17 December 2009

15 December 2009 - Towning with Jade and Darren
The interior of the X'mas tree in town!

TM shots!

Yay, our X'mas hats.

Oh well... Darren refused to wear them so we couldn't take any X'mas hat shots with him. Bummer.
One last one!

Jade and I had lunch/dinner at Fish&Co while Darren had his dinner at Swensen's. It was weird, because we ate at different times! When Jade and I ate, Darren watched. When Darren ate, we watched.

We had fun grilling him about his love life too, but it got a bit awkward when they started grilling me... Oh, and Darren refused to wear the X'mas hat for some reason, and Jade smartly guessed that it was because he didn't want to mess his waxed hair up. What the! Guys ought not be so vain!

14 December 2009 - Ms Ek's Farewell Ceremony

Super huge campus! Behind the hostel is Jurong Ville Secondary School, which honestly looks pathetic in contrast.

If you click on the photo, you can enlarge it. You'll see that the RVHS photo has a red circle. It's Miss Ek circled! It got everyone laughing :D

Heh. Bena.

Miss Ek giving her 'informal' farewell speech. The formal one's likely to be on 2nd Jan during the Big Walk.

Mr Ng!

Miss Ek.

Mrs Lim. Oppsie I got 'scolded' for wearing flipflops heh!

9 December 2009 - Shopping with Jade
Jade's first time withdrawing cash from ATM!

Trying on the cardi.

The food's really good!
Started raining so we had to wait. My shoes got really dirty because of the rain :(
On the way to Haji Lane.
Arrived.

HAHA. NOOBSTER. Jade looks like she's playing a game with herself!
*despair*

Asean Student Exchange Program 2008 Part VIII

DAY 8
As our flight was at around 10am, we had to leave with the Cambodia people at 4am. We woke up at 3am to get ready, and our host papa and mama was already awake.

When we arrived at the community hall, we were surprised to find Peeraphat and Nicky there. They stayed awake to send us off! Nicky was like half asleep haha… At last, all of us from Cambodia and Singapore lined up and thanked our host family. I will miss my host mama and papa, Aina and Amir soo much!

Slept on the bus ride to airport, it was super uncomfortable, my nose was itching so much man! Anyway had breakfast at the airport. It was a scam! A small Styrofoam cup of Milo was RM2.80 and it didn’t even taste like Milo, but the roti prata which was RM1.60 was nice!

KL International Airport

Camwhore moment.

I thank NJ for selecting me for this trip, and I must say I have gained much. Plus, I can speak simple Malay now! :P

Asean Student Exchange Program 2008 Part VII

DAY 7

Last day (sort of) of the event, and everyone was feeling kind of weird. We finally got to go home! But we also know that we'll definitely miss the place and the people.

Early morning, remembering that I haven't taken any photos with Amir, I grabbed him (who was lying on the sofa) and camwhored.
So cute!
Lazing around...
Our last breakfast.
Wan Zhen forced me to do this.
We arrived about half an hour late at the community hall for a cooking demostration to make dodol.
From left; Sugar, Coconut Milk, Sugar

The ingredients for dodol. Basically it's just tons and tons of sugar in every single form.

Ingredients for ketupat-like thing.
Helpingto squeeze coconut juice!
Me!
Of course soon after everyone got bored and decided to walk away from the tent (and also because it was really hot and smoky inside).
And I played with the kids
While going back once in a while to help out.
The guys helping to pound the padi.
She's called Aina too! So pretty!
So pretty right! But she's super shy.
Tossing out the shells / skins of the padi
Hard at work. HAHA
Thats Up and Lookpla helping to fill the bamboo with rice.

Then we help to shave the coconut so that we can extract coconut milk
Hard at work again.

He does it super well!

Wiinnii (Yes, her name is spelled this way.)
Then I spotted Yile and Letts staring blankly at this little kid whom I had played with earlier. I asked them what they did to the kid, and they told me they found him sitting there alone emoing.

*emo*

*emo*

*emo*

He just turned away when the others talked to him or patted him. I asked his mommy for his name and called him by his name (Adam) but he was still super sad. So Yile and I lifted him up in his chair and he started smiling a little! But he went back to his emo self almost immediately after we put him down.

Having been in Gift of Reading for so long, I know more or less how to deal with (emo) kids. So pro me had Adam stuck to me like a little koala. He got upset when others talked to him or carried him and only allowed me to do so. *Smug*

Cute Adam having a drink.

