China-GuangZhou

Kaki gatal in me brought me to GuangZhou this time :)
on 4th Dec, I went for a trip to Lu's mum's place..

I met Jay @ this huge poster of his @ the subways of Guangzhou

Had milk tea by this 'lulu' character (i think the cartoon is supposed to be a female character...)
hahahahahha


Had SNAKE...... yummy

This is how we order food...

My Fav Xue San Bao... i still can remember its lingering taste... salivating

Lulu and a McD's Mocha Vanilla Cone..
I had to force Lulu to bring me out shopping.. poor me..
but it couldn't be helped, his place is kinda far away from the subway n stuff like that..
from his 'taman' we had to take a shuttle bus to a nearby subway station that was 45 minutes away.. it was really far..
then we took the subway to the 'walking street' which literally had an ancient market place right under it. awesome. hehe..
more awesome was the shopping.. i blew most of my $$ on DHC products.. (don't tell my parents I spend around RMB500 on them) so I was not that tempted by the various boots and winter wear on sale.. bought some comics.. some odds and ends..
bla bla.
the nice part of the trip was going to Huangshan which I would be describing in another post :)

a day before my 2nd last exam

it's engineers and society exam tmr..
my 2nd last paper... haha.. i hope i can manage it.. tho i hv been slacking for the past few days. sleeping of hours of time where i shud b mugging/memorizing the books..

i always wonder. what is the point of having us university students vomiting out what we have been memorizing for the exam? what is the point of having us being like robots, churning out perfect textbook answers.. time and again?
what is the point?
what is the point of education?
to educate, to enlighten, to lead one into more knowledge so to speak.
For me, I think education is more about the latter, to lead someone to learn. I realized that a lot of useful stuff are not learnt from textbooks, rather by books, info off the net and even the discovery channel. Education is about teaching someone to think critically, not being parrots of what is written on paper.
It is difficult. education is a awful, pressurizing matter, that is why I do not want to be a teacher. the responsibility is too much. a person's future thrust into your hands, how terrible can that be?
people now are too complacent. for one thing. i m getting too complacent. expect everything to be laid nicely in front of me. this defeats the purpose of life isn't it? Life should be an endless pursuit, no final destination but the processs of it that moulds one character and the experiences that would let one feel that it was not a life wasted.
education nowadays is kinda political, a child since born is thrown into a factory that makes them into a bolt or nut of the ever growing industry.
i guess asking anyone on the street: why do you study?
the answer would be: so I can find a job.
so why do a person finds a job?
so that the person can earn money.
so education is about making money?
work is all about making money?

i'm clueless.
just daunting to think that I would be one of the bearings that churn out money so that I could live.
but there is more to life that this, right?

*i guess when I start work next year, I would not be saying such childish stuff. I will be packaging my resume, trying to make some company think it is worth hiring me, trying to fit into a company, trying to run the rat race. For what purpose? To make more money.*

*in a few days, 2 of my secondary school mates would be getting married. wow. can't imagine that.. but I do admire them making such a big decision at such a young age while I m still building sandcastles by the seaside. hehe*

oooo... meaningless exams...

meaningless
meaningless.....
wth.
got 4.5 for writing for mi GRE which totally, absolutely made my previous effort to score in verbal and quantitative vanish into nothing.
have no confidence to apply for grad sch now.
results like sh*t. what i can do.. :S
sigh
i know people to change but i didn't expect myself to change so much
giving myself too much pressure?
hmn. maybe not. i m such a person who strives to gratify myself. *snicker*

so easy to say 'i give up'
especially to requirements set by myself
to my goals
my dreams.
just dot the tiny period
.
I give up

xxx 'n' xxx

It has been more than a month since i blogged.
time flies so fast. really.. too fast.
completed my GRE,
started applying for sch, only two so far but not the least completed.
stuck writing my statement of purpose.
stuck writing my statement of....

what is my purpose?
what do I want?
Do I really want to spend 5 years pursuing something that I am not 100% passionate about?
5 years, 5*365+1 isn 't a short time. i'll be at least 29 when I finally graduate again.

so now, what I wanna do IF i am n not going to study?
what am I going to do?
work?
had applied for a few companies with no avail for the past few weeks.
but I felt nothing when I recieved my rejection email.
so what?
that is how i feel.

i think my biggest flaw is being apathetic. I do not know and do not want to blame anyone instilling it into me. it is me.

apathetic. procrastination.laziness.
all come together.
the lack of passion and drive to do something.
make everything seem grey.
passive. no energy to accomplish anything.
everything passive.
like the shopping cart in a hypermart. waiting for someone to push, to pile it with all sorts of rubbish.

