It's hard to believe that over a month has gone by and when he finally walks away from me will always be one of the hardest things I have to go through. A month together -- a month we didn't waste by using useless things as I would have liked.
His first surprise when he came was seeing my bright orange-yellow hair, freshly bleached the night before. It didn't take him long to ask me to dye it a darker colour -- ten minutes tops! :-) From there, I finished up my last week, did my exams (scored an A*. Ha!) and we took a trip down to London and went shopping (I bought a new pair of boots!!!) before flying off for a good solid 7 hours to Manhattan, New York.
Since we already did the whole tourist phase during our summer trip in June, we wandered around the neatly arranged streets from 2nd to 8th avenue and 21st to 125th street like the non-New Yorkers we were. Though I had my fingers crossed for something from Tiffany & Co., much to my disappointment that we didn't even go in (unlike last year, we did go in but I realised I couldn't afford half the things they sold there :P) but we did go to A&F which made up for it because their sales people were absolute gods. Beautiful creatures dancing around from left to right. Haha. Got myself a top after much of his insisting and me refusing -- I caved. I now have a brown top that says A&F.
Breakfast was always a bit much of a routine -- me with either pancakes or a creamed bagel and him with his omelets. Either way, wherever we were, it was always fun because we talked and talked like the old friends we were :) But we did have one breakfast that turned into a shocker for us both -- our last day in New York and having breakfast at Roxette (or was it Roxanne?) next to the New York Marquis hotel. The USD$45 bill! It was laugh since breakfast usually cost us less than USD$20, even at Junior's!
The night we arrived, snow had completely covered the sidewalks and we ended up having dinner just a few blocks from our hotel -- a quiet and yet, cozy restaurant called Revolution. It snowed a lot throughout our stay -- he gets as excited as a little child when the flakes start blazing through. The day it decided to really really snow, I was wearing a light jacket and a skirt. Not very smart, but the sun was out and I was convinced the weatherman was lying. I stayed indoors when we got to the Rockerfeller center, watching people outside ice-skate -- Santa Claus was ice-skating too! Fol goes away so he could take pictures of the merriment and came back with a big box with a ribbon on it. "Merry Christmas baby!" he says. I can't help but eye him suspiciously but me, being the girl I am, who loves presents, greedily opened the box and what did I get? A jacket. A cute J. Crew jacket which was a girly version of his North Face jacket (when we were in London, he did try to convince me to get a NF jacket, but I insisted I looked like a Michelin doll in it -- the thing didn't have curves! It'd look like a she-male especially with my hair :p) but my Fol, being the wonderful boyfriend he is, found a jacket that had elastic bands I could pull on at the waist. Hee :)
Now that I had something more sensible to wear, we braved the streets of New York and walked to Times Square -- we've got photos posted up on facebook and on my flickr if anyone wants a peek!
We made a trip to the Natural Museum of History (where the Night of the Museum was recorded -- Ben Stiller yaw!) after Fol insisted we go because he claimed to be 'interested' in history. After just two hours, he exclaims that we were wasting time there. Haha. I made it a nice 3.5hour tour for both of us since he was the one who wanted to go and I didn't, and I ended up being the one who got engrossed with all the interesting things they had. We even took a picture with the TukTuk thing -- dumdum from the movie! haha
Seven days goes by so fast. We met up with Iyra and Beelz, after not seeing them for god knows how long! But we felt incomplete since my sister and their sister was MIA. We'll have to schedule another one soon with all sisters present!
I didn't even get to shop at all. I made up for it when we got back to London but not before I fell sick! Fol and I met up with Fiyyan on Christmas eve where we shisha-ed at this Arab restaurant on Edgeware. I fell sick the next day and was throwing up so badly. Grr! I was sick on Christmas day! I slept through most of it, only to wake up to go to the bathroom or ask for food. He took good care of me, making me porridge and holding my head up whenever I didn't feel so good.
