colour the coast with your smile

it's the most genuine thing
that i've ever seen
i was so lost
but now i believe

yesterday was so awesome i really want to start all over and do it again, even though it meant having only 2 hours of sleep. but it's definitely worth it, no doubts.

highlight of the day has got to be Dashboard Confessional's acoustic concert at st. james' church in picaddilly.

i think i have fallen in love with chris carrabba's music and him as a performer. such raw emotion, so much passion into his songs. normally i don't immediately listen out for the lyrics, but my favourite line of all time is from stolen,

before the gold and glimmer has been replaced
another sun-soaked season fades away

i don't know why but his lyrics always seem to jump out at me. maybe it's because of all the repetition, maybe because it's an acoustic set, and everyone knows i love anything acoustic. but it was an absolutely incredible night! we were so far in front i swear he could have been just singing most of the songs just for me.. :) definite eye contact on so many occasions oh yeah!

i bought a dashboard shirt, lined up with all the other crazy fans for an autograph, a picture and some priceless conversation. i love it that it was an acoustic set; we couldn't have got such a cosy and close experience otherwise. chris was so nice in person but like nic said, he was smaller then he looked onstage. then again, everyone with a guitar looks cool.

apart from the concert, yest was all about the FOOD!

• royal china in the morning for dim sum - heavenly. highly recommended. 5 stars. it has to be the best dim sum in london, on par with all those hongkong restaurants, and that says a lot about the quality of the food. my god, i could actually taste the huge prawns in my ha kao and ha cheung! we left feeling slightly too full but slightly lighter after cashing out on the bill. (which wasn't that expensive for a place of this standard tbh)
  
• gordan's wine bar in the afternoon for some wine and cheese - 4.5 stars. the oldest wine bar in london, with its rustic cellar/dungeon feel. i had to stoop to walk across to our table at the far end of the basement. there were candles everywhere, twas so romantic - the rose and cheese were so good together! i now understand why angmohs can just laze around all day, just sipping wine/drinking tea and chatting.
  
• chinatown's random chinese restaurant for roast pork and duck rice - 4 stars. i've tasted much better duck before but it was good all the same because we were just so hungry after the concert and before we went on to zoobar. ahh how lucky am i to have been born in asia where we get asian cuisine so readily. i couldn't and wouldn't want to live on anything else!

and also a big THANK YOU TO EVERYONE BACK HOME! i've got all my birthday presents and it was so sweet! we were sitting in starbucks opening them all; i felt so so loved :) ahh i wish all of you guys could be here with me on the actual day, and i can't believe i'm actually turning 21! huge expectations to live up to, but i will try my very best don't worry dad and mum!

i guess it's luck but it's the same
hard luck, you've been trying to tame
maybe it's love, but it's like you said
"love is like a role that we play"

chasing the ghost of a good thing
haunting yourself as the real thing
it's getting away from you again
while you're chasing ghosts