London's Christmas, London's Fireworks

Hiya London!!

I were being there for 9 days to have my chillax Christmas and 2011 New Year celebration..
The purpose of staying there for such a long time for sure to explore their Boxing Day culture and experience my first life ever celebrating New Year at London~ Eye...
Imagine I posted every schedule for our 9 days trip!!! =,= I'm sure my post will be burst!
So, I will just let my picture to talk since it's the best way which you don't expect to read a bunch of words right...^^
I posted some pictures where some attraction that some people wouldn't know...

In general, most of the people know London's attraction would be Big Ben, London Bridge, British Museum, Buckingham Palace and etc...Instead of talking these places that people already familiar with, I prefer to show some nice markets and some nice places in briefly..

St. Pancreas is behind me..where a place that has an awesome architecture of building to discover..And my first sight on it was " jaw dropping"~

Oxford Street and Regent Street...These streets are linked and they are girl's shopping HEAVEN!! Branded? Fast Fashion Brand? Everything are here!

A random church nearby Kingcross where I think it has amazing door!!

26th of December, I met my bestie Maple in front of Burberry shop...After having a blast shopping with her, we went to China Town to have our first meal, it's our dinner tho~ XD
China Town, wherever it is...It's the best food heaven!

Had our Dinner at Four Season, China Town.

27th of December, Harrods (considered as luxury shopping departments) was having their sales too....I strongly recommend this as it is really a British way to shop...Everything inside is well-decorated included their washrooms~ I just can say...I will go Harrods AGAIN!

As both of us want to take picture with Harrods, but the angle wasn't that perfect...Waste~

Simultaneously, you MUST NOT miss out the "English Afternoon Tea" in Harrods~
As I've just mentioned, Harrods are considered as a luxury place, so you've to expect the spending on the Afternoon Tea....Anyhow, it's a good try right! The place with nice environment, nice service, nice food, nice pianist...I'm sure you'll feel comfortable there while having your tea-time...

Tea-Time at Harrods...

Michael Jackson in Harrods!!!

Awww~ Giant Teddy!! Zoom in to see the price~ ^o^

We spent the whole day in Harrods from 10am to 7pm!! omg~ Then me and my friend decided to walk back from Harrods to our Hostel where located at Russel Square...haha~ I know we were crazy walking down the street like that while winter! LOLx...
However, it was a good decision that we've made because we found a place while on the way which was really surprising....

I didn't know what was the statue behind but this is not the main point..XD

Tadah~ We saw Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park where it is a fun fair opened for Chritmas Celebration...It's amazing out there...^^

On 29th December, we decided to shop in the market instead of those outlets or departments...
In my opinion, Covert Garden is a very best place to look up and the market brings different feeling compare to others...There have lot of shops and foods, I just simply like it~

Day~

Night!

30th December, we went to Spitalfield Market...You love vintage?! Then there will be a great place for you!!!

Vintage oh Vintage~ I took this picture because I like the "ah ma" mannequin~ haha!

There's a lot of place or street you can walk around there...But the market in Spitalfield closed at 4pm~ =,= It's kinda early I know...But there are still shops outside where basically they're selling vintage clothes, vintage fashion and everything is in VINTAGE!

After that, we walked along Bank Street then St. Paul...
St. Paul is one of the attraction destination in London as well...This cathedral has a fascinating history and it looks awesome with inspiring interior and features...

St. Paul~

Part of St.Paul behind us~

31st Dec - 1st Jan, 2011
Big Ben~ Here I come!!
We were there to have our New Year Celebration at London Eye and Big Ben..


The place is flooded with crowd start from 6pm!!
Seriously, it was a very good experience on having count down in front of London Eye, and besides Big Ben... However, this will be my first time ever and will be my last time as well!!
Why?? Read through....
I reached there at 7pm++..
We suppose to find some place to sit down and planned to enjoy our dinner...Unfortunately, the cafes or restaurant nearby are all close...Left only two cafes, one Tesco!
Everyone were fighting to buy thing in Tesco so that to grab something to eat, and as you can imaging there had super long queue in front of those two cafes...
Then, we only noticed that they limit amount of people to get in the place to see fireworks nearby Big Ben and London Eyes...That's why everyone was preparing and waited there from 6pm!

At last, we have no clue about that so we bought some food and drinks from Tesco and started to wait for the time to pass by....
We started our waiting from 8pm..
Used 1 hours 30 minutes to queue for Toilet after that!!!

