back at konstanz!

I love Singapore. It was so difficult for me to leave, but once I set on the train ride back to Konstanz, I realise that Konstanz made leaving Singapore not so painful. I will def miss the three Fs: Food, Friends and Family (in absolutely no order of importance, I swear =)) and all those afternoons lunching out with friends. Sam brought me to this wonderful indian restaurant in Little India, Raj, and for the first time I had really really good and relatively cheap indian food! We shopped for clothes and other stuff at Mustafa's (that place is a maze!) and the little shops along the streets.

Seriously, I think Chinatown and Little India beat Orchard anytime. The wares are much cheaper, and much more unique to Singapore. Other than the sole purpose of eating sushi, I won't go over to Orchard.

It was quite a good feeling to see friends on the buses and to meet up with them all over, chat and all=) It is as though I've kinda set up another home=) Went to the English Bookshop the other day, and Frau Cook seemed genuinely glad to see me. That was kinda special, because she is usually rather reserved. I guess absence does make the heart grow fonder. We chatted about many things, like the caricatures issue, den Verstand des Menschen, usw. It seemed like quite an ok length of time, not like the last time when we chatted for almost an hour. My legs were dying then.

Zk and Yijin came for a visit. They arrived at 1.20 am in the morning=p Good thing about living in an ulu village: The bus services still go there in the dead of the night! Amazing. Was glad to have them here, we even got to explore parts of the Uni that I have never ever been to before! And as usual, having guests= good excuse to stuff oneself silly. We cooked Singaporean Chicken Curry, and Sara came over too for dinner. The two of them made quite a good impression on Sara=) But the curry and the veg i cooked were not salty enough I think...=P It was just ok for me, my tastebuds 'purified' by several weeks of my mom's healthy cooking=)

Frankly I was v happy that they came to visit! Wouldn't have known what to do otherwise...for although there are friends here to meet up with, it is just different having tong2 xiang1 ren2 over. And it was nice having pple to do all the veg chopping and grocery carrying too=D

Going to Leipzig, Dresden to visit Sara, and then to UK, London and Oxbridge. Take a look at my mom's dream uni for me=)

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