London, yet again!

The trip to London started in the wee hours of the morning. I left for the city centre at 11:15 P.M. and spent the next few hours in the city centre Mcdonald's waitingfor my bus at 4:30 A.M. It was very tiring and along the way, I managed to complete one miserable reading as well as being chatted up by a true blue Brummie. He appeared like a nice guy, but the jackass of his clique, as his friends all asked him to ignore him. He also mentioned that London is a fantastic city, but the only problem with it was that it is filled with London people. Therefore, it would be perfect if one could remove all the people of London from London. HA! What a funny guy, with his warped way of thinking. It is pretty true though as the people in these parts of UK seem friendlier and more approachable as compared to the ones in London.

The megabus ride was spent sleeping on the 2nd storey of the bus and by the time I reached London, I was dead tired. Within 5 minutes, my contemplation of whether to stay in Victoria for 5 hours to wait for Yaw Vwee and Mindy ended. I decided to travel to Jun Yi's place and managed to get some much needed sleep there.

A terrible thing happened in this trip though and it was the fact that my trustworthy old Canon camera finally called time on his long career. Somehow, the pictures all come out super overexposed, in stark contrast to the previous Samsung camera that can only take pictures that are super underexposed. Weird! As such, there was only 2 photos taken during the trip before I decided to stop trying altogether.

Met up with Yaw Vwee and Mindy in the afternoon, together with Jun Yi, and we went to Borough market before catching Phantom of the Opera musical at night. Yaw Vwee and Mindy are their usual selves, not changing much from the last time I saw them in Southampton. We did not really spend much time together in this trip as everyone stayed in different places, and Alan was supposed to meet his other group of friends. As for Jun Yi, I found that we got along pretty well in this trip from the hours we spent Wii-ing together, and talking about morals. On a side note, I found Phantom of the Opera pretty good and the songs rather nice despite not being a musical kind of person. The new experience was not life-changing but it was definitely eye-opening. Jun Yi found it to be sub-standard though. What a cultured man he is.

The next day, I made the biggest decision and purchase hitherto in Europe. I bought a new camera!! Time will tell if this will be a worthwhile purchase. After that, the trio of Jun Yi, Yaw Vwee and me attempted to catch a movie but it was not meant to be. Subsequently, we split up and met up with Mindy to go to her friend's church service. The music was superb and the talk was interesting and funny at times, while bringing across the speaker's message very well. Somehow, all pastors, or speakers, at church services all seem to be very good presentors. Dinner was at Bayswater but the extremely famous and atas lobster noodles was fully-booked so we settled for a cheaper alternative nearby. Thank goodness it was unavailable as I did not know it was going to cost a bomb, at a hefty sum of 30 pounds, beforehand.

First shot of trip: Jun Yi's place

Second and last shot of trip: Mindy in her new coat to show her my spoilt camera

Thanks Mindy for the self-made birthday card!