hullo hullo i'm back and loving it. china was great. =) i'm so lazy to post details but i'll try. last night my aunt, my two cousins, and i left beijing at 11+/12 and took out 6 hour flight to home sweet home. seriously, i love singapore .. the cleanliness and orderliness! THE MOISTURE. :D reached singapore at around 6+ and saw my mommy and daddy waiting for me there. AW. that was my trip home. now lets see, what else can i recall from the days before. [bear with my random and disorderly thoughts]

manicure was horrible the second time around. disaster. all the nail stuff peeled off. =(

got to show my bargaining skills. initially i just bargained for myself but in the end i helped my aunt too. they quote 100 you say 20. in the end they will settle for 25. IT'S FUN. when you start to walk away they'll go, hao ba hao ba wo bang ni bao qi lai ba. cannot let them take advantage lah, cannot. the girls at those accessory shops we were shopping at sid i was a gentle bargainer. yalah, no need to shout whad. just smile and quote your price, say, na jiu bu yong jing la zhen de tai gui le. xie ni la. =) and walk away, then they'll ask you to come back and sell it at your price. TRY IT. like a game. hahar. so i bought some earrings and three special rings. :)

ah, one funny thing on the way to beijing [28th]. this stewardess told me to put the leg rest up and then she said, your son too. [shockified and frowny-faced.] me: my son? stew: not your son? sorry about that. me: cousin. stew: sorry about that. sorry about that. ah, i just tell myself its my height.

sat an electric bus to carrefour! and to the zoo. all i can say is, i love the singapore zoo. at the zoo there were three spcial shows just for us! one fox pooping, one panda pooping, and one white tiger pooping. maybe the weather stimulates the bowels? :D

tell you ah, when te china ppl spit they can aim zhun zhun one ohkay. throughout the trip i have observed maybe hundreds of ppl spitting [didn't observe intentionally. it just happens eveywhere you turn.] and their mouths become guns of phlegm when they spit. very scary very yucky. *shivers*

air in beijing is very bad. polluted cause of the costruction and traffic and, i dunno, burning of coals? anyway, everyday you can catch relatives digging their noses intensely because of all the dirt you collect through the day. AND there's so much side smoke from those smokers! AH! but the air was good at tai an an especially on the mountain taishan.

food there? hmm, quite okay. we ate mostly at restaurants. the fisrt day i didn't wanna eat cause the food was plain weird, all mushrooms and fungi. the rest of the days were okay. i only avoided the toufu, which is smelly, it comes out smelling the same way it did when it went in. MAN. one of the days we had dinner at a korean BBQ restaurant! that was joy. seriously, it was delicious and cheaper than singapore AND i got to say anyonhaseyo to someone who really understood what it meant. yeahh.. another day we went to eat pizza hut. everything was the same lah, BUT CHEEPER. :) got to down two glasses of ice capichino. 2 LEH! we also ate macdonals twice because it's near to the shopping center we shopped at alot. have i mentioned the rice there is different? it's fatter and stickier, something like japanese rice. and they don't eat rice regularly. i think most of the time they just eat the dishes without any rice. so, before we left the airport there, my aunt's friend gave us a good KFC meal. the KFC there has some other stuff, like egg tarts and funny coleslaw.

the weather in beijing was dry, no rain. temperature were 4-6 degs, and my bro came home today [sunday] telling me it was 1-minus 0 degs now. my skin suffered abit as my face peeled and my lips were dry. the skin on my thigh too was peeling. my hands were fine. at taishan it was subzero and very fun. i rate that mountain worse than lombong. yes, i do. at least there's waterfalls on lombong to stop you from going crazy. oh well.

will post more as the thoughts come to me.

HULLO BLOGGG! anyonghaseyo everyone. goodness i miss my blog. i miss U ALL. so mushyy. lets see. quick update. no stories..

