Where are you, Eileen?

This is the blog where I’ll write about everything that happens during my WAT trip. It’ll also be my handy tool for planning the traveling section of this trip. Last but not least, this site is dedicated to my love ones to have the most updated information of ME~!

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Thursday, June 28, 2007

Conventional Coffee-making

hello all~!

just as you know, i'm already staying in my new home - Mag 2. i'm really happy and well, relieved, to be living in here right now, cuz never did i realized that this place is much better than the previous house. although the outer appearance isn't as attractive as Surf Sounds, i'm glad that the inner beauty indeed makes up its shortcoming.

the only thing that i can complain about this house is the lack of a coffee maker...

how am i going to live without my energy juice in each and every morning~??~??!?!

i need to find a way, definitely, after yawning for the entire day at work without coffee...

so this is what i'd figured out...

coffee filter tied onto a big cup with a rubber band. the ancient way...

boil the water in a small pot, put in coffee powder, boil for a while...
(the stove uses electric heat pad~ wooo~ fast and efficient~!)

pour the cooked coffee into the filter cup, and wait patiently for everything to be filtered... dripped coffee... definitely need time for this step...

ah~~~ finally, a nice big cuppa kopi~
(with low fat milk wo~)

haaha a closer view. i always brew my coffee well,
用心泡出来的咖啡! =)



Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Onwards...

hey hey~

i'm back with another entry~
it wasn't really especially busy this while, it's just that time was spent on more inevitable daily chores and planning of the traveling trip. apart from that, i was thinking of ways to earn more hours at work and also areas that me and yitsun can scratch and scrimp on...

In the last weekend, there was an event called Beach Blast happening on Jersey Shore. basically, it's just a beach soccer tournament where those kiddies come come and play here. they also have a morey's piers' wristband,which was keeping our rides and rides operators busy at the same time.

look at this picture:
the scene scared me and yitsun out as the beach was never flooded with people. First time ever~!

a trip to rio grande's newly opened Wal-mart on tuesday got us a big Hershey's chocolate~ we graced the store and it wasn't as marvelous as we thought of. the self-proclaimed 'cheap prices' wasn't up to their promise, and stuff in the rather big store wasn't really outstanding. it's just like a 1.5x normal supermarket, with certain products having relatively cheaper prices, but not all of them.
it's cheap!
1.65+/- USD for a block of choc, so big~!

Tons of frozen food from Save-a-lot.
aaaa, mama, dun scold me~ i noe it's not as healthy as fresh food~~

time passed quickly and soon it was moving house time. it seemed faraway when we were first told about the shifting. but right now, i'm already in my new home for the 2nd day. before i talk more about my new house, let me post these pic in memory of my 7 week stay in Surf Sounds.

the corridor on the 2nd storey. my room. Rm 4, is a right turn at the end of this stretch.

stairway up to the 3rd storey where there are 2 rooms and a kitchen.

here's the humble kitchen... we messed it up lots of time.

Surf Sounds, street view.

the moving commenced at 8am on the 24th. omg, 8am is like, what?!?~ so early and it's hardly possible for anyone in our house to get up punctually. anyway, one of the staff came into the house and shouted us awake... so we managed to get ourselves together and start the move...

it is not until we pack our stuff together then we realized that we have really a lot of stuff. u understand what i'm saying?? basically, after packing all of our stuff for the move, it turned out that our bags were filled, even after using the stand-by duffel bag. oh no~ !!!!

anyway, here are some pic of my new house...
the front face. i'm in the first floor apartment on the left side.
see that window? that's my room!

ignore the Thailand flag. this house was filled by the Thais before they leave.

soft toys, they are going to have another new-er home ahhaha
in the laundry shop, washing the bed sheets and stuff before we can use them tonight

can u see my apartment mate and i? we're waiting for the dryer... so sian...


will update more soon.
=)

Friday, June 22, 2007

Atlantic City

Sunday, June 17, 2007

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Saturday, June 16, 2007

phone photos

hey hey~!!

i received a parcel from you all today~!!!! so excited!!! thanks for being so kind and nice...

here's the photo:

green tea bags, cooling tea bags, fever and flu tea bags, 2 inhaler, USB phone, and a picture of Rain. hahahah

hahahah i was so surprise to see Rain's picture in it~ hahahha once again, a big hug and thank you to papa, mama and brother and hammies.... =)

i'm in the midst of installing the USB phone. in fact, i'd already got everything done, just have to wait for pple to be online for me to test run the phone...

okay, i'm posting some photos taken from my camera phone...

this picture was taken on my 4th visit to Cheng's Buffet

this was taken in Shop Rite and that was the first time i'd seen Starbucks ice cream.

this is a picture of my first mails for home and my baby...

much earlier, i purchased a TSA luggage belt online soon after i'd arrived in US. and that was also the first mail package that i received in the states.

these are chocolate candy given to me on a boring day of work by Hope, a super duper nice Cash Control staff. thanks to her and her candies, i felt much better and more enthu for that remaining day...

that's bout all for now. i'm very happy to have my family sending goodies to me and i appreciate it a lot. and also their herbal tea really comes in time cuz i'm having a little headache since morning.... thanks thanks!!

