Boats

Living by the River Thames can be interesting. You get to see all the commuter and tourist ferries, with the occassional Japanese tourists waving at you from afar. You also get to see the occasional sailboat and yacht.

This evening, I got home and came into the living room. Sui came back 5 minutes after and immediately rushed me to the window where we saw this strange sight!



Its not everyday that one sees a massive cruise liner sailing by his apartment. According to Sui, the HMS Belfast was towed past our place yesterday as well.

That would have been some sight! Now, I'm just waiting for a submarine to come round...

The Sun is Shining

Partly because I am feeling quite lazy, and also because I think this song is quite apt, I am simply going to post the verses of Bob Marley's "The Sun is Shining". Think it pretty much describes the weekend just passed!

sun is shining, the weather is sweet
make you want to move your dancing feet
to the rescue, here i am
want you to know, y'all, where i stand

when the morning gathers the rainbow
want you to know i'm a rainbow too
so, to the rescue here i am
want you to know just if you can
where i stand, know, know, know, know, know

Play this version by Finley Quaye while looking at the photos. Those of you whom I spent the weekend with will know what I mean. There is a wicked remix of Bob Marley's original playing on Capital FM at the moment, but I can't seem to locate the Youtube clip.



And the photos...

The Sun, Naps and BBQs

It was a long weekend this week, thanks to the May Day holiday. Having been relatively sedate over the past week, I thought I would make Saturday a bit of an exercise day. Nik and I took an early morning bike ride to Greenwich, but had to turn back as we got closer, as traffic had started to build up. After coming back, taking a long nap and bumming around the apartment, I ran out to the HM's place to pick her up for an hour's long run.

The exercise was all for a good cause, of course, as I felt no guilt at Oriental City that night, despite wolfing down my Mamak Mee Goreng, half of Jini's Asam Laksa, some of Niki's Beans and Minced Pork, as well as half of the HM's Tosai and Fish Curry!

As the sun was out, and everyone was in town we felt like we had no other alternative but to throw a BBQ! Having been craving a decent burger for about a month now, Jini and Yung's scotch beef burgers turned out to be a real treat! Check out the 1st photo - I never realised that I took my BBQs so seriously!










Of course, we were told midway through that we were, in fact, not allowed to hold BBQs on our private pier. To me, that was akin to building a racing track and telling Michael Schumacher that he couldn't drive on it! What is the point in having a fantastic pier overlooking the Thames and not be allowed to throw a BBQ in the sun??!! In any case, we at least had the defence of ignorance, and were able to have our first (and last) BBQ at our place.

Monday was spent walking to Covent Garden, where Nik and I met the HM and other friends for lunch at the Rock and Sole Plaice, which is supposed to be London's oldest Fish and Chips shop. It was pretty impressive - at least as impressive as deep fried fish can get! It's pretty clear that I really don't think too much of traditional British food.



We tried to catch the Banksy grafitti exhibition at Waterloo, but the queue to get into the tunnel was 1 and a half hours long! Obviously, everyone had ambitions of venting their artistic frustrations by engaging in a little spray painting.

And now it is 10pm on a Monday night! It is absolutely amazing how a long weekend can fly by like that. I still think that I havent slept enough even though I must have taken 6 hours worth of naps over the entire weekend! Sigh - back to the grind of work now...