Survivor..

This morning, woke up with CT and had breakfast with him before he went to work. CT prefers me to have breakfast with him instead of me going back to sleep and having breakfast after I wake up. So, after he left, I did not go back to sleep and read my emails, watch the news in the morning. Time passed very slowly when it is so early in the morning.

Anyway, at about 10am plus, Gek Teng came over and we spent time together at my apartment. We were watching TV together and talking at the same time. After she left, I reheated my food for lunch. Ate real fast cos I was starving since I had breakfast so early.

Today, CT came back and went off to play tennis with his guy colleagues. He told me there were about 5 of them who played and they took turns to play doubles. I was preparing dinner for him and watching "Smallville". After that, CT was still not back at 7pm..so I watched the first episode of "Survivor" in Guatemala. After watching the first episode, it seems this time round, the competition and conditions are tougher than other Survivor series because just in today's episode, all the guys in one tribe started vomiting and fell ill because of dehydration and one almost went into seizure as his eyes rolled back.. The women in the tribe held it up by treating the guys and massaging their muscles, giving them water..etc.. It was strange.

Their first challenge was a hike to their campsite which was alsmot 20km away! It was tough as the night came and they could not walk further as the forest was dense. So, they just slept where they were with no shelter. Woke up with wild monkeys on top of them..They even had to transport their food supplies given to them at the start of the race..so it was tough. One guy had a branch fell on his arm and the branch had lots of torns which pierced his skin..so this women in his tribe who is a nurse, had to pluck out the torns and he was bleeding as the torns came out. Poor guy. He was the first to start vomitting..and the nurse said it was probably due to the pain in his arm.

Guatemala is an ancient civilisation place. It is in between Mexico and Belize...near El Salvador. The survivors had to live like the past during the Maya Civilisations (1st millenium AD). Lots of ruins there and national forests. Lakes are infested with crocs. What a challenge. This time round, they invited 2 survivors back who participated before to each be in a tribe to be a competitor as well, but mainly is to share their experiences and skills with their tribe members.
Boy, it was interesting.

CT came back at 7:30pm when it was dark. I cooked papaya soup tonight. I loved that soup which my mum used to cook for me. So, when I saw a papaya in Asian mart, I quickly grabbed it to cook the soup. It has to be unriped papaya-green. I added dried ikan bilis, peanuts, Chinese wolf-berries (gei zi), pork ribs and cut unriped papaya. It tasted very nice..I am glad it was successful. I gave some to Gek Teng as in the morning when she came over, she could not make out how papaya soup would taste like when I told her that I could cook that for dinner.

Tonight, made banana milkshake. I added Orange Juice to it as that is how "Orange Julius" does to their milkshakes...and it tastes like it. Yummy. Teck Meng, CT's colleague bought for me a blender which I am so thankful for. Right from the start, I always wanted a blender but we hesitated and thought even when we buy, we would not be able to use it in S'pore because of the diff voltage. So, we did not buy. And just last week, Teck Meng gave us a new blender. We were shocked. He said to repay us for the meals that we have given him...because we invited him over for dinner a few times and recently I cooked "Apple Crisp" dessert and gave him..so that was why he bought us a blender.

We were touched and kept telling him that he did not have to do that...but anyway, we accepted since he also has a blender..so we cannot possibly reject. I learnt about giving from Teck Meng and it just makes me realised giving someone something is not all about money..