Day ?? to Day ?? - Packing (free & easy~)

it's packing time~~ i think i'll really miss this place...but there are so much to pack!!! we got no weighing machine here... so i don't know whether my luggages are overweight or not... this is pretty bad... continue packing!!!

wrote an email to my sis on sunday:
(because it seems that she has been having problems since i'm away.. )
this is how it goes...:

Jo,

i guess i was just prepared. to leave. so dun say that i hate you all. just because i dun miss home. cos probably i have always been thinking that i'll leave one day. and you just got to take over what i've always been doing. hoping and knowing that you'll be better. like what you've always been doing. better than me. i guess i was assured that you will be there. i was sure that things will be ok even with me not around and with you around. i was sure that everything will be ok. but i am sorry. i want to say. for suddenly leaving all the burden to you. and forgetting that there will be times you'll need help. forgetting that sometimes you re not as strong as ppl sees you. see, even i forgot. sorry that i was busy and not able to give you advices. even if i give you advices, they dun seem to work. for a lot of times. i guess that is also one of the few reasons you dun really liked asking me questions. i can understand. (and yes, i know. i am slow.) dun worry too much already. i am coming back already. all ready to take the burden from you back onto me. after resting for so long. it feels like a long break and i'm ready to go back to work. dun worry so much. you will hav your chance to go other places. you will have your chance to do things your way. so forgive me this time. sorry.

sis.

she replied me quite fast and told me that it's true that a lot of things happened when i am gone.. both good and bad.

sometimes, i really wondered, am i really a selfish sister? sometimes... i cannot really understand how my younger sister felt, because there are so many times.. i felt stronger emotions whenever she's doing better than me(which is like most of the time) but because i am the eldest.. it always comes down to me that no matter what happens, i must be there. sometimes, i just wanted my sis to understand how i feel inside.. i remembered telling her one time, i really feel hurt whenever she's doing better than me or even just to aim higher than me. she heard me but it just seemed to me that she didn't care much. then my dad told me that i shouldn't compare myself with my sis. but i'm still struggling inside.. i want to be like my younger sister and be myself at the same time. sometimes, my sis will talk to me... and tell me that she is feeling very pressured because my parents(especially my dad) is putting high hopes on her... and a lot of times, she can't understand why i get so much "priviledges" from my parents.. but she didn't realise. i am the one always talking to my parents individually.. even to hear what's on their mind when they're troubled. my parents always tries to tell me that because i am the eldest, it is my responsibility to take care of my siblings when they're gone.. they are always telling me about alot of things.. they tried giving me chances to be independent because among the three of us(me, my younger sister, my younger brother), i am of the type who is not smart or what.. they say the best thing about me is patience. my other siblings are smart... but they don't have as much patience as me, they say. well, my dad started teaching me algebra when i was primary 3!! can you believe it? my dad spent such a long and hard time teaching me... but with my sister(he didn't teach her algebra or whatever but now he tutor her on maths - both e.maths and a.maths), he can teach without much difficulty. my brother is only primary 2 this year and he learns things super fast(he goes Kumon and now, his level is like.. at primary 5!!! for both english and maths)... so how can i even compare? i don't have much to compare. so now, my sis can have a feel of how it's like to be the "eldest" kid at home now.. but she's complaining... oh well, i have to "take back" my "post" next wednesday~~ alright, gonna sleep~~

Day?? - huanmin's birthday + IS presentation preparation

it's huanmin's birthday today~~ at 12pm, all the girls took our torch lights and went to their room to say "Happy birthday" to Huanmin~ she was so touched and surprised!! partly, it was because she was still watching her dramas and all of a sudden, everyone's saying "happy birthday" to her... in the morning(or isit almost afternoon? nvm) when she's bathing, some of us went and took some water balloons to throw at her... XDXDXDXD we are so evil~~~ went for lunch(before that we did our last preparation: all the water balloons ready!!~~~) and she was still afraid that we will suddenly throw water balloons at her.. tried keeping her at one place so we can take her cake from the bakery on top to her but she kept moving around... making us so nervous and anxious.. finally she sat down and we took out the cake and sang the birthday song for her... she cried... vendors of the bubble tea shop gave her a cup of honey water and some food(i think those are the few she has been ordering quite often).. and at the shop we're eating, they offered to treat us free eggs since it's Huanmin's birthday... i think she cried even more.. she took pictures with everyone and actually i wanted to say.. her cake is so huge!!! it's lemon flavoured, by the way.. her favourite.. :D it's yummy.. but we couldn't finish it and started playing with it..like smoldering over each others faces(luckily, i'm sitiing nicely at the side, so they wouldn't attack me :D) cream~~ nice~~

