so here is the story of my long long day yesterday... it wasnt that long.. just seemed that way...
back story: had a drinking session with some friends about 2 months ago, in which a friend of mine passed out on the couch and puked on it (kinda like mu man on cc and ken's couch), so we chucked away the futton... we have been trying to get a new one from ikea but the nearest ikea is in bristol ( an hour and half away), and we cant buy it online and ask them to deliver... so my friend had the car yesterday.. and thought.. might as well just go and get it done and over with so we cant give him any more shit about puking on our couch...
left for bristol around noon.. got there.. kinda got lost but somehow managed to spot a huge asian groceries supermarket.... those who have been to exeter(basicaly none of you!) will know that its impossible to find any asian groceries (apart from instant noodles and soy sauce, and oyster sauce as well)... so we went full on, spent about 60 pounds on random stuff, tong yuen(the one with peanuts in it), lots of instant noodles, lots of sauces(chilli oil being the most important), udon noodles, bee hoon, soy milk, man tou, steam dumplings.. basicaly i went hardcore! even bought a 10 kilo rice!
after the asian mart, we manage to find the ikea.. went in and got the futton... and head off to bristol city...
bristol is basicaly the capital of the south west of uk. basicaly the biggest city in the south.. so thought we would check it out since there would be lots to check out..(way bigger than exeter). really nice city with a little river with some sail boats in it...
now this is how cold it is in uk right now.. its smack at 3 o clock in the afternoon and the water in the river.. well. isnt water.. it has turned into ice... while waiting for my friend's friend to meet up near the river... my friend and i started giving each other bets... such as.. "i give you 1000 pounds if you jump in that water now and swim for 5 minutes and so on and forth".. no i didnt take that bet.. even though i should have.. desperate for money now!
had lunch at this random jap place... upon entering the restaurant.. they had a little koi pond thing outside the restaurant.. there was this 2 hobos outside like.. the guy literally just took a fish out of the pond and started squeezing it ! and when we left.. the fish was facing upwards.. leaning sideways.. floating on the water.. not quite dead but getting there.. poor fish!
walked around bristol for a bit.. friend wanted to gamble so we went to the casino.. didnt last long tho cause my friend lost 40 pounds in like.. 5 minutes.. so we decided to head home...
while exiting bristol.. it was JAM! and we were quite shocked cause it was almost 7 , so the rush hour should have been cleared.. friend called his ex homestay mum and she told him that the highway home has been closed cause a lorry(the ones carrying new cars on it) flipped over and had an accident..(something like that).. so they closed the highway... my friends and i thought that it was impossible to get home now.. even with the country route cause everyone will be taking that route and it will take us 5 hours to get back.. so we found a service near by(service are like. those random stops near the highway), but we found a huge one with lots of restaurants and even a cinema..so my friends decided to watch a movie instead.. and we ended up watching... YES MAN
didnt have much expectations going into the movie.. and have to say.. i liked it.. really liked it.. so weird tho watching jim carrey.. cause never realised he is so old now! it was also good cause i got to watch lots of trailers of new chick flicks coming out! bridewars! confessions of a shopaholic and he is just not that into you! cant wait to download em! ahhaha
anywyas.. after the movie.. we decided to head off.. after all. its 2 hours after .. cant be that bad right.. or so we thought.. the jam was still there.. and we were stuck in it.. took up 3 hours 20 minutes to get back in the end.. and the jam was not that bad .. it was only one part that was stuck.. so we were still quite happy we watched the movie.. cause if we had tried to head back earlier.. the whole way would have been jam.. and we would have arrived the same time anyways...
got back at 130am.. so tired..
kinda makes me feel like.. it was my version of harold and kumar goes to whitecastle... jsut slightly different!
