and so, i went on a macau/zhuhai trip with yizhuang and her dad! oh wells, didnt thought mum will allow the trip! so it was a brilliant surprise when she agreed! anyway, it was a trip greatly anticipated by us cos it's just a few days after ending teaching at swiss.
will not be putting up too much pictures cos there're already in fb. here it goes! us, at changi airport on 2june, 8pm or so. our flight was 10pm at night for that day so you could imagine how excited we were for the whole of that day! anw, yz's real suay. her relative came knocking on her at that day of the month. lol. oh yah. i was still with my ah lian hair then! and i was so determined to do something to it in china so as to get myself off the ah lian look. heh.
okay. this was what i saw on the plane of singapore's night scene. brilliant!
after 3.5 hours of flight, we arrrived at macau international airport at around 2am in the morning. wow. what a freezing summer!? was our first thought when we stepped out of the airport. cos we were told by yz's dad that the weather over there was summer and it'll be really hot so we were told to just bring tshirts and shorts. nothing more than that. but who knows! we were greated with such cooling weather that feels just like genting/cameron highlands or even cooler than that! heh. so we hitched a cab to our first stop, The Venetian. i can only say, wow! never mind the insides or outside. both were as brilliant as it can be! took lots of pictures cos we were just too impressed. it felt really classy and well, made one feels so cultured. we were really happy little kids there and then cos we were there at such an earthly hour and there wasn't anyone around so we were just snapping away here and there.
okay these were taken when dawn breaks. anyway, the day lights up real early over there. i think this was around 6am only!
next stop, we went over to another casino across the street. City of Dreams. what a name! just another casino! haha. anw, this was another pathetically high class place. just like our Ion orchard. all the high-end boutiques.
anyway, did i mention that we went into all those casinos too? for tourists, 18 is the min age requirement. oh wells, can only say it's really really atas in there and its really big! with alot of tables and those jackpot machines. we didnt try our hands on gambling lah. but we scouted around for anything that we're familiar with like black jack. apparently bj aren't really a very popular game cos there was only a few tables on that. most of them are Baccarats, which we don't know how the hell it's played at all so casinos really doesn't fancy us too much. and also, the air inside was crazy! cigarette smoke everywhere... okay, this is a snapshot of what a casino has.this are those machines which i think they are very lame.haha. just this picture only cos photography is not allowed in casino. meaning i secretly took this!
an another thing i have to say about casinos is that their toilets are ultra ultra grand! hahahaha. we really got a shock of our life when we went in! so B-E-A-U-Tiful!
okay. so at around 7am, we headed off to zhuhai. took a cab and we saw how beautiful macau is! anyway, did i mention that macau has 30 over casinos? lol! basically macau is just a land of casino. not exaggerating to say that at all! hmm well, so we went over to zhuhai by passing through the borders(just like spore and johor's causeway), and we checked into our hotel. okay. frankly speaking, i was quite taken aback when i went into the hotel cos it was seriously a lil worn out. and a greater shock awaits me when we went up to our rooms. oh well, it's quite dirty i will say, doesnt feel really comfortable, especially the toilets! yeah. but we told ourselves to make do with it cos you know, we are there to shop so the hotel room is just for sleeping. anw, we were also too tired to talk too much so we just took a nap.
okay. so next will be the highlight of the day, or should i say highlight of the trip! we started walking around and i insisted on working on my hair that very first day right away so we scouted quite a few salons until we saw one that have alot of guys working in there. we thought to ourselves that it will generally be better for guys to style/cut our hair since they will be using their perspective to design one for us. so we went in, sat down and started to check out the price and everything. and in the end, we settled for that and we are in for another round of dyeing and cutting just barely a week after we did that in spore. impulsive on our part but we already negotiated and i was quite determined to change my hair colour anyway. so we 跟他拼了!
while they were putting the dye on our hair, i suddenly popped out in english to yz that i think the guy dyeing for me looks good. and then she looked at hers and she think that her guy looks much better! so we 2 were like spamming english, talking about how good they look and how cool they are, etc etc. hahahaha. we were like so totally in love with them cos even after leaving the shop and everything, we still talked about them everyday! haha. and we even named them My Boy! hahahahahaha. we were totally crazy over them man. the salon was just a street away from our hotel so all the more it gives us reason to 'walk past' almost everyday just to see if we can see Our Boys in there! wah seh. totally siao. but it was fun! and btw, my hair was cut by the 副店张 aka 副总~~ and i totally loved my hairstyle to bits! he was so professional! hahahaha. basically the whole trip revolved around this make-up romance with our boys and fu zong.
