turkey trip day 3

this is the most fun day because we went to many attractions and took lots of photos. so prepare for photo overdose.

after the usual buffet breakfast, the first place that we went to is a leather factory outlet. we were treated to pretty and handsome models, who wore the latest winter wear made of leather. if you think i am so selfish not to show you the photos of these models, you are right. because i am actually more gracious than that, and i shall show you the VIDEO! hahahahaha.

the boss of the factory outlet gave a very 动听 presentation on their silk leather jackets, which made everyone very 心痒痒 to buy. the factory outlet also sell many hats and handbags which are very very nice. and guess wat? one of the models brought a jacket for me to try, and everyone came to praise me to say that i look good in it. but i look at the price and my jaw dropped, because the cost is US935!!! they got offer 30 percent discount lah, but even after discount it is still very ex. haha.

(these jackets are the atas type. they cost at least US3000.)

in the end i bought a leather jacket from another salesman. he is quite persistent, very persuasive and very pleasant, and in the end i fell into his trap. hahaha. but he gave me a very good discount. the original price of the jacket was US635, and he reduced it until US440. but well, it is still quite chor. :p

ok the first attraction we went to is Ephesus, one of the world's most outstanding archaelogical sites.

(goddess of victory, also known as NIKE.)



(public toilet during ancient times)

(Library of Celsius)

(the Grand Theatre, which has a sitting capacity of 25,000)

(this jump shot is not so nice. i prefer the one at blue mosque. haha.)

second attraction: Temple of Artemis. this is one of the ancient seven wonders of the world. but it is left with one pathetic pillar because most of it is excavated to dunno which museum.

third attraction: house of virgin mary. virgin mary is jesus mother. you may ask why she is called a virgin when she gave birth to jesus, but i think god nv have sex with her at all.

the local guide said that by writing ur wish on a tissue paper and hanging it on the wall outside the house of virgin mary, your wish will come true. but after saying such 轻浮 comments about virgin mary, i have a bad feeling that my sister's wish wun come true.

fourth attraction: Pamukkale. magical and unique terraces and castles created by deposits of white limestone from thermal springs. it is also known as Cotton Castle.

the hotel we stayed at for the night is called pamukkale colossal thermae hotel. the hotel has a swimming pool where the water is taken from the pamukkale thermal spring, and it is believed to be good for the skin.

so my dad, sis and i went to the swimming pool for a dip. my dad really has to go because he has some ulcers on his ass (ouch). admission into the pool is free. BUT, you have to pay 4 turkish lira for a swimmming cap in order to swim in the pool. WASSUP!!! 4 turkish lira is about S$3.75.

-end of day 3-

seriously and honestly speaking, i am still very 心痛 for paying US440 for that jacket. i should have bargained more! ggrrrrr...

turkey trip day 2

a good breakfast starts the day well, and i must say that the breakfast buffet at holiday inn bursa is really solid, and boost all our morale. everyone is in high spirts to start the tour after the yummy breakfast!

the first place we went to is Ulucami, which is the biggest mosque in bursa. my sis 学乖了. this time round she wore jeans instead of the black leggings. haha.

after that we went to the silk market, which obviously, is famous for silk products. we din buy anything from the silk market, but instead we walked for a fair bit and for watever reason that god noes, we ended up in a grocery market. hahaha. the vegetables that they sell are very big and fresh, and my parents bought alot of nuts - hazelnuts and walnuts.

the next destination is Cumalikizik, an early ottoman settlement area. the village has maintained its historical character and presents one of the finest example of early ottoman architecture. dun ask me wat is ottoman because i also dunno. hahahaha.

and guess wat? time for LUNCH! no prizes for guessing correctly what we will be eating:

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KEBABS RULEZ BIG TIME!!!

after lunch the coach drove us to Kusadasi, and by the time we reach Kusadasi it was already dark so we check in our hotel and wait for dinner. you would have realised that we spent quite alot of time on the coach because of the super long travelling distance. so if u have severe motion sickness or severe bladder problem, better not go turkey.

as usual, the hotel has buffet dinner. but the buffet dinner at holiday inn is nicer. :p

-end of day 2-

turkey trip day 1

finally i am back! reached sg yesterday morning at seven plus. the sisters' HAB (husbands and boyfriends) came to the airport to fetch us. hahaha how nice of the both of them. ok lah not husband. boyfriend only.

unfortunately i kenna lao sai on the last day in turkey, and i tell u, having lao sai on the 12 hours flight from turkey to sg is no freaking joke. but this lao sai was more mild as compared to the lao sai i had on the last day of the hk/macau trip last year dec. i remembered that on the flight back to sg from hk, i need to go to the toilet and lao once every hour. but luckily for this time i only went about once per 4 hours. :p

anyway i am feeling much better. yesterday darling came to find me and we went to eat frog leg porridge at the coffee shop downstairs! wow i really miss the delicous sg food. but i miss darling more. haha.

ok i shall now start to blog about the turkey trip! as you all had known, i ran 42 km in the morning, and at night i took the horrendous torturous 12 hours flight to turkey. actually the flight had a short transit at dubai for one hour, but the stupid thing is we cant go out to the dubai airport and have to remain on board the plane. so from sg to dubai is 6 hours, plane stop at dubai airport for one hour, then from dubai to turkey is 5 hours. anyway i was so tired thanks to the marathon, so i slept alot throughout the flight, thankfully i din suffer any cramps throughout the long journey.

this is a funny video clip to share with everyone. when you are on the plane, and the captain is making the pre-flight announcement, i am sure that this is the announcement that you definitely wont want to hear.

finally we reached turkey at seven am local time. i eagerly scanned through the tour group to see if got any chio bus. actually got one lady who is quite gorgeous, but too bad she came with her husband. hahahaha. nvm my darling is more gorgeous than her. anyway that lady is also a teacher and she is teaching in a primary sch located in the east. and i also found out that there were quite a few teachers in the tour group.

