Trip
[Edit] I forgot to add, does Singapore make coconut ice cream? Because the one in the Japanese restaurant in Macau IS THE BEST ICE CREAM I’VE EVER TASTED. I usually hate coconut but this ice cream is the bomb man, plus, it came in a coconut husk! It was a whopping SGD16.00 for half a small coconut though, but shit that shit tasted good. I need an ice cream maker, some coconuts and that damn recipe.
Back from Macau, don’t really feel like describing the entire 5 days there but there was a rather annoying father who sat behind us on the plane to Macau and unfortunately sat in front of us on the return flight. It’s totally impossible not to be surrounded by any kids in the airport or the airplane during this time of year, and most of the time they’re preoccupied by a PSP. My 8 year old (or 9? Whatever) cousin in Malaysia, who unfortunately and factually bears an uncanny resemblance to William Hung, is also currently suffering from this new generation distraction. I don’t see the point in going on a holiday, the purpose of which is to experience a different environment, when you’re still going to be immersed in a virtual reality anyway. How can you explore a new place and culture when you’re busy producing purple flames out of Iori Yagami’s hands (Hmm I think I miss KOF)? Sheesh, there really is an appropriate time and a bad time to do these things.
Anyway, the point is that annoying father. It was totally bad luck to bump into them 4 times throughout the trip (In the airplane, the queue at the immigration point, a Japanese restaurant and the return flight). I don’t really know how to explain how annoying he was, but I guess it was just that really irritating parenting style. He told his child repeatedly that sitting at the window seat was not allowed for children in a bid to pacify her whining, and tossed her to the maid whenever she annoyed him. I’m no parenting expert, but surely lying isn’t one of the key principles to good parenting. I guess it was his overbearing demeanor too. Or maybe the annoyance just stems from my own personal prejudice against the way he spoke, if he said “Gerr” instead of “Girl” one more time I would’ve exploded. And the option of naming any of my possible offspring ‘Charlene’ is now definitely out of the question as well (he must’ve said his daughter’s name a million times).
Anyway, the trip constituted of fantastic food (coming from an anti-food person), a really nice and quiet and deserted place (Macau is so quiet and relaxing!), great weather, and a really horrid day in Zhuhai (a city right next to Macau and is possibly one of the worst cities in China that I’ve visited). Yup, but despite that good weather, I think I prefer smoke-free Singapore more (they can’t stop smoking over there! The probability of getting lung cancer from smoking and second-hand smoking must be insanely high there).