_my love for you;

Monday, November 19, 2007

i had a wierd dream again
anw, i had a haircut today!
:D
wheee

i have a craving for chicken suddenly
think it's because i had little meat to eat in Japan
plus i havent really eaten a lot of meat these few days
haha
im turning carnivorous!
roarr
ohyes, i yearn for oranges too
i dont know why
i love oranges ever since i returned from japan
but there's not a single orange at home
:(

a rose will still smell like one even if it's not named 'rose'
vulgarity will still be expressed with the same meaning even if it is substituted by another word on purpose.
it just doesnt sound as crude, that's all.
dont you think so?

9:19 AM :)

Sunday, November 18, 2007

ohyes
guess what my 2nd bro said the week b4 when he read that i'll be visiting Mt Aso
.
.
.
He went: "Hey sis. you'll be visiting Mt Ass-hole! hahaha!!!"

HAHAHAHA.
it's Mt 'Ah-soh'.

Today was a busy day
Was tidying up my room
:/
and there was soo much rubbish hidding in my drawers and cupboards
i still had my sec1 stuff! like wow?
0_o

and i looked thru my worksheets...
realised that my sec1 history teacher was really mean
i scored a 10/20 for an assignment, and he stamped a clown saying 'WOW!' -_-
then i had a test which i scored like only 9/20, and he wrote big big "you did not study for SEQ, did you?"
=(
so bad right
shattered my you4 xiao3 de4 xin1 ling2
HAHAHA.

but now they're all cleared
x)
stacked up in a pile, sitting on a table,
waiting to be sold to the rag-and-bone man to get recycled
:)
hurray!

on a random note,
i keep having wierd dreams lately
in these dreams, im always on the run
and the worst thing is,
i need to jump from high places while escaping
or i'll get shot or stabbed.
so im always left with no choice but to jump
but i'll only end up with cuts and bruises (luckily)
last night, i dreamt that i was forced to jump from like 3 storeys high?!
=/
is this a sign/omen? HAHAHA.

goodnight!
wonder what i'll dream of tonight.
did you know that sometimes, i sleep to dream?
yeah, there's an objective..
hurhur, wierd huh?

12:04 AM :)

Saturday, November 17, 2007

konichiwa!
WARNING!!!:
this post's gonna be a really long one
=)
so take a deep breath....
and let's get started
x)

wheee

First day (5th Nov):

- Met at the airport at around 1030pm
(i reached at 9.30pm, cos they said meet at 10pm originally!)
- Marrianne came too! thanks for the sweets!
- flight number SQ656
- Sat between Eleanor and Gwen in the plane
- was already 1.15am then
- decided to watch High School Musical 2 instead of sleeping. but it was so draggy, i switched to playing Dr Mario, then fell asleep. haha :D .

That's eleanor, me and gwen during breakfast at 5am. we were like half-asleep Z_z The 3 of us only slept from 3.30am-5! 0_o

Second Day (6th Nov):

- landed at Fukuoka

- Was greeted at the arrival hall by yuri-san

- Boarded this really special and pretty bus.. it's like a double decker, just that the lower deck is for the driver and our luggages, and the passengers sat in the upper deck. it has a mini chandeliar in the upper deck too! so cool can.

- proceeded to the Minamata Memorial (4 hour journey)

- on the way there, we had our lunch the japanese style--in lunch boxes!

I only managed to finish 7 out of the 9 boxes! (not bad le!) super full after that. bleargh.

- dozed off in the bus. hurhur. chi bao jiu shui.

- Reached the memorial, and we had a lecture =(

- oh yes, all our lectures were in Japanese language, so we had Yuri as our translater

- Went to the RWB centre after that to see how human waste can be recycled =/ and purifcation of water. it was quite stinky. though the guy claimed it's not. hahah

- Had a lecture about those processed human-waste-turned-fertilizers...and i dozed off, when im sitting right in front of the techers. haha.

- Headed for Minamata Museum and had this talk by an old man, whose family (including himself) was a victim to the minamata disease. I dozed off again :( it's not that his story was not interesting..it was! it's just that the translater's voice was monotone, and sounded like a lullaby to me then.

- took the bus for another 2hours to the winery 'cos we were supposed to meet our host family (Shinchi family)

This is a pic of us (me, gwen, eleanor and chai) and them(KZ and shizuko)! they're a sweet old couple =) We had communication problem, but luckily they'd got a jap-eng dictionary, and a eng-jap dictionary. so we just point point point to those words we wanna say to them, and they just point back. hahah!

Third Day (7th Nov):

- woke up slightly later than we were supposed to, 'cos none of us were willing to drag ourselves out of bed at 7.30am. so we only woke up in shock at 7.45am.