• first day: sleeep. oh beloved zees.
• second day: relax and adjust. meet beijing friends [of my aunts] and visit boring aquarium. sorry beijing, it's seriously boring. can't deny.
• third day: Tienanmen Square and Imperial Palace,
  The place where "The last emperor of the Ming dynasty hung himself!
  Huang Fu Zhing (Beijing's Orchard Road)
• fourth day: DA GREAT WALLLLLL. sucks the life out of you but makes you feel so accomplished. like superman. cold but shiok.
• fifth day: Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests.

then on thursday we went shopping at the local CARREFOUR [prices lower than singapore, logically.] and took our NIGHT TRAIN designated to tian an, the place where the mountain TAISHAN is in. train ride there was ohkay, facilities quite old but the ride and finding of seats was quick and smooth. i took the upp-est deck [3rd] which is higher than my loft bed at home because i'm younger, taller, and i boasted about my stupid loft bed. lol. only right lah, how can i make my aunts or uncle climb? train was cool. one compartment has two three decked beds [confusing but qwenchanayo] and there were 7 of us, so, rightfully, tim had to sleep in some seperate compartment together with strangers. POOR TIMMY.

when we reached tai an, we met our second tour guide of our china trip, who seemed to be nicer and more experienced and older and DOESN'T SEEM TO SMOKE/SPIT, unlike the first one. he saw my lil cousin and we found out he has an 11 mth old son. AWW. yeah he made the trip enjoyable.

so we climbed the impossible-to-me mountain which is 1545meters and has over 6000 steps. the product? I'M LIMPING. it was real high and we were in the clouds when we reached the top ... everything was white. i felt really free. then it started to snow little crystals, then the snow got really heavy. the guide said it was considered really heavy, and i was so dimmy happy. tim and i opened our mouths to try to eat the snow. =) happiness. it was beautiful. wish u all were there. THEN the steps got really slippery and as it was snowing up on the peak, it was raining at the bottom. had a funny time climbing down as i watched timmy and my relatives fall down one by one. OH, bad me.

went to other places concerning confucius, his birth, death, stuff. then the guide brought us to a FREE FOOT MASSAGE but all i got was a good feet-soak cause they said 18 and below cannot massage because it'ss mess up your health or something.

the train back was much newer BUT it was so crammed and it was so hard to find our places. in the place my aunt was supposed to sleep there was A DISGUSTING MAN INSIDE. he was supposed to take an upper deck but he saw nobody in the lower one yet so he took it. EEYER! tsk. there was also a fight in the car beside where we were sleeping. china men squeezing here and there and shouting. EEEEYER!! i don like, but i survived. hahar. woke up with no voice and a very painful throat, think it was because of the smoke that was filling my compartment during the night. WHY SO MANY CHINA PPL SMOKE ONE?! =( was so happy to reach back at my aunt's apartment this morning and totally K.O.-ed on the couch while somebody was watching tv. hopefully i won't get any sick-er. =)

TOMRROH TOMORROH, I'M LEAVING, TOMORROH [singing along to that tacky broadway tune] and i'm sohh excited.

today we packed up more things and got ready our passports and stuff. tomorrow we'll be at the airport at around 1pm and we'll have lunch there. the flight's at 4:50pm. beijing beijing here i come!

PACKING is so fun. it's the first time i'm packing winter clothes and i tell you, it's not as easy as it looks. winter clothes are poofy things that don't wanna fold where they're supposed to. i wish i have like, a huge powerful vacuum that would vacuum pack all those jackets and suck the air out of them so i have more space. yeah, i'll get tim to invent one when he grows up.
i think i've packed almost everything i need. got some cool leather gloves and OHOH did i mention, tim was lent this leather jacket that is so so nice and smells so so leather. i sneeze when i smell it, that's the intensity of the smell. we're trying to air it so tim doesn't give china the first impression of a cow. i managed to get some pretty nice jackets myself. *grinnns* ah, hopefully we don't look too tourist-ish there. if someone starts rattling to me in chim chinese beyond my understanding i've resolved to just say, jiang ying yu ke yi mah? and if they continue rattling on then i'll just say, anyong ha-seyo! and bow and run away.
see? i've got it all figured out. :|

been saving saving saving money [other than my mos meals on sunday. FYI i don't really at out during the week due to my parents' love for cooking, so i'm not wasting money by eating at mos burger on sundays.] and finally i can go to china and SHOPPPPPehhhh. hopefully everything's realllllllyyyyy cheap there. hopefully all the branded unimitation goods are realllllllyyyyy cheap there. hopefully i find S$100 there. and the list goes on ...

