081806 $ pickup 2
the planes kept vrooming pass us, SO CLOSE richtig? its like. so near the airport, so yup, $ pickup is a great place to rent a car!!
i'm a smoker!!! haha, funny thing they use to stuff their cigarrette butts.. :X look like a stand or something. raja smokers! (OBS grp:] )
the road outside $ pickup! interesting traffic light and road signs eh?
a peek @ wat khian was up to (frm his sis, pauline) while me n chen li were happily snapping away. ahaha. why so serious? got wat business-related sms ah. ahaha..
well, more about our luggage upload to the cars? remember wat i said about the "upcoming hiccup" well, we got a normal car, the boot was TOO small to fit in our luggage, by the time we stuffed our huge 32 inches into the seats, there were no space to squeeze people in.... so, the nice lady upgraded it to a car with a larger boot, so we took out the luggage (keep counting, 2nd time), and uploaded it into the new car. damn! too small again, den, we finally got our mini van, which was like half a van of 4/5 seats and half a van of storage spaces. so yes, we uploaded and took out our luggage 3 times in a row. and haha, khian hong drove out 3 cars and packed it along the waiting aile. damn funny lar. and we WERE EXHAUSTED!! my god lar.
aft all this hassle and bussle, it was alr 8pm. and damn!! song yu estimated the drive to his aunt's place 45 minutes, with his uncle's driving speed and their familiarity with the area. we ventured out into the unknown. no recce on board, but poor pauline was trying to direct with the poor lights in the car. i was messaging song yu and asking for directions.
so we drove. got pass the freeways, and entered the sub-urban area. LA is HUGE. well, the thing about roads there is they stretch for miles and miles, for like i dunno, 20, 30 cross junctions(traffic lights)? so we drove along the road we were supposed to be on, looking for a sign which said west -i forgot wats the name- road, and drove, and drove and drove. after driving for like 20 mins on the road, we realised someth was wrong, so i called song yu, n we realised we passed it like v v v v v long ago. and we had to U turn.
everyone was starving alr. esp khian hong, poor th, had to drive.. passion fruit laxerol was the only food we had. hmm. and some craneberry snack we koped frm SIA. so we drove back to a 'prominent' area to meet song yu's aunt. reaching there first, couldn't find them, so we got off the car to go to a nearby supermarket. 10pm, the doors just closed on us. damn. no choice so went to da bao food from a chinese restaurant. bot fried rice, some seafood stuff, two packs, ard 10 bucks. sighs.
FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY, song yu appeared. it was such a relief to see him...!! and well, nv see him v long le. so we were all overwhelmed with joy!! while we were all wrapped up in few layers of clothings, he appeared with his sis, in t-shirt and shorts. -- stupid lar.
so finally headed towards his aunt's place, with him in our car and his sis in his aunt's car. their apartment was a whole block of a few apartments. each apartment had like 3 or 4 stories and a garage. interesting area, v inaccessible unless with a car. by the time we reached, 11pm, and it was pitch-dark and solemnly quiet. had to quietly pull our luggage to their place. v paiseh lar. disturb their family.. den we still eat dinner at their place lor. tsk.
uncle vit, song yu's uncle, gave us directions to head to our hotel, cadillac hotel @ venice beach, which was just in the vicinity of the airport. driving back again. so far lars!!!! OMG lor. we reached our hotel past midnight?!?! OMG, and the area was quite deserted, albeit beside the beach. there were loitering groups around, making the place seemingly more dangerous, but no choice lor.
the room was rather a disappointment. although it was huge. like a.. 2 room flat, no living room tho. and with a walkin wardrobe, which was weird. i dunno. haha. super big for us to dump our barang barangs. we were all trying to get online, but sadly no wireless to use, haf to pay.. sighs.
wat an eventful day. guess 18 august '06 will be one of the longest day in my life. you guys must be wondering, how come the day never ends?!?! well, its elongated due to the 15 hours lag in LA compared to Singapore.. the beginning of the new segment of my life, and the closing of the fading chapters in my life.. good or bad.. i haf no idea.. and i just wanted to sleep after this taxing day.... haha (eeyer, poor attempt to be poetic and cheem. sheesh)
m@d ka says.. sorry folks, gonna take a while before i update again, do check it out once in like.. 2 weeks! school's busy larrs. >< 
081806 @ LAX airport..
why so long still no luggage one..... puis.. so many people waiting!!! chen li stones into a sculpture.... Xp
"I'm STARING at YOU (the luggage), you better come out NOW!"
