Ivan Lian Jie Sheng
Singapore
A peaceful corner in Tampines
deceight 081289


archdevil89@hotmail.com

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My Darling Cheryl Theo
THAT IS WHAT LIFE IS ALL ABOUT
Sports, read, soccer
Nice tan
The Sun when its needed.
Money
If I like you, its your company.
The carrying out of a process called Slacking.
Nice music
Freedom to do anything i want
5 Aspiration. You guys made secondary school life memorable.

BUT THIS ISN'T
Rainy days when it shouldn't.
Being depressed.
Being lied to.
When I think too much.
left with no money.
my com when it lags.

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Thats a pic of the speaker.. everyone has a laptop. I used mine to take this pic.

missed my soccer again! argh. 4 weeks since I last touched the ball.

After i went for the course than i realised that it wasn't just 10 bucks or 20 for the course. It was 1.5K. wtf.

If i knew, i would have said no thanks.

so. thus. the goal. to earn back that 1.5k plus much more. I'm determined to earn back that sum to give back to my mum. yeah. oh yah.

paid another 600 sgd for the tools to be successful in this. *faints*

so 2k. and my mum paid for my uncle (her bro) too. so 4k. haha..

oh wells. that makes me even more hungry to earn that.

here goes..

Thats the guy!

Rachel (left) thinks he's hot. hahaha..

Rachel was "oh my god"ing and kept on repeating that he is very hot and cute. girls.

An overjoyed Rachel after being able to take a photo with him

Pool time!

After 2 games, we had to rush to the gate. Last call! too engrossed in playing. We were the last passengers to board the plane. thats how late we were. oh wells. Thai Airways, here we come!

Rachel, Cheryl and Me..

My parents

Plane taxi-ing to the run way from terminal one

SIA Plane

Interactive tv. had games, music, shows, and god knows what other fantastic features.

We're finally flying..

The ride took us about 1 hour. And the driver drove to the wrong hotel too. So another 15mins to our hotel.

Upon reaching the hotel, my parents checked us in and got the keys to the rooms..

This was my sisters and my room and as the hotel did not have any adjacent rooms at the moment, my parents slept in another room further down the hallway.

We than walked over to a shopping centre called Ma Boon Kong which was 2 traffic lights away to have some food and of cause, shopping!

A huge version of a Nokia phone.

My dad, satisfied with his food.

My dad said, "the hotel can be compromised as its only for sleeping, but not food."

well. thats his saying. i prefer both. oh wells. I had some crepes from a stall selling that and that only. quite cool. they had a variety of weird flavours like chocolate with kiwi and these types of combinations. I had the chocolate ice cream with corn flakes. It was like po pia with ice cream and corn flakes. but in a innovative way.

After that, we walked around the shopping centre for a while before heading for a night market called Suan Lum Night Bazaar. It consisted of 4 individual sections, with about 7 to 10 long rows of small shops in perfect alignment. I walked with my dad while my sisters walked with my mum as we would have different interests and things to look at. Clothes, shoes, art pieces, souvenirs, sun glasses and other interesting items were being sold to customers there. After covering one huge section, my dad and i stopped for a drink which was being sold right smack in the middle of the section. They had a stall which had openings on all four sides to make it like a roundabout.

We than went on to another section but found that they mostly sold the same things so after a while, we met back with my mum and sisters and headed back to the hotel to get some sleep. We walked past a huge food centre where the seats were in the middle while the shops selling food were lined at the sides to get to the taxi stand. Upon reaching the taxi stand, we could not get a taxi. Not because there weren't any, there were taxis aplenty, but because every single one wanted to hagger for a price to take us back. It was robbery. The ride which would normally cost 50 baht costs 150 baht instead.

Once, the taxi driver said "200 baht." after my dad inquired about the hotel and pointing to the meter, indicating that he wants to be charged by the meter.

My dad replied " You go.... you go hell."

We were all laughing at the poor guy.

We finally were able to get a taxi after 10 taxis later. Upon reaching our hotel, my dad gave him a rounded-up sum of 60 baht instead and told him, "you good man. you go heaven.."

My sis wanted to boil water and we searched high and low for the boiler. In the end, she called the desk counter and asked for hot water. we were told to bring the flask to the lobby where there was a counter which provided free drinks like coffee, tea, water, orange juice and a fruit punch. they also had a few plates of biscuits at the side of the counter. We got our hot water and headed back up to the room.

