Thursday, November 29, 2007
i think one of the things i'll really miss is my piaaaano :(
i've been playing piano so much these days :(
oh well
HAWAII & TOKYO. so fun so fun.
i better enjoy it heh :D
meanwhile i miss people here too! (you all better miss me too hah =D)
& my RABBITS :(
no missing turtle.
okies me going to sleeeeeeep.
till the 18th! (:
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
okayyyyy i realized that i haven't updated about my so very exciting life :Dremaining part of sabbaticals
dinnertablegang renunion!
mghandbellchoir06 renunion :D
etc
hahaha even etc is exciting okay. because its about what i've been doing! okay maybe not so exciting but still (: plus i'm leaving on friday and only coming back on the 18thdec! pray that there would be NO sinking boat, NO tsunami, NO volcano eruption, NO falling sick? hahaha yeah i'll misss plenty of people back here! but since lots of people are going off too, so not so bad lah (: alright i'm pretty excited about this trip because hawaii & 3nights in tokyo probably means less of museums & city & more of nature. which also = to geoggggy :D ah did i say that sec4 geog looks terrible? (ms tham would be sureee to object haha)
ok so i have been watching tv, attempting to pack, eaaaating, not finding time to come online, & study! okay majority is watching tv ( i admit) but i DID study & eat. hahahaaa. yupyup i'm watching SHADES OF TRUTH :DDDDD (haha CHARISFAN i remember the title now okay!) its so so so so so so awesomely nice! (: wayyyy better than forensic heroes man. forensic heroes is just for the people acting in it haha. yeahhhh but here in this show everything is nice! hahahaa. at first i got really pissed at it because i was starting to super not get what was happening. then i figured i skipped a disc HAHAHAHA. okay so its getting all nice again :D
so thats my etc. :D
MgHandbellChoir'06 Renunion!
:D hahaha it was so fun & funny (as expected) No1 big mistake is tiffany forgetting to bring her phone><>:( i know i'm the youngest but no need to bully right! tsktsktsktsk.
while eating halfway, someone asked if we watched enchanted yet & we were all like "NOOO I WANNNNAA WATCHHH!" thus we very impromtu decided to go for the 720pm show at jurong east entertainment center at 645pm! since we were at lakeside, and jurong wasn't far off.
SO, we happily set off at 6.55pm hahahaha! & it was a reallyreallyreallyreally long walk to lakeside mrt! first it was a huge maze of lookalike houses, & then pris suddenly turned into a backalley lookalike. we were like "wah where we going!" turned out that we had to walk along some bigggg canal & yunjing happily concluded that that was the LAKE. so we pretended we were on some tour & the tourguide (priscilla) would wave a flag & say "okay so we are now walking along the LAKESIDE! on your right, you see a lakeside school!" hahahahaa. FINALLY reached the mrt station & when we reached jurong east yunjing & i were like "cannot run liaoooo!" so we started sliding wih our feet :D since its faster than walking & less tiring than running. hahahahaa.
honestly, we practically RAN for a movie, wearing shorts, t-shirt & slippers! except for priscilla that is. we wanted to bring a blanket to spread on all of us hehehehee xD
there was no queue for tickets! so we bought tickets. 4 people one row. (: yeah & i was made to carry 2CONTAINERS of FRUIT SALAD. however the brilliant me forgot to bring any cutlery (: hence krystle was just eating it with her hands. plus we had drinks & our leftover chips & nachos! so it was as good as dinner part 2 hahaha!
ENCHANTED was reallyreallyreally good! :D so ultra funny. though we all thought of that girl as -.- but afterawhile she got really nice. plus her singing is really good! the songs are all so nice. therefore i wantttt the soundtrack :DDD yup & apparently, towards the end when the guy suppose to kiss the girl, & he had to do it before 12 AND the clock as already striking 12, he STILL HAD to stroke her face before doing so. so so so ! apparently according to monica the lower row (ruijun jane pris me) all raised our hands in despair & said "KISS LAH!" or something like that. and our seats kinda went up too ahhaahha! oh well. then there was the kingkong joke haha :D
after the movie we went to the toilet & sandra saw a sign at her toilet door which said something ultra funny. BUT, i forgot (: heh. yup & then we took group picture in the middle of NOWHERE. hahahaha okay then we allgot a lift back home from monica's mummy (: except the chua chu kang (sandra) & lakeside (priscilla) aunties :D
yupyup end of day. shall update about the rest if i can before i leave !! (:
in the meantime, tiffany E-POKES you! xD
ps: i want to change blogskin again ahahahhahaa!
