Sunday, November 27, 2005
I AM BACK!
aren't you happy? (:
okay anyway i shall proceeed to blog about the malaysian trip which was tons of fun! okay, excluding the project, which involved alot of staying up on the part of the group leaders. good job krystal! even though we didn't get to present! (:
day 1
woke up early to go to school to take the bus. the leaving part was like really hard lah, emotional attachment MAH. suddenly i feel like an orang asli. HOHO.
okay anyway sat with eileen, which ultimately meant that produced alot of noise and crap (:
we wedged a packet of sour prunes between the chairs and ate and ate and ate. well it was fun lah. the second link has alot of weird weird stuff. loads and loads and LOADS of trees, occasionally a few cows walking here and there (on the expressway i think HEH)
well the journey was tiring but kinda fun lah. its seldom that you have absolutely NOTHING to do such that you are forced to sleep. wonderful, wonderful.
after many toilet breaks, we finally had uh.
LUNCH!
lunch was not THAT bad except that the place was disgustingly filthy. i shall explain.
so we went into the toilet to relieve ourselves. answer nature's call, i'd call it.
the toilet was a reasonable size but its was gross you could smell the toilet from like, way outside and the best, there was a COCKROACH the size of my thumb at the door. naturally, being squealy girls that we are, we were yelling screaming and running out of the toilet. some even chose not to go into the toilet at the ahem, expense of our well-being.
help came in the form of MR JALLEH!
with a broom in hand, the valient teacher attacked the creature with zest. of course he wouldn't let such a very disgusting creature take a toll on his innocent students! the cockroach got rightfully what it deserved!
okay enough of the exciting experience in the toilet. how nice of the cockroach to welcome us to malaysia, with a literal BANG! of course.
the food wasn't too bad but i naturally was complaining like a spoilt brat, for i am a city person, not used to the likes of rodents in such locations. and the table cloth had holes in it okay!
ok never mind we had shark's fin! or at least, tasted and looked like it. aren't you JEALOUS?
then we had fish, MORE FISH pork veggies, and you know, the usual stuff you get at restaurants. not a bad deal i say we paid $100 for 5 days! food and lodgings included (: 4 star and 5 star hotels leh! don't pray pray! :D
after lunch we went to PUTRAJAYA!
putrajaya is this damn cool place with loads and loads and loads of buildings for ministries and stuff. its really cool and i dare say its the cleanest part of malaysia so to speak. the mosque is like really grand and big lah. and its just really nice and modern man. the traffic lights are like so cool. you know the pedestrain traffic lights in singapore? theirs are way cool man i tell you. it's like the green light is a green man walking. then when you're supposed to walk faster, the gren man walks faster too. so CUTE i tell you.
oh then me and eileen went shopping around for stuff. bought a keychain for ourselves and weiting! SEE? even when we go malaysia also think of weiting ah huh. weiting are you touched are you touched! :D but all in all we had alot of fun and the tour guide was funky man. loads of lame jokes. hoho
oh then uh our visit to a local school was cancelled cause we spent so much time touring putrajaya so we went to have a damn good dinner at some restaurant called sabye sabye or something. had thai food for dinner which was oh, so good! (:
ohoh! i bought a tiger and named it BUBU! and eileen's was a cow which is called BABA! and latha's i-dunno-what is called BIBI.
BIBIBABABUBU! (:
then we went to check in to the hotel which was homely i guess, but you could smell smoke EVERYWHERE. which was yes, gross =\ me eileen dharshini shared one rooma and we were going crazy all night. and believe it or not NONE OF US brough poker cards and we were planning to draw them out HAHAH (: that's niners for you. but we didn't in the end. THAT'S NINERS FOR YOU TOO. hahah all say no do. :P whoops.
ohoh for all the four nights me and eileen bathed together. no it's not what you think. neither of us saw what we shouldn't have because our synchronisation was PRO ok. especially at the end of the trip. woohoo! (:
the hotel beds were sleep-able which was good (: and hahaha boy was it fun. eileen was BANISHED to the makeshift bed XD
day 2
early in the morning we went to the singapore high commision to go for a lecture which was so boring i was busy finding comfortable positions to fall asleep on the chair. YAY. while half-freezing to death of course.