- washed up, then greeted the hosts and had breakfast at around 8

- cut apples (ding-go!), skinned persimmons and dried them in the sun.

- after which, we went to pack flowers for sale at the host's shop.

that's me and the granny! she's very small and cute! haha
- and then, we went to have ice cream! the scenary there was B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L.

- went back to the host's house after that...and they didnt want us to help out anymore cos they wanted us to go out and look around

- so we saw their dog, beng!

i think beng lost her voice, cos her bark was really high-pitched and sounded like 'ello'. HAHAHA.

then KZ brought us to see his koi fishes!

- had spaghetti for lunch

- it was time to leave them to meet the other students, so Shizuko drove our luggage to the meeting point, while KZ and us walked there. felt so sad then.

- Had a "forest and water" lecture after that, followed by a lecture on tea.

- tasted their green tea..it was bitter and tea-like (now i know Pokka added so many ladles of sugar to their bottles of green tea!!!!!)

that's a random picture of chai and i. i looked so fierce! but actually, i was just showing her a cut on my thumb. it is the angle that made me looked like this!

- went to the winery after that to taste their wine. (jiayin, fermentors are humongous! hahahahhaaa) eleanor drank too but vommited a little after that 'cos she doesnt really drink wine, but still did so

- proceeeded to the cherrysalmon fishfarm (i wasn't really listening to the person there...)

- on the journey, shizuko and the granny waved to us when we past their house :) so heart-warming =)

- checked in at Takachiho Minshuku Chigi inn. Our (gwen, eleanor, chai, me) room is called the TOTORI room :)

- had dinner :) and the 4 of us were like barter-trading. i had most of chai's tofus and mushrooms, gwen ate all of our soyabean yogurt like dessert except eleanor's . eleanor's dessert was exceptionally sour and it sort of curdled (due to the heat from the pit in front of us?), i ate gwen's/eleanor's big red beans, chai ate our pickles etc etc. HAHAHA.

- Went for ONSEN (hotspring) after that 0_o
it was an experience...but i wasn't very prepared for it, since i only decided to go for it like 15 minutes before. urm....shant elaborate much. hahahs.

- went back to our room after that and decided to take pictures. HAHA. we spent 45minutes taking pics lah!

Forth Day (8th Nov):

- had breakfast

- proceeded to takachiho high school :) we were welcomed by the students there in the hall..but because we had to keep changing from our shoes to their slippers, it took us quite a while to enter the hall..so the students were like clapping non-stop for perhaps..5minutes? hahha.

- the students sang their school song, and we sang ours too, since we were requested to do so :/ and yeah..we sang it a little different from the normal way..we had different pitches and tempo. HAHA.

- the school principal, school president and one of us (melody) made speeches.

- the school president was super funny. He was like "let us now invite a representative to talk." so we clapped and glanced around to look for that representative. and then, the school president stood up and talked again -_- no wonder, he's that representative. HAHAHA!

- watched their traditional dance -Kagura dance

- then we followed the students back to their classes

- i was seated with 2 guys and a girl....and they are very shy and quiet. so in the end, i had to keep asking them questions, including random ones like "so, what's your favourite colour/animal/movies/songs" etc. their school's same age with ours! 90 years old :)

- proceeded to have Japanese calligraphy painting after that. i was with Chai and Maki.

- Had lunch after that

- Chai and i were like "eh..where to go, who should we sit with huh". and we couldn't make up our mind on which jap student we should sit with. so we decided to be the 'left-overs'. hahaha. in the end, a group of 4 guys invited us to sit with them

- we spent our time talking more than we should spend on eating. hahaha. talked about number of hours spent on studying, jap cartoons (dragon-ball, totoro etc), movies, teachers etc. when they mentioned dragonball, chai thought they were referring to doeramon, and we were discussing among ourselves which one they are actually referring to, till the best boy asked if we had any problem. hahaha. overall, the 4 guys are great and i really enjoyed talking to them.

- went for sight-seeing at Takachiho-Kyo. the waterfalls were breath-taking.

- had paper-cutting session

- KENDO lessons! kendo lessons were fun..we had to wear this heavy gear and try to attack your opponent with a stick at their heads(meng), throats (su-ki???), stomachs(don) and arms (kotec). it was rather scary watching the students play...'cos they had to run and hold their stick up, then scream as they chiong towards their ooponent. goodness..the girls' screaming were..deafening. eeeyer. of course i didnt scream when i played..i can't. HAHAHA! my partner (student instructor) is called takashi. i couldnt recognise him at first, 'cos he only coached me when he was geared. so after the session, i was looking around and going "sorry, but who's my partner?", till he came forward. bleargh. i was so embarrassed.

