I think I am vain. :/

Well. This is quite an uncomfortable topic. Hmmmm. But indeed, the painful truth is, I think karma came and kicked me in the ass and I am vain now. Boooo. I used to mentally laugh at the people who actually stare at themselves in the mirror that I did not realise I actually started to do the same thing:( IamvainIamvainIamvain:( Depressed am I. I actually like staring at myself in the mirror and pick on the features that I do not like about me. OMG. I hate my nose. :( But that is besides the point. I actually do sound like a bimbo here, don't I? This kind of sucks. I know I was supposed to be posting something crafty here, but this....is a an important reflection. I have to get this out of me. Whoaaa~~~~~ What happened to meee? I actually feel uncomfortable feeling vain but cannot help it at the same time? OMG. I am disgusting me!!!! Normal people should skip this worthless ranting post. Really. I am just gonna talk about myself and you are so not interested. Really.

I am not pretty. For that I am quite sad. I look cute. Probably ugly but adorable. Nonono, I am not praising myself. This is actually the description that everyone use to describe me. Booo. I know I have a genetically big nose that came from my paternal side. My only saving grace is probably my hair. I like my hair. It does not really require much attention. Oh, maybe not the fringe. I hate keeping a fringe. My oily face would make it clumpy 2 hours after leaving the house. Oh! I like my eyes. My fake coloured ones. They are pretty ........ and fake:( I like my lashes, but I have sparse but curly lashes on one side and sparse but not curly lashes on the other. Weird lashes for a weird person. :/ I have having a very weird conservation with my blog anyway. Oh well. I hate my nose. I don't mind my smile, but it is fake too! Because I had braces once upon a time. My upper lip curl inwards when I smile but I am okay. One can not be too perfect. I have okay skin with hell lot of freckles, very sensitive to the sun and does not glow.

Ahh. I have too many imperfections. But I am okay actually. I may not look very pretty, but I can feel pretty!  I think people should think like me. But then again, no one thinks like me. Hmmm. I have a tendency to take self shots when I wear my fake(coloured) eyes. I put them on and instantly feel prettier. It has much to do with my eye fetish I think. If you have pretty eyes, it is easier to disregard the other imperfections(like the nose.) Oh. I think that noses are the absolute ugliest-looking organs ever. Even if you have a straight nose or a small nose. No matter how I stare at it, it is ugly. My personal opinion, of course. I do try not to take note of noses too much. I like the jaw. I am awfully sad that I do not have one, but I like visible jaws. Hehe.

Ahhh, I really sound like a bimbo here. But please, do not mind me and skip to the next post! Haha. I skip from sub-topic to sub-topic so fast I think I am actually not writing in coherent sentences. But okay. The truth is this is how my mind works. No order at all. Live with it, dear readers. Haha.

Okay la. Do you really wanna know why I have this post up? Okay. I tell you the truth. I have a few pictures of me on my phone which I sort of feel uncomfortable to keep on my phone just in case someone browses through my pictures, but at the same time I feel a little sad to just dump because I think I look okay. So I am gonna post it here! Haha. I do not wanna keep it on the computer too. So I am keeping it on the internet. :p  Do not judge me okay! :/

Actually it is not like I have a lot of pictures of myself. Hmmm. Three only! No editing except for filter and stamps on Line camera, an app! Okay, here goes!

I can pull off the cute look^^

I took this picture to show off my hair actually. But my nose looks somewhat okay in this picture and I added pretty filters and stamps so okay la. A little too kawaii >.< Eyes look somewhat bigger than normal here! (^^  )V

Hair

 Results of my dye job. You cannot tell, but it has three kinds of browns in it. Not exactly ombre, but I try.

Fake glowy skin! The lighting was good. But I used my front camera, which sucks. 

 I was wearing purple contacts. Cannot tell from the picture right? Oh well. I wore matching purple hairclip to match my eyes. Hahahha.

Nomnomnom

Pink contacts, eating the potong ice-cream I stole from my grandpa who sells ice-cream. Nomnom. Round nose here, but okay la. Got ice-cream! Haha.

Okay. That's all really. I am not good at taking self shots because it is so difficult to do so from my phone. The snap button is small and at the bottom.

