Another Working Day

After all the excitement yesterday, today felt much more monotonous. The only exciting thing that happened was probably the sudden "thunderstorm" during data excavation. Finally managed to eat the guo tie that K had been recommending. Wasn't too bad and the fried one definitely tastes better than the steamed one. The steamed one tastes like the one at the Beijing Fengwei stall in Bizad canteen. The Sun La Soep was also ok, except that it was kinda diluted. Perhaps I'm more used to the starchy kind. Funny how I keep calling "suan la tang" Sun La Soep. Guess the first time I ordered that for myself was in Rotterdam during winter, and boy, I was ordering Chinese takeout for two whole weeks, and Sun La Soep was my staple. Was very sick at that time with a nasty cough - the kind with tons of phlegms and perpetually itching throat, coughing till your face turns purple. And since the doctor only opened his clinic for "foreigners" (i.e. those who are not on medical insurance or welfare in Holland) for 15 minutes on selected days, and it's always at 7.45am before his clinic officially opens for the rest, I gave up the thought of seeing a doc. Don't know how professional these docs are anyway. So I checked on the Internet and found a natural Chinese remedy for colds that sounded the most palatable and that was Sun La Soep! I still remember, it costs 3,50 euros per bowl (the portion is something like that of a plastic container used to contain fishball noodles when you buy them from the hawker centre). And it worked! I recovered the next day. So now, whenever I drink Sun La Soep, I always remember how it cured me when I was sick and alone in wintry Rotterdam.

Tonight, I'm just surfing aimlessly, having finished all the admin stuff that I have to do, thinking about how I should steer my life in a direction that God wants me to be. So troubled thinking of the possibilities for my future, and what I should be doing. Academia, consulting, business, missionary? Guess I'll just have to let God pave the way for me.