Saturday, December 29, 2007

london

i arrived in london around 11pm on saturday night and shieve brought me to supper in chinatown. the next day, we went to madame tussaud's wax museum, the natural history museum and the science museum.

christmas dinner with angelina jolie, brad pitt, george clooney and jamie oliver
snowglobe!

nicole kidman and leonardo dicaprio

jennifer aniston and tom cruise

the beckhams

jennifer lopez

captain jack sparrow!

the horrible michael jackson whose face is apparently falling to bits in recent news

superman

shah rukh khan and an old man. aishwarya rai was there too but a lady was taking her sweet time with each statue and walking slowly between each statue and then retaking if the photo wasn't good, so i finally gave up waiting and only got shah rukh khan.

shrek

elvis

charlie chaplin

princess diana

sir isaac newton

charles darwin

my grandfather. with his genes, i will surely be pharmacist of the year someday. (please note the sarcasm, i think it was lost in the p105 convo mag)

william shakespeare

charles dickens

young beethoven

justin timberlake

madame tussaud

marilyn monroe and me trying to imitate i-dunno-what

we went to the buckingham palace on monday but we missed the changing of the guards





westminster abbey


big ben

westminster palace, or houses of parliament

the eye of london. i used a toilet in that building in the background and when i flushed, it completely overflowed and some water splashed on my boots and i had to step in the water to get out. so gross!

there were people imitating statues. this girl was very still so i took a picture with her.

this guy used his stick to hit the butt of everyone who walked past him or took a photo with him

i think this is london bridge

tower bridge

strange building, random black egg and a sports photo exhibition

we were supposed to have dinner with shieve's bro but he was gambling so we went into the casino to wait for him


then we played roulette so we could get free drinks

i put 10 pounds in the machine coz i had no small change and then i ended up with 28.50, which means i won 18.50!!

we met up with shing and walked to trafalgar square. this is the national gallery which is like an art museum.

the christmas tree norway gives london each year for their support in world war 2

a strange nativity scene where joseph is like lying seductively on the ground

picadilly circus. my camera can't seem to take good pictures at night.

shieve and i spent christmas at home coz there was no public transport and it was raining. we watched a korean movie called "i'm a cyborg, but that's ok" which is weird but funny and somewhat interesting. watch it! then we had steamboat with her brother for dinner. on boxing day, we went to hyde park before we met shing at selfridges where it was too crowded and we bought nothing. we had to line up to get in and even to go up the escalator.

kensington palace where princess diana used to live

statue of queen victoria in hyde park

trying to take a picture with a swan which kept walking away

a group of birds following a guy who was feeding them

swan, ducks, seagulls, and a raven

a water fountain which i thougt was unused but then a guy came and drank from it

harrods was closed. it had its sale on the 28th.


on thursday, we went to covent garden which is an italian-style piazza which is famous for its shops, restaurants and street performers.


and then i flew back to glasgow. the end.