( ( t r a p p e d ) ) . . . with a wizard and a priest. . . drinking tea. . . :3

Monday, July 31, 2006

lallaa er i cant really remember what happened. ok yesterday, after i was on the computer, i believe we went shopping a bit, then lunch with a whole mass of relatives. haha uhm then "hang gai" literally. rest for a whole 30 minutes, then dinner at the hk country club.

next day, brunch at hotel, went to some stores to get ai otsuka's new album, posters for amanda, she probably wont be sharing, andd i got a charger for the gba. rested, then off to the airport.

and now we're back in singapore.

mmm ok yea thats it. haha and now we're doing laundry and playing video games while the other uses the comp. T_T im actually currently waiting for taichou to return. "ima shower. please be here when i come back" sooo i've been here... >_> he's going to be late to church. !doh

many sorries to hi pi on their loss to red eagle *caw caw* at least you guys can still be in playoffs! i hope. good luck all camp counselors and campers and such going to MS camp. amanda is quite saddened that she cannot be there. i told her to suck it up. XD okies bye byes

man well i haven't gotten internet access in a while, so i'll sum up real quik what's been going on

7/27. flight to hong kong! i watched Date Movie and Ultraviolet... >_> sort of a waste of time but oh well. we got to our hotel room around 4pm, ate at a food court (nothing special). we then went to a really cool place where they sell super cheap anime things, manga, and video games. XD JE, i got you a naruto DS game for about $20 US. XD i got lotsa litto figure things including a chibi cloud for captain. oh yes i got soler's concert dvd. still haven't found their newest album T_T its sold out everywhere. At night, we had dinner at uncle Edward's. he's my dad's cousin. XD he has two little kids that remind me of shawn and justin hehehe.

7/28. we woke up early for breakfast dim sum, and then headed for DISNEY WORLD HONG KONG. hahahha amanda bought a bunch of keychains for friends, i got a really kute stuffed eeyore thats like a round ball. XD disney world was interesting though. there were pretty much no roller coasters except the space mountain one, which was kind of lame. but it was fun in general. rained too T_T i liked this buzz lightyear thing where the whole ride is a game and you go around shooting targets and get a score. mm ok well after that we rested and then had dinner with 2 of my dad's cousins, leonard and yvette, their spouses, and their parents. "sey sook gong" and "sey goo poh" hahah good food

7/29. got up at 9, had breakfast and walked towards star ferry! it was raining all today so we were walking around under umbrellas. the fare for the ferry ride is about a quarter per person. hehehe when we got to the kowloon side, my dad wanted to go to a hong kong history museum.... hahah it was... interesting. reminded me of the singapore heritage center thing. uh yea then we took a taxi to some mall, and walked through that for a while to get to "loy yun gai" or ladies' street. i think thats how to translate it... but yes we got lots of good stuff. heheh i got minish cap and harvest moon for $8 each. ^ ^ yay haha the sheep farm shall be mine!! i also found a lot of jordan shorts. haha the jordn symbol looks a little weird but i got a few for people. in the evening, we had dinner with a bunch of dad's cousins at a steamboat place. its pritty funny, cuz you can steamboat "tzah siew bao" and "nye wong bao" haha

7/30. its about 10am right now. we're gonna go to a place my dad's cousins recommended to get gundams and other figurines, then we're going to have lunch with relatives, and then probably go find shoes. or something. mm ok well my sister has to use comp soon T_T

welcome back home camp people! and congrats to omar! if thats the term you use.. >_> haha im so happy for you ^ ^ ok well i think im going to skim xangas and sites to see what happened. haha okkies. laters..

ps! I MISS HOME i really do. and i've been gone for just one week. T_T i miss everyones..... *sniff*

oops i missed a day i believe. ... did i? i think i did.

well yesterday was takashimaya. we were very on task and on budget! we spent most of the money on food, and the rest on stationary stuff. mainly pens for me. i got lots of nice .3 pens for laura, toni, myself, and a few extra. the next smallest pen size was .25 and those are hard to write with. i also got a nice HUGE mono eraser for steven's african adventures andd a black .3 pen. ^ ^ i was gonna get a sketch book for jason but none of them were special.... haha gomen. i'll find you a gundam. oh yes the food. well for lunch i had roasted duck noodles (the sauce was suprisingly good for someone who hates sauce), amanda ate my mom's fave fishball noodles, and i also had a box of takoyaki. ... speaking of which i didn't have one today.. >_> i also got 2 slices of pandan cake XD manda ate a chocolate jap pan thing too.

for dinner we went to east coast for jumbo's famous chili crab. XDD smart niki stained her shirt and shorts a bit. guess this isn't a good "date place" as my mom says (like wing stop.. >_>). but it was freaking gooooddd. XD the little fried bread things that come with it was yummy toos. after dinner we went back to chill and play gta3 somemore. i made 100 taxi runs! yay hahah gamer in ANY country. *peace sign*

