*WAILS*
it's just to cruel to whip me back to school after i had the most fantastic five weeks of my life!!!! i feel totally liberated and for the first time in my life i can hardly remember what medical school is about!!!!!
it's all about to end. *gasp*
ah well. it's amazing how travelling can make u a totally different person. i feel like i have taken coke (cocaine) can, i am like perpertually on a high! (even my msn mates have asked my why i am so high)
i feel like i have broadened my horizons alot these past weeks! i feel like a globetrotter! and it's sad that this is all in the past liao.... *sobs* byebye scotland, london, paris, perth!
ok. since my cannot-make-it computer totally swallowed and digested my pages-long essay about wonderful scotland, i can't possibly remember what i typed so many days ago. i shall try to dig out those fond memories.
SCOTLANDthis is a most wonderful stupendous country! i love everything about it! (ok minus the sandwiches URGH gross things) the people are just wonderful, so friendly and helpful and smiley!!! i think they must be the Western Land of Smiles... even smilier than the Thais! and thats saying something. i love the way i can walk along the streets and smile at strangers and not have them stare at me in bewilderment... it's wonderful how a smile from a stranger can make u feel right at home! and the grandpas and grannies oevr there are really very lovable... they love to tell jokes and sometimes i can't help but feel sad that so many old folks are staying alone. =(
the nurses in scotland are simply great! it's as if they grew up on sunshine, they are always so nice... even to lowly medical students like me! and they go out of their way to help, which is more than i can say for most nurses here who somehow treat us like roaches. beats me why. of course there are always the nice ones lah. but it's really a nice change especially when u are in a foreign land! gives my heart a warm fuzzy feeling. =P
and the doctors! it turned out that the people did not assign any tutors to me and i had to find one myself! what the (^%^$%#$!(!%^&*!%*!^!!! luckily i met the nicest doctor ever! dr chris! he's a life-saviour... and soooooooooo charming!!!!! absolutely adore him. haha too bad he's married. =P and he's probably hob-nobbing in the himalayas now!
i guess the most memorable thing would always be the fact that i actually drove my friends around in a foreign land! looking back it seems so easy-peasy, but i was really scared and sceptical that time! luckily yq is so grown-up and matter-of-fact about it all, that i somehow felt reassured. kudos to yq for taking over the manual car at times even though she drives an auto car! the girl has guts man! and to ht and yq for doing such a marvellous job manouvreing! and ahma for er singing her er nice oldies... and cheesie for her pda music! (which saved us from ahma... heehee *evil*)
i suppose the reason i love scotland so much is partly because we are living among the people instead of just zooming through... it's such a lovely quaint place, with its absolutely stunning olden age architeture and cobble-stoned streets! and a castle in the middle of the place! enchanting. and the apartment we rented had a fireplace! its like celebrating christmas everyday! i almost wanted to hang up some xmas stockings... haha and its super fun to have 6 girls living together under one roof! really got to know them very well... like
how ahma can eat and eat and eat and not get fat. oh and of cos, she's perverted. (but then it's a well-known fact! =P) i love taking "lesbian" fotos with her... bobby dont faint! i am not stealing your gf!
how cheesie can bathe for one hour and likes to sleep-talk ("it has 4 valves"... i think she's talking abt the heart)
how yiqing, despite being rich, likes to do things like wash dishes and cook...
how clara, whom i didnt know very well, is actually quite chatty and fun to be with and looks out for her friends!
how huiting.. er wait. i know her too well already. nothing more to discover. haha! my 17 years friend!
i adore my housemates. some of my best meals in scotland were cooked by them! if not i may have died. haah. sandwiches poisoning! i am severely allergic to sandwiches now.
and of course, the scenery in scotland is just breathtaking. its no wonder many great writers hail from europe! if i were immersed in this kind of mystical dreamy mountainous regions full of valleys and lakes, i can conjure up Harry Potter too! every turn in the road brings new surprises, new oooo and ahhhhs from us... and we saw two or three rainbows! and a double rainbow too! its hard to feel stressed up about life when you are surrounded by nature's wonders.
not forgetting the "Eaton"s we saw in Scotland... eaton= cute guys. haha not alot. but there were a few!
and urgh. i tried a minuscule bite of haggis. lets just say i am not a fan. *gargles mouth*
LONDONto tell the truth, london was abit of a shock after nice, clean, organised, smiley scotland. as the train chugs towards london, we can feel the hostility in the passengers mounting and the friendliness fading away... mind you, i am not joking! it's almost like being in a totally different place! so it was not a great way to start learning about london. and the tube didnt make things better. sooooooooo many stairs!!!! i feel like i was living in king edward VII hall again! except this time i have 30kg +++ amount of luggage to carry around! *faint* i tell you i was totally bushed by the time we arrived at our hotel! and i wanted to cry. (i had biceps by the time i arrived back in singapore. this is how bad it is!)
london was fun in its own way... at least i enjoyed madame tussuads (ooo my will smith and captain jack sparrow) and the musical greatly! if i were a londoner i would go for a musical every week!!! its so enjoyable and the audience were so very appreciative! we watched Wicked, which is about the wicked witch in the Wizard of Oz except its not the original story. loved it! it was extremely funny and the cast was fabulous!!! wouldnt mind paying more for front row seats! sigh.
