18 posts tagged “london general”
I HAVE INTERNET @ HOME.
yeah, yeah, it was haling and snowing... where is my LA sun? Do not tell that I should be used to this type of weather!
Here I am back in London, the day of London marathon. It took me 2.5 hours to get home as the streets were packed and a taxi driver had to detour. Second time around, Londonish weather met me with sun and up to +19C or +67F. The flight was shorter by one hour, and 30 minutes of sleep during air flight crashed me completely. As I dozed off for 4 hours, I found myself delusional waking up; for a bit as I was not sure: am I in LA or London?
My break was great, lots of relaxing time and now feel energized to go back to work.
In couple of weeks, I have a 1-week trip to Vienna and Prague related to my architecture studio.
I will be keep posting bits and pieces of my London life.
_revolutionary road
_the reader
_christina vicky barcelona
_the wrestler
_changeling
_he's just not that into you
_curious case benjamin button
_doubt
_rachel getting married
_frozen river
_milk
_frost/nixon
_valkyrie
_slumdog millionaire
grey>>>gloomy>>>rainy>>>>>>> sunny??????????? >>>>as it is depressing>>>>>>as my mood>>>>>where is my ray of light>>>>>I got my head checked>>>>>>>>>by a jumbo jet>>>>>it wasnt easy>>>
I think I am delusional for the past 2 days>>>>> this sicken state just makes more sick>>>>>>by now - 4.5 paper towel rolls i wasted for my running nose >>>>>i am either hot or cold>>>>>>>>no appetite>>>>don't feel taste or smell scent>>>>>>either sleep or search a web for silly things>>>>>>>>ooooooh bloody fever>>>>>>>i am going to watch some funny pranks on youtube now>>>>>>>completely lonesome<<<<<<<<<<get used it already!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday was a release day for me from AA prison. Some things just simply became mundane and apathetic.
My brother-in-law was in the town; so I sneaked out from AA for a day. So, it was so nice to get merged into London life again. As sometimes I feel completely locket out @ AA, which is fine but it is good to find some inspiration somewhere else.
London looks completely different in November. I think a number of tourists got tripled or quadruple since September. As I and my brother-in-law were wondering on Oxford Street in a search of gifts for my sister and my niece, we found ourselves jammed in people's traffic. And once again I couldn't stop to cry out: "f****g tourists!!!" But at the same, the street atmosphere was jolly because people looked happy and relaxed, enjoying their vacation. That's why perhaps just for a second I felt jealous as I miss my family and my friends.
After all gifts' finding, thanks to my brother-in-law, finally I sat down to enjoy a good food as I cannot recall when last time it happened. Most of the days my meal menu consists of junk and frozen food.
- "What is your name?" - a student asks.
- "Mexico." - G says.
- "Like the country?" - a student asks surprisingly.
- "Yes." - G confirms.
- "Oh?!" - a student .....
"hi love", "sorry love", "how r u love", "anything else love", "may i, love", love, love, love, love, love, love that what i hear from british people instead of US version :: sweetie or darling.
Intermittently I enjoy living here in terms of social network. People are constantly interacting with each other and fundamentally due to the public transportation system as well as a prescribed successful urban scenarios: live-work-retail-entertainment that spread out thru the city. No matter where you exit, you will find this module in a walking distance.
But, I miss driving, I miss yelling at people "who do not know how to drive", I just miss LA. Instead I am in the tube with millions of people. Sometimes you cannot even get into the train that is so packed in the morning that you have to push your way thru. I think I am becoming like one of permanent residents here that do hate tourists. Tourists dominate London. They are taking their sweet time in the world with casual, slow, slow, very slow walking. They are just a constant impediment.
In addition, I am getting tired of how things set up here for the international students. I still have not received my UK debit card, my bank sent it to US address. But hopefully I will receive it in a week as I always say it.
I haven't been at my flat for a while meaning I have not spent a day there, just coming to sleep and going back to school, and primarily it is because of the internet which I still do not possess either. But today after three weeks of constant back and forth and partially because I drunk too much at the party last night that was thrown specifically for us, Phase I students by the Phase II students in DRL. It was cool drinking, dancing, lots of new people but I do not remember any names because a night before I slept 1.5 hours, so drinking afterwards not advisable as some of you know.
It has been a good weather for the past three days and it is worth to mention it as it is so gloomy here most of the time. So people do act differently with rays of sunshine. But I know it will rain heavily soon and I will complain about it.