Next morning, my parents wanted to go to Chatuchak Weekend Market for more shopping, so they set a time of 7am to wake up and get ready for breakfast at 8.

We were down by than and there was a spread of food like those you see at catered parties at the same place where we got our drinks. I had some bread, scrambled eggs, some chicken porridge and sausages.

Morning necessities.

The funny thing was, this guy came along on his bike. With horns on his helmet. It was hilarious. And it wasn't staged. thats the best part.


How ironic. To first see a guy with a cross and than another person in the form of a devil coming up behind him. Funny as hell.


We reached the weekend market and were soon walking through the rows of shops.

This weekend market is unique in the sense that it has an animal corner. which sold all kinds of animals, from birds to dogs, fishes and even snakes. My dad and i saw a shop selling all kinds of reptiles and went in to look see.. who knows, the owner was feeding the snakes which were kept in small plastic containers like those you see if you order soup to go.

He was sitting on the floor, a box full of newborn mice to one side, many containers stacked up high to the other. with experience, he took a newborn by the body and opened the container containing the snake and thrust it inside for its meal. he repeated this procedure until every snake had a newborn for lunch. once, the snake escaped and bit his hand, coiling itself around it. however, he just took the snake and stuffed it back into the box like nothing happened.

I only managed to take a few photographs before one shop lady told me "no photographs, no photographs."

After walking around, buying some things along the way, we headed for another shopping centre to have lunch.

Tom yum soup was always on the menu for my mum.

My dad did this after he had 2 meals in a row. See the white flag? haha..

rachel with her fav lollipop. an oversized one which costs as much as our lunch.

cute right??

We decided to see what they have to offer and bought tickets.

My dad calls this antenna... seafood.

Dory!

Save him!
Glow in the dark scorpions.

Otters. feeding time..

How innovative is this?? they put a real car there, and filled it with fishes.

This toaster has a gold fish in it.

Shark feeding time (above and below)

The stingray actually engulfed the diver feeding the sharks.

Look at the size of the groupa!



Jelly fish..




Sotong.. It was huge. 3feet long?

Turtle!

The enterance ticket had a free ride to a ride called the glass bottom boat, a free drink and a 4d adventure movie. We went for the glass bottom boat first as it was inside the compound.

We were made to wear life vests. the pic above is what it looks like. the water contained all the fishes in the tank and below that, there is a walk way like the one in underwater world where the fishes would be all around you.

We were taken on a small boat which has a glass pane in the middle for us to see below around the area while given a guided tour by one of their staff there.

After that, we left to watch the 4D movie located just outside the enterance. It was a 4D show about 4 cute flies taking a trip to the moon. quite lame acutally. haha..

We than headed for a restaruant selling sharks fin for dinner to celebrate my birthday. Since it was nearby, we decided to walk there. My dad said it was located on one of the streets and we walked and walked but we still couldn't find it. My mum than had to pay the toilet a visit, to bomb. So the 4 of us walked around and my dad wanted to get something from guardian nearby.

My sis took this. haha.. and no. i didn't buy.

I had beer. since i'm of legal age. heh..

Their sharks fin was really solid. not those you would find going for 5bucks.

The traffic in Bangkok..

The next morning was to be a early morning as we booked a tour to the floating market at a small tour agency located next to our hotel at a cheaper rate offered by the lady who met us at the airport. All of us woke up at 6am as the tour bus would be meeting as at 7 at the lobby.

After about 2 hours on the road, we finally reached a small dock where a motorised boat was waiting for us on the banks. All of us hopped on and the boat man took us to the floating market.

It somehow looks like a city under water.

This was hand carved. Imagine the time taken.

The beauty of art.

My parents sitting on a huge rocking chair.

This was a common sight. Shopping!

After that, the tour guide brought us to handicraft place where it was mostly a shop selling fabrics and gifts. Nothing much to buy as everything was expensive..

Next stop, Chinatown! the tour guide helped us to call a taxi to bring us there and told the driver directions on where we wanted to go.

First stop was for food. It was a normal coffee shop but only with aircon. They had sharks fin too. My dad almost ordered but then found out that they didn't accept credit cards. So we just had fried rice and a few dishes.

