ZHAO PIAN SHI JIAN!!!

my very long and pretty much boring Cambodia trip(16 dec-20dec 2000008). (i emphasize again that i went on a holiday not mission trip)


FIRST DAY
Nicky was over at my place till 6am in the morning. we were playing boxhead and i felt like boxing his head cause the game was like neverending and it could have gone on forever cause we are very good at it. hahaha. at 6am he left for home cause the cab could only fit four people so he couldnt follow me to the airport. hahaha. a two hour flight and tadah we arrived at cambodia.




SIEM REAP INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT.

when we arrived, i was like shocked. cause we walked down from the plane and i was standing beside the plane on the ground. i thought like all the airports supposed to have the connecting passage thingy you know what im talking about right. that connecting thing hahah.

so we collected our luggage and walked out of the place. and i sneezed. and someone said "bless you" hahaha. then our tour guide picked us up. the first day of tour was like only my family on the tour group. ohyeah, people who went on the trip : mummy, uncle, uncle's girlfriend and mybrotherwhomihate. haha. so the tour guide told us that there was no program for that morning and asked us what we wanted to do.... -_-" and so he suggested "yall want to sit boat?" and it was 45US for 4andahalf adults. yes please count its like 70 bucks singapore dollars to sit those kind of wooden boats with no lifejackets and like it was quite smelly cause of the fuel. and the tour guide said "last week there was this boat, the floor gave way and 17 tourists fell in" and i was like ?!?!?! omg. so we sat on the boat for about an hour. and all we saw was very poor people living on the sea. because they have no money to buy land. they build their homes on wooden boats and they live on the sea. they shit, and pee and all into the sea also. i saw this lady carrying a super young baby over the edge of the boat and the baby was shitting. it was really really sad to see the people there. like they live in wooden huts on stilts and blah blah with straw here and there. and that place always floods. and they walk without shoes. and the person who "drove" the boat was 15 years old. so the whole 1 hour ride, we just saw many floating houses and all.







school




church






catching fish in the big net.


basketball court




KIDS ROWING BOAT.





then we stopped at this place. its like a place that sells food and ornaments. and they have MANY COCODILES(HAHA i remember timothy said this)








they were all sleepinggg.




this girl is the bomb. the snake is like hugeeeeeeee.

after lunch, to the hotel!

quite nice right. hahah. i expected like super rundown hotels lah.


-_-" ohyeah, this post is filled with retarded photos of my mum.


some art workshop place where the handicapped learn skills.



to some jewellery shop later on then some massage place which i just slept at cause i cant take massage. and then to the killing field. amg damn scary. they played this super loud wailing tape. and its super eerie. they said its like a tape to mourn for the dead and innocently killed during the polport regime. and theres another explanation of the tape being so loud to cover up the sounds of the victims screaming and crying. damn scary. and they have this glass cabinet filled with skeletons in the middle of the place.

dinner after that at some restaurant which was not too bad. ohyes first day the restaurants that we went to, the coke(as in coca cola) was like 1US or 1.5US. and their soups, are all sweet. sweet curry sweet tomyam and i didnt drink at all. damn gross hahah.

poolside at night.

then we went to the night market nearby and then back to the hotel. and nicky bluffed me he told me confirm will have macdonalds. my footttt. dont have at all. but they have some lucky7 thing thats like kfc or something. OHYEAH and the traffic there is horrible. NO TRAFFIC LIGHTS. and EVERYONE TRAVELS ON MOTORBIKES. even people younger than us ride motorbikes and the best thing is they RIDE ON PAVEMENTS SOMEMORE... and i saw this man with two baby girls in front of him and three baby girls behind him on a motorbike. and the girl who was the oldest sitting at the rear was like almost falling off. very bad.


