About Me

Name: Laura

Hong Kong by birth,

Melbourne by occasion,
Sydney in mind,
London unplanned,
Christian by grace

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Psalm 36:9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light

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food

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nightlife

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west-end theatre

Phantom of the Opera/ We Will Rock You

places to revisit

Tate Modern

Monday, October 31, 2005

Halloween passed uneventfully. In fact, I didnt realize it was the 31st , until I walked into Uni and saw posters publicizing Halloween parties. I thought back to the days of trick-o-treating in HK. I remember one year dressed as a clown, another year dressed as a businessman (in suit, briefcase, moustache etc.), another as a skeleton, and one year as a witch of course. I havent dressed up in years, and this year turned out to be no different. So, I spent the night watching Sin City with other people who also werent too keen on going out.

Im excited. In five days time, Im going to be seeing a friend who I havent seen for seriously 6 years. Jaime! I cant believe it. Jaime, Jackie (sisters) and I go way back. Jaime and I used to go swim training religiously; we would go say five to six times a week and two hours each session. During summer, it would be four hours each day. It was hardcore. We were tight back then and known as the chatty-English-talking-yet-Chinese-looking-girls-who-slacked-off-during-practices. Then, I moved to Australia, and we just lost touch. Last week, I got a msg on Friendster (ah, serving some useful purpose) from Jackie. She learnt I was in London for the year, and I learnt that Jaime is doing a year out and working in Cambridge. So, I got Jaime's number and gave her a call. The conversation started off blaming each other for losing touch (in a joking way of course), then moved onto summing up the last six years of our lives, to what we were doing presently. By the end of the phone call, we made plans to travel to Poland together this coming weekend!! I had already booked a flight to Krakow, but that evening, she booked herself a seat too. Oh my, its going to be weird but fun! two crazy girls roaming the streets of Krakow. Bring it on!


Krakow

Warsaw


Gdansk
[Source: European Commission]

Ill be spending about a week in Poland: 4 days with Jaime in Krakow, then two days in Warsaw and then 1 day in Gdansk. Actually, I havent finalized where I am departing from. Even though, I have a ticket leaving Gdansk back to London on the 11th Nov, I am thinking of forfeiting the ticket and purchasing another one but leaving from Warsaw. I know, it will be a waste of a ticket but at the same time, I rather spend more time in Warsaw then spread myself thinly across the length of Poland. I mean, Krakow is way South and Gdansk is a port at the North. Also, I dont think two days in Warsaw does justice to the capital.

Since Im not good at recapping what I have been up to, Ill let the photos speak for themselves:


Ruby & Sou-Jin @ Camden Lock Market on Sat.
Sou-Jin is from the States, and upon finding out she goes to UPenn, I asked if she knew Jay, a good high school friend. And she did! what a small world


Sou-jin (love the expression) outside the ultimate Donut Stand. Honestly, Krispy Kremes cant compare. lols on the topic of KKs, they are abundant in London. You even get them in supermarkets here, like in Tescos. somehow, they just dont seems as appealing as they were in Sydney.


Eleanor & Fe on the bus after I forgot what...Ek. OH yea, the Comedy Store. We lost the others after our trip to the ice-cream parlour so we went back to the halls ourselves.


Eleanor & Sou-jin. Okay, Eleanor is a greatt cook. Now and then, she will whip up a communal two-course meal (dessert as well of course!)


Matt, my neighbour, is prehaps the funniest and weirdest (for want of a better word) guy. He is this eternally optimistic, go-lucky type of person. He does the strangest antics in the corridor. Im no longer suprised to see him breaking into a dance mid-conversation, or singing impromptu, or dressing up in his Mr. Darcy (I think)-outfit (I definitely have to take a photo!)



Nehal & Ali & Yennie on Sat night - we started at the Phoneix bar, and undecisive as we were, wandered around Soho for agess before settling in on this place I forgot the name of. It turned out to be pretty good.


Fe


I love this toned printed photo. I got it at Camden market. Its a shot taken of Picadilly Circus on an early Sunday morning. The remarkable thing about this photo is that there is not a single person in sight. Whoa, this is Picadilly we are talking about. Its kind of eerie though, sort of reminds me of scene in Vanilly Sky of the deserted Streets. Im tempted to wake up real early one Sunday morning and walk to Picadilly to take a similar shot.



Woke up rather...ahem..late on Sunday..like 12pm (really, it was 1pm, but thanks to day-light-saving, clocks have gone back an hour) to noiser than usual street noise. I looked out my window and saw Hermoine from Harry Potter. Actually, I didnt know who it was, until I zoomed with my camera.

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Ill leave you with this photo (made bigger of course, because its classic!) of Eleanor dressed up for Halloween and Ruby very much into her role as the viscious murderer.



4:30 PM
Lura