i am me

it's 12.40am. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZHAO KANG AND KUNG FU HSU! you've reached 22 years. another good 60 years to go. FOR SURE! hahaha...just got back, well...not really just got back, more like got back about an hour ago from a steamboat birthday dinner at zhao's place. ate till wanna vomit. hahaha...means there was a lot of food. and of all things, we had porridge. yeah. porridge. apparently they wanted to try to make the steamboat porridge like this restaurant is doing in sri petaling. unfortunately, the porridge was cooked in a slow cooker and hence it's name. it cooked very slowly. so we had white, plain, tasteless, odourless porridge with soya sauce, onion oil and pepper. of course when all the food was cooked we just added it all in. so all in all, it was good.

am feeling extremely tired and was complaining about my aching feet when i left the lab when i turned on the tv and lo and behold, there was a documentary on chinese feet binding. right. irony to bite me in the butt. here i am complaining how my BIG feet were aching and there on the tv are some 80+ year old women who had to go through the arduous torture of binding their feet when they were little children. all for the sake of beauty. but to be totally honest, there isn't any beauty at all in it. it looks really ugly and deformed. the final look is a foot which has only one pointed toe. the rest are all cruelly and painfully curled under the foot and has basically been welded together through years of binding. it looks horrible. trust me. won't post pictures cause it'll be too gory and graphic. yuck. i'm here shuddering at the very thought of it. of course after the show i was extremely grateful for my huge feet.

imagine being 5 years old and having your feet bound. no running around. no playing with friends. heck, not even be able to walk properly without screaming out in pain. these old women literally totter now. they can't run and they can't walk fast. they need a walking stick just to get by. and imagine it being thought to be a symbol of beauty. do you know that they only wash their feet once ever 5-6 days? imagine the stench and all the dried up skin. urgh!! gruesome!

ok ok...change topic. on another note. sarah won the 24 challenge. first time being held in malaysia and she and ven gee (her cousin) won! woohoo...congratulations sarah. and i just wanna say, I WAS ROOTING FOR YOU ALL THE WAY!!

congrats again girl. and you looked gorgeous in your photos. and su-ann cut her hair super short. go ask her to show you the pic. can't simply post up. later she complain the pic not nice. should have seen her just now. when wanna take pic had to find correct spot to show off her new hair. hahahah...