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January 1st, 2010

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October 22nd, 2009

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October 18th, 2009

12:40 pm - Alex and Tiffany's Europe Trip - Part I (tres long post ahead!) Reading Ellyne's travel blog about our summer in the States inspired this long overdue post about Alex and my life in Europe and London and I shall try to blog in as much detail as possible! :D So anyhow we kickstarted our honeymoon on the majorly disappointing SQ A380 flight to London Heathrow - okay fair enough, the food, inflight entertainment and service was awesome, but the seats SUCKED. By the end of the 12-hour long haul our bodies were aching everywhere and we swore never to take A380 again :( We pillow-talked the night away at Heathrow Lodge and eventually fell asleep at dawn, holding hands :) barely slept for an hour before we had to get up to catch the plane to pwetty pwetty Venice. Gorgeous sights of the Venetian city under the azure blue sky, taken on the water bus from Marco Polo airport to Rialto / our first photo taken in this trip, on the Rialto bridge :) Piazza San Marco and Basilica di San Marco, my favorite place in Venice. Piazza San Marco holds much significance, because we both fell in love with this poster in Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and during the post-Berkeley emo days I just had to purchase one online and put it up on my wall so it would remind me of him. Now that we were physically here it felt even more speshul. ;) We conquered Venice in just one day, and had tons of fun doing it because there was always a surprise at the end of every corner, every street. Andddd we had only been away from SG for two days and we were already craving for Chinese food, and we could not resist the idea of having dinner at this Chinese restaurant near our hotel. ;) Here in Italy's Chinese restaurants, they use spaghetti instead of yellow noodles for fried noodles, but it turned out pretty darn well anyhoo. And when you order anything with crab, they give you crabsticks. What a rip-off! Anyhow, the food was good, albeit rather oily, and the bill came to 30euros, oh well! Me + Alex Yummy / our pretty pretty Venetian hotel room, spot me! :) The next day the hotel offered us a complimentary speedboat ride around the waters of Venice - ten thousand times better than the exorbitantly priced Gondola ride! :D hello driver / private boat, please Eventually the boat dropped us at Murano, the Glass Island where the glass-blowing factory was. Very tourist trap-ish, but the glass-blowing process was pretty cool anyway. At this point we got terribly bored of Venice already, so we decided to spend the rest of the day shopping for souvenirs instead, and we were craving for Chinese food -again-.. We realized that (1) Mandarin was more useful than Italian as a means of communication in Italy, and (2) coke was an absolute necessity in Italy's weather; coke to me was cigarettes to smokers. :D We also spent more time 'nua'-ing in our comfy hotel room because it was unbearably hot outside :) The next day we flew to Rome! Rome is old, smelly, dirty and full of swindlers. ANYWAY. The Leonardo Express took us to the city of Rome, and we had to stamp the ticket before boarding the train - so old-school! :P by the time we finally found our hotel we were so exhausted we decided to nua in our hotel room for the rest of the day instead of going out and about :X and this was when we became official :D :D <3 <3 The next morning we went to the cafe near our hotel for breakfast - notice we were always eating either Chinese or American food, although cappuccino is a must-have for breakfast in Italy! :D American breakfast reminds me fondly of brunch at Crossroads back in Berkeley! Then it was off to Vatican City! IMO the best part about Rome. Inside the Vatican City: Next up, the Colosseum! Okay that's basically it for Rome, save for the unfortunate incident on the train where I got robbed in broad daylight. We were tres happy to get out of Rome and it was time to hit Zurich! Will update in the next post mannnn what a feat I've actually blogged this much :) :) Tags: london, rome, venice

