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HIIEEEEEEEEEE. I haven't been here for ages hehe. I just got back from the UK LIT TRIP 08! OMG. forget about missing two precious weeks of mugging time (AHHHH) but it was SO. SO. SO. SO. SO. SO. SO. (kay I think you get the point.) FUN!!!! I LOVE THE UK. it's feels so much more like a home than singapore does.
people are so goddamn friendly there. partly because they're so goddamn courteous. you could just talk to a random stranger and they'll normally be damn friendly towards you. there was this one time where I was in london, and it was free time. and we were on oxford street! me, yuhan, joanna, wenqiang, and jonchan. and we already got our lunch. (mine being vegetarian, was highly unsatisfactory D:) and we were outside the BBC building. YEAH THE BBC BUILDING. THE BBC BUILDING THAT BROADCASTS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD. (it's cool alright) and we asked this 60-year-old dude to help us take a picture outside it, and he started talking to us like he was our GUIDE, like for the entire tour. he was really helpful and started telling us stories about his great-grandfather and all that. and it's not just cos he's 60 years old and therefore senile, and therefore more likely to lapse into random stories about ancestry with random people on the streets. he was highly.. um. unsenile? the point is, he was really very friendly lah!
and then there's the other extreme... racism! haha. well. we were in some random town near oxford or something. small town. I can't rmb the name for the life of me. all these small small english towns have so many different complicated names, but they all somehow manage to end up sounding the same. I think they all end with -shire. like. yorkshire. or hampshire. worcestershire. (WORXESTERSHIRE WORX) ANYWAY! we were in some -shire. and we were heading back to the coach after walking around a bit. then there was this guy who was drunk, and he was hanging out with three girls. all dressed to show off their boobies. (I think) and he suddenly jumped in front of this guy called justin and he went like WAHH! like you know, the way sulley in monsters inc. scares little kids silly. and justin was so shocked! and then he got really affected. and he ran away. he runs damn fast, btw. and the guy was just like "is he okay? is he alright? he's FUCKING RUNNING! RUN FORREST!!" like it was so goddamn funny. urgh. what a git.
(I think that's my favourite word. picked it up from some random passerby I heard in UK. GIT! it's not pronounced, GIT. it's pronounced JIT. better than saying asshole all the time huh. GIT!) you know you've HIT the PITS when you've got a ZIT on your TIT, and a nasty spider BIT you when you SIT, and you just feel like a GIT. WHEE.
anyway. what else... oh yeah presents! I got presents for everyone. well everyone I care about anyway. okay not really. those I care about the most. my friends & family, dearest cousins, my class, and OF COURSE, MYSELF :D :D :D :D :D :D WAHAH unfortunately my class will have to wait until school reopens to get it. lol. if it's still intact. ;D hehe. no lahhhh just kidding. it will, I promise.
BTW I MISS ALL OF YOU PEEPS. EVERYONE FROM SCHOOL. ): A01C, T'RUELOVESKISS, all the other random dudes and dudettes. who are only "random" because they're not in my class or og and they're from all over the place and I can't exactly put them all down here. LOVE YOU GUYS. MISS YOU GUYS. and of course I miss someone more than others. ):
anyway (hm start counting the number of anyways in this post, 5 cents for each one. bet you'll get 50. cents, I mean -.-) I GOT TAKE THE LONDON UNDERGROUND! the one jason bourne takes in supremacy. HAHA. ohwell actually it's quite overrated lah. I think mrt is better, cos it's way more spacious and it's not so stuffy, and you don't feel like you're getting molested everytime you get squished in between two huge guys with huge fur coats, and the guy in front of you has got a hood that's so furry it's tickling your nose and it's not even funny. but the STATIONS are something else! not just the platforms, the stations! you get random bursts of wind as you hustle down the stairs, and there's people walking everywhere. EVERYWHERE! especially at the interchange stations. it's so easy to get lost. it's like a labyrinth. which makes it even cooler. then there'll be certain stations where there are buskers playing of all things ELECTRIC GUITAR, in a claustrophobic space like that, so the sound just bounces off the walls and it gets WAY WAY WAY amplified, but it's cool anyways. and there are the beggars! the first one I saw, I was so damn shocked, cos I was laughing with my friends then I turned the corner and the first thing I saw was this pathetic mess of a man huddled in a dark corner looking so dirty and humiliated and hungry and pained and sick and just so gross, and all that was in his begging cup was like, 30 pence or something. D: can't even buy a jacket potato with that! so I gave him 4 pounds. haha. yeahh I'm quite insane. but it was worth it, he was so thankful! :D anyway the coins were weighing down my wallet, so. whatevs. :D
I counted my coins at some point during the trip! and I had like 15 pounds worth of coins. eeks. :d lol.
