Flooding hit UK, hardest in the northern region in the week just passed. "Worse than a third world country" was the line I kept hearing on TV. Andy Ang came over to London this weekend with Lian Hong for a short break. We drove up to Strafford-upon-Avon, birth-place of William Shakespeare (din know he wrote so many books and plays) and then to Bicester for a few hours of shopping.
The car-bomb found on Friday definitely got the attention of most people and was the first thing after Hello when I called Singapore. Not sure if we are "Londonised" but it did not ruffle many feathers in office, including mine. After all, such news reports are quite common. It was when we returned to London after the sight-seeing and shopping that we experienced, at first-hand, the aftermath effects. We were stopped before we could enter the Canary Wharf area and kept seeing police cars hot on sirens zooming past on the roads. Cars were stopped for random checks and we had to allow our rented car for inspection. Guess what? It makes me feel really safe to have all these checks and seeing the police officers with the sub-machines on the road/airports.
P/S: Patrick and myself were on our way to return the car (at London City Airport) when we were stopped at a road block. The police officer asked me - "What business do you have at the airport?". Patrick whispered to me - "None of your business". God knows which section of the local newspapers we will feature if the grim man-in-blue ever hear that.
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