UK Brands

I shop in ThreeSixty supermarket today before waiting for my friends to have a tea break. This supermarket sells many foreign brands such as Innocent beverages and my favourite Green & Black's Milk Chocolate (with crunchy butterscotch pieces). The feeling is special (a mixture of good and bad), like shopping in Oxford/Finland supermarkets. At least I have an option to buy the UK stuffs though the prices are unnecessarily expensive.

I have bad mood today though partly offset by some good news. Thanks for Lulu, JoJo and Yam for their accompany. Jenny need to cheer up and stay strong!

Meeting friends

Hong Kong doesn't change a lot, the weather is nice now, around 27C, I adopted to the place quickly. When the sky turns a bit dark at 5pm, I wonder if it is going to rain, I think I am too used to UK shower now. The only odd phenomenon is that I found the people here are very young and skinny, many girls wear shorts with boots on. May be I spent too much time in London where the working class is a bit mature and the people I met during travelling in European countries are mainly old retired people.

The only thing troubling me is to unpack my luggage, I also need to dig my old stuff from my wardrobe, drawers and many unknown places. I have buried my Octopus card (similar to UK Underground Oyster card) and some credit cards in nowhere one year ago. I am reluctant to unpack the things because I wish to find a new place to stay, fortunate that my friend "leader" will accompany me on the flat hunting. The property market slumps drastically because of the financial tsunami, it is an appropriate time for me at this moment.

I will start working on 27 Oct, so I will spend these two weeks to meet up with friends. Today is the first Sunday I go back to church, I feel a bit nervous at first as I need to meet hundred of old friends at one time; it turns out to be very warm and sweet, too sweet indeed!!

See my three nephews and my new hair style below

Back Home

I was staying in my friend's home in London West India Quey in the last few days, it is an amazingly large serviced apartment, I have my own double bed and bathroom, so lucky. My place is near Marriott Hotel, so I took the new National Express Dot2Dot mini van to Heathrow Terminal 3 at 5:30am; as it is too early, no friends were able to send me to the airport but I can manage well by myself because the driver helped us picking the heavy luggage.

I took Jet Airways home, it is not easy to find a reasonably cheap flight especially I buy a one-way ticket only. I need to transit at Mumbai, the first time I landed in India. The flight service is amazingly good, 28kg lugguage allowance, continuous supply of drinks, good food with metal utensil, a large variety of inflight entertainment, quite spacious seats, etc. I have watched 4 movies in total, a bit headache afterward because the individual VOD screen is quite huge.....

I didn't overload my check-in lugguage this time as I have shipped 30kg via Dimerco in advance, so, I have an empty handcarry suitcase to carry the souvenir that I bought in Heathrow. I don't expect my handcarry suitcase need to be inspected again during transit at Mumbai, the inspector asked me to open the candy boxes and nearly disallowed me to carry the Harrods jam. Lucky me again, they let me pass after I shown them the receipts. Need to be careful next time.

After travelling from 9am UK time on 8 Oct to 9am HK time on 9 Oct, I finally arrived at HK International Airport. I've been here in early June with Pawel and Tarun for the CEIBS Business Competition, miss those days so much! Anyway, back home now, have free wifi at HK Airport, Hong Kong is the best (sometime)!

Last Last London Visit

My last picture in front of Big Ben



My last supper in Belgo followed by my last musical "The Sound of Music"


My last gift from Oxford

Last London Visit

Scotland - Loch Ness

Scotland

I haven't blogged for so many days because there was no internet access, I will stop this blog probably before I start working in HK by the end of this month, I think it is time to end this blog after graduating.


Before going to Scotland, I stayed in London for a few days and watched two more musical: Chicago (very poor) & The Wicked (excellent!). Then, we go to Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. See some snaps of Edinburgh Castel below, it is the best castle I have ever seen, with many museums inside. Not many pictures because I hate taking pictures under cold and windy weather.







The weather is cold here, I catch a cold before coming here, thus, I always feel very sleepy. Fortunately, we hire a car to drive which make life easier. Hertz guys are ridiculously rude, it is quite amazing to see people provide such level of services. My first time drive in UK, not difficult at all; the only problem is we cannot use the GPS properly, even you input the postal code, it still request you to input the street name, very troublesome. Therefore, we wasted a lot of time to drive in Aberdeen, like a treasure hunt today, hunting for castles.

Wales - Swansea & Gower

Germany - Munich Oktoberfest

The first Oktoberfest (Beer Festival) was held in the year 1810 in honor of the Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig’s marriage to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen. In the following years, the celebrations were repeated and, later, the festival was prolonged and moved forward into September. We are lucky to hit Oktoberfest in Munich.

A dozen of beer tents there, I think there are over thousand of people in one tent. Would be loads of fun if more friends go togther.

1 litre for each of us

Half way there

Some people talk a lot after drink, I am the kind of people that become very sleepy. I don't like beer but can't resist to drink 1L if you come to Oktoberfest.

Wake up and bottom up! Then throwing up when back to hostel........

A lot of people no matter it is day time or at night

Beer tent

It's a carnival, many sales boothes and thrill rides.

Germany - Neuschwanstein Castle

Hohenschwangau Castle (Yellow castle)


We stayed in a guest house which is at the foot of Neuschwanstein Castle (Swan Lake Castle).

The Sleeping Beauty Castle at Disney Land was modeled on it

Do some hiking to find the Swan Lake