Or in my case - Home Sour Home. lolz.
Wow, I still can't believe that I'm back in Australia. Nothing seems to have changed since I've left. Well, except for that 60 x 30 cm wide spider web hanging in the corner of my room. Jesus, someone bring a broom please ><'
Let me backtrack. 12pm Los Angeles time yesterday, I was boarding the plane to Sydney. You know how I said the flight to LA was the worst flight ever? Well this one was probably the BEST flight ever cuz it was the new QANTAS airbus. Everything was like, fully high tech and pretty :) The bad part was, I sat next to this Mexican dude who kept coughing and sneezing in my face every minute.
LOL I'm joking, I'm joking. Seriousl, you can take off those latex gloves and mask that you've just put on...
Again, I got my own TV and I watched a few movies during the flight. I watched Memoirs of a Geisha (which was really good btw) and then some of "Shakespeare in Love" and "Atonement". I think I fell asleep after that and when I woke up, there was only 3 hours left of the flight. I spent 2 hours of that time watching Peter Pan :L That boy that plays Peter Pan is so cuuute.. I just want to give him a thimble XD
Tian's dad was at the airport to pick us up after we went through the luggage check. It was funny cuz the bag-checking dude kept looking at our dodgy asian products. He was like, "What is this?" and "Where did you get it?" the whole time. Funny shit man XD. Guess how many luggage bags we had? There were SEVEN big luggage bags + FIVE carry-on bags. My dad took a photo of all our luggage - I might upload that later.
It was nice to see familiar roads and streets again. The streets looked really tiny and squashy compared to LA's freeways. I never noticed that before. Oh, and it was nice to see the driver sitting on the right side of the car again.
Yeh, I got home at 8:35am and right now, its 10:30am. I missed my house, well, to be more specific, I missed the smell of my house :) There's a big gathering of adults and neighbours downstairs in my garage so I don't really want to go down there. & did I mention the SEVEN bags of luggage + FIVE carry on bags that's crowding my living room? Ewww one thing I hate more than packing is unpacking.
It's so strange. All that happened in America now feels like a very vivid dream. Now that I'm sitting in my room, I'm wondering: Did I really go to New York and stand on the top floor of the Empire State Building? Did I really go to Disneyland, San Francisco, Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Hollywood AND Manhattan? It sure doesn't feel like it.... Was I dreaming?
Oh yeh, I nearly lost all my photos of America. My dad's laptop crashed at the airport and it wouldn't turn on during the whole flight. He tried taking the hard disk out and putting it in my sister's laptop but it still wouldn't work. Lucky, he fixed it when we got home though. Phew.
Anyway, to round it all up, America was fun. There were so many cool things such as 1000 types of fast food restaurants, fire hydrants, freeways and pretty streets. It was an escape from the real world and was great while it lasted but now, its time to put it all behind. I have to go to school on Monday :( -sigh- isn't that depressing?
Now on to a different topic. While we were in America, something strange happened in my aunt's flat. A man died in one of the rooms and his body was discovered a few days later. The man's neighbours noticed that he wasn't collecting his mail and they called the police who broke into his flat. Isn't that scary?...
Also, I finally got my report and Mr E's comment made me laugh. He wrote, "It is very pleasing to see the quality grade you gained in your elective classes, keep up the enthusiasm."
1. To put it bluntly, music was the worst result out of my entire report.
2. High achievers? Well, no one gets a mark or ranking for that subject.
3. Chyeah, like you totally see me jumping up and down with enthusiasm whenever Ms. H talks in music...
Mr E, you are soooo attentive aren't you? Out of curiosity, did anyone else get this comment cuz I have a feeling he might've just copied and pasted.
Another issue, who is this "Edward" I keep hearing about in people's blogs? >_> Is he a vampire? LOLs. Meh, I don't care anyway, I have a new love. His name is Peter Pan and he wears tights covered in leaves. Sexyyy ;)
Love Cynthia aka Beetroot LOL
Today I went to Universal Studios. It was alright but not even close to how fun Disneyland was. Ermm I took photos for the first hour or so and then I kind of thought "what the hell. I'm here to have fun not take photos" LOL. So if you want to see them, tell me in a comment and I'll post my videos and photos. Otherwise, I'll just sit back and be lazy :)
Most people are at school right now so there's no one to talk to. Maybe I'll wait for a few hours until people come back from school. In the meantime, I'll just sit here and meditate. HUMMMM...
Nah I'm joking, I'll just sit here, watch disney channel and maybe read the two books I bought from Borders recently: Wings by Aprilynne Pike and Hunger Games by someone-who-I-forgot-the-name-of.
Wings is an interesting book about faeries ^^ Except these faeries are different from traditional faeries because they are actually plant people-ish. Laurel finds that she's got a pair of giant flowers that look like wings growing out of her back and then all this stuff happens like her falling in love with two guys. Its not like traditional faeries - similar to how twilight doesn't have "traditional" vampires.Ooooh yeh, even more interesting is how faeries reproduce- its got something to do with the males getting pollen on their hands and then putting it into a female's "flower-wings". LOL. yes, I know I buy strange books....
*sigh* I'm going back to Australia in two days. Noooo, I don't wanna return to the real world where there's projects, school and no more disney channel :( How am I going to survive without being able to watch any more Hannah Montana, The Suite Life and Wizards of Waverly Place 24/7? What am I going to do if I can't record squirrels climbing up trees anymore? How will I spend my time if I don't have any more fire hydrants to photograph? HUH?! TELL ME!
O' the horror of it all.
But I guess its all worth it if I get to see everyone again :)
P.S. Juliana, you've got two more days to watch POTO, otherwise I'll... err... I'll... POKE YOU. DUN DUN DUN DUNNNN!
