two more days before china! hahahaha mom & i went to vivocity after dinner w grandma again today (again as in again to vivo) am still disturbed over how she suddenly got so enthu abt downloading msn msger and compgames to her laptop recently, but anw, so today she wanted to get a webcam & mike from challenger @ vivo. but we didn get webcam in e end (so extra, use what!) hahaha but got mike and a 1 GB memory card for my camera ohohoho! i wanna get some hot headphones. hahaha one more to e wishlist.

(ohyes in e rtc lobby there was like this couple canoodling :| w everyone staring. and then e "guy" turned around. & it turned out to be a girl. oO so everyone continued staring. hmmm.)

then after that spent 1.5 hrs in g2000. woo she wanted to buy this real long white coat thing w fluff on e hood. & yes, its really nice, its semi tight wrap and e color is glorious. not really white, but more cream beige + white = ________ (what?) so yeah. loves :) but she was like "eh chengdu and taiwan not that cold. so nvm. buy maybe one week later. think first." hahaha pwnage. samuel & kevin, yay! yo claire i think she's right abt me to some extent ohno ):

hahahaha this weekend wasn very boring! :) claire & i found out she (we) can pass off for 16 year olds! kuz had a mini gathering thing this weekend, but we wanted to rent dvds from e serene centre store first. so there was this totally naive guy (short hair, streaked brownygold, no specs, looks abt 20 plus) who thought we were both 16 at first, until i registered w my nric, which obv tells him im 15 (ALMOST i tell you, almost) yep. and we wanted to borrow lolita (hahahaha all abt lust and stuff, we poisoned tiffany eternally) & match point (another one that would have poisoned tiffany further had she slept over)

the guy: (to claire kuz she's supposed to be 16 xD) i trust youre 16 year old. er er right?
we: how old do we look! o_O
the guy: (to me) youre 15 from your nric (i frown pwnage) and (to claire) youre 16. (hesitate) arent you?
claire: yeah. i am.
the guy: sure ah. okay. (scans dvds in for us!)
burst out laughing in e corridor outside shop.

woot. lolita was veh disturbing! nv knew it was so old (old until black & white nyehnyeh) but was quite entertaining, too. lolita was like this alicia silverstone looking person, and gosh clothes in those days :) hahaha and its freaky for a teenage girl to hit all over a guy who's like ageing and THREE times her age? hahaha cant believe tiffy didn know what facts of life or libido meant :) awww naivete! (hahaha methinks claire & i are bad influence) & well, match point, which we watched this morning, was realleh steamy. and weird. e plot was great, e characters were juz so screwd up! =X (ohyes i bought pirates: dead man's chest! :D all ahoy yo)

so yes. this weekend was fun. e walking up&down e hill judging each house we passed, esp davinci and richard's house :) e sprinkling horlicks & milo powder on mango and reverso ice creams even though we were both sick & dying hahaha :) on sat - talking abt guys mgs cheerleading biatching school etc & pig cushion fights in my bedroom! (no wonder it lost an eye) & e swimming & doing workouts against e wall, strengthening stomach muscles woot! & e gatecrashing tiffy's house to wait for her to change and saying hi to everyone hoho & wearing orange so we're like twins and mom and malu kept mistaking claire & i for e other & hoho staying up til 2.30 before dying out completely and promising we wouldn sleep til 3 am? (or smth nyaha) yay. pity tiffy had to go home (church on sunday 10 am) D:

& i guess i'll screen pirates at my place fore i leave. gosh. its packing for 10 plus days all over again. and this time, there aint no opc to provide half e garments anyways. hahaha shall wear my retarded giordano puppy longsleeved onboard plane :) puppy in e pumpkin! would have loved it more seven years ago i think. hoho bathrobes are veh nice to stay in. nice cuddly comfy :) love.

church parteh mintchip sparklers swimming bbq xmas shopping holidaying moviegoing slacking volunteerwork ldp homework07 gettogethers iceskating bakedpotato etc hahaha :) random things left for dec hols. oh & a potential gep chalet. but hopefully not realleh on 19 dec that time! hahaha kuz like alena said "family more impt" and i'll be staying home to celebrate w yes, family. ohohoh & i guess im going to church on xmas weekend, i have to & must anyways :) cant wait either. tiffany promised she'd drag me to lighthouse. (no she doesn have to drag me. im rather willing. very)

well there you go :D

things could have been so much simpler. its only we complicate them.

