First post in US

finally managed to get connected on the web after some duhz reason for not being able to.. okok.. my fault... i din read my laptop's manual enough... -.-

so i shall attempt to summarise the past 3 days...

26th July... had to be at the airport at some unearthly hours... checked in.. very lugi.. luggages were super underweight... could have brought more stuff... but i think no strength to lug also.. haha.. -.- surprised tat 2 of my frens came to send me off.. well.. very thanks to them... to have to wake up so early... plus i think tat day 1 of them having his convo tat day.. haha.. hope pics look ok.. no dark rings for him.. ok.. the plane wasn't fantastic... movies were boring... managed to watch Lilo and Stitch.. then attempted to sleep all the way... this flight got me all aching.. after we reach tokyo... we din had much to do also... took some photos.. but nothing much to take also... then rotted till the next connection... but the flight was delayed 1 hour... too nuah.. watch 30 min of a movie then cannot make it liao... slept again... this flight got my head all aching..

the action came after we reach san francisco... due to the delay.. we had super little time to get connected to the next flight.. and we nearly missed it... some more this is our 1st stop in US.. so we need to collect back all our check-in luggages and re-check them in again.. after we finally managed to collect back all our luggages... we dashed for the next connection.. this is when the irritating thing happened... went to the NWA counter and asked for the boarding gate... and the person there was super qian da can! said we were late and the gate was closed and we cannot make it already... and we were like 'wat!' but we kept asking which gate was it.. then she irritatedly told us to just turn right... so we made our dash again... when we reach the check-in Q... there were like still a lot of pple there lor.. -.- how qian da can the person get right... don even know wat's happening... and i hate check-ins... took off my shoes and laptop out of the bag don know how many times.. faintz... then gotta recollect everything and dash again... when we reach the plane we were like shag lor... then we concussed again.. hahaha...

after reaching minneapolis.. we went straight to connect the last flight... but the walk to the boarding gate was super long lor... even with the conveyor belt... also very far... hmm.. why do we always get the gate at the very end? this flight was slightly more bearable... don know whether cos we talked more and ate thru half the flight and concussed again the next half or cos this was the shortest flight duration... it went pass really quickly.. and we finally managed to take some shots on the plane... but sian.. after so long on plane.. face look super shag and bloated... -.- oh ya.. the top view of minneapolis was much nicer than san fran... more trees and the houses look more organised... san fran looks all brown and grey from the top... while tokyo had a lot of fields... rice plantations probably...

we were so glad we made it to boston... after more than 24 hours... met up with the pple from Lonza... very nice pple... collected our luggages and boarded the coach... tried to squeeze all the luggages in was a chore too... hai... tiring... the luggage i bought was super lan lor... both the handles gave way lor.. faintz... but lugging the bags super tiring.. feel my arms going to give way anytime... drats we need more guys man! hahaha... and my hotel has none.. -.- slept like at 5.30am tat day... for 3 hours till i was woken up from my sleep by a phonecall... -.-

went to view an apartment after tat... not ideal.. too dusty and looks old.. looking for an apartment was super sian.. esp when u don have much to view... and u need to like get one within the next week... argh... oh! and the road signs here are super hard to see lor.. many of us lost our way... haha.. took 30 min to find a place just 5 min away... -.- makes me wonder whether i would be able to drive not even if i get my licence... hmm... too streetblind liao.. hahaah..

yest went to have our first decent meal with about 20 of them... finally had rice after 3 days of bread and biscuits and wat nots... being able to get together and hang out with pple feels really great! maybe it din make any diff to the other 20 of them who are staying together... but it made a lot of diff to us 4 miserable souls who are left on our own.. so ya.. i was good to hang out.. had our first rain in portsmouth after dinner..

ok.. going to view another apartment later... hope to try to do more things and go more places before work starts...

