ordinaryjo

:D long time no post

2007-04-13T09:01:00.000-07:00

hey (:
havent been blogging, since 9th april. and today's friday, the 13th. :D

ah i dislocated my knee again, err, last monday. but it was a minor one. like just came out of place and now it's back in place. so now it's like not very painful, but rather weak when i walk. sigh and now i cant do touch rugby for pe, just when i thought pe was getting funner (than softball).

oh and we had strings perf at esplanade concourse on tuesday. no comments :D but someone seemed to have had a lot of comments... :\ oh but i think the changing room was quite cool :D they had all the mirrors with the lights around the mirror. and there were a lot of them. hahaha.

and i had chem SPA yesterday. i think it's okay, just that i got the last gas wrong i think. i swear (promise) i smelled something funny okay! this really pungent smelly smell that i almost puked smelling. but people say it's hydrogen, which has no smell. and that there was a 'pop'. oh well. oh and i stupidly burnt myself, at my wrist. i was heating the solid over the bunsen burner. and i was using the really hot fire with the hole open. and then it heated very slowly, so i thought if i changed angle, it would be better, and i stupidly put my arm directly over the bunsen burner. yesss it hurt! and i had no time to wash it under cold tap water. so it just kept burning throughout the SPA. ): now there's this red/brown patch on my arm. ugly! but not pain anymore.

oh and yesterday! i got a shock la! penelope, kathy and i were talking and walking to the music block, and kathy was walking backwards. then none of us realise it was nearing the stairs, and kthy almost died! she tripped a the stairs, like really goign to fall wobble wobble kind. and she grabbed hold of me and i started screaming. i mean, she really almost died! if she didnt have anyone to hold, wooohw, i cant imagine what would have happened mann! then penelope pulled her up, and i ended up like, running around the bridge (linking to music block). dont ask me why, natural reaction! but was quite funny, and then 3of us ended up laughing. hahaha. :D and my hand was red after she grabbed hold of it, you can imagine how hard the grip was and how hard gravity is so hard to overcome! HAHAHAHAHA it was sooooooo close mann! :D :D :D KATHY I SAVED YOUR LIFE. well, MY ARM SAVED YOUR LIFE. :D

oh and today, in the morning there was strings, so i brought my bag there, and then during assembly, i brought my bag to the hall. and so, it was outside the hall with a lot of other people's bags. and then after assembly, violet and i were happily talking and walking back to class. then i went to class, about to sit down and i realised, eh? how come today my chair so empty and omfortable. because usually i only have this lil tiny space for me to sit cuz my bag takes up more space than me. and then i realised i left it downstairs. and so i had to tell misskoh that i left my bag downstairs and that i have to take it. argh so stupid! but it was funny. hahaha.

LUNCH WITH KIMBERLEY :D yeah it was fun(ny)! it's like so.. easy. and comfortable :D you know what, i think and hope we wont drift! anyway i was telling her about the 'bag' incident and she started laughing. and through her suggestion, i shall post a 'VS' table-kind-of-thing. kimberley (xuanwei, penelope, etc etc) type of people being 'K', vs, well... hm. people that i know now 'N'.

1. AH I LEFT MY BAG DOWNSTAIRS!
K: HAHAHAHAHAHAH xD
N: oh! hurry go and take it! / LOSERRRR
2. *racket broke durng pe as it was hit too hard*
K: *laugh non-stop till we're on the floor*
N: AHHH hurry go take a new one!
3. *badminton racket flying across the hall, along with the shuttlecock (dont know how to spell), and dropping near another girl*
K: *laugh non-top will we're on the floor, too*
N: *no reaction* go pick up!

SIGHHHHH. :|
oh well i'll continue the table soon. it's quite funny, yet depressing at the same time huh.

okay it's 1222 midnight now! and i was practising the cello just now! OOOH im so HARDWOKRING! well, until my mum came up to stop me from practising anymore in case the neighbour came. ): JUST when i was in a practising mood. BOOOO.
ah! and i didnt do anything today! strings, then learninglab, come home, have dinner, and i told my mum i'll sleep for 15 minutes and asked her to wake me up. and guess what, when i woke up, it was 11. i slept for 2 hours -.- and, apparently, she tried to wake me up but to no avail, according to her. sigh one night wasted. and i havent started on biopt, and geog test coming. how come this year is busy and depressing? haiii...

okay okay i shall finish off this post! tomorrow still need to go school at 0745 for, strings. oh well, i need practice anyway. :D

BYE! LOVE!

numb thumb becoming worse D:

2007-04-09T04:48:00.000-07:00

AH my numb thumb is becoming worse! it's like, painful and weird now. and it's swollen. DDD: and SYF IS COMING. WHAT IF I CANT HOLD THE BOW. D:

when i write/use my bow/hold the railings or anything, the nerves at joint where the thumb and palm 'connects' will get pressed, and then they'll like slide over each other in a painful manner, and then the nerves connected to my thumb will hurt and can feel the tingle and the nerves moving, painfully. then if i press too hard onto the joint, the nerves connecting to my thumb will make my thumb feel like there's someone pinching my thumb till it's bleeding. bloody painful. ): sigh i hope it gets better QUICK! and at first on (last) wednesday, i was thinking, if the numbness doesnt go in a week, i'll go see the doctor. now im quite sure it wont heal in a week. i think the nerves, as in jing1, are tangled up inside. as in, not jokingly. seriously. i think when i used the penknife it pressed on the nerves for too long, then it became weird. cuz my other thumb's a-oh-kay. fortunately. but unfortunately, this is my RIGHT thumb. I SHALL PRAY and hopefully it will heal faster :D

okay enough about my poor thumb feeling numb yet painful at the same time. TODAY:

