6D5N 汕头,南奥,潮洲,普宁 . 游 .

I was in Guangdong Shantou province for a 6D5N tour cum relative visit trip.

Day 1

The trip started off at Terminal 1 , Changi Airport. ( which I am too bored of, cause I seems to always go to that terminal, probably because my choice of planes are always cheap lol). Anyway, took Jetstar's direct flight to Shantou Waisha Airport, which cost me a freaking $350/ 1-way trip / head....... Had self paid lunch on board.It was freaking expensive and not a worthwhile experience...... The reason being my $8 vegetarian meal had pathetic servings of 料 to go with the super dry and chewy thai fragrant rice......... and my mum had a bowl of congee ( which is just plain poridge with sugar, neligible amounts of mock chicken & peanuts)that cost a bomb of $8 !!!! LOL ( They like 8, I dunno why hahha)

Anyway, I dun blame them for that...... Reached Shantou at around 6pm, hmmmm was rather glad to be recieved by the guide and realise that me & my mum were on a private tour comprising of only two of us hahah and soon we were whisked off to the city of Shantou. There we had our first meal, hmmm not bad ( PS, forget wad I ate le haha, is some hong kong food). Ignore the meal for now, after that we checked into 龙湖宾馆, 4 * hotel that is situated directly beside the city's governor's office. COOL hahah........ ( stayed in that hotel for the first 3 nites, the breakfast buffet was awesomely teochew & I seriously like their fried rice & fried noodle & surprisingly their 九菜果 is really different from ours)

The weather there is super cool (cold) & dry, making me suffer from frost bites at nite, even though I had a 3 inch thick blanket, bleeding from my fingers without me knowing or rather sensing it.

Day 2

Woke up super early that day, cause I need to 赶船.After my hearty breakfast :) , I found myself to be on the way to 南奥岛. The road to the ferry terminal was freaking brezzy, lol. After 0.5 hours wait, I was driven onto that ferry that ferried me & my vehicle across the sea to 南奥岛 so cool hahhaah, the seawater even splashed onto the car I was on. :) The ferry ride is about an hour.

南奥岛 is an 外岛 of China, which is situated pretty near Taiwan. It was rummoured that the island's 相思树never bear's 相思seeds because Taiwan didnt reunite with Taiwan. But in a more scientific reason, it is simply because the wind on the island was so strong that the seeds drop before the even have a chance to ripe...... Anyway the island is a prestine island, graded as AAAA class natural site in China. The air is so fresh with freaking cold wind gushing towards me. The scenary is also breathtaking, fishfarms, antique residents, wind tubines, mountains & pine trees. Marvellous place to be in. Lunch was simply enjoyable, ate this special seafood, that is like jellyfish, but its not, chewy yet tasty :) After lunch, I was again whisked off to the ferry terminal, ( in a rush), because if not, I might still have been trapped on the island. Because the wind was exceptionally strong that day, resulting in limited number of ferry rides avaliable. But luckily, we reached the ferry terminal early enough :) Allowing me to do wad I like most SHOPPING hahaha. Brought lots of dried goods, 鲍鱼,干贝,海渗,海柳丝,紫菜,at a really really reasonable price :) .

After that was shopping at 南国商场. Due to time constrain I didnt manage to get much things. The haggling of price took me too long lols. But I was definately pleased with my buys from there. The detailed craftsmenship is exceptional. :) I should have brought MORE...... Things r really really cheap. A blazer cost only SGD $35!!!!

Day 3

Went 潮洲 via car. Had vegetarian lunch that day,after that visited 千年古刹开元寺. Really can feel the aura of the temple - 佛光普照大地之子.... Donated a bit, made some wishes & proceeded to 状元街 via 三轮车. Next up is 牌坊街,广挤桥. After which went to this very nice place I forget where le, the scenary is just awesome....... :) Day ends early.