-jiahua

2nd last day

as stated.. went to have breakfast today... was so reluctant to wake up today when the alarm clock sounded at 7.30... argh... cannot catch up on my sleep... we hang out for a while at the playground again after tat.. haha.. it has become our fav hangout place already.. haha.. oh we did something 'illegal'... damaging of public properties... haha... pluck rambutans from the trees to eat... ahahaha... a lot of pple also came and pluck lor... all those aunties.. even ask my fren to help them lor... so funny can... talk about being discreet... haha... oh i finally went to try to pebble walk... nothing leh... hmmm.. so does tat mean i'm in perfect health? hahaaha..

went to mustafa centre to get souvenirs and adaptors... the place was flooded with indian... so packed lor... got my stuff then went off le.. hai.. don think i ever wanna go back there again.. today shall be my first and last.. i think... hahaha...

after that went for a feast with parents at turf city's seafood restaurant.. had all seafood stuff.. prawns.. crabs.. fish.. and an outcast... beef horfan.. hahaha...

ok.. think i should have gotten all my things already... shall start packing tmrw... long day.. need to catch up on my sleep le...

-jiahua

An eventful day

yest went to meet up with quite a number of pple... in the afternoon.. went back to sci park to meet my ex colleagues... was on the bus when i caught a glimpse of a group of pple walking... then i realised it's him and his group walking back from lunch! so.. i was able to see him afterall... hmm.. i think i cope with ending work and not being able to see him pretty well.. probably too many things on my mind lately... pre-occupied... but still when i saw him i was like *gasped* hahaah...

ate at canteen since it was a late lunch... we were seated strategically near the door... and i did see him walk pass a few times.. *gasped* hahaha... well.. tat was it... 2 weeks never see him... but see him all of a sudden.. still felt pretty *gasped* hahaha.. well.. i guess from now on.. is confirmed won't see him ever again le...

later in the evening... went to marina square to meet my cousin... ate at the place where they serve la mian and xiao long bao... food was pretty nice... and not as ex as expected...

then even later in the night... meet up with another fren at the german pub at millenia walk... paulener something... ate again.. mashed potatoes with german sausages... plus beer... my fren said it taste nice.. well.. i don really think so leh... prefer those green can ones.. hahaha... but i'm not really a beer person.. and the faintz thing was.. we ordered 2 glasses of 0.5... 500ml leh! so much lor!

the day din end there... while i was on my way home... a childhood fren who stays near me called and said tat he and another of our fren is at the playground below my block.. haha.. so i went to meet them.. took photos... don even rem when was the last time we took photos.. think was back in sec sch's class photos! hahaah... 1 of them is a fren of 20 years.. knew him since kindergarten... and i think the last time we took a photo with just the 2 of us was also back then! hahaha... ok.. our 1st photo after 20 years...

we talked about things back then.. pri/ sec sch stuff... and we actually stayed out till 5.30am... before we decided to go home.. haha... don know why.. nobody asked whether wanna go home not... haha.. so we just slack out there.. by the plastic crocodile at the playground.. haha.. drats! forgot to try the pebble walk again! hahahaha...

More photos of the night... or rather.. morning.. haha...

ok tmrw meeting them for breakfast at 8am... gotta sleep...

-jiahua

More outgoings

yest started off a little faintz... was supposed to accompany my dad for his doctor appointment... the day before he told me we shall leave at 7.45am... so i got up at 7am.. got ready to leave... then he took out his appointment card and said 'hey the appointment today is 4pm' i was like -.- to think i woke up so early.. after just 5 hrs of sleep leh.. haha... but anyway.. since we already got ready to go out le.. we decided to go to the bank and settle the money stuff...change currencies... make bankdraft... change my atm card.. transfer money to someone.. update my bank book... though faintz.. but at least i finished settling all those stuff... after that still early... so went home to sleep.. haha..

after lunch...we went to NUH.. though appointment was 4pm.. but we were there by 3.. how wrong were we to think that we can go in earlier... we sat at the couch and waited for a freaking 2.5 hrs lor... and the funny thing is.. even pple who came after us went in first... i was like -.- again... after the 2.5 hr wait to see the doctor for 2.5 min... i left to join the gals at JP... oh ya.. bump into Huida at the sci bus stop...haven seen him for a really long time.. think ever since i grad bah...