another highlight. which i think yz described it so well, " On the last night, I saw this bunch of guys walking towards us with one or two smoking so I reflectively kept my head low (while DJJ(me!) was on a lookout for more cute guys). Who knows, when I looked up that tweeny bit, I saw their uniforms, and as I looked up further, I saw our 副总~~~(a.k.a 副店长)! HAHAHAHA got us even more hyper after that as we kept saying how fated we are and we should just marry him." yes, that's exactly what we felt right at that moment and we literally went crazy after that!anw, this is a picture of the salon. realise that it is very dark and all cos we didnt dare take a picture of it in daylight and instead, we had to secretly snap it late at night when we walked past. hahahaha! like what yz said, regrettably, we didnt take any pictures with our boys or fu zong. cos we reckon that it will be just too too embarrassing to go back cos those people in there could recognise us! partly because we were in there for a really long time for our hair the other time. so yeah. that's the end of our 'romance' at zhuhai.
okay. and we fall in love with this particular drink stall that sells taiwan bubbletea! own-ed any of our bubble tea store over here in singapore totally. much cheaper and much nicer! okay lah. Koi bubble tea will probably be on par in terms of taste but not the price! and so, we promised ourselves to have it twice a day to satisfy our yearn for good bubble tea. heh. and we did! 2 cuys of ah er per day. holy mama!
okay next, will be the main focus of our trip this time round. shopping! okay i can tell you, this is really the best shopping i have ever had overseas. its really really crazy man! this underground shopping mall is crazy! bloody lots of shops and its really hard to find our way around initially cos we just couldnt remember where we have went before and where we have not. we went to this place everyday to do our shopping cos it's really huge and we can't really finish all in a day or 2. thats how exaggerating it is man. and every time we went in, we will be spending hell long time inside. hours just past by and every time we checked our watches, we will be like huh!?!? 3pm already? so fast man! then the next time we check, we will be like huh!?!?!?!?!?! 9pm already? we haven had our dinner leh! hahahahaha. it's really crazy shopping inside lah. totally owned any of our shopping malls in spore. but one thing about it is, we really need to slash prices like siao. sometimes the price tag will be like 400plus ren min bi, and we managed to slash it to as low as 80 rmb! haha. very exaggerating but as time goes by, we're like so immune to it! most of the time, im doing the slashing i would say. while yz would come into the picture to pay. haha. cos she arent really good at it lah. anw, so in total, i spent around S$500+ on shopping for the trip while yz spent ard S$700. hahaha. can't help it but feel darn impressed with ourselves for being able to shop everyday like this.
okay this was a picture of the sleezy corner below our hotel. there are like our pubs in clarke quay but of course, not as ex or as high class lah. but we found it interesting cos the ladies sit there and sort of 拉客 over for a drink etc. sleezy lah. but interesting huh.
anw. these are just some of the food we ate over there. basically the food over there are really cheap and good. especially their seafood. awesome! cheap+nice! anyhow anyhow also owned us here lah. and of course, all thanks to uncle whom recommended us all those and brought us to have such a sumptuous meal. heh. and of course, we tried those roadstalls also, equally good!
oh yah! we went for our mani/pedicure! ultra cheap over here man! i spent just S$12 for it when in fact if i were to do it in spore, it will definitely cost me 30 over bucks. heh. the above ones are mine, while the below are yz's. apparently we were really spoilt for choices cos there were a lot of such services around just below our hotel!
and yeap, we hopped onto their public bus too! fun ehh. traveling around on the country's public transport! anw, we landed ourselves in yet another shopping district but this is a lil different from the ones we have been going near our hotel cos they are all shopping malls selling more high end/ branded goods. we didn't get anything from the malls but instead we spent a hell lot at their Watson's! lol. cheaper than spore mah!
