sticky toffee pudding #03

i just finished and submitted my coursework and lab report... yay... but i don't feel they were particularly well done =S. God help.


to make myself happier... more sticky toffee goodness...
day 2 in edinburgh -

we woke up relatively early since we had to check out by 10 and went for the 1020am Mary Kings' Close tour. it was cool and dungeon-ish. i can't imagine having to stay in that kind of space... can't imagine the living conditions. the close is currently under the main street since they simply built the cities over it... and apparently the buildings were so high that the people at the bottom got no light (which would be the conditions we were walking around in. omg.) the street/ pavement we were walking on was inclined at a 45 deg angle or so... and people in that day would empty waste on the streets twice a day for it to slide down that road... to the river. EEW. the guide was really cool throughout the tour... playing one of the characters that lived at that time... with the Scottish burr and all =D

last day in Edinburgh... so we ended up rushing around alot. walked really quickly to parliment where we split up into the people who wanted to go to the university to take a look and the people who weren't particularly interested (that would be me). walked around parliment... wasn't particularly interested by it. lol. but but but. the gallery for viewing parliment in session... is not blocked off... and has no soundproof glass!!!! gosh. so if you hated your sectional minister you could just bring in a tomato and throw it at him... and all the cameras there would capture it =S

next was the palace tour... holyrood palace... the grounds and the rooms were so pretty!!! and an audio tour came with it too... can you imagine being the king or queen... with shiny table silverware... wow. we kinda rushed through the bits we could rush cos everyone was hungry (and disong got us all craving for sticky toffee pudding) =P then went off in search of food. had bangers and mash (sausages and mash potatoes) in a cafe/bar [we wanted to eat at the more famous world's end cafe but we couldn't wait that long] before happily trooping back to the place we were at yesterday to get Sticky Toffee Pudding!! *yum* we wanted to get two for 4 people so we could eat more each... but they were out of pudding and we could only share one... it disappeared awfully fast thanks to disong.

rushed like crazy to get back to the hostel to get our bags and make it to the train station for the train [it was just like the amazing race lol. carry bagpack and run... then jump into cab]

terribly embarrassing thing i did... i ducked to get into the cab... and i forgot that bagpacks can't duck... so with my forward momentum i smashed the top of my bag into the roof of the car, couldn't get my balance to step backwards and crashed to the floor of the cab *cringe*. got nice beeg bruises on my shin for that. but we all got to the train station safely... and waited for the train to come.

DRAMA. when the train came... like 5 min before boarding, yenn weii looked at the train tix and noticed that they were 04 december 2007 (i saw tt and i actually didnt realise anything was wrong) 0_o so we rushed to ticket office, couldnt get it changed, ran back to the train to see if we could get on... just to see it pull away. (talk about panic man.) well. so everyone plodded back to the ticket office to discuss whether to take the later train.

in the end we got cheaper tickets in the morning... since if we took the later train we wouldn't be able to catch the connecting bus to the hostel we booked. tickets to penrith and windermere in lake district (cos our group was splitting then). coordinated with poor jason and elvina who took the coach down direct to meet us there... only to get a call saying tt we weren't coming =P managed to find a hostel right smack in the tourist street (and cheaper than the one we were at for the first night too!) so we went there to replan our time in lake district... since we lost a night cos of the mistake.

the hostel this time was cleaner! it probably was cheaper cos it was a 10 bunk room... and we had a roommate from australia who was travelling around for 2 months! (poor roommate man... 8 of us making much noise...) so dumped bags... planned and went out for dinner. we met the other scotland group (spending 5 days in edinburgh) on the way to dinner... small world lol. and tried *again* to eat at the world's end cafe... but the wait was 20 min or more... and in 20 min the cook would go home... so we might not get food at all. =S randomly went into a pub... and it had fantastic food *mmmmm* and live music... and Sticky Toffee Pudding for dessert!! hurrah =P

went back and tried to sleep early... (the showers at this hostel were nice... which is alot to say for a hostel)... didnt quite manage to sleep early lol. cos the guys started a mimic the girls thing and we all ended up trying to mimic one another... [xinyi's is: eeew gross! dammit!, meif is: whaaaaat? or where got?] and got up at 5am to catch our 620am train = big sleep deprivation ... spent another 50 odd quid =S.

oops i should probably go to sleep now.

i was reading back on past blog entries... and it feels like my entries are getting shallower and shallower... bah.