Monday, December 19, 2005

For Terrence:

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Woah. Hectic day. I'm tired like hell. But I feel like blogging, lol. Maybe Maria possessed me. -coughs coughs- Sir is not around in Singapore. Sir's away in Australia. Maria and Suwati and Cecilia sincerely hope Sir gets kicked by some kangaroos off to Mars. :D Lol. Just in case Sir is reading this, Maria has to tell Sir, that the last time MCS (Maria Cecilia Suwati) bluffed you into believing that training in at 10am at Woodlands Sports Hall when it's supposed to be at 3pm at Hougang, the whole team helped, in one way or another. None stood up for you. :D Just as we expected. And in case Sir misunderstands, MCS have to clarify, that we weren't laughing with you. We were laughing at you. We weren't playing with you. We were playing you.

But then again, while you're gone, MS sure missed having someone around to laugh at. I hope Sir hasn't cut his hair. Inverted umbrella shaped hairstyles are very very rare these days. While MCS are extremely happy that the next time we see Sir is next year, MCS truthfully wish Sir is in Singapore rather than Australia. In any case, Singapore's hamburgers can't be as effective as Australia's. MCS will have a hard time washing toilets when Sir returns. Sigh. Maria is considering quitting the job. Maria can't concentrate when Sir is around. Maria is always busy laughing.

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I had been in Malaysia for the whole of today with almost the whole clan of my family. My relatives, aunties, uncles, cousins, neices, nephews etc etc etc. It's been my grandmother's wish that we can all gather for something like this, so we did, for some reasons.

I woke up today at 4.45am, gotten ready, and left home at 5.50am. Met up with the rest of the relatives at 6.30am at Woodlands Checkpoint. There, we boarded the bus that one of them has booked for the day. Then we had crossed the Johor checkpoint, and had breakfast in a coffeeshop there.

After that, the bus drove a long long long long way to a Chinese temple in some place, I don't know where. Along the way, I was playing several games with cousins around my age. I happened to be the youngest among all my cousins. The oldest is actually 47 years old, which is one year older than my mother. -.-" The closest to my age is my sister, who is 3 years older than I am. I have nieces and nephews who are twice my age and married with kids. -.-"

So, I was playing Hei Bai Chei with my two sisters, brother and two other cousins, Sandy (her real name, I never knew I have a cousin by that name, aged 21), and Kelen (Sandy's sister, aged 23). The penalty is some sort of dare, where we do stupid things like scare my uncle or auntie, or pull the driver's hair. -.-"

And it so happens I get to pull the driver's hair. -.-" The driver is actually Indian. -.-" And I had to pull his hair, which I did, and the driver threw newspaper at me. -.-" Lol. Very spastic.

When we finally reached the temple, the time was about 10 plus. After that we travelled on the bus to another temple, and another temple, a total of 3 temples. And then we had lunch at Fu Man Lou. I tried noting down the address because I want to warn everyone NOT to go there. But I forgot. -.-" We were sitting at tables of 10, around 4 or 5 tables. And the first dish that came up was a mix of some fried stuff. And there were slices of lemon and some sort of small green vegetables to decorate the plate. I wasn't feeling hungry so I merely stared at the plate, drinking tea. And then

I saw something on the green vegetables. It was moving. No, it looked like it was dancing from right to left right to left. The way you would wave your index finger at someone when you're trying to say "No no, don't do that". If you get what I mean. And so I looked closer, and then I saw a bug-like creature. I didn't want to know what's that. I screamed STOP, and when everyone turned to look at me, I pointed at the creature.

Needless to say, none of us wanted to continue eating at the restaurant. But the manager insisted we stay, and that they won't charge us a single cent, as an apology, in hope that we keep quiet about the matter. (But see what I'm doing now.) The bus driver then told us that the nearest restaurant from this ulu place is very far away. So we stayed.

The only thing I dared to eat at the restaurant was the tofu, and the rice, and two slices of watermelon. The duck is in some sauce dark enough to hide dozens of those creatures, so is the chicken. The fish looked bloody, maybe it's the sauce, I don't know, but the first dish is enough to make me look at each dish from 2198635178365 angles before deciding whether it's safe to raise the chopsticks.

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After that we visited another temple. -.-" But the place was so nice, I won't mind living there. It's a shoe-less temple, where you take off your shoes before entering. And the place is so quiet, so windy and so green. Lol. And there is a well. Not a wishing well, a well where you get water from. And I watched how expertly my mother drew water from the well while I desperately try to tilt the bucket lowered into the water. Lol.

Then we dropped off at a city place where we bought stuff. We were told that if you're caught carrying chewing gum off the customs, you'll be fined $20 per strip of chewing gum. That means $100 per pac of 5 chewing gums. So none of us dared to buy it, lol.

Along the way we watched a Hongkong show on mahjong on VCD, and some other chaparang shows. And this conversation kept repeating itself.

Relative X: Li xi Ah Nee eh gia xi bo? (You're Ah Nee's daughter, right?)
Me: Er... -processing Hokkien- Ah... (Yar...)
Relative X: Gui he liao? (How old already?)
Me: Er... -processing Hokkien- Deng lang zhap lap. (Lunar calender 16.)
Relative X: Woah! An nua dua liao ah. Gu za sui sui han nia. (Woah! So big already. Last time very small only.)
Me: Er... -processing Hokkien- Ah... -nods and smiles-
Relative X: Ta cey kiang bo? (How's your studies?)
Me: Er... -processing Hokkien- Eh sai la. (Okay la.)

And it repeats over again, with the next relative I see. -.-"

Lol. And then we had dinner in another restaurant. Much much much much better food than the first. I had two servings of rice. I must had been very hungry.

And then we headed home. My family reached home first because we live in Woodlands. And that's already 9 plus.

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Training tomorrow! Yay! Friendly match with Mayflower Sec on Wednesday. After that maybe we'll have the said badminton outing for the girls...? Don't look at me Jaslyn. It's either you in charge or no one. Who can we blame man. Our captain wants very badly to treasure every passing minute to study for her mastery tests, so much so that she even considered skipping trainings and the friendly match. Ruth is Jaslyn's motivation. Can Joan be mine? Then I'll promise to slack like anything. Who's it that got angry when we weren't taking her seriously when she prep-talked about giving in 100% in every training to come? Tell me, can we take her seriously?

Man. Such a disappointment. Jaslyn please read this out to Joan when you're on phone with her some time. I see our dear captain won't have the time to come online to read this too. And while you're reading, please place great emphasis on the word disappointment.

Joan! If you can hear me, do you need me to repeat your Inspiring Message again?! Can you please inspire us. Anything. You can do anything except smsing me you're considering not going for the friendly. Do something before I take you as my role model!

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Lol. I'm tired. Bye! :D