A short visit home....and more wedding bells!

well i was happy to make a short trip home to ny this past weekend for my room mates long awaited wedding...it was so great guess that is what is to be expected from someone whose major was mainly to do with events planning. it was flawless and she was so beautiful. unfortunately i did not get to take as many pictures of her as i wanted since there were 300+ people there wanting to do the same :P but here is one with the gang from 64 morton and Eunice wearing her traditional Chinese reception dress called the Qi Pao. also another shot with the ladies :)
although the wedding was in Pennsylvania i did manage to have one free day in Manhattan which was so great and i could hardly help myself from making comparisons to my new home in London...well i have to get to work so no musing on that now : )

An English Breakfast

“Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper”

Adelle Davis (Nutritionist and Writer, 1904-1974)

a colleague sent me this quote which i quite like
however, i don't particularly like a typical English breakfast although i did try it for the sake of saying i had it : ) here is a pic of some of what you typically see here. it usually consist of ham and sausage!!!! + baked beans+fried eggs+white toast+ tomatoes and sometimes mushrooms :P

Architecture for Breakfast anyone?...on living with co-workers

arhcitectured out? ...hehehe never! when living with your co-workers it's inevitable that you talk about work and architecture if your an architect as in my case. but i just found it kind of funny that over our cereal this morning chi and i were discussing "blobitecture" structural ring beams and the merit of inefficient structures vs. sustainability......are we nerds or what? : p

around london town...

i generally try to have my camera on me at all times, just a few random photos of some things from the past weeks.

SAVE DARFUR...website of the day

i was really hmmm how should i say disturbed...touched by some things i was reading in the news about Darfur today so i thought i would post this website as my link of the day. read more about the atrocities there at SAVE DARFUR

Bajofondo tango club!...a night at the Barbican

i am not usually one to spend money on concerts but my flat mate/ coworker chi convinced me to go to this one and i am glad she did. this group of musicians known as the http://www.bajofondotangoclub.com/ ...too hard to describe their style or sound you just have to check out their music. they are from Argentina and are part of a series of concerts playing in London during the Latin music festival.

Bithday Dinner on the Terrace

last night i had the chance to have an early birthday dinner with some of my new ny colleagues and new London co-workers. the weather was amazing so we enjoyed a nice meal and wine on our fabulous terrace.

Website of the day

a friend sent me this link...looks like an interesting group with some good ideas
PRACTICAL ACTION

A visit to the "Lochs" south of Glasgow

4 wonderful days in SCOTLAND!

I have just been on a wonderful 4 day trip to Scotland with my co-worker Chi, visiting both Edinburgh and Glasgow. I have so many pictures I am overwhelmed with which to post here on the blog! It was such an amazing trip…the architecture, the landscape, overall a great place to visit...wonderful contrast of the old and the new

So I’ll just post the first series of pix in no particular order without a lot of thought as I think if I wait till I have time to post individual thoughts on each image I’ll never post anything!! : )

Just have to say the Scottish in particular the Glaswegians have the most amazing accent :P

a few random images from my wonderings of late

work is finally catching up with me and i am doing late nights as back in good ole NYC however, i am still managing to get in full weekends. just a few images from the last week in no particular order : )

a cast of trajans column at the V&A

also a nice oversized glove from the Surrealism exhibit

opps got to get to work...more later

Londoners love their umbrellas.....and buses

a few more pix from our tasty weekend

here are a few pix from our visit to the wonderful fresh Borough market this past weekend
i am on my way out of work so i will just leave you with a few images from our perusing of the gastro delights that the market had to offer : )

snap shots of london...two weeks in and counting

as i have finally managed to get some photos to my work computer from a cd from home i am not going to go into lengthy words about each photo...just a few snap shots from my two weeks here coming via my camera and my flat mate chi's.

the first photo is me catching up on my sleep!!! not too flattering but just to take you thru the recovery period from all the work the last few months! not to mention the weather is very gray here a lot of the time and it lends itself very well too sleeping :) although i don't want you all to think i am sleeping my days away in London!
actually the first weekend we went the British museum and as you can see from this silly photo i was very excited by the glass roof!
also here is another silly one of chi and i showing our British patriotism ;P well trying to stagger these silly photos and add the text is driving me mad so i think i'll have to resort to starting another post or perhaps leaving more till tomorrow.

a short greeting from london town

well i just wrote this very long post about my new temporary life here in london and something has crashed here on my computer and poof it's gone :( ...so more later on my new life here as my lunch break is now over!

here is one of a few pix i managed to get on my computer here at work (your not suppose to put any usb device in here so i am technically not suppose to have downloaded any pix but anyway) this is a shot i took of my two co-workers walking into our office...i promise i'll post more interesting London related photos later :) i hope