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i juz came back frm shanghai. alone. it was such a horrible flight. i almost missed my flight. i checked in an hour early @ 9:00am, said my gdbyes to my folks n went in the departure gate. i was greeted by a massive crowd of pple waiting to get pass the immigration checkpoint. n i mean HUMONGOUS. like prolly a thousand or more people. my flight was at 10am, n by 10:30am i was still halfway thru the crowd. i heard my name being called on the PA system for last warning call n i was so freaked out i went to the police officer for help n he brought me to the front queue. thank God.

turns out the entire flight was waiting for me. everyone was seated n watching the latecomer board the plane. n i couldnt reach the baggage compartment so the guy sitting nxt to me had to get up n help me store my luggage. i felt so horrible. but it rly wasnt my fault.

no turn for the better after i got off the plane. i stood at the baggage claim conveyor belt for like half an hour waiting to retrieve my large luggage. n it wasnt there. i got some police officer to help me again, n he checked wit the crew only to find tt my luggage was missing. i filed a lost&found report, n the officers have yet to call me back bout my luggage.

wad a great day.

ytd was much better. we drove down to pudong n checked out the horse riding center. so we signed up for the learning course n my sis n i each got an instructor n a horse for an hour. it was a pretty amazing experience. ive nv ridden except at the zoo where the horse walked in a mechanical straight line n was perfectly tame.

anyways~ my instructor was great he was pretty patient n all. i learnt how to mount n how to ride. it rly isnt easy at all. at the end of it i was more tired than the horse was. its a great leg workout cuz u have to gyrate according to the horse's galloping rhythm. im pretty sore frm the riding lesson ytd. i rly rly wonder how BOYS ride. seriously.

ogl camp tmr. rly hope it isnt a rough-n-tough camp.

new experiences

time flies. its the 4th day of our hol now. n its been pretty much fun considering the lack of itinery cuz my dads working n all tt.

so here was wad we were kept busy wit:
more shopping. we went around to some music store n we got like quite a lotta piano scores. they had tons of classical n contemporary music scores at a rly low price so we got quite alot. then there was a book store n i got 4 books :) davincicode (finally), 5ppleyou'llmeetinheaven (which im going to read on my flight back to china cuz i juz realized i have a 2 hour wait in Malaysia for my transit flight), Richdadpoordadforteens (which hopefully will double my bank balance thereafter), and a romance novel loveoncloudnine (which i bought cuz i fell in love wit the light blue cover)

the traffic here is HORRIBLE. wads the use of traffic lights if nobody pays attention to them. we almost got ran over a billion times here its totally chaotic out on the streets.

the temperature took a nose dive today n it was chilly. brr. o we got cable in our hotel room now. yayy :) n my dad bought a laptop so we've got broadband in our own room. lol. we're checking out horse riding tmr n its gonna b a long car ride so im downloading music on the computer for the ride! its cool

aight so we had some xtreme gourmet for dinner today. at some fancy restaurant. my folks were ordering stuff tt didnt rly sound like food. so they didnt rly tell us wad they ordered till we ate them. omg there were the weirdest stuff there. like curry camel, duck liver, some roasted thing tt looked like a bird. i took a picture haha. ok no haha it tasted weird.

ah im watching two weeks notice now while typing this entry lol. its hilarious. tho ive watched it at the cinema b4. we've got HBO n tons of dvds. no prob wit the home entertainment

shanghai

its about 5-12 degrees over here.. purrfect freezing weather. its about 3 days into our vacation, n its been a lotta fun out here :) shanghai is where third world juxtaposes against first world, n its rly weird to have the modern tall glass buildings right nxt to some old shophouse which houses more spiders than the population of shanghai.

aight so theres this place called Raffles City. named after singapore's raffles city. why? cuz its built by singaporeans. it looks almost like the rafflescity in s'pore. well, but tts juz the outside. so anyways~ we go there pretty often cuz my dad has one of his offices there. n our driver aint frm shanghai so he gets lost driving us around.