OH YOU KNOW WHAT. strings wants combined prac every morning at 7 until SYF. ?! which means i have to bring cello EVERYDAY. and it's like not much time to prac, cuz school starts at what, 7.25? and then we still need time to tune. sighhh... and i still need to mark attendance eh, so does penelope :D hope it's OF USE.

oh and for pe, we had touch rugby (: i think it's funner than softball. okay, maybe i still cant tell cuz it's the first lesson. but at least there's a change of teacher (:

sigh how i wished i could take an afternoon nap. but malay took up whole afternoon till like, 5.30. oh and i took bus home myself today :D and then went to coro, wanted to buy the geog book chngyan asked me to buy for her (and maybe for myself too), but it was out of stock. saw some little notebooks that i can buy (for church), but i dont know how many i need. so i didnt buyy. then i went to NTUC and bought muffins, chocolates and fruity bars. oh no, fat days ahead! CONTROL:D

walked home and showered. now blogging. and im quite sleepy. want to sleep, but this is a weird time to sleep. oh well, i shall go watch tv! (though i have a lot of hw ): )

BYEBYE BYEBYE BYEBYE
love!

:D sleepy yet happy

2007-04-08T10:46:00.000-07:00

YAY math pt is FINALLY DONE! :D
i know it's done super badly, but who cares. it's done. yeah. :D
im damn sleepyyyy and a lil hungry. but it's late at night, shouldnt eat. :|

ah i shall blog, since im quite relieved about math pt. shall blog a lil about church (: (since someone asked me to)
today's church was quite okay. was late for morning class because fiona and i walked to church, and i was wearing shoes that werent exactly comfortables = bad blisters. boo. yeah till now, it's still hurting. ): played the little piano by the side today, for worship. oh and people were baptised today. there were babies too. haha. oh yeah HAPPY EASTER(: may god bless everyone! after worship, listen... until service ended.

went for lunch with relatives from hongkong. jiu gong and jiu po :D went to garuda, some indo food restaurant. the food was nice! and the place is so special. it looks modern, yet high-class, although it's location is quite.. well-hidden, somehow. well, the food was NICE. (: and the desert was SUPER nice. the avocado juice with chocolate and the es telar (? dont know how to spell). mmmmnice. (:

and then went home... math pt-ing till now! WOW SO LONG. okay fine, in between, there were tv breaks, food breaks, walk-around-the-house-aimlessly breaks, friendster breaks, blog-reading breaks and many other breaks :D ah breaks are so relieving. they make you less stress, and thus happier. when you're happier, you'll do your work in a more positive attitude. LIKE ME :D heh.

*AH my NUMB THUMB IS SWOLLEN i just realised. and it has been numb for so long, and NOW, IT'S SWOLLEN.. hope am i supposed to play cello. :\ i dont dare to see the dotor now, in case he asks me to wrap or squeeze or anything that make me cant hold my bow. D: stupid penknife, i hate you. ew. and made me waste time on NWSP. argh.

ahh i shall go sleep now! YOU KNOW WHAT, everyday morning im supposed to carry my cello to school cuz we have pracise at 7 starting from tomorrow. WTH! pity my thumb, pity my eyes, pity my mind in the morning, pity, well, ME.

oh and there's something wrong with my new phone! when i receive smses, i receive like, probably all 10 at one go, then one whole day no smses received, then at night, all of them come at once, like beepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeepbeeepbeeeeeeeeeep but in vibration mode. YEAH so annoying huh. going to repair soon.

okay i think im getting not-sleepy, which is bad, cuz it's 1.58am, and if i cant sleep, i wont be able to stay awake tomorrow. LONG DAY school + malay. D: i want to take afternoon nap. but cannot, tomorrow have to go coro to buy geog textbooks + lil notebooks (argh).

well goodnight then! :D
(im reviving my blog, and so far, it's progressing quite well!)

:D

2007-04-07T11:27:00.000-07:00

today was a busy day! as i said earlier on yesterdayyy.

anyway, woke up early for extra geog lesson. ):sigh. and then guitar was cancelled. :D esther needed to do math pt & chem SPA ,so did i. but after geog lesson, i reached home, watched tv, practise a little bit of piano for later's church prac, and then off i went for tuition.

tuition was okay today, just that i dont know why during chem, the first 30minutes i was SO DAMN sleepy. i couldnt keep my eyes open. i tried so hrad. oh well. CHEM SPA AH. D: and then from tuition straight to CHURCH.

