Back from, skiing
Hi all! just got vack from my skiing holiday in swizerland! am now in the heart od Lobdon ince again. Skiing wa so fun! and i'm so glad and pleased about my abilities! i managed to ski all the black and red slopes!!! (that means difficult and expert slopes) the hotel was magnificent as well if i may say,the actually made ine feel like a prince!!! everyone kept bowing to me and my family and going 'good moning sir/madame' (cause they all thought we were jap...) The first day was pretty slow moving. Me and my family arrived at switzerland airport, Zurich, at about 12. we stopped by a sandwich bar and ate abit. Then, e boarded the train at about 1.30. It was REALLY stressful doing it, because every single train which we had to get on meant lugging 5 30 kg bags with us all the way to the next interconnecting change! it was REALLY cold when i steeped out of the train, and i felt like my hands were going to just drop off... The scenery was really nice though, and the snow covered andscape was BEAUTIFUL. it was almost like diamonds in the sunlight... when we got to the hotel, every thiong just went so remarkably well from there. People took our jackets from us, called us sirs and madames, and basically, in short, treated one like a king. Unfortuantly, the wonderful concierge told us that we had to dress up for dinner, and it meant suit and tie and pants... not really my fav sort of thing, but am used to it already... in my opinion there should be a hotel wwhich allos one to come down to the dining room restaurant place dressed in batak pajamys... anyway, the food was wonderful... they all felt like a morsel of heaven! The next morning was a sunday, so me and my fam went to church. The mass was in german 9or was it french?) and i couldn't understand a single thing. The church was very quain and cozy. They had 12 moasic stained glassess. each saint looked really sage-like and wise yet at the same time warm and comforting at the same time. The mass had 5 alter servers 3 boys and 2 girls. This really surprised me cause in Singapore only boys can become alter servers. Girls aen't allowed to become one (at least not yet anyway...) For those of you that do not kow, an alter server is one who helps the preists in the church carry out mass, such as handaling the bosy and blood of Christ, and basically just assisting the piest in whatever way he needs. However, the alter boys were looking at the girls lmost half the time, (they were sitting opposite each other) and the girls were trying their hardest not to smile and burst out laughing... as a result they made many mistakes. It was funny to watch them, yet at the same time a bit upsetting that they were fooling about so much when they should be helping out the priest. After mass, my fam and i proceeded to eating lunch at this wonderfully quaint bar, which sold lots of drinks and sasages. After that, we did a bit of shopping, and i got myself a pair of new shoes and some stuff for some of my friends. Then, we finally went to the ski shop to try on our things. i went first, and i had completely forgotton how ncomfortable a ski boot can feel at first... it wa so so cramped and stiff at first, but it gradally got better as i got more used to it. The next day, we finally hit the slopes! I went easy at fist for the first half hour and did two beginners sopes. Then, me and my sis (my bro in law was having lessons, and my dad wanted to ski in the beginners and my mom doesn't ski) went to some red slopes. It was really great! the feeling was so exhilarating and wonderful! The path was abit treacherous though, and had alot of icy bits in it. One part freaked me out when i was skiing so fast that i didn't realise a tree was in front of me. When i turned rund, i barely managed to avoid it... REALLY scary. th ski lift took us up after we finished the run, and the view was breathtaking. The mountains just loomed ahead, and they seemed to tower over us, making us look so insignificant and small next to it. The mountain air was so fresh as well, but constantly made cold bites to my face. The temp was -10 degrees up in the mountain, so you can just imagine how cold it was. I skiied about 5 slpoes tat day, then rtired to the hotel. This time, i went about the hotel by myself, and explored about. It was so grand! the hotel had a movie room, showing things like kingdom of heaven, and charlie and the choc factory. Sadly, they were in german (or was it french?) with german (or was it french?) subtitles. then, i found a game rom, which contained ome really fun com games. I kille some time there playing virtua fighter, gefore some ah mor guy came and challenged me and kicked my ass... i went about, and found the spa next, and got a fright of my life! Even though i've seen it being done so many times, it sjust not feasable to my brain, and i ge a shock whenever i dee it when i come to such regions. I saw this extremely attractive girltake of all her clothes, and