I've been to Santorini,Greece!

Despite the heat,Santorini's one of the best place I've been thus far.Gorgeous buildings!Gorgeous clear blue sea!but hm...not-so-gorgeous food and people.X)

Due to a tight budget,we took the "intermediate price ferry" from Athens to Santorini.The 12hrs ferry trip was around 60euros(two ways).
Upon arriving,we met up with the hotel guy and were stuffed into a tiny non-air conditioned van together with another 2angmohs.it was a 30min journey UP HILL. -___-""

and we didn't even had time to bathe!changed,we were once again rushed to the jetty for the island hopping cruise...we were a wee bit annoyed by the rush and wanted to skip the cruise instead.

Luckily we DID NOT!the cruise was more than FANTASTIC!

clear BLUE sea!


Do what the angmohs do...Sunbathing!X)

we made a few stops during the cruise.One for makan,one for mandi.we used our makan stop for both makan and mandi..hehe.because the mandi stop was at a DEEP hot spring ba.I didn't wanna get drowned in a hot spring(I can't swim dammit) and definitely didn't wanna smell like sulphur ba.bleh.
I prefer the smell of sodium chloride.hehe..

we made a stop at a volcano as well.I felt like tofu.Sizzling tofu on hot plate!The tour guide dug a wee hole and asked us to put our hands in it.> <" she said we could actually made half-boiled egg by burying the egg in the hole for 5mins. "eh say earlier can?!!*put burnt fingers into mouth*"
Our last stop was the highlight.I can't remember what's this place called though..=P It was supposed to be the place with the best,most romantic sunset view.This place was SO gorgeous that even photography noobs are professional photographers!you really need to be there yourself to fully understand what I mean.







Gorgeous chick of the day:
Paparazzi shot..heh.



After lots and lotsa camwhoring,we decided to head for our last destination...the sunset viewing platform.That place was flooded with people!We M'sian Chinese are born with survival instinct+ kiasu-ness.so we got ourselves the utmost strategic spot for sunset viewing..even more strategic than the platform.

cool huh?quite a few angmohs actually took photos of us instead!haha..new tourist attractions in Santorini.



and true enough...the sunset was indeed..indescribably beautiful.

we woke up as early as 7am(?) for a bath at the nearby black sand sea the next day before being stuffed into the wee van and ferried back to Athens again.

Santorini...another beautiful God's creation.

It was indeed..a dream come true.^^

p/s:Santorini trip was not as expensive as imagined.Two-ways ferry ticket was abt 60euros(or cheaper if u don't mind longer journeys) and our hotel was only 12euros per pax.There were actually cheaper rooms available.(as cheap as 8euros per pax!).

and that DMT tagged me again...

DMT always seem to know the perfect time to tag me...> <"

The rules:-

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Try to recap what you have done at approximate 8.08am or List down at least one interesting thing that you have done during 08/08/08
3. Tag eight people at the end of this post and list their names.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving them a comment on their blogs.

easy peasy...I was still asleep(and prolly dreaming about being chased by hantuS) on 08/08/08 at 08.08am.Nothing much happened despite being a so-called auspicious day lar..as usual,wake up-breakie-newspaper-lunch-nap-tv-dinner.Ohya,watched the Beijing Olympics 2008 opening!good stuff.many ppl wrote about it already,so don't need to elaborate la hor...

ohya!now i remember!EngChuan(and Victor) called me!hohoho..these people remembered me!damn happy can...^^I'm definitely looking forward to a gathering with all of them.if there will ever be one lar in the future..X)

hm..itu saje lo i think.Don't like the number 8 lar.looks fat.sounds bad.me no likey.bleh.
i prefer 7.my david beckie 7!

as usual,not tagging anyone.feel free to do if you wanna n drop me a msg then =)

of being curiously biadab.

ei yi jie you come back liao ah?"
no ah i'm still in Glasgow *insert a matter-of-fact expression*

lol.

yea i know i should appreciate concerns and compliments but i can't help wondering...X)

waah...ni ma ma mei you jiao ni ah?(english translation: your mother never teach you ah?)

MEI JIA JIAO!hohoho...i know i berry boh liao.

Athens,Greece.

I have been procrastinating on my Greece trip post as the whole trip was just tooooo awesome to be restricted into ONE blog post with limited words+photos!shall blog on Santorini Island later.anyway,here goes...Athens,Greece.

