Hello Peeps, just to let you guys know I'd be off to Kimchi Land tomorrow for an immersion programme at Kyung Hee University after much mess-up and complete incompetence on the part of the organiser who holds itself out to be a "global university". It seems that their governing motto is not to let anyone out of their administrative office without having a blood boil.
Anyway, have to get down to packing. All I've really done is to get my luggage out of my storeroom :P which means I better get cracking! Will update from Seoul if I get a chance! Love ye!
Whooppeee! I am now an official Road Nuisance *evil laughter*. Actually, during my driving test this morning, I swear that I was the epitomy of an angelic, considerate driver (who are, by the way, basically non-existent on Singapore roads). As Nutty Nutz advised, "today is the day when you are on your best driving behaviour in your entire lifetime". I did not beat the red lights *brownie point*; I gave way to pedestrians *another brownie point*; I didn't engage in any aggressive lane changing *a HUGE brownie point*; AND to round it up I was a perfect picture of patience *TRIPLE BROWNIE POINTS*. Am I a road angel or what ;P !
You are pretty evenly split down the middle - a total eunuch. Okay, kidding about the eunuch part. But you do get along with both sexes. You reject traditional gender roles. However, you don't actively fight them. You're just you. You don't try to be what people expect you to be.
Boy do I miss quality greek food. It was so easily available in Bristol and yet it's totally non-existent in Singapore (save the rubbery so-called halloumi cheese and wierd tasting hummus and taramasalata sold in Cold Storage)! So you can imagine how smug I was when I found a cafe in Arab Street that serves both Middle Eastern and Greek cuisine. But.. more often than not, joy is always short-lived. First, the restaurant didn't have taramasalata on their menu this month (Damneth! I was looking forward to that!). Secondly, there was no more halloumi cheese left in the kitchen (apparently). So we decided to settle on Baklava and Milk Pudding with Semolina. The Baklava was dry and didn't hold together very well (suddenly explains why the waiter kept pushing his brownie and ice-cream dessert to us despite the fact that it was a Middle Eastern/Greek cafe......) and the Milk Pudding became a bit sickly. Either the food was really bad or I've been spoilt rotten by the Greek food in Bristol and Ehi's mother's home-cooked Greek munchies. Gaaar. Ehiiii! As much as I miss you, don't forget the halloumi cheese when you pop by Singapore for a visit ok?? The situation is pretty desperate around here........
Presenting to you the new CNY endorsement for the next CNY :P
And for once in more than 5 years, all my cousins are back in Singapore to celebrate CNY. A terribly rare ocassion which warrants a huge celebration. Needless to say the grans were very happy!
Attending an engagement party of a close primary school friend is a full frontal reminder of how time has flown by. Our conversation for most of the evening was generously peppered with do-you-remembers: Do you remember the time we climbed up the clock tower in the mid-day sun just to have a picnic during recess? Do you remember how all of us carried the same identical Saatchi bags but in different colours? Do you remember how we climbed into the school longkangs to catch guppies and tadpoles?
And it was with a twinge of sadness that we realised that the last photo that we took together as a group was when we were 12, all chubby, sweaty with thick glasses. After which all of us proceeded to remain scattered round the globe at any one time. Even that evening, the group was incomplete as dearest Ms. Gan could not make it back from Chicago!
Watching the happy couple make their rounds around the ballroom talking to guests, it was sweet and heartening to know that a friend has found her special someone to love and cherish. Here's a toast to the both of you! All of us are looking forward to the wedding cum reunion!
I thought I might give up blogging simply because my life as a Dip.Sing student is boring the hell out of me (yes, so effectively I'm sparing all of you the agony of reading trash-worthy, mind numbing recounts of i-wake-up-brush-teeth-go-school-sleep routine) AND the entire WORLD is blogging now. It's akinned to buying a Hermes bag and later finding out a few months down the road that everyone in Orchard Road is tottering around with a similar design (genuine or otherwise). Sucks every inch of fun out of it.
But since I've been gentle-reminded, prodded, shoved and eventually yelled at to continue my blog, I've decide to give in and come out of my hibernation.
Anyway, Happy Chinese New Year people. I'd try to keep the blog active until my next spasm of writer-brain inactivity.
