Saturday I had brunch at Sarah's together with a few other girls from Hillsong and it was really a nice time of food and just sitting around chitchatting, so much so that I was so late in meeting Ariel. With the summer sales starting on sat, we tried to shop in the afternoon, but with the thronging crowd and heat, it just took off all the shopping excitement.. I thought I was just trudging along with the crowd.. Not at all fun there. Later we met her friends and had a really cheap and good Korean dinner so that was the saving point and ended the day on a nice note :) btw there was a rare thunderstorm that evening including hailstorm as well and it seems like a thunderstorm never fails to stir up some sort of excitement among the people here. =P
Last night Daryl invited us to his place for dinner, which is at the Pumphouse right behind CW tube station. I love houses at the Pumphouse coz they are massive and smacked right outside the station. I used to think the gravel pathway that leads to the main gate is very unglam but that was because I walked thru it during the cold winter but now that its summer, omgosh it's lined with full grown lavender all the way! Very nice. I didn't know what to expect as I just rushed down after work (was monthend lah) and was pleasantly surprised when he asked us to go to his back garden for a nice bbq! Happiness :) coz I think having BBQs in this kind of weather is perfect, plus he is S African so they are pros at this kind of thing. The good thing is that despite the roasting hot sun in the day, it is still cool at night.. in fact I was happily in my sleeveless top and shorts n flip flops… until we left his place at 11pm and I realised what a big drop in temperature it was.
Today during lunch Kathryn wanted to bask in the sun so we took a walk outside.. it's amazing, everyone was out sitting on the grass, in the park and I love very much the idea that they place public pianos in the park for people to play. Isn't it cool? Everyone is in the outdoorsy mood. Of coz I didn't endeavour to try lah heehee.. we walked so much coz she said we could walk to River Thames, at the Millenium Bridge and from there is the Tate Modern Museum and Shakespeare's Globe.. if we did carry on walking it'd be London Bridge and by that time we were like roasting (plus I was in a black dress!). When we reached back office 1h later, we were so relieved to be back in the air con office. whew! *sweat
And tonight my team went out for yet another Indian dinner "despite the hot weather" they say. We always go to Lahore Kebab but finally tonight we decided to try the more popular (and crowded) Tyyabs. It was good but we had to Q up for 1h and we finished in 1h exactly in the ultra busy restaurant. And the final leg.. another 1h for me to reach home.
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