Of Fruit, Singapore, and Pakistan.

So a few weeks ago I went to visit a friend's apartment (couldn't follow directions, ended up on the 4th floor instead of the 3rd... ) and found her and her roomie standing in the kitching staring into an empty garbage can. Or so I thought. They stared at me and I stared at them from the doorway and finally I asked, "What are you doing?"
The answer I got? "Worms."
O-kay.............. My first thought was "vermicomposting!" and then I ran through many confusing loops and reasonings in my brain because it was unusual and weird but it was so awesome they were vermicomposting but wasn't there composting bins available in the courtyard already maybe they didn't want to walk all the way out there?
That was a proof that I was turning into a bio nerd. Haha jk.
But it turned out to be just that. Worms. UUUUUGHHH. Anyways, I met someone new that day. I love how this cycle of meeting ppl never ends. We bonded over fruit! Yes, I am talking about Far, (one who got me into the Sprite craving in the previous post). She's from Pakistan, and I'm immediately fascinated and then we bonded over fruit! I think because we were talking about a lot of stuff before, and my friend whom I came to visit reminded me that I had to share my great longing for pomegranates. The season was almost there and I was excited! Then the topic of fruit came and stayed the whole night, and Far took out her mini laptop and HAHAA all three of us spent basically the whole night googling and wikipedia-ing fruit! The fruit we didn't know much about, the fruit we didn't know existed, and did you know that list on Wiki of tropical fruits is really handy?
I felt so full of fruit knowledge that night I went to bed dry-mouthed and craving all sorts of fantastical things.
And it got me so excited and full of longing for those tropical fruits I hadn't had in so long, which is still the same weeks later =(
Some of them are..
-starfruit (I don't even REMEMBER when I last had it, and it's been so long that I want it although I remember it wasn't my favourite fruit)
-Buddha's head- I tried to tell them about it, and it was hard and I finally found that the more common name was Custard Apple. I mean, I didn't even know about that!
-Bell Fruit- Seriously one of my favourite fruits ever. EVER. But apparently there're just so many pesticides used to grow it (dubious fact), and they're expensive! (another base-less fact, because they must be cheap where they're grown) Also, they're called Rose Apple more commonly?? It's a beautiful name and I'm drooling again, but Bell Fruit actually describes its shape! Hhhmm.

One of my dreams is to try so many different fruits- I can't believe there are so many and many I've never even seen before and just thinking about how a new fruit will taste like makes me so excited! One fruit that I know I can get, but have not actually tried to get, is durian. Lots of things I have heard about it. So that's a rare exception in which I'm not clamoring to try it. Perhaps.. one day, a tiny piece will be conveniently offered to me, because there's no way I want to buy the whole freaking stinkyness of a spiked ballon and drag it home! So we bonded over fruit!~

Just last week, at the same apartment on the 3rd floor (every single time I've tried to go up there, I end up on the 4th floor for some inexplicable reason!!!) This time, it was for a "pomegranate party"- because I bought pomegranates!! So yum! I invited Min, from my floor, and when we got up there, I met another new person! Far's friend from the MacDonald campus! Super exciting because wow, who would've thought I'd meet one of those rare, rare creatures? lol. McGill's MacDonald Campus (as opposed to the Downtown campus, where the majority of the students are) is the special Agriculture and Environmental Sciences faculty...

Anyways, her name's Mari (to differentiate from Mar), and we didn't bond over fruit. Because I found out the most astounding thing; she does not eat fruits. Apparently she was made to eat stewed apples or something when she was little? Childhood events causing aversion? But it wasn't just a slight aversion to apples- it's to every fruits she's ever tried! Because I asked her if she tried this and this and she's like yes she's tried it all and she'd just puke it back out!

Psychologically allergic to fruit! That is just.. mind-boggling to me. Alien.
Haha, then we spent the rest of the night talking about Pakistan and Singapore and going to the MacDonald campus to visit next term and having a snowfight there because it's basically all farms and beautiful pastures and cows! Min and I got excited about the cows- we want to try milking cows!