Life Reflections - Part 1, Day 1

We arrived at Gatwick airport nice and early in the morning. Our flight was at 08:05. The destination is Italy, Lake Garda. We are so excited, we can hardly wait.

Panorama Photo taken with my Samsung Galaxy Note 3 

We checked in our luggage and  had plenty of time to spare. I always like to over estimate, better safe then sorry. Jessica was suppose to be at mine at 04:30 but cane 15mins late. Clearly she runs on so called BPT. 

We had about a hour to spare so we decided to do some duty free shopping. Jessica brought a lovely tedbaker case for her iPad mini and we brought a bottle of great goose, yummy. After we finished we decided to grab something to eat.

We was looking around for a little bit, until we found a wetherspoons. That's right I said wetherspoons. We both looked at each other with widen eyes and gigantic smiles. 

Morning breakfast and drinks served. Theirs nothing like a double gin and tonic in the morning. 

TIME FOR TAKE OFF

LET THE ADVENTURE BEGIN. 

We have landed, hello Italy. We grabbed are luggage and found an exchange point in the airport. It seems changing money overseas can sometimes be better then doing it from your home country. After we exchanged are money, it was time to find are way to our hotel. Traveling to the hotel wasn't  something I had planned for but how hard is it to find a taxi, right? last resort if we can't find something cheaper, which we didn't specially considering the help desk was closed. However in the end we found a taxi to get us to where we were go.

Admiral Hotel Villa Erme,

The admiral hotel was beautiful on the outside as well as on the inside. Our also had a little balcony. The hotel service was very nice and they were insanely attentive to us, nearly every corner we was greeted with a smile and how can we help you? The level of customer service outside Britain, always amazes me. 

We checked in and went up to our room. It was still early in the day. Time to quickly unpack and go out and enjoy Lake Garda. I open my luggage bag and guess what happened?

My cream (Vaseline Cocoa Radiant - Essential Moisture) exploded. This is why they till you to put liquids into plastic bags at the airport. ¬_¬'  Granted it doesn't look that bad. I already started cleaning some of it before, I took the above photo. It went all over my blue leather jacket as well. I didn't take a photo of this either, my mind wasn't really thinking about taking photos for this trip.

Jessica and myself changed clothes and got ready to venture out. I swear when it comes to changing clothes and making sure we are looking on point, is something we share common besides are love for alcohol. This reminded me, we also needed to get chasers for the bottle of goose we brought. 

As we ventured out we explored the hotel as we left. The hotel was really nice and had a indoor swimming pool and sauna room. I would definitely recommend this hotel to anyone staying at 'Lake Garda', especially if they are getting a high floor room facing the lake, 

A cross the road from outside the front of our hotel, was a path that lead down to the lake. 

 

The view was truly amazing 

We couldn't believe it was a lake. It looked like an ocean, even had breach sea fronts on parts of the lake. 

We ventured off to the right on a small boardwalk and on the other side was a small breach style restaurant. Jessica's brain and mine were in complete sync. We must operate on the same wave-frequency becuase we knew it was time to get some drinks and food. We didn't even know if they served alcohol.

We popped inside and had a look at their menu's and yes they served alcohol, ^_^ We couldn't find anywhere to seat so one of the waitress helped us get chairs and a table to seat in the lovely sun. We ordered three drinks and a pizza, yes three drinks becuase that's how we roll, two each as we split the massive beer bottle =P.

I remember at this time, feeling amazing. 

The world's most beautiful women in-front of me, lovely sunny weather, amazing view, one of the most tastiest pizzas I have ever had and drink. 

We chilled for awhile sharing a lot of stories and dreams about ourselves;

what we've learnt so far in life,

what we want in life,

where we are in life,

where we want to be and go.

After awhile we decided to head back to the hotel. We wanted to change clothes and then find one of the lake's beach fronts to chilliax and catch some rays on.

As we headed towards the hotel, we thought it be a great idea to find somewhere to grab some water and snacks. However as the hotel was closer we stopped their first to ask for directions to the closes place. There was a nearby supermarket, which we headed over too and during the walk we spotted a lovely area to lay down and catch some rays, so we picked up our provisions and head back to the hotel to change.

 

When back at the hotel it was the perfect time to open up the goose as we brought juice when we was at the supermarket store. 

After a few drinks and fully changed, Jessica into other dress that she could remove that reviled the two piece she was wearing fir the sun, Lord save me. I changed aswell but only my v-top and shirt. 

