Day 13 – Pei sheng is disgusting
Posted by James
Sunday was rest day. We rotted at home. Never go out, just rotted at home.
Had dinner, cooked instant food. Pecking roast duck and Steak pie with onion. It tasted okay.
The perking roast duck came with sauce and the rice wrapper (I don't really know what its called but its the popiah skin). Just need to microwave the sauce, the wrapper and oven bake the duck.
So, why pei sheng is disgusting? He wanted to microwave the duck. Ok, we thought he was crazy but he showed us that he was dumb. Nevermind. We will always forgive you pei sheng 
That wasn't very disgusting right? He did something more disgusting later that night.
So, as we had established, he wasn't very smart. He placed the rice wrapper on top of his cup to put the filling. We kept saying that if the things fall inside, it would look gross. He didn't cared. We finally finished our dinner and there was still some corn left with one wrapper. He took the wrapper, placed it on top of his cup, poured the corn on top. A corn suddenly dropped into his cup. Suddenly, a batch of them dropped into the cup. It was gross. It's Fanta Exotic (Bright pink in color) with a lot of yellow corn sizzling. They keep going down and up, down and up. I didn't take a picture because I was grossed out and I won't want to gross you all out.
So I dedicate this blog post to Koh Pei Sheng Issac. You are always our crazy idiot. Listen to Caroline, you need counseling.
Day 12 – Farmer’s Market
Posted by James
Well, today we decided to just walk around carlow and maybe visit some interesting place. BAD IDEA. Carlow is too small, its like 30k residence and most of them are farmers.
We know there's a farmers market on saturday from 9am - 2pm. We decided to take a look, maybe it would be big and maybe it would take half of our day away. BAD IDEA. It was pathetically small.
After walking the pathetically small farmers market (Which, their things are more expensive than the supermarket because it is "fresh"), we went to a nearby shopping mall. It is also small but the supermarket is quite big though.
Something caught my attention and I believe if I show this to Qiyang, Michelle or Ivan, they would go crazy.
Yes, you didn't see wrongly. Its a UFO machine with doll tied up with 20EURO. Each play is 1 Euro. Hmmmm....... WOW? WHY THEY DON'T HAVE THIS IN SINGAPORE! 
Anyway, we ended our day by being at home and cooking some steak which we bought for 10euro for 4 pieces.
Day 11 – Food
Posted by James
After living here for more than a week, we learnt how to cook ourselves because of the price here. A meal can set you back from 10 euro to anything up to 30 euro depending on what and where you eat it. A fair comparison would be the kfc. We had family fest for lunch today, it cost us 18.99 euro. In singapore, its $18sgd? Well, its technically the same price but different currency 
So, most of the time we would look up recipe online and buy ingredient to cook. Its not hard at all because the washing up is by dish cleaner and most of the time, things which we cook are fairly easy to cook. Every utensils we need are available at the house, so we don't really need to get any. I usually supervise the cooking because I guess watching discovery Home and Travel helps? All the jamie oliver, Nigella cooking shows kinda help a bit here and there.
Until now, we haven't really screw up any of our dinner yet. So, thank goodness!
Our first night cooking dinner was quite an experience. Shavonne did a stuffed pepper with rice, roast chicken with stuffed vegetable and asparagus with garlic. Ya, it was quite a spread. We also had lemon cheesecake as dessert which we bought from the supermarket. I know, it's a lot of food but we cleared it all nevertheless with no left overs 
After cooking for the first night, Caroline decided to cook dinner for us. It was SUPERB! I must say, she's one hell of a cook. There was meatball, vegetable rice, potato with white sauce, garlic bread and salad. I must say, compared to our cooking, hers are restaurant standard while ours are more like... TV dinner
We also had a very pathetic dinner. Scrambled egg with mee goreng maggi mee? That wasn't filling at all.
Thomas, the intern which caroline had for one month also cooked a german dinner for us before he left. It was very meaty and filling, I guess germans eat a lot of meat? Hmm.. 
So, that would sum up how our eating habit is over here. Lots of meat and no rice or noodle which I am glad. Might be cooking Nasi lemak or Chicken rice for Caroline if we can find an easy enough recipe online.
Day 10 – Hmm
Posted by James
Life had become a routine since the week started. It is school, home, dinner, relax, sleep and the loop goes on. I have nothing really exciting to write about so I am gonna write about their culture and people here.
So far, i've been here for more than a week already. Met and was introduced to about 10 over people. All of them are very friendly, they like to interact and talk about life and stuff unlike Singapore where people are always treating each other as stranger and always afraid to make conversation because their mum taught them that when they are young not to talk to stranger or they will get aducted. I am very sure your mum told u that before but the point is, people are nice here.
For example, last week when shopping for dinner ingredient, we were at the cake section choosing a cake as dessert. We were contemplating lemon cheesecake, strawberry trifle or some other cake. While we were in the midst of looking through the choices, this kind and sweet old lady, just came up to us and told us that the fruit cake is not bad. Said she tried it before and it was quite good. And she just smiled at us and left without buying anything from the cake section. We thanked her off course but we didn't buy the fruit cake. That's not the point, the point is that people here are friendly and nice.
