i guess this is a very different kind of trip i've been too. An eye-opener, experience and lessons learnt. And really, all of us really soaked into the villages' lives

and culture. One common thing that we, NP students from various courses have-PASSION and bringing happiness to the children. The sight of everyone of us playing with the kids, piggy bag-ing the kids, making them laughs are just so memorial-able. 

nevertheless, this trip has brought the 29 students, from all walks of lives together. the unity, caring for one another, the things we've done are beyond words. Furthemore, the hot, headline news daily (internal) to keep us going despite the hard work we'd done daily.  :)))

so here the story goes. Stop here if u dont wanna read further :D

DAY 1

Reached airport and set off. Arrived at Xiamen in the afternoon and we took the bus, 3 hours long journey to Zhao Keng village, at Anxi. It's really an eye-opener, a really rather different kind of village compared to Malaysia. It's really you see padi-fields around, chickens, dogs, tea leaves, mountains, houses scattered every where. 

The bus stopped in front of the school and we wheeled our baggage UPHILL for about 10 mins. it was crazy! really. caused at certain part, there isnt pavement, rocks everywhere, that we had to carried our baggage. so afraid that we would spoil the wheels. 

Finally we've reached. our house we called it the "老家" was a typical 四和院。you know those open concept kind of house. the house has 6 rooms. the house is 40 years old.the owner lives in town, so they welcomed us to stay there for 10 days- FREE. 

Side Track abit. 29 of us have cliques. 6 of us, whom already known each other one way or another, are called BITCHES(dont ask me why!),

 and the SISTERS (they arent females, they're boys -.-''' and they call us brothers! lolx),

 the Changkul Brothers- they did the changkul-ing for the whole entire trip. Changkul meaning the digging job, dont know which language is that. i guess is a malay word.

The alcoholic boys- the forever buying drinks or asking us whether we wanna drink -.-'''

The slackers(we gave this name to them), and another group of gals which their clique didnt have any names.

That's how we ended our day one. Had debrief-briefing for the real project.

DAY 2

there's 2 groups of people doing different things. One is the teaching group, where majority went, and only about 15 of us in the construction team. It's an open and optional thing you want to do. So Changkul brothers, Bitches and Alcoholics did construction. 

We were totally NOOBS MAN! the way to hold the tool and to use it. it was so tough to get used to the farmer digging tool. it took us so long about half an hour to dig 10 cm deep, and the villagers took only 5 mins to dig 20 cm deep -.-"" we ended our day with aches and blisters.

This continued for the whole entire week, till friday.

Something happened on day 4, where a few people were drunk. We had same dishes everyday till we got really sick of it. so the sisters found a shop that sells duck meat. so they went to have their supper there. By then the bitches had already turned in. we were damn tired from the muscle job.

By the time they got back was already midnight, and we were already deep in our sleep. so they were making lots of noise downstairs. i thought they just got home, and the noise will be quietened soon. BUT it didnt, and it really woke me, the deep sleeper pig up. but i endured, you know cause i thought it was them whom they had just returned. The noise continued for 1 hour plus. The next day, during breakfast, it became the topic of what had happened. So it was a few people got drunk and made lots of noise. We were ranting of not getting enough of sleep and the noise that disturbed us, in front of the teachers (Lecturers are like teacher cum friends) And we found out that Lecturer, Miss tan lectured the student real hard that banned her from drinking and a curfew for her to turn in at 11 pm daily.

So, there was this romance going on between the gal and guy, and it happened that both are already attached. So there is when all the juicy gossips, bitching about started for the bitches to bitch about!!!! wahahahaha. In fact, things allow us to bitch about are actually we couldnt stand the sight of slackers, people doing nothing. as in we came for this trip with a purpose, and not holidaying our 2 weeks away.

Dont talk about them~

Usually we have debrief every night. debrief starts at 9pm, and before that time,it's LEISURE TIME. GAB and I would be in the changkul brothers' room playing cards games for 14 days! can you imagine, and we got real bored in between, living in a place without entertainment, time past real slow.  We played from TAI-TEE to President and SHITMAN to HEART ATTACK to SILENT HEART ATTACK.

the silent heart attack was my idea, instead of the usual slapping hand. THIS was freaking funny man. so when the winner gets 4 similar cards, He must do an action, it must be silent! yeah when we played this it was passed midnight, and we didnt wanna disturb the rest. so the forfeit was to say truth (true or dare thingy) Everyone got excited, coming with weird ideas of doing actions. First was Nigel who'd won. plus beforehand we played many rounds of president, it means, we've seated for quite sometime. So his action was STANDING UP. I tell you it was difficult to get up after cross legged for a while. and Joel was the last! it was freaking funny. cause no one expected it. we thought it would be some actions with the hands only. we laughed real hard.