Saturday, November 17, 2007
hello! i shall continue updating about sabbaticals (:DAY6, SUZHOU & SHANGHAI
we went to school again. but we were late. heh. cus of peak hour & i don't know what. yup so when we finally reached school ultra late, the principal ran out with GLOVES. & the gloves looked like those time durian sellers will wear when cutting durian! so grace concluded that he was eating durians while waiting for us ;D
yi zhuan yan (suddenly), we were paired off with the pri school kids! cus the day before the singapore ones went off in twos with two china kids from one class. so now two of us would join that happy group of 4. veryvery weird. haha. yup & then suddenly we were whisked off for some uh morning exercise? even weirder! hahaha its like having aces day.. just that theirs is like everyday? but they already have a routine so they all know what to do except us! hahahaha. & the scarier part is that the very moment they finish the last move they start running back to class (in an orderly way. running, but orderly.) & all singaporeans were like ?!?!??!? hahahahaa.
ms or:
see. that is what i call a STRAIGHT LINE! (referring to how all the classes line up) (ps: Ms Or cannot stand the way how we line up. because it'll end up in a S shape. but correct what. 3S!:D)
tiffany & lipin:
-.- (thinks: ah whatever) we are innocent during assembly okay! its just that the other classes enjoy squishing us!
our class' 1st period was MATHS. jiaxin's class was english i think. dont really know about the rest. oh someone's lesson was PE aahahhaa. yeah. the brilliant teacher put me RIGHT IN FRONT -.- ah like hellooooo. i'm even taller than you lah. ahahhaa. anyway the girl behind me was our pri school kid..so not so bad. still can talk to her (: yeah so they were learning area & perimeter! & i discovered that i totally forgot all my pri school methods. see, too used to algebra & everything else. so i forgot about making tables & doing guess & check. oh well. oh if you didn't know, all their lessons are in chinese! interesting eh (:
i realize that in Japan & China its all the same. or maybe everywhere is the same except Singapore. inbetween each lesson there would be a 10min break. hahaha yeah so right, you forever see kids running around playing catching or whatever. yeah but this time round, the very moment the teacher dismiss the class suddenly the four of us (singaporeans) became celebrities. hahahha! like everyone suddenly crowds around you & asks for your address, name, phone number, email, & SIGNATURE. hahaha that boy was so ultra cute :D yeah the little girl sitting next to me in class was so sweet too (: she gave me a present which turned out to be a bear figurine saying "i love you" hahaha! lipin got TONS of presents from her partner hahaha. okay everyone got presents, except jasmine because her partner didn't have anything to give her.. & so her partner gave her a biscuit instead hahaha! :D the children there are so loving & warm. quite unlike our pri school people i think :/
we unfortunately could only sit in for one lesson. then we were chased to eat lunch! this time, not as nice. but for the first time i got to eat cha ye dan! tea leaf egg? yup :D thne after that we went for a paper cutting lesson. ah, the horror. i love cutting & folding but i always get lost, for sure. eeee. but somehow this time wasn't so bad, cus the lady went quite slowly. yeah. then ms or came up with the brilliant idea to use these paper cutting things to decorate the class backboard. & we brilliantly rejected the idea.
okay you know what. lipin's blog says that we went for the lesson first before eatinglunch? hahaha i forgot already (:
after that we sang HOMEEE :D to the principal, vps, & teachers who were sending us off. plus laoshi finally let us sing the school song! hahaha i love the school song :D esp when we sing all 3 verses! so we were ultra happy when she let us sing it to the principal because she didn't let us at first :(
then off to shanghai! for the 1st time ever xiao ran jiejie ordered.made us sleep on the bus because she said we will have a late night or something like that. fine with us. we always either get high or sleep on the bus. & normally getting high only occurs at night while sleeping occurs in the morning & afternoon (:
then bookshop! so fun so fun. it was 7 floors high & it would be as nice as kino/borders if they had equal number of books for both chinese & eng. everything was just chinese except for one small eng section. bleah. oh well. jasmine felicia lipin & i ended up buying cool travel books. okay not really. it was like a series. i bought the 100 most beautiful places in the world & 100 more famous places in the world.. & its in chinese! hahaha amazinggg (: i shall get a dictionary & slowly translate everything hahaha.