Day 4

Did sightseeing in 汕头 itself climbed this er cave, with splendid lightings ( natural, not artificial) 别有洞天is how I described it. When we peaked, WOW it's like 置身云端,威风阵阵.Took cable car down, simply fantastic hahah.

After that I sort of forget where I go le, I only know I had luch then it was 2hrs ride back to 普宁, my mum was so happy that day :) It was like 这趟圆了我妈40yrs回乡探亲的梦.

To be continued

Just back from a holiday that arrived at a right time............ I consider it as a "runaway" from certain things. I'll have a post on my holiday asap. I actually intended to have a post on it, but certain facts simply gushed back into my mind upon my arrival to Changi Airport........

I wanna erase something away from my life, but they simply remain as facts that I find it disgusted. Too much overwealmed me in these years. I wanna start all over again.

I might need another getaway soon, before NS.

YES, I AGREED THAT I MAY BE USELESS, YET I FELT HELPLESS ABOUT IT. ( at least at this moment.) the twists & turns are really irritating. the hopes that glimmer are the forces that nagvigate me, yet it is also the idea that shut me off from lots of opportunities.

Dim Sum buffet with Joan, Miao Ling, An an, Xiu Hui, Julian, Mr & Mrs Lim at Red star restaurant( in chinatown area), an antique restuarant that serves really mouth watering authetic dim sum. :) Mr Lim drove us down haha :) Ate lots of Har Gao ( pran dumpling)simply love them muahahahah. Desert was almond jelly, Not bad, they manage to control the strength of the almond, which most restaurants couldnt manage to. After that went jalan jalan with the gang :)

& yah, proceeded to Conrad, yah, the routine work work work, sian .......

k, I was rather emoish tonite. I know why I felt this way. If I say that I am not jealous, 我是骗人的. Its impossible, cause I am a human & I do have feelings. But, I simply cant stand the hour bus ride home. It seems to take me forever tonite. Alot, really alot of images flashed through my mind, I havent felt so clear for preety long & yup, haiz nvm.................. I need to let go, I know. 附水难收...... 我也任了.

Anyway, on a lighter note, I'll be flying off on monday, yeh yeh yeh hahahah :) It'll be a busy day tmr, I'll be packing like mad & registering, o well I hope I can finish everything in one day.

Woke up super early today, its like I have never woke up this early before. Went for HSK level 6 briefing, was rather smooth, met Mrs Lee I was like 我们真有缘... Then met Mr Lim. Went home snoring like a pig, cause I was dead tired.

Had dinner at Ajisen with julian & miao ling..... The soup base is so nice hahahahaha. Chat alot.

PART 1

I have quite a fair bit to write today, alot of thoughts and emotions stirring in my mind. I have communicated with alot recently & if you guys noticed, I have changed, I felt that there's no need to keep so much things to myself anymore. Yet I still have the feeling of (quite) insecure, abit confused, abit lost, and lastly abit lost in faith of humans.

For once probably I would type here, wad I told my psycotherapist. I won't reveal who you are but, you know who you are. I felt abit cheated( lols, I used this word, when I am not even in a relationship, and u should nt even be in a relationship with me in the first place.),and uneasy to certain things that we did together. That's the first thing. I am quite irked by your reactions towards certain isses towards last part of yr 2009 & 2010.

Through all these you thought me wad is called double personality & accepting what you are as a friend is an obligation you felt I should( without sparing a thought for others). And yes, after some form of affirmation, you contributed to my condition today, a lost in faith in mankind to certain degree. haha.