Okay. That was all I wanted to say. Oh. I have pretty straight eyebrows. Not pretty as in the pretty, but quite straight eyebrows. I hope you get me. Haha. Ciao!

Rebecca (^^ )V

Reflections after orientation camp. 0.0

Well, I have just come back from the orientation camp from NTU after one week of absence. It would seem that no one have missed me though. D: I have to say honestly that I did not miss home. I do miss sleeping till I wake up naturally and my bed, but I do not exactly miss my parents or my brother. So weird, don't you think? I have to say I do come from a very close-knitted family. It is just that they do not give me a lot of personal space that I need sometimes so I actually enjoy being out of the house for long periods of time. I love my family. But I am too much of a black sheep to blend in very well in my immediate family. Meaning with my parents and my brother. I am very outspoken for one. I tend to offend people without meaning to. This is something I really need to work on:( I am very headstrong and I believe very very strongly for my own values. I do not believe in total obedience. If you want me to do something, tell me why. If you are wrong, do not expect me to sit by and endure hearing wrong things said about me. If you tell me not to do something and I think it is unreasonable, chances are that I will still do it.

Okay, this is not about my family. I am supposed to talk about orientation! Okay. There were a lot of bonding games and I actually interacted with many different kinds of people. Unfortunately, I have not met ANYONE from Sociology from my batch at all. I did have a sociology senior in year 4 in my group. She was so very helpful^^ Technically speaking, I have not met my goal of finding a coursemate during camp.

I also met with a enormous problem. ALMOST EVERYONE IN MY GROUP SPOKE CHINESE! OMG. You would not know how difficult it was for me to adapt. It was different at work, where my colleagues were older than me. But these...they were about the same age as me!!!! D:D:D:D:D:

*traumatised*

A little background story. I was in a mission school for 13 years and have never spoken much Chinese to pretty much anyone except to my Chinese teacher, my grandparents and random aunties and uncles. I think I have no problem speaking Mandarin. But I have a BIG psychological barrier I have to get over before I can speak Mandarin on a regular basis.

You might think it is dumb. It is just a language. Mandarin is my freaking mother tongue. I am CHINESE. But I came a long way, so stop judging me now:(

I am from a traditional Chinese family. My grandparents spoke Hokkien and Mandarin and so did my dad before he met my mom. I suspect my mom also spoke in Mandarin before she had my brother and I. So can you imagine people speaking bad English teaching English to their children? Bad combination. I went in St. Margaret's because I wanted and girl's school and there were not many choices left. It must have been god's will. I meet so many people there in the primary school and secondary school and I am so grateful because almost everyone were so nice. I could go around saying hihihihihihihi to everyone. I worked hard to improve my English language and speak like the rest of my schoolmates in somewhat more or less good English with bad pronounication. Boo. I blame a physical defect. I tried my best to remove any grammatical errors I may make. It was not that easy because it came so naturally to everyone else. My Mandarin was not that bad either even if I did not use much of it. My Chinese tuition teacher said I had tai feng. Which is like "stage air"?  Haha. I am naturally dramatic. My mom cannot stand me.

It will not be easy for me to make a switch because speaking English means much more than just a language to me. It also represented the acceptance I had in my previous schools and the struggle I went through to improve the language. My English teacher in primary school used to use my compositions to criticise the way I wrote. She read my badly written composition out to the class. It was so mortifying! I read many many books and luckily I enjoyed reading. Phew. It helped me develop an amazing over-active imagination that never ceases to amaze even me. Of course, I have many many friends who are much better than me, but I was happy. English teachers never picked on me any more. Phew.

Ya. So you see, I am afraid that if I start blending in, I will change and lose my myself unconsciously. It may be very abstract, but that is the way I feel. At the same time, I am terrified that I would not find a group of friend where I belong in uni and I am scared to take the first step. I feel quite insecure. I will see how it goes.

I know most people who click or stumble on my blog probably did not do so to hear me rant and I do have many crafty posts at the back of my mind so just give me some time and I will get back to action:)

That's all for today. Ciao.

