Jackie-o!

This post is dedicated to my first and potentially last roommate ever in my life,

JACQUELINE SEAH :)

For the past week (and ongoing!) we have been telepathically catching each other on gmail chat everytime I log on. We then progress to either have

1. very meaningless and laughoutloud (I refuse to use LOL you can’t make me) conversations or

2. very serious and intense conversations about certain issues/getting your psychologist mode on!

So today I realised, I MISS YOU JACKIE!! AND OUR AWESOME #747!! I cannot imagine having any other roommate and making it out of Berkeley alive (imagine if the original G was my roommate. We would have clawed each other to the death.)

I shall now dedicate this prose to you.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..

You gatekeep the food shelf with me, and let me eat from your top shelf and steal chewy bars when I’m hungry, provide me with a hot water kettle and multi-powerpoint plugs.

Even though you and I both know that half of that shelf was consumed by the boys, we both accepted our fate without complaints.. AND EVEN RESTOCK FOR THEM. Geez we’re nice people.

YOU COME UP WITH NICKNAMES FOR EVERYONE WITH ME.

HAHA this is an extremely salient point in our friendship. I totally forgot about TWENTY ONE until I saw this photo. Nicknames for everyone got us through the semester with our sanity! And who would’ve thought they would continue TILL NOW. (G2 G2 G2 G2 G2)

You share the burden of having to entertain the guests who stop by our room for all sorts of reasons.

Rafi looking for instant noodles, Pete choosing ties for the farewell dance, Shamil for using the charger and my laptop and every other thing in between, Jarvis & Yong for your Iphone, Yushi for beer, Eric for… no reason because he just magically turns up in our corridor every night half-conscious, and lastly, HANS FOR – WELL – BOOTY CALLS. HAHAHAHA JOKES.

You soldier bravely with me during Spring Break at the risk of losing our lives due to Shamil’s bad driving (in general) and Jarvis’ angry driving in the mornings -AND did the admin planning/booking with me because we knew if we left it to the boys we’d be driving into a desert and sleeping on the streets..

You endure the presence of the Comfort Bear which I insisted on bringing along for Spring Break, which took up space in the car, in the bed, and ultimately in my luggage bag.

And also put up with my long rant on WHATTONAMETHECOMFORTBEAR and at the end of the day he is still unnamed.

You fly across Amerika with me for my crazy 2 day NYC 2 day Philly travel plan even though you didn’t have to (but this is closely related to the fact that you have an unlimited cashflow so maybe I shouldn’t give you all the credit. HAHA)

YOU INDULGE WITH ME IN STEAK IN NYC.

(This was another very important moment btw!)

Okay and these are just like the points I can illustrate using photos.

There are still tons of things like:

LETTING US CRASH YOUR VEGAS SUITE FOR FREE (we are eternally grateful), being my fellow PI during the G-GRAPES-BASEBALL period (constant updates via sms!! it kept me alive and not burning with anger the entire time), staying up in Yong’s room waiting for Shamil and I to return from Reggae, wallowing in self pity with me about our procrastination of work, and I think my biggest debt to you is still having to make you bear the burden of WMMS being your BFF towards the end.. in order to distract her from her sorrows (too many a time!). Oh, and of course being the go-between during those Korean drama worthy moments. (Not just mine, Shamil’s too!)

And although we are constantly in the above manner most of the time..

AND YOU ARE  ESSENTIALLY STILL THE POOHDEVIL TO ME – I haven’t listed down your evil actions (namely, our last night of Spring Break which you don’t even remember, calling me a YOUKNOWWHAT HAHAHAHA that was legendary. As well as earplugging yourself from my snoring. Which I still maintain was cos I was sick. AND MANY MORE TALES I HAVE TO TELL.)

WE HAD ONE OF THE BEST TIMES EVER IN 747!

x

And I must admit I do miss your cynicism and dry humour every once in awhile. I can’t believe I’m admitting this. But yeah. BY THE WAY I am still considering you as a future bank that I can loan money from interest free, if I ever end up poor and on the streets.

AND NEXT YEAR IN JAN OUR LEGEND SHALL CONTINUE. (Hopefully!)

This video is still my personification of you:

(WARNING:)

This video might be regarded as mildly satanic and gets a bit creepy towards the middle. PARENTAL ADVISORY IS TO ONLY WATCH THE FIRST 30 SECONDS DUE TO THE USE OF VULGAR LANGUAGE AFTER. Poor pooh.

But honestly its the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in ages. I remember watching it in my room in Berkeley and I LAUGHED SO HYSTERICALLY that Jackie could hear me through her earplugs.