at the last night, both of us sat at somewhere near the road to have a talk. it was very windy so we thought it will be nice to just sit there and enjoy all these before we go back to the ever so hot spore. so we chatted, and eventually concluded that we hadn't really enjoyed our 19year old life so far or i should have said we thought that it wasn't really complete cos we don't have a 轰轰烈烈的爱情. hahaha. cliche it may sound. but deep in our heart, we really felt that. i mean 19 year olds are supposed to be as happening as ever? to try all the things we have not tried in life etc etc. and isnt it nice to have someone we like around us? someone for us to miss, someone for us to lean on etc etc. and so we weren't too happy about returning to spore that night cos we realise that with teaching now ended, we have really nothing to look forward to when we go back. and while personally i aren't really looking forward to uni life... and yes, i told her im really tired to be waiting for him to come back to me. and we concluded that 对方不懂的等待只是空等. exactly! he didn't know i still couldn't let go of him and so all this waiting are in vain indeed. regrettably, i can't disagree at all. very true isn't it?
at the last day before we headed back to spore, we went back to macau. ok the journey to cross the borders from zhuhai to macau was pathetic! cos we were carrying hell heavy luggage across on our own! (yz's dad went over to macau earlier.) we were like swearing big time over the amount of things we have bought and we were seriously quite worried that we will exceed the limit! anw, finally made our way to macau and to the Sands casino. wahhh. another crazy casino.
as instructed by yz's dad, we went to Sands to store our luggage, and regrettably, we were charged 20 rmb for storing too big a luggage! hahahaha. and apparently, the bellboy was really impressed with us for being able to bring that over the borders. heh.
afterwhich, we went walking around to snap pictures. so we went over to this fisherman's wharf just a street across Sands casino.
okay. took many pictures there, which are available on fb. and meanwhile, saw a whole lot of other casinos. land of casinos indeed!
then as recommended by yz's dad, we were supposed to go over to Wynn's casino for some performance. so we made our way there by asking people around and we finally found it! this casino is crazily highhhhhhhh-classssssssss to the max! seriously very very exaggerating! oh well, we missed the performance that yz's dad recommended but we caught another performance that was absolutely awesome!
it was a water fountain performance! took a couple of videos of it but u needa be there to really enjoy and feel it.
okay. this is yet another casino that we walked past... a couple more, i didnt post it up here. heh.
and so we went back to the Sands casino after that to meet up with yz's dad and we were once again, treated into a wonderful live band performance over there! awfully brilliant live performance man! best i have seen i guess! really really happy to end off our trip with that. i guess its quite nice to start and end off our trip at macau. macau is a place where me n yz really got an eye opener cos we can never imagine how high class a place can be. and then zhuhai is the best place for shopping! so in all, it was a great trip i would say. most relaxed/free and easy! also provided that i had yz with me for the trip! anw, initially i thought the timings for our flights were yucky! reach macau at 2am, and leave macau at 2am also. but in fact, it was a perfect timing! when the world is asleep, there's really much more to see; to feel. and we were treated to a whole lot of new experience in a city that doesnt sleep! yes, and thats all for the trip. spent a hell long time typing it out! not for anyone to see or comment but just a memory keepsake for myself. that's all folks. :)
finally. am really sitting down, typing this post on my life for the past month.
1) and so. left swiss at the end of the 2nd term. shall not put up any pictures since they are already available on facebook. was indeed a wonderful experience back at swiss. did i mention that my students prepared something before i left? was really sweet of them and yes, am really touched by that! there was a little bit of sadness for that last day in swiss. i mean it doesnt really feel good to leave the same place where so much memories are built again and again? and yes, i'm leaving swiss, yet again. anw, that day was really a wonderful ending. took many pictures with those teachers, gave them our farewell gifts etc. and we were treated to a lunch by Mr Teng and Darren! awesome! i mean it was really quite a great ending of 5 months for me. though there were some really tough times, still, i guess i didnt regret going back as a relief teacher. thank you teachers, for making my stay in swiss so wonderful and allowing me to create beautiful memories yet again!
2) went off for a malaysia trip with family! went back to Muar, then travelled to Ipoh and then to Cameron Highlands. been so long since i got the chance to travel around msia so leisurely. i mean previously when we go back for qing ming jie, it was really quite a mad rush through everything! anyway, it wasnt a well planned trip at all. cos we couldnt find accommodation at Ipoh and decided to try our luck at cam highld instead, but we didnt get any place to stay too! so end up, we spent 1.5 hours traveling up, stayed up there for 1 hr or so, then spent another 1.5 hrs traveling down. awful to the max! cos way up/down was really really very steep and curvy. and plus it was late at night so there werent much vehicles, no streets lights, just the spot light of our car guiding the way-ultra dangerous! like what mum says, if any robbers were to hijack us at that time, we'll sure kena. scary! and did i mention that we all almost vomited due to the really crazy bendings. Awwww. feels giddy now even while recalling that journey now... but in all, it was still a good trip back. yay!
