Wednesday, April 1, 2009 @ 9:41 PM School was as usual, boring. I can even sleep in the office when I am supposed to be doing something constructive lah. Not that I slack there or what leh, is just that I have absolutely nothing to do. Everyday I just need to sit in one class and observe how the class was conducted and then I either marked papers or sit and stone, with the latter being the most frequent. In the end, I always get like lunch break 2 hours earlier and off work 1 hour earlier. There's nothing to do seriously!! Something funny happened yesterday. So Vanessa and I decided to have some Singapore food for dinner so we went to the market place near my home to get some food. But it was quite a frustrating yet amusing experience. As we did not really have the experience of buying food from the market (I always get what I want from supermarkets), we did not know how to purchase them. In the end, we got a bunch of 小白菜, soy sauce and oh yes, white pepper. As pepper is 胡椒粉, we said that to the auntie selling spices. I asked if she sell the pepper and she gave me the blank stare. We really didnt know how to describe pepper to her and it was frustrating. In the end, she tried to sell me red kidney beans. Beans and peppers are like so different lah. We finally gave up and went to a convenience store to get our pepper. They have it there. So if there is such thing as 胡椒粉, why did the auntie not understand me? |