Monday, November 06, 2006

I'M BACK! hahahaha :) from morocco! and it was amazing! hahaha 'cause i'm stupid at putting up the stupid photos in order so err. hahaha :)

DAY ONE:
left for the firenze train station at 630am. took a train to milano centrale. a bus from milano centrala to malpensa airport. reach there in time and they refuse to issue me my boarding pass because i need a damn visa. wah. my world just fell into pieces. i did not have no backup pay and i was so sad :( fz's relative was there and was trying hard to try and bargain my way there but they would not help me at all. because at bologna they said i did not need one. i was so upset. so anyway the girls left without me and her aunt sped me to the milan consulate of morocco and her mom pulls some strings (she's into politics and stuff) and i get a visa! yay! :) so after that was solved, i had a air ticket problem :(

DAY TWO:
could not get a ticket because everywhere was closed! italians don't work. it's frustrating really. so i was stuck in milan for another day. family brought me around. yikes. all that shopping. tempting but i'm broke :(

DAY THREE:
i got my ticket! :) hahahaa yay so i made my way down to the airport and the woman at the check-in counter refused to process my ticket until i paid the fine and i had another half hour before i the counter closed and the ticket counter place was damn far la. i mother sprinted there and i realised how unfit i am :( got there and i got directed to three different people! ahh! so frustrating. when i finally got to the right person he said that i did not have a ticket reserve for me to return to milan. and ahh! the stupid long process. and he kept saying i couldn't go and i was getting so stressed and upset. and finally by some miracle he issued me a ticket and i paid the fine. the only downside (well. not really) was that i had to miss school for a day. haha :) and i chiong back to the check in counter and it's closed and i had to beg the woman at the executive class to let me through and she saw my pathetic face and i was through! yay! :) hahaha and i landed safely in morocco! whoooo!

DAY FOUR:
headed to casablanca :) what a beautiful place. mainly did touristy stuff (sightseeing and the works) visited her grandma. it's a mansion i tell you! has tons of history. her grandma married a politician who was a traitor and he was executed by the moroccon government after they found out and was chopped into pieces and left at the door of the house. the daughter who discovered the body went mad. like. real crazy mad. i mean it is a traumatic experience. now she doesn't contact anyone from the family anymore and she moved to france to escape all of it.

ate at a moroccon restaurant place. thing. hahaha i'm at a lost of words. so excitedd :) hahaha. anyway, it was so good. the food was just amazing. i have never felt so satisfied since i've been here! :) i ate like crazy and they had to stop me and lani. hahaha. before we burst. then we went to the mosque. chioness. and the market. saw my own waterboy! :) hahaha. he is a funky old man i tell you! :) bought shoes. WHUIWHUI i bought you SHOES!

after that headed off to her aunt's beauty parlour. what a beautiful place and we heard that her grandfather (a very long story. he was her grandmother's second husband. and at first he was supposed to marry her daughte rbut instead fell in love with the mother and so married her. and then about 20years ago he secretly married this other woman whom he lives with now. drama yes?) had stolen the dog, blonco. and her family went mad. told us that if the dog doesn't come home we shouldn't bother to come home at all.

went over to her grandather's place. it's such a beautiful home! :) and we retrieved the dog and met her step grandmother. she looked rather, angmoh? so we put blonco in the BOOT because there was no space for him and drove all the way home. and watched sexandthecity. i am ADDICTED. DIE LA. k i know i'm damn old news and stuff, like sexandthecity is how long ago but give me a break la :(

DAY FIVE:
haircut day! hahaha :) i finally got my haircut and i got waxed all over. hahaha. shit la. damn scary. lani and i held each other's hand throughout the traumatic ordeal. they were so stoned when they were doing it. damn weird. and julie got a beautiful haircut! :) ahh! so pretty! :) she looked damn hot and sexy and we renamed her lucy. ahahah. her alter ego. bought some pirated dvds. hurhur. and watched more sexandthecity. obsessed i tell you.

