London

Wooo! 2 days left. Just got back from a 4 days trip London, and oh my god, i wonder how people manage to live in that city. Its like living in the middle of Bugis Junction and the traffic, human or cars just goes on and on and on and on for the entire day till 2 am, before the cycle begins all over again at 7 am in the morning. Somehow spending the last 4 months in Germany made me cautious of breaking traffic rules, and i don't mean speeding, rather jaywalking. But there in London, you will look like and idiot standing at the lights looking left (there are instructions on the road). In fact the cool thing to do is to walk between 2 moving double deckerbus. These double deckers are not the whinny whimpy double deckers in Singapore, but driven by suspected professional runaway vehicle drivers. For one i have never remembered myself grabbing the handle bars infront of me with so much strengh. So don't bother paying for a ride in a funfair, you get as much thrill riding on the top deck front seat of a London double decker bus. And if you are in for some bouncing fun, hop on the iconic london double decker bus, service 15 and 9 which pretty much goes through the city center. Up the fun by standing, but at your own risk for you might just bounce and hit your head against the ceiling and breaking your neck, losing your conscious before rolling down the back stairs and onto the street as there are no doors. In fact the double decker bus ride was so thrilling that we spent the entire 4 days traveling around on the top deck. But thats of course only possible later in the evening for the streets will be totally jammed between 7am and 9pm. Their solution to the jam is to charge more for people who travel to city center, something like ERP, but i think a better solution is really simply to remove some of the millions traffic lights in the city. I don't see how having one light every 20 m helps the traffic in anyway. As for the weather in London, it is rightly notorious for its unpredictability. So much so that it changes every 20 mins. One moment it looked like its going to pour, with cold wind howling, sweeping up all the dust and dirt from the ground, the next moment its all sunny and warm. There is no way to dress for the weather, you either bring too much, or you shiver in the wind. I picked the second. So much chaos and weather changes and running around that i finally fell sick. breaking my 4 months of sick free record. Spent the whole day after returning in bed. In fact just to ease the mind of my Gast family that its not schwein flu, i walked to the hospital near my place to see if i could find a doctor. Walked into this almost empty half lighted hospital with a couple of nurses sitting behind a counter, i asked for a mask immediately. Didn't want to spread a possible schwein flu. Explained my situation in English as my brain wasn't functioning too well to come up with german terms. Instead of being sent to a quarantined room, i was told that there were no doctors and that i should take the U bahn to main train station where a clinic is opened till 11pm. Take the U bahn!? I was like WTF? anyway, didn't feel too sick after that walk to the hospital so decided to walk back home instead. Its probably exhaustion, plus the chaos and horrible weather and the dirt, altogether making me ill. 1 day later after a good rest and i am back to normal. No medication. Lucky i must say. Don't wanna spend the next 7 days in Aloha man.