The end-of-the-week post has been POST-poned until today, the beginning of a new week.

Some long-overdue (well 3 days or so) glimpses of my efforts at trying to be a skilled photographer:


I have no idea what this lion is for. Perhaps an statue erected in support of the England Cricket/Soccer teams (whose emblems are 3 lions)? Makes sense if you ask me, they need all the help they can get.





"Scenic" shots of the Thames. I quite like the last sunset one. Then again, I suppose many people have already taken such photos before.



The Tate Modern museum. Don't mind me saying, in the 2nd shot, the museum looks a bit like a phallic symbol.


Saint Paul's CE Cathedral, taken from the South end of the Millenium Bridge.


Some random shot of the LSE Library at night. I was quite fascinted by the blue lights on the ground, something I have never really seen before despite my 4 months there so far.

Alright, Friday night was the night of the much awaited Cathsoc Pub Crawl! The itinerary of the night consisted of visiting 2 venues, but the amount of alcohol we consumed was like woah.

The first stop was a German restaurant at Old Street. This place wasn't exactly a bar, it was more of a proper restaurant serving dishes like pork knuckle and sausages. It was really German alright. The waitresses were dressed in German maid dresses. And the atmosphere was awesome! There were these 2 groups of Englishmen who were having some "friendly banter" with each other, singing songs such as "Sit down shut up! Sit down shut up!". I am definitely coming back to this place. Check out the booze man!!


One litre of Eredinger. Ok, maybe it does not look big...


This shot should put the size of the mug into perspective.


Group photo. From left: Dan, Alison, myself, Mattei and Mattei's friend who was visiting from the USA, Christina.


Cheers mate.


Look at how much he drank?! Well, actually he didn't have ALL of it. Thing was, after Dan, Mattei and myself finished our litre of beer, I decided that I had enough for one stop. However, Dan and Mattei had another half litre more!! Sheesh, I need to train myself up.

Ok with that we wrapped up our visit to the German place and headed for (final) destination number 2.


I could have swore I was not drunk when I saw the words SINGTel. What on earth was this shop doing here?!

Ok enough of Singapore Telecom, our next stop was a Cuban pub, Cuba Libre at Islington.


The entrance.



My drink for the night - Mojito. It consisted to 2 shots of rum (which if I'm not wrong has over 50%), sugar, lemon and mint leaves. Potent cocktail. In fact, I had 2. Was quite close to being wasted after that.


Alison's marguerita, which I accidentally spilt in my semi-drunken state. Fortunately she had already finished it somewhat.

After my 2nd Mojito, I was gone. And to think that Dan and Mattei were going for a third one!! Well, I somehow made it back to hall on my own (by bus). Thank goodness.

I woke up on Saturday morning, thankfully not feeling much of the hangover from the night before.

Saturday consisted of doing laundry, work and attending a talk by James Gomez. Shan't elaborate too much on the talk, but it was eye-opening to say the least. Then we went to Covent Garden, where I did some retail therapy. More on that later.

Sunday, I finally had some good Singaporean food - Chicken Rice, Yong Tau Foo, Fried Bee Hoon! My stomach was well and truly smiling after that heck of a meal.

Monday, I did more retail therapy. All in all, my total expenditure was less than 100quid.


My 3 Fred Perry shirts. Thoroughly satisfying purchases for me. The long-sleeved ones were only 16 quid! And check out their design, cool indeed!


Alright, this one was a bit of a heartache. As you already know, I'll be off to the Theatre of Dreams soon, and I thought I needed the appropriate attire. So off I headed to Lillywhites during my 3-hour break on Monday. Well, jerseys there went for about 34quid. Only problem was, no size!! Smallest was XXL. No choice then, I headed to search for other shops, and when I finally found my size, it cost a whooping 40quid. It was now or never. Sigh. Well my bank account does feel emptier, but I guess I feel happier, so it balanced out eventually. Looks like the term "Retail Therapy" does make sense after all.

And to top of the start of the week, I attended a Chocolate Tasting session organised by the LSE Swiss Society and sponsored by Lindt. Yes, chocolate! We learnt a bit about how chocolate was made, and the art of chocolate tasting. Technically, based on the climatic requirements, it does seem possible to grow cocoa in Singapore haha. And I never knew it could be so sophisticated. Like we had to feel, smell and look at the chocolate, listen to the sound when we broke the pieces and of course taste it. Then there were different aspects to the flavour of the chocolate, such as woody taste, tobacco, mushroom, olive, vanilla, fruity, burnt etc.


The 3 types of chocolate we tried.

The one on the left was from Cuba, 55% Cocoa. Fruity and sweet, the nicest of the lot. 2nd one was from Madagascar. Slight hint of vanilla, 65% Cocoa. Was ok I guess. The 3rd one was just 75% Cocoa, strong and bitter. By the time we reached the 3rd one, LDMR had set in and we didn't really enjoy the chocolate. Still, it was worth the 1 pound. In fact, I am now a member of the Swiss Society (in addition to Singsoc, Cathsoc, India and Japan)!!

Right, hope the nice long entry has left you dear readers satisfied. Now it's time to hit the books, literally. Hope my head won't hurt from it.

See you in a bit.