Two great Dinner Parties.(thanks Guys)

As I am poor, I have been skipping on the restaurants and going for Dinner parties instead. Then again, I have got more friends opening their homes for the idea. Honestly, who really wants to go out when it is cold just for food in an over priced building like Gorden Ramsey anyway..?

The first one was Cookie's on Sunday. She has moved to a new flat for just her and Ryan. I am jealous. Really cheap, all inclusive and only her and her Lover. -Sigh-. The only bad thing it is in Leytonstone..but even that is no bad thing!
There was already guests when I arrived at half one. It was nice chatting to Cookie's other circle.
Eventually others arrived to fill the silences that occur among strangers.
It was a good mix..Brenda, Anna, a guy called Andrew I met before as he works in St Georges and was at a few "gatherings" and 4 others.


We gathered and laughed and socialised as you do...


Cookie turned out to be an amazing cook. There was starter of soup, Dumplings (chicken and vegetables) then rice with various meat to put on it. Brenda and Anna provided dessert and someone brought the alcohol. Fun times.

Did find out some things though..

-Cookie is a great Painter..Was lucky to see her old work.
-Brenda laugh is getting weirder and even tops me.
-Wearing a summer dress is not a good idea when London is still gripped in cold and Ice. Brr.


If you were wondering where Ryan the lover was while we were munching away, he went to Yorkshire to see family. Did see him as Anna, Brenda, Andrew and I braced ourselves against the cold to get to the Station.(He was fine, thanks for asking..)

Monday night was Anna's turn to play host. As I decided to crash at Anna's for a while I was there, as well as Garry and Iwona.
IT WAS MEXICAN THEMED.Kinda.
We had chicken fajitas. Awesome.

Again with the Catch up. It is amazing how much one can talk about once a topic is reached they like.
For Anna it was about the music and the new DJ she is into. He can mix anyone and Anything. Pure talent man. Look him up..YOUR NIECE!

Awesome stuff!

Happy new year (Again)

Anna is a social Animal. I am Anna's friend. Therefore I occasionally decide to enter Anna's world of parties, DJ sets and EastLondoness
Tonight it was a houseparty in Dalston. The theme was Chinese new year. It had food, warmth and a good crowd (Brenda and Cookie were also there!).
Met Anna at her's before running down to the station to pick up Cookie. We were late because we kept forgetting things..First we forgot the champagne, then I forgot Cookie's present (late I know, as I kept forgetting to give it to her!).

Eventually piled on the bus before indulging in Doughnut. Mm, Sugar rush never was so good!

Got into a weird conversation on the bus.
One guy asked out loud how to spell Jewel. Anna spelt it. A drunk guy in the corner then shouted out "How do you Spell "condom"..I always need one during the weekend. Will someone help me out..?!". Some bright spark spelt out "Good luck" before the drunk guy shouted.." Noooo...That is not right..isn't it C-O-N-D-O-M..?".

Bad timing for Brenda who decided to phone at that moment to find out where we were.

Brenda was not the only one waiting. Steve, (Jamie's friend who is Leo and Anna's mate) and some Swede people were coming to. I was a bit intimidated with all the crowd. One to speak I know, as I had a whip in my hands!

Took a while to find out where the house was, but when we got there we were delighted..There was posters to advertise it on the wall (inside as a mickey take), the stair case was transformed into a tunnel so people had to curl up and down it (had cardboard taped to the walls forcing people to go on their knees.) and food. I was happy with the food.
It even had a real fireplace, so I was able to roast and burn various food from marshmallows to chips.
I also was told there is a sweet one is supposed to chuck at people for good luck..Bad times for the other guests.
I did not just misbehave. I was floating around talking to people to. There were 2 people that I really like..Marina who was a bubbly woman living in Hammersmith, and a guy called Paul who talked about everything from bikes to Identity. He had a big discussion with Bee too, which I sat down to listen to.

We did not stay there for long though..The others had tickets to a club and I was tired. At the bus stop it was fun as I encouraged others to whip stuff. Had a mini competition to see who could whip a beer can off the bus stop bench. No one it seemed!

Got home about 2, while the others got home much, much later. Aw well. Start as you mean to go on!

A day and night in Camden Town...

Okie, so these last few days I had a reason to visit my old haunt in London. Glorious Camden Town. I had lunch, coffee dates and gigs. Almost feel like my old self a bit at that.

First time was with Vince. He likes Camden. I like Camden. Seemed like a great place to choose to meet and catch up. Bad plan for me though, as I came straight from John's and had heavy books, dirty clothes and my laptop. Note to self. Lugging around a giant rucksack makes wondering slightly difficult.
It was nice though. Brought a diablo from Oddballs, ate a lot of Camden style food and laughed with Vince at the "fashion" there. Bliss.

