watched "house of flying daggers" directed by zhang yimou. nice cinematography, scenery, swordplay, background music etc, Horrible plot. the focus was too much on the love story and the storyline was left incomplete. heard it's not surprising for a zhang film. well, guess he just can't compare to lee ang no matter how hard he tries. apparently, according to chris, most pple here think all chinese know 'kung fu' (invincible) and they are very impressed by it. haha~ funny. we were joking about this all day. proud to be a chinese? yea..=) Sam aaron came by our place again at 8pm for yet another game of risk. played till 3am before going to bed.
02/01/05
worship practice in the morning with ken and again in the afternoon with the whole worship team (ken, osworld, chris (on the bongos) and i). fantastic service which started at 330 and ended at 5. ken and i headed to "antipasti" (an italian restaurant) for dinner. had pasta and pizza - nice food though i still prefer and remain a big fan of "gusto - italian bar and restaurant" in singapore (wisma atria, 2nd storey) haha~ cheap advertising.. sorry can't help it. (for those who don't know, i worked at gusto during the summer holidays). i was trying to pick out the things the waitresses did wrongly and ken commented that he shouldn't have brought me to an italian restaurant so that i wouldn't be able to display what i knew. too late..=P Back home, we found out that baldwin would be leaving for london the next day to do his elective at a hospital there. said our goodbyes before bed in case we missed him the next morning.
03/01/05
ken and i headed to buchanan bus station at about 10 in the morning and bought coach tickets to edinburgh (scottish capital). pricing wasn't too bad - 6pounds for a return trip. the journey there took slightly over an hour. we arrived at edinburgh bus station (st andrew's square) at 1130am and headed to the information centre at princes street (supposedly the orchard road of edinburgh) to purchase a city map for easier navigation. edinburgh is beautiful - the architecture of the buildings is simply stunning, the streets are really clean (unlike glasgow - not that glaswegian streets are filthy but yea, edinburgh's cleanliness is comparable to singapore's.) we visited the royal musuem and headed to "the last drop" for lunch. the last drop is located at grassmarket, which is morosely remembered as the site of the public gallows. the pub bears the name "the last drop" so as to commemorate the last hanging in the grassmarket. the pub is actually only a few steps from the very site on which the original gallows stood. ok, enough of the morbid stuff... we had nachos with chilli beef and pork sausages with mashed potato in onion sauce for lunch. delicious!
after lunch, we headed to edinburgh castle. the view from the hill on which the castle stands is picturesque! unfortunately, we decided not to enter the castle because the admission fees were slightly off budget. =P following this, we walked down the royal mile (the long road which connects edinburgh castle and holyrood palace, and hence it's name). Holyrood palace is where the queen resides whenever she visits scotland.
we decided to climb arthur's seat (300ft) at 1600hrs. it is located just beside holyrood palace. it was a tiring hike to the top due to the undulating terrain. on top of that, not expecting that we would be doing any form of hiking in edinburgh, i was wearing my boots and not proper track shoes. yes.. u can imagine. we decided that we would do the climb for God and that made us persevere all the way. we reached the top at 1645hrs. it was cold and extremely windy (and when i say extremely, i mean Extremely). i was almost toppled by the wind several times. we could see most of edinburgh from the top (just lights though, since it had already turned dark) lovely and spectacular nonetheless.=) we said little prayers too..it was an amazing experience.
finally made our way down by 1730hrs. Praise God. the way down was really quite horrific since it was already rather dark (though not pitch black). we strolled back towards the royal mile and then back to the bus station to take the coach back to glasgow at 1805hrs. arrived glasgow at 1920hrs, took the subway back to ken's place.
Andy, the last of ken's flatmates, arrived from malaysia in the evening after a horrible 30hr journey filled with tonnes of glitches - flight delays, baggage left in london, shuttling between heathrow's terminals 1 &3 at least twice!! gosh, i find myself fortunate now (refer to my first blog entry). extremely amiable and humourous guy. he had loads of food in his baggage including stock-up cookies for chinese new year, all kinds of herbs, cooked pork legs from his mum etc. can u imagine that? haha~
said goodbye to a beautiful day at 0200hrs.
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