USS - Us Siao Sillies!

Pardon me, that title is not conjured during one of my more genius moments.

So, as the title states, this post is about USS!~ 

 

Maybe I should do up the post of me in Disneyland. Though it's just Hong Kong Disneyland, nothing fabulous but still, IT'S DISNEYLAND!!

Okay, back to USS~ Kim and I decided to go there early this year as a day for us to chillax and catch up before our hectic school life takes over whatever remaining social life we have. It was also considered a really late 21st birthday celebration/present for her. Like really late! It wasn't our 1st time there, I think we both went once before, Kim with her family while I went with my Uni friends, Hui Ying, Jon & Eugene.

We went on a weekday which is equivalent to no horrible crowds! As Kim was more familiar with the place, for once, she was my tour guide. =D

We grabbed breakfast at this diner joint which she recommended. Food was pretty good but what I like about the place was the awesome layout and decoration~

I guess I always have a thing for American diner style.

Caught a nice hair flip from Kim~ *Loreal*

During breakfast, we started planning our route for USS~ And this time round, I think I managed to fully enjoy the attractions in USS.

Kim and I caught the musical, the Monster Rock. It's pretty good! Hahaha! Should try to catch it if you can, they have quite a few showings.

One thing I really like is walking down the Hollywood streets of USS. It helps create a soothing feeling for me and I can imagine myself walking down the actual streets. 

  

Of course, there are mascots that are always there to entertain us!
The famous PO! 

  

As CNY was approaching, Kim and I decided to rub his belly for 'cai'. (Cai means wealth) Just kidding~ =P

We saw the Joker running around. hiding behind bins and jumping out now and then to randomly scare passerby. Gotta say, he was really into his role.

Oh yea, check out Kim and my new car! Hahaha! I so wish that that was my car.

  

   

And if you see Bumblebee, you get to see...... OPTIMUS PRIME! Wooooohooo! I think I was damn excited when I realize that there was a  Optimus Prime mascot. I was running and jumping to the line and was totally disappointed when the staff told me that I had to wait for the next session. But still, I managed to rush back for the next Meet & Greet session and got my photo with Optimus! =D

   

Some of the other random mascots around.

  
 

We didn't really meant to take a photo with the guy on stilts but then, he was walking around alone and just seemed kinda of sad, so oh well, might as well right?

That's roughly all the mascots that we managed to meet. Was quite sad that I didn't get to see Puss in Boots. ヽ(´□｀。)ﾉ

For the rides, the main one we both wanted to choing for is latest ride: TRANSFORMERS! Thank goodness it was a weekday and the queue was really short and we managed to go on it twice! The ride, is just awesome! Though you might get a little dizzy and at the end of the ride, you MIGHT end up with a sore neck. Kim and I both did. 

The next one that I really wanted to go was the Battlestar Galactica  Roller Coasters! But Kim, having been on it before advised me not to right after our meal 'cos we will feel quite woozy after that. Which was really kinda of true! I felt so 'floaty' after the 1st coaster but we still rushed for the 2nd one right after that! Woohoo~ The ride is really awesome~ Thank goodness there wasn't any crowd and we got front seats for both coasters! This is a must-sit ride! But not after a full meal~ ^_^

We skipped some of the rides, mainly those in Madagascar town as they were more suited for kiddos~ We actually went on the children roller coaster at Far Far Away just for laughs. Kim and I got the whole roller coaster to ourselves! Hahaha! She video-ed down the whole process when we were on the ride and it was just so darn funny.

That day was a really fortunate day for us at USS! When I went to USS previously, the water ride, Jurassic Park Rapids, closed down that very day and was not opened..... until that day we went! We were so exhilarated when we spotted some people in the ride when we were 'flying' over it! Kim was in such a hurry to dash over that she actually left her slippers behind! Whahaha! The ride was really good but I thought the one at Genting is much better~

We took our time to walk around and managed to went twice for the rides that we enjoy~ I met one of my primary school mate there and it was amazing that he recognize me. And it was kinda of scary how he got my attention. It went:

Kai Xun: Joanna! 

