Day Two

On the second day of the post-graduation trip, Ziwei, Yuli and I woke up at 9am when we were supposed to head down to the Hotel’s restaurant for our breakfast, and that meant that we overslept! ): Rushed our way through, and headed down for breakfast.

Hopped on the mini van, and we set off on a 2 hour ride to Pattaya! :D The journey was long, so most of us just slept during the car ride. But the moment we reached, all of us were so excited to get ourselves soaked in the sea water. Wouldn’t mention the sun since I really dread getting tanner, which I eventually did in the end of course. ):

On the ride to Pattaya, where the guys started playing with the girls’ hair!

*Ahemahem*

We played on the Banana Boat, and since it can only carry 5 persons at a time, we were split into two batches. Apparently, I was in the second batch and all of us were girls so it was a little more exhausting. Every time we get flung out from the banana boat, we had to drink a mouthful of extremely salty water! Even when I was sitting on the boat before getting soaked, I could already taste how salty the water were! So much energy was required to pull ourselves back into the boat it was so tiring we couldn’t take it after the 3rd time we got thrown off. /:

Next up was parasailing, something which I have been looking for even before we flew to Bangkok! :D The experience was breath taking, I wish I brought my camera to fly with me and video down the bird’s eye view I had! Was a little sad because initially I wanted to have Jia Sheng and Yuli hopping onto the boat and take some really pretty pictures (like some of the ones I took for Jia Sheng when he was up in the air), but I guess the people were tight for time or something and I flew off without any notice! I just… flew. Screaming. -.-” And that also means that non of my friends managed to take any pictures of me taking off, which is one of the nicest shots I swear! ):

On a more positive side, I managed to get a video captured! (:

My parasailing experience!

After the water sports, we went off to one of the shower areas (which were all pretty run down by the way) to clean ourselves up! We paid a few baht each and showered here. Initially I felt kinda grossed out having to bathe here, taking water from a big tub of water that appears black on the inside, but I figured that since I was already soaked in sea water I think things couldn’t be any worse, so… I showered.

Like I mentioned earlier, as much as I wish to enjoy the best of everything, I quite like the easily-adaptable part of me. (:

Before we hopped onto the mini van, the people who were dealing with the water sports business actually took pictures of us when we were landing, and put the pictures into a frame. Though the picture wasn’t exactly flattering or pretty, I bought it anyway for memory sake! Bing Sheng, Jia Sheng and Ziwei bought themselves a pair of Ray-ban imitation from a lady who was walking around with these goods in her hands. Each priced at 100 baht (~S$4)! Oh well, they bought it for the fun of it anyway.

We drove off to a seafood restaurant. Though the food that was good even though it looked really bland and simple, except for a particular dish that had egg in it, which I thought it tasted horrible though most of my friends seemed to love it. But, I loved the boiled prawns! Heard that the prawns were thrown into hot boiling water, alive! It tasted so fresh and good, I had loads of it!

With the fake Ray-bans!

Next stop was at Healthland for a two hour long full body massage! Ziwei and I were separated from the other girls, and apparently they said that we were talking quite loudly! We could hear them too of course, but I believe it’s because of the non-sound-proof walls they had. But… what made us embarrassed was that we were talking about how the massage kinda triggered our farting system and made us want to fart quite a bit. Silent and scentless ones though! q:

Without a doubt, after chatting for quite a while and in the comfort that we were experiencing, we fell asleep halfway through!

Caught the Miss Tiffany Show at Alcazar, and it was quite an eye opener. I kinda respect the Thais for their openness in excepting homosexuality and transvestism, it’s ubiquitous! Gotta say that sadly, not all transvestites were good looking, or rather, looked like females. It looks exceptionally… weird to see a male’s feature on a woman’s body. Have to admit that there were one or two that were really good looking though! So good looking I thi nk they are prettier than most girls I’ve seen!

