Super long post that you shouldn't bother to read but I'll put it here for memory' sake

If I had the internet at my fingertips all this time

We’re on the bus right now on our way to Belgium from London. Obviously, Lion and I have failed our objective of updating our blog to inform the world of our trip through Europe. I myself had a lot to say, but most of the time I cannot, or will not, update my  blog.

Luckily Lion and I have written some of our stuff down on the back of a Cadbury Dairy Milk Chocolate BUBBLY™ cardboard wrap, and the rest have been filmed down on a vlog.

If I had the internet at my fingertips, these are the posts which I would have written. It’s a lot, so I’m gonna chuck in a content list in there.

1.       Some unnecessary performances

Today, I went to the ABRSM High Scorer’s Performance and my piano teacher’s recital.

The first one was definitely worth going to. I heard some of the best musicians in Auckland perform, and I also met a couple of people I hadn’t seen in a very, very long time. The music was duh shiz and it was real good.

There were performances from all instruments from all grades and levels. I noticed how one teacher accompanied a lot of the vocal performers, so I think that lady’s really good at teaching vocals or something. There was this girl who I’d guess was around 7 or 8 years old, and she got into the High Scorer’s Performance for both vocals (grade 3) and piano (grade 4). Her singing was the best I’ve heard from anyone that age. She had a nice, strong opera voice, and she’d hit all the notes. She was always in tune and she announced every syllable and vowel perfectly.

There wasn’t actually as many piano players there as I’d expected, and I was only 1 out of 2 grade 8 pianists there. I totally expected more.

I had to then go to my piano teacher’s recital. It was at St Luke’s Methodist Church. Now, you see, there’re two St Luke’s Methodist Church in Auckland – one in North Shore, and another one in Remuera 10 minutes away from the ABRSM concert. I totally thought it was the one in North Shore, so we drove from EGGS there, then after ringing my teacher discovered that it was actually back in Remuera.
I spent the next hour listening to shit Grade 1 and 2 music. I was originally gonna be the last one performing, but I’d asked to go earlier ‘cause I needed to go have dinner and go to the airport. So I just played and went home to do some last minute packing.
Personally, I think that recital was bullshit and a total waste of time. Shouldn’t have bothered going at all.

2.       Cock-ups and Screw-ups

I am the world’s definition of a retard. I’ve cocked up 5 times and I still haven’t stepped onto the plane yet. First off, after I got back home after the recital, I was doing some last minute packing, and was about to leave when I realised I hadn’t packed my shades.

So I spent the next 15 minutes running around the house trying to look for my designer shades, but in the end I didn’t find it and I just went without it.

As we were driving to the restaurant, I realised that my watch wasn’t working. Actually, I’d found out quite a while ago, but it hadn’t clicked in my brain till then that a watch that wasn’t working wouldn’t be of much use. Thing was though, I was wearing my perfectly multifunctional digital watch, and decided to switch to my prettier analogue and non-functional Swatch. Smart, eh? We tried to find some batteries at Countdown next to the airport, but they were all either too big, or too small.

When I stepped out into the cold, night air at the airport carpark, I was immediately freezing cold. Ok, maybe not THAT cold, but it was still pretty darn cold. So, in the airport, I decided to grab my thermals. Whilst doing so, I stepped onto the really nice and pricy wooden nametag on my suitcase. It broke, and now I’m left with an AirNZ paper nametag.

Then I realised I didn’t have a lock on my suitcase. I’d brought my laptop, and it was inside my suitcase without a lock. Mum and Lion had brought one, so I just chucked mine in theres’. Still, it was pretty noob.

At customs, I was shit scared. I’d screwed up so much already, and I had a sinking feeling that I was gonna cock up again at the metal detecting place. I had my lash curler in my bag – probably not a good idea. There were some beeping and stuff when I walked through the metal detecter and OMG IT WAS SO SCARY but all good they just checked me with though hand held detecting thingy and I was clear. Then this lady called me over to her and OMG I WAS SO SCARED but alg she was just taking a swab of my bag to check that it didn’t have any potentially lethal chemical on it.

