well this is going to be pretty outdated by nvm.. coz its nice!
last sat went to joan's place for bbq.. it was nice.. set up the bbq pit.. settled the food.. had a big rain but luckily it stopped soon.. meanwhile we played german bridge.. its fun! when will we get to play again.. bleah.. den we started to bbq.. nice food! haha.. but otah wasnt nice.. towards the end we played zhong ji mi ma to finish up the food.. haha.. went back into the house to watch soccer.. den played.. intended to leave at 11 but the game was just too addictive haha.. ended up taking the last train for both the NS line and the EW line.. rox lah.. last bus too.. damn lucky lah.. haha.. i enjoyed myself.. yeah.. :)
take care.. take care.. how many times have i said this..
these few days when im at home.. been packing my cupboard, looking thru old stuff and throwing useless stuff away to give way for possibly new stuff.. friends have been nice to me.. but have i been nice to them?
It's something Mystical
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
withers away @ 1:49 am
here goes.. the trip..
08122005 1.53am
on the way to beijing.. realized its the first time i've taken a flight in the middle of the night.. all the lights are off.. so nice.. im in one of the planes joan and i saw two nights ago.. not my time to sleep yet now.. so here am i writing.. will try to sleep later..
i've got nowhere to go anymore. what am i to do?
[i forgot to note down the time.. oops]
on the plane to tokyo.. transfered plane in beijing just now took.. really long.. but experienced -11deg there.. no joke man.. its really cold.. den we were all frantically trying to put on clothes, gloves and what have u.. but its pretty cool too.. can really feel that its winter.. looking at all the breaths of people haha.. as though we're all steamboats all something..
09122005 12.16am jap time
waching discovery channel in hotel now.. love this hotel man.. so nice and warm.. haha.. oh wells didnt do much today coz by the time we settled all the transfer stuff in beijing and waiting for people etc in tokyo it was pretty late already.. its ok.. lots to look forward to tml.. disneyland in the morning till 4pm and then heading for mt fuji and staying there beside a lake.. cool man..
10122005 10.07am
disneyland ytd was fun.. it was really like going back to childhood days.. like finding back my dreams.. hoho.. but i didnt get to sit on all the rides.. coz dad didnt allow me to go with the 3 siblings who were abt the same age as me in our tour group.. bleahz.. but nvm lah still quite fun.. haha..
den we headed for kawaguchiko hotel.. the one near mt fuji.. lake's just outside.. went for a walk at night.. damn nice.. though v cold.. haha.. stars are really beautiful there.. coz its really dark.. streetlights aren't v bright.. and its in the suburban area.. haha.. so can see the stars v clearly.. had a v traditional jap experience here coz this hotel is a v old one.. an old jap obaasan is in charged.. v kind and all.. wore yukata for dinner and slept in it too.. slept on a tatami.. ate sashimi.. shyabushyabu.. went for hot spring bath.. water comes from mt fuji.. haha.. didnt dare to go at first.. but since we were all first-timers and there were no other outsiders besides those from our tour group we just went.. haha..
woke up at 6.30am to see mt fuji.. tour guide said its difficult to see it usually coz its super foggy.. its super cold coz its early morning.. dad woke up even earlier to go out and see if can see anything anot.. well its all worth it.. mt fuji was nice.. haha.. we were lucky man.. no fog.. and i took pictures of it at different times so it was of different colours.. haha.. plus the lake and everything.. v nice..
i love winter.. its actually v cooling and not cold after u are used to it.. of coz with all the proper clothings on lah.. nice snow.. but havent see snowing yet.. looking forward to it..
9.15pm
it snowed at abt 5+ today.. beautiful sight.. as though we're watching tv or smth.. haha..
covered. waiting to be unravelled.
moral of the story: be satisfied. dun wait till the snow stops. or when u have to go. too late.
[wad kinda weird thoughts was i having man..]
its jap food again for lunch and dinner today.. there's sashimi every meal.. i almost finish everything they give but many in my tour group cant take the large amt of jap food, or more specifically, sashimi.. oh wells.. haha..
watching jap drama serial now without knowing wad exactly is being said.. my jap not that good anyway.. can never catch jap people when they talk.. no subtitles of any language.. but its ok i can roughly catch the meaning of the show.. interesting show.. going to play with snow tml.. yeah!