In one of the items, one of the performer actually had half her (fake) nipple spilled out. -.-” It was a terrible sight I couldn’t watch any further. But other items include some traditional dance and songs from across the globe, and even one of it had this performer acting as Lady Gaga which was so real! Oh, and thumbs up for their awesome props too!

After the show, we went off to have dinner at this coffee shop near Healthland. I ordered an additional dish – Tom Yum Soup! I have been eating this throughout the entire trip it’s just so awesome! But sadly, only two tom yum soup I’ve tried throughout the entire trip tasted good to me, and the one at this eatery wasn’t one of them. /:

The two hour ride back to our hotel was long, but quite fun with the guys singing out loud in the mini van, acting as though they were Na’vi from Avatar! Crazy bunch of people, but it was funny! The ride home passed so quickly with all the talking and fooling around. (:

The second day was a long and tiring, but an extremely fun one! :D

Wanted to blog about the third day together with this entry, but I’m kinda tired to do so. /: Will probably do a joint entry for the third and forth day tomorrow if I didn’t take too long to photoshop all the pictures together! (:

It does, seriously. (:

Just check out how high Jinn Yang can jump! And the way he stretches his hands out and the expression I have no my face makes it seem like I got bashed! It’s just so hilarious! :D This is the kind of thing I’ll miss about being a student. ):

Headed to school in the morning for the final (5%) test, and I gotta say that I was quite lucky to get some of the answers right considering the fact that I don’t think I wasn’t very prepared! :D But anyway, that was the last thing about school we gotta worry for, and it’s officially over! Holidays are here to say Hello, until the results that will determine if I officially graduated from school! Let’s all just pray for the best! (:

After the career talk by a few optical companies, it was lunch buffet at the optometry centre! :D Imagine how happy we were eating in SPOC when we were not allowed to do so at all for the entire year. Naturally there was a photo-taking frenzy going around as well. If not now, then when? (: But it was damn annoying, because people who took pictures with me kept asking if I wanted them to bend down for me. I don’t think I’m really that short right? ): (Or maybe that’s the reason why I’d loving hanging around with Esther and Yuli too? Heh, just kidding babes!)

The problem with being short. ): I think I have the cut to be a ballerina! q:

The people whom went through countless of projects with me, and I’m lucky because we don’t experience disputes from having free riders. (:

After all the food and photo-taking, we walked all the way to the sports hall for a game across the entire level. It’s very much like a sports day, just that you don’t have them in poly. The 5 classes played against each other, and that was a prize for the winning team! Was feeling very lethargic initially before the game started, but got a little warmed up and the tiresome feeling went away. (:

I hope I’ll still attempt to sweat it out more often when I get a full-time job.

All smelly and sweaty with the girls. (:

I gotta say that the past 3 years wasn’t easy to get through; all the endless amount of stress we have to deal with, the times when I feel like giving up. But when I think back, I think I have met really amazing and fun people in school. And I’d want to give special thanks to these people for making a difference in the 3 years. You guys have been really amazing, and I love you guys. Though we’d working in different practices/different industry in the future, I really do hope that we’ll all get a chance to work together, directly or not. (:

Diploma in Optometry, 2009/10.

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Because you’re all that I really need. The only one that can bring such a smile on my face. It all feels too surreal to have you.

Last Saturday , I woke up early in the morning and headed down to the football court with Jon and his brothers. My boy heads to the court almost every saturday with his brothers when he’s around, “one of the boys that’s always in the basketball court playing football” way back in primary school (or so I remembered), the captain of his secondary school soccer team. But to be honest, I haven’t really seen him do his foot tricks and I thought it’d be a good chance to see this boy do his foot tricks! :D Matt was there too! (:

It was quite an eye opener seeing how the rules of playing in a neighbourhood court works, when there’s just one court and so many teams waiting to play. Apparently, there’s only 2 teams playing and the winner team gets to stay in the court. If I am not wrong, the first team that scores 2 goals win.

