There we were, three normal people on the bus after choir, on our way to Macs at Serene, when all of a sudden, inspiration hit us like a raging ball of dung on fire and we were like "let's go orchard and watch a friggin movie!". And we did. At first it still a little bit sane when we wanted to go watch Sherlock Holmes, but then like possesed fools lightning, it was suddenly all "LET"S GO WATCH ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS ANNOY US WITH THEIR SQUEAKY VOICES AND TRANSEXUAL (rachelle's word) SISTERS/GIRLFRIENDS!" So we did. And it was interesting. Okay firstly, they ended up coupling up with each other, when hello, they look like brothers and sisters?! And Charice was in a competition with them and they won. Charice lost to them?!?! She lost to their squeky little voices. Oh well, the movie wasn't really fantabulous but I still had fun, minus the movie part. So yeah, haha, thank Chan and Rachelle.

Had a lot of time to kill before going to the dentist so ended up going to Plaza Sing with Charissa. We went to Daiso to buy props of the Orientation performance then we ate Burger King. Then went to Carrefour where she bought her pink FBTs and guess what, I FOUND THE PRETIEST MOUSE I HAD EVER SEEN (pictured above). SO CUTE RIGHT???!! YEah, i bought it. HEehee,

after that went for desert at Swensons with Chan where she ate her chewy chocolate sundae thing and I ate waffles with ice cream. :D WE GOT BLACKLISTED. I guess cause we kept complaining the service sucked and we stared at people weirdly and we requested a seat change and practically all the waiters and waitresses were fussing over that. FRIGGIN HILARIOUS. Had fun :D

Hey friends!

Hope you guys have an extremely merry christmas and spent time with your family and had fun. Hope the new year goes really well for you and brings you more joy and happiness and cheer!

Anyway, this year my family came the closest we have gotten to celebrating christmas. Our cousins joined us, together with my uncle for like a Christmas eve dinner at my house.

We actually did set up like a table and like.

Black pepper beef.

And turkey with stuffing. Yeah, quite unexpected and new. But the dinner was really nice so who kinda cares? :D

Today for Christmas, we ended up watching Sherlock Holmes the movie. I tell you, the movie is really really really good. It is super funny, with a lot of dry humour and the plot is kind of actually good and how it all works out and the clues and the mystery is so brilliantly concealed that at the end you kind of forget how ridiculous the villian is and actually find it kinda awesome. Yeah, Robert Downey Jr. acted supremely well, did a damn good job, love his character in that show. Anyway, wanna watch it? Definitely man, go right away. :D

Hee hee, finally went to watch New Moon with Alethea. Haven't seen her in so long so had a lot of catching up to do. New moon was kind of really sucky, it's full of Jacob crap and so little Edward awesomeness, and the ending was supremely anti climatic. When Edward asked Bella to marry him, then she gasped, and the movie ended. I only super super interesting part was when she was racing to save Edward and when they were with the Voltouri, yup, but it was better than i expected. I expected it to be super crappy with all that Jacob shit, but oh well, at least the movie fast forwarded his parts damn alot. :D

(From L to R: Victoria, Val, Chan, Chelsea, Gale, Shi Xuan, Megan, Phyllis, Jamie, Florence, Kai.

Not pictured: Claire, Clarissa, Sonia who came for like 5 minutes)

I'm back from Turkey people! And i just spent approx. 3 hours just uploading and editing photos. So tired now. Anyway, Turkey was actually quite fun, except that it's really cold and the food sucks. Thank god Becky warned me to bring cup noodles. Oh but i do love the apple tea there. :D When with a tour group and we traveled everyday and changed hotels every night, was quite tiring after a while, so glad to be back to rest..

Over there at Turkey, there is damn alot of this street stalls selling bagels, it's very popular over there i guess.

Wwnt to the Blue Mosque it's really big on the inside and it's made up of thousands of blue tiles, looks quite cool actually.

With my eldest sister and brother.

Crash photo.

My elder sister.

The exterior of the mosque.

After that, we walked down to Topkapi Palace, once the seat of the Ottoman Empire.

Outside the throne room.

The King would sit behind this gold wall to listen to his people's complains and stuff. He would be covered in case someone was out to kill his ass.

