Excuse me, are you willing to open the door if there's an emergency?

So I'm back in hot and humid Singapore, a really big contrast from the cold and dry Guangzhou. Heh. I'm still trying to adapt to the weather here man. My room feels like an oven now even with the air con at the lowest now. Bleah.

The past 11 days had certainly being a fun experience. In fact, I'm starting to miss it already. Well, not really on the place, but more on the memories during this period. I will certainly miss eating dinner everyday with my whole family present, the experience as a whole family again, going crazy with my siblings (Ice cream competition in 5 degrees temperature,daring each other to eat wierd stuff like smelly tofu, "sabo-ing" each other when eating the sichuan spicy steamboat, competing to see who can survive longest wearing only a layer of cotton out of the house etc.), grocery shopping cum exploring with my mum...Sigh. When was the last time my family was ever so close together? And I miss my dad so much.

Guangzhou in general does leave me with some great impressions. What I really like is the existance of community bonding and awareness that is found everywhere. For example, it's so natural for the people there to automatically give up their seats to the needy, sometimes more than one passenger will offer thier seats to an old woman, especially students. The streets and pavements are also very community friendly too, with special raised markings for the blind to find their way around, and everyone you approached for directions will give it to you immediately. The number of smokers there is also not as common as in other places where I had visited, which is a relief for my nose. Oh, and the television is wonderful too, particularly to my sister, the TV addict. Heh. There are over forty plus channels to choose from so you can really sit at home and stare at the screen the whole day (which is what my sister did...lolx).

The flight back was kinda eventful in a way, despite it being an over night flight (which I hate). My sister and I had chosen to sit at the emergency door area (for more leg space you know) and we were asked if we were willing to open the door in an emergency. Haha. And I just had to stone for a while before asking the most stupid thing "You mean there WILL be one?" Slap me please. I think I would had been chased out of my seat if my sister did not start laughing before agreeing. Still, it was pretty entertaining to see several passengers hesitating and moving away when they were asked that question. Funny. I would have thought that it will be the safest option to sit beside the emergency door because you will be the first to escape if anything happens right? I guess people just dont like responsiblity.

And it just had to rain heavily just as the plane was starting to descend for landing. Freaky experience, because the pilot's voice sounded really sleepy and the turbulence was quite bad (you know those stomach lurching ones) . Thank goodness we landed in the end. But it was still raining so we had to wait a long time before umbrellas were brought up so that we could move on (budget terminal you see, which I had to agree, is seriously really running on a really tight budget indeed.)

Got a pleasant surprise after touch down too, while waiting to collect my luggage. Sent an sms to Jia Wei out of boredom, and she replied almost instantly to say that she was at the terminal waiting for her flight, which was where I was too, though at the arrival hall. Heh. What coincidence. XD

Well, I guess that's all for now. Had a great holiday indeed.=)

-Oh yeah, brought back alot of duck tongues,feet and dunno what funny parts,smelly tofu and other weird foodstuff back home. Anyone game to try? Haha. -