The Other Angle

My Korean student cannot understand:

1. Why Singaporeans like Milo
2. Worse, why Singaporeans drink Milo with Big Mac. he thinks it's disgusting.
3. Why Singaporeans like half-boiled egg.
4. Why Singaporeans put condensed milk in coffee ( tho that made him love Singaporean coffees!)
5. Singaporeans' craze over Bubble Tea
6. Why hot drinks are put in plastic bag for takeaways, especially when Taxi uncles takeaway and hang them so precariously in their taxis. ("Isnt it harder to drink?")

This Singaporean friend of his also cannot understand:

1. Why Koreans don't appreciate Milo but like Hot Chocolate (read: hoto cocolat)
2. Why Koreans can drink hot coffee with cold noodles but not iced milo with Big Mac.
3. Why Koreans can mix raw egg in bibimbab, but cannot tahan half-boiled egg.

Further,
4. Why Koreans have never played Tic-Tac-Toe before. No it is not an isolated case, I further proved it with 3 more of his friends here.
2. Why Koreans pronounce V as B, hence pronouncing "Very Very Strawberry"as .............................. (try it yourself)
3. Why Koreans pronounce F as P and P as F, hence pronouncing Farrer Park as ..............................(fill in the blank yourself )

what amazing exchanges when cultures criss-cross!

The Day Before, Yesterday n Today.

The Day Before: Am in Sparkling K and so happy! After scoring a small coup with the years of lobbying, Chub decided it may be time to lax a bit and order room service again!

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They got REAL WHOLE SOTONG and crab parts inside! i tot it was so worth the price!

of cos i slurped it all!

YESTERDAY: Agent bought us dinner at this Seafood buffet place where you get access to the SUMPTIOUS and WIDE VARIETIED buffet spread as long as you order one main dish. We had Alaskan Crab.

Big Alaskan catch!

special crab scissors to pull the meat out.


hairy crab!

Today: It's national holiday here in Korea and I was lucky to have company again! Went Insadong where we spent an astonishing 8 hours there! so much time to kill there were 1 lunch, 3 sessions of coffee/tea and 1 dinner.

BURP

this wonderful Korean style zajiangmian was sold in one of the most famous Chinese restaurant in the Gwanhuamun area actually. Was a treat from agent before we went to the nearby Insadong.

National Treasure No. 2: 10-Storied Pagoda.


the Samsung building taken over by the Korean govt.. kio tio lor!
Teahouse # 1

Pomelo Tea, some limey tea and rice crackers.

After the walk around the free art gallery, popped by the opposite Ssamziegil too.

Student says this was his father's generation's army uniform on this ice-cream man.

the holiday crowd!

(act) diva!

There was this shop whose owner collects a HUGE amount of old toys! It's open for viewing at 1k KRW each.

toys...

toys..
more toys...

some more toys...
scary toys...

favourite toys!

Coffeehouse #2 - tried very hard to finish...

no. no more coffee. It was this ONLY-KOREAN-STARBUCKS-SIGN-IN-THE-WORLD that i was taking.
Bossum Dinner w bean paste soup!

Teahouse #3 with student n his friends.

Ginger Tea - a great booster for the weekend fairs.

I'd say, bring them on!

For My Darlings ;)

Stop making funny faces Ms Feng! And Argh! what's that ultra SPARKLING thing on Suami's finger? Argh Argh Argh! So shiny!! So striking!!! Argh!!! muacks! hee.

The Singapore Grand Prix. Event of the Year.

It's official. I'm a FAN. And I adore Kimi!

skipped Day 1 coz L had guests from Indo and had to entertain them. At the SKY suite. Yes. I know. ($%^&*#$)

Day 2 - 27 September 2008

Major highlight of the day was the trip up Ritz Carlton for the birds' eye view. i totally understand when they say we are the Crown Jewels. indeed!

At the track: these machines go so fast I tried ZILLIONTH times before i finally caught the first tail. you can feel my pride when i caught the WHOLE CAR. u r good la, chub!

I tot we had quite a good set of tics with our seats at this Turn ( i THOT was 18) so all the cars had to slow and i cld finally take pics with ease!
the huge crowd. L concentrating hard.
I swear it wasnt synchronised.
DAY 3 - 28 September 2008

L went to the area below the Grandstand to catch a close-up glimpse of the machines flying past at start-time. It was so LOUD i really tot my drums were going to burst and i was quite sure it would have if i had not moved further away!

It's Kimi! It's Kimi!

the much talked about Safety Car episode that contributed to Massa's downfall. we had the good luck to have the big screen right in front of us and thus witnessed the whole saga at the pit stop too. It was my conversion point. I nvr knew F1 was THAT exciting!

Nelson Piquet must have felt more than shitty.

spot the SC! this was already the 2nd SC episode. the cars had been racing for so long the tires were all so hot the air lingered thickly with the pungent smell of the burning rubber..