the best summer ever; because of you.
My first summer with you, was also the best.
For I learnt how to love, and how love feels like.
I had my first kiss, my first touch, my first hugs.
I learnt that to love someone, you learn to let them go.
I learnt that to love someone, you learn to let yourself go too; for them.
whispers of summer
her story
friends
birdsongs
memories
sunrays
sometimes what i want to say isn't apparent through what you just see(:
Monday, December 29, 2008
Potterphilia.
Potterphilia.read too much Potter - now i can't stop thinking of perfect, sweet endings. haha yes this is ridiculous. xD 5:29 pm
Saturday, December 27, 2008
amusing.
haha before i start crapping, happy sixteenth, josh! may you grow older with maturity, but always, always remain a kid at heart! God bless! :D
--------amusing.i realised those random quiz chain mails (that ask you to spam everyone else so you'll get good luck, or bad things will happen if you don't) that i used to do for fun actl have terrible arguments to try and make you send them. in fact, the list of threats/good things that will happen if you subject everyone else in your email address book to such torture amuse me. my twelve-year-old cousin just sent me one. which was such a laugh, because the last section was like, 'now that u have opened this there is no going back! if u dont send this message 2 every one on ur list u will have the following:~ u will fail ur tests~ u will cut ur finger~ u will lose someone close 2 you~ u will not have a good day for the next 12 years--if u do send this u will:~ be kissed by ur crush b4 next month~ have good luck~ have someone fall in love with you~ have ur all time dream come trueGOOD LUCK!!'okay i'm bored, so i shall disprove/obliterate/whatever these silly claims. apparently, if i don't send it:'~ u will fail ur tests.' yeah right i'm sure that has anything to do with my academic results - it's just making sure you study right -.-'~ u will cut ur finger.' riiiight. that's even more absurd.
'~ u will lose someone close 2 you.' as above. with the additional harsh reality that (permit me to say this matter-of-factly, i don't mean to curse anyone) we'll all lose someone close to us someday, it's just a sooner or later thing.
'~ u will not have a good day for the next 12 years.' riiiight. whether i have a good day or not is entirely up to myself to be optimistic/pessimistic about the situations i find myself in(:
and if i send this i will:
'~ be kissed by ur crush b4 next month.' haha it's 27/12 now; and i have 4 more days to get said kiss. absolute rubbish since i'm not even going to see any guy in the next 4 days hahaha. [see why i say i'm getting amused by this email?]
'~ have good luck.' well, everyone has their times of good luck, even without the influence of such emails right.
'~ have someone fall in love with you.' the quintessential dream of teenage girls, eh. but i shall say this - it may not turn out to be the paradise this often entails. because there's always the possibility that someone you don't like falls for you. and that'd be painful.
'~ have ur all time dream come true.' maybe this would actually work, but honestly how many people will have that come true without themselves working towards it? if you ask me the possibility of that being realised is through nothing but your own effort. and maybe just a slight bit of circumstances. whee. entertaining, taking those insubstantial claims to pieces. although i admit i'm in a little of a vindictive mood towards ridiculous arguments today. 6:18 pm
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas wishes.
Christmas wishes.well, after sixteen Christmases of getting presents and having other materialistic wishes granted, i think i've had enough of wishing for yet more stuff, really. because Christmas is more than pretty presents and shiny wrapping papers, it's more than delectable puddings and heavenly log cakes, and i daresay it's also more than plain parties and quintessential get-togethers. so i happily say that i only have one wish for my seventeenth Christmas - may the blessings that were bestowed on us with the birth of Jesus shine upon you this Christmas, and forever more.have a blessed Christmas, and happy holidays(: 10:40 pm
Monday, December 22, 2008
beyond comparison.
