Saturday, June 30, 2007
hi everyone. yes yes i know i havent been updating for like how long? almost a month. but oh wells. who asked blogger to be so dumb and not allow my computer to access the user+ password section. -.-ll and yeh. my sister HOGS the other com who can access blogger's homepage. im like GRRAHHHHS. i want to blog but my sister refused to let me touch her com or whatever. let alone blog. so that totally spoils my mood for bloggiing. like TOTALLY, cold water extinguishing fire. get it? its THAT bad. =.= anyway im like here to blog about the trip to malaysia from the 22 to 24 june.
Thursday, 21 June 2007nothing much happened. i just revised a little. anddd. went out with my mum to get some stuff for the kids in malaysia. okay not kids. my cousins. turns out that the some stuff isnt some. but ALOT. it was mostly sweets and chocolates. i was totally. O.O at my mum okay. she got like $55.85 dollars of sweets+chocolates for them like wth. :x it is CRAZY. i dont even get a 55.85 bucks worth of chocolates! okay but still. i wouldnt eat much of it for fear or getting fat. GRAH. me and my weight issues. -.-ll and oh god. was practically dragging home the HUGE packet of tidbits. then went back to my cross stitching and i finished it! i've left only the outling/tracing part only. i was practically JUMPING WITH JOY alright. bu yao kan ta xiao xiao de, wasted like ALOT of my time okay. as in wasted= no time to study. :///// okay i just realised i sound like a total nerd. BAHHH. nvm.
Friday, 22 June 2007
i woke up at 8 in the morning just to finish up the cross stitch for my aunt/ cousin. it was bad. just tracing already took me the whole day. and it totally spoiled my plan on wanting to study bio. then my mum made me go to hougang mall ntuc with her to get ROCK MELONS for her. and im like okay fine, thinking that oh wells rock melons shouldnt be too hard to carry. AND GUESS WHAT. she came out from the store carrying HUMONGOUS MELONS. she went to work and left me to carry those askdagdaskfcsgkas melons which i so swear they weigh 50000000 kg. ahahaha i was joking. but i can swear they weigh more than 5 kg. TWO MELONS. when i reached home. i realised i forgot to bring keys. =.=ll super dumb of me yeah. but yay my sister came after a few minutes, from her tuition lalas. went home to continue with stitching/outlining. at night i had dinner. didnt eat too much for fear of getting motion sickness. :xxx my uncle was coming to fetch me btw. my mum's youngest brother who is the youngest of them se7en siblings.i havent really seen him. but ive heard that he has a gf who is a teacher and now. she broke up with him. and im like okayy.... yeah watched aja geum soon! love leeminki and kangjihwan! :x ahahah. after that went to wash clothes. which is O.O and =.= at the same time. it was like what. the day which my hands are the most tortured. BAHHHH. hated that. and now i know how my mum feels. ))):
waited very patiently for my mum to come back. and my uncle to come. uh. at the same time i was thinking how unearthly the timing was, like im going back to school on monday and im going to go malaysia now? like wth? i hated the trip at first. but im telling myself to like look on the brighter side, at least i can see LOTS of kids and how much they've grown. ^^ but really. i hated the timing. it was CRAP TIMING. like a few days before school reopen? nahhh not a good time. my mum came back with two other baskets of lychees! like WTH O.O and we were supposed to bring the 2 melons+the 2 baskets of lychees to malaysia. like WHATTTT-?!
my uncle finally came at 11++pm and everyone started rushing to get changed and everything. and then we left the house carrying a GAZILLION THINGS. >< like really ALOT ALOT. =.= even my uncle was like O.o O.O and :OOOOO cause my mum really brought alot of things like necessities there. okay for example. tissue? like 5 boxes of tissue? and some other random stuff. =.=
i never knew how easy it was to go to malaysia with a car. it was like. you just sit in the car and let the officer look at your face and thats it. you go off. and tatas done! it was amazingly fast unlike when my family take a coach. coach is DARN SLOW. you queue for your turn to get your passport stamped and scan and let yourself be scrutinised by the inspector or whoever you call him or her and BLAH. so yeah. past the woodlands checkpoint and malaysian checkpoint at 12++ midnight. which is HAHA. supposed to be the next day already so i shall continue below!
