Day 1 in London

Well, what do you know. Looks like the blogging bug found me at last. Frankly speaking, I've never really liked recording down events but hell, Europe's worth the pain and effort.

So anyway. My flight was at 11.30pm on 17 June, on SQ322. Was slightly nervous since this was my first time flying alone and on such a long flight. Met the cutest Cisco guy at customs, who looked around my age. He was really friendly and talked to me while waiting for my bag to be screened. His name was Arthur Yap and before I left, he told me to come find him when I come back:) I have no idea whether he was serious or not but if anyone happens to know him, please please pleeeeease pass me his number. I know the chances of that happening are like nil but I'm still going to allow comments anyway.  Hey, you think local guys as cute and friendly as he is grow on trees in Singapore?

                                          Waiting for my flight in Terminal 3

Oh by the way, please congratulate me. I finally found where all the good-looking Singaporean guys are! Yes, they are all air stewards on SIA. No wonder we couldn't find many of them around, when half the time they are flying off to some exciting place in the world.

But I'm serious, the younger SIA air stewards are like oooooh my goodness. I guess it's the way they are groomed, their neat appearance and friendly smiles and those immaculate dark blue uniform. Which is really sexy by the way. Perhaps I would see them differently if they were wearing one of those "I'm with stupid----->" T-shirts but I prefer to think SIA air stewards have waaaaay too much class to be wearing such douchey shirts. Even when they are at home.

Oh, and there were quite a number of cute young Singaporean guys flying off to London as well. Which probably means they are studying there. Psssshhhhttttt. So that cuts the number of cute local guys into half furthermore. Bah :(

Anyway, back to the flight. If you haven't flown SQ before, you should definitely try it. This may sound biased, but it REALLY is the great way to fly. I don't claim to be an expert on flight standards but I was pretty comfortable throughout the whole 13 hour flight. Well, plus there was this super cute young air steward who was in charge of servicing my section of the plane:) Bonus points!

I wasn't the only one who thought SQ flight was awesome. The Swedish gentlemen sitting next to me on the plane couldn't stop raving about it too. He was this really friendly guy who talked to me a lot, about his 2nd wife who was English and his 3 kids and stepdaughter, about his work (can't remember what it was), where he lives and what are some must-sees in London and Paris.

Ok enough about the flight otherwise it's gonna be a lengthy post. Reached London Heathrow Airport at 6am London time, 18 June. Was surprised that I cleared Customs there in half an hour's time, after hearing so much negative feedback about the inefficiency of LHR airport. Went to the tube station to wait for my cousin to pick me up. Looooong walk to the tube station made me miss the convenience of Changi Airport lol. Yeah we are spoilt that way.

Met my cousin and his friend, who shall henceforth be known as The Bossy Manipulative Witch or BMW (my apologies to the esteemed car brand. Love you laaa muacks). Took an hour plus to reach my cousin's other friend in London, Steven who was studying at....London College? Can't remember. Went for brunch at The Breakfast Club.

                                         My delicious pancakes with maple syrup and vanilla cream

Then went to Trafalgar Square where West End Live was performing. It's an annual event which showcases performances from top West end musicals. I didn't catch much of it cos BMW insisted on going to the National Museum nearby to look at paintings *yawn*. I mean, I do appreciate art, but we will be going to the Louvre in a few days time, what better place to appreciate art than that?

She's a Christian by the way, so that probably explains her "interest" in art. I mean, more than half the paintings there were about Jesus, for Christ's sake (pun intended). In the end, I got so bored of it (and sick of her looking reverentially at the 8724th huge-ass painting of people worshipping Jesus) I escaped to find Steven, who stayed back to watch the performance in Trafalgar Square.

And it was really awesome. But thanks to BMW, I missed the Thriller, Lion King and Legally Blonde showcase and I mourned. Fortunately, those that I caught weren't too bad either. The weather in London was strange - it would rain for 5 minutes, then out came the sun. Few minutes later, it would start raining again. But it was still fun even though we got drenched from the rain.

                                         The very iconic telephone booths lol


                                         At Trafalgar Square:



After that we took a 3 hour bus ride down to Conventry, Warwickshire, University of Warwick where G's studying. It was around 9.30pm before we reached but the day was still bright. It felt like only 5pm there. Nevertheless, for someone like me who has never been to temperate countries, to say that I was cold would be a severe understatement. The biting cold wind was especially harsh and I was freezing even though I was wearing 2 jackets and a windbreaker. If this is what summer is like in London, I hate to imagine winter there.

Fortunately G's room has a really decent heater so I got warmed up pretty nicely. And hence ends Day 1 in London.