macaroni cheese oleh! hahaha you cooks did a pretty job (: honestlay

up and down: MAORI TONGUEING! (super unglam but nvm! in e name of fun!)
up (from left clockwise) : jasmine yonghui markshone me melly
down (same way) : jasmine yonghui me & melly!

my tongue looks weird!

hahaha more photos as promised to yonghui! :D i think i'll be blogging some more abt new zealand. everytime its mentioned, i miss it so much, like all of us do. hahaha like e sheep as you fly past fields in e bus, playing bridge and listening to tianyu or pennymoo going roflmao spastically. have i mentioned, us getting stuck in e narrow cave whatcha call it. cracks? & my helmet, struggling to get unstuck haha. and getting dirty. and getting pushed almost into water, water fights and stuff. hahaha :D and loads. travelling around squashed up in a van, nine of us in back, two in front. laughing at how pete strikes up conversations w every single guy he comes across! (: markshone and TheMan and whatnot.

ahh at least spore temps meeting up, really matching up now. its raining! so cant play tennis in e front yard even if i wanted to? yeah but nvm, its cool and refreshing. hahaha but still wanna run around be high and stuff? hehe claire! maybe i'll buy some alcohol and feed you and joanna. and sarah. (i dont drink beer, i think it smells weird! hahaha and besides there'll be people who wouldn want me to drink huh!) & yes, what to do tmr! ahh =X

i feel like going back to nz during xmas and see what its like. yes, who was it who was saying, its super weird to be celebrating xmas in what, summer?! hahaha kuz thats what its like in nz. would be nice to walk around streets aglow w lights or smth. party looking stuff. those huge santa claus balloons. smth like chicago xmas we always see in home alone (from years ago!) hahaha i quite like e xmas tree now sitting in e living room. its red and gold themed this year. maybe i'll ask tiffany to help me decorate e window behind it w snow spray again. like last year. that was fun. oh and bedeck e tree itself w spray, make it look more authentic. and buy maybe five packs of cotton wool. throw it around! that'd be so halloween, but its so xmas too!

(my entries are so much more disjointed after nz! ohnoes) yay party on 16 & 17 dec, cant wait either. have been stagnant e whole year ohohoho! (omg its stopped raining i can play tennis now) hahaha yeah been really lazy (apologises) to have anything. and oh. im going overseas again pwn. i dont feel like going, but since its moms old hometown, then okay. travel dates:

29 nov - 6 dec chengdu & chongqing (three gorges)
7 dec - 10 dec taiwan (mom's) - conference
(whatm i gonna do? i dunno, shop?)
& disappearing like that again for almost two weeks.
its just weird that we ___________ more than now in e hols. grunt.

i know im not supposed to, but i still feel guilty that ive said no to you three times! hahaha nvm one day we'll make it a yes and chunk out as one whole big group. which reminds me, our ldp gathering! in an effort to gel e group together, and also a bdeh bashout for two of us bdeh people! hahaha well food and stuff. wonder where we're gonna be going? and our team one nz! big groups shouldn hang out in cinemas or shopping places, kuz you tend to get cliqueish. so so so where! (im definitely not blogging properly anymore! =D)

right now i feel like strumming a guitar. and i also realise i was meant to do math tuition homework @ 2.15 look what time it is now! ): oh and malu juz found 4 more totally uncovered untouched dvds. shall go watch later? hahaha :D randomness! <3 so there.

still missing new zealand :) and blogging now feels so strange. its like, after being away from a comp for ten days, staring at brush and snow and wilderness basically, w minimal civilisation, to be looking at this thing feels so undefined =| oh but anw. lets try to get used to it. but most of us, hah, we're not used to the drastic change in temp. sweat so much more easily now? and, its hot! i miss waking up to cold in e morning, and tottering to toilet juz to slam on heater and hopskipjump around while waiting for my turn to wash up. then running back and changing into thermals and stuff in gepper corner (AHA) and diving into sheets for warmth (ahhh) if time allowed. and yes, there's alot to miss from living outta suitcases. and being able to mess up my bunk knowing sooner or later i'd be forced to clean it up anw!

