COME BACK!
The snow is melting and this morning the temperature was 6 deg. Big jump from the usual negatives- zero. The area looked like the Great Flood and the ground was slushy. EWW.
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Friday, November 28, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
19 October 2008- A day to remember
Finally, we saw it snow. Had snowball fight in the morning with Swee Ting and naturally I won. AHAHA. As forfeit, Swee Ting had to stand still and let me throw snow balls at her for 10 secs...but I think I went over 10.
The ground is still very slippery and my horrible shoes made it worse. I was sliding all the way to and from the city centre and to school. Nearly had a heart attack. On the way to the city centre, I fell and I dropped my bread into the snow...WAH!!! Had to eat cold bread after that. But good thing is that the ground is frozen soild so no more stepping into mud on the way to school.
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The ground is still very slippery and my horrible shoes made it worse. I was sliding all the way to and from the city centre and to school. Nearly had a heart attack. On the way to the city centre, I fell and I dropped my bread into the snow...WAH!!! Had to eat cold bread after that. But good thing is that the ground is frozen soild so no more stepping into mud on the way to school.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Friday, November 14, 2008
14 Nov 08
Location: School
com labTime: 1200
FinlandWeather: 7°C
Thinking: YAYNESS! YAYNESS! and still YAYNESS!
GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS!
Wendy, Nurul, Bao and Eugene:
We managed to book the flights to go Nice.
Please say you are happy too =)
GO:
31 Dec: Tempre - Dublin
Wednesday 13.10 - 14.35 FR853
2 Jan Dubin - Nice
Friday 06.55 - 10.30 FR1988
BACK:
8 Jan Nice - Dublin
Thursday 11.30 - 13.10 FR1989
9 Jan Dublin - Tempre
Friday 07.30 - 12.45 FR852
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
com labTime: 1200
FinlandWeather: 7°C
Thinking: YAYNESS! YAYNESS! and still YAYNESS!
GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS!
Wendy, Nurul, Bao and Eugene:
We managed to book the flights to go Nice.
Please say you are happy too =)
GO:
31 Dec: Tempre - Dublin
Wednesday 13.10 - 14.35 FR853
2 Jan Dubin - Nice
Friday 06.55 - 10.30 FR1988
BACK:
8 Jan Nice - Dublin
Thursday 11.30 - 13.10 FR1989
9 Jan Dublin - Tempre
Friday 07.30 - 12.45 FR852
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
11 October 2008
Location: School, com lab
Time: 1200 Finland
Weather: 8°C, snow melted long ago
Thinking: Hope the reservation got through, I'm so going to NICE
Had the weirdest lesson ever. Visions started at 11.30. When the teacher entered the class, she said,"I have lecturing you about the same thing over again and that's not how I want to do it. I have 2 MARVELOUS articles here. I want you to read them and we will discuss them on Friday. You may read the articles anywhere you want (a.k.a. CLASS DISMISSED!)." So today's class lasted 15mins tops.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Time: 1200 Finland
Weather: 8°C, snow melted long ago
Thinking: Hope the reservation got through, I'm so going to NICE
Had the weirdest lesson ever. Visions started at 11.30. When the teacher entered the class, she said,"I have lecturing you about the same thing over again and that's not how I want to do it. I have 2 MARVELOUS articles here. I want you to read them and we will discuss them on Friday. You may read the articles anywhere you want (a.k.a. CLASS DISMISSED!)." So today's class lasted 15mins tops.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Friday, November 7, 2008
7 October 2008
Location: School, above cafeteria
Time: 1630 Finland
Weather: 2°C
Thinking: Mövenpick saved the day
All is lost.
And this helped a lot.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Time: 1630 Finland
Weather: 2°C
Thinking: Mövenpick saved the day
All is lost.
And this helped a lot.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Thursday, November 6, 2008
6 December 2008
Location: School, above cafeteria
Time: 1542 Finland
Weather: 2°C
Thinking: HOTMAIL IS SUCH A BITCH!!!!
IT SNOWED THIS MORNING AND THE TEMPERATURE WAS 1 DEG!!!!
Went swimming this morning, not in ice...the pool. It was an indoor pool so the area was heated. Swee Ting almost drowned again. She didn't know that the pool gets deeper as it went along. Before she reached the other end, she stopped swimming and tried to reach for the floor. realising the floor wasn't there, she panicked and nearly killed herself.
My eyes! My eyes! the toilet was crawling with fat old women with sagging ding-dongs. I'll never live to that age...what a torture to see yourself become a humongous prune.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Time: 1542 Finland
Weather: 2°C
Thinking: HOTMAIL IS SUCH A BITCH!!!!
IT SNOWED THIS MORNING AND THE TEMPERATURE WAS 1 DEG!!!!
Went swimming this morning, not in ice...the pool. It was an indoor pool so the area was heated. Swee Ting almost drowned again. She didn't know that the pool gets deeper as it went along. Before she reached the other end, she stopped swimming and tried to reach for the floor. realising the floor wasn't there, she panicked and nearly killed herself.
My eyes! My eyes! the toilet was crawling with fat old women with sagging ding-dongs. I'll never live to that age...what a torture to see yourself become a humongous prune.
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Monday, November 3, 2008
2nd Nov 08
Location: Hostel, Imatra
Time: 1700 Finland
Weather: 3°C
Thinking: When does Swee Ting not need to pee?
