Madame Tussauds

Finally I have visited Madame Tussauds, one of the London's famous tourist attraction, top charged attraction too I must say.

It was really packed and more than 50% of the visitors are Indians probably because Madame Tussaud just put up a Shah Rukh Khan's figure recently. I didn't even have a chance to squeeze in the Big Brother Room.

Steph and the Bollywood star. My 3600 HSD bounce light works perfectly fine. However due to the over crowded situation, most pictures were taken using T-10 which struggled in low lights.

Steph, Angelina, Brad and me

I don't like the woman who ruined Beckham's football career anyway.

Hi shortie~

Checking out superman's underarm

Hey, Fergie has got Hargreave, Anderson and Nani on their way to Old Trafford, who are you getting?

Bend it like Beckham~

Her majesty Queen Elizabeth and the dude Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip. One interesting question, why the husband of the queen is a prince but not a king? Find the answer here.

Buddy with Albert

Nazi style~

Dudes, peace no wars~

With Kylie by the moon.

5th of May

On 5th of May, we went to Greenwich Park after visiting Portobello Market.

Weather was lovely, lots of people in the Park.

Lots of squirrels in the park too.

Royal Observatory was already closed when we arrived. This line is located outside the observatory as consolation to the late comers.

Cool pose in University of Greenwich - actually was tulan coz I spent too much time playing with camera.

Over exposed shot done intentionally - the correct exposure will expose all the acne spots.

First shop in the world @ longitude 00"00.4W, don't play play.

Meet up with Sing Lam who visited London from Dublin in the evening.

5th of May, marked my one year anniversary in United Kingdom. Time really flies, so much changes, so much new exposures, so much bitter and sweet happened in a year.

I have to thank Lillian for creating the golden opportunity for me to come to London of which I would never imagine before, and also to those who help and support when most needed. Long way to go and I hope it is for better.

Portobello Market

Portobello Market, located at the famous Notting Hill, is claimed to be the world largest antiques market.

The market opens every Saturday and it was really crowded when we were there.

Some interesting metal signboard & souvenirs.

An old lady parked her caravan and put her pet dogs in an antique pram, no tricks no performance, just to let people touch them and give donation. Like that also can ah? Anyway I think it's better than those 'big issue' people.

The dog and her master, calm...

when she saw a golden retriever, fiercer!

It's a very big market indeed with all kind of stuff.

Walking sticks in various shapes.

Polished silverwares.

Modern jewelries.

Antique jewelries - Not very shiok lah unlike Petaling St, most vendors here don't bargain.

Some antique cameras, I was hoping to find some surprise but.. nope..

Colourful fabrics!

The woman was satisfied with her purchase.

Quality fresh fruits.

You can't miss this stall, decorated with seafoods and long queue all time. We were so tempted seeing others eating the deep fried big prawns so we decided to try.

Deep frying the big prawns skillfully.

Complete with Nike wrist band. You can choose either big prawns, crab sticks or mix of both, box full of it for GBP3.

Isn't it looks good? Couldn't wait to taste it, when I had my first bite... eh... na beh *^@(%#$... I had mouthful of fried flour... I always teasing people who go to vegetarian restaurants eating flour made food and now... no wonder GBP3 for a box full!

A couple saw us eating and got tempted as well, came to us and asked where we bought it and without hesitation we pointed the direction to them straight away. It does looks good so I didn't want to spoil their mood. Never try never know, maybe they will like the flour made prawns. However, confirm there's no next time.

Cool Music Playlist in Blog!

It has been so long since I last update the MP3 in my Sony music phone, been so lazy to download songs, and has been so out-dated with most recent music or artists.

Quite excited that I found this cool site which one can share music, video and photos in play list form. I create a list of my all time favourite music and put it in my blog, which I myself think is quite a bit of rojak taste mixed with Chinese, Hokkien, new age, classical and trance.

British Museum, Camden & Harrods

Day out to British Museum which I never been there before even it's located in central London. Free admission but donation is appreciated (huh? It's ok, the government should be rich enough to maintain this on its own. I'd rather they spend the tax money I paid in heritage rather than on the single mothers, UK has the most single mothers in statistic in the world, and you should know why it happens - my opinion doesn't includes the widows of course)

Posing outside the museum.

Very impressive roof architecture.

Japanese statue in the museum, just testing the WB setting, nothing really exciting in British Museum to me. I am glad that the woman agreed to leave after couple of hours.

We went to Camden Lock before evening, rainy and most shops were closed. This is 'the best shop in the world'? They have a good web domain name for themselves I guess.

Fish in antique shop.

This is a must-go shop for clubbers, ravers, aliens, ah beng and ah lian. All that you need to stand out in a rave party can be found here!

We made a visit to Harrods at Knightsbridge in the evening, only had enough time to find and sign the memorial book for Diana & Dodi Fayed (son of the multi millionaire owner Mohamed al-Fayed).

'The Innocent Victims' - Mohamed al-Fayed claims there was a conspiracy by the royal family to murder the couple in 1997.

Bermondsey Market

Bermondsey or New Caledonian Market, is known as one of the London main antique market, open every Friday from 4am to afternoon. It is said that there used to be transactions of stolen goods at dawn till early morning. I was surprised that it locates at Long Lane just minutes away from my flat near Tower Bridge Road.

I notice that I always having the Minolta 50mm mounted on my camera, the cheapest that I owned.

Antique or body art?

Woman loves market, why?

Some nicely polished silverwares in the market.

Unless you are really a collector or else I don't expect much surprise deals one would find there. UK people don't like to bargain, do they?

National Gallery & Trafalgar Square

The woman loves museum and gallery so we picked a day to visit National Gallery, free admission so I was OK to revisit the place again. Probably 1% of the collection are from the artists whom I know so I hardly appreciate it.

The 50mm prime lens is really a value for money purchase, photo taken at F1.7, 1/4000 sec - bright sunny day!

Hiding behind the column like Bollywood movie.

Half way through we went for lunch at my favourite restaurant Misato in Chinatown with Justin for his farewell moving to Newcastle. Good food good value if you don't mind the long queue.

Pigeons at Trafalgar Square, spoilt by the tourists and unafraid of human. Shot with Tammy at F2.8

Playing with the pigeons.

Some smart ass are selling dried corns there to tourists to attract the pigeons.

50mm again at F1.7, not bad for a USD$65 lens right?

Picadilly Circus

Bloody cold night on the way home. T10's night mode really sucks to the max.