Next was CHRISTOPHER CHEW! wah, this was freaking funny! HE WON AND HE ROLLED! LITERALLY ROLL over! to the space the circled we sat in! and he nearly hit me cause i sat opposite him -.-'''' funniest thing was all the guys rolled! the space was super small, and they still wanna roll!!! freaking funny. GAb and I didnt, so the image we had was all the butts were up! trying to roll! wahahahahahaha laugh real hard. stomach really ached like crazy! chris, even went to the other side to roll more -.-"""

DAily night with the guys playing cards are funny. Also the saying about themselves,their life stories, are so dramatic, for some, rather, some could be even used to film movies man! felt pity for some. haiz. sorry cant share it, cause it was among us, and between the 4 walls. 

Oh yah, we put fire works in the village! one box for 120 yuan. and fire cracker 80 yuan. we put that for the third day. And the second last day, we had 2 boxes, lasted for 5 mins.

Quite a common sight for me to put your own fire works. (Malaysia mah. see it all the time during CNY)

On Friday, we had home stay at the villagers' house. A good experience. They like to have guests at their place. really. Mr Lee gave us $100 yuan for us to pass it to the host family, it was true a hard time   to cajole them to accept the angbao, however the next day he returned it, and said it was for us. i thought he gave it to us for u know good will, growing up thingy. next thing i realised was the angbao was the exact pack we gave and amt was exact too. it means he rejected it. And we said it was a gift to them. i guess the money was alot that they didnt want to have it. I told him we would be scolded, and he said dont tell your tcher, and keep the sum! lolx, no choice, we returned the packet to Mr LEE. and we realised that many people returned the packets too. some even split the money to 50 bucks and returned to us. Until i told them to return, then they returned. if not the bitches might have already taken it. wahahahaha. Look at the villagers! they said it's really once in a blue moon to have visitors at their village.

BY THE WAY! THIS IS THE FUNNIEST PART OF ALL! 

yunwei and i went out to the padifield with out host to get the veggies. since we see those padis all the time, but didnt have the chance to get in so we walked the muddy pavement, and the mud was still wet, i walked till i FELL INTO THE PADIFIELD! ONE ONCE BUT TWICE! i tell u, i was the laughing stock man! the villagers on the opposite laughed so loud sia! the bro on the other end also! yeah, he was too young to come in! i laughed very hard too! stupid me!

We went to climb the mountain on SAt morning. Cause the kids asked us to go! wahlao, the mountain is damn steep please, So many of us got cuts, and some even injured themselves. IT'S 10 times of BUKIT TIMAH HILL OKAY! the cuts on my hands havent healed yet :(((   (hate to see injuries on my hand. esp those will leave behind a scar) THanks to my flat feet, i decided to give up half way.so Weis and i rested in the middle of the mountain. so we rest for 2 hours until one of the kids came down- SLIDING! next we saw few more students and a teacher. And a few of the changkul bros, and alcoholics, they said they didnt go to the summit, it was way too steep and they were tired. they said the view was the same! wahahah! thank god, shall i say, we were smart. going downhill was even worst than going up! so i wondered how they actually came down sia. Shankar, literally slide his way down man! lolx. Nigel went to the summit and he managed to caught up with us. He came downhill, filled with anger, caused he really got deep injuries on his legs, and he was swearing on his way back, walked fast, and kicked the bottles, cans on the floor. so he went back to LAO JIA angrily. Joel, Weis and i Went back to the school to take our overnight stay bags to LAO JIA. Yeah, nigel was angry that he forgot his bag.

Oh yah, Only Weis and I , the only 2 gals climbed that damn mountain. we were being pang-seh ed  by the rest of the gals, 9 of them! initially we didnt want to climb, because the bitches said they wanted to go, in the end they didnt turn up! and they went to climb another mountain -.-'''

So SAt afternoon, we went to ANXI town, wow it was a taste of civilization man! And i really went WOW seeing an LCD TV. sorry lah, "Caged for awhile", we toured the tea garden,went to hot spring, tea whole sale center and shop around. Didnt really buy anything from there. Oh yah,  and we went to the tourist attraction temple. Which i dont remember the name. Dint stay there for long, cause i couldnt stand the smell of the smoke. so joel, gab and i waited outside the temple.

