Singapore student Gathering on Oct 27

This is the first Singapore student gathering we'd attended since we're in Pittsburgh for 2 yrs! What an accomplishment!

We are "anti-social" cos of our "special diet"..since we presumed (rightly!) that all Singapore student gatherings center around FOOD, and we can't eat 99.9% of the stuff (cos we are weird aliens from another planet who are vegetarians and dun eat garlic and onion), we thot it won't be that fun watching other people gobbling down their food, while we stand and starve...

Anyway, i decided that we should stop being "anti-social", and cook 2 vegetarian dishes so that i can bring those dishes to contribute as part of the party-food, as well as ensure our "survival" for the nite...

So, as we've guessed rightly....99% of the food are "non-edible" for the 2 of us....meat (chicken cooked in variety of ways, what curry chicken, tao yu chicken aka. black sauce chicken, and fried chicken strips...and whatever else!) And of cos the 1% is the 2 dishes i brought...one is vegetarian mutton curry, and the other is chinese soup (with golden needle mushrm, black fungus, bean curd sheet, corn nibblets, vege ham and winter melon).

My chinese soup sounds delicious and healthy right?! But unfortunately, dun think it was very much appreicated...i think me and my husband drank the most...haha..and we brought half of the soup back for dinner next day!

Whereas my vegetarian mutton curry fares better! But nothing for me to be proud of...since the mock mutton was not made by me...i "imported" from Singapore one! Haha...but anyway, some of the students like the mutton, cos they taste like mutton, but do not have the smell...

But anyway, we enjoyed ourselves...made some new friends, and some people were quite understanding of our diet. So, all is well....

Except, when we got out of the house to attend the gathering, we locked ourselves out! In the end, we had to call for lock smith to open our house door when we got back. And guess what!? The bill to open the door is US$105!!!!!!!!!!! And that guy only spent 3mins to get the job done. What an expensive meal! ;(

Will Singaporeans sing National Anthem in a public concert?

Me and my husband attended an Italian opera at Academy of Music, Philly. It was the oldest operating opera house.

Just before the start of the opera, the orchestra played the US national anthem. Everybody stoodup and sang...of course, those who knew how to sing the anthem (not us!) It was loud, clear and i could sense the pride in their voices.

Will Singaporeans sing their national anthem if SSO plays it before start of every concert? Will it be loud, clear and full of pride? Or are the lyrics long forgotten?