A note to myself.
Hahaa..i was a tourist in Edinburgh today!!!
I went to museum at 1230pm to view The Queen's Art and Image exhibition, which was really captivating! I have never been a fan of the queen but her portraits and photographs in the exhibition told a story. A story of history. A history story which I can enrich with tales from my grandmothers and my parents. If not, how would a child from my little island know what's "God Save the Queen" since young?
The essay written by Professor Sir David Cannadine for the commemorative publication was simply enchanting. I never thought that I would read something so true, about the rise and fall of The GREAT BRITIAN in this book. I didn't think that someone would be repeating these words- "Downsizing, de-victorianisation" - that many times in a book which commemorates the diamond jubilee of the Queen's reign. But it was so poetically well written, without any disrespect.
(Well, I just found out that Prof Cannadine is Lecturer of History at Princeton and has written The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy)
Then, in reward for my crazy working days, I paid for a super expensive "TEA WITH QUEEN" menu and had it as lunch and dinner. I suppose the Queen don't really have 3 pieces of dark chocolate truffles for her tea every time but that was the highlight of the menu.
I took a walk down Royal Mile in full touristic spirit and bought a Fringe Festival T-shirt, which will form part of my Ladies T-shirts collection, since I find clothes here are fitting me better than at home.
oh..and a Gaelic CD! Gaelic songs were part of my daily diet from BBC Scotland during the first semester while I was reading after 11pm. Never got to know any singers or tunes by name but I just decided to buy a CD for keepsake. It's an old school thing, buying CDs but I guess I should before it becomes a thing of the past.
And to wrap up the day, my dear Polish friend Malina declared that she needed meat for her dinner. So I accompanied a Carnivore onto the streets looking for her meat diet while I did a Nachos. Chips have been the call of the past few days. It takes the stress out and makes life feel better when days are just nothing more than staring at the computer screen.