funny.. i called ting when i was 1 stop away to ask her where to meet her... then i heard on the other end of the line's background having the same train announcement as my side.. haha.. so asked her where is she.. we were actually on the same train.. so qiao... haha... but faintz.. we got no mo qi lor... say meet at control station.. but we both waited at 2 opp ends.. then when everyone exited then was wondering how come never see her... hahaah

ok.. decided to go Swenson... once again.. the food was sa la.. only for this branch bah.. i tried the same dish at PS and it was quite good... well.. at least we couldn't go wrong with the ice cream... don know why.. so many pple birthday tat day... they keep on playing the happy birthday song... i think got 10 times lor... we talked about don know wat also... and the time just passed... sat till the place close.. then walked to interchange... and literally stood there for about an hour.. talking... well wishes and hugs from each of them.. ok for a moment i felt a little sad for having to leave again... hmm.. why am i always the one leaving? haha... ok shan't get emotional here...

today went out with da shu again.. aim was try to get some stuff... but in the end din get any at all.. haha.. end up walking here and there... tiring leh to walk so fast for about 2 hrs... rushing here and there... din get anything.. well.. at least he got his chocs... after that i went alone to JP.. yes again.. to get the things i din manage to get yest... got the frame for the puzzle and a new bag... (and no i din bargain hor da shu.. i merely asked whether can cheaper anot... bargain is when u go to and fro with the person about the price... ahahaha...) so proud of myself can to get a discount of $3.. ok i know not a lot.. but i never ask to cheapen the price one k... so tat's kinda like my 1st... don know why.. maybe cos hang out too much with 'uncle' so picked up some traits... hahaha... i realise something again.. wow.. self discovery everyday... haha.. think i shop better alone.. more productive... but contradictingly.. i don like to go out alone.. hahaah... well.. i think most of the time when we go out for shopping.. i play the role of accompanying pple only lor.. so i probably just like hanging out with pple and doing nothing.. hahaha...well.. not nothing la.. we hang out.. get to know each other and ourselves better.. and also see more things...

in the evening.. or rather.. night... met up with qi.. downstairs.. just hang out at the playground (which most of the time is old men sit there and chat one.. hahaha.. today also la.. but we took a diff corner from them.. aiyah.. should have go try out the pebble trail... never try before since it was installed... some more night nobody see... hahaha)

ok.. end of a long day... another SUPER long day awaits tmrw...

-jiahua

Hair day

went to do hair today... first time my stylist is a guy... woohoo... 2 guys fussing over me... hahaha... but salon guys are not exactly my kinda guy... though they are not the very feminine type... but they are not man enough... hahaha... spent about 4 hours there... sianz... and i think my hair don look a lot different la.. just tat it's definitely more manageable...

after tat went to city hall to meet fren... ate at sushi tei... walked round and round... he don let me sit down can! very tired hor... plus my body still aching... finally walked to esplanade... sat for a while.. then went to take the bum boat ride... to clarke quay.. cool... always wanted to take the boat down sg river... was pretty ok la.. a bit short though...

tiring day... gotta get up early tmrw too...

-jiahua

MSN vs face to face

posted my previous entry starting from sat... but my going out actually started on wed... went out with da shu (cos his name very uncle... hahaaha...) hmm.. shouldn't say went out.. should say.. had lunch... i was going to visit my grandma... so ask him out since he stays in the east...

well.. he was late... so i waited for 5 min... then when he came.. he asked why my face look so fierce.. i was like 'got meh?' sighz... why do pple always think i look dao or fierce or anti-social?? darn! no wonder nobody approach me... hahahaah... but then again... who would for no reason be smiling all the time right... wait pple think u crazy ah...

had lunch at TM food court... food wasn't fantastic... (company wasn't great either... hahahahaha) i actually bump into May at the food court! she was sitting at the next table.. i din recognise her at first.. then was wondering how come got someone waving at me... then i realised it's her! haha... went over and talked for a while.. when i returned to my table.. dessert melted already... -.-

after that... went to NTUC to get some grapes... and went to bakery to get cakes... then we parted...

the thing we realised was tat... when meeting in person... we don talk the way we do on msn... on msn.. we can talk about anything and joke.. crap... tease each other... but when we talked face to face... we were pretty serious.. haha.. don know why... awkward bah... hahaha.. but then again.. there's a diff btw talking on msn and face to face for sure... and both has it's own good and bad... good thing about msn is u don have to care about ur expression when u say it... and u can be a bit lag also nvm.. but when face to face.. ur expression and wat u say must tally.. haha.. and u cannot have too long pauses cos the other party is staring into ur face.. hahaha... but the bad thing about msn is tat.. u never know whether the person meant wat they say or are they just joking.. so talking face to face more truth to things and like how da shu put it... "easier to 'catch' stuff..." well.. don know wat he wanna catch also.. hahaahah... but it's true la..

so well.. such are the pros and cons of technology... wow... sounds like some GP topic... hahaaha... "Discuss the pros and cons of technology and how it affected human interaction." hahaha...

