Peaceful Weekend

This weekend is so peaceful without disturbance from external sources that I am really enjoying in it:)

Our hostel has been building a new mini-garden this week, just outside the canteen, a position every outsider can see if he happens to drive on the road leading towards NUS. At first we I found the earth had been plowed I could not think of its purpose. Then I realized that it turned out to be a path leading to the centre of an open space(no connection with open space worksheet:) After that, I began to ponder why there were so many potted plants by the side of the walking lane. To begin with, I thought it was used to celebrate Singapore's National Day since in China, when National Day is coming, institutions will invariably put flowers outside the gates. In those occasions, the most popular flowers are chrysanthemums, because they are the few flowers blossoming in autumns(actually it is the "Queen of the Fall":)

Two days passed before I made another discovery that these flowers were planted into the open space. In the middle there are branched pitcked up like campfire bundles, and I really like that. It reminded me of the only campfire party that I had attended. We danced and cheered around the fire on a chilly winter night (Oct 20something, 2007). I was afraid of being scorched, and when sparks flew to the surrounding ground, everybody thrilled. There was a mask ball party that night, too. Some of the guys who were not interested in dance crounched in their hotel room playing cards. we girls then played the game, "Mafia", and slept early for the next day's mountain-climbing session.

Yes, there we've got mountains, and WINTERs.

Real mountains that you might result in having red cheeks due to acclimatisation of your body(because more red blood cells are produced to carry more oxygen for compensation, Bio:) And real WINTERs that you have to wrap yourself in thick duck-feather clothes to fend off the real chill down your spine.

I do not blame their absence here, since here I could enjoy more that I cannot if I were to be confined there(tongue twister:), like now. How peaceful my day is! What a great godsend to me!

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Today I read about some interesting facts about global inflation. I am quite impressed by the extent of this economic crisis. It is reported that $100 Billion is the value of Zimbabwe's newest banknote, equal to one U.S. dollar(incredible!). And Zimbabwe's inflation rate is 2.2 million percent, that is, 2200000%!

And the more fabulous was George W. Bush's comment on the nation's troubled economy:

"Wall Street got drunk."

OMG:)

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I am so happy today that I have used so many smileys:):):):):):)

Thank God for this peaceful weekend:)