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| Shane picks me up, with coffee! |
Well "yesterday" was a blur - I arrived in Singapore by noon and chugged down an icy coffee from
none other than Starbucks Singapore with Mr. Shane. We hopped a taxi to
downtown (halfway across the country) and tried the best chicken rice hole-in-the-wall available according to our trusty taxi driver. Funny dragging a huge suitcase
through the narrow streets but Shane was a happy helper mule to the rescue
(his words, not mine!).
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| Chicken Rice, Lettuce |
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Chicken rice has got to be the most popular dish around - it's just chicken + rice. We also ordered blindly off the Mandarin menu and ended up with pan friend lettuce and chow fun noodles (slurped up before I could get a picture). Back on campus we grabbed a few Tigers and sat out by the track watching runners brave the afternoon heat and fly-overs from the neighboring military aviation installment. It was awesome. We got the most entertainment from a runner-cum-interpretive-dancer who jog-danced his way around the track while appearing to also conduct the concert he was hearing in his oversized earphones. It was 89-degrees and 95% humidity when he launched into an impressive series of ab exercises that left us feeling exhausted and fully worked out by the power of osmosis. The rest of last night is equally blurry, I enjoyed a long nap in Shane's dorm while he was off studying - I haven't been (or slept) in a dorm for 10 years! I forgot how fun college campus was back in the day - GWU didn't really have a campus and the buildings were mostly overshadowed by important government monstrosities. It's Shane's first time living on campus, too, so we're running around enjoying the various canteens and learning (getting lost on) the campus loop shuttle.
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| Mystery Pau |
The NDU campus itself is beautiful and tropical with lots of
indoor/outdoor space, 15+ canteens, and an active student body. I spent
the morning eating various Pau buns, chosen at random by the lady
working at the breakfast counter. Quick Skype test to the homeland (worked great!) and off to do some work at Global Cafe. We never had a place this cool at UCSD for studying - it was like a hip lobby at the coolest hotel downtown, but cozy and friendly. And with another Starbucks attached!
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| Mystery solved: two pork, one veggie. I think. |
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And then more lunchtime grub with Shane to break up his seven (yes, 7!) hours of managerial accounting. Yikes.
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| Vegetarian Delight! |
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| Nom nom. Chicken rice. |
If you know me well, which you do if you're reading this, then you may have also guessed that all of this detail and random knowledge about not a lot of ongoings, so far, is the product of yet another Pilram procrastination session. With that, I'll head back to my missing management paper (technically GWU won't let me graduate without it!) and then out on the town. The next few days will bring more excitement with the arrival of another California visitor and some fun bars and nights out in the city. The lowest rooftop bar we're planning to hit is on the 20th floor and the highest is 100+ floors up. Stay tuned...!
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| Workin' Hard @NTU |
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