practice was quite nice today. i hope i improved (: and i think tomorrow's worship will be quite.. interactive and nice, i hope. (: some people getting baptised tomorrow :D oh tomorrow's easter! actually, more like, now, cuz now's tomorrow, which is today. argh confusing. but i guess you get the picture huh. it's 2.30am now. :|

and then from there, i went home for dinner, and then my mum sent fiona and i to singapore indoor stadium for caiyilin's concert! OOOH IT WAS NICE! :D took lots of pics and vids in my phone. will post when i feel like! :D i guess the concert made me feel happy for a while. didnt think of anything of hw in the concert. :D but AFTER the concert, which is NOW, i have to stay up to do at least a lil bit of my math pt. ): ): ): but nevermind! at least the CONCERT WAS NICE! at first fiona and i were supposed to sit in front of each other cuz no more double-seat tickets left. but, fortunately, the person sitting next to her didnt come, so i sat next to her throughout the concert :D and then after the concert, we went out and there was this little stall selling jolintsai-related stuff. and then i wanted to buy the handphone keychain for fun, cuz it says 'J' and im Joellyn. :D but it was sold out. darn. so i bought a bracelet which i doubt i'll wear haha. then went home, super tired, but still need to do math. this sucks, i should be sleeping. and the songs in the concert are still in my head. i shall listen to them now. (:

im going to sleep at 3.00 no matter how much ive done for math! I NEED MY BEAUTY SLEEP MANNNNN! :D

BYEEBYEBYEBYEEEE:D

BUSY BUSY BUSY

2007-04-06T12:12:00.000-07:00

i think i sound like this freaking busy girl if someone else reads my blog. im always talking about work. ): but it's only that im doin my work that i feel like blogging. when im having fun, well i wont usually thinking of blogging, since blogging is quite a hassle when you're having fun. so yeah, im undergoing torture now.

MATH PT IS DRIVING ME NUTS!

it's so confusing and all. everyone's saying different things. but finally im following a certain format. THANKS XUANWEI! :D

argh it's 3.13am in the morning. AHH 313! hahaha. :D FATE

im like 1/10 done for math pt and im totally not going to be home tomorrow! AHH. lets seeeee. tomorrow:
9-10: extra geog lesson
10-12: guitar?
2-5: tuition
5.30-6.15: church prac
7-NIGHT: cai yi lin (jolintsai's) concert

OMG see no time D: D: D:
okay i shall go sleep now. bye!

sighhhhhhhhhhh

2007-04-04T04:57:00.000-07:00

changed seating today. ): i'll miss sitting nex to chngyan. welllll.... now my sitting arrangement.. hm. dont know. let's see how it will progress after time.

and GEOG NATIONAL WEATHER STUDIES PROJECT presentation tomorrow! and we're not even half done. we're SOOOO going to screw it up. D: im supposed to do the model for the HDB with solar panels. and ive been using so much of the penknife that my right thumb is totally NUMB. has been numb for an hour, hasnt subside. so scary. AHHH jiayou!

ooooh tomorrow lunch with star!
oooh i love 202.
but 313's fine. in case.. yeah. haha.

oh well going for dinner, shower, and then continue the model, read up for geog, do SS newspaper thing (UH!), math ws and then SLEEEEEEP.
:D

BYEEEE.

SPORTS FEST(:

2007-04-02T06:51:00.000-07:00

such a long time since i posted!

anywayyyy, today was SPORTS FEST!
and some weird and funny things happened.
i shall start from when i met kimberley and penelope :D

OKAYY. so i was late, again. but kimberley was lateR. so yeah. we met at junction8 because penelope and i had to buy court shoes. we bought the same type as kathy! it isnt very nice, but i think it's okay cuz i wont wear it for any other occassions, except for strings. so yeah. oh and then we had lunch (breakfast?) at crystal jade's smaller outlet... (i dont know what it's called) and ive never eaten in such restaurants with friends before... but nevermind. and then we were about to be late already.. so we went to the mrt station.

LET'S GO TO CANDY MOUNTAIN CHARLIE.
LET'S GO TO CHARLIE MOUNTAN... HAHAHAHHA :D

i cant believe i said that. hahahha charlie mountain. HAHAHAA. it was funny okay. it's from this thing that amanda sent me. a weird, funny, irritating and creepy clip on youtube that she sent me. about unicorns. going to candy mountain. and the ending was that they stold one of the unicorns' kidneys. ew.

and then throughout the journey we were chanting that. hahaha it was quite funny :D and we sang bei feng chui guo de xia tian too! and kimberley still remembered how to sing! im such a great teacher dont you think so! yes you do. oh yeah and before leaving for toapayoh stadium, we bought this nail bufferb lock thing from bodyshop. penelope and i. then during sports fest she was buffering my nails. haha. i had free manicure! but the manicurist kept complaining i have not-very-nice nails. okay fine, ugly nails. pfft.

sang sonds during sports fest. and you know what! PENELOPE REMEMBERED THE LYRICS FOR BAO BEI KUAI SHUI (when i didnt). ive failed as a number #1 fan. sorry. BUT SHE REMEMBERED YOU KNOW! OMG AH! IM SO PROUD OF HER :D and kimberley taught us some songs too! well.. portions of a lot of songs. and now i can sing the front part of way back into love. yay! :D

oh and the camera story! HAHAHAH. we were trying to take pictures during sports fest. but KIMBERLEY kept on deleting EVERY picture we took. and thennnn, uncooperative penelope just refused to take. and then all the pictures in my camera now are like, unsuccessful ones. but the funny parts were when. we want to FINALLY take one DECENT one. okay here it went:

joellyn: OKAY let's set timer. *puts it on bag with waterbottle as support*
joellyn: yeah! just the right angle!
penelope: okay everone look at it. and come closer. *presses button*
......
...........
nothing happened.
HAHAHAHA.
kimberley: HAHAHA we are the worst photo-takers!

