Wednesday, November 30, 2005
yayy! valencia and i got into smp! wheeeee! (: me is happy ((((((: haha but then all the other applicants from our school got in too so it's no big deal. haha.
anyway. i watched the sneak preview of pride and prejudice with nise and valencia yesterday! haha. after walking around parco bugis aimlessly. well there wasn't much to look at anyway. and we went to simply thai for dinner. whee i luv their mango salad. a bit spicy though. but it still rocks! hee.
pride and prejudice is such a nice show! haha yes and as valencia puts it, "it's so sweeet!" haha that's what she kept repeating after the show. but yeah i must agree. (: lol. i wanna read the book too! hee. ohhh and we thought we saw orlando bloom. ((: i mean, how many poeple look like orlando bloom right? so i bet it was him. haha but he was one of the minor characters. ><
^_^ i can't wait for lunch! i'm hungry! :/
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disney.: haha you tagged three times consecutively! wow. haha. man head mushroom is a cute name ok. and lol since you like cleaning so much, you should clear my room for me too! haha. do a good deed... >< joking
valencia: well duh. didn't you know i luv food?! haha. food is NICE. >< whee.
joyce: hi! i've been back since a long time ago. bout one month ago! hee. (: blur. but yeah food rox! haha don't you think so too. >< food, glorious food! ahaha.(x
Saturday, November 26, 2005
whee. today i went for lunch with my mom and auntie shanti! at delifrance again! i luv their green pea soup! whee yayy! so fun. auntie shanti is really amusing. (: >< haha. and then we went shopping! at raffles city! woot. i like that place too! and it's very glitzy around this time of the year (: haha.
and the body shop there is like one of the few special branches that sell the vanilla spice series! haha but i still like cranberry. oooh and i tried out the shimmer lotion. it was totally cool! really. i think there's some silver dust mixed in with the lotion or something. >< whee yayy it rox.
and then we went to popular at bras basah complex. that building is really ratty. but popular itself is really nice. they have about 4 or 5 storeys. wow. >< such a waste locating it in a ratty old building.
ooooh and we met my dad for dinner at this authentic yunnan restaurant called city cuisine or something like that. hee. omg i really luv their mushroom steamboat! they used so many different types of mushrooms: shiitake, enoki, abalone mushroom, king oyster mushroom and some other kind of fungi. wow. from now on, i luv mushrooms. >< ohhh and there was this special mushroom called lao ren tou mushroom, which translates to man-head mushroom. haha. cute name right? and it tasted fabulous too! apparently it's only available this season. and it grows on mountaintops. haha. and we tried the tianqi chicken soup also. nice and peppery. (: ohhh and the tea rocked too. sour plum tea. haha. and the dessert was eight treasure rice. it was...well... sticky. yeah. glutinous rice.
yayy i have three tickets to the preview of pride and prejudice. (: going with nise and valencia! whee. can't wait (: haha.
it appears that i fill my hols with nothing but shopping and pigging out and of course, mugging for jap. my least favourite hol activity. ah wells. one more week to go! jiayou nicole! (: haha.
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nise: hello hello! haha. that was chocolate the penguin all melted down into soup... poor chap. haha just joking. but yeah..burnt or not, it still rocked! (:
oh yes and i forgot to mention... nise gave me this cute little strawberry keychain from cameron highlands. (: it's really cute. i'm naming it strawberry. [look at some of my toys' names and you will notice a trend... eg. potato, strawberry, marshmallow, mini mango, baby berry, etc. haha]and i received a jar of strawberry jam and some teacino too! haha the teacino rox. (: whee. yayy!