beyond comparison.well it started with the release of the psle results. my mum smsed me while i was at icyl that my brother got 262. to which i replied that i was very proud of him - who can say that 262 isn't a good score? so amanda (whose sister got 250) and i just spend the whole day at icyl being really high and proud of our siblings. wheee.but when i got home it was a different story - my mum was yelling at my brother for his 'bad' results. and she started comparing us again. which honestly just got me feeling indignant for my brother. okay, to be fair to my mum, she was right to say he could have done better. she was right to say he could have put in more effort to study. yes, he's too playful by nature, he doesn't really concentate well, but so what?at least he made an effort to study for his psle. at least he bothered to ask where his mistakes were. at least he managed to sit down and do entire math papers for 2+ hours when his concentration span's normally only an hour. compare that to me, when i never even studied. when i went home after sch/each paper and just slacked/read/did everything except study. (but no, doing homework doesn't count as studying, in case you're wondering.)true, he could have done better. but that definitely applies to me too, and more so than it applies to my brother, don't you think?it's a pity my mum only sees the 14 mark difference in our psle scores, and not the tremendous difference in the effort we put in to do well. it's a pity she only sees the difference in our academic results; that his are 'never as good' as mine, and not the difference in our other aspects of school life. someone remind me never to compare my kids like that next time, in case i (somehow) forget.because as much as i do better in exams, his cca record owns mine. he's already managed to represent nyps in 2 international competitions; he's even gotten the moe eagles award. which shows that his overall performance, not just his academic performance, is stellar already. compare that to me, when i never even went for a single zonal/national competition, much less international. oh, and he's received two edusave scholarships already (one for his p5 performance and another for psle) when i only had one for psle. who says he's nto as good as me - we just have our achievements in different areas. unfortunately for him, the typical singaporean mindset places academics above all else. sigh. but at least, thankfully he made it into hci. albeit via dsa, but who cares? i shall pray he uses this opportunity to tap on his strengths and improve his weaker areas (i.e. pick up on his academics and do even better for cca), like how i managed to save my cca record, (much as it was by luck, if you ask me,) and somehow barely maintain my gpas. although i think he'll outshine me there. at least. he sure has the potential to.on a side note, i'll need to buck up for the next two years too - i'm dropping phys (which i score better at) in favour of bio, much to my mum's chagrin, ra chem's going to add to my workload (but thank God i got in! :D), and econs is as of yet uncharted territory that i may find myself floundering in if it turns out that i have as much flair for econs as i do for social studies. and for ccas, my mum is against my joining dance (although i'm going to be terrible and go all out for it anyway, because dance is one of the few things i love insanely). but even then, i also have no idea how i'm going to get a good cca record if i take dance, seeing that i have practically zero experience there. unless i join writers' guild/alchemy club. but in any case, to choose only one of the two is going to be a most heartbreaking decision indeed. oh well.but whatever, really. i just hope i can do what i've set out for my brother myself - capitalise on those strengths and work on my weaknesses!so thank God he's in hci (really, there's nothing bad about his performance so far) and thank God for rachem; and where'd i put those econs books?---------oh before i forget, i shall just say that i've been perfectly fine these few days- but thankyou for asking if i'm okay anywayy(:you see, i'm just missing people. which is normal anyway, with your best friend overseas(: [yiting when are you coming backkkk; it seems like ages until i'll talk to you again!]not forgetting the fact that shinyi's phone is terribly wonky and delays the delivery of smses so ridiculously we gave up smsing entirely haha. oh well, things should be back to normal next year right xD 10:36 pm
Monday, December 15, 2008
because i got bored...
because i got bored......of a) doing nothing much while waiting for 15 minutes to be over so i can go on mousehunt again. b) attempting to do splits haha. c) fantasising/daydreaming like i find myself increasingly doing these few days. and because i had to find something else to do. cuz it's just so hard to stop thinking about you.and for some reason, i find myself picking out lines of lyrics. again, maybe. but whatever.if you're bored too you can go guess the songs they're from xDhey i've been watching you-
every little thing you do
every time i see you pass
in my homeroom class
makes my heart beat fast.
...i think you're fine
you really blow my mind.
maybe, someday, you and me can run away.when you're gone,
the pieces of my heart are missing you.
and when you're gone,
the face i came to know is missing too.
and when you're gone,
the words i need to hear to always get me through the day
and make it okay-
i miss you.