Saturday, 23 June 2007okay so we spent around 6 hours going from the malaysian checkpoint to my maternal grandma's house. its like what? from 12+ to 6 in the morning. it shows huh, how long it takes to reach my maternal granma's house, and like how far it is. oh right it's near genting highlands, but not THAT near. but its not that far either. :x oh and on the whole way i was totally pitying my uncle. he's darn poo thing la. drive non-stop for like let see, from johor to singapore one hour from singapore to pahang its like 6 hour++. so drove for like 7+ hours non-stop. which is darn crazy. at some point during travelling i really wanted to take over the wheel. like ask my uncle to go rest while i drive that kinda thing. cause its really darn tiring. like the concentration you have to put in during driving and blah. plus its kinda like wth when you are driving for so long and you cant even stop then you turn and see everyone else sleeping. =.= annoying huh. yeah. and okay on the way we met weird policemen who wanted money.from us. -.- so he made my uncle stop the uncle and asked about our identities etc. like hello? we are not fugitives okay. -.-in the end hah, yayness for my uncle who didnt give any money. ^^ and guess how long we wasted for that dumb policeMEN to stop their weak 'extortion' of money? like 15 mintues or more? really wanted to punch them in the face la. grrrrrs.
i didnt sleep much on the trip though. was accustomed to my own sleeping time already. :x like late into the night and late into the morning. :xxxxx grah. but i caught some forty winks on the car though. poor uncle. ))): oh and my parents and sister practically slept the whole way. =.=ll reach my grandma's house finally. and i was totally PHEWW. and my grandma was awake. so was my grandpa. :OOO like wow. cause its 0545 in the morning! like O.o okay. anyway. so after a few mintues of hustling around, from the boot of the car with the luggages and bags of stuff =.=, my aunt, the one from us who kena-ed cancer, woke up too. she changed so much. oh well. i empathise with her. *sighs* yes and a little while later my female cousin woke up too. she's 2 years younger than me. and she looks like stafani, as in the stefani in my school and in enice's class. :x LOL. i was like O.O at her cause she changed so much. uh yeah. and my uncle was like darn cute. he was like super hungry. then he kept trying to hustle us to the coffeeshop. heh. but my sister just slowed down everything cause she stained. O.o like wth. so she changed. and we wentttt. like yay. xD didnt felt like drinking anything but ordered tea anyway. :/// the tea was a little too sweet. :xx but yeah chatted and dunno what for quite long and finished the tea. my uncle ate like half boiled eggs and tea. i think? :xxx cant rmb. but my mum and dad ate nasi lemak. like O.O but their nasi lemak not very big packet so its okay. [i didnt eat their nasi lemak. :x] uhm yeah. so my mum and her younger sister[my aunt] tried to catch up on stuff that happened during the years. lol. i was stoning. and felt quite happy breathing in the fresh air. :x and because i started feeling bored, i started observing people around the table again. :xxx you can see i loveeee to observe people. heh. anyway. i realised that my youngest uncle likes to stone. he always look darn stony and blur. like ahahahaha.
then we went back to the house. and while walking. my mum saw that my sister stain again. like wth. -.-ll dunno how she wear one la. =.= lala. then we waited for everyone to wake up and come to my grandma's house. oh and yeah when we just came back from the coffeeshop, my grandpa went out to the rubber plantations, to 'cut' and collect the rubber. and whoa, everyone wakes up super early there. like really. they sleep early and wake up early. because they have no computers/tv to distract them, they sleep early. then with enough sleep, they'll automatically wake up early. so like practically everyone woke up at around 7+ nearing 8. which is very early for me. considering how late i sleep and wake up. :x grahh. and its cool how they wake up to the calls of the rooster, instead of being like us, using the alarm clock. :/// and oh right my cousins came over from the house opposite! like yayness. love them. the atmosphere between us was pretty strange and weird? in a sense that because we just met after a very long period of time, like half a year. and some others i havent seen them for very very very long already. which is like whoa, when i saw them, cause they really changed ALOT. >< ahaha makes me feel darn darn old. bahh. but ahahaa. love junyang. he went like biao jie! <333 he's super cute. and my father is darn -.-ll he recognise my US cousin, li qi, as junjie. which is totally retarded. =.= so li qi went to get junjie here. but poor him, he was having a fever.))))): it was like. o.o he wasnt moving, just lying down there the whole day. quite depressing to see him that way really. i think i should do a introduction on my cousins yeah. :x
oldest uncle: 1 daughter, 1 son
xiu nong, 9 yrs
OH MAN. WE DONT KNOW THE YOUNGER SON'S NAME OR AGE. but his nickname is: HEI REN.
