in the blue corner....

here's a quick shot of the new heavyweight .. sitting peacefully in the blue corner....the Airbus A 380!

there were a whole lot of planes on display, and some great airshows. To be up close n personal with those engineering marvels, and to hear them roar, scream and screech across the sky while flipping and slicing their way through the clouds was AWESOME! Blowback from the A 380's takeoff and the smell of burnt rubber lingering in the air after it landed .... all this a mere 500 feet away from the crowd!

more pics to follow :)

hhmm trying out diff layouts and settings, but seems the same pic you can't view in the cropped version. So here's the original shot (the cropped version now on Flickr).

have wings, can fly

Yeay.. first official weekend of London starts today (last week was in Glasgow :p) n started off with a get-together with a friendi who was down from Hull.. yes the one and only G made an appearence to meet us , well technically she's down to attend the AR Rahman concert but i guess we'll take it.

After some malaysian food in the city, we proceeded to meet Ling at Planet Hollywood... n she made us our drinks. Lepak-ed(!) there for a bit.. had another round n then cabut back by tube (sigh... no mamak. terus balik about 11 ish).

Tomorrow is promising to be a more fun day!

We're going down to Farnborough to check out the bi-annual airshow. Ooh. many new planes on show, and some old one, with airshows etc to look forward to. (http://www.farnborough.com/Site/Content/Farnborough2010/default.aspx)

Sunday should be a short trip to the RAF Museum for history lesson involving planes again!! Yeay!

phew

finally .. here i am .. after two months of hokey-pokeying around, getting stuff packed, moved, cleared, sold, etc etc; finally here i am ....

where? in a land far away from home . yet close to home as the heart can be. London, England. The motherland if u know what i mean. so what am i doing here? well officially i'm a bum. means me is lookin for some form of employment. unofficially? woohoo loong holiday!

after getting here n meeting the missus (she didn't like the hat :( ) n spending a few days with her, I headed off north to see Glasgow with a close friend. Saw the highlands. Felt the call. And heck, i think i'm gonna be going up there again. it's awesomely beautiful. plain, natural beauty. superb. weather was shite as it was pissing down the day we went on our day trip, but magically, stopped at each stop we were scheduled to make.

To my pals who think i've fallen off the side of the earth.. hang on there. not just yet. just only managed to get somewhat settled and got me back online. so keep tuned folks. I have not forgotten u guys :) Cheers from 10 000 km away :)