Memorified Moments

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

AHAHAHAHA. I WENT TO AMERICA TODAY. ENVY ME. MUAHAHAHAHAHA.

On another note, where the heck do Americans learn to be so annoying? We were at the customs, where there was OBVIOUSLY a bloody toilet (unless the washroom sign was really signalling the laundry room, but then again I didn't know the laundry had to be split into MALE and FEMALE), and my sister, being herself, had to go to the toilet. We asked the customs officer THREE TIMES. For the first two times, he refused, being the extremely reasonable and kind and considerate person he is.

'The White House is public, but can you use the president's toilet?'

*%$#&^& GRAH. HE IS SO LIKE THE PRESIDENT I TELL YOU THEY SHOULD ALL GO AND JUMP DOWN THE SPACE NEEDLE IN SEATTLE SINCE IT'S SO HIGH. Pissed look.

Then, on the third time, he finally agreed. Extremely graciously. 'Is there anything else I can do for you? Do you want a beer?'

&%%^#^^%*^#E#$

Grah. I could have slapped him. Except I'll then get jailed for terrorist tendencies. -____-"

Super reminds me of, in Dip in Practice language, Sporia and Malsia. Who's who I wonder. It's soooo hard to decide. (But then the two have bastardization in equally humongous parts. Aha aha.) I MEAN, who uses their higher financial status to terrorize the other country? Hmmm? HMMM?

Aha aha. A joke. Declared Without Prejudice. I do NOT want to be jailed by the men in white.

At any rate, I went to Seattle, where I took pictures of the scenery (of rain and buildings that strangely remind me of China) and wanted to buy stuff, since it was boxing day and all, but we didn't have american dollars, curse that bloody country, so I didn't.

Oh. Speaking of the two countries, their electrical wires are... extremely intelligent. I mean, they're googleplex of meters above the ground, held up only by poles which are tied to each other, which means that when one falls, the others do to. And the chances of that happening are, oh say, only every once the wind blows. -___-

Anyway, the pizzas in America are soooo small. I mean, they're, in measurements on the menu, 2 feet long and 10" wide? For four people? Which four people are they expecting? Jojo Joball Fatjo and ballball?

Anyway I gotta go. AND I MET MARY. MUAHAHAHA. Called mel and trib people from the house phone. Was extremely interesting. Wanted to call lickie, but the annoying monkey wasn't at home. -glares-

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-glares at monkey somemore-

Okay going off now. Ta!

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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

And before i get scolded for being late, it IS Christmas here in Van, and henceforth I'm only writing this today instead of yesterday cause I hate calculating time differences and so not because I forgot to yesterday. Hee.

I need to get presents. Am extremely amused, cause Mel is extremely disturbed at the idea of what I can get her, which is a cross between Christmas and Chinese New Year. Ahahahaha. Smirks.

Singapore has a bookstore called Borders; Van has one called Chapters. I insist on checking it out, no matter what.

And I may be returning to Singapore late, so should anyone ask, don't tell the RJC people I'm gallivanting someone in Singapore and ponning school. I'll still be in Shanghai waiting for the stupid plane. And preferably shopping for CDs.

Speaking of CDs, the CDs here in Van are extremely ex. Miffed look.

Oh, btw Mel, I bought The Sandman, Book of Dreams by Gaiman. Though not technically by. It's a bundle of fanfiction written by some authors and editted by the gay man. Aha aha.

The bookstore I went to didn't have The Hogfather. Annoyed look. Nor did it have Smokes and Mirrors. Though S&M (Oh I love this shortcut) costs damned ex. Is it any different in Singapore.

I have cheerfully introduced Good Omens to Christabel back when I was in shanghai. Oi have you read it yet.

Speaking of christmas, the decors on some houses are so pretty. Mom says it's not as loaded as those in Singapore Orchard Road, but wth. I mean, those in Sing are done courtesy of the Men-in-White who do it more as a crowd pleaser than for the spirit of christmas. It's not even heart-warming.

I WANT A REINDEER. And my personal Santa Claus. Grins.

