Went Endau-Rompin national park or whatever it's called over the weekend with my mom, her colleagues and sunny. Bumpy roads with holes and elephant shit all over, hiking and seeing bamboo plants trampled by elephants, crossing numerous narrow suspension bridges, really cold water, and floating down the river in boats.. There's an amazing variety of insects there. Usually you'll only find ants and mosquitoes in the house, an occasional cockroach or moth maybe. There, even indoors, there are all those plus all sorts of beetles, had a nice time observing the insects before squishing some of them. There were too many to squish them all.

Best part of the trip, beautiful place, great activities, ok weather.. Worst part of trip, always have to go begging for food cos they have communication problems all the time and somehow or other, the message that we need food never ever got to the chef, so we had fried rice for dinner and fried instant noodles for breakfast. Fried instant noodle, have u seen such a thing? The guy made the noodles so short, it's like rice, but tastes good =)

Oh yeah, our guide was a small girl. Couldn't be more than 15 years old. But she's so much more pro than all of us. Wore sandals, didn't need to bring anything, not even water while we had a 1.5l bottle of water each which we all gulped down during the hike. We must have looked so clumsy to her..

Pre-departure activities.. oops, not supposed to talk abt scholarship but heck, i'm going to say good things. Even though there's still loads of probs with the school, i'm more looking forward to going to school now. And I feel slightly relieved because apparently I'm not lagging very much in the app stuff. The US schs are just real slow. Don't feel too confident abt school though.. i might just sink into depression during the first term, can't cope, get below 3.6 and that's it...

Anyway it's quite fun. Visited SHATEC today, never knew there's a hotel/ tourism school in Singapore. But come to think of it, there must be one right? If not where did all the chefs come from? Dining etiquettes were cool, cooking was messy and I'm glad the students helped us so much, if not we would have gotten everything burnt. The fire was just too strong to control. But then, that's what real chefs use.