Met up with Penappa today to go for another exhibition, and she was late(the first time, cos i'm always the one who's late!) though this time it was erm..nah. don't want to make her look bad here, cos she reads my blog!

We went for the Aztecs exhibition at the Royal Academy, paid 6pounds for entrance and were happily 'bouncing' into the area with our savy digital cameras in tow, only yo be told " Sorry, no photography of anykind is allowed." We so wanted to kill at that point! It's the 2nd exhibition we've been to and not been allowed to take any photos, so we figure that it's all just because that they want us viewers to pay 40pounds for the stupid catalog. Anyway, we had to resort to digging out our sketch book and try very hard to capture what we thought was interesting/useful for our up-n-coming project due to start when school reopens on Jan 6th....

There are 11 halls in total for the exhibition, and we were only at hall 5 when this bitch thundered into the hall and shouted " this exhibition closes in 10mins." AND, she continued to bug us viewers, herding us like cows through the remaining 6 halls, repeating the line " this exhibition is closed, please leave the hall now" with such coldness in her voice that me & Penappa felt she was going " Get out of this place NOW!"

That was it. we paid 6 pounds for 2 hours in that place and only got to see half of the items! guess we'll have to go back and spend 6 pounds again... its not that it's not worth 6 pounds, but to pay again just to see the other half of it? *sigh*

Went in search of food to cheer us up and we came upon this place call Malaysia Kopitiam. The menu showed: Hainanese chicken rice, Nasi Lemak, Beef rendang, Chicken curry, Ice Kachang and loads more AND i had to go in to taste the food for myself! I had the chicken rice...ooh....it was actually quite good! Think the rest of the menu cant really go wrong because it was all Chinese working in the little cafe-like diner, and there was this middle-aged man who spoke what i would classify as Singlish, + some bits of malay! So i figure that he must be the boss or something, and he would know what Asian food should taste like! =)

Finally, a cheap & quaint little place to remind me of home.