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Hi.. This christmas and New year, I soft of found myself in familar company but in a total different environment. Firstly, I met up with my sec sch buddies that I have know since 13? wow.. that's like 10 years man if we were to really count.. hmm that makes me realised that technically I met Wanzhen (16) when she was 7 and qihui (22) when she was 13. Woah that's a long time.. to see someone grow up.





Hehe. Anyway I had a road trip to the east coast with Kaibei, my bball buddy/captain from RI days and his very dear sisters. Have this tradition of spending new year's eve with them because 31st happened to be qihui's b'day and there will ususally be a birthday/count down buddy where some of us will be invited.. so lucky lucky qihui gets extra presents from her brother's pals ususally.

Also had the opportunity to meet up with the Bio Valley NOC people who rented a cabin and kind Iris had invited us to spend christmas eve with them altho I wouldn't say we were in time for their christmas party as we only arrived in the dead of the night at (2.35a.m) by which almost everyone had hit dreamland. And Iris..I am still waiting for the photos...*tsk tsk*



So there we were, with some extraordinary friends from Singapore..a really nice fella by the name of Kelly, (yes that is his name.. just like my brother in law). Taking a trek through ice and snow to the 'frozen' waterfall. It was supposed to be a frozen waterfall and that's the selling point but by the time we saw it.. we found it to be nothing fascinating but it did gave us a good reason to walk in the snow for a good 45 mins. haha.




Then it was road trip for the 4 of us and we found ourselves to be in Canada for the next stop. Alto Kaibei 'conveniently forgot about this passport and there we were trying to get his classmate to break into his apartment and get his passport and fedex overnight to us. Fianlly, when we learnt that it will cost 300 bucks, we gave up the thoughts of spending the night in Canada but instead get a hotel as close to the border as we can, so that the next day me,qihui and wanzhen can go for a day trip over there while kaibei 'rot' in hotel. He secretly had the plan of spending the whole day indulging in his war craft but only to find it backfired because his gaming cd was left in the car by mistake, and the car was with me. haha.

Wine trail in Canada was a blast! The scenery was good, the people was friendly. And most important of all the wine was good. But because we were in a hurry, we kinda went on an empty stomach and after a couple of 'wine tasting' we could really feel the wine in our empty stomachs and that's when we decided to stop. Well that was also near the end of the day so we didn't reeally have too much of a choice.. haha.

Then it was back to New York city where we did the tourist's stuff. New York is really not our favourite leg of the trip because there were simply too MANY tourist. Can you imagine we had to queue for 4 hours just to get tickets and go up the Empire State building? Statue of Libery took us up to 3 hours before it looks like from the top. I like the food at "Astor place" or (St Marks), basically there little korea as well.