joellyn: nevermind, again again. *puts everything in place*
joellyn: ONE TWO THREEE!
everyone smiles into the camera
......PRESS
the camera's zooming thing went all the way in.
HAHAHAHAHA.
no power!
omg it was like, inauspicious day for photo-taking la! quoted from kimberley!

it was damn funny! the whole camera thing. i will post pictures when i feel like :D

on the whole sports fest was quite okay.... :D at least i was with penelope and kimberley! (:

but i feel so depressed now. kimberley said ive become weirder. she said the things i talk about are boring. she's making me sad.
CHEER ME UP.

D:
sigh.

i want the good ol'days BACK. the bill the pony days. the tinted glass window days. the STAR days. the ging days. the the legends days. the iceskating days. the laughing days. the talk-on-the-phone-for-hours days. EVERYTHING HAS CHANGED. but im going to improve it! I WILL :D yeah!

oh and you know what! today's shao nian te gong dui is the one that is filmed on the day i saw 5566! how cooooool is that HUH! :D

LOVE!

tired of everything

2007-02-01T07:56:00.000-08:00

ARGH im soooo tired! i dont like sec3 life. other people might say they dont like it cuz of the workload, the subjects blah. but my case, it's the people around me. it's so tiring trying to adapt to everything. my class, my classmates. ):

i still dont really like my class. yet. it's just too tiring. zzz.
i thought OBS would improve it, but it's rather the same. well, to me.

to add on to that, i heard some not very pleasant things.
I NEVER KNEW THINGS WERE THAT COMPLICATED
i guess im too innocent and simple(:
or maybe, it's just another world this year. between worlds. haha.
why must it be so scary, weird, confusing, complicated and ARGH!

nevermind, i shall STOP caring so much and JUST BE MYSELF.
I DONT CARE! :D
yeah. i feel better now. yeah!

i love you chngyan! you're the only person im closest to in class! although you're not all that nice and youve admitted so, but I LOVE YOU nonetheless, cuz you love me too! :D
i love you kimberley for being my best friend in RGS since i came into the school haha. (: although we've had many conflicts, i still LOVE YOU!
i love you STAR although i can feel that we're drifting apart. ): remember our lunches okay. we HAVE to plan them quickly before the year passes by like a breeeeeze.

yay okay! im DONE. so conclusion of post:
i should learn to be more detached, like kimberley, and not care so much :D i think it'll help a lot. yeahhhhh.

bye i should go sleep soon. and im growing fat. IM EATING AT 12.05AM! O:

tidy up!

2006-12-27T06:49:00.000-08:00

hey! today was quite a fulfilling day! i was trying to tidy up my study. let's call it tidy-study phase number one! i was clearing my sec2 stuff, and lots of rubbish, and some sec1 plus p6 stuff so i can put in my sec3 stuff. but it somehow became even messier. so i decided to rest and continue tomorrow :D PHASE TWO! yay!

and tomorrow my mum's going to buy me my belated-christmas present. (: this nice nice bag from wisma. yay! and then im going to shop for my 2007 school bag and school shoes! luckily they changed back the school rules for choes to 80% white! heard that we will know our class allocation tomorrow. quite scared about next year class. i hope i dun have weird people in my class. i love 202'06. though it's not the best class, but there's STAR and my other good nice friends like michelle, yian, filzah, felicia, weixian, xiner, yingxiang and more. i cant remember now. HAHA i really cant remember, i was stuck there for quite a long time when im typing this. sorry! ):

anyway point is 202'06 is quite a nice class (:

okay i shall type till here.
bye bye
love love love
JOELLYN!

boxing day + bye bye celene

2006-12-26T05:44:00.000-08:00

happy boxing day everyone!

today was quite sad, considering the fact that it's the day celene's leaving singapore for shanghai ): kimberley, xuanwei, weesian, penelope, valsoh, pauline, the rest of the people who went jiangnan and i went to the airport to send her off. i gave her this cute notebook and wrote something inside. though it was emotionless and non-upsetting, she still cried )':

celene tan chiu yun. though i didnt cry today, it doesnt mean i wont miss you. now, sitting on the chair and typing this, im already missing you quite badly. i wont be able to see you for 2 years, so make sure you return to RJC, NOT ACJC, or else everyone'll hate you as a traitor. haha. celene, i love you, though we might have many past conflicts and lots of awkward moments of silence. i love the high celene, the drunkard jellyfish celene, the crazy celene, the joCEkim celene. i love CELENE as celene. (: yes i do. dun cry! we'll NEVER forget you. TRUST ME. i mean, how can we forget you right? celene, though you're so faraway from singapore, you can talk to me online, tell me what's happening there, have occassional expensive and long phonecalls! really. two years will pass like a BREEEEEEZE! before you know it, you'll see my joellyn-ish face in front of you! CELENE DUN FORGET ME AND I WONT TOO! use the notebook k! dun CHUCK IT AWAY (: love you celene!

done, my speech for celene!

i love star. i love all my friends. LOVE!
LOVEjoellyn!