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Heehee. I bought lotsa books yesterday! Grins. There were all the chinese weird books about history and all that, and Karma Sutra, edition II.

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Okay, I was kidding about the Karma Sutra. But there were lots of weird books. Like, Pictures of Naked Chinese Women. Maozedong's Women. The History of Breasts.

Seriously. The History of Breasts? Wth?

And some chinese->english translations seriously suck. Like, what's supposed to be Immortal Paintings got translated into Immoral Paintings. (It was a deck of poker cards. I really wanted to buy it, but so waste money.)

Yeah. And China has seriously better things to watch than singapore. Really. Like 50 +++ channels? And then the stuff so cheap somemore. AHAHAHAHA Snerk snerk. Like FOOD. FOOD. FOOD. And more FOOD.

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Ahahaha Melmel wait until you see what I've gotten you. You'll totally give me the -____- face and call me lame. Looks extremely cheerful. I went all over town for it okay. But I totally have to give you the moment I get back, or it'll be entirely too late by your birthday. x) Consider it an early birthday present. Sniggers.

And I got other presents too! I feel like telling now, but it'll entirely be giving away the surprise. So let's switch topic to something not-so-related. Like how shanghai shopkeepers like to cheat their customers. Or at least the stupid ones.

Me and mummy went to this shop that sold ______, and the price, on the price tag, was 68 rmb per piece. Then we asked the shopkeeper the price in Shanghainese, and he was like, points to price tag. 'Look there. *wherein my mom and I raise eyebrows.* if you wanna buy, I'll sell it for 25 rmb each.'

Then my mom was, like, I'm buying three. How much will you charge.

Shopkeeper: erm 3 makes 75. I'll give you discount. 70.

Mom: 60.

Shopkeeper: Okay.

AHAHAHA. And then there was this stupid ang moh group. Cause this guy was smoking, then I walked past, and since smoke STINKS, I gave a bu shuang face. Then this girl opposite him went, 'Oh, the chinese brat beside you has something against your fag.' (Eh which country calls cigarettes fags ah?)

SO ANNOYING. THINK I CANNOT UNDERSTAND ENGLISH IZZIT. DON'T LOOK DOWN ON PEOPLE OKAY. I was so pissed. So I waited until I was beside the girl, then I went, 'The chinese brat beside YOU understands what you're saying.' GRINS. I tell you her expression was priceless. It was, like, SHOCK. AHAHAHA. Smirks.

Ahaha shall go bathe now. BB.

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Tuesday, December 12, 2006

OMG TODAY WAS SO SUPER EMBARASSING OMGOMGOMG DAMN IT ALL.

Okay let's start from the beginning. I went to this faraway relative's house (My father's mother's mother's daughter-in-law's house.) Where we ate a lot. (DUH.) And then my father's mother's mother's daughter-in-law gave me this PAPER bag with chicken in it. And sauce. Don't forget the sauce.

Then we went to extend our visa, cause mine expires on the 13th which is tomorrow but I'm obviously not going to canada tomorrow, so yes there's this little problem. ANYWAY, after we were done, we took a cab home.

We reached home safely, which was really quite unthinkable at the rate the driver drove, and I got out of the car.

And I found a 20 cm diameter reddish-brown stain on the WHITE car seat. And it really didn't help that I was having my period that day. The driver looked at it and gave me a WTF expression, and I was frozen in horror. Petrified.

Only when I looked down did I realize that my WHITE winter jacket was stained in FRONT, not at the back. So it obviously could not be what i thought it was. It turned out that the soya sauce that came with the chicken leaked out. Wtf.

WHY DO THESE THINGS HAPPEN TO ME. OMG THE DRIVER PROBABLY IS GOING WTH RIGHT NOW LAH. OMG SO EMBARASSING. I WILL NEVER FORGET THIS.

And omg my jeans feel tight after 5 days of not wearing them. Damnit. Am getting fatter.

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Friday, December 08, 2006

asdfhaluierhaehsdfhask GAH. I was reading through past blogger entries, and I just realized that I sound extremely incoherent when I blog. Which isn't really much different from when I speak, but what the hell. I AM BORED.

