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Finally done with so-o-o-o many hectic posts. This day has come, muahaha...!! I can start planning new things, e.g. search for jobs (I need more $$), practise piano (long forgotten thing in my mind), finish reading 3 books (so that I can buy more books), wash my car, rearrange my blog, delete FB (should I?? I don't feel like using it), find more BigBang and 2NE1 (maybe 2AM) graphic icons and wallpaper, download more songs (I need more space for my hard drive!!). I think that's it for now. Yeah, happy!!!

1. 老豆的朋友？！XD 2-3. 路过橱窗，极惊讶瞥见了这个99.9%像G-Dragon《Heartbreaker》CD封面的摆设！ 4. Belgo's bowl of Marinière mussels served with fries. 5. Salmon fillet served with leek mash and mustard cream sauce. 6. Oliver! @ Theatre Royal Drury Lane. 第一次到真正的剧院看舞台剧，坐在最高一层。里头的摆设、吊灯、座位就如古英国时期那样，超有feel。不过表演进行到一半时，我抵不住周公的邀请，脑袋摇摇晃晃地睡着了，幸亏灯光昏暗。我爸应该没发现吧？ 7-8. @ Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly.

1. On my way from Victoria Coach Station, London to Oxford. 2. Castle Mill Stream. 3-4. Oxford Castle. 5. Carfax Tower. 6. Oxford City Council. 7-8. Christ Church, 9. The Meadow Building, part of Christ Church, Oxford. 10. Christ Church Meadow. 11. Some kind of college along Merton Street. 12. Rose Lane-通往全英国最古老的花园。 13-16. The University of Oxford Botanic Garden. 因为冬天的关系，并没有百花齐放的美景看，有点可惜。 17. 未开花的Snowdrop，很可爱。 18. Magdalen College. 19. Catte St. 20. Radcliffe Camera. 21-22. The Tower of the Five Orders @ Bodleian Library. 23. 标榜着"Music"的门口。 24. The Clarendon Building. 25. The Randolph Hotel. 26. Ashmolean Museum. 27. Ceremonial trumpet in C (silver) by William Bull (important English trumpet maker in late 1600s). 28. This is a small model or later version of the monument to the composer Handel, made by Louis-François Roubiliac (1702-1763) for Westminster Abbey. The monument was paid for by a bequest of £600, which Handel left in his will for this purpose. 29-30. Like the har...

1-2. Kew Gardens要收入门费，所以没去（烂！）。一个人搭巴士来到Richmond，路途有点远，不免有点担心。我在Richmond下车，走了一大段的冤枉路，糊里糊涂地来到Kew Green。相信是冬天的关系，根本没有一个人的影子。 3. The Parish Church of St Anne, Kew. 4-6. St Mary Magdalene @ Richmond. 7-8. Wimbledon, home to the world-famous tennis tournament. 基于要给入门费的原因，所以没进去看球场。 9-10. 在Wimbledon附近乱逛，住宅都很大，这是有钱人的地段吧？ 11-12. 休闲地在Putney Bridge走着。 13-16. Wow, Chelsea Football Club!

1. 之前穿的鞋弄得右脚的尾指十分地痛，于是日前在Camden Town买了一双新的高筒sneakers。款式还不错，约£30。 2. 应该是芒果饮料…… 3-4. 难得来意式餐厅吃好料！（以我爸的性格，当然是手头里有固本才舍得来这种高级地方享受。*奸笑*） 5. 橄榄油。 6. 唯美照，哈哈！ 7. 三文鱼pasta。 8. 老豆和pasta。 9-10. Kings Mall, Hammersmith. 11. Sainsbury's Chocolate Profiterole Stack. 12. Millefeuilles.

