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(:
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
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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