uni

is going to start really soon. oh no. and i'm like super confused on which modules to choose.. and i have to choose like this coming thursday.. and i still need to pack and (finally) move out of hostel.. haha..

anyway.. I played for NJ guit concert ytd!! it's in esplanade recital studio. esplanade backstage is quite cool.. there are a lot of changing rooms.. and security is quite tight, to go in you have to go through this security counter thing.. some pics..

The alumni group that i played with, with teachers and Rachel (she's the emcee.. haha quite random right..)

The j3s who came down to watch..
yups.. so that's probably the only exciting things that's happened.. haha.. oh and you guys are coming down to sg soon!! and cil and phoebe will still be having holiday for a little longer.. so unfair..

Lightbulb Q&A

haha I think you would have heard about some parts of this.. but apparently there's like a full version (or someone made it up) haha..

Q: How many RJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: 4 whole faculties. One to design the new bulb, one to manufacture and test it out, one to write a proposal on it and one to market it.

Q: How many HCJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. To compete with RJC.

Q: How many VJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: The whole school. One student to screw it in and the rest to cheer and wave flags and banners to give him/her support.

Q: How many NJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They can study without light.

Q: How many AJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They're too busy trying to be one of the top 5 JCs.

Q: How many ACJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They'll rather use all their money to employ YJC to do it for them.

Q: How many YJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Only one teacher to tell them what a light bulb is in the first place and to demonstrate how to change the light bulb. (So how do you think they're able to change it for ACJC?)

Q: How many CJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: They'll prefer it to be darker. (Hmmmm?*raises eye-brows* )

Q: How many JJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Their physics is so bad that they made their macho male physics teacher cry.

Q: How many TPJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. Would they even bother?

Q: How many SAJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They believe in praying for it.

Q: How many NYJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are still using oil lamps.

Q: How many SRJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Huh, what litebarb?

Q: How many PJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Heck the light bulb lah, the principal would do something about the rightbarbs. Let's do 300 jumping jacks for not wearing the proper school attire.

Q: How many MJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are too busy trying to get promoted.

Q: How many IJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They are Innovians. They'll find ways out of the dark.

Q: Who wrote all this?
A: A TJCian.

Q: How many TJC students does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They think they are already very bright.

i highlighted my hair!

anyway.. i like these pictures!:)

outside of ho chi minh mausoleum in hanoi.
oh this was at the top of Arun Wat in Bangkok. I think before i lost my contact lens. HAHA
OOH. this is in Hanoi, outside the Temple of Literature where we patted turtles' heads.. :)
me and van looking oh-so-cute inside the temple with umbrellas and fans..
at the beach at pattaya!:) I LIKE!

post-trip depression

HA. Tell me about post-trip depression. Like al the crap admin stuff to do which is so stupid. BAH. And confusing..my pr and student pass application like clashes. anyway...

1. MOST fun part of the trip
Er... actually I liked the 2nd day in pattaya. We woke up quite late and it was raining and we were just like sitting there. Then cil and i went to swim and then we walked at the beach and ate random lunch and then the JET SKI!!! and the nice trans show and then walking around the street at night..and the walking street! and then random mcd ice cream and random bus bar. And loads of just talking and slacking. So yeah. FUN.

2. MOST depressing part?
Going to the airport. HA. like the feeling knowing that the holiday is over. BLEAH.

post-trip depression

haha ok i'm not that depressed la. maybe a bit. actually got stuff to do but i'm just lazy..

aniwaes... let's all post our best and worst part of the trip!!

best part of trip:
it would be the last part of boat ride in nha trang, where we went to the very very small caves. Sitting down there on the boat and trying hard to avoid being hit by the stuff in the cave was hillarious and thrilling at the same time. plus we can't really see much in the cave, and water is dripping all over us. but once we get out of the cave.... the view was just awesome (definitely more awesome than the panda lol). it's just really peaceful and calm (apart from our own noise haha) and the view of the mountain and the lake was amazing. I felt so tiny in the small boat, surrounded by everything around me. I think none of the pictures/videos i took do justice to the actual scenery, or maybe me or my camera is just lousy. haha.

