Wow... time passes so quickly, it's already approaching the 6th week here in Antwerp. To think we are half way thru the mark now... People in Plano and Antwerp! We are HALF WAY thru the mark! I can see the light at the end of the tunnel! YES! I can see the mee rebus! the Hei Tao Lou (Fish head soup)! The weekly teh tarik with banana and tissue pratas, topped with delicious mouthwatering ayam curry! OF coz you can always have fish curry instead, which gives a pretty different taste with the prata, slightly spicier on the tongue but down it with a mouthful of teh tarik or foaming teh cino, and with your eyes closed, you will find urself briefly in Prata Heaven.
In case you tink i am hallucinating, it is actually lunchtime now and i have not taken my lunch yet. Well, you cannot blame me for not taking lunch because...
1) I am now in my office, leeching off the free internet. Hence I cannot go back to my apartment to cook which is about 10 mins walk away.
2) There are no coffee shops or food courts around, and since it is a public holiday today, I wun even expect to find a pita shop selling turkish kebabs.
3) I have enough of turkish kebabs.
Yes, we are halfway through. It helps that Cary and Sam are helping with the countdown as well on MSN everyday (49 days left...). This leaves me with a lingering thought, how did we survive leaving our family and friends and warm cosy country to another place where you might not survive one night in the open without freezing your nose and your ears off? (Btw, we had an interesting expedition last night in Antwerp, each of us got a bike from the hotel and went cycling for an hour in the night, where it's about 5 degree celsius, and it helps that the wind keeps blowing in your face. We came back with red noses and ears, and felt like insects crawling inside my face.) Desperate situation requires desperate measures. Probably we just feel like doing something life threatening to get rid of the numbness and remind ourselves that we are still alive.
*The above passage is strictly my own opinion and I do not have the authority nor the rights to speak for anyone else.*
So hey! I for one, am very glad that people invented Youtube. Coz I managed to find my favourite shows posted on it, and thank you Jerry for teaching me how to download the videos! So everyday after work, I will spend one hour in the free wireless zone in our lab on the first floor, leeching off the videos into my notebook so I can watch them at home.
This is one of my favourite comedians and he is Ah Ken from Taiwan. One of the up and coming stars in fact, and probably will become the next Stephen Chow!
You can find more of his clips here...
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%E9%98%BFKen
Laughter is the best medicine, especially for emotional illnesses like home sickness, love sickness or sexual harassment sickness etc etc. Better than an apple a day, which costs 1 bloody euro and you dun get the supermart cashier to put it into your plastic bag for you. (Belgium cashiers have the best job in the world, just learn how to flash tags and distribute plastic bags.)
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