dinner with host professor n family!

今晚太有口福了！

My host prof (yes he's an angmoh, but he teaches philosophy in very fluent Chinese) invited me and another 北大 girl (knew her at my movie class) to DIM SUM dinner at a 5-star hotel!!!

Too bad i din take photos...seems impolite u see...it's not as if i never see those food in singapore before haha! but the amount they ordered is like...OMG! 叉烧包，虾饺，烧卖，珍珠鸡，肠粉，小笼汤包，萝卜糕，桂花糕，苹果酥...i think i only listed half. HOHOHO!

Best part is...they lived in singapore for 2 years before while my host prof was teaching at NUS! haha so they were sharing some funny stories over dinner. IT WAS DAMN FUNNY!!! eg. His wife was trying to order Banana Smoothie (she said ber-neh-ner), but the drinks stall uncle din get it. So she pointed at the signboard and the uncle said: "OH we call it Banana Ice Blended (he said bah-nah-nah)". Worse still, he made her repeat after him.

WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR SINGLISH CAN.

PS: their son Ethan has such beautiful eyes. 混血儿 ROCKS!!!

周末。在清大。

大家都在忙着赶报告。
看来我选的课太轻松了。

觉得有点闷，却又不想自己一个人去台北。
我的ｒｏｏｍｉｅ每逢星期一都自己一个人去台北。

以前总觉得没人陪没关系，不用为了迁就别人而苦了自己。
在ｒｏｏｍｉｅ身上看到了以前的自己，却又觉得他ｌｏｎｅｒ。
自己一个人确实自由，可是来到台湾真的应该这样吗？

忽然发现我一直在积极结交新朋友，也不是怕寂寞，只是觉得不这样做有点浪费。
每次想主动认识别人，又怕自己过分热情／对方反应冷淡，有点难拿捏。
我真的不介意别人跟我“装熟”，因为混久了真的就会熟。

因为很少ｒｅａｄｉｎｇｓ，所以ｗｅｅｋｄａｙ　ｎｉｔｅｓ蛮闷的。
还好星期二有免费电影放映，星期三有世舞社　（是的，我在学跳舞），星期五有人陪我看《超级星光大道》。
其余的晚上就看那些下载的电影／连续剧。

周末的清大比我想象中热闹许多。
好像ｆａｍｉｌｙ　ｄａｙ一样，一家大小一起放风筝，ｒｏｌｌｅｒｓｋａｔｅ，打羽球。
可是，小孩子也太多了吧？　哈哈！

有点意外，我最爱的“胖达ｃａｆｅ”照常营业，而且有我最爱的德式布丁（平时都买不到）。
挑了靠窗的座位，看着一家大小共享天伦，以为又会想家，还好没有。
只是ｓｉｎｃｅｒｅｌｙ为他们感到开心。

这时，一群小孩子推门而入，本来觉得有点大煞风景。

孩子们：　（争先恐后）我要一杯果汁！
店主：　（装生气）我欠你们的哦？
孩子们：　（调皮）请给我一杯果汁，谢谢你帅哥！

还好有他们。

i'm afraid of dogs. STILL.

Tsinghua is FULL of dogs.
If u saw my facebook photos, they are EVERYWHERE.

Lunchtime in the canteen can be such a horror, with dogs of all sizes and colours sniffing around tables and "patrolling" from seat to seat. After 3 weeks of this, I actually thought my dog-phobia has decreased, since I can now cope with them lying centimetres away from my chair.

I was wrong.

Just 10 mins ago, I was on my way back to hostel, merrily drinking my grape milk tea. Suddenly there was this poodle-like dog behind me. I thought maybe it will overtake me or detour in another direction sooner or later.

I was wrong AGAIN.

It followed me all the way back to my hostel gate. 而且一直紧跟在我脚边，好像我是它主人一样。 It looked up at me with that oh-so-innocent gaze. AH HA I think it wants my milk tea. So I left my cup on a grass patch, and ran towards my hostel block. As I turned around, I saw it circling my cup, as if figuring how to drink it. (okie so dogs dunno how to use straws)

Before I realised, it was heading my direction AGAIN.

