guess who's back? :]
happy 2006 everybody. screw resolutions this year. xD
to get to the point--lessons learned in italy:
1). smart car (only available in europe  ) = mucho cute-issimo.
 it was like that whole punchbuggy*punch*nopunchback phase we had in like.. 4th grade. except... it's like: omgshomgshsmartcar!!!!!*squeal**slobberalloverbuswindow*
2). never attempt to understand an italian's english. om people: remember how the singapore people spoke? well that's like.. 1095185 times worse. o.o
3). never buy stuff in italy--namebrand that is (unless you're freakishly rich--unlike me). we saw prada gucci armani swatch (haha) ... you freaking name it. haha. we were forced to go into a leather store. and a pair of jeans was $300+. a freaking wallet was $500. hahah. being the cheap asian my mom was, she bought a fake louis vuitton purse for 15 euros from some black guy on the streets of venice. :] (pshh, no one could tell the fake ones from the real ones)
4). PIGEON FEEDING IN ST. MARK SQUARE IS ADDICTING. my aunt and i spent like.. 185012523985075235 euros on the pigeon food. they flocked us like mad. :] my mom even got pooped on. but it was maaaaaadddd fun. i swear, you haven't lived fully until you have pigeons bombard you in venice.
5). it's freaking cold . by the time we got to milan (yesterday).. it was what, like. -4 degrees? & while everyone else was shopping in nice warm stores, my teacher aunt & professor uncle decide to drag us up to the top of the milan church (it looks like it's made of.. bone or something. O.O). my aunt's rubber shoes broke from the cold. :] we were actually happy when the temperature thing said +2 celcius a few hours later.
6). new years is more fun in the city. goshhh. here in the middle of nowhere where i live.. we see like. NOTHING. having a nice hotel in milan--that's different. italian hotties blew fireworks right in front of our hotel. :] and some guy even said: 'BONJOURNO!" to me all the way up on the 5th floor. :] i sat for 10 minutes in the window just like.. staring. xD
7). european stuff is fcking smalll. first night, we're in this hotel. it's .like, half the size of my room? O.O and hte bathroom-- you can barely turn 360 degrees in the shower. my mom was like, "damn. how do those fat ladies from america get INTO the shower?!"
7). this isn't about italy actually. but there's this guy in my tour group. he was so fcking immature. sometimes i wanted to smash his head onto the marble when we were a few hundred feet up in the air in some nice gothic church (it didn't happen). s;fkjsdaifsd;aifjsdfsd. there. that's my rant.
hm. so yes. overall italy was a freaking nice trip. we got to see snowy italy. :] one of the worse storms in europe i heard. it was so damn pretty. <33 if stuff weren't so expensive, i'd live there. :D
which brings me to my next topic. no one i repeat, no one's getting any souvenirs. :P one keychain costs 4 euros (that's like.. almost 6 USD). so i decided that if i only bought for one person, it wouldn't be fair to the other 109325871239572395 people i promised to bring stuff back for. :]
you'll get to see pictures.. which will be up soon enough. .. i think. x)
200+ photos. good enough. ;]
have a nice 2006 everybody. :] | 
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