my turning point.

Thursday, December 21, 2006

okay yes i know i suck. have been home for almost a week and i barely found time to blog. i'm just so darn lazy nowadays. hahaha and i'm packed with activities. popular sia. hahah kidding la. just never got down to it. anyhows. some updates.

saturday:
so i finally landed in changi airport. and to confirm that i made it to singapore, in the background i hear some woman chiding her child, "baby don't do that la". myy.. such music to the ears. shucks i do miss singlish do darn much. everytime i talk to andrew over the phone, my friends think i'm speaking in a different language. hahaha. maybe it is a different language. our sentence structures are different. seriously, this is the beginning of a new language. we should be proud of it. though at times it can be quite disturbing. hmmm.

so anyhow, that night i drove andrew ang to uncle jeffery's place for cell. whee. i missed driving so much. did not try driving in italy. for a few reasons,

1. the roads are so damn tiny
2. they drive on the left side of the car and on the right of the road. that's for most countries except for those who were once under british rule. the brits just wanted to be so different. sheesh.
3. the italians are DAMN impatient and i think i would have crashed the car not once, not twice but like 7 times.
4. manual cars are the in thing and i would die trynig to co-ordinate. the clutch is on the right. it's a mirror image of here. i mean i enjoy manual driving alot, kinda miss it a bit right now, but if you ask me to clutch on the right, i think i would be stalling the whole time.

so. whee. i drove. such a good feeling. and my sister didn't throw a fuss. but it could be because she didn't know i drove out my mommy's car. who knows.

had dinner after that at a chinese restaurant with my family and my grandparents who came all the way down to singapore to pay me a visit. hahaha. that's what i would love to think. but nahh. they just wanted to take a vacation so where else but singapore :) convenient and besides there's all those xmas decorations. killer man. sorry i'm deprived. in florence it's really rather.. well.. pathetic.

so at the chinese restaurant, when i saw the bowl of white rice, i felt such ecstasy. i was like high on drugs. yumm. it was so good. i savoured every little grain. ahhhhhh. i miss ricee.

a bit jetlagged so did not sleep till like 5am in the morning. so much for jetlag, what jetlag! that shit has no effect on me. BULLSHIT

sunday:
so obviously i did not wake up for church. and i pulled a FZ. hahaa FATIMA ZAHRA aren't you honoured you ASS. anyhow. my mother came in to wake me up, "ming it's 830 already. time to wake up for church?" "no maa. it'snot 830. let me sleep." hah. CLASSIC.

missed my ahgong's birthday lunch 'cause i slept in alll the way. shit la. i was damn upset. they had such a good lunch! ahh. suckling pig. OH DAMNIT. all i ever eat in italy is preserved pig. rah.

met up with cookie, robin and fen. whee. got updated about alot alot of things. hahah gossip session i suppose! hahaha and it was pouring so heavily! i could not find my ezlink so robin came over to pick me up. hahaha :) aren't my friends just the best. hahaa :)

later kelvin, waynard and ivan joined us. haha. they were dressed in green, orange and red. traffic light! hahaha. cookie and i were so darn amused by them. so while fen and cooks shopped for their dresses for ying's birthday i disappeared to thai express to make my tummy a happy tummy. treated the 3boys to thai express, but they just ordered drinks. really makes me wonder why they did not pounce of the opportunity to be treated by me. when it comes to food, price is no object for money cannot buy me happiness.

left them while they had ice cream to meet up with koel. hahahaha. that boy and army. i will never hear the end of it. but oh well. it was nice seeing him. instead of just talking to him online and trying hard to decipher all his hidden msn messages. hahaha. or rather. understand what on earth he is saying. a complicated boy i must admit.

after that i hopped down to holland v. took a cab because it was pouring and i was late, but then again. i must make note to self, that whenever i think i'm late i'm never late so don't bother on taxis. they are always later than me. those hockers. jing was already at breko's though, so cheers to her for being punctual. chicago has taught her well. hah :) and ah belle finally came. wheee i missed them so and we gossip and gossip and gossip. hahahaha that's what girls do best don't they?

after that they came over to my place, and i left them in the company of my tv and my laptop. had to meet up with andrew and his family. he showed me the photos of comm's parade. shucks it was damn nice and exciting. sigh. i can;t believe i missed it, and i missed comm's ball. ahh. k i don't really wanna think about it anymore. anyhow. his sisters were hinting to him about their xmas presents. haha. so yes. we shall be doing some xmas shopping :) must score points.

later, met up with shiyang and kongjun. drove them all to safti. i'm a chaffeur now. not that i mind though :) and finally made it back home to some cheese and caramel popcorn especially flown in from chicago. a lovely weekend i must admit :)

more updates soon. time for bed.

pau

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Saturday, December 16, 2006

dear all :)

so I'M HOME! but you wouldn't believe the crap i went through at the stupid florence airport.

so before you all ask me where are all your gifts, know this. i could not bring it back because all your gifts took up one whole suitcase and i could only bring one back home with me because apparently they think i'm a terrorist. okay. apparently my ticket allows me only one piece of luggage with 20kg weight limit and guess what so i had 2 luggages. and so i had to pay excess luggage fee yes? so i was thinking. okay not too bad i guess. NOOO.

it costs me 900DAMN EUROS. that is like my airline ticket back and forth and plus some extra money. so NOO i didnt bring it home. sorry guys. so other than that. it was okay. and i was damn sad. and i need to go for dinner now :) CHINESE FOOD :) hahaha.. tell you the other bad news another day. one at a time.

love,
pau

pau

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

one thing i hate most about italy are all the strikes that occur. which happens every like 2 weeks? they just decide, okay we need a break so let's just not go to work. and so guess when they decided to have a strike?! on the day all of us are leaving!

even the darn airline is having a strike and they are losing money. what idiots! rah. thank goodness i didn't get into that kinda crap. thank god for germans and lufthansa. and singaporeans and singapore airlines.

cabs have been mean and not responding to our phone calls since this morning and there are no buses running tomorrow. so now we have to rely on this private car service. i'm praying so hard that he comes or else. i'm just going to drag my luggage with me to the airport on foot.

looking on the bright side if i do walk, i would have done a full year's work out.

pau

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it's time for me to come home :)

pau

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Monday, December 11, 2006

exams are just starting! :) and i am counting down to the time i touch down in singapore. hmm let's see. 4days, 23hours, 30minutes! :) as of this post. which is.. sg time 1720h and italy time 1020h! :)

gotta prepare for my social foundations exam. hmm and i know little about what the heck laotzu and confucius are talking about. and i am suppose to be able to know what were the virtues and ethics they were touching on. rah. maybe when i do finally understand all that crap, i will learn a thing or two about ethics. HAH.

pau

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Saturday, December 09, 2006

whee! we have xmas lights in our room complements of lo-lo! :) hahahha we can all go HO HO HO now :)

pau

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whee! it's comm's parade day! :) andrew will officially be an officer. hurhur. shucks really wished i could have been there to witness it all and eat all the free food that would be offered. sigh. :(

oh well. 6MORE DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!

cookie, farah, nurdee, suzy, puiyee! let's go on another food trail thing! :) hahaha i wanna go changi villagee!! :)

crescent hockers! :) whee i bought you guys so many gifts! :) you guys better meet up with me. besides we have yet to celebrate huiee's, mavis', wx's and jia's birthday! :) wheeeee!

kelvin! hurhur. vivocityyy! and you owe me luncheS for your prada wallet!

i can't wait to come homee :)

pau

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Friday, December 08, 2006

buckingham palace.
harrods.
ICE CREAM! :)