Thursday, November 24, 2005
wow finally. my piano atcl is over! (: haha. it was kinda freaky really. my legs were shaking haha. and i got a lady examiner! ugh i don't really like female examiners. they tend to be very ....erm... over-detailed. yes. but never mind, hopefully the one i got was an exception. ooh and i saw chng min there. haha so coincidental!
and then after that, i went shopping with my mom. around taka and wisma. (: wheee. we bought clothes! for me! hee. (: and i saw mrs mohammed! coincidence again. and we ate haagen dazs ice cream. mmmm i totally luv the panna cotta ice cream. raspberry ice cream plus raspberry sherbet plus small cubes of cakes plus two choco sticks plus one piece of wafer. and they were supposed to have two fresh raspberries on the cone too but they ran out of raspberries yesterday. so sad. i luv raspberries. (x
and then we went to great world city to watch harry potter and the goblet of fire. hee. my dad received two free tickets + two popocorn combo coupons. (: and they had a reception dinner before the show. not very nice though. i only liked the sushi. the rest of the food was all soggy and gross. :/
anyway. i think harry potter was quite nice! haha not as bad as the review put it. yeah just that it was a bit dark. but it still rocked! haha. anyway. by the time the show ended, it was 12:15 in the morning. wow.
then today i went shopping with nise before strings. haha we were at taka. again (: haha looking for margaret's bdae prezzie! lol. we were contemplating what to get for her. and we wanted to get something red. man u colour. lol. some things that we considered buying: a red bottle, a red furry photo frame. a pink furry dustbin [pink is quite close to red actually. as nise put it: pink is a diluted shad of red. haha] . red notebook, red lacy undies, red socks that reach halfway up the thigh, etc. haha. but in the end we bought a red pencil case (:
and we went to eat haagen dazs ice cream fondue! (: lol i keep eating haagen dazs these days... must be addicted. lol. i guess i'd better watch my diet. so many sweet stuff. heee and they changed the fondue set slightly. last time they cut the ice cream into cubes. now the ice cream is in some roundish shape. very cute. and now the choc sauce solidifies faster on the ice cream. (:
and then we went to marks and spencer at wheelock place (: omg i felt like drooling. seriously. and they're still selling the candy that i like. the fizzy fish. (: whee. and percy pigs. i used to eat them but i thought they were called penny pigs last time.
and then we went to borders! whee. walking around for sometime looking at books. xD very fun.
and then we went to school! for streengs! haha supposed to be sectionals today. but the violin one section ended up slacking.haha. we called it the intra-section bonding session. haha. basically chatting. quite nice too! haha i like this. and i discovered this cute little squishy furball on the floor. it was reallllyyy cute! black with two small little yellow dots for eyes. and the whole furball was only the size of my thumbnail! imagine that! haha and iwas squishing it! and margaret provided the sound effects. ahaha. and deanna tried squeezing it into the f-hole of the violin. haha. i took some pics of the furball sitting in different positions on my violin. cute right?
and we were playing with sylvia the bear too. it looked kinda downcast today though. so we tried making it look up, but that only made it look more retarded. haha. and in the end i put the little black furball on top of sylvia's head. (: it looks cute but spastic. >< haha and yihui kept on imitating the bear's pose. haha. not on purpose though. i think.
i'm still wondering how they're going to allocate the classes for next year. i hope i don't get stuck with undesirable characters. yucks. example, people who are arrogant and stuck up and judge others based on the type of house they live in and only mix with people who are smart, or people whose parents are doctors. such people really irritate me. such people will never be my friend because they are so superficial. gross. HA and to make things worse, such people are not even in the "sought-after" category themselves. so what are these people trying to achieve?! a boost to their own self esteem? really. and yesterday, the news i got regarding one such person was really enough to put me off and totally ruin my mood. right before my piano exam too. but at least i managed to perk up before my exam. ah well.
no tags to reply today. so i shall say bye. (:
Sunday, November 20, 2005
wheehee. i'm eating lunch in a few minutes time. so i shall try to blog as fast as possible. ><
the day before yesterday, [oops i mean the night before yesterday] i watched "the exorcism of emily rose" with my parents. it was, omg, so totally freaky. but well, yeah it was a nice show. i wonder why the review on it didn't seem so good? haha but anyway. yeah it was kinda freaky, the way the girl could contort her body into impossible positions and the way she screamed. gross. and the priest was really cool too! heh. the way he tried to exorcise the demons. eeeks.
