Addicted to christmas carols recently! Why are they nice even if they're slow songs e.g. silent night? Can't imagine CNY songs like gong xi fa cai being a slow song. no mood already la!

Anyway, in this lousy week, I -

• Met up with Vivien and Wei Loong on Monday. Viv is damn resourceful, always manages to find some ulu restaurant to eat at. I am too lazy to upload photos from my phone, will probably get it done tonight after kbox (if we go!).
• Went Sentosa (and consequently, shopping at Vivo!) on Tues. Sentosa is starting to look like Orrrrrchard Road, with the amount of construction work going on. The monorail is cool though, albeit a little slow. Unglam photos up once I get them.
• Watched Alvin and the Chipmunks on Wed. It was okay la, not really much of a storyline, but watch if you like their songs! (I have the soundtrack if anyone's interested.)

We also celebrated Wei Yuan's birthday! I TRIED NOT TO BE LATE. (5 minutes, not bad already!) Finally we get to take our sweet revenge on him regarding his first love Sharon. (Okay, he doesn't really suan me, but I'm speaking for others.) Anyway I found my first love! CHOCOLATE INDULGENCE from Secret Recipe! Super shiok.

Sunday was a day of shocking wins! Star Awards and Asian Idol respectively.

1. Star Awards - definitely dark horses for best female/male lead actress! How can someone win best lead actress if she's not even the lead in the show. come on la rui en totally rocks. and since when did the (IMO, lousy) show my father, my daughter manage to get more viewers than PUO JIAN ER CHU... the show is damn good can! and taypinghui managed to win the best theme song prize for the song in that army show. (I don't know why I always associate that song with yang pei an's Wo Xiang Xin.) I still remember the time I was on 179 to school and TVMobile was showing the start of the army show and the song was stuck in my head the whole day! worthy winner haha

Joanne Peh didn't get top 10! too bad MUHAHA. I think she was a little complacent. Learn from Felicia Chin and be more friendly la. I thought Dawn Yeoh looked really nice though!

2. Asian Idol HADY MIRZA... I was listening to 100.3 that day, the DJs were saying that Hady must be damn embarrassed when the results were announced since everyone was better than him yet he won. Several theories possible here -

• Since everyone had to vote for 2 countries, they'll obviously vote their own and a weaker opponent that won't threaten their country, right? Apparently everyone ended up voting for this 'weaker opponent' and he won. HAHA.
• Singapore is richer than the other countries participating in Asian Idol, therefore more $ to spend on voting. (singapore malays are richer)
• He has the whole package (really??)

I think I have suddenly developed some crazy bulleting addiction.

I have an urge to buy Christmas cards!

Taxi fares are damn expensive!

it's nice and refreshing to walk along a sidewalk with strong cool wind blowing...


EXCEPT WHEN IT'S 8.30 IN THE MORNING.. zz

OMGGG I so want to complain about how good the transport system is in Singapore. it is IMPOSSIBLE to get home by bus if you're in town at around 10pm (from wisma onwards). If the bus doesn't come, then that's fine, but it totally sucks when the bus comes around and doesn't even open the door! (not once, not even twice! like 3-4 times, and more than one bus service too)


I got so fed up I had to resort to underhanded means to get home.. such as calling friends with driving licenses to drive me home muhahaha (wenyun), but obviously I failed because who'd be so nice?


In the end, I took 171. It's a choice I would never have made unless I'm really desperate.. let me show you why:


This shows the route 700A takes to go back to Bukit Panjang Interchange..




This is the 171 route:




I'm not done. There's still part 2





Obviously, I was out of my mind. but at least I managed to get a seat! to think sinkuan was already out of the shower when I just alighted. crap. makes me want to drive/own a car.


anyway, happy birthday to sk! a little late (actually I wanted to message you at 11+pm on the day itself, but when I realised it was already 1st dec 12.14am.. haha woops) lend me your mei rong da wang book after you're done okay.