TODAYYY we woke up sort of early. played gta3, amanda was on comp for a while... i finally got to talk to taichou for a good .. 10 minutes. T_T haha but 1130pm rolled around and it was time to head out into the real world! er singapore world. we went to FAR EAST PLAZA todays. oh dear we spent 3 hours on the 1st freaking floor. and spent like 60 sing dollars at the first store. hahahah thats like.. 40 US dollars? well yea. my sis got a dress (extREMEly gay if you ask me. its grossly green with poka dots but it was $7 US). i actually got a black dress too. it has kute button crap on it. (oh the irony). andd i got a nice capris fob type thing and a nice shirt to wear to HK dinner with relatives. then we bought various jewelery things (got some for you stace!), and accessory things (mainly amanda). i also got a cool $10 kamikaze shirt! hehehehe its funnies. i got it from the same place as my "the more ppl i meet to more i love my dog" shirt. pwahahah

dad came to get us, and we went to get kaya toast, buy some gifts for nephews in hk, and got sashimi salmon for dinner. ima be making onigiri too ^ ^ after this blog and after a shower. hehe oh yea we went swimming when we got back too. amanda and dad have been "exercising" as well. pif! im too lazy to do that crap. okies chlorine is making me itchy. shower time for niki. ~

woke up this morning around 6am with a greatttt desire to pee. so i did

we went to newton hawker center and ate breakfast XD i had fishball noodle soup, amanda had fried fishballs with spicy sauce. zomg. good stuff *cries* the fishballs aren't like the ones in houston. they're springy and bouncy!!! i bet if you threw a singaporean fishball on the ground, it'd hop right back up and smack you in the face for throwing it on the ground. BUTTT in houston... they wont bounce. if fact, they'd probably get stuck to the ground. >_>

we were soon dropped off at suntec city mall around 9am. erk but none of the stores opened until around lunch time. !doh. so we spent a lot of time walking and wandering. got to kno the mall quite well.

for lunch, i had FRESH MADE tempura with udon soup noodle. amanda ate some minced pork rice deal. yummys XD the tempura was so good. by now all the shops had opened and we proceeded to shop. we got lots of kutesie stuff and i got some anime things. specifically, i got a nice renji model for mr kai. ^ ^ dude its like impossible to take pictures in stores. i duno if its law, or just a singaporean thing, but they freak out if you yank out a camera. but we snuck a few pictures. anyone remember those little vending machines where you stick in a few coins, turn the dial, and a ball comes out with some goodies inside? haha ok so there a ROOM of these. over 100 machines and they have ANIME figures in them XO haha too bad i already had the naruto ones, but i did see a eureka 7 one. *shrug* i dont really watch it. amanda got a kute bear thing. heheh but yea there's a lot of anime stores and stuff. the pricing isn't much different from anime cons though. its just more.. available i guess. oh yea we got a pic of the arcades too. holy crappers the arcades are freaking awesome!! there's rows and rows of machines and every arcade has DDR and the PERCUSSION MASTER. XDDD w00t w00ttt

oh yes. one thing i have found disturbingly strange is singapore's fettish for xbox and xbox alone. T_T i haven't seen a single ps, ps2, psp, gba, or gamecube!!! ITS ALL XBOX. what is their frekaing problem!?? pif. well anyway... amanda and i did have fun on the ddr floor. i sweated a lot =x while we were doing that, dad played initial D and got himself a card. hehe guess we'll be going back there a lot. hmm oh yea so we shopped for stuff.. looked at a lot of fob clothings, but it was a mall so its expensive. didn't buy too many clothes. T_T we get a $50 allowance a day for food and shopping... yEAAA i think we went over by $12. sigh ANDDD i feel like gabe. i've gone pee so many times today i duno why. its not like i drank that much >_> pif.

uhm ok sooo we went back to the apartment and.. >_> (amanda is sitting awfully close to me at the moment.. *scoots*) ... uhm yea and we took a 5 hour nap. haha =3 that wasn't too smart but oh well. we woke up around 10 after my dad's business call, and went back to newton hawker for "siew yeh!" ate "lala" (mussels), and satay. oh and sugar cane juice. mebe thats why i have to pee so much.. .

OK well tomorrow we'll be online from.. US 6pm - 8pm ish. mm its 125am right now. andd ppl should be leaving for camp soon. stay safe you guys! prank stanley very badly on his bday please. good luck HI PI and SAM's CLUB! i have faith you guys can come baack!! gobble up red eagle and ooga booger! hehehhe

alllrighties! first post in singapore XD lets start from the beginning...