(oh yeah and kimberley and i kind of 'quarelled' again today HAHAHA)

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOUUU!

2006-12-25T06:58:00.000-08:00

hello everyone. it has been such a long time before i blogged!

MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D

thanks everyone for everything youve given me. thank you family for the love and warmth youve provided me with. thank you mummy for everything. thanks for the advice you've given me though some i dun really listen to. thank you STAR for being with me this whole year! thank you kimberley for being my best friend in 202 and rgs! thanks or being by me most of the time. i still hate jupiter by the way. thanks for talking with me, sharing with me, laughing with me and EVERYTHING! thank you xuanwei, for being my GOOOOOOD friend telling me stuffs and all! thanks for laughing with me! :D thank you celene for being your high and crazy self! love it love you lovelovelove! thank you weesian for being my ex-seating partner in the first semester! thank you for helping me a lot this yearrr! thank youuu! yay i love STAraunchy!

A VERY VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

these few days have been tiring but fun days!

thursday: iceskating with fiona, joyce, gideon, hanxin, jonathan, david, mingjie & shining! it was quite fun (: and then walked around till after dinner. feet was quite suan. luckily mummy fetched us home!

friday: present time! went around orchard buying presents for family and friends! and then it was the CCIS dance performance. walked around PS with joycelin and selena after our performance. my smudged eyeliner and swollen face!

saturday: sentosa and hanyang's house! in sentosa joycelin and i kind of failed as defence HAHAHA. it was so funny. and in hanyangs house we went mad screaming and laughing hahahahaha. xD I HAD FUN. but it was tiring too. oh yeah dinner was great! thank you everyone, esp the organisers and hanyang, hanxin, shining, auntie honey and family!

sunday: church (performed again, like shit) and then went around buying nice nice clothes and books! tiring again. then dinner outside. CHRISTMAS EVE! (: slept at 3 making cards for people in church.... zzz.

monday: today was quite a sad christmas. had to spend most of the time at home and still had to walk home under the sun after church, lugging onto my cousin's things + mine while she went out ): ARGH. but i went to jonathan and david's house with my mum anyway. jonathan's clavinova is quite fun :D thanks jonathan, for teaching me everyheart! dinner at prego! (: great food, but i was too full after that.

yeah BUSY WEEK AINT IT! (: nevermind, it was fulfilling!

once again, have a blessed christmas and fruitful new year ahead! may god shower his blessings on you and your family!

with LOTSOFLOVE<3
joellyn!

TAIWAN TRIP!

2006-11-29T07:55:00.000-08:00

yay i shall post about my taiwan trip since i am quite bored and have nothing much to do (:
will post pics on another post another day!

FUN TRIP plus I SAW 5566! :D

i shall bold all the places i went too for clearer reading purposes (: i am a thoughtful blogger!

first day (wednesday 22ndnov)

first day was spent in the plane (haha)... reach there in the evening at about 5plus. but it was so dark already. the coming of winter i guess. i reached at tao yuan airport and to get to the hotel in taipei, need about 1hour. but that day heavy rain, in the end got squeezed inside the taxi for 2hours. ): time wasted in the cramped taxi... haiiii.

finally reach grand hyatt jun yue hotel and it was already about 7.30, checked in blahblahblah and then we went for dinner opposite the hotel!

the taipei 101. 101 levels. the bottom 5 levels are shopping centres and there is a foodcourt in the basement. BUT BUT BUT, it isnt the normal foodcourt we see in singapore! the food there is SO nice! (: REALLY... and they have unique food that singapore doesnt have! actually any food in taiwan is nice... really ANY. yay i love taiwan food! so we bought this round ball-like thing that has sotong inside (the one singapore has but that one's a lot nicer) and some noodle thing. it has noodle paste and it was so hot, as in chilli hot. so hot we started buying drinks. also we bought this wanton noodle thing that has 'tian bu la' as a side dish. heard it's some taiwan famous dish? yup it's really nice. then we walked around and fiona and i each bought a pair of shoes from playboy (: first day and there's already shopping! it's quite nice..

then we walked back to the hotel. THE TV THERE IS NICE TOO. watch some HBO movie and some taiwan variety show. SLEEPTIME!

second day (thursday 23rdnov)

woke up quite late... then we took taxi to yong he dou jiang da wang for breakfast! that was nice too. the dou jiang was quite rich and not bland, and they have SO many different types of you tiao. so we tried a few. i was SO full. so was everyone else.

and then after that we went to the train station (taipei huo che zhan) to buy the train ticket to go to hua lian (they spell it hualien though). we are going there on saturday! heard the scenery there's nice. done with the tickets, we took taxi to SOGO departmental store! this sogo's weird, it's like, the WHOLE mall is sogo itself. nothing else. yup went there and i bought 3 blouses! i like the one with the ribbon (: and we had lunch there too! nice food again and i had haagen dazs for dessert! some new flavour ive never heard of. haha.