when we get back to the dorm, it's time for part two!!! we got into black shirts and took the water balloons out.. it was freezing outside!!! we were crazy~~ wearing shorts and t-shirts and playing with water outside? this is what we do.. :D she finally came out and we started throwing the water balloons at her... until she's all wet~~ we had such a fun water balloon fight!! she was really freezing and shivering... the rest are also wet and cold... 500 water balloons is not enough!! it was so fun~~ we cleaned up the place and went to bathe.. some of us actually got cuts on our hands... we don't know where they come from... the hot water felt so nice~~

had a great dinner too~~ but we had such a hard time doing our presentation slides on china's history(oh no~ TT ^ TT)!! this is what you get for doing last minute work. we did the slides till 3am++ and went to sleep and woke up early to touch up our work.. so tired~~ *yawn~~* my grp was supposed to go first but luckily, siwen's grp go first and we are second~ we were so happy~~ since we are the second grp, we got to rest for the rest of the time... other groups' work seemed very much different from ours... nvm, we hav done our best...

at night(evening), we went for the singing competition/cultural activity at A409.. sang songs~~ and some of my favourite songs were there~~ so happy... quickly went back after that to bathe and then rest~~ sleep tight! Don't Let Bed Bugs Bite!!!

Day?? - APPG TT2 (the killer of the day) + industrial visit + gan guo~~~

studied like mad for the TT2 but it was so difficult!!! it was crazy~~ how to finish writing in such short period of time!! my fingers thought that they are going to tangle with one another.. hopefully... i'll do well. (only confident with my clear buttons! oh my..) i can still remember i wrote "Application.Close()" for my last question. gone case. TT ^ TT it's "Application.Exit()"... this is supposed to be like a given mark question kind of stuff. and yet!! ugh! can't stand myself..

after TT2, we had a briefing on our last cultural activity: singing competition..

then we set off for our industrial visit!!~ was quite excited because i can see that for other oip grps in the past, they always visit interesting places... and now... we got to go to a company~~ it was a long ride there.. our students had a short and very nice conversation with a "businessman"(i think? i don't know because i was one of the few who came in later... so we missed the introduction part, etc..) he was very friendly... he talked abt singapore and stuffs about singapore..(got a feeling that he's a fellow Singaporean.. but i can't be too sure abt that) we are taken around the office to look around.. the rest started taking photos(actually, it's only office.. what's so special?) we were quite noisy so in the end(i think) we were sort of driven out of the place.. but still, quite a number of us were offended because when we are taking pictures.. we meant no harm! it's not like we are stealing some company information etc... just taking pictures of how an office looks like.. and yet, we were driven out. so, we took around an hour's ride to the company just to be driven out? ridiculous.

forgetting abt this, we went to eat gan guo at xi pu..(took a bus there... and it was raining... so cold!!!) also to buy fire crackers...(cos it's huanmin's birthday tmr~~) gan guo is awesome even though it was spicy~~~ planned to eat it again before we leave... TT ^ TT i love gan guo~~ its so yummy... at xi pu, i bought so many magazines of super junior(!) so happy~~ but i realised that they are biased towards one of the member just because he came from China.. Kaiting, QinFang and me went back to the hostel first... we took the "tu tu che" - the illegal taxi. we thought it would be fun but who knows!!! cos it was still raining.. it's wet inside! so dark... and we dun know whether the driver is driving us to the right place... the ride was bumpy.. the vehicle feels fragile... it smells of metal everywhere.. but i axtually like it. i like it a lot!! i do think that it's exciting.. though it seems dangerous...(it feels like any car can easily knock this vehicle flat) luckily we got to the right place... (still raining) we walked back and the route back was dark and wet.. so... we didn't see a huge puddle of water and so we walked right into it. our shoes are so wet!!!! and i just changed a clean dry pair of socks before i came out(because the other was wet too)... now both of my socks are soaking wet!!! and my nice white shoes..(poor things) water went in and the insides of the sole are coming out!!! (my favourite shoes~~ TT ^ TT) the three of us quickly went to bathe cos we are freezing and wet... then we started making water balloons for huanmin's birthday... keep distracting her away from our room...(so troublesome~!) but i was so happy and excited abt my magazines i didn't really bothered abt other things.. ziya and the rest came back and they told us the the driver took them "back" to the wrong place... that's why they took a longer time to come back..after their massage session.. prepare to do IS presentation!!!