Rebecca :]

Freya's scarf DONE:)

Well, I finally finished Freya's scarf! Yay! This scarf has a mini story. Once upon a time, before both Freya and Rebecca got into their universities and were quite worried, Rebecca told Freya that if she got into the university in Switzerland, Rebecca would crochet her something since Freya knew how to knit. So days went by and Freya got into the university of her choice. YAY! In fact, I just sent her off two days back. Iam really happy and excited that she got to go to Chocolate land for her university studies. I am stuck here in Singapore. Oh well. I really hope that I would be able to earn enough and save enough money to visit her while she is there. It would be fun! So now you know the story. OMG. I really wanted to make her a purple scarf since she loved purple so much. But circumstances forbid me to. I wanted to get yarn from GZ, but I could not find it till the second last day where I found one store and that one store only had 2 balls of purple left. So I bought it and bought another colour. I was thinking of an ombre scarf, but the yarn at home and the yarn from GZ were different and in a state of perfectionist-is-me, I unwind half of what I completed on Sunday morning when I had to give it to her on Wednesday night.

I really really crocheted like I never did before to finish it, and I did. Proud am I. Awesome scarf. Nicest one I have ever made. I don't really know if she would fancy the colour, but it matches her phone! :) I half killed my mom's iron while trying to put it in shape though. Thank god. The iron did not die under my hands. It died under my mom's later that night. The plastic part melted. Haha. Oh well. Do you wanna see the finished product? Of course you do. I followed the pattern from here. Awesome pattern! Picture time!

Can be a pretend cowl, 

pretend short scarf(it is really long)

The design is awesome! 

I love this picture the best. 

And I served it with appetizer. A pair of earrings. 

So there goes. Pretty right! I love how the ends are scalloped. I wanted to take a picture of me in it. But it would seem weird. So I took it with my hanger. HAHA.  I hope you like it as much as I do! :)

Tata. That's all. Ciao!

Rebecca:)

Post A levels. An experience I will never forget.

Well. It is July now. I have stopped studying and have not been studying officially for 7 months. This time of my life feels so happy and carefree. I will never forget this period of my life ever. Of course, you might say, " You lie!!!! You have a 4 GB memory. Your memory failllll!" Well, guess what! I am gonna record all down in this blog so I will never ever forget. HAHAHA! Beat that. Okay, that was a very weird self conversation. :P

 My last A levels paper was on the 3rd of December. I did not work till the 10th of Janurary at Starhub as a Customer Care Consultant A.K.A Call agent. I worked there till the 28th of Feburary. That's 2 months. It was a really interesting job I guess. Understanding how a Telco company worked was enlightening for me. I did my best to serve all the different customers and OMG. Can you just imagine? I answer phone calls every day without actually knowing how the person on the other end looks like? My imagination went wild! *stereotyping alert* Oh well. I heard(never met) mean customers, nice customers, weird customers, auntie customers. Interesting. I enjoyed the pay and the stress(just a bit). I decided to leave the company in the end. Of course I made up an excuse about hating the job and the timing was bad and yada yada. But I know the ultimate not-so-nice truth. I was afraid. Results for A-levels was on the 2nd of March. The people who worked there were also getting their results on the same day. I did not want to go back to work teary-eyed and face the customers who may not know and hear them rant. I might just break down and cry. This sounds mean. I know. But if I wanted to provide quality service(and I think I do) I better do it when I am a happy person. All that was left when I left was this:-

Don't belittle this. 

You may think it was just two books. No. It is filled with very confidential information which I feel very uneasy having around the house I went to shred it ASAP. It is gone now. I am glad. No responsibilities.

I took a very long break after that. No a very happy break though. I was worrying and worrying about what I was gonna do in the near future. I did not get sparkling grades. Very very not very nice grades. I cried. I ranted. I did blog about the really really sad me. But god was kind and he probably knew I was made to do something. So he made me wait then give me something I was very thankful for.