too far to turn around,
so i'm gonna stand my ground
give me just a little bit of hope,
with a smile or a glance,
give me one more chance.but i wish that it was still last night...when i go away i'll miss youand i will be thinking of you every day and night, justpromise me you'll wait for mecuz i'll be saving all my love for you...promise me you'll wait for mei need to know you feel the same way tooi'm so tired of being heresuppressed by all my childish fears.and if you have to leave,i wish that you would just leavefor your presence still lingers here,and it won't leave me alone.these wounds won't seem to heal;this pain is just too real-there's just too much that time cannot erase....you used to captivate meby your resonating lightbut now i'm bound by thelife you left behind.your face, it hauntsmy once pleasant dreams.your voice it chased awayall the sanity in me.these wounds won't seem to heal;
this pain is just too real-
there's just too much that time cannot erase. ...i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone.but though you're still with mei've been alone all along.i seem to have too many emo songs for my own good, eh.and i seem to get too bored nowadays for my own good too.and my dreams nowadays seem to show too much how paradiasical life used to be.because i seem to wake up with my thoughts running so wild every morning.you're driving me crazy with missing you, you know that? if only you knew.i remember telling you that i don't dream when you asked me if i'd dream of you.i was wrong. 8:07 pm
Sunday, December 07, 2008
beijing!
beijing!wheeee yes i'm back from beijing :D haha actl the moment i saw the computer in my hotel room i had the notion to update every day about my trip, but really, running around in a winter country when there's a cold front is just too tiring sometimes xD no matter, though - i'm still here to update!--------day one - 301108:last-minute packingggg xD and making sure all the winter stuff was in our hand luggage and not stowed in the check-in luggage otherwise we'd freeze on the way to the hotel. then my uncle came and sent us to the airport, had lunch there, met my aunt and family, checked in, etcetc. met ruth at the entrance to the departure area too xD what a coincidence. and since we were superrr early [we had 1.5 hours till boarding time] we did various things. i hijacked an internet kiosk and shun bian charged my ipod xD then we went to the butterfly garden [it wasn't open the last time we were at terminal 3]. we stayed there until it was time to go - i srsly photospammed there haha. i realised i photospammed even more on the plane; i just love how beautiful the sky was. the pure magic of nature, i say. and as i was telling my mum, this is the view people go climbing up mountains for. to see the 云海, as they call it. absolute perfection. reached beijing 20 minutes ahead of schedule; met our tour guide cindy, headed straight for the hotel, unpacked etcetc, and promptly fell asleep. travelling sure is tiring. --------day two - 011208:woke up, had a hard time getting my superrr sleepy brothers to even roll out of bed [yes, roll, not even climb off the bed], then went to get breakfast. and after this was when the trip really started.first stop - the summer palace [颐和园]i love the scenery here. now i know why 慈禧太后 spent half the year here instead of staying in the forbidden city. and the lake in the summer palace takes up 75% of the palace's area; and it's shaped like a peach to symbolise longevity. and there are other nice little things lying all over the palace - things like the willows waving in the wind, the soft sunshine, the wonderful softly blowing winds, etcetc. and there's still the interesting chinese culture so prevalent there xD for example, the stone lions guarding the entrance to the palace are like, one male one female, and you can tell which one's male and which one's female because the female has a lion cub under her paw and the male lion has a ball under his, because males in those days were playboys. hahaha xD oh, and they actl had a telephone there! somehow the summer palace feels like one of those things that belong to some long-forgotten era, and yet you know it wasn't that long ago that there was still an emperor on the chinese throne. second stop - tea house.haha apparently the chinese government specially arranges for these random cultural trips for tour groups that visit china. and it just so happens that i do like chinese tea xD so at the end of it, we were going to buy 田七花茶. one big tin of it was going for 500RMB, but somehow my parents managed to bargain until we got that, one small tin of 东方美仁 [that's top grade 乌龙茶], and two bricks of 22-year-old 普洱茶 [which is a really really superior grade of tea] all for 1000RMB. and let me just say that the original price of the 普洱茶 was 600RMB per brick. wonderful bargaining skills my parents have. third stop - lunch! at this beautiful restaurant with windows overlooking the road which had willows growing on both sides, so the window view was srsly awesome. and they were playing soothing music there - to quote my mum, you feel so relaxed you could just drop off into dreamland.fourth stop - tiananmen square [天安门广场]the biggest urban open square in the world, apparently. when we went there the wind was up and blowing like maaad! that's why in half the pictures of me the corner of my coat got blown up -.