after walking so much, we went back to the hotel to wait for my daddy to arrive from beijing.. was quite long so we went to 101 to walkwalk again.. ended up eating AGAIN. gain so much weight la. ): after eating, we went back to hotel and my dad was there! at night went to the restaurant downstairs to eat. NICE FOOOOOD! it's called pearl liang or piao liang. you should try if you stay at that hotel. and then we went to miramar to take the world's second highest ferris wheel at night. only my aunt, fiona and i. my mum and dad didnt want. OH WELL. so we took damn lots of pics in the ferris wheel. hahaha. fiona and i were practically running around inside the ferris wheel cabin-like thingum to take pics. haha.

and now, we're on our way to shihlin ye shi! wheee! shihlin was nice but it was SOOOO crowded! oh and taiwan dogs are SOOOO cute! there was this pet shop and the dogs there are so cute! i shall post the pictures soon. from here i can conclude that taiwan dogs and guai-er and cuter than singapore's, with the exception of lucky (: lucky's cute. okay and there were stalls in the middle of the shops. and we were about to buy these two belts and then person was like, (in chinese) hurry up, okay okay i sell it to you cheaper, the police are coming, we have to run! OOOO i didnt know it was illegal. so anyway we bought two belts, one for me and one for fiona. walked for a while, but it was too crowded and squeezy, so we went out of the crowd to the food section. bought some REALLY nice fruits. dunno why all were so sweet, but they were really ex too! and a plate of xinzhu mifen and chou toufu! first time trying chou toufu. it's NICE. but my mum doesnt like. haha. after that went back hotel watch tv, sleep.

third day (friday 24th nov)

THIS DAY WAS THE FUNNEST!!!! :D

we went to liu fu cun today! it's this theme park where 5566 always film? hahaha. yupyup (: and it was FUNNN! it was also my first time on a viking ship. quite scary. looks low and harmless. but once you're on it ah, my limbs become jelly. when the ride stopped this couple was like, aiyoh ka neng~ hahaha. went on it with my aunt. fiona didnt want, she waited down there eating ice cream :\ we also went for sultan's adventure. this one's quite boring. and mountain adventure was quite fun. and very wet. had to use hair dryer after that one.. and also on this rollercoaster. haaha. fiona and my headknocked against each other. ouch.
(i realized i am losing my blogging skills. so i am SURE you are very bored. sorry.. ): )
okay continue, then after that we went for lunch at a famous roadside restaurant (forgot the name hee). usually it's really crowded, but we went really late, and the chef was ABOUT to leave for rest. lucky us. :D really really nice. TRUST ME (:

after lunch sat this long journey back to taipei and rested for a while. watched tv, ate, showered, and it was DINNERTIME! made our way to xin ye restaurant. a famous and simple-but-delicious restaurant! as we were eating, suddenly my mum and aunt starting talking about the hospital just opposite the restaurant. forgot the name, but it was where wangrenfu and jiqin's baby was born! LE LE!!! (: and i took a really blur and dark picture of it using my phone. rememberance sake. and then we started imagining what will happen if they were inside the hospital and decided to cross the road for dinner. hhahahah..

WHO KNEW WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN LATER. :

happily eating and chatting... and then foot the bill and went to xi men ding! but my dad went back to the hotel cuz he kinda didnt like shopping with us? tiring? yeah and he'll be the only guy. i mean, shopping for girls' stuff. kinda weird. so he went back first.. and then fiona, mummy, my aunt and i took taxi there! WOOHOO I LOVE XIMENDING! first, ximending has SO MANY STUFF TO BUY! second, THE WEATHER IS COMFORTABLY COOL! third, PEOPLE THERE ARE AROUND OUR AGE, meaning youths. fourth, THINGS THERE ARE NICE! fifth, the place seems comfortable! sixth, WE SAW 5566 FILMING! seventh, IT'S JUST REALLY NICE! go there and you'll know what i am saying :D oh and xijieshaonian was filmed there! yay.

so we were walking as per normal.... stopping to buy earrings and small stuffs that are cute and taiwan-ly nice. earrings.... many many clips.... nice special hairtie.... until it was quite very late... we were talking about how we might see 5566 filming. and we were only saying it jokingly... THEN. my mum was like, let's go back already. it's quite late, and it has been a tiring day. SOOO.. we were on our way back to the taxi stand. WHEN. we saw this crowd. and i saw overhanging microphones that look like they were from shaoniantegongdui! and then we went to see what was happening. LUCKILY WE DID OKAY! and fiona went to peep. this is how our conversation went:

fiona: AH WANGSHAOWEI EH!
joellyn: really?
fiona: no la. see wrongly.
joellyn: haiyah...
fiona: tiptoes* REALLY!!!
joellyn: REALLY!!! JUMPJUMPJUMPJUMP*

HYPERVENTILATION!!!! :DDDDD omg omg omg i cant believe i actually saw them when i FIRST come to xi men ding. ALL OF THEM. SUNXIEZHI! WANGRENFU! WANGSHAOWEI! XUMENGZHE! and bonus of yanxingshu, yuanyuan, and the shanliangsanjiemei. i mean, it's SO coinidental! dun you think so? yes you think so! AHHH! and just now we were justJUSTJUST talking about WANG LE LE! and here, we see LE LE'S FATHER! AHHH. (and esther just told me that on friday wangrenfu couldnt make it to host wanquanyule cuz he was filming shaoniantegongdui in ximending! how how how coincidental! AHHH!!!) i. cant. believe. it. and then we, mostly i, kept taking pictures... and heard that they were waiting for some table to come before they can continue what they have been filming. and when they were waiting, there was this commotion, and people were pushing. AND the pushing force push me until i was RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT RIGHT NEXT TO SUNXIEZHI. like, as next to as i am with xiner in class. AH. omg omg. it's seems so untrue. like... dreamlike. ahhh~ then i kept snapping pics until they got onto the bus. i think it was bout 20minutes? yeah. i think they were playing some guess price game. AHHH I SAW 5566 EH. I SAW 5566 EH! (this isnt a place i visited, but bolding is necessarily very required) ooooo. i will definitely load the pics soon! and post it! WHEE~! i feel faint.

