Monday, August 25, 2008

Been up to quite a lot of stuff recently and most of them are over, with exception of the IT Fair coming up this Thursday. Odac ex-Og 2 outing last last week to somewhere new and interesting and that's Henderson Waves~! There were two arrows pointing in opposite directions as to where the bridge really is located and well, we made the correct decision!

None of us had any idea how to locate the bridge even with the arrow's direction but somehow after quite a long walk at Mt Faber, we finally caught a glimpse of it!
Surprisingly, all the 3 girls wore yellow :)
There are four main bridges in total but we only walked through Henderson Waves which is the most famous one. The Forest and Canopy Walk look nice cuz it's very nature-like and I think there are only trees or something surrounding the bridge. Shall visit there again next time! Ohya the total distance of the four bridges, fyi, is 9 km! And that excludes the walk from the bus stop to the very first bridge.
Finally at the start of the bridge!

Jump shot on the bridge! Good thing it didn't break or something otherwise we'd all be gone haha. The highest point of the bridge is 80something m above sea level!



That's the end of the Henderson Waves, which in total is 0.3km. Didn't proceed to the other bridges cuz of unforeseen cirsumstances, mainly due to the weather because it rained for quite some time in the morning and delayed our journey to the bridges!
18/08/08 was Yvn the slow and Huiwen the great(?) 's 20th birthday! Me and Sin got them cards and some gifts and we had dinner at Sushi Tei in Holland V and made quite din there!

We ordered a little too much food and my Chicken Katsudon is not nice! I think the rice is nicer than the chicken =P Our side dishes are nicer than the main course and this reminds me of the chat after AHM at Swensens ytd tsk tsk

Okay back to bday celebrations, we went to cold rock for ice cream which ain't fantastic and I still like b&j's cookie dough and dublin mudslide the best =) We then started to take weird and funny photos like this one..
and this..
and ACT emo pics which I thought was a failure cuz the background is too bright haha. They should be taken in dark alleys! Hmm I'm having de javu as I type this! Weird...



Ohya we all seem to have great minds cuz we always think alike and appear in the some colour themes like this yr's bday celebration's theme seems to be b&w and the second was last year's with a rainbow theme? We all have aged hahaha

After cold rock closed for the night, we went to take random pictures at monster mash since it was closed and there's no one there. Too many pictures to be uploaded so just one will do haha.

Yup it's very coincidental that both of their bdays fall on the same day. Ahh all the August babies!

Besides having gatherings and bday celebrations, my four days of work as a receptionist had also ended! It was quite an experience and I would say the time past quite quickly :) Next up, IT Fair.

AHM ytd was.. not that bad although I was still hoping I need not run the very moment my eyes opened ytd morning cuz I ended up not training up before the run. Only me, Eve and Jm for the 10km run and guess what, we didn't do warm ups before the race cuz we were kinda late! I'm aching all over, feeling so stiff and walking like a penguin now. Hope it gets better tmr! Saw quite a few familiar faces there but most are acquaintances. In conclusion, I'm quarter a marathon runner and not gonna join any more runs anytime soon haha.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

The Love Guru was really lousy we should have watched other shows like Money No Enough 2 or 12 Lotus or whatever it'd have been better. Actually both me and Ting had no idea what The Love Guru was about actually and just proceeded to watch it. Wasted 6 bucks and 97 minutes cuz it's really not entertaining zzz. Impromtu decision to meet Cp and his friend, Adrian at Timbre after dinner to chill, or rather watch Cp drown himself in sorrow due to his failure to get ahem's number. He kept sending me emo songs but I have nth to emo about haha. Guess I dun make a good emo friend after all. I've yet to meet up with b and g!


Caught Journey to the Center of the Earth ytd with eve and I must say it's 8265286027 times better than The Love Guru, at least it keeps you in suspense most of the time.