the funnest part was the floor with all the CDs, DVDs, & VCDs! wheeeeeeeee. cus its not pirated (laoshi says so) & most of the CDs are like below 10sing! hahahahaaa so niceee (: lipin & i bought 2 TVB cds that we would share, she bought TVB shows (but its only in chinese i think) & jasmine & i bought the jay chou cd which was playing so many times all over china. until get stuck in my head. yeah but the songs are nice haha :D but i think he's ugly, no offence heh.
met priscilla, nic, seeyue & grace in one little corner. found out that they all nought eng books. jasmine decided to read those retarded (she said that) chinese stories while they was still time. hahaha. went back to meeting point & laoshi hadthis BIGGGG bag of books. obviously they were assessment books. so we were all like. oh for her daughters, poor thing.
us:
laoshi, ni mai zhe me duo de assessment books shi gei ni de nu (is it correct?) er?
laoshi:
gei wo de nu er zou she me. shi gei ni men de!!
us:
GE WO MEN?!?!??!
ahhh. so apparently the chinese department gave laoshi money to buy that 283901839books just for us. so thats where our homework, assignment, test qs all come from! ahhhhyo. & then lipin started trying to look for the title of the book so that she can buy the book while laoshi was letting her not see it hahahaa.
dinner time! this time, we dragged laoshi over to eat with us! the teachers btw, were terrified of the dinner table gang because we were eating soooo much during the trip. hence, we decided to let them experience the goodness of the dinner table gang. so the teachers tooks turns to sit with us. 2meals each :D since we only had 4left. :(
whoooohooooo & it was here we FINISHED EVERY SINGLE THING ON THE TABLE! :D even the big pot rice. thanks to seeyue, who asked me for 5-6 plates of rice (since it was nearest to me) even better. we went over to the other secondary table & continued eating their leftover food :D lipin jasmine & i finished up their nicenice veggie & i finished up almost all the soup. i think Ms Or's scared of me now. like really. ha ha ha xD yeah then grace & priscilla went round all the other pri school tables eating their leftover fruits, which were oranges. hahaha oh yes & we made laoshi play the fruit game with us hehehehe :D so now laoshi loves us. because she says its good not to waste food. hahaha yay (:
then, according to the iteniery, we were suppose to visit the bund & take a cruise along the huangpu jiang river. but we were told of no bund. so we started discussing what could the bund mean
seeyue:
isn't the bund that tall thing?
grace & tiffany (i think) :
NO! THATS THE ORIENTAL PEARL TV TOWER LAHHHHH!
oh dear did anyone say how slow seeyue was? when we were in hangzhou, she thought that we were in shanghai. & we would always stay in shanghai, not going anywhere else. thenshe thought that suzhou & hangzhou was in shanghai. ahhhh we all could kill her man, that day when that happened. hahaa
so whatever. we decided that the place we were standing on was the bund & we took hilarious photos there. :D we went on the cruise along the huangpujiang & lipin started saying that she wont get motion sickness if she was at the top of boat. bottom she would die. wahh. what kind of logic is that man. even ms or says that the bottom would be less rocky. its science dear girl. see, thats why you're so full of nonsense :D oh yes & nic, priscilla, seeyue, grace & i were at the front of the boat singing random songs (probably disturbing all the couples who were out there as well oops). nic took her titanic picture -.-. & then for some weird reason i cannot remember what, seeyue suddenly fell down (laughing i guess?) & she tried getting up again by pulling pris pants haha! which only resulted in priscilla falling down on the floor & the both of them were rolling around the floor laughing hahahahaa. weird friends, once again sigh.
