Romantic week out…

So I decided I needed a week off from the stresses of life, just a week where my boyfriend and I could enjoy ourselves without the stress of working, studying and anything else… Here’s how the week went…

The original plan was:

Monday: Watch American Sniper, Into the Woods and eat at Las Iguanas and a walk down the riverside

Tuesday: Bowling and Nandos

Wednesday: Go to the Science and Natural History Museum and go to have Afternoon Tea at Haagen Daaz and go to M&M world

Thursday: Watch Ex Machina, go to Nandos and a ride on the cable cars

Friday: Go sightseeing, Covent Garden, Oxford Street, China Town and check out this cute little candy place in Covent Garden called Spun Candy, go out for dinner and go for shisha.

Like I mentioned that was the plan… to be fair most of it went to plan, but some of it didn’t…

So Monday we ended up watching the films we wanted to and had a better experience at Las Iguanas then the last time! It was surprisingly quite nice… American Sniper literally bought tears to my eyes, it was a really sad film to see that someone who gave up their life for the American People survived 4 tours then died at home… but then again I’m a sucker for a sad story.

Tuesday, we decided to stay home and have a nice relaxing day in watching movies on Netflix and ordering in. Pizza+ movies + a nice cuddly blanket = heaven! But watching Saw, The Woman In Black and scary ghost films! Not my thing!!

Wednesday we decided to go on a Museum crawl and visited quite a few places, we went to the Natural History Museum, Science Museum and the V&A to see the wedding dress exhibit. We walked for hours and hours but I got this really yummy rock from the Natural History Museum! We were then meant to go to Haagen Daaz but we decided to be fatties and go for Pizza Hut instead! My feet were aching from all that working that we couldn’t even go out on Thursday!

Friday we decided we’d head into West London, we said before we left - No Shopping! But lets face reality here we both knew that we would end up shopping regardless, so we went shopping, House of Fraser, Debenhams, Selfridges then down to Knightsbridge to visit Harrods! I bought a load of Perfume and Clothes! We then visited the Dodi and Diana Memorial, surprisingly it’s quite a romantic place!

AND I GOT MY FIRST PAIR OF LOUBITONS! AAAAAH, but sadly the first day I wore them they started to wear down! And I got some Macaroons! £15 for a box of 8, I could have bought so much food with that £15… I’m wondering if it was actually worth it or not!

Saturday was my little sister’s birthday. I made a balloon arch complete with fairy lights. I think I should seriously become a party planner! I love decorating things and getting into creative things! After all the cake I have had during the past couple of weeks I am pretty much SICK of cake, I know I know, everyone that knows me knows I don’t get sick of much, but too much cake, I would rather have a kebab to be honest lol! But my aunt cooked us all tandoori and jerk chicken, suffice to say my nose was running all day!

Sunday… usually Sunday is my chill out day but today my boyfriend mentioned he wanted to go out so I thought we’d go somewhere he’s never been but has been dying to go to… DUN DUN DUUUUN -- The Zoo!

But before the zoo we went to Wafflemeister! OH MY GOD the best tasting thing ever, it was so nice it was unbelievable! Strawberries, cream and sprinkles! AMAZING!

The zoo was a lot of fun, even on a cold Sunday! My boyfriend was like a child in a candy store, he was so excited that I thought he was going to explode. He was seriously so excited! There was a monkey exhibit where the monkeys roam free and he was loving it! And the baby tiger cubs and the goats! We looked at every single exhibit they had on an empty stomach! We didn’t want to lose any valuable time!

But then sadly 4pm hit and we had to leave! So I decided he deserved a present, so we went back to Harrods and I let him loose in Gucci and afterwards we went to have dinner!

Happy New Year!

Hope you’ve all had a lovely holiday, a great Christmas and a very Happy New Year! Lots to talk about today..

First topic of conversation is dum dum dummm... My Birthday.. Lets start off with lots of cake and parties! The first one was a meal with all of my family (Daddy’s side). There were too many people as we took up a whole side of the restaurant, but it was so much fun with all of my cousins, sisters, brothers, nieces and nephews!

Too many children and lots of presents, some well needed family bonding time! Second party with the other half of my family (Mummy’s side) it was so much fun, very intimate lol and even more cake than I could imagine. In fact there was too much cake for the amount of people there!

And the third party was with my love <3 - my lovely boyfriend threw me an amazing party, lots of balloons, pretty decorations, music, friends and my much loved Mojitos what else could I ask for. But then I got caked ¬_¬

All over my face, was not a pretty site but managed to fix it in time to chill with the ever growing amount of guests we had. And then I got the flu and was so ill I couldn’t sleep at night (brings out the violins) and I’m still ill more than two weeks later!

Luckily people seem to be nicer to people who are ill, my Barista in Starbucks was so nice! I wanted some honey lemon tea, you mix honey, lemon juice and some hot water and hey presto, so it turns out Starbucks have honey that you can have for free with a purchase so I asked for a tea without the teabag, she gave me the tea (which was basically a cup of hot water which cost £2.10 ¬_¬) and then gave me some teabags and honey pots to take home! Which I thought was just too sweet!

