BACK BACK!

I have spent 5 days in Kuching, and that is more than enough! We had Sunny Hill almost everyday! Twice a day at times. There was a tub of ice cream in the freezer and me and Nat had that too. Oh my gosh! Ice cream overload! My craving for Sunny Hill (or any ice cream, for that matter) is probably satiated. But you never know, do you?

So anyway, it was DS craziness over there! Nat, Sharon and Ryan each had one DS for themselves (poor Tim, I know!). And Keith was there and he had one too. We played Pictomage (or whatever you call it) together. It's really fun! It's like pictionary without the board. We also played Mario Party. It's kind of annoying. Because it's really slow. You take turns, it's like a board game. But it was sort of okay because you get a mini game after every round and that's fun. Best part of the game.

There was one night me, Nat and Tim (Sharon went to bed) played Mario Party and Pictomage. Oh my gosh. We slept around 4am! FOUR AM! Talk about trying to get to bed earlier after exams. We watched movies late too on other nights. But 4am that night was the latest time we got to bed while I was there. Friday, yesterday, the last day I was there, Nat had violin lessons (whoa!) and wanted to get up at 7.30am. We slept at, I don't know, 1am? 2am? But I asked her to wake me up too. It's just a thing we do, waking the other up if you get up first. I was seriously fighting sleep the WHOLE DAY! My flight back home was 10.30pm at night. I was really sleepy and I was counting the hours when I could get on the plane to sleep. I didn't want to nap because it was my last day there. We went to Iglool on my last day. It was yum! When I got to the plane I didn't sleep though, I didn't want to be groggy when I got up because it's a horrible feeling, fighting off sleep after a nap that wasn't long enough.

There was this game that is really awesome on the DS. It's called Elite Beat Agents (I think), EBA for short. And it's really, really fun. Sort of like the dancing machine. But for some reason it just couldn't connect to another DS. We took turns playing it and trying to get an O, not an X for each round, or just trying to survive. The drawings and the stories are really good. It was just really an awesome game.

I had a great time there, and certainly had too much to eat (!!!!!!!!!). There were some best parts I really enjoyed. One afternoon it was windy and dark clouds were in the sky, it was going to rain and Nat just opened the ice cream tub to eat (Magnolia ice cream, Vanilla. Really, really nice!). So I sat on the swing outside with my book and a bowl of excellent ice cream and just enjoyed the cool weather and my book AND the ice cream. But it only lasted about 5 minutes because the rain got heavier and the wind was blowing stronger. I was getting wet. So I went inside and after my ice cream, we had a round of Pictomage (I seriously am not sure about the name). Another afternoon I was reading outside on the swing because the weather was cool but not raining, but my eyes got tired (the print was quite small) and I called Nat out and we played EBA together. We were at a really hard song. 8 stars I think. Really fun! Keith enjoyed watching us play too.

On my last night, we went out to dinner at Peter's Special (normal Chinese food). The food was ok. Nothing really special. Uncle Chai had to entertain some friends from Perth. So we ate and noodles was the 2nd last dish, I think. It was the only thing Keith and Ryan really ate. So Keith was eating the noodles and NaiNai was sitting next to him. Keith is really funny, he's very shy when you ask him a question and answers you very softly. So NaiNai asked him whether he wanted anymore noodles. Then he was just eating and smiling. NaiNai asked him again and he didn't answer, then she asked him if he was full. "Ni bao ma?" He nodded yes. Then NaiNai said, "Jiang ni hai yao bu yao mimi?" He thought about it, then he nodded yes. It was really funny. Because he was sort of half smiling, dimples showing. And eating his noodles, and nodding. So ironic! Then after a while he walked over to my side and told me he finished eating four plates of noodles. Then I said, "Wow! So you like the noodles? Are you full? Look at your stomach! It's so big!" (in Mandarin of course). So then I asked him, "Do you want your stomach to be as big as your dad's stomach?" Then he said very softly, smiling (dimples!!), "Yao!"

Haha! Tell that to Uncle Nick!

So yup. Hope that all the Ng children will study hard. They are kind of lazy people, lazy but smart. So hope that they will buck up after the holidays. Their future is in their own hands. But I think t hey are still young and still unaware of how important studies are (not Tim though, he should know. But sort of doesn't know yet. It hasn't hit him I guess). It's just that no matter how you go around it, no matter how smart you are, if it doesn't show on your transcript, it doesn't count. That's just the fact of life now in this society. So I hope they will work harder after the holidays. Let them relax and have fun now, and when the holidays end, let it be a new beginning. It's going to be my new beginning. Haha.

So anyway. I am sleep deprived, but happy. Wheee! I love Kuching! And Sunny Hill, and Iglool, and everyone there! =D Ryan and Keith, I hope you like your Ben 10 stickers! (Keith told the shopkeeper not to roll his sticker to put into the plastic bag. If not it will be bent! O.o)