Throwback: Out and About - Part III - Museums (London, Dec 2014)

I love museums. Be it art, history, science etc. Since I like museums so much, we visited a few. Too few to my liking. But the really bad news was, I think I lost a lot of pictures due to low battery and carelessness to name a few. I always mistook taking pictures on the GoPro camera when it was not taking any (no viewfinder and LCD screen). I really need to invest on that and learn to connect my Lenovo phone to the Macbook.

Victoria and Albert Museum

First museum we visited was the Victoria and Albert Museum. Around London, these pair of names cropped up many times. Queen Victoria, I think, was one of the greatest and longest reign too, except for King Bhumibol of Thailand and her great-great grand daughter, Queen Elizabeth the II (the current Queen). Although her marriage to Prince Albert was cut short due to his death (died at the age of 42), which she mourned for the rest of her life, it also meant the beginning of various projects dedicated to her dear Albert. Hence, everywhere you would see buildings and monuments with their name or at least one of the two in London. 

Victoria and Albert Museum

Throwback: Out and About - Part II - Buckingham Palace (London, Dec 2014)

My first visit to London was in 1983. It was after my sister (Zuhaira's elder sister, Nur Syahira) passed away. She was only 11 months and well, it was fated. Funnily though, after 32 years, I still remembered the night visit to the hospital, the neighbours came, abah or was it mama whom bathed her, I was very sad...and it was arwah Long Yeim attended to me on a sofa outside the house...(of all people)

I remembered the day we went to make our passports and have our picture taken in the photo booth. We were unsure what it was for, but we were on our way to London months later on Mas's B747-200 to London. It was captained by a Capt. Zul (already a Datuk now) and we watched Tootsie on a big screen . The whole aircraft was a playground for us..