For our lifestyle and lifespant development lecture today, we saw the whole process of how the women waited painfully for their cervix to dilate till 10cm in order to "push" the baby out. Most of the girls in the room were going ooh and ahhh, my friend commented that we are like taking roller coaster while watching the baby being delivered. From these videos, these women had a common point, they are bearing all the pain just for the baby. Mothers are so noble! Giving birth is just like sticking one leg into the hell.

Advise to the men: Appreciate your wife.

" It's a privilidge to grow old with someone"

- From the movie PS I Love You

It is definitely a movie worth watching and touching movie. It is not easy to meet someone you like, and it is even more difficult to maintain it. So appreciate that someone out there before u even lose it. This movie also brings out the beauty of support from family and friendship. I salute to all these couples who had come thus far.


Picture taken in London

Another movie worth watching is "The sister's keeper". The similarity between the previous movie is they revolved on topic of facing death or close one's death. Though this movie dont have handsome actor or actress, but it really brings out human nature, loving mum who will go to all extend to protect her child.The love between siblings and sometimes u just cant choose life. It just leave me pondering, sometimes the relationship between people are just so intriguing.

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We checked out and leave the hotel at 12 plus cuz we have to stay overnight in the airport for 6am flight. Meaning we are going to spend our night in the airport. Well, sounds a bit pitiful, but it save us Euro58. We went for boat tour and walked to see the Arc de Triompe. On our way there, we did some shpopping. For dinner, we had mussel. For this restaurant, 95% of the people are eating it and it is definitly nice! I thought they have unlimited mussel for me, but it is available for all outlet except the restaurant I am in. If it is really free flow, I think the shop is going to make a lost from me, haha....





This cost 21.70 Euro!!



It is a less tiring day, my mum was happier cuz she bought herself two clothes and she need not walk as much. went to the Eiffel tour for the third time and it is gonna be our last time. It is indeed quite a romantic place. For the two times we went there, we manage to see the 5mins blinking tower and its cool.

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My mum really dont like the previous hostel and wanted a refund, we booked the hotel on the same night and moved out this morning. According to the stuff, it will be noisier cuz on Friday, all the students will go clubbing and I was woken by my roomates coming back to the rooms and the collecting of bottles glass at the back of the road... Well, the new hotel was really quiet and a little far to walk to metro station. It's the smallest lift and room I have seen in my life, but better than nothing. The stuff was nice enough to let me use their pc cuz I cant receive wi fi from my room.

Went to Hard Rock Cafe to buy some clothes for souvenir then go for the free city tour. We followed them till half way and we lost them! We tried finding them but coulndn't. What a pity I didnt manage to complete the tour and give tips to the student who guided us. They really bring us to nice places. I think I was to be blame for it cuz I asked my mum to take picture of me, but it was just in a spit of second that we miss them. Today, I was more farmiliar with using the metro. Something different from Our train was that u need to press something or lift up the handle if u want to get out or board the train! I think it shld be for security purpose. Went to The Louve and was very impressed with the museum!As today evening, they offer free entry for those under 26 so I just show my passport and went in! They are really rich in their culture! I think ppl in the past must be very free, so they can spend so much time drawing such nice and big pictures! Our tour guide told us that if u spend 30 secs for the things in the musuem and without eating, drinking and resting, u will need one month to finish watching it. Its very exaggerating but is very true. I spend one hour scanning through (cuz I dont know how to read French) and in one hour, I had only many to cover the 1st hall first level.(They have three halls and four levels for each hall.)



Went to try out the food as well! Well, cuz the place we are in are tourist area, so it was quite expensive though. Well, I am only left with 2 days to try out Paris food, so dont blame me for bloating up. Haha...

Oh, not only in London, ppl in Paris also like to bluff their way through the transportation. We saw ppl squeezing through the machine without paying and there are loopholes to thier system (ppl can go in through the exit) In London, ppl also get on the bus from the door at the back without paying, so it's a norm. Dont be surprised if u happen to see that in the future. Another thing I was surprised was in such developed country like Paris, the driver actually horn me for walking across zebra Crossing!!! They wont stop for u, so better be careful. Another norm is French couples kissing everywhere and they tends to show their love more readily than us asian. It's 00:08 now and I need to prepare for tmr. Hope everything went smoothly.

