(4th of Dec)

4th of Dec

• The old guy seems really impatient when he interviewed with mum and I. Although I didn't really care whether he would be feeling annoyed when I asked him so many question about concession and health care card, I made my questions clear and short. He got her a concession card and told me to check official website if I want to know more...
• Mum was happy to have half fare for transportation fee. To celebrate this, she took me to the city, we ate ramen in a Japanese restaurant near Chinatown. She instantly made a video of me eating my Udon and Ramen. 
• Then I took her to Star city after our meal. Having period is such a bad luck to go gambling in Chinese culture, as in the metaphorical meaning of '大出血' (heavy bleeding: severely killing your wallet) which is true, we were sort of having a hard time to win the game Sic bo. There should be some patterns formed from the previous games, but overall, for me, I only thought of that as a possibility of guessing, if you are lucky enough for the day, you may win big money. But gambling is not everyone's thing, the more greedy you are, the higher chances of you losing the game, and your money. 
• We didn't join every game there, unless we were having a big time gambling, which we weren't. Mum controlled herself pretty well and only put 5 bucks to every game she played if she was confident of winning. I tried to walk to somewhere else since I was the one having period, it would have brought such thing as bad luck. 
• Some people could be really crazy putting 1000+ in just one game, and lost all within a minute. I don't get how much money really means to them, because apparently they are treating this like a job more than just an entertainment, but it is not uncommon in such a place. 
• I went back to mum, she was still losing and by the time I asked her if I could go have lunch by myself, our 200 bucks was nearly gone. 200 bucks already mean a lot to a family like us. She then gave me my ID and 50 bucks and I walked off. Heading to somewhere that sells traditional Japanese salmon rolls. The girl who served me seems so familiar to someone I saw on FB, the next second when she spoke, I did realise she might be panpan's friend, who I have seen her photos appeared on his newsfeed at times. I found a spot, sat down and enjoyed my salmon rolls. 
• I was even imagining by the time I went back to mum, she would be telling me she has won all them back. Unfortunately she only has won back maybe 100 bucks? And I was sitting behind her asking to put a chip on 14, and guess what? We started winning from that game LOL Later on, we won back quite a bit because I partially guessed dice combinations right. 
• However it was already late at night, once again, didn't get to talk to the panpan as he was already asleep...