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Wednesday, July 18, 2007

SUMMER (WINTER)
...got to get used to this whole change in hemisphere thing.

FINALLY back in HK after an interesting trip to the UK.
Some random photos that sum up my uber fun travels.

London

Big Ben (Westminster clocktower) at noon.

"Follow the path to heavenly food"
cute baguette shoes on a Pret bike in S. Kensington.

Equestrian crossing!

"anti-climb paint" what on earth. ahahaha
CCTVs must be selling like hotcakes in London...they're EVERYWHERE.

The London Eye.
Ironically, a kid got mugged below the eye in broad daylight.
From a distance it looked like a bunch of friends having an argument...
and it wasn't until that gang of shameful SHAMEFUL teens (who got away with it)
asked for his wallet that everyone realised what was happening.
That incident ticked me off real bad that day...
Let's hope that there was a CCTV thing in that corner of London.

Le Tour de France was in London for some odd reason
Sodexho (ring any bells??) was the caterer LOL.

toys toys toys toys at Hamleys.
Sylvanian families...childhood memories :)
They even have penguins and sheep now!! :O

"Stop the war" vs. Churchill

Sign near Waterloo Station

watched Les Mis and Wicked :) yay!!
definitely wanna see Monty Python's Spamalot!! knights who say NI ahahah

Saw the stage version in HK a while back. film version is still the best.

Neon lights at Picadilly Circus...

Was a tad bit early for the Hairspray London premiere (didn't bother waiting for celebs)
got a snap of them setting up for the evening. some die-hard fans standing next to me wanted to ask for one of those huge posters...and they kept calling out random guy names until "Bob" in the center with the black suit finally responded ahahaha

Came across these prints not far away from the Odeon

ahahah. PC at his best.

my ee topic at the science museum ahahahah

Inside the Natural History Museum...my favourite building in London :)

Warwick Castle

Then we venture on to Warwick Castle on a nice sunny day.

Trebuchet in action...reminds me of Age of Empires lol

Too bad no one had rotten tomatoes and veggies. :D

Stained glass windows (Warwick castle)

In the distance amongst the trees, you'll see the bridge where the Hogwarts Express
passes for the HP films.

Random village caught on camera when I was being bored on a bus.

Oxford

Recognise this dining hall from HP?

These stairs appeared in the first film.

Quad at Christ Church College

wedding
Wedding at the cathedral on 07/07/07

Edinburgh

Scottish dancing (in front of a public toilet...lol!!) underneath the Edinburgh castle

David Hume. remember him from TOK? aahahah

Balmoral hotel where JK Rowling completed HP7

cool neverending ladder at the Camera Obscura

Royal Yacht Britannia
Departed HK during the '97 handover

The Queen's bedroom

Map of HK on the Britannia

Old school defibrillator onboard

Bagpipes!

Kilt making

The Lake District

Lake Windermere

Peter rabbit :)
Beatrix Potter had a lot of inspiration from the Lake District

Jemima puddle-duck

Swans

row row row your boat

This is what happens when you start feeding a bunch of hungry birds.
Flying gulls start yelping and attacking you, ducks fly up 10 ft walls
and swans glide into the scene to get some of the good stuff.
FUN

York

York Minster

strawberries :)

Took a train back to King's Cross...
now to finish HP7 :)

Enjoy the rest of Summer everyone!!
Shall be back in December :D

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Sunday, March 25, 2007

nineteen :)
a huge THANK YOU to the Sydney peeps for the dinner and cake.

Aussie has been heaps of fun since the day I got here...
even though a part of me still misses the Bruin life very very much.
ANYWAY. here are a long delayed bunch of photos from
Sydney, Melbourne and LA.

spent yesterday by the GORGEOUS blue Bondi waters.
the waves were awesome yesterday...
must learn to surf someday!!!

Bondi Icebergs. the water was really really cold
and the pool has the best view in the world. :)

skate park. see those clouds??
got soaked during the massive rainstorm right after

Bondi blitz. rock concert by the beach

Sydney rock oysters with balsamic dressing

white chocolate and strawberry panna cotta with fresh berries
yum. :)

view of the bridge from Sydney Café

Sydney harbour bridge walk

new years at Sydney

Yarra river, Melbourne.

moon jellies at the Melbourne aquarium

sunset at Melbourne

Griffith Observatory, Hollywood
for those movie buffs out there...this is where they filmed
Rebel Without a Cause with James Dean.

Einstein

view of LA by night from the observatory

Beverly Hills Hilton.
where they hold the Golden Globes. yay Hugh Laurie!!

Beverly Hills trolley

the grove

farmer's market near the grove

lots of grass and trees at UCLA

Pauley Pavillion
Bruins ftw for NCAA :)

pretty flowers outside Moore Hall

Royce Hall

saying goodbye to the beloved bear on bruinwalk :(

central fountain/pool thing at the Getty museum

now you see ONE TREE.

now you see MANY. Getty is the man.
the architecture/gardening at the museum is really pretty.

right next to the highway

half and half.

more of the Getty gardens

garden at the Getty.

sunset at the Getty museum, LA

that's all I have for now!!
will be back in HK late April. see you then if you're there!