and the speakers were obviously boring us half to death and apprently none of the information was important as we had already been once briefed by the teachers on the matter. and and we play cheat one! my mizar told somebody to ask questions and he told her the questions to ask ok! that is like SOO play cheat! :P but never mind it's okay. we are still smart. and people still THINK we are smart.
after that we had lunch at a seafood restaurant i think. if i didn't rememeber wrongly. and we found a twig in the water which obviously says something about the hygiene of restaurants in malaysia but then again. food that is too clean doesn't taste good. but i was touchy about the twig anyway.
we had GOOD FOOD! squid, fish, veggie and assorted seafood and of course, we had CRAB! (: chilli crab some more you know! so we had to use a hammer (yes i know it's called a mallet i just want to call it a hammer so go away) to hit the crab shell to get to the meat :D HEEHEE. darn fun okay! (:
especially the part where a whole series of misunderstanding leads to us thinking that a boy was a dog and that maria was especially attractive that an old man wanted to look at her all by himself that he sent his grandson into the house :D HEEHEE
after that we went to the oil palm plantation / factory to see how the oil palm fruits were processed and stuff and the horrid smell was UGH i tell you. hahaha. but it was cool lah. all the machinery and stuff. and the oil palm fruits were like raised to a height and dropped down. don't ask me why ok they just did. and the oil palm fruits looked like porcupines
the padi field and the factory was cool. ok actually we only went to the factory lah. was fun. never seen so much rice in my life man. heaps and heaps of rice. then they polish it and de shell it and stuff there. way cool. never seen such stuff in my life. after all singapore is so small and all we have are football fields o.O but it was fun lah. worth $100
then we went to some farmer's house. didn't know farmers could be so rich and omg they have like, WASHING MACHINES there. cool right! and i thought they still used washing boards lah! -whacks head- im suaku okay! so sue me :P
dinner was the same again. same stuff. rice and dishes. nothing really special lah. then we went back to the hotel and did what we needed to do lah. fell asleep watching the ultimate blonde or something like that. hahaha. malaysia's tv programmes are like SO boring. first night we watched phantom of the opera which was okay except that gerald butler is SO not cute. unlike what nelicia says. speaking of butler, the tour guide, mr ashok, says that last time people's surnames were after the occupations there had, that's why schumacher is schumacher (shoemaker). kinda makes me wonder the ancestry of gerald butler and erm the carpenters. HEH.
day 3
in the morning we woke up and checked out of the hotel. breakfast was the same again. buffet, but it was quite good, just like on tuesday.
forest research institute of malaysia
after we checked out, we went to FRIM to trudge through the forest. quite fun actually if not for the countless mosquito bites that i got.
the guide was super lame lah i tell you. we always get lame guides.
firstly we went to see some huge fish which was REALLY huge. kinda gross actually. then we went in the forest to like look at the plants and everything. the normal i suppose. just like bukit timah hill, except, worse. they didn't even have footpaths for you okay! aiyoo.
okay i will stop whining like a guniang now.
but it was fun. i can't say i escaped unscathed. i had 9 mosquito bites on me when i left okay. bit YUCk really. well at least i didn't get bitten by a leech, which a number of other people did. thank goodness not me.
i hereby proclaim that leeches are the grossest things on earth. their heads are bigger than their body at first. then they plant themselves on you and suck your bloody until their heads are smaller than their body. which kinda means they sucked alot of blood. which is GROSS. and no matter how much you step on them, they don't die. WHICH IS YUCKY YOU CAN'T EVEN KILL THEM BY SQUISHING THEM. EWWW
blah but the museum was quite uh. nice i guess. airconed and all and the exhibits were uh. kinda cool lah. everything made of wood. (:
had lunch, then went to the orang asli centre. mr mizar looks like an orang asli okay. striking resemblance, i say. and the orang aslis are really quite ingenius they can make clothes out of soaking tre bark and stuff like that. way cool. but they are uh, quite short haha. and the orang asli in various tribes have the same facial features. isn't that COOL. that's so, oompa loompa!
and i uh bought a hair thingy from the centre. no, not to put in my hair lah, for souvenirs!
