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Great Day Out, Great Night In

I thought this was gonna be a solo & quiet weekend for me since Cynthia is in Lyon with Joselyn & Alicia but it was such a great Saturday :) :)

Morning we had a combined connect group brunch at Cafe Rouge at Greenwich. It was raining, dark & gloomy when I left the house so I thought the turnout might not be that good. Boy was I wrong. The response was great in fact. About 20 of us turned up and I got to know more people in other connect groups near my place. It was really nice. The main guys I know from my CG are Amanda, my CGL, Liandi & Joel and another Joel. Turns out Joel's brother Noel and wife Faith are in another CG and Faith is this really nice girl from New Zealand. Anyway we started talking and she told me Liandi and her are gonna spend an "X-Factor night" at Chloe's place and invited me to join. Since I had nothing on... okie!

Went for massive grocery shopping at Tesco after brunch since our fridge is empty. Christmas stuff are all out "full force" - very hard to resist temptation of those delicious looking chocs and sweets.... .... ... but I resisted anyway. gambatte-ne!!

Right after it poured, the sun came shining thru' and I saw this big rainbow from my balcony; another view from my balcony

In the evening, I went by to Faith's place to meet the gals first. Liandi works in a very high end spa (she's served Hollywood stars can you believe it) and over at Faith's place, wow I saw she brought this whole array of nail polish from her previous day's roadshow, and she offered to do manicure for me.. omg.. so nice of her! And teehee so I requested for french manicure.. and tada...!! so happy, my first painted nails since I came London! blessing eh...


It's been so long since I saw Chloe, appears she has moved to Clapham North now. Nice English place.. so anyway this X Factor thing.. (don't laugh at me Sabrina, I have no TV at home!) it's like American Idol but British version. So it was funny watching with them coz Chloe's housemate was so agitated and vocal with her crude yet funny remarks. She claims her toe can sing much better than one of the contestants. Simon Cowell is one of the judges but how come I feel he is much more lenient with his comments in this show?!

Had pizza for dinner with chips and for dessert, a home-made Victorian sponge cake by Chloe called "Yum Yum". So sweet of her eh.

After tonight, it made me ponder about something though.. I live in London but do I really live in London if I discount all the travelling around Europe? Tonight's one of the few times where I hang out with local people (well ok they're all not British except Chloe; Liandi's from S Africa but you get what I mean) and just have fun. Just a simple night of watching a mindless show with ready made food but I enjoyed myself nonetheless. Oh what great fun :)

Chloe preparing pizza for us; saying a wish even though it's not her birthday

with Liandi; Faith & Chloe's friend Amy, coincidentally both of them are from NZ

*yawn* nightz! very sleepy now......

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