- zzzt. and i realised that there's actl a road running between tiananmen square and tiananmen itself - we had to take the underpass to get to tiananmen and then through to the forbidden city. i thought tiananmen was at the front of the square, really xD such a blunder.fifth stop - the forbidden city [紫禁城]yknow, i wiki-ed this before the trip and the on the layout it didn't seem thaaat big. but when we actl went there, it was gate after gate after gate after gate before we actually saw the building where the emperors held court. and there's this enormous long flight of steps leading up to the building, because the intended effect was that everyone had to look up to see the emperor, which gave the impression that we were looking up to the heavens. such reverence. and there are a whole lot of nice cultural tidbits here too. too many to put here, really xDsixth stop - acrobatics performancethis was just amazing - the things these kids could do. if i tried to describe the performance i'd be spoiling the magic, for words just can't accurately portray it.seventh stop - dinner!at some imperial dining restaurant. where we had super good food. and my brothers and cousins were so terribly hyper they made a horrible amount of noise which i believe annoyed the family at the table behind us. oops.eighth stop - wangfujing street/food street.the orchard road of beijing! where everything is super expensive, like in orchard. the difference between the two? wangfujing street has much more open space than orchard road. which is nicer, if you ask me. and the food street ahahaha. all the weird exotic food! fried scorpions/silkworms/starfish/seahorses - you name it, they probably have it. and yes they have weirder things than those aforementioned, but i'm not listing them here. too disturbing xD--------day three - 021208: first stop: [edit: this post is still being updated, cuz there are too many places/too many things to be said/described in one sitting. meanwhile photos are on facebook, as usual!] 8:35 pm
Monday, December 29, 2008
Potterphilia. Potterphilia.read too much Potter - now i can't stop thinking of perfect, sweet endings. haha yes this is ridiculous. xD
Saturday, December 27, 2008
amusing. haha before i start crapping, happy sixteenth, josh! may you grow older with maturity, but always, always remain a kid at heart! God bless! :D
--------amusing.i realised those random quiz chain mails (that ask you to spam everyone else so you'll get good luck, or bad things will happen if you don't) that i used to do for fun actl have terrible arguments to try and make you send them. in fact, the list of threats/good things that will happen if you subject everyone else in your email address book to such torture amuse me. my twelve-year-old cousin just sent me one. which was such a laugh, because the last section was like, 'now that u have opened this there is no going back! if u dont send this message 2 every one on ur list u will have the following:~ u will fail ur tests~ u will cut ur finger~ u will lose someone close 2 you~ u will not have a good day for the next 12 years--if u do send this u will:~ be kissed by ur crush b4 next month~ have good luck~ have someone fall in love with you~ have ur all time dream come trueGOOD LUCK!!'okay i'm bored, so i shall disprove/obliterate/whatever these silly claims. apparently, if i don't send it:'~ u will fail ur tests.' yeah right i'm sure that has anything to do with my academic results - it's just making sure you study right -.-'~ u will cut ur finger.' riiiight. that's even more absurd.
'~ u will lose someone close 2 you.' as above. with the additional harsh reality that (permit me to say this matter-of-factly, i don't mean to curse anyone) we'll all lose someone close to us someday, it's just a sooner or later thing.
'~ u will not have a good day for the next 12 years.' riiiight. whether i have a good day or not is entirely up to myself to be optimistic/pessimistic about the situations i find myself in(:
and if i send this i will:
'~ be kissed by ur crush b4 next month.' haha it's 27/12 now; and i have 4 more days to get said kiss. absolute rubbish since i'm not even going to see any guy in the next 4 days hahaha. [see why i say i'm getting amused by this email?]
'~ have good luck.' well, everyone has their times of good luck, even without the influence of such emails right.
'~ have someone fall in love with you.' the quintessential dream of teenage girls, eh. but i shall say this - it may not turn out to be the paradise this often entails. because there's always the possibility that someone you don't like falls for you. and that'd be painful.
