Not really having a good xmas break... Today I took my car to VW cos my Engine light decided to make a guest appearance again!
I'm a little annoyed about this cos the car is only a year old. VW service is quite good actually... they kept giving me updates on what happening. 6 hours later i was told that i could pick up my car... I asked what was the problem... they said they didn't find one... no problem with my car at all. so what they did was reset the ECU.
To me this sounds like a fob off... this is like me at work telling a user to reboot their workstation then see if it happens again.
Anyway the engine light has gone again so i was happy... Went back home and got ready for dinner with my family .... Now guess what happened!!!!! My car head lights had blown!!!!!!!! After that i just got pissed off and stressed! So instead we ate in...
The next day i went to Halford in Colindale to get my headlights... I first stopped at comet to see if i could get Wii Play but they were sold out and ended up having a long convo about the wii with the manager. Anyway got to Halford and brought the lights... fitted them, all good and stuff! When i started the engine to leave guess what happened!!!!
The Engine light came back on so back to VW i went they said they can't take my car in until wed... so gotta wait till then. Getting really annoyed now.
I hope everyone had a wonder Christmas... I had a really nice one. Ate plenty of food. My family are not really into Turkey so it was seafood... Had Lobster, Tiger Prawns, Mussels, salmon sashimi
I would like to wish every a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year.
On Fri i managed to get hold of a Nintendo Wii.... now this item is hot property.. it was sooo hard to get one of these babies!
really happy with it...
Sat was shopping in oxford street and discovered that Beard Papa had arrived int he UK. This Chain has already Colonised south east asia ... check it out its really nice!
Sat evening went to Gemma's annual dinner party... it was very nice seeing everyone again... Video Blog below.
The other day at work I witness collective web surfin. Everyones computer had the Woolworth webpage up! Why? well the picture above explains it all. One of my work mates ordered 5... It was quite funny how everyone was trying to buy them, everyone knew that the chances of recieivng them were next to nothing.
Sat - After suffering a hang-over I went into work to collect my stuff that i left behind the day before.
After that I went shopping at Queenways. It was quite nice shopping on my own haven't done that for a while. Whiteleys shopping centre was quite empty which made life easier. Also It was really nice to see a Choir sing christmas songs.
Talking about Choirs there was a really good documentry on BBC2 today. It was about a group of kids who had never sung in a choir before and changed them into world class singers.. It was a really good doc and really touched me how they worked so hard. We should have more docs like this than reality TV shows which are like no brainers!
Sunday, felt really lazy but in the evening i had arrange to have a Christmas dinner with an old friend that i haven't seen for ages. We decided on a few places but cos there was alot of traffic we ended up going to WestEleven @ the Hilton Hotel.
The food was sooo lovely! Was really happy with the food, service, and atmosphere... I couldn't believe how it was so much better then that junction restaurant i went to the other week.
To my surprise my friend brought me an Ipod Shuffle it was a really cool gift cos i my 3rd generation ipod had died a few months back... so now i can listen to music again.
Actually getting the ipod to work was a bit of a nightmare. when i opened itunes the drive would disappear from windows. So when itunes tried to sync it kept bringing up errors... it took me all night reading the apple forums to find out what to do ... apparently many other people have had this problem as well.
I was reading 30+ blogs over the weekend... one entry really touched me. It was about a female who became a good smaritan. Wish people were as friendly as that in london.
"I was at Wilkinson buying sticky tape and at the cash desk there was two boys infront of me about 10/12 paying for two packs of polomints with 2ps and 1ps. Thought it was kinda cute n funny and sorry for the cashier as she has to count em all. The total was 48p and they only had 46p. So they searched their pockets for 2p (which they didn't have) looking kinda lost and sad probably so I payed 2p for them and they were really grateful. They said thank you with a massive smile and as they left they said thanks again and the cashier smiled too. Then for the rest of the hour I couldn't stop smiling. Felt soooooo GOOD. The smiles were just so nice..."
Today on the news they claimed to have arrested the Ipswich Ripper (who has killed 5 women). Now I'm so amazed how technology plays a mjor part in our lives that we can read a profile of the killer on myspace. we can also read the peoples comments about him.
I use social network website like myspace and friendster to check out people i've met. It's really handy. It goes to show... even peeps who don't look like killers can be killers.
Friday we had our department xmas party... only half the department turned up but it was still good though. Because it was a tabbed bar alot of people had alot to drink! Myself one of them.
One thing about knowing fellow bloggers you can't do anything silly without someone filming it.
Now I don't even remember doing an impression of a merman!
Anyway it was quite a nice night out.... When i got home i was throwing up... felt really ill the next morning.
The main Company party next week this ones gonna be interesting. All this drinking isn't doing me any good... Its the 2nd fri i've come home drunk.... my neighbours must think i'm a right crack head.
Wed another one of my mates left... I'm almost losing count with with who's staying and who's leaving.
After work we all went for a drink only stayed for a bit but the shocking thing is that Chris turned up! now apparently he has not been to a company social function for the past 5 years!