stand naked in the sap place, facing me,but looking else where. Then, some guy (most likey her boyfriend cupped her boobs and kissed her before undressing himself as well. They went ito a private spa thing, and God knows what happedned next between the two... There was another sight which freaked me out in the spa place though. With acception the fat and ugly naked people which proled he spa, there was this lone girl, again vry attractive. She took of all her clothe again, only to reveal she had something else instead. Yup, thats right. I saw a trasexual over there. Quite freaky... i left almost immediatly. Then, there was the massage parlour, and i was gretted by this fat obese thunderous woman, who reminds one of those dutch women massages, who asked me whether i wanted a massage. I declined politely, when heard some groaning and smacking coming from the next room... Ten, there was the swimming ool, with even more naked people tanning themelves (there were sun lamps in the pool) no one was really doing any swimming at all... i went upstairs to the bar next, and found my sis and bro and dad calling me to come in. I went inside and got yet another shock. There on the table... was sashimi! Here! in the mountains! in switzerland! honestly... i dunno why i even travel if i go halfway round the world just to eat something i can find so easily in singapore... Still, the sashimi as really good, and it was then when we received alot of strange stares from the others in the bar. They were all muttering and trtying to decide what race we were. It was almost as though they had never seen an asain before... even all the waiters and waitresses were staring at us, though more discreetly, and muttering things like what unusual looking people. They were even more fascinated when we were eating our sashimi, and were amazed at the way we can use chopsticks ohohohohohohohohohoho!!! one man even asked my dd, 'sir, how do you use such small thin sticks to eat???' it was relly quiete funny and weird at th same time. Then dinner was next, but before that, i wanted to have some fun. Inspird by my mohawk friend, i anted to try something different with my hair... i dyed it red! of course it was only temporay, and its already gone from my haor, but that one night was really quite entertaining. My haor was REALLY res, and everyone was staring at me, going w'wasn;t he a black head just now?' my fam of course got a shock. but i asured them it was temporary, and that i just wanted to be diff that nihgt. Again, food was wonderful, and the dessert was heavenly. (choc mousse! yum!) after that, we retired t bed. However, this wasn't as restful a bight as it was before. I had a choice you see, to choose whether to bunk with my mom and dad or my sis and bro-in-law. However, past expereince has taught me that my sis and bro tend to snore very loudly when tied. So, i decided to sleep with my mm and dad. Oh what a bad choice it was! while my sis and bro-in-law ay snore when tired, my mom and dad snore regaless whether their tired or not! I was kept awake till 4 am by their snoring befor i got some sleep. The next day, everyone woke up at like 8+ nd ent down for breakfast. Obviously, yours truly missed it sompletely and just slept on.After that we wnet skiing again, but as i was so drowzy, i made so many mistakes during the day. Firstly, i put the wrong boot on eah foot, and only realised this when i began walking at wondering why my feet hurt so much. next, instead of walking into the enter dooray to the cable car, i went nto the ext, and almost got hit by an incming cable car... the slopes weren't any better, i made alot of mistakes during the run, and collided into this poor elderly lady. I was so embarrassed and apologetic that whole day. However, i think te worse as that i promised myself that i ski only in the lue, cause i'm not awake enough for black and red today. However, yous truly has to misread te sign and go into, of all places, a black clack zone. What does black black mean? you see, difficulties range from blue(easy) to blue read red (moderatle easy) to red ( medium) to red blck (which is hard), black, which is super hard, and black black, which is meant only for experts. Why is i meant for experts? cause it has little rocks sticking out of no where, and shubs which re hidden shallowly in the snow also exists. Oh, and the worse partis that you don't ski on snow, you're skiing on ice and the vertical inclne is 75 degrees. My skill lever at persent can easily get thorugh red black, and with abit of difficulty, black. I have NEVER attempted a black black before, and it was SUPER hard. I made loads of mistakes, and fell down loads. Thankfully, i made it down in ne piece with aid from my sis and some nixe ski instructers. It was REALLY terrifying, and i came back to the hotel with a sore aching body. I was thanking God for looking after me the whole time though...i was really really nervous when i saw that