the food's pretty gd here. nothing like the frogs we had in beijing. all pretty normal food out here. except for the frozen dog meat we found in a local supermarket.

people - they're great too. juz tt btwn them n us, theres one thing missing. and thats communication. yep we're chinese, n they're chinese. but its diff. totally. u can listen hard, but most of it juz dont sound like chinese. but overall, they're awesome pple. rly friendly. LOUD. but friendly. o they like to knock pple around when they walk too. we got knocked outta the way several times already.

o one MAJOR thing here. that's the shopping. for a shop-o-holic like me, that spells h-e-a-v-e-n. i got tons of stuff in the 3 days my folks' wallets r emptying out pretty quickly. i wont even bother listing out wad i bought here. its too gd to b true. there're stuff like 'prada' sweaters, a new cell phone, n 'GAP' stuff. shop haven.

so anyways~ today i got my first manicure. french manicure to b specific. it cost bout 118 bucks. local money. it was cool. juz a lil difficulty trying to get a conversation going while the lady was doing my nails. but its all smooth n cool after tt i even took a picture wit her.

i miss my music tho. i didnt bring my CDs wit me n i itch to blast some smashmouth. miss my friends too lol. u have no idea. lol but its been great fun we camp out in front of the tv every night wit like 50 billion DVDs to watch. they almost dont cost a thing. ALMOST. so we've watched like hundreds of movies at night. theastronaut'swife, princess diaries 2, paycheck, lionking2.. i cant rmb. cozy stuff :)

aight i gotta bounce.. signing off frm shanghai 4:57pm.

china

not gone yet haha. frigging flight's at 3:30am. ugh. juz finished packing i think i emptied half my wardrobe this time. better than the previous times where i emptied like 2/3. haha. o wayne juz called to say tt the chamber bbq's postponed to nxt tues. yay :) or maybe no yay? hope i can rmb it when i come back. someone pls remind me!!

ugh im still a lil freaked bout shutter..

shutter

omg i watched shutter wit joshua n matthew today. met up wit matt at some random bus stop near our place n then met joshua at PS. who was LATE. so anyways~ joshua n i were sposed to give matthew his 'bday present'. which was to pay for his movie ticket n lunch. lol. n we ended up in burger king :P so sorry matt! haha for the cheap bday lunch. happy bday anyways :)

ok so shutter was RLY freaky. it doesnt give u a breather in the shocks. like bam bam bam. there u have it. n i forgot to bring a jacket so i was both freezing n had nothing to hide behind. ugh. n we were on 3rd row seats so it felt pretty open to the ugly ghosts. which were RLY ugly btw. ok shoots im visualizing them n its not a happy thought.. haha ok sam juz told me he hid his face in popcorn during the movie!! haha tts how scary shutter is..

damn my flight's postponed by an hour. to 3:30am. ugh. tho theres no prob wit staying awake since tts bout my daily snooze hour anyways. but my mom sister n i are gonna have to lug all our luggages around. 3 independent women :) but sometimes it sux not having guys in the family..

1AA3 reunion

omg i met up wit juliet bridget fong wit shawn today. we had a reunion lunch at marche it was da bomb. i missed them so much i nv realized it till today. gd times. we caught up n talked a LOT at marche it was awesome. sigh those were the days.

flying off to china tmr. coming back for the ogl camp. n then back to china after tt. its a stupid arrangement but o well its gonna b fun. i get to fly to n fro alone. haha. o i watched saw ytd @ home. downloaded it. its so gory n psycho u should nv watch it alone. my bad.

ah i think i'll bring my sch work to china. ill nv finish all of em at this rate im going.