And I DO HOPE THAT I COULD HAVE YOU ERASED FROM MY MIND. I DONT MIND IF U COULD STOP SMSING ME. I was initially quite glad to recieve some noise from you, but thereafter, I am quite irritated. I thought that you have somewad changed, but probably as the phrase goes - 狗改不了吃屎( It's the worst thing I could scold, its better than F words which u spilt out). So you didnt, 利字当头,人性显露...... 哈哈, nvm, vanish from my face& please, dun disturb me with any sms when I am overseas :)

PART 2

It's about my uni addmision, I do hope that I could get into chinese now. Cause, afterall, I dun need to 大富大贵like wad mrs lee said. I just need a normal peaceful life till ripe age. But the sense I am getting is that, competition this year seems to be freaking intense, SMU even asked ppl to go retake As zzzzzzz......... I hope I get into chinese now >.<

These comforting thoughts, came from 2 inspiring sources, Mr Lim and Mrs Lee. They both felt that I should be alrite there & me too. ( BTW, I met them at HSK briefing in school today) I am still dead hopeful about entering accountancy. I wanna take accounts, it's my dream , really. So I will 博 my chance, I will mug like hell in first year, I swear. 我真心祈求希望老天不要再辜负我这个有心人了....Its my 3rd & most probably last chance to fullfill a dream. 我只能秉着上仓有好生之德的希望走下去......

一点露,一支草,铁树也会开新花.......

Phewwwwwwww, did quite alot of things today.... Tired ttm.... Hooked on to this song -人生路 in hokkien.... Found it quite nice.

浪子也有回头日,歹子弹也有出头日.

人情冷暖.

人没到入土时,一切靠自己.

Haizzz initially, I thought I could go on leave today, but my boss smsed me..... nvm, its $24 more $.$ hahah

Just out from NTU's open house. Nothing very intersting....... But managed to get bit of information. Chinese & sociology, I am deciding between the 2 of them.....

Anyway, Ytd's was really a fun& blessed day for me. Though its quite sddening to hear that tusnami hit Japan.......

Booked my air tickets to Shantou via the net, first time in my life haha. Flying by jetstar cause there's no any other airway to that place. Many said that my air ticket's freaking ex......Anyway, then rushed down to SA tours to get my hotels & itinery fixed. Yeah, 4 star hotel throughout the stay at shantou hahah :) I'll be away & uncontactable from 21st to 26th March ............ lalala I'll come back as a true blue teochew hahas

After that did abit of shopping with mum & yah as usual she bought stuffs........ Then rushed down for work. ( nothing special)

But at nite when I reached home, I was rather surprise to find a crumpler, a camera cupboard & a new DSLR 70D, I was like OMG, hahahah such a nice day of surprises :)

The week would be a busy one :) & lastly may the light of dharma & blessings of buddah be with the victims of japan's tusnami. haizzz, natual disasters are horrible......

I just read Jeremy's tumbler....

Humans have insaistable needs & wants, because we are inately greedy, we wanna grab everything we want. We have the urge to get wadever we can. That's wad pushes/causes/forces us to make actions or decisions which are either life changing or geographically impactful.

It is through these insastible needs & wants that humans develope wad we called dreams, aspirartions, goals and wishes, which are basically are a mixture of mentality that serves to guide us along towards certain pathway in our life( as a human being). And, this is also a point that differnetiates us from animals, we have something in mind( other than hunting for food, finding a secure living place and reproducing to ensure that our family line is passed down) to accomplish.

I'll continue this post, cause I dunno how to continue it at this point. hahah

To those who are reading this blog, pls tag at the side.

I went for my first psycotherapy session ytd at NUH, it didnt turn out like a counselling session (as I have expected), it ended up making felt abit like an experimental bait. Sitting down there being bombared with questions & they are tough, mostly comprising of "WHY?".

The whole conversation revolves around 2 topics- 1 person & 1 issue.I was rather pleased with it. though I felt that my privacy had been intruded, at least they forced me to clear my thoughts, for the cause of my condition & my treatment will follow up.

Casting that episode aside, I was again pleased that I could choose between sociology and chinese now, instead of chinese only. I was thinking about major in sociolgy and minor in chinese language translation. Afterall I did thought about being a translator before :). I just hope that I get into uni, and that's it. I dun need a scholarship. I just wanna be a happy person with enough to get a house, a condo & have a family, lead a healthy and happy life till the end. That's all I want. It's simple, yet it's simple things that are tough.

