Trip to Bristol - Bath - Oxford - London - Cambridge Part 3

Continuing from Part 1 and 2.

Day 4 (31/5)
We went to the Tower of London to see the crown jewels, armors, weapons and etc. It cost us £13!!! My goodness it's expensive... but luckily there's a lot to see and quite interesting inside.


We had fish and chips for lunch after that. It's quite filling though, and consider cheap.We went to the Natural History Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum and luckily we don't have enough time to go into the museums or else we'll be staying there for long time again. Just took some photos of the outside views.

We walked along that area and went to Kensington Park where the late Princess Diana used to live next to Kensington Palace. We passed by Royal Albert Hall and the Albert Memorial Monument.


That's the girls with Kensington Palace as background. After visiting, we headed to Greenwich at East London. It's a place which I had never been to so it's quite fresh for me. We pass by the University of Greenwich. It's a nice place and as we walked towards the Royal Observatory which the Greenwich Meantime took place, we pass by Maritime Museum, and and the back of the museum, the park is great with lots of people around playing.

We arrived the Royal Observatory at the top of the mountain and took some photos. The view of Canary Wharf from up there is simply spectacular.
This is the 00:00 Greenwich meantime line which is on the floor.
So that's the view of the Museum and Canary Wharf at the back.

We headed straight to Cutty Sark which was burnt at 21/5, and went back to London Central to see London Eye.
This picture shows the burnt Cutty Sark from the side, for bird view, see the link above.
As the London Eye was quite expensive and only a short ride adding that we have to queue to get in, we decided not to get on. We went for dinner after that at Spaghetti House which we chose finally after looking for all the restaurants nearby Tottenham Court Road.
It's an Italian Restaurant. The food taste fine and it cost us a bomb. Life in London. After dinner we went back to Travelodge and that's the end of Day 4.

To be Continued.

Trip to Bristol - Bath - Oxford - London - Cambridge Part 2

Continuing from Part 1.

Day 2 (29/5)
We arrived London after the trip to Oxford. We headed for Piccadilly Circus straight away from Paddington Station to see and take photo of the big signboard.
The white Valiant signboard actually is the Coca-Cola sign but it changed when we took photo of it. After that we went to Leceister Square then straight to China Town to have our first dinner at London.

We had our dinner there and after that we head straight to Travelodge near London City Airport at East London or so called Docklands.

Day 3 (30/5)
We went to Big Ben, Parliament House, then we went to Buckingham Palace to see the change of guards at 11a.m. We stand there and it started to rain and it's crap, really. It's cold as well. we waited for the guards to go in and come out, it took us one hour standing there waiting most of the time as we can't see anything in the fence as we stand quite far away, so we can only see when the guards come out or go in, and listen to the band when they played music.
Even change of guards need to play more than 3 songs??? sigh~~ Poor those guards. After everything finished, we head straight to Bayswater to have Duck Rice which is very famous there. The shop is call Four Seasons. Didn't took any photos though. Chloe left the gang after lunch to continue her own journey.

We headed to the British Museum straight after lunch. Took a very long walk inside the huge building until our legs sore and started complaining. Trust me, it's really huge and we started complaining to Adrian that we don't wanna visit anymore museum. LOL~~
That's a part of the museum. It's too big that we can't take the picture of the whole building by standing inside it. After the tiring walk, Alvin left us to see his friend while we all headed to Canary Wharf, which is a place which I wanna visit during this trip. It's a modern financial centre which have many tall office buildings and nice shopping complexes with various kinds of restaurant.
Took this photo in front of Canada Square. After some visiting around that area, we went to Wagamama for dinner. Sound strange? well, it's a Japanese restaurant which serves good food, basically noodles, rather than Sushi.
So we ordered our own food, I think Adrian has the best order though. The main reason is that he ordered noodles in Miso soup, sorry people, I really forgot all the names of our food already.
Adrian's food, which comes with a tissue and big spoon for soup.
Liwan's food, rice in some kinda soup, I forgot dy.
My food, and Cathy's request, and she ordered as well, noodles, and again, I totally forgot what's the name.
And this rice was ordered by Jeannie. It's quite a big portion with Miso soup and some pickles.

