Shopping on 21 Oct

Today is my shopping day =)

We started the morning at British Museum

And bought a key chain there.

Thou I've not seen the Cat exhibit ... will come back some other day ... because today there are more "important" things to do -> SHOPPING!!!

We hit Oxford street at 1pm and these are my purchases ...

A little camisole to wear at home. Thot london is always cold and only brought long sleeve shirts

A pair of brown boots from Clarks - quite pricy but its comfortable and should last for the year.

And a bag to big enough to hold my packed lunch, umbrella, novel, iPod and the usual suspects.

1st year wedding anniversary - 25 September 2006

A year ago ...


Now,


We celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary at the much talkabout Four Seasons restaurant at Bayswater.

Food for the week beginning 15 Oct

Sunday
Minced Meat Porridge for lunch









Grill Mackeral and Stir-fryBeansprouts for dinner










Monday
Chicken stew with zuchini









Tuesday
Corn and carrot soup
(forgot the pics)

Wednesday
Curry Chicken and stir-fry spinach









Thursday
Spaghetti Bolognaise
(forgot the camera again ... eeks)

Friday
Cook took a break - went to Chinatown Wong Kei for char siew rice and beef kway teow

Saturday
Carrot, Potato and Tomato soup

First week sightseeing in London

Our first stop is Harrods at Knightsbridge






And then off to do some marketing at Portobella market. This is a huge market selling antiques, clothings, food and almost everything. Could spend a whole day there.







Our next stop was the London Eye and Big Ben












And Kensington Palace which is just opposite the Palace Court Apartment where we stayed during the 1st week.













Waiting for the changing of guards outside Buckingham Palace


Covent Gardens


Enough of the shopping - something for the culturely inclined - the National Art Gallery

Our studio apartment at Clayponds Village

After 3 trips to Ikea, we are almost done settling into this little apartment of ours at Clayponds Village. This is an Imperial College's student accomodation for post-graduate students at South Ealing. Althou it is small, it is well equipped and quite new by London standard.

This is my chill-out area. UK only has 5 broadcast channels. But we got a freeview box which gives us unlimited "Friends", "Lost", "Desperate Housewives"... repeats.







This is our dining cum Wai Meng's study area.








And this is of course our stoning zone + cupboards








The kitchen is actually quite a good size with electic cooker and oven. Eating out in London is very expensive, easily five pounds per person for some dry sandwiches. So we make most of our meals at home. See the very well equipped kitchen with all the sauces after just 2 weeks.

the bathroom - very good hot water supply, very thankful after our initial 2 weeks at the budget stay apartment in Nottinghill.