Thursday, December 15, 2005
i'm back!!
actually, i got back yesterday morning.
one thing to say,
china was effing cold.
especially beijing!!!
didn't see much over there. our tour guide for beijing was bad.
she didn't explain much about the place
and kept talking on the bloody phone.
our tour guide for kaifeng, zhenzhou and luoyang was super.
she could recite peoms, proverbs, china history,
the emperors' names, the concubines' names, the generals names and bla
AND the periods of the dynasties without getting mixed up.
she had lots of stories to tell about every place.
our tour guide for xi'an was pretty okay.
at least she was helpful and sociable.
the food was oily and salty, still nice though. but it was the worst in beijing.
so was the service.
we could be struggling with the teapot trying to serve tea and the waitress standing directly behind our table can yawn?!?
we didn't do much shopping.
there was nothing nice to buy!
okay, i don't really feel like blogging right now.
bye.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
just got back from joel's advanced birthday chalet. haha
had lots of fun! we laughed till our stomaches hurt.
hsinrui and i got there at around 9pm
they were just about on their way to go to the food court to have dinner.
joel, dy, aldie, bulu, chinhan, rasheed, bear, lao, yixiang, rachel, chermain, wendy and azura.
vivienne and claire were there too so i hung around with them while hsinrui accompanied her dad.
hsinrui, vivienne and claire had to go home at 10, and they abandoned me there. hahaha
decided to stay over since i had nothing to do.
then when i got back to the chalet, i realised that i was the only girl who was gonna stay over!
but thought i'd just stick around like an extra haha
after chermain and the other girls left.
mitchell and gavin came over after that, and it was almost twelve!
so they did the birthday bash, some pipi song thingy, pour ice and water and used the party ribbon spray which was
cold on joel hahahaha
i just sat there and laughed.
after joel bathed, we started talking about ghost stories.
lao suggested we go to the red house since it was so nearby and explore it.
we walked there and were travelling in pairs.
felt pretty freaked out since it was so chilly.
met a group of people with torchlights and borrowed it from them. haha
they were friendly people.
we all had to climb over a gate to get inside the house.
it was so scary and high up! gavin had to carry me down the gate hahahaha
but inside was nothing much so we came out quite fast.
that group of people were waiting for us.
as we were coming out, they suggested we take cabs down to och and explore it together.
i didn't know whether to follow or not, but in the end, i did.
dy, aldie, bulu and yixiang didn't tag along, they went back to the chalet.
took a cab down to changi village.
my god. the homos there were totally....
ewewew.
so anyways, we stopped for the toilet at one of the coffeeshops then made our way to och.
damn. that place was
ten times freakier. eerie.
went in and although i didn't see anything (thank god), i certainly felt that i was extra chilly in there.
mitchell was my so-called "partner" and i was practically quietly freaking out over there.
he had to calm me down ahhaha
we climbed about five stories but since it was about almost 3.30am, we thought we had better stop there and get out of the place.
went we got out, we went to sit at the pavement nearby and they smoked and talked about whether they saw anything.
gavin did. rasheed got scared in there because he saw gavin's face go all pale. lol.
mitchell told me about all his scary experiences on the walk back to the coffeeshops. haha
the guys bought some food back to the chalet.
when we finally reached the chalet, we talked about what happened there and some other stuff. gavin and lao told us about some stories in the army which were hilarious.
they left after that. we started playing card games.
first was heart attack. the cards kept getting squashed because of the rush haha
second was where two cards are given and see who got the smallest number, that person would have to drink some vile mixture.
curry soup, chicken soup, chipsmore cookies, ice lemon tea, orange juice, prawn crackers.
mix some here and there haha yuckkkkk.
i got to drink a few different mixtures like almost five to six times!!
but dy, rasheed and bulu got it the worst!
joel got his own mixture in his first and last round haha
after that we tried to watch a bit of tv but we were bushed and went up to sleep.
it was cold! and i got the whole bed hahhahaha
i felt so bad! five guys squeezed onto a small mattress on the ground. oops.
when i woke up, which was two hours later, chinhan and rasheed headed up to the room to sleep.
before that, they were sleeping on the chairs downstairs and suffering from lao's snoring.
i didn't hear a thing but they said it was extremely loud and had a rhythm to it.
then they kept making fun of him.
checked out at 1030. we were like walking zombies.
wanted to walk to the bus stop
but just as we were walking there, it started to rain.
so we walked bsck tot he shuttle bus area and waited.
when a bus finally came, it was so packed.
so we waited for the next one to come.
but we waited for close to an hour and still not bus was gonna pick us up.
the rain had stopped so we walked to the bus stop.
took a bus to the mrt and boarded the train back.
walked home with dy, joel, chinhan and rasheed.
i am so tired. only two hours of sleep
and now, i'm late for my four hour tuition.
wish me luck.