& zomg the LOFT. e place where we deceived sabrina and TheMan (i dont miss him strutting around in almost naught) =D at night, turning off lights quickly at any hint of footsteps. then waiting, breathing and giggling, then resuming bridge or taiti. and in e day, looking out at e three (active) volcanoes in e distance, letting cold air thru e window and all. and gosh. josie (jodie?) e cook, and her jokes and stuff. and the YDC (youth development centre, for e unknowing! :D) w its kitchen. and us chairs, cleaning, taking out butter, staring at expired milk (we drank it), working thru pasta and CHEESE (yummy!). and yes, pete. his german-turned-newzealand accent. and impersonating his daughter's voice etc =D

i think i've forgotten how to blog properly.

more pictures! hahaha today went to find markshone, but only got claire's and my cert from his pigey hole, and the utterly naked cd. what he was thinking i dunno, like naked cd, no case, put in bag, CRACK! hmm anw, so borrowed a case from boonie ("er make sure you return it horh") hahaha well, i might. so yeah. its been two years since i hung out w joanna lee (and you, sarah cheang!) and it was fun :) and claire in her guitar shirt (aha e bunch of ex taonanites were so dao in e elevator) anw we watched STEP UP! hahaha am still shining over channing tatum and jenna dewan.

its like, when you watch e show, your feet start tippity tapping around. and then you start, moving. and gosh, you juz wanna get up and dunno, prance around! :) hahaha esp e parts when they were practising for showcase, it was so catchy! (they made some 'insults' to ballet, joanna defended it) so now, does anyone know any way we can sneak into zouk? kuz now all three of us juz wanna go somewhere, groovy? where we can juz dance around. maybe i'll hold smth at my place, specifically e living room, can turn mtv on or smth. smth fun! claire should wear a skirt.

so yay. tiffany and i shall be sharing nz experiences tmr i think. since she's home and all. and havent seen her for, how long - 2 weeks plus plus? not since nz anyway. and its strange that we see each other 4 times a week normally, even during sch days, but now that hols are here, it decreases to like once a fortnight or smth. smth's missing =| and we both feel it. like how i miss e shooting stars in nz =|

hahaha ldp meeting ytd was so weird. wish yinqi had come, then i wouldnt have been e only girl, so probably would have vocalised a bit more? more than i did anw. but yeah. why do guys like to sit there and chill out for 15 min and have to count e time exactly? and eat chicken wings halfway then ditch them saying that they're too cold and overtime left out? and hanging around video rental stores talking in corners for dunno how long? anyway we got some stuff done, decided to email chriz and nurshedah, and jiawei volunteered himself for team leader! :) so we've got that settled finalleh. touch cyber really is pretty kool.





hoho the humping picture (i feel evil, deeply apologetic to yonghui and sheila! :D)

where we wash away everything

markoshone

warning: some disturbing images follow.

woot. new zealand totally rawkedass, was so much fun while teaching us so much more than any school (even BUTT) could ever give to students, we learnt the many goodnesses of our pretty lives :) and zomg e activities we did - totally awesome! LOVE NEW ZEALAND x3


new zealand, i miss you so much! ):

joanna and i disturbed boonie's reunion supper @ swensen's w his wife while waiting for the muvvers to arrive at changi airport. pity he never brought his son! hahaha anw he replied to our disturbance in his ever kuku manner! :)

jo&i: meester tannn!
mr tan: -looks up wide eyed- er oh er ha hello what time you two going home?
jo&i: hi -waves to mr tan's wife- our moms are coming.
mr tan: ohoh okay er very good have fun okay go home soon.
jo&i: -smirk and walk off- (we got e hint that he wanted to eat in private hoho)

yeah so we're back, w loads of mixed feelings. all e time we were complaining about coming back, claire & i loudly broadcasted e general-feelings message that - "oh no! i wanna stay in new zealand, dont wanna go back to spore, but also want to! but also dont want to! might as well stay here in nz right!" hahaha was worse when we left opc (sir edmund hillary outdoors pursuit centre, and yes, hillary is e first old guy who climbed everest) most of us broke down, kuz we all knew how much we were gonna miss everything about it. yeah, still miss opc, e fun activities, PETE, and yes, my bunkbed w claire, stale smelling as it was!

TEAM ONE (nameless)
leeqi claire yonghui heiyi sheila pennymoo tianyu joannachng me
xoxoxo forever!


MARKOLIVERSHONE (physics&it)
he who had to suffer w 9 angsty girls for 10 days (this sounds like an epitaph whatsit)
yes he was our teacher in charge. he's got my other 240 photos kuz my mem card kena jammed up full. shall post em up when i get them! ive some more of him doing so-not-teacher stuff :) waving like a monkey, brushing his teeth, doing haka pose (sufie has the classic photo) oh and doing agrojet!


