Brief recap of the summer (Euro Part I)

For too long, I have neglected this site.
My apologizes to those who regularly view my blog and are left disappointed, but do allow me some time to tell you the happenings over this summer.

After my exams ended on the 14th May, I had my first ever Marathon experience on the 27th May.

I then went to London, stayed for 3 days and headed to Greece.

First stop in Athens is of course The Parthenon, and guess what, I met my relatives that I've never ever seen in my life on the doorsteps. The conversation went something like this.
Them: So what's your last name?
J: Lam
Them: Oh, us too!
J: ! Do you know Prof. Lam?
Them: Hmmm.. maybe..
J: My dad, and 2 of his brothers are math Professors
Them: Yes, the 3 Professors in the family, of course we know them.
So the lesson learned is that besides having a "boring family" (famous reply from my grandma when my mum tried to impress grandma that she was going to marry my dad.), having 3 Professors can help identify all the lost relatives out there.

Before I carry on with this summers discoveries, I just want to reverse time to 2005.
Something funny or embarrassing or stupid (the word put forward by my brother) happened the first time I went to Greece. I was 19, fresh and innocent (I still am) and it was my senior high school trip to discover the origins of Western civilization (no, it is not America nor have anything to do with the English language).
One of my Taiwanese friend's birthday occurred on the 3rd day of the one week Greece trip. And we decided to celebrate by not clubbing, but just chilling inside the rooms. We ended up playing heart attack (a great Cantonese game called Kum Min Toy) + punishment of vodka drinking.
We played the game in the balcony and woke up the trip supervisor Mr. Chong. Thanks Mr. Chong for buying us airplane tickets that night and sending me back to London the next morning, while my mum flew over from Hong Kong that day.
So I vowed to take revenge on Greece, and so I went back and tried to tear down the columns.

Next stop was Santorini and it can be summed up with 3 words.

Quarter bikes

Gyros....and Chill

The rest are just some more photos from Greece:

Who shall fall first, the tree or me?

You will not believe how many cats and dogs there are on the island, and I still haven't figured out who left them there.
(I'm thinking of the song Beyond the Sea but sung/barked by a dog when I see this photo)

I don't know how to put it (yet), but I just love the color and combination (for now).

Quarter biking in the dark

Goodbye Greece, till next time.

Oooo.. I love receiving postcards and sending them in return when I travel, I hope they all reached their final destination.


Finally, a BIG THANK YOU to Vincent & Yuki for organizing this amazing Greece trip, and also Adrian, Cherry, Lisa, Mercedes, Winston, Tony and Ziqi who were my best travel companions ever. We will miss you Adrian (only during poker games : P).