FISHY FISHYYYYYYYYYYYY... thats what frens that i'm travelling with often teased me abt.. sigh.. I have to admit that i am afraid of fishes.. not that i'm afraid to eat them.. juz that i have a phobia of being close to them.. really dislike the thought of their slimy scales being in contact with my skin... yes.. i do scream in water when a school of fish swim near me.. loud enough for ppl snokelling nearby to hear. In fact according to shawn, i nearly drowned him when a a whole lot of "friendly" fishes insisted on swiming next to me *hey they were really close.. and they weren't scared of ppl.. in fact shawn says my screams attracted them*.. its all the fishes fault!!! i didn't have any choice but climb on shawn's back.. not that it solves anything.. fishes are still happily swarming ard me as if they're enjoying my fear...
well at least i've made ample improvements from the last snokelling trip to redang... lesser fishy fishy.. and i can almost tolerate being with fishes that are huge (eh.. the size of an A4 paper?) without feeling that afraid *proud grin*
had great fun.. water was fantastic.. weather was really great... scenery was wonderful.. ppl there were friendly.. well a thousand complements wouldn't do them justice.. its juz heavenly to be there.. the only complaint would be going for the spa.. paying 60 bucks (sgd mind u) for an over scrubbed back with sand like scrub leaving it as red as lobster that hurts like hell isn't what i call pleasureable spa experience.. so unless somebody tried some resort's spa facilities before, don't be the first one to try it.. it'll probably end up with more harm than good... anwiae here's a picture of the scenic view... juz look at the clouds... sigh.. an absolute heaven!
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6:34 AM
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oohhhhh... boyzilian!!! kinky.. i like....
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10:33 AM
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sigh.. kinda regret rebonding my hair.... its straight, flat and boring now... too bad i'm too much of a wuss to give my hair fabulous huge curls... cos i'll probably become lion king if anything goes wrong..
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5:39 AM
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love my new skin.. its secretive, feminine and awfully sinful...
ps: i dun smoke!
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5:31 AM
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interesting yet kinda wierd day.. today i actually added most of my little cousins on msn as well as their blogs... its really a new experience chatting with them online... but nothing beats reading their entries on their blogs... damn... i guess i'm really old now.... they've freaking grow man!!! all they talk abt is bgr and death [yes brandon thats u].. its wierd reading that they're actually going out with their frens that much and doing all the growin up stuff like cursing their parents... well i guess i really have to mind my words here .... juz in case i say anything incriminating...
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8:09 AM
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this is the place where we did our last min shopping!!! haha.. buy buy buy!!!! had great yet reasonable priced food too *those who are there remember to try a local steak place called TED's STEAKPLACE.. its on market st i think... near union square.. damn good steak!!!!".. the hotel that we were staying at was great! Ramada hotel is its name... its only a few streets away from the main shopping district.. only abt 10 mins walk... easy transportation to everywhere.. with electric trams and buses stops juz outside our hotel...
well.. on our first day there, we visited the golden gate bridge... managed to take the blue fleet to tour the harbour of san franciso and the famour pier 39 of the fisherman wharf.. had a fleeting view of the infamous prison island too!! mmm... looked kinda scary outside...
well.. jumping to the last day of san franciso, we woke up really early in the morning and chiong to the shopping malls to splurge on ourselves... VS, H2O, abercombie, gap.... swept up everything sia!!! haha.. after all that shopping, we chanced upon the local chocolate shop... its everywhere in san franciso since the factory is in the heart of the town.. Irene and i spent a bomb there on chocolates slices that are individually wrapped.. since it is generally cheaper as soveniors for ppl.. after buying, we realised that it actually cost us more than sg$0.50 a miserable small piece!!!! damn!! not so cheap after all!!! haha.. then wanted to take the electric tram up to fisherman wharf for more shopping and a seafood dinner... met 2 uncles from our tour group thus managed to cut the longgggggggg que to take the tram... haha.. followed the two photography enthusist to lombard street...
world's crookiest street.. to take pictures before making our way to fisherman's wharf.. haha.. kinda nice travelling with 2 daddy figures...
well... all was well in SF.. other than that there were still homeless ppl.. mainly blacks still loitering ard the streets esp after the sun sets... its quite a frightening sight, as they'll try to approach you and beg for $$... another interesting thing is that we took the electric bus for the first time while making our way back from the wharf.. the driver didn't charge us and even gave us a transfer ticket so that we can still take another trip without paying!!! haha.. nice guy.. but still quite scary cos we were the only 2 person on the bus at first.. and we were a little doubtful.. whether he's gonna bring us to some wierd place and sell us away.. haha...
us.. alone on the electric bus....
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10:06 AM
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day 10,11 & 12
Arrived at Taipei at 5 plus in the morning... bloody COmet travel gave wrong details to our taipei agent.. i had to call back to sg and wake the shitty agent up to find out why there was nobody waiting for us at the arrival hall... sigh... luckily the taipei agent arrvied less than half an hour later.. hehe.. to make up for all the mix up and inconvenience, he brought us to a place where they serve free breakfast of meatball bee hoon!!! haha.. yum yum.. after which we did a little shopping *freaking expensive sia.. we paid sg$10 for a packet of preserved plums....but it was all worth it...*
crashed into huiling and shawn's room at abt 7 plus.. since we're only allowed to check in at 2pm.. hehe.. woke them up and made them wash up .. then we're off to ximenting for my very first bowl of "ah zong mee sua"!!!! haha.. addicted after that sia!!!!!! anwiae we also had the local breakfast of rice ball... wierd combi of egg, you tiao, preserved veg and meat floss inside...
