crazy! -.-

note date of post! this post has been sitting in my drafts folder for way too long. planned to post it before 2009 bt looks like i didnt succeed did i? hah. enjoy! =D

yup! so all my siblings are HERE in KL! =D gosh. kat is fairer than me. i'm the darkest amongst all of them! T_______T haha. well.. all of them havent changed much. my bro is still the SAME.

its been CRAZY here. the day before yesterday, a few of us went down to nottingham university to pick amanda up. amanda our cousin from kuching. it was her bday! =D it was down near SEMENYIH (hahaha) and on our way, we got lost in the Pasar Semenyih and it was kind of interesting. we were looking for a COLD carbonated drink, and guess what? they dont have any. we went to about 3 or 4 shops, and all of them either had a very very very VERY small selection, or they didnt have refrigerated ones. and then we passed this roadside stall, those that sell meat, like those HUGE chunks they hang vertically. and omyGOSH! it was cow meat. and do you know how i know that it is COW meat? they were selling two cow heads too. YES! REAL, DEAD, HUGE, COW HEADS. with tongues still attached, sticking out from their mouth! hahaha. it was DISGUSTING. we took a picture of it. it actually took me by surprise when i realized it was, actually, quite big. it just never hit me that it was so huge. hahaha. yup. so it was a really interesting ride! =)


nottingham uni is very very nice. i mean the campus. its really pretty. its very open air. and i like that, as compared to spending your whole day in an enclosed air-con-ed room. it is a very nice campus, easy to understand, not a place easy to get lost in, and open air! =D


so we headed back, with amanda, to my uncle's house. we jsut chit chatted. i fell asleep after that. when i woke, they were watching pirates of the carribean, the final one, i dont know what its called. then after that, weirdly enough, we started watching gossip girl on the Mac. pam wanted to watch it. and naturally, everyone sat down to watch. and then after that, the other KLs arrived (grace, mel and esa). we all watched together. and then we brought the cake out! =D it was a surprise! they had bought the Choc Indulgence from secret recipe. it was very enjoyable. then we continued to watch G.G.

oh ya! we had pizza hut for dinner. and of course, they ordered too much. eating pizza was before the cake and before gossip girl, stil watching pirates at that time.

so after the cake and everything, everyone sat down to watch G.G. again. it got late. and guessed what time we finished? 5am+! -.- (there goes Ghrelin and Leptin..or whatever it is called, Kel! =P) YES. and even at that time, the changs (the other KLs) wanted to go back home. so they were sent back by i dont know who. and the next day, everyone woke up late. ahhaha. and in the afternoon (which was when we woke up), they sent amanda back to uni, while we went to taylor's with pam who needed to submit some stuff there.

that was yesterday and night, we went for supper. like at 12 midnight. it was FULL! i am so amazed by the number of cars on the road there are in KL after midnight. so we ate alot of food O.O and it was so funny! the Chang's came too. and there was a small bit of mee hoon left that no one wanted to eat. so it came down to 'kun chum'-ing (choosing.. as in rock paper scissors) and the one who lost had to eat it. so we were all discussing HOW to actually do this. so we wanted to divide into two grps, and the grp that lost could divide the food up again. but then we had uneven numbers. there were 9 of us i think. so we were discussing it (loudly, yes) and then pam suddenly shouted oh KAT! since you're sitting in the middle, you'llbe the one sitting on the fence!you MUST eat no matter what. then everyone was like yes! agreed! so that was that. my side of the table lost. but oh well. it was really fun. and unhealthy. it was like.. wat? 2am? and we were all FULL to the brim. but i guess that's normal being together with all the changs.