Hoho I'm finally working next week! It's a 4 days thing either as a receptionist or promoter though and the pay's so so but oh wells at least I have sth to keep me busy! Speaking of busy, I've been out almost every day since I came back and I've yet to do some follow up on my trip guess I better get them done soon.

For the first time in about.. six months, I'm gonna start running tmr! Boo AHM is next Sunday and here I am, just starting to train up and with work next week, let's just hope I dun get too tired or lazy to run in the evenings! Gotta wake up early in the morning tmr and this will last till Friday next week. I'm gonna start counting sheep and try to fall asleep!

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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Finally, we went to the long awaited Underwater World on Sunday (because I successfully made them wait till I return to SG before going) and became a tourist again. Didn't know that there would be so many tourists otherwise we'd have gone on a weekday. Here's the five tourists for the day..Well, this glowing red thing is called the sea angel and they're super tiny! Kinda gross jellyfishes..

And the sting ray is quite ugly although it looks like it's smiling.
The tunnel which we only went through once!

Successfully found Nemo!
Hmm not many interesting creatures though. I think I'll only go back 10 years later? The Zoo is a better place.
Rushed to Dolphin Lagoon because it's complimentary with purchase of The Underwater World ticket and only managed to see the dolphins for 10 minutes from an indeed very far proximity with lots heads blocking the way.

Songs of the Sea at 840pm and please don't get cheated the Sentosa day pass is only for one day within Sentosa and not in and out of it. Tsk tsk! We spent an additional 3 bucks to get in to catch the show because we went to Vivo to have dinner. Anyway, the storyline is kinda bad even though the effects and graphics were pretty good.

Who did it? We did it? Who did it? We did it? Haha this is supposed to be the princess or what lah I can't remember.
Oscar is his name..
And the angry volcano or something who keeps asking people to sing. The whole show is about singing louder and louder and LOUDER..
Lastly, the pretty nice fireworks and stuff.


Same company with an additional of two heads for brownies today but due to unforeseen circumstances, we didn't get to eat them! Had ice cream at Thomson instead and had lotsa arrows flying around, leaving each and one of us, except Yvn and her beau, heavily injured at the end of the day. Haha very fun huh. The umbrellas broke due to the heavy rain and strong wind, someone's ice cream went into someone's eyes and lotsa funny stuff. GG!

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Sunday, August 10, 2008

Okay I'm kinda bored now there's almost nothing to do online except for watching shows and my eyes are tired from watching too much of them already. Well well I got back my appetite already but still hasn't been eating much. Realised that the AHM is like 2 weeks later? Omg so regretted I signed up for it I haven't run in ages! Think I better start jogging at least once before the event haha.

I miss the weather in Holland! It's like totally humid the monent I stepped out of the airport. Felt so different. I was also telling my parents how u can just leave your chocolates unwrapped on the table and there will not be ants, cockroaches or whatever coming out to feast on the food, or, u can leave the packet of biscuits anywhere and it'll still be crispy the next day. How great! The chocs won't melt either lo haha. Btw, I really became rounder already although there's only a KG gain in weight boo! I somehow became darker too.

Had OG outing on tuesday and it's been quite a while since I met up with my OG mates. Hmm actually it's been quite a while since I met up with anyone right haha. We went to some place in Arab Street which was stuffy like hell all of us were perspiring like mad plus the second hand smoke, totally blah! Almost died inside la! Some of the rest went to other cafe or pub to chill after dinner, which was like erm 11? I went home however haha.

Went to watch The Mummy 3 with Eve, June and Caleb on thurs and yeah not that good not that bad, just an average show. Batman was better! Met a long lost primary school friend too haha

Here's OG 9! Very alive and kicking lol

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Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Yesterday, for lunch, I had less than half a packet of chicken rice and less than half a cup of bubble tea, both of which I used to finish quite quickly. Had half a cup of mocca from starbucks during movies (I finally watched The Dark Knight!) and lastly for dinner, one chawanmushi and half a cup of green tea ice cream from sakae! And that's all I ate for one day without even feeling hungry at night. No appetite for anything. My stomach feels hollow, dun even feel it churn or whatever. I duno why but the chicken rice tasted different from what i used to eat, the bubble tea not as nice to drink as before and chawanmushi not as nice also! Get my appetite back! I want to eat!

