Yay! Common test is over! No more studying! Wheeeee :D :D :D
The past few days were so meh… I even studied while I was on the cruise
last weekend, and I’ve been studying since we came back. But it’s ok! I’m done
with studying! Yes! I watched How To Train Your Dragon today! Toothless is
shooooo cute :D lol
We went out to the tea specialty shop of the lady, who happened to be the
manager of the store, who taught us the tea ceremony on Monday. Me, Xenia,
Jovin, Ms Tan and Mr Lee went out to the tea shop together, and I had my fill
of tea. Wow, good tea, good place to drink tea too. It made me realise we don’t
have enough these kind of tea specialty places in Singapore. I think people are
just too busy and we rarely stop and just indulge in some tea or coffee(whichever
is your cup of beverage). We saw people just sitting down and enjoying tea with
their friends and staying in the store for hours! We stayed there for around
two hours, and these people already were there before we came, and still there
when we left. It’s a little like Starbucks, and many cafes but what made the
store special is that the whole store was dedicated to tea and tea leaves, and
the appreciation of tea. The atmosphere there was just too peaceful, so quiet,
and the staff there are very helpful. The store manager even came out to brew
tea for us and we chatted too. She was very nice, introducing us some tea that
we can buy back to Singapore either for ourselves or to be gifted to others. We
also got to taste some very expensive tea, some of which costs almost six
thousand yuan for two hundred grams. That’s 600 SGD for a hundred grams of
leaves! Wow, I wish we had the time to go visit there again, but it’s a little
impossible.
We’ll go out to shopping tomorrow! Yay! This weekend is Qing Ming Jie, so a
lot of the locals here will travel back to their hometowns, to pay their
respects. We were afraid that the street food stalls won’t be operating so we
went to the stalls we frequent to ask. Other than the banana pancake stall, the
others will be here! Yay! :D I was struck by how friendly the stall owners all
are. In Singapore, though we are polite most of the times, I can’t really say
if there were many of the times I’ve had a friendly experience with the stall
owners in Singapore. Here, all the stall owners and staff are all friendly to
us, maybe because we are foreigners, so I will never hesitate to ask the stall
owners anything, and they take our unique requests well. Monisha and Lynn had
asked the banana pancake stall owner to make plain pancakes for them, and he
obliged them. And when we have some requests like less oil and no chilli, or no
ginger and more onions, and stuff like that, they never seem to get impatient
or grouchy, even though they have a lot of customers. J
Oh and because the canteens here uses a prepaid card system, so it’s much
easier for us to pay for food, and the staff manning the stalls also do not
have to waste time trying to find change for all of us when we pay for our food.
I think the schools in Singapore should try this out too, because then we can
reduce contact with notes and coins(they have a lot of germssss) so it’s more hygienic
too.
I went to play with Mei Zi(the pretty doggy~) again! She remembers me! :D
she keeps sitting her butt on my foot so I guess she likes me too. Teehee. I’ll
surely miss her when I go back. I’ll miss a lot of things here, not just the food.
Finally I can really really sleep in. I can even wake up and go for lunch
afterwards. Yayyyyyyyyyyyyy planning to slack and slack while I can. School starts
the week after we get back to Singapore… T.T
Oh and I found out that, if I drink tea brewed directly from tea leaves, I will
have to go to the toilet within half an hour after drinking it. It’s like the
tea just clears a pathway through my gut and goes immediately into the kidneys
and then settles in my bladder. I mean, the effect is just too quick. I drank
the jasmine green tea(I bought from the tea specialty shop) yesterday and I keep
going to the loo until I stopped drinking it. It worked so fast! But I didn’t have
breakfast yesterday, and so maybe the tea acts faster than normal. Hmmm. But I sure
do feel detoxified after all the tea I drank on Monday! XP
I’ve decided to buy Pejoy back to Singapore to give as gifts. It’s much
easier for me this way so I don’t have to wrack my brain trying to think of
something suitable to buy for my friends. And! Pejoy is not sold in Singapore! And
it’s nice! There are so many flavours! Red wine(smells goooood), cheese cake,
matcha, the standard three, hazelnut chocolate(mmmhmmm), and a few more I can’t
remember right now. Oh well.
Bed is calling me. Haven’t slept well for a while now, especially on the
cruise, and now I finally have the chance I’m gonna grab it! J
Goodnight and peace out~ ^ ^
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