Seeking refuge from umbrella, away from the sun.

The Chau Brothers. (Jon’s the eldest, and the shortest too! Omg, I feel so sad now.)

Sweaty, smelly and sexy! (Note the alliterations)

The bad thing is that most of the time was spent on waiting, I even got a chance to nap under the umbrella for a little while as I sat on the floor at the corner! Other than that, I never thought that it was boring. It was quite engaging in fact! :D Though I didn’t take part in playing, I was feeling so tired for the rest of the day! I napped on the journey to a coffeeshop for lunch, on the journey back to The Chau’s place, at The Chau’s while Jon bathed, and when Jon sent me back home. The moment I reached home, I just slept immediately. Basically I just slept anywhere as long as I had the chance to! O.O My family picked Jon up from his place, and then we headed down to my Granny’s place for dinner. Dinner was simple, and my uncle made some home-made ice-cream! It had some cheesy flavour to it, and I quite like it! My Granny asked my brother to bring home the entire tub, and my brother finished everything in less than a day! I swear I didn’t even touched it. /: Like I said, I don’t know what hit me but I was so tired that day, so I hit the sack not long after I reached home. Sunday saw me taking my own sweet time packing my stuff at home, then heading down to town alone for some quick shopping and finally to Jurong Point with Jon to get some Christmas wrappers. We had to wrap up some gifts for the Christmas party at his maternal cousin’s place. Jon & I headed back to his place to wrap up the presents, and then we squeezed in the car and drove down to the party! There was quite a wide spread of food, and the gift exchange session was quite funny! I had my fair share of fun and laugther there! Oh, and we sang Christmas carols when Jon’s cousin, Edna, played the guitar. (:

The Chaus. (Jon’s eating, check it out yo!)

Singing to Christmas Carols. (:

Gifts exchange was quite an enjoyable one! It was more like a game actually, which was fun! :D

Pandan & Mango cakes! Yummy! p:

The Chau’s (maternal) extended family.

Just something interesting. Jon was sending me back home when we saw this website on a cab as an advert! I was like… business strategy fail. Please give your website a better URL. /:

After FYP meeting today , I met up with Jon and I brought him to Wasabi-Tei for dinner! :D When we first entered the place, Jon was making so much comments about how small the place was and if the food was just gonna be overated. But it was quite a different story when the food was served. The appetizer was interesting, and he thought that his mackerel set was good. But he said that it’d be better if it tasted a bit fish-er! O.O Who on earth would want to eat fishy tasting fish, eeew! The both of us were so bloated after the meal, I couldn’t even finish my portion of food! Though we didn’t order the sashimi, Jon said that they looked really fresh! (:

Jon’s mackerel set!

My yakitori teppanyaki set! :D

Ordered a bowl of chawan mushi for Jon to try because of the mushroom overload! Jon previously said that all chawan mushi tastes the same, and they can’t be very much different. But apparently, he did say that this was good! :D

Shopped around Far East thereafter, and I left the place empty handed! Actually there was a dress that caught my attention, and it was snakeskin design which Jon didn’t like. But oh well, I was looking into the mirror for a while and I decided to give it a miss because I felt it’d go out of trend soon. Hate spending money on things that don’t last! /: I found something similar, but I thought I looked too ugly and fat in it! ): Wait till I loose my flabs then I might consider! q: We headed down to Sim Lim Square thereafter, and Jon insisted on taking a bus when I wanted to take the train. And that was when the whole drama thing started.

K: Hey, bus 14 is here! Let’s go! It goes to Bugis so we must walk a bit only! *boards the bus, and we were reaching Marina Square*
K: *Looks at Jon with guilt and fear* Hey dear, don’t kill me okay? I think this bus is going to head to East Coast Park instead of Bugis. It’s bus 7 that goes to Bugis. *sticks out tongue*
J: *Looks at me, not knowing to laugh or cry because it’s not the first time we got onto the wrong bus because of me*
K: Okay okay I’m sorry okay! *laughs non-stop* Shall we just get down at the next stop?
J: *Still wanting to try his luck* Nope, we’ll just wait for a few more stop and see where it goes.
K: I think we should stop here, since we can see some of the buildings in Bugis from here! We can just walk over.
J: *STILL wanting to try his luck* Nevermind.

