an unexpected lunch
before heading down to town last saturday for our hiphop class, alvin and i decided to head down to holland v for lunch. upon reaching the area, we went straight to crystal jade's la mian xiao long bao.
i could tell u how bad i think their la mian standard is, especially the suan la tang la mian... but that is not the point.
the point is that when we settled into our table, and opened up our menus for intense perusal, nary 2 minutes into our heated debate of 'should we get the century egg thing or the other thing?'...
prof ding was being seated on the table right next to us.
i glanced up, took a double take which left me gaping... and i think i embarrassed myself because i can't recall much except that i think i flapped my hand about limply as my mouth hung loose and made 'ah, ah, ah' sounds.
when she noticed the minor disturbance at my corner, she looked up, and smiled politely... and i just went 'hai...'. imagine it sounding like a breathless sigh.
wah lau i must've looked like a retard la.
then, once realizing that duh, she doesn't know me, my loose hand kinda slapped alvin's hand weakly, and pointed to his right while saying, 'uh, it's prof ding...'
his reaction was limited only to a hanging of jaw, which was quickly recovered enough to say hi, and find out more about his old lab.
the rest of the lunch i was damn nervous, danggit. so maybe it's not the la mian, but my stomach was just upturned by the sudden er, lunch companion.
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you see right, for those who don't come from nus life sciences, prof ding is THE (in my humble opinion) prof with the most cred in this faculty. she makes heck of alotof money from her patents!!
if you've read the newspapers, she was on the reports twice in a month (or stg like that, according to alvin? i don't read the newspapers coz i'm a lazy bum; i'd rather watch the telly) and her research is... damn zai la.
and i guess i got kinda excitable coz she is alvin's ex-supervisor... and well, i guess it's just cool to have been working under the supervision of someone so well-placed/established in the research world.
or haha, i could've just been star-struck. :P
i could tell u how bad i think their la mian standard is, especially the suan la tang la mian... but that is not the point.
the point is that when we settled into our table, and opened up our menus for intense perusal, nary 2 minutes into our heated debate of 'should we get the century egg thing or the other thing?'...
prof ding was being seated on the table right next to us.
i glanced up, took a double take which left me gaping... and i think i embarrassed myself because i can't recall much except that i think i flapped my hand about limply as my mouth hung loose and made 'ah, ah, ah' sounds.
when she noticed the minor disturbance at my corner, she looked up, and smiled politely... and i just went 'hai...'. imagine it sounding like a breathless sigh.
wah lau i must've looked like a retard la.
then, once realizing that duh, she doesn't know me, my loose hand kinda slapped alvin's hand weakly, and pointed to his right while saying, 'uh, it's prof ding...'
his reaction was limited only to a hanging of jaw, which was quickly recovered enough to say hi, and find out more about his old lab.
the rest of the lunch i was damn nervous, danggit. so maybe it's not the la mian, but my stomach was just upturned by the sudden er, lunch companion.
---
you see right, for those who don't come from nus life sciences, prof ding is THE (in my humble opinion) prof with the most cred in this faculty. she makes heck of alotof money from her patents!!
if you've read the newspapers, she was on the reports twice in a month (or stg like that, according to alvin? i don't read the newspapers coz i'm a lazy bum; i'd rather watch the telly) and her research is... damn zai la.
and i guess i got kinda excitable coz she is alvin's ex-supervisor... and well, i guess it's just cool to have been working under the supervision of someone so well-placed/established in the research world.
or haha, i could've just been star-struck. :P
posted by feline @ 11:35 PM
