//Chinese New Year//
Chinese New Year visiting lasted from 1pm to 3pm, and I only went 2 relatives' houses. (not that I'm complaining.)
Despite having like 9 uncles & aunties, with like 10+ married cousins on my father side, I received merely 8 angbaos...which adds up to a grand exact total of $50. Can't blame anyone, didn't stay long enough to get angbaos from everyone. Well, but this's only my father side. Not that I will get a lot more from my mum's side. I will probably get lots and lots of ringgit since I will be going Malaysia for those angbaos and I will probably lose them all in gambling. Oh well.
House visiting for my dad's side is really boring for me. I see these relatives like once a year during CNY + a few more times if there's any wedding dinners.
I've got like around 20 cousins, in fact I'm not even sure, I'm not sure how many sons/daughters each of my uncles and aunties have. In fact, I can't remember who is whose sons/daughters. I just know they are my cousins. Most of them are married anyway. So naturally, I couldn't remember 70% of their names.
Since most of my cousins are married, naturally I would have lots of nephews and nieces, around 20+ I guess. Some of them are even older than me can. If I can't tell which cousin is the son/daughter of which uncle/auntie, of course I can hardly tell which niece/newphew is from which cousin. To me they are all just cute little kids (other than a few of them who are around same age or older than me). So as expected, I don't really know 90% of my nieces and nephews' names too.
So with practically no one to talk to, the 3 of us (sis, bro and I) would have nothing to do other than to stone, or EAT. Of course we would choose to pig out. I ate from the moment I reach my auntie's house to the moment I left. I guess that's what new year goodies are for. To prevent people like me from being bored to death.
Food saved my life today :) Hope I don't end up looking like a pig come Wednesday.
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Saturday, February 17, 2007
Taiwan Part I: Donuts & Xiao Long Baos
//Taiwan Part I: Donuts & Xiao Long Baos//
Chinese New Year break starts today officially! Which = time for me to upload photos from TIP finally on my blog! Since xlb is so excited over the donuts, I shall be nice and post more pictures of the donuts and of course XIAOLONGBAOsss.
Famous "Mister Donut"
Look at the queue...
Such a wide variety...
They even rate the donut..5 stars being sweetest, 1 star being least sweet...
The kids you saw in the previous photo, who came with another young (but older than them) kid to buy DONUTS...
More donuts...
Ok...now for the pictures of XIAOLONGBAOsss and many more other stuff from Ding Tai Feng, it's kind of funny, cause I took a name card, then the first outlet I saw was some Orchard Road outlet, I was like "there's orchard road in Taiwan too?!" before I realised oh, that's the Singapore Outlets. Haha...Ding Tai Feng has outlets like even in South Korea and USA...and ALL the outlets are printed on the name card...
Ok...now for the pictures of XIAOLONGBAOsss and many more other stuff from Ding Tai Feng, it's kind of funny, cause I took a name card, then the first outlet I saw was some Orchard Road outlet, I was like "there's orchard road in Taiwan too?!" before I realised oh, that's the Singapore Outlets. Haha...Ding Tai Feng has outlets like even in South Korea and USA...and ALL the outlets are printed on the name card...
Ding Tai Feng!
The "86" is the queue number...
The crowd is crazy too, that's my buddy's mum and sister (the one in pink) by the way...
XIAO LONG BAOsss
See the soup inside...like OMG...
Some other dian xing...that taste just like xlb but with a prawn on top...
Close up!
Smokey smokey, this is some glutineous rice thing...
Closeup!
Of course I couldn't resist! I think I ate like 5 out of 10 xlb...haha...cause his family are super nice...they know I love to eat xlb..so they really really never eat...so touched...
Time for desert! Some xlb-lookalike thing but with YAM inside...
Hmm..haha..forgot the name...just remember it's yummy...
Another yummy dessert...that's the Yu Cheng uniform I'm wearing by the way...I like the vest thinggy...
Where all the xlbs are made!
Looking at my photos, I realised there's so so many photos I want to post...like the photos of my 8D's house....(8D = buddy's..haha..as quoted from kaiherng's blog)...his school...the lessons I went for...all the food from the night market...spastic photos from the tour....and I think I finally got the time...since it's CNY break
Haha, it's like Feb already...everything seems back to normal...school's been really busy and all...lots of stuff has happened...but still...I think I'm still reliving the memories in my mind very frequently...especially when I'm stoning on my bus rides home....