then at night we started talking about class politics, which lead on to level politics. or least grace calls that politics. oh well. obviously our all time fav topic - EK - came on. & nic was highly highly disgusted by her. hahahaa. ohwell. she is disgusting. sigh.
amelia became known as the big story teller that night. cus she loves to tell stories using her loudloud voice but for some reason she keeps repeating the same line & never goes on for a longlong time. haha.
i shall continue with day 7 & 8 tml. but for now, i'll show one picture (:
during the cruise. that thing is the back is suppose to be the pearl tower. oh wait. it IS. ahhaa. seeyue grace nic me! (:
Friday, November 16, 2007
ahh i promise i'll update about sabbaticals another day. maybe tml.but for now..
HAPPY 17TH BIRTHDAY YEOYUNJING! :D
hahahaha youuuuu! haven't seen you for a longlonglonglonglonglonglong time! remember the stupid secret we have & yet to tell anyone.. though we promised to tell like.. one year ago? hahaha it was greatgreat fun having you around cus of your nonsense. like walking the dog & whatever hahahaa. anyway i hope you're having fun in poly & hope to see you at our renunion!
yup & one year ago, we were all packing last min stuff.. ready to go JAPAN (: yup i can't believe one year has passed, ultra fast! & i still miss it. & i'm sure others do. haha. good thing we're meeting up really soon! either this sunday or next sunday riggght? yup you all miss me thats why! & i miss you guys too (:
ahhhhhh this is the 1st time i have not touched handbells ever since cca ended in sept! impossible :( blahhhhh oh well.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
[edited]i forgot to mention in the previous post. on the 2nd day nic was declaring that she'll get her monthly friend the next day.
nic:
i bet that i'll get it tml!
lipin:
who are you betting with?
nic:
everyone!
& so we decided that if she did not get her thing by the next day she'll have to finish up all the cannot-finish food on the table! & guess what! she really didn't get it! haahhahahaa. but because we're such nice people, nic only had to eat 10 purple brinjals (which everyone despised) & half a plate of some veggie thingy which i didn't like too. hahahahhahaa. & then she got it on the following day! hahahahaa. thus nic learnt that she should never bet again.. because she's so likely to loooose :D
[/edited]
okay.. so DAY4, SUZHOU
the worst day of my life. okay not exactly. but one part was horrible, ugh. we headed off to mu du gu zhen (mudu ancient water town) i don't know why they call it a water town. ah whatever. yeah so there were lots of pretty gardens & ponds. oh so thats why they call it a water town is it? hahaha i don't know (: yes & after bringing us through alot of rooms & gardens & ponds we had the stoopid dumbdumb irritating imperial scholar exam thingyyy! sooooo retardeddd okay! this is the No1 embarrassment pfffft. the 'exam' was just writing in calligraphy mu du gu zhen on the fan they gave us. & being singaporeans.. we obviously have no idea how to write calligraphy. okay not so bad.. but they allowed visitors who are uhh visiting the place to come round & look at us! so these people started insulting us and whatever. so annoying lahhh. only a few were nice. hmph. whats worst is that when they announced who's the 1st, 2nd, 3rd.. i was ranked 2nd. hroweorhhdla. ?!??!?!?! thats crazyyyyyyy. jasmine was 3rd & chelsea was 1st. they made us wear some weird costume ahhhh. okay i shall end here for this visit before i get more pissed haha.
panmen city! okay this was really nice. the gardens and all. such a nice place to camwhore. apparently some of us spotted some gay couple there hahaha. yesyes & this is where lipin's nickname came about! pocky/pokey! okay i have no idea which is the correct one ha ha. yes because this roommate of mine came down with a horrible sorethroat & was meowing in the morning when she woke up hahaahhaah! should have recorded it. & then she'll be squeaking during the day hahahahaahha. yes so priscilla decided to open up a packet of pocky & everyone was eating that except for lipin! & she got pissed & started to go into one of her whining modes.. just that it was squeaky whining HAHAA. yup so her nickname because pocky! (okay i have now concluded that pocky is spelled as pocky haha)
oh yes probably by today or the next day almost everyone in the sabbatical group, including the noisy pri people came down with either cough/sore throat, due to the constant smoke in the air. people in china smoke & smoke & smoke & smoke & smoke. not nice at all :( my sorethroat thankfully only lasted for one day.. so not so bad lah (:
silk factory. hahaha we all got grossed out there because the pri school kids were eating the dead worms AHHHHH. but it was again very educational haha. we got to see how they obtain the silk from the worms.. which i find fascinating i think. & how they weave the silk thread which is ultra thin into big pieces of silk. then they use it to make pillow cases, quilts, scarf, etc. we were showed how they handmake quilts! so coool okay. and we were trying it out too. hahaha.
