Weekly Catch-up

I've put off writing this one for a long time. Mostly due to laziness and too much stuff going on. But it was an amazing week last week. First went back to Bath for a few days, it was strangely homely being in the city again. Home life just seems like a bubble now, instead of the other way around. For me at least anyway. I'm still unpacked since coming home from uni. And it's probably going to stay that way until I go back, or I need my suitcase for going back to China, more regarding that matter later. Anyways, Bath visit involved eating way too much (TGIF portions are easily underestimated, always room for dessert though ;)), watching too many films (The Hangover is BRILLIANT) and not enough sleep (noisy roads..!). On Friday, being the cultured person that I like to think I am, a visit to the Banksy vs Bristol exhibition was made. Thought provoking street art that is also entertaining (Plastic penis in the stalagmite/stalactite display..?). His art was spread throughout the Gallery/Museum, so going around looking for his other pieces outside of the main exhibition room was fun. I don't think the Bristol Museum has seen so many visitors! We only queued for 10 minutes outside then about 10 minutes inside for the exhibition room, which was lucky as I've read people have been waiting for hours to go in.. Don't see what the rush is, the exhibition is there til the end of August!

Bath visit was then followed by an overnight trip to celebrate Marie's 19th birthday. I cannot stress enough how lovely I thought her house was. :) And we were fed well on pizza, DOORitos with homemade dip, merigues, tarts, etcetc. All made for an excellent bingebingebinge after our night out in Swindon town, which was so much fun! I felt horribly short with my lack of heels, but it led to more dancing which was so tiring by the end. OH and shitty cab company was 20 minutes late. So we all got ill. Probably swine flu. :D With no hangover in tow (Marie's bed = best night's sleep ever), it was off to London for a China Trip reunion on Sunday!


The sun was out for a change, so we invaded Hyde Park, just chilling out with a frisbee and catching up with lots of people I haven't seen in a while (about half the group was there). Over priced ice cream and drinks, waiting ages for Cherry to arrive, wasting time deciding what to do/where to eat.. the usual. Dinner was at Bayswater, at the Magic Wok. And boyyyy, was it magical. I ordered jellyfish. Keeping it exotic. With some people in the group having obsessions with Time Crisis.. we went to an arcade for a bit. They failed to go pass Stage 1. Losers.. :P After this, some people left to catch trains etc. It was pretty late so I decided to just stay in London for the night. When telling my mum this, she said "I didn't expect you to come home this late anyway". Yeah, thanks. I also managed to lose a jacket.. and even with our incredible detective work (looking through photos to see where the jacket disappeared), we failed to recover it. Probably fell off my bag and stolen. Rah. 4 of us randomly went back to where we were staying and started drinking...? I was mega tired so kinda passed out with Charlie the Unicorn playing in the background. Ironically, I had the worst night's sleep in a long time. Crappy bunk bed etc (but I am still grateful Xin for housing me!), probably like under an hour of proper sleep. It seemed to have cured my cold so I was happy about that at least. Breakfast: 2 bagels, blueberry muffin. Yum. The plan for this day was to go to the Science and Natural History Museums. We only managed a tiny part of the Natural History before we were beaten by the humid climate. Kensington Gardens was visited next, where we all kinda just keeled over for a while, with or without £1.50/2 hour deckchairs! Lunch/Dinner in Chinatown. Standard. We went to Friendly Inn. It was pretty friendly :3 So the week/Monday ended with some pearl bubble tea. Can never go wrong with that.

One more thing..

1. Thanks Yufan for carrying my bag everywhere, Xin kept saying I was really harsh to you, but I know you can take it and we have some unwritten understanding. So basically, Xin, stfu. :)
   
2. Dennis, Marie, Xin. Thanks for housing me!
3. Dennis, Xuhong, Tanya. Miss you guys, hope to see you real soon ^^.
4. London People. Rinse and Repeat in August/September!
   
5. Everyoneeeee. I love you.
   

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