IT SNOWED YESTERDAY!!!! But I didn’t see it…ARGH!!! Nevermind, it was the small kind so by the time it touched the ground, it melted away.
29th Oct 08 : Went to the vocational school with Zhang Xiang to make paper. First attempt of our paper making turned out well, so we decided to go for more fun. Mixing different kinds of pulp. Ku Shi Ya succeeded in making wooden paper and whatever mixture she had managed to come out with. But poor Yap Swee Ting got nothing but a mere tissue paper. Torn.
We were so engrossed in our paper making before we realized that it was already 2 o’clock – we did not eat. Our stomachs complained loudly and so we decided to award ourselves with a good Lu-di. (Lunch cum dinner). Went to a Chinese restaurant.
On the first order, we ordered 3 dishes and a big bowl of rice. But because our stomachs are still not satisfied, we had a second serving of rice. No more ingredients but a lot of sauce, so another half bowl of rice. We ordered one more dish and another big bowl. Zhang Xiang and the ‘Lao Ban’ were so amazed that two skinny girls can consume so much. Even Zhang Xiang died halfway. As usual we ate from ‘got-people’ to ‘no people’ to ‘got people’ and to ‘no people’.
We counted - In total, 2 of us ate 5 rice bowls each. Minimum.
not this bowl...the smaller ones
The ‘Lao Ban’ very nice, gave us BIG discount. Total bill was supposed to be ~€45 but the bill came up to, €25.
But we are also very nice, because if it was a buffet, I think the shop can just close for the day.
Purely Ku Shi Ya:
30th Nov 08: Handmade pizza at host family. In the end, the pizzas had this dome shape because of the unbelievable amount of ingredients hidden under the tonnes of cheese. There were at least 3 kinds of cheese for each pizza- mozzarella, blue cheese, um…some other cheese. No pizza in the world could match to the pizza we made. The amount of cheese alone is ‘knock yourself out’. At least one bag of cheese for 1 pizza and there were 3.
I love my host mother. This was what she said, “it’s unhealthy but who cares.” Exact words. Her favorite phrase is “Where the hell…” because they just moved to their new house and she can never remember where she put her stuff.
1st Nov 08: Attended a Halloween party that was held in a cave. It was so cold that the smoke that came out from our mouths was like the “mushroom” formation when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. It is also the reason for the blurry pictures.
kind of ironic
There were 3 life rock bands. It was good that we are not yet deaf.
2nd Nov 08:
Made Shepherd’s pie for dinner.
Shi ya got 3 burns on one hand
Swee Ting got a forehead bruise:: What a nice day =)
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
Time: 1700 Finland
Weather: 3°C
Thinking: When does Swee Ting not need to pee?
IT SNOWED YESTERDAY!!!! But I didn’t see it…ARGH!!! Nevermind, it was the small kind so by the time it touched the ground, it melted away.
29th Oct 08 : Went to the vocational school with Zhang Xiang to make paper. First attempt of our paper making turned out well, so we decided to go for more fun. Mixing different kinds of pulp. Ku Shi Ya succeeded in making wooden paper and whatever mixture she had managed to come out with. But poor Yap Swee Ting got nothing but a mere tissue paper. Torn.
We were so engrossed in our paper making before we realized that it was already 2 o’clock – we did not eat. Our stomachs complained loudly and so we decided to award ourselves with a good Lu-di. (Lunch cum dinner). Went to a Chinese restaurant.
On the first order, we ordered 3 dishes and a big bowl of rice. But because our stomachs are still not satisfied, we had a second serving of rice. No more ingredients but a lot of sauce, so another half bowl of rice. We ordered one more dish and another big bowl. Zhang Xiang and the ‘Lao Ban’ were so amazed that two skinny girls can consume so much. Even Zhang Xiang died halfway. As usual we ate from ‘got-people’ to ‘no people’ to ‘got people’ and to ‘no people’.
We counted - In total, 2 of us ate 5 rice bowls each. Minimum.
not this bowl...the smaller onesThe ‘Lao Ban’ very nice, gave us BIG discount. Total bill was supposed to be ~€45 but the bill came up to, €25.
But we are also very nice, because if it was a buffet, I think the shop can just close for the day.
Purely Ku Shi Ya:
30th Nov 08: Handmade pizza at host family. In the end, the pizzas had this dome shape because of the unbelievable amount of ingredients hidden under the tonnes of cheese. There were at least 3 kinds of cheese for each pizza- mozzarella, blue cheese, um…some other cheese. No pizza in the world could match to the pizza we made. The amount of cheese alone is ‘knock yourself out’. At least one bag of cheese for 1 pizza and there were 3.
I love my host mother. This was what she said, “it’s unhealthy but who cares.” Exact words. Her favorite phrase is “Where the hell…” because they just moved to their new house and she can never remember where she put her stuff.
1st Nov 08: Attended a Halloween party that was held in a cave. It was so cold that the smoke that came out from our mouths was like the “mushroom” formation when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. It is also the reason for the blurry pictures.
kind of ironic
There were 3 life rock bands. It was good that we are not yet deaf.
2nd Nov 08:
Made Shepherd’s pie for dinner.
Shi ya got 3 burns on one hand
Swee Ting got a forehead bruise:: What a nice day =)
We promise to abide by Espall's #1 rule
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