Monday, June 11, 2007

Cape May

Hello~!
I'm going to write about my trip to Cape May on the 5th of May. It was my day off and Cape May was considered the last nearby place/city which we can go. We had been to Rio Grande umpteenth times and it’s getting boring there, except for Cheng’s Buffet. So we decided to go Cape May with one of our admission girl who was also off on that day…

Surprisingly, as oppose to our thinking that Cape May is not too far away, the bus trip actually took roughly an hour. We started to walk around the place and found that it is a place more favored and visited by elderly. We saw many American aunties and uncles seemingly leaded by some local tour groups. And it felt that we’re so out of place there, even the shops sell things that were so not to our youth’s taste

taken from a Christmas shop

Moreover, the shopping area is just a relatively short stretch that is generally not very appealing to us… then, we went to the beach and we were quite happy over there cuz it was our first time visiting a beach in US. But, never did we think that we will end on the beach in Cape May, we were a bit overdress under the sun and on the scorching sand… anyway, the beach there is really low grade… compared to Wildwood’s, it’s really天渊之别

Here are the photos of us having fun on the beach. Hahaha

Well, one of Cape May’s draw points is its interesting house architecture. While we walk around in the city, we saw some really nice ones…

We had a meal at Ugly Mug, a place where they sell both food and alcohol. Of course we didn’t go to the bar area, we went alfresco dining…

Here’s what we had. Food wasn’t too bad, but the service was really unpleasant. Maybe it’s due to difference in culture, I dun noe… whatever, I’m just going to eat…

chicken tenders, roast beef with cheese sandwich, and Caesar wrap

Resting time… I didn’t have my coffee in the morning and I became lethargic after some walking… I must admit that America is a beautiful country, scenically. Everywhere u go, there are beautiful flowers grown and their shops and layout are so nice and relaxin…

Stopping outside a jewellery shop to rest again. I was sleepy and slept for a moment...

Following on, we went to the railway track beside the bus terminal. This is the 2nd time yistun and I go so close to railway track. Remember? The first time was at Taiwan. Hahaha

One last glance of Cape May before we head back to Wildwood…

Bye Cape May, although you weren't very interesting and impressive, thanks for having us on that day…”

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Compiled Days...

hey hey~ i'm back with another entry~!!!
okay, i shall do a relatively concise one cuz i have been laggin in the entries.

22nd May 2007 - 5th May 2007

to start off, here's me standing infront of my house door, and that's my house number.

on the 24th, before the pier was fully opened for the season, the admission gang was doing cleaning, again... and this time, we're cleaning the teacups. and things were boring, and we were practically slacking and moving our hands with our earphone plugged in our ears, filling our time with music rather than cleaning work.

i forgot whether i had talked about this before but there was once when the admission gang was called to test-run the go karts. and we got so bored of waiting and we dashed into the maze ride which was not opened yet and were happily enjoying the playing. and then, we got caught and got a bit of reprimand and stuff~ hahaha

and this time, the admission got into the same shit~ hahhaha we got so bored cleaning the teacups and we ended up playing and spinning the teacups and taking pictures and stuff. and, well, history does repeat, our high pitching (admission is 99% girls) laughs and giggling had alert the supervisor and once again, we got some warnings and stuff~ hahahha who cares~ the admission gang likes to play~ hahahha

here're the pics:
Yitsun, me (Singapore), Lavinia, Cora, Vivian (China) & Pin (Thailand)

finally, when we were about to knock off and were clocking out, i spotted a little cutie at a corner of the associate corner~ it's a cute little brown kitten with baby blue eyes~ she (preferably) was so small and scared. when i first spotted her, she was standing on the edge of the boardwalk and it scared the hell outta me that she might fall down to the basement floor, which is very low underneath... not having a second thought, i just grabbed her away from the edge and put her onto the table. she was soooooo scared and sad i could tell from her innocent bluish eyes. she must had gotten lost from her mama. Trembling from fright and the cold weather, i called all the admission chingus to come give her warmth by placing our hands (which were rather cold too) on her body.... sayang-ing her and talking to her... she seemed to calm down a bit and not figeting too much... kitty tried to say something to me, but it seemed like her mama haven taught her meowing. her meowing was like immature and didn't sound like a cat...

isn't she cute? can u see her innocent blue eyes? with the desperate yearn to go back home with mama? oooooh~ if only i can bring her back home...


at last, we counld do nothing but to put her back onto the floor and let her go find her mama in her own ways. basically, she had no sense of direction and was immediately in a lost state when i placed her on the ground... but there's nothing we can do... no matter how worried i was, i still have to let her go and while observing her for quite some time, she was still crying out in her unlike-cat meowing and had no answers at all... i had to leave, so i can only pray for her that her mama would find her soon... my friends said that that's how stray kittens should be, so that they can learn to live in the harsh environment...

