Rafting in the Ganges.

Dear all,

If you're thinking my rafting trip was a cooked up cock and bull story, then here's some pictures. Many thanks to Sandeep and family for providing them :D
The trip with Red Chillies, which was featured in Lonely Planet, was a bit more costly but worth every cent. Anyway I always pay more to ensure all the were reasonably paid and all the safety precautions were sufficient.

Me and two dashing very guides, loading the equipments onto the raft.
Introduction to my raft mates: Big brother Sandeep with his beautiful wife Monika in front of him. Parag standing at the lowest step with his hand on his sister's in-law shoulder and Harshad at the right.

Brother Sandeep heling us to take a picture.

Bhim, the guy in red, was the one who kept us alive through the whole journey. BTW he is also a yoga master. Nothing but respect for him. We were crowding around the campfire as the night was damn chilly. I have like 4 layers (5 if include sand) in me.

Breakfast

Bhim heling us to take a pic. The guy sitting down is another guide(or the cook? can't rem) who has done this probably a thousand time.

Monika helping us to take a photo while we enjoyed breakfast.

On the third day, a carpenter from Sweden and a doctor from London joined the team.

Happened to be Parag's birthday on New Yr day.

The cook baked a cake for the birthday boy and Harsahd took a group photo

Tents and toilet at the far end. We had problems dugging holes and I only used the toilet once. The rest of the time just find somewhere to settle.
Kitchen/where the guides slept.

Whats coming maybe uncertain but you're not alone.

"A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles"

The trip with the Bele family was a fun and memorable one, hopefully I can visit them soon

Wish you were all there,

Laiyi

January Gathering 2010

After much procrastinating, here's the January post. A bad start for the first gathering of the year. A lot of missing people. Nevertheless, we still enjoyed the good food. AND MY YAM PASTE! Finally! But sucks.. forgot to take photo of the yam paste. Everything except the yam paste. Sucks....

I don't need to talk much. It's just an eating gathering.

Prawn Dumpling

Fried Carrot Cake

Beancurd skin with mango + Spring roll

Our messy table

Pig ears

Char Siew Pao

Chives dumpling

Chicken feet

Cheong Fun

Glutinous rice wrapped with Lotus leaf

Pork ribs

Leaving...

Group photo #1

Group Photo #2 with Photographer

Yeah... The end of the official Jan Gathering 2010. After the lunch, Me, Zm, Ly, Ct and Rene went to Qian Hu and Farmart to walk walk see see. Nothing much interesting and nothing missed out.

Happy 2010!!

India trip

Hi all,

Happy New Year!
By the time you read this, I'm already back in Singapore!
Most of you must have heard about the horrendous touts, the unbelivable living conditions and other SHITTY stuff. But I'm sure there are more to see as I have yet to alight at one of the rural villages, always making my stop at the big cities. Don't have that kind of courage at the moment.
For those who did not attend yesterday's 12 hrs gathering, I'm sorry, we didn't leave any Masala chips for you.

Took some pics with my lousy camera, and then it went out of battery. There're more from my 3D2N rafting expedition but they're with my Indian friend now. Will post it when I have them.

Varanasi, one of the oldest city. And this is the Ganges, most important river in India.

"The Ganga, especially, is the river of India, beloved of her people, round which are interwined her memories, her hopes and fears, her songs of triumph, her victories and her defeats. She has been a symbol of India's age long culture and civilization, ever changing , ever flowing, and yet ever the same Ganga."
- Jawaharlal Nehru, First Prime Minister of India

Here you see people showering.

More people dipping. Can't really stay in there for long. Some ladies go topless...like in 7am in the morning. I guess the water is much cleaner in the morning but not that clean since there's others washing their clothes and burning corpses just a few meters away. And all the sewages goes into the river as well. The water must be cold since i'm wearing 3 layers inside but i cannot bring my fingers to touch the water to test temp.
Kids trying to sell me flowers.

The taj

You can see the proportion, the amt of people and the length of the queue.

The fifty cents shave.

Wish you were there to share the shit,

Laiyi

Hi all,

Happy 2010! Curious why m i posting here instead of my own blog? well, as laiyi says, no one bothers to check my blog anymore...*sniff* so i'll just post here like jhjy...heh...

You must be wondering by now, what made me want to post today..well, just wanted to let you guys know before you hear it from others....okie...stop, it's not dat i'm attached or getting married...

Take a deep breath and stay calm before you read on....

Yesterday i met with an accident while i was crossing the road...i m the safe pedestrain, crossed when it was green man, and got knocked by a motorcyclist from malaysia...he was with his gf...another couple who was driving a car stopped to help...all arnd late 20s to early 30s....had a bump on my head, abrasions on my arms, injured my tailbone...the passerby couple got ice from the nearby house to ease the swelling on my head...called fer an ambulance and i was sent to nuh...the motorcyclist and gf waited till the ambulance reached before they left...i guess i shocked my whole family...but like i told my mum, if aniting more serious, it wun b me calling her oreadi....so doc examined me and concluded i suffered from superficial injuries...*i'm so lucky*....i knew i'm fine lar...but was glad the doc's comments calmed my mum down...and so i'm given 3 days mc...

and so, fer now, i can walk slowly, sit slowly, squat slowly, and bend slowly...other than dat, i'm ok...i was back at werk just now...1/2 day...and had to lodge a report to give my statement at the police station in ubi this afternoon...

a new experience for a start in 2010...trying out the ambulance, entering the AnE as a patient (i've been inside before lar...cos of my student), reporting at the police station....

lesson learnt: wait fer vehicles to stop on both lanes first before crossing even when the light turned green....i guess i had to learn the hard way....*shrug*

Halo everybody..

