August '08

Skellies at the Wellcome Collection

Met up with Anders and his brother to look at skeletons on display at the Wellcome Collection. After that we slowly tried to make our way to Finchley Road Vue (sans bikes) to watch Get Smart.

Singapore Chilli Crab Festival!

We peddled our way to Brick Lane for the Tiger Beer Chilli Crab Festival ... and along the way we found this:

 

 

Muffin ordered the Chilli Crab, and he claims it's the best he's had for a while. I had a really bland Char Kway Teow. And a sad excuse for a chendol. We scored some free Soya Drinks and bought a box of Laksa paste and a box of Rendang paste. We also ate some fresh curry puffs.

Before heading back we checked out some cool clothing stores in Brick Lane, and had some nice refreshing iced teas.

Heading to Cornwall! (for the bank holiday)

For the bank holiday weekend we somehow managed to plan a quick break to Cornwall ... on a sleeper train to Penzance ... except not in a sleeper! I made a screwup and we had to sleep sitting up all the way to Penzance -- and our travelling companions were not impressed ...

Some dude started a rumour that the seat allocations were screwed up and we had to do a bit of shuffling around at the beginning of the journey ...

The Lion King

We had a quick dinner at Cha Cha Moon ... and then headed off to the Lyceum Theatre to watch the Lion King since Cami and Andrew wanted to see it. It was pretty good except for the songs that weren't in the original cartoon.

Tourist run

Cami was in town so we took her sight-seeing ...

First stop was the London office to say hello and for some quick drinks ... After that we went for a walk near the Southbank, and rested near the London Eye. After that we headed to Covent Garden -- saw the night markets and had a coffee at Nero's. When the rest of the dinner party arrived we headed off to Belgo Centraal for moules and frittes!

 

Haircut time ...

We were pretty looking pretty frumpy and had overgrown the haircut we had in Manila earlier this year.

Surfing about, I found a Japanese/Korean unisex hair salon near Totenham Court Road called Jubilee Hair Salon. Muffin got a cute female Japanese hairdresser and picked a style from a magazine, while I told my Korean hairdresser that I wanted it short.

I remembered to do a BEFORE shot, but forgot the after ... so look elsewhere for those! :B