1. A Young Woman playing a Harpsichord to a Young Man (probably 1659 ) by Jan Steen (1626-1679): The inscription on the inner side of the top of the harpsichord, ACTA VIRUM/ PROBANT (actions prove the man), may be a witty and ironic comment on this scene of flirtation. Usually music-making is associated with the harmony of love. Another inscription on the inner side of the keyboard, Soli Deo Gloria , means 'Glory to God alone'. 2. A Woman playing a Theorbo to Two Men (about 1667-8) by Gerard ter Borch (1617-1681): The association between music and love is a frequently depicted subject in Dutch genre painting. Yet the situation within this domestic interior remains deliberately ambiguous. Is it a happy domestic scene or is it a brothel? The viewer invited to decide. 3. A Woman singing and a Man with a Cittern (about 1665-70) by Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706): The association between music and courtship was a familiar topic in Dutch genre painting. Here it is underscored by th...

1-2. 乱闯乱荡到来到超大间的British Museum。 3. The citole , an ancestor of the modern guitar, is a rare surviving example of an English musical instrument from the medieval period. It gives an insight into the splendour that surrounded aristocratic feasts where citoles were played with other instruments, especially fiddles. The detailed carving shows tiny figures among the leaves. Some are going about their daily business, such as the swineherd feeding acorns to his pigs. Others are involved in hunting deer or foxes. A number of monstrous creatures also appear such as the half-man half-beast shooting an arrow at a rabbit. The silver plate on the peg box is engraved with the arms of Queen Elizabeth I and her favourite, Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester. It dates from 1578 when the citole was converted into a violin. 4-7. 到Victoria Embankment Gardens散步。误进了一家看起来很像Subway的三文治店，但用料绝对比Subway吝啬得多，害我花了那么多钱，气死了！ 8. Women of World War II Memorial. 9. Somekind of building along WhiteHall. 10. Cabinet War Room...

1. Along Queen's Walk. 2. 19世纪以gentlemen's club著名的Pall Mall。 3. 趁St. Jame's Palace的主要入口没有Grenadier Guard，那么就让我充当一下吧！ 4. Buckingham Palace. 5. Queen Victoria Memorial. 6. Statue around Queen Victoria Memorial. 7. 当天没有Changing of the Guard。 8. 警察帅气地骑着马，看起来很悠闲嘛…… 9. 打扮17世纪装扮的小女孩，害羞地和我合照。 10. Commemoration of Charles I’s execution。为了纪念King Charles I殉节于1646年，the Royal Stuart Society and the Society of King Charles the Martyr会在每年1月的最后一个星期日，穿上17世纪的服装，拿着武器，骑着马，浩浩荡荡地从The Mall走到Old Admiralty Building，举行祈祷仪式。 11-13. 保留18世纪传统的兵士@The Household Cavalry Museum。 14. 上海小笼包！ 15. 建立在Thames河中，深50尺的The Greenwich Foot Tunnel联系了Island Gardens, Isle of Dogs和另一边的Cutty Sark Gardens。 16. 美丽的模特儿在拍照中。老豆凑热闹地走过去拍了一张。 17. 1217尺长的隧道中，有人走路，也有人骑脚踏车。 18. King Charles Court and Grand Square @ The Old Royal Naval College. 19. The Old Royal Naval College . 20. 向Greenwich Royal Observatory出发啦！ 21. 在千禧年来临的那一刻，这电子时钟已成为全世界时间的指标了。 22. 耶，我站在Greenwich Meridian Line（Longitude 0º）！以前在中学的地理课有读到，看着那条将世界的时间一分为二的线，觉得好遥远。没想到有...

1. 挂着大红灯笼的唐人街。 2. 英式电话亭。 3. Charlie Chaplin statue @ Leicester Square. 4. Leicester Square附近有许多电影院和售卖上档着的歌舞剧戏票的档口。歌舞剧在伦敦风行得很，到处可见剧场。 5. 无时无刻都有人潮的National Gallery。 6. Nelson's Column下的狮子。很多人喜欢爬上去坐在狮子身上。 7. 高151尺的Nelson's Column，可惜看不见最上头的Horatio Nelson的雕像。 8. 若说纽约的交通标志是黄包车，那伦敦则是红色的双层巴士。 9. Royal Opera House. 10. Camden Lock Market位于伦敦西南方的Camden Town内。这里贩卖着各国的食物、手工制的玩意儿、衣服、图画、二手书等，有点像曼谷的JJ Market。 11-13. 在Camden Town的Main Street上，你会发现好多穿环、纹身、无敌松糕鞋、庞客风的服装店。 14. 英国的路牌不是设在地上，而是贴在墙上的高处。 15-16. 为了招揽客人而热情地招唤客人前来试吃的熟食档口。 17-18. Camden Stable Market.

