My trip to home

I spent a short and happy holiday back home in Singapore and JB. When the airplane touched down in Changi Airport , being a non Singaporean , i suddenly felt that this is a wonderful place to live in and was happy to come back. The basic infrastructure, facilities , control of consumer goods with quality and safety, ease of transportation, service quality are all found here unlike the China outskirts I stay in and, I can only hope that they will pick up and learn to respect human beings in the next 100 years. Till then, Singapore or even Malaysia is still much better - at least i can eat at any stall without worrying about food poisoning, the traffic is safe, the roads are flat and i get to be served by the customer service personnel without feeling that i am their problem. i really hate China's service industry and i want to tell all those China Service Industry personnel with poor attitude that they can f*ck off and go home. Let's not give them a single cent profit by boycotting their shops/services to teach them that we are the customers .

Coming back to the topic on my home trip, i spent the first day eating and lazing around at Piggy's place, i had Prata/Chicken rice. My younger bro picked me up in the afternoon to go back to JB. On the first nite , i had a mj game overnight at Alien's place. Yes , 4 lonely hearts played mj till midnight. There's a lot of gossips and catch up of course, and they planned to visit HK for a holiday sometime soon. After a few games, we were tired and went to bed to sleep. The following 3 days, i stayed at home and did nothing much, except some groceries shopping with mum. Mummy cooked my fav vinegar pig trotters , soups , we had lots of fruits and of course durians. On the 4th night, i left my JB house and went back to Sin again to meet my ex colleagues for dinner.

The most funny part came on the last day , when i was supposed to meet piggy in the afternoon after his work. We ended up sitting at a Raffles City basement cafe after lunch. I was too tired and dozed off due to poor sleep at the Singapore home. Piggy was angry and bored and buried his big face in the newspaper. After the nap and on the way back to pick up my luggage, both of us fell asleep in the train again. I think we should just date at his place in the future as both of us were too tired to do anything together, that way we can spend our time together just sleeping but no actions when dating. It is the price to pay for the modern life we want to live, that we have no energy to do other things with our loved ones.

I also got the chance to play with the twins at my elder brother's place on the last day in the morning, they are both fleshy/outgoing/ over active, just like Mcdull and Mcmug . When you carry them in your arms, you get to smell them real close and the smell of babies is great , with their soft and warm bodies resting on you. If you carry one of them, the other one will be jealous and wants to be carried too. I think they want a hug as bad as i do - living alone in China without any physical contact with another. So both the twins and I enjoyed it and it was therapeutic. Sometimes a hug is better than sex.


Darby

PS i think this blog has become my personal blog as piggy has been indulging in his mahjong games since i left.

Friday nite eating nite

I am more sensitive towards colours and shapes than smell/ taste, if I am asked to rank my "five senses". That is why i am never good at ordering food and choosing restaurants. I hate to do that too, so i always stick to one restaurant if i find it passable (with healthy food/preparation of food is clean ) . In the little town which i am living now in China, i only like to eat gyozas from a nearby restaurant but i began to feel sick of it and stop visiting the restaurant when I found that their food is unable to maintain the quality i want. Recently however, one of my good friend and colleague from another dept (he is from Singapore too and generous and like to enjoy good things in life) , begin to bring me out for dinner every Friday night. I then realised that if i had bothered to explore further, there are many good eating places in this little town with decent food and reasonable price ( not more that 10 SGD ) - and I have wasted 1 year eating Gyozas. On that one street crowded with many restaurants ( mind you Taiwan Ding Tai Fung has a branch here too) , we have gone to the Chinese /Korean/Taiwanese restaurants and all were amazingly good, far surpassing my basic expectations. The Taiwanese restraurant i visited last night is worth 4 stars out of 5 stars and it will do well even if in Singapore.

The tea they served is not chinese black tea but english tea served chilled. My colleague ordered:

1. fried doughstick in honey
Terrificly good! The doughstick inside is filled with some white meat which i cannot tell what it is but, the doughstick skin is elastic and sweet. It tastes great whether hot or cold.

2. century eggs with tofu
Similar to Japanese dish cold tofu. The cold tofu in small cubes is special , very solid texture unlike normal smooth and soft tofu we used to have and the century eggs tasted very light , topped with a layer of gravy and minch dried fish which is hot and sweet at the same time. We later managed to guess that the hot flavour comes from garlic , although there are no signs of garlic in it.

3. braised beef with vege
Average among the dishes , but i like it as it not oily and salty, which is unusual in China.

4. fried vege
Simple and good. Just like cooking by my mother.

5. Hot and sour soup ( Szechuan )
Besides what i have tried in Singapore with Piggy at Tianjin Gyoza at Chinatown , this is among the best.

Dessert is English Tea Jelly with milk topping. Unthinkable to see this in Shenzhen as China restaurant is never creative, with the taste of tea only and Jellylike texture, it is light and not too sweet. Perfect ending. We later found out the chef is from Taiwan, no wonder.

And i want to do this every Friday night from now on , and i hope i will not turn into a pig like poor Mcdull.


Darby

An unhappy day at work

Maybe writing blogs helps me to relieve stress in certain ways that i do not know , i get to vent my anger /dissatisfaction /criticise / dissipate negative energy through this channel and the readers (if there is anyone besides the pig) will absorb it, in the end they turn into angry persons, no wonder piggy has become an angry man recently ( ok i am bullshitting here ) .

i have an unhappy day at work today bcs of my direct supervisor is unappreciative of my work and unclear about the huge workload i have, (as he never bothers to lift the unnecessary workload off my shoulder when i approached him when i was made to perform them at the request of our department head) . He has forgotten the delay and backlog is bcs he did not do his job to define a clear jobscope for his subordinate, and i am being blamed for that. I realised that many of those who are holding managerial positions are usually monkeys who do not deserve to be where they are, and they are good at politics and nonsense thats why they are up there. Sad to say i am not good at either one of them , i think i should go sell cha kwa teow. After complaining to piggy after my dinner , i feel better, a loner in a foreign land needs a pair of listening piggy ears.

I decided not to teach my boss a lesson, let him stay as a monkey with his pigeon brain to understand the world. Anyway i will be leaving the company soon to return to my homeland.

Ok , time to sleep. Imagine the pig is sleeping next to me and snoring loud.

Darby

Lychees season now and i am on fire

It is summer now and it is lychee season now (after peach season in Spring ) in Southern part of China and i bought a big bag of lychees for only 5RMB today ( ya, not working bcs HK holiday ) , i.e 1 SGD . I usually do not eat lychees in Singapore as it is heaty and expensive and not good for my already heaty body and wallet. But here they have various species of lychees that are just so tempting. I finally gave in and bought 1 bag since i did not get try to them last year. It is sweet and with really small seeds, not bad. However i got myself on fire now.

Talking about fruits in China, I always eat mangoes from taiwan and peach from northen part of China, as mango is my favorite fruit . But peach is a new found love after i moved here, it is juicy , fragrant , sweet and light to eat. I know the best peach comes from Japan , but the peach from China is enough to make me kill for it. And not mentioning many other fruits like plums , cherry and some others which I cannot even tell what they are.


Darby