James adventure in written words

Hey everyone! I am back safely at home in Singapore.

I don’t really have jet lag but because of the amount of work piling up, I just can’t put my mind to rest, so I still haven’t really gotten any proper sleep.

I miss the weather in Ireland and the people there but yet again, I feel happy seeing my family and friends again.

Today was the first day of TPCG and everything went well, thankfully.

I will update again when I have more time.

This week would be the last week of me being in Ireland. Time really fled by when I am here.

We would be travelling to kikenny with Dave, our in charge at the institue of technology. Just for the day, to sight see tomorrow. We are now on the way back to Carlow from Galway, the train ride back to there is 4 hours.

It’s 5pm now and the sky is dark like 7pm in Singapore. Looking out the carriage window sets me thinking, have I bought enough present? have I enjoyed myself? was it really worth paying about 3k coming here? lots of question asking myself while looking out the window. Most of the question are quite simple and to be frank, this once in a lifetime experience is worth every cent I’ve spent here.

I still miss home and friends though. The weather here is totally different from Singapore humid weather, that’s definately one of the things I would miss greatly beside the people and culture here.

Today was quite a normal day, went to school, did my work but at the end of the day, I went for horse riding!

It was quite an experience I must say. It wasn’t those kind where they will pull the horse and you would just sit on the horse but they will teach you how to steer, how to stop and how to ride the horse, by yourself. It was a VERY VERY nice experience. Its indoor btw but it kinda stink though.

Altogether there are about 3 – 4 trainer and they are all quite fierce. I mean, they give very confident and strong command on what you should do, what you need to do and what you should obey. Very strong woman I must say. Oh ya, thinking back now, its all female trainer… Hmm.. Wow…

The trip to the stable house was about 20 minute and it cost 10euro because it was part of school activity. I wish we could go next week as well but from what we know, it is school break for them? So there might not be any school activity.

One more week and we will be back. Just to update you folks, we are not heading to paris anymore… Yes, sad to say because of time and cost, we cancelled our trip and is heading for galway instead this weekend. Hopefully it would be worth the trip!

Today was quite okay. Having some blues, nothing much happened. Was staring into the screen and suddenly I remembered that my iPhone was kinda buggy because sometime it won’t read the sims card and require me to restart the phone.

So I thought, why not I see if apple have any warranty servicing store around and yes, they do. It’s a retail store called 3G and yay, I was happy. Headed down after school and freaking bloody hell, when we entered the store, straight away I knew something was wrong. This is how the conversation went,

Me : ” Hi, I checked online at the apple website and they listed you as one of the official service store, can you help me check my iPhone and see if my warranty allows an exchange? ”

Sales person : ” Oh, we no longer do apple, maybe after christmas but not now. So you might have to call apple about this. ”

Me : ” Erm… What you mean no longer do apple? (WTF EXPRESSION) ”

Sales person : ” Well, we just no longer do apple. ”

Me : ” Ermmm… Okay? (Walks off pissed) ”

So, moral of the story. Never believe website information and double check before heading down to stores.

After this little side story, Shavonne wanted macdonald fries. We actually thought about eating mac, can you believe it? All their fries here (excluding macdonald) are very thick and fat, so shavonne missed those slim fries. After looking at the menu, we just stood there and looked at shavonne buy the fries. Why? 7.55EURO for a chicken macnugget meal. Would u have eaten? Definitely not us.

So we went to a pizza place nearby, took away pizza and bought drinks, headed back home. Another thing to note, we drink a lot here. We basically have to buy drinks every day! Mind you, the drinks here are big. 2 Litre – 3 Litre per bottle, not your standard 1.5 litre in singapore. We buy 2 bottle almost everyday!

So ya, that ended our day and the thought of us being here 2 weeks already set in really fast. It’s kinda giving me the bluez because I would be going home soon and I definitely would miss this place.

Well, today we decided to just walk around carlow and maybe visit some interesting place. BAD IDEA. Carlow is too small, its like 30k residence and most of them are farmers.

We know there’s a farmers market on saturday from 9am – 2pm. We decided to take a look, maybe it would be big and maybe it would take half of our day away. BAD IDEA. It was pathetically small.

After walking the pathetically small farmers market (Which, their things are more expensive than the supermarket because it is “fresh”), we went to a nearby shopping mall. It is also small but the supermarket is quite big though.

Something caught my attention and I believe if I show this to Qiyang, Michelle or Ivan, they would go crazy.

Yes, you didn’t see wrongly. Its a UFO machine with doll tied up with 20EURO. Each play is 1 Euro. Hmmmm……. WOW? WHY THEY DON’T HAVE THIS IN SINGAPORE!

Anyway, we ended our day by being at home and cooking some steak which we bought for 10euro for 4 pieces.