A Bear's Life

Hallo people of the world, long time no see. Been a while… =D Just came back from trip to Edinburgh last weekend. Went there on Friday night and reach home on Tuesday morning. Huhuhu… I took an overnight coach to Edinburgh from London. It took about 8 hours. The bus is pretty punctual actually. The bus left London at 2300 hours, Friday night, and reached Edinburgh the next morning at 0740. And that’s exactly what the ticket said. =D The bus going to Edinburgh was not really good. I can’t sleep on the bus. It was only after 0230, I slept. The seat was narrow. The journey home was better bcos not so many people were taking the bus. So I took two seats for myself. Hahaha… I can put lay down and sleep. Woo hoo… =D

Edinburgh is really a lovely place. I love the buildings there. Really nice place. First day, we went to the Farmer’s market. It only opens on Saturday morning till afternoon. So, we went there first. =D The market is not so big. It sells a lot of farm products such as eggs, meats, vegetables, fishes, jams, cakes. I bought myself a wild boar burger for a breakfast. =P Hehehe… First time trying it. It’s not too bad. But not too special also. They just put bread and the meat. No ketchup or mayonnaise.


Me in Farmer Market and Eating Wild Boar Burger. Note: the picture is not wild boar =P
Then we headed to National Museum (If I am not wrong =P). We spent quite sometime there. We follow this nice old man around the museum. It was the highlight tour of the museum. It took about 1.5 hours. It’s quite nice actually since the old man told us about the items that they have there. =D There, I touched the oldest rock on earth. Hohoho… I won’t know if the old man didn’t tell me. =D I was told that Adam Smith is a Scottish as well. Hmm… My friend asked him, “What do the Scottish wear under the kilt?” He answered, “They wore nothing under the kilt!” Hahaha… I only knew that. Aren’t they cold when they wore kilt then? =P


View from the roof of National Museum
From there, we headed to the hostel to check in and take some sleep b4 continue going around. We stayed at St. Christopher Inn. We stayed in a 14-bed-room bcos it’s the cheapest rate. It costs only £8 per night per head. The place is nice. It’s clean. They provide breakfast also. They have a chill out lounge where we can use internet (must pay though), watch TV. Chit chat with other guests there. The first floor is a bar. In fact, the reception is in the bar. Hehehe… They have a locker as well, but you have to bring your own padlock though. Oh ya, it is located just opposite of the train station!


My room
At night, we went for Ghost tour! It costs £7.50 Huhuhu… We didn’t see any ghost though. Basically, the guide just brought us around the place. Telling stories about the past about witch, the torture that witch get. They have a room which has all the equipment that they use for torturing the witches at that time. Then, we proceeded to this underground place. You may want to find out about it by yourself when you go there. =D

From there, me and my friends went for dinner in a pub called Castle Arms. I had sausage and mash. My friend ate Haggis. I tried it and it’s really nice!!! I liked it. But I had my sausages and mash there. =( Had Crannachan (sounds Japanese, doesn'tit?) for dessert. It's Scottish dessert. A cream with oats, strawberry inside and they pour whiskey on it as well. =D If you go there, you can try have ur dinner there. Doesn’t cost much, I spent £10. It’s on Johnston Terrace. =D


Crannachan
After dinner, we went back to our hostel and rest for the night!!!

Second day, we were planning to go to the Christmas market in the morning after breakfast. But when we reached there, the market is not opened yet. It's opened at 10am. So we continue walking around the place without noticing that we are near the castle already. Then, why not we just went in the castle and look around it? So we did. It costs £10.30 to go in the castle. When we entered the castle, we can see nice view of Edinburgh city. The castle is located on top of the hill. I can see the sea. I never thought that we are near sea. Hehehe... But we saw it! An amazing view from there.








In the castle, there's a few museums. There is a crown, sword, scepter, stones of the king located in one of them. We spent some time in the castle, in fact we spent there almost one day. We left the castle at about 3pm. Hehehe... We went to a kilt store just near the castle. I can't remember the shop name. They sell a lot of kilt and they even have the kilt making machine in the shop. They really made it there. You can take a pics of you wearing the Scottish clothing there. Hehehe... But I didn't. =P

Then we went back to the Christmas market. When we reached there, the shops were told to close down because there is a bad weather coming in. I felt there's a lot of wind on that day. With the shop closing and no where to go, we just went to the shops and mall there. Bought nothing, we went back to our hostel to rest. Take a shower. I spent the rest of the night in the lounge watching TV. Hehehe...

Let's save our seas!!!

I woke up this morning and I open my window. And this is what I saw...





Fog everywhere!!! I went to supermarket later in the afternoon. It felt like I was in "Silent Hill" game, without monsters though. =P

Cool!!!









and more in youtube... =D

Had a Christmas party with my company on the 7th Dec. I know it's ages ago, but it's still Christmas mood, isn't it? Yup, had a party in a hotel in Windsor just opposite the Windsor Castle. =D

The food was ok, not too bad. Honestly, I didn't know what I ate on that day. I think it should be turkey and christmas pudding for dessert. Hehehe... But really not too good food. I remember that the starter is better than the main course. =P A lot of wine on the table. I think there should be at least 8 bottles on each table. Hehehe...

Had a lot of fun despite of the not-too-good-food. =P I didn't bring a camera with me on that day. My colleagues took a lot of pics, I was just in the pics. Hehehe... The day after the party, my colleague told me that I always in somebody's photo. =P Hahaha...

Some of my colleagues were drunk that day. Some of them didn't remember taking photo with me. =P Hahaha... I reached home about 2am that night and had to wake up at 5am to go to work... Huaa... It was really a tiring day. Hahaha...


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Wow, can't believe it's almost the end of the year... Time sure run very fast!!! A lot happened this year. Some regrets, some lessons learnt, some exciting things happened. Got a chance of a life time. New a lot new people, a lot interesting people. Had a lot new experience. I can't conclude it now. I'll post another one to summarize 2006.

All and all, it's been a good year...

Happy New Year all!!! It's time to make a new resolutions, and, of course, continue last year's resolution. =P Let's make another great year!!! I am sure I gonna enjoy it!