(YJ and I have a favourite takeaway action: the part where pooh starts chanting “sa-tan sa-tan” and does this 360 degree turn while his head is still in place. CREEPILY HILARIOUS MUCH.)

x

I’m actually talking to you online NOW. This shall never end.

ILU JACKIE SHHHH DON’T TELL YOUKNOWWHO :)

28/03-29/03 (SING CITY 2 THE MUSICAL)

The Brothers Yap put up the sequel to the musical that was done 2 years ago at Penn – Sing, City 2! Thanks to the brother, we got VIP seats on the couch even though we were slightly late hoho. And then we had the most entertaining two hours of our holiday. SO FUN. Here are some photos. Sorry they are all yellow-ish.

Oh yes, I forgot to mention all the SINGAPOREANZ I met on the trip to Philly.

Jon, TAN SIYOU!!!!!!! GAHH!!! Zhiwei, Limmy, and Daph! And of course my brother as well :) SO happy seeing all of them there.

I think I appreciated the musical this time so much more because I actually fully understood all the inside jokes about being a freshie and trying new things, having late night snacks, inside jokes, loneliness disease, instant noodle metaphors, and so on :) Twas awesome.

OKAY PARENTS IM GETTING TO THE VIDEOS PLEASE WAIT.

xx

Excerpts of songs. I’m just going to post the lyrics of the portions that are in the video.

FRESH. The song that GOT STUCK IN OUR HEADS THE WHOLE PLANE RIDE BACK TO SF.

If you’re gonna be fresh
You can only get better
Cos we got the time to try
We’re not gonna be fresh forever
But just for now
Time is on our side

Lets make a toast to making the most (of our time)
Of a bad situation
Here’s to procrastination!
To weed! To grass! To sleeping in class!
To sweatpants with juicy written all over the ass!

THATS MY MACDONALDS. We related very strongly to this song about late night food snacking.

There’s a Macs at fortieth street
Where the trust fund kids and the homeless meet
Where every man wants to be
At the front of the queue
That’s my Macdonalds

Eating bad food to stay awake (its alright)
You can be my Macdonald’s break every night
There’s one place where the doors don’t close
And they don’t turn out the lights

Staying up on a sugar rush (is alright)
Never liked the food as much (as you)
You’re my happy meal at the end of the golden arches

RANDOM SCHOOL FACILITY. You can only hear lots of shouting and laughing for this video, sadly.

I never expected to be
Hit by the love of a lifetime (of a lifetime)
In a random school facility

We never imagined to meet
Someone especially special (oh so special)
For the very first time
In a random school facility

SEKALI I. But I already gave the link to the full song on Mr Brown’s blog, complete with lyrics.

Sekali you (maybe you)
Don’t want me (you dowan my love)
And maybe you (sekali you)
Jio another zar bo more pretty

Oh my heart picha (ping ping piang piang)
Into many small small pieces
I pray to Buddha Mohammed Ganesh and Jesus
That sekali you
Will be mine (zo wa eh sim kua)

No words can replace (no need for translation)
Regardless of race (language or religion)
As long as you understand the language of love
Is when I hold your hand
Then that’s good enough (good enough)
For me

Steady bom pi pi

xx

The next morning we met with everyone for brunch in Chinatown at a dimsum restaurant. AWESOME FOODZ CAN. After which we had to take a bus back to NYC and then to JFK to catch our flight back. Very interestingly, I sat with TEOH ZHIWEI for the two hour bus ride to NY cos he was also going back, and we had to most strange and hilarious conversation EVER. I don’t usually talk to Zhiwei for long periods of time one on one, but ohmygosh so funny can. We were totally reminiscing and talking about the good ol days, all the stupid things that had happened, stories, and I was also being HARASSED for a good one hour of the trip – he even CALLED UP CALEB to discuss his matchmaking plans for me mytian. But it was reallaye reallaye fun, catching up after that long. Zhiwei is so retarded.

The events of the day. The first photo was taken on the bus ride with Jon to Philly, where he drastically fell asleep halfway while mixing music on his laptop. HA.

The flight back was pretty disastrous cos we got delayed like one and a half hours due to bad weather and when we took off THE TURBULENCE WAS MAD I think we were caught in a thunderstorm or something. The plane was rocking violently like VIOLENTLY I thought I was going to die can. I was praying so hard but okay la I survived in the end by the grace of God. Hoho good to be alive.

xx

So ladies and gentlemen, that marks the end of my FUNTASTIK SPRING BREAK (and also the end of my word-picture vomit). I am really sad that it is over and I want it to last like 3 more weeks :( Or forever, if possible. But now its back to Ihouse and Berkeley – which is still home sweet home :)

And last but not least, a tribute to the two friends that flew all the way with me across the USA to spend a crammed four day holiday (but it was so good aye!) on the East side to accompany me cos I wanted to visit my brother.

