Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Guangzhou and back in 4 days 3 nights

Day one

woke up at four am
mom started shouting at me like crazy for stupid taxis...
reached there and debated to put lugagge on board and some stupid stuffs...
mom wasnt in a good mood and she made me not in a good mood...
bought a chicken salad to eat on board
plane flew off at about 6
reached there at like 10am

the very first meal of the day, start it off gary's way
lol, no lah
checked in at bai gong hotel again, then went for breakfast at the same place we had noodles last time we were here
man, all throughout the trip my aunt kept ordering so much food we were all bloated all the time
what's hanis??
afterwards went shopping around the area
the usual candy shops all dissappeared
but the usual plastic bag shops were there
herbs and medicine shops
toys shops too...saw some Gundam sets there
now they were selling alotta dried seafoods
sea cucumbers, shark fins, sea dogs, sea chameleons, sea horses and sea snakes, baby abalone, and cigarettes and wines littered all over the place almost every corner u go
yup, china is like the city of smokers, almost cant breathe there...
there are like shops selling nothing but cigarettes and wines
around the corner we still managed to find some sweetshops
my aunt said last time was the period of the new year, thus people got sweets to celebrate, so this time around, not really in season, instead it was season for dried seafood
at some of the old marketplaces, got john's present, a skeleton mask!
then we took a ride on the guangzhou metro, s'pore terms, MRT
i gotta tell u, next time i neeta bring nick along
ppl around these parts are cRaZy
they push and snatch seats like mad
my aunt had a bad experience b4
she was going to sit on a seat when a girl, middle-aged, make-up and high heels and everything, just pushed her outta her seat
thats when my aunt learnt to be rough on the metro
she's been going to guangzhou for like 5 years now, doing her buissness
we were packed into the metro like sardines
plus sides- the rides were very cheap, like, 3 rmb=60cents
but if u ask me, i'll stick to our s'pore MRTs

this was one of the shops my aunt went for her supplies
cool eh?

pizza hut
we ate at a restaurant here
eating tian e rou(geese) lol
also saw a beijing olympics merchandise shop
saw alotta really neat stuff
also got nick's present

macdonalds

u know what?

ice cream cones here only cost S$0.50!

another of those shops

took a video

ok,

what doyah do when u're bored?

go bowling!

it was like 8rmb for a game=$1.60!

mom teaching renya how to bowl

not bad...

the top scorer in our lane for the day

renyue

mom talking about teachnique

nice try renyue

free water provided while u bowl

mom's turn

yup, the one on the top's my score, first round

second round score

after 2 rounds, went back to the hotel and watched tv

watched ugly betty and pushing daisies, both very funny

also watched this movie called right on track, some disney movie i nvr heard of

Day Two

woke up quite early

like, 7.30

then watched spain versus cant-remember

david villa's aewsome! scored 3 goals

final score was 4-1

fantastic

then was sweden and switzerland

quite boring

the only goal was scored pretty near the end

breakfast at a nearby restaurant

food is seriously cheap

and still got really full...

had to take away some stuff back to the hotel

rest of the day was just shopping...

cant remember anything else

Day 3

went to the church we went last time

phew, lucky it wasnt sunday

else there'd be tons of beggars there again

heres another picture of the mother mary statue there

it's exactly like it was 2 years ago

prayed awhile there

ok, i know i said i would take a picture of the tree in the church if i ever went back, but...that building was closed cos the main church finished rennovations, sry!

anws, the main building is like, so big and magnificent, took a video of the inside

if u went inside, u would seriously go " wow..."

diff angle

afterwards went for more shopping

went to many of the places we came to last time

got new shoes and a t-shirt

also got shermaine's present at the up and down nine street

then went to tea town, literally

behold the professional tea maker's kit

tea cups, teapots, electric kettle, 3 sided stone figure, and etc

tasting the tea

demo of making tea

really really professional

drinking time!

see these?

make a guess what's that

those are tea biscuits

when i heard it i those they were biscuits to eat with tea

did u think that too?

actually they're tea leaves made into the shape of a biscuit for storing

putting them like that and then freezing in the fridge, u can keep tea leaves for up to 2 years

smelling the tea leaves

lookey here at the birdie!

look at all that tea

the shop was like, aromated

renyue and i were like, taking deep breaths of all that sweet smelling tea

...

gotta tell u, i beats any air fresherner ever created...

could go sniffing it all day long...

talked alot while drinking tea

plus this new kung fu tea

the others(red hong pao, tie guan yin and pu'er)

second day bowling

my top score, 107!

