2008-06-07
Mastercard is your friend
Haha Addy, since you always shamelessly use my tagboard as a relay system, I will shamelessly use this entry to answer you and simultaneously talk about backpacking plans!
You know, I haven't even watched the FIRST Harold and Kumar show so don't complain about not getting to watch Prince Caspian because we are pretty much in the same boat here! For the shows we really want to watch, there's the cinema and then the DVD. For everything else, there's Master*coughonlinemoviescough*card. Or rental, yeah, there's always rental :D Oh! I really really like European and Middle-Eastern accents! And I find that if I ever lapse into an accent, the English accent seems to be my default phantom accent for some reason, I think I read too much British lit. Whenever I read stuff, I mentally hear the words being read out so if it's British lit, the voice has an English accent, and now come to think of it I have a feeling more than half the books on my shelves are British lit, not counting the ones I've read but didn't stake my mighty consumerist claim upon. I really would like to go to London this year but, as Rach says, it would be peak holidaying season and we wouldn't have enough time to plan. Not to mention costs would probably be up and it's, what, winter over there? Our papers end in the last week of November and our presences will definitely be demanded in Singapore for the Christmas, so I don't think we'll have any luck trying to push our backpacking trip so early :( Well, you could do some shopping of your own and tell us if you spot any good stuff! Then if we're really desperate, we'll grovel to you to help us get first and bill us later when we visit :P Hahaha! It really is terribly irritating, being stuck in Singapore all the time. I always feel like I was born on the wrong side of the world. But in the meantime, GSS is now on so if you want anything you can feel free to grovel here too. We have a mutually beneficial grovelling relationship, haha. Hopefully our backpacking plans will translate to reality! We aren't lying to you, really! It's just that we have a long way to go before that, so we need the time to plan things out (and get A Levels out of the way, bugger it all). We'll probably have to consult you on itinerary (though they say the joys of backpacking are found in NOT planning an itinerary, which sounds good to me since I do that all the time, but all the same to pacify the folks at home, a rough itinerary should do), weather, budgeting and other good ways to avoid going down the road of Extreme Hoboness and/or Certain Death. I admit, the prospect of camping outdoors illegally (as I've recently read in Weathercock, Glen Duncan's stuff can be rather unhealthy for me sometimes) does have a thrill-seeking appeal, but I would like to stay out of the justice system on my first backpacking trip there. Maybe next time, haha. Interpol will just have to wait...
So, yes, things we must clarify first:
1. Rough itinerary
2. Expenses
3. Accommodation
4. Travel documents and procedures
5. What to pack
6. Duration of trip
7. Who else is going and chaperones
8. Erhh, other backpacking stuff to plan that I haven't thought of yet :/
Who knows, if we manage to get everything done quickly, we might come over earlier! Really depends lah, see how it goes...
(Debs: I was WONDERING why I got an email saying someone replied to my lj since I haven't touched it for months. The layout was one of the defaults they offered! I hated the others, that layout was the lesser of erh, several evils! PINK AND FLOWERS WERE NOT MY CHOICE!! And please lah, this blog is already 4+ years old, give it a break. Sentimental value! Not like all you other young punks out there, changing blogs and phones and whatnot every few months! Anyway, I MOCK YOU MORE FOR YOUR SCANDALOUS SEKRIT HAHA!)
Happy belated birthday to Rach, enjoy your new clear and original Narnia DVD, haha! ("The precious...", lol) Vivien! Hurry up and come back from America, Rach and I want to go T3!
feimao at 8:55 p.m.