Quite conveniently, there’s high-speed internet access where i’m staying, and it’s free too!
Day One
i arrived in London at about 5.15am. Then waited another 45 minutes before i could claim my luggage.
i really don’t want to compare but Changi Aiport whups Heathrow’s butt.
Then it was off to the hotel where my mom and sis had been staying for two days. We upped and left at noon to move into a more spacious abode, The Citadines, where we are currently staying. It’s a service apartment, rather than a hotel.
Shortly after checking in, we made our way to Spitalfield’s, which is a bazaar of sorts. Loads of cool stuff – original fashions, antiques, books, old-school thingamajigs – sold there.
The weather in London currently ranges from 0-10 degrees Celsius. Too cold for some but i’m loving every minute of it. i seriously believe that my body’s more suited for temperate climes. i absolutely abhor the heat in Singapore. There’s just something wrong about perspiring the second you step out of a very cold shower.
But here in London, you can go for days without feeling your perspiration on you! You don’t have to wash your clothes all the time, or take a shower every fifteen minutes, or be afraid that the food’s gonna spoil because you leave it out in the open.
i need to move to London.
Seriously.
We ended the first day by having dinner at 1997, a Hong Kong-Chinese restaurant in Chinatown.
My mother’s excellent Cantonese came in handy as the servers in the restaurant responded far more warmly to us and served us in a manner that was reserved solely for “people” (to be read in Cantonese), meaning the Chinese, as opposed to the “ghosts”, meaning everyone else. Heh.
Ahh…the solidarity of the descendants of the dragon.
