Japs

In a rare act of patriotism, I'm going to go back to my roots and start Jap-bashing.
Ok, I haven't really got anything against the Japanese. If anything, the Chinese annoy me more. (No offense to all the Chinese people out there, I'm sure a lot of you are great, and I have lots and lots of Malaysian, Singaporean, British, Indonesian-Chinese friends, but a lot of the mainland Chinese people are quite simply... annoying.)


So I'm not really gonna be Jap-bashing, just making a little fun of them. Watch this video clip, you'll understand why. If you're a Korean, you'll understand why it's so damn funny. If you hang around Japanese people a lot, you might understand why it's funny. Or you may simply find it quite stupid. But anyway..





Ok, to be fair, there are a lot of Koreans who can't speak English. At least this dude is making an effort, albeit a very amusingly hopeless one. In fact, when I stepped out of the very.. enclosed world of international schools and stepped out and started mixing with the Malaysian public, I found the accent very funny, and at times totally gibberish-like. Of course, now I sound a little like one when I speak to Malaysians.. Well, at least I don't sound like a posh London kid like way back in Primary school.


Just so you guys know I'm not being racist or Jap-hating or anything, my best friend in Year 2 to Year 5 was Japanese-Thai.


I'll post more stuff on the Nottingham and Canterbury travels on another day.

Canterbury, Kent

Sorry I haven't updated and replied to comments in a while, been sort of busy.
I was away in Kent, visiting a friend, and I also went to Nottingham.



Hmm, sometimes I want to shed this image of myself as the "Clown". Personally, I'm a little bored, sick & tired of this image. I don't want to be the guy who's cracking jokes all the time. As dhany would say... i'm feelin a little jaded/bitter?. I just feel like it's time for a change, but.. if i stop being the relaxed, funny-guy, what do I change into? So far, it seems that I'm not good at much else, other than making a fool of myself and making other people laugh.. and even that doesn't work all the time. I'm not funny anymore. :(

People used to laugh either at or with me. Now they just tell me I'm full of shit.



Anyway,.. Kent.
Trip was quite.. uneventful, but I wasn't expecting an uber-exciting trip. After all, I don't travel to feel excited, but to see new things and if possible, meet new people and old friends, and I certainly did all that, so I was happy. I met up with Shereen and stayed at her place for two nights (she made jelly! for me!), and also met a friend of hers; Adam, who will be coming to Malaysia for the first time this summer.
















Shereen is lookin down at smth, not quite sure what it was she was lookin at.. but whatever. We were supposed to go into town that day, but it got all rainy outside, so decided to stay in. Needless to say, both of us weren't happy. She needed to go shopping, I wanted to see other things in Canterbury, other than the coach station and Pizza Hut.


Hmm, there was some compensation with the rain though, did see a very clear rainbow outside. Coz of the lack of money on my part, and crap weather in general, we did not go out at night, so instead we stayed in and just stuck to watching movies and we were also involved in some *cough* illegal *cough* activities. (I meant the coughing in a very literal sense).
I went all the way down to Kent, from Liverpool, and was made to sleep on the floor. :( but I guess I can't complain, I may have done the same lol.






The rainbow..














And here, we have me in my customary "make myself look silly"-pose. I obviously wasn't posing, she decided to randomly take a photo of me.









Me, being the perenially poor guy, needed some money to sustain my travelling and eating costs, so suggested we go to the casino... but there was none in Canterbury! but there was one in the nearby seafront town of Margate, so off we (Shereen, Adam, Me) went, in search of money. Halfway there, I decided to check if they brought any ID.

"So.. you guys got ID right?"
"Do they allow you in with University ID"
"No"
"..."
".... No driving license?"
"No"

We decided, since we already had begun our little adventure, just to go there and try our luck, but as expected, they did not want to let Adam and Shereen in. I could not possibly go in there by myself and leave the other two. So we went to eat, at a Wetherspoons, and then we went to the beach.


While we were approaching the beach, we noticed this sign from far away. All three of us found it strange, at least Adam and I did, thinking that dolphins did not like the cold waters of Britain. Shereen was more focused on the fact that she'd never seen dolphins in the wild before.







And then the anti-climax... we walked closer and found this sign.
The animal signs were there so lost children could be found.. Needless to say, all three of us were disappointed.






Don't have photos of the Cathedral in Canterbury and other places we visited and photos of ppl together yet, but will post em up on the next post, and also will write about the trip to Nottingham.

