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London Phantom of The Opera, Bayswater Four Seasons Roast Duck, Kensington Palace, National Gallery Museum Experiences

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today i woke up at 7.20am.
frankly speaking, i can foresee it would probably be my last few blog post as a "lonely reload blogger" to blog about my life as i did not have much improvement in my English writing skills.
in fact, i was in a "stressing" feelings when i writing this post as my decision to continue to stay more 2 month in London will better or not for me to improve my English after my Europe trip starting at 13th September night until 28th September visiting few countries.
moreover, this was a delayed post as there is some internet connection problem in my relatives house and i don't really feel like update it as i felt myself would be a "blog addict" which no different with drug addict.
anyways, all my writing for this post was just based on my phone's note although i wish i can blog the 15 days of my Europe trip.

during the morning, i was feeling a little pain for my leg as i had been walked quite a long time this few day.
after updated my yesterday's "London trip" and have some cup cakes as my breakfast, i make a move from home around 11.45pm and took the Metropolitan line because the Piccadilly line seems to be quite slow especially in the morning.
around 12.40pm i arrived the Finchley road under the Jubilee line and i quickly go to sit the train to Bond Street as shown below.
when i arrived in Bond Street which in the Central line, i decided to took until the Notting Hill Gate under the District and Circle line to reach Bayswater tube station as shown below.
upon arrived at Bayswater station around 1.05pm, i quickly check the price and i just realized it only cost £3 no matter which route i change.

the reason i decided to stop at Bayswater was probably because of the Four Season Chinese restaurant as i wish to experience the my "last year college classmate" of moment being there as i remember they had stop by one of the Four Season restaurant although i not sure which shop but so far i had visited the two different shop of it as below.
well, the price of the "Shuang Ping" (double meat) cost about £9.50 and i do feel quite "money pain" because it is consider quite a high price for me.
somehow i just ordered the roast duck with "char siu" (barbecue pork meat) and the portion seems to be slightly smaller than what we eat before in Hong Kong Wok Sheffield. as shown below.
at the end of my bills, it cost me £13.50 in total and i was like "speechless+OMG, so expensive" but no choice as i need to pay for it although it comes with some orange and Mentos sweet.

seriously i do feel really not very worth to eat at Four season @ Bayswater because the rice and the dish price cost separately as a bowl of white rice cost for £2.50 according to the bill and the rest might be the service charge or the hot water. (i can eat 10 plate of duck rice for RM70+ in Malaysia right?)
moreover, Vkeong blogger do blog about it saying that it cost for £6 for a plate of roasted duck drumstick rice because that price was 3 years ago since 2010.
after that, i walked around the street and spend £18 buying the London souvenir for my friends and helping another friend buy it.
besides, i think i had realized that why my expenses balance did not tally for that day would probably because i did not include the cost that i help other people to buy the product such as the Gap clothes and the Harrods wallet.

when i walked around the Bayswater area, i do saw the London Malaysia Hall and get to know some Malaysian people when i asking about the Malaysian food with it's canteen kitchen related stuff as below.
the next stop i had decided to walk around was the Kensington palace and Kensington garden as it is nearby to the station when i look in my phone's GPS.
anyways, i just took some picture around there and did not go in the palace since it would cost £16.50 for the entrance fee as shown below.
around 3.50pm i walked to the Queensway station and took the route to Oxford Circus under the Bakerloo route as shown below. (cost £2.10)
somehow i do feel a little regret for not keep using the Oyster card when i just get to know that the daily cap limit for the transportation would be £8.40 and the peak hour start from 4pm to 7pm.

therefore all this few day that i had been walked around London might be consider "stupid" when i spend almost £8+ everyday for transportation.
when i arrived the Piccadilly Circus, i walked to the National Gallery Museum as i arrived there at 4.10pm.
somehow the "guardian of the museum" does not allow me to take picture and i just wondering what would happen when Google Glass is widely available right?
besides, i saw a lot of people can spend so much time "starring" on those painting picture and i almost fall asleep after looking so much picture.
overall i can say that it might be worth to spend time there if you like to see artistic stuff.
around 5.50pm i make a move from the museum as it would close at 6pm as shown below.
moreover, there was a lot of people queuing outside and i not sure what event it is at Trafalgar square.

after some moment, i just spend my time looking on my phone's trip advisor as i don't have any plan on what to do next.
however, i suddenly remember about a friend talk about the Phantom of the Opera in London is very worth to watch and i just went there to check up about it.
in the end, i decided to buy the tickets for £26 although it is had a restricted views because it would cost £50+ for normal view as shown below.
after that, i went to buy some Mayo Chicken burger as my dinner around 7pm although the weather still having some tiny rains as usual. (£2)
then i just walked back to the Her Majesty's Theatre to wait for the London's Phantom of the Opera as my seating was in the stalls position.

well, my view seems to be blocked by a Pillar and this would be the reason why my price ticket would cost for the half price as no one wish to sit at such position as shown below.
while watching the drama, it somehow reminds me about the "Angel of music" story plot that we learn during our secondary time for the Phantom of the opera literature class.
moreover, i do feel myself seems to be the "phantom" as i afraid about my own "face problem" and always stays in the "darkness" (lonely) in some ways.
in the end of the story, Erik was touched by the kiss of Christine Daaé because he never received a kiss before, not even his own mother and asked her to go marry with the boy wherever she wish.
if i were to apply myself in this scene, what i want after all this of "blogging feelings" seems to be just want to get some "love or attention" by stranger and i feel it seems to be useless to have such feelings.

anyways, the drama has been split into two part as the first part would take an hour and another part will take another hour.
moreover, a China girl just asked me about something during the resting time after an hour and i just realize the girl who sat beside me was from Korea and another two girl was from Japan.
overall i can say that the Phantom of the Opera drama seems to be quite debatable about whether worth or not to watch it because it is quite subjective to everyone as every people have their own point of view.
around 10pm the drama finish and i quickly walk back to the train station as it might be late to go back.
well, i was lucky that the train can directly go back to Ickenham without changing another train at Raysners Lane as the train is for the Uxbridge line.
finally i arrived Ickenham and 11.10pm and reach home after 10 minutes later.
while my cousin asked me about the English course related stuff, i had rejected at first but get persuaded after some moment although i still haven decide yet.
seriously i do feel quite down at the night because it was a hard decision to make as i would delay my flight for 2 more month before back to Malaysia.
totally i was stressed up and don't really can find anyone to talk about it especially it is almost midnight.
somehow it is quite "funny" to see my expenses today as i had spend the same amount of my total up to date expenses and it was the most expensive expenses a day for me in London.
(Self Expenses note: Today £66.70, Yesterday total £66.70, Total up to date £133.40)
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