'~ have ur all time dream come true.' maybe this would actually work, but honestly how many people will have that come true without themselves working towards it? if you ask me the possibility of that being realised is through nothing but your own effort. and maybe just a slight bit of circumstances. whee. entertaining, taking those insubstantial claims to pieces. although i admit i'm in a little of a vindictive mood towards ridiculous arguments today.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Christmas wishes. Christmas wishes.well, after sixteen Christmases of getting presents and having other materialistic wishes granted, i think i've had enough of wishing for yet more stuff, really. because Christmas is more than pretty presents and shiny wrapping papers, it's more than delectable puddings and heavenly log cakes, and i daresay it's also more than plain parties and quintessential get-togethers. so i happily say that i only have one wish for my seventeenth Christmas - may the blessings that were bestowed on us with the birth of Jesus shine upon you this Christmas, and forever more.have a blessed Christmas, and happy holidays(:
Monday, December 22, 2008
beyond comparison. beyond comparison.well it started with the release of the psle results. my mum smsed me while i was at icyl that my brother got 262. to which i replied that i was very proud of him - who can say that 262 isn't a good score? so amanda (whose sister got 250) and i just spend the whole day at icyl being really high and proud of our siblings. wheee.but when i got home it was a different story - my mum was yelling at my brother for his 'bad' results. and she started comparing us again. which honestly just got me feeling indignant for my brother. okay, to be fair to my mum, she was right to say he could have done better. she was right to say he could have put in more effort to study. yes, he's too playful by nature, he doesn't really concentate well, but so what?at least he made an effort to study for his psle. at least he bothered to ask where his mistakes were. at least he managed to sit down and do entire math papers for 2+ hours when his concentration span's normally only an hour. compare that to me, when i never even studied. when i went home after sch/each paper and just slacked/read/did everything except study. (but no, doing homework doesn't count as studying, in case you're wondering.)true, he could have done better. but that definitely applies to me too, and more so than it applies to my brother, don't you think?it's a pity my mum only sees the 14 mark difference in our psle scores, and not the tremendous difference in the effort we put in to do well. it's a pity she only sees the difference in our academic results; that his are 'never as good' as mine, and not the difference in our other aspects of school life. someone remind me never to compare my kids like that next time, in case i (somehow) forget.because as much as i do better in exams, his cca record owns mine. he's already managed to represent nyps in 2 international competitions; he's even gotten the moe eagles award. which shows that his overall performance, not just his academic performance, is stellar already. compare that to me, when i never even went for a single zonal/national competition, much less international. oh, and he's received two edusave scholarships already (one for his p5 performance and another for psle) when i only had one for psle. who says he's nto as good as me - we just have our achievements in different areas. unfortunately for him, the typical singaporean mindset places academics above all else. sigh. but at least, thankfully he made it into hci. albeit via dsa, but who cares? i shall pray he uses this opportunity to tap on his strengths and improve his weaker areas (i.e. pick up on his academics and do even better for cca), like how i managed to save my cca record, (much as it was by luck, if you ask me,) and somehow barely maintain my gpas. although i think he'll outshine me there. at least. he sure has the potential to.on a side note, i'll need to buck up for the next two years too - i'm dropping phys (which i score better at) in favour of bio, much to my mum's chagrin, ra chem's going to add to my workload (but thank God i got in! :D), and econs is as of yet uncharted territory that i may find myself floundering in if it turns out that i have as much flair for econs as i do for social studies. and for ccas, my mum is against my joining dance (although i'm going to be terrible and go all out for it anyway, because dance is one of the few things i love insanely). but even then, i also have no idea how i'm going to get a good cca record if i take dance, seeing that i have practically zero experience there. unless i join writers' guild/alchemy club. but in any case, to choose only one of the two is going to be a most heartbreaking decision indeed. oh well.but whatever, really. i just hope i can do what i've set out for my brother myself - capitalise on those strengths and work on my weaknesses!so thank God he's in hci (really, there's nothing bad about his performance so far) and thank God for rachem; and where'd i put those econs books?---------oh before i forget, i shall just say that i've been perfectly fine these few days- but thankyou for asking if i'm okay anywayy(:you see, i'm just missing people. which is normal anyway, with your best friend overseas(: [yiting when are you coming backkkk; it seems like ages until i'll talk to you again!]not forgetting the fact that shinyi's phone is terribly wonky and delays the delivery of smses so ridiculously we gave up smsing entirely haha. oh well, things should be back to normal next year right xD
Monday, December 15, 2008
because i got bored... because i got bored......of a) doing nothing much while waiting for 15 minutes to be over so i can go on mousehunt again. b) attempting to do splits haha. c) fantasising/daydreaming like i find myself increasingly doing these few days. and because i had to find something else to do. cuz it's just so hard to stop thinking about you.and for some reason, i find myself picking out lines of lyrics. again, maybe. but whatever.if you're bored too you can go guess the songs they're from xDhey i've been watching you-
every little thing you do
every time i see you pass
in my homeroom class
makes my heart beat fast.
