Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Happy Birthday in London

It has been a great Birthday weekend with all my friends around Europe. Five years ago we came to a country called Slovakia where changed all our lives. Five years later, 7 of us from different countries all met up in London :) What more can I ask for for my birthday? Seeing them again has been a dream come true. We all have grown up, we all have had different experiences in life, but still we share that special moment/year in Slovakia, which makes us special to each other.

Summary
  • Slept in in prepared for the jet lag :p
  • Finnish Lottery
  • Travelling on the trains (which was delayed) for 4 hours + flying from Finland to London for 3 hours + on the bus for two hours = getting to the final destination at 3 am London time or 5 am Finland time :o
  • London was so alive even at 3 o'clock in the morning :o
  • Nature history museum - dinosaur and human body (more about babies!! It seems to the theme in the last 7 days)
  • Harrods, Hyde Park, Oxford Street (still no shopping! Good self-control!), Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Square and Convert Garden
  • I got all mess up with the traffic condition.
    • New Zealand - Left;
    • Central Europe - Right;
    • UK - Left;
    • Finland - Right; and now
    • back to UK - Right :# (correction: Left :x See all those direction changes really messed up my mind))
  • Having British, French, Russian, Germans, Finnish, Hungarian, Finnish/Hungarian baby to sing Happy Birthday and sign my special customised birthday cards in their native languages
  • Little party: Talk about past, present and future with all sort of necessary: Kofola, Horalky, Chocolate, Alcohol and more alcohol...
  • Pub hopping: Gorden's Wine Bar (very wicked!) and another bar that we can actually sit down!
  • Board Game - Cranium
  • Walking around London - Green Park, Buckingham Palace, St. James Park, Big Ben, London Eye etc
  • Meeting up with the person who inspired me to plan this trip
  • I feel sad about the regret in our lives and wonder if the circumstances were any different, would it ever work out?
  • Musical: Cabaret. I love it! It was a brilliant tragic plot. However it was powerfully disturbing due to the explicitly sexual depravity and brutal reality.
  • After having perfect weather for the last few days, we couldn't possible escape from the famous yucky raining London weather any more.
  • I never expected that leaving London would be this emotional even I know it's time to move on. However, it's nice to have him there to comfort me on the train as I know he understands.
  • Food: Lebanese lunch, Indian dinner, little party, South African wine, Belgian waffle, French cooking (Raclette - DIY melt cheese with various meat), more wine, Toad in the hole, Pear Cider, Munchies McFlurry (I was more excited at the fact that I got rid of my coins (99p) than the actual ice cream itself :p)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Did you mean to put two different directions in for UK? :)

Happy Birthday Neets! 16 again....

Anonymous said...

By the way, we didnt win in the lottery. :( I have to start saving.

Dandelion said...

To M:

You were absolutely right about my typo! I have just corrected it :)

Oh...It's also 17 forever :p

Dandelion said...

To Sanna,

Oh...Pity that we didn't win, but at least you started that saving account :D

See you in 2010? :p