Boxing day -- we met up with Shuv, SH and co. Lunch was funny because times with Shuv are always fun -- ended up going to Selfridges which was full of people. The Gucci queue was a block long and LV & Chanel had their queues too. I felt sicker than ever just being in the midst of the crowd and insisted Fol take me home. He and SH hung out -- doing their man things while Shuv and the others continued on with their expedition :p
The plan between Fol and I was to go back to Loughborough on the day we got back from NY, but he changed his mind and wanted to stay put. I didn't mind, as long as I could do as I pleased :)
New Year's eve. We went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park with Fol's cousin, Ka Yarni -- took photos and ate mini-pancakes that i absolutely adored! Yummy! At midnight I was already in bed, with a book in hand (Twlight, no less!) and cars started honking loudly for about 15 minutes and from there I went off to a blissful night of sleep!
That morning we had breakfast with Peko at Ping Pong and in the afternoon shopped since most shoppers would be done by now -- leaving the shops mostly empty. We got back to Loughborough the next day and I slept and slept and slept. The day after that, Fol convinced me to go to Birmingham with him, by bribing me with a promise of buying new clothes. Ha. We met up with Taufiq and Saifullah for lunch at Pizza Express at the Bullring and then I went shopping.♥
Then, Fol and Peko convinced me to stay the night there and we had dinner at a Thai restaurant at the Mailbox. It was a lovely dinner, so cosy :) The next day we went to LV, and I got upset because I saw a pair of shoes I wanted very badly. Then I got more upset because I wasn't allowed to buy it, then I got permission then I was feeling guilty so I didn't buy it. Argh.
Back to Loughborough, netball was happening the next day -- but we were also due back to London. We stayed for netball, thank god, and left as soon as it was over straight to London. I ached for three whole days. That's what not streching does to you.
We (me, fol and peko) met up with an old friend from my first year in Loughborough. One of the first few people I first met to be exact and one of the few people I'm still close to :) We had lunch at Tayyab's, this Indian restaurant at Whitechapel and then Souri and I went shopping at Selfridges and the boys went to go watch the Gaza protest at the Israel embassy. Silly boys.
Sunday was strange. I woke up at 5 and went with Fol to the airport. Siigh. But instead of watching him walk into customs, he walked me back to the London Connect train. I hate crying in front of him, he always feel so guilty when I cry. I cried anyway.
So that's my month in a few paragraphs. Try to catch up.
My coursework is due this Friday.
love,
y
His first surprise when he came was seeing my bright orange-yellow hair, freshly bleached the night before. It didn't take him long to ask me to dye it a darker colour -- ten minutes tops! :-) From there, I finished up my last week, did my exams (scored an A*. Ha!) and we took a trip down to London and went shopping (I bought a new pair of boots!!!) before flying off for a good solid 7 hours to Manhattan, New York.
Since we already did the whole tourist phase during our summer trip in June, we wandered around the neatly arranged streets from 2nd to 8th avenue and 21st to 125th street like the non-New Yorkers we were. Though I had my fingers crossed for something from Tiffany & Co., much to my disappointment that we didn't even go in (unlike last year, we did go in but I realised I couldn't afford half the things they sold there :P) but we did go to A&F which made up for it because their sales people were absolute gods. Beautiful creatures dancing around from left to right. Haha. Got myself a top after much of his insisting and me refusing -- I caved. I now have a brown top that says A&F.
Breakfast was always a bit much of a routine -- me with either pancakes or a creamed bagel and him with his omelets. Either way, wherever we were, it was always fun because we talked and talked like the old friends we were :) But we did have one breakfast that turned into a shocker for us both -- our last day in New York and having breakfast at Roxette (or was it Roxanne?) next to the New York Marquis hotel. The USD$45 bill! It was laugh since breakfast usually cost us less than USD$20, even at Junior's!
