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Thurs
Junior Doc’s Christmas Party at Res 12! Mulled wine, too many mince pies, and an insane playlist!

Fri
normal work day on 2 hours’ sleep and lots of tea.
Sat
on-call 8-8pm –>train to london –> cargo with the crew! Tinseltown after, as usual :)
Sun
Brunch at S&M cafe, Spitalfields. Bricklane Sunday market roaming!

Back to the hospital, leave for Amsterdam with Vivpoo, Yu-yu and Clem on Fri, and then its Xmas!

Blimey. Merry Xmas everyone!

Fri
Revisiting the 90s with yu yu and yu tube til birds start chirping.
Sat
Brunch with new kid on the bloc Tom
Bumping into Nigel while tucking into a Raclette.Bumpling into Adrian while meandering the mean streets of Borough Market, had a speedy geek sesh on cameras, split.
Shakespeare’s globe theatre free of charge. quick tip: feign innocence!
Walked along the river to ogle at the crack in the floor of the tate. Culprit: A columbian artist Doris Salcedo. Title: Shibboleth.

Steal a peek of St Paul’s interior. (the bits you don’t have to pay for)
hard drive data recovery/daylight robbery at tott ct road. They tell me my external HDD is 90% gone. I die a little bit inside.
Traipsing all of London’s Zara and Reiss branches via London’s backstreets in the search of the perfect coat. The search continues.
Milkshake and Orange juice to recharge and refuel.
Daytona and Time crisis at the Troc!
/end marathon at Trafalgar Square.
A proud moment in history: All this walking in heels! And, i think i got skinny.

muppet moments: pouring coffee into my bag. getting a huge piece of carpet stuck onto my shoe.

Royston Tan’s 4:30 at the ICA with Robin
Retro bar, Charing X. A well hidden bar with a difference! I liked that they played Morrissey. It was sprawled with magazines such as “boys” and other LGB paraphernalia.
Shoreditch’s Kick Bar/Trafik/Tinseltown with yu yu, G, Smiley, Yosh and Lex for a liver training regime. Fun with squirty mayo bottles at Tinseltown, at the expense of G’s face. Haha!

Sun
heathrow airport. parents touch down from Frankfurt after an hour’s delay due to strong winds. I ring them saying i’m in town, sorry can’t make it to the airport to pick them up. I get major stick frm mum and she hangs up on me. And i wait at the arrival gates,they spot me straight away and we burst out in laughter. Haha!! This is for the 293845 times they’ve pranked me. The expression on their faces - priceless!
Rent-a-car to Four seasons duck at Bayswater.
Driving, Stepdad falling asleep at the wheel, driving on the shoulder at 30mph/swerving/etc!!! Got lost, got on the right track, fluked it abit, got to Gizzlingham.

So freakin knackered and wide awake at 5am. what the freakin f***.

Just the solution to an ever-merging string of weekends - a chronicle, so no one weekend is forgotten by the brain of Cheryl (that’s me, by the way), stuffed so full of knowlege, wisdom and processing power that mere logging of events has to forgivably take a back seat. Let’s just say I support the efficient use of technology and processor units-of-operation.

Since this is going to be a long entry I expect thine eyes to glaze across the following passage without taking any notice and in that knowlege I shall rest assured my narcissistic journal writing be mostly private.
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Pizza making with Yu yu!
Yu yu decides to make pizza after a hard week at work. Abstentees: Beth and Gareth. All the week’s stresses have been released into the dough and it has been kneaded to a silken pulp. Rise, o fair dollop, in the privacy of the boiler cupboard. Roll. We then offloaded the entire kitchen fridge onto these glorious dough dishes, and baked the hell out of them. My super thin pizza rises exponentially due to the overzealous addition of those cute little yeast granules by an overzealous pizza pusher.

Lord of the rings. I found the entire fellowship of the ring an epic (beautifully filmed) comedy, due to the fact that I’d watched this

before ever watching any cinematised Tolkien. Agad, a trilogy of Elijah’s Wood venturing into the buttcrack of doom to destroy the ring. Ouch.

Oriental City, Edgeware. Ian introduces me to Oriental city, a place I should have long visited. We join David and Brian for a feast at the food court, where I had Chai Dau Kway (Fried carrot cake with egg and Chai por) which was gorgeous but slightly salty. A thick Chendol (Coconut milk with starch noodles and palm sugar) to wash it down with. They say, your most sinful dish should be breakfast. So it was! I was one bean sprout away from regurgitating onto my new aquaintences.

Irish Andy and Anita’s birthday at a new cocktail bar by the name of Hidden Julep, at London Bridge. Present: Beth, Tom, Yu yu, Angela, Kevin, Rishi, Bivu and a heap of familiar names and faces from the GKT massive. I trigger happy with my XA1 that i “want to run a roll of film through before ebaying it off”. The outcome of triggering happy shall be shared with you as soon as I de-idiotise myself. More later. Idiocy of such magnitude deserves its own blog entry. The joint birthday party was great fun, especially so after four vodka martinis, when house music became less of an issue with my house-averse self. Twirl.

Before crashing out at Yu’s, finish off the gorgeous Beef rendang from the makcik at O-city. 101% mindblowing flavour!

Singapore short films, curated by Boo Jun Feng, at the Singapore High Commission. It was an interesting showcase of eight short films, and a great opportunity to contemplate the growing attention that Singaporean film is receiving from the rest of the world. I support! I especially liked Zo Gang by Jacen Tan and The Mole, by Victric Thng which everyone agreed was very Tim Burton.

After some chilling with Angela, Tom and Yu we decide to leave him to his new (gorgeous!) guitar and head our seperate ways. Tom to Warwick, Angela to East Dulwich, and myself to Gillingham. Rain.

Derik charts the trip on googlemaps!

I’m hyperventilating, the wait has been intense, and now wholefoods’ UK branch is finally open on High St. Ken!

My favourite hangout in NY, the aisles of wholefoods, and the knowlegeable staff, the really raw honey, the make-your-own nut butters…

Coming up next…Compulsory post-exam bee-line to wholefoods!

Left over egg whites from creme patisserie. sugar high!

Bee’s Wings!

Characterised by fine textured crystals, raw honey looks milkier and contains particles and flecks made of bee pollen, propolis, honeycomb bits, and broken bee wing fragments.