bran has developed the habit of squeezing behind the sofa from one end and poping out SO CUTELY at the other end releasing with him a huge puff of dust and other yucky behind-the-sofa-and-never-to-be-discovered stuff. dono whether to smile at him or slap him. tsktsk. :)

ask me to sing 'gom semariga' when you see me. ask timlow to dance along. AHAHA.

will try to make it for the camppp. lots of people asking me to go. SEE HOWW. i may just be too busy at home defrosting OR sleeeping OR doing both at the same time. AYE i dono how to go to the camp site. :(

since beijing is the primary thing on my mind now, the image of me, standing at the great wall with my hair blowing in the wind, is stuck in my mind. IT'S SOH FUNNEH. will bring back pics if tim's camera survives the weather.

add on an inspirational/idiotic face to that mental picture.
PS my hair is naturally brown, thank you.

yesterday the electricity got cut here AGAIN and it will be cut AGAIN next tuesday. more repair/upgrading work. we all went to SSC for two reasons, free shuttle bus and air-con. =) so singaporean. after lunch and a few hours there tim went cycling with jx, i came home, and my parents went to visit my granny at the dialysis center. they went to my aunt's house after that and came home with a small luggage packed with more winter clothes! yayyy.

will leave this saturday. praying for a safe trip and most of all a FUN TIME. aw, don't cryy, i'll be back soon, on the 29th. will see if i can make it for the last few days of the youth camp. :)

lovelove. see y'all. email me while i'm gone leh, my gmail add. i'm afraid i'll be bored in the house freezing my butt off. SO SCARY. SO FUN. FROZEN AGGIE!

raye gotta better J-O-B. go raye!

last night we were all peacefully watching TV when all of a sudden i said, eh. u smell smoke? we checked all our electrical appliances, stove, everything. then i opened the door and pooof, all this smokey air came in! EEEK. tuns out there was a fire at the coffeeshop a little ways down from our house. so, being tim and agnes, we rushed down to TAKE PICTURES and admire the general splendor. my mom forced mydad to go down with me cause it was quite late and she's watched alotta crime watch. :| anyways, SO KAYPO RIGHT, like those ppl who have no business being at accident scenes but fuss around anyway, stating their speculations and being irritating to policemen. anyway, there was lotsa smoke and fire engines and policemen and firemen. all those uniforms. :) tim was clicking away at his beloved camera when this policeman approached him and asked him what the photos were for, and tim said personal use. in the end the policeman took down all his particulars and requested that he stopped taking pics in scenes like those because, "... investigations are still going on..." AHH, WE TALKED TO A POLICEMAN LEH. :D so kool. we also saw firemen evacuating people from the houses on top of the coffeeshop.

jx, our MBC fireman, wasn't on duty yesterday, and couldn't be bothered with the fire. he lives right next to the coffeeshop and didn't even know there was a fire. ah, he's pbbly sick of fires already anyway. lol.

back home we were joking about the whole thing..

dad: aiyah, no helicopter ya?
aggie: YALAH, if got helicopter then tt's at least something.

heehee.

church was as usual today. Psng preached about christians treating God like a lucky charm, to protect us and make good things happen throughout the day. GUILTY. :| good lesson, even though i was struggling to stay awake with my sore throat and all.

THEN, i went out my buddies to j8 [again] to eat and i draggggged them all to mos burger [again]. this time, our guest of honor was sher's brother. the last few weeks it's been raye's brother. so i guess the next week i gotta bring tim. *shrugs* like always we talked loud [very noisy mah, cannot hear each other. mei ban fa. EXCUSE] and had a good chat. rachel pointed to what she WANTED to order but appearantly the counter person got it wrong so she had to eat somthing she didn'torder and SHE DIDN'T LIKE ITT. aww so poor thing. marcus gobbled up his burger and asked, how much's another one? WAH, big appetite, or maybe small burger lah. so he bought himself another one. sher had to go blading so we all headed home.

the beijing trip is getting closer and closerr! exciting. :) i hope i don't get all grumpy there cause i DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING. ah.. beijing beijing. beijing toilets no doors, that's what they all say.

