Oxford...

Well.. the weekend is finally here again and this time I'm going to London alone. Woohoo! Quite an exciting one eh? Anyway, Yusen, Zhen Siong and Regent are going to Manchester and Liverpool this saturday but I did not join them as the main purpose of their trip is to visit Old Trafford and Anfield (well.. maybe for Yusen). Zhen Siong was quite relunctant to go but in the end joined them. As for me, being a non-football fan, decided to go to London to find Jason instead and then going to Oxford together.

Boarded the megabus at 3.40pm on Friday evening and this began my solo trip to London. It was a 7.5 hrs journey due to some accidents along the road that caused the bus ride to be delayed by an hour. It was a very long journey. I tried to read some notes to kill time but got kinda dizzy due to the bumpy ride. In the end, I slept throughout most of the journey. Reached London Victoria at 11.30pm and Jason was there to fetch me. We took the tube back to his place. The train was in a massive bad condition and it looks as if it has been running for decades without maintenances and it also made abrupt stops in between stations. Eventually, we reached Jason's place at around 12 plus am.

We woke up early the next morning to board the Oxford-London tube and reached Oxfordshire in 2hrs time. We met up with Jason's army friend, Weihao, who is currently in his third year in Oxford University and majoring in Chemistry. He brought us to his college, Worcester College and it was really beautiful. . It is a nice place to study in, with those traditional English buildings and a pond just beside the building. You can just take a stroll in the park after school and immediately be refreshed. Well.. today is probably the graduation day as we could see students in their graduation attire taking photos with their parents.


Oxford used to be a small university town. But as the influx of tourist to the area increases each year, Oxford soon became a cosmopolitian city and thus lost its peaceful sight compared to Cambridge. However, it's still a place worth visiting as the university colleges remained unchanged and still retained their first look.

We went to Christ Church College after our visit in Weihao's college. Well... Christ Church College is the biggest and richest college in the university. Famous people like Charles Boyle came from that college. The college was made even famous when the dinning area of the college was being used for the filming of Harry Potter. Flock of tourist came to the college just to have a peek at the dinning area and it cost 3.50pd just to get into the college.

Weihao then brought us to the river which is just a few minutes walk from Christ Church College. We could see people rowing in the river. Apparently, rowing is a very popular sport in Oxford University and there is a regatta where the various colleges would compete and try to sink their opponent's boat. Erm....as you can see that the colleges are not really in good terms with one another. There is sort of a rivary just like the halls of residence in NUS.

Finally, we went to one of the museum in the university. Well... this is not one of those museum where they display boring stuffs like old paintings and antiques. This museum is really an interesting one. It is the Biology Museum which showcase the skeletons of the different animal species. They even have a giant dinosaur skeleton in the museum. Pretty impressive eh??

Well.. today is Guy Fawkes Day. It is the celebration of this guy called Guy Fawkes who failed to bomb one of the major building in England. On this day, fireworks will be displayed throughout England. At first, Jason and I wanted to go to River Thames and watch the fireworks but the bus driver refused to let us take the earlier bus back to the London. In the end, we can only watch the firworks display from the windows of our bus. Kinda sad...