I wonder how long it will take for me to start to stop thinking about it at all...not that I want it to happen, but I think it's inevitable...
Looking at my photos, I realised there's so so many photos I want to post...like the photos of my 8D's house....(8D = buddy's..haha..as quoted from kaiherng's blog)...his school...the lessons I went for...all the food from the night market...spastic photos from the tour....and I think I finally got the time...since it's CNY break
Haha, it's like Feb already...everything seems back to normal...school's been really busy and all...lots of stuff has happened...but still...I think I'm still reliving the memories in my mind very frequently...especially when I'm stoning on my bus rides home....
I wonder how long it will take for me to start to stop thinking about it at all...not that I want it to happen, but I think it's inevitable...
Sunday, February 11, 2007
Long Long Week
//Long Long Week//
I really think I am getting dumber. Or maybe lazier.
It's been a long week. There are so many times I felt like blogging, after my first ever tuition session with my tutee on Monday, after the headache-inducing 4 hour nap I had on Tuesday, after comm serve and going to SCS (Singapore Cancer Society) on Thursday, after going back to St John training on Fri, and of course the H4-1 outing on Sat...
But in the end I didn't blog a single time.
I was simply too tired to do so, or lazy perhaps.
My command of the language is deteriorating fast. I just wrote the worst essay of my life on Thursday during GP lesson.
Great, now I can't write English AND Chinese properly anymore.
I'm attempting to do Maths tutorial 9a now by the way.
Maths makes me mad. (alliteration!) Like seriously.
I realised there isn't a logical flow to the sentences I just typed. Proves my point. My english sucks more now.
Had my first ever tuition session with my tutee on Monday. Wasn't as hard as I expected. In fact times flies when I'm teaching Maths. I think I can teach him Maths for the full 3 hours.
It's teaching Science that sucks. Especially when the curious kid kept asking questions. Questions that have totally no relevance to the syllabus. Questions that are probably not related to Science at all .But the job of the teacher is to answer all queries of the student. So I tried my best to answer the questions he asked in the simplest term I can find.
Actually I think I suck at making complex concepts simple. In fact, I can make simple concepts complex. I mean I can't even explain the concept of "atmosphere". I was stumped when the kid asked me why there's so much nitrogen in the atmosphere. Well, the textbook said the bacteria needs them, and bacteria are important to us, so that's how I answered him. Then his question became "Why is bacteria important to us", I was stunned this time round.
How am I supposed to explain all the cheem cheem bacteria-related concepts etc to him in simple language? Well, I resorted to something I should't have. "Well, it's not in your syllabus, you can go check online if you are really interested. Like you can go wikipedia!" I really said that, and to edmund if you're reading, yes, he loves to read wikipedia too. I almost burst out laughing when he told me that.
Mondays are now long long days for me. Tuition from 4-7. Eeks.
Tuesday, in comparison is friggin' short. I end at 1. And I don't have Chem H3. So on Tue, I actually went home early! For the first time in a long long time. Slacking and wasting time at the class bench after school isn't really something I should be doing this year.
But instead of going home and mug, or stay in school and mug, I went home and slacked. -_-" Took a 4 hour long nap. And I'm not a nap person at all. Woke up with a headache, blocked nose, etc, feeling very sick. And the worst thing is I couldn't sleep that night till like 4 am in the morning.
Oh, did I mention I'm sick again? Like after recovering from my previous illness for 3 days, I'm sick again. Makes me wonder if I even recovered in the first place. Wonder if it's the weather, the flu bug that's infecting like everyone in school, or is it just me?
Ok, this is getting very boring. Plus I'm feeling horrible now with a combination of blocked nose that cause my whole head to feel like exploding (maths may have made it worse I supposed).
And to make matters worse, mum is nagging at me, for forgetting to switch off the lights and fans in the dinning room, and for not sleeping early. Actually, she's probably right, I should sleep early. But any form of nagging/noise/talking at this instant is irritating.
Don't talk to me when I'm feeling lousy and horrible.
And my aircon doesn't seem to be working. It's friggin' hot.
Ok, I am signing off now. When I'm not in the mood, I just can't blog. Just like how all clothes seem ugly when I'm not in the shopping mood.
To sum up the rest of the stuff I initially want to blog about..
Comm serve at BHS makes me go 0.0 (wow)
St John makes me :)
H4 makes me :D
And memories of SCS attachment and Taiwan immersion kept flooding back to me these few days for some reason.