okay, i believe the kitty is now staying happily by her mama's side... let's talk about food~ yitsun and i were just plain princesses at home where we need not cook a meal nor do house chores for the entire house. so over here, every cooking is consider a great achievement for both of us, and by honouring that, we take pictures of the food we cook~ hahaha (well, kinda show off, but nevertheless, i also needa show my family that i'm eating well =)

soup noodles (tasted like Ban Mian) with shrimps, lettuce, and egg.

tasty breakfast = muffin bread with ham and egg, and cereal with milk

porridge with fried lettuce with pork slices, canned tau si fish (i dunno it's exact named) and very sour (ecks*) but 100% pure orange juice...

rice with fried lettuce with garlic, and chicken chop. (yea, i luv rice!) see that cuppa kopi on the top right hand corner? that's my life saver for each and every day. i brewed it well. =)

this is fried rice, but it doesn't taste like it. hai~ i think it's consider a failure. we put in left-over rice, egg, ham, lettuce and some garlic. but it didn't turn out as what a fried rice should be... called mama asked about it and she just said " 炒饭没那么容易的, 要有技巧的! " hahaha

let's jump to 31st of June... the Thais are leaving, cuz their colleges are starting much earlier than ours... and it was Pin's last day at work on that day. we took photos:

the invincible admission gang: Yitsun, Cora, Pin, Por, Vivian and me.
* about to start work for the day *

at the end of the day, we dragged Mig, a Thai admission guy who likes to act cool and wear shades all day. hahaha so this photo is rather precious~
the Thais were great people and they're very friendly and welcoming. they were the ones who had first arrived in morey's and were the ones who taught the rest of us the admission stuff. we went to their house and they were so 好客.they opened up canned fruits for us, make food for us and even give us lots of food and gifts. we gave them cards to say goodbye and were purely paying a visit to them, but it turned out that we were actually having supper at their place. hahahaha we stayed till late night and were visiting the rest of the admission gang in other house. it was a fun night and people were just laughing and sharing all kinds of gossips (well, that's what girls do & remb, admission is 99% girls~) hahaha

moving on, on the 3rd of June, Wildwood was raining... we just wish that the pier is closing for that day. but we were put into our booths, on standby mode, sitting down doing nothing and get paid. eventually, bout 2 hr later, the rain got heavier and the piers had called it a day. yea~! we're off~ and guess wat? morey's piers sponsored the 2nd Radio Disney Music Festival and the concert was on that very day, kicking off at 2pm. it was 1+pm when we were off and the admission was the only department that can get hold of the concert's left over tickets~! the venue was at the Wildwood Convention Center, which is a few blocks down the boardwalk. the concert featured Jesse McCartney and B5. i heard of that Jesse who, but not B5. anyway, the tickets were free and we braved the big winds and rain rushing to the convention centre. only to our surprise that the so-called concert was like a funfair with more than 50% seats empty. the hall was brightly lit with a small stage and a crowd mainly age 11-15. we were sitting quite far away from the stage and not having the intention to move nearer. the kids were there, we just felt out of place with the little children screaming and stuff. hahaha

the music were dances, to us, were just like watching a TV program or listening to the radio. and we were enjoying our snacks and lunch box which we had prepared for the today's supposedly worktime. here're some photos:

nonetheless, this is the first concert that i'd watched since i arrived in United States. worth remembering. Jesse McCartney is not too bad. it's only until he sang Beautiful Soul then i went 'woa, this song is by him?!? haha'.

4th June 2007: i was in doing training in the booth with 小师妹,Irina , from Russia. then i saw my manager walking towards us, with a big parcel and a letter. hehe they're mine. =)

the parcel is from ah xiang and the letter contained my Bank of America debit card. yea~~~ ! it's sweet to see my favourite kimchi instant noodles and 3-in-1 milo drink in the parcel. these are the stuff which can never be found with my perimeter. thanks alot for your deep understanding and warmth!!!!! Brighten my days and i'll eat them well. =) thanks!


okay, a bit outta way, but i still have to post this pic. it commemorates the third time me and yitsun went to the Cheng's Buffet. it's yummy and cheap, and i'm still not sick of it. it's definitely gonna be the most frequent eatery during our WAT days in Wildwood... hahaha maybe we can get some sort of loyalty discount soon. hahaha


okay random pictures time:

me posing at the back of Wildwood Post Office, where many mail trucks were parked. those trunks are cute~

and this is the Giant Wheel in Mariner's Landing pier. it's really big and i guess it's bigger than Singapore's... i went on the Giant Wheel twice, in day and night time, and it felt really great. when u're up there, the entire Wildwood city is in your eyes. with the seemingly endless Atlantic Ocean and the wide beach on one side, and the city at the other side. but the wind up there is really big and cold....


okay, i'll stop here and will be back soon with an entry on my trip to Cape May. everything is fine here, dun worry. bye bye~!!!