stayed awake since i got home and only went to sleep at around 2pm this afternoon. got up at 11pm and asked if there was any dinner left. got a bowl of beef stew and a large orange and very sleepy again. since setting foot on singapore i've eaten: 1 bowl of lor mee, 1/2 prata (with egg), a few bites of dad’s beehoon, several mouthfuls of mom's chai tao kueh (black), 1 cup of teh-o, 1/2 bowl of katong laksa, one huge glass of dau huey chwee, 1 mi jiang kueh, crispy, multiple packs of wasabe covered snacks, 1 cup of mo li hua cha, 3 spoonfuls of dad’s beef stew (at lunch time), 2 oranges, 2 xiang pears, 1/4 of french loaf, 1 bowl of beef stew, as dinner, and i'm going to have another pear. supposed to go to si ma lu with mother tomorrow to stop in at the temple and to buy grandmother bird's nest and dried mushrooms i hope i can wake up. *rub eyes* reading herman wouk's city boy (the adventures of herbie bookbinder) again. very amused.
my mother is reading kafka. she read about him in some review or paper and then went to the library to take out a chinese translation of his selected works. i wish she wouldn't, because i know nothing about kafka, and she likes to ask me questions about western authors, so very lau kui. when i came out of their room she was reading his "letter to my father" aloud to my dad. hmm.