papa

renya and gugu

mom and renyue

papa bowling

mom's turn again

spare

le coq sportif shop

some night stalls

Last Day, Day 4

woke up very early, like 4 am

helped with the packing and stuffs

yup, thats our luggage

then went for some early breakfast

some clouds out the window on the way back

every night at the hotel we were buying satay from this stall and eating it back at the hotel like we did last time

gotta tell u, it's really superb

thats all for now

current music: You Set Me Free - Michelle Branch, yup, been listening to her again lately

current mood: ok

--Iyner, misfit-me at 10:25 AM
Sunday, June 15, 2008

O lvl certs and stuffs

after coming back from guangzhou i really appreciate our MRTs...phew
also missed talking to the guys on msn lol
took alotta pictures but no time to post, next time

went to collect O lvl certs with CRYSI-Z on friday, took alotta pics too!
on CRYSI-Z blog

sat went for meeting
...
really saddenning when u realised only 2 people are at meeting...
nvrm
Da Xing Kang Le after that
woohoo!
finally got colleen and renyue to come for an activity(high fives)
but julia and matt couldn't come...nvrm, theres still a ton of toher activities, espiecially JQY
kang le was fun, only that my feet hurt alot
took alotta pics with the food
thx again Ryan! wouldn't have done the first one without u!
gonna get u a bag of marshmellows when we get back at NYJC

2day was ok
thought we were going to serve the 9am mass when we saw the english servers all there (except jonathan)
lol, nick thought only me and nick were serving
so ended up not serving the mass
got home and spent almost 7 hrs to finish the ygz form...
just emailed it to robin
hope it's ok considering it's my first time
i seriously need help on shen qiu and shi xi

oks
gtg study
mid-years after the hols
that 7 days!!

current music : One Fine Wire - Colbie Cailliat
current mood: rushing

--Iyner, misfit-me at 2:38 PM
Thursday, June 5, 2008

Pictures Galore

yup, another parade of pictures
this time there's alotta pics not previously posted yet, but i really wanna show to u readers
so enjoy :)

BANANA MUFFINS!
Level Camp will always be remembered!
Pin Li, Glenn, Steven, Me, Chun Fui(Buddy), Zhi Yuan, Daniel, Thai Xiong, Kuang Wen
Katrina, Li Lin, Michelle, Diane, Corina, Annaling
Facils: Pauline!
i miss those days...

LOL, christine and benny on baby chairs
took this from nicole's blog

dunno why b4 starting econs lecture Ms emily lim was flashing this powerpoint

these are only afew shoots
then my friend suggested i took a video instead
i got the whole thing on video
i'll put it up next time

the girls forming "alliance" in chinese class, lol
we were having oral that day

our class in the container classroom!
lol, we locked mr low outside :P:P:P

scribbles on the whiteboard in the NYCO room!

NYJC canteen during break

jia wei's doodle on the chinese exercise paper

ok ryan
clay target shooting pictures!

our gun's info

cartridge samples on the table

cross-section of the gun cartridge

diagram of the shooting range

outside view of the shooting range

rules, smules, who cares right??

equipment sample

demostrating using the gun

demo : loading the gun

my gun

shooters ready!

Zhi Peng

ME!

matt!

zhi peng's turn again

view of the ...house...whatever it is

matt shooting

shooter's view

view of the shooting range

zhi peng

empty cartridges

my last five cartridges

my last cartridge...

terence's last shot...make it count!

too bad...terence missed his last shot :P

sadly keeping away the guns...
hello??? u guys are supposed to act sad!

don't they just look alike?
thats matt and in the newpaper is some pro shooter

thai xiong and me

or hor! lol, terence was just tapping it with a cartridge and it just shattered
thats how fragile it was

can u see the tiny small orange dot? yeah, that's the clay target

mr wong trying out the clay shooting! (he's my maths teacher)

Shooters! thai xiong, matt, me, terence, zhi peng

ok
officer's traning camp during march

our hole in the sand...b4 it got demolished

carrying nick with groundsheet, mission impossible

egg, chick, chicken

all the 神仙s

mission-impossible push-up

POP

ok, Xiao Ming Zhu Bao
went to Sweenson's
waited for the others like almost half an hr...

james, kang joe, ian

4 of us, christian, jerome, nick, me :)

group pic by jerome

group pic again

jerome's birthday cake
i mean ice-cream
fire-house happy birthday to be exact

empty already? nick, u still hungry ar?

Mine and James's super-powered sticky choc ice-creams :):)

Christian's ice cream

Xiao Ming Zi Xing!
christian, kang joe, me, jerome, nick, james

procession at St. Mary of the Angels
spent alotta time waiting and travelling at the MRT
from dhoby gaunt to bukit batok

sunset by james

nick and jerome acting blur
or should i say, stone-ing

jerrald getting harrased by nick

eh hem

eh hem(again)

ok, recruitment activity on sunday
was abit of a tight schedule but we made it just nice
really psykang...

dunno-how-many lvls of stacking

last-minute tarts

prepared food

look at that spread

classic potato salad

sand-wi-ches
stack lah! (pet) lol

mini bite-size pizzas

chicken wings, seaweed chicken, fish nuggets

brownies

300+ tarts(strawberry, tangerine, lemon peel)

ok, enough talk, let''s eat!

ok
last night's rosary was really special
wish i had those kinda stuff around my church
proud of myself for doing so much work despite the stupid nerve-wrecking construction going on around my neighborhood...
2morow going for some bowling with the others at Tampanies SAFRA
check in next time for further updates
and i'll see u guys at Da Xing Kang Le!
my sister and friend are FINALLY coming!

current music: Stronger - Kanye West
current mood: hmmm...happy :)

--Iyner, misfit-me at 4:55 PM