Precious Moments
Delegation from Singapore to UNCSD
Hey hey hey Sye Yuet... blame yourself for getting stuck in the subway train, not me :) Who asked you to sleeeeeeep so soundly? And I protest! What's wrong with the guys' tastes? Each of us have perfectly unique and refined tastes (from a different perspective)
Saturday
Thursday!
Slept in for the first time till 9:15am and rushed down to the pantry for breakfast since breakfast ends at 10am..lol. Then we ate like we've eaten before..haha...Then we went to the ladies' room to discuss the plans for the day. So we decided to head out to the major attractions! Firstly, we went off to see the Statue of Liberty but couldn't get the free ferry ride. But, we managed to take photos of the liberty as well as the other historical monuments such as the stock exchange, musuems, George Washington, etc. Then we went down to WTC site and saw the Ground Zero Site and heard a lady that was giving an overview on what happened and what was on the works at WTC which was very informative and interesting. Then, we went down to chinatown and saw lots of shops selling really cheap tees and assorted items which was so tempting to get! haha...then we ate at the italian outlet and then headed down to Times Square via Madison Square Garden. Then we got diverted and headed down to shop for 45 mins at Macy's and H&M! We did a little shopping and got a few things!! We also went down later to HERSHEY store! It was chocolicously Heavenly GOOD! We went crazy on the chocolates and spend alot on chocos! but it was sooo GUUUD!! haha..after choco-spending, we headed for the subway and it was already past 12am and we were still on the train. So we decided to stop midway and take a taxi back since it wasn't really safe to be still on train or bus. We waited for 20 mins and finally got one and then went back to the hotel! Dan went down across street to get Donuts for all of us while we were all busy doing up our blogs! haha..ate 2 donuts and ending it here! END!=D
The weekends came!!! Who else better to tell you what we have done, where have we gone and what we bought other than the master/mistress of fun and entertainment?
TGIF was the first thing that came to my mind! haha...we woke up all fired up to get to the youth caucus meeting which we've missed a couple of it. We rushed from street to street walking real fast in the cold gushes of wind that made us shiver real bad...we reached the UN building 15 mins late and ran all the way to the conference room and barged right in and sat down with our notepads out for firing notes to be taken...lol..Then, we managed to link up to do the statements for land (cross-cutting issues), water (for monday statement). So I was doing the land cross cutting issues with Sye Yuet. We did contribute on the statements and were happy to see our edited work on the speech been delivered out on the parallel session! Congrats to us=)..Then we went on to work with other partnership sessions and side events plus drafting the statements for Week 2 of the CSD. Therefore, we were quite busy running here and there and making really awesome friends! Lisa is such a great person! Hot Belgian Babe with so much charisma and so out-going! NICE! lol...Then we left the building at 7pm doing up some last minute work on the youth-oriented MDGs and submitted to Thomas who happens to be i/c of the land issues. He was a cool guy and looped us in which was very accomodating!=P..Then we left the UNHQ and rushed down to watch the Phantom at Broadway! We only had about 40 mins to get there and things started to turn bad coz it started to rain heavily and we were walking down streets and I and Lee ZY were drenched TOTALLY and when we reached the Broadway Theatre, we barely made it in time and went in immediately! Here's the best part! We were so enthusiastic for the first half hour, but later on, everyone was dropping heads trying to stay AWAKE!! Haha....SAD ain't it?..lol...Then, it was already 11-ish pm and we were all tired and really beat..so we waited for a taxi for about 20 mins and finally got a taxi which cost us 60 bucks! Was freaked out with the price but we were too tired to think about it. So, we just got on the cab and went back to hotel. Once I hit the hotel, i knocked off followed by Dan. Lee was still watching TV...End!