The disadvantages of living away from home..

Mmm.. Baileys Irish Cream..
Disadvantages? What disadvantages?!
LOL



Ah.. the joys of independence.
i.e. being able to drink as much as you can afford and smoke as much as you can and whatever else is your vice of choice.


We all love alcohol don't we?
I didn't get an early start to drinking, I only started at 16 (hmm.. i'm not sure if this is VERY late.. maybe it's normal..)
Now, at a ripe old age of 18, I can't quite say I'm a veteran drinker. If anything, my alcohol tolerance is much lower compared to all the English ppl, where people from all towns and counties can come together in unity, and be proud of one thing in common: a beer belly.


The bottle of Baileys was my first ever bottle of alcohol (i've bought many drinks out at pubs and bars and stuff, but never bought a whole bottle for myself).
Was going at a special price over Christmas, so decided to give myself a little treat. :D


This stuff was weak, so I decided to move onto smth a little stronger: Vodka.

My beloved Smirre. It's all gone now, but while there was lots left, it was a good friend. My friends always told me that Smirre was rubbish, that Absolut was the way forward, but I stuck by it. :D

I once mixed Smirnoff and Baileys... turned out horrible. Forgot what the actual drink was called... some Irish smth. or Green smth. Can't remember.

This is just the stuff I've been drinking at home alone. Except the Bacardi Breezers, which I finished with Danial while playing poker, and smokin some shisha. It's not bad at all.. except a little too sweet. Of course, take into account what I've been drinking outside with other ppl, and the alcohol content rises significantly. Compared to most ppl, the no. of bottles that I have, isnt a lot. The problem is that I drank that all by myself, on my own, alone in my room.


Doesn't it look like some skyscraper building u might find in the middle of a large town?
Does to me. As you can see, I'm exactly the healthiest person right now. Gotta start going to the gym and start jogging again, I haven't done that in like ...4 months.


Well, the smoking's gonna stop...
Gotta stop some of the vices before I move on to others. ;)

Murder!

Esmie Tseng..


The American-Chinese 16yr old girl from Kansas who stabbed her mum to death. She committed murder.. She is now serving time at a jail (Note: an adult jail, not some juvenile detention centre jail thing). In a non-sadistic, purely analytical way, I've always wondered what death is like, along with other things such as committing murder, rape, experiencing death of a family member, or contracting an incurable disease. Recently, I had the chance to experience the death of a family member, my grandmother. I can say that I never want to experience that again.. Sadly, I have parents, so I'm going to have to go through it at least twice more.. unless I die first of course.


But anyway.. A 16yr old killed her mum! Now many would be horrified and shocked that a person could do this, but to be totally honest, I'm not. Being raised in a very Asian family (especially Chinese/Korean) in a Western environment is very difficult, especially if you are the 1st generation abroad. Everybody you know, is going out, having fun, doing what normal children in the environment do, but you are confined to the spaces of your room, doing reading and studying.


When I was younger, I had a lot of fun, and I can confidently say my life was happiest from Year 2 to Year 5. Bring academic competition and girls into the picture, and life quickly becomes very bleak.
My grades were always excellent. Not many students can say that they were top of the class from Year 1 to Year 5, in a big school too (ok fine, it's primary school, but still, let me bask in the somewhat dim lights of my glory). I was also top of the class, all the way to my IGCSEs, often topping the class in terms of exam and test results, and in general intelligence. I even performed on the violin at school concerts.. but was this EVER good enough? Not really. I was always told "well done, proud of you". If only it'd stopped there.


After that, always followed a "but on the bigger stage, you're gonna need to work harder and get better results, you're not always going to be on top, etc. etc." Which was very true. But did I really need that constant reminder? It was like having a broken record, playing in the back of my head, telling me I was never gonna be good enough.


Many times I have felt the urge to tell my parents to shut up and go away, I never did. Admittedly murder has been on my mind. This was back when I was about 12/13. Thankfully, these thoughts have all vanished, and I can happily say that it's just a part of my history.. but I guess it shows that at some point, everyone snaps. Esmie just had a lower breaking point than I did, and was probably much more mentally abused and given impossible targets to match by typical oriental parents.