okay so after that, went back to hotel. admired the pictures... watched nicenice tv with ouxiangju like, hua yang shao nian shao nu, jian dao shi tou bu (both currently watching on youtube now) and xing ping guo le yuan (will watch later). and HBO! slept very late. and kept tihnking of that memorable moment (:

fourth day (saturday 25th nov)

hualian day!!!

early in the morning, we went for breakfast downstairs in the hotel, and then went to the train station for a 3hour tain ride to hualian. train ride was quite fun. chatted, slept, listened to ipod, slept, scenery, slept, ipod (:

and finally we're in hua lian! the van from the grand formosa (the hotel we're staying in) will only pick us up at 3.10, so we had 1hour to spend. LUNCH TIME! :D crossed the risky and dangerous road to this roadside beefnoodles stall. that random stall's beef noodles was yumyum! ate until we are SO full before we returned to the train station.

by the time, the van was there already, and then we went towards the grand formosa, which was in taroko, a part of hualian. about an hour ride, but the van had a nice smell and was airconditioned in a just-right temperature. and cuz taroko was on a mountain, so i took tons of pics in through the car window, thus wasnt bored at all. but when i arrived there, i felt like throwing up. the journey was so bumpy, and i just realized i kept turning round and round to take pics. :S we checked in and then went for a walk outside the hotel. fiona and i bought an icecream and licked along the way. took nice pictures on the bridge! after that, we fiona, my aunt and i went for a swim in the indoor swimming pool in the hotel. the water was warm and nice....BUT, when you climb out of the water to your room, the process is UNBEARABLY COLD. cold that i was shivering, couldnt move, tripped over the step, and got a black big toe. REALLY COLD. dun try.

after a nice long warm shower, we went for dinner in the hotel. after that, we went to watch the aboriginal dance performance. then, we went down to the arcade and played this mini-version of bowling, bowlingo? ahahha. the ball is mini-fied and has no holes. the pins and smaller and the lane is shorter and narrower. but everything else, including the system, works like bowling! and after that, we went to the karaoke room. it's so lousy la. they have this album thing with songs inside with codes and you put in some coins and key in the code. and the songs are SO disorganised. in the end, only could find a few songs. and the MIC IS SO LOUSY and the mv, if they dun have they just put in random clips that are repeated in a few songs. haii... kbox muchmuch better. (: yay singapore!

after a longlong day, we went back, USUAL ROUTINE watch tv, more tv, chatchatchat, TVTVTV! sleeeep zzz.

fifth day (sunday 26th nov)

second day in taroko! morning.. went for breakfast in the hotel and then walked around the hotel aimlessly, before going back to the room to watch NICE NICE HBO MOVIES! we book a 'tour' that's only one hour to the nearby 'jiu qu dong' at 2pm. it's this trail that you're supposed to walk. oh and before the movies, we went to walk outside the hotel and we walked up this upslope trail into a nice and cool garden. and further up was a church. and the person there told us a LONGGGGG story about the church. i shall try to regurgitate whatever i remember (:

the church was occupied by soldiers and yuan zhu min people who stayed in the mountains last time. then as time pass by, more and more people either pass away or move down the mountains into the city and now, only left the pastor's family members living beside the church. and now the church only has 1 or 2 visitors who are tourists joining their service every sunday. but by the time we reach there, their service has ended already. so we took pictures and went back down. before going back down they told us they were going down the mountains as well and opening a church in xinzhu. we shall go visit the next time we go there! (:

lunch time! we didnt like the hotel food, so we went to this small stall opposite the hotel. the stall looks kind of 'dilapidated' with lots of stray dogs, and one of them had this 'zhong liu' on the stomach. poor thing. ): but then it was very crowded with people! cuzzzz... the food's really yummy! tofu's nice. mifen's REALLY nice. everrything's nice!!! love the food there! (in the end we ate dinner there too). after nice lunch, we went back to the hotel!

after more tv, we went to the lobby and the bus to send us the jiu qu dong was waiting there! went in and off we go.. (: the place's scenery's really nice. took lots of pictures. both of scenery and of us! taroko's quite nice, but it's SO far away from the city... doesnt feel very taiwan-ish. but it's fun anyhow. a contrast to the busy city lifestyle (:

yup and after that, we went back to the hotel, shower, watch tv, and went for DINNERRR! dinner was nicenice too. and then we went back to the hotel to take some picture for keychains! it's free. vouchers given if you stay in the hotel. after taking them, we were supposed to collect them at about 9plus at night, so fiona and i went to use the computers in the lobby. 10minutes for 10dollars. used for 1hour 10minutes (: made full use of the waiting time! and then we went to collect the keychains, but complications occured and we were supposed to collect them early in the moring at about 8.30am. after collecting only my keychain that didnt have no complications, we went back to our room for tv, tv, tv sleep.