And we had a night over at the hotel. Something great about the hotel was the KTV! cool sia! we sang our night through it closed at 2am! lolx. most of the time, it was the gals singing only. cause the guys seldom listen to chinese songs? and changkul bros  sang 2 tigers, and happy birthday songs -.-""" yeah, kiddy songs. freaking funny man! they only priced the room and not the number of people. so there's like 9 of us, we ordered peanuts, 2 bottle of beers for 130 yuan!!!! can you imagine! S$26!!! cheap right. the changkul bros treated us. we felt bad, and treated them more in CITY. XIAMEN

Wednesday, one of the kids invited us to their house for dinner, which was just on top of our lao JIA. so SHen li, weiting and i went up. As common as it is, they asked us to stay for dinner. the father asked us to drink too. i thought was one bottle share. to my horror was a bottle each. and 1 bottle of beer is 800 ml? im not too sure. and i had 2 bottles. so i was a bit drowsy, high by then, limbs felt heavier. we had to return LAO JIA early for meeting regarding the farewell event with the school. PLUS i was SABO-ed to be the MC for that day. Cause i sabo-ed JIA HAO, and then the rest sabo-ed me -.-""" so i was high, was suggesting some stuff. and the bitches, sisters kept sSSSHINg me, the bitches afraid that i would  spill some beans regarding the "leader". (yeah, abt her, we had a meeting in the morning abt this farewell thingy too. IT WASNT A MEETING AT ALL! more like ANNOUNCEMENT SESSION. cause she had already finalised everything, and there wasnt any discussion at all!) so i pointed out some points when i was abit high, like the froggy game was ultra boring!~ 

Later, Mr Lee wanted the MC to rehearse our lines, chinese in front of all NP-ians. By then i was on the road of recovery. my brain was fully awake, just that my limbs were heavy and abit of giddiness. So we translated a few things said by Mr lee, and most of the time, it was ME saying it, and that TEO JIA HAO didnt speak at all! it shows that my brain still function properly even i was abit drunk.yeah, he was beaten a few times by me, and i kept on passing the turn to him.And he didnt know what to say. Totally overestimated him haiz -.-  HE'S A BIG TIME LAMER OKAY! an EXAGGERATE-R also!

So the farewell went quite okay, and i sulk at hosting okay! first time also. but who cares. lolx. feast was cool!~ 8 course meal in the classroom. lolx. the local teachers, head of village, head of province, secretary kept making us to drink, if not wanna toast us. yeah lorh, said wanna give toast to us of doing CIP and stuff. their BEER is so GASSY please! kept burping. of course toasted a few to the sisters. ESpecially to ZHAO XIOnG, our leader for this trip! yeah, he's a loser, he cant hold his liquor well. heard the max he could go was 3 cups only! plus the alcohol percentage is only 2.8% lolx, when many was full from dinner, and had quite a number cups of beer, all escaped outside to the field. definitely all will be grab, and "force" to be toasted. it's a never ending process. many went out to take a breath, to allow our tummy to digest! lols

I grabbed many to toast here and there, till i was half drunk again. twice consecutive days. second time round was super uneasy. I puked. yesh, kena scolded by LILI with a string of vulgarities, plus weis were filming all the time -.-'''' i was awake please, just high. Went to brush teeth.having difficulties, cause hands were just heavy to move! i even asked meng to help me to brush. LAter, was fast asleep. went to bed at 8.30pm

Weekend passed damn fast and weekdays seemed to be crawling. also, second week passed a little faster and finally was weekend again! and we left the village on friday afternoon. the school kids sent us off with their "band" and wu long shi, we walked with them for 500m. and finally we departed. some children even cried. :'((( sorry lah, wasnt really close to the school kids, i was under construction team, and i only taught the kids for 1.5 days. not much feelings and bond with them. other than my host family.

Xiamen was fun, and we stayed near the shopping street- 中山路 aka Orchard road. first night we had dinner at Ajisen, Cheap sia, 3 of us to a table(we got split) the dinner cost us 128 yuan! 3 person! we had side dishes too! best thing about communist country- NO TAX NOR SERVICE CHARGE!! wow! good bargain babes!

Saturday-there was an optional whether we wanna go for tour or shopping. Since we were already there,the bitches, sisters and changkul bros decided to go tour. So 20 plus of us went to the Sun yat sen's park and mini zoo. there was a theme park in the park. i guess we were really deprived from childhood. and we played bumper cars, roller coaster(the baby version kind, no thrill at alL) of course i didnt play those. Bumper car ride was hilarious. Mr Lee looked like a father bringing 20 kids around to play games and to the zoo man! After that, the changkul bros departed, they wanna go shopping and we decided to continue with the tour and went to the Island next to Xiamen, It was called GU LANG YU. It's an Island of Performing Arts man! they have PIANO MESUEM! cool sia. but ddint go :(( the architectural of those buildings were SUPERB. As in there's all sorts of building design from all over the world. the colonial kind, the Japanese- English school kind. (U watch anime those nice school uniform, blazer kind of western school in Jap. You get me?) THANK GOD WE WENT TO THE ISLAND. 

