Day 62 - Still thinking...

It's been a while now. Still thinking... why?

When will it stop? Can someone tell me?

Day 61 - Bumped into Anna

Found out recently that Anna & Stephen are leaving London soon!! Steve is gonna leave first and Anna will stay for a few more months... but gosh, the reality just keeps on hitting me when i'm finally enjoying my life in London. Cuz I will be like that too... and the day is coming soon!!

Anyway, I decided to message Anna so we can organise a catchup. We haven't really managed to talk to each other since we first met which was our Egypt trip. We have seen each other at parties but it's just so hard to keep a conversation going when the music is so loud!!

After work today, I headed to my yoga which is situated around Great Portland Street. And as I walking out of the station, I bumped into Anna!! OMG... we were both surprised. Can't believe that we ended seeing each other after sent a reply to me!! Such a coincidence!

We both were heading to the gym so we didn't talk much but can't wait until our Wed dinner! So much to catchup on!!

Day 60 - Kimchee

I haven't been able to find a good korean restaurant in Sydney. I would go back to a few restaurants but that's only because the food was alright. But still not the best that i have tried so far.

Tonight I met up with Addy at Golders Green to try out the original restaurant - Kimchee. They have recently opened the 2nd store in Holborn and because they had special promotions, there has been long queues for dinner each night. The reviews for the Holborn haven't been that good so I was determined to at least try this first store and see what the food is like.

The dishes were quite small. We ordered 4 dishes in total and ate around £27 all up. The flavours were there and it was quite nice and it is one of the better ones in London... would def go there again some day!!

Can't wait to go back to that Korean restaurant in LA!! Yum yum!!

Day 59 - Wing Yip

Finally the day has come!! I went to Wing Yip. The massive chinese grocery in Cricklewood that everyone has been talking about.

X booked a street car to go for a grocery shopping run. So the 5 of us headed over for yum cha and then brought some groceries from there.

Yum cha was actually quite good. Much better than the ones in Chinatown. London Eater wrote a review about that this place so i was quite eager to try it out and see if it is that good. The servings were pretty decent. The food was fresh. Not bad.

We ordered an additional 1/2 roast duck... there was so much meat!! The serving was way better than the ones that i have had in Bayswater or Chinatown... hmm... luckily, this place is hard to get to... if it was easy then my diet will go down the drain straight away!!

After lunch, we quickly went in to buy some groceries. I thought there was gonna be a lot more choices for korean and japanese products. But there wasn't. So i ended up buying a lot of instant noodles and drinks... and a bag of frozen prawns. The place is big and it has a lot of stuff... but i was quite disappointed cuz I couldn't find what i wanted. Oh well... need to head back out to Chinatown for my next run for asian groceries.

Day 58 - I ate sashimi today!!

I went to a Japanese restaurant for dinner today called Ginnan. They have "all you can eat" sushi deal for dinner.

I checked their website to see what the deal was all about. It's very similar to Hi Sushi. And I could see that I will need to eat sashimi to make it worth while.

I decided to just give it go. I've tried sashimi a number of times now. And when i ate it tonight, it's not that bad now. I still don't like the texture but I'm slowly getting used to it. At least I didn't gag it all out.

I mixed wasabi with my soy sauce for the first time today too... but i guess the flavour from the soy sauce does make the nigiri taste slightly a bit better.

I actually felt quite proud of myself after dinner. I know i can be stubborn at times. And i know that i need to adapt to changes in life... so i guess this time around... i'm slowly adapting to the fact that I'm eating sashimi and not literally a dead fish. You guys know what i mean... I just need a bit more time to get used to this idea... time... that's I need.

Add oil!! Fighting!!

Day 57 - X-Ray

Today I went for my second X-Ray.

I got sick for 2 months at the end of January and I couldn't stop coughing at one point. The coughing caused my rib cages to get inflammed... it was so hard for me to breath properly at one stage so i went to see the GP. I was hoping that she was gonna prescribe me with antibodics but she didn't. She just told me to take Neurofen.

Additionally, she suggested that I should go for an X-Ray for my lungs and see if everything is alright. Just to be on the safe side. So i did and they did find something. When she called me about the results, i was on the streets and couldn't hear her clearly when she was describing what it is. She wanted me to go for another x-ray in 6 weeks time to make sure the "whatever" has gone.

So today, I went back to the GP to pickup my form to bring to the hospital. As I was on the bus, I read what she wrote on the comments section.
"Found area of increased opacity in right upper lobe of lung. Check if resolving"

Ohh... so now I finally know what the correct terminology is. My coughing had caused some lesion in my lungs so that's why they detected opacity in my x-ray.

Had to wait around for half an hour but my x-ray only took 5 mins... so quick but the wait... so ridiculous!!

But anyway, I'm hoping that this x-ray will show that the lesion has gone... fingers crossed. Can't wait for my results!!

Day 56 - What to do in the States?

My USA trip is coming up soon. I'll be going for 3 weeks in July. There's still much things I need to sort out. I still haven't decided how many days I wanna spend in each city. I want to lock in those dates so I can book my internal flight tickets. I'll be travelling around the west coast again because I'll be visiting my uncle in San Diego.

I've already been to the States before in 2009. I've done most of the touristy stuff in LA, San Fran & Las Vegas. But I know that there is more I can do more there... luckily I have a friend in LA and San Fran so at least I can catchup with them at night for dinner and drinks.

So now... how many days do I wanna stay in each place? Will I be doing any day trips? If so, which city offer these tours? Where do I wanna stay in each city? I'll be by myself so do I wanna spend a lot of money and stay in a hotel or just at the hostel?

Wow... there's so much to think about... I need to make a decision soon!!