Monthly Archives: July 2008

My little excursion to the dentist and Canary Wharf…

Sooo, last Thursday I took the afternoon off to go to the Docklands Dental Surgery Clinic to have my wisdom teeth looked at. Had another all-around-the-head x-ray and dental surgeon had a nice look and poke around my mouth and now I’m being referred to a hospital – all 4 to come out soon. Can’t wait for this to be over. But, on my way back to Canary Wharf Station I walked the one stop instead of taking the DLR and then had a little walk around the Wharf (the weather was lovely as you can tell so I didn’t mind getting a little fresh air and a little sun). Now, Canary Wharf is NOT London. This is a cold and heartless place of absolute anonymity or as I also captioned a pic of it: Welcome to the anonymous world of banking – its all about cold concrete, glass and steel…throw in a few men in grey suits and ‘empty nester’ women and bake for 15 minutes at 200°C…

…so yeah, London being a banking capital I guess it is a part of it, but then the city is actually London’s banking centre and that still maintains the London touch…(yes, I’m fully aware of the fact that I’m exxagerating)


I am in love…with Kimchi…and want to move to Korea now…

Aaah, the darling BF took me to this really really lovely super real-deal Korean restaurant today and moi was introduced to KIMCHI!! Me luuurrrvvveesss this stuff now…it is this super spicy cabbage side dish and just soooo yummy! I want to eat this for breakfast, lunch and dinner every single day for the rest of my life now AND Kimchi has made me spontaneously and randomly consider moving to South Korea (for the first time in my life and considering I also want to live in Cape Town, Havana, NYC, Tel Aviv, Bombay and Tokyo it just comes in handy as another location en route I suppose?).

Wikipedia helps us:

Kimchi, also spelled gimchi or kimchee, is a traditional Korean fermented dish made of vegetables with varied seasonings, most commonly referring to the spicy baechu variety. Kimchi is the most common Korean banchan, or side dish, eaten with rice along with other banchan dishes. Kimchi is also a common ingredient and cooked with other ingredients to make dishes such as kimchi stew (kimchi jjigae) and kimchi fried rice (kimchi bokkeumbap).