then we were given such a long time to shop! so priscilla, seeyue & nicole decided to go toilet together (the 3 of them are always so happening man) and then because priscilla was shitting.. they all decided to shit together? hahahaa i have weird friends. and then later on grace visited the toilet and was laughing her way through while peeing.. because she found the smell of the toilet funny. another weird friend haha!
oh did i say about nicole & her weird theories? according to her if you laugh while peeing you fart. hahahaa but no one has ever experienced that. only her lah, so weird. hahahaha.
dinnnner time! again, very interesting. we again as usual tried to finish up all our food.. & this time.. we nearly did yayyy! because we wanted to take picture with our empty plates, we had to prevent the waiters & waitresses to clear the plates. the person in charge of the plates was having this awful temper about everything & i dont get why. but anyway i'm sure she was very pissed with us because we were the most mafan table. like how priscilla asked to change her cup of 7-up cus she dropped rice or something inside. ahahaha and every waiter/waitress who came & wanted to clear we would be like NOOOOO BU YAO!!!!! hahahaa. priscilla even resorted to put the plate on the empty CHAIR hahahaahhaha! but when she was doing so another waiter came up & wanted to clear up (he prob thought we had no more space on the table) hahaha. then they probably finally spread the msg around the waitresses&waiters that they should not disturb us or something haha!
at night, we had some meeting in laoshi & ms or's room. & we all decided to sit outside their room till quite alot of people came. then we would all go in together. hahaha we were making too much noise i guess outside so when we finally knocked on the door & Ms Or opened the door she said "you all outside for a very long time ah." heh. yup and then the few of us for some reason were freeeeezing cold & so ms or gave us the extra blanket to huddle in on the floor haha! then we all got high & i don't know why hah.
& then laoshi HAD to suggest to everyone that we could fill up the glasses/waterbottle with water and leave it open so that the air won't be so dry. my deardear roommate either dosen't realize that laoshi probably meant 1-2 bottles of water or she's just TOOOOO kiasu. can die, really. because our room ended up with 6BOTTLES, 5CAPS, 2GLASSES, 1BASIN & 1PUDDLE OF WATER. ahhh i tell you i nearly went mad. still put 2bottles on top of the tv. ?!?!? after i called grace to complain to her, it was the end of day, goodnight.
DAY5, SUZHOU
we visited the school! okay actually i don't know the name of the school, but its really big. but i can't say grand i guess. the people there are really friendly & the pri kids are soooo cute:D jasmine & dunno who else were swooning over some p1 kid who looked so handsome or something haha! we joined the sec3 class for one lesson. apparently the sec3s are the oldest there? yeah the lesson was fun:D chinese lit! haha. we all took a while to get what lesson they were having heh. & all 14 of us were in one class. after the lesson the ultra nice teacher brought us to some conference room (i think) where our teachers (both pri & sec) were. then they gave us alot of things to eat! like the hugehuge banana (i likee!) and weird sweets of all sorts. then we had lunch. they don't have a canteen for the students there.. only teachers have a canteen. & the food's nice heh. quite quite nice. okay not helpful. so yeah, after that we just started loitering around the school until 1230pm where we were suppose to meet back at the room & go for poetry lesson! with our pri kids & 2pri classes from that school hahaha it was really interesting & entertaining.. & embarrassing. thus, embarrassment No2: for the weirdest reason the teacher suddenly asked jiaxin, jasmine, lipin & i to read out some poem! because she saw us reading it with the china kids. like uhhhhh weren't we suppose to read it with them? yeah so whatever.
the school toilet!
