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Friday night, Alicia's parents are here so they invited us over for a simple home cooked dinner which was such comfort food on a cold and windy Friday night!! We had to brave the cold walk from Canary Wharf to their place! But well rewarded at the end of the day :)

Cynthia, Joselyn and another of their friend went to Barcelona early Saturday morning. Went there with my jiemei's in Sept so no point going again. nvm, solo weekend then!

Saturday decided to check out some places.. wanted to try this Jap restaurant Mugen recommended by my Japanese friend at Bank but it was closed!! so sad.. haiz which means I pretty much won't have much chance to try it since it's not close to my office and weekends it is closed :(

the real London Bridge which every kid sings about

window cleaners

Walked over from London Bridge and took some pics along the way. Touristy stuff.. main aim was to take pics of this church for my bro called St Edmund the King. whoa... he must be impressed. And guess what the first lane from this church on the left was Nicholas Lane. haha.. took some shots as well! :)

(In case you don't know, my bro's called Edmund and my cousin's called Nicholas, hence my mini excitement.)

Change Alley London Version

Decided to go ahead to Angel, where everyone tells me it's a very nice place with antique shops, bookstores, vintage stores and pubs esp at Camden Passage. Was hungry and ventured into an English pub called Camden Head for fish n chips.. hmm not v nice I thought coz the fish was very "dry".

Explored the shops a bit before feeling lazy once the sun starts to set! Plus it was a chilly day so didn't venture the whole of Upper Street as recommended by Emma. Just decided to take the train back and head to Tesco to get my weekly groceries. Love supermarkets here!!

endless rows of Christmas goodies, aka temptations!

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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...

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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'...

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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 ...

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