Monday, June 30, 2008 . 3:38 AM

c-AM-br-I-dge week 4

Can't believe I've been in the UK for a month already... Home's so close now I can begin to smell it. 4 more weeks to go!

It was Mahmud's birthday last Wednesday so the whole lab was out together for lunch at Wok and Grill. Pretty decent Chinese buffet for 10 pounds. I was extremely cautious not to overeat though - given my tendency to overeat at buffets.. ;p - as I was still waging war with the bacteria in my GI tract, but I've triumph victory over those pesky Samonella (I suspect... thanks to that suspicious pasta sauce). I'm really to pig our Singaporean food!! Come to my tummy! HAHAHA...
Went to Windsor, Stonehenge and Oxford this weekend... Pretty much touch-and-go, but I guess there's nothing really to do there except to thoroughly examine every single portrait and artefact in Windsor Castle and to scrutinize every single chunk of rock at the Stonehenge...
The Windsor Castle is like a weekend get-away residence for the royal family. In Windsor Castle itself, there's a gigantic doll house which was a gift to Queen Elizabeth. History has it that the castle was orginally constructed to guard against western approaches to the capitol.

I was warned by friends not to expect much from Stonehenge, touted as one of the must-see English monument of Britain.
ZY remarked, "到那里只是看几块石头罢了!"
Xiaoyang was "don't expect much from stonehenge."
Jared repeatedly went, "the stones are very small, and i didn't bother to pay to enter. i only took photos from outside the fence."
I'm glad I did enter Stonehenge even though I wasn't particularly "wow-ed" by it.
I tried hard to pay attention to what was said as I press the audio guide close to my ears but hardly anything went in. We were too engrossed taking photos.. vying for the perfect location and time to pose for a good shot with the stones. All I remember hearing was, "it remains a mystery...." Everything about the Stonehenge is a mystery. Perhaps that's the very reason why it remains a huge magnet that draws tourists to 这几块石头. It might have been a place of pagan worship. It might be a gigantic sundial that tells the time and day. No one knows how those enormous rocks were transported to its current location.... Nobody knows.... and probably, nobody will ever know. It remains a mystery... Mystery...
With only 45 minutes at our disposal, and with plenty of lao bei bei and obasans hobbling at such leisurely paces, and taking forever to take their photographs, it was hard just to get a picture with the rocks.
Fortunately, it was much less crowded at Oxford. This is Christ Church College... where Harry Potter was filmed.

Bridge of Sighs.

looking forward to my irish weekend!

dash