leeds

leeds was a very pleasant surprise! :) i didn't expect it to be as nice as it turn out to be... also, i was kinda bothered about things that could potentially happen but did not really, so all was good!

this picture is actually quite different from the original - it has been photoshopped quite extensively. my intent was to bring out the texture of the red brick wall more than enhancing the mural itself. i then had to upload it to picasa through my phone because i have now overshot my bandwidth for mobile broadband and can no longer do anything besides browse -_- the point of me telling you this is because i transferred it to my phone and it looked significantly different on my phone monitor - which i think displays colour more accurately than my laptop monitor - i don't know why all the laptops i've had seem to have problems with displaying colour properly, maybe it's a dell thing -_-

but no really - i count this as one of my better photoshopping attempts! :)

why was leeds pleasantly surprising? i love all the (shopping) arcades that have a victorian twist to them! i also love how the high street is so compact and how it is so wide and there is so much space for walking! i also love how the city is so compact in general - walking from one end to the other would take only slightly more than 15 minutes. i also love the thackray medical museum (though i will admit that it is slightly overpriced at 6 pounds a pop - i think they should offer even lower entrance rates to medical students! hmph) and am still considerably disturbed by one of the exhibits :S i also realised how people can feel so strongly about visiting museums of certain specialties - like the air and space museum and random art museums and museums of natural history... this is probably the 2nd "proper" medical museum i've visited, and i can see how the general public might not be as passionate about it as i am, and i find that quite refreshing in a way (i don't really know if i'm sounding coherent, i woke up at 0645 hrs today and i desperately need sleep now...) i also love how leeds is so unassuming and how there is actually so much more to explore!

HOWEVER, i do not think i like leeds more than i liked york... hahahahaha. i think i am just very pleasantly surprised by leeds...

and mmmmmmm red chilli! the red chilli here is also very considerably better than the one in york!

most importantly - i now also know that certain things are at the same time more and less complicated that i've been taking them to be. and that shall be my cryptic statement that ends this entry.

good night! :)