-jiahua

the weekend

have been wanting to blog for the past few days... but everyday i was too freaking tired at the end of the day to do so... so here goes.. a recap from sat..

sat went out with ling... just the 2 of us.. without the other gals.. i wasn't in my best condition... an occasional LS.. -.- so we tried to stay in places with toilets nearby.. haha.. ok went to orchard... suki... talked a lot... and took loads of photos... cos every one we took... ling wasn't satisfied... so keep on taking and taking until she find it ok.. so i think should have about 100 bah... hahha.. we din do a lot of things.. but the day was pretty enjoyable...

yest went to play squash with cousin at YCK... so freaking far can!! took train till i drowsy... ok.. the court cost us $6 an hour... we played for 1 hour plus.. shag ah.. hai.. think i'm old... then to commemorate the day... we took photos... yes again... haha... used the timer function... tried both 2 sec and 10 sec... 2 sec was too fast... quite a few caught me while i was still on my way into the frame.. 10 sec was too long... feel so idiotic holding tat smile for so long... why isn't there a 5 sec or something like tat? hmm... but always find it pretty fun to take using the timer... then we changed the mode to burst... so it took 3 shots at 1 go... made all sorts of retard faces... super funny... then went to marina square for our super late lunch... we were exhausted and hungry... and the food took like ages... to make things worst... food kinda sux... -.-

and today... was supposed to go sentosa.. but the weather was bad.. so ended going to orchard... my body was super aching can! don feel like doing much.. and well.. there weren't much to do... tat's why i'm like home so early and blogging... hai... still haven start my preparation for the trip... well.. tmrw i'm gonna do my hair... finally... hair really cannot make it now... hope after rebonding.. it can last longer till i come back next year...

argh.. haven been sleeping well lately... everyday don feel rested at all... last night was ultimate... slept at 1+ woke up at 3+... felt hungry.. so cook noodles in the middle of the night... -.- and when i haven been eating and sleeping well... u know there's something bugging me.. hai... hate tat... relax relax....

-jiahua

Deed signing

today went to sign my next 3 and a half years away... haha.. took cab there with my dad... the taxi driver was an old man... from the rear view mirror.. his eyes seems to open and close... so i was wondering whether he was dozing off... then we entered the tunnel... suddenly the car jerked! my dad and i were like thinking wat happened... then the uncle say he keep following the car in front and forgot to make an exit at the branch... -.- so i think he was really falling asleep.. hahaah... and yes.. after the jerk.. i don see those opening and closing eye movements anymore.. so tat pretty much confirms it... haahaa... some more.. instead of detouring from there to raffles city... he turned all the way back to where he made the mistake and started all over again.. cos he say he don know how much to deduct for us.. so he take note of the price when he made a mistake and when he went back to the same point... hahahah... lucky i went out early.. if not go round and round sure late... ahhaah... in the end we got $5 deducted.. so imagine how much he detour to go back to the same point.. ahahah...

deed signing nothing much... just some informal session.. with some briefing.. which still left me blur... hahaah.. ah!! going to leave in a week plus time... still haven pack my bag!!

-jiahua

Slacking

today is the 2nd day tat i don have to work... and i'm like bored stiff can! don know do wat... there's nothing interesting to watch on tv... there's no one to talk to on msn... nobody to go out with... i know there can be 101 things to do if u just put ur heart to it.. but well... just can't bring myself to do anything except rot... haha..

pple have been asking me if i got everything i need to bring over... well.. i don know... got my winter clothing at least... was pushing the thinking till after i end my work.. now tat it has ended... i don seem to be doing much about it either... ahah.. except being online most of the time and staring in space.. haahah..

oh ya! i watched my first ever match in World Cup the other day... the Finals! Italy vs France.. soccer isn't really my cup of tea... but i was thinking... since i'm not working anymore.. i can afford to stay up late.. and since World Cup is such a big thing... i should at least catch the finale... well... managed to survive the first half.. but it's really super boring.. i think i slept most of 2nd half... woke up to see that it's still 1-1 and they are extending another 30 min.. slept on further... and woke up to see Zidane head someone... then stayed to watch the penalty kicks... and Italy's victory.. well.. still prefer watching basketball.. more action...

now tat i have all the time in the world to write an entry everyday... i don have enough happenings in my life to write about... ironic... hahaha...

ok.. should be going out tmrw... need to get out and breath some fresh air and get the body moving... haha...