Now where recharged and ready for the walk and the fun ahead, we headed out.

I am not a great fan of tanning as i am pretty dark as it is but I love the feel of the sun on my body (don't we all).

When we got to the beach front it was really chilled out. The area was divided between sand and grass land. The grass area was further up, divided by small fence with chains. This was becuase you had to pay to seat/lay in this area. We find this out when we was asked to move when we mistakenly sat down without paying, oopsy our bad. 

We didn't mind moving becuase we had brought towels to lay down on anyway. We moved to the sand area in-front and placed our towels down. 

There was a small establishment on the side that sold lollipops, drinks and etc. 

If you have never seen human female body perfection before, your not going to see it here either unfortunately, out of respect for Jessica. However I will try my best to describe the moment to you all so you can understand my feelings at this moment. 

Now picture the perfect women, curves all in the right places, beautiful  

However I will say it was a divine moment, the best get away. I was out the country with an amazing friend, enjoying the pleasures of a new place. To be able to free, say what you want and do what you want . . . FREEDOM is very powerful, All i did was admire everything at this moment. I truly realized life needs to be more of this. 

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Life reflections - Introduction

This year has been very good, even considering I have failed nearly all my new years resolutions.

A common theme with me it seems. I plan and never seem to follow - through. This is something that has bothered me for years.

Recently there have been a few life choices I have made, which have also cost a considerable amount of money, my procrastination.   

Why am I like this? I really want to know but the only person who can truly answer this question is myself.

I am lucky enough to have a few wonderful people in my life. One of them who I have always considered to be my future wife (in pasting jokes). Hmm never know lol. We share many similarities and i know i can go away with her and relax without being judged, time spent with her is beyond amazing.

JESSICA KHOR

She's made a massive change in life recently and wanted to get away from everything for a little while. I was helping her with choices of destinations outside of London.

In the end she invited me to accompany her and we decided to go Italy. Only for 2 nights, but people always say time-away changes your outlook and broadens your arising.

Definitely need a change and this trip is long over due. A small adventure to a different country, different culture and different language.

In this modern age we are so lucky to have smartphones. My lovely phone will be doing all the translating although I do plan on picking up some words and phrases here and there. You know the good ones? Haha

So this is the introduction. I hope you all look forward to the following blogs of our trip away. I hope I have lots of insights and life changing things to share with you all afterwards as well.

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Insanity Day 11 - Failure

Evening World, Evening Universe.

Today was a completely failure in terms of doing my measurements and doing my insanity workout.

I went out Saturday night and had amazing time. I was out with one of my best friends and his old work stuff. The place we went to was called North pole, which is around the corner from Greenwich DLR station. 

I ended up, crashing at my friends house that night, so wasn't able to do my workout in the morning. I then had planned to do it later today. However I only recently got in.

This doesn't mean I am going to fall off track. In fact I am going to get back on track with improved focus and dedication. I wanted to go out and this is the price I paid. It wasn't scheduled so I hadn't planned a workout around it. 

Today's 'Feature Pictures' will be posted tomorrow so you will be expecting two, apologies. However I did update my facebook album with a few photo's I found today.

The rest of the day I spent helping my mate painting his room. It was so much fun, painting is very soothing and a great way to blow off stress. A few other friends came over and helped. We all made a day out of it. 

After finishing we went out for a good meal at Frank and Benny's.   

Tomorrow is another day, I can't wait.

Goodnight World, Goodnight Universe.

 
Happy Training, Happy Fitness.

Facebook Album - Workout Motivations Today's Update 

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Korean Town, New Malden.

I went down to New Malden A.K.A Korean Town to treat two of my good and close friends, Crazy Jane and Sylvester (the same Sylvester mentioned in the Chinese New Year post ) to a meal, Wednesday just gone (06/03/13). Another friend called Jessica also joined us. Its kinda suppose to be are monthly thing that we do although we have only been twice now and the first time we went was like couple years ago. Terrible I know but now that I am more organize I think i will plan are gatherings so we do see each other at less once a month if not more.

ENEMIES ARE EASY TO COME BY BUT GOOD FRIENDS AREN'T SO CHERISH THE MOMENTS YOU CAN SHARE TOGETHER, TERRY MASTERS.

When you go down the high street of 'New Malden' you will see many Korean stores and restaurants, one of my friends Jessica was astonished didn't know that New Malden was considered the Korean Town of London.