3) okay. after scouting so hard for tuition for the past few months, finally found it! currently having tuition with 2 students. one of them through agent and the other was my student in swiss! heh. not facing any big problems so far as my time are still generally flexible and am quite okay with sec 2 maths. shall keep my fingers crossed when school reopens for them as well as for me.
4) anyway, found a new job! more of admin side. calling out/researching etc. starting real soon. pay arent fantastic but looking at the duration i can commit, i guess im really lucky enough to have found one... there was quite a bit of hesitation cos it's actually quite far away and i really want to take a break i guess. but...in the end, due to some reasons, i still took it up. hmm well. just take it as a learning experience then. anyway, it'll only be till end of july so i still have half a month to slack/rest before yog volunteer work starts! talking about that, im quite quite excited over it! cos ah min(cousin) is in for the basketball team! awesome! can't wait to see her on the courts man.
5) and so. went for a holiday trip with yz and her dad! shall update this part separately. heh.
6) sis celebrated her 21st birthday. was quite guilty for not being around(was at china then!) all her friends and our relatives came to celebrate for her and gave their well wishes! sigh. glad that she didnt really mind and yeah, happy 21st, sis! just to say, u've been an awesome sis all these while. didnt tell you before but i hope u know. i wouldnt have made it for without you all these years. those times when u taught me tireless, times when we had htht, times when we..... dont even know how to start typing! jus want to say, i wouldnt be who i am now without you. thanks for everything and hope everything goes well for you!
7) went shopping with yz today! okays. not for our own stuffs but birthday present for cheryl and baba. anw, it was really really quite an enjoyable shopping trip!cos we were shopping for some real high-end stuffs for them! hah. atas shopping that i wouldn't do alone/for myself. it sort of satisfied our materialism deep within? hahaha. anw, we came up with a brilliant way to celebrate ying's and baba's birthday! can't wait man!
8) had a badminton session with cousins plus zhiler. good game indeed. though we were rather upset that xian ps-ed us. but anyway, it was the first time we exercised together! interestingly, we, as cousins were so close once as kids, afterwhich we lived our lives separately as we mature, and then now, we are all back as one, much united! strange enough but i liked that. just hoped that we can continue to be great cousins as we move on further in life and we know that all of us are around for each other if all else fails.
This is for my dear friend: Yz. U wouldn't have imagined how important you were and how much joy u have brought to me all these months.it's amazing how we evolved from the least close friend amongst jiji to who we are today,friends whom could share whatever we have in our minds. Seriously loved this feeling. I'm really glad to have became so close w you due to those few months of teaching in Swiss. Remember how we laugh at our own jokes,how we bullied hy, how we went all the way down to amk just for our koi bubble tea,how we managed to walk home from Swiss,how we went to gym,how we went to dye our hair,how we rummaged the bins for ur phone,how we secretly talked about mr monkey(I hope u still rmb who's that),how we both see the true colours of some people around us,how we enjoyed the training session for yog,how we laughed uncontrollably at old jokes repeatedly,how we held our hands in public,how afraid we were to be seen as lesbians,how we could talk non stop for many hours,on anything under the sun,how we shared similar interests,how we will always look at the same thing and be able to discuss about it afterwhich,how we struggled on what course to pursue in uni,how we loved bus 172,how I have to address you as si yizhuang,how fierce we were to each other at times,how I couldn't bear to angry with you when you try to act pitiful,how we hated to wake up 6am for work... And of course,about our china trip!The trip wouldn't have been so great without ur companion. Or should I say it wouldn't have been possible without you,cos it was you who invited me along! Thank you! I will always remember how we shopped crazily at borders,how we slashed prices till we are totally immuned,how we were cheated several times and then learnt our lessons,how sick we were of our 607 room,how we went gaga over our boys and Fu Zong,how we watched many sports matches,how we were so touched over jay's new song,how we loved our new hairstyle to bits,how jaw dropped we were at various casino's toilets,how we were so stubborn in finding certain shops,how we sweared and how tired we were while dragging our ultra heavy