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this is a picture taken in the park...their public toilet look like elevator hor?? the buttons i'm pointing to say "vacant, occupied, not in use - very high tech)

Hi guys!
miss you all...
serene: hope your paper was good:D
felicia: jia you for your coming papers!!!
Hua yu: jia you too! we'll see you very soon! counting down
huimin: have you been sleeping??? or watching vcds non stop?

ha..just wanted to share with you guys my experience of taking the plane alone :D
well...the 10 hr flight was ok lah :) thought about a lot of things, i got a window seat and the plane was super empty, so the 2 seats beside me were empty. yup so i had the whole row to myself ..
i watched narnian + the korean movie (All in love - the one that is something like love actually, very sweet and touching)
yup..ALL was fine, till i arrived at the auckland airport.

ha..it was AN EXPERIENCE, i must say.
cos i helped jing bring mushrooms and dried shrimps over, i had to declare all these food, they are very strict cos it's an agricultural based country.
i THOT i would be ok since i dutifully declared everything. BUT...

blur me didn't bring along my e ticket to show that i had booked my return tickets, neither did i know the booking no. arghhhhh... so they got suspicious
yah i was that blur (i was supposed to travel with 3 other people, and lilian had booked the tickets, she couldn't make it last minute so everything was a rush, only knew i was travelling alone at 1am the night before)

anyway, they searched my bags and even thought i was smuggling drugs :( even inserted a litmus paper like thing to check for narcotics - and yes, he actually asked me "do you know what narcotics are??" forgive me but i really tried super hard to not RoLL my EyEs @
the customs officer really made me SUPER EXASPERATED. seriously. and i was like in there for super long time.

it was no fun loh...being interrogated and ask like a hundred times whether you're sure you have no drugs, and i must say they are quite bias towards asians (but i later found out that we can't really blame them, cos of their experience with some Chinese here), anyway, in short, they weren't very nice lah.

ha...thankful that i got through. it was a bad experience, ha...maybe once in a lifetime - that i actually got suspected of smuggling drugs..haha..

praying that the return trip would be a more pleasant one...ha..and looking forward to the nice ice cream they serve on SQ. :)

see you guys soon! miss ya...