I went back the next day to meet my old Uni mates-Dolly, Smi and Sarah. All were depressed about work (or in Sarah's case lack of). Tis a hard life for us some times. We all were happy with catching up, being cam whores and eating in our favourite restaurant Max Oriental...


I was soon greeted by another friend: Cookie. It was good timing of her as the others left for new adventures in various London hangouts while I wanted to stay for a gig in Camden.
Cookie did seem to get on with Smi..At least Smi was making her giggle with talks of Clothes and accounting stories.
Bored with the shops, Cookie and I headed for Hampstead Health. The plan was to sit down in the green and have a hot drink. It was far to cold though to put that plan in action (In this weather? In this Country? What were we thinking?!), so we stopped into a quaint looking shop. It served good cake and was reasonable for the drinks. Plan B turned out to be not so bad.

Vince graced us with his presence in the evening..We meet at the World's End pub- Best one ever with this sign by the way:


and went straight on to the gig.

I saw one of the bands before-Molloy so I was happy. The lead singer Caz give me a big hug and it was nice to hear more of her life then just music based news. She was amazing on stage as usual!

Another band I grew to like was Slow Gun. I did make a prat of myself after with the Bass player- She was handing out badges and didn't hear what I was saying. Basically she thought I was a twat.

The other band was cute but boring to listen to. The name failed to register in my mind..Sad for them I'm sure.

Hungry after the music, I persuaded the others to go eat with me. I was going to have Chiense but the store for Falafels caught my eye. Managed to make a prat of myself for the second time that night.

Me: Do you do any veggie Falafels?
Guy: umm..Falafels are always Vegetarian
Me: But why does it say it has mince in it (pointing to the sign)
Guy: It says Mint, not mince.
Me: ....................I will have one then -Blush-

To top it all off, after I got the damn thing, I hated it and Vince and Cookie laughed as I struggled to enjoy it. That and I managed to get it on my skirt, hair and cookie's hair while devouring it..Typical.


Then on Monday I went again. Well this time to Mornington Crescent for KOKO. Managed to score two tickets to see Mika, Courteeners and JLS for free for the Album Chart Show. Went with Vince as I thought he would like it (he did). As it was live recording though it ran late. Doors opened at half 7 not 6..Brr, was snowing as well when we were outside.

Inside was okie, and was enjoying myself til JLS came on. My goodness, I took an instant dislike to them and it got worst as I realized that they were lip syncing and doing very dodgy dance moves. I cried when they had to re do the entire set.
I was so happy when Mika came on. I loved him before, but now I would happily be a mindless drone for him. He was quirky. He was a natural on stage. His voice was a-maze-zing. I am in love. Seriously.

Pictures came out good to!

Last was Courteeners. Not my favourite indie act out there, but they had talent (and an army of groupies it seems).


All in all. A great few days in my favourite place in London. You can guess where you can find me if I am out of bed now!

Cookie's birthday Dinner

What more is there to explain..?
Cookie wanted to go out to Dinner for her birthday with close friends. I was entertained with good company while my stomach was entertained with good food.
The restaurant was in Russell Square-called . A mixture of all oriental food recipes from rice to weird soup. All cheap- though as I was a greedy pig and decided to order 2 starters and then 2 mains plus drinks mine was a bit excessive.
There was only 4 people I knew (Anna, Brenda, Cookie and Ryan (her boyfriend), so it was weird to talk to others















..As one knows I have been quite the reclusive so making "polite" conversation was not easy- glad I could stuff my mouth with food and avoid that issue!





Harder when Anna shouted out "Stop taking sex talk there!!". I would not mind but I was listening to Ryan talking about Cookie. -Sigh-. Am I that predictable in my chat?

We did joke that cookie should have her own twitter page to rival www.twitter.com/shitmydadsays.

The dinner got better when we realised that Brenda made a cake for Cookie..As we all know that she bakes only in special times, we realised how good it would be..(and it was. It was indeed..)







It did put a damper on thing getting the bill. Weird to think that food cost that much! What the hell?

Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOKIE! :)..We all love you <3

New year Joy..

There is an old saying that says how you send New year's eve and Day is how you will spend the rest of the year. It is with pleasure that I spent it with close friends and doing what I love most. Gossiping, eating choc, watching Anime and dancing.

New year's Eve was spent at Anna's with Brenda, Cookie, Amma and Claude. The original plan was to go to Garry and Iwona's in the scary south for their house party. Fate had different ideas though. Anna was ill (she went to Poland for Christmas and said she ate far to much..) so could not go out anywhere and pure stubbornness made the rest of us stay to.
I did not mind at all.
There was a mad dash to go to my place in Stepney for sweets and DVD's and a happy crowd of girlies talking nonsense.
My gameboy was also in popular demand that night.

