Day 11 & 12

 DAY ELEVEN

Date: 26^th June 2014

Day: Thursday

Time: 12:20 midnight

Weather: Huge rain in the mid-afternoon

Hi hi hi! I’m finally back on track and blogging on the day itself YAY. Was lagging behind Monday-Wednesday’s posts haha. TODAY! OFF DAY! NUA DAY! SPEND MONEY DAY! (L for that, J for the others) Woke many times and officially at 10.12, whoohoo latest ever so far. Mainly because I slept late last night watching Hotel King and Kang Xi hahaha. Nua-ed around with phone and when Kim woke, we did a bit of the games proposal and figured out where to go. North Avenue it shall be! All the way at the end of MRT Line 3, because they had Perry’s Grill, Breadtalk and the awesome crazy huge supermarket.

Thankfully the rain didn’t start that heavily when we left, and the first thing we did was to head to Perry’s Grill!!! Apparently SG has it too in Somerset haha, never knew, ahh Singapore has almost everything you are so awesome <3 I ordered this ‘Sizzling garlic mushroom chicken’ which became the most expensive meal I ever had in PH so far, SGD$8 (?!) felt so guilty about it, I skipped dinner, also because I was full to the top of my gullet LOL. The chicken didn’t disappoint too, yummy and huge (Y). Kim and I shared Milk Fish again! PH’s national fish haha but actually… it’s quite fishy. Nothing beats mum’s fish at home, :’) We spent a total of 1.25 hours in the restaurant, taking our own sweet time eating slowlyyy LOL. Free day mah, waste time day! After makaning, it was just random walking around and lastly, the more meaningful walking in the supermarket! Got myself a hue box of Nestle cornflakes cereal at SGD$3, some herbal sweet, packet of tissues (“Excuse me, hi may I ask if this is the cheapest ever packet tissue?” LOL after 1 week in PH, I really heck and ask anyone anything), watermelon and corn! J Happy with my buys, but my wallet is definitely crying LOL. Oh well, budget days are coming! J

Finally reached the dorm at 8pm, did more lazing around till 11pm. It was epic how we were so energetic when doing non-work related, but when 11pm came for the proposal – INSTANT ZOMBIE. INSTANT BRAIN DEAD. No wonder our results in school… LOL.

And now it’s 12.32am and we’re back to BRAIN ALIVE mode again hahahaha. Am excited for Area Visiting tmr, followed by report writing after that! Looking forward to a great day ahead let’s go! J

DAY TWELVE

Date: 27^th June 2014

Day: Friday

Time: 13:35 of 28^th June

Weather: Usual sunny

Exactly ONE MONTH till I return home on the 27^th July!!! (Currently playing a ‘Top 100 Jay Chou Songs’ playlist on Youtube, missing the mandarin songs already haha)

Friday was spent Area Visiting which… made me feel so useless. Firstly, I had no special skills like a physiotherapist or anyone else useful. Secondly, my tagalog knowledge is limited max, all I can say is Hello/How are you/How old are you/Good/Beautiful/Have you eaten etc, all the simple, no substance words, so conversations were always short. The only thing useful we did was to invite them to Saturday’s morning activity!

Nonetheless… it was a learning experience. We visited about… 10 children and there were so much to see. The slums area gave me a very neighborish feel, like how everyone are friends with each other, how the children all gather together to play games at the narrowed alleys. Scenes like that are heartwarming :’) The ground was wet because mothers were washing and children were bathing. Alleys are really narrow, if I was my old fatter version I would probably have a much harder time getting through. There were many many small stalls: fried food, convenience stalls, fruits. Tricycle drivers were resting on the roads. Oh and mums here breastfeed openly. And there were so many children; I asked Kim why aren’t they taught family planning, because too many children makes it tough for both the mum and child, isn’t it? Turns out it’s due to the catholic beliefs. Interesting fact of the day, but I feel so tired for the mums…

影响深刻的 Families:

#1. The mum is hugely pregnant: this week is her delivery week OMG!!! Her husband is away for work, she has a wheel-chair bound son, and three more younger children, which means her soon-newborn baby is her fifth child. And there she was, frying in a narrow kitchen, because school was at 11am and it was time to prep for school! I felt so 辛苦 for her really… But I guess her children are her joy and strength. J P.S. Pretty mum, children are so beautiful haha, good genes. Btw ah… Filippinos are reallyyyyy good looking. Esp the girls, their complexion and huge eyes wah no joke!

#2. The mum has polio, her daughter is autistic and her son is hyper-active. Can’t imagine how tough it was bringing both of them up… 母爱很伟大.

#3. The president of KAISAKA. Ms Aileen, is also a supermum. She has a baby, an autistic girl, a primary-school daughter and another daughter, in total four if I’m not wrong. AND she has to take care of KAISAKA’s events as well. AND AND her husband will be leaving PH to work abroad for more $$$. Wahhhhhh really supermums here, everywhere.

#4. A super cute and chubby five year old boy with autism who kept hugging me and grabbed my specs. He pointed upstairs, I think he was trying to ask me to go up and play with him. Sadly I can’t L Did the hi-5 and shaking of hands and hug hug before we left. His mum says maybe he likes Chinese HAHAHA.

Anddd that kind of concluded my area-visiting day! We were supposed to write reports, write-ups on each child but… all we did was invite them to Sat’s activity, there really isn’t much for us to write about. Neither are we professional doctors too… So we just brought back the typing paperwork instead!

Somehow, the three-hour long area-visiting made us so shag (probably because we slept late too), we were zombified in the afternoon and just headed back home after a quick lunch at the mixed rice place. Nua-ed and prep for Sat’s event while Kim took a nap.

We headed to a famous all-day-breakfast kampong-style eatery ‘Kanto Freestyle Breakfast’ which was famous and so heng!!! It’s just a walking distance away from our place YAY J Sadly both of us forgot our phones, didn’t take any nice pics. Food was good and picture-worthy: fish fillet and scrambled eggs for about SGD$3, not that budget comparatively, I guess it’s because of how popz the place is – they up the price! I will be back tho!!! J 24 hours too heheh.

Oh the night ended off creepily. At around 11pm, I was brushing my teeth and Kim was using her laptop on her bed… When our door (we haven’t locked it) OPENED. Some random guy opened it, and then probably figured it was the wrong room, closed it. There was a bunch of them I think they were mid-drunk, since the dorm has karaoke rooms for the public too. Thankfully the guy closed the door again… If not… OMG HAHAHA DIE LIAO. After that, we IMMEDIATELY shut the door tight and even put a chair there LOL. Freaky! Lesson learnt too: always lock!!!