2 out of 3 acceptance letters

I went for so many interviews! OMG. I really hated interviews before and never never did it officially before. But I did so many interviews, for jobs and school in this period! I was called up for the nursing interview first. That was where I sort of proclaimed my love for Sociology and bah. I knew I could probably make it as a nurse but that was not my PASSION. Then I thought maybe god wanted me to be more selfless and care for people. I am actually okay with that. Blah blah. Then NUS faculty of science called me up for a discretionary interview. I really really really did not wanna do science, but beggars cannot be choosers so I went. And there, the profs asked me a few questions and decided I was not a science student and we started chatting about Sociology instead. Awesome? Not really a good sign. Waste of my time because I was late and could not find the place. Then, after my interview at night....I got a call from NTU asking me to go for the SOCIOLOGY interview. I was like, "......OMGOMGOMGOMG!!! AHHH" Is this a scam? Was that one of my friends calling me? I don't think universities call you up for interviews on the next day! I was supposed to start work at my new workplace on that day and then they called me up. Damn. Bad crash of dates because I already moved back my first day of work because of the NUS interview. Whatever. MY future was more important because it will be for me. Lucky, my reporting officer(RO) was really nice about it so for my first day of work all I did was to eat breakfast, say hi to people whose names I did not remember(I did in the end) and leave for NTU where I was 1 hour early. I did the writing test. OMG. So difficult! More difficult than GP! I did not really understand what it was talking about? But vaguely know what was the gist? OMG. I was so unsure of myself. Baddd. I did my best with my rusty have-not-written-full-sentence-since-my-last-paper mind and prayed really really hard. You cannot give me a bowl of udon and only give me one strand of noodle. IT IS NOT ETHICAL! Haha. I did an one-to-one interview with a professor. That was when I felt really stupid. I thought I do read a lot of news(through my newsfeed on twitter), but he owned me. Flat. He gave me so many perspectives I was so enlightened that day.

Imagine my relief when I got the acceptance for Sociology. Phew. I was really very thankful. I got the acceptance for Nursing a few days later, but I knew. I knew where I wanted to go. SMU rejected me flat down. But I was like, okay....stuck up uni. Boo you. It was not even a "sorry to say, but you did not make it" letter. It was a "too many students applied and you did not make it" :( Boo.

I sealed my fate with this.

Can you imagine? I wonder if someone ever clicked on the last one accidentally. Boo.

Thank you.

I was relieved to see this. Phew. I secured my next 4 years of study.

So I happily went to work at NCS. It was such a big company. I was impressed and amazed. I met wonderful IT people there and leveled up in IT savviness. I was the IT person. Whooo! Haha. I remoted and remoted and remoted into the servers! Whoops! It was magic, I tell you! I did not know what I was doing most of the time, but it was brainless. click click. Type. Excel excel excel. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V,Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+S, Alt+f4. OMG. My excel ability leveled up the most. I met Kar Luen, Henry, Lwin, Cassandra, and many others. They were so nice to the temp staffs(Xing Juan and I) I was astonished my the lack of people with chromosomes XX over there. But I guess I got used to it a little. Did not talk much though. They spoke mainly Chinese. Haha. I am a little amused at how they would speak in Chinese to everyone but me. I wanted to say it is fine! I can understand Chinese perfectly. I just don't really speak in Chinese! But okay. I was there from 3rd May to 13 July. 2 months and 10 days. On the second last day of work, we got a farewell lunch at Nippon village. Free food :P Carolyn, the admin staff upstairs got us Swarovski pens on behalf of everyone in EMS. Touched was I :") It was pink. 

I don't think I would bear to use it. 

Awesome butterfly paper for the awesome lab people.

 I wrote them a note. I think you can read it if you zoomed in.

Xing Juan and I

My nose is awfully round here. Seedy picture by lousy front camera and yellowish tint for a reason.

Nasi Lemak, because I missed the Curry Chicken for the 2nd time.

Second last meal at the Bistro. Where Xing Juan's cousin's cousin works. Haha. Remember when we first went there, we forgot to take our drinks. After talking for a while we realised we were supposed to get our drinks when we ordered our food. So funny. Luckily the auntie helped us. 

I will miss having Milo drinks in the afternoon. OMG. EMS lab(where I worked) was so coldddd! I wore an orange jacket, cardigan and and top and jeans and still feel cold. I use my right hand to use the mouse and stick my left in the pocket 90% of the time. 

