Leicester Trip (16 Feb08)

Incredibly excited cos this is after all our first day trip out to neighbouring Leicester. (note pronounced as lester, not leh-ces-ter) Leicester is one of the major cities in the East Midlands here, and very evident from the large major shopping centres Haymarket and The Shires Shopping Centre. Some renovation and refurbishment also observed cos according to the tourism website, Leicester is trying to re-brand itself. But the major highlight was going down to watch a soccer match between Leicester City and Norwich City at the Walkers Stadium. We were seated in the midst of die-hard Leicester City supporters...oh well...it's their home ground after all....and man...the English really get generous with expletives when they cheer! Apart from the usual "we will rock you" cheer there's even the mockery one..."ooooh...Twat! You're SHIT! HAHA!!" And they dun refrain from booing or cheering or to give a standing ovation...the atmosphere is exactly wat u shld see in TV when watching a soccer match :)

Leicester City centre

Leicester City Clock Tower

Statue in front of Leicester Town Hall

The majestic Leicester Cathedral. Kinda creepy with all the graves surrounding it.

Posing by the Sports Statue on Gallowtree Gate

There was this army recruitment exercise where the Royal British Armed Forces displayed their might...eh...their climbing skills. The UK flag is flying high too....long live the Queen!

Cheese baked potato for lunch and a nice hot chocolate cos it's freezing cold outside

Mighty battlement but it's actually a prison know as HM Prison

Can't help it but we just had to flash our tickets!

Leicester City's mascot....some fox

Walkers Stadium. Looks like a newly-constructed building

Norwich City supporters in yellow....They dun even make up for one-tenth of the stadium...haha

And on the right....the Leicester City supporters!

Let the game begin!


This is wat happens everytime Leicester scores a goal! Quick, cheer! Music starts blaring and the crowd goes crazy! End result: Leicester City 4 Norwich City 0. Exciting match tt had a bit of everything. Got one point where the players almost fought one player elbowed another from the opposing team and had to be stretchered out. Damn drama :)


We observed this long queue outside the stadium and inside too...and being curious S'poreans tt always wanna c wat's up in the queue, we soon found out tt this was the culprit!

McDonald Deli for dinner

Incredibly power! Even wif the bicycles chained, this is the first time i saw the wheels and seats of the bicycle kena ripped off and stolen. Looks like chains and locks not even safe now...haha

Ended the day with a drink at the local pub, the Parody. The English start coming in at arnd 8pm to fill the pub.

Stalking a freezing Wanping from afar

Ended with us rushing forward to take photo!