Met my wilson house mates...

Wilson House is a student dorm. I stayed there in my first year while I was studying in the UK. Incidentally, its very close to Edgeware Road, which you might remember was one of the targets that got bombed on July 7th.

Back then, as a freshman, it was the first time I was abroad alone. a bit goondo, a bit geeky, and naturally, a bit out of place. so the natural thing to do was to find people like myself to bond together. Turns out there were a couple of singaporeans (all guys) also staying at Wilson House. and so we became friends pretty quick.

we had dinner together almost everyday. we were like a family away from home. because london is notoriously expensive, we cooked our meals ourselves. and we took turns to cook. we pooled our money together into a "cooking fund", and we had a cooking register, or timetable, so that everyone of us would be in charge of cooking a particular day. if someone wasn't eating, we'd let the cook know. it was almost like "ma, today not coming back for dinner".

The dinner times were our real social/recreation time. we would sit in the kitchen (a shared kitchen btw, but we sat there as though we owned it) after dinner and talk for 2 whole hours. everyday. all of us (except maybe one) didn't have girlfriends then, so we all had lots of time to spare.

we were all quite different. SC is a very hardworking guy, to the point of being a chao-mugger. strangely, he's pretty atheletic and some would say, good-looking. He's from a chinese speaking family. XP loves to play computer games, likes to slack, and his chinese sucks. ZX, the oldest of the group, nicknamed "laoda", cracks very funny jokes. he's also chinese speaking. HR is very athletic, and quite handsome. also chinese speaking. we were all quite different, and so its interesting how we bonded so strongly. i guess cus we were all good guys... (there was this other guy that we unceremoniously kicked out)

ok, back to the present... (or recent past)

i managed to meet up with only two of them, HR and ZX. We met at fish and co and had lots of food - fried calamari, grilled salmon, and seafood platter.

Recommendation: Forget the grilled salmon. Its nice yes. but nothing special. The seafood platter isn't too bad, but maybe not worth its price. the fried calamari is very good though. its crispy, tasty, fresh, and best of all, only $9!!!

After that we went to bakerzinn. i wanted this cheesecake dessert thingy that didn't have any cake. it was supposed to be cheese icecream with strawberries and biscuits. but they ran out of cheese icecream and so i had to substitute it with vanilla instead. sigh. *businesses please take note: it is VERY upsetting to customers to NOT have something you claim to have*

it was nice catching up with them. find out how they're living their lives, what their future plan is and all that.

and then i met agnes for roti prata. i wasn't hungry, as u may have realised, but thats not the point. i had a "dinosaur", which is iced milo drink with extra milo powder on the top. what's milo? its a choc malt drink. (haiz, i guess at some point in my blogging lifetime, i should define my target audience.. i can't just keep explaining every little term that might seem remotely unfamiliar...)

enough... this post is very long by now. and it doesn't have substance... hahaha.. sorry if you had to read thru all of it.