3.       I am so bored

Waiting in the airport atm, zzzz. Customs was scary. Playing fruit ninja with Lion and getting pwned. There’re these really funky looking pods where you can just sit in it and be snug and comfy and have a lot of privacy. It blocks out a lot of sound, too.

Also, the toilets are really fancy and when you stand up after doing your business IT FLUSHES ITSELF FOR YOU!

4.       SO LONG, SUCKERS

Boarding the flight for LONDON. WOO

5.       I’m too young to die

I hope everyone has their electronics turned off, ‘cause we’re taking off now and I am really, really, scared.

6.       The entertainment system on the plane

Sucks.

7.       How do you sort your music?

The new iPad system changed the music app, but one thing they haven’t changed it the ability to add songs to any playlist from the main songlist. Sorting it out it pretty hard.

8.       I just watched

Shot in the dark. It’s a murder mystery comedy thing, with INSPECTOR CLUSEAU, the idiot. Pretty funny, but weird. I still prefer Pink Panther.

9.       The food on the plane

Is awesome.

10.   I am still too young to die

The turbulence is crazy on this plane, and I am very worried for my life. The captain just spoke to us and told us to sit in our seats and clop on our seatbelts and that we’re just going through some turbulence. I was praying hardout, then.

11.   Worst, seat, ever

I reclined my chair backwards to try and go to sleep, but an ignorant, selfish, old Chinese lady (yea, those stereotypical ones) shoved it so I put it back up. When I tried to recline it again, she was complaining and shit in Chinese. It’s so hard to get to sleep and for an hour or so Lion and I were trying to squeeze ourselves in a nice, comfy position to snooze. Right next to me, this girl had all 3 winder seats to herself, and she was having a nice sleep lying down properly. ME SO JELLY. Finally, after the lady behind me fell asleep, I took my opportunity and reclined my seat and tried to get some sleep. SO UNCOMFORTABLE zzzzzzzzz…

12.   I am way too young to die

Woke up to uncomfyness and a violently shaking plane. I am so scared. How bad is this turbulence?

13.   Weak bladder

According to Lion, I’ve been 6 times since the restaurant. 1ce at the restaurant, 2ce at the airport, and 3ce in the plane. He kept count :O

14.   Finally

A nice comfy position to sleep in. Got woken up though for breakfast. Sausages, baked bean and scrambled eggs – YUM.

15.   I am awfully sorry to those in the close vicinity of my behind

I may have killed a couple of innocent nostrils on this flight.

16.   I am so young to die it’s ridiculous

Landing in Shanghai, now. Pleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrashpleasedon’tcrash. If I die, I wonder who will be the first to know in NZ and who will be the first to update their status in remembrance of me.

17.   It’s cold, and it’s sad

I haven’t been in China in nearly 4 years. It’s an awfully long time for me, ‘cause I used to go back and visit every summer holiday, but one day we decided not to. I miss my family sorely, especially Chelsea. And I’m in Shanghai, yet I can’t see them. So close, yet so far away.

18.   More cock-ups

I have a Chinese passport and apparently it can’t transfer, just go in or go out of China. Le WTF. Waited a while for the guys to get it fixed while I fixed mum’s folder. By that, I mean my mum had put in all the papers upside down, so if you held it up to read the contents, all the paper would fall out the bottom.

19.   WOO!

Free wifi!

20.   Boo…

Facebook, blogger, and everything else is blocked.

I could still get onto RT, though, but it’s really slow.

21.   First video

Lion and I did a video. It was funny and we lost a bit of dignity in front of everyone else, but alg. Also, Lion pranked me. That mofo.

22.   To Switzerland!

Leaving Shanghai now. I hope Swiss Air have good pilots.

23.   Some comments on Swiss Air

As I was walking through the aisle to my seat, I passed these seats that were spaced quite far apart and had a table/armrest next to them. I thought that we were gonna sit there but then after going through a curtain I saw all these seats squished together. Aw. That was the business class. It’s actually kinda shit for business class, and economy class is even worse. I guess I won’t be getting a lot of sleep on this flight.