* Oblivious and deaf Jo* 

Kai Xun: JOANNA!
Jo: *turns 1 round* Did anyone call me?

--------Silence----------

*stares at the group of army guys on the Mummy Roller Coaster*
--------Silence----------

Just before the ride left, 
Kai Xun: JOANNA!

And so, there was I trying to figure out who yelled my name and had no clue! How could I differentiate my friend, who I have not seen in years in a group of army guys? Hahaha! Later, I only found out when he texted me. Pssft!I told him I thought a mummy was calling out to me. 

Another interesting show that you just gotta watch is the WaterWorld Stuntshow! 

  

Their enthusiasm, stunts and playfulness are just so, WOAH! Prepare to get wet! No matter where you're seated at! Kim and I were kinda of gungho, so we sat at the 1st row. It was really fun! Halfway in the show, one of the guys came up to me and hugged me! He was trying to hide from the others so I had to play along. Shan't spoil it for anyone who has yet to watch but it's awesome! 

We spend most of our time, we walked around, enjoying the view. That day was pretty hot so we decided to splurge and get ourselves potion bottles! Tadaaa! 

  

 
Being my retarded self~ (◕‿◕✿)

  

Some other random photos here:

Welcome to my future palace~

 

Oh! We spotted this lady drying her clothes and look at her inventive way! Hahaha!

 

We spotted the Reese mascot after exiting USS and just had to take a picture with it. 

  

And after I tried 'eating' it, the people who were queuing behind us did the same pose. Ahh~ Sorry Reese!

It was a really great but tiring day~ Managed to have a good catch-up session with Kim! Much thanks to Kim's mom and brother, Don for driving me home~ Can't wait for the next one! Cheers to our strong friendship and may it ever grow and never break! ヾ（＠＾▽＾＠）ノ

 

Friends that keep me alive~

I'm trying to consistently blog. Maybe it would help me in expressing my feelings better. Not that I had trouble with them before, especially the negative ones but it's better not to keep things bottled up inside. Had this epiphany when I was discussing some stuff with my Uni friends. Topic was 'Tactful or Fake?'. Well, we did not exactly came up with that topic statement but our content were revolving around that and I thought that it was pretty interesting to ponder upon. After an hour or so of discussing, we saw things from different perspectives and it was really brain-stimulating in some sense. So I thought I would share it out here. What are your views about tact? To what extent would you consider a behaviour 'fake'?

School's coming to an end soon. Week 11 is over and only a few more weeks before my exams start.
(・へ・) 

But every cloud has a silver lining and in this case, it means that I'm finally gonna have a life again! It will be time to catch up with friends, do the things that I've been longing for, dramas, read, beach and.................... BANGKOK TRIP!!! Oh yea!

 

Yeaps, I know I've been rattling on about my July BKK trip since the past few posts but I'm just so dmn excited! And you can bet your hair I'll still mention it in the upcoming posts. =D


Anyway, was trying to clear space in my iPhone and com and realised, I have tons of photos that have yet to see the light and I was thinking, I shall just stuff everything into my blog. =^_^=

So as I was sorting out my photos, I saw some old photos too which made me go:（　ﾟ Дﾟ）

It's amazing how people can change. In this case, I mean physically. Looking back at a certain collection of photo I have, I'm always amazed.

Like Joy would always mention, "Why didn't you tell me how horrible I look?"

Well, gotta say, I guess I had little or zilch fashion sense at the age of 6? Hahahaha! But look at her now, big change! Woah! 

Photo took from her FB and nah, she's not a mother yet. Just wanted to put a deceiving photo up!

Another collection of photos that will always bring a smile to my face is of my secondary school mates. The way we look and the crazy things we did, oh gosh. Endless!

I found neoprints of Kim and I in 2005? Oh gosh, horrendous. Not going to post it up or Kim might kill me. Actually, I think I might just do it myself.