LOVE YOU BOTH. xx

28/03

We took a bus to Philly at night, and while we were waiting for the bus in NYC who did I spot but our very own JON ONG. Of which he was HORRIFIED to see me because he was actually giving Caleb a SURPLIES by showing up for the musical. So a funny twist of fate and I ended up sitting next to Jon on the two hour bus ride. And because he wanted to be SO SEKRETIVE I couldn’t even tell my MOM that he was next to me when she called me on the bus. HELLO MOTHER NOT MY FAULT.

Checked into Club Quarters and three of us were AMAYZED at what a GREAT HOTEL IT WAS. How about our room was almost like a penthouse can. With DUVET BLANKETS, ROOF WINDOW and everything – too bad we couldn’t see the stars. We were even more pleased to find out that THERE WAS ORDER IN FOR EVERYTHING and it was SO cheap so we had a field day of a dinner. HOHOHO. INDULGENCE ONCE AGAIN.

The next morning we had to wake up early to take the half an hour walk to UPenn in time for the seminar part of Diaspura 2. WE WERE ALMOST LATE. But we made it in the end. LOOK! ITS MR BROWN! Ahahaha. Halfway through the seminar I got an URGENT TEXT/CALL from Shamil and Jarvis asking for the Enterprise car number and we were so freaked out we thought they got into an accident or something. But turns out that Jarvis locked the keys IN THE BOOT. HAHA. So they had to call for roadside assistance. SIGH.

Post-singapore lunch  was followed by short tour of campus (that I am all too familar with omged) and unhealthy B&Js which made us all go on a sugar highhhh. And we crashed in the afternoon. (okay I crashed. The two of them went a-walking AGAIN hahahaha but I couldn’t be bothered cos I’ve seen Philly too many times).

NEXT UP, THE MUSICAL! Hoho.

25/03-27/03

SECOND LEG OF SPRING BREAK! (aka the REAL holiday, according to Jackie and I)

The two boys dropped us off at LAX before cruising their way to VEGAS to lose all their money and get wasted and see the biggest tree in the world before heading back to Berkeley. Meanwhile, the three musketeers flew across the country to the EAST SIDE hohoho. We flew Virgin Airlines, which had purple lighting and awesome touchscreen functions for tv and mtv. We all ended up watching TOUGH LOVE, the trashiest show in the universe – but evidently entertaining for all of us. Ahurhur.

We arrived at JFK at like 6+am in the morning OMGED. The photo shows how we made it alive and well and happy :) And on the airtrain to the subway, we saw the sunrise. PURPLE SKY. OMGOSH the first time in my life I’ve seen a purple sunrise how amazing and unreal.

We were DYING cos it was so early in the morning but we could only check in at like 12+ so we had to wander the streets of New York.

While walking it occured to me that somehow Times Square and Broadway looked even MORE exciting and billboardified than it did two years ago. Hmm.

Half an hour into window shopping, Yong and I got conned into buying SQUIRMLE, THE MOST RETARDED TOY IN THE UNIVERSE. We got conned by the advertisement (insert little boy’s traumatized and transfixed face) and so excitedly bought it and when we opened it, IT WAS A SCAM. WE THOUGHT IT WAS MAGIK. But it was actually the biggest scam!!!! We couldn’t stop laughing and feeling cheated all at once. Stewpitness.

After which they decided to PART WAYS, so Jackie walked off all the way to goodnessknowswhere (she even saw the statue of liberty ohmy imagine how far she walked), and Yong went to find his Ktown and Walstreet and etc, while I just went walking on 5th Avenue.. and by the time I was done I was SO tired my contact lenses were dying so I just checked into the hotel myself before the rest of the two, and HAD AN AWESOMELY GOOD BATH AND AN AWESOMELY GOOD NAP :)

Okay so we all napped eventually. And awoke at about 6 for dinner, and then WICKED!!!!!! WHAT WE’VE BEEN WAITING FOR. And paid a freakish amount of money for its not funny. We had dinner at Applebees (:D) and Jackie and I were indulgently craving STEAK and so we gave in to our heart’s desire. STEAK IT WAS. AND IT WAS MIGHTY FINE.

Halfway through dinner we all concluded that somehow only THEN did it feel like we were really on a holiday. Damn good feeling la.

