Sigh, the Fan Choy in the coffeeshops are shrinking... They used to be a juz nice serving for breakfast, the one with the aluminium foil and paper cover.... Now all that is left is plastic ones... I miss the old types.. Still remember how i enjoyed them in the army, eating the plate of lightly peppered glutinous rice, served with sweet slices of steamed meat, a sunny side up egg, topped off with some dark soya sauce to enhance the taste (Or u can call it Fan Choy plus egg)... Now i dun think i can get the same type of breakfast in camp alr... Lucky i ORD liao sia....

Had a recent craving for M&Ms.... Read it in some book, abt someone being addicted to chocolates.. The nxt thing i know, M&Ms flooded into my brains, and i have eaten like one pack of peanut M&Ms a week.. Peanut M&Ms coz they are bigger and crunchier... =P

Ok, i know this post is random, but i practically need smth to fill my life with more colours, hence the M&Ms... =)

I realised that i am very critical... maybe a lil too much sometimes... Like when i talk abt the liverpool vs singapore match juz a lil while ago... Sitting in front of the tv, all i can say is that our SG players were bold and brave, to get onto the pitch knowing they are going to get a thrashing, even thou they fought damn well... Or when i said that Lionel Lewis is gonna throw face when he gets subbed on, juz bcoz he is up against one of the top strikers in the world... I even thought that the liverpool players (the unknown ones) were trying to make an impression by playing with such wayang and garang-ness against the home team...

Not being a liverpool fan, i hav nth to say to them... But to the home team, well done! They held off a team so strong (i think they only went a lil mad at the last 10min, when alonso came on board), and it was nt like the usual 11-0-0 formation that we used when we are up against strong teams... They attacked, defended, and occasionally did fantastic tackles on the players frm across the globe.. Some had poor clearances, some pathetic passes, but hey, they played good...

And whoever talked abt nt walking alone has to seriously get the act together... Torres looked so lonely on the pitch... And how did i know that? The cameraman (or woman) was seriously in love with/infatuated by/obsessed with/addicted to him...

Memoirs of a Virgin... =P

Ok, b4 u get the wrong idea, i did NOT lose my virginity.. This is juz a day where 5 ppl (yiqi, shuqi, gabe, calvin, and the one typing this out) went out on their virgin experiences to diff places... And yes, i guess i dun get arnd too much, coz there are too many places i didnt go to, but lets get to the story..

We met at Vivo early in the morning (11am is considered early, coz ppl were late)... Watched calvin eat his brunch, found out that there were 2 ppl wearing black, 2 wearing white, and another in green (gray would hav been perfect, but still...) And we set off on our trip on cal's car..

Virgin Experience 1:

First stop was How Par Villa, and we went thru HELL of a time, literally.. It was my first time there, so talks abt dragon heads between sq and cal didnt amaze me at all, and all i know is that its gone, thats the most amazing fact abt it so far... Saw weird statues, esp the animal with human heads, or human with animal body.. Either way, its juz damn weird, they can attach a head to literally anything... And a few life lessons learnt, an ugly duckling will grow up to be an ugly goose, and that mermaids aren't pretty at all...

Went thru 10 levels of hell (the rest of the 8 are under renovation), and then we were out.. Couldnt say i loved hell, coz that would make God angry, but it did show why the chinese culture turns out to be the way it was...

Btw, we found a really interesting roundabout at How Par Villa, which sparked off interests abt roundabouts, but that's another story...

Went to a few places to view cars.. Or to put it correctly, turned into the carparks and out, coz of some lame reason that i forgot. We arrived at IKEA to consume the ever lovely Swedish meatballs... After filling the stomach, its time to move on...

Virgin Experience 2:

Not really the first time, but ya, we went to Fort Canning to stroll, and the weather was pleasantly warm.. Nt too hot and humid mind u, juz nice... That is if u dun plan to walk one big round on Fort Canning to see the (closed off) reservoir and the ROM ("which was so near we are on it, can touch it, etc.." claims cal)... But it was my first time seeing the grave, or wateva it is, at the park, with millions of pigeons there... Well, that's all for the Fort Canning, coz yq was complaining that only old ppl enjoy these things...

