I met some new friends in school and we planned to eat dimsum on Friday night. John suggested Yauatcha, a famous top dimsum restaurant in Broadwick Street, Soho. Previously I’ve tried Shanghai Blue and Royal China in Canary Wharf. Royal China is cheap, with prices from £2.60 per dish, but I give it 2.5 stars out of 5. It’s cheap but dimsum was just ok.

As my need to find more authetic dimsum restaurants, I heard Yauatcha is well-known in town. My friend Eileen is from Seoul in Korea and Vicky from Hong Kong (who couldn’t wait to taste the food). The restaurant is a little hidden behind Oxford Street. Inside the decoration is simple, modern and stylish in blue. We ordered eight dishes dimsum, four for vegetarian dishes, with my favourite cheung fun and one ginger Gai Lan and Stir-Fried Beef Ho Fen.

It turned out that they make very good and authentic dimsum. I felt so overwhelming excited that finally I found some great dimsum to eat in London. All dishes are definitely 4.5 stars and the Stir-Fried Beef Ho Fen is the highlight of the meal (you have to order!) It was not oily, dry with very tasty soysauce; the beef was just perfect and juicy, and is making me hungry just thinking about it.

Overall, we each spent under 20 pounds each and were very full. I give Yauatcha 4.5 stars and as a dimsum fan can highly recommend it. If you try them, you will know how to spend your money in dimsum restaurant. Here is the memu, lunch and evening menu will be a slightly difference.

丘记茶苑

周五约了两个新朋友去喝茶吃点心，约翰建议去（丘记茶苑）, 听说丘老板誉名为－伦敦点心大王，开了两家点心餐厅：一家Hakkasan是五星级明星常去吃饭的地方，另一家就是丘记拉，价格实惠坐落在soho，都是伦敦10大的必去的点心餐厅。我们去过（蒲点）和（皇潮），蒲点还可以，皇朝我觉得一般，点心2.6磅一碟起，价格还可以但味道一般，品种也不是很多，但要吃，我就要吃最正宗和最好的。

我听说丘记点心在伦敦人人都晓知，我韩国朋友Eileen和我香港的朋友Vicky约好那里等，餐厅位置比较难找，在繁华商业街oxford street后面，不是很多中国人知道去那里吃点心。环境简单，时尚，以蓝色基调为主。我们叫了8碟点心，4个斋的，2个长粉，然后一个姜炒芥兰和牛肉炒河粉。

我们吃得赞不绝口，约翰也说很正宗，点心精致，味道正宗，很美味，甚至正宗过很多中国或香港的点心餐厅。牛肉炒河粉简直是5星啊，牛肉滑而不老，河粉不油干身，十分野味，它是我吃过最好的牛肉炒河粉。假如你想吃正宗的点心，丘记是第一选择，对比之后，你会觉得唐人街的中国餐厅不值得花费你的钱。我给它评价4.5星，每人花20英镑，满足你点心的愿望。我附上里面的菜单，你可以先看再决定。我又流口水了，我要再去啊。

I have one week of enrollment before my classes begin at Queen Mary University of London. The University is on the East side of London in Zone 2 near Mile End tube station. The Regents canal is next to the school, with some student residences having a great view over the water. On top of this Victoria Park is just 10 minutes walk up the canal. My house is about 10 minutes walk to the University. I love walking along the canal area and visiting Victoria Pack at the weekend for leisure. The East End of London is a little poor and rough, but I found Queen Mary’s location to be great and very well connected - you can reach both Canary Wharf and Central London in 15 minutes.

Most students are undergraduates, although a there are plenty of postgraduates like me. There are maybe 4000 international students in the school and we all registered and received our student card and then chose our modules. I expect this will be a very new learning experience and I’m sure will be a lot of hard work. I hope I can handle it well. Our programme director is great and has provided us with a lot of information. Each of the module teachers took time to explain exactly what their module involves so you can choose the one that suits you most. I think it’s great! You get to know the teachers and what you will expect in the class. Fantastic. Moreover, I just paid 5 pounds to join the Fashion Society Group. I’m not sure what is it, but it sounds my style. I also joined the Asia group to meet more friends. We will see.