11122005 1.23pm
stayed in nagano in the morning.. went to the place where the winter olympics are held.. nice snow man.. really nice and pretty thick..
next we went to some snow mountain meant for snow sports.. not mt fuji.. its too steep.. driver kept driving to the wrong place and he had to make quite a no of u turns coz there was so much snow everywhere looked the same.. haha.. den after he dropped us off at a place we still had to walk quite some time in the snow.. saw icicles too! so nice.. haha.. v fun to play with snow..
we didnt ski though.. too ex and not worth it.. just took cable car up 1400m.. v nice.. v shuang.. coz the view is superb.. i dunno how to describe also.. first time im seeing a huge completely snow covered area yah.. hoho.. played with snow up there.. surprisingly its not v cold.. haha.. the snow was really v bright coz it was reflecting the sunlight.. white everywhere.. bare too.. except for one single tree.. obviously bare and snow covered too.. haha.. there's macs there on top of the mountain and we ate there.. at least using whatever jap that i can still rmbr i could still communicate with the guy behind the counter..
its just all v magical and surreal somehow.. so.. winter sonata.. haha..
on smth else.. we really experienced wad is japanese honesty man.. we all heard abt their hospitality courtesy and cleanliness etc.. superb.. incomparable.. haha.
one old granny in our tour group left her small purse under her pillow and forgot abt it till we were at the skiing mountain.. heard it contains hundreds of dollars.. not yen but sing dollars.. tour guide called the hotel and we went back to get it.. intact and all.. den she said that if we were too far away for us to go back to the hotel they would actually send it over to us by post. wow. im impressed..
9.41pm
just saw this place snow again.. first snow.. so winter sonata i cant believe it..
went to some park here.. didnt have time to finish seeing the whole place though... coz it closes at 4.30pm or so.. all shops here close at 7 or 7+.. its already sunset at abt.. 4? nothing to do at night loh.. but tv here is good.. haha.. no need to worry that i've got nothing to watch.. anyway today is the first time we finally had abit of time to go to their shopping centre to walk around.. bought an apple.. things are just too ex here haha..
den dad had to insist on walking another way back to the hotel instead of just simply backtracking.. tour guide said can call her or ask anyone.. find police and they will help send u back to the hotel.. if we are lost.. lo and behold we ended up lost.. so how? backtrack loh.. haha.. lucky we didnt take alot of turns.. just walked straight most of the time..
got cold again.. coz it ended up snowing.. nice.. haha.. was singing all the time.. v nice feeling..
ok time for jap drama again.. hoho..
13122005 12.08am
v ncie day today.. went to the sea of japan.. really nice.. waves, rocks.. cold sea breeze.. cool sea.. haha.. sat in shinkansen too.. yoohoo! the trip only took 15min when by bus it would take 1h+++.. v fast.. the interior looked pretty much like a plane.. nice cushioned seats, tables, overhead space for luggage, hooks for coats, toilets, telephones.. but its really ex man.. hmmm we watched a kimono show too.. kimonos are nice! its all really an experience.. last night in japan today.. sleeping in yukata everyday except for day 1.. watch jap show everyday.. using my almost forgotten jap to try to communicate with jap people.. i know i'll miss japan.. the courtesy.. the honesty ( i dropped a 1000 yen note and someone returned it to me).. the scenery.. and most of all the snow.. the way it snowed wherever we went.. so that i would also get to see first snow of that area.. the way i closed my eyes and the snow scene resurfaces in front of me.. love it..
2.50pm jap time
on the plane now to beijing.. lunch will be served pretty soon i guess.. oh wells..
im already missing japan.. japanese are nice.. we went to do a duty frees hop and bought quite alot of food.. tidbits.. den dad wanted to use up all his coins so he just threw everything on the counter.. took v long to count and stuff.. the guy behind the counter didnt appear impatient or anything.. still smiling.. helped us count.. but money wasnt enough.. actually we had notes but dad didnt use.. and i think the guy actually saw that we had money yah.. but guess wad.. he took money out from his own wallet to pay the remainder.. so nice! well its not alot of money only abt 30 yen but still i thought that was really nice of him.. hoho.. ok lunch is here talk later..
3.28pm
just had lunch.. it was sandwich doink.. i want SIA.. inflight entertainment for SIA is good.. so is the food.. hoho..
finally got a chance to sit at the window seat again.. the last time i couldnt really rmbr wad i saw.. but this time.. wow.. the scene is beautiful.. bird's eye view yah.. saw the whole of japan from the plane.. ok not really all coz there are lots of clouds.. but it was really nice to fly so high to see everything below.. even saw the shadows of clouds on the ocean.. damn nice haha.. or rather the ocean was nice.. mum was asking why the waves wun move.. well i guess coz we're too fast.. haha.. in the plane everything below looks static..
i miss japan.. i'll miss airplanes.. i miss sg..
