No more eating competitions for me
Thursday, February 17, 2005
To clear the air again, I would like to emphasize that the 'hot date' was my audit textbook. Had to make sure this point was put across in case more members of the Raffles and TCHS/NJC alumni start infering things again.
Also, to clear the air for pingpong, lest some koalas start taking my words literally again...She did not make choc chip cookies! She made CHEESESTICKS.
Its been an event-filled 2 days in school. NBS week has gone on for the past 3 days. For those who don't know what this is, NBS = Nanyang Business School, and NBS week is a week of free food, games, prizes and stuff. Yesterday, ryan and I decided to take part in the eating competition. We had 2 reasons for joining this competition: 1) To have our lunch, 2) to get the consolation prize of $28 (the winner gets $88 while the rest get $28). We really didn't intend on competing with the other contestants on finishing first though, so naturally we didn't think the food will be a problem...but that wasn't the case.
The food had to be eaten in this order...
1) 1 red bean potong ice cream
2) jollibean tau huay + 1 you char kway
3) 1 mee goreng
4) 1 big slice of watermelon
5) 1 gas drink
6) 1 chicken rice
7) 2 hard boiled eggs
8) 1 mango ice dessert
At first glance, these look like a piece of cake. However, the food were strategically arranged such that it became a nightmare. AND, there was a silent killer inside too!
My pre-eating competition prep involved not eating anything since I woke in the morning, bar 1 barley drink. I also made sure I had maximum space in my stomach and intestines for the food that awaited me, so I went to download the previous night's dinner in the toilet first.
So as the emcee said go, I peeled off the wrapper of my potong and took a bite. At that instant, the emcee announced that one of the contestants (lets call him George) had finished his potong!! I turned to look and he had shoved the whole potong into his mouth! Horrified, but not bothered, and ryan and I jus nibbled our potong bit by bit. There was this other contestant beside George who was also bent on winning the $88. (we shall call him Washington) Within minutes, George and Washington had both gobbled down their tau huay while ryan and I continued to lick our potong. The emcee tried to encourage us, reminding us that it was a competition, but we bo hiew him. Then, horror #1 happened. George poured some NEW water into his mee goreng to make it less dry. Washington saw and followed suit. As gross as it might sound, it was an innovative way to turn their dry mee goreng to mee soto.
Finally, I finished my potong and moved on to the tau huay and you char kuay. The YCK (not Yio Chu Kang) was mega elastic. Felt like I was biting on a tyre, and wearing braces certainly did not help much in chewing it. I resorted to dunking pieces of YCK into the tau huay to soften it, but the tau huay syrup was way too sweet man. I have to commend Washington on finishing his tau huay in 10 secs. He jus gulped down the whole thing. Amazing. Ryan and I continued to eat and take pictures while George and Washington moved on to their watermelon and gas drink. By now you should realise how deadly the arrangement of the food can be. First an ice cold potong. Perfect to spoil your appetite. Then extra sweet tau huay justs makes you lose all your appetite altogther. Then the mee goreng, ultra dry and hard to swallow. Then later the gas drink to try to induce you to burp and puke...etc etc.
Ok so ryan and I finally move on to our mee goreng. This was the silent killer I was talking about. The first bite we took, ryan immediately called for water. It was MEGA spicy. And they even added a lump of sambal chilli by the side. We told Xiaomin that it was too spicy, but she said she tried it before she bought it and she thought it was fine. She must eat chilli padi as a snack man. The mee goreng was dry and jerlat, and the spiciness made it even harder to swallow. Was breaking out in sweat as I ate it. In the meantime, George and Washington were neck to neck at their chicken rice. Then horror #2 happened. George poured NEW water into his chicken rice. Washington followed suit, but overdid it and emptied the whole bottle of water into the box. Even chicken porridge wouldn't be so watery. Looked really inedible to me, but Washington kept stuffing the rice into his mouth even though he had not chewed what he put in his mouth. The worst part was the water was FLOWING out of his stuffed mouth back into the chicken rice/porridge. Gross to the max.
Anyway, time was up and Washington won with his last gasp stuffing, while ryan and I were still stuck at mee goreng. We were 4th and 5th out of 6 contestants btw. Was quite a torture eating the mee goreng, but we were rewarded with our $28 ang pao. After that, my stomach felt like crap, and I laosaied. Regret joining that game man...should have just stuck to the other easier games.
Getting a little too busy to write with the FYP deadline coming up, but thanks to Hadi, Hongying and Joanna for expressing their support for my blog...so touched!
Back to work for now...crap later...
Riddle
Who is Hua2 Sheng4 Dun4, an ex-American president?
A) Dick Cheney
B) Vivien Balakrisnan
C) Isaac Newton
D) I don't know
If you were Pingpong, what would your answer be?
Answer: A, C and D
If you were Kailin, what would your answer be?
Answer: Vivien Balakrisnan is who ah?
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