Barcelona @ MindSay

PORTUGAL:



On the beach at Cascai.



Cascai.



Cascai.



Cascai.



Lisbon.



Lisbon, city center.



Lisbon.



Castle ruins. (Lisbon)



My sister Katie, @ the Sanrio store in Lisbon.



My first impression of Lisbon. Beautiful, right?



Walking to St. Jeronimone (sp?.. haha)



Lisbon!!



Beautiful Katie, in a garden. Lisbon.



Cascai!



Little boy on the beach @ Cascai.



Lisbon.



Pestana Palace. Lisbon.
"Tale as old as time.. song as old as rhyme.."
It reminded me of beauty & the beast - hah.



Lisbon.



I was a little bit off.. heh.



Overlooking Lisbon.



Me and Kate laugh at this one.
I'm colorful.



Just in the streets. Lisbon.



Lisbon.



Uhhhuhhhh. Lisbon.



Cascai.



Lisbon.



Lisbon.



The age of DISCOVERYYYYYYYYY.

Lisbon.



The pastries won us over.
Lisbon.



Mouth of Hell.
Cascai.




Lisbon.



Lisbon.



Lisbon.



Lisbon.



The prettiest streets in the world. Lisbon.



Gotta love it.



In the Garden. Lisbon.



Lisbon.



Lisbon!




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BARCELONA, Spain:
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Mont' Juic.
Barcelona.



House of Bones.
Antoni Gaudi.
Barcelona.



Barcelona.



We liked the colors of Euros.
Not the exchange rate.



Bathroom, Gothic Quarter.
Barcelona.



Mont Juic.



Cathedral.
Barcelona.




Barcelona.



Cable Cars.
Barcelona.



Barcelona! :D

Barcelona.



Barcelona.

I love the streets.



Cathedral, actually.
Barcelona.



Cathedral.



Barcelona.



Barcelona. Close to the Gothic Quarter.



Barcelona.



$1 boots. BARCELONA!!



Barcelona.



Mont Juic. Overlooking Barcelona.



Barcelonaaaaaaaaaaaa.



BCN.

Gaudi!



Barcelona.



Blue skies over Barcelona.



Me and Katie.
Mont Juic.



BCN.



House of Bones.
The coolest house ever.
Barcelona



Barcelona



Hot Chocolate & Churros is my new favorite meal.



Katie & I.



Mont Juic!



Not staged at all.



Paella. Traditional Spanish dish. Sooo good.



Barcelona.



Mont Juic.

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Those aren't even a quarter of all my pictures,

but it's alot! Hope you liked 'em.

I'm leaving for Vegas tomorrow morning
with my friend Mary.
My 18th birthday is on Tuesday!
Can you believe it?

Casa Batllo is one of the beautiful design results by Gaudi. Something you don't want to miss in Barcelona. It's an apartment building with deck garden. Very Gaudi in every details, even the curved steel. That means it's a colorful and beyond imagination building. What I like most is Gaudi decided to use blue shade tile from pale blue to dark blue and it makes us feel we're undersea. There're also glassy screen and when we look through it, you'll see world like you're looking throught the water. Somebody said the building is more like a creature than brick and stone and sometimes you'll feel like it can move. Well, probably it would in late night, when everybody falls asleep. Who'll know?

In terms of soccer, quite a frustrating week. Arsenal fell to their fourth consecutive draw, and guess what? Manchester United is sitting at the top of the table! What's worse is Arsenal is going to play Liverpool three times in a row for the two leg rounds of the Champions League and a Premiere League match. If Arsenal beats Manchester United, their going to most likely play Chelsea, and if Arsenal beat Chelsea, we might have a chance of playing Manchester United if they beat Barcelona :S Looks like the UEFA Champions League is going to be a one way ticket to the final by stepping on the dead bodies of fellow English clubs.

PSV drew, I still can't believe it. Farfan the man scored in the second half, and just when we thought PSV would withstand the pressure to win again, Roda JC scored an equaliser on the 92nd minute. So disappointing, because although Roda JC pulled everyone up for the corner kick (yes, that includes the goalkeeper as well), it was the defence's fault of not being able to clear the ball quick enough out of the box that costed PSV two points. PSV now only have a 4 point lead, and we're playing Ajax on the 20th O_o

Recently I've re-ignited my interested in lucid dreaming, and for a few occasions, I did realise I was dreaming in my dream. Failed in all the occasions to control my dreams as I did before (well actually I only managed to do that once, but it was a short lived lucid dream as the dream world crumbled under light of reality). It be cool if I can start to control my dreams soon, cause then I'd be able to extend my "working hours" while I sleep, since in my dreams, I, am the owner of my 4 dimensional world, being able to alter every single part of the dream, and have the ability to control time.