离正式开学还有几天，开学前个星期是搞登记注册啊，学生证和选择课程之类的东西。皇后玛利伦敦大学坐落在市中心的东部，学校有一条运河刚好坐落在学校里面，位于学生宿舍正对面，学校还蛮大的，维多利亚公园离学校10分种。我们家离学校也是10分钟路程，学校的位置去哪里都蛮方便的，去Canary Wharf 金融中心15分钟巴士，去市中心10到30分钟地铁，去伦敦塔骑自行车15分钟就到，Sainsbury超市10分钟就到，十分方便。

大部分学生都是17－24岁，读本科的，少部分学生读硕士的；大概有4000多个国际学生，我是其中之一拉。第一周老师给你介绍学校和英国的东西，接着注册，选择课程。我觉得蛮好的是在你选择课程之前，老师简单介绍10分钟，介绍课程的内容和你要学习些什么东西，让你自己多点了解哪个你最感兴趣的，再做决定。（开学前每人还要考机算机测试，读金融的还要数学考试，幸好我不感兴趣金融）考不过不要紧，你就要学习计算机拉，更好。

我已经交了5磅参加时尚社团，不知道干什么，不过我喜欢时尚，也登记了亚洲的社团，看看认识多点朋友吧。我要好好努力学习，天天向上。

The weather in the UK this summer has not been fantastic and it’s been reported that this year has been the coldest summer on record. It seems that the weather around the world is pretty bad too - New Orleans’ has another hurricane, there are floods in some areas of the UK, and Guangzhou has been continually raining.

UK weather is very variable and can be raining one minute and then sunshine the next. The temperature is currently about 15-26 degrees, which is not bad actually; I perfect it cool. Talking about the weather, there is a silly question but fun to mention is that many of my friends always refer to London as a foggy town (like A foggy Day in London Town). We are even taught this in University!

Actually, it was only during the coal mining time from 18th century to 1950 when the UK suffered these problems. Coal made the UK famous, but it also produced serious air pollution. Due to these environmental issues the UK government has changed the image of the Britain, and now London is the 7th greenest city in the world (according to this article in 2007), and this news claimed that (London to be the ‘greenest city’) in 2005.

Well, London definitely had changed and there are so many beautiful royal parks, as well as other general parks. As well as this a lot of people have gardens, so you can imagine how green it is in London. After my friends read this article, hopefully they will change their image of London - it is not a foggy town anymore; it’s a busy but green city in the UK. I often hear people complaint about weather in the UK, I think there is not fair because its location in the world and coastal seasons, but if you choose to live here, my attitude is be part of it and enjoy it; nothing is perfect. When there is a beautiful day, you will treasure it more.

英国今年夏天的天气时而下雨，时而阳光明媚。不要说很typical哦，英国四季很分明的。报道说英国今年夏天是最冷的夏天，我想整个地球今年的气候都怪怪的：象新奥尔良也遭受了多一次龙卷风，英国很多地区水灾，广州暴雨连连。

虽然伦敦天气蛮清凉的，气温在15到26度之间，还不错，我喜欢凉爽的感觉。说到天气，很多我的朋友（甚至我曾以为）伦敦是个雾城，爵士歌曲也唱到 ” 一个雾天的伦敦城”，甚至我们大学的教科书里的故事也提到伦敦是个雾城，但实际是因为我们课本教的是经典的故事，故事发生在18－19世纪人们的生活，或是有些已过时了。爵士歌曲是黑白年代了，可想而之有多久了。原因是 (more…)

We went to visit Sheffield, Derbyshire, and Leeds last week and drove to see the famous Chatsworth house, owned by Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. This house is famous for appearing as Mr Darcy’s house in the 2005 Pride & Prejudice movie, as well as the upcoming calledThe Dutchess (featuring Keira Knightley).

Unfortunately when we were there they were holding a country fair so I didn’t get chance to visit it properly but I’m sure I will do so in the future.

We also drove to Bakewell in Derbyshire and the Peak District. It’s a small, peaceful, and very pretty market town. It reminds me of Europe a lot.

Another day we drove to North Yorkshire from Leeds to visit Harrogate . It is a very large and wealthy city, we enjoyed our time there.

Sheffield a city of many hills with views into the city centre or out to the countryside. There is a National Park next door and it was famous for producing steel. It’s quite a small city (could be like Shantou, not sure), but the hills remind me of Hong Kong.

Leeds is not bad, got a lot of young modern buildings and restaurants near the canal.

Here is some pictures I took.

The picture of the cover is from www.theage.com.au (Chatsworth House at sunset.)