joined 5 malaysians.. and rented a van up to "jiu fen"!!! it was really an experience!!! good food, nice structure and great buys!!!!
along the way we stopped at this national park with natural rock formations with one distinct one of the formation of a "queen's head".. there we stopped to get fresh local products such as salmon floss, cuttlefish (yes i know i spelt it wrongly.. ) and many more!!! then we had seafood dinner... wasn't as fantastic as the tourguide told us.. but it was still cheap!!! where to get 12 seafood dishes for sg$17 each??
well... we went to one of the mountain peaks *can't remember the name of the mountain.. but i guess its quite famous" to view taipei's night scenery.. then we went to shilin night market to walk walk...
the next few days passed like a breeze... we explored ximenting, 101 building, a few other night markets... but its quite sad there cos other than the first day, it was raining throughout our stay there... see the rain behind us?!?!?! irene insist on taking 1 with us in the rain *thats what i call 'something wrong"*
hehe... overall we had fun there!! bought many pairs of shoes!!! cheap cheap!!! haha.. money not enough so have to change somemore.... well... we did what we aimed to do there.. shop shop shop.. oh ya!!! hahha... guess who i met there?!??!! jun xian and raymond together with a few other ntu ppl... what a coincidence!!! haha... we were staying in the same hotel!! and we met on the same lift while going down for breakfast!! haha.. never ever meet in Sg.. can meet in taipei... is this fate or what..
p.s.. they rare pigs as pets in taipei
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9:16 AM
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woke up really early, packed *slept really early the night before.. juz look at the no of luggage that we have...* and chiong to buy our favourite goodies before coming back to the hotel and wait to be picked up to go to the airport.
a road side store selling various rolls... greedy us couldn't resist trying out her egg and pork floss rolls...
our accomplishment!!!! juz look at all our food!!! and this is only breakfast... yummy!!!
haha... tahbao "ru rou fan" and "gong wan soup" to the airport.. to satisfy our need to fill ourselves up with more of taipei food before returning.. here's irene eating at the airport, while waiting to board...
ps.. both of us felt like puking throughout the plane... couldn't eat any of the plane food too.. sigh.. we shouldn't have ate so much...
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6:52 AM
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GSS is here again!!!! and the most important thing is that i need work stuff!!!!!
well.. this is not exactly working style.. but i guess i can wear this with a jacket during dress down days..
mmm.. this is tempting as well.... but neckline a little too plunging....
anwiae time to go shopping with mummy to buy the perfect suit for my first day of work!! *wah.. that sounded really bimboish!*
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9:46 PM
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YEAH!!!! I've offically graduated!!!!!! results are out today and i've got the best results i've ever gotten in my entire life in NTU!!! ABB!!! with final year project B+.. hahaha.. what a surpise!!!
N congrats to my very best guy fren in hall and NBS, zy for getting top honors!!! we're all waiting for our crab feast treat from u!!!!!
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2:23 AM
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day 2 was delicated to disney!!!
did a combo theme parks today
- Disneyland
- California adveture park
wow! its like bring wizzz back to being a child!!! huge candy shops, cartoon characters walking ard *our favourite is all the different disney princesses of course!!!* haha.. irene and i conqered most of the rides, both kiddy and thrilling...
queing for snow white ride... background is the 7 dwafs cottage!
Class2006 graduates!!
Welcome to toontown!
well... we had lots of fun taking pictures in all the different lands... eg: tomorrowland, fantasy land... etc... to end it all, we devoured great food and various candies.. the only regret is not buying myself a candies apple.. they looked so tempting yet sinful..
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5:26 AM
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well update on my recent trip.
Day 1 --> Singapore --> Taipei --> LA
Supposed to meet irene at 6.15am in T1.. early so that we can grab window seats.... however irene only arrived at abt 6.40am.. poor me... had to sit there alone and read... *thank god that i brought a book along.. if not i'll surely slaughter irene.. hehe.. but the sad news is we couldn't get window seats!!!!
Here we are!! ready for the battle of the long flight to taipei...
In taipei international airport... playing bridge and waiting for the internet booth to be available... hungry thus trying out taipei's subway... *YUCKS*!!!! cheap but the "meatballs" standard is a farcry from Sg's.
well... after 18 hours of flight + transit, we finally reach LA... sigh.. it seems that our bad luck is still lingering ard... we were given the wrong entry form by the air stewardess and we only realized it after 1 hour of queing to check out of the american customs.. we were made to go to another que to fill in the correct form.. and to resubmit... arghhhhhhhhhh.. thats another half an hour!!!!! wtf is the american custom doing?!?! it seems that they must review their procedures man!!!!!
sigh.. estimated time to check in was 2pm... but we only reach at abt 4.50om... 2hours and 50 mins wasted!!!!! checked in and met our tour guide steven... he advised us to buy a whole carton of mineral water.. since its safer to consume bottled water than tap water.. and that the weather is very dry... so water is to keep us asians * aliens who are only used to the humid climate* alive...
Shopped ard our hotel area... quite good lah... 2 super markets... 1 huge pet store *as big as a supermarket*.. multiple stores and a huge selection of eatery... jet lagged and hungry, irene and i decided to have our dinner at RUBY'S!!! YUM!!! the waiter was super cute!! *actually all servers were dressed in the old american style stripped uniform.. gal's dresses were really short!!* and when u meet a server, all they say is "be right with you". The eatery is fashioned like billy bommers..food is pretty good but the portion is HUGE!!!!!!!!!! we ordered a burger set and steak set... think we didn't even finish half of each set... 
after which we proceed back to our hotel to have our jet lagged slp...
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