So I ran across the corridor, scrambled for keys, unlocked the door (while the dog was running across the corridor, just like I did), entered my room, slammed the door, locked the door.

I hope it's not waiting outside my room now.

dreamt abt singapore

最近几晚都梦到新加坡的人事物。
是潜意识里想家了吗？

在台湾12天了，吃得惯住得惯玩得惯。
醒着的时候真的一点想家的感觉也没有。

跟家人的weekly MSN conference好像也没了那个必要。
不会想念家人朋友的样子和声音吗？
暂时是不会。

可能只有在梦里才不会逼自己不去想家吧。
可是每次醒来时发现自己在台湾，是有点失落。
于是打起精神上课，结交新朋友，那种失落感又自动消失了。

和我一起飞过来的中文系同学，有些几乎天天MSN conference或打长途电话。
偶尔会有点羡慕他们对家人朋友的attachment。
我和家人分享近况，都用facebook inbox。
什么地震，寒流，旅游好去处...都用文字来分享。

万一回到新加坡，和家人朋友疏远了怎么办？
是有担心过这点。
总觉得如果真的这样，也是无可避免的事。

至少现在的我，还蛮独立的。
这是好事。我为自己感到骄傲。
一个人在外国念书五个月，好像也没想象中那么难。

过完这个周末，Week3就开始了。
到了Week18，就可以开始收拾行李了。

T.A.I.W.A.N

As of now, I'm too lazy to blog...
So just make do with my facebook photos ba!!!

phonebook

I was backing up my handphone data from my SIM card when I came across a few names.

Jeffrey, Dorothy, Regina.
I cracked my brains and I still cannot recall who are they or where I met them.

Perhaps I should have saved their contacts in greater detail eg. Shaun SPH, Johnson Hall4.
I usually do that only when I have multiple "Shaun"s or "Johnson"s in my phonebook.

So I thought my memory was failing me.
Or perhaps they were just acquaintances I met during my internship at SPH or SSC.
Ya know...those kind of "business partners"...exchanging contacts just for the sake of it...

Last resort: FACEBOOK friends.
Still, no Jeffrey/Dorothy/Regina.

I doubt I'll ever gonna recall them so I deleted their contacts.
Another form of "spring cleaning".

To play safe, I renamed all my contacts in detail eg. Joyce HP101, even though there's only ONE Joyce in my phonebook.
Who knows, I might have erased Joyce from my memory in three years time...
Nah just kidding Joyce.

gimme drama (korea)

新加坡有“红星大奖”，台湾有“金钟奖”，香港有“TVB台庆大奖”，美国有“Emmys”。
直到去年年底，我才发现韩国也有电视圈的奖项，叫“大赏”（daesang）。

好奇地research了一下，原来是三大电视台（KBS，SBS，MBC）各颁各的奖，感觉比较像family affair，自己颁自己爽。

男女主角奖项不只一个哦！还分成：迷你剧，中篇剧，长篇剧，日日剧。
演得最好的可以拿到“最优秀男子/女子演技赏”。
演得最最最好的可以拿到“年度演技大赏”。

这样说来，拿到“日日剧优秀男子/女子演技赏”也没什么好开心/光荣的吧...
日日剧一播就是一百多集，一年能播几部啊？竞争对手少之又少吧...
如果你是一部日日剧的男/女主角，这个奖应该非你莫属了。

“年度演技大赏”其实好像也没什么。
如果某个电视台决定颁两个，还要和别人平分，哪来的荣耀啊？
说好了是BEST OF THE YEAR，颁给一个人就好了嘛，搞得好像在分猪肉。

Or maybe they are just trying to encourage their employees, to make sure no one goes home empty-handed.

Did I also mention they have all sorts of 人气奖？
十大人气明星奖（红星大奖anyone?），网友人气奖（男/女），人气新人奖（男/女），最佳情侣奖（竟然可以有四对得奖！）... ...

如果你在韩国娱乐圈混，一个奖都没拿过，you have a problem。