DAY TWO. TEMPLE DAY.
i visited like ten thousand temples they all looked the same so i dont know which is which but nevermind lah. hahahaa. the biggest and most fascinating one was Ang Kor Wat, which took 300000 men to build, and it was completed in 40 years. i think? hahah. AND IT WAS SUPER BIG, we took 2 hours plus to walk AKW(and it wasnt even the whole temple). -_-" insaneee.



carvings on every single part of every temple. nice right! they take like one month to carve something like that. not forgetting that the whole temple is filled with them.




















NOSE TO NOSE. COOL RIGHT HAHA




















this is like super smooth green floor. NOT. its like weeds. hahah.


gigantic tree, see the tiny man. haha




the temple fell down


they said like a part of tombraider was filmed here haha






i dont know what she wanted her background to be. haha



i got very lazy to take pictures cause i was very bored and everything looked the same. luckily i wore shoes, i wanted to wear slippers.

had lunch at some chinese restaurant and i totally hated the food i only ate a bowl of rice. every other meal, i ate 2-3 bowls. hahah. okay maybe thats the reason why im fatter now. but yes the food was bad. and the coke was like 2.5US. -_-" which is about 4bucks sing. SUPER RIP OFF.

after lunch! it was super exciting. we visited more temples.......

ANG KOR WAT

entrance.








and this 7 headed snake is found EVERYWHERE IN CAMBODIA. entrances of hotels, parks, everywhere man. and at dont know which temple, where the king used to stay. there was like super big swimming pools(olden times that kind). and theres this story bout the king climbing up to some high point in the temple every night to sleep with a pretty woman which is a manifestation of the 7headed snake or something like that. so that things will be peaceful. if the king doesnt go, or if the snake doesnt appear. something bad will befall the kingdom.

i walked finish the looong path to the entrance then i realised that there was another long path to the temple -_- and it was super hot my uncle and mum refused to walk HAHA they scared sun. what loserssszxzxz.










HAHA i look super tiny




please look at the steps. every step is like HALF A FOOT space only. damn scary. some korean tourist fell down while walking up last year and she broke her back.. and then the reason for slim steps was cause the people were expected/supposed to crawl their way up. something like the path to heaven is difficult so must crawl.






beautiful!




OHYES AFTER ALL THE VISITING OF TEMPLES. my tour guide brought us to this mountain. and told us to climb to the top to see sunset. and he wasnt going to climb with us. OHYEAH, my tour group on the second day had like one malay family and 2 indian guys from malaysia. they're very friendly and funny. hahah. before climbing the mountain. some girl approached one of the indian men and asked him to buy postcards. and he said "later" and the girl said "YOU MUST BUY FROM ME AH. I WAIT HERE. I REMEMBER YOUR FACE" damn scary lah!! hahaha. anyway, the whole trip, there were alot of beggars and like kids selling stuff. and all the kids were selling the exact same stuff. and they swarmed to you like bees. its really sad seeing them like that. like you cant buy anything from them also, cause everyone else will asked you to buy and follow you around. just like my tour mate gave a dollar to a girl. and all of them surrounded our van and said "SIR WHY YOU GIVE HER. GIVE ME ALSO"

okay and so, we climbed the mountain. super tiring i almost died. and then we had to climb the super slim steps high high high up to the top. and then! the best thing was. THE SUN WASNT EVEN SETTING !!! ZZZ










before the sun even set, we left the mountain -_____- and there were these two little girls sitting up along the way on the mountain. they were situated far apart from each other. at first i thought why they were sitting there. and then i realised that they were placed there to beg for money. really damn sad.

dinner after that at some international buffet place with dance performance. the girls were quite pretty! and the food was not too bad. the coconut milk icecream was really nice. anyway my tour guide is very cute. haha the way he said "slither like a snake" was damn cute. haha.

