Valentine's Day love!

I hate Valentine's. Seriously I do. For a person in a loving relationship and who has free time to plan things for her lover, I was not the most happiest come the 14th.
It is not the stress.
It is not the commerical. nature.
It is the fact that one day out of the whole year people are forced to go against their nature and be nice and romantic to who falls into their lustful eyesight. Come on guys. There are 365 days in the year last time I checked. You do NOT need to wait til Febuary to show that you care and love someone..

That rant out of the way, I did have a good time.
John phoned me and told m
e to dress in leathers and warm clothes. It meant one thing. I was going to ride on his bike (He hates riding with others so that was a treat in itself!)
After having a quick hot choc and me posing in the lid he borrowed for me:

The question where/what are we going to do was soon answered when we pulled up outside Bloomsbury Bowling Alley. For those that don't know it, it is a cool bar that has bowling, Karoke, gigs, dancing, random machines and a 50's style.
It was cool, Quirky and totally us.

Food was consumed:
(yes it had to be typically us..Ordering more then we can eat..The milkshakes were cool though..and ridiculously filling!

Bands were admired:

(Check them out..Scarlett's Rose was amazing live. Love the blond singer's voice!)

And our competitive nature arose when we bowled with our funny names:

I lost but only because John managed to get 3 strikes. Well it was nearly Turkey after all..(his favourite word it seems.)

I also embarrassed John by repeatly asking for tea. The guy felt sorry for me and evenually made me one from the staff stock! Well, if you ask you get don't you.

I also got a heart balloon. Doesn't it look like nipples..? It does doesn't it..? It is not just me, is it..?

I wanted to keep it, but John decided to burst it on me as he claimed
"I would look like a twat if I was riding a bike with a balloon sticking out".
Meanie.
Still, I got a new band to be obessed about and I Really want a bike. Good times
:P

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!

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!