Saturday, November 19, 2005
The weekend was really fun!! Heh!! =O) It was definitely very very tiring, but worth all that effort. And these guys are hardcore mann, told them about the plans to start the days early, and they readily agreed! And the best part, they did! So here's how it goes, the 48-hour get-away!
We started the morning nice and early, had some muffins that Susian made and a hot cup of tea before hitting the roads at 0630H. Though evidently the rest had little sleep (quite a stark difference from the usual routine as I'm normally the one with the least amount of sleep), they made it a point to stay awake thru' the early morning drive - just in case I rammed into some tree or something.
Hit Brighton at about 1000H - It is SO beautiful! It was simply magnificient!! The seaside was breathtaking! Managed to check into our dodgy little inn, which turned out pretty fine, less the worrying company, which I'll come to later in the post. =O)
Taken at 0730H in the morning, just before heading off to Portsmouth
Headed down to the beach for lunch. It's really like the OC you know, nice houses by the sea, plenty of eateries, beautiful scenery. Couldn't quite decide what to have for lunch, and Xun is such a pig!! Everything also wanna eat! Heh! Settled down at Wetherspoons at the end - how boring! But the view was nice and the sun was out! What a change from the gloomy Bristol weather. Check out the photos!
After we were all nice and full, we took a nice slow drive down to the Flea Market to take a look. And to start things badly, some stoopid lady tried to cheat us into paying more for parking then we should. Never fool around with lawyers! =O) Wells it was really pretty. There were many shops selling antique stuff, and when they meant Flea Market, then REALLY meant Flea Market. Some of the things were probably used a milion times over, and still for sale!?!
Stopped by this shop that sold authentic fruit juices (i.e really disgusting!) Check out the name! Talk about originality huh! Yeah some artistic shots to follow! Also went into this MUSIC shop, my goodness, the rest had to pull me out! For all you music peeps, check out the full range of Musicman Basses!!!
Sejuice Me Priest?
Can't remember the names of the drinks, but mine was "Indian Monkey" - Whatever that meant!
The rarest basses in the world
New kids on the block - Jianli, Xunyu, Me, Yanxuan
After spending about 2 hours at the market, we headed back to the beach to catch the sunset. So beautiful! The beach had pebbles instead of sand, so we could lie down and stare at the sky. So romantic! Yeah spoke to Wendy then, it was our 63rd month! =O)
Yanxuan and I
Thank God for making everything so beautiful
I love this photo!!! Don't you too? Taken as we laid on the pebbles
And of course, in the spirit of Council, less Yanxuan, stoopid photos! But she's one of us lahh! Just for today!
From right to left: See no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil, what's going on?!?
Now now, I've DEFINITELY seen this somewhere before! Right Crazy Four?!
It was getting cold, and we decided to walk to Brighton Pier to check out the Theme Park there. Nothing great, just like what you see on the OC - the kick-off carnival sort of thing. Played one of those you-can-never-win-games-but-let's-try-anyhows kinda game. Come on, the prize was a monkey lahh! Oh yes, some artistic shots. What do you think?
Brighton Pier
And there was a roller coaster!! Forced Yanxuan to go for it! Haha! =O) Wanted to kill me after that! Heh!
Yes there were a few cocksters behind us! Hey this ride had a loop lahh! Not bad huh!
Okay by then, we were famished! And we were DEFINITELY going for a seafood dinner! Who goes all the way down to Brighton and not eat seafood?! Not right!! So we travelled high and low, cos' the one we wanted to go to turned out to be really expensive. Well we settled for FATleos - we now know why they're called that. The portions were huge!!! The food was yummy yummy yummy!!
Fried Calamari
The O' so yummy mussels
We were intending of going to the nice jazz club outside our accomodation, but everyone was so deadbeat that we stayed in! And oh yes, if you must know, Brighton is famous for ... erm ... "Happy" people - If you know what I mean And we had a "happy" person in our room - Yup, full fletched one. Good thing he slept early. Jianli and I were slightly worried!
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