Innerpeace

Chilling in London

I'm meeting Chong Wai for lunch tomorrow! 12.30pm at Bayswater Underground Station, I'm still searching for it right now on the Tube map, have never been to that place before. Chong Wai's going to bring me for some Four Season's duck rice or sth like that, Four Seasons sound so expensive haha. Chong Wai said it'd cost between 10-15 pounds, which is an average price for a meal. That's quite insane, dunno how the students survive like that in London. In Netherlands, a 7 euro lunch already makes me heart-pain. But nvm, I'm in London for a holiday and it's once in a blue moon (I was about to say once in a lifetime) lunch with Chong Wai IN London so I'm not holding back and awaiting the good food tml! After which, I'd probably drop by Notting Hill, do some window shopping along High Street Kensington before heading back to my cousin's place at about 6pm. She's bringing me to an art exhibition by this Singaporean artist called Xin, whom we met today when we drove to Kent to collect some of her pieces from her place. Kent is a 2 hr drive from London. My cousin is putting up an art show featuring works by Singaporean and UK artists and Xin is one of the exhibiting artists. Anyway I was shocked by how young she is, only 25 and her pieces are going for about 500 pounds on average! They're rather unique and meaningful though, focusing on Chinese traditional objects.

I'm living such a good life in London cos I'm staying at my cousin's place and this makes me really NOT want to go back to Eindhoven, where I have to starve and eat bread for lunch. Here, my cousin cooked pasta for breakfast, treated me to curry laksa for lunch and then we had home-cooked trout and vegetables for dinner. I don't have to worry about my meals here! And just now I helped out with making a pear crumble and I'm having it for breakfast tomorrow! Man I need to get an oven for my apatment in Eindhoven.

If only you were here with me again, to enjoy the good food with me, to see the beautiful sights with me...I miss you so very much, especially here in London. When I alighted from Eurolines at the Victoria Coach Station this morning, I thought of you because we were first here together. When I was asking around for directions and finding my way to the Underground station, I thought of you because you were our navigator. When I was thinking which travel pass to buy at the ticketing booth, I thought of you because you always makes the right decisions for us. London's just not the same without you.