Wise Wisdom From Yours Truly~Aug ’11

Hey People. Its time for ‘Wise Wisdom from yours truly’ since August is over and so is Summer (although technically it is not yet but who are we kidding, with UK’s weather, we count our blessing if we can see the sun two days in a row 😉 ).  This August was hectic to begin with but it was a good kind of hectic. I went to lots of different places, experienced new things, felt new emotions. Different is good. Overall, learning new-thing wise, August will come in 1St place, no doubt. So lets begin the official wisdom list. 

1.Lets begin with something simple. Bet you don’t know this one. Children ❤ Bruno Mars.OK, not him but his song ‘The Lazy song’. Mainly because of the monkeys and may be the merry tunes too. So next time around, if you want to impress a kid, play this song. No need to thank me ;).

2.This month, I caught the chef bug so I made ‘chicken hot pot’ from a cooking book gifted by my work colleagues (which was so nice of them). It is so easy to make and so very delicious. If you want to try, just leave a comment, will get right back at you. 🙂

3.As you know by now, I had a London vacation. This vacation taught me that London is full of amazing history. It makes you fall in love with all its hidden charms. But I also learned my feet doesn’t agree with seeing all those charms :(.

4.The man who designed the tube route needs to be showered with standing ovations. You, sir are a true genius. My feet said thank you too. 

5.Oyster cards are the way to go unless you are a billionaire/cash wealthy or just in the mood to get looted by London transportations. 

6.I feel ashamed to admit that I had never played UNO in my life before. But thanks to my cousin, I learned to this vacation and I love it. Without the t.v and internet, it was our favourite source of entertainment, a life-saver.

7.Many of you by now know the London-riot. It is such a sad thing that evils like that still lurks in our society. You realize that evil comes in all shapes & size. Doesn’t matter the age,gender or class. So does racism. But I do want to say one thing. The rioters should be punished but why drag the innocent family into it too? 

8.You may not know this but I love dancing. So this summer vacation, me and my niece had a friendly round of ‘Just dance’ on Wii. It is so much fun to dance in crazy in love, girl-friend and I got the power (reminds me of Jim carrey). You should try them, also if you are competing and want easy-scores, just do crazy-in-love by Beyoncé. Minimum effort, maximum score-Oh yeah!

9. You know, how we get drunk and come tomorrow we have massive ‘hangover’ and keep hearing phrases related to alcohol like ‘one for the road’, well I got to know the true meaning/origin of those two words during my vacation to London on the open bus.

You see, back in the days, when there used to be capital punishment it was done in public. So people used to gather around to watch the hanging happen with alcohols to go with it (there is still the tree where people used to be executed & yes it looks erm hanged & all droopy). So when everything was over and morning came, they had massive headaches with all the drinking thus the word ‘hangover’ came upon.

‘One for the road’ is related with alcohol too. So, in the days, people who were going to be executed were allowed a last drink, so they would drink the alcohol before the hanging for some dutch courage and one for the road before they met their makers. Now you know the reasons, are you still going to use them? 

10.I came upon ‘My library thing’ where you can write the names of all the books you have or read for that matter and put it in your blog. I was super excited to know that because to start with I love books and have an impressive collection to boost about. So I decided to make one for my blog  but the happiness was short-lived because readers, My library thing doesn’t work with WordPress :(. To0 sad. 

11.It seems to me like I am starting to lose my patience (I didn’t have much to start with). I love reading books (to the point, I am blind without my glasses) but this august I went to my local library after such a long time and bought lots of books to read. But I found myself rushing and hurrying when in the past I used to read slowly and actually enjoy it. I think it might be because of the internet. Instant gratification comes to my mind and is to blame, for now. 

12. This august I got the highest views of all times, thanks to the blog I wrote ‘The show will go on’ but to be honest I don’t feel proud about it. When I published it, I was very proud of my work and thought I did justice to ‘The show’ which was such a success. But as the views increased, I started to get threatening comments about the guy I wrote on the last paragraph of that particular blog. Some people got upset and I am open to being corrected for what I did wrong but to swear is so not done.

The views were going off the roof but to me it felt like people were just coming to my blog, just to see the drama unfolding and all that because of one-damned paragraph when the point of the blog was ‘the show’. Although I removed the picture, I was hell-bent on keeping the paragraph but the stats made me question the reason behind all the views so I decided to cut that paragraph. I don’t want this blog to be about cheap dramas.

This august taught me one important thing-sometimes you just have to back out even when you feel wronged.

13.I want to give a shout out to Miss Guffadi too. The blog taught and made me sympathise with her. I applause her strong heart and courage of ignoring all the hate comments without so much as a flicker. How can she do that? Bravo to you. 

So that’s it for this August’s ‘Wise Wisdom From Yours Truly’. Will see you next month with more. 

Until then 

Cretee

Notting Hill,Portobello Market & Greenwich~

Hey Guys

As I told you before, I had a mini London vacation; was there for 6 days & I loved it. Me & my family went to many exciting & interesting places and I could not resist taking some pictures (approx. 600 of ’em hehehe) to share with you guys. As there are so many photos I want to show you, I have decided to do that in a group & sub-category basis which will take around 5 blogs (sounds a lot but believe me, you will like it). The photos are my surprise treat for you, so hope you will enjoy it and inspire you enough to go visit them yourself. The pictures also inspired me to add a new category called ‘eM Pictures’  where I will add photos I took myself or loved enough to share with you guys.

This week will be dedicated to pictures from London and the first one starts today.When I watched the movie ‘Notting Hill’, I fell in love with Portobello market,colorful houses and the antique items and had since then wanted to go there. So when the vacation came, it was the perfect opportunity. Loaded with the train and tube maps to reach Notting Hill gate, I enjoyed my first day of vacation in Portobello Market. I saw them all and more. I had also heard about the humming-bird bakery which is very famous for its red velvet cupcakes; so I had to try those and other more. To be honest, the red velvet for me was a bit of a disappointment mainly because the icing was too buttery and sugary for my taste but hey my nephew and dad loved them, the icing and all but I loved the sandwich type of chocolate and cream in between ones, whopping something (sorry I was too busy eating it so I didn’t had the time to remember the name and take a picture of it). But if you do go there, try them but be warned you do have to wait for your turn, it is that busy and famous.

By the time day 1 was over, we were all left exhausted with all the walking so we agreed to do something light-hearted and easy for day 2. As per my dad’s suggestion, we went to Greenwich Park which was around 45 minutes bus ride and we didn’t even had to power walk (perfect :)). The day was sunny, loads of people playing happy family, couples kissing, a perfect park scene. The purpose of our visit was to see the ‘Royal Observatory Greenwich’ which is the official clock to first change time during winter. Ever heard of GMT? yeah  Greenwich Mean Time, that is what I am talking about. It is ‘That Clock’, now you get it.

There are loads more to see in Greenwich Park, like the planetarium,loads of sundials from the past to enjoy. There is also the National Maritime Museum. Maritime museum basically mean nautical museum;things related to ships. It is a really big museum but we didn’t get to see it all because of the rain. We were enjoying the wonderful sunny weather,taking pictures when all of a sudden came heavy rain and to top it off we only had 1 brolly for 5 people. As soon as the rain started to stop, we decided not to take any more chances and ran to the comfort of a warm home, tea and never-ending games of Uno. I am glad we did because guess what, by the time we reached home, it rained heavily on and off that day. That’s how I spent day 1 & 2. More coming up.

Until the next snap

Cretee