worst part:
hmm it has got to be the part when I was queing at the immigration in bangkok airport when we were leaving. The queue was soo long, and for the first time in 9 days i realised that i'm queuing for something alone.

day 7 (last day:((((

okay since everyone blogged already the other dates i'm left with the last 2 days!

day 7
SHOPPING DAY!!! (yup just edited the post..OMG how can i forget the shopping day!!!)
We spent like almost the entire day at Chatuchak market! We had breakfast at the kopitiams near our hotel then took the Subway from Hua Lompong station to Chatuchak Park. Near the entrance of Chatuchak we met some girls from NJ! Ruth, Rhoda and Charlene. Then after Van and Cil changed money (we spent a lot!) the guys and girls split up to shop for their respective stuff.

SHOPPING YIELD!!! ( if i remember correctly!)
Mae Yue - 3 shorts (50B each!), flowy knee-length pants, 6 pairs of earrings, 2 t-shirts, sunglasses, one angel accessory thingy( the head broke VAn!!)
Van - 3 shirts - very cool long shirt which yoga tried!! HAHA, 1 shorts, angel thingy!, 6 pairs of earrings!!!more,more
Phoebe - 4 shorts!, 2 shirts - 1 white one with black belt very cool, 6 pairs of earrings
Tina - 1 weird blue top, flowy knee-length pants, 6 pairs of earrings, 1 shorts, etc,etc

Guys!Cil bought this really really cool UDG army-like bag, and both bought like shirts, and this apparently cute shirt (which the girls didn't think was cute) and like other t-shirts.. haha

So after walking and shopping (the only breaks between was lunch - some chicken noodle thingy and like the 4B ice stick thing), we met up at Kampong Phet station at 5pm plus.. Then went back to the hotel with the subway - played the number game on the station and Cil had to do this strong-man pose in the train! HAHA.

Then we showered, tried on all our clothes, and dressed up! So fun. Tina brought lipstick/gloss so we had fun. The guys wore their shirts. Then we took tuk-tuks to MBK, a shopping mall. Bought movie tickets for 11.15pm movie Wanted. 150B per person because it's digital (which is so much clearer actually). Dinner at some Japanese noodle place. Then we walked around outside of MBK. Van bought a dress for her sister..cute pink dress! AFter that we took emo shots! HAHA.

Wanted! Er..movie was a bit.. HAHA. Had the experience of watching Thai adverts. After the movie (tina slept like in between!), we had to like find our way out of the place and squeeze in a cab back to train inn and during the journey we saw an accident - guy in the middle on the floor face-down! Quite scary. Then spent the whole night talking and i think we slept at like 4plus or 5!!! and so continues with..

day 8
we woke up at like 9 plus? cuz we all slept at like the ungodly hour of almost 5am talking nonsense and arguing about random stuffs.. haha
then we had breakfast/brunch at some coffee stall near our hotel. Yoga and Van finally got to try their pork leg with rice thingy. After that we went to 7-11 AGAIN (the shop has been our constant supply of pocky, water, and lays- oh yeah did i mention that the night before we had a lay's party?) and bought more lays and supplied. Then we went back to the hotel to pack and have another lay's party before we checked-out and went to the airport.

At the airport we took our nice same t-shirt pictures! (the shirts we bought from Chatuchak on our 2nd day at Bangkok) for 10B each. See! Nice!!!


Yoga and Mae Yue had to like run! Because the queue for the passport was long and then the gate was like SO far away. We were like breathless when we reached the gate. HAHA. Quite funny. And then the trip was over!SO SAD! but yup... having loads of fun with compromising pictures of scratching now.. HAHA

PS: the shirt says GET SMART
1. wear glasses
2. one word: french
3. lie
4. stroke your beard
5. chess!
and i forgot. HA.and my shirt is in the machine

trip day 6

addition to day 5:
before the walking street we went to this night market.. bought nice lamps! and bags and souvenirs. then went to another shopping place nearby, mae yue and phoebe bought nice dresses =) and van and tina were sad coz the dresses were too short for them.. haha.. and yoga bought t-shirts i think. we were v hungry so we ate KFC for dinner.