trail, and i'm just glad i made it out alive. Dinner was only so-so in my opinion, but that was most likely because i was so tired and gouch about my day. I as so tired, that not even mt room mates woke me up! The next day, i was fully energised and ready to tae on the slopes one last time. I even managed to wake up for brekfast! GASP! what a shocking piece of news! i woke up in the MORNING! but yes, i did at breakfast(GASP! another miricale! he's eating!) and i was quite full after that. We went down for some skiing again, and this time i decided to do the black with my sis. we did it with abit of difficulty, but soon found ourselves at the bottm of the mountain. The scenery while skiing was beautiful. the mountain was really grand looking, and after we finished skiing, the sense of accomplishment and satisfaction of conquering the mountin was somehing i will never forget. Indeed, when you see these mountains, you trly know how God does exist,and that all this is ALL his work. Only he could create something so grand like the mountains, and make it so beautiful and peacful at the same time... after that, ae and my sis did some cross country skiing, which was really tiring, but was cardiovasullaly very good (have you'll all done your eos???) The day ended well, and i had a wonderful dinnder, with exception of my dessert. I heard the waiter sy something else, and when i got my plate, instead of getting icecream and chocolate pudding laced with hot white chocolate with custard buns surrounding the pudding (YUM!!!) i got... prunes. 10 wrinkled black oval shaped things which tasyed of char siew rice mixed with kuay teow teng with honey all over it... which meant.. it was really taty! Honestly, i got a shock when i first saw it, and was hesitant to eat it, but they made the prunes in such a way that it was ctually quite nce. After that, we went to sleep, and left the hotel at 9.30 am. The price of the stay at the hotel was really shocking to me. Even though i more or less knew that the price would be so much, i was still shocked. The total cost of our stay was 12000 swiss franks, which when converted to singapore dollar would be 12000 X1.3 (do it yourself i'm too lazy) still, the stay was wonderful, and i hope that i can come again next year... without perhaps all the snoring and bad skiing stuff. Now, today is the 23rd... christmas is coming... i wish all my friends a happy chrismas, and that they will just do the lords will and rejoice in his coming. Hapy hols evryone! oh and for everyone's info, i didn't bring my phone with me to england, so i can't sms you'll as usual to wish you'll happy x mas. Sorry! i'll find a way to wish you'll anyway! Oh my... its already 1045 here... i must have been typing for an hour at least!... see you'll for now! i need to rest my pinky fingers.
Custard hexhuasted
OUT
thinkin' of you at ... 5:10 PM
An apology
dear friend, I am truly truly sorry for making you so upset. I didn't ever mean to hurt you feelings at all when i put up this entry. i shall take down the previous entry i put up, and put an end to this matter. I'm truly truly sorry... and i apologise from my heart. even though i offended you first you still decided to respect my privacy... and i'm so grateful for that. you're a truly wonderful person, and I'm sorry i upset you. My explanation for my putting up that entry was really lame... i was upse that day, and i just neeed to write something to get out all my negative feelings... and it kinda wound up putting that incident into place. None of what i put up was true, and i'm truly truly sorry... I know that a person needs to do more than pologise than to show that he is truly sorry... and i'll try to re-earn your trust and friendship again. You are a wonderful friend, and i would never ever want to lose that friendship for anything... i just hope that you too will spare me some compassion and forgive me for being such an idiot... its true... i may have been upset and annoyed when i wrote that entry... but it gave me no right to outrightly write something that would hurt anyones feelings. Be it whether that person is a friend or not... it is STILL wrong to have put up such an entry. This apology i write here is an honest and sincere one, and shall remain and be made public for everyone to read and for you to acknoledge it. You're a great guy, and you didn't do anything to deserve such horrible words of abuse. I'm sorry that i hurt yoor feelings, and seek to ask your forgiveness. I know that the damage has already been done, and no matter what i say or write, the hurt will still remain. Still... all i can do is apologise... and ope that you and i will be able to forget this incident and become better friends. I'm so sorry my friend... so very very sorry. i shall take down what i put up... and hopefully, prevent others from reading it and gaining the false mpression of the situation. Thats all i have to say... there isn't anymore... I'm truly sorry.