Photos of the WICKED theatre :) And the show was spectacular and definitely worth the money and at the sad songs I WANTED TO CRY. I want the soundtrack NOW.

After the musical we went a-walking. Times Square at night as usual :)

The night ended with a massive pillow fight and attempting to inflict hurt BUT FAILING VERY MISERABLY and also jinxing myself with thetimeofthemonth and getting scolded by Jackie cos the TV was too loud and she had fallen asleep. Ahahahahaha. KENA SCOLDED.

xx

Day 2 in NEW YORK CITAYE.

I finally went to places that I had not been before! CENTRAL PARK <3 Jackie went to meet her friends for lunch and abandoned us so we spent the afternoon at the park. It was an afternoon of live jazz, oreo ice cream, climbing up rocks, watching ice skating, listening to the man playing saxaphone under the bridge (OH WHAT ICING ON THE CAKE), watching millions of squirrels behave like spiderman and being very tempted to steal people’s dogs to make the day Perfect. Okay we didn’t steal any dog in the end how sad :(

Oh how I love Central Park.

Spring break in motion

HERE ARE VIDEOS FROM THE PAST SIX DAYS OF ROADTRIP. For your perusal and entertainment. I hope they entertain you as much as they have entertained me.

Walking down HOLLYWOOD, BABY!

Home videos: LOST IN UCSD.

La Jolla Beach: Seagulls take flight! It would’ve been a magnificent moment if Shamil was not whining about having them shit on us.

Uber cute kids at the aquarium.. okay yes stalker-paedo tendencies came out.

At the San Diego Zoo carpark. SHAMIL STRUGGLES TO PARK THE CAR.

And this has to be the highlight of everything. SHAMIL FALLING OFF THE SKATEBOARD OUTSIDE WALMART. AHAHAHAHA.

24/03

Of course, coming to San Diego we HAD to go see its WORLD FAMOUS ZOO. So we spent the WHOLE of Tuesday at the zoo omged I nearly died I was SO TIRED by the end of it. But Shamil and I concluded that the Singapore Zoo is comparable :) Maybe not in terms of diversity of wildlife (hurhur), but other than that, the Singapore Zoo is pretty awesome as well. HA we are such patriots.

We saw like 128102393 billion animals in one day. That is WAY too many.

Of course we mainly went for Jarvis so he could see an elephant. The boy has never seen an elephant IN HIS LIFE. GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME. Side note: I LOVE ELEPHANTS <33 They are such kind and honest looking creatures.

The animal that fascinated me the most that day was THE MONKEY. Or monkeys. It was so scary watching them cos they looked soooooo human like. Hoho and the last animal we saw were the BONOBOS, which apparently were monkeys which had sex all day long – but when we got there, we saw something even GROSSER. Omged I couldn’t even chew my gum. They were eating their own FAECES. OMGED. TOTALLAYE RIDONKULOUS ANIMALS CAN.

Ahahaha this is funny. Each of us and our national animal. The NZlander and his Kiwi, Jackie is psuedo-australian with her Koala bear, Shamil and I are trueblue lion city dwellers and believe it or not, England’s national animal is the lion too. WHUUUUUT.

We were EXHAUSTED by the end. Hoho.

xx

Dinner was a highlight – we had an ORIENTAL ALLYOUCANEAT BUFFET which had every single oriental AND non-oriental kind of food in the world. We all felt pretty sick after that. That was also the night that Shamil and I witnessed the backstroking driverseat woman and I laughed like I never laughed before SO NOT FUNNY but then again it was THE FUNNIEST THING IVE SEEN IN MA LIFE I cannot get over it AHAHHAAHAHA.

Later on that night I got persuaded into going to the ALLAMERIKAN BAR with Jarvis and Shamil. And it was truly ALL AMERIKAN. Like those bars that you see in movies hoho.

And this was the night that I got free chocolate and later on fell asleep in the bar..which led to Jackie calling me a loser. MY ROOMMATE HATES ME!!!!!! Ahahahahaha.

We came back to the room at about 2am and the two of them were already sleeping and to our horror there was a PYRAMID OF BEER CANS on the table mytian.

Ahahaha then we woke them up and thus started the EPIC night of madness. SO FUN. I didn’t want to let anyone sleep cos I kept saying its the last night we were all gona be together for Spring Break and so IT WILL BE THE END OF AN ERA if someone sleeps!! And so we stayed up talking nonsense and went one round playing FIRST IMPRESSIONS hahaha I cannot take this. Everyone thought Yong had a Korean pop star thing going on. SO funny. And we talked about how we were speculating what kinda person Jarvis would be like before he came. Scary britishman who eats cake on his bed. AHAHA.

