Monday, December 17, 2007 2:05 AM
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10.03 am
thailand 07
shall finally write about it after procrastinating for such a long time.
my opinion abt some ppl changed quite drastically after this trip bleh.
A would stop at nothing to get what he wants.
B isn't quite the little miss sweet she appeared to be.
C suddenly doesn't appear talented and quiet anymore.
hurr hurr hurr.
anyway.
10th Dec 07
airport @ 1000 hours.
yay.
haha basically got there and checked in luggage and instruments.
then slacked like for 1 hour.
which meant some camwhoring
outside the departure gate,
doing the rujun pose.
if you're observant you'll see rujun doing lots of poses to cover his injured mouth,'
the girls
and inside the er departure hall
hhaha marcus talking to you on the phone leh.
haha then shopped a bit inside there also but didn't buy stuff
cause most of us had alrdy changed sgd to thai baht.
so err too bad.
stuff there were quite a bit cheaper than stuff outside.
anw went on board the plane.
then sat the flight.
haha was at 38A
A = window seat yay.
mark was beside me,
weely beside mark.
leng behind me.
cindy beside leng.
ah but the ride was uneventful.
mark and weely and leng and all were tired.
and fell asleep.
i amused myself by watching rugby on the tv and taking photos of pretty clouds in the sky.
loves flying lots.
:D
haha uneventful bla bla
reached bangkok at abt 3pm i think.
singapore time la.
or 2 pm bangkok time.
dunno.
zoomed through the checkpoints bla bla.
haha boring.
the terminal is quite empty.
so it looks big.
but actually i don't think so.
haha this pic made me giddy until i realised it was taken sideways.
haha then nothing much.
collected our luggage,
drove for half hour to get to our hotel.
bla bla bla.
by the time we reached,
it was like nearing 5 or 6 le.
haha then leng and the tourguide (mr chai) brought us to eat at the random roodside stalls near the hotel.
haha the food wasn't too bad.
but everything else sucked.
the way they hung the dead chicken by the necks.
the way the washed cups and plates by just splashing them with water.
the long time it took.
etc etc.
we'll let sean elaborate more on this.
but the food in itself wasn't bad.
if you discounted everything else.
haha nothing much.
then went back to hotel room.
water there wasn't potable.
and there was only one water boiler for the whole level.
so we had to improvise on our own.
solution came at the nearby 7-11 store.
our nightly drinks.
some went to the LOL party
at room 707.
which is LOL upside down.
and partied.
haha quite glad i wasn't there.
and there were other random groups too i think haha.
and quite a few rooms with 2 ppl only.
went to room 811 - andrea and cindy's room.
played cards with cindy andrea weely and mark.
played cards talked crap slacked.
till like 2am.
then went to rujun's room.
played even more cards.
slacked somemore.
then prank called andrea's room.
and sean's room too actually but no i think he's too asleep to get scared.
anw nothingness.
we later went to andreas room to talk gossip and crap.
and then slept at like 3.
11th Dec 07
main program for the day was the exchange with some university.
haha woke up at like 630am.
bangkok time.
from now on shall refer to time as bangkok time.
just add one hour and you get s'pore time.
the view from our hotel!
here you see slums slums and more slums.
andddddd our beds.
fresh from the jumping and bouncing up and down the last night.
before!
AFTER!
ate buffet breakfast consisting of cold eggs
soggy toast.
hard bacon
slimy ham.
wow.
then set of for the uni.
hahah got quite lost in there.
its quite big.
but not very pretty.
there were bodies of water everywhere.
rivers, ponds, drains.
mr chai later said that that was one of the ways to dispose of waste here in thailand.
haha anyway had workshop there with the conductor there.
mr surapol
haha he quite zai la i think.
Just that sometimes he conducts not very clearly.
haha
ernest adds to his collection.
haha anw after lunch
we had sectionals with the flautist there.
and he's like damn pro can.
haha his like better than leng
in terms of flute.
and teaching.
conducting maybe not la.
haha he quite guailan also.
he go up the chromatic scale is like.
'boodeeboodeeboodeeboodee'
all the way till he finish.
haha and he sing the running notes of hymn to infinite sky is
' doodooajasldkjlaskjlkajsd doodooasjdhkajskash'
hahha he is 1337
haha and his flute is zai also.
the starting random bird noises flutes playing.
he just combined flute one and two parts.
and just sight read.
hahha imba la he.
anw sectionals until like 5.
then combined.
and surapollll basket.
keep playing hymn to infinste sky like noone's business like that.
ahah he think we his band la.
at the end of the day.
his band ppl still blasting like nobody's business like that.
and we all the noobs.
cmi.
haha then after that.
to destress.
we started on our great shopping adventure!
some random shopping center
haha dunno which one.
then didn't really shop.
just went to eat.
cause the stuff there damn ex la.
is all 4 digits one.
thai baht la.
to change to sgd you divide by 20.
haha so errr.
nothing bought.
went back to hotel,
more cards etc etc.