Day ?? to Day ?? - SELF-STUDY!!!!

i do think there is a need for me to move that internet thing from me!!! i can't concentrate studying....

on Friday evening, the teachers treat us to dinner with our china student group leaders... the food is so spicy!!!! didn't like it so much... had a lot of fun even at the restuarant... i'm gonna miss these friends i met here.. spent so much time with them... i suddenly thought of being nicer to them... been think a lot nowadays...

the rest of the time: juggling between music, videos and appg.. *faints*

p.s. the countdown begins~~~

Day ?? - preparation and IS lesson...

yup, we have china's history for IS lesson today. I am so sorry but i really don't like history.. History is not the subject for me... math could be a better one. my eyes were so heavy as the teacher speaks... no offence but i had such a hard time keeping my eyes open.. it was long... so long... but i did listen to the class, ok?... just that the words... don't really make alot of sense to me.. probably, i just don't understand much abt history(s) - sorry but i am not sure abt singapore's history also.(not that i am proud of this fact, but it is a fact and the truth that i do listen but i just don't remember... don't say that it is equivalent to not listening because everyone hav their own strong areas and really, history is not for me!!!)

then for TT2 preparation? i think i'm so dead cos i still can't understand the three chapters!!!!! oh no~~~ how?? i think i need the consultation session...

Day ?? - study study study!!!

just came back from jiuzaigou the day before and now we need to study again... and for TT2 somemore... studied arrays for chapter 7... can't understand!!! this is so difficult to understand... frustrating~~~ shall read it again and again~~(suddenly, the 2PM song come into my head~~) woohoo~~ jia you!!!

Day ?? - excursion to jiuzaigou!!!

today is the day~ we are taking plane to jiuzaigou!!! woke up so early *yawn~* i got terrible headacheinthe morning... reached the airport and the check-in was super fast~ (shit, i realised that i left my tiger-roll cake on my table and forgot to take ><) while waiting to get on the plane, everyone was so tired...

got onto the plane and tried to rest but the plane is unstable!! felt quite uncomfortable...but the flight was 45 minutes, so it was so fast... the altitude is very high, so we are not supposed to be very high or emotional, just in case we lack of oxygen and go into coma... and when we got onto the small van(and i wanted to sleep), the tour guide told us not to sleep, just in case we go into coma because when we sleep, we tend to take in air slower and because there is already limited oxygen, our brain might not get enough oxygen and we might go into coma... but i'm so tired!!! and the trip away from the airport is seriously... unstable!!! it was so long... the ride was very very very very bumpy... (the car bump so hard that i bumped onto a pole in the vehicle.. ) so bumpy that i just keep vomiting.. felt so weak.. but then, the rest of the girls helped me... they pass me plastic bags... they bought oranges for me..(even though i still vomited them out... luckily, i didn't eat lunch, or else... i'll vomit even more...) the ride was really uncomfortable until a point that when i see the car(school bus-like-van), i just don't want to sit on it and just keep complaining...then we went to the hotel after our visit to the waterfall place..(sorry, but i forgot what's the name)... there's toilet bowl~~~ finally... but now we are not used to the toilet bowl(plus it's so cold... once you sit on it, you just want to get away) oh ya, we learnt some of their language:

色魔 = 美女; 色狼 = 帅哥; zha-xi-de-lei = 万事如意; 不摸 = unmarried; 已摸 = married

jiuzaigou is quite cold... at first, i am supposed to share a room with ziya... but then we are not used to it, so we moved everything to kaiting and jolean's room and share room with them.. oh ya, we spent 150 rmb to go to the house of a tribe in the evening.. we ate chicken, beef, lamb, potato, wild vegetables... drank alcohol and their "milk tea"... sorry but it taste disgusting..so disgusting.. both the alcohol and the tea.. waste my 150 rmb... TT ^ TT and then i realised that even the ppl there use microphone!!! seriously... their voices are already very loud and of high pitch.. when they use the microphone.. my poor ears~!!! they have some activities with the ppl at the dining place.. and we sang national anthem and a few other songs... the activities are nice overall.. watched the television after such a long time!!! so happy~~ but we were so tired that we watched until we slept... had a long night~~

