That I am in no rush to get anywhere, I really do not need to be quite so dry, I sure need not plan weeks’ worth of minutes of my life, I really must not mind that I have been a scatterbrain, I certainly can wait for them to cross, I surely need not worry about the silly bike and I really, surely, certainly can stop. And take this suffocating hood off. And these ridiculous gloves. And go as slow as I want, over however many puddles I want, and smile in the rain because really, surely, most certainly, moping about is not how you want me to glorify you today. And it is not quite how You will lead me to love You today.

Not today!

• Discovered one of my all-time favourite dishes ever now – Thai calamari at Busaba Eathai.
• Yummy jerk chicken, horrible rum punch and disgusting sights of jiggling bellies at the Notting Hill Carnival.
• Used my first ever Groupon with Nida, at a random Thai restaurant that really cannot make the cut.
• Beheld Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery.
• Caught a giant rwainbow on a rainy day at Trafalgar Square!
• Attended Training Contract interviews… and dealt with lots, and lots, and lots of rejections.
• Spent many an evening staring at the orange-pink sunset outside my window.
• Went for a movie in the cinema alone, for the very first time! A milestone!
• Cleaned a bathroom, for the very first time! A(nother) milestone!
• Watched the Oxford Philomusica perform Haydn at the Kings Place Festival… and in true Malaysian fashion, arrived late and missed the first piece. That said, the second performance (Haydn’s Trauer) was passionate and beautiful!
• Braved my first Vogue Fashion’s Night Out at Oxford Circus, alone. What a great place to learn just how scary women on a (shopping) mission can get.

London, I’ll be back for more of you soon