bored thoughts

this is ma la guo from a roadside -well almost - stall. it consists of sticks of random little things soaked+cooked/cooked+soaked in ma la soup 麻辣汤. it's really yummy! we kept going back for more rounds of the sticks of cuttlefish, noodles, mushrooms, meatballs, sausages and what not.
and there's the local version of icekachang ie. ice shavings with lotsa of more random yummy things like red bean and strawberries.
But eat them together and it's the ultimate combination to guarantee a tummyache!



it's been really funny looking at the cat-and-mouse game between the vendors and the gongan. first, they drove up and down the street. then, they decided to park their vans along the street and read their newspapers there. but the vendors decided to set up stall right 50m away or across the road or round the corner. so now wudaokou has an average of 3 gongan vans parked along a stretch of 100m or so.

jing said that my exchange experience seems pretty different from those in US or UK. yea, maybe. maybe because i think stuff like these are pretty fun! not to mention that we gleefully went shopping in the middle of a studying trip to qinghua yestd :P it may just be our last outing... everyone's heading... south south and south! we're so north up that the sun rises at 4am and sets at 8pm.
i'm so bored of studying!! great respect for the local students and koreans now, they have to crunch, memorise and apply so many modules.. no wonder alot of them are always sleeping in class, from the sheer workload perhaps. or maybe our law school is just too good to us =) not that i wont complain next sem... lala.