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Friday, November 12, 2004 beijing trip.
just back from beijing. and totally exhausted. and feeling so warm. lurve beijing. =)) lucky i wrote my in my journal there. muaha. blogging.
Day 1 Mac breakfast at airport with mom. yumm. cannot finish sia. lolz. met kaiyun, rachel and grace at check in counter there. yepz. made a new fren shuhui from sec3. haha. so regent had 6 sec 2s & 14 sec 3s. then teck whye had 13 pupils. pearly came to send off some ppl sia. lolz.
boarded da plane. thot i sitting beside kaiyun coz our seat alphabets oni beside each other. then turned out there was an aisle in da middle of us and so i ended up sitting beside these 2 sec2s boys from 2-5. lolz. lewis who is my nai-ma. and JH. a new fren bahz. and his name is jiahui1. not jiahui4. LOLZ. and he's quite a nice guy bahz. yupz. airplane food rox. haha. watched lotsa movies and tv series until eyes blur. SIA rawks. lolz.
reached beijing. cold. like aircon liddat. haha. our tour guide. v v nice and funny man. ate dinner at this totally china-ish restaurant. then watched an acrobatic show somewhere else. young little kids all performing de. haha. so fascinated with da air vapour lor. haha. went to hotel. same room as kaiyun. grace and rachel same room. =)) bought cheese cake at the hotel food court. [tts what the teacher said. but first time heard of hotel food court lor.] then thot room aircon got prob sia. so the poor bellboy had to come up in the middle of the night to help me and kaiyun adjust. lolz. saw kaiyun's new stead de photo. lolz. couldnt believe it was that guy. LOLZ. grace n rachel couldnt slp then came to our room chat lor. ended up all [except Kaiyun] slept on my bed sia. lolz. so squishy. =)
Day 2 breakfast. fried egg and a lot sia. lolz. colder weather. -shivers- lolz. went to de Temple Of Heaven. nice. then this Cloisonne ware factory. watched them made this china vases.. bought lotsa panda stuff. =D lunch. then de great wall of china. muahaha. took me, kaiyun n rachel ages to reach the top. haha. then grace didnt go mah. she got phobia bout heights -.-" lolz. then on the way down. so steep lor. was like sticking to the side and holding de railings so very very tightly. lolz. bought souvernirs. dinner. back to hotel then cheesecake!! =D lolz. ate supper with the other 3 downstairs too. all bought ramen. alamak. so big big big bowl. could oni finish half. lolz. then me n kaiyun went over to rachel n grace there to chat then slept there. =)
Day 3 breakfast. egg again. lolz. super cold weather. took coach to Tianjin. ate 'goubuli' paus for lunch. yummmmm. haha. hated shopping but still went to buy stuff later on. sales ppl a bit de over-friendly. everywhere i look got ppl want to pull me to buy things. then i so paiseh. dunno what to do. lolz. went to 'Ancient Culture Street'. had my first ever bargain. but i v lan lorz. 6dollar stuff i bargain for 5.50. hehe. then dun dare le. never liked bargaining. haha. then ask grace help me bargain for da rest. muahaha. bought lotsa lotsa stuff. panda again. haha. then was like. ppl kept staring at us when one of us start speaking english to each other. lolz. took coach back to beijing. slept on da bus. zzz. lolz. dinner @ hotel. steamboat. egg again. lolz. then cheesecake again. lala. then at nite grace n rachel came and slept in our room after chatting. =)
Day 4 breakfast. EGG AGAIN AHHH. feel like i'm going to die if i eat another runny yoke egg. lolz. weather today so so so so cold. plus de wind so strong. lolz. wore 3 layers of clothes lor. lolz. went to forbidden city and tianan men. saw mao zedong's de drawn pic. wahhh. nice seh. lolz.saw de emperor's room and wateva. a bit de. small. -.- not like what i see on tv. lolz. then the toliet. no lock. 0.0 lolz. lunch. at this place which had the words 'canting' on top. 0.o hmm. then went to 'Summer Palace'. woahh. v v nice place. got fallen leaves on da grass n nice scenery with the lake and everything. saw the sji beijing trip group passing by us. same company tour lor. lolz. then went to this tea cultural place. bought some tea leaves. lolz.dinner. egg ahhhh. somemore two BIG plates of it. lolz. then went on the bus with rachel and some twss students to wait for others coz they went to supermarket mahz. then looked at the next bus beside us. alamak. sji de bus packed full of boys also waiting for other ppl. lolz. then got one beggar there begging for money near our bus. then the driver like keep shooing him away. then i so so pity him. then just rite all de ppl who went to supermarket come back mah. lolz. then grace wanted to give him money. then mi oso wan. but a lot of ppl keep telling us dont coz the other beggars will come to u also then u will get beaten up or something. aiyerrr. went back hotel. supper. cheesecake. then tour guide gave us 4 plus shuhui wonton dumplings. LOLZ. then yeah. hotdogs. lolz. then kaiyun n i went to rachel n grace room n chat. then tok till rachel n grace fell asleep. then i almost fell asleep. then JH n lewis called us on da phone. ask whether we want to play poker cards with them. so me n kaiyun went lor. yeah. their room so 'neat' sia. typical sec2 boys. LOLZ. then played daidee n cheat. lolz. kaiyun first time play then keep cheating de. lolz. then its like whenever i cheat, JH will know and he will keep catching mi. aiyerrr. he say when i cheat i will look v v v guilty. wat kind of logic laaaaa. then went back room at 2am to sleep. lolz.
