Went to C121 for lunch today. 

my mum ordered curry rice while dad ordered tanghun soup.

having developed a sudden craving for dim sum since 2 weeks ago, i decided to order dim sum.

the curry rice wasn't bad. (note: japanese curry is still THE best tasting curry ever, i swear. if you've never tasted it before, RUN to your nearest japanese restaurant and order it, NOW! i DEMAND YOU.)

the tanghun soup was pretty alright too.

BUT THE DIM SUM. holy cow.

erm...*@^#%!&$ please.

i was damn hungry summore and was really looking forward for an awesome lunch to make up for a damn crappy morning.

And by crappy, i mean CRAPPY with an extreme capital C. it even includes a DOM (dirty old man) touching my ass. and i wasn't even wearing anything sexy for God's sake. unless he's like one of "those people" who started the whole 'school uniforms are outrageously sexy' crap last year.

and yippee, my dim sum was sour. all of them. 

except the bamboo shoot roll but after tasting the sourness of the siew mai, i completely lost my appetite. the aftertaste was HORRIBLE!

so we returned all of them and we got our money back. HA! 

came home and stuffed myself with Harrods strawberry chocolates which was absolutely delishhh. finished off the whole box BUT not before leaving aside two for my mum :)

after that, my mum and i whisked off to our yearly tradition of visiting all 5 of our charity homes to make donations!

we usually do it a week before new year but we're like 4 months late this year. still, it's tradition! and i absolutely love it. look forward to it every year.

first stop: Boys' Home. then Salvation Army, Cheshire Home, Blind Centre and finally Home for the Aged. 

while at the Boys' Home, 

1. Realising that i have done NOTHING remotely reproductive for the past week and knowing that i will, AGAIN, not be doing any studying the coming week and

2. Deciding that we should give a little extra help,

my mum and i decided to get a donation can from the very nice lady working at the Boys' Home  to collect our own donations and return it by this Friday.

so for this entire week, i shall be going around kuching collecting donations from you, you and you! 

so watch out for me okay? i shall be holding a bright yellow donation can and a bunch of Salvation Army stickers :)

and PLEASE donate or i shall punch the living daylights out of you.

it may seem very insignificant to you but to the less fortunate, it would mean the world to them to know that there are people who still care about them and that they are not forgotten.

although the yellowness of the can is quite disturbingly....yellow. 

and the paint chips off! we left it on the car seat and there were specks of yellow all over the seats.

i suggested that we should repaint the can for them in a much nicer and (approachable...?) colour like pink or light red but my mum suggested that we should give them back 5 cans in 5 different colours. then we went on and on like giving them 7 cans so we can paint them all in rainbow colours. 

but then we realised it's too ambitious. it's not easy getting the public to donate for 'a greater good', as they say. most of the time they'll just pretend they don't see us. digging up spare change from your pockets and dropping it into the can can't be THAT hard, can it?

so anyways we'll see how it goes. 

hopefully we'll complete our mission to collect at least one full can or more!

fingers crossed, tomorrow and the next few days, here i comeeeeeee!