day 6:
packed for bangkok, then i watched ftv (we seem to be watching it all the time) with chill while the rest went for bfast. checked out from hotel and took the minivan to bangkok! arrived at train inn, which was v small (but cute). somehow we got the second class room which means we dun have shower and toilet in the room. room was small, only got beds and tv and washbasin. the place was really clean though...

after that went out to the grand palace by taxi ( 5 ppl squeeze at the back!). when we arrive there was a guy telling us that we can't go in at that time and we could go somewhere else first (and tina started to feel very very uneasy coz this situation is exactly like what she has read in online guide etc. haha). bought some lunch from stalls in the market: funny-tasting sausages, chicken and fruits. took the boat after that.. it's quite interesting to see the houses around the canals, saw a few temples around the area.. but the river was dirty!! oh and they have road signs on the river.. stopped at wat arun, all of us climbed to the top, it was like a 90 degrees climb!!! view from the top was good. and then the most random thing happened. Mae Yue lost her contact lense at the top of Wat Arun!!! so the two chivalrous guys went up again to find it but apparently it's there.. so we left the temple compound, and took picture with that thing in thai costumes (ok i have no idea what it is called or how to describe it). and some guy suddenly came and pointed at the 40B sign!!!!! OMG!!! it's a rip off day. haha. so we paid 160B for the pic.

then the boat took us back to the other side of the chao praya river, and we went to the grand palace. what a grand place indeed! there are so many buildings and gold statues... so we took many many pictures! inculding many pics where we posed like the statues. went in to the temple of emerald buddha (in which the buddha was not made of emerald but jade. ok this is random), sat down inside for a while. there's so much gold it was blinding. oh and had water from the lotus flower on our head. haha. went around the palace some more, went to the weapon museum, and took more pics. unfortunately we couldnt enter some part of the palace coz there's something going on. changed money afterwards coz half a day in bangkok proved to be very very costly.

took the river boat afterwards!! it's quite cool, like taking public bus only that it was a boat!! the boat went along the river, we got to see some hotels and stuff. arrived at the central pier and took the skytrain to siam, the shopping area! went in to siam paragon for while but decided that we could not buy anything there, so went to the siam square area instead. had dinner at this noodle place. noodle was good, but it was very very spicy!! phoebe was the only person who were eating in peace while the rest of us had to battle the spicyness. haha. went around to shop some more at siam square.. the guys looked bored while the girls went into various shops to buy stuff, like Kimono top!!! after that we went outside, found this shoe shop. yoga cil and van was waiting patiently while the rest went in to try shoes! haha. we wanted to go back after that, only to realise that the night market has just started!!! so yoga cil and van had to wait a bit longer while tina mae yue and phoebe shopped some more.

after reaching the hotel, cil slept immediately i think. the rest showered then went for a walk in around the hotel. bought lots of lays, and then found some eating place by the road side, so we sat down and eat! and had lays party in the hotel afterwards. can't believe cil missed all of this eating. haha.

Pattaya Day 2

i wanna write too!!!

Day 5

haha poor guys had to sleep on the floor while the girls shared the beds. so friggin cold their aircon!!! anyway we woke up in the morning and it was raining!!! so sad... but after a while it let up and we went to the pool! sexy bikinis... took random pool pictures and did random "water sports" eg holding breath underwater (which i won!!) lol... then we changed into our clothes and walked to the beach!! on the way we ate lunch at this thai food shop. ordered tomyum soup, chicken curry (yumm!), some really nice vege dish and pineapple fried rice... then we walked around some more and finally got to the beach. rather disappointing beach though... took lotsa pictures with our narcissistic drawings on the sand hehe.. then the guys went back to the hotel while maeyue tried to negotiate her hair-braids-thingy... hahaha...100 baht for ONE... then tina and van went back to hotel while maeyue and phoebe went jetskiing... looks very fun... and we could hear them screaming all the way from the hotel haha...

