My Trip to China~

Yo peeps, I'm back~ Finally~ The wonderful smell of HOME~ Miss you guys~ Grats on your victory~ 17-1, 5-0 =)

Wow, 7 days was fast, in an blink of an eye, it's over~ Well, this trip is a very relaxing one, no vigorous routine, just going to temples and various tourist attractions. Plenty of rest time and the schedule was not tight. To put in another light, it is freaking boring!!! Haha, but it's always an enjoyment to be able to spend time with your family=) Though the trip was boring, we made it fun=)


Day 1 - Well, it started off pretty badly for me, cose I was having running nose! Darn~ Woke up at 5.30am, reached the airport at 6.15am. Checked in luggage and went for breakfast at Burger King. Took the plane at 8 plus. Arrived at Xiamen at noon. Nothing much about the flight cose I was half-awake/half-asleep throughout the flight @.@

So we met up with the local tour guide(male) and the other 2 people that is with us for this trip. In total, there is only 6 of us for this trip. My family of 4 + the 2. Well, those 2 person are in their 50+, 60? Really nice people, only to be known as auntie uncle=). The tour guide was a nice guy too. So off we went to our 1st stop, a temple.

Okay, I didn't listen to the tour guide when he was explaining the history of the temple nor did I bother to remember the name of that temple. So, let's just skip this part okay=)?

But when we were about to leave, something epic happened. Our tour guide's phone rang, and his ringtone was GEE! I was like OMG~ Didn't have the courage to ask him then whether he was an SNSD fan. I was sure I when have my chance soon=)

Went to the hotel. Took a tube bath and slept. I had around 2 hours so I got plenty of time to bathe=) Spent around an hour in the bath. Shiok to the max...

We were suppose to gather at 6 at the hotel lobby but me and my sis went down early. So as we were chit-chatting with the tour guide, he mentioned that he is a very old-fashioned person. HERE CAME MY CHANCE. So I asked him why his ringtone was such a new song, somemore, a korean song, GEE~

HIS ANSWER - Cose it is loud enough.

I was like ... Actually, a lot of things in life is very simple. It is us that try to make it complicated. Why did I think that he was an SNSD fan in the 1st place? He only used GEE as his ringtone cose it is loud enough to be heard. Simple.

"Many things in life is very simple but we tend to make things complicated." Relationship for once, is complicated=)

Dinner and went to watch a performance before returning to the hotel to sleep. The performance was the traditional kind so~ boring~


Night time was nice. Me and my sister were sharing secrets. Her's were pretty normal. But when she heard mine, she was like OMG. Haha, shall not tell you the details=)


Day 2- Breakfast ( They only like have porridge with side dishes?!? Where's my bacon ham and omlette!!!). There was an egg station but the guy was only cooking fried egg while I wanted scrambled egg... So how do you say scrambled egg in chinese??? So I said in chinese, " I want the egg where you crack and anyhow cook." And tada!!! That was how I got my scrambled egg=)

Went to an island to tour. Once again, it was quite boring. Lunch came shortly cose we spent like 2.5 hours on that island that had nothing that is interesting! Cool thing is that island does not allow cars!

After lunch was... I can't remember...@.@

Day 3 - Hmmn, breakfast again. No scrambled egg this time. Spent 3 hours on the van to go to our next destination, ( ) yea, I don't know what's the name of the place >.<

Had lunch and went to visit the place where we are suppose to visit. It's like ancient houses. The interesting thing about this place was that it was a few hundred years old and still standing=) Plus, the whole structure of the house did not have a single nail. Only wood and rock/clay.

Went for foot massage. The massager don't dare to press to hard cose I'm underage... So not very enjoyable.

Drove to the hotel. Dinner. Went to to night market there. Bought a pair of sneakers, a basketball (for Eugene cose I lost his) and a pair of jeans.

Day 4 - Another 3 hour journey on the van. Stopped for lunch at a resturant selling tea products. FYI, every single meal they serve you tea in China! Tea everywhere, people drink tea like they drink water. I'm serious. Even the rice, is GREEN TEA RICE!

Reached our destination, Guanzhou. Took a trishaw ride around the place.
Stopped at a shop to try some snacks.

