Thursday, April 23, 2009

Mr.Nham

***WARNING: prob very similar to what you have seen on facebook. i was forced to do this***

Thanks guys, you guys are awesome. I am not a big fat liar! I went to sleep somewhat early! sheesh.

ANYWAYS so here i am posting for all you guys god, better appreciate the work that we all put into this because its not that easy to blog because of the stupid formatting hahahaa. okay okay lets see,

SO starting from where Debbie left off, at the Escape theme park, Seriously it was on the other side of Singapore near the airport which is probably a hour and half train/bus ride to get there, but we did not have high expectations anyways, Debbie was dammed excited to go on her flippy upside down rides, but HA they were having maintenance done to them. burrn. Anyways it was like a billion degrees (hot and humid for the next 300 years)that day and we managed to go on some flying ride thing where you lay down and fly like superman its pretty sweet cept its meant for kids, anyways Chai was having a mild breakdown about going on the ride because she was worried that she would get sick, ahahaha, thankfully Hung was able to pressure her into doing the ride and guess what, she was FINE, what a big baby. *tear*


Next we went on the swinging ship, you know the one you see at WEM but the non-upside down one for kids, oh man, this was honestly the best and funniest ride I personally have gone on in a while. We decided to sit midway and across from us was a family, the ride started and seriously I cant even explain their emotions as the ride progressed, they were all huddled together as if they were going to fall of the ride any second and the little kid, every time their side went down he would scream/cry...as would the rest of the family who is now like holding on to each other. Oh man we could not stop laughing... hahahaha damm

After that we jumped over to the log ride and as you read before, the sky began to drop and the ride shutdown. We then just grabbed something to eat, got our free pass to the park, and decided to head over to the new mall that just opened up Tampines 1, (pronounced Tam-pine-ees)

...Asia+new+mall=hell

seriously this mall was so ridiculously packed that i didn't even know where to go, they were like letting people go on the escalators in sections since at the end it was so full and there was no more room for new people, my god, and the new Uniglo or what ever which is some store like a Japanese H&M had a line that apparently was about 45minuites to get in, screw that crap. so we left and crossed the street to another superly packed mall called Tampines Mall or something like that. I don't know what we did after but I'm assuming we went home and slept. god i hate packed malls.

That Sunday Hung and I let the girls decide where to go since we did not want to stay in due to the limited amount of time we have left (I ONLY HAVE..4 DAYS LEFT IN SINGAPORE, AHHHHH). And we ended up hitting up the science center, which was pretty sweet but we only had 2 hours or something like that to get through the whole thing. Chihung like stayed at each station for like ever and had to analyse it and fully understand the meaning before they moved on, oh man, Debbie and I just looked and moved on, But while waiting for them we decided to take part in this interactive puzzle thing with the workers there, damm it was pretty much like put all these cubes into the box (the box being too small so you would have to put it in at certain angles), we didn't do too well, after a few tries the kid who was working there thought we were dumb foreigner's and offered us the answer, Debbie decided to comment that probably not a lot of people got the answer but apparently according to the dood, a lot of people do, bah. BUT we redeemed our selfs when he offered us a different puzzle game and got the answer in like a few minutes! WOOO.

Yeah, that was that, and we went to some IMAX movie "Sea Monsters" or something, and it was normal, but debbie kept persisting that the chairs in the theatre had to move and such, but they didn't Hung however offered to shake them throughout the movie. ahahaha priceless.

CHICKEN RICE at Jurong East Blows. but its Chicken Rice. WOOOOO I LOVE IT!!!


The following week i had two exams and we didn't do much. But Thursday night we all got together in our dorm to figure out where we going the next day, Options were Tioman Island in Malaysia, Bintan in Indonesia or Pualu Ubin in Singapore.
Originally we were supposed to go to Tioman and the travel agent we were talking to via email would book all our stuff for us like transport and ferries and etc (its a long crappy trip to Tioman, need to take a bus, cab, ferry all that junk) but Chai was too sketched out about the travel agent so we cancelled it, Chai and I were busy trying to figure out where we could go while the other 2 where busy reading their damm Buffy the Vampire crap. ARGG lol. SO i found this place called "Shady Shack" where some dood named Lobo had built a few shacks on the beach beside his residence and we could live with him, but we were to sketched out and opted for a more should we say commercialized one lol, the Yasin Bungalows at Trikora Beach, Bintan, Indonesia.

First things first man, it was situated in the middle of no where which a few huts and such built in the water, wow so nice. There was nothing to do there but watch the tide come in and out (which was awesome have you seen a tide come in and out? its ridiculous the place will look like a dessert and then a few hours later its an ocean again, SWEET).