and i hope i won't ever wake up at 3 am in the morning for toilet trips or whatever. and next time i smell something burning, i won't go out to investigate. haha just joking. of course i still would. it might be a real fire. hehe.
ooh and i totally luv the seaweed french fries and the teriyaki burger at macdonalds! hee. i mean i've always loved macs, but this one is really the ultimate! (; hee. just that the seaweed was a little salty. i bet it was full of ajinomoto but nvm. i'll only eat it once in a while only. (:
and then yesterday i was at pepper lunch with my mom and godma! mmmm it was yummy! haha. i took the cut steak. oooh and you have to cook the meat yourself. they serve you the stuff on a hot plate and then you have to mix up all the ingredients in order to cook the stuff. quite cool really. (x and they put black pepper in all their dishes. haha. me luvs black pepper. (:
and we were shopping at takashimaya too! whee. that's the kind of shopping centre that i like. (x haha.
sigh. i have violin lesson soon. bahh.
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kevy: hihi! yeah it's very cute right? that's why i chose it.... hahas
lulu: haha really? nvm i still wanna watch it. hee and i can never really differentiate between nice shows and not-so-nice shows. >< haha were your new shoes like the kind that mickey mouse wears? the large white kind... hee.
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
whee! went out shopping with my godma today! haha. quite fun...we were at tampines mall and cnetury square. haha. well actually there wasn't much to see...yeah and i don't mean to sound stereotypical but they are heartland malls after all and they are like so totally definitely not as good as orchard road. definitely. me totally luvs orchard road! haha but that's not the point. ><
anyway. they did have some nice shops there anyway..eg. body shop! haha i luv that shop too! it's quite nice haha. and i luv body shop stuff! like the cranberry series which is only out around christmas time. (: goodness...it smells really nice. ooh and there was this new series too...and one of the fragrances was called fuzzy peach! or something like that. whee! i like it (x haha.
and i bought this really cutee rubber band. for tying hair. it's really colourful (: pink and purple and blue and green and white strands of elastic held together by a metal-clippy-like-thing. haha. and i bought my mom's bdae gift too! haha. xD
and then we went to watch a movie! (: just like heaven. haha it's a really hilarious comedy :D yeah. and it's quite a sweet story too! lol. omg i didn't know that comatose people's spirits could leave their body and roam around. goodness. [not like i'd want to try it though.] yeah and the casting was quite suitable too. haha. and the 2 main characters' names were quite cool. haha. reese witherspoon and mark ruffalo. [or was it michael or something like that? i can't remember =D whoops]
oooh and i saw the trailer for harry potter and the goblet of fire. cool! i wanna watch too! haha and i bet the movie is gonna take quite long. like duh. ><
last sunday i went to the studio to try out the piano for my exam. goodness. i can't believe i'm going to be playing on that thing. the keys are stiff and the pedal is squeaky! yucks. my mom bought fruit cake. (: whisky marmalade cake. eeheehee. (x yayy. and i luv the xiaolongbao at the dingtaifeng place. had dinner with godma as well. oooh and that night we were having haagen dazs ice cream! my fave! haha. omg we tried the panna cotta flavour and tiramisu (: they ROCK. haha. i like green tea too! and macadamia. and bailey's cream. and brandied black cherries. and custard pudding! *drools*
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elaine: haha so blur you tagged twice. hee. (: but anyway. yeah! it was really fun! hee. haha have a great hol too! (: haha. potato kitties rock! (x
dustbin: yo! haha. yeah i know the cats are cuteee! duh that's why i chose it (: haha. ohh are the words still so hard to read? i already changed the font from white to black! yeah but anyway egypt was super nice and fun! yeah. you can read my blog entry below. (:
Saturday, November 12, 2005
yay. this is fulla. (: the doll i bought from egypt. she's a muslim doll wearing the hijab. hee. you wouldn't find barbie in egypt though... cos they consider her bad...western values. heh.