second uncle: 1 son
jin sheng/ahboy, 8 yrs
thrid uncle: 3 sons
lin junjie, 11 yrs
lin junyang, 9 yrs
lin junkai, 1yr
smallest uncle: SINGLE AND UNMARRIED. :x
oldest aunt: [absent though]
wei lun, 17 yrs
wei leong, 12 yrs
ying ying, 10 yrs
my mum:
me, 16 yrs
sister, 12 yrs
youngest aunt: [the one from US]
ruyi, 14 yrs
li qi, 12 yrs
so as you can see there were 8 kids in the house, not including me and my sister. amazing right. :x so it was super crazy crowded, or you can say festive. LOL. so like i remembered after watching this movie on the dvd player i went to sleep from 0930 to 1030, i too tired already, couldnt stand it anymore. :xxx but hey i slept a shorter time than my parents okay. they were sleeping like a log. -.- for HOURS. =.= anyway. i woke up and found myself watching SHREK 3~ like yay. i dont even have to go to the cinema to watch it! lala. ^^ its so super cute. then had interaction with all the cousins, played with them, talked to them. and also, checking on junjie to see if his fever have subsided. ooh and after that they got bored and switched on the cartoon version of dae jang guem! SO CUTE OKAY! and i prefer the cartoon version to the real version. cause its so much more adorable. heh. though the content differs by a little, but its still fun to watch and besides its so cute. and the 2 guys in the show darn 'shuai' can. lol. but sadly i didnt manage to watch finish the whole thing before i came back. ))): i am soooo missing the show now. GRAHHH. i wonder where to get it. :x its so cute lahs-
oh right! the many many of us began CAMWHORING. LOL. so funny la. :x but my camera went retarded after a while which really really PISSED ME OFF. -.-ll shall not talk about it. i shall post a few pictures up if possible yeah. hmmm so after that there were a few backouts in the afternoon. totally killed me with the heat. -.-ll just sat and stoned pretty much. :/// then uhm oh right in the evening my grandma+aunt+mum+ruyi wanted to go to the hairdresser's. so being the very curious person as i am, i tagged along. :x and guess what. the hairdresser's=having a haircut [or whatever else] at this person's house. uhm from how she does her stuff im guessing she's pretty much experienced. yeah. my grandma went there to perm+wash hair; aunt went to wash hair; mum went to cut hair; ruyi cousin went to curl her hair. okay so i was just sitting there in the heat, stoning, watching the auntie cutting hair, smelling the foul smell from the eutrophication of the drain water[yuck]. yeh.
after that we went down to the nearest town, RAUB, to makan dinner, celebrating my grandma's 71st birthday. quite coolio huh. ^^ though her birthday is like in october, some adjustments have been made and yeah. we occupied three tables in the restaurant. food was generally okay, but you get to eat some food that is not really available in singapore. so yeah pretty coolio experience. pooor junjie didnt get to eat anything. and he still had to get an injection from the doctor. but being the 'nice' cousin.*coughcough* i gave him a massage. not bad rightttt. ^^ ahahaa oh yeah. went back to the house after dinner andddd continued with dae jang geum. ^^ and that night was also the first ever time i've gotten a sip of champagne. more like yuck. :x my cousin said this champagne tasted bad. :/// so i dont know. :xxx but i really dont like the taste of this champagne. GRAHHH. ahahaha and i so love junkai. he was like grabbing the adult's BEER to drink. and after a few mouthfuls. he got DRUNK. LIKE PWAHAHAHHAHAHA. his face was like so red! and he couldnt walk in a straight line. AHAHHAHAA. :xxx so super cute. went to bed around 11.
