Menthol Keeps Me Awake

I was 'lecturing' my Dad how dangerous it is that he tries all kinds of unknown medicines people recommend him; even strangers.

But I'm nothing better. I try everything even people don't recommend me to.

I'm just GREEDY.

And I get my instant Karma.

My young boy colleague was inhaling *cough* ladies Menthol. I'm NO inhaler of anything, ok? But the packaging was SO NICELY designed it looks like a CHANNEL. I couldn't resist anything that's professional designed, ok?

So I was tempted.

He lets me inhaled some. Yo... so nice one! Got Ginseng some more! Very smooth and soothing.

I was intoxicated, instantly.

Then I asked for some more. Everytime he litted up one stick I ask for a puff.

I think I took about 6 puffs.

And then what happened????

I was so high, I couldn't sleep the whole night! And stupid me, I forgot that I can't take nicotine. I can't even take coffee after 3pm or else I will end up super high for the night.

My blood was running so high until my bowel movement excellerates like ROCKET and all my shit reached the moon already.

My blood was running so high until I feel so HOT.

My blood was running so high I managed to put up 5 blogs in one night.

What the rocket!

Super Sunday, Again!

According to the Lunar calendar tomolo is the 7th day of the 7th month making it the day our ancient lovers, a princess who's skilled in weaving and an orphaned cowherd, meet annually. Yes, it is the Chinese Valentine's Day.

Surprisingly, it's a happening day in China and they are celebrating in big scale.

My colleague together with his visiting girlfriend went to the BRIDGE where families gathered to try match make their sons and daughters by putting up curriculum vitae on the lovers noticeboard.

My colleague and his gf were captured and appeared on the local night time newspaper!



Such a loving couple! :-)

I wanted to go and match make myself, too, for the sake of *cough* a news worthy blog entry. Too bad, it was raining like cats and dogs when I was ready to leave. So... no chance for your friend, me.
My prince charming could be waiting there, you know! Darn!



My other SINGLE colleagues and I heard that there's a Cantonese restaurant somewhere in town. So we decided to try it out.

You may think Cantonese food is nothing special but WAIT TILL you've trapped here in Mountain East like me for 2 months eating the same freaking salty and soaked in thick sauce stir-fried food everyday.

I want something SWEET! I want real SOUP!



Yeah, got soup! It's Wax Gourd (or Winter Melon, White Gourd) and Chicken! Yoohoo...! Well, though my mum's one is better but it's better than nothing loh.



Other than the Hakka Stewed Fatty Pork with salted veggie, the rest are just so-so.
Though fried 菜心 Chinese Flowering Cabbage is nice because it's hard to get in Mountain East.



My colleagues all gulped 2 bowls of rice. And this guy is still eating even though there's nothing left on the table! Really can tell how horrible food is here that we are so HUNGRY for Southern food.

So what do SINGLE people do on Valentine's eve?



We go to romantic cafes and order romantic food. :->
Well, I wanted desserts anyway.



See, they have swinging chairs in this cafe. So siok! Can swing swing while enjoying your romantic drinks and desserts.



Some people play chess while hanging out in the cafe. What a nice past time.



I was really excited they serve waffle, but they go and funnily call it the muffin. That sounds funny and nope... not going to order something RMB22 and don't know whether it'll come looking like a muffin or waffle.


I ordered these instead:



Mochi! Glutinous rice desserts! Quite nice.



Also ordered Lavender Fresh Milk. Yes, that'll be my favourite drink from now on. Smells so good and milk is thick! Make one yourself, ladies, boil NICE and FRESH milk with aromatic herbs (not too long)! Sure makes you feel good and sleep well. Take my word.



This is an awesome night... complete with lover's plum. How I wish my prince charming was here, too!

Fake DVD-R

I was asked to copy some reading material for my colleagues
He passed me a pack of DVD-Rs of 10 that he bought here in Jinan which costed about RMB 18 (so cheap)



At the speed of 8X, my laptop usually takes 10 minutes the MAX to burn a DVD.

But it's taking FOREVER with his discs.

And my DVD burner software kept telling me that there are fingerprints on the discs and it couldn't complete the burn.

So I checked.



Yo, got scratched! How can a newly bought DVR-r get scratched so fast?



Then I checked the rest. Wah... so scary!
The aluminium coating is incomplete!
Absolutely NO quality control!



It's Sony, you know!
5 out of the 10 are defective!



But somehow I've got a feeling is FAKE Sony.

What do you think, James and Charlie?

Student Styled Party

We had student styled aka refugee styled party at one of the junior's room.


