Thursday, May 31, 2007

drifted

how did things even end up like that.
it used to be so happy and perfect,
yeah there were quarrels,
but i had the best friend i could ever ask for,
i had someone i could say just about everything to,
someone available 24/7
someone i knew would always be there for me
someone i always looked forward to talking to and seeing
someone i knew would help me grow
someone i dearly loved.
just what happened?
we're so near, yet so far now.
you're like a stranger now.
i don't know anything about you now.
how i wish i could turn back the hands of time
and do things differently this time.
i'm sorry things turned out this way.

Posted by jann at 16:19

Saturday, May 19, 2007

vietnam!

i haven't blogged in the longest time. i just find it so lazy to blog.
vietnam was incredible. amazing. heaps of fun and this really great educational experience.
i loved it so much. vietnam is this beautiful place that has had alot of chinese influence but still has its rich and unique culture. so we went to the airport on sunday morning. it was all so exciting! but i was kindof scared smth would happen on the trip. talked to jessie quite abit. i brought my phone along. so after we got past the gates we went to walk aronnd for awhile. then i called jessie and sent afew msgs on the plane before take off. i got the window seat:D but cos the seats were pre allocated not by us. by the airport people. they put me alone. grah. viv came over to seat with me anyway. i felt so honoured. like she's leaving for canada soon (she's migrating there. for good) and i get to room with her and partner her and all. so when we got there we felt like movie stars. vietnam airport is kindof small. there're standard of life and living is well, not as good as singapore. needless to say. we went to ho chi minh city. it is three times the size of singapore, population is twice as large as ours. but they just seem soooooo densely populated. its divided into district one, two three blahblah until ten. district one is like the most primal area, the rich area. land is given out by the govt to those like war heroes or smth. its kindof dirty there. electrical wires just hang all over streets. people litter like nobody's business. main form of transport is motorcycles. much less cars. its so polluted on the roads there that many motorists wear masks. anyway. so first thing when we got there, we went to lunch. nice restaurant. there was this long long table and everyone sat across each other. and i sat at one end. the breadth. and i was like the 'head' of the table. so they asked me to say grace. and from then on, i said grace for the table i was at for every meal. haha. i liked that anyway. and they gave us a pair of chopsticks each as a gift. so nice of them. we went to tour the city. we went to the post office. it looks well, nicer than most of the rest of hcmc. there arent many tall buildings in hcmc, except for district one where there are office buildings by like international companies. mncs. or singapore consulate. keppel land has an office in one of those buildings too. and theres a hong leong building too. or was it hsbc. one of them la. haha.then we got to see notre dame cathedral. it was built by the french. beeeeeeeeautiful building. lovely architecture. then dinner on this ferry. there was a live band and all. some dance performance by this fire dancer. then at the hotel, chris and jess, therest of my iso group was in the room next to ours. it was conjoined rooms but we only got it opened on like wednesday? haha. then on wed night anna came over and we stayed up talking till like twelve when it was lights out so anna hadto go back cos the teachers came round checking. then viv went to sleep. so chris jess and i had some heart to heart haha. then we slept at 1.30. then what else. over the next few days, we went shopping:D went to a few places. bargaining is a lifeskill. i spent more than one million dong. one SGD - 10000 dong. haha. so it was about 1oo sing. plus some US too. bought quite abit. haha. we went to vietsing industrial park the next day. it looks super singapore. probably cos of the roads and streetlamps and all. and the buildlings too. felt good. haha. it was quite big. we got a talk by a singaporean working there.the chief. good talk of econs. then we also went to hist museum, war musuem. hist museum was kindof uh. ancient. haha. we watched a water puppet show. its this like small pool with curtains at the back and puppets dancing. we spent the whole time trying to figure out how they did it. it turned out there were wooden sticks attached and people controlling from behind the curtains.then war museum was super interesting. we went to cu chi tunnels. vietcong spent 20 years buildingit. they hid there from the japs. we went in. its soooo small and well hidden. i went in for like ten minutes and came out sweating sweating. haha. its really small. either crawl or squat and waddle like a duck. we watched this short video before going into cuchi. some propaganda film about how bad americans are. then they had medals like 'best american extinguisher' and all. yeah. but the vietnamese won the war in the end. well. american retreated. for those who dont know. vietcong are communist. and as we all know. US is super super pro-democracy. they didnt want the rest of the world to turn communist so they decided to take matters into their own hands and yeah. it was really an eye-opener. then we went to singapore consulate and got this superb talk by the council-general. who happens to be grace chuas dad. haha. and we also went to the general sciences library. we got this room which was the childrens section. my group was performance. we did this dance to grease lightning. so seventies. fun. haha. tiring. we spent three hours there. entertaining them. we sang songs and taught them actions. we did like seven times a day and chicken dance and hokey pokey. haha. they have alot of energy. the teachers later told us they saw the other rooms and they were packed full. the viets are really knowledge-hungry. and yeah. thats about all. and i cantrmb what else. haha. we ate alot?
and then on thurs i got a pleasant surprise. jessie amanda josh caleb and dansoh came to pick me up from the airport! so sweet of them. i was like shocked. i walked out and amanda went 'janice!' haha. i was looking in my mums direction actually so i didnt see them. so happy they came down. make me feel so loved. haha. then cabbed home. gave out souvenirs to my family. then on friday went to sch late. was msging toh who was in sch on the way to sch. it felt like a holiday la. i felt so foreign to everything. even my hp. haha.haha. we had to report at nine. first period was PE. ahhhhhh. so annoying .haha. we played pickle ball again. fun fun. i like playing with michelle chan. she plays it like badminton.haha. then friday came home and watched all the recorded nine o clock shows i missed. my bro recorded for me. so nice of him right. haha. then toh called and he hadnt eaten lunch so he took 198 to the bus stop behind my house then i went down. walked to jec. watch him eat 'lunch'. it was like five smth. he had two servings. one for lunch one for dinner? tell him all about vietnam and. oh yes. i had three experiences with lecherous guys there. the cheekopeks. haha. and i told him about them too. and yeah then we walked back to my house there. and we had mango for dinner. yay my mama. then i didnt nth much at night. attempt to pack my bag for camp? haha. then this morning. sheesh had to wake ups so early. camy at EIGHT FORTY FIVE. mels idea.haha. i was like five mins late? not bad la. sam was there doing math. so i told him about vietnam. then went upstairs and 'jammed' today was a lil sian for me? haha we learnt how to do sound engineering. im quite dumb at it. im not exactly the sort. haha. im sure everyone knows that. then went lunch with jessie toh caleb. had the chicken rice at fareast. havent gone there in soooo long. then jessie went off. meet her friends celebrate someones birthday. so we three walked and walked and walked around. then we finally sat down at heeren the upstairs there. then sit sit sit. talk crap. then sit and wait for caleb to send smth to his friend. he didtn in the end. and we spent so much time sitting there. like 45 mins? gah. then calebwent off to PAYAR LEBAR to showhis friend a poster-.- haha. so i walked around with toh for awhile. went to the apple shop at cine. i never knew it existed. LOL=x then had to go down to changi to pick my dad up from overseas. so toh being nice offered to lend me his ipod. his precious ipod. haha. so i explored it on the way there. then went dinner at changi. then yeah. im home now. lala. thats all. im super tired.
NIGHTS ALL.
THIS WAS A LENGTHY POST.
I DONT BLAME YOU IF YOU DIDN'T READ ALL OF IT.
HAHA.

Posted by jann at 21:40