hahahahaha i tell you i find so so funnnny :D although they already told us in singapore during the briefing that there will be no door. but i didn't expect such a clean door-less cubicle toilets. & i didn't expect it to be a drain. ha ha haaa! thank goodness only xueqi & i were using the toilet so it wasn't so bad. i still find it very funny, cus i took awhile to figure out how should i be standing in order to pee properly haahahahaha! should have taken a picture of the toilet sigh.
after that we were brought through some back alley lookalike. but it looked like an ancient village located beside a river with pretty bridges. 7 of were talking & talking about..uh everything hahaha! okay it was nothing much lah.
the shoooooping @ guanqian street! whoahhhh so funn!!! cheapcheapcheap! 8 of us including felicia went to happy house shop which the stuff there was wayyyy cheaper than the ones in singapore! & then some shop which had nicenice bags! everyone bought the SAME mickey mouse bag except felicia, seeyue & i. seeyue bought the veryvery cute sesame street bag, i bought nice brown bag hahaha :D yeah & lipin is crazyyyyy cus the 2nd time we went into the bag shop she came out with a candle, an alarm clock, a nail clipper & goodness know what else. no wonder spend to much money lah. we found a vcd/cd shop & people bought alotalot of things hence spending alotalot of time till jasmine & i went over to the nike shop to stone & sit down. haha.
scary-est place we ever went. master of nets garden with cultural show. first the tourguide was telling us on the bus that it was fei chang you ming de. & then to get to the entrance was through a back alley??? hahahhaa. oh well. then we were led to a olden time living room. okay its an olden time da guan's house. yup & then they kept telling us to surround the place properly so can look at it properly. & laoshi was like "kan she me kan lahh" turned out that there was a small mini performance. & there would be different stations around the house. so the 1st performance totally put us off. at least for the secondary girls. the performers were wearing those scaryscary masks which we didn't like at all! so there was a scared club formed haha. grace seemed more terrified than me. she was pinching me nonstop.. esp during the 2nd performance which was still scary. yeah but aft that not so bad alr cus it was all music performance. ah whatever, still scary, don't like it. hmph. oh but we met st anthony's pri there! hahaha coool right :D
-
tiffany shall go do some studying.. will be back later to update moree! (:
Friday, November 09, 2007
HELLOHELLOHELLO!HELLOHELLOHELLO!
rawr i'm back! didn't exactly want to :( oh well, its very lovedd!<3 places we went was awesome, food was awesome, & people were very awesome. (: ok before i painstakingly (sp?) describe my 8days there let me describe the sabbatical group people ;D (this post will be terribly wordy.. picture post tml or something :D)
amelia seet: the loudest voice woman. you can hear her from the other side of the plane -.-
tan xueqi: aka scratchy hahahah! call her xiao di di & she'll get pissed :D
chin jiaxin: No1 rich woman. she brought alot of $$$$$$! o.O & she spent about everything, until got no more space in her luggage. therefore she bought some adidas bag haha.
jo-ann quah: okay i didn't really hear her talk much, but yeah it was fun having her around (:
chelsea tan: we all got the chelsean syndrome from her. which is visiting the toilet so very often. hahahahaha. No2 chinese proooo.
sandra: small kid, hahahaa.
felicia teo: jasmine's WONDERFUL roommate ahahaha.
jasmine chua: the malaysian citizen who dosen't know her own national day songs. but instead all the singapore ones. aka crysemthemum (sp ahahahaha) No1 chinese proooo! (:
priscilla chan: the luggage packer hahaa. worst chinese ever. never, ever let her do the talking for us when communicating with some China person.
nicole heng: the one who comes up with very, very weird theories. plus she learnt that betting is bad during the trip ahaha.
