Thursday, July 26, 2007

HOHOHO!!

SANTA CLAUS IS COMING TO TOK!


OOOOONNNNNN......25TH JULY!

Can u believe?? Its christmas here in the middle of summer, in the middle of nowhere called TOK! And my clique of singaporean girls 'hosted' a xmas celebration-cum-exchange on 25th! 25th was actually my off day and i spent it on checking my smu bidding and online shopping. My most extravagant shopping ever -> Victoria's Secrets on bikini, tankini, ballet flats & 6-in-1 dress; Oldnavy.com on cap-sleeve hoodie; Metrostyle.com on laced up boots and skorts - amounting to US$178!!!

Then Adel and i went to enquire abt the apthotspot account before i embarked on korean drama marathon. By the time the rest of girls came back from work, i left with 2 n 1/2 episodes. Then we had a whirlwind discussion of the events for xmas. A very last-min name drawing for the gift exchange. I drew Eunice's card and i had no idea what to get for her at all.

In the end, Meiyin and i went shopping together for the gifts. 1st went to get money from bank then went to Snowshoe gift shop. After a long while, i finally decided on buying a pink haematite bracelet for eunice ($5). Then we went back to trailer to decorate and wrap our present and card.

By the time we finished with it, it was 7+pm and we all had grilled turkey ham sandwiches. Then we had our dessert - Chocolate fondue with raspberries that Selle, shiwen and eunice picked, plus the sweet cocktail! next we went to take pics with Santa Claus in Hotel. Then we finally went back to trailer to exchange gift. I got a mini husky with igloo from Selle! hahaha

LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 9:39 PM

Monday, July 16, 2007

Woke up for the breakfast - pancakes. It was the american chef Ian and when i was waiting to collect my pancakes, he asked me again if i wanted sausages or bacons. i told him i wanted sausages so i had 3 sausages added to my pancakes. This was e 2nd time he gave me that options when i collected for pancakes. Hence i had a very full pancakes which was wonderful!

At 8am, Yuxuan and i went to the main hotel lobby to meet Ditty. He would drive us and Jeremy and Ben to Fairbanks in the company van. YX sat in the front passenger seat while i had the 2nd bench all to myself, and the guys got the last bench. We all slept on the 4-5 hrs drive, and reached fairbanks abt 11.30am. Then he went to get some supplies before letting us off at Bentley Mall to shop while he did his stuffs. The mall is only one storey but has a few stores such as PAYLESS SHOES, AMERICAN EAGLE OUTFITTERS, CLAIRE'S ACCESORIES, GAMESTOP etc. I browsed the accessories while YX browsed the Gamespot. In the end, i bought SPIDERMAN 3 shirt and tights from a Gothic movie-inspired store.


Then we bought Mac's Fillet O fish and i got 3 cookies for only $1. Next we went to regal stadium to watch HARRY POTTER & THE ORDER OF PHOENIX @1.30pm. Oh yah forgot to mention that the cinema here has free seating so when u bought the tickets, it only has the theatre no and u could choose ur seats. Moreover the screen is much bigger and got more seats than usual no in singapore cinemas. At least there's no hassle in trying to find ur seats in the dark if u come in late.

The movie was alrite...but i feel its too short, not enough of the development. After this, we sneaked into another movie TRANSFORMERS, 3.50pm. This movie is much better! Cool cars, and actions! Lolx I munched on my snack mix until i very full cuz i also had 2 breads during movie.

After movies, Ditty brought us to this Thai restaurant SWEET BASIL and i had some Po Phai J - fried tofu with peppers, corn, mushrooms and shared Tom Yum seafood soup with yuxuan. It was delicous but i was too full to devour all. =P After dinner, we hang around for a while before gg to WALMART & Fredmeyers for groceries. I bought my novel THE HARLEQUIN by LAURELL HAMILTON from walmart for only US$17.94!!! Its a hardcover edition! Man I'm seriously considering movin into US man!! The novels here are so freaking cheap!

Of course, we bought ALOT of groceries on the behalf of our absent 4 members. lolx then we went back to trailer. I slept on the way back too.

LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 9:03 PM

Friday, July 6, 2007

The independence day

Though it was a public holiday, but we ALL had half day of work, 8-12 doing rooms. Adel and i worked togehter in the 20 units. we helped eunice and shi wen to strip 5 rooms as most of our rooms are off roaders and they left later. so we slowly stripped our own rooms and it was 9am before we started making up the rooms. so when it was Adel's rooms, i made the beds while she cleaned the toilets and vice versa for my rooms. We couldn't finished the rooms by 12pm even though we did finish 6 rooms by 10am. One of the rooms only checked out at 12pm and we couldn't strip it. Eunice and Shiwen helped us to do one room as we helped them to strip. so we had our lunch first - chili cheeseburger with fries and watched abit of the parade before going back to finish the rooms.

After work, we all showered. and while i was waiting for others to shower, i rested by watching the historical program of US fight for independence. Actually there was a BBQ party at some one's house but we needed to take a cab there. At 3pm, we wanted to find the cab to the place but we couldn't find it. so we decided to walk to the Tok Mushers Hall to see the fair and watch the mud bogging. On the way, we passed by Roxy's mom tacos shed so we said hi to them before continuging on. At the Musher Hall, there was no more fair but people were still watching mud bogging. Mud bogging is juz the four-wheelers and some other vehicles competing to see who could drive further in the mud. The weather was hot and sunny and my sunglasses was broken on the trip to fairbanks so i had no protection from sun! after a while, we headed back to the makeshift stage and took some random pics.

Then we walked back to roxy mom's taco shed and bought food from them. Meiyin and i shared sliced beef burritos and chatted with Roxy about her plan to come to our trailer and cook honey mustard chicken, and chocolate cake and cream of fruit cake. As the day she coming was thurs, both eunice and i had off and we offered to shop for the ingredients and roxy gave us a list of ingredients to buy.

so we then went back to trailer, had dinner and spent the rest of the night playing card games that roxy has taught us such as Rummy, ERS, (our own games) Bridge and Daidee. Adel also got off day as Jean scheduled too many people to work tomorrow.

Baking day on 5th July

Morning i went to collect breakfast for all of us. I had pancakes as usual and then after brkfast, i continued to read the 3rd book WHEN DARKNESS FALL until 10am. Then i napped from 10-11.30am. I washed up and went to post office to collect my parcel of books. The novels i ordered at Harlequin and inquired about the money order. The post office pays $1 for $1-500 money order. Then we collected and had our lunch. Next we went to 3 bears grocery store to buy the ingredients and we still had $1 change for each. Then at 2pm, we went to ALL ALASKA GIFT- Adel and i used the free wi fi to shop online at VS etc. By the time we finished and going back, it was 3.30pm and it was raining heavily. so we quickly ran back. Reaching trailer, we put away our stuffs and started to tidy the kitchen area.

At 4.30pm, Roxy came with some ingredients but she had to go back for her equipment. so we waited for a while and i arranged the stuffs neatly. So we started off with making the rice with garlic. I helped to cook the rice while roxy showed the others how to make the honey mustard sauce for the chicken and then cut the slit in the chicken breasts to put the sauce. Then she put the chicken into the oven to thaw somemore. Then i helped to pour the sauce into the chicken pockets. so while the chicken were baking, she taught us how to make the chocolate cake. Then when the chicken was ready and rice, we put in the chocolate cake to bake. then after eating the chicken and rice, we made the cream cheesecake and then we put out the ready chocolate cake. Roxy put the andez chocolate mints on the surface of the chocolate cake and all melted!! YUM YUM! Roxy also taught us to make the whip cream topping with vanilla, cinnamon then we used the syringe to make decorations on the cake. We drew our names on each slice of cake!

After all the baking and cooking, we spent the rest of night, playing card games. The new game she taught us was SPEED and it was kinda liek SNAP. We played till 10pm and she left and we continued our daily routine of playing and brushing.

LET ME FLY AWAY FROM HERE
- 9:02 PM

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Jezebel
SMU
Year 2
24 December
Enjoy reading, movies, travelling, plays

WISHED

• Shopping in Taipei
  
• Shopping in Bangkok
  
• Shopping in Hongkong
  
• Sightseeing in Japan, China, Vietnam


• Backpacking through Europe (France, Germany, Italy,
  Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark etc)


• Snow skiing in Korea
  
• Backpacking/Trekking in New Zealand
  
• Trekking in Nepal
  
• Sightseeing in South Africa
  
• Road Trip thru USA lower-48 states


• Romantic Getaway @ Maldives
  

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- Eunice+SW

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