Next, went to a temple, again... Had some time so went to a shop and played chinese chess with the tour guide. Won the 1st round and sorta win the 2nd round cose we needed to go and I ate one of his impt piece then he sorta give up. Actually, I was not really bothered about winning or losing, just have fun.














" Life is not always about winning."

Had dinner and went to a 'water spraying' garden. It's like the one you see in Sentosa, they spray water then got animation on top. Nothing much.

Day 5- A historic house in the morning. Bought some crystal pigs there =) 2 bucks only=) Things in China is really cheap.

Went to a mini amusement park. me and sister went for the bumper ride. Freaking retarded since we are the only 2 that are driving... with 5,6 little kids looking at us...

Went to another temple.

Lunch.

Shopping in the afternoon.

Shopping again at night.

Shopping day~

Bought a school bag, school shoe and a vest! The vest where people wear on the outside during important events! Mine was 16 bucks! Haha, don't need to worry that much on what to wear for grad night =) Got the vest le~
Erm the picture is not the vest, just me on the streets=)












Day 6- 4 hours on the van, again. Came back to Xiamen. Had lunch and went to the hot spring.

Hot spring was quite fun. Seem like bathing in hot water everyday paid off. I was able to get into the super scorching hot spring! There is the less hot and the hotter one. The hotter one is really hot. Went around to try all the different kind of hot spring, peppermint, herbs and alot more that I can't remember. Didn't really like it cose it makes you sweat. Stuffy. Prefer cooling sensations=)














Enquiries- Was the hot spring seperate into male and female? Ans : No.

Enquiries- So what was everybody wearing? Ans: We all had towels.

Dinner.
Sat a boat/cruise that went around for 2 hours.

Went to a mountain peak to enjoy the night scenery. Was nice, and COLD~

Day 7 - Went to a cannon historic site. Once again, boring~














Shopping, bought nothing... Had steamboat for lunch. It was kinda nice BUT Super Oily. ! ! ! Then I thought of a person...

Went to the airport and BAOM! Here I am in Singapore=)
It was a nice break from my busy and hectic schedule. It also allowed me to look at the people in China and it allowed me to realise how fortunate I was. It gave me a new surge of determination to work harder and cherish my life=)

Sore throat>>> Fever soon. !!! NOOO~

Bye

Off to china in 12 hours.

Bye everybody.

Buffet Lunch Disaster~

Blank

My mind is in a blank now...

Firstly, I still got some undone holiday homework and I'm leaving 2morow. By the time I come back, I only got 2 days left. Damn. Of course, I can chiong finish everything in those 2 days if I really want to. At most take 8 hours? I don't really care about homework anymore anyway.

Secondly, I'm leaving 2morow and I don't even know where exactly of China I'm heading to!!! I didn't pack anything. Left everything to my mum. So I don't even know what clothes I have brought or what things I'm bringing there. Unprepared.

Thirdly... I say I wanna change for the better but I don't see any difference. Got to try harder.

7 days.
7 days to relax.
7 days to have fun.
7 days without floorball.
9 more days to school reopen.
Less than 300 days to O levels.
Is it too late now?

Dream

Life is so boring... Even when I have my computer right in front of me, I got nothing that I want to do. I'm like just wasting my life away... I really got nothing I want to do. Nothing at all... For once, my life feel so meaningless, without any aim or desire that I wanna fulfill...

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Dreams. Dreams are always so nice, so perfect. When we dream of something, it is always the way we wanted it to be. Some dreams are easy to fulfill, but most are not. That why it will always remain as a dream, cose we will never be able to fulfill it.

Chasing dreams... we will always be one step behind it since we are in pursuit.
Fulfilling dreams... it only means we will get closer and closer to completing our dreams.

It is never easy to dare to dream of something that is seemingly impossible to fulfill. But what life is all about. Fulfilling dreams.

I'm sure SNSD did not ever dream of being who they are today when they were young. As they grew, they dared to dream of a future they never thought would ever happen, but it did.

Dream big. It is never easy to be the best, but dare to dream and work towards it. The working process is tedious and straining, but it is really up to one to endure and not give up.

Lionel Messi, Beyonce, Bill Gates. They are all human, same as all of us. We are all the same but why is it that they are so sucessful? Why they can be the best in their various aspect of their life but so many were unable to? Why were they able to be the 1 out of millions whom would like to be who they are today?