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Saturday, November 25, 2006

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!
Clara is soooooooo awesome for letting me stay at her place
(thank you so much for rescuing me from a lonely Thanksgiving)
and it was so nice to hear from lots of people on the phone :)

LIFE in the city of angels has been good so far.
PINKBERRY is so yummy. frozen yoghurt + toppings (fresh berries
or other fruits or cereal or chocolate or lots of other stuff)
yay to them for having a store in Westwood.
if you have a store near you go try it. :D
okay that was random....ahahah

here are some random snaps of random stuff here and there
plus some of a san diego trip during Veteran's day weekend

pretty flowers near Royce Hall

Royce Hall with the opera hall inside that I really want to check out

outside Royce Hall

the rose bowl contrail
the rose bowl!! kicked so much ass that game against stanford ahhaha
GO BRUINS!! :D we must win next week heheee

cool trees I saw on my way to the Public Policy building

Kerckhoff Hall (it has pretty stained glass windows that
you can't see in this terrible photo)

Kerckhoff Grand Salon

Powell library. lots of stuff going on in there. :|
haven't been there for a long long time.

cool dance sculpture in the garden outside MacGowan hall
(where you can find all the theatre and some north campus majors)

wooden horse sculpture

san diego

view of san diego from the coronado bridge

this is the beach on coronado island

then we had this cycling race around the island on those
4/5-person bikes (stole the pic from a friend...)
so so so so fun!! wanna do it again...even though I nearly
smashed our group into a pavement with my noob driving skills XD

rainbow at Old Town (it wasn't even raining!!)

sunset at Old Town

more sunset

performer at Old Town

the next day we boarded the Esperanza, a Greenpeace
anti-whaling ship that tours the world. it was so funny
how they interviewed our international association president
for their video...

then when some peeps went off to Tijuana...
we head to the famous Balboa park (near the zoo)
to take in some fresh fresh fresh air.

"showbiz" roses at Balboa park

trees outside the organ pavillion

botanical gardens where they had all these touch and smell plants
ahaahha we kept rubbing and sniffing the stuff
lemon thyme smells so gooood. they even had a curry plant

orchids (botanical gardens)

archery range at the end of the walking trail where we saw
some crazy cycling dudes crash cycle down a long flight of stairs

Balboa at night

that's all for now...
pics from Santa Monica and Venice beach are on my phone
...too lazy to upload

I miss all of you so so much.
good luck on finals and see you all during Christmas!!

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Friday, September 15, 2006

finally flying tonight :)
some random shots of the place i will miss dearly.

view from the peak

the awesome eagle kite this old man made (saw this somewhere in tai po)

vegetable vendor in central

fish squid fish squid fish squid

dimsummmmmmmm

a rejected ultraman lying amidst cigarettes at Queen's Road Central

chilling at the sai kung waterfront pier

took this at the park near the shatin racecourse

taxi spam

stanley beach

old folks sitting under a tree in stanley

went to ocean park two days ago when it was opened at night (for this tourism thingy).

checked out the jellyfish thingo. this is other-worldy

underwater ballerinas

they had this huge tank with a black background and mirrors around it plus color changing lights

these look like red blood cells. eek

so pretty :)

ray...
>< Steve Irwin R.I.P.

nemo

green sea turtle at the atoll reef

thats it for now.
14hr movie marathon here i come...

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Currently Listening
Evita: The Complete Motion Picture Music Soundtrack
By Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice
see related

summer is slipping away...
and now for another massive photo update of this oh-so-relaxing holiday

malaysia and singapura
the land of chicken rice, big shady trees and a never-ending summer

graffiti mural in melaka

blueblue malaysian sky

XL shoes

for XL feet

awas danger danger danger

24 JAM ahahaha. 24 HOURS. this place is called kajang.
kajang has very good satay. mmmmhm.

tiles

and more TILES. i love tiles. :D

nasi ayam. chicken rice rice rice

spider on our yellow backdoor

heading on to singapore...the original merlion.

3 dudes outside the paragon shopping mall

lol wtf...fine: $ 000

big shady trees along the road from the airport

then we hopped on a ferry from singapore to malaysia

to a place called desaru

where they have weird looking trees

footprints

gecko

a long and winding road
with a never ending stretch of palm oil plantations on each side

for some odd reason this reminds me of an edward hopper painting.
or the eerie set of some low-budget horror movie

hungry carp at the desaru fruit farm

smelly goats

passionfruit flower

yih. smelly and spiky. the king of all fruits.

and jackfruit hahah thanks leeeleee :D

and back in singapore more 100% durian XD.

the esplanade: singapore's own durian. (the structure on the right)
cabaret was on in the durian. but i gave it a miss.

blue glowing bubbles outside the esplanade

little india

guangzhou and panyu
cleaner and greener than before

lotus flower

reaching for the sun

chess in the park

safari in panyu

parrots that remind me of faber-castell color pencils

yinyang swans

roo on the greeeen

home home on the range...where the deer

and the antelope play

liberty

take care and have fun in uni everyone.
hopefully i'll be in cali next month. :)

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