We had our great dinner and we went out for a walk outside the building as the sky is still bright. It was around 7.30p.m. when we walked out from the building.
After a short walk, we just end our day and back to rest for the next day.

To be continued.

Trip to Bristol - Bath - Oxford - London - Cambridge Part 1

On 28/5 around 4a.m., we started our trip. 7 of us, me, Cathy, Alvin, Chloe, Adrian, Liwan and Jeannie in a group, going down south backpacking.

Day 1 (28/5)
Bristol
At around 8a.m., we reached Bristol airport and straightly going down to city centre. It was a bank holiday Monday so the city looks quiet and it was so early by then that we can even walk on the road. When going to the city, the taxi driver showed some interesting places. We then took the tour bus to help us move along in the city.
You can see in this photo that it's so deserted early in the morning in Bristol.
This is SS Great Britain, which taken on the bus tour. We didn't manage to get in as of time constraint, so just pass by and take a photo.
And this is something interesting. The building is the studio for Wallace and Gromit, an animation picture which was quite famous years ago. It's beside the entrance of the SS Great Britain.
So we went to the museum and art gallery to take a short walk. Then we went to the tower, I forgot what name is it. It's on top of a hill and we can see great view of the city.

Actually there's still a lot to show but I have to limit it for the next destination. Bristol is a great place with great scenery and stories. The place has great hills and rivers surrounding and that makes it special.

Bath
On that afternoon, we get train tickets and headed straight for Bath as we're planning to go to Stonehenge, but we failed to do so as we need to get to Salisbury to change bus to go. Stonehenge is in the middle of nowhere and it's far away. It's one of the goals not achieved in this trip.... We headed to town and get our shampoo and stuffs as they can't be brought onto the plane. After that we went to the Roman Baths which is a tourist spot in Bath. It's quite interesting but sometimes it get bored though. We have to carry a mobile phone look-alike tour guide around with us, it's quite annoying, they should give us headset instead so our hands can be free.

As you can see in the picture above, Liwan is holding that "phone" and so as others.

After that we head back to Travelodge to rest for next day. We had BurgerKing as our dinner that night.

Day 2 (29/5)
We continued our sight-seeing in Bath in the morning. We went to The Circus. It's not that performing circus with animals and clowns, it's basically a circle which has buildings around it. The buildings are all same and surrounding the roundabout in the middle.
This is a part of The Circus. It's a magnificent architecture.

We walked around town then headed to the railway station and headed to Oxford, which is our next destination.

Oxford
The reason we went to Oxford is that we wanna see Oxford University. Oxford University is spread out the whole Oxford so we have to find them one by one... haha... Didn't manage to find all by the way.
This is the first 7 people photo we took. Asking passer-by to take it for us though.
We went to the Museum of Oxford which was the Public Library in the old days.
We went to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History as well. Took us some time there until it closed. Basically in Oxford we're going for museum tour.. LOL~~ Actually we're going to another one, just that it was closed already.

One thing interesting about Oxford, the people ride bicycles. You can see tonnes of bicycles around town, with motorcycles joining them. Young and old guys and girls, students, workers, etc, many of them ride bicycles.
As you can see in the photo above, this is one part of the bicycles only. haha...

We headed straight for London at that evening.

End of Part 1.

Trust?

Seems like I can't trust anyone else other than God and myself, even my closest friends who get along together everyday. I felt so disappointed and I feel deeper and deeper from day to day.

One thing I wanna confess.

I DON'T FUCKING STEAL MONEY!!! KNNCCB!!!
WHY THE HELL SUSPECTING ME STEALING!!!

Disappointed and angry even though I didn't show my emotions. I NEVER have good financial background among all people here but I swear to God that I'm not stealing anyone's money! For goodness sake! I don't know how many people "suggested me to be suspected for stealing" and I don't wanna know who.

Fuck I feel so disappointed. I trust nobody anymore.

Back from trip

Well, just back to my room around 1 and half hours ago. Had been a nice trip with my mates and took more than 3 gigs of photos including some short videos.. gee... I have to burn it to DVD or else I don't have space to save them in my laptop. The photos are still not with me (even though mostly from my camera) so I have to wait until I get the DVD before I can share some photos with you all.

