photo gallery for london

London trip part 1

London trip part 2

London trip part 3

in flight experience towards singapore

These are the meals that i consumed while taking the flight to singapore.... that's all folk

12-10-2012

our hotel room

heathrow terminal 3

My last sandwich before i leave london

It is the official last day that we are going to leave London. Everyone is dragging their feet toward the hotel restaurant where we have our regular English breakfast Buffet. By looking at everyone face expression, it seems like no words could express their agony. I bet most of my school mates have actually "contribute" their feelings to London, United Kingdom. Some of them are rushing of having their breakfast before heading towards the town to get some things that they have lacked off when they were in London for the past few days.
As for me, I cannot bear to leave neither the London attraction places such as Big Ben, London eye and tower bridge nor the lifestyle in London. I shall spend some time writing about the lifestyle in London.
London have a relaxed lifestyle where children will understand the meaning Of their childhood. Besides that, I remembered that I have read up books that mentioned about childhood. Childhood is a necessary experience that a children will have. For example, children chasing the geese in the park, parents bringing them out for education trip around London Camden town or even parents teaching the right way of living. Lets look at London adult lifestyle in London. Although the living is high in London, people will carry a smile on their faces and do not have the "morning sickness" that we have in singapore. The transport was expensive but we do not have to squeeze into the train or even miss the train and late for our appointments. When will Singapore have such transport system where citizens of singapore do not have to miss any more trains in order to get their destination on time? Besides that, everyone is hanging a smile on their faces while working and you will not feel boring or stressful while on the street to work. Many Singaporean are having a habit of staring people when a person enter the train or bus. Otherwise, they will stare at the person and discriminate that person which my typical Singaporean mum did. Furthermore,they do not bothered much about other people life and they do treasure their personal life much more than others.To sum things up, Londoners treat people equally without any mockery, relaxing lifestyle, no matter how difficult is life was going to be in the future, they will not express out with their expression. Isn't that what most of human should be behaving in the first place ? Caring our business before others personal life?

Wanting and I are intending to head towards Oxford street for personal crumple bag for his brother. However, we spent most of the time in the shop as wan ting is trying to tango with his brother about the different design of crumpler bag that were sold in the shop. The shop owner or sales person was unhappy that we stayed too long in the shop by viewing its product. Is it wrong to view the products in the shop as the customer require to think about it? Based on my perspective, I feel that customer is the important person to allow the shop to run its business and to sustain a long term business. Besides that, i feel that the shop is chasing their loyal customer away to support others brand. No matter how difficult to handle a customer, as a boss or sales promoter who is obtaining pay each month from the company, he/ she should contribute or provide the best attitude to the customer and allow them to feel satisfied with the services and the products of the shop.
However, we did not purchase anything from the store as her brother do not like the design, therefore, we head to convent garden. The wind was howling and the dry leaves are swirling around like a gust of wind just flew past. Autumn was a nice season to describe the scenery. After one hour of walking, we reached convent garden ad we started walking around the place as it was our last day. After walking a few miles, we saw another crumpler store but it was much more smaller than the crumpler store in Oxford street. Wan ting manage to get a bag for herself but I was still thinking whether I should purchase it because I am able to combine the receipt with wan ting to claim the tax rebate.
After much thought, I got the bag in Oxford street and I have to look at the attitude of the sales person. I hate to purchase items from the store but I have no choice as it was my last day in London and I have to obtain the tax rebate form.
It was 2.30pm and we started gather around the hotel lobby to collect our luggage and awaiting for the shuttle bus to send us to heathrow airport.
Things had come to an end and it was a wonderful trips in UCL as I manage to obtain some knowledge by the company visiting and the lessons. I am starting to be more confident to obtain the entry to university. London lifestyle has taught me the ways to treat people well, the right ways to spend my future and finally, I AM OBSESSED WITH THE LIFESTYLE IN LONDON. London will be the next destination in the next 10 years where I finished my education and obtain some working experience.

11-10-2012

My luggage 

garage in the central of london

residential area for londoners

dlkwlowe company

walking around london streets

my last meal of kfc dinner in london. 3 sauces available for KFC

strawberry in london is cheap, juicy and sweet

the street to walk back russel square

It is the last full day in London where everyone is starting to miss the country, London. I believe that everyone will be having their london memories that they obtained during the past few days.
Morning is the time where we do our usual stuff like eating English breakfast or bathing or having the morning "sickness".
It is the day where we have to present our presentation slides to Richard to have a better understanding of the things that we are going to accomplish when we touched down singapore. Besides that, everyone is starting to take out their small paper notes to learn or memorize the tag line that they suppose to say during the presentation. British has its own rule of presentation. They have limits in their presentation slides which mean they only have 15 minutes in completing the slides that they suppose to present to their businessman, investor or many more. If they have exceed the limit, they will be told to stop the presentation. Thanks god that our presentation have went well as we are able to sum things up within the time limit and mr Richard seems to be interested with the prototype that we are going to implement and the security features that we are going to implement to the three e-learning platform that we are going to research on( moodle2, blackboard, integrated visual learning environment). With the things that he have comment, I should seek help from those people who are in the security course and seek assistant as to enhance the report.
After the presentation, mr Richard brought us to south keingston to visit a company. The company name is dlkwlowe. They are in charge of creating advertisement for certain company, such as stroke awareness and Morrisons. Morrisons market share decline and they help the company to grow share and transformed it into Britain's fastest growing supermarket. This shows that marketing play a part in increasing the awareness in the public and the sales growth in the future run. Marketing should be classified as
1) advertising
2) pricing
3) strategy
4) product
5) branding
6) analysis/ audit
7) research