PETE (our everlasting OPC life instructor)
someone all of us miss lots and hope to see someday soon

just some of the opc instructors
the one who looks a bit like captain jack sparrow w all e dreadlocks is chris! hahahaha he was super funny and loud! third to his left is robyn, an equally robin-sweet person! hahaha and veh cute. e one on her left is PETE.


yeah so day 1 to 3 we killed by loads of travelling and adjusting to e new time hahaha. the moment we stepped out of e airport, we got blasted in e face by 60 kmh winds, shock. and jass&i tramped around w our bags of chips biscuits and lollies from spore! we travelled from auckland to rotorua, and reached opc somewhere in e afternoon! was a really slack day, slept early after briefings. next day was local day! did flying fox (which some of us didnt do in obs) and climbed a tree to get pete's donkeh (its the one from shrek and keeps saying ARE WE THERE YET!) hahahaha LOVE.


day 4 mountain day! haha was veh tiring but we made it! climbed up about 2.5 km of thickly snow covered mountain, w claire leading. she's super fit, every time i looked up she was about 2 or 3 m in front of everyone else, or joanna chng, both of them were like ploughing through e snow while e rest of us died. ha and we made a snowhorse w boobs! (was supposed to be a snow woman, but e snowball for her face was too long so she resembled a horse w a HUGE chest. her chest was bigger than her face zomg) hahaha and we played snowball fights! pete threw a huge 40 cm diameter snowball at my face splunk guess what happened :) then claire threw a relatively painful one at his _____ aha.

day 5 caving day! goodness we squeezed through really tiny gaps in e rock. my helmet got stuck momentarily in one crack, was quite shocked, and rattled my head around trying to wedge it out hoho! and markshone was behind me, so he kept splashing water and sand and rocks at me, and pushed me into e water wahpiang =| so got a bit wet. so when we came out heiyi sheila and i piled water all over him. so he got drenched. HA. oh and there were these glow worms w their long threads of stuff, and then yonghui blew on one and destroyed it ): hahaha we had fun in there. oh and apparently you cant bring home rocks from new zealand! sheila said some people got real bad luck after doing so, so to be on e safe side, most of us didnt! quite sad, we actually got some real pretty ones LOVE.

day 6 overnight! woomphf, we climbed up ruapehu, some hundred metres up, thru rock and rock and more rock w some water thrown in and bush. were damn happy when we finally saw e veh unpronouncable whakapapaiti hut in front of us! and some more, we were e only grp to have warmth and shelter! i mean, adele was like we had to sleep in tents out in e bush and was raining so heavily (it was? HA see our hut's so good) we had to pee in e tents! (er, how'd you do that?) hahaha yeah and there was a fireplace!

oh yes and this guy called kelvin tan whos one of e organisers came w us up to whakapapaiti hut! was super toot can! he's so creepy, besides e fact that he spent half his time in e opc bunks strutting around wearing nothing but shorts, or a singlet too on lucky days, on day 3 he was like

kelvin: hi are you jayne chiang jieyi?
me: ER. yes.
kelvin: is your mom currie chiang and a doctor?
me: ER. yes? how on earth did you know!?
kelvin: oh my wife and her were good friends in med school.
me: oh er how cute thanks! (am shocked and wondering how he placed my face to my name)

so in e hut, us 9 girls took e warmer bunks plus fireplace room, and e 3 guy chers took e small cold side room moohaha. and our room included e kitchen, so could smell macaroni cheese and tomato soup cooking away! (sheila yonghui and heiyi were e only ones who could pull of cooking something that actually tasted like food. pete and markshone could too, but were too lazy) hahaha then we spent 3 hrs sitting around chatting animatedly, and we found out 37 yearold markshone isnt veh outdated and listens to oasis! and pete is pete zimmer, and he's german (duh) and his kids speak some german but not so impressively so.

then we kept singing really sad pop songs, kuz of e lovely soft glow of e one candle lighting up e whole room hahaha and the teachers totally couldnt sleep! so markshone came out to chat abit more first. then we blew out e candle @ 12 or so, and pete got his sleep. hahaha but pennymoo tianyu claire joanna and i couldnt sleep yet, unlike e other four, so we kept awake till 1 or so! then @ 1.30 everyone except me was snoring pwn. so i shuffled around trying to light e fire and figuring out how to get my sleeping bag out without waking e whole cabin hoho. was super cold! and in e morning, sheila and i ran out to e toilets, was super chilly, but we saw the mountains and forgot everything else haha so retarded.

day 7 we abseiled first! then markshone cheated tianyu and i kuz he never took the bimbo photo for two of us, but claimed he got interesting ones of us climbing down! anw was rather fun, i'd go abseiling someday soon if possible.