Another example which reflect this kind and friendly attitude would be the driver here, it is totally different from Singapore. In Carlow, there's only 30k people living here, so the land is quite big and traffic light are quite rare to see let alone zebra crossing. So when crossing the road, most of the time we have to jay walk and in Singapore, if u do that, most likely u would get horned at or you just have to wait a while because in Singapore, traffic light is everywhere and sooner or later, cars will stop.
Here, as long as you look like you want to cross the road, the car would automatically slow down and stop for you to cross the road. No honking, no middle finger, just a friendly hand sign for u to cross and you just return a thank you hand sign back. We tried that about 10 over times and it is always the same.
The culture difference makes me wonder, is Singaporean really selfish or are the people here just too friendly? Hmmm.. Something to ponder about.
Time for bed! I will dedicate tmr post for food which we cooked over the week and pictures of it
Day 9 – School
Posted by James
Back to school to continue on my project of Lua and Irrlicht. Whole day was spent trying to mix these 2 together with totally no experience and only online tutorial which is crap or you don't understand what the hell they are explaining about.
I guess today, the only comfort I had was the morning scene when I woke up to...
I miss my friends, I miss singapore, I miss home, I miss scolding wee kiat in real life, I miss playing poker with Ivan, Michelle, Nelson, Yong yi, Mason and winning their money. I miss those good times which I just hang out at clubroom and picking on people/subcomm. I miss going to movie with my friends even though we are seated right in front.
2 more weeks and I will be back home.
Day 8 – Strike Day
Posted by James
Today, the students are having a strike protest, so there's no school.
Woke up at about 12.20pm after being drunk but there's no hangover because I was actually sober.
Rot at home, updating this and that, doing laundry and stuff, and the day just went by! IT IS DAMM FAST PLEASE....
Cooked carbonara for them, did some gaming. Time for bed again. Nothing really exciting happened today but i guess its a rest day for all of us since the last few days had been very very tiring
PS. Photos will be uploaded asap! Check my facebook if you can't wait~ ( http://www.facebook.com/jfang.sg )
Day 7 – Home sweet home
Posted by James
We are home! Resting! After two days of walking here and there, doing this and visiting that. Today is our rest day~
We stayed home and just cooked a simple dinner and its bed time already. The day went by very fast, everyone is tired and I was drunk by beer. HAHA......
Ok, maybe i was sober, just being funny.
Day 6: Belfast!
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Now, it's 11.02am (Ireland time). We are on the train heading towards Belfast, it's a modern train, not exactly those old style train which we originally thought it was. The ride is comfortable and the view is very nice! We are zooming past farms, houses, shops and hills full of sheep, cow, horse.
We had a nice night at Dublin, the room which we booked had a little heater problem when we try to bath, they were very kind and changed our room right away to a 6 bed room. Excellent service from Kinlay hostel. Definitely recommended for anyone travelling to Dublin! They provide towel and breakfast for us too. How nice eh?
So we left quite early from the hostel and made our way to conolly train station. Like 9am? Ok, maybe not that early afterall.
Reached Belfast at about 12.20pm, immediately was picked up by the Belfast famous black taxi guy who we booked. He brought us around to Shankill, the place which we learnt in social studies. There's a lot of mural drawn by people about the war and its very interesting. We also go to the peace wall which separate the protestant and the catholic resident, quite interesting and enriching to see it instead of in the book.
After the whole tour, our cab driver drove us to our hostel. Very kind of him and the whole tour was 40 Euro but I guess it is worthwhile for the whole trip.
After checking in and putting down our bags, we left for some food and found a small restaurant which serve pizza but upon closer looking of the menu, IT'S ONLY MONDAY - FRIDAY!! Emo... but lunch was still great, its not something we always have in singapore. Fisherman pie was very good, the seafood portion was big! I was so stuffed but we still ordered cake to share
We also went to Queen's university for a walk. The university building was very grand and very old looking. Inside the building is quite modern though.
Queens University
After our lovely lunch, we made our way to city square and they were having a continental fest there. There's ostrich burger, kangaroo burger, hot chocolate, churros, hot wine and a lot more. Its a new experience and its really interesting. Once in a lifetime
City square continental market
Oh, and before I forget, they use sterling pounds there.
PS. Happy birthday my dearest friend, Dorothy. Sorry that I didn't wish you on the day itself because I didn't have any wi-fi.
Day 5 : DUBLIN!
Posted by James
Currently, I'm at Dublin, the capital of Ireland. I am staying at a hostel called Kinley Hostel. It is very cozy and the people here are great. All 4 of us shared a room, each of us about 30(euro). The room have built in bathroom and so we don't have to share with other guest. Haven't really try out the heater though.
I just came back from Guiness Storehouse on a Horse Carriage. It was quite expensive but it is those Once in a lifetime kind of thing, so it was worthwhile. Bought a few stuff for my friends (HAHA, I think a lot of you the eyes lit up) and is now waiting to go out for dinner. Hmmm...
Oh ya, I forgotten to upload picture for yesterday! Damm.. I guess I will upload it only when I return to Carlow because the internet at this Hostel is unbearable >_< Trust me... I will die uploading here.
Stuff are kind of expensive here but I guess we can't complain much because Euro are bigger in term of currency.
Tomorrow I will be heading to Belfast by train in the morning and will be taking the famous Belfast Black Taxi around for a tour. Till the next update, take care and TATA
Roof top view from the Guinness storehouse.