14th & 15th September - Departure and Arrival Date
At Changi airport.
We are getting ready for IRELAND!
However, our flight was delayed for about an hour. Due to 1 of the passenger's luggage was missing.
We were all getting uber excited about flying but the delay was such a chore. Okay maybe I'm the only one getting excited as I have not sit on a plane for YEARS.
Okay get back to the topic.
So we were supposed to depart at 2305 but end up the plane only took off at 0015. By then, all of us were half asleep. The flight was alright. Some of us typically knock out in the 13 hours flight to London Heathrow while others watch movies and eat.
When we reach London, we had to take another flight to Dublin as we missed our initial flight which departs at 745. We got our replacement flight and managed to reach Dublin airport around 10 plus in the morning.
(video of us in London airport)
When we went to collect our baggage at the belt, we realized that our 2 tripod were missing and did not see them on the belt at all! We had to enquire about our missing tripod bags at the baggage counter. Julian, Huizhen and Bernard went over to report missing baggage while the rest look after the belongings. I guess they met a problem in explaining how a tripod bag looks like. I think they describe it as a rifle bag. WOW.
After reporting, the staff said that they will send our tripods to our hotel once they have it. So now we had to find our way to Kingston Hotel. Julian asked Kym, Joshua and I to check out at the tourism board which bus we can take to our hotel, and the lady told us that there’s public transport BUS 746 which goes to Dun Laoghaire (which is a small town where our hotel is located) but it takes an hr half to reach.
Time was an issue as we were all dead tired after the delay and transferring of flight and the thought of lugging our heavy luggage up on a public bus just put us off. So we asked if there’s a private coach which send us to the nearest and we managed to get on it.
We got on the bus, cost us 8Euro each. In the bus, there was a very kind couple that direct us how to get to our hotel from where we alight (which is at Royal Marine hotel). The girl who collected our bus fare has long blue nails and thick mascara, chewing bubble gum. I guess it's her vacation job. *shrug
The most challenging part is here.
After we alighted and on the way to Kingston Hotel, we had to go through this ridiculous turn-around thingy which has just enough space for a person to go through at a time. And guess what? Due to insufficient space for our heavy and bulky luggage to go through the turn-around-thingy, beside that was a locked gate. So all the macho guys in our group, (which is nearly none) try to get our luggage across the gate one by one. Huizhen and Novem the 2 macho girls went to help the not so macho guys after seeing them carrying it so XIN KU. As for me, hee im not a very strong girl as you can see. I was holding the DV camera and busy shooting this ridiculous yet memorable scene.PLS REFER TO VCR~
(video)
After the torture, we all were super tired, all thanks to my luggage (weighs 27kg). We made our way to our hotel.
When checking in, we realized that our names were all jumbled up! We were laughing at how our names can be so funny and nevertheless, we got our own room cards and its unpacking time.
Our rooms were warm and cozy, but kinda give us a pretty weird feeling. Indescribable. Oh well, we shrug it off.
OUR ROOM VIEW.
We went to check out Julian's room. He's got the nicest view of all man! But the corridors leading to his room was pretty eerie...
Check out the video!
(video)
After being excited about where we gonna sleep for whole 2 weeks, Julian suggested that we should walk around our hotel area. And guess what we found? The cheapest shop we can find in Dun Laoghaire!
THE ULTIMATE 2EURO SHOP!
EVERYTHING'S ONLY 2EURO!
And all the shops dont accept 500 EURO!
We walked around the hotel and checked out MAC, BURGER KING's prices. We also went to bookstores and all their nude models book were artistically done. Interesting.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
16th September - Tour in IADT
First meeting with the school committee today in IADT Dun Laoghaire. Just a list of the school committee and a few others.
Director of IADT - Jim Devine Registrar - Dr. Annie Doona Head of Department of Art & Design - Liam Doona Student Union - Ciara Mcllraith
Jim and the others sincerely welcome us to Dublin and hope that we will have a good time here. Of course we do!
After the meeting, we went for a quick tour around IADT.
Animation Room.
(photo of TV studio)
School's main square.
They have their own small apple orchard.
After the quick walk, Ciara, the student union president invited us to have a look at their freshie's week's programme - THE IRON STOMACH.
ok i shall not explain what it is. have a look yourself. =)
(video of iron stomach)
We had an interview with one of the contestant.
(interview of the contestant)
We went back to our hotel area and had a walk around the bay. It was freezing. We took alot of retarded photos, however all lost due to technical problem of the poor camera memory card. =(
Grabbed Subway for dinner. After Julian went back to his room, we channel-surfed to a sex education channel. Photos of * were shown on air which will never see in SG.
We had a tour around the National Film school and had a small little lesson with Michael Mc Nally who's in charge of the Television Production and ______ McGuinnes who's the radio broadcast expert.
We tried their television camera in their TV studio and it was quite fun. Watch this video to know what else we do!
(video of us in TV studio)
After a short TV programme lesson, Michael treated us coffee for a short break and we were back for more lessons on radio broadcasting and those old audio machines.
(video of us in radio room)
We had so much fun learning about their broadcasting and different kinds of equipments they used in the past. Quite amazed by it. We went back to hotel after that.
The sky was really nice when we were on our way back. Julian suggested that we should go out for a shoot since the sky was really beautiful after we rest for half an hour.
Well, things just don't go our way. During the half an hour break IT RAINED heavily. So sad.
So we had to stay in our hotel and discussed about our travel log and the usual slacking in Huizhen's Meimei's room.
During the night when everyone went back to their rooms, once again, programmes that you will never see on TV back in SG.
"Get Naked With Me."
just a geez of what's shown in the TV there. *wink
and we had the most horrible FISH AND CHIPS for dinner this time round. Almost like drinking oil.
Therefore we have to find Dublin's famous Leo Burdock's Fish and Chippers one day!
Our rooms were warm and cozy, but kinda give us a pretty weird feeling. Indescribable. Oh well, we shrug it off.
OUR ROOM VIEW.
EVERYTHING'S ONLY 2EURO!
Animation Room.
School's main square.
They have their own small apple orchard.
After the quick walk, Ciara, the student union president invited us to have a look at their freshie's week's programme - THE IRON STOMACH.