The night went on and on until Jarvis fell asleep SPOILSPORT (END OF AN ERA CAN) and JACKIE very championly took up the other spot on his bed which left Yong and I WITH SHAMIL THE SNORER OMGED. I cannot believe we survived. (Actually the scarier thing was that when we woke up the next morning Jackie didn’t remember anything MYGOSH see la pyramid of beer somemore).

YOU SEE, every single night Shamil has to put on this NOSE THING for snoring and spray this ANTI-SNORE thing (DOUBLE PROTECTION HAHA) so that he doesnt KILL all of us with his snoring. Which has to be described as a FULL ON TRAIN COMING RIGHT AT YOU TO KILL YOU, HARDCORE. The snoring is too intense. And even when he does precautionary measures it doesn’t always work, so we always wake up in the middle of the night either 1. shouting SHAMIL!! WAKEUP or 2. tempted to throw something at him like the comfort bear or 3. swearing in our sleep. Okay not me, but the rest of them. Ahahahahaha.

That night HE SNORED LIKE NEVER BEFORE omatian. And it was worse because usually he sleeps on the other side of the room but now he was RIGHT next to us so it was SURROUND SOUND SPEAKERS IN YOUR EARS. And I know TWICE I woke up and whacked him and once Jarvis shouted at him like SHAMIL! WAKE UP AND SLEEP ON YOUR SIDE!!!!! AHAHAHAHA SO FUNNY.

The morning after. Please look at Jackie and Yong’s pride and joy of A BEER CAN PYRAMID. Aiyoma.

We checked out and went to WALMART (YAY!!!) and did some shopping. When I emerged, the boys had SKATEBOARDS in their hands and I was like omgosh you have to be kidding me. Cos they’ve been talking about getting a skateboard since like JANUARY and Jackie and I were always like, they’re never going to get it.. but now Walmart provided them the opportunity to fulfill their dreams at a rather low cost. Ahahaha so they were skating around the carpark and SHAMIL FELL OFF I HAVE A VIDEO HAHA.

That kinda marked the end of the first leg of the trip. Six days, with the five of us all together. After which Shamil and Jarvis dropped the three of us at LAX to catch our flight to NYC. Second leg coming up! Four days on the east side! WHEW. I cannot believe I am so efficient.

23/03 continued

Hoho so after the beach, we decided to go the BIRSCH AQUARIUM. Because we are civilized creatures. However to our dismay we discovered it was closed already so we went into the gift shop.. and somehow managed to wander into the entrance of the aquarium and so we got in free. HAHAHAHA. But we stayed for only about half an hour cos we got chased out just as I was about to do my anchorwoman debut on this newscaster game thing. SO SAD :(

There were a bunch of kids taking photos and they were shouting CHEESE in spanish so they were all like PESO!!!!! in their high pitched little voices. SO CUTE. I took a video. HAHA.

Okay after which we made our way to SEAPORT Village which was this very nice quaint little touristy village place by the sea. Just as we were about to enter, this man with the carriage approached us and asked us if we wanted to ride for a CHEAP price. And Jarvis was like, will you give it cheaper if I can guess where you’re from and HOHO he guessed DUBLIN in IRELAND and he got it right so we paid like only 30USD for the ride amongst the four of us.

I. WAS. ECSTATIC.

PLEASE LOOK AT THE CARRIAGE NOW.

OHMYTIAN!!!!! HOW ABOUT I ALWAYS WANTED TO RIDE IN ONE OF THOSE THINGS BUT ITS ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT IS TOO EXHORBITANT TO WASTE MONEY ON AND YOU FEEL SO STUPID AND CHILDISH WASTING MONEY BUT DEEP INSIDE YOU REALLY WANT TO RIDE IN IT AND FEEL LIKE A PRINCESS AND THIS ONE WASN’T JUST AN ORDINARY HORSE CARRIAGE, IT WAS A CINDERELLA PUMPKIN CARRIAGE!!!!! *hyperventilates and dies*

I was seriously. SO HAPPY. You cannot imagine. And in my head I was like gosh this is one of the things I want to do before I die and I’ve done it!! One off the bucket list!! Ahhh so awesome :) So happy srsly. And while we were riding around people and kids kept staring at us JEALOUSLY (MWAHAHA) and we felt like celebrities WAVING and stuff hahaha. One of the major highlights of the trip :D

After the lifechanging ride, we had fish&chips by the sea and waited for the sunset :)

I love sunsets at beaches. I’ve seen a few now, and they take my breath away every time.

xx

Jackie and I used the SAUNA in the hotel that night HAHA. While we were burning ourselves, we talked about everything in the world and finally jinxed certain events that ensued later on national level. Ahahahaha.