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Took my time to wake up and go for breakfast this morning. Cuz we need to check out by 11am and our bus for London only leave at 11.45pm tonight. The good part is we can save one night accomodation. The bad part is we wont have a proper sleep tonight. Pray that it will be a smooth and safe journey back to London. Suddenly I felt that it is a blessing to have unlimited flow of warm water to shower cuz we have to stay out tonight. Sometimes things are like that, we only treasure things after we lose it and I realised its these small and simple things like having a comfortable bed to sleep on which makes me happy!
Walked to Glasgow School of art and I missed the tour. Then we went to The Tenament House which shows display of a house which was preserved since 1888. I paid £5.50 for my entrance fee cuz my mum wont understand anyway. To my disappointment, it was only a display of two bedrooms and one kitchen! The entrance fee is really expensive. I was quite surprised that they actually built their bed inside a cupboard and the door can only be opened from the outside. There are no lights, window or fans, I think I will suffered from the fear of being locked in a closed atmosphere if I were to live there. Next, we took the underground to Glasgow University and Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. The University is the coolest I had ever seen. The museum was very great too, the best part is the entrance is free! I want to go to the Museum of transport too, which entrance fee is also free, but all of it were closed at 5pm. One thing not so good in the European country is that only pubs are available at night! Even the shopping centre closed at 5pm. Back to the topic, the drawing in the museum is fantastic and it was really very educational, definitely worth going to. Well, i guess thats y this place was rich in culture and not so much in Singapore.
Bought sth for dinner on our way back, my mum had Macdonald cuz thats the only food which suits her other than the chinese food. I had some fried mushroom which is nice but oily :( plus one piece of pizza. I can see that my check is bloating up, but u cant blame me for that cuz all the food here are oily! They dont have 果条汤 for me... In Macdonald now and its was cold. I still have three more hours to go. I think I better go out for a walk before the fats accumulate at my stomach. Written at 6pm in Glasgow

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while I was trying to apply lotion to my face, the fire alarm went off. We all thought it must be the madam blowing her hair, thats y it triggered off the fire alarm. After a minute, the hostel stuff came into our room and asked us to evacuate. He looked serious and we smelt something burning, then i felt the seriousness and asked my mum to go. My mum packed all the things immediately and took both of our bags with us when we moved. ( I think we will be chocked to death if the fire was spreading really fast) We went out of the building and saw three fire engines. The rest of the people staying in Euro hostel were already there, some still wearing pajamas! I was holding on to one of my socks while evacuating.... Well, the younger backpackers staying here were busy taking pictures of their own and the fire engines... What kind of attitude is this??
Then we went to George Square to board the bus for our one day tour. Basically, I felt that the ppl here were very helpful generally. They were very friendly too. Take for example I meet a girl in a lift, just because we r taking the same lift, she starts taking to me! Even on the bus, the aunty also took the initiative to smile and chat with us! Even the driver cum tour guide was always ready to answer my doubts (those who knows me will know I will have endless qn) Haha... while crossing the road in the car park, the driver would even smile at us when we raise our hand to thanks her for giving way to us. For majority of Singaporeans and Malaysia, I think our cheek muscles are not as well trained as these Europeans, so we really have a lot to catch up with!
The Trossachs is a wonderful area of lochs and wild mountain. We also went to Loch Lomond, the Queen of Scotland's lakes. I didnt regret signing up for the tour and the scenery was really spectacular!
The last stop was to understand how whiskey is being manufactured. I drank one fifty of whiskey and I was already feeling drunk when i walked ard for the explaination of the manufacture of whiskey. Haha... I was holding on to the handle of the stairs for fear that I might fall into the chamber where the maize was put to filter. The smell really sucks for me... Maybe to those who likes alcohol, they would love it...

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I am now using my hp to access the wi-fe at the Euro Hostel in glasgow. Well, it was very tiring last night cuz we spend our night on megabus to travel from victoria station of London to Glasgow. That was suppose to take 8hrs only, but it took 10hours! Well, this interesting starts from my mum and I leaving my friend's place for Victoria Coach Station. We miss the actual bus 73 because the driver didnt even stop cuz we the there were two buses coming tgt and he 'assumed' that there are no ppl at the bus stop. Eager to be early, i decided to take bus 38 which also stop at victoria station. Things when smoothly until when there was traffic at picadilly circus. The bus then decided not to go to victoria station anymore! And i was left with 45mins not evening knowing what is the exact location of the coach station... I hoped down the bus and trying frantically to catch another bus which go to the same place. Times is running out and i was left with 15mins to run to the coach station! My mum and i was running frantically like mad women while carrying our bags and trying to ask our way around. Phew... I managed to reach there 5mins before the actual time not knowing victoria station was so far away from the coach station...
Wait... the story havent end yet...
The bus was rocking very badly as if its going to topple over... I prayed and it works... Someone called the police and they make sure he drove slower so that the bus wont rock.

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