hilarious. kudos to nat on this find heh. maybe i should try it.

how to get your camera back

today.... i realised how little buying power the SGD has... and how expensive ham and cheese and everything western is. sigh. =( wanna go back to londonnnnn

seasons of change

i'm back in singapore.

and i don't know what to say now... hm.
was thinking about a lot of things last night - about how london has moulded me and how i'm different... but back in my tiny non-room in singapore staring a thick stack of documents from NIE and MOE it feels like life here hasn't changed at all - and i dont know if i'll still be the london-me in time to come

still. it's time for a change... being greeted by a stack of documentation from NIE as a 'welcome' is proof of that lol.

i shall see what good God has in store for me.

the all-american (chinese) experience

lol i haven't been updating cos i'm bagpacking in the US and it's easier to give highlights at the end of the trip... but what happened today was too ridiculous to pass up on a blog entry

summary of chinese tour to niagara falls: falls were awesome, tour to toronto was nice but got overcharged by the guide, bus ride was way too long and the tour was just completely disorganised.

spent 14 hours on the bus to niagara falls from nyc on the first day cos they changed the itinerary and we set off late cos of some cock-up with the company's records. only reached the falls at 10 pm and it was so misty that there was no night view. zilch. thank God i didnt take the 2 day 1 night tour or i wouldn't have gotten to see any night view at all! hotel was nice tho... and the guide was trying his best, though his english was quite... ungrammatical

2nd day we started off quite disgruntled... 14 hrs on the bus and seeing nothing - who wouldn't be? but the guy was pretty good at explaining everything. he charged too much for admission fees tho... probably pocketed a couple of dollars for each admission. stayed on the canadian side of the falls after the tour and caught the night view - naise =)

3rd day was the ride back to nyc. horrid guide who didn't explain much, ordered people around, demanded tips and was generally useless as a guide + a bus driver with the typical black kinda way of speaking and a quick tongue + a bunch of indians who just didn't keep to time, didn't wanna pay tips and who demanded courtesy (granted the guide and bus driver were really rude) = big fight

twas cool. the bus driver and the tour guide didnt like each other. the bus driver liked to give time and didnt allow people to eat on the bus, the guide just wanted to be back home earlier so wanted people to eat on the bus and the indians were just looking out for themselves. so they got annoyed at each other at the corning glass museum and we left there 40 min late...

later at a rest stop the bus driver commands everyone to come back from the loo within 10 min or he would drive off. indian makes noise. bus driver asks dude to get his stuff and get off the bus. indian dude gets mad, bus driver starts shouting at dude, dude shouts at tour guide who shouts back, indians get off the bus and threaten to call 911, tour guide and bus driver tell them to 'call then' so they do. so we get stuck for an hour, police arrives, scolds everyone and we get on our way.

oh the best part... was that we caught up with this other bus from the same company... and to save time we transferred some people so that the bus would have to make fewer stops and people would get home faster. and the tourguide LEFT US FOR THE OTHER BUS! after collecting her service fee of course. CRAZY WOMAN. should get a refund -.-" what kind of tourguide leaves the passengers?

all-american-fight-for-your-rights indeed. lol straight out of some drama man.

note to self:

1. NEVER EVER GO BAGPACKING WITH PARENTS. especially when they're depending on you for everthing and completely clueless yet doubting everything you say

2. be a COOL PARENT who teaches the kids how to bagpack and fend for themselves


gah. my holiday. gah.