- went back to the inn

- watched the Kagura show, not bad. but the ending was quite sick. it was about this happy couple. eew. they were doing the actions of er-hem. and after er-hem-ing, the guy's ___ even e_r_cted. shall not elaborate about the show....

- went back to the inn, bathed, talked to lynette in our room till 12.30am.

8:35 PM :)

Fifth Day (9th Nov):
- woke up at 5.30am to see UNKAI (cloud scenary) at the mountains. it was pretty, like a painting. and because i was only half-asleep when we went there, i forgot to wear my socks -_- and so my toe nails were like turning purple. hahahs.

This is me and angela. i was admiring the scenary, and she came to join me. i was showing her my purple toe nails in the pic, that's why i look like a one-legged.

- went back to the inn to have breakfast
- set off to visit the mayor of takachiho cho

- visited the farm industry department of takachiho high school with their students. there were cows, flowers, vegetables, bamboos, tea leaves etc etc etc. we were shows how rice were being processed, how chopsticks were carved and made.
- our school then planted a cherry tree :) with the takachiho students. last year's batch planted one too, but now looked as if it had withered. hahha.
- had exchanging of gifts with the takachiho high school students, before we bid farewell.

- the guys there are so cute..when our bus left, a few of them were imitating those drama shows, and started running after our bus. HAHAHA.

- headed for Shirakawa riverhead, when we tried their natural mineral water, which is said to have the best quality in japan.

- had lunch. there were so many fat houseflies! eleanor and i tried shooing one fat one away. i shooed it to eleanor, then eleanor shooed it but the back of her hand hit it into my miso soup. HAHA. and the housefly drowned in less than 10s. lol.

- set off for Mt Aso (active volcano). we didnt manage to go up that volcano as it was emmiting too much gas (sulphur dioxide) :( rather disappointed. so in the end, we went to their Mt Aso Musuem to watch a 17min video clip.
- there were horses there available for rides too!

my favourite horse that likes me too! (unlike the grumpy one chai likes. HAHA)
- went SHOPPING :)
- checked in at a hotel - Kencho-mae green hotel

Sixth Day (10th Nov)
- visited the Kumamoto Castle (400 years of history), but only its dungeon. the castle's HUGE! ohyes, while viewing the pieces at the gallery, this old man went to sneeze/cough right into the right side of my face!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yuck. i can feel some stuff on my face (saliva??!) and i was frantically wiping it off :( i was telling myself that if i fall sick, this old man is to be blamed. haha

- had buffet for lunch
- on the bus, i discovered chai's talent in drawing!

- went for fruit-picking after that (persimmons). went along with chai in search of our persimmons. very fun. we were only allowed to pick 8 persimmons. so chai and i were aiming for those fruits high up in the branches..we would pull the branch then snip the fruit off, and then go "aiya! it's yellow on the other side!" -_- Chai kept banging inot things in 'my secret garden' too. she's jinxed, muahahaha. she banged into persimmons, leaves, black wires and tripped. heh. and after we picked 8 persimmons, we saw even more beautiful ones hanging on the branches 'calling out' to us. so we were like thinking of ways to accidentally pluck those pretty ones so taht we can have an excuse to keep it. but being good girls, of course we didnt do so. =)

CHAI!

and I!

- proceeded to fukuoka science musuem. their brochure was hilarious..at a page where we were supposed to get a stamp, it wrote "please insert this into my breast to get a stump.". HAHAHAHA. we went to the top floor to get that 'stump' (haha)and i accidentally damaged the machine. it wasnt on purpose!!! it was like this: my page was already stamped by some other chop, so i didnt want that stamp to get stamped onto the chop (after seeing what happened to chai's). so i placed a paper over the brochure, tried to secure it, and inserted it into the stamper's so called breast. but when i wanted to get the paper out, it detached from the brochure and was stuck in the stamper :( gwen tried stamping after me, and her stamp was normal. but on the bus, some students saw chai's and they were like "eh, why yours so nice..mine only half leh!". oops. ms chee was staring daggers at me..she was like "who is the culprit...tell me now", in a joking way, cos her stamp was only half the original one too. haha. *laughs sheepishly.
- went to watch a 6min planetary movie clip after that. nice.

me and the stamper

- travelled to nagasaki for 2h thru bus

- then we went to have dinner on our own (we had macs!) and did our own shoopping. but we (gwen eleanor and i) ate only..we didnt shop. we had ice cream too!

eleanor's ice cream is some cappucino expresso, mine's maluk no trick (i was attracted to its colour-purple pink and white) while gwen's one is rock choc ball? im not sure. haha.

- checked in at best western premier hotel. the room is so pretty!

