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
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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
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tiffany shall go do some studying.. will be back later to update moree! (: