London Museum of Archaelogy

3 months after we arrived in London, we decided to do something constructive (not that we were doing unconstructive stuffs all the while, just that we wanted to do something different) by visiting the museums in London. Our first stop is London Museum of Archaelogy, a museum built on an actual archaelogical site with budding archaelogists performing manual digging to recover artifacts. The place was a good 45 minutes bus ride from the campus, tucked quietly in a nondescript neighborhood at the fringe of the city.


The entrance of the London Museum of Archaelogy. We were informed by the staff that students from Western can visit the museum for free for that entire month (Jean, Nelly and Emma had to pay a $2 entrance free each when they visited the museum earlier during September). Whoever said that early bird gets the worm must be sadly mistaken.






Exhibits at the interior of the museum. Displayed items are mostly archaelogical findings or a brief introduction of the history of Canada since the Ice Age, *yawn*, pretty boring stuff no doubt.





Artworks by Native American Indians of the first nations.





The compound of the museum, an actual archaelogical site where ongoing excavations are still carried out.



A life size Native American Indian living quarters built on the excavation site. The walls of the quarter was made of tree barks.






The woods surrounding the museum reminded me of 'Blair Witch Project', we took a couple of pictures there and ended the visit to the museum by heading back to the campus for lunch. Although visibly bored by the visit, we still bought some souvenirs from the museum (obviously over priced made in China commodities).

What the f**k?!--> Part 2

Allan told me that the janitor of our residence, Dave commented that the snow storm we had 2 weeks ago was the heaviest he had seen in 4 years. Boy were we lucky to see snow fall from the sky in such an extravagant amount. It's not exactly biting off more than we could chew, as we wanted to see snow so bad that even if it means that our exams is postponed, it was worth it. Hence, we spent the remainder of the weekends building ourselves a snowman (the first one wasn't really impressive), pelting each other with snowballs, burying ourselves in the thigh-deep snow and attempted to snow board down the hills.








It is as if icing was spreaded nicely onto the entire campus. Seeing snow for the first time really got three of us excited, we went around taking tons of pictures and marvelled at a season that is little more than a slight inconvenient to folks living at the northern hemisphere.


Notice the amount of snow accumulated on the shade of the lamp post.


Then you will notice that folks are struggling to trudge through the thigh-deep layer of snow.




Bushes started to resemble cotton wools on twigs.


This picture was taken before the snowball fight began. Keep your friends close,your enemies closer.


The snowball fight got out of hand, Allan was ruthlessly buried in the snow after he 'fell' to the hail of snowballs.


Sarah (Denmark) was next...



I tried to snowboard down the slope at University College with a tray I 'borrowed' from the cafeteria. Bad mistake, the snow was too thick and not slippery enough.





The making of a snowman. It's not as easy as it looks, our hands were freezing all the time during the process.




It probably took about half an hour to get this snowman up, we came a long way from our first snowman.








When evening set in at 1630, the sky was already dark. Instead of getting diminished, the beauty of the snow was further enhanced as the sheets of white snow contrasted nicely with the night sky. I love the tropical climate in Singapore, I really do even though it does cause some discomfort. But when I saw the beauty unleashed during that weekend, my conviction came close to wavering,

P.S. The snow storm lasted 3 days, thereafter, the snow melted away, disappearing as mysteriously as it came. Just last week, the temperature in London even climbed to 15ºC... Global warming? I won't discount the possibility.