Unfortunately it has not curbed my addiction to Baskins Robbins Ice Cream! THEY BROUGHT BACK AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY CAKE! AHHH if you saw my face you would think I just hit the jackpot! I was really hoping that they would and they did and I’ve eaten so much that I will probably be sick of it next time I have it LOL!

Until the next time..

S x

New Years

Since the last blog I've been to 2 weddings, 3 birthday parties (ON THE SAME DAY) and an invite to a relative’s house every evening! Trying to juggle family, work and most importantly getting my sleep has been super difficult! Luckily I have 2 weeks of holiday and MY BIRTHDAY coming up.

Cake, food and more food! I think I may actually be getting sick of eating cake now ¬_¬

My birthday is a whole new topic.

According to my mum I am apparently too old to have a birthday party so we're all going out for a meal instead. Trying to organise all of my cousins, nephews, nieces, aunts and uncles to be in the same place at the same time is near enough impossible! I called up to book a table for 56 and the man on the phone was baffled! I don’t think he believed me to be honest LOL But hopefully we’ll see what happens on Saturday…

On the plus side, I've already started my Boxing Day shopping! Boots, jackets, shoes, clothes, make-up anything I wanted cause I’m the birthday girl! :D I cannot wait for Boxing Day, A nice cuppa, my laptop and a credit card the best combination there is ^_^

I cannot wait to be on holiday, I’m so tired that I tapped my uni card onto the DLR yesterday and didn't realise until I was half way down the escalator! I have a lot of work to do over the Christmas holiday, so I don't think I will get any time to myself and I fully need another holiday, hopefully soon…

 

But for now Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ^_^

Christmas Time

Hello again guys,

I’d like to start off with the fact that it has been cold as ice lately, and it does not seem to be getting any warmer. I feel like I don’t even want to leave my house most mornings, but unfortunately I can’t, I just recovered from a week of food poisoning after eating at Las Iguanas ¬_¬ It was horrible and overpriced, would definitely not recommend the one at the O2.

However, it has unfortunately not curbed my eating out habits, the best place so far this month is Loaded Burgers in Ilford! I had it once before but I didn’t really like it, this time I went for the Jerk Chicken burger it was so yummy along with my legendary Mojito!

On the plus side I watched the funniest film ever, I know I said that about the Nativity 3 but Horrible Bosses 2 was just so funny, it had me laughing so hard throughout the whole movie, along with the rest of the cinema! Would definitely recommend it as a must watch movie.

December is my birthday month = lots of presents! And they have already begun flying in! I got the best present a My Little Pony (well another one) and it is just too cute! As well as boots, clothes, makeup and lots of other stuff! Can’t wait for my actual party, should be fun a red and white party ^_^

I feel like I am procrastinating a lot in terms of my work load, I know I’ll get round to it but I feel like there’s a lot going on at the moment I have so much time but so little time at the same time. I’ve been doing a lot of work with my service users and creating different tools for them to work with, I think I am quite a creative person so I enjoy making things. My favourite day is Fridays, Art Therapy, we do the most awesome projects, card making, games, present making, tree decorating and hopefully soon snow globe making!

We just had our Christmas party, we had so much yummy food! Jerk Chicken, Jollof Rice, Onion Bhajis, Somosas and so much more! All cooked by us it was just so much fun and everyone loved it! Most said it was the best party they ever went to!

It has been a fun month so far but hopefully by the next blog I will have lots of stories to tell!

For now Toodles x

Swamped!

Hiya,

My Blog has come quite late this month as I have been absolutely SWAMPED with work on placement. I am enjoying working here so much, learning new things everyday and experiencing new things. I have met so many professionals that I will no doubt cross paths with when I become a Qualified Social Worker ^_^

On the bright side, I start at 10 EVERYDAY and it only takes me 30 minutes to get there, so that means enough sleep and no stressful nights trying to complete work for the next day. My social life however, has gotten more interesting, I have a lot more free time after work to go out, eat out, and watch films and best of all eat lots of desserts!

I have eaten out so much in the last few weeks I am pretty sure that I haven’t used any dishes in my house! Wake Up, Work, Eat, Work, Out to the Cinema/ Out to eat, Home, Sleep. Same routine every day and I love it!

I’ve been to watch Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Imitation Game, Nightcrawler, and The Nativity 3: Dude where’s my donkey? This was quite possibly the funniest and the worst film I’ve ever watched in my life, if you’re feeling down cause of life or coursework overload, go watch it, it is guaranteed to have you laughing just because of the storyline and acting. And of course a million reruns of Frozen!

My little sister’s birthday was this month and it was an absolute Frozen-fest, Frozen dress, Frozen cake and Frozen balloons. I have eaten so much cake and dessert and pies in the last couple of weeks that I could have opened up a shop! *drools* and more strawberry Mojitos!

I’ve been to a million and one weddings this month, even two in a day some weeks! Wedding season is hopefully coming to an end this month though, I swear I am running out of clothes to wear now! Wedding food seems to be improving, not that I eat anything past the starters anyway LOL!

