While everyone else is out

and the house is silent. and the ticking of the clock is mega glaring. i figured that i should include an update! yay!
Let me bring you up to speed

Winter wonderland in hydepark corner (i believe there's an indoor one at the O2) was...ok. It was mega fun for me mainly because of the company but the rides were overpriced(4-6 pounds per ride. its quite an excellent way to warm up though) as was the food (i got a bit of cheese fries and that cost me 4.5 pounds). The atmosphere was good though cos of the sparkly lights and whimsical looking cafes that looked like they came right out of Big Fish (ok so there is only one cafe that looks like that but thats better than none. where else have you seen a cafe like that?). oh ant the atms there charge you 2.50 pounds per transaction.
There was also a temporary HMV set up. HMV is going to take over the uk one day.

Note: The rides can be deceivingly unscary. i.e. The Tower Of Powerrrrrr!!!
totally unscary apparently.

Then we had christmas dinner at our place where I made :

Julia Child's French Roast Chicken (mega excellent stuff! I definitely recommend it)

Jamie Oliver's lasagne (the butternutsquash makes such a difference! if you ever make this do not leave it out even though you may be tempted to)

parsleyed potatoes! (the trick is to boil the potatoes in chicken stock-mega yum!)

Hummingbird's Key Lime Pie!!!!! (easy to make and makes an excellent dessert)

and red velcet cupcakes (which turned out a dusty pink for me)

......and then we forgot the drinks.
so khairul had to go out to get them and after waiting for him for over an hour he came home with two bottles of soda water =.=" major disaster. we even got some of them plastic champagne glasses to serve everyone. we just forgot the drinks :(
surprisingly everything turned out great despite being my first time making everything apart from the parsleyed potatoes.
we wii-ed n ps3-ed with the guests and two of them have stayed till today. ahahahahha.

Christmas Day was spent at home. We filmed our version of Peter Jackson's Cinderella! (remember the cardboard pantomine we bought? that's it!). Its in the process of being edited so it should be up soon. I cant wait to see what it turns out to be like!

Boxing Day! we woke up late XD because we were watching High Fidelity the night before....the movie was just okay. I expected more from a Nick Hornby novel adaptation.
We first CYCLED to Sloane Square for the low traffic Zara at the Duke of York Square. It was lovely cycling past St James Park and palace. The roads were wide and there were no cars on the road. Only sasha got some stuff. The vest i wanted did not come in xs and the pretty boots were pretty uncomfortable.
Next up was-Harrods. The perfume sale was lovely as always. Except most of the perfumes I wanted were not on sale :( I only bought Gaultier's L'eau D'amor in the end.
the only other thing i bought was a cape from zara. and that wasn't even a sale item.
By this point we were ravenous and cycled to leicester square to meet up with nainee hermainee and his friends to watch Sherlock Holmes!

nain n sasha fell asleep during sherlock holmes.

i was smarter. slept during the commercials. :)

Khai's view of Holmes (inserted later): I have only known Sherlock Holmes as a detective movie when I was young, didn't have any interest in the story or novel though. The fact that it is done by Guy Ritchie; director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, 2 movies which I love. Plus the characteristics of Robert Downey Jr, changes my point of view towards the movie. Guy Ritchie's auterism is evident in the film. 1 obvious example is the role of Mark Strong in Ritchie's film. Mark Strong always plays the character of immortal or unusually different. In Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, he is the strong guy whom people fear and gets lucky in the end. In snatch, he plays the role of a bullet dodger, ironically the character died by a single shot by his partner in crime. Then in sherlock holmes, he is the dark wizard who brings fear to the world. There are more of Guy Ritchie auterism in the film which you, the reader should find out with these 3 movies. Another element that you will enjoy the film is Robert Downey Junior. It is hard to describe his unique acting style(he somehow makes macho, serious roles a little bit comical) which is truly enjoyable for us. Futhermore his co-partner is Jude Law, the coming of this two actors seems just like Johny Depp and Orlando Bloom in pirate of the Caribbean. Besides all of these, the storyline is of an old formulae, nothing new. All in all, the movie is a movie that is enjoyable.

After the movie i went to look for volvic in strawberry because I was mega thirsty and nothing else could satisfy me!!! and at picadilly circus some people approached sasha and i and asked if we were looking for a club to go to. was quite amazed as i definitely did not look like i was going clubbing. but quite proud that they did not think that I am 13 (which is what happens normally)

Note:
Out of three times that i parked my bicycle today people stuffed finished drinks bottles in my basket all three times!! At sloane square it was a stella artois can, outside Harrods some random beer bottle and a squashed pack of cigarttes and at leicester square two mini bottles of jd. which says a lot about the drinking culture here (as well as civic consciousness).