P.S.

It has been 3 days since I was home. 

I ate a lot of things.. How come I do not? My parents treat me my favorite local dish. And everytime I hesitated to eat them, they would say "Just eat it, you seldom find this in SG ryt?? You are not fat, dear...". Thus, sikat...!

Everytime my friends and I go out we also hunted for local dish. Pontianak local dish includes chai kue, cha chai kue, cha ko kue, cha kway tiao, yam mi, te moe etc... They all are not healthy, they contain te iu (pig abstracted oil) and of course MSG... which is why, they are soooo tasty! 

Today is Bakcang Day. We chinese have Ciak Tua Kai. My Mum did not make bakcang. She buy it from someone whom she heard made a very good one. And it is!! Sooooo delicious...!

亲爱的身体，我对你不起了。。 请原亮（credits to Kachiko for pointing out my mistake. beginner chinese! heheh) 凉我。。明天跟妈妈去游泳以后， 你应该瘦削吧！

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Yesss, I have been practising my chinese again. I go to the same private class together with my bro. He is an expert already, he learned many difficult words and he does his chinese composition every day. So, I just sit there and listen, jot down many phrases and words. But the 老师， who is an old man, is very good one. He is old yet so energetic, he can understand English too. He explains many things to us, one character can take half an hour. He would tell us how to use the phrases properly, and I always love proper language, altho am still very poor in it. So, there is this kind of Chinese fever inside our home. My mum is a big fan of Chinese language, she used to study it in college, but she forgot a lot already.. She would call us by our Chinese name, which is soooo sweet to me.. My name is 林秀凌。 My mum told me that it was chosen by considering the strokes inside the character, my birth time and many things that I cannot grasp. According to my birth time, one can see that I am an ambitious and proud person, I worked so hard and prone to stress, and I am envious. I am independent, but this is in a bad sense, so my love life is not going to be so good.. Those are my shortcomings.  I do not like to admit it, but I think this is true. She told me that she went to someone who posses the ability to understand these things and that person told my mum those things.. And thus my name is 林秀凌。 秀 is for me to have more gentle attitude. 凌 is for me to have more serene life, to be protected by a reliable guy. Walah.. surely my mum watched too much K-drama... 

by the way, my favorite chinese song is that one, the old Judge Bao's opening OST, it is in my list of songs that I am going to sing when I go to karaoke with my friends. hahah...

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I practiced piano in front of my mum today. And she said I played nicely. :)) hehehehhh.... She never plays, and that's why she think I play well.. LOL... But I learn piano only for fun, I like music altho not good at it. Nice to hear someone says she likes me playing. 

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I am currently reading William Golding's Lord of the Flies. He was the recipient of 1983 Nobel Prize for Literature. It is quite a chim read. tough one. It was published in 1954 and was said to be "one of the most disturbing and celebrated novels of modern times." The novel is about a survival of a group of schoolboy on a desert island. It represents the fragility of man's enterprises. Ironically, I found out about  this book from a sit-com TV show "Two and a half men", it was in one episode when Alan, forced Jake, his son, to read this book. I thought this would be a funny one.. It turns out tht it is not, and I am even more interested to read it, with a dictionary for the best. hehehe...

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I almost never contacted my old friends during school time. As I remembered, I was too busy, everyone is too busy to find a time to conference in MSN. This holiday, our period synchronized. PW, CP, tOMAt, Erni, Rena are now at Ponti.. We are still waiting for Oli and Nunu... I chatted with them a lot. And I treasure them. Nowhere else in the world I would have such friends. We are soooo happy together, we laughed a lot and aloud! They know me, with all my flaws and imperfections, and they never complain. Although keep encouraging me to be a better person, they are always warm and caring. At this point, I feel sick thinking of going back to NUS. I have been living a solitude life there. I have always been like that. The difference is, my friends here approach me. While, there... everybody just say "well.. shame on you...". 

OK, I agree, my friends spoil me too much. 

Tomorrow we will be watching Karate Kid in cinema. Yay!

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And lastly,

No, I do not miss either Singapore, my room at PGP, NUS, not a thing there... 

-downtown girl.