Next stop, what else, shopping! My mum knew of a place where the whole street sold wholesale items and we walked around to find that street. We almost gave up as we couldn't find it and since it was a Sunday, my dad suggested that it may be closed. My mum's persistance paid off. we found it and it was not only open but crowded as hell. People were jostling with one another to pass and all of us were keeping a weary eye on our belongings for pick pockets.

After an hour of walking through the hot and stuffy lane, it was time to leave. It was too hot. So we headed for paradise. An air con shopping centre. Ma Boon Kong again. We took a taxi there and walked around again. This time, we had more time as they were about to close the last time we went. Again, we went our seperate ways. I simply love the 4th floor of the shopping centre but sadly i couldn't buy anything from there. They had small stores selling handphones, electronics like wii, ps3 and psp as well as pirated games! Heaven was just there but i just couldn't enter.

My dad and i headed to the food court next to find my mum and sisters who were having their nails painted. He than was thinking of eating or not and he went for it. that was just 3 to 4 hours after we had our lunch if you take that in mind. He loved the local food there and soon he was seen eating happily.

Durian sticky rice. Damn nice.

After eating, we headed back to our hotel to deposit all our stuff that we bought as we were going to another night market called Patpong’s Night Market.

The taxi which took us back to the hotel was one cool ride. It wasn't the usual taxi but a suv. the driver had a cow boy hat and he told us that he arranges tours and if in need of a ride, he was just a call away and he promptly gave us his name card. hows that for enterpreneurship.

My mum suggested to go and watch the cabaret show (transverstites dancing). Rachel was up for it. she wanted to see. so my mum checked with the receptionist about the places where they perform and was told that she could even booked through them for us. A ticket costs 700 baht ($30) and it was held at the nearby Asia Hotel. We had roughly an hour before the next show starts and we had nothing to do. so we took a slow walk to the hotel, passing by some shops on the way.

When we reached the hotel, we still had half an hour to kill but there wasn't anything else to do! so we collected our tickets from the counter and headed in.

The seating arrangements were fixed and since we booked late, we did not have fantastic seats. It was like a small theater, only that the seats were placed in a semi circle format where small tables were placed along the rows of chairs with a small table lamp on the table.

we were given a choice of drink right after we sat down. They had wine, xo, beer, gin tonic and juices. both my sisters had wine while my parents had gin tonic and beer was my choice.

The show started soon enough and a guy dressed in suit, the mc, started the show by greeting everyone in different languages as there were different nationalities in the crowd.

The show than carried on to have different performers dancing to different tunes, lip syncing as well. And they are all men dressed as ladies complete with breasts and flat at the bottom. If you get what i mean.

A tuk tuk full of shopping. not ours though.

my dad wanted to go back to the four face buddha to pray again and we took a taxi down. however, the taxi driver thought we were going to another buddha and drove to the wrong destination, wasting half an hour of our time. a de-tour and we were back at the buddha to pray. after that we walked to Siam Paragon for some makan.

Stupid driver.

My mum and her tom yum.

look at how small it is. its a wonder how we managed to squeeze into it.

The driver allowed us to take a photo with his tuk tuk and we gladly hopped on.

Stopped by a shop selling prayer stuff just down the road to buy some stuff.

While waiting for them, i pointed to my shirt and said monkey, than i pointed to rachel and said gorilla and cheryl chimpanzee in a song type. heh.

rachel than said we should take a photo. so i did the pose the monkey on my shirt was doing, and them doing some pose either animal would do.

Monkey

Gorilla

Chimpanzee

On the way to the airport. =(
Checking in

After checking in, we headed inside and best yet, we had to kill 2 hours. -_-"

Walking around, my dad and I left my mum and sisters to look around ourselves. however, everything was branded items. turn right, LV, turn left Prada. wth. they can start dreaming that we would spend our money there.. only on food though. thats an exception.

we stopped by a cafe as my dad wanted to get some food. as usual. he ordered tom yum which came with rice anda tiger prawn, a smaller version of "antenna" which he did not get to eat. he was satisfied though.

seeing that there wasn't anything much to do or buy, we met up with my mum and sisters again and headed for the plane.

On the way to the gate..

Our gate..

No, that isnt our plane. duh.

The girls bought that at the airport..

Thai Airways planes..

I'm leaving on a jet plane....

Bye byee..

Tea on the plane..

Smiley face. (:

I love this picture.

Back in Singapore.