So we didn't do much there but just hangout play some chess, eat, drink, and relax before the exams. It was really sweet cept that hung and I got like 50 billion ant bites all over our body, BAH couldn't sleep that night. damm Ants or what ever gave us the kajillion red dots all over our body. Oh yeah the bug nets over the beds had huge holes in them too, wonderful..
Our friend Bob

We opted for the 2 storey bungalow that was situated just off the beach thing, and had the bare essentials, such as manual flush toilet, no hot water, and 2 lights, but come on we paid like 50bucks (which was apparently $400,000 rupiahs) between us 4 for it, ridiculous.

I woke up for the damm sunrise (waking hung up on the way) but it turns out it was damm cloudy, BAH, but we still got some sweet pics none the less.

Attack of the hair, We call it Medusa, It comes out when ever strong winds are present, and has a life of its own, it indeed is quite scary..Beware.


After we came back we all had exams and began to study/cram/youtube or what ever we did, and are almost done! I don't know what the others did today but I went out to go eat with some friends at Yum Cha Dimsum - EH its mediocre food, but yeah...

Chinatown and Downtown, New and Old, its pretty nice.

PS-We still have A LOT of bugs in our room, now with the ants, there are fruit flies everywhere and these things, my god, I may have eaten one, i chewed something crunchy when i was sleeping in the middle of the night, AHH DAMMIT



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Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Chai-Ying, Debbie, & Hung

Tony,

you forgot the science center.

you big fat liar, you were up all night yesterday.

-Your best friends in Asia.

Toeknee

Okay okay guys im just going to put a quick summary of what we have been doing so i dont forget it when i actually blog, which will be soon, i would do it now but im sleepy

okay so debbie kind of left off at Escape theme park, Tampines 1, then we didnt do anything because we were "studying" then off to Bintan! sounds about it

Okay goodstuff.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Debbie

Hello, I hear it's snowing in Edmonton again ... which I think is cool since I miss it, haha but I guess not for you guys... so just to make you feel a little better (keep in mind I hate rain)..

here we are in our lovely $2 ponchos in a freak rainstorm that came so suddenly while we were at Escape amusement park. The picture does not justify the amount of rain that fell, we were in line for the log ride... but it got shut down due to the rain :( and that was the end of our day at the amusement park.

BETTER SNOW THAN RAIN.. is that I personally think!

ps. we're starting to count down .. :( the guys have less than 1 month left in Asia, while Chai & I have 2. so sad!

pps. instead of studying, we (Chai & I) are watching Korean music videos on youtube... haha what have we become??!?!? =/

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Debbie

So continuing on, on Wednesday we met up with Sauman for lunch and headed out to the Singapore Flyer, I believe they got the idea from the London Eye. Students get a discount on weekdays if you show your ID but Chai forgot to bring hers..crazy huh? The motherly one forgot! so we had to talk our way into it.. haha. The viewing box (the best word Chai & I came up with) that we were in was really nice and big, oh and before us there were 3 people in line, two of them were together and the worker lady asked the one person if she wanted to join the other two in front and so they all went into the same one, which the couple was not expecting. so we were saying how awkward it would've been if the guy brought his girl there to propose... haha. The whole ride was 30 minutes, but it seemed a lot faster, the view wasn't the greatest since there was a lot of construction going on, but it was still nice to see I guess.




After that we went back to campus, got ready and headed out again cause we were planning to go to a grand opening of some bar, but we were to late and went to New Asia Bar instead, it was on the 70th floor at the Swiss Hotel, going on the elevator our ears popped, and the view from there was nicer than from the Singapore Flyer. We met up with Jimin and met some Canadians on exchange as well, and a couple other interesting people...


We then went to Dbl O for ladies night, don't know if the guys were too happy with having to spend $30 for cover, but they didn't complain. This is our second time there and it wasn't as crowded but I still didn't enjoy the music very much..though I did like the music downstairs a lot better, but it was so crowded there. Hung found a watch on the floor and gave it to some girl... haha it made for an awkward moment. mm played some pool, sat around, went back to the club (there's 3 sections in the building, 2 clubs and 1 lounge-ish area). We left when the bar was closing and went to McDonalds for a snack and then headed home.


The next day, we woke up pretty late and decided to watch a movie so we went to see what movies were on and decided on Handsome Suit. If you're planning to watch it then don't read the following...
It's a Japanese movie about a not so attractive guy who likes a pretty girl but when he tells her he loves her because of her physical appearance she says she's disappointed. So he ends up with this suit that makes him handsome while the girl gets a suit that makes her not so attractive since she wanted people to see her for who she is and not how she looks, and yada-yada in the end they get rid of the suits and get together. Yeah, I didn't like it too much.. but I guess there were some funny parts.

Soo since I don't have pictures of the next day it's one of the guys' turn to finish.

