currently listening to: Ryuusei [Naruto]

back from taiwan, taipei!

ahh... the place is.. quite boring.. apart from the anime goodies they have there, everything's really rather bland and.. *ahem*ahem*, EXPENSIVE.

no. no w-inds. stuff. i can't find any!! i thought taiwan suppose to be the place that has all of them!! where did they all go??? *despair*

but there's this really cool shop there, ANIMATE, that has such a huge selection of anime goodies. I WANNA OWN THAT SHOP!!! sadly, the things there are a 'little' bit more expensive... so i couldn't spend my money as freely as i could in my dreams... so sad...

the moment i stepped in there and saw the series that majority of the anime goodies belonged to, i thought to myself: this is judy's shop. yep, you guessed it. yaoi and hentai stuff everywhere~ *vomits*

so this means that there is really very little anime goodies i can buy since i only know so few of them there. *curses* call myself an anime fan. i mean, i know the series but i don't watch them. series like prince of tennis, saint beast, saiyuki, gundam seed (yes, all of them judy's favourites. why am i so unlucky??? why no my series???)... god, now i regret not watching. not because of the series itself!! but because their anime goodies are SOOOO cute!!~ but i can't buy. -_-"

still!! i managed to spent over S$70 there. *whahahaha* let me stress again that i'm very happy with this shop in taiwan and...

I WANNA OWN THE SHOP!!!

there are other shops too. let me tell you this crazy deal i got at this crazy shop that calls itself "crazy comic house"... anime soundtracks all at S$9. all of the soundtracks of popular animes! fullmetal alchemist, rurouni kenshin, weiss kreuz, .hack//, inuyasha, naruto... nothing can describe the kinda joy that i felt when i saw the number "$180" printed on the price tag, and i was desperately thinking to myself: does this shop owner know wat she's doing? maybe she thinks nobody will wanna buy them but waaaaaaaaaaay is she wrong. *whahaha* but very unfortunately... that shop was the last shop for the day and i only had around $1000 left with me, which is about S$50. so i could only buy 5 cds, all vocals.

still!! i am very happy with the shop!! despite the fact that i was soooo engrossed with choosing the cds and under the constant hurrying of my family members, i forgot to buy this really cute fushigi yuugi cup from the shop. *tears*

as u can guess, all my money was spent on anime and manga stuff. i think i made my parents broke. hehe.. *guilty*

so that is really the main highlights of the trip. went to yangming mountain, wulai waterfalls, shopping at shin kong mitsukoshi-s and other departmental stores and streets, some kinda place that sells anime dvds at super extraordinary expensive prices... the wulai trip wasn't that bad. in fact i enjoyed it. after taking the cable car up the mountain and climbing dunno-how-many-goddamn steps, we reached a pond where there is this vending machine that is shaped like a fish and sells FISHFOOD.

my brother was so fascinated by it that we bought 4 packets and spent the rest of our time running around the pond and feeding fishes in the pond. we were trying to throw the food to the smaller fishes, who apparently are being bullied by the larger fishes when it comes to snatching food, hence the running about. then we ran out of coins and my father threw the sweet potato he bought earlier to the fishes. -_-". wonder if the fishes will be dead by the next day. *pictures floating fishes in pond*. but it was rather funny, really. nice trip.

that is about it. told you it was a bland place. couldn't buy too much cuz the things were so very expensive. i still managed to be the one who bought the most things during this trip though. *whahaah*

oh, and i am posted to ACJC wor!

*curses*

i did try to appeal for TJC, submitted the form and everything but still, i couldn't get into TJC. *sobx* too bad... i guess i'm not fated to be a TJC student.

i didn't really wanna appeal when i received my results but i didn't wanna make a rash decision and miss a chance of getting in TJC (MY DREAM JC~). ok, i admit it was i was freaked out when they asked me to write an essay on "WHY TJC?" as part of the appeal. word limit 250-400. (*xinyi thinks: siao ding-dong..*curses**). but i didn't really wanna get into TJC through appeals cuz i always felt that appeals are like last ditch attempts to desperately get something that you are not fated to get. to me, it's kinda like an insult to my pride. i mean, even if i did get into TJC through an appeal, i can't feel myself and be confident and everything cuz nothing denies the fact that i only got in through an appeal and i really didn't make the mark yet i shamelessly squeezed myself into it.

ok, maybe i'm extreme. but that's really how i think. my point of view, objective from anyone else's. and yes, i'm a fate believer. *whahaha*

but still, i couldn't decide cuz i didn't want the same thing to happen to me every single time in a situation like this. appeal or not appeal.

yes, that's the problem.

so i called my pal, tingxu!, who also wanted to appeal to TJC. so we were talking talking talking when my mother, who had previously been the one who suggested for me to go to ACJC, called and said that i'd better appeal for TJC. -_-"

i was feeling so extremely FAKE when i typed the essay "WHY TJC?", praising them for their good points and over-exaggerating my reasons and willingness to get into TJC. but still, i couldn't get in so.. i guess you can consider it both a blessing and misfortune bah. i still felt a little disappointed when i received the news though. can't be helped, i have been aiming TJC for 3 years already!!

so i'm in ACJC for the first 3 months now. maybe it's not that bad, except for the distance. i'm glad it's just the first 3 months so i think there won't be any CCAs that will make me come home at 8pm or 9pm or some ungodly hour. i don't think i'll still be there after 3 months so that's not a cause for worry. why? i think i'll probably go to TPJC or MJC instead. i'm going to flunk my O levels.

speaking of MJC, soooo many of my friends are in MJC! including regina and juliana! i was like so crushed when i heard the news that the 3 of us can't be in the same school again. *sobx* don't leave me behind!!!

but i think i'll probably go MJC after the O levels results are out. hopefully, many of my friends will still go there too. i am praying very very hard.

am i being evil??


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