Returning home on 27th June

Time flies and it's already Wednesday 20th June. I've been in HK for slightly more than 5 months; will be returning to Singapore next Wednesday for around 1.5 weeks for commencement, catching up with family/ friends and olympiad stuff. A string of events lining up for me when I return:

1. Commencement in the evening of 4th July.
2. Invited talk on SCHO - 29th June morning @ YJ, 4th July afternoon @ACJ & 5th July morning @ NJ.
3. ICHO organic training (3rd or 4th July).
4. Monica's wedding on 1st July.
5. Catch up and watch Fantastic Four with Chee Siong, Yuan-Ting & Teck Loon (Date??); bowling, pool etc as well.
6. Spend time with family. Go JB? (Date??)
7. Dental appointment in the morning of 28th June. Meeting up with Suling?
8. Catching up with friends.

Hope I don't fall sick in the end. Anyway, I went to Shenzhen last weekend with Asanka (my apartment mate) and his labmates for some shopping and meals. My main motivation is to buy the DVDs for my mom as I wouldn't want to carry so much thing back when I accompany Suling and her aunt to Guangzhou this weekend.

It was a so-so trip. Asanka can't really appreciate dim sum as he finds them tasteless :( When he was eating mian sian, he added half a bowl of chilli sauce in. *bang bang* He told me that it's not spicy and it's too bland. He said that canton food is good but it tastes better with chilli. I was pissed lor; he doesn't know how to appreciate the taste of canto food. If I am the chef, I'll be very upset - imagine that for a bowl of really good fish soup, you need to spend hours boiling it, to drain the essence out from the "input". Then when you pass it to your customer, you expect him to appreciate the taste but instead, he dumped half a bowl of chilli in!! That destroys the hours of effort you've put in.

Ah yes, I finally get to try Sichun dishes, all thanks to Asanka (for requesting his labmates to bring him to some place where he can eat spicy food for dinner). Hmm they are ok (read "ok" which means I prefer canto food) and not as spicy as I thought (maybe not authentic enough?). I was so surprised that Asanka's labmates have a lower tolerance of spicy food than me. Lol. Initially, they were like saying they can take it and I was like "no, not for me". Then in the end, I seem to be able to take it better than them. Lol. Actually, I really can't take (or don't like?) spicy food. If I feel that it's "ok", it means that it's not that spicy afterall. ;)