Skip to main content

First Day in London


It was kinda depressing to start with because it was raining when we landed, and thankfully we had this fast pass to beat the ultra long immigration queue (apparently another perk in business). We had to do an X-ray at the med centre coz we were gonna stay for a while in the UK, and after that we went to collect our luggages (thank God, no lost baggage!). I think this pic of Cyn with her S, M & L luggages is so funny

*giggles*

Right after settling down at our apartment at the Minories, we set off to meet our housing agent Cara at Maida Vale. She arranged for us to view 10 houses in all and it was interesting BUT very tiring for us. After house #6, mostly looked the same to me. Many are old old houses which have been refurbished and had new furniture which was good. Some are still very old with creeky stairs.. a bit scary.

And we felt depressed which I mentioned because mainly we were suffering from jet lag and after all the viewing we came back to the apartment to rest, wanting to meet Kwee Lin for dinner.. but our bodies just refused to get out of the house down to Picadilly to meet her. Cyn's friend popped by and graciously volunteered to bring us to the nearest supermarket to allow us to get some necessities and a take home dinner from Marks and Spencer. After dinner, we both slept soundly and.. woke up at 6am. Gosh.



Our apartment is actually in a good location - Tower Hill area with nearest tube station Aldgate being only two stops from office at Moorgate so that is good. Plus it's only a 3 min walk max to Aldgate station. We have been exploring how the travel around the Tube without getting lost haha and thank God I had some experience in Tokyo last year. It's quite fun, really.


Baker Street station with Sherlock's silhouette

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Murder Mystery Dinner Party

Two Saturdays ago we were invited to the Kim's for a themed dinner, specifically a Murder Mystery dinner party.  What is that, you might ask.  It was our first time attending such a dinner too, and so how it works is: a group of people attend a dinner party.  Each is assigned a role and will be given a script to read that night.  The aim of the party is to identify a murderer in the midst of us by the end of the night.  The hosts would work off a dinner game set (they got it off Amazon) and it comes with proper invites, setting/ scene, table name cards, scripts and even a suggested menu.  Clearly RX is an Agatha Christie fan. Two weeks beforehand, we received our invites in the postbox, telling us what roles we each have been assigned and the suggested attire (and props if necessary).  Interesting yes? The dinner was to start at 7pm and we were to have 8 people that night.  It's all very mysterious… Our invitation cards assigned K the...
Post a Comment
I wanna read more!

Cooking mee pok dry | bak chor and fishball noodles

When I touched down at Changi airport a few weeks ago, I was very hungry and K suggested grabbing a quick bite at the food court.  I immediately went for the queue at the bak chor (minced pork) noodles stall.  This one dish is very local and we simply can't find it here.  London's Chinatown has a few Malaysian restaurants with fried kway teow, chicken rice, laksa, etc but there is no authentic fishball noodles or minced pork noodles. When my friend Corinne shared this link last week, I was intrigued and I didn't know K was too.  He suggested going to the Asian supermarket on Sunday to get the necessary ingredients.  We found Dodo fishballs from Singapore here - what a win!  Unfortunately the mee pok (yellow, flat noodles) is of a darker shade here and tastes slightly different (maybe a different type of wheat?).  We found fishcakes too. http://delishar.com/2015/12/fishball-noodles-mee-pok-tah.html This is a healthier version of the hawker center'...
Post a Comment
I wanna read more!

Memories made at Danson Park

I can't believe I still have readers to this dormant blog!  Thank you for coming back again :) In case you didn't know, our little family of four actually flew back to the UK together for the first time last November.  For me, I've been back twice with Izzy, and poor Gabriel kept asking when could he go back to London.  Finally K said we should take the trip together and also drive around northern France, our fav area to visit.  Well fav, in that it is very easy to get to from the UK and we have really grown to like the more rural parts of Brittany. I grabbed the chance to contact Joanne, who took some photos of the kids previously.  In fact I think she has seen my kids grow up, from taking Christmas photos to family photos. We were pressed for time and I had to do some convincing for K to agree to do this shoot... looking at the photos, glad i insisted on doing it.  More to document kids growing up well.. and us growing old  I plan to blog more about ...
2 comments
I wanna read more!