from puma and sharon got herself a puma birmingham tee which i think was pretty nice. wanted to get jas a tee from puma too but dunno whether she will like it or not, so decided not to get any for the ime being first. Then it was off to addidas where we got lots of souveneirs.
28nov, its a big day today. after days of comtemplating renting a car, i finally did it today. rented a peugoet 207 a 1.4litre car to drive up to surrey. Hopefully it will be my school come summer. haha. i must pay a little tribute to sharon on this. even though she may be very bad with roads in singapore, she is actually a decent map reader. we manage to find our way to surrey without a GPS which i think was really great. haha. met mel and she showed us around school. Mel had jus moven out of the hostel to stay somewhere in the city centre. I think she has gotten herself a real bargain. Her place is really lovely apart for the toilet that she is always complaining about. afterwhich, we took a drive to godalming. the place where the movie the holiday was filmed. it is really a very nice little town i must say. heard from mel that lots of chelsea players stays in surrey too. haha. Afterwhich, it was more shopping again before we had dinner at nandos, a portugese restaurant that serves very good chicken and pork liver. haha.
29 nov, decided to head up north to clarks village. the headquaters of clarks shoes in the world. bought lots of shoes for my family. ended up buying 17pairs of shoes all in all with sharon having 4pairs of it. gave jasmine a ring as i wanted to get her a shoe. end up couldn't fine a shoe with the heels that we will normally associate with her and thus decided to shelf the plan. Sharon also bought lots of stuff from crabtree and evelyn. they have a store down at clarks villae and i must say that stuff there is pretty reasonable.
30nov, drove up north to manchester today. 300miles was the total distance. petrol set me back about 75pounds all in all. it was down at old trafford today. wat a magnificent stadium they have got. There is just so must to talk about that i think i can't possibly finish in this blog. will put up more pictures in my next post. haven't got a chance to upload it yet.
dec 1, off to london for more shopping. i must say that shopping wasn't the highlight of the day. it was souvenir shopping at tesco that was the highlight of the day. we bought a whole trolley full of chocolates until the cashiers commented that , wow, thats alot of chocalates for christmas. total bills for chocaltes alone, 250 pounds. what were we thinking about? i guess we just had the adrenalin rush of putting chocalates into our trolley. now i am beginning to wonder how are we going to stuff all the things we bought into our luggages.
dec 2, spent the day packing before heading to the airport. Heathrow really sucks to the core man. after clearing immigration, there is absolutely nowhere around the airport that you can find a smoking area apart from outside the airport. the staff was also very rude. the heathrow experience just sucks to the core man. fuck those people. cannot smoke = more shopping before our flight. haiz. afterwhich, it is the end of my fish and chips with salt and vinegar adventure. hahaha. love it to bits.
overall, i did enjoy our trip very much. however, england is really very expensive. if england was about the same range as tokyo it would have been so much better. haha. guess the japanese also finds england very expensive. hehe. will upload more photos of my trip very soon... cheers....