Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Inevitable

Really, it wasn't a question IF but rather WHEN we would get the runs from the food here. This city is really clean but different cultures just treat hygenics differently. Their stomachs can take more crap as well probably :)
It all happend over Chinese New Year, which was celebrated last weekend, Monday, and Tuesday. It's kind of like Christmas in Hollland because it's all about decorations, treats, sweets, lots of special CNY food, and family reunions. Similarly, people take the whole week off, so it was very quiet in the metro this morning (meaning, I did not have at least 3 bodies squished against mine, of course I still had to stand. It's only 3 stops so I am not complaining.) Anyway, I did not have to work on Monday and Tuesday. So on Monday, we went to play golf (cloudy, so bearable). After a not-too-great round of 9 holes (score 43, on Saterday I had 41..), we went to the world famous botanic garden right next to the golf course. After some walking around, enjoying the scenery, not really caring about the particular flowers, we decided to head to the food court. Only one place was open, Indian food (makes sense, the chinese are at home celebrating). I love Indian food! We both got the banana leaf mix or something which was absolutely great. Problem is that the food had been sitting in their half-heated containers all day.
To make a long story short, we both woke up around 4am...

But I feel better now!

ps. We watch the Band of Brothers mini-serie. Great stuff, I recommend it. Especially if you like war stories (based on true stories).

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