in the evening we went to see the TIFFANY'S SHOW!!! better than the one i saw last time... very grand and stuff... some of the "girls" are like damn pretty... we all picked our favourite! after the show we went out and took pictures with the green girl (taking pictures in thailand proves to be very expensive) and yoga took picture with the girl in big white princess dress.. in kinky pose. after that we took the tututu to the walking street!!! it's very interesting and amusing. bars full of skimpily-dressed girls (and guys) and fat angmohs. bartop dancers and all, in sailor or high school uniforms!

after that we went to eat ice cream in McD, and stopped at this roadside cocktail bus thingy to have some drinks! our first round of drinks was very disappointing, super diluted with hardly any alcohol! but that was enough to turn yoga into super lobster mode and maeyue into hyper sleepy mode. after that cil yoga and van did 2 B52 shots each! SUPER AWESOME! but due to financial/health reasons we stopped and again, we took the tututu back to our hotel. cil and i actually watched FTV until like 3am while yoga just kinda curled up on the bed like a doggie and slept soundly.. haha... very fun day in pattaya!

hmm my memory is not very good so must tell me if i left out anything haha

Trip - Thailand 1

hmm I shall write before I forget.

Day 4

So the next day we woke up and pack for Thailand!!! Van cooked brunch (crab soup with veggie, fried something wrapped in leaves which was very nice, beancurd, and long bean. wah I actually remembered). Nice!! after that went to the airport, we were a bit late but there was no queu so it's ok. Bought Vietnam souvenirs, and after that it's time for boarding. =)

Flight was a bit long, we were sleeping most of the time I think. Arrived in Subvanarbhumi early, so instead of taking the bus we hired a minivan to Pattaya. Oh and we bought nice fruit smoothies. Journey to pattaya was only about 1.5 hrs. Arrived at Sabai Lodge, Mae Yue and Van went into hiding (haha) while the rest checked in. The hotel is rather old, but nice and cozy. We got rooms right in front of the swimming pool =)

After check-in we went out to walk along the beach! Beach was nice... then wanted to find dinner but apparently it's quite difficult to find place to eat coz most of the places there are bars. with lots and lots of girls. and 1 or 2 ang mohs surrounded by the girls. haha. Finally we were too hungry and bought barbecued stuff (chicken, pork, heart, squid, rice , etc) from the friendly street vendor.. and it started raining for a while so we stood at the roadside eating. after that found this roadside food place, and we ate authentic Pad Thaiand chicked noodle soup!!! Nice =) =) =)

Then we went to the market, where Van and Tina bought clothes. then went to this factory outlet above the supermarket, and it started raining very very heavily. can't find umbrellas to buy (except the gold colour once for religious procession i think). so we took the songthaew (that's the name, it's not Tuk Tuk nor it is tututu..) and we actually stopped near our lane! then had to run in the rain to reach our hotel and everyone was very very wet..

at night while phoebe and mae yue was sound asleep Cil Yoga Van and Tina had a small party, haha.. ordered (with much difficulty) from the Pizza Place (Chinese) garlic bread (which they dont have anymore =( chicken wings, salad and fries.

ok shall continue tmr. so sad trip is over =( =(

Trip - Hanoi

Day 1
Woke up at 3am. Taxi was supposed to come at 4am but it was late! Still reached the LCCT in time after stopping at the main airport by mistake. It was an experience at the airport - so many queues! Like a gazillion.. queue to check-in (where there were like dunno how many lines when there were only 2 counters) and then queue to check out passports, queue for the security check before going into the boarding area, and queue again before we get to the gate. And being low-cost, we had to like walk to the plane itself.. and everyone was like rushing..and then we had seats like at the back of the plane. It was supposed to fly at 6.30am BUT we only flew like at 7plus i think. We all slept like most of the way cuz like of the waking up early.

Then we reached Hanoi! After 3 hours in the plane. And then we had to wait like 30-45 minutes just to get our luggage. We could see Sally and Van through the glass doors. Then like FINALLY after getting our stuff we took Van's dad's car back to her house! The Indonesians and Malaysian found the house so very different from what we have at home. 5 storey houses!! and like very narrow shops/houses as we passed the streets of Hanoi.

