Oxford Christ Church, Radcliffe Square, Hertford Bridge, Ashmolean Museum, Blackwell, Covered Market Day Trip Experience

Frankly speaking, I still using some positive mantra such as "I'm getting better and better everyday in every way" to cheer myself up before I do anything else. However, my nature's perception often make me assume that's was my reality as stated by the "Business model book" when I was try to convince myself that it is not. Anyway, today would be a good day as I was able to travel to Oxfordshire for a day trip. After I had taken my breakfast, I take the underground tube to Oxford Circus and change to Victoria station as I'd wait my friend there.

Along the journey, I was reading the "All Marketers Are Liars" by Seth Godin and found some interesting sentences as shown below.
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We believe what we want to believe, and once we believe something, it becomes a self-fulfilling truth. When you are busy telling stories to people who want to hear them, you’ll be tempted to tell stories that just don’t hold up. Lies. Deceptions. The thing is, lying doesn’t pay off any more. That’s because when you fabricate a story that just doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, you get caught. Fast.

Here are the questions I hope you’ll ask (your boss, your colleagues, your clients) after you’ve read this book:
“What’s your story?”
“Will the people who need to hear this story believe it?”
“Is it true?”

If what you’re doing matters, really matters, then I hope you’ll take the time to tell a story. A story that resonates and a story that can become true. So, go tell a story. If it doesn’t resonate, tell a different one. When you find a story that works, live that story, make it true, authentic and subject to scrutiny. All marketers are storytellers, only the losers are liars.
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Somehow I do feel myself seems to be a storyteller but the thing I shared was real although it might be based on my own assumption about certain things.

Upon arrival to Victoria station, I went to the nearest HSBC and withdraw £50 that cost for RM273.30 (RM5.446 per GBP). After my friend arrived, we took the X90 bus to Oxford and it cost £13 for student price which include the return ticket. During the moment in the bus, I get to know some story shared by friend about working illegally in UK. Honestly, I do felt quite envy when I heard that you could earn a clear profit about £1300 (around RM6700) per month working as a waiter as you don't need to pay for accommodation and your food because it is included.

Somehow my friend was right that it is useless to envy each other as I should be grateful about what I have. Anyway, the journey to Oxford took about 1 and half hour+ and we stop at St Aldates bus stop. Then we walk to one of the famous tourist attraction which is the Christ Church college and it cost £5.50 for student price as shown below.
Somehow we still need to wait until 2.30pm to go for the Great Hall which is one of the Harry Potter film take place.

Guess what, I do have a "funny" thought about my expectation versus reality about the Christ Church as shown below.
After that, we walk to Radcliffe Square which is one of the most beautiful spot in Oxford, containing the Radcliffe Camera in the center with the side of different corner building that is Bodleian Library, Brasenose College, All Souls College as shown below.
However, we couldn't enter some of the college as it is not open to visitor.

Next, we went to take picture at Hertford Bridge which is known as Bridge of Sighs as it is similar to the famous Bridge of Sighs in Venice and Cambridge as shown below.
After we bought our lunch at Cornish Kitchen, we went back to the Christ Church to go to the great hall as shown below.
The next destination we went to was Ashmolean Museum, Blackwell and Covered Market as shown below.
In deed it was a great experience although I didn't see much about the art displayed in Ashmolean Museum.

Around 5.40pm we make a move from there and finally reach Marble Arch station at 7.30pm as my friend went to Winter Wonderland as shown below.
During the night, I suddenly feel a little "down" when I read about something related to Borderline personality disorder (BPD) as I start to think some nonsense stuff. Perhaps it was due to looking some birthday related picture as it do make me think about my past. In fact, I didn't have the guts to face it although I know this is all based on my own assumption again.

After all, I still haven become successful yet and I found that the reason I feel so easily down was probably due to not having a job yet since I'm not using my future money for all the expenses as my own hard earned money have finished. Therefore the girl may look down on me based on my own assumption and imaginary which might be not true. Before I end my post, I would like to share an interesting picture about Love versus Lust as shown below.
Do you agree that Love is a deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness while Lust is the feeling that is often mistaken for love at first sight. It s an intense and sudden attraction to somebody you hardly know. It is mistaken for love because the attraction is so strong. In conclusion, I don't have the exact answer on how to chase a girl or having a successful relationship after so many years had past. Seriously it was true that you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough!
Cheer~
(Self Expenses note: Today £35)