Secondary school, those were the days. Days where I met some of the best people in my life. Not just the classmates I had, but the teachers. Well, I gotta say, I started having more confidence in myself thanks to the teachers. Sounds really cliche but it's true. Thanks to the mini outburst flare-up that I had in Sec 3, I found friends who were willing to stick by me. (≧∇≦)

Oh gosh, i feel so sentimental now.

 

BAH!

Hahaha! Hope that didn't freak you out! Yea, I decided to upload some photos of a previous meet-up that I had with my 3 awesome girlfriends!

Looking back, it has been 10 years since we know each other.

KIM! 10 years since we've been pestering each other!

10 years & counting..

 Though it has been known that we do not show our affections for each other in the conventional way but still, we managed to survive the horror build up a strong and unique friendship~

Up to this day, even though we don't meet each other as often but whenever we do, we're able to talk like old times and this is one of the things I'm grateful to God. He blessed me with these 3 awesome gals in my life and through them, I've managed to grow even closer to Him. So without further ado, I present to you,

Kimby, Sarah & Evan!

 

Love these girls and I missed them so. I can't wait till we're all done with school and organize a meet-up again!

Sarah, up to her old tricks.

Evan, looking psychotic-fun!

  

And Kim, trying to look stern but not having much success~

Like I said, old times. As crazy as ever~

  

I guess we've really grown. Each of us embarking on different paths now. Can you believe that she's going to be a teacher in the future? Hahaha! 

 

Oh yea, I mentioned in my previous post that I'm taking driving lessons now~ I came across these photos which I took in the past when I was in Kim's car.

She has a row of dogs on her dashboard and goodness know how long it has been there. She claims it was left there by her brother but I bet she's secretly enjoying the torture they had.

Look at the colour difference!

And this is supposed to be a dalmatian. =.=

Poor doggies~ Imagine there's 1 whole row of them.

Oh, and she had a mini car accident the 1st time she drove me around. She caused the loss of an eyeball. 

  

That poor frog rolled down from the dashboard and fell to its death. We mourn the loss of it till this day.

Alright, I hope these photos entertain you as much as they were to me. =D Abrupt ending as my stomach senses Dad's awesome cooking and is starting to sing!

On a side note, I can't wait to catch Hunger Games with Sherwin, Leen & BT tomorrow! Woots!  

Should..

Yea, I should really be blogging more often.

SHOULD.

But then again, I'm just too lazy and tend to procrastinate too much. And as I've been using Twitter again, I find that all my thoughts that I wish to post about are all u there. Though it's only 140 words but, oh well, I'll make do with it! Hah!

So follow me on Twitter if you want to be updated with my nonsensical thoughts.
JoXianna

Hmm..

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Mmh..

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Maybe, I'll just give a few updates since I'm here. *grins*


School's been busy. Nothing new there. Surprisingly, I'm almost done with my projects. I'm left with just 1 project left and my Psych paper. However, this project is the bane of my semester as it is Finance. Urgh. Hopefully I'll be able to be bff with it soon. Hmm, can't really see it happening anytime soon. Bah!

Since the hectic-ness of school has more or less decreased, I'm currently trying to rush my driving lessons. My aim is to be able to get my license by June? Maybe July. I must get it by Festival of Praise 2012! Then I can be the chauffeur for my church kids! Hahahaha! How nice of me! Thanks to Kim, I've realised that having a car is really convenient and you get to go to tons of places that you don't really go to!

Like for example, when Clinton came to Singapore 2 weeks ago, Kim was our chauffeur! Hahaha! We went to Dempsey & Holland V. My 1st time there as both places were not exactly that accessible through public transport. Love the ambiance of those 2 places. I'm definitely going back there once I get my license.

Was so glad to meet my Aussie relatives again! We only get to meet once every 3-4 years? Really missed them so much! It's fun having relatives in many different countries but when it comes to family-filled festivals, kinda of hard to meet. Like Chinese New Year. I've only spent 1 Chinese New Year with them before!