Went to the orphanage yesterday, was a fun trip as usual. Its great to know that the kids know know me, cause I get random whacks and smiles from the kids at the place. Yue Yue is still as jolly and chubby. We crashed the Korean restaurant after the trip, and I got my Vitamin B drinks :D It was also fun in another way, cause MC was with us as well. One interesting thing I saw during our trip was MC without her glasses. Last time me and MC were at the orphanage together, her glasses were off for a brief moment of time when a kid took it off, but she quickly re-gained possession, so I didn't get to see a clearer view. This time, it was kids instead of a kid, so she was kind of fighting for the glasses while having fun, and its probably the first time I saw her properly without glasses.

Its always weird to see people who wear glasses all the time to take their glasses off, cause in your memory you only treasure the image of them wearing the glasses. I guess I was a little bit shocked when I saw her without glasses, but nevertheless, she looked beautiful to me even without the glasses.

I think I'm out of gas and motivation to continue writing this entry :/ One thing I have to add, is that the last time when I was enlightened by Ms N during Regen, she mentioned that God wanted me to look up things related to "me" in the Bible so I could fully understand what God wants to tell me. Ms N showed me the passages where the name "Stephen" appears, and apparently, in the Acts, Stephen was a holy man who was filled with the Holy Spirit, but he ended up getting stoned by criticising those who condemned him for blaspheming with stories of the Bible, even though he didn't commit the act of blaspheming. It kind of gives me the creeps, cause is God telling me that I would have to sacrifice myself for something "big"?

I don't really fear death, but I'm not quite sure if I'm able to digest what I learned and actually become ready for what's coming up for me. Maybe that's why we are humans, cause we aren't actually afraid of the process of death and what comes up after we die, but it is the ties and bonds with the modern world that cause us to fear death, as we lose "everything" and cause people around us to suffer and cry.

So, this weekend was my big Venice trip, and I went with my friends Steph and Carly, and our friend David met us there in the middle. We were supposed to take a train to Barcelona and fly out of the airport there, and our train was at 7am. Steph and I were to meet Carly at the train station, which went off without a hitch, but when we got there, Carly was nowhere to be found. I called her and she answered saying “what time is it?” which I did not take as a good sign. It turns out that she slept right through her alarm, so she didn’t make the train…or the plane. She had to meet us there the next day.

 

Anyway, while on the plane, Steph and I were laughing because we were realizing what we forgot to pack. I forgot to pack any underwear (I now have 5 fancy pairs of Venetian underpants) and Steph forgot her student card for her train ticket. I said “I forgot my underwear, you forgot your card, and Carly forgot to come.” We decided to take pictures on the plane, like normal tourists, and we made some for Carly too so she wouldn’t feel left out.

On the way back, we stayed the night in Barcelona and our train was the next morning at 8, but we went to the wrong train station and missed our train to Montpellier. Thus, Carly effectively missed two trains this weekend and a plane. What a record. We had to stick around Barcelona for 8 extra hours and some change, so we walked all around the city and had a pretty good time.

 

All in all, the weekend was quite an adventure. Probably the most adventurous part was this weird sandwich that I ate in Barcelona.

I think it was eggs and potatoes? I don’t know. I’ll try to be on time this weekend when I go to Madrid…and maybe find another one of those sandwiches when I get there.

 so its almost the end of july and its beginning to really sink in..i'm leaving in a little over a month..and i am scared out of my mind and excited at the same time. i officially have my plane ticket..swiss airlines..sept 9th at 9 PM...and i know not 1 single person ..don't know if that's a great thing..but im sure i'll be fine. its exciting in a way not knowing who ur gonna meet.

..its beginning to sink in how much im going to miss everyone..

 i'll try and keep an update of my packing process..and i'll try my hardest to write in this thing as much as i can..until then..its only a little wait until my plane departs!!!