Oh the other hand, Project Eat As Much As Possible is going on as well as possible. Aha aha. Project Buy Terry Pratchett Books is NOT going well, AND I WANT HOGFATHER DAMNIT. What the HELL is wrong with China bookstores. I mean, selling How To Jiang Yin Wen is NOT an english book, no matter how much some people like to insist so. .___. Diaos face.

ANYWAY MEL. I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT TO GET YOU ALREADY. Looks extremely evil. Ahahaha. Don't worry. It's not leather handcuffs. I prefer fur anyway. But still. I wonder how I'm going to package it.

OMGOMG JOHNNY DEPP AS CROWLEY? WHICH GENIUS FROM HEAVEN DECIDED THAT? (Erm, Heaven, right? I mean, heaven DOES have the best choreographers, so says Gaiman and Pratchett and lord knows where they got THAT from.)

On another note, because I'm pointy like that (hahaha so punny), I AM BORED. Okay fine I forgot what I wanted to say. Shrugs. China people are extremely good at multitasking, methinks. I mean, the roads are so full of shit and shit drivers and shit cyclers, that you have to work realllll hard to keep an eye on the floor and the road at the same time, or risk becoming either a very dead person or a very literal shitheel. (And I almost typed shitheel as shithell. Too much Good Omens, i say.)

OH, and i fed pigeons yesterday. They are so damned cute and white and with nice silky fur. I mean, just squat/sit there and hold the pigeon feed (read: corn) ~~evilly~~ out of reach, and they come and hop/fly onto YOU to eat what you have in your hands. Of course, you'll also have to watch out for birdshit. Ahaha. I wanna go feed the little buggers again. Whinnnnnes.

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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Our return trip to singapore is screwed. Cause it's from vancouver to singapore, really, but it's too long a plane ride to sit the whole way through, so we have to split it up into vancouver -> Shanghai, shanghai -> Singapore. Unfortunately, we arrive in Shanghai on the 31 at 15.55, and the plane to Singapore is supposed to take off at 13.50? Is there anyone other than me who sees a slight problem with this situation?

We tried to push forward the flight from vancouver, but there're no seats, so we have to queue and wait for some FOUR retards to cancel their flight, which is so not going to happen unless I take up a chopping knife and do some butchering. And we'll so not be able to push back the plane from Shanghai to Singapore, cause the other planes that we can take will be full as well, cause, DUH, holiday season.

OMG I'm scared that my parents will take away my to canada trip. Don't want don't want don't want. Ahahaha. Mary, you can start worrying too. This is so crappy.

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Monday, December 04, 2006

The way to eat in Shanghai (read and learn, ladies.)

Go to the random stores by the roadsides. They look dirty and not-very-tasty but then you'll realize that 1 out of 5 families in China know how to make perfect xiaolongbao and other stuff, and 99 percent of these families open roadside stores. Alternatively, you can go to the restaurants and spend 5x the price. XD

Note: One bowl of beef lamien in Singapore costs the price of THIRTEEN bowls in Shanghai, and you'll still have 50 cents left over. And three bowls of these noodles is enough to feed four people, when one of them is ME with my appetite.

Oh, and xiaolongbao. One baskets of 8 xiaolongbao costs singapore 60 cents or 30 cents, depending on where you eat them. Yeah. Haha, I ate about 30 for lunch yesterday, since I bought 4 baskets. (I rounded up.)

Then there's the meat mooncakes, which are such love. I ate ten of them for breakfast today. XD

Then I went to this wedding, where it was all vegetarian, so I spent the whole two hours eating waffles dipped in melted chocolate. Like, I'm in heaven. Seriously. They have a fountain as tall as me of CHOCOLATE. Yumm. Now I know why the angels are always so chubby.

Anyway. I'm going to grow fat. Gahhh. I plan to go on a diet after returning to Singapore. (Like I'll carry it through.)

As for those in Singapore aren't you jealous? Says to spite mel. Nyah nyah nyah. I have goooooooood foooooooooood!

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