12th Dec 07
today was exchange with the high school band.
haha but not before MORE SHOPPING in the morning.
another departmental store,
more shops.
and of course.
the macs there can't really be forgotten.
its quite different from singapore!
say sawadeekrap to ronal macdonalds!
lalalame.
and more interesting food!
macs answer to bk's triple whooper.
and err some hybrid pie dunno sai.
and of course got the macmelvin la!
haha some samurai pork burger.
which cai qin so zai,
go direct to counter and ask for macmelvin
and get laughed at by the waiter there.
heeheehee.
shopped till like 1.
then went off to the high school there for xchange.
walao got damn lot of ah gua and gay la and tranny-to-bes la.
damn er xin.
zzz.
then slacked there
played hymn to infinite sky
imagine
and winter sonata
probably for the last time.
and then meet the section session.
and then some lame game session.
walao.
boring la.
sian sian sian.
haha combined section photo campwhoring moment.
oh and i learnt that ponglong means short and fat
but NO they didn't call me that.
but it may come in handy next time.
nothing much la.
finished.
then more shopping.
this time at some street market.
which was crowded and dirty
which none of us liked.
so mark me cindy and andrea
went to swensens to eat ice cream instead.
all ate sticky chewy chocolate!
ahhhh lubslubslubs.
and swensens has pretty cups!
haha koped one home just for keepsake!
anw nothing much went on walked a bit
went to a bookstore which sold english books
suprisingly
and bought a john grisham and mitch albom.
bah 750 baht in total
:O:O:O
haha oh and this is where sai kia pubes chan wei xin malued badly.
he go step on shit.
and didn't know it.
and went on the bus.
and stepped shit all over his stuff.
like his new leather bag.
and then scraped shit over his jeans in an attempt to clean it from his shoes.
gets shit on his hands.
and generally everywhere.
hahahaha.
sai kia.
haha nothing much la
went back to hotel.
same old story.
LOL party,
gossip room,
procate party/twosome.
that's abt it.
and melvin got drunk.
really.
13th Dec 07
by today haha i think everyone got sick of breakfast.
look!
haha basically today was nothing much.
just 9 hours straight of shopping.
in a shopping mall so big it has to be divided into 4 huge sections.
apparently in the end 9 hours wasn't enough really.
woah.
nothing much to elaborate.
just some noteworthy pics.
stupid people do stupid things.
and again.
ahaha and thailand really is really quite very liberal.
not to mention their famous sick shirts la.
haha and of course.
i got one for a certain tikopek.
might not fit him though.
hurrhurrhurr.
ah and thailand has cool ads!
9 hours of shopping down,
then went back hotel sleep.
tired la.
i think.
haha can't rmb.
maybe played cards and gossipped again.
dunno.
14th Dec 07
dreamworld today.
haha basically camwhoring and err some playing.
clarinets + percs + pathetic flutes.
haha basically nothing much.
lame rides.
hm but places of interest was erm.
haha snow city?
- 4 degrees celcius omg.
haha hands almost gone.
toes frozen beneath the funny boots they gave us.
ears still intact due to the hood from my pullover.
yay but managed to take lots of photos
and slid down some small hill there on some bobsled thingy.
haha and maybe the viking
cause it goes on for 0394230 years.
the operator was cutting his nails while err doing the ride.
doesn't seem very interested in his job bleah.
but it was err stomach churning to say the least.
nothing much.
maybe the grand canyon.
where we all got wet.
haha something like wild wild wet on a boat la.
splash splash splash.
and we all got wet
hahah
nothing much.
bla bla bla.
more group photos.
ahah and wei xin malu himself.
he tried to take a photo.
and ended up taking a video.
and a spot of last minute shopping.
before back to the hotel.
slack sleep.
not so happy stuff occured
but nvm
err its dead and buried alrdy.
15th Dec 07
today was just checking out and err going off to airport.
haha.
some ppl go LOL party then nv sleep.
so er quite sian.
airport le.
then more photos la.
1/2 of flute section in thailand bleah bleah.
umm roomates! and random ppl at background.
and err random group of ppl.
and of course.
band photo!
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haha and we nearly nissed the plane cause loong leng forgot time.
haha and we were all like running to catch the plane.
and all round us the airplane ppl were like telling us to hurry hurry.
and we had like 2 mins to go from check-in point to the airplane.
and gate E5 was damn bloody far la.
haha leng was like half dead by the time we got there.
i think we were late but they pilot nice guy la.
sometimes i wonder what would happen if we didn't catch the plane.
hmm.
no more singapore.
no more homework.
no more school.
even if its only for one more day.
ah but nvm.
haha.
so that brings a close to the thailand err adeventure.
6 days
2 schools
8 departmental stores
22 hours of shopping
2000 baht later
i'm home.
authors note -
hmm 5 days after i first started this post, i finally finished it yay.
haha cause it was creating a huge backlog.
there were lots of stuff to blog abt
band chalet from 17th to 19th
and err section outing today.
lalala.
haha towards the end i think i seemed to be rushing.
and although there really wasn't much to it than shopping,
i was really.
err pissed off due to lousy com.
and err short termed memory.
haha.
so ya that's abt it.
rahhhh.
and the videos still haven't uploaded yet.
wtf.
been uploading for like 2 hours le.
because cider is the elixir of life