A day trip to High Wycombe by train to visit Hell Fire Caves. I was told about this location by a colleague when I first arrived to Aylesbury as a nearby tourist attraction.
The man made chalk caves were indeed unique and have loads of tales and myths. It is a collection of interconnected caves and chambers.
The Entrance
The tourist attraction was made famous by the recordings of two ghost hunting shows as there are two resident ghosts here. The most famous one is Suki, the female bride ghost. Benjamin Franklin was also believed to have come here when he was a child.
After the caves, we took a hike up the hill where the Church Of St Lawrence and The Dashwood Mausoleum (pic above) was. Due to its hill top location, it was visible during my train ride here.
I would recommend this as a good day out but make sure you have other activities planned such as a visit to the town center or this trip can be quickly over. I visited using the 2 for 1 voucher from Network Rail which reduced the entry price to 2.50 per person.
The site is finally up and in a presentable state. Took me two weekends because I wanted to make sure the site is running on Wordpress. I experimented on Joomla a while ago but I am more familiar with Wordpress. Visit the page now at http://www.velocityspark.net and let me know what you think. I still have bigger plans for the site but it will need to be parked aside until I complete the revamp of my other pages including my personal blog. I will be off to Dublin in the next two days. Till next post, take care guys.
It has been ages since my last post. I have been tied up with several side projects. One of the items that I managed to clear out is to have an attempt at site flipping. For this purpose, I have decided to use the services of flippa.com and listing the below site for 7 days on auction!
I will wait till the end of the whole process to review the site. You can take a peek of the site’s progress from the live status provided below:
Today is the last day of my one month trip back home and thanks to my dearest Song Yia, it was ended with the accomplishment of completing my first 10KM run at Bukit Jalil around my old apartment and workplace. I finished at just over an hour and am not sure when my next run is going to be but this will not be my last.
Here is a pic of us with our completion medals…
With Our Completion Medals
The event kicked off on time and the route had a few challenging uphill climbs. I will sore on the flight back tonight and probably even more in the office tomorrow morning…
I was fortunate to be back in KL for GSD’s Annual Dinner Celebration. The theme of the event was Street Smart and this was our attempt for the evening. It was an enjoyable evening indeed and Quattro was a perfect place to host the event.
That is what I saw scribbled in snow on the front of a car. When I woke up this morning, I could see the owner warming up the engine. After breakfast, I took a peak at the balcony and saw that he has abandone his effort. Apparently the driver has given up as the snow became heavier. Oh Well. Am attempting to head to work as normal but am hoping the snow fall will be lighter before I head off.
Well, only less than 5 weeks before I return to sunny Malaysia. Can’t wait!
After hearing the people in the office talking about severe weather warnings, it came in full force after I got home. Will try and take a picture while walking to work tomorrow to show the full scale of the weather impact! Below are pics from my apartment window.
I attended this years parade anticipating to see huge balloons like the below but not even one made an appearance. Where have they all deflated to?
However, this year’s event was no short of a crowd, marching bands and cheerleaders. Here is a taster of what is was like (apologies for the single repeating picture from 2004, unsure how to get rid of it from the embedded gallery feature)
Despite the crowd, it was still cold and we left towards the end of the 3 hour long parade that started at noon.
Click here to view the pictures that I have uploaded on my facebook account.
If you want to get a copy of the event on DVD or further details of the upcoming ones, visit the official website.
My third time enjoying this and the crowd is growing year on year, the past countdowns were to welcome in 2004 (I found embarassing videos) and 2005 if I am not mistaken.
I felt as if I just attended the countdown in Hamburg yesterday or even waiting at Taman Titiwangsa for my first Hot Air Balloon ride before it got cancelled due to bad weather (thanks got we got our ride, sorry Angie and JS if you are reading this!)
Here are the crowds building up towards the event. It was absolutely packed during the countdown.
The countdown was by the river thames and the Shell building next to the London Eye acted as a screen where digital numbers appear to start the countdown at from 60 seconds to midnight. The fireworks display was nothing short of amazing. Here is a video of the event as shown to the world by BBC.
It was quite magical in London when it started snowing a bit after the countdown.
Here is crowd control for you! Green Park station jam packed!
We walked all the way from the river banks to the station to head back to Earls Court where our Hotel was.
Will attend the London New Year Parade in a couple of hours. Can’t wait!
