I moved!

I moved! Since the new apartment won't have internet access for at least the next few weeks, I won't be able to update this blog. Anyway, today's my very last night at the temporary accommodation. I shall enjoy the internet, water, electricity & TV for the very last time! hehehe...

London Daytrip 05 Aug 07

It's the 1st Sunday in UK! With the banks and offices closed, there's not much administrative stuffs we can do, so we decided to go to London!!! London is BEAUTIFUL!!! I just love the architecture!





Very unique bridge

Not sure what this building is called, but it looks kinda like Sleeping Beauty's castle to me.

A beautiful private cottage. I'd love staying there!
The Eye of London

It's bright and sunny and SCORCHING hot that day. With people fishing under the shade by the river, it's hard to believe that this place was flooded just a few weeks ago.

Big Ben! Or as D calls it "大苯钟".

Big Ben close up

Somehow, everyone seems to be taking pictures with the telephone booths! I did too! Haha...

Finally, the very famous Paddington Bear!

Greetings from Slough, UK

This's my 5th day in Slough! I hadn't been able to really log online for the past few days, because the internet connection was horribly slow. There's supposed to be wireless connection in the apartment, but we weren't given the password!!! So, we attempted to use the LAN cable. Unfortunately, I still couldn't log online. My friend's laptop could, but it's very unstable. Usually, it takes about 10 painstaking minutes to load just 1 pathetic website... Anyway, I've kinda given up hope of accessing the internet from my apartment, so I shall camp over at another apartment more often from now on.

Here's some pictures I took on the plane & the airport.

Pretty sunrise!

UK!

Lots of luggages

The BA flight was pretty good! To my pleasant surprise, there was personal entertainment! Unfortunately, I was sitting too close to the wings, so the drone of the turbines was a little uncomfortable. & my poor-quality hair was fried by the dryness & static on the plane. It still hadn't recover yet, so I look like a scarecrow with hay for hair... Think I'll have to use loads of hair serum/moisturer...

Anyway, we were whisked off to our temporary apartment in Colnbrook after we landed. The apartment was beautiful!!!

There's also a plasma TV in the living room, but I don't have the picture now.

My beautiful bedroom! The ultra soft & fluffy bed has 4 pillows & 4 cushions, so when you lie down on it, you feel like you're swimming in a sea of pillows! Perfect!




Colnbrook - a small, quiet & beautiful village.

















Life's good!

I'm flying off to UK!

I am flying off to UK, Heathrow (London) in 22 hours time... I spent my entire day packing, and somehow I still have this dreaded feeling that I may have missed out some important things.

Although I have known for months that there's a high chance of me flying off on 30th July, things hadn't been settled until the very last minute. I only signed the contract and recieved my work permit 10 days ago, got my visa 4 days ago, and received my flight e-tickets 3 days ago. So things had been rush. Quite a few hiccups along the way, but I guess I shalln't whine about it. Like what Bingboom put on his MSN display name: " The loudest sound in the world is the sound of people whining", I shalln't contribute to noise pollution.

My friend & I did a stupid thing today. We were allowed to check in online 24hrs before our flight. So, being kiasu Singaporeans, we log onto the British Airways website at around 11pm so as to get the side-by-side seats with more leg room. After we finally decide on which seats to take, I clicked on the confirmation button. My friend, later by a minute or two, lost the seat to another person! The worse thing is, once confirmed, we can't change our seats again. So now, instead of the anticipated comfortable and enjoyable ride, we'll have to tolerate the 10hrs flight in silence & loneliness... *sob sob* So much for being greedy! Just hope that some tall, dark & handsome guy will sit beside me then. :p

Our "misfortune" wasn't as bad as NivelK's. He took too much time in deciding what seats to take that he got logged out of the website and was taken to have checked into his seat! Now he's stuck all the way at the back of the plane, just next to the washroom. Haha... Guess BA really don't like wishy washy people - don't let people change their seats more than once, and logging people out of the website if they take too long to decide.

Anyway, I can't imagine I'll be all the way at the other side of the globe by this time tomorrow. Is it going to be similar to the NCBV experience 2yrs ago? The size of the group on this program, as well as the $ we're receiving is similar enough. Just hope that work, travel, & everything else will be as fun. It's time to take on the world again! Hahaha...

BTW, I just realised that there actually IS an official definition for Kiasu. Kiasi wasn't included though.

Oh! And if you hadn't realise, this blog is the start of an attempt to record my travelling trips in UK & Europe. Hopefully I'll have the persistance to keep updating this thing. :p