24.   Intensity

Playing some hardout games of paper-scissors-rock with Lion atm.

25.   On this flight

We’ve sorted out what we’re gonna do to get used to the London time, which is 13 hours behind NZ, which means we’ll need to completely flip our body clock around. We can either sleep during this flight, or stay up till night in London, which means we’ll be staying up till 9am NZ time. To pass the time, instead of watching the shit movie on the shit quality screen on the shit Swiss Air plane, we’re gonna watch Lord of the Rings Trilogy HD on the iPad.

26.   Aragon

Is pretty hot for a 70 year old.

27.   I wish

I’d never watched Lord of the Rings before when I was younger and couldn’t understand half the movie. I wish I was watching it for the first time so that all the elements of surprise in it actually works for me. I love Lord of the Rings movies despite its length and it’s got such a good plot.

28.   Proud of NZ!

A lot of LOTR was shot in NZ ‘cause of the beautiful land. We are awesome.

29.   Legolas

Is also pretty hot for someone however-old-he-is.

30.   I just don’t get it

How do they manage to keep themselves so clean after non-stop battling and no showers? Their hair looks so nice and Legolas always manages to find the time to do two small French plaits along the side of his head and then bring it back into a half ponytail.

31.   LOTR is totally opposite to Twilight

I love LOTR because of many things, one of them being the acting in it. It’s so convincing, and never once does the movie make me feel like I’m watching a movie. I’m totally absorbed in it, you know. Also, the graphics are so awesome and are amazing for early 21^st century movies.

32.   Galadriel looks like my year 9 social studies teacher

Doesn’t Galadriel look a lot like Miss Pierard? (Only St Cuths people would know ofc)

Also, she’s got really pretty eyes and I love them when she does that small lip smile.

33.   In NZ, I would be sleeping right now

You know how in the morning you always have to go piss really badly ‘casue you’ve got a lot of piss in you? Well, that’s how it is for me, anyway. During my ZZZ time my kidney works extra hard and because on this flight my body SHOULD be sleeping, I’m going piss ever half an hour. Le WTF.

34.   Aragon

Is still pretty f**king hot for a 70 year-old. Who’s the actor?

35.   Swiss Air food

Sucks shit.

36.   I went to the toilet

And when I came back, I drank my salty, over sugared, thick apple juice. WHO DUH FUH SPIKED MA APPLE JUICE?!  Lion…

37.   Slow-mo shots

Of Aragon. Hot dayum.

38.   Least favourite movie out of the LOTR trilogy

Would have to be Two Towers.

39.   Legolas is so hax

He can do all this ninja shit and he’s not even ninja. Le WTF. And he can fight close range with bow and arrows. Le WTF. So OP. It seems he can never die.

40.   Gimly is adorable

He’s so  short and dumb (compared to Legalos and Aragon) and clumsy.

41.   I’m scared

I was watching the Return of the King, when I felt something slap my arm. At first I thought it was just one of those kids that were running all over the place bumping into my arm, but then that something hit me again and again. I turn around and right in front of my face, only inches away, was this little asian kid grinning at me. I was creeped out man. CREEPED OUT. She told me about how my mum knows her mum (my mum wasn’t sitting with me and Lion, she was sitting next to the kid and her mum).

 Then she kept on talking to me and I really didn’t want to talk to her ‘cause I wanted to watch the movie but she wouldn’t go away. She tried to make convo with me and was kept leaning over into my seat from the aisle. I don’t know what happened to my personal bubble;  she came so close she’d popped it. She was jumping and prancing and dancing all over the place even though she only stayed next to me.