After my somewhat not so great A-level grades, I think I pointed out to my parents that I'm not as intelligent as I once was, and managed to lower their expectations. I am a little disappointed that I did not get the grades that I could have gotten, but this has somewhat made my life easier. I no longer feel hatred towards the whole Asian race for their ignorantly demanding lifestyles and blind hard-work.

blur

One advantage of living in the UK, is that UK bands are recognised.
As far as I know, Koreans don't have much knowledge of music outside Korea,
barring the super famous superstars e.g. Michael Jackson, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, etc. (notice how they're all pop-stars...)
This may be partly due to the abundance of Korean celebrities and singers, who get more press coverage than Hollywood stars, in Korea.


I get the impression it's not exactly the case in Malaysia. There are loads of Malaysians who know Korean actors and singers but the same cannot be said the other way round.
So Malaysia does not really have an excuse for it's lack of music from the UK..


But whatever the reason, the Msian music scene is dominated mainly by American music. I've already posted about my difficulty in finding Placebo albums (They've won numerous awards! Best UK Band Award! They are gods in France!).. The same could be said of blur. The first blur album I ever bought was blur: The Best Of. (btw, I'm intentionally typing "blur" without a capital B).

I've searched for all their other albums, but did not manage to succeed in Msia. Although to be fair, I did find their album "13" a few times.

The only goddamn song people have ever heard is "Song 2" and occasionally you get people who've heard "Coffee & Tv" This severely annoys me. (There's one person I know in Msia who loves blur...was so happy when I found out, it's like finding a soulmate lol.) But FINALLY, I'm in the UK, and when I mention blur, people go "ooh! I love blur!"


The Great Escape, and Blur.

And Dhany sent me one of their albums, "Think Tank"!!! Was very happy when I received it, so much thanks to Dhany.


There's still quite a long way to go before I can finish this album collection. I've still got to buy "Leisure", "Parklife" and a couple more others. I'm hoping Think Tank was not their last album ever..


If you haven't listened to blur ever in your life, I suggest you do. Except Think Tank and 13, their music may seem a little retro at times, but really, their music, all of it is a good mixture of many genres.

Guitar

It's been coming for quite a while now.. I've been longing for a guitar.
So I got one yesterday! Except I didn't quite buy it..
..
..






I rented it! :P I bet some people were thinking I stole it.
A friend was in need of some money, so I decided that renting it from him wouldn't be such a bad idea. Besides, I've "earned" money at the casino, why not use it on something productive, like playing the guitar, instead of like... eating.



The guitar is, a Fender Squier. I could never afford to own or even rent a Fender Stratocaster or anything of that quality. A Fender Squier is not too bad, but if you want to become a good guitar player, you have to make do with what you have, and use it to create good sounds. Imagine how GREAT the sounds would be on some real quality equipment..


Now.. I don't want to complain. But the Fender Squier SP-10 amp isn't great.
But to be fair, it's a good enough practice amp, provided you turn up the volume up enough, but my somewhat brooms-stuck-up-their-asses flatmates aren't too happy bout me turning it up a bit. Basically, what this means is you get shit sound. Not just a lower volume but you cannot hear the distortion properly, and the tone is just generally poor, in any amp, if you turn the volume down. This frustrates me, and makes me want to insert an additional mop up certain ppl's asses, but that's just me being sadistic.


Imagine this, I walk into the kitchen, and a person casually says
"Were you playing the guitar just now?"

I say my friend was. Which is 100% true, coz a couple of my friends came to drop it off. Sadly, he doens't quite know how to play, and he was just banging the strings at a loud volume and it did sound horrific, but that's not the point.

"Ah, I see. I woke up because of the noise.." *smile*

Well, I'm sorry, but during exam periods, you should not be asleep and in bed at 1pm in the afternoon! What planet does this person come from?!!?!?

Hmm, but I'm getting the general feeling that rock music is highly under-appreciated in China.
After all, a couple of months ago, I did hear some loud M2M music coming from a certain room. I did not complain, saying the noise was killing me though. What kind of 18yr old male, doesn't suffer when he hears "Mirror mirror hanging on the wall..." Wait. If anybody was planning to answer that, pls don't. :P




Anyway. This is the guitar I actually own, back in Malaysia.

A Korean-made *sticks out chest and sings national anthem* Cort X-2.
Btw, Cort is a Korean brand. :D
LOL. I feel so strange when I'm being patriotic.

Rest

I've got FIVE more exam papers coming up next week!
I really should be revising, but I decided that I deserve a good break..


