No big deal. I can live without a TV but not without a computer!
Tonight, I'm watching 2 of my beloved sports LIVE on computer. Champions League football for Liverpool and US Open highlights. 
夸张 right? haha.. But I'm glad I've survived for 2 months without TV. Hope to resume life with a proper tv and sky box soon...
US Open 2008
Arthur Ashe7:00 PM Start
Men's Singles - 1st Rnd. Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) v. Roger Federer (SUI)[2]
I'm not used to it. Not used to what?
Roger Federer (SUI) [2]
it's been Roger Federer (SUI) [1] for the last 237 weeks.... Sad...
Today, me and jingyi went to catch the Beijing Olympics 2008 closing and handover ceremony at Trafalgar Square.
David Beckham in an interview.
Counting down to the closing ceremony. 3! 2! 1!
London 2012!
Fireworks at the Bird's Nest Stadium, Beijing.
Hundreds and thousands of others also at the Trafalgar Square to share that moment of joy and honour.
It was really quite cool to be able to watch the closing ceremony at the Trafalgar Square. Especially so when London is going to be the next host city of the Olympics in 2012. The atmosphere was really amazing and everyone was cheering and screaming and shouting as the handover ceremoney took place.
The Great Britain flying high.
London, the next host city of the Olympics in 2012!
The London bus making its grand entrance.
David Beckham again!
It was a very pleasant surprise to see Wang Lee Hom, Rain and Kelly Chen appear for a performance during the closing party! 
More of the watchers as we made our way out of Trafalgar Square.
The Wales trip was actually a work instead of a holiday trip. I went to my client's newly acquired oil refinery at Milford Haven for a SOX audit. Milford Haven is located in Pembrokeshire, in the south west of Wales.
A short introduction to Milford Haven per Wiki:
"Milford Haven (Welsh: Aberdaugleddau, meaning "mouth of the two Rivers Cleddau") is a town in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. It was founded as a whaling centre in the 18th century and grew into a major port. It is the largest town in Pembrokeshire, with a population of 14,000."
We stayed at a hotel at Cleddau Bridge, which is a 15 min drive away from the refinery. The journey to Milford Haven was a looooong one. I woke up at 5am to leave home at 545am to catch the 645am train from Paddington. Then it was a 2.5 hours journey to Port Talbort. Got there at 9.30am due to a 15min delay. From Port Talbort, it was another 1.5hr of drive! So it's really a looong journey to get there.
The train getting into Cardiff Central. Notice the Welsh words above the english words? All signs in Wales carry both the Welsh and English language.
Trying to do some work on the train.
My hotel room at Cleddau Bridge Hotel.
View of the Cleddau Bridge from the hotel.
More of the bridge.
Anyways, work was nothing exciting. The exciting bit is we got to go for a 3hr tour of the refinery and the jetty. And it was an experience indeed! nothing that I've seen before. The closest was probably the Senoko Power Station. But then again, I only went into the office and didn't get to do a tour of the power station. But too bad, cameras weren't allowed in the refinery as its a battery operated equipment. But my client took a picture of us all fully suited up! This will come later when he sends the photo to us.
On Thurs, we suggested to do a dinner with my client, and he very very kindly offered to drive us around for a tour of the Pembrokeshire area of Wales! It was a really good tour because the weather was simply amazing during the 2 days I was there! The taxi driver who drove me to the refinery said it had been raining for the last 3 weeks! and it was heavy rain on mon-tues as well. but somehow, when I got there on wed, it dried up in the afternoon and it was dry throughout thurs and fri! haha.. i was really wondering if I brought the sun to Wales!
I think coast of Wales is so beautiful as well. At least this place is not as touristy as Northern Ireland. Its very obvious its not as touristy because the road is not even well developed! The road along the coast consists of a single lane! Whenever a car approaches from the opposite direction, someone needs to give way for the other car to pass.
Walking to the Barafundle Bay.
A lone yacht
Me at the Barafundle Bay. That's the beach below.
The beach at Barafundle Bay.
Walking down to the beach.
Another bay, which I forgot the name. You can see that the beach is free of footprints! A totally undisturbed and natural beach.
After the tour, we had dinner at a very nice fish restaurant in the town of Tenby. A lovely dinner to finish off the wonderful day spent!
On Fri, I spent bout 2.5 hours touring Cardiff before I went back to London. 
There was nothing much in Cardiff. I took a walk from the station to the High Street where I deposited my luggage at the tourist info centre. Then I made my way to the Cardiff Castle to take some photos before going to the National Museum to take a look at some of the Renoir and Monet paintings they have there. 
Cardiff Castle 
Cardiff National Museum
After that, looking at the map i had, I thought the Cardiff Bay looks pretty nice and cool. So I took a bus to the Cardiff Bay thinking that there will be a nice nice beach promenade with restaurants, shops and a Boardwalk to walk along. But to my utter disappointment, there was nothing there! except lots of residential housing and a port! :( Haiz, I should have checked with the tourist info pple before assuming that all city bays are nice beach promenades.
After Lake District, we went down to Manchester. It's my 4th time to Manchester I think. If i didn't rem wrongly!
Our very big hotel room at Britannia Hotel in Manchester.
A very 夸张 chandelier at the hotel entrance.
HX and mum at the Manchester Library.
Me and the Manchester Wheel.
A very unique structure
Another new and unique building. That's why I like Manchester so much. It has all the old and new buildings together, so it simply brings out the difference in feel for me.
A very special and pretty window display.
Our hotel exterior
What's a visit to Manchester without a visit to Old Trafford, the home to Manchester United?
Arrival at the home base of Manchester United!!!
This was taken by HX. I didn't go for the stadium since I've done that before.
The new team photo in the entrance to the Mega Store.
The Manchester Chinatown gate.
Another unique structure. It's actually a street lamp.
On the second day of our visit, we did cruises around the whole Lake Windermere and went up to Orrest Head for a superb view of Lake Windermere.
We got the Freedom ticket so that we can catch all the 4 different routes provided by the cruise company.
A nice house we passed on the lake. Check out the perfectly manicured trees.
Me standing on the deck of the first cruise-to-nowhere we took.
A steam train at Lakeside, destination of the second cruise we took.
A busy bee at work.
We took the Tern back to Bowness from Lakeside.
Welcome to Bowness at Windermere
Approaching Amberside for a transit of cuise around the Amberside area.
Wray Castle at Amberside.
View of the Lake from the castle.
At the small pier for Wray Castle.
Waiting for the boat to pick us up.
Onboard the Princess of the Lake!
Eh Uncle, what you looking at?!
The highlight of the day will be the hike up to Orrest Head for the beautiful scene of the entire Lake Windermere.
The way to Orrest Head - We hiked for bout 30min upslope to get there!
Tired hike up the trail.
But its all worth it!
Lake Windermere from Orrest Head
3 of us together
Me with mum. 
Last dinner at Windermere