We were having such a great chat we nearly missed the midnight mark and all heard up various glasses to cheer on the new year..


Claude was restless, departing on for greater entertainment and Amma also drifted off. Me and Cookie stayed though. Armed with a barrel full of tiredness we went to Anna's Flatmates room to sleep.


The next day was no better for poor Anna. She was ill all day. I spent the day chatting to Cookie.
The night was supposed to be going to BBB-Bastard Batty Bass.
Brenda graced us with her presence and Amma came back. Unfortunately no one wanted to stay to dance much, so after only half an hour only me and Amma were there.
We danced our troubles away, one beat at a time..


And more..


And more..


There was such a random crowd there, and I even spied a guy with a wheelchair bobbing along to the beat!

Sadly, even Amma had to go eventually, and after a quick chat to Anna we departed.

Let's hope the rest of 2010 is just as fun! :)

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside....

Oh yes. The first girlie weekend holiday I had and I could not have asked for a better crew. Plan- Go to Brighton for the weekend. Crew- Anna, Brenda, Cookie, Angel. Weather: Against us all weekend!.
Oh yes. When we got to the seaside it was raining for the whole weekend. Typical. We did do what English do best though (after complaining about the weather). Grin and bear it. It was a crazy weekend though.. Friday saw me and Anna get there later then the rest of the girls due to work..After quicky dumping our bags in the Kipps hostel (that was right next to a strip joint-very handy) and seeing the beds that would be ours..I claimed a top one! :)






We went out drinking. Pub crawing to be exact.


Turns out that Brighton pubs are expensive. Did have enough shots and beer to get happily drunk though..including The famous Flaming one!



Managed to persuade the others to play drinking games..Suck and blow anyone..?






;p As Blondie was down here, I made use of the fact and got him to take us to a house party. It was pissing down and we got so lost..Then when we arrived at the damn place the girls were pissed (not in the good way anymore) and wanted to leave. Calmed them down and flited among the other guests like a mad little pixie. Met my much in the pink fairy guy though:







He did show us a good show for more booze was though. He was not that mean.. This guy fixed my camera- he is my hero <3..i size="5">saved me from a cameraless existence..Thank you!




We retreated into someone's bedroom and gossiped and chatted til we got chucked out.





This to Anna was a great crime. No one seemed to convince her that 4am was a reasonable time to stop the party when there was no other guests and no one really knew us!








The next day bore no joy from the rain.






Anna woke us all up in a hyper mood, and after the girls got ready (I don't use make up so I was hopping around impatient), we went for breakfast. I freaked the others by having a triple breakfast..I


Well, waste not want not huh..? The day was us doing the tourist things- Going to the pier, Posing in the rain..






(that umbella broke after 10 minutes due to the rain..(Very helpful!)








playing in the arcades,










going to the funfair (and been disappointed the weather was to bad go on the cool rides). Looked at the parks there



The shops were quirky though..





like Lust the sex shop







and Cyber Candy a retro sweet shop.














We did have a break to think of our next plan of action. Went to a free musical show that turned out to be Eastern European folk music, and dinner in an Indian Buffet. I freaked out people for the second time and ate 7 Plates of food plus dessert. Digusting really!




While trying to find a good club, or at least figure where they are we when we stumbled on a Brighton festival. There was a show on the wall of the church, buses were decorated nicely and there was a man dressed in a dress singing Evita songs. Random to say the least.




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We were going to go clubbing but accidentally wondered into the west end part of Brighton. It was trashy and filled with drunken people half dressed (or barely even that). Enough to make you never drink again. After an hour of unsuccessful searching for good clubs, we watched the waves and star glazed. I personally think it was one of the nicer parts of the trips. Forgot to mention that Becky, Brenda's friend was also in Brighton and joined us for the day wondering round and eating :)







Got to cold to stay there for long though, so we had a hot chocolate instead. Tasty :) Sunday had us eating our weight in various cake shops










and of course the fish and chips place.











The ice creams were massive as well..All that f0r only 2.50. Bargain..unfortunatly I was to busy talking to Claude on the phone and didn't realize it was melting so fast. It was called a monster. And nope, I did not finish it.Not even close.
It was better then Angel though, as a seagull ataacked her and ended up pooping on her leg! She said in a hopeful voice: "What was that?" in the hope we could tell her better news.




The Old coin arcade, from the Victirican times was a success as well. The machines had us all laughing or cringing. There were skilled games there.. and old fashioned comedy machines as well as mirrors. Anna also had her first taste of serbert I won so that was funny to see her face:











This one especially:




I fell in love with these as well- Biscuit jewllery. Amazing but expensive:



t was a sad time to leave and head back to the station though. I was tired and filled of Chips. I was not impressed by the fact the train was delayed for 2 hours and I had work in the morning. Serves me right for having so much fun :)

Thanks Guys!