some really cool photos

OK, spent a whole day in school just now. had orientation and met lots of exchange students. for some strange reason, even though everybody is on exchange, everybody still clings to the people they're most familiar with. the Aussies hung with the kiwis, the europeans with the europeans and we the singaporean hung with the thai people. they were actually very nice and were from thamassat if i spelt that properly. they also had cool nicknames like benz and top and mas which is good cos probably nobody can pronounce their names.

met very interesting people at orientation like the hot russian girl who speaks about as much english as i could when i was 7 months old. guess what, she even has the most russian name on the planet, tatiana. and there was also the german guy who translated everything for her, oskar. now that guy was interesting. he can speak russian fluently because he lived in kazakhstan for 10 years. this is because he is totally ethnically german and hihs family used to live in russia. confused yet? anyway, during world war 2, his family was considered enemies of that state and hence got kicked out of russia and had to live in kazakhstan because if they went back to germany, they'd probably be considered traitors too. so that means that oskar is cool cos he's probably got lots of stories to tell. i need to get to know him better cos i like stories.

joel told me to put more pictures of birds on my blog but i figure, look, there are lots of birds everywhere you look and you know what, the birds in hawaii are pretty much very similar to the birds in singapore. i mean if i have pictures of birds then i'll put them here but i won't go and purposely take bird photos. i like scenery. i wish i could master my camera so i can take really good shots but then again, the place is so pretty, even my crap skills can't spoil it.

Here are the uber cool photos...




OK, these are pictures of the sunset taken at the lookout point on waikiki beach. waikiki is super touristy but its also the safest beach on which to learn how to surf. there's lots to do there and it faces west so it's got the best view of sunsets. i like the fact that there is a mountain right next to the sunset. SO PRETTY...





OK, these are the photos or the sheri's place. the top one if of her super steep driveway. i climbed up the driveway last night and i almost died. i climbed down the driveway in the afternoon and i knew that one wrong step and i'd be humpty dumptying all the way down. the one with the bright red plant is at the top of the driveway. she calls that the shower plant cos when the flowers fall, it's like a shower of pretty red petals. And the last one is the view of the mountain next to sheri's place taken from the busstop.