 I finally turned my back to the iPad and talked back to her properly and she backed off a bit. She told me about how my mum told her mum about my drawing, and she told me about her colouring book, so I asked her if she could go and get it, ad show me. I got 30 seconds of the movie, then she was back again. Duh fuh? So quick. Anyway, she was showing me her colouring skillz (which were pretty good) and she got me to colour in stuff but I couldn’t even see the colour of the pencils. I would’ve liked to randomly coloured it in with random colours to get it over and done with but my art instincts took over and I actually tried to colour in properly. Hm. She just kept on talking and chatting to me, and I struggled to answer her with my primitive Chinese.

 At last, food came, so she had to go back. I didn’t really eat much ‘cause the instant noodles had made my stomach go all queasy. The food sucks shit anyway, so it wasn’t like it mattered.

42.   In Zurich

Stopped halfway through the 3^rd movie =o( oh well. It’s pretty cold. Like. FREEZING.

43.   My metal bracelet

Got caught in the metal detector :/ another cock-up.

44.   The Zurich airport

Is really claustrophobic and dark. The ceiling’s really lot and the lighting’s pretty dark. There weren’t a lot of people there in the airport when we arrived so it was kinda creepy, too. The signs were so misleading and WTF, and we went up and down the escalators looking for our gate which were right in front of the customs. Mum got pissed ‘cause we used the IPad so much and we had an arguments over the iPad.

Ah, blogger. Long time no see

I'm on blogger in China. SUCK IT, COMMUNIST CHINA.

Right, now, where were we? Oh, yea. Way back in Europe.

Well, we've been there and back already. Let's just say, DON'T GO TO EUROPE IN WINTER. The snow's pretty and all, but it's really cold and I don't think it's worth the prettiness. And it doesn't snow in France or Spain or Italy. It just pissed rain. And whoever told me that there're hot guys in France, IT'S NOT TRUE.

On a slightly more positive note, it was great seeing all the famous buildings and monuments in person. Definitely worth paying that extra cash and waiting that extra hour to go on top of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. On a slightly better day, the view would've been FUCKING AMAZING but when we went it was cold and windy and rainy with overcast, so it was just amazing.

I'll write more about Euro tour, but right now I'm in China and a lot of things have happened since leaving Europe.

Saw Chelsea for the first time in over 3 years. She's grown so much and her Chinese is probably better than mine :/ AAAAH SHE'S SO CUTE I WANNA CRY. Kinda spoiled, though. She's got a really strong will and is really cunning as well for a 5 year old. When we play paper scissors rock, at first, she'd be like "I'll do scissors, you do paper, ok?" but later on she'd be like "I"ll do paper, and you do scissors, ok?" BUT we'd still outsmart her with reverse-reversal psychology, so she'd get really sad and depressed and start playing with the iPad.

Got a lot to say about Chelsea, but I need to move along.

Seeing my family for the first time in 4 years was really moving. Especially my grandpa. I love him 'cause he's so funny and understanding and positive. But I saw him this time with a walking stick which made me cry 'cause I can tell he's getting weaker and is going to go some time soon. Had a nice lunch together. My cousin's grown quite a lot, and my other one's off to uni already. I don't know how many more cousins I've got. I've yet to meet some of them.

Went to Beijing 2 days after we arrived in China. We brought Chelsea along with use :D Visited TianAnMen, Forbidden City (where I dropped and broke Mum's camera), the place where all the Royal/High-up Military people used to live, Great Wall, TianAnMen Square, Bird's nest and Water Cube (defo worth paying to go inside Water Cute) this place where religious people back in the Ming and Qing Dynasty would use, and this famous university. The residential area is like a mini-town with no shopping stores. We walked on a frozen lake, and if there was time, I would've rented some skates and skated on REAL ICE. For duh first time.

Had dinner with Parent's friends. Chelsea has the cutest laugh and everyone was in love with her. Lion drank too much beer too fast and did the longest/loudest burp in the history of Mankind. He did the burp into a bowl as well, so the sound was amplified, and the most horrific sound came out. I was shit scared 'cause I thought he was gonna vomit.