So ya. End of working life and going back to school life in a while. I have orientation camp next week. A little worried about what they might make I do, but excited to see Penny again. Penny power! Haha. God must have sent her to me:D Because she was the only other person who was in NTU and she gave me so many tips and help I do not know how to repay her! Thanks Penny! <3 you lots!  Because you helped me, you have accumulated good karma^^

So ya. That's about the end of what I wanted to tell you for this post. It ended up like a grandmother story. Heheheh. Sorry lah! I long-winded can? Singlish overload!!! Singlish can be quite awesome. Blah. :P

Okay. So that's really all for today. Ciao!

Rebecca:)

Contact lens review: Blincon Pink lens

Well....It has been a longgg time since I wore this pair of contacts, but I decided to have a series of contact lens review for my own reference as well as whoever who wants to know more or whatever. Hope it is helpful to you if you are reading this. Haha.

So...backgound history of me and contact lenses. Vanity. Almost everyone I know knows I have an eye fetish. I love looking at people's eyes coloured eyes, big eyes, small eyes(not my favourite.), gorgeous eyelashes and swoon. I go crazy over eyes on deviant art brilliantly edited by various artists. So I always wanted to try out cosmetic coloured lenses because I have dark asian eyes. I started trying them on in 2011. For Chinese new year, I went to an optical shop to learn to put those lenses on and I NEVER turned back. I love having an excuse to wear them. Love crazy colours and stuff. I am always excited when the expiry date of the old monthlies are near so I can change a new colour. So these Blincon PINK lenses were my second ever pair. I totally forgot what did I get for my first. BAD memory alert. Haha

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I bought these with a coupon from Deal.com.sg for some optical shop YES! that used to be in Suntec. No idea where are they now though. But I realise that Blincon is not a very popular brand in Singapore so you might not be able to find it. I bought these babies in December 2011. Lovelies Freya and Rachel went with me to collect them. Haha.

My verdict: VERY VERY comfy lenses that I do not even feel like taking off at the end of the day. The lenses are very thick though. I don't mind. I realised that contact lenses are very useful for going to temples during the Chinese New Year period. They stop the smoke from the incense from getting into your eyes and making you tear. Yay for contacts! At 14.5 mm, it really makes your eyes bigger. The only down part is....okay, it looks very unnatural and really really pops out. So if you don't mind crazy colours like me, try it!

I read quite a few bad comments about it but I really like it so it really depends on the individual I guess.

Pictures!

With flash

Does these look creepy to you? Hmmm. It takes so longgg to take a decent photo of my eyes with my phone because the focusing is so crazily baddd. It focus and goes out of focus. FAIL CAMERA. This is one lucky picture(Y)

Under natural lighting

 Oh god. My face was so big in this photo and dear Sya uploaded it on facebook! Ahhh! This is the edited picture. I only slimmed down the cheeks a little but it makes such a big difference! Sigh. It was fun having bangs, but I am not gonna have them for a while yet. Too much care needed for a lazy person like me. Really really like the eyes though. Doesn't look like pink unless you go closer but I am happy. *stares* And yes, I stole this from Facebook.

Okay. So this is it. A very informal review for myself for future reference and so I will not forget what colour have I worn.

That's all for today, ciao!

Rebecca0.0

Why I love Sailor moon so much.

OMGGGGG. Sailor moon is gonna get a new anime! I am just sooo excited, but at the same time afraid that I will not like the new show! I have yet to get the manga too! Ahhhh! The cheapo in me refuses to buy the books individually without a member card or discount. But I think I will cave in and buy the books and the member card in the end. I love Sailor moon that much! <3<3<3

Why do I love her so much? Everyone always give me that weird look when I mention that I super love Sailor moon. It was a show that almost everyone has heard of and know of or even loved to watch as a child. But as time goes by, they forget the feelings of excitement when they watch the show and began to look at it as a child's show as they grow up. Hence, the look of distaste.

To me, Sailor moon is a source of strength. It reminds me that nothing can ever defeat me and there is always hope. After all, Usagi-chan is such a klutz and she got her one true love in the end! Haha, not only in terms of love, but also friendship and life in general.