Behind the palace is this massive balcony overlooking the shore line.

We finally got to our first lunch which marked the start of thousands of other lunches with the same food. They always serve like meat/chicken kebab with Pita bread. Tastes quite nice, but sort of loses it's taste after a while.

Went on a ferry port in Eskihisar and took one to Topcular.

Super windy from there and managed to took some cool shots of seagulls.

After travelling to Bursa, we went to the Silk Bazaar. It's basically this building full of shops selling silk and scarves. The like.

Fake bags. HAhaa.

We took a cable car ride up to the Uludag Winter Sports and Ski Centre, we were hoping for snow but it was damn little. Only certain areas had.

View from outside the cable car.

Damn it, look at the bottom middle of the pic, my nephew looks damn like the grudge ghost.

My siblings and nephew.

Up on the mountains!

Snow.

I looked like some stuffed bloated shit.

Family photo.

Roasteed chestnuts they like to sell on the streets.

We went to this town called "meatball town" so funny lah. There was this restaurant called "meatball restaurant".

Beef kebab.

We went back on the bus and drove for a few hours to Kusadasi. Ended up playing SNAP on the bus.

Turkish Delight.

Evil Eye, sort of like an ornament that wards off evil.

The different variety of tea they sell there.

Tempted to buy it for YOU GUYS. :DDD LOL

Went to visit the House of Virgin Mary, where it was said she spent her last days at.

Failed jump shot.

This statue of Virgin Mary.

HEr house.

There were these wishing wells, like 3 of them and you were supposed to drink the water from it. Each was Wealth, HEalth and Love.

Wishing wall, people wrote their wishes and tied it to the wall with tissue.

After that we want over to Ephesus, one of the largest archeological sites in existense. Used to be this ancient Greek/Roman city. It look friggin grand and nice, like you can like totally imagine how it used to look like in all it's former glory.

The political speech area, where they used to hold speeches.

Doorway to the Commercial area of the city.

This means Pharmacy.

This means Healthcare.

The ancient god of Victory. The tour guide was like "this is why the Nike sign is a tick."

Used to be small street shops. So cool right!

USed to be their cafes, like higher class then the streetside stalls.

Temple.

Where they answered Nature's Call, AKA, pee and poop.

They would like just sit there with their naked ass and like...erm...poop.

The library. Looks so grand and majestic right? Opposite the library was actually the ancient brothel. So ironic. The horny husbands would probably tell their wives "honey I'm going to read books at the library, don't wait up", then instead they make a beeline for the brothel.

The first ever advertisement of the ancient world. Apparently it reads "if you're heart is lonely, step up to your left, pretty woman will keep you company". Sick, it's for the brothel.

The massive colosium.

Our tour group.

Went to the ancient city of Hierapolis and next to it, it's like this...dunno how to describe, it's like this place with these hot water running through it, like a tiny valley kind of thing, and the water there is very hot and nice.

So people start rolling up their pants and taking of their shoes.

And jump in.

It is friggin slippery cause you are actually standing on moss, so feels quite nice.

My retard sis.

Me and my sisters just sat there for damn long cause the water is damn friggin nice.

Anyway, after that, went to this Carpet factory where they showed us how to made carpets.

Then to the Underground City of Kaymake.

Went for a hot air balloon ride. So exciting :D But lemme tell you, was freezing my ass of, whole body when numb.

Blowing up the balloon.

Preparing for take off.

View from up there. :D

My puffed up winter face.

Landing

After that, they brought out wine. :DDDDDDDD And everyone had a cup. lol

It was damn nice la.

Even had a certificate for completing the ride. Which in our case means, "congratulations, you have freezed your butt off!"

With our tour guide.

Went to the Goreme Open Air Musuem. Made up of buildings carved into caves.

The church inside.

Random world we found and crawled into.

Camwhore.

Went to visit Ataturk Mausoleum, final resting place of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, father of Modern Turkey.

His tomb.

So grand and nice right.

Soldiers marching, super synchro.

Turkey map.

Back to Istanbul, went to the Hagia Sophis Museum, once a church converted into a mosque then converted again into a musuem.

One of the biggest mosques in Turkey.

Had to climb up this damn long tunnel.

