It was my fourth time going to London seeing my sister and her boyfriend. I had a great time when I visited there the last three times, but this time, it was FUCKING AWESOME!

We left home on Friday morning to go on the coach to London. There were no problems with the coach, so I didn't mind the long journeys there and back. However, the trains are much much better.

So we got to the flat, but my sister's boyfriend wasn't there since he was still on the plane heading back home from Burma. For the first night, I was playing on the PS3 and had a good go at Crash Team Racing, which I haven't played in YEARS. My original disc of the game no longer works, so I couldn't play on the game for a long time. Also, I wasn't too keen on getting it from Amazon considering there's no New condition copies of the game. I'm not fond of second hand games.

That wasn't the highlight of the night, however. My sister gave me an envelope and asked me to open it. Obviously I did and inside the envelope was...

TWO TICKETS TO SEE IRON MAIDEN ON 5TH JULY!! 0__0

This was a huge fucking surprise for me since I didn't even think I was going to see them that day. I did once considered getting tickets to see them, but I was told by my sister that the tickets for that event were sold out, which made me very disappointed. She did this because those tickets were an early birthday present from her. She claimed to have bought those tickets last November, so EVERYONE kept quiet about it until I was given the tickets.

Originally, I was going down to London to see my sister's boyfriend coming back from his holiday and to shop around in central London, but instead of going to shops, I went to see Iron Maiden on Saturday night instead (duh).

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Anyway, onto the main part of my weekend in London. Me and my sister left the flat to head to Twickenham Stadium. It took two hours there and back, but to see one of my favourite bands (perhaps my very favourite) on stage, it was fucking worth it! We arrived at the stadium at 6PM, despite the whole concert started at 3:30PM with support bands playing first. We weren't too keen on the support artists (Lauren Harris, Within Temptation and Avenged Sevenfold) so we agreed that it was better waiting later on when the main band were ready to play on stage.

When we arrived at the stadium, we had a look at the merchandise that was being sold at the stadium. With the money I was originally going to spend on stuff in central London, I bought a shirt and a mug from the store. I can't find a picture of what the mug looks like, but the shirt basically had this cover on the front and this cover on the back. Those two pictures are single covers for some of my favourite Maiden songs of all time, which is why I chose that shirt over the others.

After getting what we wanted from the store, we headed to our reserved seats, which were roughly around the centre of the stadium facing towards the stage. My sister claimed they were the best seats at the stadium and I'd say she's right. It was great to have a good view seeing the band and to sit down until Maiden came on.

Iron Maiden finally got on stage and the whole crowd were really excited. The band started off with Churchill's Speech followed by Aces High. Aces High is my favourite song of theirs, so playing that song first was a good way to kick off the show. The other songs they played were also great and I sung along to all of them. Here is the setlist for that night:

Intro - Churchill's Speech
Aces High
2 Minutes to Midnight
Revelations
The Trooper
Wasted Years
The Number of the Beast
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Powerslave
Heaven Can Wait
Can I Play With Madness
Run to the Hills
Fear of the Dark
Iron Maiden

Encore:
Moonchild
The Clairvoyant
Hallowed Be Thy Name

For their current tour, all the songs they play are from the 80's (with the exception of Fear of the Dark), which was a huge treat for me considering most of my favourite songs of theirs are from that time. Unfortunate for me, there were some other favourite songs of mine that weren't played for this tour. But hey, the fact that I loved every song they played that night made it up. :D

Overall, the concert was brilliant! This is actually the first gig I've ever been to and it certainly will be one of the best, if not, my best gig ever! Around 55,000 people attended that night, which was said to be the biggest Maiden gig yet in the UK. Not only that, the lead singer Bruce Dickinson claimed this was one of the best gigs he ever played, so I felt honoured to have attended such a great event! :)

This is without a doubt one of the greatest days of my life and I'd like to thank my sister for buying the tickets for my birthday and my family for keeping this quiet the whole time and of course, the band themselves for touring around the world and playing such a great show at Twickenham Stadium last Saturday. Whenever they play in England again, I will love to attend to see them playing live again. My only suggestion for next time would be to have better support bands than the ones who were at Twickenham.

So on Sunday, me, my sister, her boyfriend and the flatmate decided to watch Hancock at the local cinema (OH, SPOILER WARNING). This movie I've been interested in ever since I saw the trailer and hearing a bit about what it's about. I liked the idea of the superhero in this movie who wasn't just another superhero and was Anti-hero-ish, but they seriously fucked up the second half of the movie. The plot seemed to have changed all of sudden and never explained well about how Hancock improved his act from his alcohol problems and bad attitude. The other part of the film explaining different stuff also made the movie worse. Seriously, the new Indiana Jones movie had a better ending than this and I thought that ending was BOLLOCKS!

Now I'm not saying the movie was entirely bad. The first half of the movie was great, but went downhill afterwards. Despite that, I found it more enjoyable than I Am Legend, the previous movie Will Smith was in. Now THAT had to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. Never have I seen such a boring and predictable film in my life.

And that's everything about my time in London. I will be going down there again, but we've not decided when exactly I'll go again. I'm guessing sometime in October/November when my sister is back there for her second year in University. I certainly look forward to going back there again. :)

...Holy shit, only 4 days left!

Oh, to you TLDR'ing bastards, here's a summary of what happened:

-London was great.
-My sister's boyfriend got back home on Saturday and celebrated his birthday.
-Iron Maiden kicked a lot of ass at Twickenham Stadium.
-Hancock was OK, but the second half was terrible.