Relatives asked me yesterday whether i went to that island. It was really a must see place at Xiamen. THey even know where's Anxi and stuff. Yeah, my granduncle was from china! :))

Of  course mom filled with ENVY that i actually went to that place. She wanted to go there since young. (My mom also an artistic person too) :PPP she couldnt believe that our Lecturer would bring us to such places! 

Something unique about the place is- there's no vehicles! at all. its an island that you have to walk 24/7!! yeah we walked for 2 hrs at the island.

BEst part of the this tour was coming back to the main island! we took a ferry there FREE!!!!! and took SPEED BOAT BACK! SHIOK MAN!!! yeah, i guess we left quite a sum for this trip, so Lecturer decided to give us a treat back! 10 yuan per person! speed boat was awesome. 5 mins to the island, 1 min + back to main land! fun sia! and we moved on to the Xiamen University. Cause Mr lee said there's a street of shops there, just like bugis. so we went there to shop and met quite a number of people there. the Alcoholics gang. the clothing just so not our style. i bought a pull over and a shirt for pat. we decided to return to hotel, since it started to rain. this is where disasters for us came BAR KARMA FOR 1 HOUR!

Meng suggested of taking cab back to Hotel since she said the fare was cheap. We flagged for 2 cabs, and one WAS SNATCHED AWAY by the LOCAL! so let lili and the rest to go first, since she wasnt feeling well. ANd later on, so many snatched our cabs, we decided to  take the bus back. YEAH! the locals are just so uncivilised! was already damn pissed by the snatching of cabs. we took the bus, and Gab paid for it. She threw the coins all at one goal, and i guess, 2 of the coins were back to back, so it looked like 1 coin in the coin box and the Bus driver denied that we dropped 2 bucks instead of 3. So forget it, we paid another buck. the bus operates like MRT system, they stop at every stop, and will announce the stops too! but this bus driver announced the place at the stop itself. so we kept waiting for Zhong Shan Lu and it didnt announce at all, and it already had by pass our stop. so we decided to alight and take a cab again, This time we able to get a cab fast. HOWEVER, the cab's tyre was punctured!!!!!!!WTH dkfh sghglsf g. when we got off the cab, it really reached my limit of tolerance. i was practically squatting in the middle of the pavement saying !(@&^#^#$%@! and we took another cab! guess what this cab went round and round before it reaches our place. so total he charged us 15 yuan, and those we cab back from uni, their cab fare was only 9 plus! plus the driver didnt stop at our destination, it stopped a street away!!! it was really WHAT THE HELL IS THAT MAN!~ China is place filled with propaganda, or rather, they use lots of posters, words, encouragement to try to change the people's attitude and be civilised people. so every where you go, you will see 讲文明 etc. but it's nonsense lah! the people's action really puts you off totally! no words to describe.

And when we reached back to the hotel, that damn door couldnt be opened! wah lao! i was totally fuming! i was drenched too, so i decided to change it to berms, and wear windbreaker. the windbreak was huge, yeah my bro's so i looked like a beggar!literally! due to the oversized jacket and the berms i wore was covered by the jacket! lolx damn funny

next day, we did last minute of shopping, checked out, and off to the airport. we bought so many things that the seats in the bus wasnt enough for us that a few had to seat on the floor. lolx!!

The plane seat arrangement was exactly same as the way we came. so again i sat with JiaHAo, Shenli, but shenli changed her seat, so Mengs joined us! again we say lame things here and there till we finally arrived!~ SINGAPORE! I LOVE YOU, AND HOME SWEET HOME!

yeah, im such an irony right?! too bad! :P i grew up in singapore LITERALLY. FRENS AND FAMILY ARE ALL HERE!! :DDDD

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Forgot to say something about last night!

last night, the changkul brothers were up to something again! I found that they were up to something since they came as a whole to our rooms. So after i showered, i went over to their room, Joel, Jia Hao, and Nigel were up to something OUTSIDE THE ROOM! they ran away at the sight they saw me! crazy fellowers, couldnt be bothered, so i went into the room to chat. so CHris, Jia Jun and Gab were discussing about the gifts they wanna give to their Galfren and galfren's mom. so they were asking ask to buy/choose for them. Meanwhile, i kept seeing TEO JIA HAO peeping into the room! definitely up to something no good. soon they burst into the room! with Joel being the flasher, wearing the mask of a dog and a hat. According to them it was from the anime BLEACH (?) yeah! and GAB SCREAMED by the sight of the FLASHER! yeah! LITERALLY A HALF NAKED FLASHED!

and i went : yeah yeah! funny! ARGH!!! very scared. IT WAS SO DAMN LAME PLEASE -.-"""

MISSION FAILED

come on though we're bITCHES but we arent BIMBOS OK! we're BROTHERS to them horh!!!!

lolx :DDDD 

okay. shall stop here! long post man!! gdy luck!

