winter is coming...
i want to ski again....
it's really cool that i went to this ski resort where you can ski to the left and reach france and ski to the right and reach switzerland....cool....
i guess i'll go to korea to ski someday. or hokaido?
i don't even know how to walk at this moment....
the resort is really beautiful in the evening....
i'm falling..................
my skiing coach..without him, i will probabaly be dead in france..haha.
ski to the left? ski to the right?
I had a wonderful time in japan, this trip is also a buffer for me to get used to the fast pace in Hong Kong....
I met so many wonderful people, especially haya's family, there are a bunch of wonderful people, and their english is jsut incredible!!!
delicious donaughts......mister donaughts
ugly marmaid!!
yokohama - ramen museum....the cold ramen is ichiban!!
yokohama is a really pretty place.....super hot that day as well!
dragons won!!!
a really unigue aquarium in china town of yokohama
haya is such a good actor....
odaiba Hong Kong....chinese style heidi
i want freedom!!!where am i acutally?
i was lucky enough to be in a photo with song cat!! He is really handsome!
really nice night view in odaiba!
lunch with two lovely ladies..ayuko & chinatsu
Grandma is so healthy and pretty!
who is this???? (hint....nothing is so different beside the hairstyle)
the weird dessert....doesn't taste so good...yet very healthy...
healthy or delicious?
ayu :: chinatsu :: yumiko
haya and maki...go go dragons!!
everyone at home...cheers!!!
my favourite station:: To-Yo-CHo...haha..i'm loving it!
last lunch at Ueno....delicious....yet, time to say goodbye to japan!!
lastly, thank you nobu-san for making the delicious tomato salad for me...you are the best!
i am finally in tokyo...what a nice place to be in.
Since it is summer now, there are loads of festival going on in all over japan. so far i don't really have so much time to rest as i was having some hectic schedule for my travel.
Went to one of the biggest fireworks festival - 隅田川花火大会 in 浅草.
It was really amazing because there were so many people yet they behave so well, throughout the whole event, i was just enjoying myself and felt really comfortable even with the crowded environment.
Most girls wear special clothings to this kinds of festival, they are called tukata. I managed to brought a nice one yet had no clues on how i could wear it. So i went to the shop where i brought it and the lady kindly help me to wear it. I was so excited as i felt really special wearing something so traditional and pretty. Since i forgot to brought my camera there (digital), i only used an instant one to take some pictures, so cannot show it here...
One our way to one huge park, there were many stores selling different kinds of snacks, it was really tempting. I finally had some delicious fried noodles, half of a tiny and cute watermelon, a fried mocha bun with red bean paste inside and some freshy made rice cake. i've ate a lot!!!
ok, time to go to bed. oyasumi!!
What a beautiful saturday, i woke up early in order to attend the worship rehersal of my church. I am really happy as i finally got the chance to serve God through music again, how i miss the time of playing piano, singing and drumming for him. Although i do not really feel the same while worshiping him in another language, i really treasure the opportunities to serve him....
I thank God for providing me which so many good christian in this church and they are so willing to let me join them. Although i am still not very close to them, i wish so much to be in their fellowship more! (Prayer request). After the 2 hour practice, i took the tube to leichester square and try to get the tickets for Mama Mia. What a crowded saturday, the tickets for both afternoon and night shows were sold out!!! I guess it was becuase the easter holiday had just started and London became one of the touristic city, packed wit tourists that wanted to see musicals and shows.........I was really sorry as i think TongHa really wanted to see the show...so i brought the tickets for the monday show instead so that at least he can watched it before he leave.
So, no musical today, i waited for Joey and TongHa to join me and we went for some sight seeing. Today is really the best day for sight seeing, sun was shinning and the sky were sooooo blue. The best day to take some really nice pictures as well. We walked around the tower of london and pass by the tower bridge......when i looked at the sky, i feel soooo happy, coz the spring is finally back!! After the dark ages, it was so good to see the sun again!!
TungHa was afriad of the hourse...haha
But i'm not............
We walked to a dock and took some nice picture of him...
He became the model, me and joey try to compete and see who took a nicer picture....
This is taken by me:
joey's one:
Near the dock, we found a very nice italian restaurant with balcony. We went straight inside and wanted to sit on the balcony to enjoy the sunshine, however, the waitress do not let us go for a table with 4 seats......they are really bad people, anyway, we still manage to enjoy our food in that restaurant:
the pizza is really delicious.....very spicy though........
see how happy they were...when faced with FOOD....
even handsome guy had his ugly (funny) face....
After the restaurant, we continue to walk besides Thames....took more fantastic picture....
what a nice couple (jokking....i'm afriad many girls will kill me)
My favourite picture.....sky and grass...the best combinition
Haha, we almost had a cup of coffee every 2 hours......
cheers...........
At about 6, we headed to the famous club (not really a club)..JAZZ CAFE in camdem town....there were a really nice funk band playing there tonite....as joey really like 60s and 70s funk music, we started sitting there from 7 and had a few drinks (JD coke, gingle ale and organe juice). I was very suprised when i knew that TungHa seldom went clubbing as he obvious do not have the time for that, he even asked joey secretly what he had to do in a club....
The band is really fanfastic.... with 3 vocals, 2 guitars, 2 sax, a trumpet and a flute player...or coz a drummer and keyboard as well...i especially like the trumpet player...he's pretty young.....