so we started our istanbul tour. we walked through the site of the ancient Hippodrome, once the sporting ground for racing of chariots.

and then we went to the Blue Mosque, which is the largest religious complex in istanbul. women need to be adequately dressed in order to go inside the mosque, so cannot wear mini skirts or spaghetti straps or tube tops. but of course now is the winter season and no lady will be in the right state of mind to wear so little. unfortunately, or should i say hilariously, at the entrace of the mosque, the attendant gave my sis a sarong to wrap her lower body because she was wearing leggings.

we took a few nice shots in front of the Blue Mosque.

the next place that we visited is the Topkapi Palace. this is a museum palace with a wide collection of porcelains and treasuries. the palace also have a very nice garden with awesome looking trees of peculiar shapes which u can nv find in sg.

and this is our first turkish meal. KEBABS! it was delicious because all of us were extremely hungry, and because this is our first time eating the kebabs. subsequently we were quite sick of it. bleah.

after lunch, we left istanbul and took a ferry to bursa. the ferry is very big and can fit many cars and coaches. this is a very similar kind to the ferry that we took at japan. on the ferry got one turkish woman keep bio-ing me and smiling at me, and i feel a bit threatened. and then got another pair of female tourists keep walking past me and giggling to each other. but the pair of female tourists were quite pretty. haha.

(if you think that i am going to show the photos of the pretty tourists, i am afraid you will be disappointed. hahahaha.)

the sian thing about going turkey in the winter is that the sun rises very late in the morning, and sets very early at night. at five pm the sky is very dark already and u cant do any sight-seeing. once we reached bursa its already six and so we went to the hotel to relax and have dinner. and our hotel is holiday inn bursa!!! cool!

(nice hotel room! with free wireless provided inside the room!)

the nice thing about this whole trip is that our breakfast and dinner is always at the hotel, and it is BUFFET!!! hahaha. eat until very shuang. for dinner they will have a section for cold appetizers such as salad and other weird weird stuff which i dun dare to try; a section for the hot food such as butter rice, pasta, meat, vegetables; a section for the soup of the day and bread to go with the soup; and lastly a section for desserts comprising of cakes, pudding and many other kinds of sweet stuff!

-end of day 1-

last night at turkey

yoz my dear readers!

tonight is finally my last night in turkey. it has been really a great trip. the pple in my tour group are really a lovely bunch, the scenery in turkey is absolutely fabulous, and the food is sometimes good but sometimes bad. our breakfast and dinner is always buffet style in the hotel so we eat until very shuang. our lunches are those typical turkish set lunch, which comes with bread, soup, main course and fruits. the main course is always the hard dry chicken breast meat chunks on satay sticks, and very very salty, so its not that nice. :p

another highlight of this trip is that i got called up by a chio belly dancer on stage to dance with her! hoho. pictures will be up once very soon, dun worry. haha.

i seriously miss sg food, and i cant wait to eat the char kway teow, prawn omelette, chicken rice and hokkien mee!

sunday post

guess wat? instead of running the half marathon, i ran the FULL MARATHON! hahahaha. i took 6 hours 17 min to complete. hoho. yes the timing sucks, thanks to not enough training.

seriously marathon is crazy. at the 20 km mark i already start to cramp. and from the 36 km mark onwards i was practically cramping and walking. wat a painful experience.

but wearing the finisher's tee and the finisher's medal around my neck really gives me a sense of pride! i completed the standard chartered sg marathon leh! wassup! hahahahaha.

thank you mr leow for running together with me, and thank you darling for supporting me at the finishing line!

ok hopefully i wun have cramps during the 11 hour flight to turkey.

so goodbye readers! i will try to update the blog in turkey, cos got wireless in some of the hotels that we are staying! :)

ok maybe one more picture of turkey to share with everyone. haha.

this is Ephesus, one of the world's most outstanding archaelogical sites.

saturday post

this afternoon i went to the newly opened city square mall at farrer park, which is also the first ever eco mall in sg! anyway i went there with leow and mak, and the primary reason for going there is to watch someone jump down from the 4th floor!

yup, is actually fen's performance, titled 'magical garden'. if you wanna watch, tmr still have, on 3 slots, which are 1 pm, 3 pm and 7 pm!

the gymnastics stuff are pretty cool. after taking the gymnastics module, i really appreciate the acrobats/gymnasts who can do the gymnastics skills so well. kudos to them!

thanks fen for asking the chio dancers to take pic with me!!! hoho.

2012

this is a seriously freaking awesome movie.

MUST GO AND WATCH!!!

do anything u want, but dun get caught

ok this is quite funny.

on monday i was at darling's house. and then darling noticed that my eyes were glued on to my laptop screen.

in normal circumstances, i should look like this:

but at that point of time, i look like this:

so darling sneaked behind me to see wat i was doing, or wat i was watching. and i din even noe that she was behind me cos i was too focused.

and behold lies the answer...

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hahahahahaha. yes. KILL VERY BIG [杀很大]

and halfway through the clip, i glanced backwards and i saw darling smiling at me with folded arms. and i FREAKED OUT. literally freaked out, with a sense of guilt.

if u got watch that clip, you will understand why i was staring so close to the screen, because the pple dancing are so small! and darling claimed that i was looking so closely to see if 瑶瑶 got zao geng a not. hahaha.

but anyway, here are the advertisements that made her famous overnight.

KILL VERY BIG version 1

KILL VERY BIG version 2

very shallow. hahahaha.

so two morals of the story.

1) do anything you want, but dun get caught

2) 男人是犯贱的.

so i shall dedicate this pic to all the women in the world:

i made amends, yes?