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Sunday, December 12, 2004

hello everybody!!yes I'm back from the US!:) I'm at home now..feeling happy to be back and feeling VERY happy to have survived my 20 hour flight from New York..I feel happy to have finally bathed after 48 hours of non-stop travelling and waiting around and happy to be blogging once more!:) oh and Lionel says hi too!I was so happy to see him at the airport this morning:)

Yes as everyone can tell, I'm very very HAPPY to be back home:) Not that I didn't have a good trip, but I was really quite homesick..here's a basic outline of my trip..
1) days 1-4: Disneyland in Orlando, Florida!Super fun. It was worth the long plane ride to florida just to see disneyland!The place was so huge..even with 4 days, we didn't finish touring the entire place..Even my parents had fun on the rides..haha we screamed ourselves silly at all the scary rides!There was this ride called the "Tower of Terror", where they put us in an elevator and dropped us free-fall from 13 stories..I was screaming into my sister's lap..I'm definitely bringing my children back there:)
2)days 5-7: Daytona Beach, Florida!It was really pretty quiet there because of the recent hurricanes..There were a lot of buildings with roofs that were half torn off or in repair..But we visited JKF NASA Space Centre just an hour's drive away!Very cool. We got to see real space shuttles and there were space simulators as well..
3)days 8-12:Fort Lauderdale/Bahamas!We took a free cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Bahamas..There wasn't much to do on the cruise except play cards, sleep and eat!Thank goodness for the free buffet lunches and dinners..haha we were literally the only asians onboard..before dinner, my sister and I would guess how many times we were asked "Where are you from?" by the waiters..heh one waiter asked if we were from Japan. Then he asked if the capital of Japan was Jakarta. The beach at Bahamas was really beautiful. Unfortunately, they had just experienced a hurricane as well in October..so some areas were in repair as well.

I had an interesting experience..but I kept thinking of home the whole time..I don't know how I'm going to last 6 years away from home..anyway, the bad news is that New York JFK airport lost our luggage on the trip home..there was a snow storm in New York that day so our flight got delayed..we had to run to make the transit and I guess our luggage didn't make the transit in time..so we'll only be getting back all our stuff in a couple of days..for now, I'm just happy to be HOME!!:)

Yep I'm glad to be back to boring, humid Singapore!Haha and I'm glad Buster's doing fine as well. There was a night in Bahamas where I had a horrible dream in which Buster died from depression!Cos there was no one around at home for him to disturb..I dreamt that he was hospitalised and died and all the mean doctor told us was, "If only you had come home earlier." He was pretty happy to see all of us. Lea told us that he ate up a big bunch of fake flowers while we were away. Glad to know he was still as greedy as ever even with us not around. I just don't understand how he can find FAKE flowers appetising though.

My elder sister and chris had an incredible experience in Nepal as well..Though of an opposite kind from my US trip..It was 14 days of hiking through freezing weather, with no proper bathes, yellowed drinking water, native dances at campfires and sandstorms. I've got to try that too sometime in the future. She showed us the hundreds of pictures she and her friends took..It was really sad to see how the people of Nepal were living..there's no proper drinking water, people live in run-down shacks out in the middle of nowhere, people die from simple fevers. She was telling us how her guide once had to carry his pregnant sister who was in labour on his back for 3 hours across the mountains to get to the nearest hospital. But the nepalese are very happy, simple people..children would run up to them to play or just to say hello..they were so happy with the pencils and pens my sister gave out to them cos it meant they could go to school!Apparantly a pencil is your ticket to education in Nepal. Heh my sister is now going to send over stationary to her guide in Nepal on a regular basis, where he can give them out to the children.

ok I'm feeling jet-lagged now..didn't sleep at all on the plane ride home..yawn.

weibin: hello!haha yes I've been lurking around your blog for awhile now too..I chanced upon it when I was visiting andrew's blog..hope you don't mind that I linked you..haha thanks I had a great trip!:)
clot: haha yes I had FUN!!but I really missed everyone too.. :)
nadine:Haha hey I'm finally back to blogging again!And I'm looking forward to seeing you guys when you get back!I'll be flying off to tasmania on the 18th though..argh just realised thats in about 5 days!
cheng: Haha oh no poor levina!He's going to pollute her mind!Haha ok so when we gonna tell her?
Lionel:HELLO dear!:)

