Friday night

Organised a curry dinner at Gandhi in Cambridge as a get together with my colleagues (due to the nature of our work, we don't see each other often) and in celebration of my success in getting the perm job.

Was introduced to Peshwari Nan (seems to contain almonds), love it!!

My colleagues were very kind and bought me a few things to congratulate me on getting the perm job. Presents include :-
- A box of chocolate from Hotel Chocolat (as in the picture above)
- A bottle of champagne
- 1000 point of airmiles

PS : Sam & I had ate half the box of chocolate last weekend. Oh God, I will try to remind myself that I'm on a diet.... Self control.... cannot resist the chocolate....

Tour around Cambridge

We always embark on a tour around Cambridge whenever there's visitor and Eagle Pub is always a convenient stopover for a pint plus it's a touristy place.

Sightseeing

Jess was here for Christmas & New Year and we took her sightseeing in Cambridge, Woburn Safari Park & London.

Cambridge

A shot of the view of Kings College in Cambridge.

Woburn


It's best not to walk in when the animals are looking at you as thought you are their food!!

London

Train ride to London Kings Cross Station


The crowd at Buckingham Palace for the change of guards.


Big Ben


House of Parliament


London Eye


Westminister Abbey


Tower Bridge


At Piccadilly Circus Tube station, waiting for the train.

And of course, the shopping experience in UK (including queuing in the cold for NEXT sale at 5am in Cambridge)!!

Christmas Day

Brew some mulled wine during Christmas day afternoon to get into the Christmas mood....

The turkey was 4.98kg and was simply too big/ too much for the 4 of us!! Managed to cook the turkey and get the table ready at about 6pm. We makan the turkey wings, drumstick and abit of thigh meats, the rest were left for the turkey porridge (Boxing day dinner).

We were so busy on Boxing Day and today!!! Shopping at Bicester Village on Boxing Day and the place was packed!!! Today we were off to NEXT sale at 5am today (27/12) and back to sleep for about 1 hour before setting off to Cambridge again in the afternoon for second round. Grabbed some fantastic bargains but I'm now too tired....:(

Got to sleep now to recharge my energy for London trip tomorrow.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Clumsy = the word for me
My back is recovering and am feeling soooo much better now. As such, we went to John Lewis in Cambridge for shopping last Saturday. All was well until I missed a step on the stairs!!! Luckily I managed to sit on the next step and landed on my butt. God know what will happen to my back if I landed on my to-be-recovering-back!! I had also used my left hand to break the fall and the hand is now blue black and painful to touch.



Right before this mishap, I was trying to convince Sam that we don't need to buy any Family Protection insurance (as recommended by his financial advisor). I was winning on my argument right until the mishap which caused me an instant defeat.....

Old flat
Returned the keys to our old flat last Wed after a very tiring week trying to clean/ clear up the place. We even re-paint the whole flat as the paint works were too patchy when we only re-painted certain places. Finally got to appreciate and enjoy the new flat this week. Relax....

Update for the week

Been busy this week thus no time to update the blog.

So what's happening this week?? On Monday morning, I was intending to cycle to my client's place cos it was located in Central Cambridge and I had not been cycling that often, so it's about time to make use of it but I was in for a shock! The back wheel of my bike was stolen!!! Some heartless soul had target my bike thinking it that since it had not been used for some time, it might had been abandoned....

Luckily Sam was in, thus he drove me to work instead. The next day, we went to Halfords to ask about buying a new back wheel and was quoted 60 pounds!!! The bike cost me 100 pounds and this back wheel will cost me 60 pounds, too expensive. The guy was very friendly and upon knowing that I was a victim of a stolen back wheel, he told us to go to Milton Recycling Centre to look for bike back wheel that might fit mine, and I can purchase it for about 3 pounds. The recycling centre is near and we had never been there before. Found the back wheel at the centre that seems to be of the same size as mine and purchase it for a pound..... WOW!! This is great!!

Sam fixed my bike for me but we realised that the inner tube of the wheel was punctured thus had a purchase it from Halfords for about 5 pounds. So all in all, we spent 6 pounds to replace the back wheel.

This is not the first time my bike was targetted, my bike lock was cut before. I learnt my lesson now and will move my bike to different bicycle rank to lock every weekend if I had not cycle for that week. Got to play safe.

Sunday

We had the Prima Taste Laska that Renee bought for us as
dinner and it was delicious!! Except for no cockles.


Our Laksa.

After dinner, we had plans to go to Cambridge ‘Park and View’ outdoor screening.


Managed to get the ticket and thought that we had never been to drive in movie, thus should go and see. Added to that fact that the movie was 'Grease' which Sam & I had never seen before, so we went despite it was raining.



The rain stopped when the movie was played and the atmosphere was brilliant. People were honking their car horns to synchronize with the songs in the movie. Sam even joined in. Fun!!

Will definitely go again if there's more screening.