leaving opc ): we used up tissue boxes. hoho thinking back when we boarded e bus even pete's eyes were getting redder can! then so anticlimax claire pennymoo tianyu and i played bridge in e bus, and woke lye ai fern up and kena scold. tianyu keeps calling us geppers retarded hahaha. and we got to kiwipaka hostel! hahaha quite comfy, forgot to take pictures on my cam! ): we kept having really horny nights (three of them) kuz our room was super popular, we kept buying food (the main lure) and playing cards (second lure)! oh and finally kept tickling each other, esp pennymoo! who was screaming and running away to hide behind e beds, but we pulled her out. and tianyu uber funny everytime you poke her she'll rocket a couple feet into e air hoho :) i say nothing about my level of ticklishness. (go away)


claire's retarded looking heart strawberry


day 8 adventure day! we went zorbing lugeing swooping agrojetting freefalling and etcetcetcing! hahahaha super uber fun! and before that we went to watch some dogcowsheepduckman show (quotes jocelyn) at agrodome! hahaha jasmine spazzass took e milk from e bottle meant for the baby lambs! ew. hahahahaha and lugeing was cool when joanna joanna and i (yes the two joannas!) zoomed down e hill and tried to overtake people but got overtaken by angmoh homies instead, then on the ski lift back up after each ride we saw baby rabbits on e hill! oh and we took e gondola ride up w sabrina and shirley wong and boonie! hahahaha boonie kept warbling about funny stuff and shirley wong was well, being shirley wong the bimboh and sabrina was laughing away hoho :)











day 9 hahaha we visited maori village and watched mud jumping up and down in mud pools and huge geysers spouting away and maoris doing their dance thingthing hahaha and markshone was our chief (we saboed him) so he had to do stuff like interact w warriors and rub noses w them. have a classic photo of him rubbing noses but looked like he was kissing this maori hahaha! and then later we went to this artefacts place, but were veh interested in this frenchkissing couple at e entrance instead of said maori stuff. till the likes of sabrina shooed us in. oh and after that, shopping! melly claire jass sufen & i went crazy buying clothes upon clothes hahaha after spending 40 bucks on berms e day before, killed another 30 or so on blouse earrings necklace rings whatnot. hahah not as bad as jocelyn who spent 130 in the warehouse alone on clothes. and more clothes.







am hankering after tianyu's superkool ripcurl notebook! wanted to buy e nz 2007 diaries, they were SO awesome, but hahaha relented from killing my wallet further, and was too lazy to ask kelvin (eeek) to exchange money w me anyways. oh hoho then we had final briefing by nat and cui er (from obs!) and photo show by markshone! embarrassing peekchures. then some people started crying all over again, but this time i didnt kuz it was opc and pete i missed last time, not shopping and fooling around this time. but well, still. claire&i couldnt sleep so we walked around the compound till about 3 am at night, after hearing sabrina boonie shirleywong and mshone babbling and heehawing away for hours, when they were supposed to be asleep (later mshone revealed they slept at 4 am)

ahahahaha claire&i also snapped scandal photos of tianyu and melly at night when they were sleeping. oh the many things you never knew you did at night! x) hahahaha and there was like this whole bunch of legs tangled up that thankfully claire&i were not a part of hoho. SCANDAL. hahaha oh and we christened melly smelly! :) whoot.

day 10 pwn we left ): @ about 3 pm from auckland intl airport. double ): ohwell we did some crazy photowhoring first, was really sad, am still sad. i wish our programme was longer, even if we did miss everyone back home in spore, but now, we're missing nz so muchmuchmuch! ): ha anyway landed w yuechin and joanna lee (my stars are not blind, they're so darn luckeh) for e flight home, but spent about 5 of e 10 hrs out of my seat hanging around w sufen & jasmine and talking to mshone or sabrina when they came by. haahaha got told off by mshone for running around e plane kuz he heard yuechin and i babbling away abt this chikopek who tried to make us sit down w him upfront in e plane, and going back to find him again (from a few m away) juz to show jocelyn who he was.

we found out that boonie and his wife celebrate e anniversaries of their first smooch. and that mshone and his wife mutually agreed to marry, w out any actual lovestammerings hoho! :) we theorised he came to spore to look for his wife kuz he's like really short compared to e rest of london. oh and of course, to teach us physics and it! :) hahaha our teachers rawk.

feels like uploading e videos of pennymoo shirley & i screaming our arse off in e swoop, and the maori dance video thing. HOHO. dont cry for me new zealand!