hello everyone, this message is really not of any interest of many of you. i'm just keeping a brief record of my holiday in the UK last two weeks. for the benefit of my own falling memory and for those who might be curious... Monday 15 - heathrow to brixton. met Mr Mike. bought phone. sightseeing brixton backstreets on the way to Mike&Pam's house on the oh-no-break bus. arrive at Mike&Pam's lovely house to find the word 'Welcome' writen in THAI LANGUAGE on the door!!!! momentary lapse of eyesight due to disbelief! what a heartful host you are! started frantically trying to locate Aree (my Thai friend who was also visiting london at that time too). found out, at 14:45 that i was due to meet her in Bayswater at 15:00. attempting to dash into town. arrive at 15:45. found Aree. tears of joy from finally having loads of roast duck and the tasties chilies in the world on the plates in front of me, as planned. hooray! met Pam&Mike at Leichester Square. well, in other more correct word, they found me. contemplating the possibility of buying ticket to the Abbasolutely Fantastic musical. attempting to go to Bar Rumba, as planned. failed. they not open until 22:00. at that point, i'd rather go to bed than bar. so went to have cake instead. then went home (Pam&Mike's home where i shall call my home too for the next two weeks) stoped at Safeway on the way. loved supermarket very very much! brought home a lot of stuff. foreign supermarket is really really exciting! Tuesday 16 - had appointment with Mr Moore of Chelmsford to go picnic in Cambridge and see Mercury Rev. however, due to ongoing breakfast, i was not able to get to Chelmsford in time to actually do any picnic. David&Pam fed and took me shopping in lovely shops in town and great discount shops instead. even bought me a cooly jacket with pocket in the back of the neck, thank you very very much. i also bought a short furry jacket, due to irresistable softness. Bangkok better be really cold this winter. otherwise, i might be forced to do a party in an ice factory. A HA that's not a bad idea either. Mr Moore, the most sophisticated driver in the world, then drove us to Cambridge. too bad we didn't have time to look much. only a short run into one majestic college/chapel. very very impressive! incidentally, the sandy/earthy tone of those old buildings nicely matched my outfit. love old building! Big Rock Mercury Rev was, to put it lightly, the bomb. in the sense that they're so bloody noisy. i stuffed a lot of tissue in my ears most of the time. they did play softer songs that i really liked a lot though. so all in all it's great, in a deaftening way. Mr Moore did enjoyed it a lot. so it's good musical night outing. On the way home, we stopped at another great place..24-hour supermarket. bought a chinese takeaway meal. i'd like to say it's for both of us but Mr Moore refused to touch it. so it became good snack accompanying various B&S tv programmes, done by Mr Moore. perfect end to the day. Wednesday 17 - went back to london. hardly any memory of what i did in town this day?? probably not much. met Aree at Four Seasons. had roast duck. check out M&S supermarket. then went home. for a real treat! The Pines live! Mr Joe, who went round to record songs with Mike, and Pam very very kindly played & sang me beautiful music. they shut me up from complaining of no gig during my trip once and for all. even now i still cannot get "I see stars" out of my head. and i want to keep it here for as long as i can too. definitely one of my favourite songs in the whole world. Thursday 18 - plan was to go to Madame JoJo for Paul Anderson. but Tube Strike! went into town anyway. met Aree. craved for Japanese food. went around peeping into various Japanese restaurants. found one with loads of Japanese people, so confidently had dinner there. liked it a lot. so good judgement! walked in circle around Oxford Circus, for some reason. did a bit of shopping. Aree felt a bit ill, and wanted to go home. another night out failure! i walked about Soho for a bit looking at people and surveying the restaurants and bars. then went home too. Friday 19 - met Aree. went shopping around Bond St. thank god i woke up relatively early today. all shops were open. a lady sang some operatic songs that i actually knew and liked a lot. so happily walking about her listening. i wanted a bag. Aree didn't want any but ended up getting 2. me 0. grrr today was Susannah's farewell party for her moving to Barcelona. so i went along, with Pam&Mike, Tim, Mark, David&Pam. happy to learn that Tim like to dance to popular pop music, especially Britney Spear. oddly enough, this place played some good songs, followed by a lot of shitty ones, then good again. nice cocktails though. in summary, good fun! Saturday 20 - plan was culture with Aree. with great sadness, i was late and lost Aree. then unable to contact her. i did go to Tate Modern and enjoyed it a lot. inbetween guilt-striking gloom. what kind of person can lose a friend in foreign country. sigh. after the museum, trying some more to find Aree to beg for forgiveness and failed. went along to birthday party of Pam's friend Sarah. felt too doom to talk much to anyone (my apologies again for the rudeness) despite all the lovely people there. Sunday 21 - going to