AHAHA! uncle.. um, MR. kimhee views my blog now eh. HULLO! SORRY IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND ANYTHING! heehee. why cannot call you uncle? then what to call you? aiyar uncle doesn't sound old lar. =D

cheerio. read yer bibles!

last night we were all peacefully watching TV when all of a sudden i said, eh. u smell smoke? we checked all our electrical appliances, stove, everything. then i opened the door and pooof, all this smokey air came in! EEEK. tuns out there was a fire at the coffeeshop a little ways down from our house. so, being tim and agnes, we rushed down to TAKE PICTURES and admire the general splendor. my mom forced mydad to go down with me cause it was quite late and she's watched alotta crime watch. :| anyways, SO KAYPO RIGHT, like those ppl who have no business being at accident scenes but fuss around anyway, stating their speculations and being irritating to policemen. anyway, there was lotsa smoke and fire engines and policemen and firemen. all those uniforms. :) tim was clicking away at his beloved camera when this policeman approached him and asked him what the photos were for, and tim said personal use. in the end the policeman took down all his particulars and requested that he stopped taking pics in scenes like those because, "... investigations are still going on..." AHH, WE TALKED TO A POLICEMAN LEH. :D so kool. we also saw firemen evacuating people from the houses on top of the coffeeshop.

jx, our MBC fireman, wasn't on duty yesterday, and couldn't be bothered with the fire. he lives right next to the coffeeshop and didn't even know there was a fire. ah, he's pbbly sick of fires already anyway. lol.

back home we were joking about the whole thing..

dad: aiyah, no helicopter ya?
aggie: YALAH, if got helicopter then tt's at least something.

heehee.

HELPED OUT IN HLC TODAY. some awards day thing. tried to contribute here and there but i think i was more of an ornament, just standing around smiling and trying to recognize parents and remember kids' names. GOOD THING RAYE AND SHER WERE THERE or i would have been quite grumpy(confession. lol.). kids = energy & complaints. it was pretty fun. :)

last year (or some past year) i was helping in a supervisor training course for people who wanted to be supervisors to homeschoolers (and you are all blur, but it's ohkay.) and there was a guy and his wife who participated. his name's kim hee. anyways, his son is now in HLC! and suddenly he came up to me today and said, HEY AGNES NI HAO MAHHH?! (me in shock) i remembered his name because i thought it sounded like kimchee, the korean food, when i first heard it. so he asked me how i was and about my hair and scouts and school and general stuff and i hadda go. :) YAY, i'm recognizable. heehee. it's my spastic face, i tell you.

today sis. maria mentioned my rate of growth (northward). i wonder if i permed my hair and dressed up, would i pass off as an 18 year old? *idiotic thinking face* :D

today's my friend' birthday celebration at the nite safari and I'M NOT THERE. sorry melodyyyy. :( SORRY!

will post up pics asap. RAYE, YOU PIC SNATCHER YOU!

playing around is our hobby. bran has learned to climb onto poeple's bellies after finding out it is one of the most comfy places to be on. :) cute huh. in the afternoon my mom was taking care of her plants outside and bran got out. he sniffed around along the corridoor and came back with a snout-full of black dirt. EEYER. he was pbbly trying to find out how he looked like with a mustache. hahar.

asher and the splinter. =)

yesterday timmy got his braces changed to WHITE! keehee. it's a wonder that he'd put up with so much pain for the sake of his teeth.

woke up today to timmy's voice, saying, OEI WAKE UP SIS SUWEI COMING. first thing i thought was, FOR WAD! (heh actually no lah, first thing i thought was i gotta pee, but anyways) in the end asher had a splinter in his foot, small one, and they were coming over to try to get it out with my nurse-mom's help. so i stumbled out of bed moodily and got dressed and dug out my mom's pincing tools groggily. in the end even she couldn't get the stubborn thing-of-a-bob out of his foot, so they settled with watching it. if it gets infected then asher's gotta go visit the doc's, but if not, then the splinter'll just come out naturally. made coffee for his mom and poured milk for him and his brother, they all ate at my house, talked some small talk about beijing, and went to HLC to send asher to school. SIGHS. yeah, you guessed it, she asked about our physical fitness again. i won't elaborate on that, it's not worth getting angry over anyway. small remarks make my blood just B-O-I-L. deep breaths, aggie. calm yourself..

homeschoolers are passed off as physically soft and unfit, and huge kids in public school ge away without so much as one hurtful remark. tim gets ridiculed most of the time and I HATE IT.

