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I have been slacking again...

That is why I just posted 4 posts in one day.

There will be more to come.. but at the moment.. I'm just too sleepy to continue.

Enjoy the pictures! :)

Hong Kong

A day after I came back from Seoul, Nard and I went for a short getaway to Hong Kong. It was a fun trip, because I get to go to Disneyland! Ha ha...

=One of the streets of Hong Kong=

Oh, of course, we went to the usual tourist spots, like the Lady's Street, Wong Tai Sin Temple, and the Harbour where you get to see the light-show on the buildings from across the river.

=Wong Tai Sin Temple=

Despite the rumoured Hong Kong Disneyland to be sucky, I find that it is really not that bad after all. Of course, the mainland Chinese cut queues and spits everywhere, and that the Disneyland is very small, but I find the rides entertaining. In fact, with its small size, it is just nice to take all the rides in a day and still not rush from one to the other, unlike those huge Disneylands in Tokyo or LA where you have to rush the whole day to complete all the rides.

=Hong Kong Disneyland=

=On the Disneyland train=

=Anyone wants to get smacked?=

=Mickey=

Oh, and on the final day, paying no attention to my misgivings, Nard went ahead and bought himself three remote control planes. And we have to carry it all the way back. If I remember correctly, the box is almost as tall as me. Goodness, men and their toys.

=SMELLY TOFU!! yum-yum=

That aside, it's a fun trip and it's nice to get away from our chores at home sometimes.

Seoul

Kim Chi anyone?

I happened to be in Seoul the same time as Nard, but we only had enough time to meet for lunch before he leaves for Singapore. But we manage to take a walk nearby the hotel's day market. Fun!

London

I finally got the 'courage' to walk around London's tourists spots. I went to the Salisbury cathedral, Windsor castle, and the Stonehenge in my fourth trip to London. Lovely trip on a lovely trip, except for the part where we were herded from place to place in a rush. Never am I going to take a guided tour!

=Windsor Castle=

=Stonehenge=

=Salisbury Cathedral=

On my fifth trip to London, I went to London's Tower Bridge and Greenwich park. I also visited the Big Ben and took the ride on the world's largest ferris wheel, the London's Eye. The view from the Eye was breathtaking. It's worth its 13.50 pounds fee. Too bad I didn't have a proper camera with me. With my crappy Sony T-5, I took only limited good night shots. But great experience nonetheless! The Greenwich park is one of the main park that shows the Line that splits the east and west, the GMT.

=Tower Bridge=

=Greenwich Park, the GMT line=

=London's Eye=

=Big Ben=

Nard, you have been away the longest time.. i miss you.. come home soon..

9-11

It was September 11 when I woke up in my hotel room in London. My immediate reaction was to turn on the tv and the news channel. Scanning and listening to the news while preparing to go out for the day, I was relieved there was no terrorist attacks for that day. At least, not in the vincinity.

So, that day's plan was to go out and tour the part of London that I have not been, despite the fact that I've been to London for so many times. The Tower Bridge, Big Ben, London's Eye, the Greenwich park. Anyway, to cut the long story short, I went to all those places in a day's time.

During lunch with my colleagues, we were talking about my plans to go site seeing in London. They ask questions like, "Hey, you know it's September 11, don't you? You're still going out?" Oh well, I shrugged it off with the it's-been-five-years-dude attitude.

After coming back to Singapore and as I was looking through my photos, I stumbled upon the photos taken when I was in New York few weeks back. I went to Ground Zero, took some pictures (3 to be exact). It was too devastating a site. To think that the area has been a graveyard to thousands of people, it was just a heart-wrenching scene. Not only that, it has led to more deaths around the world, in Afghanistan, Iraq, London, Iran, India. Suddenly, the world is full of terrorists that wants nothing but to kill.

9-11 has started a war that is not going to end anytime soon. Five years has passed, the shadows of it remains. More and more people are dying in this war against terrorism. Even as I am writing this, there are people who die of gunshot, of bombs, of beatings.

Let's just take a break from our daily chores and have a quiet moment, to remember those who has left us and those who are still fighting...

It's a challenge!

About a few minutes ago, I stumbled across this site that says, 'List down ten things you love about your life...'

It got me thinking, it's not that easy to do just that. Us being human, it's much easier to list 100 problems rather than 10 things that we love about our life. Such ungrateful creatures we are. So here is the challenge, let's list down 5 things you love about your life in less than 10 minutes. When the time is up, let's see if you can fill up the numbers. No cheating here!

1. My traveling (1st minute)
2. The figure in my bank account. Muahaha (3rd minute)
3. Nard (4th minute)
4. My photo album that is categorized by countries (7th minute)
5. My family and friends (time's up!)

How hard can it be right? Hahaha...

Sick. Medicine. Sleep.

I fell sick again.

It has not been long since my last visit to the doctor, and yesterday after work, I have to visit the doctor again. Not exactly my favourite past-time. And the medicine, eeeuuww...

Time to take my medicine. And sleep.

Sigh...