Dream BIG. Never underestimate yourself.

Today

Today was a rather good day for me. 6-6. Better than I could imagine.

But just wanna bring across to message to everybody, it is good to know that we are somewhere close to VS standard, BUT we got to understand that they had a few missing players (Judging from their numbers) and they definitely wasn't playing to their best yet. Maybe 80% or less WHILE we were close to ur 90%. I mean, when did we play so well? To be truthful, I think that was more or less what we are capable of only. We don't have anything left. That was all we got. If VS was to play better than what they did today, I honestly don't think we can hold them at 6-6.

All of their players are good, of a minimum standard at least, while we still got sereval players that still need to catch up. They got a steady bench and the reserves are capable of filling in whenever they are needed and yet keep the standard up. If we were to require a change in our line-up, there is definitely a certain drop in standard for the whole line.

All I got to say is this, we are close but not there yet. We still have plenty of room for improvement and right now I can only say that we are capable of entering the 2nd round. Top 4? Maybe, but still got some way to go. Going Top 4 means that we have to beat schools like Northland, VS, East View, Teck Whye, Bedok South, Coral, and if worst come to worst, Bukit Merah. For the 2nd round, if we want to qualify, we can only lose to one team. Are you confident that we can beat VS when we meet them in B div in 1 month or so?

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Pizza hut was nice. Was rather decent meal at that price.

A new journey

Decided on something that I will not regret nor give up. I'm gonna work hard from now on.

Sounds very ordinary but this time I'm seriously gonna do it. Work hard on my studies, floorball, personality and practically, everything. Do things which I dreamt of doing. Dreaming of it is not enough, I shall go ahead and do it.

Time really files. It only fly past you when you do not cherish it. From now on, I shall make better use of my time and make sure I don't waste a single second anymore. It WILL be hard, no doubts about that but that shouldn't stop me from doing it.

"Something that is hard to achieve is something that is worth working for."

Changes will not come overnight. I just got to take it one step at a time then. Gradually but eventually. I'm starting RIGHT NOW and not wait till 2011 or wait till end of chinese new year but I'm starting now. Cose~ I got no time to waste and it doesn't really matter when I start does it? All that matters is that I START.

Really, what my parents say do make sense afterall. I was childish, immature. All I thought was to enjoy life. I'm so glad they did not give up on me or I would have long destroyed my own future. Even though I was rebellious and said nasty things to them but they never gave up on me. NEVER. They loved me. It's time I make amends. It's time I do what is right. I dream of my future, and I got to work towards it. Step by step, but I must not falter. Already deleted my warcraft and garena. That was my first step but I must not give up along the way. Talk (or writing about it) is cheap, actions speaks louder than words. No point thinking and saying so much. It is all down to doing it. So FULL-STOP.

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O yea, SNSD won the Music Bank award with Oh~ SNSD jiang~ They derserve it anw. Oya, got the Hoot album=) Ty Seh Hian for helping me buy it =) Really love it. really got no idea why I love SNSD so much but they are a true source of inspiration FOR ME. So to people like Eugene or Jarryl, don't mistaken me for some idiot that is following k-pop cause it is the trend. I appreciate chinese music but SNSD serves as role models to me and motivates me to work hard. Yea?~

Went to read about this music bank event. Lots of good performance but I shall not waste time to watch it. Got to spend lesser time youtubing and more time doing more meaningful stuffs. Too much of anything is bad=)

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Friendly with St Gabs. Honestly, found it rather easy, they posed not much of a trend but still learnt and spotted lots of mistake in my gameplay. Severe mistakes somemore... Didn't score any goals, wasn't very surprised. Mainly cose I'm not supplied with the passes in front of goal and more importantly is that it was my shooting. Could have netted a few if not for my poor marksmanship. The strength and accuracy was horribly wrong. Okay, maybe its my new blade but mainly it is me. Found myself making the play more than usual. Haha, normally I will leave that to Jarryl and Cren but since they are not around... I got to do it. Didn't do it well but not too bad I hope. So glad joshua is back in action=) Solid board passes and defending on the left side again=) Grats on your hat-trick josh! You derserve it totally. You worked hard for those goals!

