Monday, August 31, 2009

Doggie
Since we were back from Liz's place earlier this month, we can't help thinking about the yellow labrador dog at Liz's. We been looking at different breeds of dogs, dogs training programme (The dog whisperer - Cesar Millian & It's me or the dog - Victoria Stillwell) to see if we are up to the responsibilities of a dog owner and the committment. We like an Airedale (as in picture), just need our keys to our new place and some convincing that we are up to being dog owners.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

House hunting
After viewing 20+ properties, we found the one we like, put in offer, negotiate price and offer accepted last Wednesday. However the property will only be taken off from the market after payment to surveyor, thus mad rush last Thursday and Friday to sort out mortgage, appoint solicitor and surveyor. The property was off the market on Friday late afternoon (stated as SOLD subject to contract and there's no more viewing from today onwards).

Both of us are looking forward to owning our first house!

Monday, August 10, 2009

Walking with dinosaurs
Last Sat we visited O2 Arena for the Walking with dinosaurs tour. Due to engineering works, Jubilee line was not in service, thus we had to take the replacement bus service and took us ages to and from O2 Arena to Stratford Tube station (Central line).
Overall the Walking with Dinosaurs show was good, the texture of the dino and the blinking of the eyes were very real. Sound effect and co-ordination were excellent. However, I was disappointed that the big dino were not walking properly on 4 or 2 legs (there was a log like item in the middle of the big dino to control all the legs movements, although it's painted the same colour as the floor, you can see it very clearly).