luggage through the borders,how we loved their cooling summer,how amazed and thrilled we were at the wonderful live performance at Sands,how we went crazy over the magnificient builidings of macau's casinos,how talented we were in choosing spots to zi pai,how we were too tired to even open our crumpler,how we ate watermelon on streets of zh and spitted seeds all around,how we spotted laoye baobao,how we liked to use the word sleezy,how i tried to stop you from telling the sales person too much of ur thoughts,how we thought everyone gambling in the casino has a story to tell,how you didnt allow me to enter KFC at borders,how upset I was with the $2 vs $1.5 desert shop, how we tried to keep ur dad in the dark on certain expenses, how badly we were beaten by mosquitoes,how we had 2 cups of ah er everyday,how irritating our hotel room doors were,how we went into a store so many times that the sales assistant could recognise us,how we were so thrilled to meet Fu Zong down the streets,how we siam-ed cigarret smoke,how we always have to look frantically for our bestfriends-toilet,mirror,rubbish bins,how we had several impulsive buys,how we were always at a look out for shuai ge,how shameless we were when negotiating with fu zong,how we were so demoralised with our figures,how amazed we were at the heels of the women there,how we didnt really want to come back cos there arent anything to look forward to,how we went on a bus ride,how we talked abt him(yours and mine)....There are just so much so much memories between us that I just can't list them all down. Thanks for being such a friend! U have been so awesome,baby! Though we concluded during the trip that we aren't really having a good and meaningful 19 year old life so far,I guess I can proudly say getting closer to you is definitely the best part of my 19 year old life.yes,it aren't complete without having someone we love dearly.but you filled up that hole with our friendship!im glad we talked many things.no matter when we were in Swiss or when we were in china. Will be seeing you less from now on,I guess I will b missing you loads!(i am already actually)I have already gotten used to ur presence and everything else! Too used to having u sticking around me.ur siliness,ur craziness,ur laughter,ur lameness,ur thoughfulness,ur cuteness,ur forgetful character,basically ur everything! (thats why i went up ur house a day after we separated!)Abit mushy on my part,haha. But they are all my true feelings! Can't thank you enough for your friendship and for the memories that you have left me with,literally. Guess the best way to express my gratitude will be to continue our friendship for the many many years to come.we will be Friends who will stand by each other for laughter,as well as for tears. Last but not least,I wish you luck for ur romance. Do not miss out someone or something just because you didn't have the courage to go for it. You deserve all the best things in life! BFFs for life! Loves,DJJ
been so long since i last blogged. several things took place for the past month. ended my teaching career. moved on from swiss. started tuition-ing. highlighted+dyed my hair. toured some parts of malaysia with family. went on a china trip with yz and her dad.
alot of ups and downs on my emotions. hard to describe though. never felt so hollow deep within myself before. after all the highs in life,when its time to settle down, can't help but feel so empty. awful feeling indeed.
concluded with yz during our trip that i don't really like my life currently. felt as though i have wasted a whole portion of my 19 year old life. feel like leaving everything behind. literally everything. my family, my friends, my home, my school, my future, my studies, him, everything and anything. just leave everything behind and start a brand new life, come up with a brand new me in somewhere out there where no one knows me. silly of me i know, to even possess such thoughts. cos its simply impossible. but i haven had such an urge before. never wanted so much to leave everything behind and start anew. i want new family new friends new home new school new love new future and most importantly new life;new me.
this will be the last entry of the year, and my last entry for the blog.
2008 to me wasn't that all glamorous, memorable, unforgettable. i guess i felt really pathetic to feel this way when the year have already come to an end.
things just didn't go the way it should go. or at least the way i wanted it to go.
好累。真想换个新环境。然后,一切就会都变好了吧?
if you liked the way i blogged, maybe read this whole entry one more time. remember the style, the tone and everything. get a feel of it one last time. for you know,i might never blog again.
今年,看电视太多,所以眼睛很累... 想事情太多,所以心里很累.
decided to stop blogging,没有特别的原因。只是写得累了,不想再写下去。 很多情感,还是没有办法向大家公开,向大家交待。所以还是决定了只向自己一个交待。 blog? why bother.
it's the last day of 2008. o8年就这样画上了一个句号.并不完美.但也无奈的得接受.