The donuts are so delicious, and the kids are so cute!
I miss pigging out late at night like at 2am+ outside 7-11 with them.
I miss my room (sort of) in Zhi Qun's house, they even put a small Singapore flag on the table. I miss his house too!
Or staying out late every night even though it's a school day tomorrow.
I even miss the bus ride with super comfy seats...
I miss Taiwan. :(
I really think I am getting dumber. Or maybe lazier.
It's been a long week. There are so many times I felt like blogging, after my first ever tuition session with my tutee on Monday, after the headache-inducing 4 hour nap I had on Tuesday, after comm serve and going to SCS (Singapore Cancer Society) on Thursday, after going back to St John training on Fri, and of course the H4-1 outing on Sat...
But in the end I didn't blog a single time.
I was simply too tired to do so, or lazy perhaps.
My command of the language is deteriorating fast. I just wrote the worst essay of my life on Thursday during GP lesson.
Great, now I can't write English AND Chinese properly anymore.
I'm attempting to do Maths tutorial 9a now by the way.
Maths makes me mad. (alliteration!) Like seriously.
I realised there isn't a logical flow to the sentences I just typed. Proves my point. My english sucks more now.
Had my first ever tuition session with my tutee on Monday. Wasn't as hard as I expected. In fact times flies when I'm teaching Maths. I think I can teach him Maths for the full 3 hours.
It's teaching Science that sucks. Especially when the curious kid kept asking questions. Questions that have totally no relevance to the syllabus. Questions that are probably not related to Science at all .But the job of the teacher is to answer all queries of the student. So I tried my best to answer the questions he asked in the simplest term I can find.
Actually I think I suck at making complex concepts simple. In fact, I can make simple concepts complex. I mean I can't even explain the concept of "atmosphere". I was stumped when the kid asked me why there's so much nitrogen in the atmosphere. Well, the textbook said the bacteria needs them, and bacteria are important to us, so that's how I answered him. Then his question became "Why is bacteria important to us", I was stunned this time round.
How am I supposed to explain all the cheem cheem bacteria-related concepts etc to him in simple language? Well, I resorted to something I should't have. "Well, it's not in your syllabus, you can go check online if you are really interested. Like you can go wikipedia!" I really said that, and to edmund if you're reading, yes, he loves to read wikipedia too. I almost burst out laughing when he told me that.
Mondays are now long long days for me. Tuition from 4-7. Eeks.
Tuesday, in comparison is friggin' short. I end at 1. And I don't have Chem H3. So on Tue, I actually went home early! For the first time in a long long time. Slacking and wasting time at the class bench after school isn't really something I should be doing this year.
But instead of going home and mug, or stay in school and mug, I went home and slacked. -_-" Took a 4 hour long nap. And I'm not a nap person at all. Woke up with a headache, blocked nose, etc, feeling very sick. And the worst thing is I couldn't sleep that night till like 4 am in the morning.
Oh, did I mention I'm sick again? Like after recovering from my previous illness for 3 days, I'm sick again. Makes me wonder if I even recovered in the first place. Wonder if it's the weather, the flu bug that's infecting like everyone in school, or is it just me?
Ok, this is getting very boring. Plus I'm feeling horrible now with a combination of blocked nose that cause my whole head to feel like exploding (maths may have made it worse I supposed).
And to make matters worse, mum is nagging at me, for forgetting to switch off the lights and fans in the dinning room, and for not sleeping early. Actually, she's probably right, I should sleep early. But any form of nagging/noise/talking at this instant is irritating.
Don't talk to me when I'm feeling lousy and horrible.
And my aircon doesn't seem to be working. It's friggin' hot.
Ok, I am signing off now. When I'm not in the mood, I just can't blog. Just like how all clothes seem ugly when I'm not in the shopping mood.
To sum up the rest of the stuff I initially want to blog about..
Comm serve at BHS makes me go 0.0 (wow)
St John makes me :)
H4 makes me :D
And memories of SCS attachment and Taiwan immersion kept flooding back to me these few days for some reason.
The donuts are so delicious, and the kids are so cute!
I miss pigging out late at night like at 2am+ outside 7-11 with them.
I miss my room (sort of) in Zhi Qun's house, they even put a small Singapore flag on the table. I miss his house too!
Or staying out late every night even though it's a school day tomorrow.
I even miss the bus ride with super comfy seats...
I miss Taiwan. :(
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