grace lee: she owns a fanclub hahaha! okay lets just say she's ultra weird. therefore if you get the grace syndrome you're really weird =D
wong seeyue: No1 blur&slow queen! oh my goodness i seriously never seen anyone slower than her. hahahaa my crossing road partner, cus we're both equally terrified of the horrendous traffic conditions in China ><
ng lipin: poohpooh! HAHAHAHAHAH. also called pokey. heh. meowing roommate. i'm horrified by her insane acts in the hotel room, which i shall elaborate later
tiffany teo: me, of course:D
& then there are our teachers, Ms Or & laoshi. (:
so, DAY1, Shanghai (airport) & Hangzhou
okay it was nothing. just me getting up at the insane hour of 420am & arriving at the airport EARLIER THAN NGLIPIN. WHEEEE :D first time i'm earlier than her for anything i think. haha. reached shanghai pudong airport. met our tourguide xiaoranjiejie & our busdriver, panshushu. slept stoned be horrified at the way people drive/cycle/walk in hangzhou on the bus. about 3plus hours. ate dinner & thats where we started to bond i guess. & our no1 joke started from there. cus the pri school kids (p5s & p4s were with us too) were like shouting away "laoshi bu yao chi fan, gen wo men pai zhao!!" so from then onwards we would be like laoshi bu yao [insert action], gen wo men pai zhao!!" & for some reason we find it so funny ahahahaha. had weird tomato soup. & we had lots of tomato soup for the strangest reason. like it appeared on our table for quite a few meals. we concluded that tomatoes are free in china. heh. okay maybe it was the cheapest thing on the menu. yup so the dinner table gang started there. priscilla nicole seeyue grace lipin jasmine & i :DD
checked in our hotel really really early & i think the toilet was kinda creepy. hahah but overall okay lah. end of day haha.
DAY2, Hangzhou
went to westlake! it was okay lah.. not exactly THAT wonderful. just this hugehuge lake thats all. ahhahaa. pri sch kids were horribly noisy. okay they were continuously. then when we got off the boat there was this long walk to our bus & we saw alot alot of angmohs. & nicole & pris spotted one supposedly hot guy. which = to swooning over him even though they only saw him for less than 5min? hahahaha & nicole said
"lets call him... Jack"
hahaha! then after that was on to errr ohh longjin tea plantation! that place is coooolio hahaha. we had some session on how you suppose to drink tea and whatever else. very educational i guess haha. i learnt alot that is. hah. then because about everyone's mother made it compulsory for us to buy the tea from there we bought tea. oh & we bought some tea sweet too! its nice:D i like. 10yuan for one. which is 2bucks. wheeee.
lunchlunch! the food was the nicest there i think:D no tomato soup! okay it was probably really good cus apparently the place we ate was where gov officials would eat at or something? okay whatever haha.
yuefei miao place. hahaha okay it was really interesting actually. & there were soooo many freeloaders who kept following us so that they could hear xiaoranjiejie's explanation for all the stuff there. tsk.
xixi national wetland park. oh man the scenery there = VERY PRETTY:D i loveddd it there! let the pictures speak for itself when i upload them here (: nicole (again) said
"wahh.. so romantic!!"
& pris replied
"too bad for you lah, no guys around"
haha.
dinner time was hilarious !! the soup had like this chunk of red meat in it. & someone had to come up with the horrible idea that it might dog meat -.- so jasmine (our chinese spokesperson since she speaks it super well) asked the waitress what it was. & the waitress replied
"shi ya zi" (duck meat)
& grace said
"scarly the dog is called ya zi"
HAHAHHAA oh mannnn. whatever it was, the soup was quite nice. okay we're very particular over the soup they serve us. haha. & for us dinner table gang our motto is "eat all you can & try to finish whatever is on the table" hahaha! but if we dont like it, we really leave it untouched hahahaa.
then then song cheng! so niceeee! its like those ancient villages. though the guys who act as soldiers guarding the front gate look kinda modern to me & i don't know why. like i can imagine them in modern clothes, though they're really wearing those typical ancient chinese soldier clothes. yeah so the setting was really good. there were even people walking around with those picture signs indicating they are looking for that person to chop off head. ahahaha. & then they had the veryveryvery nice show thingy. effects are ultra cooool:D i dont think there were any pictures but oh well, we were all freezing after the show. so we were 'dancing' all the way back to the bus in one huddle ahahaha.
packed luggage cus we're heading to suzhou the next day. i hate packing sigh.