HOTEL ROOM

aircon remote

AND THIS IS DAMN FUNNY. hahahah cause we washed all our socks right. although i brought four pairs. hahah. AND OHYEAH i brought five white teeshirts and nicky was like WHY YOU BRING ALL WHITE. hahaha. okay so back to my socks. cause we needed to dry them before we leave for Phnom Penh. i used the hairdryer in the bathroom to dry them. like put it inside the socks. dry super fast damn cool i thought i was damn smart. then like when they were almost dry, i took them off and wrap them around the lamps' lightbulbs to dry so i could dry the rest of the socks CAUSE MY MUM WAS ALREADY SLEEPING LIKE A PIG. yesh so while i was watching tv(by the way they have many channels. inc HBO, starmovies, ETC) there was some CHAOTA smell. at first i thought MUST BE THE HAIRDRYER USE TOO LONG. so i told my brother to switch it off cause he was drying his own socks. then after awhile, the smell got stronger. and my mum woke up and was in the bathroom and i said EH MUMMY REALLY USE TOO LONG ALREADY SWITCH OFF LAH. and then my brother shouted EH GOT SMOKE!!! and i was like HUH?!?! and i saw smoke coming up from the lamp HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. damn funny i couldnt stop laughing lah.




there my socks. hahahah.

THIRD DAY.
ohyeah the buffet breakfast at this hotel is not bad. i like [: cept that the bacon was super hard and actually most of the american styled food all sucked. hahah but the pastries were not bad and the khmer noodle soup was very nice! hahha. i take like super alot of meat HAHA and the noodles very niceeeee :D

YES so we woke up at 7am singapore time, which is 6am cambodian time. and we rushed through breakfast before boarding a bus to the bus terminal. anyway, the bus is always filled with mosquitoes. and i saw this hospital, outside always got like super long queue. everyone is queuing to go into the hospital. damn poor thing. then they have a severe epidemic of dengue fever. so i was damn scared of mozzies.

so we took the bus and went to the bus terminal. and then we took this EXPRESS LIMOUSINE BUS to Phnom Penh. FREAKING SEVEN HOURS OMG. almost died. and like you cant sleep at all one. cause the bus keeps honking. after the seven hours. i was starving and i was grumpy. ]:

we had lunch at some place and it was not too bad. we got a new tour group. and they were 3 families from the same country and they arent very nice people but they are chinese. and they are really not very nice. how bout we shared a table with a family of three. that family ate more than my family of 5 did? and we barely had enough to eat. and i was angry. ]:

cause like we were from singapore and they tried to be nice and asked where we were from. when my uncle said singapore, the head of the other family just OH OKAY. and then they never talk to us already.

so we were driven to our hotel. which was like a hotel in the city and the most luxurious and expensive of all the four hotels that my whole tour group stayed in. four families, four different hotels. so like they kinda commented on us staying in this hotel cause my tour guide like talked about how class it was and stuff. then like the way they talked among themselves and their country and how they excluded us and how we detached ourselves also made the trip not very fun. haha but whatever lah.

we went back to the hotel and washed up abit before heading out. TO SIT BOAT AGAIN. and to see the sunset........... the boat ride was another one hour plus....zz. and all we saw was floating houses and poverty again.


first time she smile with her teeth HAHA.








suddenly out of nowhere some nice mansion appear. right next to the huge mass of floating houses and garbage dumps







then we went to the casino. we spent 30 minutes there not really doing anything. and then dinner later on. and the coke was 3US. -_-" it just gets more expensive. anyway phnom penh is the capital city of cambodia and phnom means mountain. and long ago, there was this very rich lady called lady penh or something. then she build a monastery or something in the middle of the city thats why they names the capital phnom penh, take after her name.

DAY FOUR.

breakfast at the new hotel wasnt very nice.

first up!



monument of independence or something like that. just take picture only. then go off already.






SEE THE TRAFFIC. all four directions come together.

ROYAL PALACE NEXT.



buddha tree.




GATE OF VICTORY. HAHA then she wanted to take. this gate is something about war, like if the battle is won, the messenger comes in via this gate. if they lose, then another gate. something like that.


thats where the current king is staying. although he's the king but he has no power in state affairs. its a symbol of monarchy.


painting, a veryyyy long painting. or mural.


