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Saturday, July 28, 2007
A day around Chinatown
Yesterday, Eunice and I celebrated Huizhen's 21st birthday in advance. It was damn fun cos we all got to make each other, or rather ourselves, do extremely ridiculous forfeits while playing our own version of the Jacky Wu's variety show, 十字路口 with a $10 budget per pax。On top of the basic rule of looking for a dish that begins with the last word of the previous dish, each of us got to ask the other two a question about ourselves.
We met quite late for lunch at Maxwell Food Centre cos Eunice had relief teaching while I was held up by my dog who pooed and left marks all over the house just as I was about to leave home. Felt really bad for having kept the birthday girl waiting for half an hour.Anyway, after a not-so-filling lunch (at least for me...), we began with the first question asked by the birthday girl. She asked us how old her *ahem*friend is and Eunice got it wrong, and that was how we got started with the first forfeit which was EITHER to go up to a 3 people at the food centre and ask them where they bought their food OR to go up to someone who was eating 汤圆 and the person where to buy 汤圆. We couldn't find anyone eating 汤圆, so Eunice had to do the former instead. In the end, she procrastinated for quite some time before summoning the courage to ask a table of working professionals just one type of food. Closing one eye, we both let that pass=p
Then it was Eunice's turn to ask Huizhen and I a question. She asked us when did she get her first pet and sadly, both of us got it wrong=( We each came up with forfeits for ourselves. Huizhen had to go up to the people working in the Buddha tooth relic temple and ask where the tooth relic temple is. duh. Ok, in retrospect, that wasn't too hard. Mine was worse la. I stupidly suggested to kneel down at the front steps of the temple! As I gamely knelt down, the girls whom Huizhen asked where the temple was were staring at me and giggling amongst themselves. Argh, so malu-ating!
From 汤圆 (tang yuan), we followed up with, let's see... er, 鸳鸯 (yuan yang)，which is basically kopi + teh=p I decided to bring them to Qun Zhong to try Mel's fav 汤圆 but it was closed till 5pm, so we skipped that, returned to Maxwell for our 鸳鸯.Having embarrassed myself, it was finally my turn to ask them a question. I asked them about my CCA back in primary school but both of them got it wrong. YES! Haha.. cheap thrill.. We made Eunice flag down a cab and ask the cab driver if he could send us to Pulau Ubin DIRECTLY. Yes, you read it correctly. She further asked if there was a bridge that connects Singapore directly to Pulau Ubin and the cab driver was trying damn hard to suppress his laughter, trying to explain to us that we had to go to Changi V and take a ferry... OMG! That was damn funny! Should have captured the cab driver's expression la. Classic, I must say...
Huizhen's forfeit was equally farnie! I made her imitate the green "walking man" of the traffic light at maxwell food centre and she had to march on the spot when everyone else were crossing the road.. Though I didn't capture the essence of the action, it was damn hilarious man. I kept laughing that I didn't observe the expressions of the people crossing the road. damn.
Next up, we wanted to link 鸳鸯 with 羊肉串 (yang rou chuan/ mutton satay) but the satay stall at the food street was just starting up. We cracked our brains and couldn't think of one... Huizhen who was craving for some dessert, asked if we could try to get something from an ice cream stall. We looked at all the flavours but there was nothing that starts with "yang". There wasn't any 杨桃 (star fruit) even=( So we decided to ask the ice cream stall owner who asked if we're local. (hmm, dun we look local?) after having a hard time cracking her brain as well, she came up with an ingenious answer - "洋水" - "洋人的水" (western drink - ice cream float?!) WTH! But that was as good as it can get... just had to make do with it=p
Back to Huizhen's turn to pose the question. She asked her dad's age and darn, we both got it wrong again! sigh. but that was the fun bit la. Can't complain. she's the birthday girl after all=p We had to do a shared forfeit. Eunice had to walk up to a Caucasian to ask him for his number, and when he asked why she wants his number, she would point at me and tell him that it was me who wanted his number! That's so... er.. gay? But for the fun of it, I dun mind. Better than going up to a gay club and ask if they're hiring and if i'm qualified to work there=p
In the end, Eunice managed to stop a guy but he couldn't understand what she was saying, which means that I had to do a separate forfeit since she did hers though unsuccessful. Argh! The "evil" girls made me put on a PINK crystal flowery hairclip on my fringe and ask the person in the store if the hairclip suits me! argh! Argh! argh! That was ultimately humiliating man! WTH.
By the time I finished that stance, it was about 5pm so we made our way back to Qun Zhong to have our 汤圆 and the next item - 水饺. We had wanted to order the dessert only but they wanted us to order a main dish as well cos they're NOT a dessert shop. Ok, fair enuf, we wanted 水饺 anyway but it was rather steeply priced - $7 for 10. The food was so-so only la. Not as good as when I first went there though. We played 终极密码 there: I had to drink up tea that was mixed with chilli, vinegar, ginger and the filling of the 水饺. Yucks! The chilli was damn overpowering. Eunice, on the other hand, had to eat 汤圆 dipped in chilli, vinegar and ginger. It wasn't too bad for her. She said it tasted like "soon kway"... erm, ok, not fun one.
Ok, my memory is failing me now.. Can't remember the order exactly but Eunice asked the last question which was when she had her first ear piercing. Guess what? It was when she was 5 yrs old! I can't believe it man! So young... Huizhen and I, of course... got it wrong la=( So we were toying with the idea of going to the Speakers' Corner @ Hong Lim Park to either (1) "declare my love" to one of them.. ahem.. and one of them will act touched while the other will slap me... ahem again.. or (2) sing at the speakers' corner. Of course, I'll choose the latter la! So Huizhen and I ended up singing Jay Chou's 安静 to this father whose kids were playing badminton and couldn't be bothered to listen to us... Yay, and I got praised by the uncle=) *smiling smugly* haha...The game ended with 搅汁 and "zhi shi" (cheese) 蛋糕, both from Hans.
Eventually, with the money we had left, we shared one Carbonara pie, one chicken pie and a Heaven and Earth cake (double choc cake.. not cheese though but we let that go=p) The rest of the night was bridge and "tai de" time! hee.. wat a fun day=) Never had so much fun in a looooooooong time...
Till we meet up again peepz! =)
*photos will be uploaded later*