The presenter have been emphasizing that account handlers is important because they are the one who approved the budget for certain advertisement campaign that the production team have brought up.
After the presentation that the company have given us, I decide to walk back to the hotel for a rest before heading towards another lesson in UCL. It is not a lesson that we have in UCL but it is rather an enterprise talk. Entrepreneur said that business should not start at a young age as they required to gain some industrial skills and work part time as to manage the company funding. No matter how small is your company is going to be, black and white( legal paper) is important when you are talking business deal or terms so that you will have a back up to cover yourself from being in trouble.
Overall, I have learnt that there is some different between singapore and London business mind. In singapore, entrepreneur said that business should be encourage to start at a young age which is 18 and do not required to gain some industrial skills. Based on the knowledge that I gained while working in singapore, I believe that Londoners is wiser to set up business as they want to have a foolproof business plan as to cover themselves and ensure that their business will be going smoothly. After all, we learnt that no pain no gain. Therefore, entrepreneur have to undergo a harsh path before calling them a successful entrepreneur.
After the talk, I decided to meet up my london friend and we walked around pacadilly circus. Besides that, I have my first KFC meal in London. The meal was so big which enable two of us to share.
This is how I end my last full day in London. It is time to pack our luggage.

10-10-2012

Buckingham palace 

hamleys

It is the perfect 10 of the year and I am here celebrating in London with my schoolmates. People said that perfect 10 is the termed used for the couples or married status people. However, I don't think that this day is perfect 10 for me.
We have the same old style of English breakfast. I am used with the things that I wanted to take for my breakfast which is commonly beans, fry egg, scramble eggs, bread and sausages. However, it was the day that I do not have lessons in UCL as it was allocated for us to finish up our presentation slides that we are going to present for mr Richard.
In the morning, the weather was good as I could see the sun rising up the sky and scorching on my eyes, which turn the sad city to a bright and lively country. Therefore, I have decided to visit the buckingham palace to reshot some photographs or videos by finding a better spot. Who know? I manage to get a good spot to shot a video about the change of guard ceremony. It was a rare moment in my life to see the guards marching along the street of London to the palace.
After the changing of guards ceremony, I continue walking to the national gallery. I decided to visit the national gallery museum. The art was well drawn and it inspire me to have some designation idea for my projects in the future, especially my final year project. I love vintage items and they do have some pictures that was vintage and what type of items should be included in the vintage photo. I did not manage to get any photograph inside as they forbidden me of doing it.
After viewing all of those pictures, I continue my journey back to pacailility circus where I enter into a souvenir store to continue my last minute shopping.
After spending hours of getting back to tavistock hotel by foot, I am dead bit. I am not a person who is not responsible in my project work. I started switching on my computer and start completing the slides that was left by my group mates. By clicking, editing and checking, it took me three hours to refurbished a good slides for the group and the time was 5.40pm
I decided not to take a nap because it was the last shopping day that I have for the whole London trip. Before I headed toward Oxford street for my dinner and shopping, I decided to pack my luggage and check the available space for the items that are going to purchased later. The bad new is that I am unable to purchase anymore things as my luggage is starting to be full and I have to purchase another luggage in primark or else I have to carry plastic bag up to the plane which is ridiculous.
After packing, it is 6.30pm and I started heading out to the Oxford street for wasabi meal again and purchase a bag from primark as I am going to hand carry some stuff up to the plane.
That's is all for the day of perfect 10. It does not sound perfect 10.

9-10-2012

It is another Tuesday for the 16 of us. We have to attend the marketing module in UCL university. I love the way of teaching for the marketing module as she is trying to recap those things that she taught during the last lesson. After polling for the answer, she will explain the reasons of choosing such answer. Besides that, UCL university do not allow students to "hunt" a company to work on their assignment. UCL actually find the company for student to work on their assignments and everyone will work towards to help the company. On the other hands, some of the students will not be happy or motivated to work on the assignments when they do not like the company that they are working for.
It's 2pm and business analytic class started. Basically, we are studying math in the class, such as mean, probability.
After the lesson, we started our own activities in London.
That's all folk for this day.

In flight experience to london

our in flight entertainment in SIA

Our first meal in flight

Start eating our second meal on flight

8-10-2012

Just study java in UCL..... Java is my favorite language 

My plan was ruined as it was drizzling in London. My plan was to visit the Buckingham palace to take some clearer photographs in regard to the changing of guards and not to forget the important part of the place which is taking down the video of the musical played by the guards. The music or should rephrase as classical music are some thing that I could not miss, so do the other visitors that toured in London city.
I changed my plan and I planned to head toward university for some java programming lesson. Maybe everyone was not interested about this module but not for me. Initially I was planning for Buckingham palace and it was my plan since last week, then Dora message us to inform us that there is vacancy for us to listen in java programming in ucl. However, I am unable to change my plan that I set as it is not my policy but since meeting this type of weather, I decided to sit down and listen for some java lesson. I thought the java is advanced module but it come out to be basic java that we studied before in Singapore pyrotechnic year 1. If I am taking such module for the university, I will sco're high marks for it. Maybe it is my ability to understand computer programming language instead of human language.
The teaching method was so different as the lecturer in ucl is showing one whole complete code for the student to understand. After that, he break down into lines by lines of the whole chunk of coding  and teaches the student. If sp student is going to listen to such lecture, I bet most of them will say BORING AND SCARY. The best thing in the lesson was that the lecture actually make effort by design the slides for the codes.
For example, int i=9;
He will use
i--> 9 for the slides
Besides that he will teach about the computer memory while using programming and it will ensure that study have a clearer understanding.
In conclusion, I feel that sp teaching for java programing is acceptable and understand. Ucl lecture mean teaching and no practical. Sp lecture mean teaching and practical where student can cope on the teacher teaching.

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