Beijing is really, really, really, really cold. Like, REALLY cold. I was wearing 5 layers on top and 2 layers on the bottom, and it's no where near enough. Wear a beanie that actally works. Mine's loosely knitted, so it looks good, and does shit to keep warmth in.

Then we went to Nanjing. We were gonna go to the Himalayas but there weren't any train tickets left and Lion's uber phobic of airplanes, so we went to Nanjing instead. On our way there, we watched Jackie Chan's movie about the 1911 Chinese Revolution, and dad was like "we've visited that and that, and we're about visit that and that". The movie was better than expected (probably because it was directed by Jackie Chan).

In Nanjing, there was this wall, like, it was really massive. It was GREAT. Not as great as the Great Wall, but it was still a pretty great wall. The wall surrounded this really great Barack, but was apparently "closed" so only people "known by the staff" are allowed in.

We went for a walk around it, which was pretty fun 'cause we had Chelsea with us. The was a river on one side, and the wall on the other, and a whole load of trees. CHELSEA IS ADORABLE. I have the cutest/funniest video of her. I'll upload ASAP.

Next day we went to ZhongShan's office/bureau however you call it in English. And that night we went to this fancy resto where Dad had his own private room, and Mum had her own private room, with all their friends. Chels, Lion and I went with Dad. I fed Chelsea, once more.

On the last day we went to ZhongShan Memorial, and this empty park where Chelsea and Dad went on this Bumper boat in a lake. Got videos and photos. So, friggin, cute.

Then we came back to Wuxi. Mum, dad, Chels, Lion and I went to this fancy garden/restaurant in this garden/restaurant place in this park (it was really, really, fancy) for lunch with old friends. Lion caught up with some old mates. Since Mum stole Lion's sim card to contact her old friends, Lion stole mine to contact his old friends, so now I'm left with no sim card :( if I get lost, then I'm doomed. I can't speak chinese to save my life (literally).

In Nantong atm with Mum, uncle, aunt, annoying-as 10yo cousin, and maternal grandparents to celebrate Chinese New Year. The house is in the countryside, so shower's impossible. So far, I've been going with mum to her old friends' place, 'cause 1) I'm sticking with mum and 2) SHOWER!!!!

I think I've written enough for now. Longer posts, up ahead (you have bee warned).

WOO, le free wifi

Alright, so obviously we've been really quiet on the internet lately. That's 'cause our sim card only works in UK and there's barely any free wifi around here. Hogging the hotel one atm.

Here're some updates from a long time ago.

Post from Belgium, Brussels. I wasn't able to get onto blogger, so I wrote this up on FB, on the 18th of Dec.

"Well, it seems that I can't get onto any website apart from Facebook ('cause I've already loaded it and if I stay within FB boundaries I can surf this internet for free (I will never understand how FB works)) so I'll update a little here.