sixth day (monday 27th nov)

BACK TO TAIPEI!

woke up real early. at about 7.30. packpackpack and then took this bus from the hotel to the train station. at first the person said it will be only about 40minutes. but at this particular spot, it didnt move for about 20minutes. and then this other family was very worried, cuz in the end, they ALMOST missed their train. they were practically runnin' when they got down the bus. and we, went for lunch before boarding the train (: you know, in singapore, meals dun sound so nice, but in taiwan it's different! the food there is simply scrumptious! (is it how you spell it?) we went to the same beef noodles stall and rushed back to the train station.

in the train this time it was more of sleep than anything. number1, ipod ran out of battery halfway. number2, this time's scenery somehow wasnt very appealing. number3, i was tired and sleepy. didnt sleep much the last night. TV's fault. oh and halfway through the ride, we passed by the train station nuan nuan. it's where liangjingru shot her mv for her song, nuan nuan. wanted to take picture of the station, but by the time i took out the camera, the train zoomed past it already ): oh well. nevermind. taiwan seems familiar yet not familiar. haha. like liu fu cun, hadnt been there, but know most of the rides inside. (:

finally in taipei already! and the weather has also became a lot colder! brr. heard from the taxi driver that it was raining the whole day. luckily we were in hualian.. went back to the hotel and checked in again. this time they prepared us the dunno what deluxe room. new interior-designed? seems the same to me. :\ nevermind... but the tv's all the same! watched tv, and then at night we went to ximending YAY YAY YAY to eat and shop! went to this rather ulu-ed restaurant, but the food's nonetheless YUMMAYE. taiwan shi zhong shi taiwan! and that night it was really windy and cold. after dinner, we went shopping! bought many things. bought this shirt, lots of hp decor lil things, a puffy black puch with two huge eyes (the aiqinmofashi's xiao jing ling!), earrings!, a nice small comb+mirror and an album! erm.. luaozhixiang's speshow. haha. after that, took taxi home. I STILL LOVELOVE XIMENDING, though we didnt see anyone that day. ): packpack tvtv sleepsleep. and my mum fell sick because it was real windy and cold. but she was wearing the most clothes. sigh... flu and cough and sorethroat. haii...

seventh day (tuesday 28th nov)

woke up. found out mummy was sick. ): went down for breakfast and then my mum and dad went back to the room, so that my mum could rest... then we also went back for tv. hbo. i remember we were watchingthis detective/kidnap/ richgirl/marriage/saved movie. really nice and it's happy ending too (: after that, when the rain became a lil smaller, we went to taipei 101, so we can use the bridge to walk to new york new york, another shopping mall! so we went there and ended up each buying a jacket. then we walked BACK to 101 for lunch and change more money to tai bi. then BACK to new york new york. after walking a lot, we crossed the road to hua na wei xiu this building with cinema and shops so that we can cross to xin guang, this other shopping mall. walked a lot, but ended up buying nothin'. so then we walked back to hua na, and then my aunt saw this tiny shop with a sign that says up to 50% discount clearance sale (in chinese of course), so we went in. and the things there are quite nice! fiona and i each bought this nice jacket. it's actually branded and they got only one of each size. i took s and fiona took m. they sold it like 1000dollars cheaper than outside. well, that's what they said. but it's really nice and cheaper than outside, but not say very cheap. and we each bought a long-sleeve shirt too! nicenice! <3>eighth day (wednesday 29th nov)

SINGAPORE MY HOME SWEET HOME!

in the morning, we woke up and had breakfast in the hotel. oh yeah before i forgot, this hotel's breakfast's really nice and feng fu! buffet. veryveryvery nice. (: and then brought some bread up for mummy to eat. and then pack somemore, before going to the airport. my dad left first cuz his flight bak to beijing was 1hour earlier. in the taxi i was sleeping throughout cuz slept REALLY late again. and this time back to airport's really fast. like, less than 40mintues? yeah. got off the taxi and into airport..

THE AIRPORT LOOKS SO FAMILIAR! must be those shows, like mvp, jiandaoshitoubu etc. they always having leaving scences in the airport. :D had mini-lunch. i shared subway with fiona, mummy had bacon sandwich and my aunt didnt wanna eat. and then we walked around and went into this shop with nice soft toy keychains. actually hk, singapore whereever also have that bradn, but since we have a lot of tai bi left, we might as well finish using em. so bought two for each person (:

THIS TAIWAN TRIP IS SO FRUITFUL! :DDDDD

and board the aeroplane... watch step up, rewatched scoop. and SLEPT.

5hours later........

SINGAPORE, WE'RE HOME!
(:

yay this taiwan trip has been FUN. so you people reading this.
GO TAIWAN!

i shall blog till here. this post i have been typing for about 3 days already. eyes blurryyyy.
byebye<3

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2006-11-29T06:12:00.000-08:00

HELLO long time no blog. moved here from my previous blog! something's wrong there. some pw problem. not sure about this one.

i shall blog about my taiwan trip! later. (:

byebye <3