Dear

Dear Terence! I’m so sorry I couldn’t talkk 2 you last night when you called me at 3a.m. Haha, too many things were on my mind and i went to sleep without turning off my laptop! Yes, but I’m so touched that you called. HAHa, you find Egypt fun? OKAY, next time we go together okay? we go check out all the beach resorts. Some near the red sea and some near the Mediterranean okay? YAY! can go ride camel also! lol!

looks like a really ordinary picture doesn’t it?! It’s the suez canal. Restricted area. shhhssshhh. Our tour guide ROCKS!!!!

haha Fabian is dancing! hahaha! with the belly dancer whom i think looks like a man!

hmm… hahahaha. so bold!

look at the super cute camels. haha do u see me freaking OUT! hahaha!

OFF for now. BBQ later. wahaha! yay! i want everything to work ou BY TODAY! TONIGHT! ALL MUST BE FINE!

egyptying 2

Paranoia is an unfounded or exaggerated distrust of others, sometimes reaching delusional proportions. Paranoid individuals constantly suspect the motives of those around them, and believe that certain individuals, or people in general, are “out to get them.”

Someone says I have been overly paranoid.

this is one of the tombs found in the valley of the Kings where many of the pharohs were buried. I really wonder why the skies are always so nice in foreign places…

this is egypt. yes egypt is not covered in sand. and yes they do have hotels. we do not need to pitch tents. check out this pic. the lush green of the fields. the blackness of the soil, the borwn rock and the blue sky. WOW! haha.

check out the tourists. heheh. i like this pic. u noe why? Muahahaha!

i like the previous pic cos it reminded me how cute they look like walking around the scarabe. for good luck and all.. lol ;P

am i cheeky or what? * cheeckY CHEESE*

this is an ancient egyptian temple. check out the obelisk. yes that super tall pillar-like structure on the left. there were 2. one is in Paris. exchanged for a clock which doesn’t work. and in the background so u see another old mosque which was built on top of this temple before they realised what was underneath it. it was only after excavation did they realise the existence of this ancient egpytian temple! wow!

so many ppl checking me out! hahaha i like the white T-shirt black pants one! hahaha!

i lurrve this place. Hurghada. located at the coast of the red sea. i wanna come back here some day. we stayed at the le meridien. its me first time staying in those hotels where there have a special section of the beach meant ONLY for guests. haha damn shiok. super nice! i didnt have time 2 swim in the red sea… but i but my feet and hands in it! haha!

check out the human size chess board! so cool?! haha we don care about the 2 guys playing. just walk here and there and snap snap snap! haa LOL!

i dunno why.. but when i wear shorts… heads seem to turn! hahaha. maybe it’s bcos i wear it in the hotel lobbies. HAHAA!

this is the view from our hotel room in the Le meridien… the white structures are other villas… I WANNA GO BACK THERE!

so we left hurghada, took a ferry, crossed the red sea and arrived at St Katherine to climb Mount Mosses! or Mt sinai.. this is the sunset view… WOW the climb was really tough i must say. 6 hours plus up and down!

yep. me touching the burning bush in the monetary of St Katherine!

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okay I HAVE BEEN EXPECTING AN OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FROM U ALL TO MY EGYPT TOUR ENTRIES. BUT NO… I ONLY HAVE 1 COMMENT FROM DEAR AMY . AND YES MY HIGHEST ENTRY PER DAY HASN’T PEAKED SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR! WHERE IS THE LOVE MAN?!!!

isn’t this joyful? this is on the river nile cruise ship room. haha yah the room in the cruise. actually i really enjoyed sailing down the nile. cos it’s like quite nothing to do.. just read my secret and go for leisurely tours.

we hopped off the ferry cruise to this sail boat called the ferluka which the egytians have been using to navigate the river nile since ancient times. apparently they sail in a zig zag manner when they wanna go against the current.

i climbed to the top of a speed boat for fun! heheh.

this picture can be used in an ad i think. royalties must be given to the photographer. me.

this is one of the Greek-Roman style temples i visited in egypt. did u noe that the greeks and romans also made themselves Egyptian pharohs at a point in time. check out the engravings which have been disfigured in the background. done by the christians escaping persercution back in rome. they wanted to erase idolatry when seeking refuge in these temples.

check out what housekeeping did to my blanket on the cruise ship ! haha, it’s the little things that count yah?

can u see that part of the roof of this temple has fallen. nice pic eh? we visited this temple in the evening. BTW night falls really early during this time of the year in Egypt.

this is me in the public toilet in the cruise. hahaha. i came to wash hands before dinner. hahaha. look at what i ended up doing!