In the end, we stopped at Geylang! HAHAHAHA, it’s so damn funny I don’t even feel guilty for making us board the wrong bus anymore! q: Thank goodness the bus stop opposite the one we alighted at has a bus that can get us to Bugis, for real this time. I think Jon will never ever trust me when it comes to taking bus again! I am laughing as I am typing this, seriously! I can think of all the times when I made the both of us board the wrong bus, and when it makes the unfamiliar turn Jon’s eye will just bulge out! Hahaha, super hilarious!

He could have just heed my advice and took the train when the journey could have been less than 10 minutes! Not my fault entirely, hahaha! q:

Headed to my place because I wanted to wash up, and all he did was to crash on my bed as usual. -.-” Took a train to Jon’s place after I was done. I really thank God for understanding parents like mine, because I have been away from home for quite a while. I bet they secretly hates it when Jon comes back because it’s as good as losing a daughter. q: When Jon came to my place today, my Dad said “Why are you here again?” with a evil grin! At least my parents understands and doesn’t make a big fuss out of it. (:

Since the moment I’ve arrived at Jon’s place, I’ve been served with Korean strawberries, oranges and now Kettle potato chips. I’m going to die as a fat pig. ): I feel like watching Victoria Secret Fashion Show 2008 now, but then again I’ve got FYP meeting at 11am tomorrow. My eyelids are feeling a little heavy right now too. ): Shall go find out where Jon is right now, before I decide on either one! Goodnight world! :D

Blogging from my phone in the school’s sports hall right now, all sweaty and smelly from the vigorous activity with my dear DOPT mates. (: But I think I hurt my calve muscles while playing handball though. Must be because of the fact that I didn’t warm up. /:

I like channeling my energy to something productive. Something that keeps my mind and body healthy. Something that keeps me happy. I really need this.

Hopefully my physical weariness can force my body to sleep well, because I haven’t been doing so for quite a while. I toss and turn on bed hoping to sleep, then my body wakes me up much earlier than I’m supposed too. This is so bleak! ):

Will crash early tonight. There’s clinic tomorrow. Every week’s like preparing for a war. /:

Handball, volleyball, dodgeball, captain’s ball and other random things in between.

The 3 hours was exceptionally good. I needed it. Haven’t been exercising much, and I’m feeling really guilty about it.

But so much for exercising and brushing my teeth early. I just popped Vanhouten chocolates into my mouth because they want to visit my tummy so bad. ): The glutton in me never goes away.

I’m smiling to myself right now while talking to Jon on the phone. 2 of the things that he wants to do with me when he’s back is to blog together with me (omg super shocked at this) and designing a new desktop wallpaper together. Together as in, sitting beside each other typing one line after another together on my/our blog. (: He always have some cute little ideas up his sleeves that can make me smile like a fool. 101 things to look forward to when he’s back. One of which is to call for macs delivery and have breakfast beside the pool. I seriously swear this is so disgusting! Both of us are greedy and lazy, and we can just spend the rest of our lives getting fat together. And he wants to get a Rayban aviators to match mine, hee! (He wants to be Zac Efron actually)

23 more days. Counting down every single day. (:

Me: I wanna name my son Zac, & the 2nd one Edward.
Jon: I’ll name my daughter Vanessa, & the 2nd one Bella.
Me: Wow you impress me!
Jon: Don’t think because I stay at home most of the time means that I’m a kampong kid!
Me: Hahahaha!

Gotta go lie on my bed now and enjoy the rest of the night in a phone conversation with my dearest Baby. <3