yayy! went for streengs yesterday (x erm. well actually i wasn't really feeling well...my stomach hurt. boo. :( but a little while later i was feeling slightly better so i took a cab and zoomed down to school. hee. (: and i'm glad i went..cos it was super fun! (:
hee. and it was nicer still, because so few people went. [ok yes i know that sounds bad... i shouldn't really be happy that the rest of strings didn't turn up] haha but it was still nicer. (: smaller group, you see. cosier. (: haha. so funny. ms ku said that the security guard refused to let her in, and told her to come back on monday. hee. that's why she was late. lol and then when she came in, she asked us if she looked like a bandit or something. haha i'm so amused. xD
hee. and we had a new piece! whee! two new pieces in fact. haha. but it was all kinda messy though...we kept on getting lost. haha. and i dunno why but deanna and i were the only unlucky stand who got some weirded kind of score which wasn't stuck in order. like the usual kind would be pg 1 then 2 then 3. but ours was pg 1 then 3 then 2. hoho. so we spent a long time figuring where everyone else was playing. haha. but i like the 2 pieces! they sound very cool. haha. (x
oooh and ms ku was being entertaining! she told us the story of "the red violin" haha i seem to have heard it somewhere before just that i can't remember where. it was kinda creepy though. i can't believe some people can be so perverse as to "dejuice" their wife[as how ms ku put it] then mix the blood with varnish and then paint the violin. goodness! yucks. i was scrutinising my violin after that. but nope! it wasn't red. it was orangey brown. yayy. i wouldn't want to drop dead suddenly like that person who bought over the red violin. haha. hmm it seems like most ghost stories start with red. like red violin. and red candy. and red shoes. gosh. oh and at first i missed some parts of the story because i was yakking with deanna. so afterwards i was asking stupid questions like "you mean the composer of that piece killed his wife?!" and stuff like that.
anyway. (: nise wrote me sooo many letters! haha. one for each day while i was away in egypt. woot. (: yayy. *boink* and i got this whole stack of stuff too. like the year 3 booklist, school fees letter, eng and chinese papers, etc. bahaha.
i think the hols are kinda boring though. boo. really. nothing to do. haha. except for sleeping. uh huh. and hmm.. eating. (: boink. i wanna sleep the whole day! yayy! but that's not very possible though...still have to practise piano. and study for jlpt. ): boohoo. and there's currently no interesting event for me to look forward to. except for christmas. which is still a long way to go. *whines* and i'm still having post-holiday-blues. whee. so i miss the food and the place and everything else. haha. sounds stupid, i know. ><
anyway.
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lulu. : hee. yayy i changed the font colour to black! yayy i luv black! (: see i'm so pro at html code! lol ok. not really actually, but nvm. ><
valencia: hello! yayy haha. i think everyone had the wrong impression of egypt... it has a mediterranean climate so it is very hot during summer [about 40 deg] but winters are usually mild. uh huh. so during winter, it's only hot and glaring for about 4 hrs, then the rest of the time, it can be as cold as 17 deg. hee. but anw. i was wearing long sleeves to protect my skin from the sun. cos i dun wanna get skin cancer. and i dun like sun block either. so sticky. heh.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
pharoah nicole (:
hathor!
temple of horus
temple of isis!
the sphinx!
step pyramid...
mohammed ali mosque.
alexandria...the mediterranean sea! (x
Tuesday, November 08, 2005
whee! i finally collected my progress report today! (: haha. yayy. and then i went to delifrance for lunch with my mom and godma (: the cerises Jubilee was yummy! hee me luvs ice cream. but i expected a larger portion though. then it turned out that it was the size of a coffee cup with only one single scoop of icecream. ah well. but it still tasted nice..like brandied cherries! (: and it had toasted almond flakes too! whee!
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valencia: hi! why am i an earthling?! sounds like duckling. ): but anyway. yayy! 212 rox! (: haha. i saw your email to the 212 yahoo groups! haha. so inspiring! (: lol. still dunno where you're going for holiday? hee.