At least this friendly let me know what areas I got to work on... And I got to cool down a little on court. Slightly too physical. Need to know when to get physical and when NOT to... >.<

VS game shall be a good guage for us. My prediction > lose by 4 or less. I'm so gonna play my best on monday!! Oya, high chance of going Kbox after the match on monday.

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Shall promise to blog and update my blog more often from now ( since dota and youtube is gonna be greatly reduced )...

Yeah. A much needed break. Off to China in the early morning on 24th, friday. My last training is on thursday 23th. Any request for presents? Say now. Not too expensive ones >.<

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I'm so tired. So tired. Really need a break badly. Need a break from everything. Just wanna relax and enjoy myself as I forget about everything here.

Fucking irresponsible I was. This was not the first time already. Got to wake up my idea. If I wanna lead, then I got to do it well. If not... I might as well not do it...

Thought I saw you, again. Guess I miss you too much...

^^

Got nothing to write about in particular. Just gonna put bits of bits of things to form a post.



Hmmn, first thing to come to my mind now is my new blade? Ok, they colour doesn't fit (I like it that way), and it's hard to use. Even though the blade was no different from my previous one, but this one somehow feels different... Problems should be with the shape and the smooth bottom of the blade. Fixed the shape to my 'style' already, though I can't seem to bend the pocket. The bottom part of the blade being too smooth... Got no idea how I'm gonna fix that but hope I can adapt asap.



Next>? Jessica got molested?

Got this picture from a link JY gave me. Not feeling angry or anything, nothing I can do anyway. Just feel a little disturbed that my 'princess' was touched... Anyway, she's the princess for the whole floorball team right! haha. Feeling pretty sad for Jessica cose Sm (her company) is disclaiming that there wasn't such a n incident. So she can't like seek justice? Too bad, just touching anyway. No big deal. Maybe she enjoyed it @.@ Nah, the guy is too old~

Next? Holiday hw? Done like 60% already? Left with english and some geo. Glad my mum made me start early... Now not so stress...

Erm, there is still some computer issues? Decided to stop dota end of tis/next week? Not sure when I wanna stop but definitely latest by end of next week.

Erm, just finished reading Wilson's book? City of Bones... Writer was Twilight's writer. Super nice book. Hoping to get the rest of the series from Wilson soon >.<>

Hope we will be going out 2morow. Feeling so damn bored at home nowdays. Anything is fine with me, just do something, not nothing at all.

Ok, that's it.

Time

Time.

Time is priceless cose we can't return to the past. What is over is over, there is no way we can turn back the clock and return to the past can we?

Just realised I wasted my morning again... Dota + Youtube, my whole day was gone again. Enjoyed myself but I find it very meaningless. To spend my whole holiday in front of the computer?

As the saying goes, " Your youth is the most priceless period in your life." So am I really going to spend it with my computer?

To think of it, there is actually so much things I can do if I really want to, instead of spending my whole day in front of this computer. In fact, my holiday is already halfway from being over. In less than 25 days, I will be a Sec 4 already. By then, my holiday will seriously be over.

Excessive of anything is bad. Gonna stop wasting away myself, time to buck up and make good use of the limited time that is left... Not only for this holiday, but for the rest of my life...

"Everybody have equal amount of time, yet people have different degree of achievement in their lives. They key to this, is how one make use of the time he got."

All the way!

I'm gonna train harder and harder

To become even better.

Chiong ah!


Really sucks to play badly cose of your weakness, when you already know you got to work on your weakness long ago...

Sucks even more when you fail to carry out what you have been training and doing...

Update

Haha, finally an update=) Decided to change my blogskin to a blogger skin cose a lot of people can't see my blog due to some problem which I dunno how to solve.Anyway, the blogger skin is simple and nice too=)

Had been a very busy yet fun 3 days for me.

Wednesday- Start of camp. Did relay instead of the usually endurance. Found it to be more effective cose everybody was giving their 110% cose they did not want to let down their other teammates. Found myself running harder than usually too >.<

Played 'whacko', got to know everbody's names and had lots of fun too. Played War game shortly after, proved to be lesser disatrous than I thought >.< Quite sure everybody had lot's of fun. After that, was handball in ISH. Fun too. But passing to the same few person, quite a handful was left out...