phew, finally got all the luggages... did you NOE?! kelvin chan, another of our wisc-mad fwens were on the same plane as us? yups, his parents kindly took this pic for us. abit formal lar we all. so funny. HAHA. well, we parted ways aft that, he took a transfer flight to chicago aft tt! till then, chanky~
Welcome to the United States of America,
Willkommen in USA, Amerika~
18 Aug '06
After 16 gruelling hours of airflight, finally finally finally we've reached LA.... its still 18 august!! OMG. haha. and it was 5+pm. lala land. and yes, the country which i will stay at least for the next 3 years... it was pure excitement for me when i reached. but now. HAHA.
Danke to Pauline, who kindly took this picture for us! where is our dear song yu? oh, i must mention this, he kindly messaged us as we were in the airport in singapore! so nice rite :)
well, i was just browsing through all the pictures in my picasa folder now, thanks to khian, who kindly introduced me to it. i still haven't figured out how to do collages tho... boo boos. i'm so --
i kinda feel blue now. BLUEEEEEEEEEE. i was looking at WCP pics, n i found tt, hey. 2+ weeks in LA, n i tink we changed alr. our relations haf changed. chen li is MIA, i feel that song yu is not as happy-go-lucky as before, i dunno. i just enjoyed myself much more in spore. and i really really miss LA and the WCP shopping times. boo boo. :( i dunno. now it just seems like, we get together, becos we need to? not becos we want to? issit like tt? am i thinking too much again.. puis. blueeeeeeeeeeeee mooooooooooooooooooooon...
and yea. i miss rajas. happy ktv-ing, happy board games. and i miss my two fave pals. u girls. sighh. i miss 3 towers! rioHC, miss xiamen times, miss miss lim... me slim!!! hahaha. i wish man. :( boo boo. and i'm clearly not mugging properly today. sighs..
warum?.. ist das nicht richtig..?
081806 On the fantastic SQ20!
the food was greattttttttttttttttt. of cos, the cheese will nv be better than wat we have at madison Xp president cheeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeee! great to makan with biscuits
my great plane-mate, a-star mate, fellow WCP-ian!! khian was two rows in front and pauline (khian's sis) in front of us. tink me n chen li v lucky got company. haha. and we (khian, kelvin chan, chen li n me) "illegally" gathered at the back of the plane! and got chased away aft a while. there was a gallery, with fruits, tidbits, mars bars, and water! well, the plane was realllyyyyyyy dry. dun really like long flights. but HENG ah, SQ has like super spacious seats, great entertainment.. me n chen li played who wants to be a millionaire, battleship.. etc etc. haha so fun!
and lastlyyyyy meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. with a ben n jerry cherry gracia bar. haha, the man beside chen li looked at us with interest. wats these weird girls doing, nv see ice cream before issit?! haha. (chen li ah! how come blur de Xp)
anws, u pp, if u ever take a long flight over to US, please please please, wrap yourself up with warm clothing, its freaking cold up there. X i was tying myself up with my "scarf", buttoned up my jacket.. n sians. still superrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr cold. brrrrrrrrrrr.
Part IV of kaka's farewell...
ok ok, sorry i v long winded man. but HEY LOOK, my bao bei n me, we haf the "same" specs. so COOLLLLLLLLLLLL. anws, haha pp here alwaes tell me i got cool specs, yea man, sch colors! red n white! i love wisconsin!
anws, the most memorable gift i got during farewell was from lennon, first, he came in a fisherman's hat! and secondly, guess wat he gave me?!?!?! his address at columbia, which is unfortunately inaccurate and so great la, the prez chen li n me bot for him? still lost in air. -- roars. its a nice gift lor. puis.
part III to ka's farewell!
ping ah ping.. thanks for coming, really. its so far lor, NTU and airport. opp ends of singapore!! no matter how small singapore is. thanks aunt for coming too!!!! i'm so touched :) haiya why u silly girl cry. roars. make me cry too....... (tts the only reason i cried) i mean, cos basically i was really happy everyone came ma. so i didn't feel like crying!!! until i hugged this childhood friend of mine den i felt a tinch of i dun wanna leave!!! stupid shuqin, nv ccoome. roars at you lor. ROARRRRR. i miss you guys. so much. happy bday qin!!!! its just past 12th sept here. HAHA. Xp
ok you astar-ians. you ROCK. yayyy. i love rajas. lalalala. raja rocks!! tho we've only known each other for the short 2 months, now going 3, i feel like i've known u guys forever man! i so miss our outings to ktv, lennon's driving, bro falling down during ice-skating, board games!!!! n most of all, OBS. i hereby sincerely wish that a-star gives us the 14 day OBS course next year. prays hard. i wanna go with rajas again!