back story: had a drinking session with some friends about 2 months ago, in which a friend of mine passed out on the couch and puked on it (kinda like mu man on cc and ken's couch), so we chucked away the futton... we have been trying to get a new one from ikea but the nearest ikea is in bristol ( an hour and half away), and we cant buy it online and ask them to deliver... so my friend had the car yesterday.. and thought.. might as well just go and get it done and over with so we cant give him any more shit about puking on our couch...
left for bristol around noon.. got there.. kinda got lost but somehow managed to spot a huge asian groceries supermarket.... those who have been to exeter(basicaly none of you!) will know that its impossible to find any asian groceries (apart from instant noodles and soy sauce, and oyster sauce as well)... so we went full on, spent about 60 pounds on random stuff, tong yuen(the one with peanuts in it), lots of instant noodles, lots of sauces(chilli oil being the most important), udon noodles, bee hoon, soy milk, man tou, steam dumplings.. basicaly i went hardcore! even bought a 10 kilo rice!
after the asian mart, we manage to find the ikea.. went in and got the futton... and head off to bristol city...
bristol is basicaly the capital of the south west of uk. basicaly the biggest city in the south.. so thought we would check it out since there would be lots to check out..(way bigger than exeter). really nice city with a little river with some sail boats in it...
now this is how cold it is in uk right now.. its smack at 3 o clock in the afternoon and the water in the river.. well. isnt water.. it has turned into ice... while waiting for my friend's friend to meet up near the river... my friend and i started giving each other bets... such as.. "i give you 1000 pounds if you jump in that water now and swim for 5 minutes and so on and forth".. no i didnt take that bet.. even though i should have.. desperate for money now!
had lunch at this random jap place... upon entering the restaurant.. they had a little koi pond thing outside the restaurant.. there was this 2 hobos outside like.. the guy literally just took a fish out of the pond and started squeezing it ! and when we left.. the fish was facing upwards.. leaning sideways.. floating on the water.. not quite dead but getting there.. poor fish!
walked around bristol for a bit.. friend wanted to gamble so we went to the casino.. didnt last long tho cause my friend lost 40 pounds in like.. 5 minutes.. so we decided to head home...
while exiting bristol.. it was JAM! and we were quite shocked cause it was almost 7 , so the rush hour should have been cleared.. friend called his ex homestay mum and she told him that the highway home has been closed cause a lorry(the ones carrying new cars on it) flipped over and had an accident..(something like that).. so they closed the highway... my friends and i thought that it was impossible to get home now.. even with the country route cause everyone will be taking that route and it will take us 5 hours to get back.. so we found a service near by(service are like. those random stops near the highway), but we found a huge one with lots of restaurants and even a cinema..so my friends decided to watch a movie instead.. and we ended up watching... YES MAN
didnt have much expectations going into the movie.. and have to say.. i liked it.. really liked it.. so weird tho watching jim carrey.. cause never realised he is so old now! it was also good cause i got to watch lots of trailers of new chick flicks coming out! bridewars! confessions of a shopaholic and he is just not that into you! cant wait to download em! ahhaha
anywyas.. after the movie.. we decided to head off.. after all. its 2 hours after .. cant be that bad right.. or so we thought.. the jam was still there.. and we were stuck in it.. took up 3 hours 20 minutes to get back in the end.. and the jam was not that bad .. it was only one part that was stuck.. so we were still quite happy we watched the movie.. cause if we had tried to head back earlier.. the whole way would have been jam.. and we would have arrived the same time anyways...
got back at 130am.. so tired..
kinda makes me feel like.. it was my version of harold and kumar goes to whitecastle... jsut slightly different!
2 comments:
is it really nerdy of me to say that all through the post i was thinking of the poor tong yuen getting warm in the car?
But i guess it's pretty cold in UK now, huh?
hahaha.. dont worry. it was the same over here.. while i was watching the movie i was like.. shit. my fish ball. my tong yuen.. my man tou! arghhhh
but yeah.. it was icy cold that night! like.. everything was still perfectly frozen when we got back!
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