Monday, November 07, 2005
yayy i'm back! (: haha. my hols were great fun! hee. it was very cool. (: haha. and no. egypt was not really as hot as i expected. in fact, it was pretty cold at night. and there were many stars at night too! cos the sky was so nice and clear. haha. it was practically cloudless.
lol and coincidentally we were the last group to book the flight there. and they had run out of economy class seats. so we were upgraded to business class! yayy! the service there rox! but what i like best is that the seats can arrange itself into a bed. (: yayy so i slept for the whole journey there. except for mealtimes of course. the food rocked too! (: hee.
okay. i shall start from day 1. nothing much really. after landing in luxor, [the previous capital of the new kingdom] we checked into our hotel. it was one of the movenpick resorts. yayy and it was on this place called crocodile island. (: and nope there weren't any crocs there. anyway. the hotel was in the form of a large chalet. whee. it was really beautiful! (x
day 2. first day of actual sightseeing! we visited the valley of the kings on the west bank of the nile! it was seriously very beautiful, with all the gorges and valleys. there are 64 pharoahs' tombs there! but so sad. they didn't allow any photography inside the tombs. boohoo. the inside of the tombs were nice too! there were many hieroglyphs carved on the walls. but many of them had already been eroded and defaced over time. yeah but it still looked gorgeous.
next: temple of hatshepsut. it was built in a really nice place with rock terraces and cliffs in the background. lol. and the walls had nice hieroglyphics too! haha but actually for all the temples and tombs i visited, they all had hieroglyphics on the walls.
then we went to see the colossi of memnon. it was basically just this little place with 2 large statues of a pharaoh. whee they were really large! and they were both sitting down. imagine if they were standing up. they'd be colossal! [whoops i just realised that statues can't stand. haha]
next was the karnak temple. omg it was simply wonderful! it was super huge with many pylons and a large hypostyle hall with over 120 giant columns. wow. and there was this large sacred lake too! whee. and there was a mosque and a chapel in the compound too!
at night we checked into this deluxe cruise called renaissance. (: it was quite nice. especially the sundeck. (: it had a nice view of the surroundings. the cabin rooms were a little squeezy though because of the extra bed.
day 3. we visited the luxor temple! it was quite like a typical egyptian temple with pylons and columns and hieroglyhs on the walls. heh after that we returned to the cruise which started sailing towards edfu. lol i slept in the cabin for the rest of day since we couldn't go anywhere else. anyway i was having a flu. some idiot spread it to me on the plane. grrr.
there was a really cool event at night though: the crossing of the esna lock. (: lol it was pretty late at night . we all observed from the sundeck. whee. and you could actually see the water level rising inside the lock. [we were supposed to travel from lower waters to higher waters] how memorable!
day 4. temple of horus! haha. again, it was very nice. the pylons of the temple had carvings of horus with his wife hathor, along with the pharoah bartholemy. hee i like egyptian gods and goddesses! especially anubis and bastet[bastet is a really cute cat goddess] and horus and isis and hathor. yayy! and i luv egyptian mythology too! heh i used to read it a lot. (x
then we sailed to kom ombo to visit the temple of sobek[crocodile god] and haroeris[hawk god]. we saw a mummified croc! so cool right. there was a sacred lake too but it was all dried up. heh.
at night there was this fun event called 'egyptian night' on board the cruise. hee. i dressed up in a galapia! it's this egyptian costume with the head scarf. (: my dad dressed up in some kind of sheikh looking outfit. and my mom wore an egyptian head scarf! (: whee.
anyway. egyptian night was super fun! there were a lot of games and music! for hte first game, they would play the music for a while and we would all have to dance. then when the music stopped, the person would call out a number and the people would have to quickly form a group with that number. haha.
then there was this pass the parcel game too. but haha it was more like pass the bottle actually. yayy i won that game! (: and my prize was a free drink at the bar. haha the bartender gave me hibiscus cocktail. whee it was yummy! me likes hibiscus drink. heh.