Usagi-chan and her friends

Whenever I feel upset or discouraged or just plain annoyed, I watch an episode or two of the show and I feel happier. ALWAYS. It is like my miracle drug for mental stress. She is just sooo adorable and ahhh. I lovelovelove Naoko-san for creating the best manga(in my opinon) in the world! Sure, it has its flaws, but I still love it! The manga, the anime and the live action show.

It is like a breath of fresh air that allows me to carry on in hard times. It also supplements my feminism side. HAHA. I quote from "http://graphic-novels-manga.suvudu.com/2011/10/sailor-moon-transforms-for-its-20th-anniversary.html"

"But there’s another reason Sailor Moon, and its availability, is significant. Aside from being important to anime’s history in the U.S., Sailor Moon also stands as a marker in the women’s rights movement in both Japan and America.Naoko Takeuchi, the writer and artist of Sailor Moon, comes as part of a line of female manga artists writing for girls in Japan — something that had only become mainstream a decade before; prior, the stories for girls were dictated entirely by male staff, once the market was determined to exist at all.

Making its way to America in 1994, Sailor Moon was one of the first series for girls in the States that included a female lead and empowerment of the female characters through fighting and action, something typical in male-oriented cartoons or exclusively allowed to male characters. Often, the token female character was billed as “the smart one,” but was forced to wait in the background while the action occurred. Moon is also significant as a story in which the characters live in a world that is not encumbered by sexism. When a girl goes to fight crime, she’s held to her abilities as her own person, not by the standards of being female as compared to a male in the same position. Traditional thoughts of girls needing to stay home from battle don’t even appear. In Sailor Moon, empowerment, grabbing destiny — both are possible to everyone, male and female, and who’s going to say “no”?

Even after six years off the market, a testament toSailor Moon’s influence is that it continues to be a household name, attracting new and old generations of fans alike, and working as a bridge between them. No doubt the Kodansha team is looking to maintain its year of No. 1 hits by courting Sailor Moon fans with a release that aims to maintain the author’s intent and the title’s historical significance. For all of those who ever uttered “Moon Prism Power!” in their backyard when no one was looking, with a stick as their Moon Wand and a golf ball as their Sacred Silver Crystal, here, finally, along with the release ofCodename: V, is the entire Sailor Moon manga universe, unabridged."

So you see? Can you see the awesomeness of Sailor moon? I admit, I also like the retro way anime used to look like. So I am really really afraid the artwork of the new one might not be the kind I like. I am picky much. I am really happy that the voice artistes are coming back so I will not need to adapt to new voices of the cast. Haha. I will miss the old song. Moonlight Densetsu. It just brings back so much memories. Of me rushing to my grandma's room to catch the show on AXN in the afternoons because she was the only one with cable TV and how she would record the show for me when I was not able to come home to watch it. 

I remember my friend in secondary school in sec 2 I think, Quek Li Yu, I have no idea where she is in now, but I would love to thank her for her Sailor moon cards which she gave me. It became my first ever collectable! Elizabeth, who also gave me a Sailor moon ruler. These small gestures which I think they might have already forgotten, but I remain very thankful. 

To me, Sailor moon is a show that is quite brainless (it makes me laugh effortlessly), touching(yes, I even cry while watching Sailor moon) and inspiring. It makes me a better person, I think. More cheerful and accepting of others because everyone is special in their own way. 

Awesome art:)

It also made me a fan of shoujo. I just love how the art is so fairytale like, which makes you feel a little bubbly inside. Because of you, I have chosen Japanese over French because I definitely wanna hear and understand the jokes in the show without having to read the subtitles. 

Okay, maybe I am babbling. But this comes from deep deep down in my heart. Of all the things in my short 20 years of life, Sailor moon influenced me very very much. I love everything about Sailor moon and will continue to be a loyal supporter! 

So continue to amaze me! Gambatte! I cannot wait for the new show and my new manga books(very soon!)

Rebecca<3

Guangzhou trip

Well, I am finally back in Singapore where I can see my precious blue skies and smell the solely missed fresh air.

