::Inspiration::

stories

i have officially neglected my blog for almost 3 months.. it crossed my mind that my birthday seemed a perfect time to seek forgiveness to those disappointed readers who realised my disappearance after thanks giving in New York.. but somehow that thought didn't quite become reality either.. threes since i've come back to hot and sunny/rainy Singapore.. i figured i shan't procrastinate longer..

i've thought about what is the best way to summarise my entire experience during exchange and during my trip to europe into one blog entry.. and realised that nothing i write can do justice those exciting and memorable moments in my life.. perhaps i can never fully explain them in words to anyone, only attempt to describe feelings to those who haven't been through them and seek empathy from those who have.. i've finally decided to compile the top 10 entertaining stories for the past 5 months.. not that a normal day in New York going to school and having normal meals meeting normal friends was not something worth mentioning.. but these probably have become classic stories to tell for me whether they were pleasant or not..

couting down from 10.

10. Traveling, Sporting and Musicals

I have traveled to Woodbury where there's factory outlet shopping, Penn where's there's many friends and the famous Wharton, Toronto and Montreal where there's Niagara Falls and beauty among serenity, gloomy yet snowing Chicago, nice and sunny California LA and the exciting Las Vegas, college town Boston, small gambling and shopping place Atlantic City. And of course my year end europe trip which includes Berlin, Venice, Rome, Milan, Paris, Nice, Monaco, London with great company, which I would never be able to do justice in this post..

I watched the US Open finals with my idol Roger Federer.. I believe I have publised this enough through my previous posts haha.. I also managed to catch baseball, NBA and ice hockey over there..

Musicals were expensive but they were worth every cent of the money! haha I watched the best and most fantastic Les Miserables, the classic Phantom of the Opera, the cute and animated Lion King, the refreshing and entertaining Wicked, the different Rent and the newest Little Mermaid.

9. Halloween

Perhaps I have not posted photos up on facebook yet on Halloween photos but basically i spent quite a bomb on a Greek Goddess halloween costume which I must have been insane to wear out on a chilly October night in New York.. Happened that i attracted a lot of unwanted attention and scary encounters.. but the halloween experience was definitely unique to the US and an unforgettable memory..

8. Les Miserables

Never realised I could cry so much in a performance, the New York company touched me with their voice and their emotions in the musical. It was absolutely fantastic.. but this is perhaps something which can be experienced only once in life.. Managed to get the autograph and pictures with my favourie characters in the show.. it was just amazing!

7. US Open

Roger Federer LIVE and Victorious! A dream come true. What more can I say?

6. London Immigration
Stopped by London Immigration in Nice and was thought that we were carrying counterfeit passports.. the experience of talking to the guy on the phone with a perfect queen's english was a great one though.. pleasing to the ear at least :)

5. Turkish Guy

This random guy on the street who started to pick us up near our school while we were waiting for the safety bus back to our hostel at 4am.. after which he decided to follow us back to our hostel on the bus then asked innocently about not wanting to go back and the nearest place for coffee.. we ignored him.. but the story doesn't end there.. he actually found my friend on facebook!!

4. Canadian Experience

a 10 hour greyhound from New York to Toronto turned out to be almost a 20 hour ride.. including missing a couple of buses here and there along the way.. we managed to reach Niagara Falls in time though, just that we were with our luggages..

3. Bus Conductor

paying in europe for public transport seemed rather foreign to us all, and being girls with many baggages moving up the bus trying to get to our hostel, we conveniently skipped the step of paying for the bus ticket.. as the name suggests, the bus conductor came up the stop which we were getting off.. and he actually followed us down and asked us for our ticket which we obviously didn't have.. what's the solution? pretend that we don't speak a word of english and rattle on in chinese....

2. David Copperfield
His secret revealed!! Or maybe just one part of it. But it is definitely a deep secret since I managed to get a photo with him and his autograph on my ticket..

1. 3 days, 2 planes and a luggage
This is the most classic and melodramatic story I believe would ever happen to me, or to anyone for that matter.. where anything which can go wrong would go wrong.. ask me about the story if I haven't already told you in the most dramatic way :) it's a must hear!

rebec inspired @ 11:39 PM Comments: 0