Please check back soon for updates yea!

Backpacking down south

In 3 and half hours time, I'll be leaving Sunderland with 6 more people, Cathy, Alvin, Chloe, Adrian, Liwan and Jeannie. We'll be flying down south to Bristol by EasyJet flight number EZY565 at 7a.m.

From Bristol we'll go east all the way till end of journey. That'll be Bristol - Bath - Oxford - London - Cambridge. We'll be using train most of the time of our journey. Weather forecast shows that there'll be slight showers during our days in London. Overall we'll be experiencing quite a bit of showers for our trip. So please pray for us that the weather will be fine, and everyone will have good health and also temper, transport, flight, etc. Thanks peeps.

I'll try to update if I got internet connections.

Till then. Chao.

Pirates of the Carribean - At World's End

I haven't watch the previous 2 Pirates of the Carribean. Watched all 3 in 2 days time... Rushed to watch the previous 2 as I need to know the story about it continue to the third one, which I just watched at Empire Cinema.

My opinion is that this time the storyline is quite interesting as well, but for some reasons, I think the first one is the best to watch. Jack Sparrow is still funny as usual, and there are 2 new captains in the story.

Others, watch it yourself if you haven't watch. Enjoy the movie then.

Close - Far

Feeling so close, yet so far.
Close I can hold, far I can't reach.
Close I can whisper, far I need to shout.
She is so close, yet so far.

I promise myself...

I have to be confident and try my best to get what I want now.

I mustn't be affected by words that came out from others.

It's gonna be tough but I will try to reach it.

Keep holding on is what I can do.

I have to trust myself.

Good luck to me.

End.

Trip to Workington

So I had mentioned in the earlier post that I'll be going to Workington today. Here are the updates with some photos of it. Had a fun day with the 2 girls all the way till coming back.

Since this morning, we missed the Metro which we actually planned to hop on, that's the first miss which made us run like Speedy-Gonzales when reaching Newcastle Central Station as we might not get on the train to Carlisle on time. Alison nearly hop on the wrong train when we get there. What the heck, if it wasn't me going with them, the 2 girls will have to wait for 1 more hour as that train is going to Carlisle as well but leaving an hour late!! The platform seems so far away at that moment... 9.24a.m. the train left Newcastle and arrive Carlisle at around 10.45a.m.
As we have to wait for an hour there, we decide to go out the station to take a look around the area and we ended up eating at one of the Weatherspoon outlet. Me and Cathy had breakfast while Alison only eat Cathy's mushroom as she's on diet.
After eating we went back to the station then board on the train, we are off at 11.44a.m., to Maryport, where Alison might be staying during her summer placement at Workington. It's a real small and peaceful area with few people and cars running around. People around that area are quite friendly as well (at least we met friendly people). Her room is nice and the bathroom and kitchen were all nice.

So the picture above is Maryport train station, looks deserted but peaceful. At 1.18p.m. we left for Workington, to where Alison will be on placement.
The first thing I felt when I came out from the station is, the station looks so old.. and it is another quiet town. We walk straight down town after taking this photo. There's Oxford Street in Workington as well!! All the high street shops are there. While Alison was in Boots, where her placement will take place, me and Cathy went out for a walk around the shopping area again. The area looks newer, more tidy, cleaner and nicer than Sunderland. We found this clock which is the interesting part at that area.
Click to enlarge the picture as I had written the descriptions there. The numbers of the clock is on the ground and the arm will move up and down. Other than that, some of the shops there are not to be found in Sunderland, and some even cannot be found in Newcastle but only down south like London, Chelmsford, etc. We went to Thorntons to buy ice-cream again when Cathy say she wanted one.. haha.. So I bought her an ice-cream and she ate like a kid... :P
After looking around with Alison looking if there are any other places to live, we walked back to the station and went back to Carlisle. All of us were tired, Alison especially. Arriving Carlisle, Alison was complaining that she's cold, as she didn't bring her jacket along (we told her to do so), and tired, she went inside the waiting room to wait for our train back to Newcastle while Cathy decided again that we went out for a walk to look at the remaining places nearby the station where we haven't seen earlier on. It's quite a nice place to walk, and not noisy.
Took three times of this photo as I was planning to get the Australian Bar word which was on top of my head inside, but I failed.. sigh~~ This is the final attempt, which is the nicest one to show, so... it's here.. haha... The entrance is quite nice with the Australian island shape neon light on top of the entrance...

