Friday, May 11, 2007
US tax refund!
after a long long long wait.... i finally received it!! on 10th May! it was.. A LONG WAIT!my US tax refund cheque from US treasury!!!
presenting...
the envelope!! haha.. i thought the envelope was quite nice lar.. like it still says like USA there. anyway apparently the cheque went to US embassy before they sent it out so it's a local mail. not an airflown one all the way from US.and... da dang!
the long awaited cheque!! soooo pretty.... i wished i could frame it up or laminate it or something. haha sounds dumb? but i wouldn't because this cheque is worth a few hundred bucks!!! all my hard work at pkd. i still paid 16usd to US okay for taxes! =(anyway.. i heard the bank charge is like $20 because this is a US issued cheque. hmms. so its unlike the normal ones. US cheques so pretty hor.. unlike the singapore ones so boring! and the exchange rate for banks is much lower oso.. sighs. so gonna incur quite a bit of losses to cash this back.. but well, at least still got some money la!
YAY!!! it's finally here! :)
YuAn® spun on 10:48 PM.
Sunday, May 06, 2007
Disney- Epcot and MGM Studios, 24th July 2006
yay i'm back again. decided to blog again since i promised myself i am going to finish blogging on my US trip before i go for exchange in europe from July-Dec! yay~! and then i'll continue bloggin on this site of course! it's more than a year since i last left singapore for US... and i'm still stuck without being able to finish blogging. i suck man! haha.anyway, we spent the next days days at orlando, florida visiting 3 out of 4 parks of disneyworld! the only one we left out was animal kingdom because we couldn't visit all and we decided to forsake animal kingdom because... we weren't too keen on animals. haha.
so for the first day, we went to visit Epcot and Disney-MGM studios! Epcot is kinda like a xiao ren guo. they have like miniature buildings of different famous buildings around the world... and also like different types of buildings from different cultures and countries. frankly i wasn't too keen but we just went ahead because the rest of them were interested. MGM was kinda like universal studios where they had rides and very high tech stuff.
here are the pictures~! it's less than universal because i was kinda tired of posting so many pictures and i did selectively. plus i guess we didn't go with mingshun and yanping so we had less photos taken. we were so tired when we were at MGM that frankly, we didn't take as many photos. haha. here it goes!
the big ball of epcot waving hello to us!
at the entrance going in!
our tickets~! so pretty and colourful.
inside.. so pretty and clean.. their greenery.. unless pkd. haha.
more pictures of how it looks inside...
pictures of the different types of buildings! here it's like the british themed kinda feeling.
and inside the telephone booth!
standing along... "a street of england"...? haha look at the skies!
so then it started to rain.. and quite heavily.
while we were inside a building/shop kinda place taking pictures with pooh, tigger and eeyore. unfortunately piglet wasn't there. =(
and to not waste time since the tickets were so expensive, time was precious and there was so many things to see, we decided to invest in a disney poncho so as to continue our journey ahead!
mickey!
posing in the rain with our ponchos.
with the lamp post.
this is supposed to be a french themed building.
raining... 
rain got less heavy...
nice european buildings.
water water after the rain.
err.. dont know what is this building lehs. haha.
japanese themed~!
nice nice.
and then we were hungry...
so we went in to eat some japanese food~! haha not fantastic but okay la... it's a bit similar to yoshinoya fast food kinda japanese food.
america themed~!
the american adventure.
and then we took picture with a character~! not sure who is he and what's his name but he looks familiar. haha.
er i don't know what's this.. where's it look like? haha.
more water. haha.
so pretty the buildings. this picture is quite nice. hehe.
chinese themed~~! yay.
looks abit like the palace in those kinda ancient dramas. and they sell chinese food inside too.
pretty water plus greenery.
as we were walking along there was this small band playing along the lake. it was nice.
what are these two brown stuff called? argh i forgot again.
egypt pyramid.
ferry station where we could take a ferry.
we went to see the parade show of disney stars on motor cars.
what's this dog called? is he goofy?
toy story~!
aladdin and the lamp. what is the girl called? is it jasmine?
ariel.. little mermaid! i like the car!
the muppets!
OMG~! power rangers!! i remember the red one was called jason.. and they kept changing after that so i'm not too sure if there was some other names for red ranger too.
I LOVE POWER RANGERS~~!!!
a dwarf. only. too costly to have 7 of them i guess. but this one's cute
snow white!
and finally, mickey and minnie!
the big iconic hat of epcot.
cynthia's great idea! i'm wearing the hat! haha.
next we took the ferry to MGM studios... to watch beauty and the beast musical show!
it was really really nice with all the singing, acting and dancing.
the finale. very niceeeeee.
we went on to the rides but we didn't take so many pictures because honestly, we were so tired.
can somebody tell what idiotic movement ami trying to do? haha.
we went for the mermaid.. ride.. or was it a show? i think it was a show. it was really nice tooo.
okay, this confirms its a show because it was a real life cum animation kinda show. 
we took this while queuing... i'm not sure why is the poster in chinese though. i think it was part of the reason why we took this photo. haha.
this was a indoor rollercoaster ride.. similar to anaconda's kinda train but it was indoor so really dark and scary. they had like glow in the dark stuff where it felt as though we were going through expressways. it's very smooth and nice. 
if the mummy returns was the best ride in universal studios, hollywood towers' the best in MGM studios. it was a verrryyy loooonnnggg queue as usual but it's REALLY GOOD. the effects, excitement and all. we heard many people screaming before we entered so we were kinda scared. but it was a good ride.
bored while queuing inside hollywood towers.
we had to enter this service escalator which would bring us through the whole ride. there were like different lift elevators. one elevator could take in say.. about 10-15 people i think. i think the concept is so different cuz it's so amazing that all we had to do was to sit inside and it brought us through the whole ride. never seen a ride like this. plus the effects and thrill and all. it was... THUMBS UP. anyhow, we didn't take much pictures in MGM because we didn't had much time left. i remembered i ate this ice cream which was quite nice.. and a very very huge turkey leg~! should have taken a picture of it. it was humongous. like a very huge chicken drumstick. haha.
anyway, we ended the day with this show (kinda like the musical fountain kind at sentosa) where they had all the characters involved.. singing, dancing on the boats... there was like fire and all.
the finale picture with all the characters on the boat.. (ship?) waving good bye. haha. we met up with alot of other singaporeans at the show.. it was such a coincidence.. nice... =)
anyway, we ended the day with this show (kinda like the musical fountain kind at sentosa) where they had all the characters involved.. singing, dancing on the boats... there was like fire and all.
the finale picture with all the characters on the boat.. (ship?) waving good bye. haha. we met up with alot of other singaporeans at the show.. it was such a coincidence.. nice... =)anyhow, we were extremely tired, as usual after the whole day. will blog about the last day in orlando at magic kingdom the next time.
anyway, i think i'm just really so a not disney person. haha. i don't know alot of disney characters! so ashamed! and i think that's also why i told yicui i would probably skip disneyland at paris. haha. sooo not a disney person. :)
YuAn® spun on 12:43 AM.