David and Michiyo at Shintori...awwww...Happy Birthday darling~~~

Anthony and Michiyo at Shintori...awwww...bruv...who were you talking to!?

Michiyo and her new doggy cushion, she aptly named it Anthony...

Michiyo at Shintori with desert...yes thats the desert she is opening...and yes the rest of the bowl is ice!

Michiyo with roses outside the library...awww...

Michiyo's Birthday...HAPPY BIRTHDAY MY DARLING~~~

Well we celebrated Michiyo's birthday a couple of weeks ago...on Saturday we (michiyo, Anthony and I) went to Shintori for lunch. Shintori is an intersting kinda bling bling Japanese restraunt. We always have a random time when we go there...I remember we once spent three hours in there! hahaha...this time wasn't such a long time but we had a great time. Michiyo recieved a lovely lunch box from the non-present in France Swan (Mikael), Thanks bruv! and a dog teddy bear pillow from Anthony...which michiyo aptly named Anthony. We had nice japanese food, i had random sea food...the Sashimi really is good there! The evening saw us going to MOD the home oc Scotch...the group was me (duh), michiyo, Anthony, Simon, Ayumi, Peter, Albert and Carissa (the two are unseperable!) the lovely flora who at one point actually lived in MOD for a while as she loves scotch! Henry (fellow BBC bruv and arsenal supporter) came later with two friends...then the group was complete!

Random rantings of a very tired but happy B.B.C. living his dream...

Well its been a while since my last post...days passing by like the wind...in fact I have to look at my photographs on my camera to know what I have been up to!
hahaha...first of all I have never mentioned Mr Yellowland aka swanh (mikael) who is Anthony's good friend from France and he visited us for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately he has gone home now, and sometimes it is wierd that he is not outside of school waiting for us...WE MISS YOU...come back~~!! Anthony showed him round Taiwan(mostly bars - hahaha...) and hopefully we made him feel like home...anthony and swan made an interesting trip to Hong Kong...hahahaha...ahhh long story! Lets say he came to Asia a stranger...left a LEGEND!

One night I went with Anthony to Tonkatsu which is THE BEST Japanese fried Pork cutlet place in the whole wide world! man...i dream about that stuff...we then (Michiyo included) went to his friends bar, a nice snug place called J's. They have a piano there which we can play...I have recently grown desperate to play as those evil people at Sih Dah do not let us use their equipment! EVIL!!! So we (michiyo and i) played for a bit...the place started emptying...so we stopped...hahahha!

Last week saw me going to an outdoor sit in a tent bar on Nan Jing East road with Ayumi, her friend, Peter and Anthony....can't remember the name of the place...very cool place that brews its own beer and you can eat german sausage there...man that sounds dodgy. Its a cool atmosphere...must go back there sometime. Peter was pretty wasted, so very wasted by the end as he had had too much the rest of us were ok though. I tried the so-called Hungarian rice that tasted suspiciously like Eva air food (haha!).

Our group...Swedish bird, Korean bird, my main man Yoshi and yours truly...ok we sucked at cooking!

Ok this is well scary...put the knife down!!! Michiyo with very nice, cool Korean bird.

Dumplings...on the boil!

Dumplings...cooked.

Michiyo and David at Der Ling...with bang bang chicken!

Der Ling Cooking class...oh yes I can cook now!!

I went to a Taiwanese cooking class with Michiyo, Anthony decided not to go as...well if you want to know the reason go ask him!

The trip was an uneventful one, it was hot and stuffy on the bus but I slept through most of the journey there! hahaha...The class took place at this random school on the outskirts of Taipei in a place called Der Ling. It was cool as I learnt how to make Sway Jiow (dumplings), Tsen Tsuw Nai Tsah (pearl milk tea) Tsong tsi (wrapped rice thingy) and the best of all Bang Bang Ji (chicken stuff which is delicious!). We were all placed in groups and we all had a great time. My group was quite interesting...we had one Korean girl (nice girl..cannot remember her name though!), a random chick from the Netherlands, Yoshi who is a cool tatooed guy from Japan and of course...Michiyo!

I got told off by the main instructor as I washed my twsen tsuw for some reason....hahaha...then I got bellowed at by a Sih Dah teacher as I wrapped too much rice in my Tsong Tsi...hahahaha she was not happy as hers sucked and she got told this by the instructor!!! Lets get one thing straight darling...YOUR TSONG TSI'S SUCKED ASS DARLING! HAHAHAHHA...awww bless!!~~

We ate all the stuff we made for lunch and in retrospect it was dang cheap as per person we only paid about 200nt...3 pounds 40 pence! CRAZY! We ended up making so much we even took some back for Albert...dunno if he liked the Tsong Tsi or not...BRUV! get back to me on that one ok!

Well I had a great time, I dont know about anyone else! It really was one of those really random but great experiences that I will always treasure. Thanks to the people at Der Ling for your time and patience with me and also to the lady who was so extremely nice to me!

(Picture from www.bbc.co.uk.)
In Tavistock Square, eyewitness Belinda Seabrook described an explosion rip through a bus: "I was on the bus in front and heard an incredible bang, I turned round and half the double-decker bus was in the air."

What the hell is going on in this world...

"People were screaming and shouting and saying things like I'm dying, I'm dying, please help me."

Ana Castro
Liverpool Street Station

Man...this world is crazy...it was strange that I was just talking to my two friends about 9/11 when I suddenly recieved a call from my no1 Jei Jei cousin Shirley telling me about bomb attacks on London. My first thoughts were about my sister Lucy and my brother Hung who both work there...(they are fine...thankfully).


There are so many issues, hatred and sadness in the world today...at this very moment there are hundres of thousands also dying all over the world due to past/ongoing atrosities...who knows how we are gonna solve them all. It makes me so very sad when I see innocent lives being taken for absolutely no reason. Who is going to explain what happened and why to those families of the dead...it would take my breath away and my heart too.

anyways...major respect to all the fire crews, police and ambulance services dealing with the aftermath...Londoners watch yourselves my darlings, be careful all of you~~~