-__-"



















lunch after that. and the coke was like 3.5US !!!@#$%#^%

headed to the russianl market but didnt buy much. then we went to the genocide museum. its called s-21. it was a school tranformed into a military prison. prisoners of the polport regime are kept there. first floor was high ranking officials. second floor for women i think? and third for men. the weapons of torture are retained in the place. and in the rooms, there are pictures of the innocent people killed. and like every morning, they had to line up in an open area, for body checks. like everyone had to pull down their pants and the guards had to make sure that they did not carry any weapons cause if any one prisoner commits suicide, the guard would be executed. hmm. and yeah, one small room right, every prisoner had their legs chained to a bar on the floor. and they slept head to head, feet to feet kinda thing on the floor. one room contained like super alot of people. no space to move and stuff and conditions were really bad. thick barbed wire fences were set up along corridors on every level so that people would not jump off the building and commit suicide. they were all required to take a picture and write their biography before being taken as a prisoner. some of them were forced to write untrue stuff about themselves so that they could be taken officially as a revolt and executed. it was really cruel.

i didnt feel like listening and all and i didnt want to go into any of the rooms so thats all i heard and learnt. although i was very interested to learn but like i didnt want to learn it that way. and i just sat on the chairs drinking coke. there was a movie showing but i didnt want to watch either. i was afraid that i'd keep thinking about it, which i was very sure i would. cause even the first day killing field thing was stuck in my head. after the genocide museum, we were brought to the killing fields. only my uncle went down with the other 2 families to take a look. one family left for home already. yuppp. and my uncle told me like there were bones and skulls lying around and stuff.

then my tour guide was talking about his family and he almost cried. like he had 7 siblings. his dad was killed during the polport regime. and one of his sisters fell sick and died during that time. and like his mum fell sick and passed away too. and he said like the govt issued a warning saying that the place is gonna be bombed by another country and asked them to evacuate the place. but in actual fact, the govt just wanted to clear the land. they had to travel on foot for miles and miles. and during this whole time, my tour guide lost every single of his family member. and he was all left alone. damn sad. and he said he attended primary one when he was sixteen years old. and his pay is like 20US a day, and he only earns when he's called to job.

so like really damn poor thing. the rich people are really pretty damn rich but the poor are really downright poor to the max. like the people in siemreap. really damn sad.

after the killing fields, we went shopping at sorya shopping centre. and there was swensens! and I BUMPED INTO YENYEE THERE. hahaha what are the chances mannn. dinner at a restaurant nearby was really good. i drank coke for every meal except this meal. haha. after dinner we went to take photos at the US embassy there.


US embassy, directly opposite our hotel







and then back to the hotel.

after room service. CUTE RIGHT. beardyyy :D hahaha

tvvvvvv all the way before i fell asleep.

DAY FIVE.
woke up at around 10am to have breakfast and then we were all on our own, free and easy. we took a tuktuk to the central market to shoppp around. before going for lunch at lucky7. then we headed back to our hotel and checked out and we went to the airport. ate at some restaurant there and my mum decided to gamble with me

we played with some dice from some board game set. like if the number i rolled is bigger, she'll give me an additional dollar for allowance. hahaah in the end i won $7 from her. we boarded the plane at 6 plus pm cambodian time and like you can never get lost there. haha there were only 7 gates.

anyway before the trip, i thought like cambodia would be REALLY bad. like dirty toilets, bad hotels, gross food etc. but in actual fact, ALL THE TOILETS IN CAMBODIA WERE CLEAN. even those in forests when we were visiting the temples. they were all clean and mostly had toilet paper! really really clean and surprising. and the food's pretty much like chinese food with a twist in the flavour i guess? and the hotels were not too bad. with warm water bathtubs nice beds and many tv channels. so it wasnt all the bad, but i really missed home. haha.

so after an hour plus, the flight was really fast. i was back in singapore (: and when i walked to the luggage area, i saw nicky waiting outside! and i pretended not to see him then he called me. hahaha and i told him like i saw him already. collected our luggage and all then they brought all my stuff back and i went with nicky to popeyes! then we headed to his place for gossip girl and then he drove me back [:

thats all for my cambodia trip. probably missed some stuff out since its been like almost a month since i came back hahah.

sooo anyway i shall blog about the past week now!