DAY3, Suzhou
suzhou is a really pretty place i think (: you just need to ignore the 238209803 construction sites hahahaa. yeah we met our just-for-suzhou-tourguide, who's really weird. his teaching-us-th-suzhou-dileact (sp) ended up in vain because its really really gay sounding! okay it sounds okay when girls speak suzhou hua but for guys its ultra gross. nic was having aweful goosebumps when he kept on say ni hao in suzhou hua. hahhhaa. oh well, i think the hao chi is the most acceptable & the easiest to remember (:
tiger hill! it was fun:D because it was mainly about the si da cai zi :D yay i lovelovee that show, shall watch it again sooon. yeah about tang bo hu, wen zhen ming & 2 others. & qiu xiang too! hahaha lots of rocks there. some are tombs or something i think? the crowd was not very nice though. too many people haha. like what grace says, you really have to use the "push your way through if you want to get through" theory. cus if you don't, you can stop thinking of getting out of the place. & china people really just push just to get their way through & they won't care if you fall or something. hmph. so we had lots of fun camwhoring there :D
han shan shi (temple) was a tooootal waste of time pfft. i conclude, just air pollution. okay kidding. i guess the people there are realllyyy earnest about pleasing the gods and all. but some of us were just not very fascinated. yeah okay i shouldn't elaborate much about this. haha. just know that nic, pris, seeyue & i ended up sitting at one side playing sudoku =D
dinner was veryvery funnny again as usual. seeyue lost her memory & suddenly forgot most of our names! haahhahaa. so thats how jasmine's nickname came about. cus we told seeyue that it was a flower & a tea and seeyue guessed crysemthemum. okay i have really no idea how to spell that word hahahah! & then lipin scalded her finger cus she was happily pouring soup over her own finger. hahaha & grace did something equally stoopid with the soup too :D oh yes & we started the fruit game then i think:D its the most efficient way of clearing the plate of fruits heh. the game is like you pick up the fruit (normally watermelon) & by the time the plate reaches back to you you have to finish the previous one already & eat the next one. grace & i always end up laughing so badly till we can't eat properly ahahahhaa.
jinji lake was the water fountain display. i guess we were really lucky because some da guan came to visit so it was water fountain display & FIREWORKS toooo yayyyyy! & the 7 of us who kept together was wah-ing like nobody's business, when everyone else wasn't. haha. we were such an embarrassment okay. because someone's cup dropped & broke i think & being oh so typical mg people.. or is it singaporeans?.. yeah we were like ORHHHHHHHHH.. when everyone else wasn't. oops heh. okay we were really really high. :D so the display was really nice too :D such a nice ending to a sort of boring day i guess haha.
then we had some major party at night in our room. okay it was an instant noodles party. & choosing our room to be the venue was quite the wrong idea. because ms or & laoshi's room was next to ours. hahaha & so we were laughing like idiots in the room when the two teachers decided to knock on our door. ahhh eee. grace, priscilla & nic came up with the brilliant idea of hiding in the toilet while i opened the door. & the teachers were kinda pissed i guess oops. yeah & the three people in the toliet couldn't stop laughing in the toilet (apparently grace or whoever fell into the bathtub -.- hahahaa) & obviously ms or & i (we were standing next to the bathroom, okay i was hiding behind the door) heard them & ms or was rolling her eyes & opening the door hahaha! yeah & i think the teachers were shocked that there were 8people altogether in our room. which = 4rooms. hah. yup then we apparently heard wrongly. Ms or said that we had to be in bed by 1030 but we (did not purposely) heard it as be back in the rooms by 1030. ahh oops. yeah so they went back at 1028 & then i saw sandra & chelsea poking around outside they're room (opposite ours).. to learn that chelsea was throwing their instant noodles at some dustbin outside. so i was like
"ah lipin there's a dustbin outside! can throw who ever left they're instant noodles out!"
"really? i don't remember seeing one"
lipin opens the door & sticks her head out to see if she can see the dustbin outside
.. only to see Ms Or standing outside
oh die. hahaha. so obviously kena scolded & the rest of the 6 people (except jasmine & felicia hmphh!) got the same scolding ooooops. so that ends the day hahaha.
-
i'm tired so i'll update the rest tml (: plus pictures i guess! hahaha i need pictureesss from everyone!