My aircon broke down since last week… and it’s really not the best of time in the year to break down. Temperatures have been unbelievably hot lately, and it was a torture just to sleep at night even though I have two fans blowing at me. My dad’s aircon broke down too, and the repair guys came and said it was the motor that broke down. No point changing a new motor since our system is already 10 years old. They say we should just get new ones.
And get new ones we did. My mom and I in the end bought Mitsubishi tri-split system, but the earliest they could come over to install will be on this Thursday. So 3 more torturous nights, oh my God…
I know I hadn’t been updating this blog lately ever since I came back from Hong Kong. I have been trying to update the travel blog every now and then, but I’m just so lazy. Haha. I’ve got the entries and pictures posted up till Day 4, so you can make your way there to take a look if you wish to.
Besides the Hong Kong entries and pictures, there’s also quite a few makan places which I went with Bear that I still had not post them up. Maybe I will do short entries of each places instead of consolidating them by the “days” we went. I can remember where we go and what we ordered, and how the food tasted – but I can’t quite remember the date we went already, unless I look at the EXIF data of the photos lol.
Last Saturday, I finally went down to Goodhealth Clinic at Ang Mo Kio for a proper diagnosis / check up / treatment of my gas issue. After listening to my experiences and listening to my pulse, the pretty TCM doc deduced that my upper body 热 and my lower body is 寒, and my digestive system has been weak at birth, and is now further weakened as time goes by. Constant intake of antibiotics and western medicine, lack of sleep and high intake of coffee/caffeine had also contributed to the deterioration rate.
The doc prescribed some TCM medicine to first help strengthen my digestive system, before after that’s done, she will then eventually prescribe some medicine to help 补血补气 so that I can slowly wean off coffee/caffeine. Yellow noodles are a no-no food for the time being, and she said I should be avoiding chicken as well, as chicken is considered to be “heaty” meat. (Goodness, and I’ve been eating chicken quite a bit for the last few months.) Rice is actually okay, and so are things that are made from rice flour (aka hor fun, bee hoon, rice vermicilli, etc). As long as I don’t overeat them.
Hopefully the doc can help get my system back on track… I really want to eat pasta and ramen again. :(
Chanced upon this thread while surfing EDMW. Although I’ve only been to London once, it’s not really a place I would wanna revisit. Of course I’ll go there again with Bear someday because he hasn’t been there before, but I’m not entirely sure if I’d want to go back there again and again.
Food in London was generally bad. The pasta dishes in the restaurants that I dined in were all way too salty. Fish & Chips were supposed to be like the “national food” there, but the ones I tried were pretty bad. Okay, not bad as in real bad but, mediocore. Starbucks totally sucks there – Costa was definitely better. Shopping at Oxford was overrated. M&S food hall was all right – definitely cheaper than in SG. The best food that I tried in London was really that Lemon cake which I bought in Borough Market. Can you imagine? Best food found in food markets / bazaars. LOL.
But safety-wise… maybe because I always went back to the hotel early, I don’t feel particularly unsafe even though I stayed around King’s Cross / Euston area. It is always rainy but I don’t quite mind the weather there, to be honest. As long as the light drizzling don’t turn into something really heavy.
I like their tube map. It’s a challenge trying to get to the correct platform, and even more challenging to catch the correct train on that platform lol. Well at least it was a challenge in the first few days when I totally didn’t get the system. After understanding it, it became a piece of cake. I just hated the amount of dust in the train station…. you get black gunk in your nose at the end of the day. Argh.
