Friday 30 November 2012

The Motherland

Recovering from the worst toilet; changing mask show; new pearl earrings for only 100 RMB (around $16 AU!); cute and happy village children; GIANT PANDA; coldcoldcold; watching good-looking guys dance; taking a photo with a grandma; waiting in line for smelly toilet; CUTE POODLE; $$$; the most beautiful place I've been to; STRAY PUPPY; hingis = creep; snowy mountains; taking photo with old dog; templeee; shadow puppets; BABY PANDAS; China = best natural scenery
Heyheyhey! I am back from my 7 day holiday at various locations in the Sichuan Province (CHINA) Man it was cold and tiring but it was really a great experience (both in a good and bad way) What's more surprising is the cost of the entire tour. Want to take a guess? I bet you won't get it. Here are the deets: all meals are included, 6 nights of 5-star hotels, beautiful locations with breath-taking scenery, giant panda sanctuary, famous landmarks, 2 local shows and loads of shopping districts. Okay, I'll tell you. $99 per person (not including plane tickets..obviously). AW YEAHHHHHHH. Don't believe me? Join and you'll see how amazing the deal is! SRS :D

Okay, enough advertising (not intentional) If I were to type out everything me, Hingis and dad did on the tour, it would take many days. So I've summarised everything I learnt into 2 lists: serious points and funny points (not sure if that makes sense but I ceebs thinking about other adjectives)

SERIOUS POINTS:
  • signs of devastation from the 5/12/08 Sichuan earthquake are still very clear today (e.g. collapsed bridges everywhere, mountain and building rubble scattered all over the place, and crushed cars still haven't been touched)
  • the highest mountain in China (excluding the Himalayas) is over 5000m tall!
  • there are over 50 different ethnic groups in China
  • a specific Chinese tribe (Geurng Tribe) are excluded from the One-Child Policy in China because more than half it's people died during the '08 earthquake
  • learnt some information I didn't know about Buddhism
NON-SERIOUS POINTS:
  • it costs $1300 RMB to hold a 2-3 month old giant panda. $1300 !! :O That's roughly $200. And dad said, before we found out, that he would let me hold one if it was max $300 RMB D:
  • OKAY, THIS IS A LEGIT IMPORTANT POINT. TIBETAN-CHINESE/SICHUAN CHINESE MEN ARE HOT. Especially this one dancer I had an eye on during the first dance performance. Seriously man, he looked exactly like Kim Bum but with bigger eyes *__* At one point, he was standing right in front of me before the perf but I didn't take a photo with him cos I thought there would be photo opps after. I was wrong. Okay, enough about him..LOL JK

Taken by dad, sorry about blurriness but he was far away :(
  • Chinese people legit do not know how to line up for anything. Including bus and toilets. The three of us already raged about it in China but seriously, they are unbelievably rude and just push past you as if you're not even there. They even rushed into the bus while the bus was still going at normal speed. Not cool man, they could've died. 
  • Chinese people spit and smoke a lot. Eugh
  • The first toilet we went to was literally the hell of all toilets. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a bit but it was pretty bad. We even had to pay to go in, but me and hingis were really busting so we had no choice. Basic features: long line, smell of the dead, no doors, 1 metre wall separating each person, squatting. Ok no more, it was just horrendous.
  • There are so many stray dogs in China! Everywhere we went, there was a random dog walking near us. The first one we saw kept on hugging our legs (innocent thoughts only guiz) It had the cutest puppy eyes D:
Okay, that was a long read but seriously, the boys over there in China (not all, but some) are pretty good-looking..until they suddenly pull out a cigarette and light it/make that horrible sound with their mouth followed by spitting. HOHOHO, I made too much eye contact with them. Man I'm a creep.

One week down, six more weeks to go! Dad made a last minute tour booking for 3 days next week..not sure where but hopefully I can walk a lot to burn fat so I can eat more when I come back! 

Don't worry, I'm not a sumo wrestler yet! :D

Tuesday 20 November 2012

Gaining Weight for Hong Kong and Saying Goodbye

With one day left until the big trip, I am proud ashamed to say that I've gained weight instead of losing it. WELL, I haven't weighed myself in a while (too scared) but I can assume that by the amount of food I've gone out to eat this past week, despite the increased amount of exercise I've undertaken since the HSC ended two weeks ago. On that note, I can't believe it's only been two weeks since Chemistry..TIME IS MOVING SLUGGISHLY SLOW. 