Yesterday we left London for Dover, which we left for Calais (in France), which we left for Brussels (in Belgium). Today, we left at 8 for Amsterdam (in duh Nederlands). Along the way, we saw some interesting stuff. Some palaces, some cathedrals, the tour was all in Chinese so I was totally confuzzled by what we were actually looking at. Like the arse of the horse statue which our bus was parked behind.
But it turned out it was some important statue in front of the palace. We saw the peace flame with all the rocks and stuff. China had a jade stone there. I'm guessing NZ had GREYWACKE (which looked total budget, btw).
We went to this diamond place, where we saw loads of diamonds. It was so shiny. This lady gave us a talk on how diamonds are made and then she showed us how they categorise the diamonds according to colour and clarity and showed us some real, cut, shiny diamonds. There was one where they'd carved a dragon into at the top, with something around the sides, and you had to use a magnifying thingy to see it, but it was too hard to find, so no one found it.
When we got to Amsterdam, we went on this boat and we went around the canals of Amsterdam. There're a lot of islands, and a lot of bridges. Like, hundreds of them. I took loads of pictures, and even stalked some of the rooms of the houses along the river. It was those really tall, narrow ones packed right next to each other, like apartments/terraces. Apparently they were built in the late 17th century ('tis very old).
Then we hung around in the city centre, waiting for dinner. We went to this mall full of rich as stuff. I walked into an LV store for the first time. Their products don't even look good. I don't get why it's so expensive when such a good brand produces bad-looking products. Anyway, that's just my opinion.
Dinner was totally awks. The evening before, we sat with a lively family, who happened to live in Auckland as well (!!! coincidence, much (most people live in London)), and these two nice ladies. They were really lively and we talked and chatted. But tonight, we didn't really talk much and there was this other girl who I wanted to talk with but my chinese sucks and she was probably 7 years older than me and I have no idea what 21 year old chinese people talk about so I just sat there awkwardly.
THEN CAME THE FUN AND INTERESTING PART. For the males, anyway.
As many of you know, Amsterdam is very well known for its liberality and freedom, and so, the Amsterdamians have been able to freely expand into the culture of redness and lights very deeply. There was a show on in the Red Light District and a surprising number of people went. It had this pink elephant as the symbol and it said something like "live blah blah porno show". I could feel Meilin Wu's envy at that moment.
Some adults actually went =O
As the show went on, the rest of us who didn't go just went around the RLD. I'm pretty sure the tour guide was doing this for himself rather than for the tour group, if you know what I mean.
For the next half hour, I had a pretty mean time looking at some sexy, brown bricks. They were totally hot and covered in seductive 4 year old gum, and were laid out all nicely in sexual right-angled patterns before me.
Then when we finally got back on the bus we had to endure the 2 hour ride from one country to another. Sleep was as crap as that on the airplane. It was really cold and I kept stealing Lion's coat. It would've been handy then to get some methane in the bus for spontaneous combustion to warm us all up, nicely.

AND I got back and it's really late and I'm really tired. GOOD NIGHT."

Day after that (19th Dec) we went to Karlsruhe, Germany.
TBH I can't really remember what had happened. I think we were in the bus most of the time. We had to get from Belgium, through Luxembourg, to Southwest Germany. We stopped at Luxembourg to look around and take some pretty pictures.
It snowed quite a lot, and around this time were the coldest few days during the tour. I was freezing in my double layer bottoms and 6 layer tops. Lion and I played snow fights. The snow was really nice and soft and fluffy and cold.
When we finally arrived at where we wanted to arrive, we arrived at a place where many people arrived at. We arrived at A BRIDGE. it was a nice bridge, and had a nice view of the city, and the water below us which we couldn't see, and a palace. Apparently it was a famous palace, but we couldn't go there 'cause it was too far away and too dark. So we just took some pretty picture of it, most of which were blurry 'cause of long exposure.
We went around the streets and we all came to this shop which sold souvenirs and other cool stuff. It seemed kinda shady, though. Mainly because it was managed by a chinese guy. A lot of the stuff he sold there were probably some cheap made in china crap that he's selling at rip off prices for. Then we went to this cool as German restaurant. It was so legit. I had all that old style to it, with the beams on the ceiling and the low lighting and stuff. It was duh shiz.
We ordered some sausages and this pork thing and beer for Lion. The pork was good, man. It was also duh shiz. It was the best pork I've ever tasted. It was pretty expensive though so we didn't order another one. BUT IT WAS SO GOOD OMG I WANT TO HAVE IT AGAIN.
After dinner we looked around at some expensive shops, came out with nothing, and went back to our rendezvous place to go to the hotel.

UGH it's really late and I need to get some sleep. We're in Roma, Italy right now and tonight's the first night of our 2 night stay. We just came in today from Venice, and before that we were in Vienna. Tomorrow we're going to Vatican city.

NO ABOVE-KNEE SKIRTS AND DRESSES ALLOWED.

You know you're in Amsterdam when

You get off the bus and straight away a pair of guys walk past shouting "WE ARE HOMO"

The flight

[Warning: mature content ahead]

Day 1

Awesome plane food, I’ve always loved airplaine food, they are so gourmet and legit. It has always been a highlight and probably the only thing I look forward to on the plane.

