Wednesday, August 30, 2006

I'm going down town...

Yesterday I spent the day wandering around the city, trying to get my bearings and just explore. Loved it...

I was catching the tube here and there (today it felt like I was playing scotland yard), doing a bit of shopping here and there... wandered round Soho which is pretty cool...

Drank coffee from cafe's where they use automatic coffee machines... not cool.

Hasn't been much of a culture shock here, seems quite a bit like Australia, although if I hear another screaming winging pommy kid... I'm sure you get the picture.

Well today I'm flying off to Portugal, looking forward to that, the sun, the beaches, the bronzed boys...

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Nottinghill Carnival

Went to this crazy celebration of coloured ppl, there was jamacan jerk chicken and pork, there was mee goering (not sure how that stall got there), there were people selling the use of their toilets for 1 pound, there was about 1 million pple there to see it...

I didn't see any knife fights, but as we were squeezing our way through the crowds, this guy walked past with this snake wrapped around his arm... crazy...

There were also these big trucks driving round pumping out reggae, and reggae house etc with these scantily clad (and often very large) girating people dressed up in colourful (word escapes me) things that they had made.... dancing along behind.

A sight for sore eyes and a sight that made eyes sore...

First day in London.

Spent the first day in London doing all the touristy things, we got on an open top bus which took us to all the famous sites... And told us shit loads of facts and history about London... Quite a bit of which I have remembered and quite frequently I repeat in conversation.

Did you know that London was founded approx 2000 years ago...? And there is a shite load of history since then. Even though the place burned down in (forgot the exact year, but it ends in 66) all the buildings are like not modern... ancient and still standing, they look magnificent...

Crazy to think that now-a-days politicians and leaders of corporations have to sneak around to do dodgy things, but back then the king/queen could do what ever the fuck they liked and every one just obeyed... Hmmm I missed my calling.

Anther thing I have found weird is that there are heaps of palaces, chruches, houses of dukes etc and it's like... where do the peasants live...? There is some serious money in this town.

First night in London.

Landed in London, got through customs okay, a breeze compared to NZ or Aust!

Realised that I had left all of Tim and Ambers details at home in the printer (I'm staying with Tim and Amber). Took me at least half an hour to find an internet cafe... crap airport from what I've experienced... I guess that will be re-inforced or (what ever the opposite word for that is) tomorrow when I got Portugal.

Made my way onto the tube and to Islington, got off at Angel station... I feel like I'm on a giant monopoly board...

For some reason I agreed to go out on the night I landed... sounded like a good idea at the time, thought I was hard enough to handle it... well I did handle it, but it was so uncomfortable, so I don't think I'll do it again...

We went to this awesome show see link below, amazing theatre/performance art thing, lots of cool visual effects and audience participation... I could describe it but my fingers will drop off, check out their site and look at the pictures.

http://www.fuerzabruta.net/

Singapore girl you are a great way to fly...

The leg from Singapore to London saw me sitting in the middle of the central block of 4 seats, you practically sit on top of the person next to you... Thank god they weren't the size of a house, there was a bit of competition for the arm rest but it wasn't like world war 3.

The saving grace for the flight was the on demand movies, I don't think I have ever sat of my arse for that long watching movies... I've seen most of the ones I want to see, so I hope they change them before the trip back otherwise it is going to be a looong flight.

One bad thing to say, we had the air stewardess running back and forth fetching us drinks and food, and then on one trip she exclaimed 'Is there anything else?'... Well honey, it's your job!

Saturday, August 26, 2006

A word on security when using a public internet terminal

Jesus...

I'm using a free internet terminal in the airport and after my last post and after being logged into gmail, I just clicked on the logout button for the pc... Assuming that it would like reset the session and with it log me out of gmail and blogger...

Ah no!!!

I came back to send another email, logged in went to gmail and I was still logged in... Came to blogger and I was still logged in there too...

That was a relatively painless lesson... can't believe I was so stupid...

There was still stuff in the clip board that I had copied...

Mental note, Log out of everything and put garbage in the clip board if you copy...

Kopi = Coffee

Apparently 80% of the blogs out there contain post by people stating how slack they are... so I'm not going to do it any more... Although I do have a theory why I haven't been blogging...

I'm currently in Singapore Airport, heading to London, got a 2 hours stop over... I'm by myself and haven't had any kind of substantial conversation (apart from with myself) in about 12 hours... and now I have this compulsion to write in this blog... hmmm go figure!

I've been wandering around here, look for something buy (sorry dad) and there is this coffee bar which looked like it had half the airport lined up at it, so I thought must be good... they sell kopi and premium toast... It was nice, I had the peanut toast, which was more like peanut and honey toast... hmmm I try not to think about the makeup of the ingredients... or how many people touched this key board that I'm typing on...

Shit, I wish that thought hadn't entered my head... Thanks Steve, I owe you for that one ;) x

Time is running up... bye...