am back from china, xiamen (also shan tou). finally home sweet home. the holiday this time was slightly different from all the other holidays. i didn't collect the plane tix, i didn't whine about looking for a souvenir, and most importantly, i didn't write in my travel journal. i couldn't find it anw and i dun feel lik starting a new one.
as my bro said, the whole touring thing was lik endless chinese history lessons. we visited several (many) temples. we choked on the fumes there, walked around the whole temple offering insincere prayers to the various gods (yes insincere. my sis even got chided by a random stranger for improper praying rites. -.-). wen to nice scenic places to take photos. we managed to get many whole family pics this time cause' the tour guide was camera-shutter happy (he LOVES taking photos. his skills with our camera was better den ours anw -.-) and volunteered to take pics of us al the time (will upload the pic sometimes if i feel lik it. or mayb my lovely sis wil do the uploading on her blog or facebook and i jus link. hahas. lazy). it was a smal tour grp - jus my family of five and a pair of mother and daughter.
realised once again my chinese sucked and there were so many ci yu i didn't noe for common but not so common things. =X the weather there was deliciously cool and got to cold during the third and fourth days (ok i srsly think my eng is gettin from bad to worst, and my chinese isn't very good either). bro caught a chill when we were visiting our relatives in shan tou. didn't do much shopping. hahas. couldn't find my beloved supernat or grey's anatomy DVD and felt a wee bit jealous sis managed to get so many of her beloved DBSK cds. but got my a couple of bags (tat stink lik al new bags does), a pair of shoe. tat's al. clothes were al winter wear and it would be reali stupid to buy so many long sleeved- shirts/blouses. one note thou, there are definitely more shuai ges in taiwan den in china. ><
o yea, speaking of relatives in shan tou. i think they are damn filthy rich. but we don't reali have any direct blood relations. it's jus tat this grand uncle is the son of my mum's grandfather's other wife (my mum has a VERY interesting and complicated family tree). i suddenly found myself with 2 more uncles and 2 more aunties. each of the uncles have a plot of land. each plot of land has a 9-storeyed building in which they rent out. they don't have to work. jus sit ard al day and collect rent, and tat alone can tide them over and more. china now liu xing seafood, so they treated us to the best of seafood for 2 days in a row. lunch and dinner were al seafood. unfortunately i wasn't a big fan of sea food, and even should the food b the best, i didn't noe how to appreciate it. =X ended up feeling pissed off and miserable cause they kept thrusting disgusting delicacy on my plates (eg goose liver, duck neck, diff kind of fishes, rubbery squid omans YUCK.). i tried to eat ok. but despite feeling hungry before tat, my stomach jus sorta closed up upon seeing the food. =X they gave plenty of "presents' for us. olives ( i thinK "Ka nas" are called olives in eng?) tat probably cause our lugguage to exceed wat is allowed, dried sea weed that could last a whole village for a year, a gigantic pack of tea leaves (apparently i learnt tat ppl in china are HUGE fans of tea. they drink tea lik there's no tmr. tea for guests is drunk out of small tiny cups and the cups needed to b rinsed everytime one gulp is finished) and many more dried stuff tat i duno wat it is. =X
sadly, other den having sucky chinese, my siblings and i couldn't speak teochew. so we jus gave polite smiles everytime grand uncle and auntie talked to us (polite smiles progessively turned to grimaces during mealtimes. =X). our new 2 uncles and 2 aunties could speak chinese but sometimes they couldn't understand us and vice vs. hahas. =X but srsly, i could see how theirs is one huge connected family unlike my nucleated family of only the parents and children. shantou is very much lik a town? it's neither a city nor a village, but somewhere in betwn. the traffic was horrendous as in they jus cut and overtake each other without hesitation or warning.
ok wat a long entry. so boring too. hahas. =X i think there's other more stuf to write. but bleah.. mood is lost hahas. my table is messy and everything is messy that needs to be cleared. sighs.
oso checked my long overdue results. below average (shi tian said b+ is average) and my cap is not tat fantastic (aka sucks but not tat i can't do honours. jus tat my honours is sucky) hai. so sian i dun feel lik brooding over it. wat's the point anw? i wil get all depressed and spoil the rest of my holiday. too late. =X
signing off
amethyst
1:09 PM
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plainpalace.sally.yip
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Singapore
Alexandra Hill Pri, Nan Hua Sec, Victoria Junior College, NUS P h a r m12'
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let it go'
if you cant hold on, let it go and come back in your heart
hopes and wishes
.books
.more bc dresses!, bags
.necklaces, bracelets (to spice up boring outfits!)
.above preferably of diamonds and white gold. >< or gold. or precious stones. =P
.musical box that plays pirates of Caribbean Davy Jones soundtrack
.own room -.-
.blank nice books to write my diary
.mont blanc fountain pen ><
.supernatural, grey's anatomy, heros, charmed, csi complete DVDs