rouge party

juz came back frm rouge. it was fun stuff i guess. met grace n benedict at orchard for dinner, n then met up wit dharnash @ youth park. n we went in at like 8+pm n got a small table wit curtains n chilled n drank up. then we hit the dance floor for r&b till 11+pm when they started playing house music n so we split. shared a cab wit johannes johnathan n joquim (however u spell his name). n johannes paid for the entire cab fare plus the midnight surcharge. omg i juz realized all of us in the cab have names starting wit 'jo'. cool. we couldnt find a cab for a rly long time tho.. reached home at like 1am. tired.

polar express!

im tired. haha. but today was fun. had to wake up early to go to sch. met seok at the bleachers n went for the ogl meeting. im paired up in a triplets og! yayy :) wit nadim whos some canoeist who didnt turn up for the meeting, n jaclyn the head ogl. so there were briefings choosing of og names n wat have u.. cant rmb wad i chose. some weird latin sounding one. i had to choose the names by myself cuz jaclyn was heading the auction of names. sigh.

o then it was mass dance. gosh we danced for like 2 hours straight or something. i realized i couldnt rmb anything AT ALL haha cuz sarah n i were slacking during orientation n since she was my dance partner we screwed up the dance together haha. o well so i actually learnt the first routine this time :) it was so tiring tho.

so after tt i went to orchard n met matthew. we had lunch at scotts foodcourt n watched polar express. haha it was pretty gd! tho its more for kids than anything lol. omg the music is B-E-A-utiful. im gonna get the soundtrack for it it gets me into the christmasy spirit n i love it :) i love christmas!!

ihatemyhair

ahh! i got my hair cut today. n its SO short. omg. my mom n i went to this beauty parlor to get our hair cuts.. n the stylist totally changed my hairstyle. sigh. im gonna wear a hat around like those fresh army dudes. ugh. n its a tad towards jap pop style n i cant stand jpop. hair growth solutions here i come.

ugh. so after our disastrous haircuts we went to aunt susan's place to get the luggages for our trip. those big bulky ones. ugh the empty one weighs like a ton already. o n i got stuff frm my aunt frm her trip to the US. alisa picked stuff like clothes for me :) thnx babe! i like them.

so we went to church after tt. for prayer meeting. my sis n i went shopping. we tried on like tons of shades and hats at the store the lady was like glaring at us so we left. went to bugis to shop couldnt find a bag tt my sister wanted. so we checked out the arcade cuz she wanted to play bishibashi. n omg i felt so stupid there. the bishibashi game was right nxt to a huge crowd of guys playing the punching game, n we looked dumb fighting aliens n feeding girls fishes when they were beating the machine up nxt to us. n the bishibashi game produced a lotta stupid sounds while we played it attracted quite a lotta unwanted attn.

sigh i rly hate my hair.. but i cant do anything bout it. positive attitude. positive attitude

:)

im feeling pretty weak right now.. think im falling sick again. or rather, even more sick. sigh.

woke up at 12:30pm today haha. man i was in the weirdest dreams. had stuff to do wit wad joshua n i were talking ytd night haha. omg we talked till like 3+am. frm shit porn to God. haha. we can rly crap. nice person to talk to :)

took a ride frm my mom n went to jeremy's place. i forgot bout matthew n charles coming over to play badminton oops. only realized when matt called. heh sry bout tt. anyways~ met wit sarah kb n zhic @ jeremy's. n we chilled there the entire afternoon. omg benny taught me how to play drums haha! its SO much fun i wanna learn drums now. benny showed me some of his drums books which had like diff grooves n rhythms haha. anyways~ we basically hung around, played bridge, n i played bishibashi wit alvin, played drums, ate sarah's durian puffs haha. which were rly gd. but it was so filling i ate 2 of em and they were kinda like my lunch. aight then i went home for dinner. o sarah's mom gave us a ride back so we all left together. o then zhic waited wit me till my bus came. so nice

haha i found quite a few scores for Christmas. like a few for piano duets, n some for like mixed ensemble or any combination of instruments which will sound nice. lol have to look for pple to jam wit. i love xmas songs :)

o n can someone help me wit the font thing on my blog? everyones complaining the font's too small but idk how to enlarge it..