MONDAY 12th
i met esmonde at about 4pm to watch 7pounds. he was so sure that i'll be late we made a bet that if i was early, he'd pay for my ticket and if i was late i'd pay for dinner. hahaha and i was 20 minutes early! hahah and he came late. so he treated me to movie and i bumped into charkoh there! hahah.

the movie was not too bad, quite touching but a bit draggy at times. after that, we went to ps and went to ripcurl and i fell in love with this bag and i regretted going into the shop. ahha. went over to glasshouse fish&co for dinner. chatting about soccer and i realise that i really miss watching soccer ): like really. dinner was good there were like ten thousand million birthday babies in the house man. hahah. we dint want to go back so early so we thought about playing poker. we ended up calling leon and aileen. aileen wanted to play cause she was depressed over her o's results but she had relief teaching the next day. so it was down to esmonde and me. and so we board the bus to es's house to collect chips. and then we met aileen on the bus!!! hahah what a coincidence you tell me. so we managed to persuade her to go with us. so we met her about 30 minutes later and we took a cab down to leon's together. poker, taidee, bridge, in between, blackjack the whole night long till morning. hahaha. not too bad (: then i left at around 10am and went home.

then when i got home, my grandma told me that nicky came over in the morning. and i was like shocked. so like we were messaging and i asked him where he was. he was like in town dont know doing what alone. hahaa. then he said he was on the bus back. then suddenly, someone knocked on my door and i knew it was him. haha very sweet of him [: [: heeheeheee. and then my mum was being retarded insisting that nicky gave him her number. and that stupid boy gave! haha. then we watched cartoon labixiaoxing! hahaha. i was very tired and then nicky told me bedtime stories! haha and as always, he always incorporate me into his stories. and this time, he incorporated himself too. hahah the story was very sweet. it was like from the first day we met till nowww [: vehhh sccchweet (:

so i fell asleep. ahhaha. and he slept too. then i woke up at around 430 and watched tv with my grandma till 630. and the fatty woke up at around 7 and we had dinner. and then we watched tv and then he went back around 11. [:

WEDNESDAY
i met tayjiazhi for lunch at west mall! mos burger and great catching up for an hour plus before she headed back to work [: i was supposed to meet her the day before but i was too tired and lazy to go out. haha

i went over to nicky's place in the afternoon and changed the hamster bedding with his mum. then we went to eunos there to pick up the chevy cause it went for servicing. haha. then we went to giant at turf city to shoppp before heading back to his place for dinner. and then GG before he sent me back [: and we let a hamster out freely to run and he ran behind the fridge and suddenly gambee ran to the fridge and tried to catch the poor hamster. but we saved the day!!! hahah by pulling gambee away. hahah the hamsters are superrrrr cute (:

THURSDAY
i bought sambal stingray and went over to nickys for dinner! haha. after that, we watched gg. and then he sent me home. but before that, we drove through at kap to have 20piece nuggets with twister fries and coke yay. hahaha (:

FRIDAY
i met joanne and yunting at holland at about 7! crystal jadeeee and then we walked around before going over to chipbee and i had my favourite cupcake from gastronomia [: we sat there talking and laughing like mad people for quite a long time. and jo was super high. high on chinese tea. haahah. it was really great meeting up with them, and with retarded qing ni gen wo zhe yang zuo game. hahah :D :D many many lovelove! :D

