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By: Herni Hashim
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| Thursday, 7-Aug-2008 12:00 |
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London, England
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After having a fab time with East and her entourage in Leeds, I headed off to London. I wish I could stay longer in Leeds as I really enjoyed the company of East and her crazy friends. The journey to London took 5 hours from Leeds coach station and I reached London at almost 7.30 in the evening. It's good that it was still daylight. Now I had to find my way to get to Zul's house. Having to drag my heavy luggage and a bakpack was not easy! After changing a few tubes, I managed to reach North Greenwich station and waited for Zul and Elly there. I didn't wait that long before they came. It's good to see them both in London! Didn't expect at all to see them in another foreign land!  ...Anyway, so we headed off to their pad. They had a cute and cozy little pad just nice for the two of them. We chatted for a bit and I called of the day by wrapping myself in a blanket on their couch. I guess I was too tired that it took me just a second to fall asleep!
The next day, i started my day a bit later than usual...I just decided to do it free and easy. Since this was my fifth time in London I didn't need to rush myself just to cover all the tourist spots. I pretty much have covered London so being here for the fifth time was just like going back to my hometown.
I arranged to meet up with Max to have our nasi Lemak at Bayswater in the evening. So just to kill the time I spent my afternoon at the Tate Modern. The place was really cool! I like it. In here you can see all sorts of modern arts unlike in the National Art Gallery, I find that I can relate myself more to the things in Tate Modern. You can see a lot of very interesting paintings from modern artists and they are just amazing!
After spending few hours in Tate Modern, I thought I wanted to go to Shakespears Globe which was just around the corner. Unfortunately it was closed. I missed it by few minutes. Didn't expect it to close so early. Feeling a bit disappointed, I made my way across the Thames bridge, took some photos and headed off to Bayswater. I finally met up with Max after a year since we last saw each other which was during Ryan and Zara's wedding. He came along with his fiance, Cate. She's very sweet. We hit it off well. I seriously did not expect at all that Max and I are still manage to keep in touch and be friends until now as he is actually Ryan's friend. We first met at Ryan's crib in Northfield on new years eve of 2007 when I came to London for the first time with Nicole. Some people we meet are just merely an acquaintance of high and bye and that's it, nothing more. But Max is a really nice fella and genuine who's making the initiative to write you emails and post comments on your Facebook photos just to keep in touch. I'm so glad that it all started with my first trip to London and the rest is history.
After having our nasi lemak at Bayswater, we took a stroll at Hyde Park. The weather started to get chilly so we stopped at one of the cafes to have our coffee and desert...hmmm...
The next day I had another appointment with my long lost friend from elementary school in Delhi. I was really excited to meet up with Katherine after 13 years not seeing each other! I got a hold on her through Facebook. What a miracle! Oh boy, she's a grown up lady now, well, we both are grown up ladies!! hahahah...The last time we saw each other was when I was 13 and she was 12....and now we are both in our 20s, and working! Interesting ay! We had our lunch at a chinese restaurant in Soho. There were lots of things to catch up from what we were doing after we left Delhi to what we are doing now and having these conversations during lunch our was just not enough!!
After lunch Katherine took me to her office. Honestly I don't really understand what she's doing but one thing for certain, it has got to do with books. Knowing Katherine since Delhi time, she's really into books so it's no surprise she's in 'book' industry. Katherine had to go back to work. It's so nice to finally hooked up with her and I hope we'll continue this friendship where ever we are.
After lunch with Kat, I spent the rest of my day with Zul and his English buddy and that was it.
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