Wednesday 25 July 2007

水土不服 at home?!

After 8 or 9 consecutive meals of chuan cai in Tibet, i gleefully made a list of all the dishes i wanted ma to cook when we got home! (sichuan province cruisine, which to us seems like each & every dish is drowned in chilli oil. but i'm sure the sichuanese love their chuan cai!) But 3 days after coming home, I haven't tasted any!!
maybe my dad is right, i am 水土不服 at home?! 3 days of diarrhea, rumblings in my tummy and slight nausea = bleh :/ apparently there has been some food scandals in China, which probably explain the 2 doctors' weird expressions when I say I just returned from beijing. never mind that I was fine for 5 months and the bug hit only after a day of plane food! did i mention that the first BJ-HK flight served us haggen das. And barely 3 hours later, the HK-S'pore flight served us a magnum icecream? ;P

Tibet is so pretty that every picture is like a postcard. Yet the pictures don't capture the WAH! when you see that lake 3 times the size of Singapore, that snow-capped mountain range with its green slopes, that vast field dotted by white sheep and black yaks. postcards are boring, so here's one of the many sketches that entertained us for the long bus rides!
you almost mistake thunder in lhasa as your upstairs neighbours having a bad fight...
btw, the rain in tibet doesn't go sideways, i'm just trying to draw the different angle of elevation in lhasa and in singapore haha!

Sunday 1 July 2007

大连
第一次出北京好兴奋
下江南
印象最深刻就是一连串的火车!
五一 内蒙古
骑马 骑骆驼 滑沙 冲浪车 蒙古包 玩"手抓羊肉"
北京 景点走透透
北大-清华朋友 =)
北京 生活
北大朋友 =)

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