Yami

69 High Street New Malden KT3 4BT

Reviews for Yami

TimeOut, YELP, QYPE, ViewLondon.

The restaurant we went to was Yami, considered a very popular place to go too. The food was tasty although the Korean style BBQ pork and squid wasn't that great. The staff their cooked the food for us at are tables. We asked if it's ready to eat and the waitress replied with a 'maybe'. Waitress also forgot my bottle of wine I ordered from the beginning and my friend Jane who is a Pesco-Vegetarian, which she made clear before ordering got a miso soup with pork slices in it. I would say below average customer service. The decor isn't very traditional but its a nice moonlight kinda lighting small cafe style restaurant. 

As always I have listed some review sites blow the image and address of the restaurant. Not really a place I would recommend based on customer service but the main dishes were made well and tasty. 

Best Korean Restaurants in London

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Tipzy Day Out with ChanChan

I met up with my friend Chantelle last Tuesday gone (05/03/13). We have been speaking on and off but haven't seen each other for almost a year so this meeting was long over due. 

We decided to meet up at Westfields. The one located in White City/Shepherds Bush, where we could do a bit of shopping, bit of eating and a bit of drinking although I did start the party early at home before i ventured out with a bit of drink as you do. 

We met outside wood lane station (one of the closet stations to this Westfields), Miss ChanChan as I like to call her and myself had agreed on sushi but hadn't decided on which place inside Westfields. At this point I realized that the Westfields here was nicer for shopping as it offered a bigger selection of places to shop however lacking in places to eat department. Funny considering since they have massive food court area. However we decided on Yo! Sushi, not the greatest of sushi places but it will do the trick in a pitch and I've always loved their conveyor belt system for food distribution.

YO! SUSHI

Multiple Locations

 Reviews for Yo Sushi

YELP.

Eating at Yo! Sushi with Miss ChanChan was so funny. When we was ordering she was like 'I'll have everything on this page (of the menu)' and the waiter was like 'whoa that's a lot' , Chan replies back with 'wait I am not finished' and I said 'Yea, whatever she orders times it by two so I can have some too'. When all the food came we could barely stack it around are seating area. 

After Yo! Sushi we went to do a bit of shopping and the Beautiful Zoe joined us. Seriously I don't know what it is about her but God definitely out did his self (in my opinion) and shes so funny.  Zoe thinks dark pinks and red lips stick colours don't suit her but she would make males legs go weak, tremble and fall over if worn with the right ensemble, crazy.

After bit of shopping Zoe had to go as she was hitting the gym although we did try are best to keep her out. Terrible I know. I didn't buy anything although not to lack of trying but anything I like they didn't have in my size. Thats why i love my smartphone. I just ordered off the phone. Ha no commissions for them now, assuming they get that.

We wanted to get are drink on at TGI's Fridays but unfortunately there isn't one in this westfields either only at the Stratford one, which was very disappointing but when you have a goal and focus minded nothing will stop you so we headed to Leicester Square TGI's branch.

TGI'S FRIDAYS

Multiple Locations

 

 Reviews for TGI's Fridays

QYPE, UrbanSpoon, ViewLondon.

As my bromance and BFF love TGI's I hollad at them, which they agreed to come down. We've sometime to waste we headed over to MM World.

Where ChanChan brought this big bag of MM's. It's crazy they have massive selection of tubes where you can pick which colours and tastes you want.

After getting the sicken amount of MM's we headed over to the bar at the TGI's and ordered a few drinks. Not long after my BFF joined us and then my Bromance and we got ourselves a table to seat down and get our munch on. Yep its dinner time.

It was jokes as you can see from the photo's. I have no idea why the waitress gave me this ballon hat. It's meant for the birthday celebrating people but I loved it all the same and clearly ChanChan loved it too. 

We shared a good meal with jokes and even a game of 'I have never ever', which if you have never played is a game where you say 'I have never ever' and say something that you most likely have done or maybe something you want to know someone else has done and if they drink. That's a sign they have done it.

 
It was so jokes we ended up changing the game to 'I have' and just got it all out there however as this is my blog I won't be exposing other people's secrets no matter how juicy and funny they are.

Finally it came to the end of the day but however my hubby and me didn't want to call it a night and went over to 1997 in Chinatown and got another munch on. Seriously I don't know where we put it.

We had a taste for salt and pepper tofu. Yummy yummy in are belly's and it seems like every Chinese's restaurant makes it differently. Never have trying it here before, it was pretty damn tasty but the best we have ever had.