14122005 12.50am beijing time
experienced wad is real cold man.. japan wasnt this cold though it was snowing.. the wind here is really terrible.. even dad was cold.. there was this gush of wind which made us unable to even step forward.. it was so cold we had to take shelter behind a pillar of a building first and wait for the gust of wind to stop.. brrrrrrr
didnt do much today so nthg to write.. hoho tv time.. i wonder how's everyone back at home..
15122005 11.27pm
we are now all stuck at the airport.. flight delayed by an hr.. bleah.. now got nothing to do so write loh.. haha.. ytd was too lazy to write and anyway i was watching a v nice movie.. erm i dunno the title though haha.. so ended up sleeping at 2+am ahha.. lucky mum wasnt awoken.. if not i die..
went to the great wall of china ytd.. damn difficult to climb lah.. but at least i've been there! hoho.. mum retreated early so dad and i continued.. of coz only for a certain distance lah.. till we were 888m above sea level.. den we went down coz it was too cold to stay up there and it was time to assemble.. winds in beijing is terrible.. even the tour guide who is used to the weather here says its cold.. oh well climbing the great wall isnt as difficult as coming down.. coz some parts are like super steep.. when u go up u dun really feel that u are going v high.. but when u come down u start to see how high it is and see how possible it is to miss a step and roll all the way down.. hoho. scary sia.. plus the strong winds which make me feel like im going to be blown away.. held on to the railings all the way down..
nothing much to say abt tiananmen and the forbidden city.. just v cold.. haha.. took photos.. that's abt it..
now everyone is stoning and sleeping here.. time for toilet.. miss everyone back home.. i miss home.. but so do i miss japan and first snow..
It's something Mystical
Monday, December 19, 2005
withers away @ 1:36 am
update.. but not on my trip yet.. haha sorry joan to disappoint u.. no time now.. but there's time for this.. haha
wu lun ni ken huo bu kenwo bu xuan ze dengdeng dao ni jie shu hao jiudan shen de lv chengyao shi mei you ji mo pei chenmei you tu zhong de hui chenni zen hui xiang wang jia menni yue shi xiang yao cheng kenqi shi yue can renwei zhuang bu liao ni dui womo shi de yan shenni bu xu wo ting xin yong hengbu xu wo mi xin wo menbu xu wo fen bu gu shenduo xiang hua cheng yin xing de renyan shi wo shang hengei ni wo de ti wen hao bang ni qu zou han lengdang bu cheng ye neng gan shou xin tengduo xiang hua cheng yin xing de renyin cang wo de lei zai fan gunwo zai ni ling luan shi jie liu xia de zhi wendui ni shi mei xin tiao de yi ge wenpeng you dou yu xin bu renze bei wo yu chundan ta men dou hui bi wozhi zhuo de yan shenke zhi wo dui ai de qian chengke zhi wo mi xin wo menke zhi wo nan de fang renyin xing ren by sun yanzi
It's something Mystical
Saturday, December 17, 2005
withers away @ 12:29 am
long long post.. shall talk abt my trip another time..
class chalet.. everyone got to the wrong place.. but nvm it was only a bit of walking.. den we all just sat around talking abt jobs and stuff.. ppl do have a lot of lobang man.. haha.. den we decided to go cycling.. casie and i learnt how to cycle with the help of our class.. thanks ppl for being beside to teach.. suffered alot of blueblack on both legs coz i kept wobbling and swerving to the right.. somehow used my leg to push against the bike to stop myself from falling.. so i didnt fall.. haha.. could cycle after abt 45min but my steering still sux.. and i never do seem to be able to brake coz i just keep forgetting that there are something called brakes instead of using my own legs.. that's why i ended up banging into karen.. and then after that she would always cycle behind me so i wun have any chance of crashing into her haha.. pin was helping barney with his aspire stuff.. oh yah talking abt this i wonder how was aspire this time..
after cycling for 2h we went back.. night time was fun.. sum pin joan and i went to the beach in the middle of the night.. the guys went fishing and we gals stood there and looked at how much work went into it.. it was v nice coz there werent many clouds and we could see alot alot of stars.. love this place.. cyn dear u should rmbr.. den something pretty drama happened.. the guys had no catch so joan and i prayed that they would catch something alive.. and so they did.. but not a fish.. a sea snake instead.. poor thing it was wrigging like mad in pain.. they tried to remove the hook while not hurting it.. not an easy task man.. and the tide was coming in.. it was really as though they were operating on it.. spent quite a long time before the hook came off.. they successfully saved it! yeah so nice.. but for the rest of the night there was no catch.. but it was still a nice night out generally i guess.. hoho.. coz i've been wanting to go to the beach badly..