We are quite well equiped using utensils left for us from last badge, but I never get to use them!

Gosh, haven't had party like this since... *retrieving memory* ... since... Concord!
Gone were the days when Yeen Li and I have boiled cabbage in Sook Fan's room chewin' the fat and talked about special anatomical features of the male of the species.



I like being in Mountain East because I am easily passed as a 25 and under and get courted by young cute innocent boys. Yo, way to go, Yeng! (ha!)


We have Stir-fried bittergourd with salted egg 苦瓜炒咸蛋, Stir-fried tofu with spicy fermented beans 麻婆豆腐 and... can't remember all the rest.

Juniors are cute because they haven't really been exposed to the complication of working in a 8-5 corporate environment with back stabbers or go getters nor do they get to hear the ugliest words that is ever to be uttered about them.

In other words, they are fat meat that's yet to be chopped!


This one is nice to chop

They are always amazed with my 'Gulliver's Travel' stories while back in the UK studying with people from Tanjong Rambutan in the disguise of artists making funny pieces of artwork. Needless to say, I absolutely enjoy it when they give me the perplexed and the is-she-for-real-or-what look. haha



I like messing with people's head with TRUE facts. It's the highest level of mindblogging technique and I'm not even trying! I just tell them the TRUTH and they will be lost in their own little self-acclaimed politically correct comprehension of the world.



See, if you don't look at things from different perspectives and grasps the whole idea of how all things are inter-connected, you're gonna be messed about by people like me. I hanged out with residents of Tanjong Rambutan for 4 years, remember? Playing ground of how far sanity/insanity can go.



Sometimes, I can be such a brat.



Can be such an angle also lah, if you are nice to me. hehe

God Saves Mountain East Food and Fake Palm Reader

We ran out of things to order for lunch.



It's either my colleagues don't like my kind of food or I don't like theirs, so we had to resort to things like POTATO, which is quite UNIVERSAL.



So shameful.
I can't live anymore on Chinese food!
Can someone PLEASE SAVE ME
from all the white rice and stir-fried food.

P L E A S E ?

Can die now.




Mountain East people like to sell things like this by the road side. This girl is selling some kind of plants.

Not interested.



I persuaded my colleague to take a palm reading which is only 5 Yuan.
Cheap right?
Maybe she's a real master, who knows?



I thought I'm going get some amusement listening to someone's life story but HECK I couldn't make out what she's mumbling about. But I did hear her said that he will have ONE marriage only in this life. Ya, how informative!



He was asked to draw 3 bamboo sticks from a metal bottle.
And he so happened to draw the so-called auspicious ones.
One was the God of Prosperity. So good huh?

Just while we were praising how lucky he was some policemen came patrolling and she quickly ran away.

Ah? It's illegal! Haha!

But just seconds after the police patrol car is gone, she came back and got hold of us and asked for her pay. When we gave her 5 Yuan, she's not satisfied.

Cheater: It costed 6.50 Yuan
Me: What? Didn't you say 5 Yuan just now?
Cheater: @#$)_#$%^*_% (Some unknown mandarin)
Me: ha?
Colleagues: ha?
Cheater: *Looks angry* @#$$#%$^*#$ (Some more unknown mandarin)
Me: *Blur blur* What oh?
Cheater: You drew the God of Prosperity, that costed 1.50 Yuan
Me + Colleagues: What the XXXX!
Me + Colleagues: 神棍！Cheater!

Lunch in Mountain East

Did I tell you that Mountain East people talk like HORNs and have the appetite of some massive CROCODILEs?

They talk so loud sometimes I couldn't make out whether they are scolding me or just being loud. I blame the salt.

Whenever I take my lunch, I always busy-the-body and look around what they order here not because I've no idea what to order, it's because I want to see HOW FAR they go in ordering the number of dishes.

When they eat, they order like there's no tomolo.



I know you can't really tell the MAGNITUDE of those dishes from the picture because my camera tend to concave things that's near it, thus making those further away smaller.

But I can tell you, this family of Dad and Mum plus kiddy ordered

3 MOUNTAINS and 1 LAKE

That's a VERY HUGH BOWL of soup.

These are what me and my colleague order:



Only 2 tiny bowls of rice and a plate of tofu (not even a mountain)

Of course, the tofu is again BLOODY salty

We couldn't finish our rice, and only finished half the tofu.

So really, we finished 1 bowl of rice and half a plate of tofu only.

NOW......



Our family of 2 and a half finished everything!

And that's considered VERY little compared to most of the other ones that I've seen, you know.

And not only do Mountain East people have stomachs beyond the pale, they can really drink during lunch hour.