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Weekend of Eating, Day 2 - The Sanctuary and The Breakfast Club

The Sanctuary

The last day of the crazy eating marathon started off at place i like to call Sanctuary. This location I am not going to disclose. Its place me and my mate go at less once a month to eat. The food is amazing, the atmosphere is amazing, the staff are amazing and sexy.

Its a place where we love to go, just be ourselves, release stress and just have good time. The amount of hours spent in one seating is crazy. Once we stayed there for over several hours eating and drinking and even had a few shots with staff and their boss. Epic times.

The Sanctuary is a place where we only invite people within our inner circle or that we consider a person we could spend some quality time with. A invite is a privileged and if refused or last minute cancellation is not acceptable and will be treated with zero invites to any future events or gatherings.

The Breakfast Club   

My bromance had planned a evening event a month ago where we were going to enjoy pancakes. Yes we know its not pancaking day as its already passed. However this event was suppose to be a special occasion. Gathering of great friends to enjoy pancakes together, met new people and have a blast. Although I am making it sound as if it failed, which it almost did because they don't make pancakes in the evening even though we pre-booked the reservation and the management staff already stated an exception would be made for us. The chef wasn't aware of this and they weren't prepared for us.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB

31 Camden Passage, London, Greater London N1 8EA 

 The Breakfast Club Reviews

Yelp, UrbanSpoon, London Eating, QYPE, TimeOut.

My bromance turned his BOSS mode on and after having some private words  with the staff. they're delivery driver staff went to the next closest branch and picked up pre-made pancakes and we weren't charge for the meals. We only had to pay for the drinks due to the misunderstanding and to add on top of that, we all got £10 vouchers that can be redeemed at any branch on our next visit to the 'The Breakfast Club'. WHOOP WHOOP.

The pancakes were amazing and their mike-shakes were tasty. I would definitely recommend a visit if you have never been before.  

For more photo's check out the link below.

Facebook Photo Album - Weekend of Eating

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Weekend of Eating, Day 1 - Eat Tokyo and VIET Pho

For the last two days of eating although it seems like  I have been over indulging for the last few days so here's a little recap.

So two of my friends turn up at my workplace out of the blue and not even ask but told me i am coming out tonight with them. Barely surviving the day after a mad Friday night just pasted, all I wanted to do was go home to bed. However I couldn't refuse, my friend was in need of consoling, which happen to be a talent of mine.

EAT TOKYO

So after various stops at my house and his to change we then headed to central London, specifically to Eat Tokyo a small Japanese restaurant near Trafalgar Square.

EAT TOKYO

27 Romilly St, Soho, London, UK W1D 5AL

EAT TOKYO Reviews:

Yelp, TripAdvisor, View London, UrbanSpoon, London Eating.

The food was very tasty, well presented and prepared. It's the closest I've had that matches the quality of Japanese cuisine, I have experienced during my time spent in japan on holiday a few years ago.

VIET PHO

After the meal we headed over to 'VIET Pho' again. A resturange I talked about in my blog post 'Drinks, Food and Magic' where we sat down after hours listening to music, playing Daai Di, (Big 2) Chinese card game over a bottle of red wine.

Was a good night with good company and food.


Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Chinese New Year 10th February 2013

Let me start this post of with Gong Hei Fat Choi (Happy Chinese New Year, in Cantonese) to everyone celebrating.

It's the year of the 'Snake' and I celebrated with my friends at 'Kpop' (CNY club promotion event) and it was awesome, besides the two hour entry wait outside the club because 'Revolutions' has a new security procedure where they take photos of you and your I.D. and because of this it took forever to get inside.

    

Once in, the party started, mad drinking, mad dancing and bare jokes shared by everyone. 

The mean reason why I was celebrating there was because I had one friends birthday and another friends leaving party. Who will be leaving the country with no current plans to return and the worse part is I didn't even get to see him ¬_¬' How lame is that!?? Very LAME,

Closer to the end of the night we moved onto Chinatown where we ate at the legendary after party night restaurant to go to '1997'. Not a completed night-out, without getting some food from here. Also got some extra food for takeaway. With the amount of alcohol I had my stomach was definitely going to need it in the morning.

I crashed at my friends house, which we reached around 7:30AM although we have no idea how it took us so long. We left the club before 4AM and with an average calculation of time spent travelling and eating we somehow lost a hour, crazy.

Anyway the takeaway food was perfect in the morning too.

