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Name: Jenn
Birthday: 11/19/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Same as what I excel in......
Expertise: Swimming, running, tennis playing, piano playing, reading 'small' books..hehe, watch movies. Academically, memorizing !! (Though the capacity keeps declining fast..haha)
Occupation: Student
Industry: Medical
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MSN: jenmak19@hotmail.com
ICQ:  22230849
Member Since:
2/16/2003
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| visited Parc Gruell after my sis left, oh man it was damn hot with the
sun rite above the head, other than the toad, it was simply a park, a
real park with hundred hecters, anyway it was a nice stroll still,
could not stand the heat so I went shopping instead, had a pretty good
harvest til late night. hehee
Yet I did not ruin my day today, went over Montserrat, the monastery up
on the hill which is an hour ride away from barcelona, it was claimed
to be one of the oldest musical school with its renowed boys?choir,
pity they were all on holidays so performance was held today, attended
the mass instead in which i fell asleep instead...=P, watever it was
the black virgin I went up for, with jesus chris sitting on the lap of
the black virgin, it was amazingly beautiful, then I quickly hopped on
the funicular to another small monstery, actually it was all about
hiking, spent like half an hour climbing the so called initial steep
hill, my legs were like hanging off my body after that, however, the
view up there was breathtaking, together with the breeze which helped
cool down the heat a bit. Slept all the way back to barcelona, and went
to the waterfront and the beach straight away, dropped by a rest and
took all the seafood tapas there...lol...expansive though, anyway dun
think i could get those again back home. (pics uploaded later)
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| Thought I would be writing my travel blog this time whenever i got a
stay in hostel, yet either I got on overnight bus or the internet was
not working, god knows access to net could be so hard these days.
rite, Toledo is a real touristic place, heard from a espanole on flight
saying Segovia would be a much better choice, still we kept our pick,
granada was nice still, especially during this rainy weather we could
easily hop in one of the museums or cathedrals for a brief stay, the
mazipan there was amazing for us the sweet tooth.
Sevilla was another highlight, lucky we got there on sunday AND there
was a bullfight, it was bloodily brutal in some sense really, anyone in
the bullright could be got killed, either the bull or the horse or the
guy, there was a guy being hit by the bull twice and fell unconscious,
he was then quickly brought backstage, no announcement was made
afterwards saying if he was fine or not, god bless him. We then caught
the flamingo rite after, just a drink was paid and we enjoyed a pretty
professional show, video will be posted later.
Granada, a much bigger town then I presumed, Alhambra was magnificent
in the sense of is culture, architecture and its overwhelming
atmosphere, nothing can beat its night view! Our stay was rite in the
heart of the muslim region, arabic shops and tea houses dotted around,
got my beloved baklavwa there, missed them long time ago....ho yea we
watched another flamingo show there, got a pretty good deal btw, this
one was different from the previous one, being showed in the cave with
audience sitting in U shape, different dancers came forward to perform,
one of them was a GUY, pretty unusual huh? The audience was comprised
of a group of law students from a carribean island, we just dropped by
with a discount offer...nice =)
Then we hopped on a plane directly up to barcelona, where I am now,
still experiencing Gaudi's work here, met 2 guys from HK who once
joined the JSSEPC as well, wat a coincidence. Birthday dinner for my
sis at a local愀 favourite, La Fonda, a nice and cheap yet ambient
place, there was always a queue waiting outside man, lucky us we didn't
that long then we got seats.
Gotta stop rite here, guys waiting for internet.
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| Got here pretty late today around 13:30, then we had to work out how to get to the places around for the following days, gosh I was almost robbed in the metro, good i caught the gal and she ran off the metro at the next station! Not much time left for going round, yet we could still go through most of the places and got all the cool food here....the jamon (smoked ham) and calamares, the beer, patatas bravas (don愒 appreciate this much, simply fried potatos with chinese spicy sauce! Walked through the massive park here...can愒 wait to get out of it..oh yea we were so welcomed in every bar we got into..lol...one got us a keyholder as sourvenir, the other got us a nice pic...no wonder espanoles are so well-known to be nice and friendly...the weather愀 awesome, how nice to be in this place while HK愀 raining like shit yea. I should have stayed in this place for a longer time...anyway...nice to get away from HK even for a week! | | |
| God bless I have most of my preferences namely in order, NDH's surgery, PY's OG, UCH's surgery and finally KWH's medicine. I should have had my trip rite away tonite yet I thought I would have had to swab places with others. Anyway nothing's "I should had blahblahblah..." Alrite BS's up.
Watched 'The Painted Veil', a very long flick, very conservative, would be quite a boring film for most I guess, yet the message conveyed was displayed nicely, credits go to Edward Norton, he caught my attention in "Illusionist", another recommendation, his eyes capture one right away, only with a bit of words, you can get the whole story, amazing. Btw, the soundtrack's good too.
Read about an article in SCMP this sunday talking about foreign expats sleeping on streets,would anyway had wondered such a scene here? Being alone far away from hometown, being shameful to return, wanna to make a living on their own. While we keep focusing on social help for those sleeping on streets, have we ever thought of including such people?
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