Actually, scratch that. They left just before CNY, so I doubt it's considered!

Anyway, here's a picture of my nephew and I! Handsome fella!


He's older than me by a year but in terms of those family level, I'm a generation higher. He's really awesome with cameras! Didn't manage to meet my crazy cousin this time round, a.k.a. his mum but looking forward to meeting her soon! Met my other cousin and her family. Her sons are damn cute! I'm super envious of their long lashes and gosh, they look just like Chicken Little! Not exactly the finest compliment but they really do!

Can't wait till the next big reunion again!

Besides reuniting with my relatives, I've been slightly busier with the Youth Fellowship this time round. And I'm glad to say that we are growing more and more each day. The kids are taking up more responsibility and soon, I won't be able to call them my kids anymore. Kinda of sad.

But yea, last Friday, we had our 1st youth fellowship for this year and it was a blast! I felt that the gap between the senior and junior youths are slowly closing and this is a start! A start for us to get to know each other better!
I love God and I really want to thank Him for giving me such a wonderful family. Giving me extra siblings since I was a kid and now, giving all of us younger siblings!

Some crazy things Joy started, we continued and ended off with her.





Besides school, driving and church, I have my own fangirl stuff! Been watching a new anime, Inu X Boku SS. Not bad, reminds me of Kaichou!

Hahaha! Soushi is <3!~

Oh! And the trailer for Kenshin live-action movie is out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HPc-XJEDYjw

Can't wait!

And speaking of live-action and fangirl stuff, I can't wait for Bu Bu Jing Xin sequel to start filming this August! Ahh~ Hopefully we get to see snippets of what's going on in the filming! But first, I think I can get my drama fix from LSS's new drama, Da Mo Yao. Also written by Tong Hua and from the pictures that's been posted so far, 2 words - Looking Good!


Sometimes, it kinda of upsets me about how people rave about BBJX after it aired on Channel 8. Then again, it's just me. I just kinda of feel that the show is 'violated' in some ways. Can't really explain it but I guess is the over-craziness of the drama fan in me.

Alright, I don't think I have anything much left to update. I think I do need to take time out during my holidays to sort out photos and blog about some notable events. Like my 21st birthday (hopefully it won't be a 1 year delayed post), my China trip, etc.

OHHHH!

Speaking of trips! I've booked my tickets for Bangkok in July! Yes! I'm going there! Shopping Mission: Buy 100 pieces of items! I'm not kidding! Really. I'm planning to go with an empty luggage. Not going to bring any clothes except for the outfit that I'm wearing there. Hahaha! Gonna go there for around a week with Xin Lei. Might be joined halfway by Xin Ru & Xin Yi! It's gonna be so awesome! Jasmine Ang & her boyf are flying up too! Oh yea!~ Shopping timeeee!

I'm curbing almost all of my shopping now just for the July trip!

Okay, I shall go let myself get crazy over Bangkok for tonight and start preparing my assignments tomorrow. If you have any good tips about Bangkok, please let me know. Like how to bargain, how to not get scammed (especially by cabs), or what are the must-go places in Bangkok! Tweet, email, comment or anything!

Bangkok, bangkok~


P.S. Click on the ads if you're free~ =D

Internet.. Freedom of Speech?

Is internet really an outlet for us to express our feelings?


With all these new networking sites, we should have even more opportunities to exercise our freedom of speech. But is it really true?

Let's take FaceBook for example.

How many times have you 'Ignored' or limit your profile to certain people, like say; your colleagues, boss, classmates or family?

Maybe not profile but more of posts and photos?

I know I did.

This subject has been nagging me for quite some time and yesterday, I felt like blogging again 'cos of this.