...i think you're fine
you really blow my mind.
maybe, someday, you and me can run away.when you're gone,
the pieces of my heart are missing you.
and when you're gone,
the face i came to know is missing too.
and when you're gone,
the words i need to hear to always get me through the day
and make it okay-
i miss you.
too far to turn around,
so i'm gonna stand my ground
give me just a little bit of hope,
with a smile or a glance,
give me one more chance.but i wish that it was still last night...when i go away i'll miss youand i will be thinking of you every day and night, justpromise me you'll wait for mecuz i'll be saving all my love for you...promise me you'll wait for mei need to know you feel the same way tooi'm so tired of being heresuppressed by all my childish fears.and if you have to leave,i wish that you would just leavefor your presence still lingers here,and it won't leave me alone.these wounds won't seem to heal;this pain is just too real-there's just too much that time cannot erase....you used to captivate meby your resonating lightbut now i'm bound by thelife you left behind.your face, it hauntsmy once pleasant dreams.your voice it chased awayall the sanity in me.these wounds won't seem to heal;
this pain is just too real-
there's just too much that time cannot erase. ...i've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone.but though you're still with mei've been alone all along.i seem to have too many emo songs for my own good, eh.and i seem to get too bored nowadays for my own good too.and my dreams nowadays seem to show too much how paradiasical life used to be.because i seem to wake up with my thoughts running so wild every morning.you're driving me crazy with missing you, you know that? if only you knew.i remember telling you that i don't dream when you asked me if i'd dream of you.i was wrong.
Sunday, December 07, 2008
beijing! beijing!wheeee yes i'm back from beijing :D haha actl the moment i saw the computer in my hotel room i had the notion to update every day about my trip, but really, running around in a winter country when there's a cold front is just too tiring sometimes xD no matter, though - i'm still here to update!--------day one - 301108:last-minute packingggg xD and making sure all the winter stuff was in our hand luggage and not stowed in the check-in luggage otherwise we'd freeze on the way to the hotel. then my uncle came and sent us to the airport, had lunch there, met my aunt and family, checked in, etcetc. met ruth at the entrance to the departure area too xD what a coincidence. and since we were superrr early [we had 1.5 hours till boarding time] we did various things. i hijacked an internet kiosk and shun bian charged my ipod xD then we went to the butterfly garden [it wasn't open the last time we were at terminal 3]. we stayed there until it was time to go - i srsly photospammed there haha. i realised i photospammed even more on the plane; i just love how beautiful the sky was. the pure magic of nature, i say. and as i was telling my mum, this is the view people go climbing up mountains for. to see the 云海, as they call it. absolute perfection. reached beijing 20 minutes ahead of schedule; met our tour guide cindy, headed straight for the hotel, unpacked etcetc, and promptly fell asleep. travelling sure is tiring. --------day two - 011208:woke up, had a hard time getting my superrr sleepy brothers to even roll out of bed [yes, roll, not even climb off the bed], then went to get breakfast. and after this was when the trip really started.first stop - the summer palace [颐和园]i love the scenery here. now i know why 慈禧太后 spent half the year here instead of staying in the forbidden city. and the lake in the summer palace takes up 75% of the palace's area; and it's shaped like a peach to symbolise longevity. and there are other nice little things lying all over the palace - things like the willows waving in the wind, the soft sunshine, the wonderful softly blowing winds, etcetc. and there's still the interesting chinese culture so prevalent there xD for example, the stone lions guarding the entrance to the palace are like, one male one female, and you can tell which one's male and which one's female because the female has a lion cub under her paw and the male lion has a ball under his, because males in those days were playboys. hahaha xD oh, and they actl had a telephone there! somehow the summer palace feels like one of those things that belong to some long-forgotten era, and yet you know it wasn't that long ago that there was still an emperor on the chinese throne. second stop - tea house.haha apparently the chinese government specially arranges for these random cultural trips for tour groups that visit china. and it just so happens that i do like chinese