My favourite dish in Singapore

Insomnia

I'm cursed. I've always known I was but I was deluding myself and saying,

You're alright elora, you're not cursed. You're just difficulty. No wait... Special!

Fuck yeah, I'm special! What a load of bull. I'm not special. I'm cursed. Right from the beginning.

I was on my bed today, well yesterday, it's midnight now, from 11pm to 1am. That's 2 hours of doing nothing but lie lifeless on the bed. Or seemingly lifeless.

I did do research on this fucking illness.

I found out this solution that makes this certain person sleep and I thought, at first, that it works because I yawned after trying that solution. It all went downhill from there.

Step 1: Close your eyes.

Did that. Pretty easy step.

Step 2: Empty your mind of EVERYTHING

Okayyyy, still no problem.

Step 3: Inhale and Exhale deeply and count each breathing

1...2...3...4...5...

That's it!

WTF? REALLY? I thought. FUCKING EASY TO THE MAX! I thought wrong.

I tried it out since then and it fucking lied to me. I can't sleep AT ALL. It's the same method as counting sheeps. Counting sheeps don't make you fall asleep, it enhances your mathematical counting. I should have stopped when it said "count". It was suspicious enough.

I repel math. I used to love math but hey, love for subjects comes and goes just like how school comes and goes. Cruel but it's life.

I found some general recommendation to ease my problem with sleeping and wow, they're real helpful.

Like I never tried that one. But WAIT WHAT?

UM... I know I screen-shot it but ... let's skip it.

Been there, tried that.EXACTLY MY POINT! So now I'm up. Fuck, I'm dead. The same thing will happen tomorrow and it's a vicious cycle.

SOMEONE FUCKING LIFT THE CURSE PLEASE.

Manila

I reckon, I owe a blog post because I haven't updated this in a while. Not a month yet but still.

So I went to Philippines like a month ago, I think? It was during february anyway.

I had the experience of a lifetime, or maybe I'm exaggerating on that part but what I'm going to type next isn't an exaggeration. I swear, it's the truth and that's how I experienced it. Some might say it's frightening but really, it's just how the whole country works I think. I got used to it after sometime. I dare say, I kind of like it even.

So, what i'm going to talk about is the roads.

You know how singapore's roads are.

It's wide and it looks really organized. Heck, look at the trees and flowers in the picture. It's like paradise. Well, to me.

Even if the number of cars increase, it still look organized, doesn't it?

So let's look at the traffic jams Singapore has:

Dude, that's a lot of cars! And I know, I wouldn't go calling this organize anymore but at least the people follow rules here. They're still in their lanes and whatnot.

Let's look at the traffic jams in Philippines then?

I bet, you're saying that, that's not that bad right? It still looks organized, just that the vehicles look wacky. Just because you never see them in Singapore.

Up close and it'll be like this. Okay, it doesn't look too bad but really, if you were in that traffic jam, IT WOULD BE BAD! You know why?

1. They ALL go at fast speed. Faster than those in Malaysia (when my family went on a family road trip to KL).
2. They honk nonstop. The horns in the vehicles there are overused and should be given a day-off!
3. They cut whenever they see a small space in between the cars.
4. Have someone give way to you there, is kind of ... unusual and rare.
5. Some of the lines on the road have faded (you're lucky this road has them).
6. Every driver there is a master in overtaking cars. And I mean EVERY driver.

Well, to me, all these reasons are kind of intimidating. Especially if you've been in Singapore for a while already.

this is a more specific picture of the roads there. Look at the roads, no line. And the jam seem to take forever.

What did I say about the overtaking? I seriously meant EVERY drivers. Even bus drivers are specialized in overtaking.

But actually, I quite liked it.

I could sleep long for the traffic jam. Plug in my earpieces and I'm good to go. Sleepyland.

The speed was nice. I love speed. I have this desire to go fast in life, just not too fast 'cause I don't want to die yet.

And things there, I didn't see in Singapore.

When I went to my grandma's place, we had to go through a bridge that looks like this:

Kinda scary but it opened my eye. That's a vehicle called tricycle. Nice to ride on.

If I could go back to Philippines, I would. The things are cheap there. I felt rich for the first time in my life. Probably the last but hey, I can die a little happier.

I want to go back and try the food vendors there. The one selling by the road and stuff. I want to eat the "taho" also known as beancurd. DAMN NICE! And the fishballs, I failed to try because my parent didn't let since it might be dirty and dangerous to the health. But I really want to try it.

I liked Philippines regardless though. I loved it there. Everyone is so friendly! I LOVE IT!