Good luck on your exams... have fun studying :) as should we..

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Chai-Ying

hello! so we haven't blogged in awhile--i'll try to recap as much as I can. We have done A LOT since last Friday...hopefully my memory serves me well!

Last Friday-Clarke Quay

Friday was the last day of classes for me! Well sort of...anyways! It was the last day of my HR class, and it was presentation day for our term project!!! It was pretty intense, but it went really well! I don't know how Singaporeans do it, but walking around in a suit when it's 30 bloody degrees out is like having your own personal sauna. Holy man..it was disgusting.

Here is my super hardworking HR metrics group
...we called ourselves Metrics Reloaded HAHA

That night Debbie and I went to Orchard to have dinner with her uncle and the guys met us later on. While we were waiting at the Orchard MRT entrance, we decided to all get some ice cream! Yum Yum. People here have an option to eat bread with their ice cream, weird hmm? After that, we went to Clarke Quay's Brewsters or Brewskies or Brewhateverthehellitwascalled and ordered some drinks. Tony ordered cherry beer or something, Hung had some other type of beer...ya, debbie had a virgin slushy something er other, and I had a shirly temple. Obviously, Hung is better at remembering our food choices lol. Oh! We also ordered some spicy edamame beans and chilli cheese fries--the spice on the edamame beans got really gross after awhile...so Hung ate the rest of it. Haha =)

Clarke Quay =)

Giving away Purell to 3 dirty children.
...it's my sole purpose on this trip.

oh hung lol

pwned.
i'm shorter and can jump higer than both of you.

Last Saturday-Sentosa!!!!

We woke up bright and early....well kind of... and went to Sentosa!!! For those of you who don't know, Sentosa is a beach resort that has lots and lots of attractions--google it! I'm far too lazy to try and explain what we did, hopefully these pictures will suffice. haha.

Getting ready to go on the Luge with Laura, Vicky, and Kane =)

On the Luge! wheee!!!!
Spot Laura and Tony's ass.

Tiger tower! We went up and saw the whole Sentosa!!!

The beachhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Debbie, myself, and some naked random (jk Hung) on segways!!!


Debbie, you look really dark in this picture

A dark giant and myself going heading towards the southern most part of SE Asia!


Us and Jimin after going to the gift store...obviously!
We got a towel in a bag! Soooo coooooool!



Debbie and Hung arguing.
Tony is oblivious.
Favorite picture of all timeeeeeeee lol

Sentosa at night =)


Oh we also rented tandem bikes...HAHAHAHA. ohh man those are hard to ride. When Debbie and I rode together, I crashed into a construction fence 3 times. That's all I'm going to say about that.


Sunday-Orchard(again lol)

Tt rained like MADDD. my goodness, it was a steady stream of water. Nevertheless, we toughed it out and went shopping!!! We decided to go to to Orchard and get some gifts and also go shopping for ourselves lol. Tony and I read on some random blog that "Far East Plaza" was a great place to go shopping so we decided to go and find it. We ended up at this place called "Far East Shopping Center" and man..it was ...for lack of a better word...pretty "ghetto". We were all pretty dissapointed until Tony's local friend (with whom he was texting) told us we were in the wrong mall. Silly exchange students!!! We finally ended up at Far East PLAZA, and it turned out really well. More of a girl's mall then anything...hehe=)

It rained like nutssss that day!

Debbie is the new spokesperson for British Takeaway lol

Orcharddd <3

Monday-bummed around campus

bummed around campus.
lol

Tuesday-Chai and Tony hung out with local friends

My HR group wanted to go out for a celebration dinner becasue we were finally done my project. They brought me to this place called "Chomp Chomp" and it was delicious! We had chilli crab, bbq sting ray, "la-la" (they are like clams), popiah, hokkien prawn mee, oyster omeletes, black carrot cake, sugar cane drinks, and some other stuff. Sooo yummmyyyy! Meal of a lifetime =) I brought my camera ready to take pictures of our feast but my hands were literally covered in chilli crab sauce the entire time...HAHA. It was well worth it.

I'm not sure what Tony did, I know he had McDonalds...I'm sure he'll fill you all in =)

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Okay I'm damn tired of blogging. One of you three can take over =)

  • Wednesday
    Singapore Flyer, New Asia Bar, &Ladies Night at Dbl-O!
  • Thursday
    Watched a movie and ate dinner at Jurong Point (HANDSOMEEEE SUIT!!!)
  • Friday
    Escape Theme Park and Tampines Mall
  • Saturday
    Recovery (no, this is not a name of a cool bar or anything...we were actually recovering from the past week lol)

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On a side note: my goal of this trip (besides taking pictures with orangutans!) was to run a whole round without stopping around our regular running path--i made it yesterday =)