Singapore

Hello

Haha, previous post was from Thailand about Thailand, this is from Singapore about Thailand. Okay so, I spent 14th to the 19th at MBD, and 19th to 21st in BKK.

First of all, before I forget, on the first day at Changi Airport, I met a super handsome guy Joshua Ch'ng HAHA. He was my immigration officer dude checking my passport lol. I passed him my passport with the raffles cover, and he asked 'serene isit?' and obviously yes. 'Just finished A levels?', and I said yes, I was going out to play till March results come out. He wished me luck and gave me a super super cute grin. Daily dose of testosterone, check :D

Hmm I'll continue with random incidents haha.

We created our own 'funny stories' cos they were too classic to forget xD They're on Daniel's blog and I'll compile it soon and repost here haha.

Isa can't hold her liquor. Three gulps of white wine on the plane was enough to make her ultra high x)

We swam in the River Kwai. The current pwns all lol.

Some kids swim nekkid x.x

Met four other volunteers, two Burmese ladies Mikey and Nancy, French-Thai guy Remi, and NZ guy Daniel. Their dynamics reminds me of me, Isa, Nigel and Dagoh haha, alot of fun and laughter x)

It must be the French-speaking from young which makes a voice come from deep inside (and rumbles chest hahaha), versus the wimpy sounds most of the Sporean guys make x)

Wanxiu donated 18kg of books which we hauled there and shelved in their library.

Isa learns a new word a day. Tank, LAN shop, overkill, mahkee (horse shit in Thai). Uses them in every other sentence for the entire day/two days lol.

We met Junwen (and his chauffeur Hansa) in Thailand. JW was wearing a shirt which had the chinese character shi2 = food, on the back and I commented on how fitting it was. His chauffeur Hansa, is quite the witty one hahaha. Dagoh bought Thai for beginners the book, and was reciting random Thai phrases until Hansa glanced back and asked 'how come he knows more Thai than Junwen?' lollll.

We asked Hansa what kilei/kirei meant, cos the kids called us that in MBD, and it means pretty in Japanese. Hansa said it means ugly in Thai, how lovely.

JW asked why that particular motorcycle taxi dude was wearing a purple vest with Thai words on the back, cos' the BKK district uses orange vests. Hansa said 'cos' he handsome.' JW explains to us that this is what is done when Hansa doesn't know the answer either hahaha.

We asked whether taxi/skytrain/tuktuk back to hotel is cheapest, and Hansa said, taxi about 80baht, tuktuk 100baht. But taxis sometimes not happy to send foreigners to such a near place (2km wakling distance), so he said 'you can try the tuktuk. 4 people squeeze inside is funny.' xD It was such a Singaporean phrase that all of us cracked up hahaha, but JW later said Hansa meant it was fun to squeeze four people in the tuktuk haha. Nonetheless x)

Isa says she wants to bring her husband-to-be here next time to see how he acts around kids lol.

She named this particular trip, ISLE Be Back For You (cos our first trip was ISLE Be There For You). The name kinda stuck.

Thai whatever in Baht is mother cheap. Everything is mother cheap.

[edit]Every morning Dagoh's alarm would wake us up with the chorus of David Cook's Always Be My Baby.

All of us were impressed with the wallpaper on Dagoh's Mac. Even Tookta (the lady in charge), when she gave us free notepads as thanks for our donation, said it's for Daniel and his girlfriend hahahaha.[/edit]

I think I may consider going back as well. Probably with a group of closer friends during a summer break, spend 2-3 weeks there. The experience is totally, totally amazing.