hi from australia again

have seen alot more places since i last posted... today my family and i spent over 30 dollars on KFC. and we only had 3 people eating! ( my sis ate something else) this incredible feat was achieved because the chicken over here is just so darn good...

it's nice to know that at least in other parts of the world, KFC still has great tasting chicken.. and no i'm not receiving any money for endorsements ok? =P

the day before we ate alot of fish fresh from the sea. the fishermen caught it that morning, put it on display almost immediately and we ate it 3 hours later! of course, some cooks grilled/deep fried the fish we chose depending on how we wanted it. this was the first time in my life i actually wanted to return to a fish market again. it helped that the stench of dead fish was no where near the stalls or the cafeteria where we ate.

along the way i have met so many pretty girls too. and i'm not referring to the caucasians. the asians here are just so darn pretty and their smiles are so big with a ful set of white teeth. there are japanese, chinese, taiwanese, koreans and thais all living in or visiting the same places i was at and they just blew me away. i used to think quite a number of singaporean girls were pretty but i am not sure i f i will ever want to look at another singaporean girl again after this trip! haha.. i guess the main difference is that the girls here smile back at you when you smile at them whereas in singapore the girls tend to give you the " erm, weirdo why are you staring at me you pervert !" look.. i'll be happy to be proven wrong of course

i saw this eurasian girl at a local city bazaar 2 days ago and i must admit i still have a crush on her... she was not just the prettiest girl i've seen after audrey hepburn( if you dun know who audrey hepburn is go google for her you dun know what you're missing). she was tending this stall and the way she greeted all her customers with a seemingly sincere and sweet exposition depsite her obvious shyness just melted me to the floor...i mentioned "seemingly" because i know appearances can be deceiving but, as far as i can tell, i'll just happily assume that there was a girl who did what she had to do with a smile on her face even when faced with something as scary as stage fright.. sigh.. i kinda regret not trying to at least go to her stall... but i guess after living in singapore for so long i'm not ready to just jump into western culture.. over here i see guys talking to girls/guys for the first time like as if they've been pals for ages. of course there are many grouchy, unapproachable caucasians and australians too. every country has their fair share of them. but the friendly ones just know how to strike a conversation without being seen as offensive. more importantly, the people who receive this invitation to a new conversation not only have no problems with it, they actually enjoy meeting someone new. i do believe that such a culture is slowly surfacing in singapore where people can see the difference between actual flirting and just a casual hello. of course in my fantasy, my "casual hello" with that eurasian girl would have led to us being together forever. but if we only became just friends or even if it turned out to be just a short moment where we enjoyed the company of a total stranger i would be happy enough too. and that's what i think is the main reason why people here are not afraid of striking a conversation or being invited to one. because they know it's just casual and whether it leads to anything is a totally different matter. =)