Missed opportunity

I felt like banging my head on the wall when I saw a message left for me on Flickr, requesting some photos of Lister Mill/Silk Warehouse for the Financial Times.

I was working on the river barge at that period and had no internet access, and I seldom check on the messages left there... Now I've to go more frequent...

This is the apartment mentioned.

http://38zeying.multiply.com/photos/album/26/Silk_Warehouse_Bradford#

081104 – New Jobs, New Lifes, New Friends : Past 2 months plus

A quick summary of what I’ve been up to for the past 2 months plus, to start with.  I know I promised some friends to blog frequent but I didn’t.  I’ve been moving about, most of the no internet access or no time for it, and many a time I felt pretty nomadic.

080824&080825→ London Nottinghill Carnival: volunteered as steward.

080826→Oxford in the morning, then→Gloucester in the evening, then →Trowbridge (accommodation for the week: Romsey Oak Farm Cottages) : Beginning of a week of Dialoguing (getting contacts for potential regular donors for charities, kind of street fundraising thingy)

080827→Weston-SuperMare: a seaside city

080828→Bristol

080829→Trowbridge

080830→Bath→South  Wales (Swansea)

080831→Birmingham→London

080901-080905 → Casual staff at the new library cafe of Imperial’s College, London.

080907-->Bushy Park: Volunteered as marshal for a fundraising duathlon --> Hampton Court Palace: on board Magna Carta (www.magna-carta.co.uk) for a 2 weeks work as crew hostess

080908--> Shepperton

080909-->Runnymede

080910--> Windsor

080911--> Cookham-->Bournend Marina

080912-080914-->Marlow

080915--> Hurley --> Bournend Marina

080916-->Cookham-->Windsor

080917--> Runnymede

080918-->Hampton Court

080919-->London

080922&080923, 080926&080927-->Casual staff at the café at Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial’s College, London

080924-->Hampton Court: assist moving Magna Carta -->Runnymede, then back-->London

081004-->Singapore-->Penang-->Ipoh

081010-->Petaling Jaya

081011-->my sister’s ROM

081012-->KLIA to welcome my big fat brother back to Malaysia.

081013-->Banting : set up the room for the to-be-weds (Traditional custom for Chinese weddings), then back --> Ipoh

081016-->Petaling Jaya: fetch the to-be-bride --> Morib

081017-->around Morib & Banting: my sister’s wedding ceremony, the old way

081018-->Klang: wedding luncheon

081019-->KLIA: sent my brother off, again…

081020-->Ipoh

081023&081024-->Penang: met up with some friends, colleagues and client.

081025-->Singapore: 12hr transit, met up with some friends.

081026-->London, then head right to -->Hampton Court to board Magna Carta for a week of hostessing.

081027-->Shepperton

081028-->Runnymede

081029--> Windsor

081030--> Cookham-->Bournend Marina

081031-->Hurley-->Henley-on-Thames

081101-->Oakley Court Hotel

081102-->Runnymede

081103-->London

Ah… what a long list, haha… and a whole bunch of tickets.

A bunch of Tickets

And tomorrow… I’ll head for Egham again to assist in moving the boat to a safer location and also to finish off whatever needs to be done.

Malaysia Boleh: World vehicle per capita

Stumbled upon this.  Interesting to know that we're one of the highest no. of vehicle per capita.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:World_vehicles_per_capita.svg

080808

I love the feeling of my fingers dancing swiftly on the keyboard.
Just as much as I love the excitement of the fingers speeding on the piano keys.
How I missed those days, though I’m never a good piano player.
As for the time being, I could only let my fingers roaming with speed on the notebook’s keyboard, I shall resume frequent blogging.

It’s midnight now, the internet connection is unusually slow and frustrating for this hour.  I was having some problem with customizing the blogs some time ago with the WYSIWYG format, and decided to learn some html editing.  Furthermore, I find it more convenient with HTML at times, especially when the internet ain’t working well like now.  I could just prepare everything and copy paste when the internet is well.  Anyway, it’s time to learn about creating a website.

Oh ya, today is 080808! I bet there’re many weddings all around the world, beside the Olympic Games.

 

喜欢手指在电脑键盘上飞舞的感觉。
同样的， 也喜欢手指在琴键上奔驰的快感。
好久没有了。
有点怀念。
所以要将那份思念都放在电脑的键盘上了。
多写写部落格吧

夜深。 平时这种时候上网，速度都很快的。
今天不知道为什么，反常。
就这样， 学起了一点入门html。
不是一时兴起，而是有一些网站的那种WYSIWYG方式， 在苹果系统不怎么受用， 而且修改html让自己有更多得控制空间。

暂时，就是这篇简单文字的。

啊！080808！ 今天是大好日子吧！

London Festival of Architecture -LFA2008

It’s been long since I update something here, except some photos album occasionally.  Well, in a pretty low mood for sometime.  Anyway, will share on some events I went to.  