University exams are a pain in the ass. Sometimes even literally, as long periods of sitting down on a chair can lead to pain. (This is very rare, mainly because I don't revise for long periods of time.) The problem with revision is; for me, it's not re-vising. It's just "vising". As in "Well, I better take a quick look at this" instead of "Well, let's look at it again just in case, so I remember". If there's one thing that always triumphs over humanity, well at least young adults, I think it's procrastination.

I've been so bored, I've just been thinking about random stuff..

hmm..




Military Service. I still don't know what exactly is gonna happen, or what exactly should happen, I have absolutely no idea how the procedure works in Korea. I was told I need to register my new address, Liverpool at some government military website, but then I was also told I don't need to, because I'm a student. If I do need to register my new address, and I've missed the deadline... I'm in serious shit!


I could potentially be a fugitive right now! Hmm.. I like the sound of that lol.
Hmm, I'm imagining myself, returning to Korea and entering the immigration offices and suddenly getting arrested by Korean military police while i'm shouting and resisting and people are staring. LOL I sound like i'm desperate for attention or smth.

Wanted: Hong Chan Lee
Whereabouts: UK
Reward: £50,000

Hell, if the reward was so big, I'd turn myself in. Talking bout money.. I need money. :S


I am too lazy to get a job, but hey, I NEED TO EAT.
Will get a job in Korea over the summer, teaching English. But of course, before that, will go back to Malaysia for a while, just to see if it misses me yet! :P


I'm wondering, if i will be able to avoid military service if I change nationality.. If being British means that I don't have to waste 2 and a half years of my life in a rotting camp where it's full of uncultured bullies who don't speak much English, I think I'd like to be British. But can I become British?? Hmm. I don't know what the requirements are, it's not as if I'm some desperate refugee or anything. Maybe I should just marry an English woman. I wouldn't mind that. ;)


Sometimes I feel like I do want to go back to Korea and submit to the government and do the whole thing, but.. there are ALWAYS tensions between North and South Korea, and you NEVER know when war is gonna break out. Techinically, they haven't signed a peace treaty, just a ceasefire, so they're still at war. I know I don't want to die. Not even for my country. It might be a bit selfish, but as long as my ass is safe, and the same with the people close to me, I'm happy.


I'm REALLY liking Panic! at the Disco by the way. Their music. It's so catchy!

Shirley Phelps Roper

This is the SICKEST person I have ever seen. And I don't mean sick in a good way.
I mean SICK in the ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING sense.


Was just surfin around online yesterday, when I came a cross a video, about some people protesting against the war, and I thought "Hmm, war is never a good thing, I wonder what this is about. Probably the same as usual."

Boy was I wrong.


This woman, and her anti-christ christian group have found a unique new hobby: protesting at dead soldiers' funerals. While the dead are being honoured, with friends and family mourning and dealing with their grief, she has organised large groups of people, holding signs up saying "Thank God For Dead Soldiers".

I've got one word for this woman.

WTF! (actually it's three words, but.. hehe, saying i've got one word sounds cooler than saying i've got three words)


I personally don't agree with war, but I've long accepted the fact that sometimes, war is necessary. Even when war isn't necessary, what's happened has happened. I think it was wrong for Bush and America to go and attack Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place. But it's already happened, and who knows, maybe he was right in doing it, none of us will ever know what REALLY happened and what was going on in Iraq before the Americans attacked..


But can't they do their protesting somewhere else? How insensitive is it, to say "Thank God For Dead Soldiers" and "You are Going to Hell" in front of a large group of people who are mourning, while bodies are being buried, with mothers who are crying their eyes out because their sons have just died?


This woman actually even says "Thank God For 9/11", saying that there is so much sin, everybody is being punished and is facing the wrath of God. She justifies everything she says, with religion. This person is just as bad as the damned bastards who killed innocent people by the plane-loads (literally) by flying their planes into the World Trade Centre towers, if she's going to justify the shit that she's doing with religion.


If you watch the video, you can see young children getting involved with the protests. Do they really want their children protesting at funerals? At funerals of dead soldiers? At funerals of dead soldiers who risked their lives for their country? (Admittedly, I'm sure that not all of them risked their lives for their country but some did it coz they couldn't get a better job, etc. but THAT'S NOT THE POINT.) It's amazing what kind of things some people teach their kids, but I'd like to see how these children turn out when they grow up into adults.


