Monday, September 11, 2006
listening to: criiickets.
feeling: hot, sweaty, icky.
kanna left today. boo. i actually miss her, migosh! haha, not really surprising.. but then again, mom says that she'll be coming back again next year.
jet lag has been nipping at my heels and the toll is being taken out on me.
following post was meant to be uploaded yesterday but due to laziness, it didn't happen. don't expect the following to be a great literary novel. it's just an "as simple as can get" worded post.
stupify me, bitches.
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listening to: all the brunei people i've missed.
feeling: at ease.
important things first:
thanks for being the wonderful best friend you are and i'm glad that you've been here for me as i will always be there for you. hope you're having a great time in labuan right now and i can't wait til you come back so we can chat our little heads off as usual. hehe.
okay, so lets start off with the day i left... friday. kanna and i got up early, at 7 am to be exact, only to find out that we woke up at the wrong time.. so we spent the next hour or so just doing nothing until finally my parents got up, got ready and some guy came to drop us off at the airport...
the airport was surprisingly packed and soon after arriving, we set off on singapore airlines to singapore, where we stopped to connect to our next flight. brought a book in changi airport - a novel taken from an autistic kid's point of view and then got onto the flight for our 7 or so hour flight to taipei, which by the way, is such a mind-boggling airport. it was actually quite a scary place with no particular reason as to why.
anyway, after setting off again on the flight to LA, we finally arrived there after 18 hours? i don't know.. i lost track of time and my eyes hurt from watching too much tv. point is.. we finally got there and it was just becoming night so we caught a cab to our cute little merriot courtyard hotel and then just collapsed on a bed in our room, had a shower and then passed out til 4.30 am the next morning, which is when i started getting ready for our final flight to phoenix.
luckily the flight lasted for an hour or two and we managed to reach tuscon just before lunch and got picked up by gene and lis and my adorable and smart niece, hattie. she is one of the cutest things i've seen with her wispy blonde hair and deep blue eyes. she also knows sign language, which is amazing for a girl her age. we also found out that lis is pregnant again, which is great! means i'll be a two-time aunt.
we then got our rental car and drove all the way to tuscon, where we checked into our hotel which was actually really nice. whilst in our hotel, ginny and her husband-to-be, tim, came and joined us and we got to see them and aunt milly, who was staying in the same hotel and chat too. then we drove to auntie genie's where we met up with everybody else. it was wonderful to see everybody and we all just sat and chatted for ages.
okay, since i can't be stuffed to write a blow-by-blow entry on everything that happened, i'll just tell you about the key points. wedding was great, beautiful and i almost cried, until i regained my composure and reminded myself that the mascara wasn't waterproof. the newly wedded couple were accompanied out of the church by the star wars theme music, courtesy of sean, and then lots of photos were taken outside the church til everybody set off once more for the reception, which was so beautiful as well... held in the "courtyard" at genies and franks, there were fairie lights up and candles everywhere and the wind was very relaxing, accompanied by the great music. fernando seranded the newly wedded couple; ginny and tim, and it was just like out of a movie - perfect.
spent lots of time with hattie and did a lot of shopping with the girls; kanna, sarah, milly, lis and.. er.. gene. brought some very cute things including a black and white strapless dress. uuuhm, basically the next few days were spent with the family and shopping or whatnot. ah yes, and a lot of food was consumed during that week. the americans sure know how to eat, to put it simply. the weather was great, not too hot and not too cold.. of course i would have liked it to be hotter because i wanted to get a tan, but other than that, it was the perfect climate. the people were so cheerful and there were all the cute little american things such as starbucks, little packets of condiments, bagels, pretzels, food courts buzzing with activity, mexican restaurants and so on. it was fabulous.
finally, we woke up at 4 am on friday to set off for our flight to LA. instead of spending some time there, we just went straight onto the next plane to tokyo and then back to singapore after 30 or so hours of flying. we arrived in changi airport at 1 am and then just wandered about the airport, did some shopping and then got onto our flight for brunei, only to arrive back home at midday and then get picked up by siti.
after arriving home, i unpacked and mom found out that one of our fishies had died, only to be replaced by two smaller mini fishes, which i have now named as tweedledee and tweedledum. which is which, i don't know. then kanna and i both passed out til early morning, when i quickly woke up at 5 am, had a shower, got ready and then set off for school.
man, i was so dreading coming back to isb and brunei, but now that im home, i'm glad i'm back. (:
... i still miss america a lot though. hehe.
xx.
dee