WAS AND AM SWEATING MY ARMPITS OUT because of the unreasonable heat of my motherland. i hope the cold of beijing will make me thankful for the singapore weather. SOSO, in church i found out everything's oh-kayy and tianlong isn't one to hold a grudge. *relief sia* got to have nice talks with my buddies and a nice time playing with funny looking balloons. learned some stuff from all those lessons, although i was seriousy sleepifyingly drowsy all through. :|

sher had some scouts test on so raye and i proceeded to our hopefully weekly lunch together. i didn't mind that her mom and brother came along, or rather that i was leeching on to her and her mom and brother. anytime better than eating ALL ALONELY. keehee. had wantan mee that aunty penny told me wasn't nice after i ordered it. then raye and scaled j8 just like we always do, spending more time at sasa than any other place and wishing out loud that we worked there or owned the shop.

THEN ARH, this one i must complain man, THAT RAE-CHER GO AND SPRAY SPRAY SPRAYYY PERFUME so called testing SPRAY UNTIL SPRAT IN MY FACE LAH! like, PSSST! then i, OWOWOWWW, then she hold my shoulders and shake me, SORRYY SORRYY. therefore, i had teary eyes and perfume in my mouth for the rest of the afternoon. *note, SPRAT isn't a typo. it's some word i cooked up hopefully to get the essence of my message across. the entire spray was directly aimed at me in my trajectory not more than 10 inches away from my beloved face lahhhhh! 10 inches very generous aredy ohkay. if it were a stranger i'd consider sueing her. but it's rayeraye, i'll settle with slapping her. kiddinggggg.

i'll just stomp on her foot. heh. ok lah, step lah.

EEYER, alcohol in my eyes. RRAAAAARH.

came home with headache, which became bad headache and wore off after a few hours. oh asprin, where art thou?

the weekend has passed so fast! ah my beloved weekends, why? WHY? :)

have good days and remember me.

YAYYAYYAY my phone's kinda working. got some msgs. but if i don't reply any of your msgs it's pbbly cause i didn't get them.

went to mdm. lam's funeral wake just now and came back at 10+. a reminder of the solemn things in life. sincerely hope sis. peng peng will be in better spirits soon. :)

gotta do some serious studying tmr! blehblehblehhh.

gotta earbug. papa gom, mama gom, babee gom. papa gom eh tu tu eh.. :D

my phone still can't receive any messages. SO SADDD.

 

as i mentioned calmly yesterday, the electricity got cut from 8 to supposedly 5, but we got it back at around 1.30pm. SO IT'S NOT THAT BAD, thankfully. i like having electricity. :) first picture, daddy took the opportunity to clean up the fridge and ended up dropping, to my count, eleven eggs accidentally. he said it cost about a buck, so i don't think we lost alot of money. it was still funny. now bran has eggs to eat everyday for the next few weeks.

some of the wire jungle scenes tim took. my poor mommy couldn't sleep the whole day after coming back from a 12 hour night shift, and she has to work again tonite. aiyar, why can't drills be totally silent? i will ask tim to invent a silent drillwhen he grows up.. lol.

going to sis.pengpeng's mom's wake later in the evening.

 

TOMORROH THE ELECTRICITY IS GONNA GET CUT HERE! AAH! not because we didn't pay the bills, no. they're doing some repair or installation or something and some blocks' electricity are gonna hafta get cut. AIYARR, i think i'll study in the library or something, UNLESS some freak wind blows into my window the whole day and cools my room.

still unable to get messages. anybody wanna tell me anything tell me on msn or call or tag. :(

EEE timmy borrowed my headphones and now they STINK. tsk.

the china trip is comingg! now i'm getting abit excited. i still wish the destination were korea, though. gotta thing for that place, and greece and paris and the philippines and canada. maybe i'd have gone to all those places by the time i'm .......... 80. =| know what my dad would joke when i talk about stuff like this? "go marry a rich husband lah" :D

TODAY WAS SOFA-FINDING DAYYYYYYE. :) the old one is spoilt and the picket and rail people came to take a look, and in the end we could make a trade-in! and this time, mommy and daddy brought ME along. HEHEH. tim too. went to a warehouse in woodlands straight after breakfast and after a few hours we chose this sofaa.. hopefully it lasts and is nice to sit on. it'll come at the end of the month. YAY!