Mr JH and i would like to wish everyone a Happy 2010. May it be a fruitful year for all of us!














Juz a quick recap on the events that happened on the last day of 2009.

Mr Hole-in-the-intestine JH decided to bring his big-ass camera out to take some pictures to commerate day.

Smartie yin dictated him to park car at Beach Road to avoid frustration later on... All will be explained in pictures later.

Anyway we met up some frens and went for dinner at Waraku Pasta.



























Fast forward to a few hours later, at around 10.30pm, we decided to brave the crowd in search of a good spot for one of the top favourite Sporeans' activity: Fireworks watching. Let's ignore the fact that JH was being dragged along.




























Okie.. so we decided that nearer the action is always better. Onward to Esplanade we go. But, alas, ALL ROADS, SHORTCUTS, LINKS to Esplanade are closed!! Damnit!

As we all know, Sporeans are a bunch of ingenious people. Wherever u can think of, they are there. As we can't cross the damn road, we went to camp at some staircase. And the staircase is also FULLLLLLL!!! Well, manage to grab a spot on the staircase and we decided to stay put.














While waiting for the fire-works, we witness how Sporeans, for the sake of fireworks, decided to throw their obedience away. Some smart-asses decided that the stupid barricade is damn bo liao and decided to push it away and they dashed across the road. Let us be reminded that the freaking road isn't closed and there are still vechicles dashing around. So, one does it, everyone decided to chiong for it too.. So for a moment, there are chaos along the road. Until the police managed to keep everyone in control.





























As the fireworks start, we saw a spooky thing. Most of the fireworks watchers were induced into a trance. 90% of them whipped out their cameras and took video of the fireworks. Anyway, Mr JH didn't take a picture of it... it's quite a sight.


Finally, we oso spotted alien intrusion in the midst of the countdown! See below...

Alien base....



Martian detected...

Jiehe's hole in tummy...

Thx all for your concern ppl!

For info of those whom are juz back from ur trips, Korea was hell fun! Snow skiing is like nothing I ever tried, strongly recommend everyone to give it a try if you have the chance.

If u checked out my Korean album in FB, the first day i tried out this super insanely sweet and yummylicious strawberries there. So nice I think i whacked like 10+ of them in the day. Maybe tats how the freaking strawberries seeds got struck somewhere.

To cut the story short, I developed a kind of muscle strained pain on my right abdomen on the 2nd day. Thinking I might have "over-played" I oso din tink much abt it. Surely enough, it gotten worst on my 3rd day, but of cos I oso tong la. (strong 1 leh) The fun makes U forget all the pain sia. This is very true.

Till the 4th day, JY forced me to see the doctor there then I know its no joke liao. I had initially feared that it to be appendicities. Which if really the case, I would have to cut short my holiday and fly back straight(NoOoO!!!). Stupid Korea medical hospitals oso damn cannot make it, doctors all dont work on weekends. So no matter what ultrasound scans, X-ray, can take..but no doctors to read! After going like 4 different hospitals, I finally managed to get an ultrasound done and thankfully it isnt appendicitis. My symptoms appear to be called Diverticulities. Not spell of the spelling ah. I shall google to find more info on it. After I came back for a checkup, the doctor just told me I am probably 1 of those suay ones whom are borned with it. My big intestine walls are quite thin, so it might form a bulge/hole. Infection will occur when some food(strawberries seeds, my assumption) gets stuck there.

Well, I am done with my dose of anti-biotics and what shit not. No more pain liao, but of cos still muz go for a colonscopy to find out if I am REALLY fine inside. This sickening procedure involves me taking some laxative and the doctor sticking something up my arse. awwwww.........to end it all, its costing me in excess of $1000. To hell with it !!!

As you might all have guessed, I cannot have too "exciting" food these days to kinda ease off my infection and that includes BBQ food. So shit...I am thinking this coming Sunday, we have to change our plans a bit, I am thinking of changing it to a each buy-ur-fav-food potluck session den come my place eat( No spicy food to tempt me, U evil shits!)

PLS SMS ME TO INFORM WHAT U BE BRINGING TO ENSURE NO REPEATS!

BTW, as per our mini gathering for Zombieland with the rest, we have a "buy-each-a-cup" theme this XMAS! As the name implies, we are supposed to get each other A CUP/mug/flask/thermal flask/Starbucks cup as the xmas gifts. It seems like everyone needs 1. LOL...

November Gathering 2009

Hey people! I'm the organiser for November. I was arrowed to organise when I wasn't around. Nice.. I must keep emphasizing on this shit man. #@$!@%@#$%@!@#@

Anyway, this time round it wasn't any good job done. Many reasons lah, but most people will say it's just excuses. So I'll just say it's my incompetence, okay? -___-

Attendees for this time is everyone minus Garry + Kat and Rene. Apologies for the lousy organising work ah. Pai seh pai seh.

Anyway, also nothing much to talk. Our official cameraman and camerawoman never bring camera, what to do? So just a quick summary.

Makan @ Bloogie (Rail Mall) -> Go IMM -> JJJ and JHJY (there must be something in the J's) shop winter wear -> Cake @ Secret Recipe -> End

Chop chop, short and sweet. Don't worry, those absentees. You didn't miss out much.

-Sicong