This was the 2nd experience with roundabouts, with gabe, cal, and me still interested with it.. But at the expense of Yq, she was allergic to them (or smth like that...)

Virgin Experience 3:

Stopped by at a random carpark in SGH to decide where to head nxt.. Spent tons of time deciding where to go (even till the point we discussed wat to do on friday), and finally decided on going to whampoa gardens for some fruits..

Then here comes the 3rd roundabout, where only gabe was still interested in making a full round.. Sadly, he's nt the driver and can't call the shots, so the roundabout was nt completed here...

Virgin Experience 4:

Went to grab a slice of honeydew each, and an extra, a piece of jelly for me (coz cal insisted the jelly is nice.. dun get me wrong, it was nice, juz that i tasted better ones... =P). While at it, we decided to go Swee Lee, juz to entertain me and go there see guitars... Gabe wasn't particularly interested, and i know why... Due to certain reasons, this reason cannot be published.. But yes, we moved on... Decided on Mt Vernon, coz rumour has it that the tombstones are gone... The cemetery has been changed to a park...

Went PASS Mt Vernon... The rumours were only half true, ends up the park was nth but grass and a path nt covered by it (the grass).. Maybe that's the definition of a park? But since there's nth much to see, we went on to SA village...

Virgin Experience 5:

My first time seeing SA Village up close, but we only passed it... Had our Saint in the car telling us the story of the village, and the story of a guy with a love for his village, or smth like that... Only rmb "Ups & Ons" abt the place, althou the S after the Up and On are my own doing...

Virgin Experience 6:

Went to the Salvation Army!! Ok, it was my first time, so i had no clue wat to do there either... Heard that many ppl do their shopping there during new year and christmas, and that gals spend their money there... Anyway, they were closing, and we got chased out, so we kinda went? Ya.... And this is the place where gabe promised me a computer mouse with a wheel on top and none below.. And with a working left click button, coz mine juz went bonkers...

Virgin Experience 7:

Our last stop, we went to a dead end, did a 3 point turn, and started cam whoring... In the car... That was b4 cal dropped us off at our respective locations and life became BORING again...

Oh ya, did u see the eclipse today? Apparently i did, the clouds eclipsed the sun, causing the land to be quite dark this morning... Who says only the moon can cover the sun?

Hahaz, had a request to take noise off my blog.. Totally agreed, unless the song plays from start to end, its juz noise... Anyway, Santa gave out early presents this year, and the pocky is finished! Yay! Gd job ppl, hope you enjoyed wateva lil things that we can bring back frm Shanghai! =)

Back! Can't imagine how much i miss SG! Esp the chicken rice, the hokkien mee, etc... Life in Shanghai was wonderful, apparently Chinese in china are very hospitable, so i dun think i lost any weight at all, maybe even gained.. But after touchdown, after waking up from a deep slumber, i am beginning to miss Shanghai, already...

I miss:
The "木板" matteress that i slept on for the past 2 weeks
The 豆浆油条 breakfast in the morning
The other breakfast menu items (蛋饼，麻球，锅贴，etc...)
My handmade 胶子.. =)
Walking down 德平路 to 罗山会馆
Jason's early morning "singing in the bathroom"
The lemon green tea and minute maid orange that everyone always drink
The early morning sun at 4-5am
The chinese accent and 上海话(which i classify under gibberish)
The 网吧, and the chinese CS and dota inside (火在洞里面!)
Having beer on the table almost every meal.. (other than breakfast)
The exotic dishes that we had. e.g. turtle, pigeon...
The children that we taught during the 3 day camp
The children that taught us during the 3 day camp
The YEP team

Yes, it has indeed been a memorable, life changing exp... I hoped we had made an impact as big as how the Shanghai YMCA described, being history makers, making a breakthrough in a foreign land... I can go on forever abt how the trip was, abt the tiny lil details that are so memorable, we can sit back and laugh at it over and over again... But i think the main point is that through this 14 day in china, we had seen God work in us, be it when we are serving the children, the YEP, our ourselves, we really experienced the fact that we can do all things thru He who strengthens us... And that, is the most impt lesson learnt..=)