This LFA lasted almost a month, and held in 5 hubs.  Big festival, wide area coverage, but informations and directions less condusive, I conclude, especially for a new comer to London like me. 

The 1st event I went was some street installations at Exhibition Road.

Gloomy day.  Took a 390 bus from Archway to Notting Hill Gat. Yes, the famous Notting Hill, starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant.  Then walked to my destination.  Took me about half an hour to reach there, as it seems pretty close in the map, plus stopping to look around.  Okay, some photos for this trip.  The gloomy weather makes me feel like it’s late, and time to go back, so I just cincai walk around. 

Kensington High Street 

The World at Your Feet  - some iconic buildings for kids to locate them on the map.

Displays through windows of the Arriva buses.

Some place for you to seat or… see what the children use it for.. whatever.

One of the stages for performances at the area.  Londoners love music,  I think almost every event, every corner, there must be some music. 

Prince’s Gardens - That’s their life, seating on the grass, drinking beer, listening to music.

Fresh Flower –mobile platform for discussions and debate, moved around the 5 hubs during the month.

Interior of the Fresh Flower.

Tensile structure by Foster + Partners, really eye catching with that pink.  Pink is never my favourite. Oh, we may go in one or two at once to ‘feel’ the inside, which I didn’t, plainly because of the queue…...

Don't ask me what’s so special inside, I avoid queues.

I love these.

And these, something about development of the area, and for public comments.

And these,

Very serious little girl, look at her pose!

Inside Pachamama Toilet – Installation of a full size prototype of a sustainable fabric and earth toilet.   Forgot to take a photo of the overall outlook.  Emm… some of you might be wondering how to use it.  Well, not squatting on the triangular platform, but on the two curved platforms at each side, (it’s a toilet for two), and position your butt to let the shit drop to the earth below.  After the business is done, cover with earth.

External look of the shit container.  When it’s quite filled with earth (+shit), the earth bag will be removed and replaced with another.   For more information, look here http://www.paticas.co.uk/humanitarian.htm

Poly & Chai installation.

Last but not least, while trying my way back on another direction, I noticed this familiar building-Natural History Museum.  And.. look what I’ve found!! (see below photo)

Baden-Powell House- the place where our group stayed 15 years ago.

                                 

Jom Makan ~ So Called Malaysian Restaurant in London

A newly opened Malaysian restaurant in London.

Went to try it on my way to the Cesar Pelli lecture last Friday. 

Well... they stressed that it's Malaysian food, BUT... I don't feel the Malaysian taste, sorry to say that.  

I ordered the Assam Laksa which they claimed to be a good one, true that the fish paste is pretty thick, but it lacks the special aroma for Laksa.  The kind of pineapple they added taste wierd with the whole thing. Before that, I requested to make it more spicy, and the waitress said that I need to order extra sambal or chili which i remembered the extra chili cost £0.75... Insane! Anyway, when the food came, they did give me extra chili with no cost. 

Em... about going back there... perhaps when I really miss Malaysian food, and maybe give some other food some chances. I would say they do put a lot of ingredients in the food, but just lack the true Malaysian flavour... haha... 

Here's their official website: http://jommakan.co.uk/

and a TV3 coverage. (be patient, not the 1st news about murder, wait for the next)

http://www.tv3.com.my/Shows/EpHighlight.aspx?MasterID=190&ShowID=231&MenuID=2&TemplateID=1&SubMenuID=1&VideoID=13448&EpID=16764#anchorVid

A glimpse of London

Sunday 15th

Sunny Sunday

Went to China Town with 2 girls (friend of friend) who's squatting with me in a incredibly small bedroom for 1. China town is the best place to buy phone cards for cheap international calls.

Walked to Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, London Eye and Big Ben. Just a few shots here.

Dirty London

You think London is clean? Nope, it's not. A bit disappointing to see the rubbish at this tourist spot. London eye is just behind me. 

1st Parade

When we've decided to go back, we saw this parade. I would say it's the first time in my life, I'm so close to a parade.  It's about George Bush. 

As usual, the busy body Malaysians, found some higher place to climb up..

Stayed to watch for some time. One of us went into the crowd, don't know where.. so the other two of us found a nice spot to sit down, and I took this picture which I think looks like some photos in Times magazine.. haha.. 

Smart Policemen of London

Real smart! I don't need to elaborate much, here's a photo below and more here. That's when I've the mood to take more photos, but I did not want to drag too long there, and distract them from work. Don't you think they are smart?