Queuing for toilet....take me 1hr30mins!!!wtf~

Taking picture with london eyes...

Seriously, this event full of foreigners but not local people...As I think the Brits wouldn't choose to be so stupid for waiting several hours to see 10mins fireworks....We did that tho~! LOLx..
Waiting for 4 hr in such freezing weather surrounded by different people especially those black skin one....Thus, it was a tough period...LOLx~

And finally, left 5 mins to 12!!!

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Happy New Year!!!

My 2011 years in UK~
Hopefully, the best life experience in a new land and it's one of my pathway towards my dreams...
My new journey has begun~

London, my awesome life experience~

London Boxing Day's items grab!!

holla~
I've just back from London today since I departed on 24th of December..
Photos of London will be uploaded soon once I've receive all those photos from my friend... ^^

Well, the purpose of posting this article is to show what I'd bought from London for their December HUGE sale which they call it as Boxing Day (26th Dec)...
What I mean about HUGE sale would be most of the shops will have about 50-70% discount for selected items include luxury goods such as Burberry, Alexandra Wang, Armani, Gucci, Prada and etc are all on sale...

However, you will need some luck and fate with the items that you wish for..Because, there will have heavy crowd to grab things that they want, they grab items just like fighting.. It's a very crazy scene actually!!

I actually went there to gain experience, to explore how Boxing Day looks like...For me, I promise I will never go for 2nd times again!!! It was really crowded and the whole street full of people especially ASIAN!! And, some of my friends started their queue at 7am to wait for the store to open at 10am...Once the door open, that's the nightmare started! See video posted below on Boxing Day, probably this kind of scene will happen in Selfridge Department in Oxford Street, London...But I didn't go there for queuing.. haha~ Because I prefer to have more sleep than grabbing those goods...LOLx

That's the Boxing Day looks like~ Fight for sale items, once finish, it's finished!! That's why I say you must need to have some luck...LOLx

Well, I didn't grab anything on the 26th (the exact Boxing Day) because the crowd really blew my mood off..:( It's still a very good experience tho~

So, most of the thing that I bought were after the Boxing Day.. Properly grab things from Harrods (where a very famous shopping center) and Knightbridge Street and some famous market in London....

Items in the picture: Mulberry Margaret Shoulder Bag, 2 pieces of Urban Oufitters clothes, a blazer from Public Beware, Zara Small Shoulder Bag, Skin care from Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetic.

p/s: Sorry about I couldn't show you what's inside the Burberry paper bag because that's my BF's present..haha~

I found this bag coincidentally in Harrods since I was very disappointed when I couldn't find anything that I like for the whole day besides this... This bright colour shoulder bag has brighten my day actually.. :)

It has 2nd and 4th choices in the store that time, and I chose to buy the 4th one which is in plum colour that I felt in love on it at the first sight!!

The Mulberry Margaret Bag is named after the Princess Margaret as a tribute. The metal in front with the words " We Believe in Tea and Cake". Great plum colour and a classic timeless go-anywhere design is perfectly my choice~ After discount it's £360+ and it was £550++.

Next, I would like to recommend the Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetic which their ingredient are all natural and without preservation!! They have very special product's usage such as facial serum in Bar Soap size!! I really like this shops and the fresh natural smells of them~ Therefore, I bought their absolute great mask after I tried it on my hand, I'm in love with it!! And I also bought their freshly toner and scrub-like cleanser which both of these are perfectly match with their mask!!

Love Lettuce Mask that I bought and you have to keep it in the fridge and used within 4 weeks of manufacture because it does NOT contain any preservation~ And it's really make my skin feel very comfortable after using this..I really love it!! well worth~!!!

After that, the most important shop that I want to recommend is the Public Beware shops!! Damn~ Their clothes designs are so much different with others...There is only a shop locates just nearby Liverpool Old Spitalfield Market...I bought a blazer which is grey in colours with stripe, the pattern is shown as below.

£40+ after discount, was £61

There is also a London's must shop store that name Urban Outfitters which is also British's brand..They have several branches in London, and I grab them in Covert Garden Market's store...Sale items that I bought are all half price!!! Cool~ £30 each, was £60 each!!!

Simple basic clothes which can easily match with different ideas...

Eventually, London would be a nice place to shop but sometimes, shopping still needs some luck and fate to see and grab what you want and like...

I wish yall have an awesome shopping spree for the new year!!!

New Year, New Image, New Items