took a cab down to nickys after that and met up with a few people at the poolside. then when the bulk of the people arrived, i went to nickys place and took out the cake and stuff and placed them on the living room table. then suddenly marc came down from upstairs(he was having cell) then i was like OMG SHIT and i tried to hide. then nicky came down and we hurriedly brought the cake and everything out to the poolside. then nicky's cell group led him to the poolside and SURPRISE! :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMELLY ONE! THANKS FOR HAVING ALWAYS BEEN THERE FOR ME AND BEING SUCH A WONDERFUL AND GREAT FRIEND. YOU MADE MY AC LIFE FUN AND I WONT FORGET SOME OF THE RETARDED MOMENTS IN CLASS AND LECTURES AND ALL THE STUPID THINGS WE DO AND PRANKS WE PLAY AND THINGS WE TALK ABOUT. AND I WONT FORGET HOW YOU ALWAYS BULLY ME ALSO SOBS SOBS. HAHAH ACTUALLY MORE LIKE I BULLY YOU RIGHT. HAHAH. HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT TIME AND THANKS FOR EVERYTHING SMELLY! SEE YOU TUESDAY! [:

people present : marc pakkee nicole rochelle vivian cas sam del rachel wanpin eden ao elvin alvan jean james nicky and nicky's cell group.

i was pretty moody the whole night ahha i dont know why. then marc nicky alvan and i went to holland for supper after playing with the hamsters. tenderbest and then to swensens. marc was so lucky. it was already past his birthday but we decided to try for the free firehouse anyway and he got it. hahah. just that he didnt choose his flavours so sad. hahah. icecream and all the funny talks were fun and funny. then nicky marc and i drove somewhere and they went drifting. and then they taught me how to drive!! hahah quite fun :D then they continued drifting and i was sitting at the back i almost died i felt like puking after that. assholes. hahah. nicky sent me back home first before driving back with marc. [:

SATURDAY
went over to nicky's in the evening and we played marvel vs capcom!! hahah damn fun i like. val and ther joined us too. hahah. then nicky and i went out to cityhall for abit before getting lost cause he didnt make a turn hahaha. but we found our way back and then we were cutting papers. haha papers of advertisement. we want to give tuition! hahah after we cut finish, we drove around bukit timah sticking the notices. i bet most of them are removed already ): then we had teochew porridge for supper and he sent me back. right after we parked, i saw my uncle! hahah he just parked also. so coincidental right. nicky sent me back up and then we laughed like retards for quite long before he finally decided to go home. hahah.

SUNDAY
was supposed to go to sentosa with ther and val! but ther couldnt make it last minute, so we are going next week. hahah. and so when i left my home today, i realised that the notices we pasted at my lobby were removed !! ]: and i got a call today, and i thought it was somebody looking for a tutor. in the end it was a chinaman asking if i was a realestate agent. i guess he couldnt read what was on the paper and just took my number thinking i was a realestate agent -_-"

so i went out and met nicky in town! we went to pacific plaza and i bought the ripcurl bag that i fell in love with. hahah bye bye money ): then we headed to fareast, subway for dinner. and then we saw yixuan the loser hahah. that kpo was walking past subway and she actually looked in and i waved to her and she saw me. KPO look inside. hahaha. no ultrafamouskungfumilktea and i settled for sweettalk's which sucked. then we walked all the way to cathay and sat there for abit and then nicky sent me back and he went home straight away cause he's dead tired from the lack of sleep.

and tadahhh here i am. life now is very carefree hahah i like. although its like aimless and im like a good-for-nothing. and everyone else seems to be working! but aiyah. i like my life this way hahah. but then again, i think i should get some job, like that kind, can work anytime i want kind haha.

and nicky promised that he wont whine again. HAHA i'll see how he can do that. cause right after he said he wont ever do it again, he (by instinct) did it three times and straight away changed his face to a not-whining-face and it was damn funny. hahaha.

im craving for the kungfu milk tea and chippys sausage and fried calamari!

oh and i applied to be a relief teacher and its accepted. haha nicky's too. so we shall try calling up acsprimary, barker, fairfield primary and secondary and ask if they need teachers tomorrow! hahah it will be ideal if someone hires us. haha. pretty please? :D

alright its like 4.30am i should go to bed soon!

more pictures in my next post! :D and i'll try to blog more often!

hope 2009 has been treating all of you well! :D