town with Mike&Pam to meet up with Starry, Andy, Sez and my old friend Fumie. had lunch at Wagamama which was nice, despite Fumie mild protest of how unJapanese they are. walked around Covent Garden searching for bag. still 0. plan was to go to Lazy Dog in Notting Hill. but unable to stand the absurdity of queueing system, so went to eat some dessert&coffee instead. bought some cheap cd. bought a bag, at last! from charity shop of all place! went to Four Season for roast duck, but too long queue so takeaway instead. Monday 22 - went to visit a Thai friend who moved here long ago. she's got two babies, 2 years boy and 8 months girl. extremely cute. loved them so much i didn't want to leave. luckily her husband gave me a ride to the airport so had a bit more time with them. off to Edinburgh. Honey and Linda met me at the airport. i almost got goosebump due to unexpecting to see Honey out and about. very very happy to see them again. Linda fed me great chicken while Honey made me loads of cd, and i fed the cats some chicken too, to make friend. Tuesday 23 - Genevieve came! anyone who hasn't met her please do so before before she left the country. what a lovely lovely girl. she's such a cute and adorable little dolly. i wish you can be my niece's babysitter too. come visit any time. we went for a nice walk in Stockwell (i think). great breakfast. lovely cafe, with real fireplace in summer! and lovely shops. the antique/classic jewelry shop was particularly amazing. then Keith joined us too! very pleased to see him again after so long. also very pleased that i did actually understand a lot of Scottish accent this time. probably because Mr Chris wasn't there to add insult to injury. i think we all had some great entertaining drinks, it's rather blank what exactly did we were talking about but highly entertaining all the same. Wednesday 24 - big breakfast in the Prince's Garden. (if that's what it's called-the one down the castle) fed the birds. then feared the birds cos so many of them suddenly appeared with evil eyes. absorb the beauty of hills&gardens&archetechture. went shopping. got lost (in time) in Fopp and Avalanches. Honey bravely decided to come out to say goodbye and take me to airport. i can only hope you still feel up and cheery now Princess. Thursday 25 - plan was breakfast with a friend. but woke up too late so lunch instead. we went to one of the places i like most in the world, even if never been there before. but i kept pointing it whenever i found in those photobooks how much i wanted to live in space like that. once even asked my home stylist friend to quote me the cost, strictly for life-goal setting purpose. only to be shot with 'more than you can ever afford'. Honey&Linda, whenever you can come down to London, do visit this hotel. similar to the Sukhothai in aesthetic, i think. very peaceful, but more minimal and chic. it'll do your heart good. i won't try to describe this place so for those who like peace and beautiful place go have a look yourself... http://www.the-hempel.co.uk/ another plan today was meeting Sister&Mrs Disco in Reading at noon. but again due to ongoing breakfast-->lunch, we met later in the afternoon. i really don't know what to say about Mr Miller. except very very happy to meet him at last. just like the emails, i think. a bit less mad hehe sweeter definitely. and very funny. Mrs Disco was lovely. you two are so happy together. too bad they had to catch the train to catch bus to the faraway land of Ramsbury, so didn't have much time to chitchat as much as i'd love to. best of luck to you with the moving and job and everything! then back to London to roast duck with Aree. then to ancient pub in Fleet St. to say goodbye. all the lovely people there, thank you for coming and letting me see you, especially for the first time. lovely to meet you and i look forward to see you again. the photo i took over there have finished, some are very good. i think i can have someone put them all on a cd. unlikely to be soon though. but i'll send it out to those of you who might like to have a look. over half of last film is all my little niece Pair, so i expect compliment, ok? well, i never write to the list for so long. guess i can write a little bit longer, can't i? Mr Carsmile Steve and Mr David request more Thai news. how can i not bring you some. you know Thai kickboxing, yes? we also have another kind of boxing that's as much fun, if not more. it's similar to usual boxing except the two boxers will be blindfolded and tied with little bells on their ankles. as they can't see their opponent, they can only listen to the bells before making the punch. this kind of boxing is very casual, without formal upper ground ring. the audience will gather and hang on to the ropes making lots of cheering noise. which distracts the bell sounds a lot. so it's not unusual that the boxers, lost in direction, turn the wrong way and happily hitting away the audiences instead. better than football or what. feel free to play this in your next picnic. should be a good laugh. i'm still on UK time and couldn't sleep at night. have to try or tomorrow i'll be falling asleep at work. good night, oon xx +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. 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