I do not want to be so. I do not want to be filled with something I do not want.
I do not want to do what I do not want.
I do want to know what I want.

What I want?

Life feels like the mangrove swamp I want to last weekend.
Mushy. Marsh. Muddy. Messy.
My legs are in the wet soil.
I'm stuck. can't move anywhere.
tide comes in.
I can't move.

recess

has been SEVEN FULL weeks since school started..
so...
what did i achieve thus far?
hmn..

1. getting a 42/100 for my Design pratical test...
2. studied around 1/2 de GRE wordlist but my memory retains less than 1/2 of that
3. bruised my nose from falling face first onto de sea doing a foward roll 2 days back
4. managed to swim around 10m finally
5. tanned again after 2 days under the sun
6. slacked for 4 weeks for my FYP
7. finished 1 full drama serial, 3 downloaded movies, hairspray and de rat cooking show
8. pending:
9. pending:
10. pending:

i need to get going
too slack for my own good.
argh.

missing yellowstone

in another few days... it would be fully one month since i left the states.
sigh.
i
miss
yellowstone.
argh

it's 4:21am now, it should be around 2:21pm there in Yellowstone.
I wonder what people are doing right now....
lunch would be over.. the eccentric vegan would be cleaning the EDR..
in the dining room, the lunch shift would be nearly over, hope there isn't a geyser rush right now else i m sure the servers working now would curse and swear.
the weather outside would be fair, the skies would blue, big and beautiful..
some people would be hanging out around the porch of laurel dorm.. smoking.. listening to music, chatting...........

arh. i miss yellowstone

Taiwan Trip (4-8 Aug 2007)

As the airline we flew was China Airline, we had a stopover in Taiwan where we spent a few days of shopping eating and relaxing...

Taiwan was not all I imagined it to be... it might be because I had too high expectations for it.. maybe it was the weather.. it was so damn hot... maybe it was the long 18 hour flight from new york... I just didn't feel happy in Taiwan.. hahaha.. shud go there in winter maybe?


Mao Kong - place for ppl to drink tea... obviously a bright n sunny summer day is not very suitable for such a purpose...

my 'flowery' pursuit.. yet again.. ;p


Taipei 101 - nothing much...... hahaha


This is 'tian bu la'... faintz. i always thot it was tempura...


at Sun Moon Lake... nearer to Taichung.. i still miss yellowstone lake better



taken from the airplane when I just arrived into taipei.. note the cute hello kitty cartoon on the airplane beside me


228 taiping Garden.. filled with old people doing Taichi.. sounds interesting?


regular spot to take pics for ppl coming to taipei.. the sun was unbearably hot and i nearly got a heatstroke..



the famous.. ah zhung mian xian... not bad not bad

wildflowers of yellowstone

the 'hua' chi in me took these pictures while i was on my way to Mt Washburn. I love these flowers!!

back on home ground

it has been 4 days since i landed in Changi airport
life passes on as usual...
i walk thru school as usual...
eating the usual canteen food...
i am still the old me.. (juz shunning from western food for sometime)

but
i hv a mine of memories that i carry from the past 3 months i had..
din hv time to relate everything...
so i would try to post some blogs.. hopefully.. hahaha (given my nature)
and may these blogs mark this milestone of this league of my journey ;)

me back

sigh..
after pa pa zhao for around 3 weeks..
finally i hv mi feet firmly planted back on singapore soil..
in a way.. i m glad to be back..
in another way..
how i hoped that vacation didn't end.

haha...
hoped for a looooooooooooong vacation ;)

I miss USA

i miss my slave costume.. hehe.. server apron looks much better than the SA apron :p



top above: Chef Jack Royals; above: Alan and Leslie (both darlings i miss)


i miss the blue blue big skies of Yellowstone..

it had been around 48 hrs since i stepped off the plane at Taiwan's Taoyuan Airport..


i feel:


bored


empty


dissappointed


yearning to go home..





