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For Stuart’s birthday we all opted to get him a DS Lite, the original plan was to get him vouchers for it but I thought it was cooler to just get him the actual console. Alice was able to attend and spend some time in London with me. We managed to all meet up at Brent Cross and head to Kazzie’s for the night. I believe we had some nice grubby takeaway from some random Chinese Takeaway place.
I’m not sure how we spent our evening and morning but I believe we did have an amazing breakfast! We bought everything we needed to make the perfect full english breakfast and got delayed for the actual event that Max and Aino organised. I believe we did quite a fair bit of smash brothering too which made us disturbingly late, no worries though since we’re the host I guess *shrugs*. Passing Brent Cross I was able to smuggle myself a black DS Lite for Stu whilst Karis and Inn were able to distract Stu for a bit.
We arrived at Regent Street pretty late and finally found everyone, we then headed to a very packed Oxford Street finding the restaurant. We were going to have tapas at a place called La Tasca. Quite a fair amount of people were about which was fun and we had a lovely seat booked and all.
The meal was alright, paella was just wet rice and bits of stuff however we did order a fair amount of stuff and in the end, the bill was a joke. It came to £200+ and people were simply gobsmacked by it, it was rather awkward for people, especially when some were refusing to pay any more. Me and Alice decided to save the day by pitching in the rest so everyone was able to pay the bill and avoid embarrassment. But boy Max and Aino aren’t planning any meetups in the future. Tapas is a 2 person event, not suitable for orgies.
The rest of the weekend was spent with Alice, we met up with Jason and Rachel and had some yum yum dim sum at Royal China, I chose this place because Jason and Rachel previously took me to “Ping Pong” to have dim sum when I told them that Royal China is a nicer place and do a wider range of dim sum. So yeah, it was a pretty epic meal at a far less scary price (especially when Jason and Rachel could afford it all hehe). I was very pissed off that we didn’t get free oranges! They usually do it so 
We went into the Natural Cafe to sit around and chat for the rest of the day, Jason got me an orange to eat hehe. Was always nice seeing Jason and Rachel, Alice got on well with them too so it was all good 
We then called it a night and that was that day.
The day after I had to go work and Alice had to return back up north, we said our farewells at Monument and that was the weekend. Lesson of the day, don’t get tapas. Stick with a golden crispy fucking duck haha.
Sushi, 3D Dumbledore and We are Physics!
08 SepToday was quite a disturbingly hectic day, so many things arranged and plan in the last minute. Kazzie spoke to me on msn and asked me if I wanted to go out and have Yo Sushi! with her and Stu. I originally was going to decline the offer since I was pretty tired from Regina Spektor gig and all, thought since Michelle was also inviting me to see We Are Physics at the buffalo bar as well I decided I might as well make the day of it and have a proper day out again.
Ever since Alice arrived back from France we were going to arrange some time to meet up and all, though since I was occupied every other Friday, it meant that I had to work my times to visit Alice around the schedule and all. We were able to have a quick Monday to Thursday visit which was fun. I met Will (Alice’s eldest brother) during my visit and got to go to Temujin once again. I was also able to have a quick meal with kev at Lucky Dragon (we had loads of yum yum dim sum and kev got some soup and beef fried rice (crazy portions though)) and at the end I was able to accompany Alice to get her A Level results (which were awesome, she got all A’s). That little visit was short but nonetheless significant. One thing that neither of us knew was going to happen was that me and Kev were going to buy tickets to Leeds Festival for the Friday date to see Smashing Pumpkins and Nine Inch Nails (and in my case, see Alice and tell her Happy Birthday).
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Stu invited me and a load of other people to his hosue for a lovely housewarming party. It was a lovely weekend involve sun, sea, sand, bbq meat and other bits and bobs.
I was pretty sly in terms of organizing my days and all. I made sure that right after getting my results I was able to go visit Alice. If I were to get my first I would have a proper party and all to celebrate the occasion, and if not, I’d just be going up there for a nice long cheering up session. THANKFULLY I was able to achieve my goal and obtain the first I deserved . Here’s a nice summary of the entire week broken down in little bullet point paragraph type things.
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Last Michelle invited me out to go see Howling Bells at the Bella Union 10th Anniversary gig. We managed to head to a Yo Sushi! restaurant before we went and get tuck into some nice grub as well as meet Stereophonics outside Yo Sushi! It was a surreal gig and I managed to get into some hardcore photography action since the pit was literally a free for all!
Today I went to Yo Sushi at Fulham Broadway to eat some lunch and managed to snap some lovely shots of the stuff I ate, it was rather fun since I was letting fate decide on what I was going to eat, I stood on the platform at Southfields station (which was being flooded with tourists going to see Wimbledon) and just waited for the next train, if it went to Fulham I’d go Yo Sushi, and if it went to Wimbledon I’d go have a dirty KFC, glad I had yo sushi! now haha. Here’s the photos:
My bento box set and Krispy Kreme
Yum yum
Apparently Popey wanted to have lunch with Julz because he didn’t get to meet her at Wembley and since I was living in London, he invited me to come along. I told him I’d do it if it was in Kingston and so we went to Kingston to meet up.
I was slightly late so they went to Shakeaways to get something to drink. Once at Kingston I went to the Phonebooths place and waited for them to arrive, I did wonder about for a bit but afterwards I went back and found them. We didn’t know what to eat initially so I said Gourmet burger kitchen. The problem is how to get to it, I wasn’t too sure so we just wondered for a bit, eventually like always I find Gourmet burger kitchen, I also told them that every Gourmet burger kitchen had a Nando’s close by and lo and behold, we saw a Nando’s next to it on the opposite road.
Upon entering we ordered our food, I got myself a lovely classic burger (same as Stu) and in addition, Julz and Stu bought chips. I’m always sly about chips, people always over order them at GBK so I always let others do the ordering and just steal theirs. In this case, Julz couldn’t finish hers so I just went at it haha.
We had a nice talk, mainly about bread making since Julz was revising that for her exam and all (yup.. bread!). I took some nice photos of the event and all. I even had another quick photography contest with Popey on who can take a cooler shot of the burger, we were only allowed one shot and Popey just did a random blind shot and hoped for the best, mine was a nice cross section of the burger which now makes me want to have one again *licks lips* hehe. Wasn’t much else to it really, we wondered into a game store for a bit and then we all went our own ways back home again. I actually had lunch again straight after because I was still hungry hehe.