The night we arrived, snow had completely covered the sidewalks and we ended up having dinner just a few blocks from our hotel -- a quiet and yet, cozy restaurant called Revolution. It snowed a lot throughout our stay -- he gets as excited as a little child when the flakes start blazing through. The day it decided to really really snow, I was wearing a light jacket and a skirt. Not very smart, but the sun was out and I was convinced the weatherman was lying. I stayed indoors when we got to the Rockerfeller center, watching people outside ice-skate -- Santa Claus was ice-skating too! Fol goes away so he could take pictures of the merriment and came back with a big box with a ribbon on it. "Merry Christmas baby!" he says. I can't help but eye him suspiciously but me, being the girl I am, who loves presents, greedily opened the box and what did I get? A jacket. A cute J. Crew jacket which was a girly version of his North Face jacket (when we were in London, he did try to convince me to get a NF jacket, but I insisted I looked like a Michelin doll in it -- the thing didn't have curves! It'd look like a she-male especially with my hair :p) but my Fol, being the wonderful boyfriend he is, found a jacket that had elastic bands I could pull on at the waist. Hee :)
Now that I had something more sensible to wear, we braved the streets of New York and walked to Times Square -- we've got photos posted up on facebook and on my flickr if anyone wants a peek!
We made a trip to the Natural Museum of History (where the Night of the Museum was recorded -- Ben Stiller yaw!) after Fol insisted we go because he claimed to be 'interested' in history. After just two hours, he exclaims that we were wasting time there. Haha. I made it a nice 3.5hour tour for both of us since he was the one who wanted to go and I didn't, and I ended up being the one who got engrossed with all the interesting things they had. We even took a picture with the TukTuk thing -- dumdum from the movie! haha
Seven days goes by so fast. We met up with Iyra and Beelz, after not seeing them for god knows how long! But we felt incomplete since my sister and their sister was MIA. We'll have to schedule another one soon with all sisters present!
I didn't even get to shop at all. I made up for it when we got back to London but not before I fell sick! Fol and I met up with Fiyyan on Christmas eve where we shisha-ed at this Arab restaurant on Edgeware. I fell sick the next day and was throwing up so badly. Grr! I was sick on Christmas day! I slept through most of it, only to wake up to go to the bathroom or ask for food. He took good care of me, making me porridge and holding my head up whenever I didn't feel so good.
Boxing day -- we met up with Shuv, SH and co. Lunch was funny because times with Shuv are always fun -- ended up going to Selfridges which was full of people. The Gucci queue was a block long and LV & Chanel had their queues too. I felt sicker than ever just being in the midst of the crowd and insisted Fol take me home. He and SH hung out -- doing their man things while Shuv and the others continued on with their expedition :p
The plan between Fol and I was to go back to Loughborough on the day we got back from NY, but he changed his mind and wanted to stay put. I didn't mind, as long as I could do as I pleased :)
New Year's eve. We went to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park with Fol's cousin, Ka Yarni -- took photos and ate mini-pancakes that i absolutely adored! Yummy! At midnight I was already in bed, with a book in hand (Twlight, no less!) and cars started honking loudly for about 15 minutes and from there I went off to a blissful night of sleep!
That morning we had breakfast with Peko at Ping Pong and in the afternoon shopped since most shoppers would be done by now -- leaving the shops mostly empty. We got back to Loughborough the next day and I slept and slept and slept. The day after that, Fol convinced me to go to Birmingham with him, by bribing me with a promise of buying new clothes. Ha. We met up with Taufiq and Saifullah for lunch at Pizza Express at the Bullring and then I went shopping.♥
Then, Fol and Peko convinced me to stay the night there and we had dinner at a Thai restaurant at the Mailbox. It was a lovely dinner, so cosy :) The next day we went to LV, and I got upset because I saw a pair of shoes I wanted very badly. Then I got more upset because I wasn't allowed to buy it, then I got permission then I was feeling guilty so I didn't buy it. Argh.
Back to Loughborough, netball was happening the next day -- but we were also due back to London. We stayed for netball, thank god, and left as soon as it was over straight to London. I ached for three whole days. That's what not streching does to you.
We (me, fol and peko) met up with an old friend from my first year in Loughborough. One of the first few people I first met to be exact and one of the few people I'm still close to :) We had lunch at Tayyab's, this Indian restaurant at Whitechapel and then Souri and I went shopping at Selfridges and the boys went to go watch the Gaza protest at the Israel embassy. Silly boys.
Sunday was strange. I woke up at 5 and went with Fol to the airport. Siigh. But instead of watching him walk into customs, he walked me back to the London Connect train. I hate crying in front of him, he always feel so guilty when I cry. I cried anyway.
So that's my month in a few paragraphs. Try to catch up.
My coursework is due this Friday.
love,
y
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