Life Update: Travely travely.

I thought that maybe instead of ranting all the time about philosophical concepts, I'd talk a little bit about my life. Idk. My summer, where I've been and stuff.

So just to get everybody up to date on what I've actually done to get into uni, I'll make it clear that I went to Bellerbys College in Cambridge to do a Law and Politics Foundation course. People get a little confused when I told them I didn't do A-levels OR ib. I'm just going to say, I took the path that was right for me and the path that I wanted. IN OTHER WORDS, if you know what you want to do in uni, then maybe you should consider a foundation program if you still have the choice. But you know what? I'll probably explain a little better about learning and how to find the right school program for you in my later post.

So I spent my first month of my summer in Cambridge doing lots of silly. Petting owls, sitting on grass, eating a lot and going to London sometimes to walk about. But I actually mostly stayed in Cambridge. Got to see my second or third cousins from my dad's side in Surrey for like a day and a bit in the beginning. But it was really a multitude of sitting around watching many many dvds. I also managed to go down to Bristol with Dylan to look at it and get a feeeels of where I'm going to live because really, I've only spent that ONE day in Bristol.

me and Tim in Guildford eating Japanese. See da relation?

just silly grass sitting. very silly.

me and Dylan very tired on the train from Bristol to Cambridge. 

After some sad and fussiness about leaving the UK and coming back to Singapore, I eventually did as you all might know. And on facebook there is a PLENTITUDE of photos of what I did ie clubbing, seeing some friends and stuff. Then I went to Japan! My dad had to attend a conference in Kyoto, so me and my mother just tagged along and it was best fun. We were part of a tour program for people who tagged along with attendees so there was a lot for me and my momato to do in Kyoto:

These are just photos of me at a tofu restaurant, where the lunch was entirely consistent of...tofu. Soft tofu, medium firm tofu and firm tofu and tofu dessert. I kidd thou not. I liked it, and was probably getting all the protein I needed but I think on a daily I would crave more flavors and then fail at being healthy.  :( I would post more photos but we didn't actually take thaaat many. After we went to Kyoto, we went to Tokyo for a bit, to me, the best city in the world. I'd really rather be no where else. 

Again, not many photos, but me and Momato went about to Shibuya, Shimokitazawa, Shinjuku and we stayed in Hibiya which is near Ginza. On a whim, we also signed ourselves up for a Mount Fuji-Hakone tour. I got to stock up on clothes and got to buy lots of random things. (that I love) 

Shimokitazawa is probably my favorite area in Tokyo though. It would be known as the "hipster suburb" and has an eclectic collection of cheap vintage clothing, tiny Japanese cafés, and antique stores. Down here, I've been able to find a classic viewfinder and viewfinder reels at a store called Time Machine, where I met an interesting man who travels the US and the UK going around garage sales looking for antiques for his shop. He told me he would do it for 2 months at a time. 

The ¥990 store that I went to was called "Ragla Magla" and I can't advise you on how to get there 

once you get to Shimokitazawa station. You have to map it out before you get there, sorry. :( This place was 

fantastic though! All these clothes, bags, shoes, jewelry that was vintage/secondhand. The store manager

was most helpful with finding things I wanted (flannels etc) and gave off a vibe of being genuinely very 

nice! But then again, in retail, that's mostly the vibe you get in Japan anyway. 

Frontage of the store, photo taken from Tokyo Cheapo who gave me the tip in the first place!!

 

10/10 would go again. 5eva n alwys.

Yes, I know I'm wearing the same dress in every photo I have of me in Japan. I really did have more clothes though. I just think the dress came out nicest in all the photos I have ahhahaha. And as usual, next to the hotel we stay at there is a sushi shop that is just. Great. Super authentic and popular with the working crowd from Ginza. It was great because I got given a tiny ikura sushi (no really, very tiny like three grains of rice, one ikura and tiny nori around it) because the sushi chef decided to treat me ^_^ 

Look like a wreck because we traveled from Kyoto to Tokyo on the Shinkansen that day. Isss me and my dadish.

I am a happy camper.

After that I returned to Singapore and did a whole lot of silly with Stiff and clubbing, which is pretty much what I'm doing now. Photos can be found on facebook. Choose to stalk me there!!! But then I decided to go to Sydney for reasons that I don't think SHOULD be publishable on the internet but that's okay. Close friends probs know. But no worries, I went to Sydney and got to hang out with my Momato some more.

It was pretty boring. We went to Market City whenever we could to look at. Things and went to watch the imax show about monarch butterflies. That was great. So much nature and butterflies all over the screen! Momato fell asleep but I loved it. So free that we managed to watch two operas at the Sydney Opera House. "Don Pasquale" and "La Traviata". Don Pasquale was more based off Commedia Dell'arte which I had to study in ib drama, I really had fun doing it actually. But for those that don't know, it's Italian comedy that is basically the parent of all comedy that we see today in movies and tv! I'm not going to go into detail because maybe it's a bit boring idk. La Traviata was a serious opera that they've actually also just done in Singapore. It is sad, but the sets in Sydney were amazing (!) and so was the costuming! My mouth was just hanging open the entire time. Anyway, two weeks of bonding with my momato and then back to Singapore. 

i'm just a girl eating an ice-cream in front of a church with an american apparel bag.

selfie with my mom and luwee's mom in front of sydney opera house okay.

"Grab the bull by the horns yo"

in front of beloved Market City

upgraded to business class yay.

dis wat i did when i hung out wit da momato.

And now I've been back in Singapore for quite a bit, if I'm not wrong, two weeks of just sitting, getting fat and hanging out with Stiff and seeing some other friends. Working on making a photo set of film photos of all that so maybe another time. Personal post not going to come for ages. I want to focus on philosophical concepts to spread the wurd but have to keep things interesting for people somehow right?