11 Dec, Monday - Mahjong Session at Ian’s place and Wings!

Today was going to be a fun day. Going to have a mahjong session at Ian’s place. I brought whatever food our fridge had as we couldn’t finish them. Becky and I has been eating out often.

Oh.. I always wanted to visit the place that Ian was staying. He was staying with 3 other international exchange students in the cluster residences. I applied for it at the beginning of the semester, the idea was for the Singaporean students to stay together. However, it wasn’t offered to us as we were not staying for a year and it was probably not the school policy to put the same country’s students together.

Anyway, Jo, Cheryl and I were supposed to meet Ian at the bus stop at 11.30am. As I was slightly early, I decided to go to Clearihue building to collect my Japanese composition paper and that was when I met Jingting. She decided to go to Chicago at the last minute. And she accompanied me to the building and that was where I met Cheryl and Jo. I collected my paper – marks wasn’t that fantastic, too many repetitive words commented by the teacher. Anyway, we were late to meet Ian. Hehe..

It is really fun to stay at a cluster!!!! There are 2 fridges, 2 bathrooms and it was really spacious. Ian said that there were supposed to be more beer bottles. Apparently the ang mohs who stayed with him, drank lots and lots of beer. We started to play mahjong and Becky joined us later after taking lots of photos around the school campus.

I guess Ian couldn’t stand us for playing chicken, gai hu (Cantonese – chicken hu). But he was nice, instead he offered his place to becky and cooked whatever I brought to his place. Yummy Cooking! I brought pork, carrots, onions, century egg, salted egg, Campbell soup and instant noodles. We had only fried instant noodles and the onion pork. The rest was donated to him. Anyway, Ian really is a marvelous cook! All of us like his dishes! His girlfriend is so lucky, Ian knows how to cook, not flirtatious, fun to be person. Haha.. I shouldn’t be advertising him because he has a big head. Haha..

I found this mahjong session so fun. I like playing mahjong, only get to do it with my JC clique. Hope we can do it more often because it is really so fun fun fun!!! After that, we all had to leave. That was the last time I saw Kelly and Ian. Kelly visited us halfway the game, she was going to Seattle later in the afternoon with Frany and the other Taiwanese Kelly. I felt slightly sad that I won’t been seeing these friends as often as the exchange. These people did make a difference in my life, that’s what made the whole exchange experience so meaningful and fun. Anyway, Ian said that we will always meet again since HK is so near to Singapore.

It was drizzling and Becky, Jo and I made our way to Martin’s place. Cheryl had to meet her buddy for some outing. So, the three of us went to the restaurant for the 10 cents wing. Each small chicken wing cost 10 cents. Pretty cheap eh. However, the catch was to buy a drink. Apparently, when they first started this gimmick, many people just bought the wings and nothing else. Anyway, the drink was pretty reasonable, an alcoholic cocktail costs $5.50. I had Silver cloud. The drink had crème and almond and I-forgot-what alcohol, not vodka, not tequila. I think it was rum. It tasted pretty good with the crème, though I still do not like the almond taste. The other drinks by Jo and Becky were colourful too.

We had 4 flavours of chicken wings, salt and pepper, thai, bbq and hot. I like the salt and pepper the best as it retained the flavour of the chicken wings. We did a pretty disgusting job to take away chicken wings for Cheryl.(For my own reference, think NDP poncho and lots of tissue paper.) Man.. She really owned us. Lol.
We got back home and it became a horrendous time to pack my luggage. In the end, I didn’t really pack much. I had an idea of what to bring and put in my luggage but it would be better to pack everything at the last minute as I will know what to bring and put in each luggage.