fake tales of united kingdom are about to echo through the room.
thank goodness i jstayed on for the 4-day extension after the rest of the school group left for xin jia poh..we did so many thigs that we coouldve never done while with the group of 30 people. quite a large number eh? but yes, i'll deal with our "get off the the bandwagon and put down the handbook" moments in a later post.
i had chaat at lil india just before we flew off at the ungodly hour of 2am from da changi on Emirates. Emirates ROOLEZ. their inflight system PWNS krisworld..but lets just say that i was properly entertained on the way there (with a transit stop in Dubai. appa, dubai next destination plsthx) ok i have to say this. the audio system had "very best of" compilation albums for depeche mode, elton john, prince, the beatles, the bee gees, Sting, Poison, u2, bob marley, madonna, the doors, the smiths, queen...BEAT THAT! and it was all touch screen. SIA damn lagging sial!
ok yeah so we got to Birmingham. aiya..i wanted the chop on my passport to say Heathrow but oh well. the weather was pretty comfortable..remained btwn 10-20 degrees the first week were there in the more northern regions of the areas we covered but i think we did a pretty good job of getting used to it, us equatorial inhabitants. so the thing is we were ferried off the Stratford-upon-Avon immediately..since the lot of us were LIT students, it was a necessity that we went there. shakespeare's birthplace ya'll! drove past lots of english countryside and quaint houses on the motorways...very reminscent of NZ actually. green and more green for miles and sheep/cows/horses every once in a while. moo. i was just mighty chuffed to finally be on an M(insert number here). cos the lads on Top Gear sometimes test out the rides on motorways. i believe we were on the M40. yeah i was probably the only one excited about that unecessary little detail -__-"
moving along to the pictures which're far more interesting than my preamble of sorts :P
look! the dinghy-s (is that what they're called?) are named after shakespearean characters nyaha
where i got my post title from :P what was really odd was that the city streets were absolutely packed with commerical establishments..from Boots to HMV to that beacon of globalisation, McDonalds. at this juncture i am proud to announce that i didnt step into a Macs at all during the course of the trip. eeevil place.
a british icon. the telephone box which completely cancels out all noise once you've shut the door. that's the lot of us j2 girls there
a carousel ya'll! in the park! cost us each ¤1.50 but it was worth it. for the sake of our deprived childhoods. for the sake of the pretty colours and individually named horses. for the sake of living out john legend's "Let's go to the park" thanks to Su Hui..she gave new meaning to songsthatyoucantgetoutofyourhead HAHA! we lay in the grass. su and venetia (aka vennie) were approached by surreptitious geese and we had dinner at Beefeater. for our very first meal in England, it was rather lacklustre..grilled chicken breast and salad : ok wtv..headed off to the travelodge which is basically a motel and this one was connected to a marks and spencer so yay! just the food bit of M&S though. The day after we got there was the debut of the latest season Big Brother..(thank god i listen to radio 1. though i must say, the reception was MUCH clearer in ulu-er parts of the country than in central fuckin london. where's the sense in that!). BB is rubbish. this season there were all women in one house..you should see the way the papers track BB. the entire country's bloody obssessed with i swear! and to think, its got 14 weeks to run and théy screen it DAILY. but at the same time, i was so pleased that we got to watch BB in the country that the concept was first created. GO HUXLEY!
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