so that was pretty much the kl part. it was all sleeping VERY VERY late, and waking up likewise too. i really enjoyed it. it was interesting watching dave playing his ps3. =D besides eating, watching series, eating, going to mega mall (the only big mall on pam's map! haha), eating and sleeping, we didnt do much! =D enjoyable and a great way to get away from everything back home! =D

so about a week or more after that, (i actually really dont remember the date), we flew off to vietnam! we arrived in Ho Chin Mihn.. or Minh. @@ it was sooooo wow. not wow so beautfiul but just wow, wow. the traffic is so unbelievable. stressful even. there were really LOADS and LOADS of motorcycles. in the minivan, looking out the window to the street you just see like a SEA of helmets!!!! two lanes, one lane for cars, and the others for motorcycles.. its an unspoken agreement. haha. and the motorcycles are not just in like 3 rows.. about 10? they SURROUND you. its so full of motorcycles. they even hvae a motorcycle traffic light which is lower and smaller than usual ones. and on the roadside near traffic lights or at roundabouts there are ppl selling food and stuff like that. when the traffic slows ppl actually buy those things from their motors. kinda cool and really different.

and oh the honking!! you can hear horns every two seconds. all the time. they horn for ANYTHING. when someone slows down in front of them they horn. driving there is like no stops except at traffic lights. they dont really have the road lines. and they jnust GO. when crossing the road, even when the walking man is green on the traffic light, there are still vehicles going across. so its like.. just crossing the raod even tho the traffic flow has not come to a stop. hah my mum doesnt even look at the traffic she just goes. -.-

oh and they have different kinds of horns too. they got those echoing types. horn once and it sounds 6 times.. like an echo. @@ and their motorcycles can carry loads of stuff. LONG LONG metal pipes, or a big piece of smth, a load of stuff, a fan -.-.. and 4 ppl can fit the motorcycles. and its those normal sized ones like the ones here, not extra big ones.

we went to Hue too. oh and the china beach (dont remember where) is beautiful! i loved it. and went to Hoi An. i forgot which, but i like the small villagy place which is either HUe or Hoi An. we went to Sapa too. Sapa was like the country side of vietnam. it was high up and COLD. really COLD. and we went trekking and stuff to the villages. saw the Mong ppl who still live in wooden houses, and do beautfiul embroidary (or however u spell it) and wear traditionalclothing, and carry wood, and dye cloth and carve marble, and FARM and PLANT. all of Sapa (mountains) werecovered totally by terraces (or however you spell it -.-). it was breathtaking. we went to Danang too and Hanoi. i think its ok to go there for holiday i guess. but a translator is necessary. really troublesome bcz hardly anyone speaks eng there. but i would definitely not stay there for long. too chaotic with the horns and all.

if anyone is going there, eat PHO, which is pronounced as fir/fur, something like that. its yummy i loove it. and the roadside ones are the best. oh ya in vietnam they have those roadside stalls where the tables are like those in kidnergarden. really short and they still on the short short chairs or stools for kids. and they have alot of coffee shops where the chairs are facing the raod. they all just sit facing the raod, drinking tea or beer or whatever and watch the motorcycles go by. most of the shops are roadsides with no parking space, only enough for motorcycles. and they have hammocks too! they have hammocks in the coffee shop and motorcyclist actually go there and sleep or take a nap. so cool. haha

oooh. and to get to sapa. we had to take the train. and its an overnighter trip. we had a sleeper. so the space was so small and there were six 'sleepers' in it. it was kinda ok. but the toilet. OMGOSH. it was totally the SMELLIEST toilet i have ever ever ever had the luck to encounter. it wasnt really disgusting dirty. it was just so SMELLY. it STANK so bad, when you get out after seconds the smell is already stuck to your shirt. it was the most horrible experience EVER. T-T oh the toilets in vietnam dont have a good flush sistem. so you cant throw the toilet paper into the toilet bowl. you have to throw it into a bin. and they dont really provide good bins with lids. yup. no lids. so thats really disgusting. luckily the hotels are ok. T-T after the train toilet... i probably have toilet phobia. after that i never went to a public toilet unless one of my family members have gone into it and have given the ok. -.- haha. so consider yourself warned! =D

well. thats kind of alot. i was glad to get back home. it was really getting to me.. the horns. ooooh and they have tiny trucks with covers.. like the trucks which carries horses just with the top cover. and thats their bus! its tiny! they jnust climb up and sit on it. ahhaha. but thats only in ho chin minh i think.

well. thats alot to read. this is only so i wont forget the trip.

buahaha. happy new year

now: 2/1/09 1+am