我们上周去了谢菲尔德， 德比郡， 利兹，去看了很多周边的小镇，去参观了电视剧 /电影－达西先生住的房子（傲慢与偏见），还有9月5号即将上映的电影（女爵）也是在这个房子拍摄的，来头不小啊！听说那整片地区包裹房子都是属于一个公爵的，太富有了！但因为我们刚好碰见公园在举行活动，人山人海，没有仔细进入里面，以后再去罗！我们也去了利兹，利兹还好拉，蛮有小伦敦感觉的。谢菲尔德也不错，到处都是树木花园，国家公园也就在隔壁，居民的房子都建在山腰上，感觉象香港的半山腰。这是最新的照片和大家分享拉。

We reserved tickets to see The Dark Knight at the London IMAX Cinema over two months - the seats there really are that popular, and the main reason is that it is the largest cinema in the UK.

We’ve been wanting to see the movie for a long time since we saw it being filmed in Hong Kong at the same time we happened to be there in 2007.

The movie is directed by Christopher Nolan. Normally I dodn’t care about directors but I have to say that Christopher Nolan is one of the best directors I’ve seen. He produced Memento (2000) The Prestige (2006) and The Dark Knight (2008). It seems he likes Christian Bale in his films. There is no doubt about Christian Bale’s professional acting. I love all his movies, such as American Psycho (2000) .

People said The Dark Knight might break Titanic’s record in the movie history. I hope so as well. It is a big budget movie with the latest technology, good story and good actors, and looked absolutley fantastic on an IMAX screen. In fact, the movie was specially shot so that certain scenes were recorded on an IMAX camera, which really gives you a great feeling of being directly in front of the action.

The bad character in the movie is called The Joker and was played by Heath Ledger, who recently died of an accidental drug overdose. His most famous movie is Brokeback Mountain (2005).

I really enjoyed thismovie and was glad that we waited so long to see it at an IMAX cinema.

我们在一个月前终于定到了（蝙蝠侠之黑暗骑士）的电影票，在伦敦imax 电影院放映。因它是英国最大电影屏幕的3D电影院，所以超级受欢迎，每天都暴场。在里面看蝙蝠侠，就象你会跟着镜头走，跟着蝙蝠侠飞，超级逼真，超级动感，再说，能用3D看蝙蝠侠更是最大的享受。

我们不只是因蝙蝠侠的超人气要看它，还因为我们07年底在香港旅游时，当天刚好碰上蝙蝠侠摄影组在香港桥上拍摄的那一段，还有拍摄的直升机在我们头上飞过，所以我们势必一定要看。

这电影的导演Christopher曾拍摄几部我超级喜欢的电影，包裹（记忆碎片, 致命魔术，当然还有这部蝙蝠侠拉, 都是蝙蝠侠主角Christian Bale 主演的，那是因为Chris导演知道他能胜任这些难度超高的角色。看过Christian的演技，大家公认他是十分出色的演员，我也喜欢他演的（美国狂魔），总之有他的电影都值得一看。

听说因为蝙蝠侠的超人气,票房可能打破Titanic的最高票房历史纪录，希望吧。看得出电影的经费特高,排场超大， 好主题，好电影，值得去电影院看。听说里面的小丑坏人主角是（断背山）他在08年1月因意外自杀了。真可惜，不然他会是好莱巫以后很抢手的演员。

蝙蝠侠黑暗骑士是部不能错过的好电影，值得一看。

The Tudors was first presented by Showtime in 2007, and they are back again this year for season 2. Along with Dexter they are producing my favourite TV programs. It is a historical fictional drama about the early reign of the King of England Henry VIII. Henry VIII was famous because he overthrew the Roman Catholic Church so that he could marry Anne Boleyn, and then continued on to marry a total of six times.

In the TV series Henry VIII is played by super handsome Jonathan Rhys Meyers . Along with being very handsome, Jonathan plays the part of Henry perfectly, and makes the series especially compelling.

The first series finished in 2007 and now the BBC is presenting season 2 in HD now - fantastic! 2 thumbs up!

The Tudors 是关于15世纪亨利八世的历史故事，我只记得当我们在学历史的时候，亨利八世为了娶安.波林而推翻天主教罗马教会，这也是英国社会在当时一个重要的转折点，还有他因结了6次婚和推行宗教改革而在英国史上出名了。

在电视上，除了演技出色并超帅气的Jonathan扮演亨利八世这个主角和激动人心的奢华场面，还有最特别的是人物性格描写得特别仔细，这也是亨利八世这部电视剧成功的理由。第一季在2007年放映完毕了，现在BBCHD在放映第二季,值得推荐看的一部电视剧。