3 day week next sem! muhaha. and I'm addicted to F.I.R's yue ya wan and san ge xin yuan.

sem 1's over! :D
open book exams are cool. no need for memorizing stuffs anymore.
18 AUs down! i'm probably gonna take a black and white photography elective next sem. improve my photo-taking skills (can take more fake artistic photos next time. hor SK?)
6 week break, should make good use of it to do useful things.. HMM. baking class?
need to be more active in losing weight too LOL


OCS peeps commissioning soon! and km's already in taiwan for one month. so many people passing their driving tests!!
time flies~


my dad's cute. i told him my student obtained 226 for PSLE.
him: 226 not bad already what.. my student got 206!
me: YAH, but you're a SWIMMING TEACHER. i'm a tuition teacher!
rahhh


randomness. but I hate it when people whisper to others in front of me. insecure/over suspicious?

UPDATE!


you probably know it's time to update your blog when :


1. you repeatedly receive warning messages about how your tagboard is going to expire. REPEATEDLY. LIKE 3-4 TIMES.


2. people can recite the contents and DATE of your last post.


3. you can't think of anything else to do (??? okay i added this in 'cos 3's a nicer number than 2. hahaha)


now let's see how long people take to realise I'm blogging again.



on a side note, I feel like such a techno dino with all the friendster/facebook hype going on now

yes i went taiwan AGAIN this time with yeewen sinkuan and sinyee. all girls = shopping nonstop! i kinda prefer this trip, except for the fact that i actually had to carry my own luggage around, instead of like yeah having guys to help. lol. next time should go with metro guys who can shop and help with luggage :D

a picture paints a thousand words so here goes:

day 1: reached taoyuan international airport at around 5.30? WE SAW ANDY LAU hahaha (i actually thought he was some caucasian 'cos he was so fair!)

our first picture taken in taiwan!

didn't have anywhere to stay for the first night so we just took the coach and got down at taipei che zhan. decided to stay at cosmos hotel but WHAT THE SHIT there was no way to get across the street except for an OVERHEAD BRIDGE like 100m away! CRAP. talk about exercise!!

settled into room 1121 and then went taipei main station's underground mall for a very expensive (and bad!) western dinner. oh well. at least the waffles were nice! shopped around for cheap shoes and books before heading back.

day 2: cam-whored (sk and i), watched some murder mystery on tv (sk yw sy) and checked out! proceeded to ximending to check into our 2nd hotel. speaking of murder mysteries, it's damn freaky when you travel with 3 girls who get so hooked on such shows that they exclaimed at the same time that the true murderer is the mother of some guy who died.

we also did some xi-nu-ai-le pose which i thought was too ugly to be posted up HAHA

took neoprints and then shopped at ximending after that, before heading to taipei 101.

let me advertise my fav actor first! DAMN BIG POSTER WOOHOO JOHNNY DEPP!!

stupid lamp post in the way

behold. the world's tallest building (for now). taipei 101.

in the queue for the lift going up to 89th floor

view of taipei city

then sk and i discovered that we could buy postcards and send back to ourselves, and we spent like tons of time (1.5 hours?) writing and stamping

the box which we dropped our postcards into

when we were finally done, we went up up up to the 91st storey, the OUTDOOR observatory

2 storeys make all the difference in size of cars/buildings

sk trying to get a jump shot. this was probably the 15th attempt

then we decided to get SUPPER at ximending. donuts + corn + hotdog + some jap food thingy

donuts from mr donut. famous but only a few flavours are worth trying.

had some supper party thingy before going to sleep.

day 3: headed to leofoo village in the morning. waited damn long for the bus there

bus tickets

the most exciting ride there, since the roller coaster was down for maintenance =/

beer version of the turning teacup thingy

suggestive pose HAHA sorry edison

MY FAVOURITE RIDE

view of part of the theme park, taken from some lame ali baba ride

taken when we were leaving the place

reached taipei at 7+, close to 8? then left for wu fen pu + rao he night market. SHOPPING WOOO

some sign outside the night market

back at the hotel with our prized possessions.

updating in reverse order cos blogger somehow always puts the last uploaded picture on top.


