Walk By Faith: the american dream pt.1

here comes 3 months of unforgettable memories for my future me's reference

my last day/night in Singapore, saw me rushing down to NTUC to buy myself some inflight snacks and finish packing my luggage... and hui ting came over to send me off to the airport as well as eat some legs of my crab that my mom bought me >:(

the silly classmates who came to send jolyn and i off despite having class later on. getting off a taxi in front of me and still saying "no we are not at the airport"

transit at tokyo for a measly hour = no chance to eat ramen = but chance for jolyn to buy royce and me eating it; it was only SGD10 ahhh

d e t r o i t. half dead after a 12 hour flight and from watching paranormal activity with hui min on the plane (which was FREAKY i am not doing such shit again)

and from the lovely classmates (note how i am approved and jolyn is rejected, ostracized as always ha!)

finally reached orlando at like what, 8ish at night. include a half hour ride to the apartments plus another hour wait to get registered and stuff. reached my new home at 10ish only to find that there was no wifi DEVASTATED

presenting my very messy bed with bedsheets coming off and a very untidy bedside and jolyn's everything so tidy side of the room. see that we had no pillows HAHA (jolyn had nothing, no blanklet nothing, she slept on her bag of clothes)

maggie mee for the first meal. weather then was perf until the sun turned evil

orlando premium outlets just opposite our apartments!!!! almost typed johor

chio apples that i bet none of us ate because disney sells the same thing

scam, all tasted the same. you don't know what's spicy if you havent tried sambal belachan americans!

the view outside my unit. i miss the ducks i see every day

after our first ever walmart trip. walmart is like PARADISE. they have E V E R Y T H I N G

jolyn and her banana fetish

stupid, wear shorts and all in a 23 deg weather

spotted some words in the sky literally before the trip to florida mall (beats orchard hands down cuz they have churros)

this plate of food costs 9USD i think. so expensive. all the food at the food court were this price. wasted, couldn't finish it because still had appetite of singaporean.

FROYO!!! this on the other hand was damn cheap and value for money. note how amelia's cup is overflowing with... caramel??

ok apartment tour, i took this shots at like 6.30am to show my cousin, see outside so bright already. oh ya the sun sets at like 8.30pm every night. jolyn and i had the biggest apartment among the rest of our SP disney friends considering our apartment only has the 2 of us. she still can complain almost every day that she has to live with me but after she sees that i cooked her meal she will be so happy. i secretly use a lot of oil in her share of the food thats why eat until so chubby now

see we bought this carton of mineral water from walmart at 3USD plus i think but we gave up buying water in the end and just bringing empty bottles to the gym to refill. traits of singaporeans.

CARPET

woke up so early to go for traditions (this class that every disney cast member goes through before working) did i mention i had to dye my hair because of my hair roots showing and all. but hello who's gonna see my hair when i am working but anyhow the dye faded away after a week so haha

then first ever short tour of magic kingdom. this is main street usa every one

this is the cinderella castle yes

my name tag that i have never worn before

went to epcot (it's another disney world park) after traditions class. that golf ball thing behind, i still have no idea what is it called now. i personally think it is a golf ball

i have so many pictures of ducks in my phone i dont know why i just take a photo every time i see one

they were having some grass event thingy at that point of time i am sorry i have no idea what it is called

then bounced over to magic kingdom (ya again one day twice. FREE ADMISSION y not)

i have never tried any of these before. oh yes maybe just 1 or 2 cuz they are so freaking expensive. every price is before tax which was an additional 6.5%......

now smart wear like that to parks cause sunny as hell

ok next day which was day 4? we all started to have classes and all. oh my entertainment class was uhhhh rather sleep inducing but on the bright side we were brought back to magic kingdom (again) and caught the 'dream along with mickey' show whilst being baked in the sun (orlando has no clouds i swear)

damn cute because the characters are able to blink and move their mouth in this show and it is so funny when they blink simultaneously it's like they fell asleep together. and peter pan looking cute as always

went back to walmart again idk why. to buy ice cream i think cause it is 3.98usd for a pint mmhmm

first ever cook out whee. i always cook and leave the dishes for someone else (mostly jolyn/alison) to do hehe all is fair i cook you wash

see i tried to cook rice but failed miserably so ended up cooking maggie mee. with my speciality minced beef

then random wild outing with alison. so weird that day no class meh? dont recall already. anyway we ended up at another premium outlet which was like an hour of bus ride away because we were looking for f21. sigh usa air so wonderful, didnt give me pimples

see the outback steakhouse. awesome steak and french onion soup omg BEST. and their portion of sides is enormous i swear they gave me like 1/3 of the whole broccoli

and then theres publix, which is another supermarket slightly atas. like ntuc and cold storage

breakfast i cooked some day for alison, jolyn and i. alison is always over at our place

lunch/dinner i cooked haha minced beef again. i should make a collage of all the food i cooked yes i am gonna do that

then we realized there's chinese take out and freaked out and ordered peking duck. no one wanted the drumlets so i had like 2 to myself whee

may i add that the lo mein (soft noodles) is the best noodles ever on earth. chow mein apparently in america means fried chicken plus rice if you are ordering chicken chow mein la. hello mein = noodles guys??

now have mussels

go walmart again

this is hollywood studios, another park of wdw (walt disney world) wa the mickey pretzel SO SALTY

the guy on the extreme left, royston's room mate. that was probably the only time i saw him, never saw him ever since O.O

my first turkey leg in 'murica!!! may 13! oh my bro's birthday as well

this time gervina cook

see bananas again

my first ever mickey fan mail from working with mickey. in case future me forgets what i worked as in wdw, i was a character performer but i doubt i will forget. highlight of my life. but yes to preserve the magic, i was friends with mickey, minnie, donald, max (goofy's son) and the white rabbit from alice in wonderland. so thanks shayla for your coloring of erm is that aurora

this attendant is helluva wacky, a joy to work with. ok actually most americans are rly funny in their own americanish way. look @ the cam daisy gurl. see why i am so happy to go to work every day other than the 1 or 2 times i go to work kinda grumpy because my shift starts at 6am and i had not had enough sleep

bad pooh

this is called pork shank or also known as pork knuckle. wa bagus man plus the cinnamon roll behind awesome

we sit splash mountain

and big thunder mountain

then we caught wishes. very magical ok impossible to not love disney after you watch this

who will buy those kind of hat you tell me...

visit my work place hehe this mickey is tall

this is animal kingdom on a cloudy day. that's "mount everest"

turkey leg again. stupid crane kept coming wanting to get a piece of my turkey leg

then we went on this wild trek that brought us to the wilderness which was still a part of disney la. coolest stuff ever. i wish i went on it more than just once sigh

we literally just drove past the giraffe

and drove past these ostriches

we could not finish the turkey leg we had (see i hold plastic bag) so we had them for dinner

'lights in the night' welcome party. the welcome party not really for us but more like for the americans. we went anyway. their choice of music was erm...... wacky

may 28 saw us at disney's blizzard beach for sum fun in the sun

suntanning in the US is rly no joke. there are no clouds so you just feel like you are being baked. rly different from sg its like lying there with a hair dryer blowing your face kind of hot. i rmb telling kyryl i dont think he should be tanning any further