I used keep a written diary and this is how I recall of my visit to London. It was my second trip to London ever since, 1995. I hardly remember a thing on my first visit. Oh, there is something; my Mom always liked BALLY shoes and whenever we saw a BALLY shoes store, Mom can hardly control herself but would just march right into it and start trying on every pair her eyes set on. So, in the end, we bought a few pairs I think. I got one for myself too! It is still around but I hardly put it on *blush*.

Anyway, the second visit to London felt like a much better experience! I went with my

sister during one of my mid-semester breaks. We were so lucky to have the Lam's to take us in! We had Aunty Yun Thye to take us around because she was on leave for a few days, if I am not mistaken. Anyway, it was a great fun and our pleasure to have Aunty Yun Thye, Uncle Jimmy, Aunty Nikki, Uncle Augustino, Vincent, Amy and Stuart to take us to places. It has been a great experience!

I remember one evening we went for a musical ¡V MAMMA MIA at Prince Edward Theatre. It was a really, really good musical; everyone in the theatre I dare say, must have had a blast that night! The musical has been showed in Singapore a couple of years back and I remember I wanted to go just to watch it again, but I did not because I could not make, as that was my finals terms *pouts*. Anyway, I will definitely try to grab the next opportunity should there be any more of MAMMA MIA musical performances!

According to my diary, we had Indian food, Thai food and Italian food; funny though, how we were having Indian food and Thai food in London.... Anyway! I remember my sister gave a treat to everybody before we left the Indian food and we had Thai food before we went to watch the musical. We had Italian food with Uncle Augustino and Aunty Nikki on the second or third day during the visit. Hmmm, I believe the food was really good ^_^

There was this nice pub-restaurant named Orange Tree. I thought that's a really nice place; we all went there one evening for dinner and I love the ambience of the restaurant. There were no disco lights or heavy-loud music but....sigh, I cannot recall every detail but I had a great time there, too. Loved the drive to Orange Tree, too.

We went to a couple of places, mostly tourists-popular ones, of course. I remember we went to Hyde Park and St. James' Park, where the greens are simply mesmerizing; probably because I have yet to see anything as green and scenic where I have been for all my life *staggers*, Windsor Castle, St. Margaret's Church, Buckingham Palace, ride on the London eye, Trafalgar Square, Natural Museum of London, Tate Galleries, some boutiques, shopping malls and bookstores, of course! We also took a drive to Brighton over the weekend ^_^ Thanks to Vincent who was so kind to drive ^_^.

It took me a long time to get over the London-breeze in my head as I suffered withdrawal syndrome ever since I got back from London. I missed that place so much, that place felt like 'de place for me back then *laughs*. Actually, I still do, from time to time. See, I took a while to straighten some facts into myself to understand that I cannot just buy a ticket and stay at Vincent's place forever and just pretend I do not need to come back or do any applications or etc. Even though I really wanted that to just happen. I missed the SOUP place where they only serve soups and they have cute little nutrition tags before the soup pots stating what are in the soup and they actually have calorie counts! And they serve the soups in cups and not normal bowl! I meant cups like glasses not a coffee mug! *staggers*. And I missed sunbathing on the lawn and you do not literally get sun-bathe! Because even during summer, there is no sun, well there is, but it seems like there is no sun at all! *uwaaaaaa*

I want to go back to London again, someday. I promise!!!!

I might have said this lot of times now but let me repeat myself, Thank you all so much!!! ^_^