tight-ass thursday
i watched transformers with my godbrothers on tight-ass tuesday when i went to sydney last june to visit my godparents - as the name suggests, we got expensive seats for half the price, with awesome surround sound and all.
today, i'm talking about a different kind of tight-ass. as i told jinni, our trip to 吉林 (ji2 lin2) to climb 长白山 (chang2 bai2 shan1), which i decided to be a part of only last night due to extenuating circumstances, translates into a month of porridge and the occasional 外卖, whenever i feel like i deserve a treat.
and that's only because i'm very vain and i want to have enough money to buy spectacle frames to take home and use in the future.
not that i'm complaining, really. i do enjoy eating porridge, and it's healthy, quick, easy and nutritious with some meat and vegetables i can purchase cheaply from the fruit and vegetable co-operative downstairs. so very easy, and a one-pot meal at that!
i sound like one of those annoying american cooking shows with shiny happy blond people stirring food in even shinier pots.
after all, we do have only have one pot in the entire house.
sadly, it's not very shiny anymore.
***
we depart tonight, and thankfully we managed to get hard-sleeper tickets. today marks the beginning of the one major holiday on china's calender, the labour day holidays. it means two things: firstly, that everyone is "celebrating," and there are extremely loud techno re-mixes of perfectly nice chinese songs blaring beneath my window - what's more, i'm on the eleventh floor!; secondly, i'm two months from home and from running into the arms of sdfskjgldfhizx (what? who's that? i don't know either?!) at changi airport's terminal 3 arrival hall, just as if we were in some cheesy scene from some cheesy movie.
i'm already smiling to myself at the thought.
i watched transformers with my godbrothers on tight-ass tuesday when i went to sydney last june to visit my godparents - as the name suggests, we got expensive seats for half the price, with awesome surround sound and all.
today, i'm talking about a different kind of tight-ass. as i told jinni, our trip to 吉林 (ji2 lin2) to climb 长白山 (chang2 bai2 shan1), which i decided to be a part of only last night due to extenuating circumstances, translates into a month of porridge and the occasional 外卖, whenever i feel like i deserve a treat.
and that's only because i'm very vain and i want to have enough money to buy spectacle frames to take home and use in the future.
not that i'm complaining, really. i do enjoy eating porridge, and it's healthy, quick, easy and nutritious with some meat and vegetables i can purchase cheaply from the fruit and vegetable co-operative downstairs. so very easy, and a one-pot meal at that!
i sound like one of those annoying american cooking shows with shiny happy blond people stirring food in even shinier pots.
after all, we do have only have one pot in the entire house.
sadly, it's not very shiny anymore.
***
we depart tonight, and thankfully we managed to get hard-sleeper tickets. today marks the beginning of the one major holiday on china's calender, the labour day holidays. it means two things: firstly, that everyone is "celebrating," and there are extremely loud techno re-mixes of perfectly nice chinese songs blaring beneath my window - what's more, i'm on the eleventh floor!; secondly, i'm two months from home and from running into the arms of sdfskjgldfhizx (what? who's that? i don't know either?!) at changi airport's terminal 3 arrival hall, just as if we were in some cheesy scene from some cheesy movie.
i'm already smiling to myself at the thought.
No comments:
Post a Comment