Lunch at Van's house! Tasty spring rolls! Cathedral in the centre of town and "So Hot" cafe. Hanoi has many small cafes with great atmosphere. Cil spread his music across the cafes in town. Then we walked the many streets of Hanoi, pass the pretty lake. We ate 'hoa qua dam', fruit mix with ice! Really nice food! We sat in small little stools in the shop and enjoyed the cool drink-like thing. Then, more shopping! Mae Yue and Yoga bought Crumpler bags. No idea how Mae Yue is going to pack her bags. She bought 3. and I'm broke!

After that we went to another cafe called I-Box which was on a road near the lake. Nice place with nice lights. Cil played the piano again. The place was like nice and quiet and like ours. Linh, Sally and Phoebe joined us.

Day 2
Breakfast at Papa Cafe where we had great big bowls of Pho and nice avocado smoothie. The nice lady gave us 1000 dong discount! haha.

Next, we went to the University of Literature. Where we got to pat the heads of turtles... The turtles are actually the head of some stones where the names of scholars are engraved. So supposedly, if we pat the heads of the turtles, you'll do well in the your exams. Hmmm. So we pat the heads of the turtles. And walked in to the temple, where it looked like the traditional Chinese courts. And we took bimbo photos with fans and umbrellas. Cute!

Chicco Mondo! Nice cafe near the Vincom mall. Cil played the piano again and Yoga bought nice drink. And we ate French Fries. 2 servings of French Fries.
After that Kung Fu Panda! Kablooey! Then after the funny movie, we went shopping! And tried nice clothes. Phoebe and Van bought t-shirts. Tina bought a nice pair of shoes. Mae Yue resisted temptation and didn't buy the nice yellow cardigan! Haha.

Dinner was fantastic ribs! Long story for dinner. We walked to this branch but apparently it wasn't the branch where out 50% coupon was valid. And we had already sat down. So we just ordered a lime juice and then left. Walked to the other branch, Alfresco. And then! When we were there the Jumbo Ribs were not served for that day!!! So our coupon thingy was of no use anyway. In the end we ordered two Junior Ribs and Caesar Salad. It's good!!!! oh then Linh came for a while.
Then we went to shop for DVDs. The dvds are like even cheaper than Indo, and it looks better.. and they have lots of music and concert and classical music dvds. So Cil and Yoga bought lots lots of DVDs.

Day 3
Woke at up at 6am!!!!! Had nice breakfast of pho at Van's house and then we went to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum where we saw the embalmed body of Ho Chi Minh and saw the house on stilts. Security was tight!

Caves!!!!!!!!!! We all sat in small boats and went through all the caves. Tina, Van, Yoga, Cil on a boat and Mae Yue, Phoebe, Sally, Phoebe's day and brother on another boat. The view of the mountains were very nice and a change from the busy and noisy streets of Hanoi. The caves were very interesting! The last cave we went to was really small, dark, scary! Awesomeness! though. We had to like practically almost bend our head down just to fit in through the cave... the top of the cave was like really really close to our heads and knees and body. Scary but thrilling experience! In between the caves we stopped at some place to climb up to a temple which was a 100 years old.

Just had home-cooked dinner by Phoebe's Mom and now we're all in Phoebe's room. Tomorrow Van will be cooking brunch for us before we set off to Bangkok! So exciting!!!

transport to pattaya

hmm mae yue still no mail for you. I'm afraid the m1 cheque might have got returned, coz they returned the all of old boarders mail some time ago.. coz sometimes i don't sort all the mail.. and the pr thing, have you heard anything from them at all? hm I think i'm going to fill up the SOLAR thing first lar.. still dunno whether i'll be in KE.. but will be moving to NUS in 30/31 July i guess (that's if i have a place haha)


was just searching about how to get to pattaya from the airport. here are the options.

1. taxi. minimum fare around 1200B/cab. means one person 400B. takes arond 1.5-2 hrs, and can depart anytime.
2. Yellow bus from airport bus terminal. 106 B. problem is departure time is 5pm or 7pm. I seriously doubt we can get out of the airport in less than 1 hr, then still have to take bus to the aiport bus terminal.
3. Bus directly from airport. 150B. departure time at 6pm. they will send us directly to hotel. and the best part is that we can book in advance through email.

if there's no violent objection I think i'll book 3. we'll arrive in pattaya quite late though.

YAY!!!