9Thursday, August 31, 2006

Jessica Sanchez

Above is a video clip from the american reality tv show, Americas Got Talent. This clip features Jessica Sanchez. She performs really well and has astounding vocals. Unbelievable. Even though she lost in the end to Bianca Ryan (who has a POWERFUL voice too), she's still a great singer and has a lot of courage for a 11 year old.

I woke up this morning again with "doughnut" in my mind! Haha. I raced to the table and saw five juicy sugar dougnuts! HAHAHA! I chomped down two before I took my shower.

There were still so many things that I had to pack. I was thinking how I was going to smuggle in one carton of chewing gum. Haha! I ended up scattering all the packets around my luggage to avoid unecessary attention from the custom officers. Heh heh!

I left the hotel again with two doughnuts on hand. I had to leave the last doughnut behind because I couldn't afford to carry anymore >< SO WASTED! -bawl-

We left for the airport soon after and haha, I snapped a few final shots of this magnificent city.











Yeah, I'm going to miss this place so badly. No, I'm not exaggerating, its the truth. It will be another quadraple of months before I can visit this beautiful nation. It's diversity, its culture, its people and its wonderful charm.

I arrived at the airport not long after. The crowd today wasn't that bad as compared to usual days. Yanto, who was our airport aide speed us through immigration and in less than 5 minutes we were ushered us to the airport lounge. Haha, we didn't have to queue for our ticket or have our passports checked, it was all done for us already. Sweet. Here are a few photos that I shot at the airport.










Me and Orchids =X


The SIA Lounge


Magnificent BOEING A-380

Oh, you saw the pic of the Boeing A380! It's godamn cool larh. I wanna ride on that monster one day. Hahaha! Oh, I also saw some US Airforce Pilots. They were seriously damn cool larh and I managed to get a glimpse of the F-16s. Sleek and wowza! Can I be a pilot too one day? No >< I have myopia. Crap!

Before long, our plane was ready for boarding. It was actually delayed by an hour and I was stuck at the lounge for a while. At least, I had food to comfort me. Sob sob, I'm still thinking about that poor doughnut that I left behind =(


Me & Yanto


My Plane Home

The plane ride home was better this time. I managed to grab three main courses from the flight attendant. They thought I was mad. One was beef rendang, one was seafood spaghetti and the last one was salmon noodles. HAHAHA! I'm a glutton! Everyone's glad that I'm eating normally (more like abnormally) right now. The video screen this time was detachable on the seat unlike the previous flight so I didn't have to crane my neck like before. I watched Thank You For Smoking. It's a very analytical show and humorous at the same time. Ever thought of being a tobacco, alcohol or firearms lobbyist? Imagine working for an industry that cause potential harm to the mass public. Such people are labelled as mass murderers by the public, so can you live with it? It's actually a great topic to debate and harvest upon.

I reached home almost two hours later to a raining Singapore. It looked gloomy but I was looking forward to the weather. Wasn't hot and dry like Jakarta at least.

Oh, IMF & World Bank posters are everywhere. I can't wait for all the delegations to arrive soon. We Singaporeans are gonna give them the most PLEASURABLE (lol, so wrong) time of their lives! A few of my relatives, uncles and aunts, will be heading several delegations and attending the conferences too. Maybe I'll bump into them somewhere. I volunteered for IMF but I was seperated from my classmates, Dixon, Mich and Jere. They have different roles and are on different days too. Bummer. But, otherwise, you guys have fun too!

Security is definitely going be at a critical level for the next month or so. For the last few weeks, I was wondering why outdoors protests couldn't be allowed, I thought the police was just a little too prudent with themselves, but thinking again, yeah, outdoor protests just won't do. Remember the IMF World Bank meeting in Hong Kong? That didn't turn out to well. Regulated protests are needed. Yeap. Cuase, this is a matter of national security. Like I said before, our saftey (and reputation at the same time) cannot be compromised.



Well, time to end my post I guess, I need to start unpacking my luggage. Gotta sort out my stuff and all. OH YEAH .... I miss Jakarta already =X ...
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