i guess this is a very different kind of trip i've been too. An eye-opener, experience and lessons learnt. And really, all of us really soaked into the villages' lives

and culture. One common thing that we, NP students from various courses have-PASSION and bringing happiness to the children. The sight of everyone of us playing with the kids, piggy bag-ing the kids, making them laughs are just so memorial-able. 

nevertheless, this trip has brought the 29 students, from all walks of lives together. the unity, caring for one another, the things we've done are beyond words. Furthemore, the hot, headline news daily (internal) to keep us going despite the hard work we'd done daily.  :)))

so here the story goes. Stop here if u dont wanna read further :D

DAY 1

Reached airport and set off. Arrived at Xiamen in the afternoon and we took the bus, 3 hours long journey to Zhao Keng village, at Anxi. It's really an eye-opener, a really rather different kind of village compared to Malaysia. It's really you see padi-fields around, chickens, dogs, tea leaves, mountains, houses scattered every where. 

The bus stopped in front of the school and we wheeled our baggage UPHILL for about 10 mins. it was crazy! really. caused at certain part, there isnt pavement, rocks everywhere, that we had to carried our baggage. so afraid that we would spoil the wheels. 

Finally we've reached. our house we called it the "老家" was a typical 四和院。you know those open concept kind of house. the house has 6 rooms. the house is 40 years old.the owner lives in town, so they welcomed us to stay there for 10 days- FREE. 

Side Track abit. 29 of us have cliques. 6 of us, whom already known each other one way or another, are called BITCHES(dont ask me why!),

 and the SISTERS (they arent females, they're boys -.-''' and they call us brothers! lolx),

 the Changkul Brothers- they did the changkul-ing for the whole entire trip. Changkul meaning the digging job, dont know which language is that. i guess is a malay word.

The alcoholic boys- the forever buying drinks or asking us whether we wanna drink -.-'''

The slackers(we gave this name to them), and another group of gals which their clique didnt have any names.

That's how we ended our day one. Had debrief-briefing for the real project.

DAY 2

there's 2 groups of people doing different things. One is the teaching group, where majority went, and only about 15 of us in the construction team. It's an open and optional thing you want to do. So Changkul brothers, Bitches and Alcoholics did construction. 

We were totally NOOBS MAN! the way to hold the tool and to use it. it was so tough to get used to the farmer digging tool. it took us so long about half an hour to dig 10 cm deep, and the villagers took only 5 mins to dig 20 cm deep -.-"" we ended our day with aches and blisters.

This continued for the whole entire week, till friday.

Something happened on day 4, where a few people were drunk. We had same dishes everyday till we got really sick of it. so the sisters found a shop that sells duck meat. so they went to have their supper there. By then the bitches had already turned in. we were damn tired from the muscle job.

By the time they got back was already midnight, and we were already deep in our sleep. so they were making lots of noise downstairs. i thought they just got home, and the noise will be quietened soon. BUT it didnt, and it really woke me, the deep sleeper pig up. but i endured, you know cause i thought it was them whom they had just returned. The noise continued for 1 hour plus. The next day, during breakfast, it became the topic of what had happened. So it was a few people got drunk and made lots of noise. We were ranting of not getting enough of sleep and the noise that disturbed us, in front of the teachers (Lecturers are like teacher cum friends) And we found out that Lecturer, Miss tan lectured the student real hard that banned her from drinking and a curfew for her to turn in at 11 pm daily.

So, there was this romance going on between the gal and guy, and it happened that both are already attached. So there is when all the juicy gossips, bitching about started for the bitches to bitch about!!!! wahahahaha. In fact, things allow us to bitch about are actually we couldnt stand the sight of slackers, people doing nothing. as in we came for this trip with a purpose, and not holidaying our 2 weeks away.

Dont talk about them~

Usually we have debrief every night. debrief starts at 9pm, and before that time,it's LEISURE TIME. GAB and I would be in the changkul brothers' room playing cards games for 14 days! can you imagine, and we got real bored in between, living in a place without entertainment, time past real slow.  We played from TAI-TEE to President and SHITMAN to HEART ATTACK to SILENT HEART ATTACK.

the silent heart attack was my idea, instead of the usual slapping hand. THIS was freaking funny man. so when the winner gets 4 similar cards, He must do an action, it must be silent! yeah when we played this it was passed midnight, and we didnt wanna disturb the rest. so the forfeit was to say truth (true or dare thingy) Everyone got excited, coming with weird ideas of doing actions. First was Nigel who'd won. plus beforehand we played many rounds of president, it means, we've seated for quite sometime. So his action was STANDING UP. I tell you it was difficult to get up after cross legged for a while. and Joel was the last! it was freaking funny. cause no one expected it. we thought it would be some actions with the hands only. we laughed real hard.

