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Lil Missy  Once upon a time, in a land far far away, a little princess was born on the 27th day of the 11th month, and she was called Abigail. To date, she has been educated at St. Hilda's Kindergarten, Ngee Ann Primary School, Chung Cheng High Main, and Temasek Junior College. She loves Temasek Academy tremendously, and has never regretted entering the school. She is an avid MEPer, and also sings in the school choir as an alto. When she grows up, she hope to become an MEP teacher at TJ. If not, she would like to establish her own chain of highly successful candy shops. Though she isn't very good at it, she also likes to play the piano. She loves almost anything strawberry-flavoured, and her favourite colour is orange, though blue, white and pink come pretty close. Her ducky, Uncle Boris, grew up with her and is her confidante, best friend, snuggle buddy, and the best toy ever. |
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
YEAHHH I finally visited the Seattle aquarium! We went yesterday, and it was pretty fun! Admittedly, it's nowhere near as good as Singapore's, but we were particularly tickled by the rays and the otters and were kept amused for quite some time! I managed to get videos of them, and I'll probably upload them soon, unless the video quality really sucks. We also managed to grab a few more souvenirs from a really cool shop near the aquarium right next to this cute restaurant where we had had our lunch. I'm halfway done with souvenir-buying now! :D Today, we drove down to a nearby city called Snoqualmie, where we saw the Snoqualmie Falls before driving up to the summit, and IT. WAS. SUPER. COOL!!! Hahaha! The falls wasn't really very awe-inducing, because I guess it pales in comparison to more famous ones like the Niagara. It was pretty cool, but because it was super windy, we didn't stay long. We probably only spent 5 minutes there at most, just to take photos. The umbrella kept tugging and tugging, and it felt as if it would either fly away, tearing my arm along with it, or fly away bearing me in tow like how Mary Poppins flies. I probably wouldn't have minded if it was the latter :D Hahahaha! Actually now, come to think of it, the umbrella probably wouldn't have been able to lift dumpling Abi. But at that time, the wind was REALLY strong and that didn't seem like too far-fetched an idea!! After that was the cool part! Dad drove us up the I-90 to the Summit, and I swear, it is the coolest thing ever! At first, it was just rain, and towering mountains shrouded in mist flanked with tall green evergreen trees. Slowly, we began to see piles of snow on the sides of the road, occurences that became more and more frequent as we proceeded along the highway. We were going at about 45 mph though, because we didn't have snow tires, it was dangerous to drive fast because of the high possibility of skidding. Not to mention, it had been raining for pretty long before that, and the roads were extra slippery. In tandem with the increasing frequency of snow covered landscape was the increasing frequency of snow-dusted trees. Then suddenly, the steady increase became an exponential increase, and then BOOM! White! White everywhere! Dad was really worried about skidding, and we were all pretty nervous but frankly, all I could think of then, was "Damn, I wouldn't mind dying now if this is the last thing I see!" Man, was it beautiful or was it beautiful?! I was enraptured! Dad was getting jumpier by the second, and he exited the highway at the first possible landscape. If it was even possible, my surroundings became even more blindingly white. Snow-covered houses, snow-covered telephone wires, snow-covered cars - everything was smothered in a blanket of white! It wasn't as if I haven't seen this on tv before. But seeing things through a box in your living room can never hold a candle to seeing things for real, right in front of you, surrounding you, almost as if it were a part of you. Dad stopped off at a parking lot to punch in our hotel address in the GPS, and we got a brief minute out in teh snow! We really only were out for a minute or so, because Dad was worried that the tires would freeze. So, we took quick photos, and then we were off again. It was amazing. So amazing, it didn't occur to let Boris take a photo with the snowy landscape until it was too late :x Darn! Anyway, today I got to use the com this early only because Daddy brought Mommy to attend his company dinner thing, so we kids have the whole evening to ourselves! :D I guess I'm online too early - no one I usually talk to is online. No one really is online at 1 in the afternoon I guess... 16 hour time difference really sucks. I'm suddenly sleepy. I hope I dream of snowy landscapes (: I've finally gotten a white Christmas! My first white Christmas :D So cool! Damn! Just realized that I have yet to prepare majority of my Christmas presents! Shiiiiiet.
because I said so at 12:22:00 PM
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