mauritius day 6, 11th sept 2009, friday

after so many weeks, i am finally blogging the final post of the mauritius trip.

for day 6, also our last day in mauritius, we spent the morning and afternoon to shop for souvenirs and banana chips. we bought more than 500 packets of banana chips, and we had to go to different shops in order to purchase that amount. -.-'''

and then ms yuen wanted to try some local mauritius bread, so one of the mauritian chinese brought us to a bread shop, and treated us. :)

ok i am now going to replay a piece of conversation that happened outside the bread shop.

ah liang: yy yy, 要不要看 面包西施 ???

yy (excitedly): 要要要!!! 哪里哪里???

ah liang: 这里这里!!! (pointing excitedly at my camera screen)

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(one thousand ice cubes went down the back of my spine)

ok after lunch and all the shopping, we went to a beach, which is not the same beach we went to in day 3.

i jogged with ah liang, knowing that i have not been jogging, and on sunday i will be running the mizuno wave run. the rest were just playing around in the water. after jogging for about fifteen minutes we joined them in the water, and guess wat we did?

no prizes if you guessed correctly. haha.

and then i discovered another new function of my camera!!! silhouette pictures!!! so be prepared for a series of silhouette shots, and try guessing who are the pple! haha.

(copied this pose from a sy_ _ _ gy item)

(wah biang these legs are fake)

(adam meets eve)

(eve says bye bye)

(wah kiss until legs in the air)

(no prizes for guessing correctly who he is. it is too obvious.)

(macho lifeguard saving damsel in distress)

(does this pose look familiar?)

(nice pointed feet!)

after all the fun at the beach we went to wash up.

(dunno who took this pic while i was bathing. tsk tsk.)

and the sunset was really beautiful.

and so must take picture with the beautiful sunset! and this pic is quite classic. we were posing and then the wave suddenly came in, and the water was so cold and we had a super big reaction. haha.

yay pic taken successfully!

we went to fen's house to shower. because his house only got one toilet, and there were 14 of us, we even utilised some of his neighbours' house to shower. wah hahaha. the whole process was very funny and very exciting.

then we ate dinner at pizza hut. and fen's sister showed us today's newspaper! yup we were on the papers again!

after the full dinner, we did my homeland again. -.-'''

we still got some time to spare because our flight is at 2 am. we walked for a while at this very grand hotel, which i forgot the name already. we also took a very short boat ride.

and finally, we went to the airport to catch our flight back home.

its been a really wonderful trip with many happy memories. must thank everyone for making the trip so memorable, and also thank my boss for allowing me to go for this trip. oh yah must thank the hospitable mauritians too! we really felt like home over at mauritius. :)

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so the next trip for me is on 9th dec! eastern europe and dhubai! :)

but before looking forward to that, i better look forward to the end of the semester first, not forgetting to clear my assignments and projects.

friday post

went to lailai restaurant at boon lay jurong point with some of my pe classmates to satisfy my taiwan food craving.

红烧牛肉面 （汤）

红烧牛肉面 （干）

棺材板

卤肉饭

猪肠

the food is really not bad, just that it is a bit too expensive. i can eat a bowl of 卤肉饭 at taiwan night market for around $1 to $1.50, but at lailai it cost me $6.90!

then we went back to sch for our basketball inter-class competition. i did not play, and i also insisted not to play, because i sux at basketball, and din want to drag the whole team down. i am satisfied being a supporter and going around to take pictures.

our classmates brought their daughters too! they are so cute and adorable. haha.

we got into the final, but lost to the other team by one point. its quite a pity, but i think both teams played really well. the other team got one fellow who is very good at ball control, can dribble past 3 of our players into the red zone and score at the basket. and he is also a basketball freestyle player, who represent sg to take part in some freestyle competition in asia and he got third! if u dunno wat is freestyle basketball, it is 花式篮球, where he performed patterns with the basketball, and can juggle 3 to 5 basketballs! saw him perform a bit in front of the two daughters, they were so thrilled and clapped their hands in joy.

KC fetched me home after that. thank you so much! taiwan buddy rocks. hahahaha.

can't take my eyes off you

no lah, its not her.

its this person below:

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i am simply blown away by his charm, and his voice.

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mon was the 2nd handball match, and we won 20-10. i conceded 10 goals, so its a vast improvement from the friday's match where i conceded 23.

friday i exerted too much pressure on myself. darling said that i look very sian whenever i conceded a goal and i was shaking my head.

so for mon's match, i relax a bit, be more high, put a smile on my face while playing, and keep encouraging team mates. and it really turned out to be so much better. i think when i am high, i will perform better. wah hahaha.

so wed is the derby match!!! starting at 830 pm! come and watch if you are free or got nothing to do at home! :)

mid-autumn festival

went to darling's house yesterday night to celebrate mid-autumn festival. started with eating pomelo and mooncakes with her family.

and then we went to her house downstairs to play with lanterns and candles.

its kinda nice to see other pple playing with lanterns, candles, sparkles. a big family even had a bbq session at a pavilion. how nice. sg still has some life and family unity after all.

just had a very nice lunch of bak kut teh with darling and her family. now i am at home slacking, although i should be doing my assignments, but i totally got no mood to do. later there is post-DR party at mike's place. the theme is 'back to nature'. seriously this is quite a [-.-]''' theme, and i should go there naked, and put a leaf on my groin, and become adam. who wants to be eve? hahahaha.

ok i going to take a nap now. yawn...

handball pics from pro photographer

only have pics of the players shooting, but no pics of me making saves. sian... hahahaha.

finally, a representative from the females' team:

(she is in the sg national handball team. mai siao siao.)


keepers are the most ke lian. concede goals like no one's business. body kenna whacked by the ball like no one's business. dive on the floor like no one's business.

AND YET NOBODY TOOK A DECENT PIC OF ME DOING ALL THOSE SHIT WORK. WASSUP.

hopefully got just one nice pic of me saving the ball. just one nice pic will do, and i am contented. hahahahaha.

my first ivp match

ntu vs smu: 24 - 23

my first ever handball victory. but i let in 23 goals. wassup.

although i made many saves, but i conceded many lousy goals. i think i must wake up my idea, improve my positioning, be quicker on my reflexes. i must up my game against sim on monday night.

thank u darling for coming to support me. :)

now is 1010 am, i am on standby this weekend, and i really hope that i wun get mobilised. may buddha bless me.

thursday post

i have been listening to this song everyday. it nv fails to soothe the nervous feelings building up inside me, no thanks to the assignments, projects and presentations that i have to finish in this two weeks.

those who find it familiar, yup its the song that sy_ _ _ gy uses for the most recent concert.

SO MUCH MAGNIFICIENCE~ HALILUYAH~~~

and i must say again, i am a buddhist.

ok anyway, tomorrow i am representing ntu/nie to play against smu in sunig handball. sunig stands for singapore universities games. take the s from singapore, uni from universities and the g from games, you get sunig. easy to understand, yes?

those who are interested to watch (maybe the kevii pple), its at 7 pm at nus src handball court.

monday we will be playing against sim. and wednesday is the crunchtime derby match against nus. its kinda weird, because nus is the place where i first learnt handball and play handball, and now i am representing ntu to play against the nus ivp team. the only four words i can think of is 感触良多. haha.