Next was CHRISTOPHER CHEW! wah, this was freaking funny! HE WON AND HE ROLLED! LITERALLY ROLL over! to the space the circled we sat in! and he nearly hit me cause i sat opposite him -.-'''' funniest thing was all the guys rolled! the space was super small, and they still wanna roll!!! freaking funny. GAb and I didnt, so the image we had was all the butts were up! trying to roll! wahahahahahaha laugh real hard. stomach really ached like crazy! chris, even went to the other side to roll more -.-"""

DAily night with the guys playing cards are funny. Also the saying about themselves,their life stories, are so dramatic, for some, rather, some could be even used to film movies man! felt pity for some. haiz. sorry cant share it, cause it was among us, and between the 4 walls. 

Oh yah, we put fire works in the village! one box for 120 yuan. and fire cracker 80 yuan. we put that for the third day. And the second last day, we had 2 boxes, lasted for 5 mins.

Quite a common sight for me to put your own fire works. (Malaysia mah. see it all the time during CNY)

On Friday, we had home stay at the villagers' house. A good experience. They like to have guests at their place. really. Mr Lee gave us $100 yuan for us to pass it to the host family, it was true a hard time   to cajole them to accept the angbao, however the next day he returned it, and said it was for us. i thought he gave it to us for u know good will, growing up thingy. next thing i realised was the angbao was the exact pack we gave and amt was exact too. it means he rejected it. And we said it was a gift to them. i guess the money was alot that they didnt want to have it. I told him we would be scolded, and he said dont tell your tcher, and keep the sum! lolx, no choice, we returned the packet to Mr LEE. and we realised that many people returned the packets too. some even split the money to 50 bucks and returned to us. Until i told them to return, then they returned. if not the bitches might have already taken it. wahahahaha. Look at the villagers! they said it's really once in a blue moon to have visitors at their village.

BY THE WAY! THIS IS THE FUNNIEST PART OF ALL! 

yunwei and i went out to the padifield with out host to get the veggies. since we see those padis all the time, but didnt have the chance to get in so we walked the muddy pavement, and the mud was still wet, i walked till i FELL INTO THE PADIFIELD! ONE ONCE BUT TWICE! i tell u, i was the laughing stock man! the villagers on the opposite laughed so loud sia! the bro on the other end also! yeah, he was too young to come in! i laughed very hard too! stupid me!

We went to climb the mountain on SAt morning. Cause the kids asked us to go! wahlao, the mountain is damn steep please, So many of us got cuts, and some even injured themselves. IT'S 10 times of BUKIT TIMAH HILL OKAY! the cuts on my hands havent healed yet :(((   (hate to see injuries on my hand. esp those will leave behind a scar) THanks to my flat feet, i decided to give up half way.so Weis and i rested in the middle of the mountain. so we rest for 2 hours until one of the kids came down- SLIDING! next we saw few more students and a teacher. And a few of the changkul bros, and alcoholics, they said they didnt go to the summit, it was way too steep and they were tired. they said the view was the same! wahahah! thank god, shall i say, we were smart. going downhill was even worst than going up! so i wondered how they actually came down sia. Shankar, literally slide his way down man! lolx. Nigel went to the summit and he managed to caught up with us. He came downhill, filled with anger, caused he really got deep injuries on his legs, and he was swearing on his way back, walked fast, and kicked the bottles, cans on the floor. so he went back to LAO JIA angrily. Joel, Weis and i Went back to the school to take our overnight stay bags to LAO JIA. Yeah, nigel was angry that he forgot his bag.

Oh yah, Only Weis and I , the only 2 gals climbed that damn mountain. we were being pang-seh ed  by the rest of the gals, 9 of them! initially we didnt want to climb, because the bitches said they wanted to go, in the end they didnt turn up! and they went to climb another mountain -.-'''

So SAt afternoon, we went to ANXI town, wow it was a taste of civilization man! And i really went WOW seeing an LCD TV. sorry lah, "Caged for awhile", we toured the tea garden,went to hot spring, tea whole sale center and shop around. Didnt really buy anything from there. Oh yah,  and we went to the tourist attraction temple. Which i dont remember the name. Dint stay there for long, cause i couldnt stand the smell of the smoke. so joel, gab and i waited outside the temple.