Skills London 2014: Was AMAZING, it was so fun to work and represent the University of Greenwich! I also found my best friend working for our rivals Westminster! I have known her since I was 3 years old! Almost 17 years now :D

But anyway back to Skills London, it was so fun; there were so many different stalls, so much free cake and cookies and food! It was a really fun day doing what I do best, TALKING!

December the month of sales, Christmas and the most important event of the year, MY BIRTHDAY ^_^ There’ll be lots of pictures next month

Until the next blog…

BARCELONA!

Hiya Guys, I have exciting news for you all! I have just been on my first weekend dash away…. The destination this time was BARCELONA!

The first day we got there, not even an hour after we landed we were in need of emergency services! My friend had collapsed with stomach pain on the floor in the middle of the airport, all eyes were on us! Luckily it was nothing serious just a cramp and we went back to our hotel to settle in! What did we have for dinner? MCDONALDS! LOL some things never change..

It was absolutely beautiful; we did so much in such a small amount of time! We went sightseeing, ate lots and lots of food and went to the beach! We had 4 seasons in 4 days, sun, wind, thunderstorms, cloudy weather and lots of rain!

We went bike riding through Barcelona, to the beach at night time, because we woke up late every day! But it was still nice to relax and take romantic walks down along the beach near the water with the pretty Barcelona lights behind us.

We also visited Port Olympic, where there are over a hundred boats docked, and a whole strip of bars, restaurants and shisha lounges, which we obviously visited the shisha lounges not the bars :P I drank the most amazing non-alcoholic mojitos EVER! And I got the prettiest red roses ever!

We went for dinner in The Arena, where they used to do Bullfighting, we went up to the rooftop and the views were absolutely stunning!

We visited the Placa de les Cascades, which looked amazing, sadly the fountains were off, none the less it still looked beautiful during the night and the Sagrada Familia which was the first place I wanted to visit! But there was a thunderstorm the morning we went to visit which was not so fun to get caught up in.

The people in Barcelona were amazingly friendly, the amount of times we got lost and had to ask random people for directions, and they drove us all the way to the place! The only words in Spanish I know are Ola, Adios and Gracias but there were a lot of Asian people, who knew speaking Urdu would come in handy!? Thank you very much Star Plus! 

We went for dinner in Las Ramblas, which is a whole strip of outdoor restaurants and souvenir shops, it was the most amazing little Turkish restaurant even, the food was amazing, and sadly very expensive! We got caricatures done, which I must add look nothing like me LOL but it was still funny to see!

The last day, we went to do a bit of shopping, and went bowling with our personal tour guide and chauffer Bablu Bhai (my friends cousin brother) and we were almost late for our flight, we got to the airport within 15 minutes and ran to the bag check in desk, checked in our bags and ran to make sure we didn’t miss our plane! Luckily we made it to our plane on time, the views from the plane were beautifully stunning, all the bright lights and being able to see the clouds! ….Then we came back to London just in time for the rain!

I still feel jetlagged while I write this blog, and it is also my last day working for the Enquiry Unit for a while, I’ll be on placement from Monday L

Until the next blog Adios x

Sightseeing

Hiya Guys,

My first teaching term is almost over, my placement is coming up in less than 20 days! I feel quite excited but also scared at the same time. I feel like this year’s teaching has been super intense, 5 days a week! But on the other hand it has also been really helpful in teaching us skills and theories that for the first time in forever actually make sense! They really are applicable to me and the course and the job that I will hopefully get at the end of my degree! I’ve had loads of hand-ins recently but I have been on top of them all, organising myself to make sure I leave plenty of time to check and recheck for mistakes.

Aside from being at University 5 days a week, I feel I deserved to splash out and splurge on myself so I’ve done a lot of shopping! Stationary, clothes, shoes, bags, phones and more stationary shopping! I love stationary and colours as you can tell by the colourful diary and pens.

I’ve managed to make time to watch loads of new films, Gone Girl, TMNT and loads of others! And of course ate a LOT of ice cream! There are so many new flavours out but America’s Birthday Cake will ALWAYS be my favourite but they sadly no longer stock it at Cineworld, I will however go on a quest in search of it!

I’ve also been eating out a lot, looking back at my statement I’m wondering if it was worth it. The most worth it was Afternoon Tea at Haagen Daaz, it was to die for! But they ran out of macaroons, I LOVE macaroons with a passion, but luckily I still got my macaroons from somewhere different! EEEEEK they are AMAZING! If you haven’t tried a macaroon before go try one now, they are better than anything ever!

I went to M&M world! It was like walking into a rainbow! There were so many colours and so many types of M&M’s, totally my favourite place on earth now :D 

Scratch that, that’s a lie my favourite place on earth is the London Aquarium, I find the animals so interesting, the penguins are SUPERDUPER cute! And the yellow-belly turtles! It never gets old (I frequently visit because my partner LOVES fishes and the aquarium and turtles) and walks down Embankment at night are romantic and all that, with the pretty London lights and Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament lit up at night.

I will sadly be leaving my lovely job at the Enquiry Unit until March because I’ll be out on placement! But I will continue to keep you updated over the coming months…

Until the next blog x