We came back to Newcastle by 6.18p.m. train. Again!! Rush for the Metro!!! Luckily we were able to get on time (runing like Speedy Gonzales again) or we'll have to wait half more hour to get the next one.

As a conclusion, Cumbria is a peaceful and quiet place and Cumbrians are quite friendly. Even though we're foreigners, quite a number of them smile at us. Not regret of following Alison and Cathy on this trip even though the visiting period is short.

Life update

It's been a day since I woke up this morning and it's nearly time for me to sleep again soon. What have I done today? Went to uni at noon, go get food, lunch, nap, out to train station to get tickets for tomorrow, cook dinner, eat, then here I am sitting here typing crap. Time really flies....

Anyway, tomorrow I'll be going to Workington with Cathy and Alison. Gonna take some photos there.

Updating again in around 24 hours. Watch out.

Back to Sunderland

In just a blink, I'm back here in Room 199 again. This morning I was still in Chelmsford, going to Wickford town to have a walk and buy my slippers.
After I went back at around noon, I fried some rice myself, accompany with some canned wanton soup, that's my lunch today. Then off I go to London Stansted Airport at around 2.30p.m. Arriving around 3.05p.m. so I just checked in straightly, then walk straight into the waiting lounge, took this photo in the toilet as I feel the words on the mirror are quite special. I'm not cam-whoring yea! Just taking photos of the words!
There's my plane coming at around 4.15p.m. Boarding at around 4.30p.m. but the flight delayed due to some congestion reasons, so the plane took off around 5p.m. rather than 4.40p.m.
Manage to get back in time to have my dinner with the rest of the guys. Saw her, she still look so charming though. Dinner is nice but I just feel too tired to say anything.

So, what have I done for the past whole week? I updated already in the previous few posts. See for yourself then. This following video is me on drums playing Dirty Little Secret which I promised that I'll post it here. The second half part of the video is a bit off sync, maybe due to the conversion of the videos when I edit it. Lazy to correct the timing so, just the original one. Just a sharing of my hobby, although it's not that great afterall. I know I look dead in the video, I know I look like a zombie in the video. Well, it's just me.

A Day Out

Yesterday I went out with my aunt to Chelmsford City in the morning. We arrived Chelmsford around 11a.m. The traffic was unusually bad there but we made it to the car park by avoiding bad traffic. Coming down from the car park, it is the Chelmsford Market, then we walk through the High Chelmer Shopping Centre. Shops here are different from shops up-north. No Greggs here though, and other shops are in big size, not like Sunderland, all in small sizes.

We then saw a performance by Essex Dance Theatre in front of HSBC Bank on city centre. I didn't manage to catch a video of the previous 2 dances, just some photos, then the final one I took it. So the following is the the photo of previous dance and the following is the final dance video which I took which I think it's quite nice. Enjoy.


How's it? Not bad eh. See any pretty girls inside?

After that we walked and saw a man with 5 huge dogs! It's so big and pretty... He must be bankrupt for keeping them healthy and strong...


Anyway, after that we just walked and went into another shopping complex named Meadows Shopping and get back to High Chelmer Shopping Centre.


We get Thorntons ice cream... mine is a Medium cone Blueberry sorbet with chocolate flavour ice-cream. The sorbet taste sour and the chocolate flavour taste creamy and nice. One more thing, I don't recommend them to be eaten together as its gonna taste strange by having something sour with chocolate...

We went back after that, but before that, we stop by at the Hanningfield Reservoir which is near to my aunt's place. It's a very nice place to go.

We see ducks, geese and ducklings as well!! so cute though... and an old man brought us to see 2 ducks which are still hatching their eggs, under the plants...


Isn't it cute...

Anyway, that's my day out yesterday. Played ball with my cousin after coming back though.

End of my post. More to come soon.