My friends will know I'm not a religious person, in fact, I'm agnostic. However, recently I've been thinking of picking up a religion.. was considering Islam, but now, I'm quite keen on Christianity, but people like this just TOTALLY put me off. How fucked up is this woman. She's the one who's gonna go to hell.


If she had a child who went to the war and died, she would be saying something completely different..


You can tell she's obviously a little disturbed. Watch the video carefully, you'll see this strange smirk and emotionless smile across her face. BOY would I like to wipe that smile off her face by blowing her up into smithereens. btw, christianity does not condone violence. :P

And what the hell has homosexuality have anything to do with the war and dead soldiers? Why are they holding up signs saying stuff against gay people?
It's totally irrelevant! (just to clarify, I'm 100% straight)

Birthdays..

Tomorrow is the birthday of one of my friends.

No idea how old she turns tomorrow though, not known her that long, but from what I know, i'm guessing she's turning 19. It's amazing how the worst things happen to you when you should be happy and celebrating. Our gang was on our way to a certain fast food restaurant called Chicken Bazooka, when she tripped over the base of this swipe-card thingy thing that is used to gain entrance into an underground car-park under the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.. and she fell. She fell on hard concrete, and had a deep cut near the temple of her head, and just started bleeding loads and loads.


When this happened, I was a bit of a distance away, taking out some money from a cash machine.. Sorry to say, I'm really glad I wasn't right there when it happened, or else I would have burst out laughing! We called the ambulance, and the whole gang went to the hospital..Turns out she also fractured her arm.


In bad situations like these, I personally don't like to dwell on things too much. Frankly, I was a little annoyed that our trip to the fast food stall got cancelled (eating out, not in the kinky sense dammit, is expensive! i usually cook at home..). Plus, I was about to buy everybody a meal and earn some social points!! I'm only kidding. Everybody else looked so concerned and all, whereas I just stood outside Subway and chilled with a fag dangling from my lips.. (they decided to take her to Subway, the sandwich place.. it was near the place where she fell... but WHY would you take an injured person to Subway? I have no idea, but I doubt Subway liked it, coz we brought a bleeding and obviously hurt person into their place. Doubt it would have done their business much good lol, although we were only there for like 20min or so..)


Apparently, I seriously under-react. Hmm. I realised this makes me come across as a cold person.. Even got told I had a heart of steel! LOL. Is it really wrong for me to under-react? Personally, I think it's much better that I under-react and stay level-headed and joke about things, rather than get worked up and frantic. I guess you just have to strike the right balance between being caring and putting up a strong front. Not that today required me to put up a strong front lol. I guess you just can't please everyone in this world. .


Speaking of birthdays.. today, I discovered one of my friends, has the same birthday as the famous porn star Peter North!!! How hilarious is that!? I am so relieved that I share a birthday with Paul Scholes of Man Utd fame (16th November), at least that way, you don't get made fun of! My cousin shares a birthday with David Seaman (19th September), and he finds it embarrassing. If only Seaman retired a couple of seasons early, he'd be a proud man!


I never really cared for birthdays. Why be nice to a particular person on this single day, when you can actually do it EVERYDAY? Makes no sense. Personally, I think it's a bit of a commercialised gimmick, such as Valentine's Day, although it's not as bad..




But of course, I always do enjoy it when I get something for my birthday ;)

Placebo

The new Placebo album came out on the 13th of March. I pre-ordered mine, which comes with a special DVD (it says limited edition on the side!!), and my Placebo collection is complete... for now. No idea if they are gonna make another album after this, they have been around for quite a long time after all. Placebo CDs were almost impossible to find in Malaysia, and a lot of people have simply not heard of them.

That up there, is NOT the new album it was the album that was released just before it, Placebo, Once More with Feeling, Singles 1996-2004. Considering Placebo is my favourite band, it was absolutely imperative that I went out and bought this album. I searched for ages in Malaysia, just could not find it! In KL, JB. Didn't quite try Singapore, but I did not have the chance. But now that i'm in the UK, a whole new world of unexplored music has opened up to me. Of course, I could have just downloaded the tracks off the net, but I don't allow myself to do that with favourite bands. If i like the music I hear, I will go out and buy the album. Say NO to music piracy. ;)

Placebo. Meds. Thoroughly enjoyed it, now I can die in peace now that my Placebo album collection is complete. Actually, no. I have not yet had the chance to see them live.. was meant to go and see them in Blackpool last month, but a friend pulled out, and I did not want to go alone. Inexcusable perhaps, considering it's one of my favourite bands.. but whatever.

