Thursday, July 06, 2006 @ 4:41 PM
Hello people!!!!!
Haven't heard from all you guys in a while.. anyway my exams are over!!!!!!!!!!!!! yippeeee..... hope i didn't do badly... well just came back from london a few days ago... graduation ceremony tmr... finally... it feels like i've been here in malvern for ages. kinda sad to leave though... it's such a nice and happy place. haha i doubt i'll wake up to squirrels and pigeons outside my window scurrying around. really no joke!! I got this huge tree outside my window and every morning all the birds sorta gather there and u can see squirrels gathering nuts and all that.. haha juz like a scene from a book or something..
anyway i'll be back this sunday!!!! can't wait can't wait... laksa here i come!!!! *grin* i've been craving it for ages!!!
ok let me update you on my eventful week in london... you won't believe what happened. I got in on thursady right.. went shopping in the afternoon.. and then on my way back to the hostel i got pick pockted on the train!!! all my money and cards got stolen and i was stranded on the middle of london with no money and only a tube ticket... not funny.. so i called my mum and woke her up like at 3am... so yup yup had to call the bank and all that. then that night the bloody fire alarm went off!!! can you imagine.. i was so disoriented. so we all had to evict the building and stand outside to wait for the firemen to come and check the place.
and guess what set off the alarm... go on guess... this darn girl that was half drunk was smoking!!!!!!! at 2am in the morning. I could kick her man!!!
Well friday and saturday were ok... no probs there... my friends and I watched a gay parade on saturday... we thought it was some football thing... cos they blocked the whole of oxford street... and all the signs were saying things like euro pride and all that... haha silly right. So yup it was a real eye opener... wish i had brought my camera with me. There were like the down right transverstites and then there were like the gays in the police forces and the air force and all that and lesbians that were old enough to be my grandma...
so yup yup... then on sunday since the weather was so nice... we decided to go to the park... haha and here it gets really interesting... (note to jas... never go to hyde park on your own!!) I was waiting for my friends on a bench reading and this guys strolls past. he was saying something like, 'beautiful.. beautiful.' i thought he was talking about the scenery right... then he comes up to me and says, 'do you mind if i sit here.' and i wasn't really paying attention cos i was reading a book and the bench was so long, i thought he was just being polite. so of course i said i don't mind.
Then he started talking to me... and in england, it's quite common for people to strike up random conversations with the people around them.. so being the polite person i am i replied... haha and juz like the movies he began sitting closer and closer... seriously at that point i was getting a little freaked out. Then suddenly he asks me, so do you have a boyfriend. thinking back i should have said i was waiting for him... but i was so mortified by then i said no.
Then he asked how old i was and i said 19 and he was shocked. he was like oh then you're still in college... duh!!!! how old do i look... 30!!!!!!!?????? haha then he said... well i guess i'm too old for you then huh?? Like bloody hell you are... oppss sorry for the swearing... he was old enough to be my father!!! given he didn't look bad... but still!!! Chee ko pek alert!!!!! So before he left he said.. come give me a hug before i go!!!! can you believe it!!!! i wanted to run. so i sorta patted him on the shoulder and here it gets really movieish... he pulled me into a hug... ok then i started to struggle and pulled back. and he stil had the cheek to say, ' you really like cuddles huh... wish i could sit here all day with you.' DISGUSTING DISGUSTING DISGUSTING.
well after that you can imagine... i washed like 3 times that day... yew... anyway nothing much happened for the rest of my trip... but seriously london is not safe if you're alone... kinda amazing cos i always thought it was not too bad since i've been there so often.. haha i guess its just not my week. anyway i'll see you guys soon!!
cheers
sarah