london's awesome, though. I love trafalgar square, the area in front of st paul's cathedral, the tower on st paul's cathedral where you have to climb up 500plus steps I think (that's what the guide said if I can rmb correctly) unless you can pretend that you're suddenly crippled and go take the lift, covent garden, and the globe theatre. oxford street's quite overrated I think. it's just a shopping haven. unless you're a total shopping junkie you won't find it that interesting. in fact it's quite tiring walking up and down the street. the only england-y thing about oxford street is regent street. cos REGENT STREET'S ON MONOPOLY! so you can just go gawk at the road sign and say WOW. I'm on a real monopoly street. WOW. haha no lah, kidding.
ohyeah I think all the blonde english girls look the same and all the brunette english girls look the same. it's very weird. most of the time they're nice though. the blonde girls always look like they've got too much make up on (I think it's just me though) and the brunette girls always look like they're a bit too tanned for not-so-sunny england.
the weather was horrible on the first week. then it got better. it was worst in cambridge, I think. yeah we went and visited cambridge university. pretty quaint place. but it was FREEEEEEEEEZING lah. the most horrible thing is when the wind starts blowing. can just die, I tell you. and mind you, this is summer. I so cannot tahan temperate climates okay. ]: oh but I think we were getting winter weather in summer, cos of global warming and stuff. out of desperation, I bought myself a pair of gloves that say "england" and a beanie that says "FCB". even though I don't even watch football. heh. poseur.
AND WE WATCHED HAIRSPRAY THE MUSICALLLL! unfortunately the real actor who was acting the main male role was MIA or sth so they got some snotty-nosed fella to act as him. not as cute, but okay la. haha. HAIRSPRAY'S AWESOME! :D there was one scene where they had a GAY KISSING SCENE. KINKY MUCH. :D haha no lah not kinky everyone was like ewwwwww but it was hilarious anyways. cos the person acting as the main character's mother is actually a guy acting as a woman. hee2. picture that.
and there was also a gay kissing scene in a midsummer night's dream! we went to watch that at the globe theatre as well. ohman. FREAKING GAY PLEASE. it was so funnyyyy. this guy got molested, but it was all part of the play. haha. I wanna watch again lah. you can't get that kind of entertainment in singapore, cos everything will be censored. :X
OH YEAH. and we went for this ghost tour thing at warwick castle, which is this medieval castle lah. damn FUN! I was so scared at first, cos I new they were gonna just pop out of nowhere wearing horrible pale makeup and stuff. and I thought I was gonna be the first one to scream and get a shock the moment I stepped in the door, but NO! haha it was a GUY! HAHA. derek, lol. he was screaming all the way. hahaha. so was I, actually, but it's just more amusing cos he's a guy. and weiling lost her jacket in all the excitement. I thought I stepped on something lumpy along the way. turned out to be her jacket. I just thought it was carpet, you know with a little special effects to be more scarymansion-ish. haha. derek's face got caught on camera. it was hilarious lah hahaha.
we wanted to go to london dungeon but we didn't manage to. london dungeon's another scary thing. pretty cool. haha. but we didn't have time.
which reminds me! we went to harrods! OOH! haha. this world-renowned supermarket place, actually. we were all very noob. first thing we (we being me, ivy, stacey, vera and pang) was go to the foodhalls. it was like stepping into some GOLDEN FOOD HAVEN lah. (kay golden food haven sounds like the name of some corny chinese restaurant, but ohwell) and stepping into the chocolate and sweets section was like stepping into WILLY WONKA'S CHOCOLATE FACTORY. especially since all the cashiers were dressed like oompa loompas. quite cool. they sold the original jellybeans there, but it was so overpriced, as with everything there. it was like 6pounds for one tiny box of jellybeans ah, ohman. so we beat a hasty retreat and decided to do our shopping ALONG the street where harrods is. quite productive. me pang and vera went to have fish and chips at this overpriced restaurant. where the fish is like a tiny square, but the whole dish costs 10.25pounds. because we wanted so much to have a fancy lunch in england before we left. they took 20 minutes to serve us, but I must say the fish was quite nice despite its size, and the waitress was unbelievably kind. she said "thank you, VERY MUCH" every two seconds. pang challenged vera to say thank you before she did. vera didn't manage to. and in the end pang tipped her 10pence. ehk? but she said "you're VERY KIND." to which pang said she was suaning him like mad but I think that's part of her job description.
yeah... that's basically it lah. I LOVE ENGLAND. I LOVE JACKET POTATOES. I LOVE UNCENSORED PLAYS. I LOVE THE FRIENDLY BRITS. I LOVE THE ALWAYS-COLD WEATHER. DAMN I MISS THE UK ):
as for pics.. I'm currently uploading them. but only the ones with me in it. cos there are way more scenery pics than camwhore pics. though that's not to say the CAMWHORE PICS AREN'T SCENIC. HAHAHA GET IT GET IT SCENIC CAMWHORE PICS. HAHAHA. okay not funny. ohwell. I'm uploading them all into facebook, btw, so too bad if you don't have facebook! :D
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