Our Egyptian tour guide!

look at the other ships overtaking us! grrr….

from the sun deck of the cruise ship… hahaha i was readin. supposed to be rather. hahaha but i got alot of inspiration from my book during the trip.

i was trying to get my mum to pose with me! hahaha!

u like? hahaha… i feel awful thinking about the same food which i had over and over again…

the cruise was approaching the locks. hahaha we were crossing the locks.

and then we ended the nile cruise part of the trip!

been clubbing for 3 consecutive days. met new and old people. pray for the best can? 

Not so fabulous

i went clubbing again last, and the best thing that happened was me receiving a call from Terence after the stroke of midnight. He wished me Happy Christmas Eve, and i was like what was wrong. Then i stood still and thought.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERENCE! SWEET 17! dearest pal! 

that overseas call from Terence is really what made my day. I should have taken the hint from then on that last night wasn’t really going to be much fun. but in the end i met some old friends. and yah talked abit. ENJOY TERENCE!! wish u were back home with all of us!

this shot is for u, terence! i noe u like sun pictures! its from Egypt! =D

i just wanna have fun. the normal kind

yes Fabian loves to have fun. the clean normal kind. haha. YEsterday Fabian found out that girls in clubs aren’t so bad after all. Hahaha. I went to Ministry of Sound last night. Heh heh. The queue wasn’t very long. and yes it was the first time that I went there. Oh my me, it was the most fun clubbing experience I’ve ever had. i went to all the rooms. hahaha and at first when i saw the oldies room, i was like.. hahaha so not coming back.. so i went to the R&B room. piang… early on… the songs are so super slow can? so i went to walk around some more.. i saw the half a million dollar chandelier and i walk around and decided to go toilet. then when i was in the toilet next to the oldies room. GUESS WHAT I HEARD? not groaning and moaning u sickos… i heard Witney Houston’s I wanna dance with somebody! hahaha. i rush out of the toilet and hop onto the dance floor. then after they play more witney songs…. WOW! get me so excited. anyways i feel high enuff to go RnB room. and i saw alfred and some CJ ppl who thankfully disappeared real quick. HENG AR… hmm over there…. some gurls started to dance up to me and my friend. okay they are very pretty. and one of them keep coming towards me. and i didnt noe what to do. hahah my friend say she wants to dance with me… but i was so embarrassed. no alcohol yet.. so haha i dont care her lor. then dance dance dance… then go get drink. okay i tried vodka lime for the 1st time. Really nice can! omg super nice. anyways. then i go back to oldies room for a lil more recharge. okay u noe oldies room is not really filled with oldies. just quirky ppl who seem nicer and not in the mood to make out. yah so … hahaha some guy gave me thumbs up? *shrugs shoulders* decided to go back R&B hopin that they play some faster songs. haha. yes they did and i had so much fun.. details will not be spelt out le. yah i bumped into the girls again… hahaha anyways, i had so much fun yesterday. the crowd was really great. yah lor….

Egypt Highlight #1

so one of the more interesting things that happened is me witnessing a wedding. So our first night in Cairo, we stayed !in a resort like hotel which was near the pyramids. Moven pick. u noe the ice cream… apparently its also linked to hotels. anyways, our room/villa was really near to the reception building. the main building. so at night, after our sight seeing, i went to take a shower. and when i got out, all changed into my sleeping clothes which comprised of my t shirt and short shorts, i heard loud sounds. drums banging. trumpets being blown and all. so i thought… wah lau have funeral here ar? hahaha so i went out, bracing against the cold. (it’s cold at night… less than 18 degress)… i walked to the lobby in my sleeping attire, i saw two men smoking outside the lobby. so i asked them what was happening inside and one of them said that his sister was getting married. apparently middle eastern weddings start at night. real late. at like 9 or 10. i asked him if i could go see, and before i knew it, he took my hand, wrapped his arm around mine and pulled me into the lobby to show me the wedding. he took me in hand and showed me this and that. so pai sei. haha it’s really quite something. really loud. Drums banging all around the bride and groom. hahah video cam and all. i took a couple of photos of the couple . he saw my camera and said that he wanted to take a few photos with me using his phone. so i obliged. he and his friend. yah. then after we took photos, he said he wanted to show me the wedding in his room. but the wedding was bloody in the lobby area. so i knew something wasn’t right. so i asked for the time and signaled that i needed to sleep . haha and i ran back to my room! hahahaha.

