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.
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i'm tired so i'll update the rest tml (: plus pictures i guess! hahaha i need pictureesss from everyone!