OMG, the air there is really bad! I moment I stepped out of the plane, I could smell the faint stench of human and smoke smell. I was so repulsed by the smell at the airport, but I remained positive.  This was just the smell of people after long hoursof flight right? But no. When I went into the train, the smell was terrible when the people came in. Pheeeew. My poor nose. I think they only shower twice a week despite the horrible heat. So the smell of sweat is fermented or something(for a lack of a better description) haha. But I am a nice person, I can understand this is probably their culture. I shall bear with it for the shopping. Haha. I was very surprised by the hotel. It did not stink and it was rather grand. Well, it was good enough for me. Because I      refused to share a room with my brother and my brother did not wanna share the toilet and my mom had to use the other toilet. So all was well because I had the room to myself almost all the time. My mom just slept over at night. No one to snatch the tv with me too. Haha.  I stayed in Rosedale hotel by the way. It is on the interchange for line 2 and 8 for the Guangzhou metro. Totally worth the money and so convenient! 

    

We wandered around the hotel and explored the alleys of Cheenaland. It was interesting. They sold shoes on a garage bag piled up in a mess on the ground. Culture shock. How to shop? Oh well. It was ¥15. What would you expect? I also saw many of those Lok Lok stalls which I wanted to try, but my parents discouraged me from it. Highly unhygienic. Because they probably left the ingredients there for god knows how long...:/

Here's the map of the place around the hotel. 

Map taken from Google Maps.

So we went to the supermarket after exploring the area. I experienced another culture shock there. -___-|||

Pictures speak a thousand words so just look at the pictures and then tell me what you think. 

Chicken feet, duck feet, sausages, duck wings. 

All the exotic food that I like! But I don't really dare to eat those in the supermarket.

SEAWEED! 

 OMG. God knows I really really love seaweed. Wakame, Konbu, Nori, I loveeee them all. But This is a little repulsive. Don't you think? :/

The person who arranged this must have been bored. REALLY BORED.

???? I have a few thoughts about this. Was the fish monger(Do we call them that?) really really bored? Or these fishies are for decoration? Or they do this because no one buys them anyway? I really wanna know because this is just soooo WEIRD! Ugly fishie on top.

2 fishies got maried and 2 fishies divorced and got new partners. HAHA

 Would have been more epic if you arranged the squid in a heart shape. HAHA.

Liang ban. 

 I still don't know how to input Chinese on this computer with my tablet. FAIL. But it means cold mix.

Supermarket haul. Haha. 

If you think this is little, fret not. I think we went to the supermarket 5 times during our 5 days trip. Haha. <3 the supermarket.

View outside the hotel. I KNOW. I am bad at photography. Haha.

After marketing, we went back to the hotel and then out again for dinner. We had difficulty deciding what to eat, but my father wanted to eat the suan cai yu A.K.A sour veggie fish??? That we had to look for a restaurant which had it. We walked into one of those alleys and just chose one. Ha. 

View from my table

Let me side track a little. Notice that my mom has a straight nose? I have too! But mine is a roundish straight nose that wrinkles up into a round ball when I smile. Sad:(

First dish, stir fried potatoes.

I lovelovelove potatoes. I like them grilled, fried, boiled, baked, well.... you get it. But this is pretty much the Cheena's version of their potato dish. Fried with dried chilli and I guess chicken oil, the aroma was awesome. If they would just add a little vinegar....nomnomnom. Of course, I have tasted better, but I liked this dish well enough to give it its own picture. HAHA.

Our first meal in GZ.

 Anyway, the bill came out to be about S$20. Very cheap considering that we had a whole fish and a whole chicken for dinner and drinks.

 Something gross I saw while eating.....I was gonna order the sugarcane drink and the staff were eating their dinner when I spotted the lady cleaning her mouth ON THE TABLECLOTH!!! Oh god. -___-|||

Guess what I found when I was washing the cups?

Okay, I have to be reasonable. We can find this in Singapore too. But....this is not a very good first impression. Haha

This was what I saw on my way up/down of the building. 

Okay, this is the rooftop, but where is the prince??? Haha. Just a joke you might not understand but NEVERMIND :D

Okay, so this was all I did for the first day. I am sleepy already. I shall continue again soon:) Ciao!

#EDIT: I killed my hard drive which had all my pictures in it. So I cannot have any more posts on Guangzhou. :(

Rebecca:)