For once, I'm not feeling rushed to blog. I'm at a random person's house and all there is to do is use the laptop anyway + wait for people to go on msn - stupid time difference.
So, a few days ago, I watched Harry Potter at a cinema. It wasn't all that different from Australia except for them calling the counter a "box office" instead of ticket-buying-place. The movie was alright, not much action. I felt so sad and nearly cried when Hermione was feeling sad about Ron. Stupid Ron & Lavender :( But when Dumbledore died, I didn't really care. I mean, he was old anyways.
Hmm, I don't think I'm going anywhere else in America. Tomorrow, we're visiting mum's friends and the day after that, Universal Studios. I'm getting on the plane on Wednesday and because of the time difference, I'm arriving on Friday. Uggh I don't wanna go back to school. I'll miss the feeling of having no stress and I'll also miss Disney Channel :'(
Damn Ms S. is also gonna start chasing me again about typequick. bleh. & I'm also gonna get my crappy maths tutor results. double BLEH. & did I mention catching up on work? T_T I just want to stay near Disneyland. Maybe i can get a job there, like selling cotton candy or churros or something? LOL.
Did you know that people get fined in America if their lawn is too green? You also get fined if you don't cross the street at a pedestrian crossing.
On the way back from the San Francisco tour, a fight nearly happened on the coach. The tour guide was collecting tips from everyone (cuz you need to pay tips in America) and when he got to a particular man, they started arguing. Here's how the convo went:
Guide: Tips please.
Man: Can I pay when we get off?
Guide: What do you mean?
Man: Well, I just want to pay when we get off.
* just so you know, the tour guide and this particular man had had a
previous argument before and they already sort of hated each other*
Guide: *points finger at the other man's face* NOW YOU LISTEN TO
ME-
Man: HOW DARE YOU POINT YOUR FINGER AT ME! DON'T POINT AT ME!
Guide: *puts his finger even closer to the man's face* YOU
RUDE-
Man: NO, YOU DIDN'T LET ME EXPLAIN! GET YOUR FINGER AWAY! *swipes the
man's finger away*
Guide: You, You. are. in. big. trouble. Bastard!
Man: PUCK YOU! (yes, the "p" is intentional)
* the tour guide continues down the aisle collecting tips and then he
returns to the front of the coach. Ten minutes later, he goes back down to the
man and says:*
Guide: At the next stop, you will grab your luggage and get off this bus. I
rang the police and they will come pick you up. I told them that you are a
threat to the people here. They are coming to take you away.
Man: NO! NO! please no! You didn't let me explain!
* the guide ignores him and walks away*
Haha, that was the most interesting bus ride ever.
Anyways, I'm getting bored so I'll just go off now... Hope everyone's enjoying the rest of their holidays and yeh, cyas :)
On Wednesday, I left Los Angeles for the San Francisco 3 day tour. It was quite boring actually but hey, at least I could say that I went there.. LOL.
We stopped at a small Danish-looking town on the way there. After lunch, we looked around and I found the most awesomest store ever, called Del Sol. Everything they sold changed colour in the sun. They had shirts, bags, nail polish etc. I bought 2 bottles of colour changing nail polish plus a shirt ^^ They even had nail polish that was clear when you were inside and turned a cool pink colour when you were outside.
Hearst Castle is the only remaining castle in America - and it is so pretty.
GAAAAH! Who doesn't want a swimming pool like this?
The living room...
The dining room...
Another swimming pool - or should I say Roman bathhouse?
A pink fire hydrant lolz.
This place is in San Francisco and I forgot what it was called.
HAHA yes juliana, I am in a photo. O-M-G. I forgot to mention that I'm in the photos in my dad's camera but there's not many photos of me in this camera.
It was a really foggy day and this is all I could get of the Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco from a boat.
One of the biggest church organs in the world.
San Francisco's civic center
Yosemite National Park. This place is really pretty as well. It's like one of those places that American families go camping at in movies
Now THIS is what I imagined Edward's meadow looked like, not that crappy patch of dirt that was in the movie.
And here again, is my strange obsession with filming woodland creatures.
+
= Luurve :)
******
Canada at night
The Niagara Falls
Apparently, people feed the squirrels in America...
M.I.T- Massacheutus University of Technology
Boston
LOL, juliana, I'm not in my photos cuz I don't like taking photos of myself + I'm usually the one taking the photos anyway :)
This is day 5 of the tour but I'm blogging about day 2 cuz I didn't have time before... Anyways, here it is, Washington DC.
In the morning, we packed our bags and got onto the tour bus. It drove us to Liberty Hall, in Philadelphia where we got security checked and our bags scanned. And get this: we looked at a BELL. Seriously, a bell. Not just any bell either, a bell with a CRACK in the middle.
Afterwards, we drove to Washington DC. I reckon it's the prettiest state that I've been to so far. New York was kinda dirty. Washington DC is kinda like the nerd of states. Its got 13 museums, lots of memorials and the White House.
^^ I included this picture for any arachnophobic people who might read this blog. Sorry, couldn't resist.
This is your mum.
African Mammals Room
Aquatic Life Room
Skeleton Room
Now this is the White House. Yeh, its quite disappointing isn't it? People used to be able to go inside and tour it but after the September 11th incident, it's been closed to tourists.
Some memorial thingo...
The president's private helicopter (which I have no idea why I took a picture of)
The Lincoln memorial
A statue of Mr Lincoln - no, it doesn't really talk.
Some spiky thing + a swimming pool :) Boooonnie if you're reading this, that was the pool that I dreamt of. Home to the octopus that ate you. LOL.
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