phone picked up for repair + British Museum + Dim Sum + Sylvie Guillem = a fairly good day
finally my phone was picked up for repair this morning at 9.20am. so my life could go on... went to the British Museum today because i have never visited it and have always wanted to. plus i felt i didnt visit enough museums on my Belgium trip so why not make up for it by doing something productive and learning something new.
Thought No. 1: i want to become a museum guide. it seems fun to work in a museum. maybe i should become a curator.
by the way, my brother was supposed to go to the school library to study but as he was walking with me to the museum he suddenly felt like going in with me so haha... we had a good time trying to follow discreetly behind a guided tour group. we were starving whilst in the museum but kept telling ourselves we have to wait till after 2.30pm to go eat 'discount dim sum' in chinatown. as we walked out of the museum we smelt hot dogs and couldnt resist the fried onions so we shared a hotdog as we walked to Borders to read free trashy magazines while drinking Starbucks coffee... (Moon, i have not converted to Starbucks... the moment i took a sip of my frappachino i remembered why i didnt like Starbucks. too bad they dont have Coffee Bean here...). So anyway, whilst in Starbucks my brother and I drew up a table of all the holiday breaks we have from June 2005 to June 2006 and oh my is it complicated. we were trying to figure out where we might travel to during the breaks and we ended up filling a whole page of A4 paper.
Thought No. 2: i want to work in the fashion industry. would LOVE to be a fashion spread editor. or a fashion historian.
Thought No. 3: i want Tom Ford/Stella MacCartney to be my personal friend. Plus have the figure of someone like Gywneth Palthrow.
While waiting for the clock to tick to 2.30pm we ended up in HMV and bought 3 CDs that were on sale. dim sum was nice. i think that is the good thing about living in London. Chinese food is easily available. Afterwards we walked to Covent Garden and i
bought my ticket to watch the Royal Ballet's Triple Bill tonight. i will finally get to watch Sylvie Guillem in person and i am looking forward to it. she is 40 and still going - i am in awe.
walking back home alone was a refreshing experience. i guess that is another benefit of living in London. you can walk down a street looking like you have somewhere to be yet under it all you take in the feel of the city without looking like some tourist. i dont really feel you can do that in coventry or leamington. and it was liberating because i've been in a pensive mood the last few days and getting out and walking down the street alone without any purpose cheered me up. over dim sum i overheard a middle-aged woman chatting in Cantonese over the phone and i was reminded of the Chinese New Years when we visit my granduncle and my grandaunt will always fill us in on our relatives. i realised that coming from a very small family, perhaps that is why i dont get severe homesickness because the only relatives i am close to are my parents and brother. sometimes i get bouts of 'homesickness' in the sense of me missing my friends and family. but living in the UK isnt that bad. in fact i am quite happy here. i guess the past few days my feeling of being in limbo was me missing the comforting company of people dear to me because sometimes when you are feeling down you just want a hug.
Thought No. 1: i want to become a museum guide. it seems fun to work in a museum. maybe i should become a curator.
by the way, my brother was supposed to go to the school library to study but as he was walking with me to the museum he suddenly felt like going in with me so haha... we had a good time trying to follow discreetly behind a guided tour group. we were starving whilst in the museum but kept telling ourselves we have to wait till after 2.30pm to go eat 'discount dim sum' in chinatown. as we walked out of the museum we smelt hot dogs and couldnt resist the fried onions so we shared a hotdog as we walked to Borders to read free trashy magazines while drinking Starbucks coffee... (Moon, i have not converted to Starbucks... the moment i took a sip of my frappachino i remembered why i didnt like Starbucks. too bad they dont have Coffee Bean here...). So anyway, whilst in Starbucks my brother and I drew up a table of all the holiday breaks we have from June 2005 to June 2006 and oh my is it complicated. we were trying to figure out where we might travel to during the breaks and we ended up filling a whole page of A4 paper.
Thought No. 2: i want to work in the fashion industry. would LOVE to be a fashion spread editor. or a fashion historian.
Thought No. 3: i want Tom Ford/Stella MacCartney to be my personal friend. Plus have the figure of someone like Gywneth Palthrow.
While waiting for the clock to tick to 2.30pm we ended up in HMV and bought 3 CDs that were on sale. dim sum was nice. i think that is the good thing about living in London. Chinese food is easily available. Afterwards we walked to Covent Garden and i
bought my ticket to watch the Royal Ballet's Triple Bill tonight. i will finally get to watch Sylvie Guillem in person and i am looking forward to it. she is 40 and still going - i am in awe.
walking back home alone was a refreshing experience. i guess that is another benefit of living in London. you can walk down a street looking like you have somewhere to be yet under it all you take in the feel of the city without looking like some tourist. i dont really feel you can do that in coventry or leamington. and it was liberating because i've been in a pensive mood the last few days and getting out and walking down the street alone without any purpose cheered me up. over dim sum i overheard a middle-aged woman chatting in Cantonese over the phone and i was reminded of the Chinese New Years when we visit my granduncle and my grandaunt will always fill us in on our relatives. i realised that coming from a very small family, perhaps that is why i dont get severe homesickness because the only relatives i am close to are my parents and brother. sometimes i get bouts of 'homesickness' in the sense of me missing my friends and family. but living in the UK isnt that bad. in fact i am quite happy here. i guess the past few days my feeling of being in limbo was me missing the comforting company of people dear to me because sometimes when you are feeling down you just want a hug.
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