the trip honestly turned out more fun than expected and london just makes me wish I had chosen imperial to study in. lol.. i'm such a city kid.
day1 - south kensington - v&a, natural history museum, covent garden, riverside
day1 was pretty much a bummer because i was shagged out by no only the time diff and also because airindia has pretty much killed 80% of my brain cells by switching off the bloody ventilation for half of the flight. meaning it was as hot and stuff as India for half of the flight. wasn't too pleased.
well aniwez, we didn't want to waste the afternoon away, so we traipsed down to v&a for some modern art infusion.
entering via the subway entrance
when you have that as your centerpiece, you scream modern.
view from above
spot me? this was the balcony that allowed us to see the casting courts, which contained amazing reproductions of stuff like trajan's column, to david, to the school of athens. it's quite amazing seeing all of them in one same room.
this is really pretty amazing
view from outside. if you notice a difference in picture quality, YESS.. it's because i'm ripping off from brenda's photo collection, which is so uber good. haha
next up was natural history museum, where honestly i was so wiped out i was searching more for benches to rest and sleep rather than at exhibits
after night at the museum, nat history museums will never be the same again
this was the jewel gallery. pretty amazing shit here, but i was too comatose to enjoy.
i was in this slanted-shot and back-of-scuplture mood whilst taking photos.
we then traipsed to harrods before i left the motley crew to go find weihan. who hasn't really changed. haha. aniwez, he brought me to my favourite place in london - covent garden, where the bohemian spirit commingled with this sense of extravagance, where you had glitzy shopping boutiques right next to west end theatres with pret a mangers and street performances thrown in as well. uber cool.
day 2- sensing my enthusiam for covent garden, it's not surprising the next day i dragged everyone down to covent garden for more. =) well, not before a brief detour to bayswater for the legendary duck rice. well, it was good. haha... i think my tongue has been too exposed to good food that legendary is rarely part of my food vocabulary.
glancing at the royal ballet theatre brochure to decide what to watch. we actually headed to book tickets for sleeping beauty that night. the dancing was so amazing. both the male and female leads were just amazing.
then upon my suggestion we headed down to tate modern. when i say headed, it means we spent 3 - 4 hours detouring round trafalgar square, bankside, crossing the bridges, taking tons of pictures and yeah, reaching tate modern when it was about to close.
i thought u only saw such things in france
EMO SHOT! haha.. i couldn't resist. stupid henry spoilt the first shot though
the riverside is seriously awesome
EMO SHOT NO. 2! This place just screamed bohemian with the run-down brick wall facade and scribblings of the various muses of arts and culture.
true to form, we decided to head to this tamesa oxo place for dinner, which not only offered delish food, but a smashing view of the river thames. more of it later.
tamesa oxo in daylight
FINALLY, tate modern. this was the turbine room, which somehow reminded me of a concentration camp with the dark imposing steel columns and general starkness.
me foooling around with the crack on the floor in the turbine room
tate modern is my favourite museum in london. =)
more soon.. i guess, when more photos are up.
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