Once upon a long long time ago.. In a land far far away..

called Kluktukluktokukutoop..

or maybe thatz what they used to call it last time.. when they started building this thing abt 5000 years ago..



that, my dear friends, is one of the remaining Ancient Wonders of the World..

The Stonehenge..

I dont think the English language was even invented back then.. so Kluktukluktokukutoop in the Kluk language might sound just as much as England would sound now..

so.. yepz.. I just got back from London..

and Kluktukluktokukutoop is my opinion of what they might have called the place now known as England..

dont take my word for it though.. i dont speak the Kluk language..

and I took a trip down with two of the crew, Rachel and Maylene, to Stonehenge, which is located in Wiltshire, Wessex, in Southern England.. or abt close to 2 hours drive from Central London..

woke up in the morning and headed to the hotel Concierge, who drudgingly obliged to book a car for us to rent.. so he called Hertz and coz itz a weekend, they dont have a delivery service for the car.. and so I had to take a tube down to Victoria.. abt 20 mins away and a good 10 mins walk from the tube station..

good thing that the weather was perfect, though.. it was at 23 degrees, and the sun was bright enough not to make it too chilled..

when I arrived at Hertz.. I saw that the ppl manning the counters were nice and friendly.. and after a 15 minutes queue, I went to the available counter..

and so.. when the fella attended to this Asian fella, the smiles were all gone and he became so impatient..

I told him that the hotel Concierge had booked for me..

and lo and behold.. actually.. ermz.. as I had expected..

there were no reservations made by the Concierge..

no records, zilch, nothing, nil, kosong..

so our friend here tended to me like as if it was a disruption from his daily smiles and nice greetings and made it as fast as he could to get it over and done with so he can smile to the next Caucasian customer..

ok lor.. u Ang Moh mah.. i'm Indian.. u win.. ur country is bigger than mine..

only when I returned the car the next day that I realised that he didnt offer me everything on the set and just put DECLINED on everything.. like a standard fuel purchase, so I dont need to top up the gas if we used up the whole tank.. in which I knew that we would coz we were travelling far..

the drive back to the hotel took a good one hour, instead of a standard 10 mins drive coz it happened to be the Queen's birthday.. so with the horse processions and road closures, a lot of the roads were detoured..

and London has a lot of one-way streets.. so what u see on the map might not be so straightforward..

by the time we left the hotel to drive to Wiltshire, it was already 1.30pm..

arrived at The Stonehenge at abt 3pm.. and at the first sight of it..



I was like..

wahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...

*THE* stonehenge..

it was built in 3 stages.. through a period of more than a THOUSAND years..

FIVE FREAKING THOUSAND YEARS AGO.

by so many hundreds of generations..

which, to me.. is quite far-fetched..

the mainstream belief is that itz made as a place of prayers, of sun worshipping.. or solar projections for calculations of seasons and days..

some stories said that it was built by the pre-historic Englishmen..

they might had been so bored that they dragged down hundreds of tons of stones from Ireland..

that is what u get from the Englishmen if u dont give them football..

others mentioned abt the Stonehenge being built by Druids and Merlin and even the Devil himself..

yeah rite..

i'd prefer the stories abt it being built by aliens..

thatz more like it..

a religious place of prayers?

that spanned for more than a thousand years?

being continued by their descendants?

wahaha.. no way..

even in 50 years, religions can evolve drastically..

so Aliens it is..

itz really breathtaking.. knowing that the structure that u see is even older than the first Pyramids..

and trust me.. Pyramids are really awe-inspiring.. itz another one of those places that made me go WOW..



Me, Rachel and Maylene in front of the Stonehenge..



a closer view of the stones..



the Plains surrounding the Stonehenge..

these are the breathtaking sights as u drive down the A303 down to Wiltshire..

and therefore.. after spending abt an hour and a half looking at funny-looking rocks built by the ancestors of David Beckham, we decided to drive down to Salisbury, abt 15 mins away.. a change from going to Bath coz the Temple at Bath were closed at 5pm..

itz an interesting place.. really..

quiet.. peaceful..

a lil bit boring though..

but still.. quiet.. peaceful..

itz a medieval town.. very interesting..



a sign of the medieval town.. a gantry in Salisbury..



Salisbury town..



this is the Salisbury Cathedral.. built in 1220, ancient English Gothic style.. and has the tallest spire in the whole of Britain..

we had our dinner at one of the pubs.. while watching Ghana beat Czech..

the good thing abt watching the World Cup in Europe is that the timing is always good.. dont need to wait up early in the morning coz the games in London are being telecast at 2, 5 and 8pm..

got back to the city at abt 11pm at night.. and headed down to Bayswater for another dinner..

Siew Ngap Fun..

yey.. my fav food..

everytime I see a London in the roster.. the first thing that comes to my mind would be..

Roasted Duck Rice.. again..

and as it is.. the entire city was still partying coz they were celebrating the Queens Birthday..

though i think the Queen might had been asleep hours and hours earlier and would be wondering why the heck are those drunk ppl making so much noise outside her house..

or.. ok.. outside her Palace..

whatever..

but then again.. yeah.. i think they are just looking for another excuse to get drunk..

coz most of the ppl who were partying are not English anyway.. they talked in foreign languages and funny accents mah..

so, those are the tourists who are just looking for any excuses to get drunk and pretend to be English..



Bayswater, at midnight.. still busy partying..

I love London..

I really do..

one of the coolest places on earth..

and one of those places where I would be excited to go to whenever I am rostered for it..

not only coz of the Siew Ngap..

but therez so many cool things to do in London..

they have nice clubs..

or u could just head down to the stretch between Picadilly's and Covent Garden to watch talented bands busking on the streets..

really really talented..

or in the tube stations..

the gloomy London..

where it always rains..

somehow, the smell of the air.. the ambience, the weather.. all adds to the coolness of the place..

and u have to go there and experience it on ur own to know it..

even the tube.. itz an experience to take it..

I dont know why.. but it just is..

I love taking the tube.. Mind The Gap.. and I still cant explain why..

not like as if the stations are beautiful..

or the trains are fantastic..

but itz just London..

just Mind The Gap..

or even at the gas station, the fellas would just hang "Sorry, Not In Use" to every pump, including the one that u have in ur hand.. with the nozzle already in the hatch..

dammit.. u could at least come to me and say sorry.. but we dont have anymore gas rather than just hang it and leave..

macam siak punya bangla..

but nevermind..

the rest of London is still cool..



there it is.. a typical walkway in the tube station..

for a good view of London.. try watching American Werewolf in London.. it even shows u the gloominess in the tube stations..

but u dont feel the sense of danger here.. not like in the United States..

u dont get robbed in the stations..

but of course.. u might get shot by police officers if u have a beard..

or bombed by some bearded freaks..

and another reason why London is cool is..



coz they have condom machines in the toilets..