next game was a mummification game. (: lol it was really amusing watching the participants trying to mummify the person using toilet paper. hoho.
ohh and the room service people were very humourous too. after egyptian night ended, we returned to our cabins. haha i was really amused by what happened next. my mom opened the door and screamed really loudly. haha so i peered around her and saw this lifesize crocodile on the floor. haha okay it wasn't a real croc, just one made up of blankets and towels. and there was a toilet roll to keep its mouth open. haha. anyway. there was this room service guy who was watching us and he laughed at our reaction. haha.
such amusing people. they always do things like that. they made a lotus flower and two swans in the shape of a heart too! haha and then they also made a little man out of towel and then hung him up in the doorway of the cabin. goodness. this time it was me who screamed. and again, the chamberman laughed at my reaction. haha everytime they do something scary, they love hanging around to watch your reaction when you open the door. haha it's quite funny really. xD
day 5. whee we went to see the granite quarries and the unfinished obelisk at aswan. it was kinda rocky there. my shoes started to split. ): but it had a nice view. (: then we went to aswan high dam and lake nasser. (: lake nasser is really really huge. it looks more like a sea than a lake actually. yeppz. very cool.
next place: abu simbel. we had to fly there on egpyt air. goodness. that place is almost like a desert. nothing but sand and sand and sand. haha. but anyhow. it was a nice place. the temple of ramses II was carved in rock and it was facing lake nasser! nice view. and nice breeze too. woot. the only sad thing was that we didn't go in the morning at sunrise, when the sunlight will supposedly shine through the door of the temple. but anyway. even at noontime, it was still quite nice. the four statues at the entrance of the temple are really huge and beautiful, although one of the statues has already been defaced. the temple built for his wife, nefertari, was nice too! although it was much smaller than his.
hee then we went to the temple of isis on angelica island. okay it used to be on philae island, but it got flooded and so it was rebuilt on angelica island. whee. it looks somewhat like horus temple too. just that the figures were not of horus, but of isis. (: whee!
ooh then we sat on a felucca and cruised down the nile! yayy! very scenic. and breezy. haha. and then there were some very cute little boys floating along in their little makeshift sampans and singing some kind of funny mustafa song. so cute! and then they clung to our felucca so that they wouldn't have to paddle along themselves. haha. so unique. their boats were super tiny. and their oars were tiny too! they only used bottles and tabletennis bats as oars. goodness.
oh i forgot to mention that there are some very pro sea peddlers. they sell their stuff on their little boats on the nile. hee and they have perfect aim! they throw the stuff upwards onto the sundeck of the ships, which were five storeys high! and they always land on the deck! (: so amazing. and they can catch the money that people on board the cruise throw down too! WOW!
haha anyway we sang some kind of funny song on the felucca. lol. some kind of nubian song. lol.
and we were on the felucca for 1 hour too! (: whee.
day 6. boohoo. we left the cruise for cairo! so early in the morning. and we flew to cairo, on egypt air again. after landing, we visited cairo museum. goodness. that place is like so old. but it was quite beeg. and the monuments there were quite nice too! there were some animal mummies and there was this live mummy there too. and some sarcophagi. and some statues. but the best thing was still the room with tutankhamon's treasures! there was his mask, and his jewellery and his 3 layered-coffin. whee. but the place was so squeezy. and the people kept pushing each other too. and the stupid tourists kept shoving people aside so they could get to the front. my mom told one of them off. YAYY!
ooh then in the afternoon we went to the pyramids of giza! whee! that was the only thing i really liked about cairo. i preferred the other parts of egypt. but anyway. they were really huge! cheops' pyramid was the biggest, followed by chephren, and then mycerinus. whee. but i like chephren's pyramid the best! it still had some limestone covering left at the peak. the other 2 pyramids were quite eroded already. oh and guess what? the pyramids could change colour according to the direction the sun shone in. one minute they were sand-coloured, and the next minute they were grey. cool right.
