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Thursday, July 01, 2010

Milk VS Soymilk

So there was this incident with my friend on the plane.

My friend was asked what drink she would like and she said milk, which was received with a stare and silence before the air stewardess moved to get the milk and hand it to her. After that, my friend turned to me and went, "Is asking for milk very weird?!"

I think that event has traumatized me. And everytime I want to drink milk in the cafeteria/pantry I have to stop myself because what if its something weird in this culture... Not that I drink milk a lot in Singapore... In fact you'd probably get stared at in Singapore too now that I think about it.

But then again, drinking soy milk doesn't seem to draw stares from people. Not here and not in Singapore.

Is there some kind of disparity in terms of how people view milk VS soymilk?

Weird.

However, there is a milkbar in Chelsea Market run by Ronnybrook Farms (click for their website!) and I've also bought their milk in Whole Foods. It's delicious. And it also reminds me why I shouldn't ever drink horrible milk when such sweet plentiful versions are out there.=D If a milkbar exists, does that make drinking milk more acceptable? X__X

I am at a loss.

cheers
*[-witchstone-]*

[music : Happiness GLAY]
[mood : ~_~]
[food : MILKKKK. (T_T)]

Labels: culture, thoughts

Sunday, April 29, 2007

清明 + Flowers!

Let me attempt to type the Chinese poem and if there are wrong words... Um. Please forgive me.O.o

清明时节雨纷纷
路上行人一段魂
接问酒家何处有
牧童摇指新华村。

Wow that took some effort.O.o And I don't even think some of the words are correct.=X Oops.

So today we went to the temple for 清明节 to 扫墓.=) I now smell like joss sticks but o well. So with my brother's encouragement, I was merrily taking photos so that in future, if a sharing session is called for, I can whip out these pictures of "Singapore Culture" and share them with our clueless international counterparts.=D

So since I took all these pictures, I might as well post them for some um. Cultural sharing.^_^"

The temple! [Or rather, ONE of the temples in the giant complex.]

My mother calls this a "Qi Lin" [麒麟?] and my dad claims it is a "unicorn". O.o I don't see a horn that would associate this with a unicorn but then again, what do I know right? I am assuming it's some kind of... protection creature? =S

Scary amounts of offerings. [Although I know it's a religious/cultural thing, and that I can't change anything, I still feel very sad that we're polluting the environment.(T_T)]

The giant wax candles that you light your joss sticks from.

I have no idea what these floating candles are for but they are quite pretty. Haha.=X

The offerings + joss sticks + giant joss sticks + giant candles.^_^"

And um. I didn't take pictures of the furnace. It's too smoky anyway, so it isn't ideal for picture-taking.^_^"

So instead, at lunch and in our garden, I was merrily taking pictures of Tropical Flora! =D Yay. O decided to take advantage of the nice sunny weather.^_^

Pretty yellow flowers! I have no idea what they are called.^_^"

Hibiscus!!! My mom wanted me to wait for the new ones to open but I was afraid I wouldn't get more sunny days.xP

Ixora!

Bird of paradise! =D

My mother is pleased that someone is finally taking notice of her garden.=P

I wish we could grow tulips in our weather though. Tulips are so pretty! ^_^ And lilies! =D

Since my Neeon has OFFICIALLY passed away, I'm now thinking if I should succumb to the lure of pop culture and get an ipod. Hmm.

cheers
*[-witchstone-]*

[music : Missing Gackt]
[mood : ^_^]
[food : Char Siew Bor Lor Bao! xD]

Labels: culture, flora, photo journey, Qing Ming

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