your friend
joseph
thinkin' of you at ... 4:49 PM
custard out
P.S. happy belated b day jem!
thinkin' of you at ... 7:57 PM
19th October 2005
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17th October
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16th October 2005
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15th October 2005
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1st September 2005
thinkin' of you at ... 1:07 PM
27th August 2005
my my... i haven't updated i a long time huh? sorry! I've been really busy with school stuff, but now that i have a little free time to spare, thought that i'd just quickly write in my blog. I'm really really pleased with myself for this term... I made such a big improvement in my subjects! most of them was scored between 70-85, and i'm really quite pleased by that fact! Expecially since i really just want to make my parents proud. They've done so uch for me and sacrificed so much for me... I just wanna give them the best in life. All my friends were all so supportive as well... and i am just so grateful to God for giving me such great friends and parents. Things just keep seem to keep getting better and better! i hope that the last term will be a blast...
See ya'll!
Custard at rest
thinkin' of you at ... 12:46 PM
14th August 2005
ya know something? I just realised that none of my posts have dates... soooo annoying! sigh... well, will start putting in dates into my posts then. Anyway, I wanted to post this one up, because i think that its time that my blog lived up to its name... and i will share with you'll true experiences that i have encountered, and hope that you too will change, grow and metamorph along with me to become beautiful butterflies... well, then without further ado, i shall now come to the real crux of this post... i came across a really interesting poem the other day... its called Ithaca. Hope you'll like it!
thinkin' of you at ... 12:03 PM
11th August 2005
yahoo! my other blog is coming along smoothly, and i have just accomplished so much work today! really happy and glad about that! sigh... but its not over yet! atill gotta push on some more! i'm gonna do my parents proud! Ya'know, i think its sad sometimes... how you're so unbelivably close to someone, but because you're not around that person anymore, or because s/he is always busy doing other things, you just grow distant from them... i know that these things can be prevented by actually talking to them... but for me... well... for some of my friends that is... i've grown so distant from them that i actually cannot even start a normal converation. it just feels awkward... sigh... well... as long as i try to be freindly again, i'm sure that they'll come back as my friends someday... heh... cross my heart and hope to die! oh, and just for a side note, thank you God for everything. You're the one who i love the most... i'm rea;;y just so gratful to you for so many things... heh... i know... abit random... but i just needed to write that down. as to what happened that made me write that down... well... just keep reading faithfully and you'll find out one day! seeya'll!
thinkin' of you at ... 10:09 PM
Hi people! hmmm... vaven't updated in some time have I? Sorry! been really busy with alot of stuff... can honestly die... so, i believe that it is my esteemed duty to inform you'll about whats happened over the past few days. Well, my last update was on a thursday, so I'll start from friday. Well, on friday, I went for by band practice as usual, and found out a REALLY bad thing. My conductor wanted to quit! I was really quite shocked by what happened cause in my mind i always pictured my conductor always being there, and motivating us and just being there with us... still... at the same time, i wasn't surprised he wanted to quit... after all... we put him through so much crap, and so i wouldn't be surprised if he actually felt tired from constantly pushing us... well, even though that kinda blew up in my face, i still wasn't too worried about that yet, as i had basically a million and one things to be worrying about at the same time... namely my performance on saturday. the performance overall in my opinion was actually not bad... but i felt that we could have done better. We really screwed up the first half, but we made a tremendous come back in the second half, so i suppose that that's ok. I felt really embarrassed during one bit though, cause my friend and i messed up our solo! i know... super embarrassing... we both missed our enterance, and it resulted in that part not having any trumpet sound! luckily that part of the song wasn't completly exposed, so no one really knew that we missed that part... Though our conductor looked practically livid... but i suppose you can't blame him... i think i'd be annoyed if i was him... practice for 3 months, and still screw up... anyway, that brings me to sunday. sunday was really really really sad and boring... but relaxing at least! I got up at like 12, and missed sunday class completly, that makes three in a row... oops..., then immediatly had lunch. Church was cool... we had a new priest and he's quite funky... has my name as well! heh! then finally, went out to eat tepanyaki with my mom and dad.LOOOOOVELY! I was in heaven! tepanyaki rocks! anyway, this finally brings me to today. thankfully, i found out that my conductor wasn't quitting, and i also sent him a sms with an encouraging message... dunno whther he recieved it though... still, i'm gonna start working harder to make him stay here for good! Went out with a few friends after that, but nothing else really happened. Now, there's dinner, and my mom's calling me... hmmm... better go then! seeya'll! oh! and happy national day eve to you'll!
