I think I am missing you, Europe.

Hello Humans,

I AM OFFICIALLY MISSING MY EUROPE TRIP.

I miss getting lost in unknown areas and finding the right way.
I miss holding maps and camera and treating strangers as bad people.
I miss having bread before meals though that is fattening.
I miss the blue blue sky, the white fluffy clouds and the cold windy weather though the weather sometimes freak me out.
I miss being abroad without much worries, just relax.
I miss travelling, carrying my luggage around and having aches and bruises all over my body.
I miss burning off my fats by walking around streets and gaining back the calories by having 3 ice-creams in a day.
I miss having the thrill to find fellow Singaporeans or people who can speak Mandarin so that we can ask them for direction.
I miss getting home at 10pm or 9pm when the sky is still damn bright.
I miss flying around in planes and calling hostels my home.

I miss you, Europe.

Thanks to my friend who is on exchange. Looking at those photos makes me feels like "Oh I wanna go abroad!". Enough of travel bean. Okay, enough is not exactly enough. What is enough? I don't know. HAHA. So... Just wait and see where's the next stop! Cos I have no idea whether there will be any graduation trip for me.

Loves,
Bean

I'm home(:

Hello Humans,

I am back home after travelling 7 countries!

Sorry for not updating my blog at all for the past 3 months. Thanks to the unstable internet connection and all. I'm back, safe and sound. (: 

Thanks for everything and everyone that make this a memorable trip. Every single kind soul who helped me one way or another, friends that I made through Europe trip (okay I know I'm pretty anti-social and hence not many new friends. ) and of course existing friend like NPM and my sister shan. Thank you very much. (:

It was definitely a good experience, a good chance to break away from Singapore, maybe to know myself better, to appreciate things and people around me better etc. Nothing beats home, i guess so after being away for 3 months, though I have to admit that I'll miss lots of stuff in Europe.

Perhaps I'll update on my trip soon, but maybe not that soon since school is starting and I'm officially a final year student- I have to start working on my FYP proposal soon since dateline is 3rd September, wish me goodluck.

Anyway, I've been aimless of what lies ahead in the future, but nevertheless I thought of short term goal for a year, at least there's something for me to work on, beside academic thingy, not that bad huh. And my aims is to get a driving license and learn how to play ukulele! I know it's kinda random but hmmm, they just came to my mind and I thought maybe I should go ahead. Perhaps I'll start reading the driving book once I'm more or less settled down with my FYP. As for why ukulele... Well, I've always wanted to learn to play an instrument but unfortunately I only know how to play recorder which I believe most of us know how to. Piano and violin would be too expensive and hard to learn at my age and hence, this cute, inexpensive and seems to be much easier to learn instrument came to my mind! I hope I'll really get to learn to play it, not just hoping or dreaming. I even taught of a name of my future ukulele and that's lele! HAHAHA :D yes, we'll see if lele will ever exist in my life. Oh ya, and maybe to engage in some volunteer work or something similar.

Tomorrow shall be the first time I'm going out in Singapore after 3 months. I believe nothing much have changed. Home is still the best. People, meet up with me soon, especially my dearest friends.

Loves,
BinBin.

overseas studies

Hello Humans.

I switched off my lappy immediately after my previous post cos I was seriously tired. And I just fold my arms and sleep. 13 hours of sleep really made it better(:

Shuttle bus experience for yesterday was bad. My balancing sucks to the core and had a mini dance in the bus with the turns. I can't wait to reach pioneer. HAHA. Anyway bump into Jeremy in NTU so we took the bus together. Maybe his friend will hate him for not buying Mac with her. LOL. Anyway, dinner at KFC and udders with Adele was great! (: We had good laugh and the choco kitkat icecream+waffle is nice! :D

Anyway, seems like things are more or less confirm that I'm going for USA exchange. But worries is here again!): Going for exchange in 3rd year is seriously troublesome! As required to start GP/FYP in 4th year, I should have completed 8 sociology PEs with a grade, meaning those that cleared during exchange are not counted since they are ungraded. Emailed Prof Prem and hopefully as a kind man he can make a waiver for me to start GP when I'm back from exchange with 6 sociology PE! Cross my finger and pray. If he doesn't agree, seems like my exchange trip will be gone. What's more important than doing GP right? I want to graduate on time with my friends!

Meanwhile, maybe I should still plan for:
1) Course Matching
2) Pay MRV fee + SEVIS fee [after receiving Prof's reply]
3) Book appointment for VISA [after number 2]
4) Get my health check done, maybe on Tuesday but still need to be after Prof's reply.
5) Flight? Maybe flying off on 31 December. A new year for a new start huh?