23/03

SAN DIEGO is an awesome place. UCSD was my second choice, and I think I would’ve been happy to go there. But of course, I am biased and I love Berkeley so much more – the UCSD campus is HUGE and so spread out so it felt more like a huge institution that a campus. But it is beautiful nonetheless. And we ALL GOT UCSD shirts like the posers we are. AHAHA.

They have a SPACESHIP LIBRARY. Which from behind looks like the set out of Star Wars or Starship Troopers or something. The campus ground is GINORMOUS! We had lunch at some food court place and it felt like a cinema shopping centre. Hoho.

After which we spent a really long time trying to find how to get to LA JOLLA BEACH. Hahaha Jarvis nearly went MAD cos it was so near yet so far and the map we had didn’t really have details. And this was where Shamil made his fatal “if this is east.. this is west” joke HAHAHAHA gosh that was hilarious. Oh and I found out that I’ve been singing QUE SERA SERA wrongly all my life. Aha.

BUT WE FINALLY GOT THERE. AND TWAS WORTH IT :)

THIS IS THE REAL CALIFORNIA THAT EVERYONE KNOWS THROUGH THE TEEVEE. With the sun, sand and beachhh. So beautiful, srsly.

And after emo-ing along the beach, what else is there to do but JUMPING PHOTOS. HOHOHOHO TARNIA YEO I THOUGHT OF YEW :)

Okay not very successful but still. We jumped our asses off and were so tired and Shamil was covered in sand omged ew hahahahhaa.

FOLLOWING WHICH, WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO DO AT A BEACH BUT TO BUILD A SANDCASTLE! Uh okay it wasnt a sandcastle but it was a pyramid castle.

Awww so sweet look at Shamil and Jarvis channelling some roommate cooperation in the engineering process. Ahahahaha. Our finished product is rather stellar.

And the following photos are of top quality because they are taken by the best photographer in the business and that would be me. I AM SKILLZzz.

As you can see, Jarvis suffered quite a bit of full-faced sand falls VOLUNTARILY just for a good photo. That, my friends, is commitment to quality. Ahahahaha. This was probably the funnest part of the beach trip haha taking photos of these two RETARDS doing goodness knows what and suggesting all sorts of stupid ways to get a good photo and they just did it without question. AHAHAHA. But I must say they turned out pretty darn good.

THE DAY WAS NOT OVER. WE DID MORE EXCITING THINGS. IT WAS A FUN FILLED PACKED DAY INDEED.

But more updates tonight. Because humans needs rest.

20/03-21/03

WE ARRIVE IN LA HOHO!!

It was really funny on the drive there when we were driving down the 101, immediately we had to play PHANTOM PLANETS AND SCREAM REALLY LOUDLY. WE’VE BEEN ON THE RUN DRIVING IN THE SUN.. LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER #1.. DRIVING DOWN THE 101.. CALIFORNIA HERE WE COMEEEE!! CALIFORNIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…

And of course we came all the way to do the TOURISTY STUFF WE ARE SUCH TOURISTS but we love being tourists. And so, where else but to HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD to see the Walk of Fame, Kodak Theatre, the Chinese Theatre..

WALK OF FAME BABY. Every star we walked past half the time we were like hmm uh dont know who this guy is. And every time we saw one we knew, we were like OH OH I KNOW!! TAKE PHOTO!! Okay yes such tourists whatever. JACKIE DOES NOT KNOW WHO IS CHARLIE CHAPLIN omged I made her take a photo with his star. And in the photo Jarvis and I are taking the star of KIEFER SUTHERLAND (ALL HAIL KIEFER SUTHERLAND) thats why we have a 24 sign but the star is cut off never mind it will be ON FACEBOOK. There are like a million star photos I took for no reason other than the fact that I AM A TOURIST.

Please check out the Jimi Hendrix dude. He is NOT A STATUE. He was a right on the streets singing and he looked EXACTLY like Jimi Hendrix wah so scary and cool. And PLS LOOK AT THE FREAKING SCARY CHUCKY DUDE. I nearly died when I turned the corner. And please spot Jesus. And The Joker who really looked like The Joker so scary so scary. And when he took photos with people he made this crazy Joker laugh SO SCARY faint. I wanted to take a photo with him but I had no money to give tips. Ahaha. But anyway the entire street was lined with people all dressed up, taking photos and earning their keeps through tips. Twas very entertaining. TWICE the same vampire dude came up to me and stabbed me with a sword.