SO we set out towards the airport at 4pm and we hit really bad traffic. it wasn't an accident or anything, it was just really bad traffic. boo then when we got to the airport, we had some trouble with miscommunications about letting amanda, the minor, travel without adult supervision. that caused quite a ruckus, so amanda and i ended up being the last 2 on the plane. i sat next to a fidgety mexican man >_> awkward.

4 hours later, we arrive in LA. man.. at this point, i remember being really really tired. but i also remember the VERY NICE cali weather for about 10 minutes walking between terminals. oh my goshness the air was so clear and clean feeling. we were "handed over" to singapore airlines, and for the first time in a long time... we heard it. singaporean accents. REAL ones. hahhaa XD awesomes.

the SIA crew people were very nice ^ ^ they always served us meals first and kept making sure everything was okay. oh wait i forgot, interesting story. ok so we got on the plane, and the air hostess lady told us to sit in these 2 seats. "please do not trade or change seats, we need to know where you are at all times ok?" i nodded and sat, and decided to call mom and tell her everything was okay. as she talked and kept insisting that i ask about the sia pocession of our passports (which i thought was all under control >_>), some white guy came up to me (while i was still on phone), and really really rudely said "excuse me you need to move." i was like.. uhhhhhh and held the phone down (mom was still talking). i told him that the air hostess said we couldnt leave these seats. he flashed his tickets and said "well you're in my seat." OK thats not even the dumb part. i saw his ticket and i was like.. ok.. same row.. don't tell me he's actually being a butt because he wants the window seat >_> so i said... "uh.. so.. basically you want the window seat..?" and he replied "actually yes i would like the window seat." >< ok am i being selfish in thinking that this man was rude to 2 girls who are obviously traveling by themselves and getting all picky over a freaking window seat? ... >_> sad. well anyway we got moved to different seats next to some lady. but man.. i was quite pissed at that guy. oh yea the whole time my mom was still on the phone... T_T

anyway.. the flight from LA to taipei was fine. it appears SIA has less nintendo games... probably lost funding. but the movies were decent. i watched V for Vendetta , fell asleep because it was 5am US time T_T and slept for about 7 hours. woke up to eat, stole a spoon, watched V for vendetta again, and also I Not Stupid Too. hehehe good movie. i learned one thing from that movie. family = father and mother i love you. hahhaa cheesy but its a good arguemnt for anti gay marriages... ^ ^ ahem. anyway

taipei to singapore was ok too cept i started getting major headaches. T_T nothing a little advil cant fix. i think i took 3 in all... oh yes and i also watched "she's the man" with amanda bynes. hehe yes this movie has reassured me that i still dislike her. ^ ^ oo 20 minutes before landing, an air hostess asked us to go sit in business class / first class!! hahha i dont kno why, but it doesn't matterrr!!! the seats there are freaking awesome... the recline waaayyy downn. you're practically lying down ANDDD they have silky pillows ^ ^ oh yes stacy, i collected a fair amount of barf bags for you. pwahaha you shall be fully equipped and prepared for the next road trip!!!!

yay so we landed in singpaore and the walkway from plane to airport gate already smelled like singapore. XD my dad picked us up and we unpacked at his apartment type place. i showered, amanda didn't (ew), and we were off to takashimaya!!! that is my mom's fave japanese department store type place. except we didn't really go shopping today. no. it was ... THE FOOD! LO AND BEHOLD!!!!! niki has finally been reunited with her beloved TAKOYAKI!!! *drools* that was the first thing i ate hhehehe we also had some takitori. its like.. skewer things. oh geez i also got a slice of real pandan cake. for those who dont know, its like a sponge cake thats green because it has extracts of pandan leaves. and omg. it was... soo.. good... i teared. no seriously, i kid you not, cross my heart. i teared as i ate it. you can ask amanda. t_T it was so good.

mm then we went to buy a few household items and groceries. it appears i'll be making onigiri over here too hahha super duper!! after 2 hours of walking around takoshimaya, niki already reached her limit. my feet were tired. hahahaahaha man how am i going to survive the rest of the week. XD well one thing's for sure... we're going to be broke. haha we saw so many kute and awesome things already. >D just need to go back and buy them. ^ ^ SOOO who wants a .3 or .4 or .25 pen? hehe just raise your hands. they come in all sorts of colors XD oh yes and mono erasers. so manys.

mm so right now its almost 7pm here, and we're gonna go to a sushi restaurant for dinner. its one of those convayer belt ones w00t! i heard the hsf sports day got... rescheduled or relocated. or somethingg... haha well no matter, im sure you guys had fun. mm haha its like.. 6am over there right now... should be a sunday... >_> ok well. have fun in focus.

for now, i will try and finish fullmetal alchemist and pray that jet lag doesn't give me a huge smack in the face during dinner. because that would suck. XD cheerio!

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