After walking so much yesterday... i was really hurting from head to toe... i was really really exhausted... decided to sleep in...
I was really hungry... didn't have any dinner last night... sursprisingly, Mcdonald is not ex compare to the rest of the food here... only 2.99 pounds... yummy... :)
I went on to take the River cruise down thames river... :) It was really cold today... but i ta han... sit upstairs in the open... :)
Shakesphere's globe is seriously beautiful... :) This is the place i've travelled so far to see... I've really been looking forward to this... :) wow wow... amazing... :) A play was showing..."Midsummer night dream" i got the standing tickets... :) The play was really really good... love it... i wish i could record it for you guys to watch... shakespherean language is really tough... but okie la... still can understand a bit... but i think if Ber were here, he would be lost... haha... :p
Like i say, it's a slow day... take things easy... very tired... by this time, my body is aching already...
Time for good meal... all i had all day is the mcdonald's meal... went to Coffee Bar at Pricadilly Circus to eat... Chicken Kebak... :) Nice... :)Maybe cause i'm hungry... haha... :p
Mouth watering...
Time for the musical i've been looking forward to... :) Les Miserable... I've heard so much abt this... can't believe i'm watching it... and it's really really really good... i wouldn't mind watching it all over again and again and again... the music and songs are so nice and the actors are great... their singing was worth a standing ovation... really good... go catch it if u hv a chance... :) seriously... don't take my words for it... go catch it for yourself and see... :)
Today is my Birthday... Yeah... I've nv actually spent my birthday abroad before and alone some more... I'm actually a bit sad la... I'm seriously seriously missing my Family... pray everyday for my mum... I do hope she is getting better... And of course Bernard, Mel, my friends... huh... the first thing i do when i go back is on my comp to check the e-mails they have sent me... Thank God for technology... :) but, i don't wanna think abt that... lots to do today... lots to see...and lots to thank God for... :) I have nv walk so much in my life today... u will understand later... :)
I went to visit the Royal mews, This is where they keep their chariot where the kings, queens, princes, princesses, Duchess, Dukes, etc... ride when going to big events, weddings, parades... Really really nice... felt like a princess...just that i can't ride in it... haha... :)
After this, I went to Chelsea Stadium, It's quite out of the way had to travel to Zone 2... I got a bit lost but thank God found my way there... but the stadium was close as there was going to be a match tomorrow and the players were probably training... sad sad... i was really really looking forward to going in to see the stadium... so i guess i just walk around outside the stadium... boy! are the stuff there expensive... I guess i can take console in the fact that i will be watching a soccer match tonight at another stadium.... :)
This is as close as i got to the players... haha... :)
Okie... i really thought i would have spend more time at Chelsea stadium today... so when there was a change of plans, i was kinda lost not sure what to do... i wanted to go to the famous Rock & Roll Shop featuring lots of beattles stuff... So i went to Bakers Street... Guess what Sherlock holme's museum was there too... next to the Elvis Presley Store... The rock and roll store is opp the street...
I then when to St Paul Cathedral... haha... i mean no disrespect when i say this, but it seems like all cathedral are like graveyards... lots of tombs and memorials for the the different kings and generals and all the important pple... i didn't really like it... but i do like their windows... very nice... i decided to try their dare, to climb up all the way to the top of St Paul's Cathedral... there was more than 600 over steps... wa... it was really really tiring... but the view when u get up there, made it all worth it... :)
I walk pass Big Ben... Wow... the architecture... speechless... i have no idea what the person who was designing and building this was thinking.... amazing... :)I also saw the London Eye... really nice... :)
and last but not least, The Totterham vs Aston Villa game... :) I met Dave and his son Daniel at Dirty Dicks Pub... I know i know... what kind of name is that... the silly thing is i had to find my way there from liverpool street station and i got lost... no idea how to get there... i had to ask for directions and i was so embarassed when i asked pple... i could seriously feel my face turning red... huh... i finally managed to find it... haha... it was a really really good game... a really AWESOME... the cheering, the screaming, the shouting, the cursing... everything u thought the games were, that is what it was... :) Thanks Gavin for helping me get the tickets for this games... :) IT was great... the best... :)
Okie... i found out there was a Thames Festival happening at Thames river near Tower of London. So i went there loh...
I went to visit the HMS Belfast, This is the vessel was used during the World War II... Interesting... found out how the people live in the vessel during that time and the machines that they used... quite nice... :) but i seriously think guys would like this more... or at least i think my bro would love it... :)
Then i went to visit the "Thames Festival" This festival is actually to raise awareness on environmental polution... It was really interesting... I even went into one of the tent that had a thank you board... Thanking God for the beautiful summer, and the environment and the world we have... it was really nice... also there was a relax corner... beautifully decorated... :)
Then i went to Tower of London castle... :) Very nice... guess u just have to se it for yourself. Some of the kings and queen lived in this castle... The crown jewels used for the ordination of Kings and Queens and their crowns are here as well... it was really nice... :)
I was so lost... no idea what to do... I have 3 free and easy days and thou i roughly have an idea what i wanna do... i didn't put much into planning...
But of course before i do anything, it's a Sunday... what is more important than Church? i went to all souls church today... www.allsouls.org
They had their youth pastor preach... i was really ministered... and they had a band to play. All quite young... youth and some are children... when i say band, i mean band... volin, saxaphone... there was this boy, i think 9 or 10 only playing saxaphone... impressive... and their worship leader, is a co-ordinator... he doesn't lead worship... he just co-ordinate the songs the band play then the backup singer and the congregation sing together... it was really refreshing and nice... :) different feel la... :)
He preach abt the Parable of the lost penny & the lost son... Luke 15:8-31... abt how we as man would search high and low for a lost penny. and be overjoyed when we find it... that is the same with God... and he link it to the lost son... how he turn his life around and choose to go back to his father and start afresh... His father was overjoyed to see him... and how the other son, who had always work so hard and so much... but had a unforgiving heart, nv entered the house to celebrate and in the same way, nv entered the kingdom of God... He said that we are all sinners... and we need to turn our lifes around back to God... if we feel we are very good liao... serving and everything... that's where we are wrong... frankly, for me,i know i'm not clean and blameless or do i live a righteous life... but i want to change and i want to start afresh... today sitting in that church, with no expectancy of me to rush to do this and that, to just be able to sit and absorb and learn and be minstered... it really felt really refreshing and with no one around me... i really felt good... maybe this is what i need loh... a fresh start, a brand new start... i'm going to start from today praying abt this... and let God speak to me... :)
