Eden nak poie London....

I’m going to London this Friday and I have no idea what to expect or do there. I’ve been to a few parts of the world but never the UK. I know there are many ‘must go’ places where you have to snap photos as proofs to your relatives that you’ve been to London, but I’m not the showing off kind (wargh hahahahaha!). Maybe I should visit museums, historical buildings and art galleries but the kids will lose interest after 2 minutes.

Shopping will not be the main agenda as I’ve spent most of my money on the new Stream. Even if I have the money to shop, I wouldn’t know what to buy because miraculously these days I am feeling quite happy with everything I’ve stuffed in my wardrobe. So, who says women are insatiable (when it comes to shopping)?

Sightseeing with the cam-coder should be quite interesting; I can get one of my nieces to become the narrator.

This is the thing about me, whenever I’m planning for an overseas trip I don’t know what to do yet I don’t want to do things that other people would usually do. I always visualize the trip will somehow turn into one of the Explorace series.

There was a time when I was on business trip to Turkey, my colleagues and I only planned to go there and complete our work. Then on a sunny Sunday morning, the three of us just jumped into the company car and drove aimlessly to the Asia side. Equipped with an unreliable city map, we just drove until we reached a really dense squatters area where the roads could only allow one car to pass at one time. We stopped at a local wet market and bought fruits. The people’s lifestyle and living condition just humbled me in every way. The view at that village was not something that will ever be featured in the Visit Turkey pamphlet. Getting out of the village was quite an adventure as we had to squeeze the car through the narrow dusty road with a few pickup trucks coming from the opposite way.

When I visited Las Vegas, my colleague and I decided to walk from our hotel at The Strip to Hard Rock Café – just to snap a few photos with the giant guitar; and then we walked back. The next day we took the bus – just to get the daily bus pass so that I could put it in my album.

When I went to Dubai, my colleague recommended me a textile shop which sold really cheap 'kain ela' and I decided to have a Baju Kurung custom made for me - just for the sake of wearing a Baju Kurung made in Dubai. They completed the baju overnight, but the cutting sucked, okay.

During the time when my family went for umrah, my brother and I didn’t stay at our hotel rooms at night. Instead, we went into every perfume shop nearby Masjidil Haram just to find one smell which I found so intriguing at the mosque. We never found the perfume and we didn’t buy anything. We were not even sure whether it was Attar or what. A few years later I found out that it was actually Burberry.

I am always looking for some kind of (stupid) small adventure at foreign places. I just don’t want to do the normal stuffs. So, people please suggest what I should do in London.