played cards till pretty late.. only slept at abt.. 5? drank long island.. not too strong.. still ok.. shared 2 bottles.. and i realized sum is really nocturnal.. sum and pin ended up not sleeping and went out to get bacardi.. sick ppl need the most sleep yet they were the ones who didnt slp.. doink..
woke up pretty early in the morning.. stoned, chatted, listened to music.. it was another slack time coz we couldnt really decide where to go.. in the end we decided to split up to go escape and wild wild wet.. in the end change of plans and we went escape instead, leaving sum, pin, joan, tg and some others from his class.. haunted house was a super terrible experience.. vic who went the previous day said it was ok.. but who the hell knows that it would be different today.. we were really damn scared even before we went in.. after we did it was disaster.. there were like super many ghosts right from the first step i went in lah.. den we all cuddled together pressed against the wall and screaming our heads off.. vic beside me kept banging on the door to ask the person to let us out coz she locked the door.. xuan was so scared and pissed off she was already scolding vulgarities at the ghost lah.. we were stuck right in that position for i dunno how long before we were let out.. terrible man.. took some time to recover..
another thing abt escape: go kart.. something everyone would definitely have a go at.. went for the adult one (duh).. none of us had any experience with it.. i was just afraid that i wouldnt know how to brake, just like when im on my bike.. haha if lidat i will sure die here man.. everything was still pretty ok till the moment i was coming down the slope the 2nd time.. i was moving v fast when i saw that right at the bottom of the slope both lanes are blocked.. casie's go kart was in the wrong direction and sishan was beside her.. the guy in charge was furiously motioning me to stop.. luckily i stepped on the brake in time and stopped just behind sishan.. casie suffered injuries coz of the impact of the bang against the wall.. took care of her and brought her to first aid..
the night was spent playing cards and mahjong, compliments frm yang! mahjong on the bed isnt easy but its better than nothing.. den everyone started to go to sleep, except for barney joanne nan and i.. all dun wanna sleep.. haha.. so we played cards.. den barney started to utter rubbish and sing.. can see that he want to sleep liao but refuse to coz we all havent sleep yet.. doink.. well in the end we slept.. at.. i forgot.. v late too.. haha.. so next morning i was the last to wake up.. didnt want to wake up lahz.. had to go home earlier to wash clothes coz my flight was just on that night..
class chalet is fun.. the next time to see the whole class would be the release of alevel results.. oh wells.. take care everyone..
It's something Mystical
Saturday, December 03, 2005
withers away @ 11:53 pm
mixed emotions.. really.. i dunno.. bleah.. erm.. so fast.. too fast.. too late..
spend all your time waitingfor that second chancefor a break that would make it okaythere's always one reasonto feel not good enoughand it's hard at the end of the dayi need some distractionoh beautiful releasememory seeps from my veinslet me be emptyand weightless and maybei'll find some peace tonightin the arms of an angelfly away from herefrom this dark cold hotel roomand the endlessness that you fearyou are pulled from the wreckageof your silent reverieyou're in the arms of the angelmay you find some comfort thereso tired of the straight lineand everywhere you turnthere's vultures and thieves at your backand the storm keeps on twistingyou keep on building the liethat you make up for all that you lackit don't make no differenceescaping one last timeit's easier to believe in this sweet madness ohthis glorious sadness that brings me to my kneesangel by sarah mclachlan
It's something Mystical
Friday, December 02, 2005
withers away @ 11:30 pm
prom's over! hoho.. everyone looks so nice! finally saw bao in something which makes her look like a gal haha.. so nice! food was ok.. lost appetite towards the end.. more interested in taking photos haha.. oh yah and our class was so lucky.. winning so many stuff in the lucky draw.. and ipod!! ahhh.. and not forgetting of coz our prom queen huimin! haha.. so chio! screamed like mad lah.. missed the feeling of our whole class screaming for something.. it was nice.. there was practically no dance party at all coz everyone is just grabbing people and taking photos.. went out with the gang for a while.. its a.. i dunno wad feeling.. if only it was possible for me to stay out late alone without having to worry abt safety.. bleah.. den can sit somewhere and stone.. that'll be nice.. hoho.. v quiet..
some things changed.. some things are changing.. some things will change.. i dun think i was prepared.. neither do i feel like i will be.. there's still a lot to learn, a lot to deal with.. its tough..