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I am back! Back to reality :(

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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Paris

Paris trip was on 25/06 to 28/06, a 4 days 3 nights stay over. The great thing besides all the attractions is that, 25/06 was the first day of summer sale in Paris! Lots of pictures are gonna be up and I'll try to put them in order.

The must-have when travelling around on your own in a foreign country, a guide book with a map.
First up, we had to check in to the hotel and it was located at Franklin D. Roosevelt. Champs-Elysees is the shopping street where many designer brands are at.
At the balcony of the hotel. Nice view with strong wind and hence my ugly hair. I seriously need a hair cut!
This.. was at Concorde if I'm not wrong. We were trying to find the Louvre.
Still on the way there, not forgetting to take pictures of course haha.
The Arch. Kinda like this pic cuz of the sun's rays.
Like I said, there was strong wind that day and this was how it looked like when a sudden gust came and it became all blur and sandy.
Finally, Musée du Louvre.
Nice nice! Very crowded though.
Both my aunts.
Well, I did take pics in front of the Louvre but it was very horrible! haha I either closed my eyes or it just look v ugly!

Next, we proceeded to this place that's like really grand but sadly, I couldn't remember the name of the place! I'll check my guide book when I go back to SG cuz it's inside my luggage and I'm too lazy to open it after trying so hard to squeeze everything inside! This is the flight of stairs that one can take to reach the top where the grand place is but.. being lazy and afraid of muscle aches, we took the lifts instead. lol
My the other aunt wasn't lazy though. She climbed the stairs and took pictures as she went.
Tadaa! So nice! Blue sky, white building, small and colourful people. The interior is a church.

Taken at the top. I like the clouds!


This one looks like some huge, old haunted castle with ominous clouds!
The metro.
There there.. The whole building belongs to Louis Vuitton. I bought 2 bags there and THEY'RE NOT MINE! The many attractions in Paris.
Pretty magnets!
Here you go, the Eiffel Tower! We didn't go up to the top though. I promise to edit this post with more info okay! All the info is inside my guide book!
Me and my two aunts.
Shopping street.
Ahh I remember this place. Notré Dame! Beautiful place. Also a church.
The interior..








The Eiffel's legs.
La Fayette is a huge shopping centre with many branded stuff inside. Super crowded.
The Eiffel Tower at night. Nice right! Hmm it's actually taken from my guide book! lol


I'm sorry but we're back at Notré Dame again. Very troublesome to shift them!




The next time anyone visits Paris, I'm afraid the Eiffel Tower will not be there anymore because I took it away! hahah
Okay for the good of mankind, I shall be nice and place it back!
And so I've to make sure that it's firmly stuck to the ground. ;)
I like how this picture looks like the top of the tower poked a hole through the clouds.

This was the third day already. Did a bit of sightseeing and continued with shopping.


The metro at station Opera.
My face looks bloated lol


Alrights, the train back to Holland. It was a.. 3 or 4 hours journey I think.
Okay I think this blog entry on Paris seriously lacks words I'll edit it when I have time!

It's now 2am over here and I'm very tired because it was Gay Pride Day yesterday, 2nd Aug, and we went to join in the crowd to look at the canal parade at Amsterdam Central. Very very very crowded and lots of walking too! Pics up next time! I still have lots of pics of other places actually. Shall blog about them when I'm free! Got a temp job through Eve and I'm starting on Wed, 1.5 days after touching down after my two long months of holidays. Am I hardworking or what?! Lol. Guess it's back to reality very soon! Let's go out for dinner!

Happy Birthday g!

Flying off in erm 19.5 hours time! Before that, I need to get about 8 hours of sleep. Haha goodnight world! :)

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