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Published: August 16th 2008
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Tonnes of musicals and performances to choose from Everyday was long and tiring in London.
Thu >> Arrived at 6am. Too early for check-in but hotel managed to provide a day room for us to wash up. Took a quick nap before heading out for a quick breakfast and meeting at London RO. Nice cosy office. Did a quick site recce before proceding to buy tickets for our musical for this evening and also collect pre-ordered tickets for my bosses. Lotsa walking in the heels and heavy lappy. Dashed back to hotel to check-in and out again to rush for our Dirty Dancing musical. Love the dancing and music. But too tired from the long flight and long day that I fell asleep during the slower parts. No appetite for dinner after the show. All I wanted was to go back to sleep.
Fri >> Woke up early to update some meeting brief, followed by full day meeting. After meeting, had to dash to O2 to catch Kylie's concert (it's official business ok). The O2 was 45mins away and we had to squash ourselves in the packed and stuffy tube. Hungry and tired from the meetings and the whole O2 were super crowded with people. There's long
queue at every single restaurant. Argh... Finally managed to grab some food at a cafe before rushing up for the concert. Got called back for meeting midway thru the concert. Damn! The security officers saw us leaving and totally didn't believe we wanted to leave the concert halfway. "What kind of job you do??" they asked. Meeting ended at 11ish before we finally head back to get some rest.
Sat >> Another super early day for a breakfast meeting. Went to event site, went thru a familiarisation tour, network network a bit. Stuff some gourmet food, walked some more and finally get to go back to hotel at 5ish. Yeah! Finally can steal some time to shop. Our hotel was right smacked in the shopping district which many shops flashing their sales sign but everyday we only can see but cannot touch. By the time we arrived back at hotel, driver told us the shops will be closing in less than an hour's time. Quick! We dashed out of the car and ran to the nearby shops. Managed to grab some good buys before meeting GJC. Walked to his apartment thru the garden and some nice housing estates at
Notting Hill. Had very late dinner before heading back to hotel at 12ish.
Sun >> Supposedly we're scheduled to start slightly later today. But our earlier enthusiasm made us bring our running shoes to London. So to make it useful, went jogging with Ra early in the morning. Weather's so cool and the park is so nice to run. We clocked abt 9k unknowingly. Did the usual work and meeting stuff and rushed for another half hr shopping before heading for an official dinner. Drama drama at dinner. The building opp the hotel was on fire. They blocked the streets and our vehicles were stucked at that street. Waited and pleaded with the police for a while before they allowed us to reverse our vehicles to get out of the cordoned area. Had to do some work before kooning. Almost slept hugging my lappy.
Mon >> Endure, ending soon. On my last work day, Ash, Mich and I finally met and realised in horror that we will not have anywhere to stay after the following night! Everyone told us: "It's summer now you know gals?" Panic, we decided to meet up tonight to research for accomm and transport.
Meanwhile... meetings scheduled to end by 2 this afternoon. Can go gai gai after that yeh! Had a nice pub lunch before heading back to hotel to change out of our corporate attire and high heels. Put on our loafers and off we ran onto the streets for our shopping spree! Shopped till 9ish before meeting Ash and gang for dinner. After dinner, we went back to their hotel for some trip planning. Before heading to their hotel, I had rush up to my hotel room to pack my partial luggage and send it over to their hotel as I'll be bunking over for 1 nite. Finally, we got back to their room to do our trip research. Discussed till 1+am before I went back to my hotel. Managed to get the train tickets (good start) and some tel numbers for accomm and car hire. It's already 1+am... cannot tahan... since the next day is my free day, I'll take care of making the phonecalls then. Everything is under control. We'll be fine (i hope!) Forgot to mention that I needed to submit my personal coursework project on 6 Aug. Attempted to finish some work after i got back to my hotel.. but then again, I dozed off with my lappy on my bed.
Tue >> Thot I'll hv an easier day today since all free time is supposed to commence today. Morning was drama too. While having breakfast, I needed to clear some work stuff with my boss. Fire alarm rang and we were evacuated out of the hotel. When everything was back to normal, went to print my doc for my boss but the printer can't seem to support my huge files. Argh... finally, managed to send off my bosses, tried to finished up my cold omelette (but the wait staff was so kind that they offered to make another one for me) and tried to finish up my course project asap. I had wonderful plans to either spend a day in Bath, Oxford, Canterbury, Brussel etc etc etc. But but but sadly i spent the entire morning doing my project, had to check out of my hotel and move over to Ash's hotel. Continued to work on the project and finally sent it off at 1+pm. Now the accomm and car hire's responsibility lies with me. Did some online research and made a few phonecalls. Only managed to secure 1 nite and 1 manual transmission car. Whatever, if no accomm, we can still stay in the car lor. Since all my wonderful plans were wrecked, so I had to settle with another musical tonite and spent the rest of the time shopping lor. Love the musical, Grease. Day doesn't just end at the end with the musical. We had plans to pack our luggage and moved them to GJC's apartment tonite. Luckily he was stucked at work till quite late. After dinner, we quickly went back to pack and drag our barang to his apartment. When we arrived, it was oredi past 12midnight. Ash and Mich luggage caused a din and we jus can't stop laughing. After much struggle to get our gigantic baggages into his place, we took a bus (our equivalent of night-rider) back to hotel. After showering, continued to complete some work before we leave peacefully for our Lake District holiday. Slept at 3+am and the train is at 9+am tmr 😞
Everyday was mad rush. Physically and mentally tired. Hope we can have less drama and stress at Lake District.
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