guessing the parade back home should have ended by now already and i'm still here overseas serving my country nonetheless. it's odd really to know that your country is celebrating her independance and all that load of history and here you are overseas, still retaining your singaporean identity, but not participating in this year's national day parade. the epitome of our pride and public display of our loyalty to this nation. interesting isn't it don't you think?

i mean, you wouldn't know
i'm more like telling you this.

i can understand how our locals based overseas feel especially during these periods which call for national unity. i mean it's not like we don't want to get involved in the celebrations but it's more like we don't see the need to. the need to get all hyped up for a celebration that's taking place thousands of kilometres away from where we are. maybe that's something the people up there can look into. well it's just my two cents worth.

take it or leave it.

went to zhongli night market just now, and yes i'm at 7-11 now AGAIN, and got myself a nice pair of puma shoes. buying things here now becomes more of a necessity rather than an action of leisure. so that should justify the shoes purchase, i think. "in a bid to say i'm right about this" but more importantly at the night market we ate quite a bit and one of the dishes we had was this claypot rice sort of dish, we call it yao mei fan back home but they just call it 油饭 here. what was distinct about this was it's close smell and taste resemblance to what my grandma used to cook for us when i was just a small boy. it brought back a lot of sweet memories of yesterday flooding back to mind.

that was all in the past.

so was my version of harry and cho.