Now you tell me, how are we Malaysians going to compete with them (mainland Chinese) when we couldn't even beat them in TALKING and EATING? Their stomachs are BIGGER! Their voice is louder! And they talk faster!

A man may be proud of his big balls (or shoe size, ha!) and a woman her cup size. What does/can a nation as a whole be proud of?

It's the STOMACH and SPEAKER size!

Buying Liquor

As usual, I woke up late for work coz I chatted too much last night.

Damn MSN Messenger!



This is what I had for breakfast on my way to the hospital. Ya, Mountain East burger. It's Fried Green Pepper with Beef invading my nose with strong Star Anise smell. Nice though.



Normal day at the out-patient department today.

I hanged out with uncle colleague for lunch and he wanted to buy nice liqour for one of our professors, so I went along.

We found a small liqour shop by the roadside near our hospital. They seem to be selling things cheaper here than most supermarkets.



They have quite a selection of cigarettes with really WEIRD designed packaging. I was really surprised at how expensive these grass are...



They can go as high as RMB 500. I wonder what they put inside. Can someone enlighten me a bit.



Saw this beautiful gift pack. Isn't it nice to pour alcohol from an animal looking bottle? Makes you feel like you are in a cartoon.



Uncle is looking for 茅台酒 -Mao Tai Liquor. I have not a clue why this liquor is so famous. And apparently it has to come from the province of Gui - 贵州. I found this from the net:

Worldwide, most people will have heard of Maotai Jiu, a strong colorless liquor originating in Maotai in Guizhou Province. It has a production history of over 200 years, made from wheat and sorghum with a unique distilling process that involves seven iterations of the brewing cycle. This is the drink generally served in China to visiting dignitaries. Most famously, it played a supporting role in Chinese-U.S. negotiations leading up to the signing of the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, with Henry Kissinger reported to have jested, “After a dinner of mao-tai and Peking duck, I'll sign anything.”

Quite impressive hoh? Mao Tai is as good as Peking duck! I want to try, too! Yo, speaking of Peking duck, I'm drooling already... gonna dream of it tonight. :-p

But there just no way I can buy it!
The one that has least percentage of alcohol is already 38%.



Then the one that Mountain East people normally drink is 42%.



And, as a gift, it can go up to 53%.



But still not as freaky as the 60% one. (Well, this is not a Mao Tai lah)



How to buy? The alcohol content is just WAY TO HIGH ok.

Most of my friends know that I can really drink and I've only got drunk once only during my psycodelic years in London.

I want to stress again: I can really drink. But I must say... I have to raise my WHITE FLAG to Mountain East drunkards.

This is how tough Mountain East lady drink:



With poise one!

This is how losers drink:



Like KIDS.

Trumpet Creeper

I ventured to the Endocrinology Out-patient Dept today. There were Dr Cool, and also his cool patients.

Dr Cool is young at heart, easy-going and specialises on diabetes, both hypo and hyper thyroidism, hari lost and acne.

We've got a lot of young ladies with acne and thyroidism. And they are anxious and impatient. So I get to see all the UGLY sides of women when they are anxious and impatient which FORCED me to conclude that women are REALLY naggy, touchy, loud and IRRITABLE.

*Shaking head shamelessly*




You really got to be as cool as Dr Cool to handle patients like that. ME? Maybe not.

Dr Cool has special transportation arranged by the hospital to escort him to work. He is so nice as to give us a ride home most of the time! :-)



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This is Chinese Trumpet creeper -- Ling Xiao 凌霄
Scientific name: Campsis Glandiflora

Ling Xiao is very beautiful and a much loved flower. Pedals are big and the colour is attractive. I bet you wouldn't have bet that the flower is used as a herb for toning blood!

I label it as a lady's herb. Becuase it belongs to the liver and heart (pericardum) meridien. Especially useful for period problem related to 'blood clot'.

Combined with other similar herbs, it's useful for injuries that are orthopedical related, too. Just boil them together and add some rice wine and use it on your sprained ankle etc.

For our doctors, here are some more readings:

Blood tonic; Carminative; Diuretic; Febrifuge; Women's complaints.

The flowers and the whole plant are

• blood tonic
• carminative- inducing the expulsion of gas from the stomach and intestines,
• depurative - purify the humors (body fluid, blood etc)
  
• diuretic and
  
• febrifuge - reduce fever

They are used in the treatment of women's complaints. A decoction of the flowers is used to correct menstrual disorders, rheumatoid pains, traumatic injuries, difficult urination, pruritis and oozing dermaphytoses.