- G.R.E.E.C.E -

and yes...this country was such as blast that it was 42°C. bye bye fair skin.bye bye nice graduation photos.bleh..

and many thanks to Ron who joined us last minute for all the amazing group shots!and i thought weimeng was the only good photographer in p105.

lol.hahahahahaha....ok inside joke. XD


yeap,16 of us.kudos to the bestest most popular tour guide of p105, mr.Ongsumiin!oh he's guy in stripe shirt doing his famous (",)v sign.

The famous Acropolis.We had to climb all the way up this dusty hill under the heat for this.and there were hell alot of people up there.It was so hot that for the first time I feared that I would have fainted due to the unbearable heat.It was really no joke.angmohs were seen topless(guys lah),tops rolled high up and some were even seen bathing(with clothes on) at the available public taps.We conservative Asians only dared to fill up our bottles at the public taps.lol.

nevermind not being able to visit the Beijing 2008 Olympics 'BirdNest' for I've been to the 1st Olympic Stadium in Athens!hohoho...ok i was lying.T_T

There were really too many ruins around Athens that I've actually lost count...not to mention remember the histories behind them.All we jakuns did was camwhore.and jump.and kena warned.

"hello!hello!come down come down!"
"hello!you must respect bla bla bla...cannot jump here..respect bla bla.."

he jumped anyway.lol.

nobody was looking ba...lol.


Scandalous!got huawer somemore ler...sure got something wan!lol.


Yes!it was sooo dusty that you could feel small stones hitting on you(sakit can?!) whenever the wind blows.it was actually quite amazing that we survived after being there for at least 1hr.



and yes...he did it again.he was half way jumping to block our faces.bleh not successful.=P

coming to think of it...if it was not of the determination of our tour guide,this trip might not have existed.Greece so far ba...plus the airticket was the my most expensive EasyJet flight leh.This trip,was indeed a dream come true for Cyber-Fish.^^

Santorini Island next!

Oslo,Norway.

1. I wanted to visit Scandinavian countries but tak dapat cari member.sad can?
2. Fionna's 2 travel kaki ffk last minute.
3. flight to Oslo was only GBP14 nett for a return.

1+2+3 = a very random trip.

lol.

and our trip started off with a mad rush at the Prestwick Airport.haha,reached there seconds after the check-in counter was closed...we had to cutQ,mumbled N times of "sorry" and "we are late for our flight,can we go first?"...and it was a mad run to the airplane.

flight leaving 13:25pm,we made it into the cabin at 13:20pm. fuuh!*deeeeep breath*

camwhoring in the train -____-""

upon reaching Oslo Torp,we took a 2hrs+ bus ride to the city centre(now u know why is the flight so cheap?).it was already evening when we reached the city centre...but did i tell u that the sun never really set in Oslo during summer?hehe...

- Norwegian royal palace -

-I forgot what's this building liao^^" -

ohyea..the photos are all in random orders coz the whole trip was soooo random(cheers to fionna tan!XD) that everything's a blur for me now...hah

landmark of Oslo? situated in the well known Vigeland Sculpture Park. the whole park consists of different human sculptures which was pretty cool.oh notice the whole tiang actually consists of human sculptures.



Holmenkollen Ski Tower.one of the coolest place i would say!imagine during winter when the whole place's covered with ice and snow...n u ski aaaaaall the waaaaay dooooown!this ski tower could be easily spotted no matter where i stood.
Norwegian's national sport is actually ski...or was it snow boarding ar?gaah..can't remember.

Sognswann Lake!a place that i would not possibly forget!it's about 5km in diameter...i wonder why it's not a popular tourist spot...hmm.






the Opera Theater!future architects alert!X) my opinion la ok...bleh.



and did i mention that..during my 4days stay in Oslo,it just have to rain...have to blaaardy rain for 3.5days?!
we had to hide in the Folk Museum for almost half a day...hohoho.> <"



this roti canai thingy cost us NOK 200..which is about GBP 2. > <"

so to make up for the loss...we decided to splurge on a fjord cruise.

**hyperventilate**

*silence*

hahaha no la..in my dream lar maybe.that what i was expecting initially so i was pretty much disappointed when we were told that those kind of fjords are only available in Bergen...which was a 6hrs train journey away from Oslo.T_T saaaad can!



but still...it was a good trip lar.say me bias..but i think Scandinavian countries+people rocks much much muuuch more than any of the European countries.United Kingdom included.bleh.