Day 5 woke up late n missed breakfast. not as cold as ytd le. went to 'Yucai School' in the morning. ppl staring at us. lolz. we all divided into 3 groups. then i was placed in a class which had students bout 2 years younger than mi. yeah. first lesson was maths. n it was algebra lor. i understood the numbers but not the chinese characters. their textbooks are all in chinese. except for eng of coz. so at one point they were doing totally confusing stuff. then heard from the sec 3 that they were doing a maths stuff. n they r like. erm. 12 years old. or 11. lolz. all students so polite n like to raise up their hands so much de lorz. totally not like singapore. haha. then turned out they had 10 minutes break after every lesson. so yeah. went out. then chinese lesson. alamak. i read from their textbook. oni can read 2 words. the rest cannot le. and its like 3 pages lorz. even our dearest chinese expert kaiyun couldnt make out even 1/10 of the words i think. lolz. chimology. then they were told to read the whole thing in 30secs. i thot the teacher was crazi. but no lor. they did it sia. got one boi was like reading so fast without any punctuation that his face got redder every sec. lolz. then left the school le. yeh. went for lunch. beijing duck. lolz. the skin was like. so thick. and oily. haha. but yummy la. lolz. then went to this place called the hutong alley. yepz. went there on a rickshaw. haha. so bumpy ride. so me n kaiyun were like -boingg- every moment. lolz. then took bus to their 'orchard road'. called wufujing street. yeah. lolz. hate crowded places as u know. so went to the bookstore. bought 6 Cds for 120 yuan which is bout the price of 30singaporedollars. muaha. i so smart sia. lolz. then no time to buy other stuff. lolz. went back to da school. n had to meet our beijing buddies. i was with joanna n charmaine. yepz. both of them r realli nice ppl. haha. like them a lot. then the beijing buddy was named MeiRan. so went to her house with her mom n dad fetching us then to a restaurant. half the food so spicy. then i bit on a black olive. then dont dare eat the spicy food. lolz. then ate till v v full lor. lolz. then went back to de school. we last group sia. haha. took bus back to hotel. and so tired. lolz. so kaiyun fell asleep lor. then JH called up again. ask wan play poker cards. so yeah. this time me, grace n rachel went down. then rachel n grace paired up as a team coz they dont know how to play daidee or cheat. played daidee first. wahh. my cards v v good. got a lot of 5 cards that one. lolz. royal flush. =D then rachel first time play still won sia. lolz. then played cheat. n this time JH suspected mi of cheating but nv accuse. lolz. no more guilty look le. haha. yepz. then ahd 5 games. de loser had to complete a dare. then JH n rach&grace were on par. so both of them do lor. lala. then this time went to rach room to play other card games. so played murderer. n i was accused of being murderer like almost everytime coz rach said i looked too calm. huhh. but nooo. i was da victim . lolz. then went to sleep in my room. lala.
Day 6 went for breakfast. the egg came but i oni ate the white. lolz. then went to da school. had maths in de morning again. haiz. lolz. then had biology. pure biology. lolz. at da lab. then their teacher looked like a scientist lor. haha. yepz. learned bout DNA stuff. then exchanged addresses n email with a boy n gurl. lala. then went back. then went to a class to look for meiran. then the students inside were like 'HELLO!!' to us. lolz. then they were like thinking we dont know how to speak chinese. -.- erm. lolz. went to hard rock cafe. had burger set wateva for lunch. bought a cap for 50yuan. lolz. then went to airport. traffic jam ahh. lolz. so the bus driver so smart. U turn n use de other route. we were like cheering. lolz. then made it there. but was like. a bit late le. so rushed through the immigration counter n wateva n practically ran to the airplane shuttle w rachel n shuhui thinking we were late. but in the end turned out the others havent reach yet. lolz. lala. then plane flight delayed 10 minutes. lolz. lala. then boarded da plane. felt so warm lor. argh. then got headache. lolz. lala. watched 2 movies n tv series straight without stopping all da way to singapore. then reach singapore. so warmmmm. argh. lolz. saw mom. lala. took taxi home. and sister was like bugging mi to give her her gift. but i so tired lor. hp was like chocked full of smses. lolz. went on computer. lala. chat a bit. zzz.
Wishhhh- *SYF - Success! (:
*To be a Shepherd! *Jesse McCartney CD
*Poster - Sean Biggerstaff
*Track Shoes
*Sneakers
*School Bag
*Reebok Water Bottle
*T7 Digital Camera
*New Violin *Metronome-cum-Tuner
*Music theory - Merit
*Do well in exams this year =)