Sunday, 24 June 2007
well. i woke up early today. like around 8? yeah. like eeyer. cause i was freezing despite having a jacket on la! and i really hate my sleeping position. cause the sleeping space is too small/short. I CANT STRETCH. im so freaking constrained, despite me being retardedly SHORT. T.T besides my dad had to give me a kick can, at my leg. i so wanted to totally KICK HIM BACK okay. -.-ll so irritating. :xxx but woke up after ah boy came in to wake everyone up with his imitation of the rooster's calls. then we all went to have breakfast at my oldest uncle's wife's mother's coffeehouse. ahaha i loved my trip to and fro from the coffeeshop. every child was at the back of the lorry! SO COOL OKAY. and you get the wind. extreme wind cause the speed is whoa. plus the fresh air. like yay. oh but the toast at my aunt's mother's shop is LOVELY. LIKE LOVELY GREAT. its darn nice la. hmm-hmm. yum. :x ahahaha. i missed the toast there. ahahah and junjie darn cute, he thinks im going back on monday. i wish. ))): ahahaha and it was super cute of us i guess. we occupied 2 huge tables at the coffeehouse. one for kids one for adults. ahahhaa im the KID at heart. so i sat with all my cousins. and ahaha i should say my youngest uncle is a kid at heart too. lol. my sister is the extra one la. -.-ll sit at the adults table. we didnt ostrasize her okay. really. =.=
after that we went back to grandma's house and started packing to go home. like super sad okay. i dont want to leave just yet cause its too short a break. )): ooh but i promised all the kids i'll be back very soon. must prolly around december. i would love to go back again. but i would love my uncle to come fetch. ahahaha if only lah. mm. so my youngest uncle+us continued on our journey to singapore. i thought when we are gong back to singapore, there would be lsser things to carry. but i was SO SO SO WRONG. -.-ll there were a gazillion things to carry. we even brought back 3 DURIANS. plus jackfruit, weird chillisauce that my dad bought, and mum's soysauce. =.= darn retarded. totally made me faint can. to be honest, i wasnt feeling all too well. ))): a few times, i wanted to puke but oh well. held it down. tried to sleep so the motion sickness feeling would go away but it didnt. [and it stayed until tuesday 260607*died*] btw the durian totally stink up the car. i almost fainted in the car. :x when we reached singapore. we treated our dearest uncle to dinner and he went back to johor cause he has to work the next day. poor him.
now my house REEKS of durian. =.=
some comments on stuff on the trip [some for you guys to know ^^] :
1. it is crap when you cant see anything at night when you drive. meaning. there are NO LAMP-POSTS on the way to my grandma's house. okay its like SCARCE lamp-posts. -.-ll like hello. every year i go there, it doesnt seem like there is going to be an increment of the number of lamp-posts in the like, uh countryside of malaysia. or the not-so-urbanised areas. it is darn scary cause its like dark, and uhm you really cant see anything much far far away on the road; ie, you only have a limited view of whats in front of you when you drive. thats why sometimes im kinda worried when people drive on the road, for fear of getting into an accident. -.-ll im not trying to say that i dont trust my uncle's driving skill, i have ABSOLUTE trust in his driving, like whoa. just that sometimes paranoid people [like me :x] get very paranoid over these kinda things yeah. it is GRAH. -.-ll and they use cheapo funny luminous stuff, like stickers, to stick it on the curb or dunno-what-you-call-it. like hello? AFFORD SOME LAMP-POSTS YEAH? :x
2. I LOVE THEIR SPEED LIMIT THERE. like >100 which is LOVELY. i think i love speeding. on a straight road la. would prefer it to be at night. but must definitely have street lights la. i dont want to die in a car accident okay. and its funny how the people there know exactly where the speeding cameras are, so they'll slow down at the place with cameras and continue speeding after passing it.
3. i hate their 'roadblocks' on the roads where they collect money. it is totally. irritating and ew. money money and money. and their roads are really quite bumpy. resulting in, MOTION SICKNESS. which really sucks. =.=ll
4. you really need an uncorrupt government to run the country well. hmmm hint: you have already read it. like money and policemen. :x i'll leave the rest up to your imagination.
5. before i drive, i need to get lasik surgery. cause i cant really see when light from the cars coming in opposite direction shines into my eyes at night. GRAHHHH. ))): oh btw you should be able to see by now that i have a very STRONG DESIRE to learn how to drive right.
6. the 'coffeeshops' over there in malaysia open REALLLLL early. like around 0530 in the morning, crazy early huh. :x but yay for them for being so hardworking=we have coffee/tea to drink when we reach there.
7.everyone there seems to know hakka. really. i feel like i came from mars because i didnt know how to speak hakka. -.-ll even my cousins from us knows how to speak hakka like goodness. makes me feel darn funny and dumb. boo. but good thing they all know how to speak chinese. the thing is. you MUST know how to speak their kind of chinese. like to ask for the time in chinese in singapore , it'll be xiao zai ji dian? but there, it'll be xian zai ji duo dian. :x ahahaha i've had a good laugh over their chinese.