-jiahua

The power of perception

The power of perception... it's funny how pple form certain impressions to certain things and pple... 2 incidents happen recently that made me think a little about this...

incident 1: when everyday A happens... u take it that it's A until someday when B happens.. then u suddenly realise... hey... it can be B as well...

incident 2: everyday A happens... then 1 day.. B happen... and u were so afraid and believed tat it's gonna be B from now onwards... just to realise that actually it's still A... when A returns the next day...

haha... confusing with the As and Bs eh? hahaha... well... life's confusing anyway...

just gave me certain thoughts again (as usual.. i think a lot... too much in fact...) sometimes the perceptions we have are right.. but certain times.. they are not.. but at that very moment.. it just seems so right... so brings me to the question of... how you know wat u feel at that moment is right or wrong? hmm....

ok think too much i know... but i've just been wondering.. whether certain perceptions that i have recently... are really true.. or just my one-sided belief... hard to ascertain that though... sometimes when u think a lot about certain things.. trying to get an answer... u come up with nothing... but after a long long time of not thinking about it... it suddenly just dawn on u one day... and everything just feel so right and seems to just make sense altogether... weird eh? hahaha...

-jiahua

Last day at work

Today was my last day at work... quite slack...nothing much to do... filing has been taken over by the new girl... handed over my stuff and briefed pple at the end... and tat ended my last day at work... somehow u always have this empty feeling after u end one phase of ur life...be it the last day at sch... last day at work.. last day of camp... end of a great gathering...etc... 天下无不散之宴席... oh i hate tat phrase... unless the 宴席 is so unbearable tat u hope it would end soon... but then again... even so... it will still leave behind a memory... which u might some day miss it even... hai.. pple are weird and complex beings... i don think i'll ever figure out wat pple are thinking and why they think the way they do....

well... quite looking forward to the coming trip... at least it marks the start of a new phase and the end of a period of aimless wondering.. hopefully it's gonna be the beginning of something good... let it be liberating and enriching!! hahaha...

hai.. can't believe today is probably the last time i get to see him... oh and there's this other guy next door.. also quite cute... haha... i used to not quite like him previously.. until an incident tat changed my mind... haha.. 2 cute guys at work!! wonder if the emptyness i feel is cos it's the end of my daily routine of going to work or cos i can't see the cute guys anymore... haha... well.. it's back to slacking life... used to be slacking a lot previously... till i got this temp... worked for 2 mths plus... now tat i'm going back to slacking... surprisingly i feel kinda not used to it... don know wat to do... 2 and a half more weeks! got my visa already... need to start preparing... hmm....

-jiahua

Embassy interview

Went for the enbassy interview today.. always pass by it when going to Orchard... but now actually get to go in... so disgusted to have to get up at 6am today... i was there like at about 7.20am.. waited till 7.30am for my frens to arrive... then we went in.. 1st pass the security where my phone and mp3 player were taken... and was asked to drink the water from my bottle to prove tat it is water.. haha.. went into the rm.. took a number and waited... till about 8.45am... the interview was fast... just ask me a few qns.. pretty alright... not as scary as wat Thomas told us... the lady was nice.. even told me to bring enough cold wear there since weather gonna be really cold.. after that took bus to PS... yes again... to think tat this evening i'll be there again meeting my JC frens... -.-

decided to extend my stay at work by 1 more week.. cos keep taking half days so no time to teach the new girl who's taking over me... so asking her to come down next week... but still gotta take another half day on wed to go and collect back my passport...

hmm.. initially thought got a lot to blog about cos today seems like a long day... but no leh.. summaries today in just this... too braindead to think.. gotta go sleep...

-jiahua