Happy boxing day!

Guess i'm a little too late in wishing people Merry Christmas :/ .. it's the holidays and yet i haven't really used my laptop at all..

So..i've been back from London for a few days now.. the trip was pretty enjoyable.. i surprised myself for actually still remembering where some of the shops were.. We didn't have a proper map with us but with the help of the maps along the streets and a bus map we managed to get around pretty well :)

we had awesome duck rice..had malaysian food.. I managed to get to Selfridges for my cheesecake~~~~ took Chin Li to Greenwich and showed her Canary Wharf..hopped around the tube a lot..SNOGGED....

all was well until the very last day.....

We stayed at the Malaysian Hall for 2 nights.. and on the third night shifted over to a hostel..near to that hostel was Camden market (apparently about a 30min walk) which we initially planned to visit.. due to timing issues we more or less said we wouldn't go after all..

We went into a tube station and Chin Li managed to pass through the ticket machine thing.. but my ticket somehow got rejected by every machine and i couldn't go through.. after a few minutes i finally got through manually and by then Chin Li was no where to be seen!!!! and on top of that my phone had no network coverage all of a sudden!!

so i thought i'd go back to the tube station near our hostel and she'd probably be there.. but when i got there..she wasn't! D: .. horror!!

quickly went to a public phone and called her and she was at Camden Town station and that left me in a bit of a shock.. (my phone still had no reception) ... last thing she said to me before the credit ran out on the public phone was that she'd wait for me there.. so i went ...

To get to Camden Town station i actually had to change trains quite a few times.. and by the time i got there we had to make our way back to the hostel to get our bags... and we were running short of time..

One of the biggest mistakes i made was not having a pulling luggage.. i had a stupid heavy bag which i had to carry all around with me up and down the stairs coz my pulling luggage was too huge and i thought it was ridiculous to bring that..grrrr... (and note also that when i got to Durham, we actually walked about 30minutes from the station to Chin Li's hall..with my stupid bag!! and when we left Durham for London that same bag was carried to the train station passing stairs and slopes along the way grrrr... )

SO.. we rushed and rushed.. my arms kept feeling like they were going to just break at some point.. AND THEN... we had to wait for a train to get to the main train station... and based on my calculations, we were sure to miss our train back to Edinburgh...

When the train finally came and we got on i just sat there thinking about what we'd do....and even when we got to the station, part of me already gave up.. because it was already a few minutes past 4pm.. the trains here are really punctual most of the time..

when i got to the machine to get our tickets..i looked at the board... there was a train for Aberdeen..calling at Doncaster, Darlington....Newcastle...EDINBURGH!! and it was delayed!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!

please understand that i had really really given up hope on getting on our intended train hence the inner scream and burst of hope...

we got the tickets and went to the platform and hopped on from the first class coach and slowly made our way to our seats.....

i was still in disbelief when i was in the train... still shocked.. very tired... happy nonetheless...

And it's all thanks to the snow for delaying the train... snow is a really good friend of mine now .. and no matter how many people hate it, no matter how many people say Snow is bad, Snow creates a lot of inconvenience, i'm gonna stand by Snow <3 ..i love you Snow!!!


i should put a proper Christmas post here next time XD ...

-llen-