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After having reduced my expectations to spend my birthday in Singapore as I didn’t get back my passport until yesterday, I decided to dedicate the week-end to shopping malls. If compared with Sunday, I must say that Saturday was actually pretty boring.
I left with 6 other kids (Miki, Thom, Becky, Priya, Janka, and Remi), basically al british and hungarian people, heading to the Sunway Mall. This atrocity of a construction is basically an egyptian-themed mall, so that there’s actually a giant pyramid and sphinx. Nevertheless, I must say that all asian malls are places incredibly pleasant and enjoyable. The plan was to have lunch, ice-skate, and then head over to the cinema. However, after having eaten way too much local pizza and some quick shopping, we abandoned the idea of ice-skating, mainly because the rink was heavily overcrowded. However, we didn’t renounce to the movie theatre. Here’s something that I really hate about Italy: dubbing. For 20 years of my life I had to watch movies always with the same voices (you can easily notice that the voices are always the same), mainly because the average Italian either doesn’t know English, or it’s way too lazy to read the subtitles to hear the original voice of the movie. Movie aside, even the way back home was pretty epic. After having split in two different taxi, we headed towards the highway. Shortly after our driver got a nail on the road and there: flat tire. I do not know if I’m a magnet for these sorts of events, but the whole situation was pretty surreal. Remi, the Hungarian guy, immediately helped the poor indian driver, while I decided to be the “supervisor” of the whole process. This is my last Malaysian adventure for 2014. In just about one hour I will leave for Myanmar, the land of temples and Buddhism. It’s the first time I’m taking a trip like this, and I must admit that I’m a bit nervous about it, but I hope it will become a great adventure with lots, lots of tails to write about.
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Unfortunately in these last few weeks my life has been pretty boring, I believe there’s nothing really exciting to point out; between classes and writing of papers for my Malaysian economy module, I continue my everyday adventure by meeting new amazing people and realizing how ignorant we western folks are about everything ranging East of the Mediterranean Sea.
The most unexpected thing of the week maybe is having discovered a new neighbour. This friendly buddy shows up every night right in front of the stairs facing my bedroom. Well, it’s a toad. As big as a tennis ball, I decided to name him Fred. The funniest thing about Fred is that he looks like a statuette. Yup, by hunting all night any kind of insect, he stays still, he doesn’t ever get scared from anything/anyone: to have him show off a couple lazy jumps you actually need to bother and touch him. Toads aside, today is Friday, my new day dedicated for going to Tesco shopping. As a premise you should know that in about a week I should leave for a 10 days trip to Myanmar (Burma, Myăma, just call it as you prefer). Dear grandma, don’t you worry, it’s a safe country, I’m gonna have tons of fun and I’m gonna show you all the pictures when I get back home, I promise. Well, of course it’s a kind of trip that actually requires some preparation and planning, and so my weekly shopping at Tesco today was dedicated actually to this. Problems? Well just one: find the probiotics to take with me “just in case”. After a quick summit with my Italian-british friend Michela, and my Hungarian friend Janka, we tried to interact with the local lady in charge. Not really a successful conversation: it took us 10-15 minutes, a lot of discussion and various refusals to buy anti-diarrheal, anti-colic spasms and gastric protector before she could understand what I was looking for. So, with a bit of manners of who’s in a rush (but always very kind and gentle, kindness is never missing over here) she went in the middle of the steroids section of the shop and next to those giant black vases full of colourful crystals, she pulled out those wicked “Probiotics”. Well at least now I know what’s their name in English. |