had always been looking foward to go to Taiwan.. someplace to mai dongxi chi dongxi etc.. budden i think lei.. nothing so much special about here.. this place makes me wanna go back home asap.. i had seriously considered the possibility of flyin back a few days earlier. damn i do miss home now..





missing US loads..


start to miss the people in yellowstone.. those cool and sweet ppl i had been working with for the past weeks b4 i started my travels. miss the cool dry air there.. miss the picturesque sceneries around.. everywhere i turn i see something pleasing to the eye.. the skies were true blue.. with greenery all around... i now even start to miss the thermal features.. the BISONS there.. oo damn i miss my Mercury Grand Marquis.. hahaha..


it is the feeling there i miss.. the feeling of being free.. the vastness.. the idea of juz sitting at one corner doing nothing.. staring into space seems so appealing to me now.





miss the people..


miss the strange and goofy people there..


miss the sentimental and kindered spirits i found there..





i know i can't live there forever.. obviously..


juz.. missing that place.


that company i had..





that moment

travelling around

the super big chevrolet cadillac i drove in LA


i lurve Disneyland



Minnie mouse!!

it has been quite sometime since i blogged... (seems like i always start with this line :p)


...


updates:


1. i left yellowstone :(


2. gambled and won USD10 in Las Vegas


3. Went to Disneyland for e first time in LA


4. drove a super big car around in the terrible traffic in LA


5. chilled to the bone playing around in San Francisco


6. ate crab (for the first time) after being in the states for so long


7. got tailled by a black on the streets of New York





hehee..


seems like i m enjoying myself rite?


took many pics.. duno how to start uploading....

11 more days in Yellowstone

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wow
it has been 8-9 weeks here in yellowstone..
time passes so fast over here.. can't believe that i m leaving in barely 11 days.. and I barely touched the 80GB of stuff i brought in my external hd to kill my boredom over here.
boredom?
hahaha..
no time for me to get bored over here.. if I had the time to get bored.. i guess i would juz b too tired to do so.. sleep is a much better alternative.. plus.. there are simply too many things to do over here already..

feeling a bit melancholy now.. people are starting to take pictures in the EDR cuz they will be leaving in the next few days.. bit by bit.. familiar faces start to filter out.. day by day.. comes the day I would have to leave this place.. it is not easy i think..
Although work here sux.. the food in the EDR sux.. some ppl sux... but the overall feeling and the place is simply too amazing to take the before-mentioned into acc. I may not be coming back to work again.. but i think i would come back again.. as a middle class tourist.. joining the long snaking line in front of the Old Faithful dining room for lunch.. and tell my server that day that i was actually working there a few yrs back.. *falls back into YY-ing*

btw:
just posted up the advertisement to sell off our car.. imagine this. we bought the car for USD600.. we are now asking USD1600 for it~ hahaha.. i dun think we can sell it at such high a price but i guess we would surely be selling it over 600 :D think i would get more $$ to shop later on.. hehehe...

p/s: i need to get another luggage to put my stuff in. :D
*dad: dun faint when u see this.. hehehehe*

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What I did in the past week

Finally got to Mt Washburn. so what if I m there one who walks the slowest? cheyyyy......

yup.. a very proud me on top of Mt Washburn :p

Our post in the guest book @ viewing station on top of Mt Washburn.. note that i had already forgotten how to draw the Malaysian flag hahahhaha


kinda like this photo.. it is a father and daughter walking in front of us..


siao siao ppl trying to imitate some superheroes.. wahahaha...


erm.. the stones here r kinda yellow.. maybe that is why it is known as yellowstone here.. hahha


Sunset @ Mt Washburn


I like the way our shadows are elongated under the setting sun...

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After Mt Washburn.. our party of 6 headed for Cody to get a dose of American spirit for 4th of July :)

And.....

Heyhey.. our car finally has a registration plate! Hopefully we won't get so 'close' with rangers anymore.. hahahha...

The Cody Stampede.. kinda interesting to see ppl being bucked off their horses/cows .. and of course.. the smell of dung..




and this is the 13 ppl that shared a motel room for the night.. ate crappy chinese buffet for that day tho.. :S

lazy person's blog

'relaxed' boating trip at Lake YNP


The sky, the lake and mountains


on my way to be toasted


sunset on my way back from Bozeman


obviously.. another sunset again :p