Road trip up to China

Since I'm in a more hardworking mood than before. I've decided to write a bit about the road trip up to Hangzhou.

The point was not to take a plane up, and sort of experience an overland journey to someplace far away. haha, I imagined it to how it would be like undertaking a long journey in a time where airplanes are not that common.

Overall we took about two weeks to travel up and spent about S$1000 on the journey. We started on 28th Jan and arrived on 12th Feb.

Here is the order in which we traveled: Singapore - Malaysia - Hatyai (border crossing to Thailand) - Bangkok - Nong Khai, Thai-Lao friendship bridge (border crossing to Laos) - Vientiene - Luang Prabang - Muang Ngoi Nuea - Udomxai (Lao border crossing to China) - Boten (Chinese border) - Kunming - Hangzhou

violin lessons in zhejiang U

Us and the violin teacher. A very nice teacher too. Everyone likes her a lot.

ho, its the last violin lesson for the semester. We had to perform a short piece in front of everyone, and we chose to play the school bell. The school bell had a melodic tune to it, so we thought it would be interesting and hopefully humorous too. Sadly, only the teacher managed to catch on that we were playing the school bell. Everyone else was equally clueless. I guess our playing was too terrible and distorted to discern that its the school bell. Then we had our teacher to play some piece for us after the exam. The piece was very nice. It sounded very gypsy like, and its quite a famous piece too i think. I hear snippets of it being used in commercials.

Doing this brings back memories of being in band and playing together. And bringing with it, all the random fun and inane stuff that we do to entertain ourselves. Ah... to be young again... and have lots of angst and being all emo-nemo about stuff. haha such is the stuff that youth is made up of.

school work

Me in paris...