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Friday, December 09, 2005 | 11:23 AM | 0 hearts♥
finally ive reached singapore safely from chengdu. the flight was slightly scary at the end.. cuz there was loads of lightning flashes near us. but i made it back in one piece to see my family and friends... PHEW. lolokie.. lets start from the beginning.
1 Dec- my depature date to chengdu, china. was really excited cuz ive not sat in a plane for ages since my primary school days.. and this time its not with my family too. so its really cool for me. all those times of having to go to the airport just to see other people check in in my face... NOW ITS MY TURN. ah hahahahha. savour the moment=D anyway... was pretty sad too. cuz it means that i wouldnt get to see him for more than 1 week. its like, he came back from china, and i leave for china. like DUH, lousy planning. he came to send me off. including jie sheng. but then for jie sheng's case its DIFFERENT.. hahaha. shall not talk more abt it. i wrote a letter for him before going to the airport. turned out that he wrote one for me too. hahahahahha. i say it should be longer than my letter though. read it on the plane.. and well. dun wan to say anymore. just that i reread the letter many many times throughout the course of 8 days.
the plane flight was HORRIBLE. budget airlines really live up to their names. BUDGET. AIRLINE. put them together and you get? BUDGET AIRLINES. wonderful. crampy seats. weird meat in my lunch. poor service. uncomfortable 4 hours. i applaude them. cant even get an ounce of sleep. arrived in chengdu after it... the blast of cold air outside was really really an experience. omg... at first i thought it was okie.. but as the day wore on... i found out that i was wrong. very very wrong. lol. got super cold at night. my god. we had mushroom pot that day.. and met up with our 3 coaches. and at night... was one of the worst nights in my life. i cant survive in an air-conditioned room. i get very bad flu. and turns out that i get the bed underneath the aircon. omg. i woke up at 2 am in the morning cuz i was very thirsty. and used up 2 packets of tissue. couldnt go back to sleep cuz i was feeling really unwell from e flu. it sucked. that night. had to sit up to sleep. didnt really rest at all. got very homesick. missed my home. missed him. missed my bed, my parents. wished that i hadnt gone on the trip.
2 Dec- first day of training. coach tang was the man in charge for this training. freaking cold.. the hall. didnt even need an air con. it was everywhere. omg... i was wondering how in the world we could survive the training like this.... hm. later we were led through a series of warm ups... and ended up that everyone was so hot from it that we took off our jackets... hahaha. played with coach yang... argh. super pressurizing. everyone has a partner from the team, and i actually kena the coach. played like crap in front of him i think. zzz. super paiseh... ended the training with the movements we should make on the court. practised the one for receiving back hand smash first. had two trainings a day. one in the morning for 3 hours, then back to the hostel for lunch, and back to the hall for the afternoon training for another 3 hours before it finally ends. the first day of training was a blast. my whole body aching.. especially my left thigh... my movements were like a old woman... omg.. terrible. and i had diarrhoea that night. super sian day.
3 Dec- 2nd day of training. can barely walk. cant bend down during the training and missed so many balls. felt super sian. the coach was like saying shujun you have to bend down more and stretch out yr legs more and i go yes yes but deep down inside its not like i dunno it... just that its too painful. urgh. horrible. sent coach yang back on the way at the end of the training. uneventful night.. slept much more peacefully. cuz i found the cure. 5 layers of clothing. haha. although it made it hard to turn abt on the bed. had some dream that i couldnt remember.
4 Dec- 3rd day of training.aches were just as bad. coach taught us some warm downs... very yoga style.. but it was very fun.. haha. i liked the one where we had to kneel and bend backwards to the floor. that was the nicest=D coach yang accompanied us for lunch... he accompanied us for the whole day...even after the training... until11 plus then he left... winning 110 singapore dollars from someone... ah ahhahahahahahhahaha. i'll nvr forget that episode. lol!!!
5 Dec- 4th day of training. coach yang was with us from the morning training... and he stayed overnight at the hostel with us too. we had a "party". he took us to the supermarket and we spent 400 yuan worth of drinks and food. had a night party in rm 102.. aha hahahha. was pretty fun. very noisy and and everything. but it was so enjoyable.
6 Dec- last day of training. shifted the training session in the afternoon to morning. so we trained from morning till 1 plus in the afternoon. save more time for us to have lunch and explore si chuan. coach yang was with us the entire day. cuz he stayed in the hostel. went to training with us. visited a tourist spot... a place dedicated to liu bei i think. tourist spots are scary. they rip pple off realy alot... ah ahhahaha. benny is super funny la. but its not nice to make fun of him in this way. okie okie dont say anymore. bought some stuff for my family. didnt know if they would like it. but i thought it was a very interesting souveneir. coach yang stayed overnight again. and another night party. spent 600 yuan on food and drinks... lol. all the guys drank jolly shandy with lemon flavour. hahahah. and played some games... very fun night.