After that went to the Grand Bazaar, with over 400 stalls in this maze like arrangement.

All the shops and variety of local products there. Love the atmosphere there, damn lively and cheerful.

The shopkeepers over there are damn friendly and joke around super a lot. Also kinda camwhorish. When i walked past they were like "take picture of us. Take!" More involved in joking around then selling their goods.

Night time ,went to Kevansaray, it's like this belly dancing bar place.

Quite gross, like some belly dancers weirdly have tummy so when they do it's quite odd.

This blacksea group of dancers were damn ironic, they were introduced as LIVELY people, but they came out and looked like they were doing math.

Arsena, one of Turkey's best belly dancers.

This other group of guys who could dance damn well.

With our super stylish driver. ITs true, he is always wearing like different sets of clothings and on top, he wears like his thousand dollars leather jacket.

Today was like my favourite day ever lah. It was a free day, so all we did was shopping. We went to Taxim Square, one of the most crowded places in Istanbul for SHOPPING.

Walking from the hotel to the place, we saw this. So cool right?

Spray paint.

If only Singapore had such nice shophouses. IF only we had the space. Anyway, this store is like ART FRIEND for them.

The tram passing through the street.

Brother and nephew.

The beef kebab thing. They like slice it off the huge rack.

This was my happiest store. They were HAVING STORE WIDE 50% Discount. I bought a $115 dress for $54 there and a $50 skirt for $25. :DDDD

This damn fat tabby on the street. Friggin creepy for an animal-non-lover like me.

Turkish Delight.

Their cinema.

Alethea!!! WE have to go watch soon!!!

This guy selling chocolate bars. Some unknown brand but it tastes realy good.

Smell the richness man.

Taxim square. All the shops selling kebabs.

So cute hor?

Day 9: ISTANBUL - SINGAPORE

Went to the Spice bazaar, a super super small version of the Grand Bazaar, except they sell spices instead.

There was this one shopkeeper I was talking to whom was damn funny. He was like "where you from?" When i told him Singapore, he was like "you from SingaPOOR, i from SingaRICH." Then later on he told me "I have ceramics, cloth, spices...I have everything except customers." And when I was leaving, he said "i give you my card, then you can come back some other time." When i said okay, he gave me that. HAHAHA. Friggin funny dude.

Selling corn.

DISGUSTING.

Went on a Bosphorus cruise.

The nice view.

Camwhoring with the flag behind the boat.

We docked at this small town and there were these people fishing so we kind just stood there like idiots staring at them and one finally caught one.

At some Turkish restaurant.

Went to eat the famous Turkish ice cream MADO.

So unique right?

At night time, before going to airport for departure. You know theres something really wrong when during your last meal at Turkey you have fast food instead.

After choir practice today, me, Rachelle, Victoria, Chan and Estelle went to Changi Airport because we were possesed for the Winter Wonderland event that was held in Terminal 3. What a load of bullcrap. Because in the end, we could not even do anything. Turns out the people in charge of Winter Wonderland had ABSOLUTELY NO HOLIDAY SPIRIT to follow some regulation to deny entry to anyone under 12. So, what a failed and wasted trip. Oh well, at least we had a nice lunch.

In the MRT.

Our final MRT stop before Changi.

At the airport finally.

We entered at Terminal 2. I think this was the waiting area for the skytrain to go to Terminal 3.

Spazzy.

This is friggin funny. The girl so ignorant, like completely unaware. Then Rachelle was like "come take with us!"

When we finally got to Terminal 3, look what we found!

Look what we found next. Bummer, the bloody thing only admits children.

Rachelle, Possesed Vong, Me

Urgggh. No comment.

Her face damn funny all the time for some reason.

They also had this "Magical Music Ball" things that only worked from 7pm onwards. Apparently, everything 30 min or so, it spurts out candy.

We were walking around for quite a while trying to find a place to eat, by this time we were like getting supremely cranky.

The recycle bins are so unique don't cha think.

We look like we were raring to go, full of spirit and energy and like. Looks can be deceiving.

Finally ended up in Earl Swenson's, some other version of the Swenson's restaurant, the food is actually really good for some reason.

It was kinda fun i guess, minus off the complete waste of time it was.