But I had to leave Adam as we had to go to the Scholar's museum. Adam only let go when his mom told him to. I'd wanted to bring him along :P

At the Scholar’s museum, I banged my head as I walked down the stairs to the backyard and fell down because the doorway is damn small, and Peeraphat kept laughing at me and say that the sharp object at the doorway which totally killed me has ‘done well’ -.-

Tay (from Laos) taught us ‘Pi Ba’ which means crazy. So everyone started calling everyone ‘Pi Ba’ and we told Phee it meant handsome. He was so happy!

Dong Bang at work

Now for 2 super funny videos! Don't understand why peeraphat is so damn funny!

Sunglasses (Peeraphat & Tay) - Turn down volume as the rest were singing in the background

P: What's this? (Looks at sunglasses) Oooo, sunglasses!

T: *Screams*

P: *Screams*

Interview (Phee and Peeraphat)

The guys outside the museum. Nice jumpshot taken by pro!

Following that was a shopping trip at the town. We were all super excited yet sad because we didn’t bring our wallets with us, thinking it was just a normal day of activities around the kampong. There was no time to go back to get our wallets as our home was quite far from the community hall. In the end we ended up borrowing money from Mr Tan! I bought a pair of gladiator sandals and that’s about it. [As usual shopping no photos]

We walked around the town and I tried their bubble tea- it sucks! DF’s peppermint tea was no better… But our lunch of charsiew, roasted meat and roasted chicken was heavenly, and it was sooo cheap! RM30 = Less that S$15 for 7 persons!

Went home for our last lunch at the host home and it was especially good.Host family's car. They have another one in black.

Host Home.

We then went over to the guys' host home for our handicraft making session. The little devil at their host family (above). She's super whiny. But damn cute.

Haha.

Materials. Rubber tree leaves. According to the speaker, they wash it in the washing machine to rid of the chlorophyll!

My rose...

Completed rose..

Spray painted rose. Sorry for the blurred picture, didn't realise it was blurred. Anyway I gave it to my host mom [:

Went back home to rest! It was supposed to be preparation for cultural performance but we slacked.



Miss Oon asked Aina to draw pictures! On one of the days, I drew a bird, and Miss Oon drew a tree around to bird to show the bird sitting on the tree. Then Aina had quite a big reaction, she started saying stuff in Malay which we didn't understand, and then she took the pencil, and DREW IN BRANCHES.

She had meant that the bird cannot sit on the tree without branches. HAHA

Love Aina and Amir!



Amir is so adorable and he does adorable things with the stuff I gave them.

[:

Dinner time! The food gets more and more delicious. Last dinner.

The closing ceremony started off with speeches from the country delegates.

Malaysia
Laos

Singapore. Cambodia

Brunei (She's damn pretty)

Indonesia

Thailand

Heheh.

The minister

Cultural performance by kids of Kampong Lonek

Cambodia's performance. They are super funny man, especially Ana and her partner. They did the lip-sync thing and it was like a low-budget MV haha.

Cultural performance was kind of screwed for Singapore because we were totally unprepared! In anycase, we did our best and the other participants were super supportive of us though the ministers sitting at front row were dozing off!

Aina came to send us off! Amir didn't come as he sleeps by 8pm.

Nur Hah. Aina's friend.

The thais’ performance consisted of a dance and muay thai demonstration. The dance by Up and Lookpla was damn nice, though they were super stressed because their teacher was super strict. Muay thai demonstration was by Peeraphat with May introducing.

As May spoke about Muay Thai, Peeraphat got ready on stage. Initially he was super serious and was doing warm-ups, then he saw May and I taking photos of him and he started winking at May and I - I couldn’t stop laughing!

Btw the way Peeraphat is a thai boxer too! Damn hiong luh! He's not wearing his boxing pants and he lost his at Pearl International Hotel. The blue thing he's wearing is Phong (Laos) 's traditional pants.

As the closing ceremony ended, everyone spammed photos. Nicky started crying, and so did Peeraphat and Phee. Peeraphat was such a tough, funny and sporty person that I didn’t think he’d cry. Gosh! Phee was silently sobbing as expected because he’s a really sensitive (but huge) guy, while Nicky was just crying and talking at the same time.

From left; Peeraphat, Me, Aina, Shirley

Peeraphat gave me a thailand tee!

Aina and Yile. As can be seen she wasn't very happy :P

Chhun and I.

Cheryl (Malaysia), Aina and I

The Thai teacher and us! She wanted DF and I to tell Miss Ek we met her.

Ian, Aina and I

Sand, Aina and May

We then went back home (albeit very unwillingly)...

It was super dark despite using flash... The guy beside Wan Zhen is their youngest son.





My host parents.