Just to summarise all the outings:

Jamie's Italian; photo taken with SES platypus; menu at Jamie's Italian; Our Famous Polenta Chips; Crispy Squid; Prawn Linguine; Black Angel Spaghetti; Wild Rabbit Tagliolini; jen, me, kat and db; polaroids from db's camera

Won Jin BBQ; me, judip and jen; spicy hot tofu soup; tranny and db; fried dumplings; jajangmyun; sweet and spicy fried chicken; noggi; seafood stir-fried rice cake hot pan; eating fro-yo 

Harry's Cafe de Wheels @ George St; Harry's Tiger; Hot Dog de Wheels; me and kat; pidgeon; us being ourselves; birds errwhere; dat slant; brown pidgeon aka shivdawg
I hope Cathay Pacific serves nice plane food. I remember back in the olden days, Qantas gave out free unlimited cups of instant noodles. SO GOOD. Never hungry. I wonder if they still have them today..

Ok, this is probably the last blogpost I'll do before I leave for China. But I'm bringing my laptop so it's all good :D Man, I'm going to miss out on so many close friends' birthday :( Sorry Banh, Chungy, Rak, Yapster and Potato Andy. I'll try my best to somehow send all of you birthday messages! Can't believe you guys are turning 18 man..we're all getting old so fast. I really do wish you all the most wonderful 18th and that you'll act responsibly ;) Well, I know that Banh is already drinking every night (confessed in google hangout last night) LOL

To be honest, I would never have expected to have an actual blog. This is practically a one-person blog right now since Hingis is too lazy to blog :L And I can't believe it's actually lasted this long! Hehe, I know this is cheesy but I'd like to thank my followers and viewers on supporting me by reading this bore of a blog :3 hehehe

I guess this is farewell then!


Unless..I get bored in HK and blog. Nah, my fingers would be too chubby and fat by then to actually type anything. Hohohoho

Friday 9 November 2012

I am as free as the wind


First activity I did as a free woman? Watch 'Looper' at Livo Westies with Shane, Tracey, Julia, Thomson N, Thomson T, Victor, Wilson, Andrew, Chungy, Henry, Wendy, Alan, Chau, Danielle, Diem and Mary. Was it epic? It was so epic! Even though the ending was a bit predictable (not gonna spoil it for you Tranny, don't worry) my love for JGL has seriously grown. His acting was superb, reminded me EXACTLY of Bruce Willis. If you haven't watched it yet, GO WATCH IT! It is non-stop action, random bits of romance (really random I must add) and also a lot of laughing!

In other other news..

THE HSC IS OVER!

Well, my HSC finished on the 6th Nov, but I've been too lazy/busy/just not bothered to have a comeback post! Since I last posted, SO MANY things have happened. Ice-cream making in physics with liquid nitrogen, quad party, boarder vs daygo (which the boarders won btw), cross-dressing, graduation, year 12 formal and of course, the HSC. These past few weeks have been filled with laughter, tears and screaming; a complete whirlwind. 


That's just a collage which I made of all the main events that had occurred in the last 2 weeks of school. They are definitely memories I'll never EVER forget :) Good thing I always have my camera with me aye? To capture such amazing moments! :'D Ok I'm going to give in to my urge to type out a dedication to the wonderful group of people who I'm proud to call my peers and who will always be known as: HAHS CLASS OF 2012 

My dear cohort, even though I've only been graced with your presence since the start of year 10 (3 years in total!), you guys have opened my eyes to how amazing and loving the world can be. Each and everyone of us are tied together by the Hurlstone spirit and your endless enthusiasm to all the school events and our self-organised Year 12 parties (Wendy's mexican wave, art quad party etc) always warms my heart! I'm so glad I chose to take that dreaded Hurlstone exam (and smart enough to get in) because if I hadn't, I probably would have never met any of you and make such close and caring friends that have seriously changed my life! I wish everyone all the best for the rapidly approaching future. You guys have worked so hard to achieve the best in life, so I have no doubt you'll go far! I sincerely hope that I'll remain close with the majority of you, but of course we all know, that it is inevitable that we'll lose contact. BUT NEVERTHELESS the memories I've made will help me through those tough times! 

Yaaaay, well that's the emotional stuff done. HEHE.

Last night, the wonderful Stella Ko treated her UMAT crew (Me, Kitty, Michael D, Chau, Banh, Kenny, Thomson T, Diem, Mary and Alan) to a delicious (and hopefully not too expensive) dinner at Atom Thai. I forgot to take photos of the dishes before everyone started eating..but I took a before and after shot? HAHA



The food was absolutely yumyum and the cake afterwards was the right about of chocolate :9 Thanks again Stella! :D 

Well, I need to go walk the dogs and burn as much fat as possible before leaving for Hong Kong in less than 2 weeks! I'll blog as much as I can from now on. OMG SO MUCH FREEDOM. Before/During the HSC, I frequently said "Okay, I need to stop doing this, I need to study now" and now it's "Okay, I need to stop doing this, and blog/play with the iPad/watch shows" YAAAAAAY :D