Jetlagged
Posted on May 28th, 2006 in Regular RantsJetlag is quite fun at least if there is food to eat when you walk down your apartment. Baobei and I were hit by jetlag, waking up at 5am even before the roosters start crowing. We changed and went down to the hawker center for an early breakfast. Amazing food for these two food-deprived souls. We had 2 plates of large carrot cake, 2 glasses of ‘teh’ and 3 half-boiled eggs. Strangely all these we know how to prepare, but somehow these taste better when served and prepared by others.
At the soya bean stall, I tried to order a drink pointing to the huge tank of iced soya bean drink.
Me: “Uncle, tow huay chuew zi buay… Leng eh… Suay eh…” (Soya bean drink, 1 glass… Cold… Small…)
Uncle: (Held up a small glass and looked at me with a questioning glare)
Me: “erm…” (Yes)
I really wonder if he understood my hokkien.
Then we went over to ‘Shop n Save’ for our favorite past-time in Pittsburgh - grocery shopping!!! At 7:30am! Strange stares from the people there. What in the world are these two kids doing here early in the morning!?
We need to put two tags on our front and backs. “Jetlaggin’” “时差中”
The time now is 8:30am and we have the day to burn.
haha…So interesting.. Bryan and I also started waking up at 6am, then slowly 7am, 8am….finally 12 noon! (yah, getting later and later…) Soon we’re night owls again sleeping after midnight waking up in the afternoon for lunch..
You know you can speak Mandarin to the tow huay zhui uncle? haha… No, I think these days stall owners even older aunties and uncles can understand English!
I’m so wanting to step into the hawker centres to eat… I know that part on food tasting much better when prepared by others…I felt the same!!
whee!! welcome back to SG!!
meet up soon ya?
haha i know they understand english and chinese… I wanna practise my hokkien!
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