A Day Out
Made my way down to Waterloo this morning to meet Ro-- and Ra-- (looks funny, doesn't it? Still don't know if I should keep my policy of not using others' names in my blogs). Surprisingly it only took me about 25 mins to get there, including the walk to the tube station and the swaps of the tube lines. Got a day pass for buses and trains. Ro-- had brought his GF along, G, and we got along quite well together... she's a year younger. :) Ro-- is sort of like a lost 'childhood friend'... one of those whom I knew when I was like, 2 years' old, and forgotten for a long while when our families moved out of Hong Kong, only to be remembered when our parents had the pleasure of seeing each other again. Went to Chinatown for lunch, and walked around Leicester Square. Enjoyed two rounds of bowling and a few games at the arcade in 'Funland'. They had Time Crisis III... but I only got past the first stage. :( If there was Time Crisis II (I found out that they did have it... on the lower floor) I could have whizzed through the first few stages, having played it numerous times at home... so many times till my fingers were numbed and swollen from pulling the trigger too much and too hard. :P Passed by HMV... saw some games on promotion and seeing a few good deals we each got ourselves a game or two. I got Rainbow Six: Gold Pack edition for less than 3 pounds and a Soldier of Fortune: Special Edition for less than either 4 or 9 pounds... opps I can't remember! The receipt is not with me. There was a third game (the 'one' in 'buy two get one free') which Ro-- kept, since he only had one game. We could always meet up in college and pass it around.
While walking along the main street in Chinatown I met one of my hallmates. In the arvo, Sam came to join us, and after spending a quarter of an hour, we split up and I went with Sam (Ro--'s younger sis, whom I've already met in Singapore when she and her mom came to visit a few months back) to meet her friends who were around that area. Ra--, Ro-- and G left, but I remained there with Sam. Her friends are... hmm. Weird... crazy, fun-seeking, a little rowdy... definitely not my type. Can't mix with them. Anyway I left at 5.40 and arrived back in my Hall at a little past 6. It wasn't dark yet... but was about to darken. There were those orange-pinkish-purple-ly colours in the sky beyond the clouds... those colours brought about and made beautiful due to the substances of pollution in the atmosphere...
I did a bit of TB reading and highlighting, and then turned to my laptop for want of something to do with it. R came knocking on my door, used my laptop for a while, and we chatted... and chatted... and chatted into the night and nearly mid-next morning. I've learnt a lot from her, about her religion (Druze), her background and family... her culture... plus a bit of science and the likes. We had lots of exchanges of personal experiences and questions... it was fun but I was sleepy. ;P
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