Anyway, Atlanta didn't snow for quite some time, I think 100years or so. But recently, snow is back! It snowed in late dec 2 years back and 9th Jan last year! I don't know if I'll have the chance to see snow! LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW~~ But we were told that the temp should be around 13degree celsius in the morning and 0 degree celsius at night  when we reach there in Jan. HMMM.

Also, I need to check for travel in December. Seriously I think flood in Bangkok doesn't seems to be okay by December. Even if there's no more flood, it will be very dirty. Why flood why flood?! ): Okay I'm complaining when I can't travel, shouldn't people living in Bangkok complain more since it affect their lives? Anyway, maybe I should check something out about tiger, since zaobao states that tiger is willing to offer  2 options for traveller to Bangkok
1) delay plan by 7days without any charge
2) change of destination without admin charge but traveller will have to top-up for the difference of the tickets.

Though I don't want to change of plan, but it seems that we have to, if necessary. If really can change without admin charge then I don't really mind changing destination! Maybe to Hongkong? Since I might stop by Taiwan next year already (my mum reminded me that). HAHA, okay that was just what I was thinking, have not discuss with the girls. But i shall check out with tiger website first. And maybe I should try contacting the hotel in bangkok to see whether they are kind enough to refund us some money, why not give it a try right?

And I have decided not to join the guys for the real business cos I doubt I have the commitment and time. Time to think whether I should SU my business law since I might not have chance to use all in my 4th year if I'm going on exchange. Many things to do again! ):

Anyway these are the photos taken when coconut bay bao bao crashed NTU to study(:

And this is the comfortable lovely shoes mama bought for me :D

Loves,
Bean.

Cruise with Yes 933. Okay, I mean my sis

Hello Humans!


I'm finally blogging regarding to cruise trip (21st-24th Jan 2011)! :D It's my second cruise trip whereas it's my sister's very first time! The first trip was with my godma and grandparents when I was 7 years old. :D Nonetheless I was quite excited cos it's the first time the two of us "travel"!

We saw JiaHui as we were checking-in! She's so tiny can! I'm like giant besides her! Too bad I didn't get to see other DJs yet. So off we went to board the cruise and had our lunch and explored parts of the cruise! (:

Our room is only ready after 1/2pm. So we went to this entertainment room for youth. Played this "table-football" (sorry I don't know the actually name for that). The cruise started moving in the late afternoon when we were at the lounge for yes933 cocktail party (:

The 3 groups were having cocktail competition.

Jiafa:大家发财

Ivy: Poison Ivy

ZhiYong: Cruising on cruise (winner! I got quite surprised cos I thought he's not so popular but I'm so wrong)

All the DJs were present, so why not take photo with them when there isn't really a crowd! :D My favourite is still zhouchongqing! HAHAHA:D

Of course my sister loves chongqing too! Oh ya, weibing said our camera's flash is too power! LOL. I got to admit it, it can be good and bad. HMM. Anyway, so we had dinner at Romeo and Juliet. We had to change our dinner timing cos we missed our slot for attending the cocktail party! Oh well, the person still lied to me by saying that the punched sea pass can't be used as the hole means that the meal was taken! LOL, end up that hole just means that the cardholder is not 21 years old yet! HAHA. Dinner was fish and duck! Pretty not bad! I love the appetizer!

Ended our day 1 by 吹海风 (: It was pretty cold but it's damn shiok! We slept at 12plus! HAHA :D

Day 2

We had room service to avoid the breakfast crowd at windjammer! Lazy we were, we woke up at 7plus! HAHA. By the way, it feels good to be served! Loves the bacon cos it was still crispy! :D The portion was pretty fine, since we're not going of a full breakfast to go for jacuzzi (is this how u spell it?)

Had breakfast part 2 then washed up and had lunch before landing Penang (:

By the way it cost us USG90 (for 2 pax) to land penang! And instead of shopping and eating, we choose the more "educational"/"cultural" one- to visit craft batik, butterfly farm, fruit stall, malay village and penang bridge. I sort of regret cos I didn't get to buy/eat any food from penang! D:

So this is our first stop- Craft Batik Workshop. People got to surround the table to see the craft work. If you're short please make your move faster or ask people who are blocking you to adjust their position in a polite way. Making a TSK sound with a stupid idiotic face does not help. How can such a basic manner lack in a body of 20 years old (or so) with a less than primary school mentality. Even the little boy asked if I can let him stand in front! (Paiseh, I don't mean "you", i mean "her".) Never mind, luckily my mood wasn't spoiled. It's all done by hand, and perhaps that's why the price for it is so high. But somehow I was wondering if the money goes to the labour who have to do all those stuff or the profit just goes into the owner's pocket.

