Last week was a week of.......... trying new things!

I went to ecoparadise with my mother last friday. It's near the swimming complex and has a Japanese feel to it. Really calming and peaceful ambience. We went there for the hot bed therapy. It's a detox place... so we were given this antioxidant drink that tasted like water and I was sceptical (still am). But before the antioxidant water, we went to change into their outfit. A baggy looking pyjamas that felt like towels. It was a bit scary to see females perspiring all over with red faces. So after drinking, we went into this 50 degree Celsius room that had calming jap music playing in the background. The floor was very very hot. Stepping on the tiles was terribly hot for someone like me who is not really used to bathing in warm water. We laid the towel down and lied on top of it for about 40mins. ( I kept looking at the clock on the wall though, counting.. and waitinf for time to fly past). It was not as bad as you imagine lah...it's bearable. After which, we drank pineapple juice from small soju glasses that tasted a bit like alcohol- strong and a bit bitter (I'm not a fan of pineapples).

Overall, it was a great experience :)

The unmentioned weekdays was otherwise spent watching taiwanese and korean dramas. I watched Romantic Princess-yes, the one with Wu Zhun- he's a bit overrated? Oops...
and I watched Hello! Miss... the korean drama that competed with my favourite Witch Amusement for viewership last year. Both are good in their own way...just that witch amusement gives me a very lasting impression, it touches my soul and makes me yearn for..... Ok, enough of he drama! It's time to make plans for exercising!

In conclusion, I still love Korean dramas. I think it is something different and of course I can catch some of the vocab- now that I've learnt a little bit of Korean... My friend once told me that Korean dramas are more of a fantasy, it dosen't happen in real life- which is quite true. Maybe that's the reason I like it. It's not so real unlike the Taiwanese dramas (that has some kind of flavour which you can feel with it). Very hard to describe lah... It's like watching another boring channel 8 show as compared to a korean drama that knows how to mess with the viewers' feelings.

On another note, the little nyonya on channel 8, 9pm really opens me up to my own culture. I remamber doing a project about the peranakans when I was in primary school and I had a lot of help back then- my grandmother, aunt, counsin and my mother etc etc. I think I did a superficial job as compared to this show.. really, all I did was to search for books in the library, pictures, took some photographs from my grandmother's home- the beaded slippers, the krosang and kebaya. To be able to watch what practising the culture was really like is fantastic. To quote my mother...." if my mama were still alive, she would have lots to comment about"....

On a side note... I'm thinking of.... skipping the camp for violin beginners :(

OUT!
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