Sunday, July 15, 2007
england
heya.
currently in birmingham where it's raining cats and dogs. we've been holed up in mc donalds for the past 4 hours. we slept at the coach station last night cause we wanted to save on accomodation. lol. it's the second time we've stayed out, the first being in london. horrid experience. haha. you never truly know how lucky you are to have a roof over your head and a comfy bed until, well. until your warm and comfy bed is replaced by the cold and hard chairs in coach stations. haha. the weather sucks here. hopefully it'll be better in stratford-upon-avon and oxford. leaving in 4 hours.
birmingham's actually a pretty cool place. big city like london but it's not as glamorous i suppose. they have a little beach just outside of a huge shopping mall. check this out.
and it's outside a huge shopping mall called bull ring. this is the view from the side of the building.
anyway, 'm missing manchester like crazy. i really love it there. maine says 'm biased. haha. but it really is a nice place to live in. it's a city that's not too big, has it's own cool downtown area and also the lovely surburbs. it's not expensive like london and uh, there's quite alot of cute white boys. hahaha.
we also visited urbis, where they showcased the best of manchester and also places all over the world where people change or conserve dumping/useless places into places where people can have fun. was pretty cool. the hostel we lived in was awesome too. called the hatters. free wi-fi, and toast 24/7! jasmin loves bread!! haha. friendly desk people and cute backpackers living there. lol. 'm def gonna go back to manchester again someday soon. hopefully during the epl season.... haha. the trip to old trafford was surreal. :) it's still hard to believe at this point of time that i was actually standing in the theater of dreams.
was in liverpool for a bit before heading here. liverpool's like.. uh, a white thrash city. ha. i mean yeah, it is indeed a beautiful city with very rich history and culture of it's own. we visited tate liverpool which was real cool and a demolition art museum. but i don't know if it's because the governing there sucks or they're just too poor, alot of people there are.. well, thrashy for lack of a better word. their accents are alot thicker too. very unlike london or even manchester. oh but liverpool is the home of the fab four, more popularly know as the beatles.
we met a dutch girl and 2 american girls in our dorms. nice people :) the dutch girl, maria, is heading to wales after liverpool for 2 weeks and she's alone! haha. i don't think i'd dare to do that yet. she's tall though and she plays rugby so when we were walking down the streets at night she said we don't have to worry cause she can tackle any guys who attack us. lol.
one common thing that we've been seeing as we backpacked around england was that.. there really are alot of homeless people. some scary, and some who just make your heart ache a little. we just had a pretty young boy asking us for some change to get food. it just makes us wonder like, where are their parents and how did they end up on the streets. and it's weird cause you see expensive shops like fcuk, Lv and diesel. then you see on the other side of the street, homeless people picking up cans or just squatting and trying to keep warm.
but oh well, i guess such is life and we always wanna find answers to them but we hardly ever do.
oh, i didn't update bout london. haha. london was amazing. amazing and fucking amazing. especially justin's concert. fucking fucking amazing. lol. and we had such awesome weather that big weekend too with tour de france, live earth, justin, silverstone. i have so much to say about london but i guess i'll keep that for the next update and 'll post nicer pictures too.
happy birthday huimin, audrey, libing and my mommy! hope everyone's doing good back in singapore. i don't wanna go home. lol.
currently in birmingham where it's raining cats and dogs. we've been holed up in mc donalds for the past 4 hours. we slept at the coach station last night cause we wanted to save on accomodation. lol. it's the second time we've stayed out, the first being in london. horrid experience. haha. you never truly know how lucky you are to have a roof over your head and a comfy bed until, well. until your warm and comfy bed is replaced by the cold and hard chairs in coach stations. haha. the weather sucks here. hopefully it'll be better in stratford-upon-avon and oxford. leaving in 4 hours.
birmingham's actually a pretty cool place. big city like london but it's not as glamorous i suppose. they have a little beach just outside of a huge shopping mall. check this out.
and it's outside a huge shopping mall called bull ring. this is the view from the side of the building.
anyway, 'm missing manchester like crazy. i really love it there. maine says 'm biased. haha. but it really is a nice place to live in. it's a city that's not too big, has it's own cool downtown area and also the lovely surburbs. it's not expensive like london and uh, there's quite alot of cute white boys. hahaha.
we also visited urbis, where they showcased the best of manchester and also places all over the world where people change or conserve dumping/useless places into places where people can have fun. was pretty cool. the hostel we lived in was awesome too. called the hatters. free wi-fi, and toast 24/7! jasmin loves bread!! haha. friendly desk people and cute backpackers living there. lol. 'm def gonna go back to manchester again someday soon. hopefully during the epl season.... haha. the trip to old trafford was surreal. :) it's still hard to believe at this point of time that i was actually standing in the theater of dreams.
was in liverpool for a bit before heading here. liverpool's like.. uh, a white thrash city. ha. i mean yeah, it is indeed a beautiful city with very rich history and culture of it's own. we visited tate liverpool which was real cool and a demolition art museum. but i don't know if it's because the governing there sucks or they're just too poor, alot of people there are.. well, thrashy for lack of a better word. their accents are alot thicker too. very unlike london or even manchester. oh but liverpool is the home of the fab four, more popularly know as the beatles.
we met a dutch girl and 2 american girls in our dorms. nice people :) the dutch girl, maria, is heading to wales after liverpool for 2 weeks and she's alone! haha. i don't think i'd dare to do that yet. she's tall though and she plays rugby so when we were walking down the streets at night she said we don't have to worry cause she can tackle any guys who attack us. lol.
one common thing that we've been seeing as we backpacked around england was that.. there really are alot of homeless people. some scary, and some who just make your heart ache a little. we just had a pretty young boy asking us for some change to get food. it just makes us wonder like, where are their parents and how did they end up on the streets. and it's weird cause you see expensive shops like fcuk, Lv and diesel. then you see on the other side of the street, homeless people picking up cans or just squatting and trying to keep warm.
but oh well, i guess such is life and we always wanna find answers to them but we hardly ever do.
oh, i didn't update bout london. haha. london was amazing. amazing and fucking amazing. especially justin's concert. fucking fucking amazing. lol. and we had such awesome weather that big weekend too with tour de france, live earth, justin, silverstone. i have so much to say about london but i guess i'll keep that for the next update and 'll post nicer pictures too.
happy birthday huimin, audrey, libing and my mommy! hope everyone's doing good back in singapore. i don't wanna go home. lol.
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