And we had a night over at the hotel. Something great about the hotel was the KTV! cool sia! we sang our night through it closed at 2am! lolx. most of the time, it was the gals singing only. cause the guys seldom listen to chinese songs? and changkul bros  sang 2 tigers, and happy birthday songs -.-""" yeah, kiddy songs. freaking funny man! they only priced the room and not the number of people. so there's like 9 of us, we ordered peanuts, 2 bottle of beers for 130 yuan!!!! can you imagine! S$26!!! cheap right. the changkul bros treated us. we felt bad, and treated them more in CITY. XIAMEN

Wednesday, one of the kids invited us to their house for dinner, which was just on top of our lao JIA. so SHen li, weiting and i went up. As common as it is, they asked us to stay for dinner. the father asked us to drink too. i thought was one bottle share. to my horror was a bottle each. and 1 bottle of beer is 800 ml? im not too sure. and i had 2 bottles. so i was a bit drowsy, high by then, limbs felt heavier. we had to return LAO JIA early for meeting regarding the farewell event with the school. PLUS i was SABO-ed to be the MC for that day. Cause i sabo-ed JIA HAO, and then the rest sabo-ed me -.-""" so i was high, was suggesting some stuff. and the bitches, sisters kept sSSSHINg me, the bitches afraid that i would  spill some beans regarding the "leader". (yeah, abt her, we had a meeting in the morning abt this farewell thingy too. IT WASNT A MEETING AT ALL! more like ANNOUNCEMENT SESSION. cause she had already finalised everything, and there wasnt any discussion at all!) so i pointed out some points when i was abit high, like the froggy game was ultra boring!~ 

Later, Mr Lee wanted the MC to rehearse our lines, chinese in front of all NP-ians. By then i was on the road of recovery. my brain was fully awake, just that my limbs were heavy and abit of giddiness. So we translated a few things said by Mr lee, and most of the time, it was ME saying it, and that TEO JIA HAO didnt speak at all! it shows that my brain still function properly even i was abit drunk.yeah, he was beaten a few times by me, and i kept on passing the turn to him.And he didnt know what to say. Totally overestimated him haiz -.-  HE'S A BIG TIME LAMER OKAY! an EXAGGERATE-R also!

So the farewell went quite okay, and i sulk at hosting okay! first time also. but who cares. lolx. feast was cool!~ 8 course meal in the classroom. lolx. the local teachers, head of village, head of province, secretary kept making us to drink, if not wanna toast us. yeah lorh, said wanna give toast to us of doing CIP and stuff. their BEER is so GASSY please! kept burping. of course toasted a few to the sisters. ESpecially to ZHAO XIOnG, our leader for this trip! yeah, he's a loser, he cant hold his liquor well. heard the max he could go was 3 cups only! plus the alcohol percentage is only 2.8% lolx, when many was full from dinner, and had quite a number cups of beer, all escaped outside to the field. definitely all will be grab, and "force" to be toasted. it's a never ending process. many went out to take a breath, to allow our tummy to digest! lols

I grabbed many to toast here and there, till i was half drunk again. twice consecutive days. second time round was super uneasy. I puked. yesh, kena scolded by LILI with a string of vulgarities, plus weis were filming all the time -.-'''' i was awake please, just high. Went to brush teeth.having difficulties, cause hands were just heavy to move! i even asked meng to help me to brush. LAter, was fast asleep. went to bed at 8.30pm

Weekend passed damn fast and weekdays seemed to be crawling. also, second week passed a little faster and finally was weekend again! and we left the village on friday afternoon. the school kids sent us off with their "band" and wu long shi, we walked with them for 500m. and finally we departed. some children even cried. :'((( sorry lah, wasnt really close to the school kids, i was under construction team, and i only taught the kids for 1.5 days. not much feelings and bond with them. other than my host family.

Xiamen was fun, and we stayed near the shopping street- 中山路 aka Orchard road. first night we had dinner at Ajisen, Cheap sia, 3 of us to a table(we got split) the dinner cost us 128 yuan! 3 person! we had side dishes too! best thing about communist country- NO TAX NOR SERVICE CHARGE!! wow! good bargain babes!

Saturday-there was an optional whether we wanna go for tour or shopping. Since we were already there,the bitches, sisters and changkul bros decided to go tour. So 20 plus of us went to the Sun yat sen's park and mini zoo. there was a theme park in the park. i guess we were really deprived from childhood. and we played bumper cars, roller coaster(the baby version kind, no thrill at alL) of course i didnt play those. Bumper car ride was hilarious. Mr Lee looked like a father bringing 20 kids around to play games and to the zoo man! After that, the changkul bros departed, they wanna go shopping and we decided to continue with the tour and went to the Island next to Xiamen, It was called GU LANG YU. It's an Island of Performing Arts man! they have PIANO MESUEM! cool sia. but ddint go :(( the architectural of those buildings were SUPERB. As in there's all sorts of building design from all over the world. the colonial kind, the Japanese- English school kind. (U watch anime those nice school uniform, blazer kind of western school in Jap. You get me?) THANK GOD WE WENT TO THE ISLAND. 