I guess I should clarify, I'm a supporter of these networking sites. I used to use Twitter but currently I've stopped and is mainly on FaceBook(duh), Tumblr and, of course, Blogger. The main reason why I stopped using Twitter was that I did not want people to know every little action I did or where to find me. I used to be a fervent updater of statuses on FaceBook along with Twitter but over the past year, I've gradually stopped. (Tadaa! That explains the lack of updates about me! Mysteryyyy~~~)

So, what sparked off this post?

Well, I had a rather heated debate recently and seeing how bad my temper still is, I needed a place to vent and after going through the list of places I could, I realise, DANG IT! I can't post it on FaceBook or the person I'm 'bitching' about will see it and it's gonna be awkward whenever we see each other, much less work together. Even if I use 'secret coding' for my posts, people might put 2 and 2 together and spread it to them and that gets EVEN more awkward.


I used to have the notion that as long as you're right, you are free to say whatever you want. Express your feelings! Ignore the rest!


Maybe I'm not all that experienced in life, but after peeping into the working world and all, I realise that that is not a way for survival. Sometimes, you gotta keep peace for the sake of family, friends and yourself. It never hurts to have more bridges. 'Destroying' relationships might be harmful, you never know when you might meet that person's help.

Superficial, materialistic but isn't that true? Isn't that what we do best? Otherwise, why would we put on countless masks when interacting with others.

Alright, seems like I've digressed a little. Back to FaceBook.

So if we do not wish for certain people to see our posts, it would seem simple to just delete them. Save us all the trouble! But nowadays, the 'Friend' status on FaceBook seems to be akin to a friend status in real life. Deleting them off on FaceBook would be indirectly saying, "I do not wish to have you as my friend, not just in FaceBook but in my life too." Andddddd, that will just cause awkwardness and resentment.

Especially for the workplace! What do you do when your colleagues or even worse, your supervisors, add you on FaceBook or started following you on Twitter? Accept their friend request(Hey, they want to be friends with you!) or ignore them? Sometimes, I'm hesitant to accept colleagues on FaceBook as I do not want them to know what I do on my own free time. And I certainly do not really want to know whether my boss enjoys his date at the beach or so. Seems kinda of disturbing. I mean.


But if your boss looks anything like this, then it's a different story!


And if you are upset at some stuff at work, you can't really rant about it on your posts. Can you imagine your boss 'Liking' your post about how horrible your colleague is? -AWKWARD-


Also! Whatever you post online, be it blogposts, twitter updates or FaceBook posts, you might forget about what the content is after a few months, but the internet NEVER forgets! People can always backtrack to your history, especially with the new FaceBook Timeline. =.=

There, I've given most of the bad points about the lack of freedom of speech online. Of course there are good things about networking sites. I've killed off countless of hours laughing on Tumblr, reading blogs and writing personal blog entries. All I'm saying is that, before we can churn out a ranting post, think. Think about the consquences that will befall upon you or others. Your posts normally reflect who you are or more likely, people's perceptions of you as a person. If you tend to have lots of discriminating posts, well, what do you think that says about you? As your internet networking grows, your freedom of speech will start of shrink.

'With great power comes great responsibilty.'

Alright, that was lame. Hahahahaha!

Maybe this post is irrelevant to you because you are all that open and stuff, but well, this post is relevant to me and how I see stuff now! So if you disagree, so be it. I'm not forcing my ideas on you!

1st post of 2012 and after 6 months. Seems kinda of heavy. Oh well, anyway, here's wishing you people a belated MERRY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

How I want to live my life lies with me. Don't expect me to change just 'cos you don't agree with the way I do things. Life is short, instead of trying to think of ways to please others, I rather spend it on living my life to the maximum!

I need to wrap myself with events, to keep my mind off certain things. When I'm alone, I can't help thinking how useless I am and all. Without asking, I'm being blamed. What's the point. If people don't wish to ask, I won't wish to explain.

It's times like this where I feel that being single, being alone is so much better off. When can I find a soulmate? A person who I can talk to about anything and everything? God, I know you will listen to me, maybe its a sign that I should be alone after all? Maybe, maybe that's your plan for me.