ooo and of course we went cambridge to find cheehow!!! good old cheehow, who had to play boatman to us girls!!! YAY! thank god cheehow is strong! punting is such a popular thing over there, so the river (or whatever it is) is pretty crowded... i was the only hum chee one who couldnt stand up in the boat! yq n ht were scrambling around like hamsters lor. haha but well i did try to manouvre but since i was too hum chee to stand at the end of the baot i failed miserably. had a few collisions. ahah! sort of regret it now... but i may have fallen into the water if i did! nvm. too much for my weak heart!
ooo and we had a hall dinner! courtesy of yq's friend kezheng. it was a very nice hall! harry-potterish. charming! except the waiters were rude n like to whisk food off before you even finish it! i think i gave them a rude shock when i loudly proclaimed i wasnt done with my chicken when they made a grab for it! ahah =P
in london i had the best meal i have had for a loooooooong time! thanks to good old watson who brought us to this really really good chinese restaurant!!!!!! mmmmm. yummy!!!!! even though it was expensive by my standards, i think its worth the money! and considering it is london, its super cheap liao! its good to meet up with old friends man. and wats gave us a box of thorntons chocs! *weeps* too good to be true lor. THANKS WATS!!! the box saved our lives when we were too poor to eat! haha
and of course, london wont be complete without a trip to Harrods! the things are terribly ex! but i loved my krispy kreme! yummy!
PARISi finally understand whats all the fuss about when it comes to frenchmen. they are without a word perhaps the most charming men on earth! maybe it's their spontaneity and their roguish winks, but they just come across as ladies' men! i recall an incident when i was trying to take a photo of the Eiffel Tower and suddenly a head popped into my viewfinder! (a passing frenchman decided to take a running leap and with a great jump inserted his head into my field my vision). haha i was so tickled! very amusing actually! and of course, we met the most good-looking and charming waiter in the creperie near our hotel... sighs. dreamboat! and the salesman at the chocolat shop! *swoon*
i love paris for its crepes!!! yummy things. i can never have enough. i finally got my appetite back there! and oooooooo the pastries!!! i didnt have much room for food, but i did managed to try a palmier, a strawberry tart and a monsieur croquette (or something like that) and it was pure heaven. MMMMMMMMM. slurp.
highlight of the trip was surprisingly not the louvre or the notre dame or even the Eiffel.... it was....
LOUIS VUITTON!!!!
crazy!!! the people there bought LVs as if they were veggies!!! no need money one right... we only went in cos yq had to help her aunt buy a bag! and it was an eye-opener man! but thats also when i discovered the impeccable service is a facade. for more details ask ht. haha. but yar we felt really rich afterwards when we strolled down paris with a few LV bags! (i was scared of robbers actually!) and we went into all the branded stores! wheeeeee! rich man's life!
i think the Eiffel Tower is overhyped. but i did saw a marriage proposal!!!! eheheh which i felt was a must-see on my trip to the place of romance... but it was rather disappointing. too many people! i felt claustrophobic! especially since many tourists were rude and were shoving people away from the view. urgh.
PERTHperth was a great trip, for the nice tour mates we had, and the great tourguide and bus-driver!
i quite love the farmstay.. was the first time i had a farm stay and wooohooo! an eye opener! saw a full arching rainbow right across the sky! and the ends of the rainbow were in sight too, near enough to touch! and the starry skies were something i want to remember forever. night-hunt was exciting! but not when i realised we were after rabbits. =( it was quite gruesome to watch, and i cant help feeling sorry for the rabbits. born at the wrong place, at the wrong time. sigh. although the kids were really excited about the skinning and the urgh nevermind. they even kept the rabbit tails. ew.
there were many many kids in this tour group! and they were really adorable! tingting, tongtong, gerald, jason, kevin, yexuan, yewen... haha. i quite feel like an oldie beside them! but its great when kids start telling u stories of their lives... they are just so guileless! and if i were much younger i would have gone after the boys... =P nope i am not paedophilic! i am ali baba to the kids.... and i think they were very tickled by it... ahah! still, only jason remembers the story about ali baba and the forty thieves! to tell the truth even i have forgotten the story. just went to popular to read it the other day again! hehe.
and of course not forgetting my poker-card mates! my sis, ivan, sebas, jon, zhihui! we played cards til 3 am on the day i was especially unlucky. keep losing at Old Maid! but was very touched when ivan completed my forfeit for me... yay! so rare to find such a gentlemanly and nice 17 year old! (sorry ivan i dont know anyone of your age to intro u to) hehee. really felt deliriously happy on this tour! hope that we would keep in touch man. our age range is from 13 to 26. hahaha! although i must say sebas and zhihui are simply too tallllllllll for their ages!!! and i absolutely thought zhihui was abit older, cos she looked so well-dressed and nice! and ooo nice dimples too! =D (scandal btw zhihui and sebas, which we cooked up. poor zhihui =P)
oooo and i love sandboarding! almost didnt go cos on my suay day my sunglasses broke for no reason and the sand was absolutely blowing in all directions! was scared of mum scolding me if sand gets into my eyes... so was watching my sis and the rest sandboarding and feeling quite left out! my fault lah, but didnt want to accept jon's offer to lend me his sunglasses, it would be bad if other ppl got sand in their eyes! (i tell you, the people in my group are too nice to be true man) in the end... i bravely went! without any glasses! ahah. mz thank desmond my tourguide for urging me to go. shiok man! so exciting! wished i could have done it a few more times! ahah=P and i realised u must start doing this kind of exciting things when u are young, once u age (like me!!!) its hard to be brave liao. advice to all daddies and mummies: let ur kids try EVERYTHING.
and so, my holidays have come to an end. 5th year is starting! i have to pull up my socks and get down to some serious mugging now. argh!!! reality! hurts man.