CHINESE THEATRE!!! Hoho. Another ultimate touristy place and I took a million photos of peoples handprints and footprints and signatures. Significant ones include HARRISON FORD, TOM HANKS, BRUCE WILLIS and of course, the last photo we are taking is with ARNIE, our suedo-Californian governer for six months. HAHA.

After being tourists we went to have dinner at JOHNNY ROCKETS which is exactly the same as BILLY BOMBERS except for the name change. And we had the most unhealthy American meal in the WORLD with milkshakes to top it off which are little gumdrops of heaven. MILKSHAKES I want to have a milkshake now but it was SO unhealthy but soooo good. So much for losing weight aye. And the last photo is to illustrate how 1. we finished ALL the food (inclusive of fries and onion rings) and 2. Shamil’s ridiculous expressions when he tells stories.

That night we fell asleep watching SIGNS, the Mel Gibson movie.

xx

NEXT MORNING IN LA. MORE TOURISTY DEEDS! Okay Jarvis desperately wanted a photo with the Hollywood sign. So off we went.

I’m SUCH a good photographer geez.

So this was the closest we managed to get. Jarvis and Shamil tried the nooks and crannies and at one point Jarvis wanted to HIKE UP THE MOUNTAIN just to get a closer photo and we were like -.- omatian you have to be kidding me. But they failed anyway. HAHA. So yes. This was as close as we got to the sign.. and honestly it isn’t that nice and rather overrated. BUT it is one of those touristy things that you have to do. Just like going to see the Merlion in Singapore. Ahahaha. Aside from the Hollywood sign, the mountain top place we were at had SUCH a nice view from above to the valley below. Beeyutiful. The drive up was lined with extravagantlynice houses as well. Wretched rich people.

Hoho then it was off to RODEO DRIVE and BEVERLY HILLS – THATS WHERE I WANT TO BE YEAHHHH LIVING IN BEVERLY HILLLSSSSS.

Oh and we went shopping too at Westfield. Where I got conned into more Victoria Sekrets because of everyone’s very convincing theory about neverhavingenoughunderwear.

RODEO DRIVE.

Too bad we didn’t see any famous people. Darn. But we saw Heaps of sick cars which cost like 901019823123 million dollars. Every five mins the boys would be like omgosh look its a (insertnameofswankycar). That must’ve cost (insertexorbitantfigure) OHMYGOODNESS.

There we go. All our favourite brands that we so often frequent. This is where The Celebrities do their grocery shopping.

Ahaha at night the boys went crubbing. Jackie and I decided to have a quiet girls night with Popeyes chicken and a messy hotel room. Ahahahahaha and we didn’t go because of other reasons as well which shall not be mentioned hoho. But the boys spent SUCH A LONG TIME GETTING READY OMGED THEY ARE GIRLS – I have incriminating video proof. And Shamil and Jarvis have IDENTIKAL WARDROBES it is not funny.

They came back a few hours later desperate for food and sat on the bed eating remnants of our chicken dinner and dropped pieces all over the floor. We felt so sorry for the cleaner woman the next day.

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We left the next morning for San Diego! And stopped by Huntington Beach along the way. THE WEATHER WAS MAD THE WIND WAS SO STRONG MY HEAD WAS GOING TO BLOWN OFF ALONG WITH THE PALM TREES.

The boys had a very nice time doing boyband shots of themselves by the beach. Ahahaha. While Jackie and I ALMOST GOT BLOWN AWAY BY THE WIND. CRAZY.

My conclusion about LA is that it really is pretty overrated… except for the really lifestylesoftherichandfamous areas, everywhere else is pretty much not very impressive. As a global citizen (AHAHA) I can say that I have been there, done that. Aha! TAKE ME ON A TRIP I’D LIKE TO GO SOMEWHERE! TAKE ME TO NEW YORK I’D LIKE TO SEE LA!!! Okay I’ve seen it already. ON TO SAN DIEGO.

19/03- 20/03

The attempt to recount the chronicles. Begins.

We set off on Thurs night, fully maximizing Spring break hurhur (which technically started on Monday but whatever. MAXIMIZE!) Four of us went to collect the car, Jarvis nearly got a heart attack in cold sweat with Shamil driving us back for the first time. Had dinner, got our bags and were on our way. Raphael came to send us off from our room all the way till when we left in the car aww so sweeeet :) Hahaha.