After pub i had to rush down to the Kensington Hilton for a drink with a friend then went to watch Happy Feet. Funny movie.
My parents told me that a house on a near by road had a really nice xmas display so i thought i would check it out.... now i was worried i wasn't going to find it cos of the poor description my mum gave. It was quite funny cos that was the only houe on the road to have bright light... it stood out like a jap tourist at a gay bar.
They must be wasting alot of electricity? We recently got our electricity bill for this quarter and it was £200! is this normal? (pls post a comment) I've switched 1 of the servers off now to save power but not sure if it will make a difference.
Xmas time is hear..... that means alot of drinking etc! so time to get practicing!!!!
well Fri Mark left the company! shock horror.. one of the first people i met at the company .. nice bloke... another of my mates who left the company was Eddie... he left all of a sudden... nice person as well... all to be missed.
So anyway after work we went for a drink... I had 3 pints and I was out of it... seriously i don't know what happened... Not to good considering this is xmas party season.
I left the pub a little tipsy mananged to fall and drop my phone as well (now scratched). I don't know how but when falling i managed to get carpet burn marks on my knee and elbow...
Sat night I went to pick up my car which i left out side the pub (responsible drinking) Taxi cost £21 wtf!!! really didn't feel like taking public transport that day.
Later on met up with Thanh to go to Mariyam's Birthday dinner... Her dinner was being held in swanky Mayfair. I think i didn't get the memo or something but there was a dress code. I was just dress casually so they had to smuggle me in!
Anyway it was a really nice dinner and a really nice group of people.
Tuesday i had a day off...... so after doing everything i needed to do, I went shopping with my Mum and Sis.
I took them to the Swindon Outlet Store. On the way there i went onto the Magic roundabout... it was well confusing... i was quite nervous getting onto it cos it looked really complex... but it was actually quite easy.
I actually didn't buy much at all... it was more my sis and mum doing the buying. My mum was really happy! I think after 50 years she has finally discovered retail therapy.
Magic Roundabout - Go figure!
Notice the wrong direction of the inner roundabout
Saturday, I planned to complete my Christmas shopping down Oxford street as they has closed off traffic to that road and regents street for the whole day.
So arrive at Oxford Circus at about 1pm. I was so amazed No cars anywhere... Now I think some of the tourist didn't get the idea of a traffic free shopping day and were still walking on the pavement.
So i decided to do some shopping, Good offers everywhere, 30% off everything at Levi's, 20% off everything at body shop and 10% off everything at Debenhams are some of the offers i can remember.
First store i went to was the Apple store. Ipod Nano's were selling like hot cakes i couldn't believe the amount they were shifting.
Went to a few other store but i won't bore you with the details, I think the event was a victim of its own success cos there was just shit loads of people.... too many... all the food places were packed... so i couldn't even get a drink and Selfridges was totally packed... you could hardly move in some departments (Check out the pic)
What was good that there was alot of onstreet entertainment like live bands etc and they also had large PA systems all the way down regent street just playing music...
I found it very hard to buy anything today and actually gave up in the end.
Street Entertainment
Selfridges Packed!
Tired
Wondered how they reopened the road to traffic? They sent in loads of police officers... it was like a curfew was announced or something...
They say Hotel Restaurants should be one of the best places to eat... I totally agree on that... I've had some of my best meals in Hotels.
Best place I have eaten was prob the Suites Hotel Liverpool, where i stayed for a few days when working up there. Until this time I've never had a bad experience with Hotel Restaurants until last night.
Last night I went to have dinner at the Holiday Inn Hotel, Junction Restaurant. Now you'd expect a 4* Hotel to have some good service and good food. That didn't really happened.
We ordered our food and thought nothing of it. Talking as normal but then a couple got up and complained to the manager right in front of us saying they had waited 1.5 hours for there main course! I was like flip look like this is gonna be a long dinner. I thought perhaps it was just them but then another set of customers left as well telling the manager the same thing.
The manager explained there was only one chef today to be honest it didn't wash down cos there were only about 7 table with customers and 1.5 hours is extreme.
The manager was very shabby. It felt like he had never worked in a restaurant before the way he presented the wine was so poor. I felt like i was being shown a bottle of Fanta or something.
Anyway on to the the Meal.
Starter - Mussels in Chorizo Sauce : Mussels overcooked Main - Roast Salmon with Vegetables : Salmon overcooked Desert - Cheese Cake : Nasty!
The food was very bad and very inconsistent. While my salmon was overcooked my friends was perfectly done. I know how to make the Starter and Main dish and to be honest these are very simple dishes to make. Actually i was cooking salmon the other week and made a better effort than what i had last night.
I've had better food eating in a pub then here and don't get me started on how much i paid!
Don't get me wrong I've been to the Junction Restaurant in Bristol and it was very nice. This is the last time I trust The Junction at Regents Park.
Recently Ive been trying to catch up on my Jdramas, I've got a backlog of like 5 dramas to watch but i'm getting through them now.
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