Sunday, April 16, 2006
WET WET WET!!!
Today certainly was a splashing good time... It's the Burmese and Thai New Year today (not to mention Easter Sunday, Tamil new Year and Sikh New Year a couple of days ago), the traditional puo1 shui3 jie2 (literally translated means throw water festival). And i got drenched while at work....
Lucky Plaza was fairly quiet. But the crowd at Peninsula was in a very festive mood... with shows at the atrium, free food for all (at nearly every shop! free noodles and dessert.. queues were snaking everywhere) level after level was packed to the brim! u really had to jiggle through. Looks like almost the whole Burmese population in SG was there!
Went to my distributors shop and started to help out. And they started splashing me!! People whom I dun even know too! Didn't help that I was dressed in a yellow polo... prime target. And being female made it even more so... I tried to run in the initial few times but then realized that it was very rude. After all the splashing was meant to take away the bad stuff of old... so.. darn... just get splashed lor... sigh. But it was in the name of good fun. And I am very thankful that the water they used was Ice Mountain bottled water! Phew, not some long kang zui. Half the time I was pretty worried that they were going to drizzle the dessert down my back!
My distributor was giving away free Burmese dessert. Some sort of milky concoction of ice, green jelly (ala the kind in chendol) and sago with pieces of bread in it. To put it more nicely... the way they made it, it AVA were here... I'm pretty sure they will get fined... ha ha.. imagine... the plastic containers with rollers? They were using that to mix up the concoction... I don't even want to imagine what the plastic container was used for in the first place... when they offered me, I declined politely saying that I haven't had lunch yet (which was the truth)
And to make it even worse... it rained heavily in the evening. It really poured. Talk about "Pour" shui3 jie2. Needless to say Little India was a washout and i got more drenched...
Sigh... talk about a wet sunday... AH CHOO!!!!!
Lucky Plaza was fairly quiet. But the crowd at Peninsula was in a very festive mood... with shows at the atrium, free food for all (at nearly every shop! free noodles and dessert.. queues were snaking everywhere) level after level was packed to the brim! u really had to jiggle through. Looks like almost the whole Burmese population in SG was there!
Went to my distributors shop and started to help out. And they started splashing me!! People whom I dun even know too! Didn't help that I was dressed in a yellow polo... prime target. And being female made it even more so... I tried to run in the initial few times but then realized that it was very rude. After all the splashing was meant to take away the bad stuff of old... so.. darn... just get splashed lor... sigh. But it was in the name of good fun. And I am very thankful that the water they used was Ice Mountain bottled water! Phew, not some long kang zui. Half the time I was pretty worried that they were going to drizzle the dessert down my back!
My distributor was giving away free Burmese dessert. Some sort of milky concoction of ice, green jelly (ala the kind in chendol) and sago with pieces of bread in it. To put it more nicely... the way they made it, it AVA were here... I'm pretty sure they will get fined... ha ha.. imagine... the plastic containers with rollers? They were using that to mix up the concoction... I don't even want to imagine what the plastic container was used for in the first place... when they offered me, I declined politely saying that I haven't had lunch yet (which was the truth)
And to make it even worse... it rained heavily in the evening. It really poured. Talk about "Pour" shui3 jie2. Needless to say Little India was a washout and i got more drenched...
Sigh... talk about a wet sunday... AH CHOO!!!!!
# posted by Xallista @ 11:38 PM 
