Oh gosh. I ate vegetarian twice in my life before and this time round was the most unfortunate time.
The first time that I ate vegetarian was when my Sunday school teacher, Xingti, challenged us to give up the luxury of eating meat by eating vegetarian for a week. I took up the challenge and survived easily by eating mixed rice with purely vegetables daily. This time round, it was not as smooth as the previous. This is my third day and I am tempted even more as compared to the first and second day.
This morning I ate fried beehoon plus fried mee plus hashbrown and cabbage. Unluckily the cabbage was cooked with ikan billis. I had to filter them out and oh please, they were really really small and tiny.
Then in the afternoon, I went to eat lunch with my church members. They chose KFC as their location. I mean who will choose KFC to eat vegetarian? So I bought only cheese fries and went over to subway to buy a meal called Veggie Delight. As the name applies, its purely vegetables in it plus sweet onion and honey mustard. The process of eating with them was quite terrible. I saw 10 fried chickens infront of me and literally the aroma made my sense confused. For a moment, I heard the "fried" fried chicken calling out to me, "Oh Raymond, I am waiting for you..."
As for dinner, my god family bought crabs for dinner. Crabs are my favourite. But sadly I cannot eat. I have 2 more days to hang on. Tomorrow will be worst than these 3 days as I might have to literally go into starvation since the meal that my company provides are mostly meat. Nonetheless, "man do not live by bread alone." My Father shall provide.
On MRT today, I saw this really cute little girl, always full with joy, smiling around. By looking at her, no matter how sad you are, you just cannot stop yourself from smiling along with her. This shows how powerful smiles are. Anyway that is not the main story. She was so fascinated with handphone that she went and took a Bangladesh's handphone and started playing around with it. The moment she got the handphone, she was so happy that she started dancing and jumping around. It was really a great sight.
Oh ya before I end. After the combined church retreat, I fell in love with table tennis and started playing. Within this week I invented some "ultimate skills" adapted from Prince of Tennis.
The first ultimate is called Higuma Otoshi. The skill can only be used when the ball is off the table. When it is off, you will swing your bat as if you were drawing out a samurai sword. This will cause lots of side spin on the ball. The ball will fly high up and when it bounces on the table, it will bounce backwards from the initial motion, thus forcing the opponent to miss the smash. I managed to do this shot a few times and I am still practicing. The down side of this skill is that if there isn't enough spin, the opponent's success rate of smashing will be high.
The second ultimate is called the Zero Shiki Serve. The skill is used during service as the terms implied. The ball is sliced about 90 degrees, thus causing alot of backspin. The motion is such that the ball will first hit and leave your play area and to the opponent's. However when it hit the opponent's play area, the ball will somewhat spin on the spot (lag-time in bouncing) and then backwards from the initial motion. I did do this a few times but failed miserably many times. This skill requires really lots of spin and it can in fact put alot of pressure on your shoulder.
The third ultimate is called the Zero Shiki Drop Shot. The skill is used during a return ball. Quite similar to Zero Shiki Serve, the ball will go quite high up and hit the net. Once it hit the net, it will flow along with the net, thus resulting in a no-bounce return. However, the down side is that, it is not easy to hit the net always. I've only been able to do it once.
The last ultimate is called the Twist Smash. Likewise, in this skill, lots of slicing is required. This skill is used during a return ball. The ball will be returned to the opponent's court. However, instead of the ball moving forward in the direction of the force, the ball will bounce and change direction sharply. Thus, causing lots of problems for the opponent to return the ball. I did this quite a number of times.
Lol. I am kind of crazy, ain't I? My friends said I was too crazy till this shots really appeared to them. Its kind of fun to derive all these.