Second stop- Penang Butterfly Farm
The description of the place on the brochure: 100 species of butterflies, waterfalls, ponds, wooden bridges and rock tunnel. Strictly speaking there isn't error in the description, just that the scale of the waterfalls, wooden bridges and rock tunnel aren't as big as what we thought.

Served us right. It was horrible. The butterflies are like a fragile sheet of paper flying around. Wait, there's a difference, paper isn't disgusting but butterflies are! LOL.

These disgusting creatures are found in the butterfly farm too! The stupid disgusting lizards are gross!!! The man-face beetles are rather adorable! :D

So after a horrible experience with the disgusting living things, we headed to the local fruit stall and spice stall. One should not have an expectation that is too high. The so-called local fruit stall and spice stall is just along a road, and indeed just one and only stall there-.-

So the next surprising stop is Malay Villages. I thought we'll really visit some places like the one we have in Singapore. But the bus stopped in front of a few Malay Kampong houses. -.- So we were supposed to just take a few look. A family was having their dinner when we reached. The little boy in the family left his seat and sat on the stairs in front of the main door. He's quite adorable, smile at the camera when we took photo of him! HAHA.

The last stop: Penang Bridge- the 5th longest bridge in the world! Well, we could only starred at it from far -.-

Took some photos before we return to the cruise. We were sort of waiting for the DJs who we didn't see for the whole day. LOL. But end up they were so slow that we decided to board the cruise first.

Had dinner at Romeo and Juliet again (: we always had our dinner there as we don't want to squeeze with the crowd at WindJammer. Moreover, we were being served since it's fine dining. The meals are pretty fine, not fantastic.

Washed up, watched some performance and headed to casino! Yes, I can enter casino!! HAHA, as long as you're 18 and above you can play! So my sister and I played "Big or Small" and we earn -USD50! D: Luckily we know our limit, if not we'll like some others who lost much much more (3-4 digits). By the way I was so determined to find out where's the fries! Cos I saw someone was holding a plate of fries while we were admiring the night in day 1. And whee, we managed to find it (: I love the fries! It's a bit like Long John's! :D Oh ya, had cheese pizza too! So fattening to have them like 1am + X:

We spent whole of day 3 on the cruise itself! Didn't land on KL since we've been there before! Had Jacuzzi after breakfast in the room, but this time round was indoor cos the crews were having drills. Oh ya, we played table tennis for the first time in our lives! It's pretty fun, since the both parties have no idea what's the proper way and rules! We played for quite a while and burnt some fats :D

My sister helped me with my hair dying after our lunch at WindJammer! (: Basically I was sleeping away while she was doing her job as a hairdresser! HAHA. Washed up, explored the cruise and had dinner before heading to Yes 933 Gala Night!

Gala Night!! :D We managed to find seats at the middle second row, which is quite a good seat though the guy in front of us is blocking our view at times.

Performances by DJs. Most (weibing, peifen, jiahui, jiafa and chongqing) of them sang. The first games was like they stood in one line and have to pass down the message through actions. The audience Ivy was very LOL cos she didn't remember the actions passed down to her (she's the first receiver!!). The DJ Ivy's actions were damn obvious! It's a song name "sorry that I love you". HAHA, then the message just went wrong down the row and chongqing wasn't able to make any guess cos he only received 1 of the 4 actions pass down -.- HAHA, end up he and zhiyong have to do jumping jack. LOL.

Chongqing sang 3 songs, including Fann Wong's song. HAHA.By the way, I was invited to play the second game by weibin, cos i was looking at her -.- Well, they are 3 teams of 3 team members each. The task was pretty simple- peel the orange and arrange them into "21" and have some more designs. (: Not bad, since I managed to get a 933 laptop bag by just peeling and arranging the orange!

Jiafa and Ivy put on a magic performance, still not bad la. LOL.

They were back to the identity of DJ. Happy 21st Yes 93.3!! :D

Gala night ended and we headed back to room to change and roamed around the cruise for the last one night. And yes, I had cheese pizza and fries again! HAHA, yummy!!(:

Day 4 morning, I was seriously feeling sianx cos it's time to face the reality. Moreover I was supposed to head to school for day 1 of the semenster! But ahem, I woke up a bit late and wanted to stay longer in the cruise X: I'm never a guai student in Uni. Too bad.

I miss cruising! Time flies, this post was supposed to be up 6weeks ago! This shows how "busy" I am huh? HAHA, "busy" cos I'm busy yet not really busy. You get it? Neh, nevermind. China photos most probably will be up on fb soon. As for post, HAHA, maybe during holiday? LOL.

Loves,

bean.