Lunch came shortly, and came the testimonial match... Only Isaac Lander Han Wei and Ian came for it so we split into 2 teams. I was on the alumni team! Can't recall much but was pretty fun I think=) Isaac and Lander both scored=)

Went to play basketball at the primary school site. Eugene camping and dunking >.< The ultimate play! Went to Bishan North to eat dinner and went to Eugene house. We tried to do a hidden cam on Eugene, acting emo and sian, trying to fool Eugene... Ended the hidden cam early cose Eugene looked really sad. A bit of Mahjong and Halo then chatted with Gene and Isaac. Isaac went home at 10? Then Gene and I continued to talk in his room cose the 3rd floor room was very dusty and I keep sneezing. Slept pretty well, didn't wake up at all!

Thursday- Woke up and realised that I didn't bring my toothbrush... Went to school did gym and then it was classroom games. Jessica FTW!!! She won! Hebe was 2nd, Joshua don't be too sad, afterall Yuri was up against Jessica=)

Eugene won the most handsome award. Prepared more games but there wasn't time for them. Had lunch and then it was time for friendly. Was not really very challenging cose the opponent's aren't that good. 7-3, 7-2. Scored 4, performance if I were to rated myself - Average performance. Could have done better I think. Haha, still remember bodying the guy until he fell over the boards >.<

Had dinner, and I really felt very warm in my heart for no reason... Maybe it was becose I felt that the team was closer than before? Not sure. Walked in the rain back to school and set up the Viva floorball.

Appreciate those that helped, those that didn't don't blame them anyway, if I were them I would also not help >.< proved to be a success, everybody had fun. Was pretty crazy with all the abusing of rules. Put ball in shirt, use 2 sticks, put ball in shoe. LOL, Isaac commentating was incredible! (Y). Totally got the atmosphere crazy.

Left to set up the race. Luckily Isaac told us to set it up early or it would have been worse. Took up more time than we expected. Really wanna thank Isaac for helping or I would have gave up... Of course Joshua, gene and Lander helped too=) Finally got 4 groups' racing course done after an hour+.

The race started shortly. Everybody was faster than I thought. Cren's group was like at the 3rd stop after 5 minutes!?! We haven even left the sports hall when 2 groups came to look for us for the clue... Race was over quite soon, quite sure everybody had fun.

Somebody asked me, "You spent 5 hours to plan this and 1 hour to set it up and yet the group took only around 35 minutes to finish it, don't you find it a waste of time?"

Haha, if everybody enjoyed it, then 35 minutes X 20 = it's 11 hours 45 minutes. My time was definitely well spent. I don't mind sacrificing a bit of my personal time if it can bring others joy and fun.

Mr han finished his speech and requested everybody to thank me and Joshua for the camp. That simple 'Thank You' was more than enough for me. Really. I would like to thank you guys for attending the camp as well=)

Bathed and slept.

Friday- Woke up, breakfast and came home. Watch Running man. If only I watched it before I plan the race!!! It was pretty nice and could haven gotten some of it's ideas and add it into the race but nvrm. Ate lunch and slept a while before going to CS.

The trials had A LOT of people. I was pretty relaxed since it's training for me. Make some friends and learnt alot from the players there as well. Trials ended soon enough. Congrats to Cren, Derek and Gene for getting into the team=) But Life is great, reality is harsh... This is only the 1st round but hope you guys can make it into the team! Eugene was outstanding if you ask me=)

Heard from the other players about Bukit Merah's standard. Conclusion: Technically and physically we can match them. If both teams play to their best, we will be on par, maybe slightly lousier but not there far apart BUT their fitness as for what I know from the rest of the players, is FREAKING GOOD. So they will be able to last at their best for a longer period of time, we will lose out then. So fitness is the key even though we still got to work on our technical skills and team play...

Subway as usual, but this time with Derek Gene and Cren but without Ryan and Joshua.

Went home and talk about floorball with Cren and Derek on the bus. Slept as soon as I got on the bed.

Today was freaking screwed. Set my alarm at 6.50 am and I woke up at 10... WTH. Too tired I guess.

K, that's all I got. Bye~