Custard at home
thinkin' of you at ... 7:02 PM
omi... i am soooo burnt out. Just dot back from band... and thatmeans i've been practicing for 8 hours straight! thats more then the amount of time i sleep and relax on a weekday
Anticipating Custard
thinkin' of you at ... 9:00 PM
Hi all!
Musical Custard
thinkin' of you at ... 4:39 PM
Woah! There's been like a huge drama thing going on in my class for the whole thing... something to do with guitar cca and this guitar boy, who everyone believes is an irritant (personally, i don't know whether he is, as i dun know him that well, and i think its wrong to simply judge a person without knowing him/her. Besides... to me... even if he really is an irritant, i think it would be really quite horrible to just treat him badly and no respect so...) and a group of 3 other guitar people in my class about a the guitar comittee or something like that... It lasted for a loooooooooooooooong time, and it may me REALLY annoyed! i had to practically scan through 4 whole huge pages of hate mail before i actually found the mail which was important, wanted and needed! luckily though, all of it more or less boiled down over the past few days... but all i can say is that the letters they wrote to each other were getting progressively harsher and hasher, and they began to hurt each other's feelings quite... well... badly... all i can say is that we as a class shouldn't fight among each other, nor should we try and hutr the other's feelings... all i can say is that i hope there will come a day when there will be peace and respect among everyone in the world one day... and that there will be no more of such things... after all... if we can't even remedy a small class thing like that, how are we gonna solve the bigger things in life like war, terrorism and racism? Thats all there is... there isn't anymore...
Pondering custard
thinkin' of you at ... 6:02 PM
Omigoodness! Yesterday was like sooo hectic!!! I Don't even know where to began!!! At about like 12 midnight, i was alone in the house chatting with my friends on msn (my parents had gone out for a party). Then, suddenly, I heard a loud
Cowardly-dumb-unlucky Custard
thinkin' of you at ... 7:45 PM
Hi! this is just a little thank you note to my friend stuart for all his hard work for helping me put up my blog!!! I'm like really useless with coms and he just told me to leave everything to him, and loh and behold!!! My whole blog looks super cool now!!!. I'm sooo happy and glad and blessed to have such a good friend as him who would even help me to do nonsense!!! heheheh!!! Thanks alot stuart! you rock mondo big time!
Custard friend
thinkin' of you at ... 7:41 PM
hi people!
Man! today is like ultra super slack... i'm supposed to be like doing all my work, but instead, here i am in front of the com doing really random and bizzare stuff. sigh... go figure. I've got a performance coming up this saturday as well... soooo stressful! I've been like practicing for nine hours straight in one day... can die one!!! Hope that all my friends who go there will like the performance!! I've like put in so much effort into this performance... But thats besides the point. the point is that I still have a worksheet to do even while i'm writing this entry!!! Nooooooooooooo!!!
Stressed Custard
thinkin' of you at ... 2:11 PM
Hello out there to everyone in the world!!! This is my first time starting up my own personal blog!!! Soooooooooooo exciting!!! Hope you will enjoy reading all the posts that I put on my blog, and just like my blog's name suggests, I hope that you will also be able to learn and grow along with me as you read my posts. Hopefully, we'll all be beautiful butterflies by the end of our metamorphsis! this blog is especially meant for the eyes for all my friends and loved ones out there. Reply often and give comments!!!
Custard forever
thinkin' of you at ... 8:22 PM
Joseph Martin Blaize Lim Cho Ren
Music
Foie Gras
Male
15
Pisces
Child no.4 in a family of 4 kids
Catholic
Wanna be an ultra cool doctor, musicain and writer when i grow up
Likes.
Books
Bullying my sister
Depressing stuff
Hates.
Food with more than 4 legs n less than 2 legs with exception of fish
Waking Up EARLY
People daoing me
*July 2005
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*September 2005