Bak Kwa

its funny when u go all e way down somewhere to meet someone to get something..esp something as innocuous as Bak Kwa or barbequed sweet meat for e Chinese New Year dats comin up at e end o' e week..

dats wat i had to do today, collectin an order frm a fren who was sellin Bak Kwa...all e way down at the National University of Singapore...i was alwaez apprehensive of going to schs i did not belong to n places where i felt i did not belong..

but i did hav a good time talking to frens who were studyin there...dats e 2nd reason i went down..it must hav seemed strange to frens like Daniel who saw mi prayin with Eugene, Kumu n e rest in public at a small corner of e canteen..but dats how we got thru our JC n A'-level days...only with God n each other for company..

honestly, if you've never been a christian studyin in a public, government sch environment, u won't noe how alone it can feel..esp when pple who dun noe better start to poke fun at u for bein a christian...prob e closest experience like it would hav to b a Jew of the Diaspora..but i sidetrack too much..

it was a good experience meetin frens in e context of an 'education' environment..it makes us look again like we're young, naive n helpless...which we just might pass off as bein if u dun count 2 years 4 months doin hard military trainin in which we've (collectively) fired just about every infantry weapon there is in the arsenal of e SAF...from grenades n M16s to landmines (for mi) n anti-tank weapons dat burn at over 5000 degrees celsius when they hit u..

well, e moral of e story prob is dat one should collect Bak Kwa on a day when u're not rushin, esp when its from NUS students..since its a good excuse to meet up..oh and Kian, thanks for e surprise guest who came with e Bak Kwa delivery..sweet real sweet..e meat i mean..