~me~ at 11:30 PM

my search for verve

Sunday, December 12, 2004 hello everybody!!yes I'm back from the US!:) I'm at home now..feeling happy to be back and feeling VERY happy to have survived my 20 hour flight from New York..I feel happy to have finally bathed after 48 hours of non-stop travelling and waiting around and happy to be blogging once more!:) oh and Lionel says hi too!I was so happy to see him at the airport this morning:) Yes as everyone can tell, I'm very very HAPPY to be back home:) Not that I didn't have a good trip, but I was really quite homesick..here's a basic outline of my trip.. 1) days 1-4: Disneyland in Orlando, Florida!Super fun. It was worth the long plane ride to florida just to see disneyland!The place was so huge..even with 4 days, we didn't finish touring the entire place..Even my parents had fun on the rides..haha we screamed ourselves silly at all the scary rides!There was this ride called the "Tower of Terror", where they put us in an elevator and dropped us free-fall from 13 stories..I was screaming into my sister's lap..I'm definitely bringing my children back there:) 2)days 5-7: Daytona Beach, Florida!It was really pretty quiet there because of the recent hurricanes..There were a lot of buildings with roofs that were half torn off or in repair..But we visited JKF NASA Space Centre just an hour's drive away!Very cool. We got to see real space shuttles and there were space simulators as well.. 3)days 8-12:Fort Lauderdale/Bahamas!We took a free cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Bahamas..There wasn't much to do on the cruise except play cards, sleep and eat!Thank goodness for the free buffet lunches and dinners..haha we were literally the only asians onboard..before dinner, my sister and I would guess how many times we were asked "Where are you from?" by the waiters..heh one waiter asked if we were from Japan. Then he asked if the capital of Japan was Jakarta. The beach at Bahamas was really beautiful. Unfortunately, they had just experienced a hurricane as well in October..so some areas were in repair as well. I had an interesting experience..but I kept thinking of home the whole time..I don't know how I'm going to last 6 years away from home..anyway, the bad news is that New York JFK airport lost our luggage on the trip home..there was a snow storm in New York that day so our flight got delayed..we had to run to make the transit and I guess our luggage didn't make the transit in time..so we'll only be getting back all our stuff in a couple of days..for now, I'm just happy to be HOME!!:) Yep I'm glad to be back to boring, humid Singapore!Haha and I'm glad Buster's doing fine as well. There was a night in Bahamas where I had a horrible dream in which Buster died from depression!Cos there was no one around at home for him to disturb..I dreamt that he was hospitalised and died and all the mean doctor told us was, "If only you had come home earlier." He was pretty happy to see all of us. Lea told us that he ate up a big bunch of fake flowers while we were away. Glad to know he was still as greedy as ever even with us not around. I just don't understand how he can find FAKE flowers appetising though. My elder sister and chris had an incredible experience in Nepal as well..Though of an opposite kind from my US trip..It was 14 days of hiking through freezing weather, with no proper bathes, yellowed drinking water, native dances at campfires and sandstorms. I've got to try that too sometime in the future. She showed us the hundreds of pictures she and her friends took..It was really sad to see how the people of Nepal were living..there's no proper drinking water, people live in run-down shacks out in the middle of nowhere, people die from simple fevers. She was telling us how her guide once had to carry his pregnant sister who was in labour on his back for 3 hours across the mountains to get to the nearest hospital. But the nepalese are very happy, simple people..children would run up to them to play or just to say hello..they were so happy with the pencils and pens my sister gave out to them cos it meant they could go to school!Apparantly a pencil is your ticket to education in Nepal. Heh my sister is now going to send over stationary to her guide in Nepal on a regular basis, where he can give them out to the children. ok I'm feeling jet-lagged now..didn't sleep at all on the plane ride home..yawn. weibin: hello!haha yes I've been lurking around your blog for awhile now too..I chanced upon it when I was visiting andrew's blog..hope you don't mind that I linked you..haha thanks I had a great trip!:) clot: haha yes I had FUN!!but I really missed everyone too.. :) nadine:Haha hey I'm finally back to blogging again!And I'm looking forward to seeing you guys when you get back!I'll be flying off to tasmania on the 18th though..argh just realised thats in about 5 days! cheng: Haha oh no poor levina!He's going to pollute her mind!Haha ok so when we gonna tell her? Lionel:HELLO dear!:) ~me~ at 11:30 PM
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