Saturday, December 29, 2007
*continued from the previous post*
as i was saying, the horn thing was damn funny.
one person from each table was suppose to go blow the horn succesfully before their table would be served chocolate fondue.
haha, succesfully as in producing sound using the horn.
so yeah. my bro went to blow, and he managed to produce sound.
then my uncle went also, he was saying, "CANNOT LOSE TO A NINE YEAR OLD BOY"
damn funny, then he tried so many times, still no sound.
then he said, "i call my son come help, he very good one. my daughter also."
lol, then they all can blow, only he cannot blow. LOL lah.
i also managed to blow, but only after a few tries. lol.
DAY FIVEstopped by this very old castle in geneva.
built in the 13th century i think. cooooool.
then went to some xmas market.
not much things to buy there except food.
had lunch there, then walked around, then ate somemore, then walked around somemore, then ate somemore.
thats about it. oh, and the toilet there super smelly and dirty. :x
lol.
went to the see the olympic capital after that.
wanted to buy a watch, but it was too big. and the size couldnt be adjusted so didnt buy.
dinner after that, we had chinese food.
bleeeeeeh. go switzerland to eat chinese food, i find it kinda ridiculous lah.
s'pore hav so much chinese food to eat, go all the way to swiss still wanna eat chinese food.
should eat western. but then again, we ate western food everyday, got kinda sian.
went back to hotel. that hotel totally rocks!
the corridor looked very cruise-like. and the toilet was so cool.
its walls were made or tinted glass and inside the toilet theres this magnifying mirror thing. so coooooool.
BUT, just like most of the other hotels, the toilet door cannot lock one -.-
it was still quite early, so the adults went shopping.
then sean (some guy form the same tour)came over to our room to play cards.
played hearts, very fun + funny.
oh, then the adults came back. and my mum bought another watch.
and it was swatch. haha, so i can borrow from her. :D
DAY SIXsightseeing in geneva.
this time there was a city tour guide who came.
zzz. i was trying to listen to what she was saying but like omg, it was like trying to pay attention to a history lesson.
all the history stuff, blablabla.
so until now i still dont really understand anything.
anyway, it was a sunday.
and we went to church! haha.
the churches there are so pretty.
very old, with really nice decorations.
and although its damn big, the seating capacity seems very small. lol.
and the pipe organ is so so so nice. so cool lah also lah.
drove to france after that.
more sightseeing, and we went to another church.
lol i think all the churches there probably look the same.
dinner after that, it was so dumb okay.
there was a reservation for our tour group at 6.30.
it was about 6 when we went to the restaurant. then the person dont let us go in cos she said it wasnt 6.30 yet. -.-
saw we were left outside, and it was really cold at that time. the woman so evil lah.
so we went to walk around the area. someone from our tour went into this bookshop, then the whole tour followed also.
lol, duno why. probably cos too cold outside, and there was nothing to do, so everyone went in to get some heat. heh.
soon, it was almost 6.30, so we walked back to the restaurant.
reached there at 6.25. that person still dont let us in, make us wait outside for 5 more minutes before we could go in. wth lah -.-
DAY SEVENa really really interesting day.
had to tahan a 10 hour bus journey to loire valley.
TEN HOURS ON THE BUS!
i actually survived it. wooooh.
so what we did on the journey.
sleep sleep sleep. play cards. sleep somemore.
watch movie. :D
half of moulin rouge and the da vinci code.
only HALF on moulin rouge cos our dear tour leader realised that she left the part 2 cd at home. LOL.
oh and the journey included lunch break and toilet breaks.
and during one of the breaks we were eating ice-cream. :D
super hard, cold, un-meltable icecream. yum.
zz. i was having motion sickness on the bus lah. charis also.
then when we finally reached the hotel we both looked so sian sian one. haha.
felt better awhile later. (:
we had about 45 minutes before we went shopping, so charis and i came up with an amazing idea.
PRANK CALLING. xD
we called almost every single room in which our tour members stayed in.
lol. this was when i realised that there were so many variations of "hello"s.
it was so funny, i was trying so hard not to laugh.
went shopping, then dinner.
played cards at night with the usual people.
me, charis, leon, sean.
we were playing cards while watching Dodgeball.
LAUGH LAUGH LAUGH.
but i wasnt really laughing at the show, since i watched before.
i was laughing at sean's laughter. its ridiculously funny.
DAY EIGHTvisited two chateaus that day. chambord and chenonceau.
guided tour again, which also meant history lesson again. lol.
the tour guide was telling us about the kings with his queens and mistresses blablabla. all those stuff.
i prefered chenoceau to chambord, more interesting there.
kinda freaky though
so many people died there before. since it was also used as a hospital during world war 1.
and also, the chateau seems kinda unstable. i mean, its so old already.
we were in one of the rooms, then i started jumping.
er, not really jumping, but bouncing lah. whatever you call it.
then whenevr i bounced, could hear the windows shaking. and i wasnt even standing very near the window. LOL.
DAY NINEwent to paris!
quite different from what i imagined it to be.
in a bad way i guess.
its very dirty there, cigarettes and rubbish all over the floor.
okay i cant rmbr what we did for the whole day.
i only remembered shopping at night.
DAY TENwent to see the arc de triomphe.
then the eiffel tower.
went to see it from afar first, took pictures and all.
it looks so pretty!
then went up the eiffel tower, to the 2nd level.
really nice view from up there. :D
louvre museum after that.
saw sculptures, paintings,
and the MONA LISA!
there were so many people crowding around the it, it was damn hard to get up close to take a picture.
lol, and our tour guide was saying, half the people crowing around the mona lisa are pickpockets.
i bet they'll probably end up stealing from each other. haha.
went out of the museum after that to see the glass pyramid.
DAY ELEVENlast day. ):
day at leisure, so we asked around to see if theres any interesting places to go to.
in the end we went took the metro (train) to Chatalet.
shopped, then went for lunch.
zz. one bottle of water there costs 4.80 euros.
thats about S$10 for four cups of water.
super ex lah.
and we asked for water cos we thought it was free. zz.
wouldnt have asked for it if we known.
went walked around for awhile more, then went back to the hotel to get our luggages.
wanted to take group photo but there was no time, had to go to the airport alr.
so what charis and i did in the end was go around and take photo with everyone in the tour group.
but not enough time to take with everyone, so only managed to get a few.
how sad.
boarded the plane, watched movies again. :D
ratatouille, chuck & larry, failure to launch, 881, death at a funeral.
didnt really like 881, not my type of show.
i only watched it cos leon and charis kept saying that it was very nice. lol.
then reached singapore, but our flight was delayed by 15 minutes cos of heavy rain.
heh, luckily. the flight delay allowed me to have enough time to finish watching death at a funeral. yay :D
okay. thats all, end of story.
DESPAIR. 2:33 PM