It was really good to have live band and the three of us enjoyed a bit of dancing...(most of all, joey dance madly...haha)
After the crazy night, we ended it with a great meal in a korean restaurant near tottingham court road....fish cake hot pot and pork bougogi.....after that, joey even wanted to sing karaoke ne, but since we were all too tired for that, let's leave it to another time.
Although i am still seriously not feeling so well, i am glad that i still manage to enjoy my full day trip with two of them!!!
What a beautiful day....the sun is shinning........
Today, we are going to go to Brighton (south of UK) to visit Minori!!!! We are really excited (i am), however we left nearly at 11 because our star is too sleepy..hehe...It's good to know that it takes us just an hour to reach there.....me and minori are so close to each other actually!
on the bus, i was talking to my mom.......
on the train, i took a pic with my mobile, turn out to be Tongha's favourite
arrived at brighton train station.....
Since we need to wait for minori, three of us walked slowly towards the beach side.....and brought some chips to enjoy on the beach........
Once we met minori, we went for lunch....chinese food....haha...(mino's favourite) and then mino needs to go back to school for a short meeting with her tutor, so her thai friend Pom brought us to around. we went to the brighton pier for a walk and a cup of coffee, he is pom:
three of us in the cafe (pub)
After that, we went to the royal pavilion for a short sight seeing.....this pic was taken when we're in the gift shop of the pavilion.....guess who is who?
After the short visit, mino brought 2 of her friends to join us, we went to a very cozy home cafe for some british scones......wowow......it was really really very delicious.......
i only manage to finish one scones (originally there are two scones for each set..), coz i put too much whipped cream on it.....haha...(i know one person by now will be almost crazy....mom...hehe...i'll bring you there if you come here)
me and mino
joey and Tong ha
mino's korean and japanese friend
After the short and packed journey in Firenze (Florence), we headed to Rome in the morning - our final destination and the place where we will be spending our Christmas.
Because it is near holiday, those train are quite packed and we were not able to book a seat until the train at 1038. Since we have not choice, we can only take the rather late train. We wanted to arrive Rome early becoz those important museum all closes at around 1500. This time,the ticket seller is really rude and we somehow doesn't know what kind of train and seats we are booking...haha....anyway...we broad on the 1038 train and when we approach our seats, we found that a middle east (not sure) couple is acutally on our seats with their tiny baby. We tried to ask them whether they have tickets or not, but somehow the father told us to find some staff to solve the problem...so i walked through the half of the train and finally found some staff that cannot speak english...and i finally give up to argue with that family. So the three of us sit down on the corridor and start our journey to Rome.
I think it is really fun to take train when travelling. I experienced many different kinds of situations in taking trains.
1. Long journey to Granda (Spain) with seats - not too painful for 12 hours journey, slept a bit.
2. Long journey back to Barcelona (Spain) with beds - very comfortable and i slept for the whole journey and don't even wanna get up in the morning (again it's a 12 hour night train)
3. Short journey to from Milano to Firenze - 1st class expensive train with free drinks and most delicious chocolate in the world, a bit too short (just 3 hours) for such a pleasent train journey.
4. Short but painful short journey from Firenze to Roma - 3rd class stinky train with someone on our seats. Although it is not such a pleasent 3 hours train, i feel really funny when seating in the corridor of the train.
So here comes Roma - the dream place for meeting your Mr./Mrs. Right.
The central terminal of Rome is really large, with 24 platforms.......
to be continue
在英國返的教會is倫敦華人教會, 他們剛在Hammersmith建了一座新的worship & ministry center, 我本來是打算返0930 Cantonese/Mandarin congragation的, 可是最後都選擇了返1130的English congragation. 所以我們便有plenty of time, even a long breakfast in Mc Donald ( 早餐也要3 pounds呢! )
Issac & Loretta enjoying their Mc breakfast!
今天講道講的是馬六&馬利亞的故事. 雖然我不是一個worrier,每次聽到此故事都想到以前如果團契大吃會之後默默收拾的姊妹們( HaHa….).
在英國過的星期天和在香港的星期天太不同了! 所以感覺好像Sunday is lost, 這天也特別想家. 可是由於each week都有朋友的陪伴, 所以沒有感到很寂寞.
Shopping Harvey Nicholas near Harrods
After worship, 一行三人到了Knight bridge的一家小店吃了很肥的tea (超級chocolate cake)…..那家店的食物好像很好吃, 可是那piece小小的cake已經把我的肚子填滿了!
What a delicious chocolate cake...................
Loreatta & me!
每次吃dessert的時候, 總有一種很幸福的感覺, 這種感覺在來到英國以後更強烈, 所以我也有點怕我不久後會變成肥婆呢! 之後到了Oxford street逛了一個下午, 累死啦! 最後在Waterstones看書, 還買了一本呢! ( 不告訴你是什麼書! )
Outside the bookshop ----> Waterstones
6點多, 振東便begin his journey back to derby了! 我也只好回到Loreta家吃他為我預備的豐富晚餐.
My dinner ------> ribs and vegi
I am so lucky to have her as my friend!
Lor Lor是一個很會cook的女孩子, 以前在香港的時候, 他已經常常做一些很複雜的菜e.g.豆腐花, HaHa, 今天晚上我有幸吃到她做的ribs vegi….看到口水快流到地上了! 怎麼辦, 下午的tea還沒有消化好! 又吃得太飽啦! 只好抱著那每天長大的baby (my belly)坐火車回去了!
And this is the end of my 2 day london trip, i truely hope that i don't need to go over this again when some friends come to visit me! Haha..................
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