Friday, August 26, 2005
greetings from vancouver
oh yeah. it's currently 10.52pm canadian time on thursday, 25 august 2005. got tt right. we're 15 hours behind singapore.
so yep yep yep, i've landed in vancouver. actually i landed here about 8 hours ago, at approx 12.30pm. flight from singapore to here too approx 18 hours; 6 hours to seoul, 1 hour stopover and 10.5 hours from seoul here.
oh, before i forget, a beeg beeg BEEG "THANK YOU!!!" to everyone who came to see me off. i'm seriously touched. to joanne, hsien, jane, sam and guoyong, yuwei and dee, thanks for coming ALL THE WAY so early in the morning just to say goodbye to me!!! it really really does mean a lot to me. thanks guys.
and thanks for buying me some time to say goodbye to the boy as well. :) i appreciate tt.
anyway the flight was good in the sense tt sia flights have an inflight entertainment system. i watched so many movies tt my eyes hurt. i watched sin city (again), kung fu hustle, miss congeniality 2, a lot like love, my bf is type b, as well as monster-in-law! but the downside is tt my legs felt like they weren't there. bloody fucking uncomfortable. i hate long flights.
worst of all, the airport was according to my dad, a "chaotic mess". the immigration queue took over half an hour to clear. we spent 20 minutes fighting off other people at the baggage carousel. and the queue for my study permit took me almost 2 fucking hours. it was really, REALLY a what-in-the-mother-fucking-hell is going on?
by the time we got to the serivce apartment, it wa after 4 pm. had enough time to bathe, then got dragged out by my parents to go buy groceries. then we went for dinner at this chinese restaurant.
oh, but the food in vancouver is HEAVEN. seafood is SO FRESH. we hada huge 3 pound canadian crab, geoduck, drunken chicken and peking duck. i didn't like the first 3 dishes, but i couldn't stop myself from pigging out. ugh. tt's it. this is called the "fatten me up like a pig" holiday more like. now i understand why it's so hard to watch one's weight without liposuction here. the food servings are huge, and the food is damn fucking good. and around the block from my hotel there's a mcdonalds and a 24 hours 'wendy's' burger joint. pity i can't dabao a burger for my chick, coz they're really good (and not just coz the joint's named after her).
vancouver's kinda warm btw actually. temp's 21 degrees, but feels more like 26 degrees. i sound normal because reality hasn't sunk in yet. i'm missing people, but yet it feels like an out-of-body experience. i don't feel like i've been touched yet. when i do though... HELL you WILL know...
i think it's prob gonna hit bad.
anyway today is rest day. tomorrow we gotta get some of my admin stuff settled... sianz. but hey, at least i get to see my new campus. apparently it's obscenely large. takes approx 30-40 min to DRIVE around the perimeter. i don't know how true tt is yet. i find the size of my campus on the maps kinda unbelievable, coz it seems to be the same size, if not larger, than downtown vancouver itself.
ok. gonna sleep soon. damn tired + jet-lagged. ttyl.
P.S. see? kept up my promise and updated often. HEH. *muakz*
now playing: hotel costes - cafe de flor
so yep yep yep, i've landed in vancouver. actually i landed here about 8 hours ago, at approx 12.30pm. flight from singapore to here too approx 18 hours; 6 hours to seoul, 1 hour stopover and 10.5 hours from seoul here.
oh, before i forget, a beeg beeg BEEG "THANK YOU!!!" to everyone who came to see me off. i'm seriously touched. to joanne, hsien, jane, sam and guoyong, yuwei and dee, thanks for coming ALL THE WAY so early in the morning just to say goodbye to me!!! it really really does mean a lot to me. thanks guys.
and thanks for buying me some time to say goodbye to the boy as well. :) i appreciate tt.
anyway the flight was good in the sense tt sia flights have an inflight entertainment system. i watched so many movies tt my eyes hurt. i watched sin city (again), kung fu hustle, miss congeniality 2, a lot like love, my bf is type b, as well as monster-in-law! but the downside is tt my legs felt like they weren't there. bloody fucking uncomfortable. i hate long flights.
worst of all, the airport was according to my dad, a "chaotic mess". the immigration queue took over half an hour to clear. we spent 20 minutes fighting off other people at the baggage carousel. and the queue for my study permit took me almost 2 fucking hours. it was really, REALLY a what-in-the-mother-fucking-hell is going on?
by the time we got to the serivce apartment, it wa after 4 pm. had enough time to bathe, then got dragged out by my parents to go buy groceries. then we went for dinner at this chinese restaurant.
oh, but the food in vancouver is HEAVEN. seafood is SO FRESH. we hada huge 3 pound canadian crab, geoduck, drunken chicken and peking duck. i didn't like the first 3 dishes, but i couldn't stop myself from pigging out. ugh. tt's it. this is called the "fatten me up like a pig" holiday more like. now i understand why it's so hard to watch one's weight without liposuction here. the food servings are huge, and the food is damn fucking good. and around the block from my hotel there's a mcdonalds and a 24 hours 'wendy's' burger joint. pity i can't dabao a burger for my chick, coz they're really good (and not just coz the joint's named after her).
vancouver's kinda warm btw actually. temp's 21 degrees, but feels more like 26 degrees. i sound normal because reality hasn't sunk in yet. i'm missing people, but yet it feels like an out-of-body experience. i don't feel like i've been touched yet. when i do though... HELL you WILL know...
i think it's prob gonna hit bad.
anyway today is rest day. tomorrow we gotta get some of my admin stuff settled... sianz. but hey, at least i get to see my new campus. apparently it's obscenely large. takes approx 30-40 min to DRIVE around the perimeter. i don't know how true tt is yet. i find the size of my campus on the maps kinda unbelievable, coz it seems to be the same size, if not larger, than downtown vancouver itself.
ok. gonna sleep soon. damn tired + jet-lagged. ttyl.
P.S. see? kept up my promise and updated often. HEH. *muakz*
# posted by Kitana @ 8/26/2005 01:48:00 PM 