Twas a four hour long drive to ATASCADERO. Random inbetween mid point where we booked to stay the night.. along the way we stopped by the DODGIEST MOST REMOTELY ULU-ATED PETROL STATION EVER. Pitch black dot com dot sg. And after trying to find the entrance to the petrol station, we realized it was CLOSED. Jackie and I were taking random photos on the road and suddenly we heard someone shouting something and we thought it was one of the boys – and later we realized it was the shop owner shouting if there were intruders or something. OMATIAN. HAHAHA.

The four hours drive consisted of headbanging music and being able to see the MOST BEAUTIFUL STARS IN THE WORLD. We were in the car driving past like pitch black areas and suddenly Yong was like omgosh stars stars and I was like where where and I strained to look out of the window and OMGOSH STARS STARS!! Like I’ve never seen before. So beautiful omatian. I wanted to just jump out of the car and lie down outside. Or alternatively we could have had a sunroof. Or a convertible. But you know.

Conclusion: stars are magical things.

We arrived safely YAY and spent the night. In the morning Shamil overheated his OATMEAL in the microwave oven which resulted in him having to scrape pieces of oatmeal out. HAHAHAHA omgosh so funny. And the boys spent the morning transfixed on Tom & Jerry -.- aiyoma. OH YES AND COMFORT BEAR CAME ALONG THE TRIP! OF COURSE :) :) :)

Another pit stop along the way that was not included in the original plan. SANTA BARBARA. The boys wanted to see where UCSB was – apparently its the no. 2 party school in Californiaaa. But nyeh, we all concluded that we love Cal better. Aha biased much.

SEKALI I

For those who cannot wait (AKA TOSHIYUKIMORI), this is a video of one of the songs in Sing, City 2! – video taken by Mr Brown.

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SONG HAHA IT TOTALLY REEKS OF MY OLDEST BROTHER I LOVE IT TO BITS. And on the plane ride we all couldn’t get it out of our heads. Hohohoho best song written ever, in my opinion. Please watch it, die laughing at all the jokes that only Singaporeans will get, and be proud to call yourself a Singaporean :)

Philadelphia 2009 Day 3: DiaS’pura 2, Sing, City! 2 musical, Sekali I

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I AM ALIVE

To all those people who are concerned that my blog is dead, ITS NOT DEAD LAH I WAS JUST AWAY ON SPRING BREAK WHY ARE PEOPLE SO IMPATIENT. SHEESH.

Anyway we just touched down in SF about two hours ago. Hoho surreal being back at ihouse, so surreal that spring break is OVER. Ultimate Sadness. Spring break should be a month long. I DONT WANT SCHOOL TO START ARGH RANT ARGH RANT.

In other news, Spring break was the bombs. LA, SD, NYC and Philly.

Too many photos and way too many stories, so everything shall come in small doses.

But for the moment,  JUST FOR MY BROTHERS + PARENTS: Sing, City 2 (aka the Brothers Yap Musical Production the Second), was Phenomenal. I enjoyed it even more than the first one two years ago because I COULD TOTALLY RELATE TO ALL THE JOKES ABOUT LIFE OVERSEAS and like being a freshie and trying new things and etc etc etc SO MANY THINGS – and the best part is I got to share it with Jackie and Yong who were there with me, and we could ALL relate to it in our Berkeley experience. It was pretty darn good.

And a shoutout to DAKORKOR. YOUR SONGS – esp Sekali – REEK of you. It was almost like watching you up there doing a monologue in song and dance. Ahahahaha. But I loved it. Hohoho. ALSO, I SAW WHAT YOU WROTE IN YOUR ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  about me being single and available thankyouverymuchlor ohmytianz.

After watching the musical, I was honestly glowing with pride. I was so proud of my brothers I think my head started to swell. And it also made me miss my whole family more. Cannot wait for the whole family to be reunited in a few months – the first time all six of us will be staying together permanently (moreorless) in SEVEN YEARS. Hoho I foresee fun times ahead. More late nights with AMY. Excite.

Philly was extra exciting cos I got to see people from home. My brother Yappy yap, of course, (CUT YOUR HAIR PLEASE CAN) and TANSIYOU, Daph, Jon Ong, Limmy, and Zhiwei. The funniest thing was that I took the bus to Philly sitting next to Jon, and the bus back to New York with Zhiwei. HAHAHA. Okay stories for another day.

I am scared of counting the number of photos I took for Spring break….. cos on day 5 I think I had 600 already. HOHO I have to do some serious selection! Jackie and I are eating instant noodles now after having a shower and I feel like a million bucks okay now it is time to go take our laundry…

Be patient, people.