My London Life

After all, my blog towards London started a bit late, a month after I touched down in London Heathrow Airport. Anyway, I try my best to write down my closest feeling here.

London, a city that takes me 13 hours of flight to reach. Be frank, first 2 days I had bad jet lag, which had been quite painful passed through. I am lucky that I have a very nice friend, a going-to-be doctor. He helps a lot for my accommodation, culture shock, making friends... he really gave me a good kick start in London. I owe you a lot, bro!!!

Well, I have made some good friends in London. Thanks a lot for all the helps and blesses, from friends in Dawson Hall and cari.com forum. You all make my life great in London Thanks :)

London is a nice city, with good transportation facility. The tube here is well developed. I feel it is very convenient in London. Compare to Kuala Lumpur, which barely able to survive without a car. Any how, you will need to walk a lot in London, to catch up a bus or tram. It might make you healthier :P With Oyster card, you can travel around the London, with the automatic maximum day travel capping calculation. What i mean here is, if your travel is more than one day travel charge, the machine will automatic charge only the one day travel fare, instead of the sum. Quite smart. One more credit for transportation in London, you can check out your trip detail from http://www.tfl.gov.uk/, which provide you different travel options and direction for the destination you choose. That's so much convenient ever!

Buildings here are so interesting. There are various kind of designs across the whole city. Some are exotic, some are modern, some looks high tech and so on. Online sales is popular here. You almost can buy anything from the web, including grocery from Tesco, but with little charges. Besides, you will find out a lot of online discount, voucher code, hot deal and so on to make it a great deal. Well, 10% discount make a big difference! (if converted to RM... lol)

People here most of the time take sandwiches for lunch. Pret-A-Manger are every where in London, it is nice and delicious also, with 3 pounds, it is quite filling. Dining out will cost you around 10 pounds. The best way is cook yourself, which might cost you only 20 pounds a week!

After all, the accommodation rental in London is sky high. with 100 pounds per week, I can rent a banglo in Malaysia, but I only can get a small single room here. Some properties, you might need to pay the council tax for the owner as well, which overall state the major expenses of you life in London.

My First Tooth Filling - 26 Jan 2008

Today is a memorable day, as I have my first tooth filling in my life, at 5.15pm, Penang. I never have my teeth being scaled, clean and filled, but not this week. My teeth are not that strong after all... lol...

Last Wednesday I went for scaling and cleaning. Dentist told me that I have 2 teeth that suffered cavities and i need filling. Well, I can tell that the dentist is charging expensively. No doubt that they are using a very modern device, that able to show you tooth photo before and after.

Well, after clarification with HR department, it should be covered by our company issurance for the charging on filling. Hence, I decided to have the filling. It is tooth color filling, hence it will not be obvious.

Now the 2 teeth are filled. Although it is tooth color, the 2 teeth are a bit different, because others appear to be a little brownish... anyway, chinese traditional, have everything fixed before the Chinese New Year. So there should be a fix... XD

Preparation for Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is approaching. Everyone is busy preparing for new year stuff, like new cloths, decoration, cookies order, cleaning and fixing. So do I. I used up 2 days to totally clean up my room. Remarkable... lol...

Well, my room is full of dust as my many things are remain untouched except simple floor sweeping is carried out weekly (*occasionally, XD). So I had to pack up all my stuff, moved it to living room, before I started my total cleaning (wipe windows, fan, clear the spider net, sweep and mop floor, it was tiresome and the dirt was reaching unacceptable level... -_-||| ).

At last, I have a whole new room. I reorganized all my stuff, clothes, documents... Now I realise that I have quite a number of new clothes (probably my mum bought it and leave it without my notice =D). So this year, I didn't go for any shopping on clothes. There should be enough.

Amazingly I had fixed my laptop lid. Although it is not that nice looking now, it at least allow me to fold it. After clean the whole room, I had plenty of time to enjoy the freshness of my room. In the mean time, my gut feeling pushed me to take an action on my laptop.It is fixed now, although it still has a crack on the lid (I need a superglue that I am azy enough to get it from shop... -_-)

There are something that still unable to be fixed. Perhaps, I don't have the intention to fix. My car door, another problem. However, it is too hot outside there to stop my mind from repairing it myself. I rather let it remain silence, as I still can live with the problem along. If I have a chance, perhaps I will fix it by my own, else I will wait until my car go for next service XD...

Now with everything fixed and clean in my room, it comfort me a lot. Toast for Chinese New Year~!!!