Friday, June 08, 2007
All right. Here's a detailed post of the trip.
Day 1 - 5
Firstly, I rushing like mad to pack all the last minute stuff in cos there was an apparent miscommunication and I had to rush to meet my class. The cab fare to the airport was insane! It was like, just below $20. I met Anne, Gerald and Ah Pie at the airport. When I reached, they had a mini performance for me and bought me some chocolate and wrote notes wishing me luck on the back! So nice right?! Thanks guys! Even to those who didn't go, thanks for your well wishes! Yup so I had dinner with them and Anne kept saying how she wanted to go overseas. Lol.
It was SOH hilarious when they kept making puns on Ms Soh's surname right in front of her. Ms Soh just gave the -_-" face when she heard it. Lol it went on for about 15 mins I think. Haha well after checking in we hung around for a while, making more puns, before Bro Paul gave us a small talk, telling us to take care of ourselves and to listen to our conductor.
After a few illegal swappings, I got the aisle seat and sat next to Joshua. I expected the in-flight entertainment to be quite lousy, after flying SQ 2 years ago. However, I was quite wrong when I found out that the movies could be played DVD style and not like watching TV where you could only watch it when it was showing. However, we were instructed not to do anything but sleep cos we needed the energy for the night practice when we arrived. After eating, I wanted to go to the toilet before sleeping, but Mrs Janice Loke walked past to use the washroom and told us to go and sleep. So I was like, "Ok I'll wait till she comes back before going to use the washroom", so I listened to some music. Then, after using the washroom, she walked past and gave me a horrendously dirty look. I was like, what the hell lah..
Anyway, I slept throughout with my mouth open. It's damn gross lah. It ALWAYS happens if I sleep while sitting down. Disgusting. Ah well, at least it was a good sleep.
We did lots of sight seeing in Bratislava although we had practice. I got to room with Nick Tan and Ernest for the first 5 days. Found out some interesting stuff through them. Anyway, I camwhored a lot and took some pics with the videocam. Hopefully I will be able to transfer them soon. It was FREEZING cold on the first day. We weren't prepared at all and my hands became numb after about 15 mins. I went out with Rebecca, Amadea, Jaslin (sorry I don't know how to spell your name) and Lauren for lunch. We ate at this pizza place and the lasagna was really a disappointment. It was dry and kind of tasteless. I actually spent 5 Euro on that. That's 10 Sing Dollars btw.
I can't really give exact details on what happened, so I"ll just elaborate on the highlights.
The ice creams! Haha yea it's a group name that we concocted for most of the J1s. A big group of us went for ice cream on one of the days after the competition and we had a ton of fun. We just made a lot of noise at this ice cream shop, cam whoring and yakking away. We DEFINITELY made the shop people pissed off at us. One of the funniest parts was when Amadea shouted,
"We're from M*******!"
Lol then after we walked out of the shop someone said that there will be a sign
NO M*********
soon after. Haha...
I still remember us singing in public spontaneously. Like, whenever we're waiting for something, some of us would start singing and the rest would do their own parts. We sang at a restaurant after eating there.
Oh and who can forge t the whole Sharifa - Peter thing? Hahaha... We had a guide named Peter who was rather good looking while in Bratislava, and Sharifa was like, oggling at him throughout. It was damn funny how everyone eventually found out, even Mr Toh, who was listening to us teasing her. Lol and I called Sharifa a hot blooded female, cos she is one. Hahahahaha
It was quite funny when Mr Toh said something about Sharifa and Peter rather loudly, and the other Peter from choir turned around. Hahahaha then Qibin was like, "Haha Peter thinks it's him".
Oh and this shirtless guy stood beside us on the tram, and we kept asking Sharifa in chinese to stand nearer. Fabian told her to pretend to fall and grab onto him. Lol.
I think the best part of this trip is the company I had. I made SO many new friends and I'm really attached to the choir now.
I thought that the reflections that we had were good. Many people really poured out their emotions and it was a rather emo time for all of us. I definitely got to know some people better, and I think we are more bonded as a choir on a whole after this trip. Really glad that I went on this trip! Although I didn't buy a lot of stuff :P
I will post pics soon.
Seeya!
4:47 PM
