People I missed

Absolutely love this pic! Couldn't stop laughing, both before and after... ;D The 4 loveliest people!!!

Lovely sweetie Alma - My best buddy cum partner

Warm/Strict/Stern/Funny/Kind/Lovely Radmila

Sue & I + a cosy lunch + coffee...

My first meal with chopsticks since i arrived!!! Thanks Koyih!
Sam - my 13-year-old handsome nephew of my height!


Finally, all of us are in... :)

That's Carola... the magician in my musical life... :') Always always thankful~

Nadia - I admire her strength, in many ways. She's amazing!

With Wanning & Pinju... 陈珈沂, missed you! :)

Thanks Gabriel... the best chat in 14 years ;)

Gooooood to see you Kahloon :) It was funny how you had given me the perfect answer at the dessert place... haha! :D

We, or perhaps it should be I, couldnt quite imagine a combination like this during our uni days... ;p

We'd spent an unbelievable amount time of time searching for food when we met up 2 summers ago... so this time round, what to eat, where to lunch, how to spend the afternoon... were all pre-arranged and yes, it did work out beautifully... we're wiser! :)

love all the posters on the wall... a low-cost yet stylish way to decorate... it happened the same for all the walls in the cafe, and most parts of the ceiling too... Yep, our afternoon coffee, but a late one - 4:43pm~

Me: you both look great here. Alma: ya it's Nikki who looks great! Nikki: ah yes, i'm photogenic! ;P She is absolutely adorable! :)

My beloved ex-piano teacher!!! And I'm showing her how we can take a picture FOR the mirror! (looks like i really can't resist mirrors :P) I haven't seen her for 11 years. was secretly in tears when i gave her my biggest hug ever, right after she opened her door... :')

Claer loves Chinese noodles~

Claer is a fantastic shopping mate. She has a funny philosophy which her daughter gladly inherits - when you go shopping, don't come home unless you have 5 or 6 bags of stuffs, otherwise, that just means you dont have a good shop...!!! hahaha :D

And since we only have an hour to shop that day... I only bought one item after an hour's of shopping... Claer commented, 'You're not doing very well...' hahaha :P

It's strange how sometimes we can not meet a friend for the longest time and yet still be able to talk like old friends. i was very moved~ :)

An incredible and unbelievable coincidence!!! :)

Good Old Brahms - someone i adore!!! :)

Kiat is still as gentle and soft spoken. I was asking whether she ever yell or scream... :)

Angelic Ariella with her granny & me~

A rare-get-together. Love it. Thank you guys! :)

A quick meet up with Nanna. She made a deliberate trip from Copenhagen to London to send me off. Very very touched indeed. On the way to the airport... :)

Arrived at Changi Airport after 13 hours... :) Home is in the air... :>

The Fried rice and ABC soup prepared by hubby... something I had pre-ordered the day before... :)

Bits & Pieces of London

This was my very first meal, which happened 13 hours after arrival... was actually starving!!! loved the wholemeal bread, missed the Latte and loved the air... :)

Koyih, Henny, Sam & I hopped out of the chinese restaurant just a moment ago, and we hopped straight into Rasa Sayang very shortly after, for some singa style desserts... 吃得好饱哦! :)

I love this street near Chinatown... where a whole stretch of book places sit... :)

And, this is my favourite bookshop along that stretch... :)

I used to spend hours in this shop...

just browsing through the piles... or running through the titles...

they have a fairly good collection of long-forgotten scores, antique program notes and many other old music books and materials... etc

also many overdued treasures and fascinating little gems...

I was busy snapping pictures when the owner of the shop turned to me and asked, 'And you were having fun??? ;P ;P ;P

Time for Work! :)

Alma & I were at Southbank today, she had made me a nice picnic-lunch - mushroom risotto, with parmesan cheese. It tasted so yummy! even better when it was brought outside the house! :)

Both Alma & I adored this scene. Not just becoz they have the time to enjoy their afternoon tea, but also becoz they still make a beautiful effort, despite their old ages, to dress up, to make-up and to make their way to the centre of town for tea... Of course, above all, they have friends! It's such a pleasure to watch the way they speak and how polite they were to one another... adorable old ladies! ;)

A lovely dinner by Wanning & Pinju. I was very touched. Thankie so much :)

A pretty place for lunch and chats~

A heart-warming gift - a beautifully self-composed work for piano & voice, Op 51~

Used to pass by this church thousand of times, yet didnt find it especially pretty or attractive... until today...
that's just how we take things for granted, at times...

A place i really missed in that building... :)

JS Bach - at Royal College of Music~

Practice Room - RCM~

This is stunningly gorgeous, and looks very feminine!!! :P

This one too... :) But this is bigger in size coz it's a grand; the pink one is a baby grand...

This looks cool~

Reduced price! :)

Had a fun time trying and playing on these pianos... like the look of the music stand... but the sound isn't too brilliant :)

I love this. piano duet stool :)

My morning coffee; Alma's morning hot chocolate. This cafe served excellent creamy hot chocolate~

At a conference at City University~

Performing Musicology~

Ok lah, not too bad ya... only 3 of these in 18 days - the 1st time was in Oxford; 2nd time was with Kitty; 3rd time was on my last day in London... 不会太过份吧～～