今天赖在老豆的房里看MTV，然后到厨房上网。 下午3点决定出门到附近的百货商店逛逛。HMV卖的CD都好便宜，一张£4，但不是我想要听的。找到Nina Simone的CD，却下不了手。 路上有好多刚放学的学生，年轻的学生，如《The History Boys》里的男生，穿着深蓝色的制服。走近点听他们的谈话，其实是想听那口音重的英文。 拐进住宅区的小路，并没有行人，车辆也少。静悄悄。普通的房子没有花园，从所谓的“大门”走五步就到门口了。悄悄瞄里头的摆设。橙灯为客厅罩上一层温柔。 走在伦敦的街道。

1. 巴士站。 2. @ Natural History Museum. 由多个荧幕组成，四周再放上镜子，整体感觉相似很炫的舞台。Big Bang《ガラガラ GO!! 》风的feel，哈哈！ 3. Model of umbrella-mouth gulper. This fish probably swims slowly with its mouth open to catch fish prey. 4. 2x life-size model of anglerfish. A large mouth and very stretchy stomach allow this anglerfish to swallow prey much larger than itself, such as lattern fishes. Like other anglerfishes, it attracts prey with a lure on the end of a long fin ray. 5. Brush-tailed possum. 第一眼看到这只动物，脑袋立刻联想到关颖慧，可能是那笨笨的样子和门牙，哈哈哈哈！ 6. Lesser Egyptian jerboa. 7. 这恐龙不但发出相当逼真惊人的声音，而且连动作也是一样。万一它是真，怎么办？ 8. 位于Natural History Museum对面的Victoria & Albert Museum。 9. Glass Chandelier at Victoria & Albert Museum lobby by Dale Chihuly, 2001. *truely a wonderful piece of art!!* 10. 日本歌剧的戏服。 11. Noh mask of Hannya , Seal of Suzuki Nōjin (2000). This mask represents a jealous woman transformed into the demon Hannya. It is used in played such as Dojōji, where the young woman finds that her advances are rejected by t...

1-4. St. Paul's Cathedral since 1710. 5. Paternoster Square. 6. Shepherd and Sheep by Dame Elisabeth Frink. 7. 四处看看。 8. Old style double-decker bus. 9-10. Tower of London. 11. The Tower Shop. 12. Entrance of Tower of London. 13. The Yeoman Warder. 14. Two of the seven ravens at the Tower. Legend says that the kingdom and the Tower will fall if the six resident ravens ever leave the fortress. 15. The White Tower. 16. East Wall Walk上的士兵。 17-18. Tower Bridge. 19. South Bank. 20. Neal's Yard Dairy @ Borough Market. Full of cheese~

1-3. Albert Memeroial. Remembers Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert (died 1861). Gold plated statue of Prince Albert surrounded by huge sculptures and stone canopy. 4. Royal Albert Hall. 5. Royal College of Music. 6. Royal College of Art. 7-8. Vintage cameras @ Science Museum. 9. Some kind of organ (I think). 10. 雪花膏？ 11. Volkswagen Beetle Motor cars, 1965. 12. Malaya ships @ Shipping gallery. 13. Energy ring @ Energy - fuelling the future gallery. 14. Earth Hall entrance @ Natural History Museum.