day 4:
went wufenpu in the afternoon, returned to hotel and then we went SHIHLIN! basically the highlight of the trip.



my HAO DA DA JI PAI! (must say with accent)
shihlin ZONG3 DIAN4 okay (and it's like just a stall with a super long queue)


we also ate ah zong mian xian which was a good team building experience! you have to try it yourself. it's quite hard to finish the noodles alone. lol. then we split up to shop! sk and i managed to find this dart throwing game. good for relieving stress. so we met up again at the train station where this pic was taken:


YUP I WAS TRYING TO KISS DEAR JOHNNY. at the mrt station! tons of ppl around!



back to taipei main station to change trains


we decided we were all too high to just go back to sleep. so we went k at partyworld at around 12.35. partyworld's like an entire building (overstaffed though). very different experience! $17+ to sing for 4 hours, plus meals (rice + kangkong + spare ribs). THE MEAL WAS REALLY GOOD.



of course we'd cam whore first



THE ROOM HAS ITS OWN TOILET. like damn cool can! singapore should have also!



sy yw and sk decided to stand on the chair to sing some high song while i was away in the toilet.
then the guy who delivered the food entered AND THEY SAT DOWN IMMEDIATELY.
HAHA

swinging their hands along to jay's ting mama de hua. note sk's expressions.

before we went to k we all thought OH NO WE MAY GET ROBBED, STALKED, etc when we go back to hotel at 4+. but it was already bright, like the sky you'll see at 7am.

(it was actually much brighter but i took this pic with flash on)

we were like CHEH what the hell it's probably more dangerous to go out at 12+ than go back at 4+ la.

me, still being high, decided to sing CONG TAIPEI DAO BEIJING while taking off my jacket (intended to throw it on the ground), in the middle of ximending.

BUT while sk was filming the video and after i took off my jacket, A POLICE CAR APPEARED!

LOL

went back hotel, slept immediately. didn't even remember sk coming out from the shower.

day 5:

slept till 10 (earliest as usual), showered, woke sk & yw up, went organic shop, ate macs for lunch, then went carrefour to buy cup noodles (yw), cream puffs (sk), lays (me) and gums/sweets (sy). decided to check-in the food since it obviously won't fit our luggage!

one for each of us

then yw and sy went shihlin, sk and i walked around ximen. took neoprints, and duh, more shopping. i somehow managed to get high and kept WOOHOO-ing, all the way back to hotel.

drunk on yakult

I WAS SO SAD AFTER THAT! cos when we compared the amount of stuff we each bought, i realised i bought quite little things! decided to forfeit my long-awaited hot spring visit to do more shopping.

day 6:

woke yw and sy up to go hot springs. sk and myself went organic shop (again) and ximen and organic shop (AGAIN AGAIN)

ate some lover's shaved ice thingy. perfect in that weather.

sk scribbled on the walls. you can vaguely make out the "cong taipei dao beijing" which i asked her to add in LOL

splurging on high class cake and tea in a high class cafe.

trying to be artistic.

artistic attempt #1

artistic attempt #2

(not bad, someone actually thought it was some wine bar when i set it as my DP)

then it was back to hotel to wait for the coach to airport. sk and i were complaining of not having cam-whored enough, so we did the 1-10 thingy.

never incur a woman's wrath. JUST LOOK AT SK'S FACE!

(somehow it reminds me of johnny depp. HAHA)

reached airport, checked in our almost overweight baggage, went for dinner at bk where most of us spent all our money, and then we were on our way back to sg!

the pineapple tarts darn cute will blow up in the airplane! air pressure

my stuff! tons of lays and cream puff biscuits and other food

one pack of lays EXPLODED cos of the air pressure! damn.

yw's load of maggie mee (she insisted on buying more at the airport!)

sk's haul of organic stuff, books, shoes, clothes and food

sy's cream puffs and lays in box; all other bought stuff in the glam lancome bag

so that was taiwan 2007. REWARDING EXPERIENCE. more updates next time.