in the morning, we had a hard boiled egg, preserved vegetables and plain porridge for breakfast... (didn't eat much...) went to jiuzaigou(the valley itself) and took alot of photos~~ its so pretty~~ and had a good lunch(finally~) and we went back to the hotel and rest... akilah and siwen came to our room and the rest started pillow fights~~ <3 they are so funny!! oh ya, forgot to blog abt the water... the hot water they provide is limited!!!! and at certain timings only.. so when i bathed in that morning, suddenly there was no hot water!!! so i bathed in cold water... brrrr~ i was already so cold and still bathed in freezing water?! i was mad, i tell you!!! because there was actually still time!! but why is there no hot water?! stupid water... so i was cold until~~~ i felt numb all over... at night, all of us visited a place where there are performances by the tribe ppl.. the music was very loud(because it's so loud, it became disturbing.. so i listened to my MP4.. didn't mean to be rude but the music is too loud for comfort.) the performances were great and was amused by some parts of the performances... it was raining so heavily and i heard that it's snowing on the mountains... the girls decided not to sleep for the night because some of them have to wake up super early for the flight. we bought cup noodles and we went to the empty room(supposedly me and ziya's room)... we had discussion on our bbq and played truth or dare using the guessing number game... first we go for 1 truth, 2 dare.. then 1 truth, 1 dare.. then all truth.. we were discussing and talking in chinese so akilah was so bored so kept playing with the lights!!! ^^ she used them as the "SOS" lights... hahahahahahahs... only halfway through the game, and she's asleep... i was so unlucky!!! i got the most punishments, i think... we stayed till 4.30am... and we went to sleep.. cos girls in my room belongs to grp 3, whose flight is in the afternoon... we slept till quite late and checked out of the hotel... in the morning(as in i woke up), i went to brush my teeth... suddenly the lights flickered and went off. electricity cut-off!!! must something happen to me every morning?! goodness~ >< our room was ready to leave and we went to knock on other rooms... electricity came back... seriously...

I came back from jiuzaigou on tuesday evening... The flight was again only 45minutes! so fast~~ Because it snowed at the mountains the night before, my group went to play with snow (and this is because our group's flight is at 4pm+ and we reach at around 2pm++ so we have a lot of time to spare) the snow is so cold!! :D we took a lot of pictures and videos~ we went to have lunch and headed to their "stones" museum where they sell crystals and other stones.. we reached the airport early at around 2pm+. we were lucky because our flight was actually cancelled.. then we heard that the other groups whose flights are in the morning, their flights were delayed and they waited at the airport for a few hours.. but for us, the ppl at the airport helped us change flights because we were early and we were again splitted into groups of threes and fours. each of us grabbed our ticket and ran towards the gate... my group took the tickets first because ppl are already boarding onto the plane. we ran and ran.. got onto the plane and we have first-class seats!! that's so cool right? so when we reached back at Chengdu, we took this shuttle bus-like-vehicle from the plane to the airport. because we don't know if the rest placed the luggages under our name, so we waited and waited.. I was very worried that we might miss the luggages because i don't really remember how they looked like. (oh ya, for us one room = one luggage, so i don't really remember how my friend's luggage looked like :P) after a while, we went out of the arrival area to wait for the rest.. the two guys actually bought ice-cream!(and the weather is still very cold) the three of us looked for chairs but amazingly, there is none. there are only massaging chairs but it's a type of service actually so need to pay. We waited for quite some time then the rest came out... All of us took the first class seats!! hahahs... we tried making ppl of other grps jealous... but it worked a bit cos they are really tired so they just keep sleeping.. our grp treated mr tan and mrs tan to dinner... veron joined us and we keep attacking her... we ordered a lot of food... too much food.. so we played the guessing number game to finish the food(again)... so full~~ *yawn~* so tired after the trip... gonna rest!!!

Day ?? - Packing for jiuzaigou!!!

today is free & easy... so i woke up late again today... but the rest are still sleeping, so i went out to buy breakfast at the bakery~~ i love the cream cake they sold there... and the tiger-roll cake. i think the cream is the one made of the egg white and sugar.. yummy~~ but the fork they provide is really fragile and small.. then in the afternoon, we went to stock up food and things we need to bring to jiuzaigou... like biscuits, chocolates, water, etc~

I AM SO EXCITED!!!! WOOTS~~~ but since we need to meet up very early tmr morning, the rest decided not to sleep.. and for me, i slept for a while :D (i almost can't wake up. almost.)

Day ?? - Packing and rest~~

the IS module teacher nvr come today... oh well..

need to start packing for our jiuzaigou's trip... woohoo~~

Day ?? - (yup, this is what i have written for the wednesday before that... but it was partly(and supposedly) for thursday.)

yes!!! its thursday!!! it means that i can sleep till a bit later today because i don't have retest tmr and the appg class is in the afternoon~~ i've been sleeping quite late lately, i wonder how am i supposed to change back when i get back in singapore when i have to wake up very early to get my bus... so i wouldn't be late.. actually, i don't like being late because it always make me feel that i'm in a rush.. and i don't like feeling stressed by this.. but being here in oip, i see that actually, many of our students just like to take their time to do things.. teachers are very stressed by this.. especially our teachers because we represent Ngee Ann Polytechnic and yet we are presenting ourselves in this manner.. i wonder what can make our students hav a sense of punctuality... it's something we have to learn and do..

we need to continue our lab 6~~ the lab 6 is super long!!! (teacher... why must it be so long? TT ^ TT)