so this is the wedding couple!

yes. Crazy drama right? hahaha being hit on in egypt by guys! hahaha. This isn’t the only time hahaha. remember the earlier entry i talked about me being in Sheraton Cairo cos the grown ups wanted to go to the casino. haha i couldn’t enter cos i wasn’t 21 yet. so guess what, i had to wait around the lobby area. yups and there was a wedding (yet again) at the 2nd floor lobby. so it was really crowded. so i decided to walk around and find a quieter spot to sit. so i walked down a stairwell and i saw two arm chairs. one was occupied by a man in suit. so i sat in the other one. turning my back to him. the moment i sat… he started talking to me. GOSH. so i had no choice but to talk to him. he started off by asking me how was egypt and if Singapore’s weather was nice and so on… soon he asked me if i found egytian women beautiful and then… after a series of questions… he asked me if i liked “warking”. that was initially what i heard. so i looked away and laughed and said i didn’t understand. so he asked again and this time a hotel manager walked past and i looked at him 2 see if he understood and he giggled. i was like what is he asking what “warking”. then i listened closer and i realiesed he was asking me if I liked FuC*ing!! i was astonished. and he did the hand action somemore. i was like WTH. this is a 5 star hotel and u ask me this kind of thing. and the next moment, he ask me to follow him to his office. i quickly said i have to go find my mum and ran upstairs. thank goodness the adults came out in time and i told them all about it. auntie phyllis, a member of the tour told me that i Should have WHACKED him. HAHAHAHAA.

CRAZY CRAZY CRAZY!!!

Start of Dramatic Egypt

I never wanted my Egypt to be dramatic. I just wanted it to be an educational and relaxing family trip. Fine! I’m lying. Anyways, the drama of my trip started even before I reached Egypt. Wanna hear about it? Haha here it goes:

So we were on the plane. SQ, heheh I’m so privileged to be able to fly SQ almost every time i travel. Thank goodness that this time I was flying on SQ because I only realized 15 minutes before take off that the flight would be 10 hours. haha anyways the food on SQ was the worst I’ve ever had. eww. so after watching the movies for a bit, i decided to visit the loo and walk around the plane. haha i snuck into the raffles class toilet heheh, and some stupid male attendent told me to use the back toilets in the future. geez…

anyways, after that i walked around the back of the plane and decided to see what the stewards and stewardesses were doing. haha there was an egytian man trying to get something from a steward and she had a hard time understanding him. she asked me if i understood and both of us started offering him things from orange juice to pineapple juice to chocolates but everything failed. in the end he left rather empty handed. haha, as i walked back to my seat i realised that my lips were really dry and my lip balm was checked in together with my luggage. and remembering that they used to give Bvlgari lip balms in first class, i decided to walk back to see if the same stewardess would be there 2 offer me anything. but she was gone. but there was a steward there. so i asked. and he said he doesn’t have any…i was thinking! have first class amenity kit used to have. now change to ferragamo dont tell me dont have lor… So i say, my lips very pain… and i left my lip balm in my luggage.. how???

Then he came out with an alternative solution which i never expected. he said give me a second and i will get some olive oil for u. he said he uses olive oil as lip balm and he feels that its very effective. I was stunned. I literally stood there and stared at him for 3 SECONDS. i was like u siao ar? then remembering that i told him my lips were hurting from the dryness, and if i refused the only “help” available, it would seem as if something was up.. so i said, “well i guess i’ll give it a try”… So he said he had to go to business class to get it for me cos they didn’t have any in Economy. So i went back to my seat and he returned with a small bottle of EXTRA VIRGIN olive oil… hmm.. he said put on my lips. then i say i will eat it… he say NO DON EAT… hahah.. wateva… sian… no lip balm… so yah i tried it out.. and it kinda worked… hahahaha. quite yummy also.

he passed by later and asked me how was it… i told him it was yummy. haha so funny right. olive oil for lip balm!

