Venice, here i come...

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been partying too hard, and for good reasons too!

bday came and went, just like that, and suddenly i feel as if im ancient, and people start looking at me and expect so much more...age is just a number if you get right down to it, isnt it? what bearing has it gotta do with anything?

free booze and free food on your bday, now that has gotta be one of the greatest thing in life...and more importantly, surrounded by people who care about you and really meant it when they wished you a great year ahead, that's priceless!

it just makes it even harder to say goodbye...

Boy, have i been busy! sometimes things just come gushing by all at once that you hardly have time to process it...it's not that it's overwhelming, but you tend to long for a short interval, some thinking time, if you will, to savour the good times that happened.

Rey was in the country for a few days, so i hopped on the train at Waterloo and traveled for two hours OUT OF LONDON (hurray!) to the quaint old town of Bath...it's like going back to medieval time, where each and every buildings tell a story, and guess what, the birth place of Jane Austen, and of course, the Roman Bath...

as like everywhere else in England, it was really gray when i arrived, and it made the place more mysterious than ever, and believe or not, it does send a chill down your spine every now and then, and it's not from the cold wind!

One thing i like about small towns like that is the ideal size of it, not overly humongous like the big donkey of London...it takes just under an hour to walk from one end to the other, and that's not walking the entire time, you stop for breathtaking views, which is often, and also to admire the little bric-a-brac on display along the sidewalks...and if you fancy bridges and rivers, we've got the lovely river Avon here for your enjoyment, and when you tire of walking, sidewalk cafes are aplenty for you to get your caffeine fix, you are simply spoilt for choice!...there is no reason not to fall in love with Bath...

At night, Rey cooked us some malaysian dish of Chicken and Potato stew, and some greens, it was scrumptious! we joked about her establishing a B&B here in Bath offering malaysian delicacy, with the breakfast being Roti Canai and Nasi Lemak and Wan Tan Mee, it will be a major hit! As Rey and Glyde dont have a habit to drink, we didnt hit the local bar, instead, you wouldnt believe it, we spent the night playing Wii! and the game we played is none other than the top-of-the-chart Mario vs Sonic Olympic match...frankly though, im way too old for Wii, was physically exhausted after playing ping pong and swimming and running with the Wii remote, talking about technology!

the next day, we went to Bristol for some sightseeing, by that, i really mean doing all the free stuff there is to do in Bristol, which is alot...think museums, think medieval towers, think parks, think old historical buildings...all in all, Bristol is lovely...

another reason i love Smaller towns is the personal space you get...imagine walking into FCUK and you're the only customer, and imagine all the sales items are still there and are available in all sizes and colors, it's just too good to be true! needless to say, i had a good time shopping, without all the pushing and shoving and the presence of i-would-rather-be-somewhere-else sales person.

it was a very relaxing trip altogether, away from the hustle and bustle city life...


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Got back to London Paddington yesterday, went to meet with Fabi, who came to visit me from spain and will spend the next few days with him...

oh yeah, have i mentioned? i lost my wallet yesterday...just after i withdrew money from the cash machine, and just when im going off to Italy...dont much care bout the money, but all my cards are there! including my youth card which entitles me for concessioned tickets in europe...what a major blow...

but as i said, what can you do about it?

I've been meaning to update my blog for days now, indeed, this past week has been rather eventful, among them, szabi and i were water-fighting on NYE, so as a result, we poured some half-a-litre of water onto the laptop and the thing went kaput...so we were out of internet for like a week, it was pure torture!

the dude pulled himself together and bought a new laptop coupla days back, his third and the second in a two-month frame. Good thing is, he was rather nonchalant toward the whole episode and didnt mind in the very least, so right now we are back in business...

NYE was a major flop, sometimes when u think about it, the whole counting-down thing is just totally overrated, at the end of the day, it's just another day, dont u think?

as it turned out, London was bloody raining that time, it cant get more miserable than that...so we hangout at home and got ourself ready for the scene by getting loaded before we hit the bar for countdown...and guess what, just right outside the bar, the bouncer decided i was WAY too loaded to admit me into the bar, can u freaking believe that? just because i was throwing bottles on the street didnt mean i was gonna be unruly, did it?

oops, i should probably shut up now, shouldnt i? :p

So being the good roomie that he is, Szabi wont hear of my insisting him to join the rest in the countdown and yeah...we actually said happy new year outside the bar with the others who didnt manage to get in...

but really, NYE aint all about merdeka square or time square or sydney harbour bridge or Big Ben...it's all about the company who's gonna be there to wish ya a great year ahead when the clock strikes 0 hour, it's really all about just that...it didnt matter that we were soaking wet from the rain or from perspiration (for those celebrating in the tropical), because it hardly dampens the festive mood...alright, maybe just a little...

I have a good feeling for 2008, it's gonna be a year of revelation for me, it's gonna be SO GOOD...