Winter Break 2012 - Day 3 (Liverpool Street, Tower of London & Madame Tussauds)

As I promised before, let me continue the rest of the story

Day 2 - 29th Jan 2012

So, lepas melelapkan diri yang penat malam tu, we headed to Liverpool Street the next morning. 

and masa on the way to Liverpool Street tula berkenalan dengan this one British mak cik 

(more like a nanny to me)

nama die...Dorothy and I even called her Dorothy Perkins and she laughed at it. :)

She was VERY NICE

siap borak - borak lagi about each other's family, her job, health condition & how excited she was knowing that we were actually a trio of future docs

(^________________^)

and siap tanya:

"You're not going to church today?"

cause it's Sunday on that day

Me: "No, we go to mosque"

Dorothy: "Oh, I'm sorry"

hahaha, ktorg gelak awkward gila after that....

=.='

but I don't blame her, cause it made me realized how lucky I am to be born, living and studying in Islamic country and... for being a Muslim :)

Actually, there's not pretty much interesting places in Liverpool Street except the existence of street market macam pasar malam / pasar tani yang jual cheap stuffs ONLY on Sunday

Punyalah awal datang sampai x bukak pon lagi some stores kat situ

but, seriously murah - murah

even the souvenirs sume 1 pound each

You can even get branded bags/shoes/clothes like Nike, Dorothy Perkins. etc at cheaper price

rasa macam nak borong everything and put them all together in one big parcel and ship them straight to Tampin

and we even got to know this one British man - he's a Muslim and this one lady from Australia.

Time tu la masing - masing share each others' interest.

She's studying Visual Art in Australia. Style gile bile boleh borak about Banksy - a British street artist, with someone who value art like my brother and I do...

siap boleh promote my brothers along the conversation

and it's all thanks to Along for the video he showed me about how awesome Banksy's artworks are. 

and that pak cik even guessed I'm gonna be a paediatrician in the future

WRONG GUESS! but nice try...

come on la, I'm really terrible at handling infants and young children kot

siap - siap I'm gonna kick them away kalau annoying sangat

Liverpool Street, London

with the British pak cik and an Aussie lady

See all the sales there? 

My first lesson of Jegging and Legging

Next destination: London city

for the tour, ktorg ambil The Original London Tour package. It was worthy for me la. It costs me about 26 pounds for 2 hari including the free Thames River Cruise between Westminster and Greenwich.

The Original Tour (TOT) ni is like an open-top tour in London, which you have this one double-decker bus yang open kat atas die, and you get to view London from it sebab die akan ronda - ronda sekitar London.

They even provided us with free earphones and you just have to insert them kat port yang ade kat each kerusi dalam bas tu and learn the history for every buildings, monuments/roads passed by. 

actually die ade 3 main sightseeing routes:

1. The Original Tour covers:

Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, National Gallery, Downing Street, Houses of Parliament (& Big Ben), London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey

2. City Sightseeing pulak covers:

Madame Tussauds, Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly Circus, National Gallery, Downing Street, Houses of Parliament (& Big Ben), London Bridge, St Paul's Cathedral, Tower Bridge, Tower London, Westminster Abbey

while

3. The Museum Tour covers:

Kensington Palace, Baden-Powell House, Natural History Museum, Science Museum,Victoria and Albert Museum, Brompton Oratory, Harrods, Knightsbridge, Harvey Nichols,Hyde Park, Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly Circus, Shaftesbury Avenue, British Museum, Russell Square, Apsley House/Wellington Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Albert Memorial,Kensington High Street, Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

and all the tours punye bas are coloured according to the places they cover. Yellow for Original, red for sightseeing and blue for museum tour

and if you're taking the Original one, you cannot hop on the other branch of this kind of service - The Big Bus Tours; cause they are from other companies - rival tu

ni sume sebab kes kat Tower of London kene halau sebab salah masuk bas

=.='

Posing before bas gerak - Muka excited duk atas before menyesal sebab beku

This is like dream comes true for me - Aren't we destined to be together Optimus? ♥
This one masa dekat Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum, London

at Tower of London

First taste of Fish n Chips at Tower of London

Nelson's column at Trafalgar Square

Chinese New Year celebration at Trafalgar Square
and because of CNY celebration ni, they have to close some routes that day so x banyak boleh tengok

St Paul's Cathedral - a Church of England cathedral and seat of the Bishop of London. Second largest church in  UK after Liverpool Cathedral

Dah lupe la ape kaitan this clock tower dengan queen dia...

Ni the Londoners built masa ade the big fire incident time tahun berapa ntah
sorry, I'm suck at memorizing history dates 

Tower Bridge - viewed from London Bridge

coming to London will not be completed without reaching the world famous Madame Tussauds 

punye lah lama duk dalam bas and sampai - sampai depan Madame Tussauds tu, tiba - tiba ada dis one British man bagi salam dekat kitorg

Mula - mula tak nak jawab, tapi sekali die tunjukkan nama dia - Mohamad something2 and siap pesan lagi suruh pergi solat dulu baru pergi jalan time tanya die mana London Central Mosque tu. 

London Central Mosque - yang juga dikenali sebagai Islamic Cultural Centre, ICC atau Regent's Park Mosque. Kat dalam dia ade bookstore kecik and also halal premises. Walaupun nama die central mosque, tapi masjid ni xde la besar mana pon kalau nak banding dengan masjid-masjid kat Malaysia 

Madame Tussauds - a wax museum in London and die ade branches at other cities around the world. The green dome tu actually nye adelah sebuah planetarium tapi dah tutup and digantikan untuk jadi Marvel Superheroes 4D attraction. Konon masing-masing perasan superhero nak selamatkan London la...
BEWARE: nnt ade kumbang sebok nak gigit kaki & free massage on your back

Daniel is not that tall huh? yeah well, it's Rupert's fault for  stealing  all the height for himself

Playing 2PM's I'll Be Back 

Breakfast with Audrey Hepburn at Tiffany's
=.='

the reunion of my past BFs, sorry guys, but my heart belongs to someone else now.
Let's move on, shall we?

Hey Kate, are you jelly2 now? 

Apo? Cubo cakap kuat sket, den x dongar

Pervy hand spotted! 

R.I.P Amy...

ni lah padahnye kalau dah xde idea nak pose ape

You thought we'll be scared of you? Nah, I'm not. Boo...

speechless~

Guess who I bumped into?

ok, that's all for now

TO BE CONTINUED...

Travel Advice 

1. You can buy the Original Tour ticket dekat mana-mana available booths around London. Banyak je kat tepi jalan, dalam kedai. Pandai-pandai la plan nak pergi mana and bile.

Bas-bas ni pon akan stop kat each bus stop according to jenis route mana kita pilih. 

and kalau yang suka night view malam-malam, boleh la ambik river cruise tu waktu paling last skali die operate.

But, kalau rasa-rasa nak pergi tengok Greenwich Meridian Line tu, kene la pergi awal sebab die tutup cepat especially at winter. 

and beli online murah 3 pounds dari beli on the spot, and diorang ade special seasonal promotions kot cause ktorg dapat for 2 days dengan harga yang sama for 1 day sebab ade winter punye offer but sadly it ends on 29th Feb 2012

2. Once dah naik bas tu, boleh la pasang earphones tu untuk lebih menghayati sejarah London. Kalau bayar mahal, duk ronda-ronda je tapi x tau ape keistimewaan each attractions tu pon, rugi kot.