Relatives asked me yesterday whether i went to that island. It was really a must see place at Xiamen. THey even know where's Anxi and stuff. Yeah, my granduncle was from china! :))

Of  course mom filled with ENVY that i actually went to that place. She wanted to go there since young. (My mom also an artistic person too) :PPP she couldnt believe that our Lecturer would bring us to such places! 

Something unique about the place is- there's no vehicles! at all. its an island that you have to walk 24/7!! yeah we walked for 2 hrs at the island.

BEst part of the this tour was coming back to the main island! we took a ferry there FREE!!!!! and took SPEED BOAT BACK! SHIOK MAN!!! yeah, i guess we left quite a sum for this trip, so Lecturer decided to give us a treat back! 10 yuan per person! speed boat was awesome. 5 mins to the island, 1 min + back to main land! fun sia! and we moved on to the Xiamen University. Cause Mr lee said there's a street of shops there, just like bugis. so we went there to shop and met quite a number of people there. the Alcoholics gang. the clothing just so not our style. i bought a pull over and a shirt for pat. we decided to return to hotel, since it started to rain. this is where disasters for us came BAR KARMA FOR 1 HOUR!

Meng suggested of taking cab back to Hotel since she said the fare was cheap. We flagged for 2 cabs, and one WAS SNATCHED AWAY by the LOCAL! so let lili and the rest to go first, since she wasnt feeling well. ANd later on, so many snatched our cabs, we decided to  take the bus back. YEAH! the locals are just so uncivilised! was already damn pissed by the snatching of cabs. we took the bus, and Gab paid for it. She threw the coins all at one goal, and i guess, 2 of the coins were back to back, so it looked like 1 coin in the coin box and the Bus driver denied that we dropped 2 bucks instead of 3. So forget it, we paid another buck. the bus operates like MRT system, they stop at every stop, and will announce the stops too! but this bus driver announced the place at the stop itself. so we kept waiting for Zhong Shan Lu and it didnt announce at all, and it already had by pass our stop. so we decided to alight and take a cab again, This time we able to get a cab fast. HOWEVER, the cab's tyre was punctured!!!!!!!WTH dkfh sghglsf g. when we got off the cab, it really reached my limit of tolerance. i was practically squatting in the middle of the pavement saying !(@&^#^#$%@! and we took another cab! guess what this cab went round and round before it reaches our place. so total he charged us 15 yuan, and those we cab back from uni, their cab fare was only 9 plus! plus the driver didnt stop at our destination, it stopped a street away!!! it was really WHAT THE HELL IS THAT MAN!~ China is place filled with propaganda, or rather, they use lots of posters, words, encouragement to try to change the people's attitude and be civilised people. so every where you go, you will see 讲文明 etc. but it's nonsense lah! the people's action really puts you off totally! no words to describe.

And when we reached back to the hotel, that damn door couldnt be opened! wah lao! i was totally fuming! i was drenched too, so i decided to change it to berms, and wear windbreaker. the windbreak was huge, yeah my bro's so i looked like a beggar!literally! due to the oversized jacket and the berms i wore was covered by the jacket! lolx damn funny

next day, we did last minute of shopping, checked out, and off to the airport. we bought so many things that the seats in the bus wasnt enough for us that a few had to seat on the floor. lolx!!

The plane seat arrangement was exactly same as the way we came. so again i sat with JiaHAo, Shenli, but shenli changed her seat, so Mengs joined us! again we say lame things here and there till we finally arrived!~ SINGAPORE! I LOVE YOU, AND HOME SWEET HOME!

yeah, im such an irony right?! too bad! :P i grew up in singapore LITERALLY. FRENS AND FAMILY ARE ALL HERE!! :DDDD

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Forgot to say something about last night!

last night, the changkul brothers were up to something again! I found that they were up to something since they came as a whole to our rooms. So after i showered, i went over to their room, Joel, Jia Hao, and Nigel were up to something OUTSIDE THE ROOM! they ran away at the sight they saw me! crazy fellowers, couldnt be bothered, so i went into the room to chat. so CHris, Jia Jun and Gab were discussing about the gifts they wanna give to their Galfren and galfren's mom. so they were asking ask to buy/choose for them. Meanwhile, i kept seeing TEO JIA HAO peeping into the room! definitely up to something no good. soon they burst into the room! with Joel being the flasher, wearing the mask of a dog and a hat. According to them it was from the anime BLEACH (?) yeah! and GAB SCREAMED by the sight of the FLASHER! yeah! LITERALLY A HALF NAKED FLASHED!

and i went : yeah yeah! funny! ARGH!!! very scared. IT WAS SO DAMN LAME PLEASE -.-"""

MISSION FAILED

come on though we're bITCHES but we arent BIMBOS OK! we're BROTHERS to them horh!!!!

lolx :DDDD 

okay. shall stop here! long post man!! gdy luck!