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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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Jubilee Weekend | Afternoon Tea Party

http://www.thediamondjubilee.org/ Today is the end of the Jubilee celebrations and how better to end it off than to have an afternoon tea party in the company of friends, while watching the celebrations on our TV. It has been quite an emotional afternoon, in the good sense of course. I don't think I've ever seen Queen Elizabeth on TV (and heard the national anthem God Save the Queen) more than these 3 days combined, but this Jubilee weekend has made me grew to love and admire this lady. She is 86 and reminds me so much of my own granny, and her strength is amazing. Imagine being sworn in as queen at the age of 26. (I mean, what was I doing when I was 26?) On Sunday when she and Prince Philip went onboard the Spirit of Chartwell boat to watch the River Pageant, it was cold and windy but they stood throughout the 3 hours event. It was said she was offered some hot tea and a seat, which she both said no to. I love my grandma but I have to say I don't think

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Sleep, baby sleep

I had an idea to blog about Isabelle's sleep behaviour the other day. Before having Isabelle, I had not the slightest idea how big the sleep topic is for a baby, and now a toddler. I merely assumed that babies will sleep, no matter what, right? Because they are tired right? No, of course not. Isabelle showed me how much she could and can fight sleep even when she is tired. As a new mum, I did not know how to read her sleepy signs, and more often than not, she would be overtired by the time I catch her signs and by then she is cranky and crying. Oh the tears. From Isabelle and mummy. The early months Sleep has always been an issue for me when Isabelle was born. She cried non stop every evening for hours on end, and we had no idea what to do with her. Colic was the word most used on such babies, and everyone comforted us that this difficult phase would be over within 3 months. I still remembered uttering "3 months?!" under my breath. Not 3 weeks?

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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 role of Monsieur Bertrand, a f

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