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Friday, September 28, 2007

My birthday!

happy birthday to me
happy birthday to me
happy birrtthddaay too mee
happy birthday to me!

In Korean!
saeng gil chuk na haenida
saeng gil chuk na haenida
saeng gil chuk na haenida
saeng gil chuk na haenida

As you may have guessed. Today is my birthday!!Pity its so close to exams. haha, I'm gonna have a birthday dinner later at 8p.m.

so today we were watching the 5.30 show on channel 8 and the character I really dislike caused his own baby's death so i was like "I hope he commits suicide cuz of his guilt" and I immediately thought omgosh, how morbid!

So that's it for today, wish me luck for my exams!

Labels: me, things that bug me

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

sorry I haven't updated for so long. I've been studying alot lately and I'm sick with red eyes. I look like Kirihara Akaya from Prince of Tennis in his freaky mode. I'm taking a break to put a short post. My whole family is down with red eyes and we can't go anywhere. My dad wallet is suffering. so far my(just me) medical bill are already close to $200 and I still have a follow up. Thats coz I go to Mt E hospital.

The Japanese restaurant oppposite my house called "Megumi Japanese restaurant" is really good. The deep fried vanilla ice-cream is no. 1. Its not oily at all, kinda like tempura. I heard that the New Zealand shop near there is good too. The ice-cream has been sold out. Its sounds good. Vanilla ice-cream with crunchy toffee bits. My Aunt who moved to New Zealand also said that its good.

Got to go. Bye!

Labels: food, me

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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Cambodia

Hi!! Just got back from my Cambodia trip last night. The trip was really wonderful, we went to 2 high schools in 2 days and 1 orphanage.My first impression was of the large gap between the really rich and the poor.

The main mode of transportation seems to be the motorcycle and I didn't really see a public transport system. They use motorcycles for everything, high schools students use them to get to and fro from school, people use them to transport whole families and even pull a cart.

We spent our time on the bus telling riddles like " around the world in 80 days, I'm going to..." "I can bring..... to the tea party" and telling alot of corn jokes. In fact, they were so corny the word 'corn' was banned and the teachers threatened to CORNfiscate our money if we used the word 'corn'.

We visited Central market and Russian market as a tourist attraction, it was stuffy and lots of shops sold Buddhist things but you can find some good buys. I bought all my souvenirs there. I learnt that I can't shop alone, I SUCK at bargaining, and I almost gave the beggars money. The beggars there are really pitiful, there are children with bloated stomachs from malnutrition, people without limbs/hands because of the Cambodian civil war and mothers with babies.

We went to the royal palace and everything was so Buddhist influenced (actually, everything in Cambodia is Buddhist influenced). People went there to pray. Part of the palace is open because the king needs to make money as he is just a figure head.

We also went to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. It was fascinating but what I learnt about the Khmer Rouge Regime MADE ME SICK, THOSE PEOPLE ARE SICKOS!!! They killed about a fourth Cambodias population, murdering educated people in a bid to 'cleanse' the country of Western influences and murdered lots of innocent people, including children. They had child concentration camps and camps to train child soldiers. They killed babies by either throwing them in the air and bayoneting them or bashing their heads against the trees. I bought a book tittled "First they killed my father; a daughter of Cambodia remembers" which detailed everything.

Now that you know a bit about Cambodia's history, let me tell you about the people. Inspite of everything, they are very optimistic and friendly. The children are eager to learn and improve ourselves. Even though they were much older than us, they are 16-19, they are very polite and grateful for our help. We taught them spelling and touch typing. However, the people at the orphanage were cheeky,(at least my group was). When they found out my age, they kept teasing me by calling me "younger teacher" and going " you stay(Eusta).... in Cambodia". However, they can't really spell, e.g. they spelt xylophone as 'sighlerfone' so when they were teasing me I went "yeah I'm younger, but I still spell better than you" or something like that. I finally found the use of a loud voice, in an enclosed area where everyone is noisy, its useful to have a loud voice. We were working in an old chapel and we had to close the doors because it was raining heavily. The orphanage used to be really grand but now it looks rundown.

The trip seems to have gone by really quickly, we were all going "the trips over so soon, Cambodia's really close to my heart now." Mrs Tan prayed for the people of Cambodia that they can move forward as they are trying to get rid of corruption and move forward. Our tour guide mentioned that the people of Cambodia WANTS to move forward but CAN'T move forward. So we have to help them either by giving them physical(tangible) help or by praying for them.

Labels: Cambodia, christianity, me

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