This blog needs to get a life. FOR REAL.
So many things have happened, the best and the not so good parts.
I can't believe I didn't tell you that I went to China. I went to Chengdu, a city in the province of Sichuan.
I spent a good 5 weeks( 4th September 2012 to 8th October 2012) there and I didn't regret any moment of it. It was such an awesome experience, of course it wouldn't have been so good without good company. The people that I went with were people whom I recognise as my course mates but don't know them. Turns out that they are a really really nice bunch of people and I'm really glad that I met them.
I actually feel like taking back my words on how friends you make in poly are not true. But I can't count my chicks right now. You won't know what will happen. But right now, I believe in them.
They are true and I shall be true too.
I can still remember how much reluctance I had felt the night before I flew for Chengdu. Why, why Celeste can't make it? I will be all alone. I don't want to leave my family, my bed, my comfortable life here and go out there with people I'm not familiar with, to room with girls whom already knew each other and might just outcast me.
I remember how a month before the trip I had tried to persuade Ms Foo to take me off the list of people going to Chengdu.
My reason was stupid. I know it and she knows as well. I talked to Ms Hong, I ranted to Mr Felix. They both encouraged me to stay.
I'm glad I didn't have a chance to pull out, if not I wouldn't have known such awesome people.
I wouldn't have known what it was like to climb over a fence into the school.
I wouldn't have tried KBOX for the first time in Chengdu and going back at 1am, way past our curfew of 11pm.
I wouldn't have eaten rabbit's head. (I know, gross but I just had to try it. I wrote about it for FA1)
I wouldn't have taken a 12 hour ride up to Jiu Zhai Gou. 九寨沟
I wouldn't have known how it felt like to be woken up by my friends, every day, every morning.
I wouldn't have known how glad to hear that there is no lessons that day the morning I wake up to knocking on my door.
I wouldn't have eaten urinating meatballs（撒尿牛丸）at Jin Li Street. 锦里
I wouldn't have eaten Smelly Toufu 臭豆腐 from a road side stall.
I wouldn't have drunk Buckwheat tea that tasted salty, oily and like sesame seeds.
I wouldn't have had a haircut and have my hair curled up like a Korean.
I wouldn't have ridden on a motorcycle behind the waterman.
I wouldn't have had milktea, eggtarts, pudding and grilled pig trotters given to me free by the man who delivers water to our dorm. (Aka The Waterman 丘金城, he gave it to me on the day we had to go back to Singapore.）
I wouldn't have gone to a Tibetan shack and eaten a Tibetan dinner.
I wouldn't have drunk rice wine of 50% alcohol.
I wouldn't have visited a pub and watched as Douglas play the keyboard on stage. (he was half drunk)
I wouldn't have drank 7 times in the course of 5 weeks.
I wouldn't have to tend to drunk Gloria.
I wouldn't have experienced the fast reckless driving of the cabs.
I wouldn't have seen little kids peeing and shitting on the floor, anywhere in the city.
I wouldn't have seen red pandas and baby pandas and giant pandas.
I wouldn't have shared stories about a particular friend with my dorm mates.
I wouldn't have smoked a puff of cigar from Zhuning.
I wouldn't have eaten skewers late at night. (quail eggs, brinjals, li3 ji1, mushrooms)
I wouldn't have raced with Jerome and made him crash into a roadside stall and we had to lie that he was drunk.
I wouldn't have wished that I could stay longer than 5 weeks in Chengdu.
The Chengdu trip was good.
Priscilla, Douglas, Faiz, Kimying, Gloria, Wanteng, Atika, Dennis, Nadine, Yeechun, Parthi, Nishan, Justin made it awesome.
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