Sleep on the plane was next to shit, greedy corporatism fucking packs all the seats as closely as human biology allows. But what they didn’t consider is the ones out of the biological norms. There was no room for me to tuck my long legs everywhere. I had probably 6 different sleeping positions before I was worn out by the exhaustion. Not only that, cherry keeps invading my personal space, by leaning on my shoulder, but good thing there were barely any weight in her head *wink*. Last but not least, the bros in front of me watched homo Chinese movies the whole way and looking at the screen at 5am in the morning is like fucking staring in the sun.

To make the journey that much more unbearable, cherry kept doing the cow thing for the whole duration if you know what I mean. God, someone plug that shit up. I had to keep her away from the kids for the next flight. By the end of the flight, there was nearly enough methane in the cabin to trigger a spontaneous combustion.

Ipad was extremely useful. The screen in the plane was prehistoric, it might have been good 10 years ago, but now it’s like a piece of crap, literally, coz I can’t see shit on it. I tried watching ‘cowboys vs aliens’ which has like s20 mins pure night scenes, and the darkness can’t be shown on the poor LCD screens. Plus that movie was shit, so I resorted to ipad, which had HD videos and gg musics, which went extremely well with my $400 headset, a small consolation in such strenuous environment.

The turbulence in the flight was pretty scary, especially the prolonged ones. I couldn’t help but to feel ‘what if’, and the thought of plunging 13000 feet down to earth didn’t seem like an appealing idea at all.

When we were close to our first destination, Shanghai, I ninjaly slipped on my winter clothes, which involves going butt naked in the seat. Good thing the neighbours weren’t paying attention or I would be having a fun time explaining myself and my lewd behaviour.

After arriving at china, we chilled for two hours before boarding the flight to schwitzerland. The food on the flight was horrible, it made you feel how lucky you are to have Air NZ.

The power of ipad came alight as Cherry and I just tore our way through the Lord of the Ring trilogy extended version.

Sometimes during the movie, cherry went to 1 of her many journeys to the toilet. Annoyed by the frequent breaks, I decided to play a prank. I poured all the salt from lunch into her apple juice, which had like 2 sips left. But then my peaceful conscience came into play , so I tried the spiked drink, making sure it wasn’t too appalling.. the taste was terrible, it was like taking gulp after gulps of seawater. So I quickly emptied 2 sachets of sugar into the mix. By this time, I was beginning to worry that Cherry might be back soon while the drink was still full of powder, so I quickly mixed the drink. By the end of it, the drink looked thick, almost like a syrup, but at least the taste was bearable, but weird nonetheless. After cherry came back, I quickly beguiled cherry into drinking it under the pretence of a toast. And all thanks to the excuse of a videolog, I recorded her reaction.

After this episode, a random Chinese kid came and began hitting on cherry. She was about 7 years in age, very bubbly and began asking all sorts of question that a girl would ask. Like what do you think I should colour my bee? She appeared to be taking confidence in cherry almost instantly, and before you know it, she began whispering stuff into cherry’s ear while glancing at me, probably asking what’s wrong with my face. Well, fuck you.

After landing in Zurich airport after 15 hours, we went thru the usual procedure. The weather outside was gloomy, full of hills and gtreeneries, kinda like nz without the chill.

Oh their toilet entrance has an automatic door, fancy schmancy.

We are at Dover

Once again, apologies for the lack of updates. We're typing our posts up and a couple of long ones will be coming in to make up for all the lack of them over the past few days. Currently having lunch at Dover, before going on the ship to go across the English channel. English BK is rip-off. Also, the milk here is nice.

Just so you know

We're still alive.

Apologies for the lack of updates. We've been on 3 flights in a row and we couldnt update in the shanghai airport cause China blocked everything. Hogging free wifi ATM in the hotel (which sucks, so don't get excited).

We've done a couple of videos, and we both have a lot to tell, but we don't really have the time (the flights were most interesting). Been quite rushed, lately.

Going on some tour today to see some rock. Yay.