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July 31st, 2009

10:26 pm - my words will be your light to carry you to me Hello everyone! I've finally settled down to blog (a little) and since I'm leaving for Paris in 8 hours' time I'm going to blog stuff worth blogging and here goes Loving Zurich and the BBBBBBF (inside joke, although he'd really prefer me to use just one 'B' haha) We love Zurich for almost everything - the weather, the service, the clean city, the tasty tasteless tap water (really!), the CHIPS!! First week of school is finally over and I ponned today's lecture just so we could sleep in, and I was late for my presentation during tutorial so I sound pretty much screwed already but heck cos everything is S/U and it's summer school! Okay promise to blog more when I return from Paris. Can't wait to shop!!! :D :D tata xoxo!! Current Mood: loved Current Music: winter song

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July 2nd, 2009

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May 25th, 2009

12:56 am - happy -official- one year to the berkelique! Omg reminiscing with Ellyne about the US trip and hearing updates from Jingxiu who's at UC Berkeley for summer school this year AND for the fact that one year ago today was the day when we flew off to San Francisco, have totally got me missing those good old days with a vengeance (not that I don't, every other single day). And one year ago tomorrow would be the day when you first took my breath away : ) Remember my brunch buddy ;) Remember buffet-style meals @ the crossroads, highlighting the bbq chicken pizza, and daily must-have strawberries and waffles Remember the walk to class under the splendid 16 degree C weather and the gorgeous campus scenery Remember Alex and my failed campus jog turned campus tour :D Remember the Taboo / Cranium / Dirty minds nights and the amazing chemistry we share Remember the movie marathons and countless sleepovers thereafter at the guys' room, what with four people squeezing into one bed Remember the sleepover during the heatwave when I went, "Kyle, no airrrr" which wasn't funny but was made funny by Ellyne anyway Remember the Sather Tower fantasy :D Remember Goddess Ma'at and her 'mMMmm not bad arh!' face that only the 4 of us LOL-ed at, these shady Asian chicks! Remember Ellyne doodling on my notes! Remember the legendary Jiang Sian Sheng -laughs through nose-, -drops pen, falls off chair-, 'when is the research paper due?' Remember the countless embarrassing fiascos due to my stupidity at covering things up -___- Remember Alex and my conversion to Golden Bears cafe and the to-die-for buffalo wings and overordering just to finish spending our credit Remember 'zero displacement', thanks to Kyle :D Remember the 3-storey high Forever21 outlet at Union street where I bought clothes like crazy, seriously like crazy everytime I stepped in there Remember factory outlets and moar crazy shopping (LA's was my biggest conquest, thanks) Remember Kyle jumping off the bed to switch on every single light in the hotel room thinking it was 11am check-out time when it was actually only ten, and falling asleep the very next second (schizo??) so Alex had to get out of bed to switch off all the lights ROFL Remember KATE -pause- SPADE; Kate -pause- Hudson; Kate -pause- Moss, etc Remember 'Alcohol and underaged girls' in Vegas Remember Kyle suggesting waking up at 8.30am the next day and Alex promptly going, "8.30, fuck you. 8.30, screw you" Remember the car ride to Yosemite : ) Remember Newport Beach and the beautiful ocean and having amazing seafood at the highly acclaimed Crab Cooker Remember Ellyne and I singing out loud to the 'Grease' soundtrack in the car in LA Remember Cheesecake Factory, the monstrous-sized cheesecakes and utterly deelish Hibachi steak Remember conquering the Misty Trail with Alex and feeding squirrels cashew nuts Remember Alex and I lying on the soft clean grass under the Statue of Liberty in the perfect weather and enjoying the scenery with Death cab on the ipod Remember 'Spare change for food', and 'Need $$ for alcohol research' on panhandlers' placards Remember Ellyne and I feeling emo nemo towards the last few days in NY because this 7-week utopian world was going to end so soon :,( Remember waking up in own bed in Singapore and expecting to see a certain familiar face beside me because I was oh just so used to it already Remember how we were all merely acquaintances at the beginning of the trip, and how we 'paired up'' in the end ;) You guys have brought fun, crazy and scandal to a whole new level :D :D Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: american boy : ) Tags: berkeley, los angeles, new york, san francisco, vegas

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March 5th, 2009

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