Why is cold Chinese food or matter of fact most takeaway foods like 'Pizza' in the morning or the day after taste so good?

Slept for about four hours and once I wake up. I stay up. Good thing too because me and my friend had to travel back to my area because we had a CNY dinner party to attend. My voice was so rough as well. I must have been screaming my head off.

However we still showed up late, probably because we were playing 'Scott Pilgrim vs the world' first time I've played it and its so addictive. 

The dinner party was great. We hooked up two xbox 360's and played eight player 'Bomberman' and of course some 'Call of Duty Black Ops 2'. The highlight game of the party was 'Articulate' can't mess with the old school classic board games. Always good time.

Then it started snowing which was a awesome end to the evening.

Below is a link to BBC News article on the parade that took place during the day, enjoy.

Chinese New Year London Parade this Year

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Drinks, Food and Magic

 Was out today catching up with a good friend I haven't hanged out with for almost a year properly till today. It was about time we caught up with each another.

We talked about whats current in our lives and whats been getting us down, which for me it was related to work. Having to deal with horrible people and thieves and the mental impact its starting to have on me.

For my friend it was more about family stress and issues, which I won't go into any details about as its not my life and its not my place to be stating other peoples person lives on my blog.

We were having a few drinks in Moon Underwater (Montagu Pyke - Chain of the JDwetherspoon Company) as it was known back in the days when we used to venture there in our troubled youth.

We then moved onto 'VIET Pho' My friend's friend restaurant. 'VIET Pho' is a really nice and quaint Vietnamese restaurant just around the corner from Moon and very close to Chinatown. The food was gorgeous very tasty, well prepared and presented.

 

I loved the decor so much I made comments on it quite a few times. I loved the symmetry and the use of white, red and grey colours. The Lighting was well placed as well. If you have never been I would definitely recommend it specially if you enjoy Vietnamese cuisine. The Restaurant is highly recommend by others and has great reviews (supporting links and address at the bottom).

During are time there it came to closing time. Seating with my friend's friends and after few late introductions I notice one person was playing with cards in his hands. There was something about him, he was admitting a very powerful but unusual aura. I was intrigued and I asked show me some magic tricks not even knowing if he could. It just felt like he could. This is the moment I met Calen Morelli.

 Calen Morelli is a magician that has worked for David Copperfield, David Blaine, Theory 11 and of course Paper Crane, all well known.

It's one thing to see magician on TV specially after watching Dynamo last month but seeing it in person was amazing, shocking and incredible.

Calen is in London from American working and I felt blessed he honoured us with some magic tricks. Made my whole night. I wish I had brought my SLR out with me. Truly awesome guy with a bright future ahead. Below I have added some vids I took of Calen performing for us. Enjoy;

 

Calen Morelli - Card Magic Part 1

 

Calen Morelli - Card Magic Part 2

 Calen Morelli - Floating Straw

Calen Morelli - You feel me touching your face?

 
 VIET PHO - SOHO LONDON

34 Greek St London Greater London W1D 5DJ

VIET Pho Reviews:
Yelp, UrbanSpoon, QYPE.

Calen Morelli Links:
Calen Morelli Facebook
Calen Morelli Twitter
Calen Morelli Youtube
Calen Morelli Website - 365 Days of Magic
Calen Morelli Paper Crane
Calen Morelli Penguin Magic



Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters. 

HAPPY MOMENTS! Sunday Roast Time

So every month I go out to a place in angel to eat Sunday roast. Normally with my amazing and.close friend Maximum. Although sometimes we do invite other close friends.

Today we have gone for our first roast of the year and its been so epic I can't believe we have had so much food the alcohol we've had has no.effect on us now.

Today there was another reason why we came. Maximum wanted to share some ground shaking information with about the future and It was unbelievable to say the least. However I'm not going to comment on what it was about right now. You will have to keep following my blog to find out.

Now back to food. YUM

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.

Hot Pot Food! YUM.

I am enjoying Chinese hot pot right now. It's such an amazing.experience.

If you have never had hot pot before it involves metal bowl that is filled with water that can be seasoned for flavour. You then place raw meat n veg into it and once cooked enjoy. It's very social activity mixed.

Il always remember my first hot pot. My friend said to me all for one and one for all. I know its a quote from the three muskerties but hey they legendary.

Now time go back to eating. More picturers to be uploaded after.

Stay Brilliant, Stay Beautiful, Terry Masters.