8. i love the fresh air there, at my grandma's house area. im talking about the more rural areas of malaysia. its totally WHOA. and the green-ness there. so many trees, rubber plantations, oil palm plantations, fruit trees plantations, [ahahaha so geog.], really love it. plus you see the chickens and ducks and dogs, as in stray ones, running around. this is something you wont get to see often in singapore. and somehow. if i stay long enough at my grandma's house, the degree of my eyes will drop. its not a drastic drop la, but it's a significant one. because there's no computer or whatever. just people and nature. so any of you guys want to try this. i'll always welcome you to my grandma's house. the older one, is better. in the sense that it is the highest point of the village, you get the freshest air, alot of trees, the chickens+ducks are here, good scenery, and FRUIT TREES behind, like durian trees, jackfruits, rambutans, guavas, jambus and dunno what la. so when it's the peak season, you get ALOT ALOT ALOT of those fruits. seriously. so its good. but now my grandma is staying at a lower point of the village now, while my 2nd uncle stays at the older house. ^^ but coolios huh. the fruits still come though. ^^
9. their hygenie there isnt really good. like. when you're eating you'll get the houseflies. o.o like yeah the YUCKY houseflies. especially in some coffeeshops. you spend half the time swinging and flapping your arm around to swap the flies away. yeah. and its pretty ew to see flies flying around your food generally. you might say. oh in singapore coffeeshops there are houseflies also. i agree, that is inevitable. but you should see the AMOUNT of houseflies there and here in singapore. you will get a total SHOCK.
10. we are darn fortunate. really. we always complain that for example, our school is darn small. if you think so. you should come to my grandma's house there and look at the schools there. its like not even half the size of cedar okay.
11. kids there are darn darn innocent and easily satisfied. really. at least my cousins are. they are super innocent. like. hmm. you get them sweets and chocolates. they'll be totally happy and they'll STICK to you. even just a simple act of helping my cousin tie her hair makes her happy. you may say oh well, children are innocent generally, but its like you compare singaporean kids to malaysian kids in rural areas. there is a HUGE HUGE contrast. like kids of 9 to 12 years old. in singapore, they would want computers, handphones, high tech toys. there: they want sweets chocolates and basic toys. this makes me love my cousins alot more. really. they are so innocent and adorable. it just totally shows that in a more developed country, children lose their innocence faster than those in not as developed countries. and they WOULDNT BAWL their eyes and hearts out because their parents dont want to get a particular toy for them. they live with what they have and accept things the way they are. and seriously. students/kids/teenagers here fret about how their school results are like crap and need to get As and improve and etc. they dont really care. really. i asked my cousins. they commented that they didnt want to get into a university. i was a little shocked. but oh well. they'll still young, their mindsets mght change after they grow up.
12. you get alot of blackouts there. sudden cut of electricity. -.-ll no light/fan/tv for hours. and you totally sweat. unless you are like me who sat there as cool as a cucumber not doing anything but just observing all the people there. :xxx
13. you really will feel that you are darn darn darn lucky and fortunate after you come back to singapore from malaysia. the first thing most people would do would be *sigh* it feels good to be back in singapore again! thats what i do too. its some what a 'natural instinct'? i guess. if you dont believe you should come with me when i go back to my grandma's house to visit. yeah. you will totally feel that way and i bet you. you will appreciate singapore alot more than you do now. ^^
14. KIDS ARE CUTE OKAY. ATIQAH DOESNT THINK SO. SO MEAN RIGHT. KIDS ARE CUTE LAH. SUPER CUTE. <333
15. big families are fun to be with. it's totally brimming with love. although sometimes there are conflicts. but overall. the atmosphere is lovable. to people who doesnt really like big big families, like me, will feel very O.O when you get together with huge families. but its an all new experience. ^^ and its really cool too. ^^
uhm and and thats all i guess yeah bye. ^^
oh right. the first week of school was okay. but the first day of school was hell. :x cause i had a 'hangove' of motion sickness. -.- still had jogging+pe. which totally slaughtered me. ))): but yeh okay. i need to have lots and lots of time to study.
yeah byee people. i would be super impressed if anyone actually finished this whole lot of crap. :x