Seventh day (11th nov):
- had breakfast buffet
- visited the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Memorial musuem. =(
- visited Nagasaki peace park
- had a bus ride back to fukuoka
- had fried food for lunch....I AM HAVING A FRIED FOOD PHOBIA NOW!
- headed for the Dasaifu Tenmangu Shrine...saw a lot of cute little children dressed in their traditional costumes :)

- went to the Citizen's safety of fukuoka to see how earthquake, fires and typhoons are. it was great fun! :) HAHAHAHAHA. enjoyed myself a lot there. after that, all of us started playing with the helium in our helium balloons. it was hilarouos. lynette and i didnt manage to get squeaky voices though :(
- Had shabu shabu the jap style for dinner. i still feel ungry after dinner cos i didnt really eat a lot.
- CANAL CITY: shopping :D

- after shopping, we met up and walked back to the hotel. on the way back, one group of us got lost :( and coincedentally, i was trying to learn how to say get lost in Japanese language from chai. chai said cos we lept saying get lost, we got lost in the end. HAHAHAHA. but in the end, yuri found us. YAY! actually, i was quite happy when we were lost. hahahhaha. it was so exciting..a totally new experience to get lost with your friends in a place you're totally unfamiliar with :D so thrilling. hahaha.
- returned to the hotel..lynette gwen and chai came to chat and play cards in eleanor and my room. bought alcoholic drinks and i drank it on an empty stomach 0_o. hahaha.

Eighth day (12th Nov)
- had breakfast
- went to a shrine and i got a lot. the lot was quite accurate actually. ahaha
- went to Hakata musuem :)
- then proceeded to Fukuoka Musuem (i cant recall what happened :P)
- transferred to NHK TV station for their studio tour. fun fun fun
- and then we went shopping at the underground shopping area! we took neoprints too, at only $2.60!!!! but the second we took, the machine was faulty..wasted our money.

Ninth Day (13th Nov)
- had breakfast
- proceeded to the airport and went on board SQ 655

- the flight was terrible. watched "i now pronouce you chuck and larry", and the last part of high school musical 2, since i didnt finish watching it last time
- reached singapore at around 3.15pm!!!

HOME SWEET HOME. BUT I MISS JAPAN. HAHA!

9:14 AM :)

Other pictures i don't know where to insert into in the above recounting.

Angela, eleanor, me and gwen!

me and eleanor. we were supposed to be unpacking instead of taking pics.

ferris wheel!

hmm. i think gwen took this. i was bored so i crossed my arms, tilted my head and observed people up at the stairs. i look so impatient and as if i was irritated with chai right? HAHA

eleanor and i

me and eleanor xD

me and gwen! =)

gwen, chai (she was wearing her puffy jacket!), eleanor and i

finally finished blogging abt this trip. phew.

beautiful memories captured :D

yay!

i want to watch TV now, so byebye!

sayonara!

9:00 AM :)

Friday, November 16, 2007

wheeee!

i'm back from Japan (5th-13th Nov)
:)
the trip's not bad.. better and far more interesting than i'd thought
but i shall not blog abt it now
'cos i wanna go watch the 9pm chinese show and ghost whisperer (season finale!!!)

shall blog tmr!
byebye!

9:23 PM :)

Saturday, November 03, 2007

HELLO!

it is a great day today! :)

went to IMM with mum and sis,

then to marina square's sakae with jiayinjiahuishinyikaihui.

haha

we ate A LOT. i think we ate like about 60 plates in total or more

yum.

Shall elaborate more when jiayin send me the photos.

hurry jiayin, hurry!

Anyway, here are the photos i didn't manage to upload in the previous post:

Kaihui's 16th Birthday Celebration:

The process:

shinyi and jiahui squeezing lemons

I was crushing oreos...

together with jiayin!

took a picture with jiahui's cousin before we left. she's very cute! :)

The outcome:

A beautiful, delicious but super fattening oreo cheesecake :/

The birthday girl :)

Jiahui :)

Jiayin :)

Shinyi :)

and I :) :) :) hahaha

Last Few Days in Nanyang:

The 5 of us in the quadrangle

xD this looks like some family potrait. and shinyi and kaihui shall be the ah gong ah ma since the elderly always sit in the front when taking such pics. hahaha

In the quadrangle again. i think we look stupid posing there...and people will be wondering why we were smiling and laughing at a bush of bougainvillea. HAHA. the camera's there what.

"A ring is round, it has no end. That's how long, we will be friends" This is one of my favourite pics :) :) :) :) :)

YAY! We were champions for the floorball cup competition :) that's 5 of us with Mr Chia. hahaha! We didnt know he was posing with that kind of face. he looks funny. haha

KBOX on 31st Oct, after HMT Olevels:

jiahui, shinyi and kaihui singing :D

i joined in...

and so did jiayin xP

i think that's about all

i want to sleep now so byebye and goodnight!

-_- zZZ

12:30 AM :)