the sphinx rocked too! it was really impressive. (x but poor thing. most of the face was quite eroded. the false beard had fallen off already. ): oh haha. i collected some sand from there... *looks meaningfully at joyce*
yayy next we had a camel ride. it was very scary at first...getting up onto the camel and all that. i screamed many many times. and so did my mom. haha but we got used to it after a while. and at least we were riding on a smooth road so it wasn't really very bumpy or anything. (; whee. but the camels were quite gross. there were many flies on their faces! ewww. they must be very dirty. ):
haha at night we went to the sound and light show at the pyramids. it's something like the musical fountain at sentosa with the laser beams and sound efects. hee. it was beautiful! the sphinx and the pyramids were all lighted up! and there was this narrative about the history of egyptian civilisation. cool! and pretty informative too! (:
our hotel in cairo was nice too. again it was one of the movenpick resorts. and it had this lovely view of the pyramids. (x whee. ohh and the cakes and ice cream were yummy too! haha. well duh. they were all movenpick stuff. (: yayy.
day 7. the citadel of saladin. erm well it was quite nice too. and then we went to the mosque built by mohammed ali. it was huge! and the decor was nice too! haha. just that i had to take off my shoes. and the marble floor was super cold.
then we went to saqqara to see the step pyramid of zoser I. it's the oldest pyramid in the world! lol. it was as nice as the great pyramids of giza too! just that it was different in the sense that it had 5 steps. uh huh. oh we went to memphis too! it was the capital of the old kingdom! basically we just went in to see the great statue of ramses II. it was lying down on the floor. ahaha.
next: shopping at the largest bazaar in cairo: Khan al Khalili. it wasn't as great as i expected. it was not big at all, plus it was fly-infested! yucks! and the streets were all strewn with rubbish and decomposed food and whatnot. ): boohoo. and the people there are really rude too! yepps. they keep pestering you to buy from their shop, and even follow you when you refuse to buy from their shop. and they always yell "one dollar one dollar" and when you finally enter their shop, it turns out that the stuff there are all more than one dollar.
day 8. alexandria! whee. it took about 3 hrs to drive from cairo to alexandria. i slept on the bus! yayy. haha. the climate there was even nicer than the rest of egypt. lol. it was cooler. (x we went to the catacombs! it was quite deep underground. and the groundwater entered the catacombs. again, no photography allowed. so sad.
then we went to pompey's pillar. haha. it was this large granite pillar. oooh and then we visited alexandria museum. (: quite small, but much newer and nicer than cairo museum. hee. ooh and we had a sea food lunch too! woot. the squids were yummy. and so was the fish. but it was kinda salty too.
then we went to the lighthouse. which was on the coast of the mediterranean sea! whee. the ocean breeze there is really strong. and so is the sea smell. very salty. haha. i like the mediterranean sea! it was sooo blue! (: whee yayy.
day 9. haha it was a free day so we went shopping at carrefour. yes can you believe it? they have carrefour there. anyway. i found my barbie doll! okay it wasn't really barbie. it was a barbie-like doll called fulla. and it was dressed in the arabic costume. all black with a headscarf.
we bought some beans too! they call it foul. haha. i luv egyptian beans! and dates! and guavas! haha basically all the egyptian food. especially the dessert! omg! they were yummilicious! especially the guava pie and banana pie! and peppermint pudding! whee!
then we departed for singapore. boohoo. i didn't really want to come back cos the place was so nice. haha. but i'm always like that anyway. especially for longer holidays. lol. just like one of our friends in the tour group. :D lol.
ooh and i found a pretty pair of ankh earrings at cairo airport! (: yayy! i like the ankh. it's this thing that's also known as the key of life in egypt. heh. ooh and my mom bought me a cartouche with my name written in hieroglyphics too! hee it's very cute. (:
lala. ohh and i watched fantastic four on the plane back home. it was quite nice. (: the food was disgusting though. it tasted weird. and yucky. ah well. okie then. that's the end.
haha gotta go now. byebye (:
