The Carousels

Saturday, June 30, 2007

Why do people have depression???? And why it will lead to suicidal thoughts? Dammit.

Now it makes me even more worried about ah ma. No one know what she wants and she herself don't even know what she wants. And without knowing the cause, how do you treat?

One should really keep in mind that if one day they know that they are in depression, one has to seek help. Or at least tell someone.

crOwn_clOvera 6/30/2007 02:10:00 PM

I'm gone for so long. Been busy and lazy. Ah ma's issue is really a headache. Old people really cannot get depression sia. I hope my mama will not turn out the same way. I hope I wouldn't too.

I want to go Tokyo too. But I doubt I can. I have so many places I want to go to.
We really love travelling. I love that we love travelling. Hehe.

crOwn_clOvera 6/30/2007 12:46:00 PM

Friday, June 22, 2007

Havn't been resting at hm for 2 days. Ah ma's hospitalised and Sis and I had to stay there overnight. Tired.

crOwn_clOvera 6/22/2007 08:44:00 AM

Sunday, June 10, 2007

Day 3:

This day we went out of Hokkaido central and headed east because our tour is mainly of East Hokkaido. Headed to Otaru and started the day with visit to Ishiya Chocolate Factory, which was started by some Japanese who managed to combine white chocolate with biscuits. Somehow this biscuit became one of the things you have to buy when you are in Hokkaido.
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It kindda looks like a Willy Wonka factory, just not as pretty. Hehehe. They had their workers in the same clothes, which made them look even more like fake ones. Then there were delicious cakes again. Not really fantabulous, just about the same standard as bakerzin. But the boss of Ishiya is really clever, the tour guide said he turned his dad's confectionary shop into what it is now. WoAH.

Pretty flowers again. They have pretty flowers everywhere, why not Singapore! Because of our temperature?

Then we went to some river. It's kindda unique because of the stark difference in the buildings on both sides. One is age old building, the other side are modern ones.
It's quite nice 'cause there are painters selling their pieces along the river, someone playing the violin, then other selling small little stuff. Quite cool and it's impossible to find this in Singapore.

Then we went to Otaru Music Box Musuem. OMG, you know they have so pretty carousels!!!!! My favourite one is the left bottom one. But it cost 37,600Yen. That is around 500sing. Puurfect. In the future, I will buy it.

There were other things along the street of Otaru Music Box Musuem. Otaru is famous of it glass work, but not interested and it's so difficult to bring the stuff back, so we just shopped around other shops and mummy bought even more food stuff.

Next it was dinner already. Had quite a few meals of steamboat in Hokkaido. Perhaps they like it, but it's not really that delicious to me after eating it for a few days. But we still had delicious stuff like hotate and crab. Heheh.

This are some random pics I took. I really love the views while coaching. I snapped ALOT while coaching. Heheh.

Then we went to Sounkyo Grand Hotel for our night. And there's onsen! Hot spring. Me and mummy went onsen after dinner. The whole thing was quite funny, cause we had to sit on a stool to bath before going in and sorts. Then the room is in tatami style. I love the pillow. But papa didn't had a good rest 'cause he don't like the pillow. I wanna find that pillow. They say it can be found in Taka. Heheh

Day 5:
Went to some waterfalls nearby. The tour guide told us that if we climb up some stairs we would see two waterfalls nearer as compared to seeing them on ground level. So I believed her and climbed like shit up the steps. Goodness me, in the end it "appears" nearer because we are further away from the two waterfalls as compared to ground level! Darn I felt cheated, what's the big deal and she made it sound as if it's a miracle. CHee. Nvm in anyway it's pretty.

Then we went to their Fox farm, and it's really a farm. 'Cause the fox are just a few and that's it. Nothing else. I thought there will be cages or really tourist like places. Nope there isn't, we just stood their fed the foxes, took some pictures and left. Ha.

Then we went to the Pink Moss Garden. Again, I don't understand why they name their places like this. Hahaha in anyway it's at least 10 times the size of normal gardens. The pink moss were really pretty. The whole slope was filled with pink moss and they were selling pink moss ice cream too. Hahaha.

Then they have those little cars where you can drive in, ahh I forgot the name for these kind of ride. In anyway we were so excited after one ride that we went again! So the first time Sis and Bro drove, the next round me and Jeannee drove. Hahaha it felt damn good. We were screaming and shouting and had hell lots of fun there. It's kindda like a going back to childhood experience kind of thing. I mean it's really nice. Really.

Ahh ya La! It's called go-cart right?Hehe

Then it was actually that's it for the day. But the tour guide brought us to two other places which were along the way back to hotel. How nice of her.

It's some stopping place along the mountain roads and the scenery were really pretty. Gorgeous I mean. As someone said, the view looked as if they were off the postcards! Hehehe.

Another place that she brgt us to was the active mountain. Don't remember the name but she wanted to show us the sulphur there. There we were and Daddy went right to the mountain to take videos. They steamed eggs using the steam from the mountain too. I guess they like to do this, the people at New Zealand did this too. No need to pay for gas hor?

Some of the food stuff we bought. I wanted to try their tea. As much as I can, but there wasn't alot of chances. Ocha!

Alrighty, I've spent an hour plus already. Tired. And we have to go neighbor's hse for dinner. HOW NICE.

Been thinking bout what can I do to my face. When we went for the famine camp dry run yesterday, Siew Hui was telling me my face looked worse. The usual me will be taken aback and felt hurt or what shit, but then, I wasn't yesterday. Perhaps I know it DOES look like shit now. I have no idea why my face is like this now. So many pimples. I hate them. The worse thing is I can solve it. I had to apply so much concealer to make it less obvious. Perhaps the concealer might be making things worse. But Sis said is because of my itchy hands. (I will squeeze my pimple) Hehe. Alright shall not do that anymore. Darn.

And been thinking bout what Ying said also. Yeah became more diplomatic. Not really what I had wanted. Like who wants right. You know you can give reasons like that's life and that's how things works. But at the same thing you know that it isn't really how things work and it isn't really what you had wanted. Remember how much I detested these people in the past and I am part of them now. Then to make myself feel better sometimes I give myself reasons like I'm not really like them, I'm still different from them. Self defence mechanism working. Ahh my mind is always in a fight. One mind but still fighting.

In anyway, I havn't been shopping! Can you believe. Hahahaha. Good me. But well the reason is because I'm totally broke. I can't really work so I have income only from mama. And that income is so unpredictable and hard to get. She NAGS you know. Argh.
But actually I can work, seeing how the others give tuition and earn bucks from there makes me wonder if I can do it as well. Eventually I will just conclude that I can't 'cause I don't want to fail again. If the student doesn't perform I will blame myself. Nah. Summer term gonna start again so let me rest for another week.

Perhaps I should get books to pass time. Need some anger management book. To be specific, I need handle-mama books. I somehow derive satisfaction by irritating my mummy. HAHAHAHA. Sadistic lah. I know there is always a better way of expressing myself but towards her, I can't. I will always spite her and rebuke her. Perhaps her reaction makes me happy. HAHAHA.

crOwn_clOvera 6/10/2007 03:38:00 PM

Friday, June 08, 2007

Alrighty! Got all the pics of Hokkaido from Gor. But the thing is I wonder how long will I take to blog all of them. We took 2000plus pics. Hahah I thought there were like 3k. And there's videos too. Gosh I have to put them together. Why did I even mention this to them that i can't take back my words now. Darn stupid. hehe.

Okie let's do one by one, let's see how long will I take.

Day 1:
We made our way to airport at around 6am thanks to my KIASU bro. Hehe. Then we flew for 7 hours to Tokyo Narita Airport. I think there isn't direct flight from Sing to Hokkaido, so we had to do a transit. Then finally we took another 1.5 hours to reach Hokkaido and that was around 6pm already.

I realise those with mei mei tou will touch their fringe like this very often.

My my my, I cannot recall why were we sooo happy at that moment. We were only at the airport! haha

Ahh then why am I the only one excited now?

Hokkaido welcomes you!

Then we went to a hotel nearby, Hotel Nikko Chitose for dinner and stay. Now here's the fun part. Have always heard that Japanese have really fun toilets. There are really omoshiroi!!

Press on one of the buttons, then it will spurt water on your asshole to clean it for you. Daddy says it's really clean. Hahaha. I've tried but i don't think it's that clean. Hahahaha.

Then me and sis saw the yukata (I think this's the name, can't really catch what the tour guide said) and we wore it to parade! hahaa

Then that was Day 1. Fun eh. Hahaha.

Day 2:
Woke up really early (to me) and these were the pics I took of the roads. Really clean, the whole place was really peaceful. Nice nice place.

One of the pics I took on coach. And throughout the trip, I realised their houses are generally very squar-ish. Not like those we have in Singapore, glass windows, shiny layout, etc. Conventional I guess.

Then we headed to the Bear Ranch.

The bears were really cute! 'Cause we bought food for the bears ( from the owners of course), and the bears could recognise we were holding delicious stuff, so they did all sorts of stunts to gain our attention. Hahaha. Some clapped, some said Hi to us and waved, one of it told us gong-xi-fa-cai, and one rock-a-by-baby. hahaha.

The was the scenery outside the Bear Ranch. And yes, Mummy started buying already. So 'Proud' of her.

Oh and this, initially I thought it's cherry blossom. In the end i realise it isn't. So other flower and I only know the chinese name 'cause the tour guide only told us in Chinese - Tao2 Hua1.

Then we went to Ainu musuem, apparently Ainu are those olden days tribal people of Hokkaido. Most of the names of the places in Hokkaido is in Ainu language. Of course again, the scenery was perfect.

Then we managed to do a little shopping around Sapporo central area. Sis gor and jeannee went Burberry Blue label and this is only available in Japan. Then we went to a shop that sells chocolate and we bought hell lots of chocolate and food stuff there. Mainly gifts cause they are packaged so prettily.

And the Sapporo TV Tower is nearby, the tallest building in town.

And to make pictures prettier, they grew pretty flowers nearby.

Then we went for dinner at some teppanyaki place. We had a choice of purchasing extra food (abalone and Kobe beef) and of course all of us did. The buffet dinner was okie, but the abalone and Kobe beef was fantabulous. AHHHH KOBE BEEF. It's damn good. Damn damn damn good!!!! I'm hungry now.

So that was it for Day 2. And I think that's it for now. I'm tired tomorrow's gonna be a long day cause there's the famine camp dry run. Yawns. I'm sian of it already. Hahaha I'm mean. Shall upload more pics again.

crOwn_clOvera 6/08/2007 11:12:00 PM

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Hey yeah! I'm back from Hokkaido. You can't imagine how much my family love Japan. Hahaha we made a pact to go back Japan next year even before we are back.
The country is so pretty, so clean, so cultured. Everything is wonderful to me, at least most of them.

The pictures are still with Gor, I hope they are ready already. 'Cause gor had one and I had one camera, so we took so many pictures. I think it should be around 3000 pics ba. Hahaha.

I think I have to do out a combination of videos and pictures for papa to make them happier. Haha 'cause the Aust trip, which was a year ago, the videos are only out few weeks ago. I'm so lazy and draggy.

And results for summer term is out. Happy la. It doesn't really affect me much now 'cause it's impossible to climb up another cum laude. So forget it.

And I was chatting with William just now and we had this BIG realization. We two had "half-fucked" relationships before. Hahahaha I found this word so funny, yet so descriptive. Hahahahahaha.

I will wait for the pictures to be ready, then I will upload them soon.
And yes, mama bought hell lotsa things. All of us bgt just minimal, mummy was soooo happy due to the amount of stuff she brought back. Our luggages were, expectedly, over the limit. Way over. It was insane. The customs didn't fine us luckily. SHall describe more later la.

I'm a little sian of the famine camp. Hahaha lazy again I guess. I just want to slack and rot till another summer term starts in less than 2 weeks.

crOwn_clOvera 6/07/2007 11:20:00 PM