I read jude's blog justnow. felt abit emotional lol. Although life's in our control, but it is not up to us to control the outcome. It is us who nagvigate our directions, but it is not us who chooses the outcome. Luck still plays quite a big portion in our life. I wanna consider myself as bad luck in exams, but probably I am not really that bad afterall. Just that, I had been played around by fate.

I cant really let go of the facts yet, but at least I made my decisions le. I need time to let go. Cause, I don't know how.

天意弄人

Thank you to those who talked to me these few days. I am feeling vexed, but I hope time eases things. Thats the last thing I could hope for.

It's a pleasant surprise. Thank you.

虽然是决定了,但难免掩饰不了心中无耐,忧郁的心情. 担心是少不了的, 迟疑就免了吧.毕竟这似乎是唯一的选择了. 希望一切安好.

WOke up today, trying to convience myself that everything was just a dream. But, the reailty is, YESTERDAY HAPPENED. My aspirations are down the drain.

Had lunch and movie with Mr Ching, Julian and ee hong thankyou for being there to occupy my thoughts. Watched 大世界, movie was somewad ok, I only like the ending part.

Sort of made up my mind, I'll try chinese in NTU. If possible under scholarship with NIE?? HAHA I might be dreaming. I know that, I might sound as though I am making this decision out of sheer desperate.But, at least, on a second thought, chinese had been something closer to my heart than any other things ( other than bussiness or accountancy). So perhaps, it's heaven's will for me to move towards that direction.

尘埃落定.

Sometimes I wondered, how much harder must I try, then I would get it. Am I destineed to be 不是读书的料？ CC CCB AB this is my A level grades, it does reflect my level of work&effort isnt it?? lol, wad a joke. Suffering so much for straight Cs...... nice one. hahaha

Wad a nice ending to everything/ 2 years.

I hold back my tears, for once, I felt that I was strong, haha, but I need fresh air away from others.

Hi kc, I doubt u r reading this, but still congrats. U have the option& choses to make, while I hang on to the miserable truths.

U r blessed, and I am not. Thats wad I would like to say.

Take it as a stepping stone, life's not about grades, Muahahah, I lead a life in singapore, if its nt about grades, wad's it about? Someone, pls, use another angle to measure life beyond grades. I still see them connecting together.

I doubt I could survive on an ITE cert, which my dad lived on, earning enough to purchase propertie"S" & I stress the "S" , feed the other 3 mouths at home, at the very end have savings enough to bring me through uni(without a loan) and yes probably not that much but still enough for retirement.( bearing in mind not a single cent was from his parents)

I wished that I could be a kampung kid now, with a piece of land, some $$ no need that much, in malaysia, that allows me to farm, eat my own produce and thats it. Away from the bustle and hussle. But these are just dreams and probably a pipe one.

At least, I won't have to lost a close friend, get hooked on to medication, have sleepless nites and at the very end lost everything that seem so important from the start - GRADES .

I lost too much in these 2 years. I would have ignored the grades if I knew this was THE END

I feeling quite disturbed that, time passes so freaking fast that I am already 3 months passed 2011, that I am right into the eve of A level release and that I have to face wadever nonsence grade I have produced 4 months back..............

I doubt I will hold on to the fact that as the clock ticks by, I'll have to spend more effort to calm myself, get myself into the relaxed mode, such that I will remain normal.

I do hope that by choosing to work tonite is a good option to occupy my brains with some sweet stuffs, such that I can cast the utter disgusting fact of judgement day aside and probably have a final good nite rest ( before the awakening judement day that will knock some sense into me, that I have to face the reality)

I wish that it will be a fine day tmr, and that I wont recieve something disappointing ever again!!!

Finally, to 09s02, may tmr be a pleasant one for you, but if it turns out slightly sour, take it in stride, for it's not the alphabets that determines us.