2 rm only! cheap cheap!
after that we travelled all the way out of the moutaineous areas to OMG MODERNISATION and we went to eat! food was normal again, but good. (:
after that we went to KLCC to shop! me and eileen were like screaming and screaming when we saw stuff and we really dashed through the whole of the shopping centre, squealing as we ran.
bought a converse t-shirt there. felt damn good haha. shopping is like, therapeutic (:
then we checked in to another hotel! 5 star one ok!
the whole room was like GREEN! GREEN floormat, GREEN bedsheets, GREEN walls, GREEN towels, GREEN everything. which was kinda cool except that the shade of green wasn't the best. but i'm not complaining. the tv was better there, had a much bigger bed and we had a comjoined room with divya and some other people HEH.
had a briefing which wasn't exactly short and then came back to the room. then i realised my converse bagwas MISSING! thanks to eileen who was holding it. so i was like whining and whining and stuff. then eileen went to find it. then she didn't come back! and then me and dharshini were like frantic so we went to go look for her. and then i decided that i thought she was in the conjoined room! indeed she was there and she tried to hide some more okay!
but she stayed up to listen for news of my converse bag. BUT NONE CAME. xin ku ni le eileen!
day 4
still no news of my converse bag ): HOW SAD right.
but whatever.
in the morning we went to proton assembly plant to see how cars were made. had this like super boring show then we went to the factory to see. it was kinda cool lah. the warning sounds were damn funky. music. but VERY irritating.
and the smells were gross. they gave me a headache. nothing much anyway. i am hardly interested in cars.
went window shopping at the car place. me and eileen bascially stood in the shop laughing at the gay designs on the ties while ms foo stared at us completely bemused.
had lunch after that again.
went to istana budaya after that. kinda coo lah. but its so copycat esplanade lor.
but anyway after that went to ONE UTAMA. had a talk by mr jalleh's brother. carbon copy of him man. complexion the same, laugh the same talk the same walk the same. omg. no one would doubt they are brothers. but his brother looked way better than him.
went shopping! me and eileen were charging through the shopping centres. obviously a big contrast to the malaysians whom walked and talked damn slowly as if the world is not going to end.
bought a pair of slippers for 39 ringgit, 2 shirts 9.90 ringgit each which actually have horrid cutting but who cares they're cheap lah then bought barbie vcds for my sisters and got teased all the way back to singapore (NO JOKE) and eileen bought a billabong wallet.
then we went back to the hotel. then the fun began man.
me dharshini arathi latha maria eileen were spying on mr jalleh. we crept outside his door and laughed at him laughing. amusing really. we did that for such a very long time and was damn cool.
then we decided to have a plan. we decided to go to the conjoining room to spy on them. much easier (: but we called the ocnjoining room and no one picked up. so we wanted to make alot alot of noise so they would come out and scold us. then we could meditate.
then maria could go "i sense a presence"
the a random person would go "eye-opener, please open your eyes"
then latha would open her eyes suddenly and freak them out.
but that wouldnt work. so we wanted to ask mizar to come out in the wee hours of a morning so dharshini could innocently go "mr mizar you owe me a donut. im hungry mr mizar"
but we backed out in the end in fear that the shopping trip would get cancelled. but it got cancelled anyway thanks to the teachers. annoying losers.
then we played bridge and daidee alternatatingly. after that maria went to sleep and we decided to go back to our room.
so we crapped around with krystal lydia and margeret for a while and then we decided to go back and sleep. alas! someone latched our door from the inside and went out through the conjoined room thus we were stuck outside our room. with all three keys.
then suddenly we counted our keys and saw that :O we had 4 keys instead of 3! so we went back to arathi's room to see if we had taken their key by accident. YES we did and we were let into their room. so we slept on the makeshift bed and propped our legs on their beds. then we proceeded to laugh ourselves to death. (:
day 5.
presented the group work and frantically rushed to pack our things.
got on the bus after that and GUESS WHO FOUND MY CONVERSE BAG! MR MIZAR. AND HE TOOK SO LONG TO TELL LAH WTH ROAR ROAR ROAR!
anyway after that we watched the exorcism of emily rose and the legend of zorro on the bus all the way back to singapore. lost my dvd while trying to hide it from the customs people so ohwell, never mind.
and that concludes my 5 days spent in malaysia. loads of things that i left out of course. really fun.
i think i have nothing else to write about. i'll be riding a deer to malaysia next time (: (inside joke)
. huiwen ranted at 8:28 AM .