tea xD so at the end of it, we were going to buy 田七花茶. one big tin of it was going for 500RMB, but somehow my parents managed to bargain until we got that, one small tin of 东方美仁 [that's top grade 乌龙茶], and two bricks of 22-year-old 普洱茶 [which is a really really superior grade of tea] all for 1000RMB. and let me just say that the original price of the 普洱茶 was 600RMB per brick. wonderful bargaining skills my parents have. third stop - lunch! at this beautiful restaurant with windows overlooking the road which had willows growing on both sides, so the window view was srsly awesome. and they were playing soothing music there - to quote my mum, you feel so relaxed you could just drop off into dreamland.fourth stop - tiananmen square [天安门广场]the biggest urban open square in the world, apparently. when we went there the wind was up and blowing like maaad! that's why in half the pictures of me the corner of my coat got blown up -.- zzzt. and i realised that there's actl a road running between tiananmen square and tiananmen itself - we had to take the underpass to get to tiananmen and then through to the forbidden city. i thought tiananmen was at the front of the square, really xD such a blunder.fifth stop - the forbidden city [紫禁城]yknow, i wiki-ed this before the trip and the on the layout it didn't seem thaaat big. but when we actl went there, it was gate after gate after gate after gate before we actually saw the building where the emperors held court. and there's this enormous long flight of steps leading up to the building, because the intended effect was that everyone had to look up to see the emperor, which gave the impression that we were looking up to the heavens. such reverence. and there are a whole lot of nice cultural tidbits here too. too many to put here, really xDsixth stop - acrobatics performancethis was just amazing - the things these kids could do. if i tried to describe the performance i'd be spoiling the magic, for words just can't accurately portray it.seventh stop - dinner!at some imperial dining restaurant. where we had super good food. and my brothers and cousins were so terribly hyper they made a horrible amount of noise which i believe annoyed the family at the table behind us. oops.eighth stop - wangfujing street/food street.the orchard road of beijing! where everything is super expensive, like in orchard. the difference between the two? wangfujing street has much more open space than orchard road. which is nicer, if you ask me. and the food street ahahaha. all the weird exotic food! fried scorpions/silkworms/starfish/seahorses - you name it, they probably have it. and yes they have weirder things than those aforementioned, but i'm not listing them here. too disturbing xD--------day three - 021208: first stop: [edit: this post is still being updated, cuz there are too many places/too many things to be said/described in one sitting. meanwhile photos are on facebook, as usual!]
i'm just the girl in the corner, the girl with the wistful eyes;
jiaying
seventeen! but that'll change on 220910 xD
rafflesian
113'05, 210'06, 315'07, 415'08 10S03P!
redcrosser passed out;
tribunist [vchair yay :D] said farewell;
but i'll never forget those days(:
archer! :D
still a writer, yep.
save me...
absolutely deranged
chocoholic
shopaholic
complete psychotic
stress-hater
panicky [i'm serious.]
unfortunately, more often than not, a broken rose.
... before i drive myself mad.
je t'aime;
rgsrcy
tribune
rj archery!
writers' guild!
reading! xD
dancing <3!
singing
going on facebook and playing random games there HAHA
grand pianos [oh, nothing beats a grand!]
black; pink; chocolate brown :D
astronomy; knitting; archeryyy(:
pool; bridge; mahjong! xD
chemistry! [favourite subject (:]
needless to say, we must never leave out the two essences of life, chocolate and shopping! i can never do without
them hahaha(x
for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams;
ra science nahh no chance alr. but nevermind(:
>3.6 gpa [HAHA YES I DID IT FOR SECTHREE!(:]
tribune chair vchair's good enough. and in any case, my term's over anyway.
>3.6 SECFOUR gpa! YES I DID IT AGAIN! :D
rj chem ra! thank God i got in! :D
or uwc nordic! didn't apply; decided that specialising in sciences was the wiser choice, given my inaptitude
for humanities ><
rj dance! street/intl also can :D :Dbut nevermind, because rj archery pwns all now!
not forgetting the typical wish for world peace, duh. (:
and i wish i could have him. or at least, if we're not meant to be, someone to love
and to love me back. &it's true that love ends up being a battlefield sometimes, but it's still love; blessed
love.
for we were meant to last forever;
i find my paradise when you look me in the eyes-
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