this is my sis. like DUHHHHH. haha so sociable that i was so disappointed why she nv cry. just mix with my fwens only....
and lastly, this is my happy family, strangely my mom and sis didn't cry, ones who i expected to.. its just weird.
last words!!! WHO CRIED FOR MEEEEEE kayi ha? yuru said a tall guy and a short one did, and i noe tong n ping did. ahaha, i'm so sadistic, quick, those who know the news, tell me abt it!!! Xp
well.. continuation of my farewell! 180806 part 2
thank you 4b-ians for coming!!! especially Ms Huda, i love the doggy necklace, and i'm really flattered ms huda came!!!!!!! my oh my. oh yea 4b-ians, xi jie is in US too, at some C sumth uni, got other a-star pp there. mun thye i tink. dear dear lyng, i love your cowwwwwwwwwwww book. so nice!!! i haf another one with me!! its a red one. but the cow one, is SO CUTE. cant really bear to use it u noe. ce!! i'm so glad u reached here on time. i was like, oh no, i really nd to go cos my fwens are waiting... haha. n thanks for your nice photoshop photo, its like we had prom together!!! its nicely sitting on my desk. :):) thank you! jas ah jas, really liked the times we had on bus 16/36 just so happened we meet each other in town and go home together. thanks for the nice postcard from u n jan! all the best to Jan in UK! the postcards on my wall :):)
* i like placed all the cards onto the wall and ceiling, cos my bed's lofted!*
yo you girls. pretty petite girls. :):) jie!!! all the best in king's college, hope we get to meet up next year! jo ah jo, jiayou in your final year! qi mei meiiiiiiiii. i miss you so much. see lar, the thing abt not going out much during our 8 month hols -- i'm glad we went out before i flew. it was so fun!
* haha u pp, guess who is my jie here Xp*
yayyyy! rioHC forever!!! wheee. thank u so much pokes for coming. kane thanks for wearing my fave shirt (act its technically not my fave, but its just a merchandise of nightmare b4 xmas Xp) and i feel so bad u skipped your lessons!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhh. and hey i'm sorry wen jia, wang, for being so abrupt on the phone, cos i moving around Xp i'm really sorry. but hey, thanks so much for your well-wishes :) yuru, thanks so much for your thoughtfulness! your CD's really apt, so nice for me to view here!! and hey, we're in the states nowwww! tong ah tong, woon ah woon, well i love you :) dadadadadalim, charm, cyn thanks for coming!! it means so much to me. i'm really flattered clement came!!!! yayy.. haha Xp thanks for the videos, i haven't found the part where i was "drunk" lalalala. and thanks alvin for coming too!
jj, wei wei, thank you so much for coming! you girls rock! y jia missing here. where r u jia. where r uuuuuuuuuuuuu! betta jiayou bcome zai doc, den next time i anyth also look for you Xp heh.
the farewell in singapore... 081806
My beloved 04S7d pals came! shitty and shan!!! yayy :) thank you for coming!
the forever 3 towers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i miss you guys sooooooooooooooooo much. here we show our newest limited edition bracelet! yayyy. kayi 3T; tong 3T and woon 3T
thank you soooooooooooo much.
n tong, i nv expected you to cry, tot it wld be woon Xp but hey. it really touched me to know how much i actually meant to you..... well, for us, i think some things just dun need to be said. but thanks so much. thank you.
this is chen li! @ pops onnn... 082906 
eeky first meal @ dorm! the rare times of chen li being unhappy. oops. pops what haf you done?
yawns.... it was so early... chen li work up at like.. 6 am?!?! early bird catches the wormmm... and i forgot why, but we all work up and poked our heads out of the window, and i took pictures of the surroundings. you see the clump of stuff on the sand? it was a man.. buried in sand. i tot it was some rubbish?!
see the swarms of doves. wah the people are so hardworking!!! so early already riding their bikes.
the beach look so tranquil and pretty! (actually, i saw some groups of people loitering, quite scary norhs. erps.)
I went back to sleep for a while. we woke up at 7+.. chen li didn't go back to sleep tho, always wake up super early! haha, this is a pic i took after i woke up and washed up Xp chen li in the early mode 