1. Kensington Palace. Home of Diana, Princess of Wales and birthplace of Queen Victoria. 2. Round pond @ Kensington Gardens. 3. 真的有人在那里冲凉吗？ 4. Harrods bear. 5. 叉烧包！！ 6. 具有香港特色的虾饺（流口水了……）。 7. 夜晚的London Eye很漂亮。 8. 在Harrods买了巴黎著名的 Ladurée macaroon 。一个size如拇指和食指圈起来般的大小，外脆内软，香味四溢的macaroon要价£1.3，可算是奢侈品。 9. 豪气的老豆，谢谢啦！ 10. 口味（左到右）：rose petal、raspberry、red fruit、coconut、pistachio和vanilla。颜色好漂亮，光看心情都会变好。妄想macaroon能从天而降，优游在一片macaroon中，哇……

1-6. 伦敦大部份的建筑物都以砖头砌成的，加上灰茫茫的天空，让整条街偏向冷色系。街道上散发一股属于英国的古老气息，连路人走起路来都特别优雅。 7. 和老豆坐在红色的double-decker巴士上。第一张他没有笑，这张稍微好一点。他中间梳起来的头发有点像Big Bang漫画里的Tae Yang，哈哈。 8. 很好吃的Panettone，喜欢它的酒味（米兰的特别面包，通常在圣诞节里享用）。 *才刚下机就被老豆带着到处走，唐人街、Covent Garden Market、National Museum（在开我玩笑吗？）等，实在没心思看，走路时甚至想睡觉，有崩溃的感觉。刚到的前几天会在凌晨2点就自动醒来，望着天花板，心里想着有的没的，辗转难眠。这算是我jet lag最厉害的一次。*

20/1/2010 Hostel所提供的早餐极简单，有面包、Skippy花生酱、果酱、Cheerios、麦谷粮、牛奶、咖啡和茶。最爱的是麦谷粮和牛奶，任吃不怨。吃饱后，我们出发到附近的Hollywood Blvd逛逛。当天从早上下起了绵绵细雨，刚好我穿的那双拖鞋底已被磨光花纹了，走在用花岗石打造的Walk of Fame上，简直要我命，稍微分神就会滑倒。 那天我们并没有计划要去哪里观光，想说走到Beverly Hills看明星的住宅，但开始认真地走了约1个小时后才发现这是不可能的任务，因为实在是太远了，而且天公不作美，一直下雨，路上的行人也寥寥可数，撑着雨伞的我们反而像怪咖。 走到West Sunset Blvd的Ralphs Grocery已经是我们的极限了。买了打半价的面包后，我们坐在商店里的椅子上吃午餐休息，等雨转小后再回去。 1958年的创建的Walk of Fame总共有5个项目：Television、Radio（麦克风）、Recording、Live Theater（双面具）和Motion Picture（摄影机）。 The Four Caryatids纪念4位为电影界付出贡献的女人：Mae West, Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Del Rio和Anna May Wong。 走着回宿舍的路途时，被一位长得蛮像Ashton Kutcher的男生问有没有兴趣参加Rodeo Drive和Berverly Hills明星住宅团。那时我们还蛮闲的，一边撑着雨伞一边听他滔滔不绝地解说。相信是下雨的原因，他们把原本每个人$50减至$20，而且还可以坐Limo。心想$20还过得去，因此就答应参加。参加后的心得：下雨弄得车窗起雾，看不清周遭的屋子和风景。即使看到了J. Lo，Hillary Duff，Nicholes Cage等人的屋子，都不能拍照。况且那司机兼导游小姐的解说越说越闷，好几个游客都在车上睡着了，事后根本不想给她贴士呢。这种观光团还是在好天气下才参加比较好。 唯一的一张照片。 回到宿舍时，文力告诉我昨天的的士费可以向宿舍方面索取，因为同意书上说明凡是住上3天以上的客人可以索取回交通费，因此我心致勃勃地走到柜台向那位负责人说明这件事。他问了我的姓后找到了我的卡，但他说这里只写明我住2天而已，所以不可以索取。我有点晴天霹雳，说这是...