Introducing my travel partners

My latest update would be to familiarize everyone with the people I'm travelling with. As I don't have photos of all of them atm, I'll just intro you guys to the ones that I do have photos of.

Simulatenously, although I have been warned many times over to avoid posting any unflattering photoes, I will have a short write-up and an accompanying photo for each of my travel buddies!

Travel Buddy #1

Name: Cheryl Yong Xiang Yuan

Known Aliases: CCK (aka Chua Chu Kang), Xiang Yuan, Pageant Queen, Marlboro

Trademarks: SUPERB sense of direction, ability to spin around multiple times, long-windedness, easily confused

Catchphrases: 'What?' or likes to imitate other people's catchphrases

Name: Chua CiRong

Known Aliases: CCR, lil Miss Princess, Chocaholic

Trademarks: Loves extreme flavours (i.e. spicy, sweet, salty), eats unimaginable quantites of chocolate, seems to be missing out on some of lifes best foods (i.e. onions, beef, long beans), affinity for pajamas

Catchphrases: 'Oh my tian' or 'Very good'

Name: Miranda Ling Pei Xi

Known Aliases: Shortie (ok, I made that up but it doesn't seem to stick)

Trademarks: one of my few compatriots who CAN cook, loves to dance and sing (even in palaces)

Catchphrases: None so far

Name: Rachel Lin Pei Xuan
Known Aliases: None so far

Trademarks: only person who can possibly match up to Cirong in terms of chocolate consumption, sleeps an absurd number hours a day, violent sleeper

Catchphrases: 'Ridiculous'

A few updates...

Hey peepz,

apologies for the slowness of everything and even though it is very much delayed, I present to you the send-off photos! Muchos gracias to all those who took the time to drop by Changi airport last month!

Origins of this Blogspot

It is with much dragging of feet that I've finally created a blog. The idea of posting one's every thought and event on a webpage for the world to see always befuddled me. But alas, now that I'm in Maastricht, the usefulness of a blog has finally become evident and here I am pounding away at my keyboard to come up with the first post.

Firstly, for those who are still in the dark, I'll explain why I chose to name my blog as such. It all began with me innocently sharing a joke with Yuan....me thinking that she would take a liking to it due to its format; which bears great similarity to one of her favourite jokes - the notorious gun gun joke (do ask her to share it with you if you still haven't heard).

The joke goes something like this:

"3 ducks are swimming in a public pond when a policeman comes and apprehends them. Being a public pond that disallowed swimming, he hauls the 3 ducks to court to face the judge.

The judge interrogates each of the ducks seperately so as to find out why they are in the pond. He brings the first duck into the interrogation room where he asks him 'what were you doing in the pond' in which the duck responded 'Oh! I was just blowing bubbles'.

Satisfied, he sends the first duck out and brings in the second where he repeats the same question. To his surprise, he gets the same response, 'Oh! I was just blowing bubbles'. "

Finally, as he brings the third duck in, he remarks 'I wouldn't suppose you were blowing bubbles in the pond' which the 3rd duck replies 'Oh no, I'm Bubbles' "

Oh yes, I can hear the collective groan of all those who are reading this post atm.

But, our dear Adrielle took such a liking to it that she decided to share it with her Sunday Cell Group....which is great because its on par with announcing it over the loudspeaker! Well...soon the infamy of this joke spread and the last I heard, the joke is making its rounds around SCGS as a courtesy to Natalie from Befrienders.

Regardless, I'll put an end to this extremely lengthy post of mine to conclude that the purposes of this blog is to keep my dear friends and family in Singapore or whichever country you are in posted on the latest happenings in Maastricht.

I'll do my very best to keep it updated with the latest and greatest but don't hold me to it!

Regards
Mr. Bubbles aka Dong