aiz, so this was the start of what was the start of Dramatic Egypt. hmm, i cant continue anymore, cos even as i finish this post, i do so with a heavy heart. coming back to Singapore, it gives me stress. actually i don’t know why I’m stressed. maybe it’s because i’m no longer in holiday mode? but i really do think it’s more of the environment. i get stressed cos i’m not getting the things that i want (yet). but the thing is, when i was in egypt, trust me, i yearned for the same things, and i believed that it could happen, and i didn’t feel as bad. Haiz Singapore makes me depressed. looking at the people around here makes me feel dejected… neh mind folks…. pictures will cheer us up…

take a look:

drama starting. me in the airport.

nice view from the airplane window. hehehe. yes troubles arising…

that is not a backdrop. haha. Pyramids in Giza.

lookie me. the camel is tickling me. hahaha. CAN U SEE ME?behind u ding dong.

cute and hot.

im not on sale! not to you at least.

the sphinx leading to the pyramids.

my drama uncle. heh  heh

yes ME! the person you’ve been wanting to see!

………. more pics in another post!

 

 

 

 

hold beam

if ure expecting an egpyt post. hold on. hahaha. im beaming now. i love maroon 5. cos it was playing when. HAHA nvr mind. I went to a church organised dinner. YES! woosh!

CRYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just give me one more chance to make it right! i wont go home without you.

egypt: introduction

(this is an Arabic CD which i bought btw. I so totally love track 5.)

unfortunately, not all Egyptians look like that, but i dare say that the majority of them are rather good looking. they have a very unique look, a mix between ancient Egyptian and Arabic blood. haha well, I think, they are hotter than Singaporean men simply because THEY ARE FREAKING TALLER. I mean yes i am still taller than many of the locals there but yes, I don’t feel like a giant when I’m there. When i’m in Singapore i feel very sian when i look at sg guys. so short. then they bulk up so much to make up for their lack of height and act as if they are some Greek god. for goodness sake, even the immigration officers at the Cairo airport can beat the best dressed “typical” T shirt tight SG boy. (i think not many of u will understand what i’m talking about…) anyways yes, maybe because it’s the first time i’ve been out of asia and all, and first time im seeing such an interesting race (Asian+African+Middle Eastern+Egyptian+ European features) .

My my, i have so much to blog about, but since i’m on the issue of the Egyptian look, i wanna talk about one of the 2 Egyptian weddings i encountered in egypt. so this was the second wedding i came across. I was at the Sheraton hotel. Adults went to the casino in there so i walked around. ( NOTE!! THERE IS A FULL LENGTH STORY ABOUT SHERATON HOTEL CASINO WHICH WILL BE EXPLAINED MORE EXPLICITLY! SOMETHING HAPPENED ! gASP…) yes and i saw this wedding procession taking place. musicians were banging drums and all. obviously the couple which was tying the knot was quite well to do. firstly cos not many egytians can afford a wedding at the Sheraton Cairo. secondly, looking at their guests alone can make any passer-by feel intimidated. they were all dressed up. for goodness sake, the women looked hot in tudong! how do they pull that off?!!! anyways, there was this group of teens. guys who are around my age. but boy boy, i felt as if i were in some compare and contrast colouring page when i walked past them. they were dressed in suits. okay they had blonde hair and blue eyes. they were accompanied by chaperons and they looked so smart. they had their hair combed back like malfoy in harry potter. they had mobile phones in hand and all. they looked like some teenage millionaires. okay, u might be thinking that Fabian is obsessed with Caucasians. BUT THEY WEREn’t. i mean they had Caucasian features, but they certainly weren’t. they were something else…. ok so much for the description.

red hot

yes i am back from red hot Egypt. actually, it’s kinda cold there during this time of the year. anyways I’m not ready to blog about my vacation yet cause the immense planning and organization that is required bcos my photos are in 3 different cameras and in numerous memory cards.

haha i was interrupted halfway while writing this post by an unknown caller. it turned out to be Terence calling me from Hong Kong bcos he’s bored! hahaha. so unexpected! chatted about his day at Macau and i didn’t reveal much to him about my Vaca yet! heheh! wanna surprise him in my blog mah. anyways i suggested some queer places for him 2 visit in hk. obviously he doesn’t know about them. anyways, after i put down the phone mum told me we going to have dim sum tomorrow. yay, i’m going to do the same thing as Terence in HK. hahaha lame….

this is something interesting i read from Reader’s Digest, “The best reading is taken form under the tongue or armpit. If you’re suspicious despite the reading, take a rectal thermometer to confirm.”