Today I am back to doing nothing at home. Simba is back for reservist for a week! It is his fourth reservist! Wows, it's scary that we are getting older!
He has to report to the Seletar camp and I can meet him at Jalan Kayu for some nice prata. :D
I bought a big packet of marshmallows at the Value dollar shop for $1.05 only! So happy to get it although health conscious Simba wasn't. I always buy it at more than 2 bucks.
I got many comments that I look scary when I wear colour contact lens! Do I?
I think I'm going to get my hair straight. Lol. Mostly becos my Isetan colleagues have straight hair. Lol. Looking at them everyday reminds me to get my hair straight. And another big reason is that there are going to be so many photos taken in the upcoming events like grad trips, convocation and convocation ball.
I'm feeling more excited everyday since all these events are in July and it is July now!
I didn't blog about Hainan the last 2 weeks as I was so tired after everyday at work. I hope I can finish blogging about it before I go to Vietnam!
Simba didn't blog about the 2nd part of the Shark exhibition cos he needs me to help him open the page and I wasn't free. :D
Went out with the Isetan colleagues on our last day of work. Yu Ping suggested Aston at the Cathay and we headed straight there. The queue was long even on a Monday and we waited for very long for our food to arrive. It was 8 45pm when we started eating. I was dead hungry.
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They are the 2 pretty girls, Yu Ping (18 years old) and Valerie (21 years old). They are even younger than my younger brother.
Yu Ping and I are always talking about some online shoppings, and looking at customers' branded bags and really nice outfits. Valerie and I are always teasing each other, especially about who has the higher EQ or a nicer voice, and making stupid jokes.
They make working really fun! I hope we can still keep in touch.
(We are all wearing black cos we have to for our work! Only the girl in white, Zhenlin, changed their top after work.)
So here is Hainan Day 3 Part 1.
I woke up early and waited for my relatives to get ready. And so, it was photo taking time while granny was in the toilet!
I was told that we had to spend the whole day at the village and I may get mosquito bites all over my body, and so I had to wear long sleeves.
My hotel room! Thank God that exams are over and I don't break out as much.
We went back to the same coffeeshop to have our breakfast.
Cousin with the buns. They look so big and cute.
These buns are of many shapes.
Another kind of shape. Anyway, I think they taste the same. They taste great but they taste the same. They are so sweet and I like them sweet.
I started to like candid shots sometime back since they captured the most natural moment.
That is 6th gong talking non-stop and everyone listening to him, especially dad who always taught us to respect the elders. Everyone was trying to 'siam' his saliva! Hahahahahaha. He kept talking even when his saliva is dripping and spreading.
Look at the happy expressions of the people. Something that a candid shot does best.
My camera battery died and the charger was spoiled. I had to use my iphone camera and cos the shutter time was very fast, the picture wasn't blur even with movement. Something iphone does best. Hearts iphone. Lol.
The sweet kopi-O.
This is the noodles i was talking about in my previous entry.
My cousin thought it is really yummy, so it must be it!
We went back to Hainan's cousin's room for a rest and she played 康熙來了for us to watch. It was about having some Taiwanese actresses removing their make up and comparing who looks the scariest. In the end, I felt that they all look pretty wihtout make up. Beauty is in their bones. Cousin told me to take note of this hairstyle since she felt that this actress has a face shape like mine, and i should copy her.
When we were all ready to go to the village, Hainan cousin showed us that she could ride her dad's motorbike. She appears to be the 'Tarzan and Jane's Jane after I saw her climbing up some trees. Omg.
Her dad looked worried from behind.
Hainan uncle then drove us to where our ancestors' graves are located.
We had to pay our respects to our ancestors.
Cousin was paranoid about mosquito bites and kept thinking that she was itchy. Lol.
So we headed out onto the road to avoid the "mosquitoes". I didn't get bitten by the way.
After Hainan cousin finally warmed up with us, she was willing to take pictures with us.
She is so cute!
This is how a village looks like. Surrounded by trees. Only some patches not filled with grasses allowed for vehicles to pass. The rocks made the route to the village really bumpy.
When we reached the village, we were served with eggs.
It is like Chinese New Year!
There will be also stray dogs who enter the house as and when they like. I am somehow not afraid of them like I usually am after the villagers told us that the dogs are friendly.
These dogs are HUGE. I think they reach my shoulder when they stand up.
I touched one of them and the hair on its body is so coarse! It is entirely opposite of what I imagined. I thought they would have thin fine hair instead.
Bro trained dogs during his NS and knows how to check if they are sick.
And they have these tables like those in our kopitiams under some trees for shade. They invited us to have our coconut juices there.
My young Hainan cousins.
They are cute and shy. They didn't want to pose when my camera pointed at them. Sad!
The bottles on the table are the famous mineral water sold there.
It's one of the Hainan uncles working hard in chopping up the coconuts!
And 6th gong suddenly appeared with a manual, something which I refer to as the Wu Lin Mi Ji (Kungfu notebook). This noble book was written by our ancestors using ink and 毛笔! Omg. I was telling Dad how careful and neat this ancestor was and he said, "Omg! He rewrote the whole paper if a word was wrong la!" Oh ya! So scary, the sentences are constructed in a way that they appear to be so difficult to read and understand.
The manual was about the names of every generation that we have to follow. It would never be my business cos only the sons are named this way.
Look at how crumpled the manual is!
We also went to Aunt's husband's relatives' place for a visit.
They served us with this drink. So special that I have to take a picture of it.
Their living room. Very vintage i know.
Aunt cooked curry for them. Smelled real good but I wasn't supposed to eat it. :(
Similarly, they also served us these fruits, the longans and jumbos.
And it was time for dinner.
They shared the dessert wine that my brother recommended and the Baileys. They love it! We were told that the Hainanese treated beer and wine as water. Lol.
6th gong then passed Dad the copy of the manual.
Since they do not have a photocopying machine, they rewrote the whole manual to pass it down to individual families. Omg. I wonder how long they spend writing it.
Aunt told me to try napping in this tree swing. I was so paranoid that i may break it. I have gained weight u see!
But cousins were happily playing with it.
This is the difference between me and them. I am so suku.
And lastly (cos i'm so tired now), a photo of the male cousins and bro!
They share the same surname and middle name (庄光), just that they speak in a different accent as us.
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