Next album collection to complete: Blur

FOOD

Imagine a life where there is no food..


It'd be so horrible! The best part of cooking is getting to eat your food.
The worst part of cooking is washing up after you eat.
Another worst part of cooking is taking 45minutes to make it, and eating it in 15minutes.


It's just not feasible!


Well, anyway, that above is what I had to eat for dinner many hours ago.
Doesn't look too appetising in the photo, but HEY. I'm no professional chef.
The photo makes it look less nice.. it actually does look a whole lot nicer than that LOL.

Ingredients:
Dish1
Beef
Onions
Garlic
Salt
Pepper

lightly fry chopped up onions and garlic.
add beef. stir-fry to your liking, add salt and pepper to your liking.
add sauce of choice
(mine was actually ayam madu (honey chicken) sauce, but I didn't have any chicken...)

Dish2
Broccoli
Garlic
Salt
Cornflour
Soy sauce

Hai, can't be arsed to repeat. it's exactly the same, except you don't add the honey chicken sauce.. just add soy sauce, then water, and add in dissolved cornflour.

Voila. It tasted quite good btw.



Once you start living by yourself, you realise you took a lot of things for granted,
things such as the fact that your parents used to cook for you, wash up for you, clean the house and your room for you (actually I cleaned my own room), iron your clothes for you, etc.


Just today, I was ironing my shirts and the rest, and I realised "damn, this is some back-breaking work.." I can't imagine ironing on an almost daily basis, let alone doing the washing and cooking on a daily basis.


It's times like these you really value your family and other important things.




But, on a completely random note, it's 3 in the morning and I'm hungry.

Marlboro Lights

The price of tobacco is mighty high in the UK..
5 pounds for a pack of 20 marlboro lights is quite terrifying to the average smoker. unless you are filthy rich, in which case you just don't care.

BUT I am not filthy rich, which means that 5pounds is just not feasible.
Thankfully, there is a nice shop guy, that likes to sell fags to me for 2.50 a pack!
That is half price!... I have absolutely no idea how they manage to sell these to me for so low a price and still make money.. *feigns ignorance*

Strangely enough, on the side it says "Krakow Polska" on it. hmmm... I wonder what that means ;)

And on the left, we have a pack from the UK and on the right, we have Marlboro lights made in Poland. In the middle, we have Marlboro lights, made in Switzerland, for sale at duty free stores.

People always tell me, "malaysian is better, UK cigarettes are rubbish, etc. etc." but to be totally honest, I cannot tell the difference. Hey, if UK cigarettes are shit, then it's a bonus! I'm smoking Polish (and there's also that smug feeling you get when you realise you're getting something for cheaper than almost everybody else).

Some of my indonesian friends told me that a long time ago, indonesian fags contained marijuana. Some of them tell me they STILL contain weed. I find this hard to believe, but you never know. I'm not going to find out anytime soon anyway, don't like weed.

Did laundry today. OMG so much ironing to do. Will get to that after I finish eating..

Trip to Bath

WAY back in march, I went to Bath!
it was a friend's birthday, so down I went from liverpool, enduring an extremely long coach ride.
National Express may be a cheap way to travel, but it certainly isn't very suitable for long rides. Come to think of it, it's not entirely that cheap either..


a truly beautiful place, and it's so.. tranquil.














No idea what this place is. Probably some cathedral kind of thing.
Looks nice though! Compared to some of the other places I'd been to, much more photo-taking to be done, coz it just looked so nice. gave my Samsung Digimax camera much more work than usual.





The whole group after walking around loads and loads, decided that we'd stop next to a place called Fudge Factory. Didn't buy any myself, but some people got some chocolate fudge and some coffee. I tried some, not exactly my type of food, but it wasn't too bad.

Hmm.. don't know bout that slogan, "hand made with love" sounds a little too cliche-ish to me.


After a whole lot of walking-around and looking at stuff, (we did not go into the Roman baths because they cost 10 pounds per entry and i was skint) off we went back to the birthday boy's house, and just relaxed.

Twas an interesting trip, would defintely like to live there, it's just so peaceful, compared to places like London which are just too busy.


Would definitely recommend the place, for anyone who hasn't been there yet, to go and visit. It's a really posh place though..