DAY SIX:
fz's dad was supposed to be home by the afternoon but his flight kept getting delayed. in the end he came home the next morninng. anyway. we finally got to met him and he is so nice and friendly. he kept joking around with us and he gave us tons of souvenirs. he let us sample the water from mecca? from some mountain that will never stop flowing? ya okay that one. it was kinda cool :) the cook whipped up a killer moroccon lunch. YUM! :) met her other grandma. she's really friendly and nice too. it was hard communicating. oh well. :)

went to the medina! the old city and did tons of shopping. okay not tons :) i managed to buy an aladin lamp and a classic plate :) didn't want to buy too much because i was running low on cash after spending on the changed ticket and visa. saw sheep's brain. i almost died.

went for dinner at a beautiful restaurant. there wasn't a menue, everything was decided by the chef and you just had to eat it and i was more than happy too. it was wonderful. had lamb in sweet sauce? YUMMMYY ahh! i had like 4servings. her parents were kinda stunned at how much i could eat. and the girls too. hahaha :) took so many pictures of the place! :)

DAY SEVEN:
the last day for the girls before they head home. went to the medina. AGAIN and did a heck alot of shopping :) haha okay lani did. we bought jewellery for our roommates and err. for ourselves. hurhur :) and i bought andrew a rug! hahah but i liked it so much i declared it OURS but gave him the power to decide in whose house the rug shall reside in. hahaha. obviously he had to say mine or else i will be sad right. hahaha.

we did henna! :) err did i spell it right. k if i didn't nevermind. oh and that night there was going to be a big party so the family bought 2 live sheep and were going to slaughter damn. lani and i being suakus went to witness it while drying our henna. we went mad. it was damn scary! ahh! but it was quite an experience. haven't really seen it before and you can see the sheep struggle even after their necks have been cut through.

at night we went to the hamman. it's like a public bath? ya and it's really hot and there are people there to scrub you. to get rid of all the deadskin. and omg. everyone was naked :(:( i have never seen that many boobs in my life. seriously. and i refused to take off my bikini top and there was this stranger who was bathing next to us and she decided to help out fz's maid and scrub me. OMG. she like tore off my bikini top and started scrubbing me. i didn't know to scream or die. wahhh. shit and i was being scrubbed EVERYWHERE. i shan't go into detail. and the women there. wahhlauuu. what a sight. their boobs were damn big they had to lift it up to scrub at the skin under it. omg. i died. seriously. i have no boobs. but wahhh. okay i don't wanna recall anymore. i'm going to faint.

DAY EIGHT:
before we left for the airport, we went to her grandma's house and we saw her bedroom! :) hahaha it was a room in a room kinda thing. the real bedroom was hidden behind the wardrobe :) shucks i suck at describing things. so ya. it was a secret room. ya. bleah.

left for the airport which is about 1.5h away. fz's home was at rabat and the airport at casablanca. so anyhow. the girls almost missed their flight and apparently there were many people there who were late too and there was a big fight. because they refused entry to them and man were those people angry. oh well. but in the end the girls got through ('cause her family has power) and they got bumped up to first class. woot.

after dropping the girls off, we went to get fz a new computer at the applecenter in casablanca. her computer died while she was doing a paper in florence. yikes. a real nightmare. bleah

DAY NINE:
left for the hairdresser's again. this time fz went to get a haircut and highlights. while she was at the hairdresser's i did some shopping! got myself a winter jacket! :) it's damn nice makes me look like an eskimo. hurhur. :)

got home rather late after more shopping for fz and we tried calling the girls, thinking they would have reached home by then by nO. they were stuck at milan because the last train was at 8pm and they got there at 9pm. so they had to catch the next morning's train. slept overnight there. and we were worried shitless. 'cause of all the problems at casablanca.. so ya

DAY TEN:
our last day in morocco. we slacked at home. used the internet because it was finally fixed :) got long emails from the raffles hockers :) aww they make me laugh! and so happy! :)

went to the hairdresser again 'cause fz had to get waxed. haha this time i was doing homework. hmm which i should be doing now but am not. hahaha :) had macs! 'cause she said i should try the macs in morocco. rather different really :)

DAY ELEVEN:
home sweet home :)

pau

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