7 Dec- touring time. we went to a place.... hmm... about the some river. very beautiful scenary... next time i will post the photos.. and we took a grp picture there. the spot was specially prepared for groups to take a photo for a memento there. 1 big photo that's glossed for 20 yuan.. pretty worth it. i really liked it. but then when i got back to the hostel... i realised that coach yang didnt have one. he didnt buy.. so i gave him mine... o well. anyway that place is where you can find ebony... some kind of carbonized wood that can only be made after a very very very long time under high pressure in the earth or something. its very precious. and the figurines carved out of it are simply a work of art.. wish i could take a picture of it. but no camera with me=( bought some ebony souveneirs for my family. then they had this bridge that across the river. super scary that one! it ROCKS. it SHAKES. why? because stupid tourists in front are playing a fool and making it move left and right. idiotic people. and then coach yang went to scare me some more. zzzzz.
next we went to climb a mountin. supposed to be 7.5 km high. we only climbed 3.5 km. halfway -.- cuz we only had 2 hours in the mountain. go up= 1 hour. come down= 1 hour. horrible horrible horribe number of steps. dunno which pig was it that invented so many steps for this mountain. when i was climbing with grace we were going !@#$!@#$. lol. but it was really fun... a big experience. saw taoist stuff... something about sun wukong also.. where he learnt the 72 transformations. aiyah... the problem with the tour guides is that they talk super fast. and in CHINESE. CHINESE!! how can i keep up! zzzz. so didnt know much of what was going on.. just some bits and pieces... lol. took loads of photos there. then we went to have our 2nd mushroom pot for this trip. at a different restaurant though. but this time there's a duck in the soup. enjoyed that dinner. and i liked their meat buns. very nice! and the gong bao ji jing!=) coach tang joined us for dinner halfway. turned out that he wanted to debrief us, the badminton team. so we went back to the hostel. he gave us guidelines on how to progress with our trainings in future. and etc... yeah. very sad when he left. coach yang stayed with us again. for the very last night that day. could see that he was very sad.
8th Dec- time for actual shopping! the bus took us to the shopping district. said to have everything here. but then i hardly bought anything. many of the things sold were either not to our taste, like clothes, or we could buy them in singapore. i saw a gundam model though. think it was freedom gundam-extra finish version, 1/100. costs 90 sing bucks. omg. very hard to buy presents for people. cuz you duno whether they like the present in the first place. if they dont then its an awful waste of money. zzz. thats why. anyway i finally decided on something for him. made THREE trips for it. cuz i couldnt decide. zzzz. and i bought a bag for myself=) er.... bought other stuff... yeah... LOADS of chocolates! cuz they are not found in singapore!!!! YESSS
parted at the airport. it was a very sad farewell. we took our last photos with coach yang. he accompanied us all the way to the airport... from morning till then. me and ph cried. waved goodbye to him alot of times. i nvr got to see him walk away from the check in point. he looked very lonely standing there alone. although we all knew we had to say goodbye i still felt very sad. cuz throughout the short 8 days we all grew very attached to him. last time i heard that he specially took leave from the chengdu uni which he is studying in now just to spend time with us. just for us. and im really really very touched. i dont think he's the kind who has many friends, although he does have some. and there was once he asked us what was he going to do next week, cuz we would only be here this week. although it was a very simple sentence said casually, it held alot of meaning for him i think. he was very sad. especially when we had to go.
the one person whom i'll nvr forget would definately be coach yang. appreciated what he has for us. and its alot. to sacrifice his study time just to accompany us. i miss him alot. i think the whole team does. hope that we will have another chance to go back to chengdu to go visit him. maybe feb? but by then he wont be playing badminton anymore... most likely. cuz he will graduate in half a year's time. and he wants to work in another job. duno if we will be able to find him then? its hard to say. looking forward to his letters. written in CHINESE. omg. killer. duno if i can read anot. and he's going to try to get msn as soon as he has internet in his house. woo hoo! then we can all go flood him with english words. hahahahhahahaha. bully him=P
took the plane back. the plane again lives up to its name. BUDGET AIRLINES. came up with the same movies as the first plane. urgh. boring... reached singapore at ard 1 plus. jie sheng jerome and him were there. slept till 5 plus at the airport. then we took the train from changi to come back home. HOME SWEET HOME... hahaha.
alright. i'll go eat my lunch now. finally=)